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Looking at the dates, it's probably the other way around. The oldest Dr. Adorable post is only two weeks old, the video is older than a month.Now, as a counter-measure against the horribleness that is TBP's stories, I'm gonna link this.*was about to link this*
It's Fluttershy as Dr. Horrible. And it's diabetes-inducing.
*realizes that blog's probably where it originated from*
Wow, that actually works kinda well.I know what you're talking about, that particular picture got posted at least 3 or 4 times in the old thread.
What rule was that? There was one of those 'rules' about it, said that Fluttershy was always adorable. Even when she had vermiform... things coming out of her eyes or was Zalgofied.
That is an incredibly awesome picture. Is there a higher res version of it somewhere?Spoiler: Look out, everypony, there are ninjas on the loose! (click to show/hide)
LIST OF TAGS
Uppercase means amplification of the tag. So, [O] would be having only original characters, [A] would be a story
heavily focused on a coherent plot, [G] would be Gorn (heavily focused on horrific depictions of injury for thrills) etc.
[v] - violence, some form of inter-character fighting.
[d] - death, or themes of death.
[g] - gore, graphic depictions of heavy injury.
[t] - torture, helpless characters being methodically broken by physical or mental means.
[c] - excessive cruelty; usually a compound tag, by itself may represent social cruelty such as bullying.
[n] - normal, everyday, slice-of-life proceedings.
[h] - humor, comedy.
[s] - sad, heavily emotional and moving events.
[f] - scary, horrifying and fear-inducing events
[r] - romance, interrelations, and shipping.
[a] - adventure, a coherent plot arc with a definite beginning and an end.
[o] - includes original characters.
[x] - includes sex between characters, or sexual themes.
[e] - includes sexually explicit descriptions. If you're wondering, yes, it's possible without an X tag.
[p] - includes rape, implied or explicit.I kept the rape tag in for now. I know it's difficult to write a story where rape is an important plot element, but there is the possibility. There's a reason it's at the very bottom of the list.Horror as in horror. I don't know. Perhaps a "thriller" would be a closer term to what I'm thinking (remember, English as a second language here). We have tags covering most facets of emotion a story can elicit in response - happiness, sadness, repulsion and hate (in many many forms), and this one would concern fear, on either side of the fourth wall. I don't know if it's even possible to make the reader fear in sympathetic response to a written story...That is exactly the problem. I don't think it's possible, really.
Also, there are many facets of fear and most of them have already been covered by our large collection of incredibly horrible tags. Although you can, of course, have fear without having any violence, gore or death. In fact, that's the best kind of horror. But that doesn't change the fact that the horror tag would be added to most of the stories so far where we have characters fearing for their lives.
I think I'll add it regardless, since horror without gore or death is most definitely possible.
Also, Flying Dice, you are a freaking ninja. Of course there are differences in horror. That's why we have lower- and upper-case, after all. If the characters are genuinely afraid, even if it is just a Scooby Doo sort of story, I would probably add the horror tag. Upper-case horror tag would be much more serious. Also, just because nothing physically bad happens to the main character(s) doesn't mean that it can't be incredibly fucking scary.
Now that I think about it, "horror" has too many connotations and different interpretations. "Fear" would probably be more fitting.
What, as in a creepy little girl appearing in random hallways, giving you hallucinations, and then raping you and getting pregnant?
Horror as in horror. I don't know. Perhaps a "thriller" would be a closer term to what I'm thinking (remember, English as a second language here). We have tags covering most facets of emotion a story can elicit in response - happiness, sadness, repulsion and hate (in many many forms), and this one would concern fear, on either side of the fourth wall. I don't know if it's even possible to make the reader fear in sympathetic response to a written story...That is exactly the problem. I don't think it's possible, really.
It's the same reason why torture can be relevant to the plot - like it is in the case of FiN.Would be difficult, really. What would "horror" be? It's mainly just a feeling of intense fear and dread. Whether something will horrify the reader should be clear from the rest of the tags. Like [GTC], that's pretty horrible.
By the way, we forgot a "Horror" tag. What should we use for that, a B? As in, "Boo"?
And I still maintain my original position that if something needs a tag to indicate that there is rape in it, it probably shouldn't be included in the first place, as approximately 0% of rapes in (fan)fiction are treated seriously. So, I would say no rape tag at all, because chances are, the rape isn't particularly relevant to the plot, should never have been included in the first place, and should be removed before inclusion.I disagree with you there. There are plenty of reasons why rape in a fanfic can be relevant to the plot. For example, a MLP/I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream crossover. Could be really good if done well and rape is an important part in one of the characters' back story.
Trixie, why does this not surprise me?Haha, oh wow, that fits so well.
Sorta fixed that for ya.Code: [Select]Suggest use of [l][o][L][O] for rape; [l] is used for male, [L] for female, and the case of the o indicates if it is described or implied. Rapist would come first, rapee second, with the o in the middle. So Dsarker's would be [L][o][L].
That sounds like the kind of story I'd write if I was willing to write a rape scene. Except for that the n would inherently be incompatible with the a without some kind of blasphemous magic.That is, unfortunately, true.
Ratings are worthless. Just use descriptive tags instead of pre-set tags.That's possible on EqD, but not when you want to fit the tags in the file name.
We could add an [E] tag, for Explicit content (G being graphic violence, E would be graphic, er, romance). V should be removed - rape is just sex plus cruelty - or replaced with plain old Violence.Hmm, that's very interesting. I like it! Definitely better than the first try.
...yes, I just made it possible for a story to be tagged [GOATSE].
So, new proposed tags:
V - violence, some form of inter-character fighting.
D - death, or themes of death.
G - gorn, graphic depictions of heavy injury.
T - torture, helpless characters being methodically broken by physical or mental means.
C - excessive cruelty; usually a compound tag, by itself may represent social cruelty such as bullying.
R - romance, interrelations, and shipping.
A - adventure, a coherent plot arc with a definite beginning and an end.
O - includes original characters.
S - includes sex between characters, or sexual themes.
E - includes sexually explicit descriptions. If you're wondering, yes, it's possible without an S tag.
For amplification, a + is too disruptive. How about uppercase and lowercase? FiN would be [vCaTGod] with the new Violence tag.
