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Since we're asking questions this time around...

How common is fading to black here and what's the general opinion on people who stick with either f/f or m/m outside fading to black? I know smut is part of the AC and I'm down with that, but I'd rather avoid threading out het sex and the character I'm interested in apping is bisexual leaning towards straight. It would be kinda weird to avoid the issue altogether.

I remember the huge blowup with That Gayve a while back and, well, it's making me think twice about apping since it got pretty nasty.

I've actually never seen anyone fade to black, to be honest. It doesn't count for AC, so people just don't bother doing it.

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The answer to your FTB question is on this page.

Dang. I forgot all about that, haha.

Thanks for not being a dick about reminding me, anon. I appreciate it.

Wait, though.

"Please note: You do not have to play out every sex scene ever and you do not have to play only sex. The AC requires 10 comments of smut per month. What you play outside of that is entirely up to you."

What's the deal here?

Say your character has a steady boyfriend/girlfriend. Or just a friend with benefits. They're probably fucking on a regular basis, right?

You don't have to write out every single encounter they have during the week. If they have sex three times a week, you don't have to write out sex three times a week. You can pick a particularly juicy encounter for the month, like trying out some new dungeon furniture or something, and thread that out for AC, while still referring to the fact that they have sex three times a week.

That, and if for some reason a thread needs to be dropped or faded to black because you have too many threads/are going on hiatus/the other person dropped the game, you can still do that. It just means that that thread, if it doesn't meet the 10 comment requirement, can't count for AC, and if you fade to black instead of writing out the sex to completion, it can't count for the game's level up process.

Anon from above, answering another part of your question, namely: sticking to f/f or m/m.

If I'm understanding you correctly, your aim is to pick up a bi, m/f preferring character, but to focus more on m/m or f/f while writing smut? If so, I'm going to say right now that that's probably going to rub some people the wrong way, since it's seems odd and contrary to pick a het-minded character just to play non-het relationships. There is the IC issue of writing out someone like, say, James T. Kirk only sleeping with men and handwaving the rest when he canonically pursues women with gusto, and might generate wank to the tune of "playing only for the yaois."

Not to say that it isn't done, or can't be done, but my advice is either pick a character more likely to have f/f or m/m relationships or just gird your loins against the possible backlash.

I would say that fading to black happens all the time because of thread dropping, but going in with the intention of doing that isn't really in the spirit of the game.

On the other hand, I see a fair amount of m/m and f/f happening because it's the way it works out between friends plotting together or because of a lack of opposite sex partners that a player manages to coordinate with. I don't know if you would really stand out as much as you fear.

This game is a sausagefest. If you've got M/M in mind, nobody is going to notice.

This is the game's number one problem right here. The bias is really overwhelming.

It depends on the character. If they are portrayed as being aggressively flirtatious and having sex with members of the opposite sex with gusto to the point that it's a major facet of the character's personality you'll get judged for it absolutely.

Think about it. If somebody apped Batman into a game and avoided playing out the detectiving and caped crusading parts because they only wanted to play out Bruce Wayne millionaire playboy hijinks, would they get called out for it?

If how they approach their love lives isn't an instantly recognizable hallmark of the character then people won't care though.

playing a ladies man for the yaois will get you judged

playing a dude who dates a girl sometimes for the yaois won't get you judged

there are lots of the second in the game playing out buttsex and no1curr

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