Anonymous asked:
ao3commentoftheday answered:
Hey anon,
I’ll start you off with the AO3 FAQ on Archive Warnings. It came up in earlier discussions, and I think it’s a good place to start you off since you’ll probably need to use one of those.
The next guideline I suggest using is the Motion Picture Association of America’s rating scale (or the local equivalent) image linked is from the MPAA website, but since it’s at the bottom of the page I linked you directly. In terms of AO3 ratings, I tend to use the General rating for fics that I think would be G/PG if they were movies and I’ll use Teen and up for fics that are PG-13.
Personally, the difference for me between Mature and Explicit is the amount of detail and the number of times mentioned. If I generally mention something one time, I might keep the fic rated Teen, but if things are mentioned many times, even if they’re still relatively general? Then I’ll give it a Mature rating. If I say exactly what’s happening to whom, how, and what it feels like? For me, that’s explicit.
Examples of how I do things under the cut:
Oh, oh! One cannot go past the envelope distinction (by @tinsnip).
I consider it valid for scenes that are either sexual or violent in nature.
what is jeeves and woosters and why does it sound like a vacuum cleaner manufacturer?
You’ve come to the right person. I’m so, so, so excited to introduce this series to someone unfamiliar with it! :D
Ahem…
Jeeves & Wooster is a series of novels by writing genius PG Wodehouse. It is also a 1990 tv series starring Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry. The stories are set around the 1930s.
It centres around a young, rich aristocrat named Bertie Wooster, and his hyper-intelligent butler valet, Jeeves.
Plot-wise, each episode/novel is about
Bertie getting accidentally
engaged to different women (it’s a long story, lol), with him and Jeeves working together to find a way out of the marriage, so that Bertie can stay single and live happily in his flat with Jeeves.
All of the love interests are different. There’s the overly-sentimental Madeline Bassett:
(Ignore Bertie hiding behind the couch. It’s a long story.)
And there’s also Bobbie Wickham, the master troll trickster and practical joker:
There’s sooo many colourful characters in this series, it would take too long to list them all here.
Gussie Fink-Nottle is also pretty notable. He’s a “newt-fancier”:
Wodehouse’s writing is fantastic. It’s so clever and funny throughout.
Jeeves is very, very intelligent. He can come up with these elaborate schemes that fix everyone’s problems.
Anyway, I hope you check out the series. I highly, highly recommend it. :)
cosmictuesdays asked:
Right? The Quebecois would get along beautifully on Bajor.
broken link cold open: garak tries to set odo up on a date! :D
broken link closer: garak has been sentenced to six months in a holding cell for attempted genocide
Garak’s character summarized in one episode.
It’s Garaaaak
For reasons that I’m not going to get into, it was important for us that they were - in a number of ways - visually reminiscent to each other. They have- David and Michael, they normally aren’t in things together because they go up for the same parts.
Neil Gaiman (x)
”But I love the fact that we have them together. When Terry and I were asked who we wanted to play Crowley and Aziraphale, back when the book first came out in 1989/1990, we said: If he was still alive we’d want Peter Sellers playing both parts. And I kind of feel like this is the closest we ever get to that.
They could absolutely- You know, Michael Sheen, when I saw him the other night, he had noticed a line by somebody on Twitter that sort of said was what they like to see was a stage play of ‘Good Omens’ with Michael and David swapping parts each night, playing Crowley and Aziraphale each. And I could see that.”
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