Poll on hot food
Jun. 9th, 2013 11:05 amBecause people will call something "spicy yet delicious" and I never knew what that meant. The burning pain covers up all the sensations.
Poll #13665 Hot and Spicy
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 25
Which ingredients count to make food hot or spicy?
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capsicum/chili peppers
25 (100.0%)
black pepper
17 (68.0%)
ginger
8 (32.0%)
garlic
4 (16.0%)
wasabi
23 (92.0%)
asafoetida
2 (8.0%)
coriander seed
1 (4.0%)
cilantro leaf
1 (4.0%)
Other media
Apr. 25th, 2013 09:51 amTwo heist movies I watched recently and quite enjoyed: Mad Money and Dhoom 2.
What I'm reading: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald*, Ariel by Sylvia Plath, and Trust: the social virtues and the creation of prosperity by Francis Fukuyama.
What I recently finished reading: Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima, Your Royal Hostage by Antonia Fraser, Cordelia's Honor (Shards of Honor/Barrayar) by Lois McMaster Bujold, the Identical series by Lanning, Omiai by toomuchplor, the latest issue of Archaeology magazine, and lots of various other fanfic and articles.
*Apparently everyone else is reading Gatsby too since I just saw it at #2 on the Washington Post bestseller list. What happened was that they showed a preview for the movie when my mother and I went to see Oz the Great and Powerful and I mentioned to her that I still hadn't read the book. Well she told my father and later that day he came into my room with two copies of it and offered to lend it to me. Now my father is a bit of a Fitzgerald fanboy, you see, and the upstairs of the house is the Fitzgerald Suite (they got this plaque from an old B&B that was shutting down; it was actually better in the last house when the Fitzgerald Suite was the tiny bookshelf area at the end of the hallway). Fitzgerald is actually buried about two blocks from the house and my father goes to his grave a lot and brings home the stuff people leave there and he has a whole collection of these offerings in a closet in the basement. Though I think he hasn't been going as often recently and hasn't added anything to the collection in a while once the closet got pretty full. So Papa came in with these two copies of the book and was like, "Your mother says you still haven't read this classic of American literature. Want to borrow it? This copy is off Fitzgerald's grave but Mama said you might be creeped out by that, so here's another copy, too." And I was like, "Okay, I will take the other copy." And now I'm actually reading it. So that my father won't hassle me anymore. It's not quite like I expected. But I'm not done yet so I need to see how it goes. Also, the reason my mother and I went to see the Oz movie is because my grandmother was the biggest Oz fangirl ever so it was like our duty to keep up. Grandma would probably have been horrified by the retconning to be honest. Although then again it was only movie continuity and every true fan knows that sucks anyway and the books are what counts. No lie, the Oz con she took me to when I was 14, one girl in the costume contest was movie Glinda and the whole room sighed in outrage.
What I'm reading: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald*, Ariel by Sylvia Plath, and Trust: the social virtues and the creation of prosperity by Francis Fukuyama.
What I recently finished reading: Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima, Your Royal Hostage by Antonia Fraser, Cordelia's Honor (Shards of Honor/Barrayar) by Lois McMaster Bujold, the Identical series by Lanning, Omiai by toomuchplor, the latest issue of Archaeology magazine, and lots of various other fanfic and articles.
*Apparently everyone else is reading Gatsby too since I just saw it at #2 on the Washington Post bestseller list. What happened was that they showed a preview for the movie when my mother and I went to see Oz the Great and Powerful and I mentioned to her that I still hadn't read the book. Well she told my father and later that day he came into my room with two copies of it and offered to lend it to me. Now my father is a bit of a Fitzgerald fanboy, you see, and the upstairs of the house is the Fitzgerald Suite (they got this plaque from an old B&B that was shutting down; it was actually better in the last house when the Fitzgerald Suite was the tiny bookshelf area at the end of the hallway). Fitzgerald is actually buried about two blocks from the house and my father goes to his grave a lot and brings home the stuff people leave there and he has a whole collection of these offerings in a closet in the basement. Though I think he hasn't been going as often recently and hasn't added anything to the collection in a while once the closet got pretty full. So Papa came in with these two copies of the book and was like, "Your mother says you still haven't read this classic of American literature. Want to borrow it? This copy is off Fitzgerald's grave but Mama said you might be creeped out by that, so here's another copy, too." And I was like, "Okay, I will take the other copy." And now I'm actually reading it. So that my father won't hassle me anymore. It's not quite like I expected. But I'm not done yet so I need to see how it goes. Also, the reason my mother and I went to see the Oz movie is because my grandmother was the biggest Oz fangirl ever so it was like our duty to keep up. Grandma would probably have been horrified by the retconning to be honest. Although then again it was only movie continuity and every true fan knows that sucks anyway and the books are what counts. No lie, the Oz con she took me to when I was 14, one girl in the costume contest was movie Glinda and the whole room sighed in outrage.
Well Psych is supposed to be just a happy fun entertaining show but the last two episodes have made me cry. Sigh.
I'm still watching Doctor Who but I don't really care about it. It's there, whatever, I don't have any thoughts on it.
I watched all of Warehouse 13 in one go last year just in time for it to hit a 6 or 7 month hiatus, so I don't actually know what to think about it starting up again next week. It's sorta like, wait, there's more? Really? Huh. I do want to see more, though.
I have magical timing like that with TV shows, I think. I discovered that the 22 episodes of Switched At Birth I watched last summer were not all of S1, because S1 was 30 episodes, for some insane reason, so I finished that and watched the first 10 eps of S2... just in time for them to go on hiatus. I was like, oh, now I am caught up, when is the next episode? Oh, not for a couple months? Really? Okay.
I guess I'm also sorta watching Bones because my mother has it in the DVR but I care about that way way way even less than Doctor Who.
I've been watching CSI Miami streaming on Netflix as I fall asleep (because I am not doing so well with just dark and silence at night lately) and am now into the final season, S10, and I don't know what I'll do once that ends. HGTV streaming is probably better for sleeping, but still. Although EVERYONE in the world has guested on the CSIs, it is constantly like, oh hey, it's so-and-so. But let me just say that the amount of totally illegal search and seizure and police intimidation and brutality keeps notching up and up.
Just these past few weeks I watched all 3 seasons of Lost Girl. It is indeed very cheesy and a little sexploitational but quite entertaining. And oddly enough all Emmanuelle Vaugier's normally annoying traits (bland listless expressions, voice tone that always sounds fake, asymmetrical eyes and eyebrows) all really actually WORK WELL as the Morrigan. It's like they invented a role where her flaws become strengths. It's kinda miraculous.
I'm still watching Doctor Who but I don't really care about it. It's there, whatever, I don't have any thoughts on it.
I watched all of Warehouse 13 in one go last year just in time for it to hit a 6 or 7 month hiatus, so I don't actually know what to think about it starting up again next week. It's sorta like, wait, there's more? Really? Huh. I do want to see more, though.
I have magical timing like that with TV shows, I think. I discovered that the 22 episodes of Switched At Birth I watched last summer were not all of S1, because S1 was 30 episodes, for some insane reason, so I finished that and watched the first 10 eps of S2... just in time for them to go on hiatus. I was like, oh, now I am caught up, when is the next episode? Oh, not for a couple months? Really? Okay.
I guess I'm also sorta watching Bones because my mother has it in the DVR but I care about that way way way even less than Doctor Who.
I've been watching CSI Miami streaming on Netflix as I fall asleep (because I am not doing so well with just dark and silence at night lately) and am now into the final season, S10, and I don't know what I'll do once that ends. HGTV streaming is probably better for sleeping, but still. Although EVERYONE in the world has guested on the CSIs, it is constantly like, oh hey, it's so-and-so. But let me just say that the amount of totally illegal search and seizure and police intimidation and brutality keeps notching up and up.
Just these past few weeks I watched all 3 seasons of Lost Girl. It is indeed very cheesy and a little sexploitational but quite entertaining. And oddly enough all Emmanuelle Vaugier's normally annoying traits (bland listless expressions, voice tone that always sounds fake, asymmetrical eyes and eyebrows) all really actually WORK WELL as the Morrigan. It's like they invented a role where her flaws become strengths. It's kinda miraculous.
Oh, fandom
Apr. 22nd, 2013 11:36 amPossibly the amount of cooing, awwing, and squeeing I do over the words "tube" and "vat" in fic is odd. Or possibly it is totally valid.
Mirrorverses
Apr. 17th, 2013 07:03 pmSo I was thinking about the mirrorverse trope and I decided that what would be really great was an episode of a TV show where Our Heroes went to an alternate universe where there were actual good versions of them and it pointed out all the hypocritical moral glossing that Our Heroes tend to do in TV shows. And of course the characters would say "Are we the evil goateed version?" and decide, no, they are the normal version, this is the uptight universe, and someone else out there has the evil goatees on.
I am thinking of going downtown to see the cherry blossoms this weekend (probably Saturday, but Sunday is also possible). Anyone wanna come along?
(I was planning to go on a Friday that I didn't work, to avoid crowds, but didn't make it last week, and I now suspect waiting until next week will just result in there not being many blossoms left.)
(I was planning to go on a Friday that I didn't work, to avoid crowds, but didn't make it last week, and I now suspect waiting until next week will just result in there not being many blossoms left.)
Unexpected consequences...
Apr. 9th, 2013 08:18 pmI LOVE YOU YOUNG JUSTICE CARTOON BUT DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE DONE.
YOU HAVE MADE THE WORLD A PLACE WHERE THERE EXISTS BART ALLEN SECRET CUTTING FIC.
I WHAT EVEN.
YOU HAVE MADE THE WORLD A PLACE WHERE THERE EXISTS BART ALLEN SECRET CUTTING FIC.
I WHAT EVEN.
Title: Analyze And Suggest
Fandom: Young Justice cartoon
Pairing: Bart/Jaime and oh you know Bart/Jaime/Scarab
Rating: teen
Notes: I actually wrote this a while ago, between Intervention and Summit.
Summary: Just a little ficlet about making out. 391 words.
( Bart is warm and just the right amount of heavy in Jaime’s lap. )
Fandom: Young Justice cartoon
Pairing: Bart/Jaime and oh you know Bart/Jaime/Scarab
Rating: teen
Notes: I actually wrote this a while ago, between Intervention and Summit.
Summary: Just a little ficlet about making out. 391 words.
( Bart is warm and just the right amount of heavy in Jaime’s lap. )
Title: Thirty Years Later
Fandom: Young Justice cartoon
Pairing: Bart/Jaime
Rating: general
Notes: I actually wrote this a while ago, between Intervention and Summit, and luckily didn't get jossed by the finale.
Summary: An Allen-Reyes family evening. 270 words.
( Because time travel never makes family trees complicated. )
Fandom: Young Justice cartoon
Pairing: Bart/Jaime
Rating: general
Notes: I actually wrote this a while ago, between Intervention and Summit, and luckily didn't get jossed by the finale.
Summary: An Allen-Reyes family evening. 270 words.
( Because time travel never makes family trees complicated. )
Decluttering
Apr. 1st, 2013 12:10 pmOver the weekend I have pared my Netflix queue down from 505 items to 277.
But I still have too many unpacked boxes of stuff around the house.
But I still have too many unpacked boxes of stuff around the house.
Garbage concert
Mar. 27th, 2013 08:15 pmOn Sunday I met up with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
pouncer and two friends of hers I didn't know for Thai food and then the Garbage concert. At the Fillmore, which I'd never been to before, and which has cool chandeliers. We went up to the balcony because the place was already packed when we got there. The opening band was called Io Echo and I enjoyed their sound a bunch. I kinda wanted to get one of their albums but after the show it was still packed and I had to run catch the metro so I didn't.
Anyhow, it was not as intense as when I saw Garbage last year and we were right up in front and I swear Shirley Manson made direct eye contact with me a few times (as she did with many people in the crowd) but that is fine because I had that already. We didn't have the greatest view but the music was AWESOME and they did little mash-up covers of Madonna and Fleetwood Mac and talked a lot about how much they loved their fans and how they wanted all of us to have a good time. And we did.
After the show I felt very energized and happy which made it hard to fall asleep when I got home and in bed at 1am and had my alarm set for 5:45am as per usual to go to work. Luckily at 5:34am I got a text saying there was a two hour delay due to snow so I reset my alarm and went back to sleep for two more hours (and then had a very upsetting dream unfortunately). When I woke up we had two or three inches of snow around the house, and the whole world was white - white snow on the ground, white clouds in the sky, trees all white from snow just barely tracing their shapes against the clouds, more big fluffy white flakes still falling. It was very gorgeous. But the roads were clear so I went in to work and the snow turned to rain and then Tuesday was warm and there was no snow left anymore anywhere. So quickly it melted.
pouncer and two friends of hers I didn't know for Thai food and then the Garbage concert. At the Fillmore, which I'd never been to before, and which has cool chandeliers. We went up to the balcony because the place was already packed when we got there. The opening band was called Io Echo and I enjoyed their sound a bunch. I kinda wanted to get one of their albums but after the show it was still packed and I had to run catch the metro so I didn't.Anyhow, it was not as intense as when I saw Garbage last year and we were right up in front and I swear Shirley Manson made direct eye contact with me a few times (as she did with many people in the crowd) but that is fine because I had that already. We didn't have the greatest view but the music was AWESOME and they did little mash-up covers of Madonna and Fleetwood Mac and talked a lot about how much they loved their fans and how they wanted all of us to have a good time. And we did.
After the show I felt very energized and happy which made it hard to fall asleep when I got home and in bed at 1am and had my alarm set for 5:45am as per usual to go to work. Luckily at 5:34am I got a text saying there was a two hour delay due to snow so I reset my alarm and went back to sleep for two more hours (and then had a very upsetting dream unfortunately). When I woke up we had two or three inches of snow around the house, and the whole world was white - white snow on the ground, white clouds in the sky, trees all white from snow just barely tracing their shapes against the clouds, more big fluffy white flakes still falling. It was very gorgeous. But the roads were clear so I went in to work and the snow turned to rain and then Tuesday was warm and there was no snow left anymore anywhere. So quickly it melted.
So I signed up for Graze and have been enjoying the snacks they send me. The food is yummy and also their system hits that perfect Venn diagram overlap sweet spot between OCD list-making/rating and exciting randomness for me.
Anyhow, I have an invite code, if anyone wants to try it out. First box is free. Valid only in the continental USA.
AND TAKEN.
AND TAKEN.
Meta on AO3
Feb. 26th, 2013 02:52 pmSo the OTW board decided to allow meta on the AO3, as probably anyone who cares has heard already. I'm, like, whatever, fine with that, no strong opinions either way. Thinking about it I have 3 essays that I will add to the list of works to archive there (one each in SKU, SV, and SPN). These are all things that I spent as much effort writing as I put into fic (and more effort than a tiny ficlet requires) and they're long and could possibly be of abiding interest to readers. The rest of my ramblings and discussion are not worth my time and effort to transfer over and are probably not interesting enough to anyone at this point. (Though if I come across other worthwhile essays or write more I may add them as well. I still have some old fics I haven't transferred over yet too. It is an ongoing process.)
But I also went and looked and I had 2 fics I'd tagged with "meta" as an additional tag due to them including metadiscussion of fandom in the narrative. Since so many people were talking about filtering meta out on searches I removed that tag from those stories and will not be putting it on any other stories in future.
I guess, okay, I guess I do have opinions, which is that I like the concept of meta on the AO3 but I hope people remember it is an archive and not a personal journal or social networking service and don't post every bit of random whatever that crosses their minds to the AO3. That's what LJ/DW/Tumblr/twitter/FB/email etc etc are for. There is a difference between your personal ephemera and a publication, is what I'm saying. Or possibly I could phrase it as (but am trying not to say?) "only good meta on the AO3!"
Like this post, this post does not deserve to be on the AO3.
But I also went and looked and I had 2 fics I'd tagged with "meta" as an additional tag due to them including metadiscussion of fandom in the narrative. Since so many people were talking about filtering meta out on searches I removed that tag from those stories and will not be putting it on any other stories in future.
I guess, okay, I guess I do have opinions, which is that I like the concept of meta on the AO3 but I hope people remember it is an archive and not a personal journal or social networking service and don't post every bit of random whatever that crosses their minds to the AO3. That's what LJ/DW/Tumblr/twitter/FB/email etc etc are for. There is a difference between your personal ephemera and a publication, is what I'm saying. Or possibly I could phrase it as (but am trying not to say?) "only good meta on the AO3!"
Like this post, this post does not deserve to be on the AO3.
And fandom
Feb. 7th, 2013 03:59 pmI signed up for ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
comics_bb. We'll see if I finish anything. Such Shaping Fantasies sadly isn't eligible since I've posted parts of it public already, so I need to decide what else to focus on (and keep going with that anyway). I'm trying to figure out what is most likely to get an artist: Lex/Kon, girl-Kon, or multiple Kons.
I'm also thinking of doing another round ofsv_remix. Because. It would be fun. If other people would play.
comics_bb. We'll see if I finish anything. Such Shaping Fantasies sadly isn't eligible since I've posted parts of it public already, so I need to decide what else to focus on (and keep going with that anyway). I'm trying to figure out what is most likely to get an artist: Lex/Kon, girl-Kon, or multiple Kons.I'm also thinking of doing another round of
sv_remix. Because. It would be fun. If other people would play.
oxoniensis was running the Porn Battle and kink_bingo's January mini-challenge was tiny bingos. So I wrote a bunch of 100 word drabbles for each of those. This post as a whole is not worksafe. If you want to check the AO3 you can go through things more individually with ratings and warnings.Title: Fade
Fandom: Supernatural
Characters: Dean, Sam, background Dean/OC
Kink Bingo square: bites/bruises
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Title: Dress Up
Fandom: Finder
Character: Lynne
Kink Bingo square: gender play
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Title: Art Of Love
Fandoms: Criminal Minds/Bones crossover
Pairing: Penelope Garcia/Angela Montenegro
Porn Battle prompts: drawing, sexy
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Title: Pull
Fandom: Warehouse 13
Pairing: Myka Bering/Helena HG Wells
Porn Battle prompts: alive, hair pulling
Kink Bingo square: painplay (other)
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Title: Digits
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Neville/Draco
Porn Battle prompt: curl
Notes: I haven't written in this fandom in ~ages~ so I thought I would dip my toe in it ~again~ and... Those of you who are laughing at me, yes, I deserve it.
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Title: Necking
Fandom: Young Justice cartoon
Pairing: Bart/Jaime
Kink Bingo square: collars
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Title: Night Flight
Fandom: DCU
Pairing: Kon/Cassie/Cissie
Porn Battle prompt: beach
Notes: I may have also left this prompt myself.
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Title: Strapped
Fandom: DCU
Pairing: AU-girl-Kon/Tana
Kink Bingo square: pegging/strap-ons
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On Saturday I told some people my story of why I have never read Les Misérables.
My parents gave me the book for Christmas when I was nine. I tried to start reading it. I decided it was too long and boring. I went to read something else.
Given that I basically will read any words placed in front of my eyes and am almost entirely incapable of deliberately stopping reading what I start, and this tendency was even more pronounced when I was a kid, in order to read the book now I would have to overcome the fact that it is labeled in my brain as the most boring book ever, SEARED INTO MY MEMORY as pretty much the only time in my entire life that I ever put a book down for being too long and boring.
I have two other childhood memories of not finishing a book. I have this vague idea that I was reading The Once And Future King and then at some point dropped it down a hill and lost my place and never bothered to find that again (this is a very odd memory and I'm not entirely sure it's true; the book-dropping is clear in my head but I can neither confirm nor deny whether the book was ever finished being read for real). The other concerns The Silmarillion, which I read once at about age nine and then tried to read again a year or two later. The second time around I decided the book was so boring that I had no idea how I'd managed to make it through the first time.
You can tell from the fact that these three memories have stuck with me all my life exactly how RARE it was for me to stop reading something when I was a kid. And that is why I think I will never be able to overcome the negative conditioning and have anything to do with Les Mis.
The consensus response of the group was, "but WHY would your parents give that book TO A NINE YEAR OLD KID?" *shrug* Don't ask me, ask them.
My parents gave me the book for Christmas when I was nine. I tried to start reading it. I decided it was too long and boring. I went to read something else.
Given that I basically will read any words placed in front of my eyes and am almost entirely incapable of deliberately stopping reading what I start, and this tendency was even more pronounced when I was a kid, in order to read the book now I would have to overcome the fact that it is labeled in my brain as the most boring book ever, SEARED INTO MY MEMORY as pretty much the only time in my entire life that I ever put a book down for being too long and boring.
I have two other childhood memories of not finishing a book. I have this vague idea that I was reading The Once And Future King and then at some point dropped it down a hill and lost my place and never bothered to find that again (this is a very odd memory and I'm not entirely sure it's true; the book-dropping is clear in my head but I can neither confirm nor deny whether the book was ever finished being read for real). The other concerns The Silmarillion, which I read once at about age nine and then tried to read again a year or two later. The second time around I decided the book was so boring that I had no idea how I'd managed to make it through the first time.
You can tell from the fact that these three memories have stuck with me all my life exactly how RARE it was for me to stop reading something when I was a kid. And that is why I think I will never be able to overcome the negative conditioning and have anything to do with Les Mis.
The consensus response of the group was, "but WHY would your parents give that book TO A NINE YEAR OLD KID?" *shrug* Don't ask me, ask them.
Sky High fic: Passion
Jan. 31st, 2013 03:59 pmTitle: Passion
Fandom: Sky High
Pairing: Layla/Will/Warren
Rating: worksafe
Summary: Layla's new flower breeding attempt has an unexpected result. 722 words.
Notes: Written for the Porn Battle prompt "sex pollen". Which I may or may not have left myself so I could write something for it. *shiftyeyes* On a sex pollen Kinsey scale of fluffy to hinky this is fluffy.
( Passion flowers. )
Fandom: Sky High
Pairing: Layla/Will/Warren
Rating: worksafe
Summary: Layla's new flower breeding attempt has an unexpected result. 722 words.
Notes: Written for the Porn Battle prompt "sex pollen". Which I may or may not have left myself so I could write something for it. *shiftyeyes* On a sex pollen Kinsey scale of fluffy to hinky this is fluffy.
( Passion flowers. )
Fic warnings
Jan. 30th, 2013 06:00 pmI went through all my fic on the AO3 and changed everything that said "underage" to "choose not to use archive warnings." I'm too lazy to mess around with things posted back when on LJ/DW, but it's easy there.
It just started to feel like having that label on meant I was somehow publicly admitting guilt and the doing of something wrong. Which I don't think I am; I don't think I've written anything too different from all the mainstream novels and movies and TV episodes that include teenagers doing sexual things. Blah blah blah child porn it is not.
And all of them (I believe) make it pretty clear from the summaries/notes/fandom/tags/metadata when they are set and thus how old the characters are, so anyone who needs/wants for whatever reason to stay away from descriptions of teenagers doing sexual things can still avoid them. (This is only the ones marked explicit or mature, anything less I certainly don't think counts. (Though apparently some people do or they just don't understand the point of the warning, because I have seen fic posted that has no sexual content or only the tiniest bit of kissing and the author has labeled it as underage.)) Some of the ficlets that are so short and vague that they could be set at any point (especially in canons with weird timelines like the DCU*) are sometimes unlabeled because the characters could be 15 or 18 or 25 or 55 and you can't tell exactly from the text, so while I as the author may have a specific image in mind the readers' images can and may be different.
So I'm trying to still be helpful to readers while feeling comfortable myself as an author.
*When is Kon 18? When is Bart 18? What do these terms even MEAN in the context of them?
It just started to feel like having that label on meant I was somehow publicly admitting guilt and the doing of something wrong. Which I don't think I am; I don't think I've written anything too different from all the mainstream novels and movies and TV episodes that include teenagers doing sexual things. Blah blah blah child porn it is not.
And all of them (I believe) make it pretty clear from the summaries/notes/fandom/tags/metadata when they are set and thus how old the characters are, so anyone who needs/wants for whatever reason to stay away from descriptions of teenagers doing sexual things can still avoid them. (This is only the ones marked explicit or mature, anything less I certainly don't think counts. (Though apparently some people do or they just don't understand the point of the warning, because I have seen fic posted that has no sexual content or only the tiniest bit of kissing and the author has labeled it as underage.)) Some of the ficlets that are so short and vague that they could be set at any point (especially in canons with weird timelines like the DCU*) are sometimes unlabeled because the characters could be 15 or 18 or 25 or 55 and you can't tell exactly from the text, so while I as the author may have a specific image in mind the readers' images can and may be different.
So I'm trying to still be helpful to readers while feeling comfortable myself as an author.
*When is Kon 18? When is Bart 18? What do these terms even MEAN in the context of them?
