Results

Section 1

Question 1.1

Would you describe yourself as a reader or writer of fan or amateur fiction?

Yes	1082	97.39%	96.95%
No	29	2.61%	2.6%
No response given	5	-	0.45%

Question 1.2

Which age range best describes you?

9 or under	0	0%	0%
10-12	4	0.38%	0.36%
13-15	47	4.51%	4.21%
16-17	103	9.88%	9.23%
18-21	231	22.15%	20.7%
22-25	195	18.7%	17.47%
26-35	236	22.63%	21.15%
36-45	151	14.48%	13.53%
46-55	61	5.85%	5.47%
56-65	14	1.34%	1.25%
66 and over	1	0.1%	0.09%
No response given	73	-	6.54%

Question 1.3

What is the age of majority (the age one becomes a legal adult and gains full legal rights, such as the right to vote) in your country/state?

Entering age	1080	97.56%	96.77%
Don't know	27	2.44%	2.42%
No response given	9	-	0.81%

Age: (1080 responses)

18	996	92.22%
17	3	0.28%
21	55	5.09%
16	12	1.11%
19	13	1.2%
20	1	0.09%

Section 2

Question 2.1

Do you...

Just read it	347	31.95%	31.09%
Just write it	10	0.92%	0.9%
Read and write it	729	67.13%	65.32%
No response given	30	-	2.69%

Question 2.2

What age did you start reading and/or writing fan/amateur fiction?

9 or under	31	2.96%	2.78%
10-12	143	13.65%	12.81%
13-15	258	24.62%	23.12%
16-17	141	13.45%	12.63%
18-21	146	13.93%	13.08%
22-25	111	10.59%	9.95%
26-35	124	11.83%	11.11%
36-45	68	6.49%	6.09%
46-55	25	2.39%	2.24%
56-65	1	0.1%	0.09%
66 and over	0	0%	0%
No response given	68	-	6.09%

Question 2.3

From what sources do you read amateur fiction (select all applicable)?

My friend gives me his/her stuff to read	425
Zines	190
E-Zines	213
Mailing lists/Yahoo groups	786
Personal journals/blogs and journal communities	862
Writer's home pages	917
Fandom/Community Archive	1007
Multifandom Archive	679
Fanfiction.net	623
Anywhere except Fanfiction.net	202
Wherever I can find it	591

Question 2.4

Which of the following best expresses you feelings about paying to access amateur fiction online?

Yes, I would/do pay for it	17	1.57%	1.52%
Yes, I would pay to help support an archive or author I liked	75	6.93%	6.72%
Yes, I would pay if the money was to support website upkeep costs	49	4.53%	4.39%
Yes, I would pay if the money was to pay for age verification services	4	0.37%	0.36%
Yes, I would pay but only if it was original and not fan fiction	31	2.87%	2.78%
I would not want to be compelled to pay but I would give a voluntary donation towards upkeep of a web site	512	47.32%	45.88%
No, I would not pay any money to a site or author because it should be non-commercial	362	33.46%	32.44%
I would only pay if it was for an e-zine	32	2.96%	2.87%
No response given	34	-	3.05%

Question 2.5

Which best describes the number of fiction related mailing lists, chat groups and journal communities that you subscribe to?

None	74	6.83%	6.63%
One group	40	3.69%	3.58%
2 or 3, all related to the same fandoms, interests or communities	94	8.67%	8.42%
2 or 3 altogether, but not all realted to the same fandom, interest or community	80	7.38%	7.17%
4 - 6, all related to the same fandom, interest or community	73	6.73%	6.54%
4 - 6 altogether, but not all realted to the same fandom, interest or community	143	13.19%	12.81%
7 - 10, all related to the same fandom, interest or community	35	3.23%	3.14%
7 - 10 altogether, but not all realted to the same fandom, interest or community	136	12.55%	12.19%
11 - 15, all related to the same fandom, interest or community	13	1.2%	1.16%
11 - 15 altogether, but not all realted to the same fandom, interest or community	64	5.9%	5.73%
16 - 20, all related to the same fandom, interest or community	12	1.11%	1.08%
16 - 20 altogether, but not all realted to the same fandom, interest or community	60	5.54%	5.38%
More than 20 and all related to the same fandom, interest or community	34	3.14%	3.05%
More than 20 altogether but not all realted to the same fandom, interest or community	226	20.85%	20.25%
No response given	32	-	2.87%

Question 2.6

Do you belong to mailing lists/journal communities within all the fandoms or fiction areas you are interested in?

Yes	266	24.58%	23.84%
Only the ones I write in	48	4.44%	4.3%
Only the ones I am most interested in	419	38.72%	37.54%
Only the ones where I have found groups I like	254	23.48%	22.76%
I don't belong to any	95	8.78%	8.51%
No response given	34	-	3.05%

Question 2.7

Have you met any of your fiction friends off line?

No, not interested in meeting up with any of them	196	18.1%	17.56%
No, meeting up with people you meet online is dangerous	43	3.97%	3.85%
No, none of them live near me	254	23.45%	22.76%
No but I have seen pictures	112	10.34%	10.04%
I knew some of them off-line anyway	99	9.14%	8.87%
We try to have meet up at conventions so I've met some of them	54	4.99%	4.84%
There are a bunch of us locally so we get together regularly, go to conventions etc	28	2.59%	2.51%
Yes, I have arranged to meet some I might not have met otherwise	297	27.42%	26.61%
No response given	33	-	2.96%

Question 2.8

Within the lists, journals, chat rooms and other community areas you subscribe to are there any people you are particularly friendly with

I just read and/or write stuff, I'm not really part of any 'community'	115	10.63%	10.3%
Not really, I just sort of lurk	288	26.62%	25.81%
There are one or two people on my lists that I'm friends with	267	24.68%	23.92%
There are 4-10 people I know very well and a few others I know quite well	273	25.23%	24.46%
There are 11-20 people I know very well and a few others I know quite well	90	8.32%	8.06%
There are 21-30 people I know very well and a few others I know quite well	22	2.03%	1.97%
There are more than 30 people I know very well and a others I know quite well	22	2.03%	1.97%
I have been there since the beginning - I know everyone	5	0.46%	0.45%
No response given	34	-	3.05%

Question 2.9

Do you read fiction that contains adult content?

Yes	608	56.04%	54.48%
Yes, but only het	19	1.75%	1.7%
Yes, but only slash	260	23.96%	23.3%
Yes, but only when the content is not of a sex-related nature	9	0.83%	0.81%
No - Don't want to	16	1.47%	1.43%
No - I am underage	10	0.92%	0.9%
Occasionally when the mood takes me or I see something that looks really good	97	8.94%	8.69%
I never pay attention to ratings	45	4.15%	4.03%
The works I read do not have ratings but I would count some of them as adult	5	0.46%	0.45%
Not intentionally but I have a few times by accident	16	1.47%	1.43%
No response given	31	-	2.78%

Question 2.10

Do you think the movie rating system adequately describes works of fiction?

No response given	32	-	2.87%
Yes	341	31.46%	30.56%
Never really thought about it	183	16.88%	16.4%
It is okay but I sometimes find it hard to work out what rating applies to what	355	32.75%	31.81%
No	130	11.99%	11.65%
No, I think a better system would be:	75	6.92%	6.72%

Other reponses: (77 responses)

• Faceted system for violence, sex, language, criminal or anti-social activities, and genre
• One that understands the ratings system and term "porn" means "pornography" which means *pictoral*; not writing. A twelve year old can go to Barnes and Noble or any bookstore and buy the Kama Sutra or any work of erotic fiction without any problem. He/she just can't buy magazines with suggestively nude photographs--at least in the US. There is a difference and fiction and pictures are NOT the same. That said, we've adopted the system to just denote the level of description and the tastesulness of the writing so it does work to some extent but I believe it makes works seem more daring and racy than they really are
• Any system not reliant on visual and auditory cues such as the movie system is in order to create a rating. While I don't prefer the "reading level" or "age range" systems because I find those inaccurate on books even it'd still be better than using very skewed and ethnocentric MPAA standards. Ideally a vague warning would be best (for example "adult content" or "violence") but that'd require everyone to get along and not bitch because they don't read/can't understand the warning, something that would never happen
• no system other than authors warning for specific things people might want to avoid (explicit sex, torture, violence, slash, het, whatever). Anyone can walk into a bookstore and buy books with adult content. The movie ratings are misleading. You can get an R rating for lots of nudity in a film, however, you can't *see* naked bodies on the page. It's not the same
• Perhaps keep the age if strictly necessary, but clarify what kinks/possibly offensive material the fic contains
• The movie rating system is too topheavy against anything sexual and too light on violence. Heavy graphic description of blood and gore should carry at least an R rating, and a tasteful fade-to-black where before is quite tasteful as well should be able to carry a PG-13/M-15 rating in some cases (particularly the M-15)
• To warn separately for graphic sex and graphic violence (currently they're both lumped together under NC-17). No difference in rating whether the sex described is heterosexual or homosexual (there's a tendency, though it is decreasing, to rate slash higher than het for the same level of graphicness)
• putting an age range on the fics, such as TV ratings. TV14, for example, is "we recommend this show to be watched at the minimum age of 14." The same should apply to fics - "The recommended minimum reader age is 12/13/14..."
• If you're there to read a whole story, it's not too difficult to read one short prefacing statement saying "This story contains mild sexual content, violence, and strong language", is it? Although having to click through an "I am 17/18" page gives you a good hint about that. (I personally find cheesiness more offensive than sex, homosexuality, language, or violence ;)
• Descriptive, similar to what appears before shows on some TV stations; i.e, "The following story contains coarse language*; reader discretion is advised."
  
  *Or whatever description is needed to accurately warn readers of the content without giving away spoilers
• I no longer think fiction should be rated in these terms
• Well, the US has a different rating system than other countries, so i think, to be fair, there should be an international standard set. such as M for mature instead of nc-17
• I don't have a better system, just wanted to say: I don't think the movie rating system adequately describes movies, either
• Something that better described both adult themes/language, the use of violence, and the degree of sexual explicitness/degree to which the story depended on sex to carry the plot. (For instance, most John Wayne movies - not much adult themes, moderate to severe violence, no sex.)
• Marking for adult content and specifically mentioning *what* adult content (e.g., sex, violence, torture, BDSM)
• Well, the MPAA system is what I've got problems with. The British or French rating systems would do just fine, I think, because there are more options for the grey areas
• No, but because I don't agree with the way the movie system rates things. That is homosexuality automatically gets a higher rating than hetrosexuality and violence and sex are not weighted evenly to determine a higher ranking
• A more detailed one. I try to describe my work as a combination of movie ratings and detailed information (eg. "Rated R for violence and non-explicit sex"); I think it's something of a problem that people expect an R-rated or NC-17-rated story to contain sex, while the author may want to up the rating for language, violence, or simply mature themes
• The ratings have to be used in conjunction with discriptions of the reasons behind the rating. Noncon, BDSM, death, violence, slash, etc. for people to understand the content of the fiction
• Something that makes allowances for the differences in the depiction of violence between the two media. Graphic violence with blood and gore is going to potentially more disturbing as visual images than as written words, so the movie rating system pushes some fics into higher ratings than necessary
• The basic theory of the movie system works nicely. The trouble is, the American ratings (which seem to be more or less universally used for this) have a huge gap between PG-13 and R. What I'd like to see is a rating introduced (possibly borrowing the UK 15 rating) in between them because, quite often, a story might push the PG-13 rating to its absolute limit but still not really merit the higher R rating
• The ratings/disclaimer system I use is similar to this: Mature subject matter. Reader's discretion is advised. All stories listed as Mature are meant for a mature audience. As always, if you feel you might be offended by the content, do not read the story. (Anything that is violent or sexual receives a Mature subject matter rating)
• My issue is that same sex automatically gets labeled as "adult material", even when it is not graphic/explicit. I don't warn homophobes who read my work
• The current video game rating system, where besides the rating there's a description of why the rating applies
• This has been a big problem for me. For my own stories, I ended up using my own system: I indicate whether there is onscreen sex or violence (and if so, whether it is graphic and nongraphic), or whether there are sensitive themes of sex or violence (offstage or potential activities are of a sensitive nature and may have as large an emotional impact on readers as the depiction of onstage activities). I set my system up this way because my stories often have no sex or violence in them but deal with touchy topics related to sexuality and/or violence.
  
  I also very much like the new Boys in Chains system:
  
  http://www.boysinchains.org/ratings.php
  
  I think this is the best system in the slash world currently, because it divides the sex and violence categories, and it also differentiates between mainstream stories that have sex or violence in them, and erotica. The "rating withheld" category is also quite helpful.
  
  Another ratings system I've liked - from the m/f pro romance community - is much less negative than any of the movie/TV ratings systems. It could be adapted for amateur fiction:
  
  http://www.likesbooks.com/kissburn.html
• Subdivide the 'R' rating, as it's too broad--is sometimes done with the 'PG-15' label, but there's no way of knowing whether a story just listed as 'R' tends closer to 15 or NC17
• I don't know if we can really get much better, but I do know that the current system is incredibly subjective. I'm from liberal Connecticut, and what constitutes a PG-13 rating to me (mentions of sex, the f-word, non-graphic descriptions of sex, abortions, etc) doesn't to others, and I've had fics pulled down from FF.Net for "innapropriate content" and such. Which is quite flattering, mind you. Even though I'm vehemently opposed to most, if not all censorship, if I can freak someone out so badly that they want my writing REMOVED from teh internet, I've done my job right. ;P Maybe a system just explaining exactly what elements the fic uses would work better, aka a warning or something saying "this fic has violence/sex/disturbing themes," which I know isnt necessarily better, but the author is then innocent when it comes to complaining readers. If you rate soemthing as PG that is an R to others, you're going to get some complaints. If you straight-up tell the reader that 'this fic has an inordinate amount of kinky sex'-- you cant have any complaints because you laid out the terms in the author's note. The rating system is kind of, excuse my french, bullshit-- I know I started reading fanfic when I was twelve (I'm now 17), and the sheer amount of NC-17 and porn I read was staggering. Growing up in a... freer... household like I have, my parents trusted me to know my own limits, and if I didn't want to read about some crackwhore giving Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer a blowjob, I wouldn't
• Only to label NC-17 stuff, and not to use movie rating system for the milder stories. I don't think the rating is meaningful for G-R rated stories, it would be better to use some kind of description of the content.
  
• warnings/squicks
• It's hard to say, really. What's legal or the norm in one country differs in another as do the ages people are allowed to view certain things. In a broad sense the current system works, if only so parents can't say "but you didn't post a warning!" when their children read things they shouldn't anyways. Another difficulty in having a ratings system is that what one person can handle, another can not. Good judgement and parents supervision are the best monitoring systems (and the least likely to be used)
• I think it would be better to use a custom-made, standardized system more like that of video games, where both the rating and the reason for the rating (sex, violence, horror themes, etc.) are included. Movie ratings aren't very helpful to those outside of the US, and in my personal opinion they aren't very helpful even when applied to MPAA movies.
  
  While the 'warnings' system is very helpful for fiction, particularly with actual porn as opposed to general adult fiction, it can sometimes force a writer to choose between revealing key plot points or not revealing enough for a reader to give an informed opinion, and when applied to art it pretty much always has that problem
• It works, but just barely. The NC-(insert age here) with warnings for either sexuality, death and violence, language or adult situations 1-5 is a good one, but cumbersom. Nonetheless, the movie rating system (at least here in America) barely works for the movies, and mass media film here are hardly as complex and varied as ffic tends to be
• Would describe the content more fully, much as standardized fanfic headers try to do. And I'd really prefer a system with a means to rate stories for technical and creative quality, so that I can find good fics in fandoms where I don't have any personal connections
• Australian television ratings state what the rating is for, and the degree: eg. 'Rated R for mild violence and strong sexual situations.' I think the current system is okay, and a lot of authors specify anyway, and warnings tend to cover these sorts of things. But if I could wave a wand, this would be the system
• No, but I think the movie rating has been slowly adapted to fit works of fiction-- so that NC-17 or R fanfic is adequately tagged, but not necessarily meaning the same thing as NC-17 on a movie
• I have to admit it's personal. I have a 13-year-old cousin and 10-year-old nephews. I rate PG everything I wouldn't like my nephews to read and PG-13 or PG-15 in my cousin's case. Anything with explicit violence or sex goes under R or NC-17
• But some need warnings
• Code warnings work better. While you don't have the visual (like in films) you often have much more graphic discriptions
• G
  PG
  PG-13
  M-15
  R
  NC-17
• to realize that the number of people who actually read is minuscule and if a ten year old reads a few obscenities or a graphic description of rape, or even a lot, it's not a big deal
• The movie rating for where I live, USA, takes into account violence and language as being less "adult" than sex. So a lot of fiction that I have read with lots of violence, but would rather have not read, have lower ratings than the ones I've read with mild sex- which I prefer to detailed sex scenes. I think a better rating would rate each individually. If there's a lot of detailed violence or sex or really bad language, they'd each have a different impact. S0V0 for no sex or violence, for example, and S5V5 for something really intense
• A proper blurb like that on a commercial book works much better than a ratings system designed for visual media. Specific warnings like 'noncon' are also helpful
• To get rid of the movie ratings and simply post warnings about potentially offensive content. Those are much more helpful for international readships anyway, because not all countries use the same rating system
• Asimilar aystem but one that also indicates what the rating is for i.e. sexual content (how explicit and if kink), violence (including torture), language, sensitive material i.e. child abuse, rape ect
• I find that many writers tend to "over" rate their stories "just to be on the safe side," which means a lot of R or NC17 stories are really PG or so. I read all ratings, so it doesn't really matter to me
• I think the movie rating system works well but it would be better if specific warning were added, such as rape, character death, abuse, torture
• The movie rating system gives a general guideline, but suffers from 2 problems.
  1) Not all authors rate their work accurately, either because they don't understand the ratings system, or (occasionally) because they want to deliberately mislead readers.
  2)The movie ratings system is limited in what it relates to, and it is difficult to tell what the rating is being given for.
  
  An improved system would be using the movie ratings system, along with keywords, like the warnings some writers give, to give a more accurate impression of what the work contains
• A universal system - not all countries have the same movie ratings systems
• An initial "movie" rating, then additional information about what content might be considered objectionable (particular sexual acts, non-consensual sex, BDSM, various kinks, adult/child relationships)
• The system at SkyeHawke with the (X) for Extreme, (V) for Violence, (S) for Sex, etc
• One geared more toward the written language. There are guidlines that movies have to follow, like having three swears moves it up a rating. Meanwhile people can skim across words, miss things, focus more on one area of the story than another. Therefore there needs to be one tailored specifically for books. Like erotica should just be the stuff that is all about sex, meanwhile if it serves the plot it should be rated differently
• Yes, there is always a warning
• I don't have a better system. Ratings vary from fandom to fandom. I only read slash and some fandoms rate all slash stories NC-17 even when there is no sexual content at all
• I don't have an alternative system, but I think the movie rating system often has to do more with the amount of violence in a movie rather than its sexual content
• I prefer the content labels normally provided in the heading of the fic. They are much more specific
• I think author's take on what fits movie rating systems guidelines and my understanding of it can be quite different...so it doesn't really work. I have no alternative suggestion, however
• A universal one, because movie ratings are very well, but different countries, different movie ratings. W eeuropeans usually see things differentl than the americans.
  If someone watches out for the ratings that someone needs to check carefully if the author is from the US or the UK or a whole other part of the world. Because not even movies are rated the same way in diffrent countries and stories aren't either. Some fanfic archives have a help where they show how to rate what story, but this is based on the US-rating system and I for one think that for example PG-15(from the UK rating system) would be a good addition.
  So a worldwide standard (although this will be very, very unprobable) would be my suggestion
• Also, there should be a more international one.
  
  People which write their fanfic in French, or German or Russian ect. have very different rating systems than those in the UK or USA
• I prefer reading the 'warnings' section of a fic 'template' (similar to the dust jacket of a book, though more important) than the actual ratings. I find ratings I usually ignore the ratings included
• I don't feel the film rating system works for films very well either. There should be a solid and documented rating system for fic that takes into account the mood and themes of a work, not just the use of the word cock
• if they don't list that it is 'slash', but it is lite, they rate it g or pg, which confusees me. i always assume these are het. i think it should be require that it is het or slash, then go by the same ratings
• warnings for explicit sex, explicit violence, certain sex acts such as BD, death stories, etc
• I don't really know the answer to this. It's something that, as an administrator of a site, I struggle with. We do not "rate" our stories because we have not found an adequate system. We only archive stories up to an "R" rating, but what that "means" is always up for debate. Because the fandom is based on a book series popular through many age groups, we try to be very careful in keeping our fiction within the same "ratings" as the books. But everyone interprets this differently, fights over it, and disagrees. In our case, it has been most helpful to state that our entire site contains content suitable for those 13 and up. Occasionally, we put warnings on our stories if they have "mature themes" but even that is up for interpretation. If anyone has any better ideas, I would love to hear them... it's tricky, because ratings systems are *not* applied to books, and yet, somehow, if it's on the Internet, people often seem to feel that we're obligated to put warnings on everything
• Different ratings for different things. Such as having a different rating for violence than sex, because some people (including myself) don't mind reading some of the violent ones (not S&M, but Death Eater torure, or something) while disliking sex fics. So more gradations between PG-13 and R. Or maybe just a checklist to decide what rating it should be
• More specific content categories: e.g. violence, strong language, sexual content, etc
• The movie ratings system is tied to the *American* movie system. Since I'm American, I don't have trouble negotiating it, but I can see where others would. Then again, I'm not sure what we would replace it with
• Something more people understand - it took me quitea while to figure it out
• Since published books don't require any kind of rating whatsoever, I find the entire thing rather pointless. Just a warning of what the story contains would be enough. The movie ratings are too limited, and written fanfiction doesn't always fit neatly into five simple categories. The result is that a lot of fanfiction gets deleted simply for having 'the wrong rating', even though there is no other suitable rating available
• I think that the movie rating is pretty flimsy to begin with; plus, not all countries have the same rating, so it can get confusing. And PG and PG-13 can be hard to decide on. I've seen PG-13 movies that are a step from R, and PG-13 movies that are G. The same applies to fanfiction
• No, but yes: I feel that the movie rating system should be used to rate: L (language, excessive profanity, etc.); S (sex or sexual activity, including het, slash, or non-consensual, i.e., graphic rape scenes--which I won't read if I know they're in a fic); and V (for violence).
  
  Using this system, a fanfic heading could conceivably look like:
  FIC: The Plant of the Soul, 6a/10, D/OC1, L:PG, S:PG-13, V:n
  This is a chapter of a fanific of mine, translated it means: the first half of Chapter 6 of 10 chapters; it involves Dawn [Summers--it's a "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" fic] and OC1--first Original Character I'm introducing; Language is PG; Sex is PG-13 (they kiss hotly); V:n--no violence in this part of the chapter
• It's frequently difficult to tell- different authors will rate their work differently depending on what they believe to be age-appropriate- the movie rating system is therefore not especially faithful nor is it terribly useful (although you usually know what you're getting if you're reading NC-17, for example, the line between R and NC-17 is blurred as are the ones between G and PG, and PG-13 and R. Also many countries, like my own New Zealand, have different rating systems for their films.) I generally use "warnings" and genere under a fic to decide whether I want to read it- warnings are mostly utilised by writers of NC-17. examples are het, slash, bestiality, chan (under-age), no love (casual sex), explicit sex, explicit violence, bloodplay, BDSM, bondage, dominance/sub, non-con (non-consensual) etc etc. From these I know whether the fic contains stuff (like rape) that I prefer not to read
• The movie rating system does not work because sites base it entirely on the ameircan system which is not broad enough - and we are not all americans!!! It allows gross amounts of violence, but is incredibly prudish at the same time. The old 'you can't cut a breast, but you can't kiss it'
• I think using the MPAA system is useful as a standard, but I find it more helpful when authors include specific content-related descriptions (ie "sex" or "language"), and I do the same myself
• I prefer ratings that explicitly warn of het vs. gay content (even though I read both I prefer to know)
• I don't believe in ratings or age restrictions per se, as the ratings are often based on taste and hunches, and there are huge differences in maturity levels between individual people
• Warnings and a general rating don't really tell you how graphic specific elements of a story are - sex, violence, etc. I think they should have seperate ratings, because I don't mind graphic, disturbing sex, but I really don't like graphic violence unless it's kink
• the R/NC-17 system doesn't work for written material. It should be either R or PG. Those two are good enough. All fanfic sites require a written summary and many require the author to pigeon-hole their work into a category. That is enough. Too much in fact

Question 2.11

Which of the following would you prefer to know as a means of helping you decide whether or not to read a piece of fiction (select all applicable)?

Fandom	1028
Pairing (if extant)	973
Mood (funny, happy, sad, scary etc)	425
Type (het, slash, gen etc)	840
Canon character focused or original character focused	668
Happy ending or not	124
Rating/Level of adult material in contents	665
Size/Length	633
Title	622
Author	793
Summary	881
Genre (drama, action/adventure, missing scene, horror etc)	634
Whether it contains major non-canonical elements (Alternate universe, out of character behaviour, alternate species characteristics etc)	665
Whether it contains major character death	440
Whether it contains minor character death	104
Whether it contains kink (unspecified)	231
Whether it contains kink (specified)	385
Whether it contains large scale violence	241
Whether it contains non-explicit sexual violence	198
Whether it contains explicit sexual violence	464
Whether it contains portrayals of alternative lifestyles	92
Whether it contains portrayals of hate groups	196
Whether it contains portrayals of sexual abuse	420
Whether it contains portrayals of psychological abuse	298
Whether it contains portrayals of physical abuse	321
Whether it contains portrayals of child abuse	440
Whether it contains portrayals of drug abuse	204
Whether it contains portrayals of recreational drug use	125
Whether it contains portrayals of non-explicit sexual situation involving underage characters (e.g. As in Romeo and Juliet)	170
Whether it contains portrayals of explicit sexual situation involving underage characters (e.g. As in Queer as Folk)	339
Whether it contains portrayals of illegal activities	75
Whether it contains blasphemous language	47
Whether it contains sexually derived profanity	69
If the bad guys win	83
The technical quality of the writing (Grammar, spelling etc)	698
The storytelling quality of the writing (Good plot, characters etc)	645
The visual accessibility of the text	383
The format the story is available in (HTML, PDF etc)	285
Other	87

Other reponses: (87 responses)

• Whether it is finished. If it is a work in progress how often it is updated. When it was written and when it is supposed to be set within the fandom (eg Pre-series, Season 5)
• Whether it is a work in progress, whether it is part of a series, whether it is a stand-alone piece
• I am NOT interested in reading about rape, torture or paedophilia and want to avoid those stories at all costs
• five short (statement-to-paragraph length) reviews from the first five people to bother, running over some of the above topics; specifically, spelling, grammar, level of amateurism or professionalism, originality... without giving away plot as many movie reviewers tend to do, when they should just be telling you if its a good movie or not
• Obviously one would like to read only those stories of high 'storytelling quality', but it's not an objective criterion
• I like to know these things, but none of them determine whether or not I will read a story -- only whether or not I will read a story at that particular moment in time. (ie, I would like to know if a story is funny or tragic so I can match my reading to my mood, but I have no overall preference for funny or tragic stories.)
• Whether someone whose taste I trust has read and liked it
• *g* Actually, I will read just about anything in my chosen fandoms, but I like to know what I'm getting into. However, I usually read with far less information than above; otherwise the author's notes might be longer than the story. Note that quality of writing (storytelling) can't really be known ahead of time, unless I'm reading a known author, or on a known source's recommendation. Ditto with quality of writing (grammar, spelling). I'm quite able to quit reading if I feel that either is too far below my personal standards.
  
• warnings for mpreg!
• spoliers
• whether or not a story has been edited is important to me. i don't like having to correct grammar and spelling while i'm reading
• requires (or not) emailing for password, signing up for mailing list, group, etc
• Which characters it involved
• Whether it is completed, or a work in progress
• I want Title, Author, fandom (optional) Length and Summary in the headings. Fic quality I get a sense of from who recced it - any more I don't read most stuff that someone else hasn't pointed to. Nearly all else - and I don't fancy reading a lot of rape fic, MPREG, BMSD, underage, abuse, drug using, yah di yahdi - I don't like most of those. But a good writer can make me appreciate or can effectively use about anything, and if they are going to suprise me, I don't want to know before hand.
  
  The rating system I want until we get a better one, and as long as we have both newbies and minors reading fic, we need ratings
• Characters involved. I tend to stay away from stories about characters I dislike
• I need to know if it's non-con
• if there's any violence to cats (it's a personal squick)
  if it's songfic (because most of it sucks like a big sucky thing)
• If more than one slash pairing is in a story, and there is a switch, I would like to know which one is established at the end. Spoils the surprise, perhaps, but otherwise a possibility of disappointment, not to mention a waste of time
• If it contains particularly graphic and/or sustained violence such as torture
• How many people reacted to the story strongly enough to leave comments - for example on Fanfiction.net I am more prone to check out stories that have a higher number of reviews
• "If tehe bad guys win" = darkfic? Really, what a question
• The other I am referring to is a nasty bit of goods called "partner betrayal". I avoid those like the plague. Closely related is what I refer to as the "Character X is totally in love with Character Y and then proceeds to screw everything with genetalia *except* Character Y" plot. Typical excuse for this is always a variation of "Y needs to see how desirable X is". Totally unrealistic -- it only proves to poor old Y that X is a slut who can't be trusted no matter what s/he claims
• I have zero tolerance for religion. It's the only warning I *really* need
• Though this isn't a concern for me, in my warnings to my own stories, I always indicate whether religion plays a role in the story, since I learned, while I was an interfaith news reporter, that people are very sensitive on religious issues.
  
  I have limits on the amount and type of sexual and violent material I read, so I find that to be the most useful information (other than basics such as title, author, summary, etc.).
  
  Incidentally, when I surveyed readers about this issue on a couple of occasions, I found that readers were as likely to read warnings for positive reasons (because they were seeking stories on a particular kink, etc.) as they were for negative reasons (because they didn't want to read stories of that type)
• If the writer has actually *seen* the characters she/he is writing about
• Some of these, I'd like to know. Some, I'd like to know in order to aviod them
• Whether there are spoilers for the canon - show episodes I haven't watched or books in a series that I haven't read
• I would sometimes like to know the general reason for a fic's rating, i.e. if it's R-rated, whether that's for sex, violence, or whatever
• I'm reasonably relaxed about subject, although some warning is helpful. I Do *not* read mpreg, which I suppose is a type of specified kink
• If it's a crossover out of which Fandom the characters/situation come
• Date written, episode(s) spoiled
• I don't read RPS ("Real person slash" stories about the actors for an example) so warnings about that is rather important for me
• whether it contains mpreg
• If it's been recommended to me by someone I trust/know/like or if it's in a community/group/list/archive with other works of high quality or works I have also liked
• The author's purpose in writing the fic
• I'd prefer there be warnings (for abuse/violence/etc) only if it is extreme. Most authors are pretty good about doing this
• I'm a picky fanfic reader. I won't read a fic without a synopsis that the author his/herself wrote. One or two sentences give me enough to know whether the grammar or lack there of will cause me (as an English major) to self destruct. It's strange, but without it, it makes it hard to know what I'm in for - badly written teenybopper fic or an actual story worth committing my time to.
  
  Also, the Major Canon Character Death should be nonspecific, so it doesn't give away the story - just a death warning
• Whether it's a work-in-progress
• I will not read stories not revolving around the main characters in each fandom that I like, also, I will not read pairings that I do not favour.
  I also will not read hetrosexual pairings (except in Buffy the Vampire Slayer) or lesbianic pairings, or general non-yaoi/slash/shounen-ai fiction.
  
  Also, I will not read anything that has not been spellchecked, or with Original Characters (Mary Sues), fiction outside the fandoms I'm interested in, or fics that "bash" characters I like.
  
  I only read fanfiction, not original fiction
• I am a hurt/comfort reader
• Whether the fiction is ongoing or completed
• whether the story is already completed or not
• iif the story is complete, or if it is a 'Work in Progress'
• finished vs unfinished, work in progress, verification of whether it will be finished in a timely manner or not
• Whether it is finished or still a work-in-progress
• mpreg. i won't read a story if i know it has mpreg
• I read fan fiction, in general, as a cautionary tale. There are, in my mind, only two pieces of good fanfiction: "The Tick vs. the Late 70s" on fanfiction.net and the ghostbusters/harry potter crossover (on the author's site, look it up). The rest I read only if it is hilariously, mind-scrapingly bad, has the potential to be hilariously, mind-scrapingly bad or has the potential to be number three
• A lot of the boxes I haven't ticked would be covered by a decent rating, which is good enough for me
• Other's reccomendations-- there are the fiction elite in every fandom-- If, in the Newsie's fandom, the Newsies Justice League reccommends something, I am more likely to read it. This also applies to the Harry Potter fandom with Glasses Reflect
• I like recs from people I respect, because that gives me an idea of the writing quality, which is a huge issue for me. I don't actually need all of the above, except to determine whether a fic matches my current mood
• Whether it contains Self-insertation
  
• I hate actually knowing how something will end, but I also hate sad endings. I like a story that keeps me worried right up until the end and then delivers a happy ending. Naturally, it's hard to signal this without being so explicit about the happy ending that all of the dramatic tension is removed
• Not really an 'other' - I'd just like to specify that, although I selected many things, these things would not make me NOT want to read a fic. It just gives me an idea of what I'm reading
• The fandoms I'm interested in aren't that large, so I go more by "who" wrote the story, rather than "what" that person wrote
• COMPLETE OR NOT!! also: rate of update,
• I cannot stand fics that contain drug use of any sort, therefore I checked off both. Also, I try to avoid character death and AU/OOC characters
• If it is a religious/political piece of propaganda
• Encoding type would help, because if the encoding is set differently on your computer it can screw up the text and make the fic difficult to read
• Whether or not is has god awful 'original characters' (which are 99.8% of the time Mary Sues or self-inserts, and totally ruin my story experience, especially since they always break up my pairings by living out the sexual fantasies of the author)
• It would be nice if there was a warning for unconscious homophobia or sexism, but that would be impossible, wouldn't it?
• if any OCs are Mary Sues
• Is it MPREG - as these stories are invariably rubbish
• Quality of the summary. Not to know an outline, but to get a feel for the author's style
• Anything that could be controversial. It's not necessary to list every little thing - just the most "adult" situtations. For example, it shouldn't be necessary to label a hardcore BDSM slash fic for profanity
• If the story has been beta read or not.
  If the story is finished or a WIP (still a work in Progress)...because a lot of people wont touched unfinished pieces
• This is frankly confusing as written -- at least for me. Depending on my own time frame (free time to read) and my own mood, it varies as to how I select what to read -- just as it would with a book or magazine. I generally want a *good* template with each chapter of fic that expresses a title (not 'untitled') and the author name (sometimes I read based on who wrote the work, not surprisingly), knowing what fandom and pairing (I'll read anything but prefer slash) and with a short summary and adequate warnings about *all* the major aspects of a fic. I want to read technically strong writing, but certainly will make exceptions (and even try to encourage writers who are just beginning). At lists I want fic well-formatted in TEXT form. At websites I like easy-to-read fic without too many bells and whistles..
• I really dislike genre listings. Too many pieces are cross genre and authors check off all that could apply. It just becomes meaningless. For Storytelling quality, I am content to see the number of hits/reviews or the star rating system
• Completeness; prefer to avoid WIPs
• Whether a story is complete or is a work in progress
• The main characters of the story. VERY important. Knowing the "Pairing" isn't enough for this if the story is gen
• I think that many, if not all, of these things should be available, but that many of them should be caveats listed at the bottom of the page, so you can choose whether or not to see them. For example, sometimes, I REALLY don't (or do!) want to read a death story, and would like to be warned. Other times, knowing ruins some of it for me. So I would say all these things should be listed, but only the basics (Title, Author, Fandom, Pairing, Type, Genre (including whether or not it's AU; also, this is similar to "mood"), Rating, and Summary) should be posted before the story, with a link or a note saying "go to the bottom of the page for spoilers". I think it's a good idea for one of the things at the bottom to be whether or not there's a happy ending. I rarely like to read stories without at least semi-happy endings. Also, I think the last few things on the list (the technical and storytelling quality ones) would be excellent, but are too subjective to realistically be useful
• Crossovers
• Whether it contains explicit or non-explicit incest
  Whether it contains explicit or non-explicit paedophilia (as a main storyline)
• Whether the author has help from editor(s), proofreader(s), beta-readers. A major factor in technical and storytelling quality for many authors
• I wasn't quite clear on this question. I would like to know if the story contains portrayals of hate groups, sexual abuse, psychological abuse, drug abuse, child abuse, physical abuse, etc. because it would help me decide *not* to read the story. So if I should have checked them then go ahead and check them. I am one of those people who reads fan fiction in order to explore the canon and the characters more deeply, however, so I'm most concerned with how the story fits into the canon and whether or not the characters are in-character within the scope of how they've already been portrayed. For example, I don't want to read a piece of Jane Austen fan fiction where Jane Bennet marries Mr. Wickham. I just don't see it happening. But I would be perfectly happy to read a fan fiction that portrays Jane's life as married to Mr. Bingley, or likewise, Mr. Wickham's life as it pertains to his marriage to Lydia
• - If the story is still being updated or if it has been abandoned
  - When/where the fic is set
  - Was the fic started before canon changed?
  - How graphically violence is described
  - Whether there are intergenerational pairing
  - Whether sex is portrayed for the sake of sex (i.e. the work is a piece of erotica) or whether sex is character-driven
• whether the story is finished
• Songfic. What else has the author written, and what were the best written reviews that they recieved. Has Deleterius sporked them in the last three months. Is it going to bore me? (Bit of a joke.)
• rape
• Whether it is an MPREG or not, or if it's AU, or RPS
• Whether it has been beta-read or not
• The reason I might want to know if there is sexual, psychological, physical abuse, kink or AU is because I particularly want to read these types of stories (AU h/c), not so that I can avoid them. I do usually avoid major character death stories
• Presence of nauseating Mary/Marty-Sues
• I like the way Sugarquill.net has reader reviews so easily accessible. I often read a few of those before deciding whether or not to read the story
• Whether the story is complete or not
• if it is a finished fic or a work in progress

Question 2.12

Which of the following would you prefer NOT to know about the story before you read a piece of fiction (select all applicable)?

Fandom	1
Pairing (if extant)	19
Mood (funny, happy, sad, scary etc)	150
Type (het, slash, gen etc)	16
Canon character focused or original character focused	36
Happy ending or not	689
Rating/Level of adult material in contents	20
Size/Length	68
Title	11
Author	13
Summary	24
Genre (drama, action/adventure, missing scene, horror etc)	42
Whether it contains major non-canonical elements (Alternate universe, out of character behaviour, alternate species characteristics etc)	59
Whether it contains major character death	335
Whether it contains minor character death	389
Whether it contains kink (unspecified)	104
Whether it contains kink (specified)	104
Whether it contains large scale violence	128
Whether it contains non-explicit sexual violence	125
Whether it contains explicit sexual violence	111
Whether it contains portrayals of alternative lifestyles	145
Whether it contains portrayals of hate groups	115
Whether it contains portrayals of sexual abuse	100
Whether it contains portrayals of psychological abuse	109
Whether it contains portrayals of physical abuse	106
Whether it contains portrayals of child abuse	96
Whether it contains portrayals of drug abuse	111
Whether it contains portrayals of recreational drug use	127
Whether it contains portrayals of non-explicit sexual situation involving underage characters (e.g. As in Romeo and Juliet)	122
Whether it contains portrayals of explicit sexual situation involving underage characters (e.g. As in Queer as Folk)	109
Whether it contains portrayals of illegal activities	137
Whether it contains blasphemous language	168
Whether it contains sexually derived profanity	144
If the bad guys win	620
The technical quality of the writing (Grammar, spelling etc)	73
The storytelling quality of the writing (Good plot, characters etc)	82
The visual accessibility of the text	56
The format the story is available in (HTML, PDF etc)	74
Other	52

Other reponses: (48 responses)

• If the author has managed some fantastic scene that draws great admiration from reviewers, I would like them NOT TO DESCRIBE IT IN ANY WAY. (External example - We have a supremely stupid movie reviewer for a local newspaper, who, in his review for Pirates of the Carribean, spoiled by described in great detail Johnny Depp's entrance into the film on a boat that sinks right out from under him as he steps from it onto a pier... WHY would you ruin that? Luckily I know better than to read movie reviews before seeing the film, all they should do is say if it's well-done, or not, a good story, or not, and good acting, or not. DUH.)
• I don't want to know if the writer was hyped on caffeine or sugar.
  I don't want to read long dialogs between an author's various muses
• I don't care what information I get -- nothing "spoils" the story for me. I frequently read the ending first, so see it it'll leave "a good taste in my mouth" before I read the story itself
• I tend not to read anything that has the author proclaiming it sucks, or any such depreciations
• The kink thing is contradictory, I know. In an ideal world, I want to know beforehand if a story has things that squick me, but not if there are things that I like to see. For example, I'd rather not know if a story has spankings beforehand -- I enjoy reading them, and I want them to be a surprise. But I do want to know if a story has daddy!kink, because I don't want to read those stories. Of course, we can't please everyone that way. I think I'd rather be spoiled for the kinks I enjoy than run into those that squick me. Interestingly, though, it seems that people mostly warn for those I'm squicked by, but often don't for those I enjoy. I guess I'm vanilla enough that the system works for me. :)
• If the pairing is part of a plot twist, I don't want to know that up front
• If it's going to spoil me for the plot points or the emotional reaction the author is trying to evoke, I don't want to know about it before hand, *period*
• I can't check off all these boxes, I'm sorry--basically as long as the notes don't give away the ending or any important story warnings, I'm cool
• I'm not so worried about being spoiled for a story, so the lack of description or warnings doesn't bother me either. I use them (descriptions/warnings) tohelp identify what I want to read, more than to keep me from reading something I don't want to read
• Significant plot twists/unexpected ending - such as on pages where people have commented on the work, and the page is arranged so you can't miss the comments. A big pet peeve, that. I like to know some details beforehand, but not everything
• Anything that would really spoil the story
• I basically want to know everything, except when it spoils a story (unexpected plot twists, etc.) - then I'd like something like "Can't give this away, it would spoil everything." Just so I'm forewarned..
• There isn't much that I would specifically NOT want to know, aside from anything that gives away the ending and/or major plot developments
• Anything that gives away any part of the plot
• I think that there should be enough information for you to give it a go. Like a book blurb that draws you in, you may decide after a few paragraphs or pages that it isn't for you. Then you can just move on. When there's too much information, it turns me off
• The only thing I ask is that information with spoilers (warnings, etc.) be placed below spoiler space (as part of a zero post, if it's posted on a list). This is required in a couple of the lists I belong to. That way, the reader can choose whether to look at that information or not
• Does "prefer NOT to know" mean "I don't care whether I know this or not" or "I do not know want to know this because it might spoil the story"?
• Any 'twist' or unexpected plot element
• In general, I don't want to know anything about the advanced plot (what occurs after the first 25% of the story) or the ending. I'll find out on my own - thats part of the joy of reading
• This doesn't matter to me very much, as long as the whole plot of the story isn't revealed
• I suppose everythinh else I didn't mark in the question before
• Any plot spoilers!
• The only things I would not like to know is the final outcome/plot twists. I don't mind warnings for particular elements or mentions of themes/genres but I don't like to know exactly what's going to happen before I read a story!
• Any spoiler that gives away what makes the story interesting to read and was meant to cause suspense
• I don't mind any warnings the author chooses to give. I don't mind "spoilers", so it doesn't matter to me
• Nothing really
• I'd like not to know how it ends
• If they say it, ok; if they don't, oh well
• Anything that relates to plot outside of a basic summary... It's like reading a book. Just enough to know what it involves but not enough that you don't even need to read the story to find out what happens
• I prefer to know just about everything, as it helps me decide whether or not I want to read it
• I'd rather not be told a lot of specifics, as that tends to "spoil" a story. If I'm not interested, I can always stop reading
• Specific plot points that are meant to be a suprise "Oh dear lord so and so was *really* so and so's son." or something of the sort, when a great mystery surrounds it
• I prefer to know as much as available
• I only care about the title, the pairing/characters involved, and who wrote it, so that if I like it, I can leave feedback
• There really isn't anything particular I don't want to know about a story
• I don't need to know everything about a fic prior to reading (really?), but I want to know the basics in advance. It's interesting to me that when reading fandom-based work, I do expect to know in advance if there's say, violence or death. In reading a book, I wouldn't expect to know that! But we're talking about character/characters that we know in such a personal (and often loving) fashion, so I feel more strongly about it with fandom-based writing
• I would rather be overinformed rather than underinformed. I can't think of any topic that I would specifically prefer to *not* know in advance, although there are a whole lot of things that it doesn't bother me to run across if they are not specified
• I'll read pretty much anything, with the exceptions of what I checked in 2.12
• I like having as much information as possible when I am deciding what to read. I don't need to know all of it, but I like to
• There's nothing I WOULD object to knowing in advance. I'm all for spoilers, in any medium
• Tricky question. I don't want to know in advance anything that spoils the story for me. So if the scene containing violence/abuse/drug usage/sexual situation/whatever is close to the climax or to the end of the story, then I don't want to know beforehand. If such scenes are the premise of the story and can be offered in the summary without spoiling the reader's surprise, then I don't mind being given the information beforehand; it might help me choose what I want to read at that particular moment. As for the quality of the writing, I don't think anyone has the right to determine what is good and what is not
• Basically, what I prefer not to know is just what happens
• If the story is fluff, then obviously, I automatically know it's going to have a happy ending. But if it's angst, I want to know whether or not there's a happy ending, but not up at the top where it will spoil the story for other people. Every person has their own likes and dislikes, which is why I think caveats are so great. Everyone who wants/needs to know what's going to happen can look, and everyone else can be blissfully ignorant until they read the story
• question is n/a
• Anything that counteracts plot suspense
• None really - I go for the positives (prefer to know rather than not-know)
• I usually read based on cc/au/uc and title and author
• I just don't like to be spoiled, that's all. I can read the darkest, nastiest fic out there if the writer makes it work, but I really don't want to have the punch taken out of stories in warnings

Question 2.13

Which fandoms or what type of original amateur fiction do you read?

(1019 responses)

• Harry Potter, and sometimes Star Wars. Recovering Pern fanfic fan
• The Professionals, Harry Potter, Good Omens
• Harry Potter, Firefly, Good Omens, Gerard Manley Fenn, Buffy, Star Trek; anything well written and recommended by writers I trust
• Harry Potter, Alias, some Buffy
• Hornblower
  X Files
  Harry Potter
  Master and Commander
  Sharpe
  Other historical
  Miscellaneous
  
• Harry Potter, SG-1, Highlander, Star Wars TPM, Poltergeist the Legacy, Kindred the Embraced, Invisible Man, The New Professionals, Sentinel, Mutant X
• the OC, harry potter, due south, sports night, buffy the vampire slayer, angel, west wing
• Harry Potter (slash, femslash, real-person slash), Sherlock Holmes (slash), Star Trek (DS9 & TNG & VOY slash and femslash), Stargate SG-1 (slash and femslash), Xena (femslash), Babylon 5 (femslash), Alias (slash, used to read some het), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (femslash), The West Wing (slash, femslash), Lord of the Rings (slash)
• Magnificent Seven, The Sentinel, Star Trek, Harry Potter, Star Gate, Lord of the Rings, Aubrey Maturin, Highlander, Real Ghostbusters, Deryni, Starsky and Hutch, Due South, Battlestar Galactica, Buffy, Angel, Firefly, LM Montgomery, Francis Hodgson Burnett, Eroica,
• Buffy/ Angel, Good Omens, Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy, Harry Potter, X-Files, Labyrinth, Star Trek OS
• Harry Potter, Stargate, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, X-Men, The Mummy, Smallville
• Angel, Buffy, X-men, X-Files, due South, Highlander, Lotrips, The Lord Of the Rings, PotC, RPS, Harry Potter, Ocean's Eleven, Queer As Folk, Smallville, Batman, The West Wing, CSI, M*A*S*H, La Femme Nikita
• 67 x Harry Potter
• Just about anything, to be honest. I won't read things with extreme sexual or physical violence, rape, or Mary Sues. I tend towards Lord of the Rings (both RPS and FPS), Harry Potter, classical fanfic - fanfic of Shakespeare, or of other similarly dated works - and anywhere that I can get good female/female fiction. When I'm reading original fiction - which is harder to find, but frequently more enjoyable for me - I find that I frequently end up reading fantasy/science-fiction, though I don't go out of my way to seek it out; I think that those two genres are just more common online than most other genres
• Harry Potter; Lord of the Rings; Lois McMaster Bujold; Georgette Heyer; many authors I like (some, like Wodehouse, have only found the odd piece). I tend to avoid fanfiction for authors like Diana Wynne Jones or Jane Austen because I find the original work complete
• Harry Potter :D
• 2 x Harry Potter, Star Wars
• Harry Potter, Discworld, Good Omens
• Mainly slash in Star Wars the Phantom Menace, Vampire Chronicles, Sky Captain. RPS, mainly Jude Law/Ewan McGregor
• Mostly Harry Potter; occasionally Final Fantasy X, Labyrinth, Law & Order: SVU
• Harry Potter, occasional others (e.g. Sherlock Holmes, Master & Commander, Lord of the Rings) if a particular story is recommended by a writer I respect
• I read only Harry Potter fandom fics, tending to go for novel length pieces written by 'grownups', rather than infatuated children
• At the moment, just Harry Potter. I only have time for one obsession at a time, but I pursue whatever my current fandon is to the nth degree...
  
  In the past, I have read Tolkien, X Files, Star Wars, Star Trek, Pirates of the Caribbean, Sherlock Holmes, plus a few others..
• Buffy, Angel, M*A*S*H, Harry Potter, Twin Peaks, The Archers, Cyber City Oedo, Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy,
  
  Music RPS: Japan/David Sylvian/Sakamoto, various obscure English folk artists
• Harry Potter, Smallville, Firefly, The O.C., Lost, X-Men. All mostly slash
• Harry Potter, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel
• Farscape, Stargate: Atlantis, Stargate: SG-1, The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, Earth 2, The Invisible Man, The X-Files, Crusade, Forever Knight, The Lord of the Rings, Cupid, Sliders
• battlestar galactica, star treks, west wing, csi, thunderbirds, stargate, stargate atlantis, man from uncle, lord of the rings, a team, seaquest, xmen, babylon 5, crusade,
• Harry Potter, Good Omens, Queer as Folk, X-Files, Discworld
• Startrek, X-Files, Babylon 5, LOTR, Karl May, Sherlock Holmes
• I read mostly RPS (real person slash/fiction) derived from the bands the Strokes, the Libertines and the White Stripes. Also, Harry Potter, a touch of Digimon, and whatever strikes my fancy at the moment (right now I'm on a kick for M*A*S*H slash) I'd also like to note that a lot of the things I checked off under 'what would you like to know' is because I ENJOY stories with those themes, rather than wanting to avoid them. (I'm tetchy about this and rather kinky...)
• Harry Potter, Stargate: SG-1, Jossverse (Buffy/Angel), some La Femme Nikita, Pitch Black/Chronicles of Riddick, some Andromeda
• Lotrips, PotC, HP, Good Omens, everything else Daegaer writes, miscellaneous other based on recs or searching in an author's archive
• Fandoms: Star Trek TOS & TNG, Harry Potter, Good Omens, The Dark is Rising
  Type: slash (95%), gen or femmeslash (very seldom)
• Harry Potter and The Libertines fandoms
• HP, LOTR, some StarWars and Trek, other lesser know fics
• Harry Potter Slash, Harry Potter/Severus Snape
• I mostly read slash fan fiction, but I also read the occasional gen or het fan fiction. Currently I read mostly in the Harry Potter and Stargate SG-1 fandoms. In the past I have read extensively in Due South, Law & Order, X-Files, Star Trek, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, Enterprise, Highlander, The Professionals, Twin Peaks, Once a Thief, The Sentinel, Sports Night, Dr. Who, Trixie Belden
• Harry Potter, Highlander, The Sentinel, Star Trek (all variations), Star Wars, Stargate, Lord of the Rings, Man From UNCLE, Due South, Starsky and Hutch
• I read mainly Lord of the Rings RPS, with a bit of Harry Potter, Pirates, Sentinel, Due South, and miscellaneous actor slash (and het)
• Harry Potter, Firefly, Star Trek, Ranma 1/2, His Dark Materials
• Final Fantasy, Gundam Wing, M*A*S*H, Metal gear solid, Spongebob Squarepants, Dr Who, Harry potter
• XF, popslash, NCIS, CSI (original), Eroica, Magnificent 7, Professionals, Harry Potter, Smallville, the Fast & the Furious, King Arthur, RPS (real person slash - various)
• currently, Harry Potter. In the past I have also read Buffy/Angel and Gladiator
• Harry Potter with occasional forays into Pirates of the Carribean, Lord of the Rings or even real person fic if they're recced to me
• Mostly Harry Potter, some Herc/Xena, some X-Files, Highlander, and anything else that catches my eye on a given day
• Harry Potter, sometimes Star Trek
• Harry Potter, via the internet. Occasionally--very, very occasionally--I will read a Buffy the Vampire Slayer story, or works set in the Ranma 1/2 universe (a fandom I'm not involved in anymore--oh, nostalgia)
• Harry Potter, Yami no Matsuei, occasionally random anime, Narnia, His Dark Materials
• Angel, Blake's 7, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ER, Galaxy Rangers, Starsky and Hutch, Due South, The Professionals, Smallville, X Files, Hornblower, Star Wars, Digimon, Pokemon, Inu Yasha, Sailor Moon, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, The West Wing, X-Men, Pirates of the Caribbean. (NB, I often read stories from fandoms which I do not usually read from if they come highly recommended)
• Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Thursday Next, Discworld
• Harry Potter
  Highlander
  Lord of the Rings
• Harry Potter, X-Files, Star Trek, Beatles, whatever comes up in some of the general communities ("rarelitslash", for example)
• Digimon, Harry Potter, Final Fantasy X, Metal Gear Solid, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Star Wars (movie), Legend of Zelda, Sailor Moon
• Harry Potter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel: The Series, Discworld, Good Omens, Stargate SG:1, Star Trek Voyager, Star Trek Deep Space Nine
• Harry Potter slash involving Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy
  general fiction in Harry Potter
• Harry Potter, and rarely Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Harry Potter slash mainly, though I'll read anything - including in fandoms where I don't know the source text, though relatively rarely - that I see recommended widely by people whose opinions I trust
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Keen Eddie, Smallville, Firefly, Fastlane, ER, CSI, Without A Trace, M*A*S*H, The West Wing, Sports Night, Seaquest, Everwood, Harry Potter, Anita Blake, Lord of the Rings, Due South, Man from U.N.C.L.E., Enterprise
• Harry Potter, Highlander, Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings
• Phantom Menace, Stargate SG-1, Sentinel, Once a Thief, Harry Potter -- in all cases, mostly slash, some gen
• I read mainly in the Harry Potter fandom, sometimes Lord of the Rings, and other fandoms if the mood strikes me. If I've just seen a movie, for example, I might go out and search for some fanfiction for it. For original fiction, I prefer urban fantasy and magical realism...I like some degree of familiarity with the world. I don't prefer reading about completely different worlds. What type of fanfic do I read? That also depends on my mood - if I feel angry or depressed, I might read angsty fic to vicariously explore the emotions; if I want something cheerful, I'll read a sweet romantic story; if I'm feeling curious, I'll read some things I haven't read before, like kink. I'm usually happy to try a long and very well-written story, one that isn't cliche, or that uses cliches in a completely different way (thus making the story non-cliche.)
• "The Sentinel"
  "Firefly"
  Alexander the Great
  "X-Men" (movieverse)
  "Farscape"
  "Queer as Folk" (US and UK)
  original yaoi (English)"
• Alias, Angel, Buffy, Firefly.
  I have read other fandoms as well, if recommended, but do not tend to seek out anything else
• Harry Potter, Stargate SG-1, Smallville
• Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Harry Potter, The OC, etc
• mainly Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Harry Potter, X-files
• Anime/video games fanfiction, very occasionally Harry Potter
• Fandoms: Invader Zim, Yu-gi-oh, Deep Space 9, OZ, X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Star Trek, Highlander, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, CSI, Due South, Twin Peaks, more
• Austen, Buffy, Harry Potter, Lois and Clark, Xena, X-files, Bujold, Sherlock Holmes, Anita Blake.. You name it
• Mainly Harry Potter, but dip into others
• Phantom of the Opera, Dracula, vampire (general), Hellsing
• DC Universe, Due South, The Sentinel, Star Trek, Star Wars, Popslash, LOTRips, Harry Potter, Original character fiction, anything that catches my eye and or imagination
• The OC, Harry Potter, LOTRIPS, AFI, Queer as Folk, Everwood
• Primarily Angel, Buffy, Due South, Farscape, Sports Night, The West Wing
• Schnoogle - Harry Potter. I also used to read the Sunnydale Socks, which was a livejournal community of characters playing people from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Fandoms: Sailor Moon, Totally Spies, various anime though no other specific.
  
  Original: science fiction, mystery
• I've ranged the whole gammut from het, to slash, to gen. I usually end up reading fanfic because there's something that I like about canon that I want to be explored more, or just want more of. Currently, I'm in a phase where I primarily want gen, and am annoyed by all the romantic pairings I have to sort through to get to what I want to read. To get an idea of my range, I've been in the Queer As Folk fandom which is definitely for adults, and am now in the Harry Potter fandom because I want to read child fantasy/adventure
• Buffyverse (including Angel the Series); Pirates of the Caribbean; Harry Potter; historical RPF; Buffyverse RPF; The Italian Job
• Thw West Wing, due South
• D.C. Comics, Buffy, Angel, Popslash. Anything recommended by people whose opinions I respect
• Harry Potter, Dawson's Creek, Buffy the Vampire Slayer,
• Fandoms: Harry Potter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, real&historical person fiction, anime fandoms (Naruto, Weiss Kreuz, Prince of Tennis, Cowboy Bebop, Blade of the Immortal, Gravitation, FAKE, Evangelion...), X-Men, Picture of Dorian Gray; anything else that looks interesting, even if I don't know the canon. Original amateur styles: mainly atmospheric non-fantasy (or sci-fi) fiction
• Whedonverse (mostly Buffy, some Angel, and occasionally Firefly); Stargate SG-1; Stargate Atlantis; Highlander; crossovers with any of the above
• Obsession du Jour is Harry Potter. Still keep up with one Gundam Wing site. Will branch out if something's written by a favourite author
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation; Without a Trace; Alias; Harry Potter
• Blake's 7, scifi (slashy and other), Harry Potter, E.R
• Wherever I find interesting fiction... Angel, Buffy, Star Trek: Deep Space 9, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Blake's 7, Pirates of the Caribbean, Remington Steele, Smallville, Labyrinth, Lois & Clark, the Professionals, and a large number of book-based fandoms, both modern and not-so-modern eg Tolkien, Austen, Sherlock Holmes, Chronicles of Narnia, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Earthsea, Dark is Rising &c. I would only read original amateur fiction by people I know
• Lord of the Rings
  Harry Potter
  Sentinel
  Anything if it's been recommended
  Anything if written by a favorite author
• Lord of the Rings, Boondock Saints, Stargate, Troy, Van Helsing, Buffy/Angel, X files
• I'm largely into the anime fandoms, countless anime fandoms. Too many for me to keep up with O_o as well as Harry Potter, Video Games (such as the Final Fantasy games), Boy Meets Boy/Friendly Hostility (online comics), live action anime, RPS, Simpsons (though finding decent stuff is rare and unlikely... that actually goes for most North American shows, I was a Friends slash fan briefly. It was lame). If I could find Shaun of the Dead fiction, I'd read that. A lot of movies, like LotR. Really, I'll slash anything, and with anything I slash, there theoretically comes a fandom
• Stargate SG-1, Harry Potter, Star Trek: TNG
• Fandoms: Star Wars, Star Trek, Smallville, Starsky and Hutch, Indiana Jones, Brimstone, Battlestar Galactica (1979), Harry Potter, The Sentinel
  
  Original: Erotic horror
• Harry Potter, X-men, Buffy, Lawrence of Arabia, Pern, original fantasy novels and short stories
• read or have read: Buffy, Angel, Professionals, Sentinel, Phantom Menace, Oz, Due South, Stargate-1, Queer as Folk, Smallville, West Wing, CSI, popslash, Hary Potter
  
  read at the moment: last 5
  
  
• X-Men movieverse, X-Men comicsverse, Harry Potter, Good Omens, Star Trek, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, D.C. comics
• Extensively, or extensively in the past: due South, Earth: Final Conflict, the Invisible Man, Highlander, Harry Potter, Babylon Five, Queer as Folk, Farscape, Buffy, the Sentinel, Smallville, the OC, DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Stargate SG1
  Occasionally: The Professionals, Angel, Firefly, Quantum Leap, Lost, X-Files, West Wing, Sports Night, Stargate Atlantis, Star Trek
  When I can find it: Peter Pan, Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Power Rangers, Tamora Pierce books, Sandman
• Sentinel; Smallville; Stargate SG-1; Harry Potter
• Jossverse; Smallville; some slashy original fic (historical; modern; fantasy); anything by excellent writers (thus far Houston Knights; PotC; X-files; SW:TPM; Highlander; Sports Night; metafanfic); random
• Yugioh!, Vampire Hunter D, Castlevania, crossovers, Stargate SG-1, Star Trek (TOS), Dark Shadows, Smallville (not much, but some), Batman (all universes), DC Unniverse (Justice League, Capt. Atom, etc.), Knight Rider (not much), Quantum Leap (crossovers), Harry Potter (crossovers and AUs), Petshop of Horrors, Hellsing, Real Ghostbusters, almost anything that crosses over with Yugioh, Transformers (Generation 1 only), Star Wars, Robocop, Fright Night (tiny fandom), Jem and the Holograms; others based on anime, 80s cartoons, 80s tv and 80s movies; The Crow and The Crow: Stairway to Heaven, Forever Knight, Starsky and Hutch, Battle of the Planets, Gatchaman, CSI (gen only), A-Team, other stuff I can't think of right now
• Harry Potter, Star Trek (TOS, ENT, TNG, VOY, DS9), Star Gate SG-1, Star Wars, ER, Discworld, X-Files
• The Professionals, The Sweeney, Man from UNCLE, Inspector Morse, Les Specialistes, Starsky & Hutch, Sharpe, Snatch, Red Dragon, Rat Patrol
• Chrono Trigger, Weiss Kreuz, Harry Potter, Gravitation, Yu-Gi-Oh
• Various anime fandoms, FarScape, Stargate: SG-1, anything recommended by people whose opinions I trust. I read slash, het, gen, whatever I run into that appeals to me
• I read mostly fantasy and science fiction (including paranormal fiction), mostly slash, but also heterosexual and bisexual
• DC comics universe, Batman and Batfamily
• smallville, harry potter, master and commander
• Specific fandoms I read/have read in: Alias, Angel, Buffy, due South, Harry Potter, Highlander.
  
  Original amateur fiction: Only the stories I've beta-read for friends
• Various anime fandoms. BTVS
• The Professionals
  Firefly
  Harry Potter
  XFiles
  L.J. Smith
  The Lord of The Rings
  LotRips (RPS)
• X-files, Buffy/Angel, Alias, Pirates of the Carribean, LOTR, lotrips, popslash, Harry Potter, Veronica Mars, Lost, Smallville, Oceans-11, X-Men Movieverse, the Wire, Star Wats, Star Trek, pretty much anything that I can get my hands on
• Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Discworld, Good Omens, a few other varied but small fandoms
• I read in Smallville, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan), Harry Potter, and The Sentinel. I prefer slash fic, but will read gen and/or het if the story comes highly recommended
• Smallville, Harry Potter, Buffy, Angel, Veronica Mars, The OC and Due South, at the moment, but in the past I've read lots of Star Trek (TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY), Star Wars (TPM primarily but also the original trilogy), Forever Knight, X-Files, Highlander, and Sentinel
• Harry Potter, Smallville mostly. Some Due South and the OC. Previously LOTRips (Lord of the Rings Real Person Slash), LOTR and Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Good Omens, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter
• MASH, the Tribe, Friends, Gilmore Girls, SVU, Buffy, Angel, slash
• Stargate SG-1
• Lord of the Rings FPS, Lord of the Rings actor fic, Mary Renault, Brideshead Revisited
• Ai no Kusabi, Angel, Beauty and the Beast, Boku no Sexual Harrassment, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, DC universe, Death Note, Eerie Queerie, Everwood, The Faculty, Fake, Flipper (movieverse), Fujimi Symphony Orchestra, Full Metal Alchemist, Get Backers, Gravitation, Harry Potter, Hikaru no Go, Jurassic Park III, Kizuna, Labyrinth, Lord of the Rings, Lotrips, Love Mode, Master and Commander, Menkui, Nicholas Nickleby, The OC, Oz, Peter Pan, Pride and Prejudice, The Prince of Tennis, Quantum Leap, Queer as Folk (US), RPS (miscellaneous), The Sentinel, Smallville, Spider-Man (movieverse), Starsky and Hutch, Star Trek: Voyager, Sweet Valley High, Toy Soldiers, Viewfinder, Yami no Matsuei, Zetsuai/Bronze
• Fanfiction: Sentinel, Due South, Pros, West Wing, Dead Zone, QAF-UK, HCL, popslash, occasionally others
• Dragaera, Inuyasha, Sailor Moon Flash, Bastard!!, Babylon 5
• The Sentinel - mostly.
  
  Highlander, SG1, Pretender, Quantum Leap - very occasionally.
  
  Original - only if the author is a friend of mine
• Buffy, Angel, Harry Potter
• Lord of the rings FPS and RPS, plus many Lotr actors-related fandoms (RPS and FPS as well): Troy, Black Hawk Down, Pirates of the Carribean, Kingdom of Heaven, Lost.
  Also other fandoms i discovered via authors i knew from Lotr: The Boondock Saints, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Harry Potter
  Original fiction from fanfic authors i like
• multiplw
• Stargate SG-1, DC Comics, Firefly, Homicide, The West Wing, Sports Night, Harry Potter
• American-animation fandoms ("Gargoyles" "Thundercats" "Justice League") Farscape, Star Trek TNG, other
• Stargate SG-1, X-Files, Phantom Menace, The Sentinel, Due South, Homicide: Life on the Street
• Pirates of the Caribbean, Deadwood, Star Trek TOS, Star Trek TNG
• Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Queer as Folk, Idol, RPS..
• Alias, Brimestone, Forever Knight, Harry Potter, Star Trek, West Wing
• various tv shows, popslash
• I very seldom read original amateur fiction. I read in dozens of fandoms, but most predominantly (right now) in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel the Series, Firefly, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Sports Night, E.R., The O.C., Gilmore Girls, and Veronica Mars
• Harry Potter; Highlander (TV series); Battlestar Galactica; Star Wars (original trilogy)
• Smallville, Lord of the Rings. Buffy, Lost
• lord of the rings-real person slash
  harry potter
  harry potter-real person slash
• Stargate, X-Files, Sports Night, Babylon 5, Starsky and Hutch, The OC, Atlantis, West Wing, Enterprise
• Buffy, Angel, Harry Potter, Due South, The Sentinel, Popslash, Queer as Folk (US), Professionals, Sports Night, Pirates of the Caribbean, assorted other minor fandoms. I'll read original gay fiction if it's of high quality and doesn't squick me
• Naruto, Slayers, and random other animes as the mood strikes me. Original wise, I prefer fantasy
• DC Comics; Lawrence of Arabia; Smallville are my main fandoms. Other than that, I'll tend to look at anything that's recommended by someone I trust, as long as I have some idea of the fandom
• DC Comics universe, The West Wing, CSI, Law & Order, Scrubs, M*A*S*H, and various other fandoms I stumble across
• Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes, Star Trek (Original Series), other if written by excellent writer in one of these or recommended by such
• DC Comics, Harry Potter, Marvel Comics, Popslash(RPS), anything by authors I like
• DC Comics (Batman, Superman etc.), Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Sherlock Holmes, Good Omens, PG Wodehouse, Quantum Leap, Star Trek (original and Next Gen), and sci-fi and fantasy in general, although I only read original amateur fic if I know the author or they come specifically recommended
• Xena, Buffy, Firefly, Carnivale, The O.C., Lord Of The Rings, Lord Of The Rings Real Person, Harry Potter
• Harry Potter primarily, a very small amount of other fandoms such as Jane Austen, Buffy, Tenchi Muyo
• Buffy & Angel, Harry Potter, Quantum Leap, Stargate, Lord of the Rings, Doctor Who, Blake's 7, Babylon 5, Star Trek (TNG, TOS, DS9), Starsky & Hutch, Firefly, Scrubs, Jeeves & Wooster, Highlander
• Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Stargate (SG-1 and Atlantis), Trek (DS9 and Voyager), X-Files, Farscape, Gilmore Girls, West Wing, Sports Night, Lost
• DC Bat universe, Farscape, Firefly, The X-Files, X-Men, Lord of the Rings (NOT LoTRPS), Master and Commander, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel the Series, Due South, Stargate:SG-1, Highlander, Sentinal, Narnia, and most likely three or four others that I've forgotten
• Alias, Smallville, DC Comics(Flash; Green Lantern; Superman; JLA), Marvel Comics(X-Men; eXcalibur; Spider-man), X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Lord of the Rings, RPS(Lord of the Rings cast; Smallville cast), Touching Evil, Dead Like Me, Good Omens, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Nip/Tuck, Master and Commander, Queer as Folk
• LotR, Master and Commander/O'Brian
• The Professionals, The New Professionals, The Sentinel, Stargate SG-1
• Hockey (RPF), Battletech, Shadowrun
• Professionals, New Professionals, Stargate, Due South
• 'Lord of the Rings' Real Person Slash, 'Harry Potter' slash, 'Harry Potter' Real Person Slash are the main fandoms I read. I generally only venture into others by recommendation
• fandoms:
  Stargate: SG-1, Stargate: Atlantis, ENT, Farscape, ST, Smallville, CSI, Discworld, Good Omens, B5
  
  Original fic:
  if it's Scifi or mystery and I know the author from fandom
• Popslash, Harry Potter, Eroica, Due South, anything that sounds interesting, anything that's recced by someone I trust, anything by a writer I trust, anything my friends get into
• A partial liast includes:
  
  alias, alternate universes, andromeda, angel the series, anime, b7, babylon 5, batman, blake's 7,buffy the vampire slayer, comic books, cowboy bebop, crossovers, dark angel, dc comics, dr who, due South, fantasy, farscape, femslash, firefly, forever knight, gen, harry potter, hercules, het, hetcest, highlander, jeremiah, keen eddie, la confidential, la femme nikita, litfic, lord of the rings, lotrips, m/m/f, marvel, master & commander, media fandom, mi-5, pirates of the caribbean, popslash, pretender, queen of swords, queer as folk, roswell, science fiction, sentinel, sg-1, sharpe, six feet under, slash, smallville, soap operas, space above and beyond, sports night, star trek, star wars, stargate, unconventional 'ships, west wing, wiseguy, witchblade, x-files, x-men
• mainly Pokemon, but I read a fair amount of Final Fantasy (especially VI), Digimon (especially Adventure 02), and the odd Batman: The Animated Series fic
• Oz, Sentinel, Stargate, Batman (comicverse)
• school story
• Ranma 1/2, Gundam Wing, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Fake, Stargate SG-1, Highlander, Anime Crossovers, TV Crossovers (any sort of cross over really...)
• Many anime and comic book fandoms. A few science-fiction television fandoms, particularly Star Trek. Occasionally science-fiction literary fandoms. Rarely original amateur fiction except in erotic genres, particularly mind-control
• Hercules, The Legendary Journeys, The Sentinel, Starsky and Hutch, The Magnificent Seven, The Professionals, Hardcastle and McCormick
• Fantasy,
  
  A-team, Battlestar Galactica, The Sentinel, occasionally xovers with Sg-1
• Star Wars, Stargate SG-1, Harry Potter, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel, Gundam Wing, Weiss Kreuz, Yu Yu Hakushou, Slam Dunk,
• hignfy
  good omens
  girlsown
  lotr (v. occasionally lotrips)
  due south
  sentinel
  anything recommended by people I trust
• Harry Potter Lord of the Rings Discworld/Good Omens
  
• Fandoms: Oz, Star Wars, Real Person Slash, Star Trek, X-Files. Mostly R/NC-17 rated slash, but also gen and het
• DC comicverse and cartoonverse, X-Men comicverse and movieverse, Enterprise, Smallville, Stargate
• Harry Potter, Buffy/Angel, Star Trek, Star Wars Trilogy/TPM, Weis Kreuz, X/Tokyo Babylon, Lord of the Rings, Gundam Wing, Gensou Maden Saiyuki, Highlander, X-Files, Card Captor Sakura, Farscape, Rurouni Kenshin, Pet Shop Of Horrors, Yami no Matsuei, Yu Yu Hakusho, Sherlock Holmes, Smallville, Koko Wa Greenwood, Fruitsbasket, Firefly, Final Fantasy VIII, Babylon 5, Dark Angel, Neverwhere, Beauty and the Beast, Boy Meets Boy, Brimstone, Dragon Lance, Nightrunner, Phantom of the Opera, Robin of Sherwood, Space Above and Beyond, Kyou Kara Maou, Twin Peaks, West Wing, Vampire Chronicles, Kaikan Phrase, Fushigi Yuugi, Gravitation, From Eroica With Love, Shoujo Kakumei Utena, Earthian, Arslaan Senki, Ayashi no Ceres, Vampire Princess Miyu, DNAngel, FAKE, Hana Yori Dango, Legend of Basara, Pretear, Hikaru no Go, Escaflowne, Due South, Andromeda, Witchblade, Forever Knight, Maria-sama Ga Miteru
  
  don't read original fic (I have more than enough fandoms, and pretty much stick to published novels for original characters)
• Hercules: the Legendary Journeys, Stargate: Atlantis, Stargate SG1, Barney Miller, Horatio Hornblower, Invisible Man, Starsky and Hutch, Enterprise, Jeeves and Wooster, Man from UNCLE, Wild Wild West, The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, Band of Brothers, Everwood, The X-Files, The Professionals, Farscape, Good Omens, Lord of the Rings, Magnificent Seven, Miracles, Pirates of the Caribbean, Real Ghostbusters, Shadow Chasers, Quantum Leap, Sherlock Holmes, Sports Night, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Angel: The Series, Without a Trace, CSI, Due South, The A-Team, Battlestar Galactica, Emergency!, MASH, Alien Nation, Hardcastle and McCormick, Highlander, Scrubs, Tremors: The Series, Jurassic Park 3, Young Hercules, Star Trek: Voyager, Miami Vice, West Wing, Blake's 7, Star Wars, Smallville, Simon and Simon, Dead Zone, Aubrey/Maturin, Band of Brothers, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Riptide, Once a Thief, and various rare fandoms for literature and movies
• Harry Potter (primary), Star Trek (Original Series), some Lord of the Rings, a random thing or two here and there if it strikes my fancy
• I have at various times and still occasionally read many fandoms, although not at the smae level all the time: Highlander, The Professionals, SW:TPM, Anime/Manga, Magnificent 7, Fast and the Furious, Horatio hornblower, Alexander, Smallville, Stargate, Brimstone, Master & Commander (movieverse), Comic Book fic, Pirates of the Caribbean, Starsky & Hutch, a scattering of others
• angel the series, buffy the vampire slayer, all Star Trek, Star Wars, CSI, Discworld, The Sentinel, Highlander (movie and TV-verse), Relic Hunter, Matrix, Stargate and spinoffs, and others on recommendation
• Fandoms: Due South, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel the Series, Popslash, Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes, Stargate.
  Original amateur fiction: Science Fiction, Erotica, Humour
• Star Trek Enterprise mainly, have read some other Star Trek fic (TOS, VOY, DS9), some LOTR and StarWars fic
• Harry Potter, Highlander, Forever Knight, Gundam Wings, RPS, Farscape
• Buffy, Due South, CSI (the original), Magnificent Seven (Tv series, not movie), Stargate: SG-1, RPG (Buffy, Firefly), RPS (Buffy, specifically the troika), The Sentinel,
• Mostly Care Bears fanfictions. Afew others, but not much
• RPG related material
• original furry fiction, original sci-fi fiction
• Buffyverse, Babylon 5, Homicide, SportsNight, West Wing, My So-Called Life, Freaks and Geeks
• Star Trek, Stargate Atlantis, Man From Uncle, Lyon's Den
• BtVS, Angel, HP, Firefly, Star Wars, Stargate (SG-1 and Atlantis), The West Wing, Smallville, and dude, a bunch of others I dabble in when people recs them
• LOTR RPS
  Harry Potter
  LOTR FPS
  Sports Night
  Buffy/Angel
  
• Harry Potter, Highlander, Oz, Forever Knight, Homicide, Enterprise, but will also read fandoms I am not familiar with if a story has been highly recommended
• Once Upon a Time In Mexico exclusively
• The Sentinel, Star Trek: Voyager, Sports Night, ER, Smallville, West Wing, original "slash" fiction
• One Piece
• Harry Potter, Smallville, and mainly fantasy or sci-fi based original fiction
• Sailor Moon, Neon Genesis Evangelion
• A lot, and often for fandoms which I might not normally have interest in, especially if I've read the writer's previous work and I am impressed by it. I usually stick towards action/adventure and comedy, though, because I am not a fan of romance short stories. I can deal with romantic elements, especially if it's in canon, but I'm in it for the action or the comedy. Or, if the smut is well-written, the smut
• I'm not quite sure what you mean by "type"? Title of origional series, or what style of fiction?
• This shifts from month to month. Basically, any fanfiction for shows I'm currently watching, plus a few old favorites. I don't read much book-based fanfiction, and original fiction only from writers I am familiar with
• Sailor Moon, Golden Sun, Legend of Zelda
• I primarily read Tolkien fandom (Silmarillion/pre-Third Age book based.) I read quite a lot of Jossverse (Buffy, Angel, Firefly). All fandoms I have previously been interested in I still read if I happen to see a story that looks especially interesting or if an author I know from elsewhere writes one. Other fandoms I read occasionally but have never been very involved in. These include - Due South, Tolkien (movie-based), The Sentinel, Star Trek (all TV varieties), Farscape, Troy, Stargate SG1, Alien Nation, A Knight's Tale, Patrick O'Brian ('Master and Commander', etc), Good Omens. If I can find it I also enjoy m/m fiction based on historical lit - Shakespeare, Beowulf, Sir Gawain, etc. (I study literature!). Original fiction - I primarily read gen or non-het from authors I already know from other places
• Only Fanfiction.
  Main Fandoms: Smallville, Due South, Harry Potter
  
  Open to good stories in almost any fandom
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Pirates of the Caribbean
• Master & Commander - aka Aubrey/Maturin, both book and movieverse
  Lotrips
  Boondock Saints
  Harry Potter
  Whedonverse
  Without a Trace
  Crossover RPS
• Stargate, Lord of the Rings, Invisible Man, Due South, Buffy
• Backstreet Boys
  CSI
  The OC
  
• fanfic related to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel the Series, and DC comics
• Queer as Folk, Oz, SportsNite, Master & Commander, West Wing
• Harry Potter, Gilmore Girls, CSI (Las Vegas), HP/BtVS Crossovers, Dark Angel
• Slash only. LOTR and POTC
• I mainly read fanfic in the Pirates of the Caribbean fandom, especially Sparrington, though also Good Omens, Sentinel, Buffy/Angel, Once upon a time in Mexico and whatever I stumble upon that strikes my fancy, really - though mainly movies and television series..
• Buffy, Angel, Harry Potter, Queer As Folk US
• CSI (FPS), CSI (RPS), Sports Night, Popslash, Queer as Folk, Lord of The Rings (FPS), Lord of the Rings (RPS), Toy Soldiers, Magnificent 7, The OC (FPS), The OC (RPS), Alexander, Troy, The Young Riders, Six Feet Under, Latter Days, OZ, Damon/Affleck (RPS), Law & Order: SVU, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Fastlane, Thorpe/Van den Hoogenband (RPS), Nip / Tuck, Degrassi: The Next Generation, Dawson's Creek, Master and Commander, Smallville, X-Men, Roswell, Comicslash, Pirates of The Carribean
• poetry, Buffy: the vampire Slayer, Angel: The series, X-men, Highlander, Xena: the warrior princess, Hercules: the legendary journeys, Harry Potter, Smallville, The O.C., Queer as folk, crossovers
• Forever Knight, Highlander, Buffy/Angel, Stargate, SG Atlantis, Lord of the Rings, Good Omens, Harry Potter
• Currently, mainly Pirates of the Carribean, but I've been interested in other fandoms over the years including Hercules and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and I'll always read original fiction
• Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings RPS, Bruno and Boots, Gundam Wing, Weiss Kreuz, Fruits Basket, Yami no Matsuei, Children of Dune, Dawson's Creek, ER, The O.C., Digimon, Card Captor Sakura
• I will read any amateur fiction by writers I'm already familiar with (through their fandom work or their blogs etc). Fandom-wise:
  
  Anita Blake, Once Upon A Time In Mexico/Desperado, Boy Meets Boy (the webcomic), James Bond, Buffy/Angel, various manga series by CLAMP, DC comics, Vertigo comics, Marvel comics, Authority, Dogma, Discworld, Good Omens, From Eroica With Love, GetBackers, Kenshin, Lord of the Rings, Silmarillion, Pirates of the Carribean, Harry Potter, Slayers, Smallville, Trigun, Swatkats, Weiss Kreuz, Yami no Matsuei, Wolf's Rain, The Fast And The Furious, Ocean's Eleven, Hero, Star Wars, Star Trek, Babylon 5, Fake, Van Helsing, Gundam Wing, Stargate SG1, Sleepy Hollow, Xena, X-Files
  
  And random stories from other fandoms if they're written or recommended by writers I like
• Star Wars, Velvet Goldmine, Troy, Lord of the Rings, Boondock Saints, Harry Potter, Black Hawk Down, Aubrey/Maturin, King Arthur, Northern Exposure, Shakespearian works, X-Files, Pirates of the Caribbean
• Buffy, Angel
• Harry Potter, Tolkien, Buffy, King Arthur, Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Wars, Boondock Saints
• Phantom Menace, Highlander, Star Trek OS, Magnificient 7, LOTR, Babylon 5, Enterprise, CSI, The Sentinel, Star Gate SG1, Harry Potter, Mpreg, X-men
• Pirates of the Caribbean
  Horatio Hornblower
  Harry Potter
  Angel the Series
  Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  Once Upon a Time in Mexico
  Secret Window
  Patrick O'Brian
• LotR, Lotrips, X-Men movieverse, Backstreet Boys, Smallville, Star Wars: TPM, King Arthur, Lost, and several others occasionally... Basically all slash, except for X-Men movieverse, where I read both het and slash
• Fandoms: Brimstone, The Sentinel, Angel, A-Team, X-Men, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Silmarillion, From Eroica With Love, Gundam Wing, Weiss Kreuz, RPS, Highlander, Master and Commander movieverse fic (Aubrey/Maturin series bookverse), historic slash, other slash (e.g. "greek god slash")
• Buffy, Angel, any Russell Crowe characters, Queer as Folk (American)
• Highlander, Real Person fiction (mostly slash, some het, some femmeslash), original fic written by friends
• Highlander, The Sentinel, SG1, Anita Blake, Harry Potter, original sci-fi/fantasy,other types of original if I like something else I have read by the author
• I'm in several fandoms, but I only read fanfiction in the Harry Potter fandom. Mainly slash, and I usually go for my favorite paring (Sirius/Remus), although I don't say no to other pairings if the fics have been recommended by people whose opinions I trust
• Highlander, Lord of the Rings (movie & books) and Silmarillion, Stargate (movie, SG-1, Atlantis), Star Wars, Star Trek: TOS, Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, King Arthur, X-Files, Buffy, Angel, Farscape, Firefly, X-Men (movies), Doctor Who, Good Omens, La Femme Nikita, West Wing, Witchblade, Sharpe, Due South, The Sentinel, and Real Person Fic (generally Lord of the Rings actors)
• "CSI" - Nick/Greg"
• "slash" in general (both fan and aamateur) Morwe pspcifically IO have, at one point of time or other, actively read Star Wars
  Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  Angel
  Highlander
  Forgotten Realms
  Dragonlance
  Harry Potter
  Artemis Fowl
  Lord of the Rings
  Inu Yasha
  Labyrinth
  Dragon Ball Z
  Pirates of the Caribbean
  Pitch Black
  The Fast and the Furious
  Lotr RPS
  Final Fantasy VII
  Final Fantasy VIII
  Hellblazer
  Witchblade
  Smallville
  Discworld
  Stargate SG-1
  xXx
  Babylon 5
  Xena
  Murder By Numbers
  Troy
  Once Upon a Time n Mexico
  Discworld
  Matrix
  Velvet Goldmine
  James Bond
  Hero
  The talented Mr. Ripley
  The Ninth gate
  West Wing
  Assassins
  From Dusk Till Dawn
  13th warrior
  Kill Bill
  Hannibal
  
  and probably a dozen others I can't recall at the moment
• DC Comics Universe (specifically Young Justice and Teen Titans)
  Marvel Comics (specifically X-Men and Spider-Man)
  Harry Potter
  Lord of the Rings
  Pirates of the Caribbean
  X-Men: Evolution
  Good Omens
  League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
  Baby-Sitters Club
  Sky Captain
  Boys Meets World
  Ocean's 11
  fanfic based on Kevin Smith films
  Greek myth
  ...and sadly, probably many more that I'm forgetting
• Highlander; Stargate SG-1; MacGyver; Homicide, Life on the Street; Starsky & Hutch; Law & Order; Law & Order SVU; Scrubs; The Sentinel; American Gothic; Forever Knight, Lethal Weapon
• Both live action western TV show and Japanase anime/manga-based fandoms, mostly with sci-fi or fantasy elements. Smallville, Star Trek: Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, Trigun, Gundam Wing, Yami no Matsuei, DNAngel, Pet Shop of Horrors, Saiyuki. I read in other fandoms when there are stories by authors I like who write for them
• Highlander, Star Wars and Star Wars prequels, King Arthur, LA Confidential, CSI, Pirates of The Caribbean, Buffy, Angel, X-Men and various comic fandoms, The Sentinel, MAster & Commander, Robin of Sherwood, anything historical related, so long as it's slash
• Harry Potter, Master and Commander, Smallville, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• harry potter, lord of the rings, master and commander, the twelve kingdoms, onmyoji, peacemaker, phantom menace,
• fandoms: Master and Commander, JRock general, Dune, Linkin Park, System Of A Down, Star Wars, Darkover
  original: fantasy, science-fiction, sailing stories
• X/1999, Starsky & Hutch, dueSouth, Saiyuki, Highlander, Smallville, and a bit of this and that if a particularly good author has written it
• Harry Potter
  Highlander
  X-Files
• Stargate Atlantis, Lost, Yu Yu Hakusho, Harry Potter, Horatio Hornblower, Master & Commander, other random stuff I come across
• Fandoms: Star Wars, Highlander, Pirates of the Carribean, Power Rangers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Harry Potter, Stargate SG1, Star Trek (most incarnations), Airwolf... More or less, if I'm familiar with it, I'll at least take a look to see if there's anything I fancy reading!
  Original: Action/Adventure, thriller, some romance
• Harry Potter
  Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  Pirates of the Caribbean
  Lord of the Rings
  The O.C.
  Stargate SG-1
  Smallville
• Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, CSI: Las Vegas, Without A Trace, Angel, Law and Order
• Pirates of the Caribbean
  CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
  Harry Potter (MWPP era)
• ST, HP.... some based on other tv series characters if the story is good. :)
• 2 x Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel
• fandoms:
  lord of the rings (RPS only)
  harry potter (mainly slash fics)
  x-files (not anymore)
  a few others like x-men, star wars (it only lasts a while though... i get tired of the fandoms after dvd is out)
  
• harry potter, csi, csi:miami, ncis, west wing
• lord of the rings, actor rps, harry potter, firefly, buffy, angel, batman, spiderman, west wing, fast and the furious, the faculty, pirates of the caribbean, boondock saints, x-men, troy, once upon a time in mexico
• Pokemon, Sailor Moon, Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, Amadeus, Jane Austen, Josh Groban
• Smallville, Buffy, Angel, CSI, OZ, Queer As Folk, Xena
  For original fiction, I mainly only read my friend's fiction if I've heard good reviews. Most often though it's slash
• Biker Mice From Mars, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Gargoyles, Harry Potter, Legend of Zelda, Swat Kats
• Mainly Lord of the Rings (race of men) and Pirates of the Caribbean (prefer het/gen). Some Once upon a time in Mexico and Sleepy Hollow
• Horatio Hornblower, Les Miserables, Harry Potter, Cambridge Spies, historical real person fiction
• Star Wars, Harry Potter, due South, Magnificent Seven, West Wing, Stargate SG-1, Navy NCIS, CSI: Miami, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, JAG, Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of the Rings, X-Men, Highlander, The Sentinel, and RPS (Real Person Slash) for boybands
• Star Wars Prequels, Lord of the Rings
• Buffy, Angel, Firefly
• Harry Potter, only
• Highlander, Forever Knight, The Professionals, Robin of Sherwood, Starsky & Hutch, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Oh, jeez. Buffy/Angel/Firefly, Blade (when I can find it), Stephen King's 'The Stand/Dark Tower/Talisman' universe, 'Lost', 'Veronica Mars', 'Troy', 'King Arthur', the 'Bourne' movies, 'Harry Potter'
• Magnificent Seven, Tour of Duty, Without a Trace, The Sentinel, NCIS, CIS, CIS Mamii, Original - gay, Stargate Atlantis, Man from Uncle, Anita Blake, and Pirates of the Caribbean
• Star Wars, Star Trek, Harry Potter, Lord of The Rings, The Sentinel, Smallville, Highlander, X-Files, Van Helsing, Pirates of The Carribean, Starsky & Hutch, Fastlane, Magnificent 7, Sleepy Hollow, Babylon 5, Miami Vice, Due South, Man From Uncle, Once A Thief, Houston Knights, Knight Rider. Too many to list here, let's just say sci-fi, fantasy & cop show fandoms
• Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Van Helsing
• Fandoms I've read/follow or have in the past: Gargoyles, TMNT, Harry Potter, Incredibles, Team America, Digimon, Pirates of the Carribben, Van Helsing, Pokemon, GI Joe, He-Man and She-Ra, Mummies Alive, Ranma 1/2, Fushig Yugi, Boston Legal/Practice, Gravitation, FAKE, Sky Captain, Star Wars, Disney Afternoon, Get Along Gang, One Piece, Dragonball/Z/GT, Rankin-Bass holiday specials, Emperor's New Groove, Lilo and Stitch, Nightmare Before Xmas
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel are those that I actively seek out. I will read most fandoms in which I had an interest in the source text, if a particular story is written or receommended to me by someone whose judgement I trust
• Slash, mostly. L&O:CI, L&O:SVU, Smallville, Without a Trace, CSI, Bonanza/Ponderosa, Stargate SG1, Stargate Atlantis
• Stargate, Smallville, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Quantum Leap, Angel, Enterprise, Alias, TPM
• Fandoms - Battlestar Galactica, A Team, Three Musketeers
• Harry Potter, Qaf Uk, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars
• Type: Slash, original key fics
  Fandoms: Professionals, X-Files (I`ll read alsmost anything except Phantom menace for some reason if the story is good enough)
• Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Wars, Desperado/Once Upon a Time in Mexico, King Arthur, Firefly, science-fiction, mystery, noir, supernatural fiction
• Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Harry Potter, Sentinel, Highlander, Professionals, X-Files, Trek. Original amateur fic in SF, Fantasy and kink, such as Manna's Administration series, or Mas-Zine
• Transformers, Star Wars, certain webcomics I also read
• The Fandoms I read are: The X-Files, CSI: Las Vegas, Once a Thief, Pirates of the Carribean, Star Wars, Troy
• Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is it for me
• higlander, profiler, anita blake, buffy, anne rice, nip/tuck, queen of swords, farscape, angel, charmed
• Star Wars, Blakes 7, Stae Trek TOS
• star wars, harry potter
• The fandom doesn't matter (other than original fiction) - what matters is the story's genre. I usually read original fiction, darkfic (prisoners, slaves, prostitutes, BDSM, and other types of angsty stories), chan, historical fandoms, and literary fandoms. I generally read slash (including original m/m) but will occasionally read gen (usually male friendship stories)
• Star Wars, Lord of the Rings
• The vast majority of what I read is slash or pre-slash. Occasionally I'll read gen or het, fanfic or original fiction, but only in fandoms or by authors I rank highly.
  
  I read comprehensively in 'Star Wars - The Phantom Menace', selectively in 'Harry Potter', and occasionally in 'LotR', 'Master and Commander' and 'Sentinel'.
  
  I also read what authors whom I have discovered and liked in one fandom write in another, mainly through journal postings. This has meant that I've 'tasted' a lot of different fandoms, as well as some original fic.
  
  I enjoy manga, and subscribe to a very active manga livejournal community
• Highlander
  Harry Potter
  Smallville
• Movie fandoms: King Arthur, LOTR, Harry Potter
  Real Person Slash: LOTR, King Arthur
  Books: Harry Potter
  TV: Lost, Queer as Folk, Buffy
• Harry Potter
  Smallville
  Good Omens
  Any fic in any fandom if rec'd by someone whose opinion I trust
  
  Former fandoms (now abandoned):
  X-Files, Due South, Sentinel, LOTR, Firefly, Buffy/Angel, Andromeda, Highlander, Star Trek, Star Wars, Stargate SG1, popslash
• Harry Potter, anime (in general), Lord of the Rings, Buffy, fantasy, parody, psychological thriller
• Queer as folk, Buffy/Angel, Due South, Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Trek Voyager, Stargate SG-1 and various other fandoms occasionally
• Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, X-Men, King Arthur, Star Wars, The Fast and the Furious, Fruits Basket, Beyblade, Sailor Moon, Gundam Wing, Pirates of the Caribbean, Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokemon, Digimon, Sleepy Hollow, Interview with the Vampire, Card Captor Sakura, and whatever meets my eye
• LotR, PotC, The Sentinel, Due South, Highlander (The Series), Starsky & Hutch, Quantum Leap and LotR RPS (Real Person Slash)
• Fandoms - The Pahantom Menace. Star Gate, SG1. Star Trek (Voyager and TOS). Master and Commander.
  
  Types - Slash, a very limited amount of RPG/RPS (mostly only when written by people I know and like the work of)
• In general, any fan fiction that I know the original source of. (I read a lot, and watch a lot, so the list is a bit extensive).
  I've read fan fiction relating to the following in the past six months:
  Star Wars
  Gargoyls (disney)
  Star Trek
  Ranma
  Sailor Moon
  Full Metal Alchemest
  SWAT Cats
  Stargate
  Matrix
  Card Captor Sakura
  Digimon
  Pokemon
  
• Star Wars
  Master & Commander
  Queer as Folk
  Scarlet & Black
  Velvet Goldmine
• All Stargate related, All Star Trek related
• Biker Mice From Mars, SWAT Kats and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (both old and new series versions)
• star wars
• Stargate SG-1, Man from UNCLE, The Sentinel, Wild Wild West (tv series, not movie), Sports Night, Magnificent 7, Harry Potter, Nero Wolfe, some Due South, some Buffy & Angel, original slash
• Les Miserables, various other classic 19th century works, some Shakespeare, obscure dead real person slash (mostly 1789-1940), Horatio Hornblower, Aubrey-Maturin series if recommended by a friend, Phantom of the Opera if recommended by a friend, Harry Potter if recommended by a friend
• BtVS/Ats
• Buffy, Harry Potter, Boondock Saints, CSI, classical Greek mythology primarily, some bandslash. I'm usually willing to read just about anything if it's recommended as a good story
• Harry Potter, The West Wing, Alias, Lost, Pirates of the Caribbean, The X-Files
• Discworld (Terry Pratchett), Master and Commander (Partrick O'Brian), fanfiction for virtually any book I like (Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, to give a few examples), Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Smallville (only fics with adult content), Good Omens (Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett), The Sandman (Neil Gaiman) (if there is any fic to be found), Real Person Fiction - I will try anything once
• Highlander The Series
  Stargate SG1
  Sentinel
• Anime fanfiction esp. Inuyasha, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Rose of Versailles
• Harry Potter, Buffy, Angel, Highlander, CSI, Lost, Smallville,
• I read some orginal fiction written by authors whose fanfiction I have enjoyed for the writing quality, although I don't come across this often. I'm more likely to read original fiction that deals with something that interests me, such as vampire stories. I also sometimes read orginal amature erotica. In fanfiction, I will try fiction in any fandom where I've at least seen pictures of the cast (TV fandoms). Where book fandoms are concerned, I will only read fiction in a fandom where I've read the book(s). I regularly read fiction in the Harry Potter, LotR, X-Files, Buffy/Angel, and Star Trek fandoms. I also like fanfiction written for series like The West Wing and ER, but I find those fandoms are a little less productive
• Naruto and Harry Potter
• The Sentinel, The Professionals, Blake's 7, Starsky and Hutch, X-Men, Nuffy, Stargate, Highlander. The first four I'm well-read in, the others are occasional dips
• Highlander
  Farscape
  And sometimes crossover between Highlander or Farscape and other series
  And of course crossovers between Highlander and Farscape but they are very rare
• The Invisible Man (based ont he 200-2002 series on the Scifi channel)
• Harry Potter, Good Omens, various RPS, occasionally miscellaneous fandoms I'm familiar with but not involved in
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel the Series. Mostly Spike-centric fics
• Anything
• Haha... Complicated question.
  
  Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  Degrassi
  Alias
  The OC
  The Matrix
  Alexander
  Queer as Folk
  Harry Potter
  Angel
  Pirates of the Carribean
  Radio Free Roscoe
  X-Men
  CSI
  Lord of the Rings
  The West Wing
  Everwood
  Dead Like Me
  Lost
  The Day After Tomorrow
  
  I'm sure there are more, but those are the one's that I mostly stick to/have written a piece for
• Star Wars
  Babylon 5
  Harry Potter
  Stargate
  Buffy/Angel
  
• CSI, Gilmore, Girls, Buffy The Vampire Slayer/Angel, Roswell, Dawson's Creek,
• Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Master and Commander, The Dark is Rising, Brideshead Revisited and other obscure literary fandoms, The Sentinel, Horatio Hornblower, Band of Brothers, Sports Night. I'll read almost anything on occasion if I am familiar with the source material
• Trigun, Weiss Kreuz, Saiyuki, Yami no Matsuei, X, 'original slash'
• Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, numerous anime, Stargate: SG-1, Stargate: Atlantis, Final Fantasy
• Sherlock Holmes, Due South, X-files, Buffy/Angel, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Hornblower, Sharpe, Master and Commander, Coldfire, Star Wars, Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, James Bond, various RPS pairings, Pirates of the Caribbean, Lawrence of Arabia, Xena, Homer, Bible, JAG, Brisco County Jr, Invisible Man, Napoleon Solo. Any I know of!
• Original Fiction, I tend to read mostly homoerotic or slash fiction done by people I actually know in fandom.
  
  Fandom-wise: Star Wars The Phantom Menace, Star Wars the original trilogy, Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Boston Legal, Queer as Folk, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Carribbean, Master and Commander: book series only, DragonLance, Underworld, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel the Series, Roswell, Naruto, Yami no Matsuei, Angel Sanctuary, Gravitation, others as the mood strikes
• harry potter, x-men, csi:las vegas, almost anything with slash
• Rammstein, LOTR, several fetish related fandoms
• Fandoms: Harry Potter, CSI, Highlander, Buffy, CSI:Miami, Crossover between differen fandoms
  original: mostly angst, drama, historic, thriller, horror, emotional
• Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter, any Johnny Depp fandom
• X-Files, some limited Buffy, and other random things
• I read Harry Potter fanfiction, and I occasionally read Stargate fanfiction
• Star Wars, Stargate, Angel, Buffy, Harry Potter
• Highlander, The Professionals, The Dark Is Rising, Harry Potter (But only Harry/Snape slash), Pirates of the Carribean, Smallville, Batman, The Phantom Menance, Star Trek, rare slash (in about that order)
• Lotrips, Harry Potter, Good Omens
• Star Wars The Phantom Menace
• harry potter, angel, buffy, hercules, xena, ci5, professionals, star trek voyager, magnificent seven, and x-men.
  
  occasionally sentinel, other comic stories, jane austen, charmed etc
• fandoms : smallville,CSI, Without a trace, x-men, fast&furious, harry potter,...
  
  original : fantasy
• Buffy/Angel, Harry Potter, X-files
• Many - Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Sports Night, West Wing, The Sentinel, Master and Commander, Firefly, Stargate: SG-1, Horatio Hornblower, Gundam Wing. Also, pretty much any story my friends recommend strongly enough
• Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS)
  Sports Night
  Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  X-Files
  Cupid
• King Arthur, Harry Potter, Present Day Original, Fantasy Original
• Harry Potter, Real Person Slash, CSI: Las Vegas, Sports slash, X-Files
• Lotrips, Harry Potter, due South, RPS (depends on pairing), amateur fiction of fanfiction authors whose writing abilities I trust
• Jossverse (Buffy, Angel, Firefly), Bujold Vorkosiganverse, Sayers, Dark is Rising/Cooper, Good Omens/Gaiman Pratchett, occasional one-offs by trusted authors
• Forever Knight
  Babylon 5
  Pirates of the Carribbean
  Due South
  Pretender
  X Files
  
• Slash and Gen fiction in the following fandoms: The Sentinel, Stargate SG-1, due South, Highlander, Star Trek TOS, Starsky & Huch, The Professionals, Magnificient Seven, Forever Knight.
  
  Also some original porn and erotica
• Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, King Arthur
• X-Files, The Invisible Man, Highlander, Stargate: SG-1, Stargate: SGA, Starsky & Hutch, Angel, Smallville, Queer as Folk
• Some / a few in X-files, Star Trek (esp NG)HP, Stargate, Due South, Sherlock Holmes, Jane Austen, occasional others that are recommended on LJ Crack Van and look interesting. Read most deeply in Star Wars TPM
• Star Trek: VOY, ENT
  Stargate: SG-1 & SG-A
• too many to mention them all, but to name a few: Weiss Kreuz, Magnificent 7 (the tv series) Horatio Hornblower, Stargate SG-1, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Gundam Wing, CSI,Due South, ST Voyager aso
  but really anything slash will get at least my attention
• BtVS/AtS, HP, PotC
  
  I read original fiction only from people I know (in RL or through ff). I don't spend my time on fiction if there is a good possibility that I'll be left unsatisfied, be that in plot, tone, characters ect.
  
• Lord of the rings, pirates of the carribean, batman, DC comics, the vampire chronicles, harry potter, the sentinel,
• Master and Commander
  Pirates of the Caribbean
  Hornblower
  Harry Potter
  Lord of the Rings
  Star Wars
  literature based fanfiction (outside established fandoms, 18th and early 19th c. literature mainly)
• pirates of the caribbean, vampire chronicles (although that's not very abunadant anymore), quills, phantom of the opera
• harry potter*, jeeves & wooster*, aubrey-maturin*, sherlock holmes, lord of the rings, historical, asimov, secret garden, chronicles of narnia, shakespeare, jane austen, sandman / neil gaiman, x-men, spider-man, batman, LA confidential, buffy the vampire slayer / angel, gattaca, red dwarf.
  
  occasionally real person slash, and various tiny literature-derived fandoms. anything that looks good. if it's by an author i know to be talented, i'll probably even read stories about fandoms i'm unfamiliar with
• Smallville; QAF; Master and Commander; Harry Potter; X-Men; BTVS; Angel; LOTR; Highlander; Fast and Furious; King Arthur and anyother that in the time makes me interested
• Highlander, X-Files, Magnificent Seven, Firefly, Buffy, due South, almost anything if it's recommended by friends whose taste I trust (and capable of standing alone if I don't know the fandom)
• Fandoms: Buffy, Angel, Pretender, Highlander, The Sentinel, Due South, Hercules, Xena, Diagnosis Murder, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Stargate, Harry Potter, Crossovers. Original: Comedies, Action/adventure, Poetry
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel (slash mostly), Stargate: SG1, seaQuest, Highlander, Forever Knight, 21 Jump Street, Daredevil, GI Joe, X-Men, Joan of Arcadia, Animorphs, In a Heartbeat
• Fandoms: The X-Files, Xena: Warrior Princess, CSI: Miami, Birds of Prey, ER, Fastlane, Law & Order, The West Wing, Mean Girls, Rent, NYPD Blue, Witchblade, Without A Trace
  
  Original Amateur Fiction: Ã????????ber Xena, Original lesbian novels and short stories
• The X-files, Xmen, Sentinel, Star Trek, Stargate, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, CSI
• In terms of fandoms, there's just too many to list. I dabble in almost everything you can think of, from books to movies to kids shows. I don't really stick in one place long. I'm a fan of obscure fandoms, though, or ones that have little fic. For example, Creature from the Black Lagoon. In terms of original, I read more fantasy-based stories then realistic. I'm not really a fan of adventure stories, though. I like get-together originals
• Stargate SG-1
  Stargate Atlantis
  Hornblower
  Lord of the Rings
  Harry Potter
  Pirates of the Caribbean
  Alexander
  various smaller fandoms
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  Angel the Series
  Lord of the Rings
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel: The Series, Highlander, X-Files, Forever Knight, The Sentinel, Stargate: SG1, occasionally others that catch my interest
• Buffyverse, Spangel, POTC, LOTR, King Arthur, Highlander, Troy, Andromeda, Star Trek
• Highlander the Movie and Highlander the TV Series and Queen of Swords. Also Crossovers of these fandoms with other fandoms like Ann Rice or Pretender or Star Trek, etc
• Original Fantasy, Harry Potter, Pirates of the Carribean, Lord of the Rings, Yu-Gi-Oh, RPS, Final Fantasy games, Once Upon a Time in Mexico
• Sentinel
  Stargate SG1
  Due South
  Andromeda
  
• 2 x Highlander
• In terms of Fandoms: Stargate SG1, Start Trek: Voyager, Hercules, Xena, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Angel, Lord of the Rings, Alias, BEastmaster, Boston Public, Charmed, Smalville, Comic Fanfiction (such as X-Men, Batman, etc), X-men (the movies), Nysnc,
  
  In terms of why type of Amateur fiction: i tend to read slash fiction and usually only the original stuff of the authors of fanfiction i have read and enjoyed
• Back to the Future, Re-Animator, Willard
• Highlander, Queen of Swords, Stargate, Hornblower, Sharpe, Aubrey/Maturin (Both books and Master and Commander movie); mostly interested in slash, but will read good gen
• The X-Files (a lot), occasionally Harry Potter or The West Wing
• Horatio Hornblower, Star Trek, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Master and Commander, Lord of the Rings, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, Stargate SG-1, others
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel the Series, Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of the Rings, Farscape, Harry Potter
• Phantom of the Opera, The Sentinel, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Harry Potter, From Eroica With Love, Lord of the Rings, Toy Soldiers, Good Omens, medieval-epic-based (e.g. Song of Roland), Star Trek
• Matrix, Harry Potter (Gen Only), Due South, (some) Farscape, Firefly (Gen only), Sports Night, Angel The Series, Star Trek (all except Enterprize), Lord of the Rings, LotRiPS, DC comics, Pirates of the Carribian
• The X-Files
  The Shield
  Queer as Folk
  Oz
• Gundam Wing; Weiss Kreuz; Card Captor Sakura; Dragon Knights; Digimon; Harry Potter; Lord of the Rings; Beyblade; Magic Knight Rayearth; Ronin Warriors/Yoroiden Samurai Troopers; Saint Seiya; X-Men; DC Comicverse; Queer as Folk; Star Wars: The Phantom Menace; Inuyasha; Naruto; Yu Yu Hakusho; Fushigi Yuugi; Final Fantasy VII; Final Fantasy VIII; Fullmetal Alchemist; The OC..
• Master and Commander (all Patrick O'Brian), Harry Potter, Shakespeare, various rare works of literature, X-Men (movieverse), and the occasional Kirk/Spock fic because, well, it's The Original. I'm open to anything if I'm familiar with the canon and if the work is of a readable quality
• Starsky & Hutch, Sports Night, The Sentinel, Due South, Horatio Hornblower, From Eroica With Love, Pirates Of The Caribbean, The Boondock Saints, Harry Potter, Reservoir Dogs, M*A*S*H, Good Omens, Lord Of The Rings, Pride & Prejudice, Askewniverse (Kevin Smith movies), Doctor Who, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, The Faculty, The Lost Boys, Xena: Warrior Princess
• Tolkien (Lord of the Rings/Silmarillion), RPF, Blackhawk Down, Jane Austen, Harry Potter, original fic from writers I know I like, anything good that's recommended
• *takes a deep breath*
  Highlander, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, Stargate, the 10th Kingdom, X-Men, Queer as Folk, Forever Knight, Star Trek, Velvet Goldmine, FAKE, Wolf's Rain, Gravitation, Weiss Kreuz... and others on occasion to a much lesser degree
  I read mostly hurt/comforts (and specialized subcategories therein), fluff/PWP's, and one-shots
• 3 x Star Wars
• Slayers
  Teen Titans
  Tenchi Muyo
• Professionals; Harry Potter; Phantom Menace; Buffy; Stargate; Due South; Good Omens; Highlander (once, but no longer,really); Smallville; X-Files (again, not so much these days); Man From Uncle
• aubrey/maturin or ocassionally Harry Potter
• biker mice from mars Young riders
• West Wing, Whose Line is it, Anyway?, The Authority, Highlander, M*A*S*H, The Sentinel, Jeeves and Wooster, Are You Being Served?, var. comics, anime, other slash fandoms
• various anime series, Due South, Stargate SG-1, CSI
• Fanfiction: Gundam Wing, Weiss Kreuz, Harry Potter, Master and Commander, Horatio Hornblower, Rurouni Kenshin, Star Trek: Voyager, Spider-man, Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, X-men, Sharpe, Shoujo Kakumei Utena, Oz, Hikaru no Go
  
  Original fiction: fantasy, science fiction
• Angel the Series,Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• I mainly read Harry Potter, King Arthur, Sky Captain, and anime fan fiction. My main source of original fiction is Reyna and her website is ephebianparadise.com
• I read in fandoms I'm familiar with, unless something has been recommended by a friend, and I have no preference as to type/genre/whatnot, except that it be plotful and of quality
• Star Trek: The Original Series, Aubrey/Maturin (Patrick O'Brian books), Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Stargate: SG-1, also amateur (for-the-love) online writing magazines (Sci-Fi): Abyss & Apex, Ideomancer, Lenox Avenue
• Harry Potter, Smallville, Sherlock Holmes, Lord of the Rings, Rare Slash, Movie Slash..
• Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, CSI, Law & Order: SVU, Crossing Jordan, OC, Star Trek: Enterprise, RPS, King Arthur, Pirates of the Caribbean, OZ, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Harry Potter, Xmen, Xena and The Sentinel
• Pirates of the Caribbean, Will-centric slash fics. Troy, Paris-centric slash fics. RPS, Orlando Bloom-centric Slash fics. Lord of the Rings, Legolas-centric Slash fics. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Obi-Wan-centric slash fics
• Joaquin Phoenix Character fic (not RPF, or hardly ever RPF)
  Slash: Damon/Affleck, Siegfried and Roy, Law and Order, Crossing Jordan, ER, Star Trek (various series), some X-Files
  Also various male/male discipline original fic
• Fandom: Harry Potter, Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Good Omens, Hikaru no Go, YuYu Hakusho, YuGiOh, sometimes Stargate SG-1.
  
  Original: Anything you put in front of me, assuming it doesn't look like it was an attempt to teach fish to use a typewriter
• Star Wars:The Phantom Menace, Harry Potter, Due South, The Sentinel, Men in Black, Lord of the Rings, Vampire Chronicles, Dragonlance, Smallville, The X-Files, original m/m fiction
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer" & "Angel"; "Queer as Folk
• Star Wars: Phantom Menace
  Lord of the Rings
  Six Feet Under
  West Wing
• Buffy & Angel only
• Jossverse (Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel the Series); Daria; Gargoyles (old school cartoon series - hard to find these days, but it's where I got my ficcing start); Pirates of the Carribean (and any crossover fic with it, as with the Jossverse); Star Trek, all series except Deep Space Nine, but especially The Original Series and Voyager; Discworld and Good Omens of Terry Pratchett's fame; A very small smattering of NON Slash Harry Potter and Lemony Snickett;
  
  I read almost every kind of fic, except the ones obviously by 14 year olds who have never actually dealt with the real world or a working grasp of the English language, and the very important exception of Real People Fic, which I find to be distasteful to the point of verging on criminal. I do read Adult fic, Slash and otherwise, and though I do have certian kinds I will and won't read, they're personal standards, and I can't explain them. I'm more likely to read a long and drawn out series than a drabble, or a short piece. And I believe there is a special level of hell, somewhere between the level reserved for those who take twentythree things in the twelve items or less line and the level for those who kick puppies and kittens, reserved for those who publish unfinished fanfic and then never complete it
• LOTR, Black Hawk Down, The Establishment (I think it is considered a fandom now), Actor slash,
• various comicbook, Antia Blake Vampire Hunter, Lost (tv series), various manga/anime, Muntant X, Andromeda, Star Trek Enterprise, CSI (tv series), Lord of the Rings, Wheel of Time, Sherlock Holmes
• Stargate, Smallville, Buffy/Angel, Harry Potter, Star Trek
• LOTR RPS, Harry Potter slash and gen, U2 RPS, Firefly slash and gen, general Actor slash, I also read slash for a lot of rare fandoms..
• Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Stargate, Due South, Harry Potter, Andromeda, Voyager, Roswell, Hercules, and Xena fan fiction.
  Some original SF/Fantasy/Horror in my private writing groups
• The Phantom Menace.
  
  Occasionally,
  Velvet Goldmine
  Pirates of the Caribbean
  Trek: Voyager
• Stargate SG-1, The Sentinel, Stargate Atlantis, Simon and Simon, Starsky and Hutch, West Wing
  Mostly slash but the occasionally well written het or ship fic (a rarity in some fandoms) also attracts me
  I LOVE hurt and Comfort fic
• Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Buffy, Lone Gunmen, X-Files (my first fanfiction fandom, but I don't read it much anymore), X-Men, Velvet Goldmine
• 2 x Stargate
• Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, The Talented Mr Ripley, Coupling, Pirates of the Caribbean, RPS
• Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Yu-Gi-Oh, Harry Potter, Good Omens, Sleepy Hollow, Lord of the Rings, Spiderman, The Faculty, Velvet Goldmine, Shallow Grave
• Mostly Stargate SG-1, the Sentinel, Law & Order, and X-files
• Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Carribean, Harry Potter, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Star Wars, FAKE, "The Administration" original fiction by msmanna, X-men, Spider-man, Good Omens
• Lord of the Rings
  Star Trek Voyager
  Man From UNCLE
  Sentinel
  Oz
• Final Fantasy Seven, Kingdom Hearts, Pirates of the Carribean, King Arthur, Troy
  
  Used to read: Fushigi Yuugi, Weiss Kruez, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Final Fantasy 8
• Harry Potter, Stargate, Highlander, Good Omens, Pirates of the Caribbean, El Mariachi; literary, kidlit, political, anthropomorphic, and historical slash/fanfiction; DC comics, Buffy/Angel, X-files, Smallville, Discworld, occasionally Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, Star Wars, Due South, Marvel, webcomics, Man from UNCLE, popslash, original, and really whatever else I can find
• BtVS and AtS
• The Sentinel, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, The Magnificent 7, Angel: The Series, Ghostbusters, Highlander (movies and series), The Assorted Star Treks, Star Gate, Charmed, Nash Bridges, Anita Blake
• LOTR RPS and FPS, BTVS/Angel RPS and FTS, Highlander, Stargate SG-1, QaF, Mpreg, Gay Male slash, Olympic Slash, NASCAR fic, Lost, The Sentinel, RPG's, and fantasy and Sci fi original fic. Also read my friends' NaNoWriMo fics
• JAG, NCIS, (mostly) Highlander, Star Trek (all), The Sentinel, Kindred: the Embraced, Starsky and Hutch, Angel, and occasional others
• Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, yaoi(Japanese manga and fan comics)
• Regularly: Biker Mice from Mars
  Occasionally: Various other animated fandoms and book/author fandoms. Occasional movie and TV fandoms
• Buffy/Angel, Xena, Star Trek, Harry Potter, The X-files, (occasionally others, but these are the main ones)
• Magnificent 7, Sentinel, Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Trek (assorted), Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Any others that take my fancy if I come across them
• Babylon 5
  Star Wars (Ep 1 derivitives)
  Queer as Folk
• Fandoms: BtVS/AtS, Pretender, Xena:WP, La Femme Nikita, Gone With The Wind (small but there), Gilmore Girls, Harry Potter, X-men, Sailor Moon, Ranma 1 1/2, Inuyasha
• Lord of the Rings, Master and Commander (Patrick O'Brian), Harry Potter
• Master & Commander, Due South, The Sentinel, X-Files, Jeeves & Wooster, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter, Good Omens...honestly, I'll read just about anything as long as it's been well-recommended
• Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter (seldom), X-Men, Pirates of the Caribbean, Byffy/Angel. Original fiction I read if some of my favourite authors write it or my friend writes a new piece of fiction
• Oh lord... well, let's see.
  
  Slash fandoms:
  Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, Highlander, Sherlock Holmes, Quantum Leap, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel the Series, Newsies, Star Wars: The Original Trilogy, Gundam Wing, Jurassic Park III, The A-Team, Diagnosis Murder, The Fast and the Furious, Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy VII, The Mummy, Dead Poet's Society, James Bond - Goldeneye, Starsky and Hutch, Spiderman the Movie, Weiss Kreuz, The Real Ghostbusters, A Knight's Tale, X-men, The Sentinel, Yami no Matsuei, X-files, Hercules the Legendary Journeys, Galaxy Quest
  
  Het fandoms:
  Phantom of the Opera, Sailor Moon
  
  There's probably more, these are just the fandoms off the top of my head
• King Arthur, A-Team, Hogan's Heroes, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Andromeda, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Master and Commander
• Highlander, Star Trek
• Pirates of the Caribbean and Starsky & Hutch are my main fandoms, but I also read Hornblower, Lord of the Rings, Troy, King Arthur, and various others if they are recc'ed to me
• Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of the Rings, LotR Real Person Slash, Various anime (Kyou Kara Maou mostly, but anything I can find that I've seen)
• Cross over. Self insertion. Anime. Bubble Gum Crisis. Buffy: the Vampire Slayer. Power Rangers. Harry Potter. Ranma 1/2. Cthulhu Mythos. Star Wars. Etc
• Buffy The Vampire SLayer/Angel: The Series
• Alien Nation, Angel, Babylon 5, Batman, Blake's 7, Brimstone, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Due South, Forever Knight, The Fugitive, Hercules, Highlander, Homicide: Life on the Streets, LA Confidential, Law & Order, Lord of the Rings, Master and Commander, Man From UNCLE, Miami Vice, Quantum Leap, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Professionals, Sherlock Holmes, Sentinel, Smallville, Stargate, Stargate: Atlantis, Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Wars, V, Wiseguy, Xena: Warrior Princess, The X Files, and original science fiction and fantasy
• I read only in the Highlander universe
• Vampire Chronicles and Aubrey/Maturin
• CSI (I read everything, from normal love stories to slash and from fluff to angst), Charmed, Law and Order: SVU, ER, The L Word
• stargate sg-1, highlander, x-files, and crossovers
• certain anime fandoms, some fantasy/sci-fi originals
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, X-Files, Dark Angel and Smallville
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
• Historically: X-Files, LOTR, Stargate, Buffy, Due South, Doctor Who, Horatio Hornblower, Ultraviolet, LOTR RPS, and a zillion other fandoms. Currently: Angel & Buffy. I have a preference for slash, love character-intensive and action/adventure gen, and enjoy het. I am a serial monogamist with fandoms and will read almost exclusively fic which involves/centers around my favorite characters to the exclusion of others
• Final Fantasy, Xenogears, Xenosaga, Chrono Trigger, Dragon Warrior, Utena, Fruits Basket, Please Save My Earth
• Various. Depends mainly on what friends give me of their work to review, or what I run across that day. I read pieces from a variety of fandoms, and probably even more original work overall
• any femmeslash I can find, but in particular: Stargate, Law & Order SVU, CSI, Popular, Buffy, ER, Birds of Prey, L Word
  I will occassionally read het fics, but ONLY if there is a good plot (ie no PWP) and preferably no explicit sex scenes, although if the story itself is involving enough, I will read it and skip the sex scenes, but never in my preferred fandoms. I will also on rare occassions read gen fics in my preferred fandoms as long there is no reference whatsoever to any type of het pairing involving the main female characters
• The Magnificent Seven
  Due South
  The Sentinel
  CSI
  Sherlock Holmes
  Smallville
  The Man From Uncle
  Starsky and Hutch
  historical slash fiction
  
• YuGiOh, Digimon, Rurouni Kenshin, Gundam Wing, just about anything that someone gets me into
• Star Trek(Original Series, Voyageur); Highlander (The Series); Stargate SG-1; Firefly; Wild Wild West (The Series); Angel; and Jeremiah.
  
  As for types, slash fic in my genre of choice
• Slash, male/male, Pirates Of The Caribbean, Lord Of The Rings, Alexander, Anne Rice's Vampires, Velvet Goldmine, Trainspotting
• Harry Potter, lord of the Rings
• Star Trek, PopSlash, Harry Potter, Smallville, Original Japanese-manga-style works (ie, Sahari), Manga-slash (incl for shows I haven't seen), Lord of the Rings, CSI, Star Wars, webtoon based (ie, boymeetsboy); started with Doug Anthony All-Stars slash but this is no longer available
• Bon Jovi RPS, Bryan Adams RPS, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Good Charlotte RPS, Harry Potter, Heather Locklear RPS, Hilary Duff RPS, Jurassic Park III, Mest RPS, Savage Garden RPS, The Sentinel, Star Wars, The Vampire Chronicles, Velvet Goldmine, Will Young RPS
• Star Wars, LOTR, Star Trek Voyager
• Harry Potter (in the past X-files, Pokemon, Vampire Chronicles)
• Practically all if there isn't anythig that deters me completely, like pairings, which are totally disgusting (like in Harry Potter: Harry/any adult character). I don't care if the story's about homosexuals or heterosexuals as long as it is good written and stuff
• like Highlander, SG1, Sentinal, some Buffy, some Harry Potter, Crossovers
• Harry Potter, mostly. Sometimes Lord of the Rings. Harry Potter crossovers with a variety of other fandoms, like Porates of the Caribbean or even some that I wouldn't otherwise know. I don't usually read original amateur fiction online
• Highlander, Angel, and then alot of other fandoms as well. If I like the author or the story is recommended I'll read in pretty much any fandom so the list can expand to include: Starsky and Hutch, Stargate SG1, The Sentinel, Due South, X-Files, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings rps.. etc
• Harry Potter fanfiction
• Hm, started with BtVS (and later on Angel), then came Roswell, stumbled across some crossovers between BtVS and Harry Potter, because of that I got interested in Harry Potter and after the show started in my country I started to read fanfiction in the Smallville fandom as well. I like most crossovers in the fandom BtVS (with Harry Potter, Smallville, Roswell, Anita Blake books, Stargate, Highlander and some smaller fandoms)
• Generally speaking I read yaoi, more commonly known as slash - normally I choose the fandoms that include Harry Potter, DragonBall Z, Gensomaden Saiyuki,Inuyasha, DN Angel, Cowboy Bebop, Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of the Rings, Pierrot, Kuroyuma, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Glay, Penicillin, Wild Adaptor, The Vampire Chronicles, The Tawny Man, Assassin's Series, Elfstones Series, Lord of the Flies, Rurouni Kenshin, Ned Kelly...that's about it
• Original - fantasy and sci-fi, slash preferred (primary interest)
  Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan series
  Harry Potter
  Gundam Wing (former interest)
  
• Buffy / Angel Fandom - mainly slash fiction
• Buffy
  Angel
• 1. Rawhide
  2. Kommissar Rex (Austrian detective series)
  3. Master and Commander
  4. Anything based on Westerns
• Green Wing, Harry Potter, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, The Matrix, Hellboy (the movie)
  Too many to count, vary with my interest
• Harry Potter, Gundam Wing, DN Angel, Ghost! (AKA Eerie Queerie), Final Fantasy VIII
• tomb raider
• Fandoms:
  
  lord of the rings (movie and books)
  harry potter (movie and books)
  pirates of the caribbean - the curse of the black pearl
  fullmetal alchemist (anime)
  sailormoon (anime and manga)
  buffy the vampire slayer
  angel the series
  highlander (book, movies and series)
  star trek - deep space nine
  james bond - goldeneye
  
  and just anything I happen to stumble upon on the net.
  
  Original writing:
  
  adult content
  sci-fi
  fantasy
• Harry Potter, Good Omens, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
• Professionals, X-Files, various Britslash, Smallville, Highlander
• occasional original fic, mostly by writers of fanfiction. mostly slash in both book and media fandoms, but some het, explicit and non: star trek (tng, voyager, original series, and ds9), star wars (prequel and original trilogy), the west wing, sports night, harry potter, the professionals, starsky & hutch, the sentinel, due south, king arthur, pirates of the caribbean, good omens, sherlock holmes, jeeves & wooster, finding nemo, lord of the rings, lord of the rings rps, pop music and actor rps, rosencrantz & guildenstern are dead, she-ra, hamlet and other shakespeare, x-men, csi... i've probably forgotten something
• Mostly Harry Potter, Highlander, some Lord of the Rings, Sherlock Holmes. In the past I've read Forever Knight, X-files, Zorro, etc
• Harry Potter slash, Lord of the Rings slash, RPS (actors or singers), Gilmore Girls het
• Star Wars, Harry Potter, X-men, X-Files, 'Animes', Seaquest, fantasy fics
• harry potter, smalville, highlander, buffy tvs/angel ts, star trek (all)
• u2 slash, wat slash, football slash, everything found on fictionpress.com (slash), lotr, csi slash, weiss kreuz
• King Arthur fan fiction and Lord of the Rings fan fiction
• yaoi, gundam wing, wolf's rain, weiss cruiss, fruits basket, heart of the king,
• TPM and Harry Potter
• Angel, Buffy, Sentinal, Due South, Star Trek, Xena, Lord of the rings, Stargate, Starwars, X-men, Witchblade, Harry Potter, Nikita La Fem, Sleepy Hollow, Highlander, X-Files
• Harry Potter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Lord of the Rings, Tale of a Mediator - most devoted to Harry/Draco
• HP het/slash H/HR or H/D
  
  Some reccomended other stuff, but mostly the above
• Harry Potter
  Stargate (non-sex related)
• Harry Potter mainly, ocassionally Lymond Chronicles, Georgette Heyer, West Wing or Firefly and a smattering of other fandoms if highly reccommended by a person whose judgement I trust
• I read original poety and general fiction of all types. Fandoms I read in are: Buffy/Angel, Xena/Hercules, LoTR, Harry Potter, Stargate, Startrek, XFiles, Seaquest, Gundam Wing, Ranma 1/2 & The Sentinal
• Buffy/Angel, Highlander, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, The Professionals, The Sentinel, X-Files. Occasionally others
• Legend of Zelda, Lord of the Rings mostly right now
• Gundam Wing, Digimon, Harry Potter, WeiÃ???? Kreuz, Naruto, Witch Hunter Robin, Here is Greenwood, original slash and femmeslash (but not the really melodramatic crap written by 14-year-olds)
• Harry Potter, Anita Blake
• I occasionally read fan fiction based on the film _Pirates of the Caribbean_ and at one time read fan fiction based on the Peter Jackson version of _The Lord of the Rings_
• Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Underworld, Lord of the Rings, some Star Trek: Voyager (not much of that any more); fantasy, sci-fi and romantic
• Fantasy and science fiction; too many fandoms to list
• harry potter
  lord of the rings
  boy meets world
  animorphs
• Star Wars, Harry Potter, Dragonlance, Terry Brooks, Micheal Moorcock, Lord of the Rings, Discworld, Warhammer, Black Isle computer games (various), Dungeons and Dragons, Forgotten Realms, Pirates of the Caribbean, I could go on for hours, Lit. anything
• harry potter
  star wars/star wars prequel
  buffy the vampire slayer
  pirates of the caribbean
  the o.c
• TV/Movie Character fanfiction
• Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, and some other movies, Smallville, Football RPS and some musician RPS
• Harry Potter and Angel
• In fandoms, I tend to read Harry Potter, Kingdom Hearts, Inu-Yasha, and crossovers between Inu-Yasha/Yu Yu Hakusho. In original amateur fiction, I stick mainly with fantasy
• Harry Potter and Gundam Wing fandoms
• Highlander, Star Trek-TOS
• Harry Potter, Blake's 7, Lord of the Rings FPS and RPS, some Babylon 5, some Faculty, occasional Farscape
• Harry Potter, Andromeda, The Sentinel, Stargate, X-files, Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, Star Wars, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Queer as Folk, Gundam Wing, Highlander, Seaquest, Smallvill, X-men, RPS. Original amature fiction I read - Anything Slashy!!
• Smallville, Harry Potter, Angel/Buffy, Pirates of the Carribean
• Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Newsies
• Most often Lord of the Rings, Good Omens, Harry Potter, Firefly, Football RPS (real person slash), but anything else anybody reccommends to me. Angst, comedy, slash, adventure
• Harry Potter
  Lord of the Rings
• Lord of the Rings exclusively
• male slash
• "Labyrinth", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Sherlock Holmes"
• Harry Potter, Gundam Wing, Original Slash
• due South; Sentinel; Harry Potter; Man from UNCLE; Magnificent Seven; Battlestar Galactica; other action/adventure related as discovered
• Harry Potter, Lord of the ring, Dragonlance, Final Fantasy 8, Pirate of the Caribbean, Star Trek, Star Wars, Highlander, Stargate SG1, Smallville, Real People Slash, Anne Rice Vampire
• In no particular order: Newsies, RENT, Harry Potter, Animorphs, Boy Meets World, The Mighty Ducks, Chasing Amy, EverWorld, Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of the Rings, real people slash, and many, many more. Almost all of it is slash
• Anita Blake, Highlander, Buffy/Angel, crossovers
• Harry Potter Fanfiction
• original: mainly fantasy but also anything else that caches my eye
  fanfiction: Harry Potter and Lord of the Ring
• Buffy, Harry Potter, slash
• X-Men, Harry Potter, Cats(The Musical), Newsies
• Mostly Harry Potter, but I read temporarily in other fandoms
• Lord of the Rings fanfiction. Occasionally Horatio Hornblower, Star Trek, Star Wars.
  
  Original fiction by authors I know online, and respect. Beta in LotR fandom
• Main fandoms: Harry Potter, The Dark is Rising, Pirates of the Caribbean, Hornblower, LOTRips; plus dip into Good Omens, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, due South
• buffy the vampire slayer
  angel the series
  harry potter
  startrek voyager
  stargate
  
• Stargate SG-1, The X-Files
• Star Trek (TOS, TNG, VOY)
  Harry Potter
  Pirates of Carribean
  Discworld
  X-Files
  Sherlock Holmes
• Rammstein slash
• X-Files, Harry Potter, Highlander, Without a Trace, Sports Night, Xena/Hercules, CSI, Queer as Folk UK, minor interest in some others
• Jossverse, mostly BtVS and Angel, but some Firefly, a little Farscape and Sports Night
• 2 x Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings
• X-men, other Marvel or DC comics, Buffy/Angel, Lost, Sports Night, Due South, Hercules/Xena, Magnificent 7,
• Stargate SG1
  Buffy
  Harry Potter
  Smallville
  Andromeda
• Buffy, Angel, X-Files
• Pirates of the Carribean, Stargate SG-1, The Sentinel, Star Wars - Orginal trilogy, Gundam Wing, Alien 4, X-men, Dark Angel, Once Upon A Time in Mexico
• Harry Potter, Newsies, Peter Pan
• Newsies, Musicals, Tamora Pierce, History, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
• Newsies, X-men, Sailormoon
• Harry Potter, Newsies, Pern (Anne McCafferey)
• Harry Potter
  L.J.Smith
  Anime: Gravitation
  Anime: Beyblade
  
• Highlander, Gundam Wing, Smallville (futurefic and AU only), Stargate SG1, various Star Treks occasionally, a little X-files
• Fanfiction based on J.R.R. Tolkien's works, Star Trek, Stargate
• Harry Potter, LoTR RPS, Swimslash
• Harry Potter is my main ship, but I've read so many others that I can't list them all
• Mostly Star Wars, a bit of Harry Potter, Stargate, and other SF/Fantasy
• 3 x Harry Potter Slash
• Harry Potter, InuYasha, and Naruto
• Harry Potter and ER are the fandoms I read most. I have read others as well, but not often
• CSI, Harry Potter, Crossing Jordan
• Any type of Original but mainly romance (het or slash), drama, Action/adventure, Angst. I read too many fandoms to list them
• Harry Potter, Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne, Sailor Moon, Detective Conan, Card Captor Sakura, Smallville
• harry potter, king author, pirates of the carribean, star treck, stargate,
• Newsies, Harry Potter, Alexander, Nightrunner series, anime
• Fandoms: Pirates of the Caribbean, Fight Club, Carnivale, Harry Potter, King Arthur (filmverse)
• Buffy, Angel, Firefly, LotR, LotRPS, Smallville, West Wing, Harry Potter, Green Wing, HIGNFY, Sentinel, Star Trek (All series), Crossovers of any fandom
• Lord of the Rings. Lost
• Harry Potter, Artemis Fowl, Fake, Gravitation, and pretty much everything else that's slash
• Harry Potter, Farscape, Buffy/Angel, Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Carribean, real-person slash for selected actors
• Angel, Buffy, Charmed, CSI( all incarnations) Dead Zone, Highlander, Pretender, The Invisible Man, Star Wars (original trilogy), The Sentinel, Smallvile
• Many
• Newsies, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Harry Potter
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Harry Potter
• I read mostly anime, like Fushigi Yuugi or Inuyasha, but also some movies I like. I'll read almost anything if I've know the characters
• Busted, Newsies, Harry Potter
• Harry Potter, various anime and video game fandoms (Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, etc.), Lord of the Rings
• Ai no Kusabi, Star Wars, Harry Potter
• web comics, sailor rogue, fantastic x-men..
• Fandoms: X-Files, StarWars (TPM), Angel, Buffy tVS, Stargate, Smallville, Saiyuki, Harry Potter (provided they are future-fic).
  
  Original: general fic, some erotica
• Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel the Series, Smallville, X-Men (all), Spiderman, DC, Hellblazer, Velvet Goldmine, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Harry Potter, and some others I can't think off the top of my head.
  Original: No particular type. It depends on what people send me..
• Fandoms: Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings
  Original Amateur Fiction: Science Fiction, supernatural
• "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Once Upon A Time In Mexico", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Angel", "Smallville", "Harry Potter", "Highlander", "X-Files"
• Books(mult fandoms), Anime(mult fandoms), TV(mult fandoms), Movies(mult fandoms)
• Anything I know the canon for. (Most crime related tv shows, tons of anime, 19th C literature etc.)
  
  I don't read original works. If I want something original, I'll buy a commercial book
• Mostly "Newsies" and "Harry Potter", at the moment. I have, however, read and written stuff for "Gundam Wing" and various other anime. Once in awhile, I'll read something from other fandoms that has either been given me by a friend or one that I've just gotten into, like "RENT"
• Buffy, Harry Potter, Star Trek, Star Wars, Van Helsing, Xena/Hercules, Gundam Wing, Smallville, Lord of the Rings
• Mainly Pirates of the Caribbean and Newsies. I also read some Lois and Clark, Smallville, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings (but only if the mood strikes me), Sue Thomas: FBEye, Indiana Jones, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Remington Steele, and there are probably some others that I'm not thinking of right now
• The Sentinel, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Horatio Hornblower, Harry Potter, Gundam Wing, DragonBall, Man from U.N.C.L.E., CSI, CSI: Miami, Starsky and Hutch, Star Trek: Original, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Highlander, Quantum Leap, Hogan's Heroes, Buffy, Angel, M*A*S*H, Smallville
  
  Original Amateur Fiction: Slash
• Harry Potter. It's the only type of fanfiction I read
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, mostly slash
• Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, some anime and manga
• Smallville, DC Comics Universe, Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel, Starsky and Hutch, The Sentinel, Fight Club, Lost, Quantum Leap, Contact, Star Trek, Marvel Universe (comics), Harry Potter
• Too many to list here. Honestly. I've written in over fifty fandoms, but I read far, far more. I'd say about 90+. I am a fandom whore
• DragonBallz,
  Harry Potter,
  Yu-Gi-Oh,
  Inuyasha,
  Rurouni Kenshin,
  Lord Of The Rings,
  Shaman King
• Harry Potter Fan-fiction, Pop-Slash Fiction, Other aspiring young author original fiction
• slash, R rated usualy, i read a Slash main pairing and a side pair of het, the bad guy wins, its very depressing for the main guy, everyone betrays him, he finds himself attracted to his rival and then they got a thing going on, he sides with the dark side, him and the bad guy win, but i just think powerful, rich, dark, out for revenge, i just turned from goodie to hot sexy evil dark lord who tortures innocents, gay males are hot
• Harry Potter, Final Fantasy 7, Anime (Bleach, Hana Yori Dango, Gravitation, Card Captor Sakura, Fruits Basket, etc), Tales of Symphonia, X Files
  Original: Mostly fantasy-esque
• X-Files, Gundam Wing, Harry Potter, Popslash, Pirates of the Carribean, Firefly
• Sentinel, Crossovers, CSI, Highlander
• Buffy, Angel, Harry Potter, West Wing, some crossover, on occasion Charmed, X-men and random movies
• Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Buffy, Gundam Wing, original fiction, fan comics, original comics
• harry potter fandom
• Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, various Neil Gaiman series, Queer As Folk, fiction both original and fan-based written by my friends
• Harry Potter, LoTR, QAF, Narnia...
• Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, drama, adventure, alternate universe (au), fantasy
• HP, Lost, LFN, occasionally others
• Original: Mainly slash and other kinky adult stories. Key fics.
  Fanfiction Slash(mainly)/Het (TV/Movies): Star Trek: TNG, DS9, Voyager, TOS, Star Wars: TPM, Sentinel, X-Files, West Wing, Buffy, Angel, Smallville, Simon and Simon, Nikita, Due South, Highlander, Batman, Hercules, Xena, Lord of the Rings, Forever Knight, Harry Potter, X-Men
  Fanfiction Yaoi/Yuri (Anime): Gundam Wing, Yu Yu Hakusho, Ai no Kusabi, Hikaru no Go, Weiss Kreuz, Ranma 1/2, Petshop of Horrors, Angel Sanctuary, Sailor Moon, Dragonball
  Fanfiction Adult (Books): Harry Potter, Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton
  Fanfiction Slash (RPS)
  
  ...yes, I know I need to get a life. :P
• Harry Potter, Ranma 1/2, Gundam Wing, Hannibal, Smallville, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings
• Various Anime and Video Game series
• I read Harry Potter, Gundam Wing, Weiss Kreuz, Card Captor Sakura, Tokyo Underground, Lord of the Rings, Final Fantasy (all games), Kingdom Hearts, Shaman King, .Hack (all games/manga/series), The Tribe, Zoids, Sailor Moon, Digimon, Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Hellsing, Vampire Hunter D, Devil May Cry and anything containing either slash/yaoi/shonen-ai or femslash/yuri/shojo-ai. With a little het smutt on the side
• Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Harry Potter, anything else that might take my fancy
• Harry Potter, Smallville
• Harry Potter, various manga/anime, LOTR, Due South
• Yami no Matsuei
  Harry Potter
  Sailor Moon
  X 1999
  Tokyo Babylon
  Gundam Wing
  Saint Seiya
  Any good original story I find - most often slash
• My first and foremost love is Highlander fandom, but I do read occasionally read Star Trek (the original series), and X-files
• I usually read in the Harry Potter fandom, slash and het both. I usually read slash original fiction
• HARRY POTTER AND ORIGINAL FIC
• 5 x harry potter
• Harry Potter, Digimon, Gundam Wing, Inuyasha, Gargoyles, Petshop of Horrors, Yugioh, Ranma 1/2, Fruits Basket
• I am an active reader in the Pirates of the Caribbean fandom
• Harry Potter, Gilmore Girls (TV), X-Men (Movies), Tamora Peirce's universe of Tortall (Author of published books),
• i read slash and het. from the cartouche(Stargate SG1) fanfiction.net(Harry Potter and Stargate SG1) Buffy the vampire slayer fiction mostly slash
• Generally Harry Potter slash, although I don't have an aversion to het. Also some LotR FPS and RPS
• Harry Potter
  Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  
• Don't read original.
  Eroica, Garrison's Gorillas, x-files, Harry Potter, Pirates of the CAribbean, Lord of the Rings, Master & commander, Smallville, Buffy, Wild Wild West, Wiseguy, Quantum Leap and a multitude of others
• Harry Potter (mostly harry/draco pairing)
• Currently, I'm active in A&E movie series "Hornblower," and I prefer slash, specifically Horatio/Archie. Since that's what I'm active in (meaning writing in), that's what I prefer to read
• Master and Commander, Harry Potter, Amelia Peabody, Lord of the Rings, Naria, Buffy, CSI
• The A-Team, Battlestar Galactica, Battle of the Planets, Gatchaman, Gundam Wing, X-Files, MacGyver
• Buffy/Angel, Harry Potter, Forever Knight, Andromeda, Highlander (currently in a Horsemen-only phase), some 'older' anime every now and then (slayers, weiss kreuz, fushigi yuugi, video game)
• Star Trek, Stargate, Sherlock Holmes, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Gundam Wing, X--Files, Lord of the Rings
• I will read GEN fic in all of the fandom that I like. I read only GEN in Lord of the Rings, and Kung Fu: The Ledgend Continues.
  I read SLASH (in addition to GEN) in the following: Gundam Wing, Yu Yu Hakusho, Highlander, Smallville, Dogma, Pirates of the Carribbean, Star Trek TOS, Star Trek TNG, Stargate SG-1, The Matrix, The Vampire Chronicels, Xena and Hercules (but only about the gods), and X-Men.
  I read HET (in addition to GEN) in the X-Files fandom. I do not read X-Files slash.
  
  However, many fandoms tend to swing wildly out of character in fanfiction. For example, Lord of the Rings and Gundam Wing. I DO NOT read anything that strays too far out of character, so when fandoms start to 'age' and get filled up with people who don't know much about the characters (often they only know about the characters from fanfiction, having seen very little, if anything, of the actual shows) I tend to drift away rather than search through piles of crappy, OOC fic to find one good one
• Fandoms: CSI, Lotr RPS, The O.C. Homicide, X-Files, The Sentinel, Highlander, Sports Night, West Wing
• Mostly Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, but various others
• A-Team, Battlestar Galactica (original series only)
• Lord of the Rings, Queer as Folk, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Harry Potter, Babylon Five, Xena: The worrior princes. Some different original slash. (I do read Het, but I prefer slash)
• I read fanfiction in the Harry Potter fandom
• Highlander, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, The Magnificent Seven, Stargate, Star Trek
• slash non-con
• Harry Potter
  Biker Mice from Mars
  Stargate SG-1
  The Mummy
  Evil Dead
  Swat Kats
  G.I. Joe
  Buffy The Vampire Slayer
  Farscape
• Highlander...Stargate...Sentinal...Harry Potter
  Also some RPS {real person slash}...pop groups...actors
• Queer as Folk
  Lord of the Rings
  Silverchair
  Placebo
  Bright Eyes
• Lord of the Rings, (Elves and Men) and Harry Potter (Snape)
• Star Wars, Suikoden, Buffy, Dynasty Warriors, Xmen, Harry Potter
• Smallville, Harry Potter, Angel, Highlander, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Queer as Folk, The Sentinel, Stargate SG-1
• Several book fandoms, such as Harry Potter and Sherlock Holmes. Numerous television programme fandoms, mainly American series. I dip in and out of film fan fiction if the film caught my attention. Original fiction - mainly adventure, drama, and homosexual romance fiction
• anything that seems appealing, even if I have never heard of it before seeing the fic
• Well, i'll read any fan fiction if I have knowledge of the show, movie, book, ect. it's about. I don't really read original stuff online
• Harry Potter, Pirates of the Carribbean,
• Troy, Pirates of the Carribean, Black Hawk Down, Boondock Saints, Brokeback Mountain, Formula One, LotR
• Sherlock Holmes, Aubrey/Maturin, a very little Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, etc. Slash, femslash, het, all fine
• slash, movie fandoms
• harry potter...mainly slash
• Harry Potter, Final Fantasy, and a lot of anime, including Digimon, Cardcaptor Sakura, and Weiss Kruez
• Harry Potter (especially Marauder-era), Master & Commander
• Magnificent Seven, Stargate Sg-1, CSI, Hornblower, X-files, Highlander
• Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, occasional Star Wars, Quantum Leap, Quincy, M*A*S*H, some original character fiction. I will *only* read Star Wars fanfic if it's posted on one of the fiction groups I frequent, not interested in the fandom otherwise
• Primarily: NCIS, CSI (original and Miami), Stargate SG-1
  but also: Due South, X-Files, Harry Potter, Gundam Wing
  anything else that recommended or that sounds interesting
• Harry Potter, Pirates of the Carribean, X-men, Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel, Good Omens, Troy
• Harry Potter, Gundam Wing, Smallville, and the occasional fanfiction from other animes such as Naruto, Prince of Tennis, and Fullmetal Alchemist
• All Str Trek, All power rangers, Mutant X, All Law and order, Dukes of Hazzard
• Buffy the vampire slayer
  Angel, the series
  SG1
  Sentinal
  New profesionals
  Harry Potter
  YuGiOh
  (Depends on my mood, I'll try anything once.)
• I read in the Harry Potter fandom, as well as Lord of the Rings, School of Rock, and Starsky and Hutch. Sometimes I just go for whatever fandom I'm in the mood for
• I read in the universes of Lawrence of Arabia, Sherlock Holmes, Lord Peter Wimsey, war poets (Sassoon, Graves, Owen, etc), the classical/Hellenistic era, and Harry Potter
• Harry Potter, Star Wars, occasionally Lord of the Rings, Diana Wynne Jones, and Queer as Folk
• Highlander
  Queen of Swords
  Sentinel
  Stargate
  Quantum Leap
• Stargate
  The Sentinel
  Hercules:TLJ
  A-Team
  Battlestar Galactica
  Star Trek DS9
  Alias Smith and Jones
  Star Wars
  Emergency
  RPS of one music group that is "OK" with it
• Harry Potter, LotR, DBZ
• Harry Potter Fanfiction, mainly Harry/Draco Slash.
  Some Buffy
• Harry Potter, various anime and manga including, but not limited to, DNAngel, Megami Kouhosei, Trigun, Inuyasha, video games such as Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasies 7, 8, and 10, and original fiction in the fantasy, sci-fi, romance and/or if the mood strikes me
• i read yaoi and shounen ai. comedy and angst. i read naruto, harry potter, and many other ones that i can't remeber
• Horatio Hornblower, Farscape, Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Master and Commander, Sherlock Holmes, Smallville, The West Wing, Sports Night, Star Trek (all of them), X-Files, X-Men, CSI, Everwood
• Harry Potter, Stargate SG-1
• Harry Potter; Buffy/Angel; Anita Blake; Merry Gentry
• Harry Potter, almost exclusively
• The lord Of rings ,Potc ,Harry Potter, The Fast And The furious and (hbo's Oz)
• Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel: The Series, Harry Potter, Roswell, Dawson's Creek, Daria
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel, Firefly, Stargate SG-1, Pirates of the Caribbean, various rare fandoms
• ST:TOS, ST:TNG, ST:DS9, ST:Voy, SG1, SG: Atlantis, The OC, Harry Potter, Horatio Hornblower, Highlander, Brimstone, BtVS, Witchblade, Popslash, etc. Basically I'll read anything
• Master and Commander, Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis
• Buffy, Angel, wwe
• Mostly original fiction
  some harry potter fanfiction
• Highlander, Smallville, Sentinal, Due South, Stargate SG1, Stargate Atlantis, Harry Potter, The Fast and the Furious, Master and Commander, X-files, Without a Trace, Magnificent 7, The Professionals, Star Trek original series, Star Wars - first trilogy, Battlestar Galactica, Angel, Andromeda, Invisible Man, Lord of the Rings, Lord of The Rings Real Person Slash, Popslash(NSYNC and Eminem), Xmen, Sports Night, West Wing, OZ, Once A Thief,
• Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Master & Commander, Buffy, Enterprise, Voyager
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel the Series, Harry Potter, Roswell, Sailor Moon, Smallville, X-Men, Crossover, some misc others like X-files, Star Trek, Xena, Stargate SG-1, Highlander
• Rammstein RPS, F1 RPS, Die Aerzte RPS, Van Helsing FPF/S
• Harry Potter, Gilmore Girls, The O.C, Alias, Charmed, 7th Heaven
• Star Trek, Stargate SG1, Battlestar Galactica, The Sentinel
• Harry Potter, Buffy, Crossovers, Battlestar Galactica (2004), Blakes 7, Batman/DC, Yami No Matsuei, Saiyuki, Fruits Basket, various other shonen ai/yaoi fandoms
  Original stuff: I like fantasy, cyberpunk - but I'm a bit pickier because I'm not as confident of the quality of the fiction - most fandom stuff has beta-reading in practice. I particularly like Webcomics like boy meets boy and schism
• X-Force, X-Men, LXG, Resident Evil, Silent Hill
• I mostly read original fiction
• Master and Commander, Horatio Hornblower, Lord of the Rings, Legend of Basara (v. small 'fandom'), Neverending Story, Gladiator, Pirates of the Caribbean, Slayers, M*A*S*H, Reign: The Conqueror
• Original, Pirates of the Caribbean, FAKE, Gravitation, Harry Potter, Smallville, Vampire Chronicles, X-Men, Batman, Stargate SG1, The Sentinel, The Shell House, Lord of the Rings, Velvet Goldmine, Jake 2.0, Vampire Game, Eerie Queerie, Big Wolf on Campus, Ghost Ship, Dead Like Me, Dude, Where's My Car?, Star Wars, Star Trek, Master and Commander, The Mummy, The League of Extordinary Gentlemen, The Lost Boys, Vampire, Paranormal, Romance, Best-Friends-That-Become-More, Beastiality
• Fandoms: currently Harry Potter, Silmarillion and Lord of the Rings, various rare book-based fandoms, various anime-based fandoms especially X, Heroic Legend of Arslan, but also some others.
  
  Original amateur fiction: preferably with m/m relationships as one of the themes, mostly fantasy
• usually yaoi--anime based fanfiction
• X-Men comics, X-Men movies, Harry Potter, Firefly, Buffy, Angel, other comics
• Harry Potter, Daria, Misc. Original
• Star Wars (mostly Phantom Menace/Sith Academy), Stargate, Harry Potter (adult characters only, Snape-centric in reading habits but also troll for Lupin fic)
• comicbooks (DC, Marvel, other)
• Star Wars - all, Star Trek, mostly Voyager and Enterprise, Harry Potter, esp. MWPP era, Pirates of the Carribean, Buffy and Angel, X-Files, and several others
• Lord of The Rings
  Master and Commander
  Star Wars
  Troy
  Sharpe
  Fake
  Alexander
  Sky Captain
  
  I prefer slash NC17 or R, though I will read het. Some people's idea of NC-17 or R slash is very tame
• I read Lord of the Rings for 2 years, but now I'm in Pirates of the Caribbean and Real Person Slash
• not much any more. With few exceptions I've lost interest unless it'd by an exceptional writer...and yes, there are a few out there
• Queer as Folk, Jag, Stargate, Andromeda, Piaites of the Carriabean, CSI and more
• man... a lot of fanfic (mainly slash but not always) and no original fic... if I've ever read/seen canon, I've probably read a fanfic or 2 for it... (though I almost always avoid fics for series where I don't know the canon) so:
  
  Harry Potter, Batman, Spiderman, comics in general, Smallville, Everwood, Fullmetal Alchemist, Yami no Matsuei, Prince of Tennis, Slam Dunk, Star Trek, Star Wars, Petshop of Horrors, X-Files, Ranma 1/2, Kizuna, Gundam Wing, Georgette Heyer, Xena, Due South, Utena, Farscape, Buffy, Lost Boys... and I've read a few popslash fics that featured Eminem, though I usually don't care for RPS
• many music pairings but non-boyband, i.e. the libertines, the strokes, blur, franz ferdinand
• DC and Marvel, anything that catches my eye
• Harry Potter, Chalet School
• Friends, M*A*S*H*, Buffy and Angel
• I read in "The Sentinel" fandom and, in the past, read Star Trek: Voyager. I also am reading the original ficiton series "In the Blood", which is available through Lionheart Distribution www.lionheartdistribution.com . An excellent action/adventure series
• Action; scifi
• Mostly Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Professionals, Highlander, sometimes Smallville, Sentinel, Stargate SG-1, X-Files, OaT, Alias Smith & Jones, JPIII, V, Miami Vice, Star Wars (original movies), A-Team, Due South, PotC, Quantum Leap, Master & Commander, Tour of Duty, War of the Worlds, Wiseguy and problably some I've missed
• Saiyuki just now, so you can guess mainly slash. Doujinshi and Doctor Who
• Highlander
  StarGate
  Star Wars
  Sentinel
  Professionals
  CSI
  Pirates of the Carribean
• Stargate: Atlantis, Higlander, Andromeda, Due South, Farscape
• Harry Potter, Stargate SG-1, Good Omens
• Harry Potter, Xena, Mash, Stargate, Startrek, Monk and other but can't think of them right now
• Mostly slash and femmeslash. Harry Potter, Fushigi Yuugi, Weiss Kreuz, other anime fandoms
• Stargate, Sentinel, Magnificent Seven, Gundam Wing...Occasionally Andromeda, Highlander, Star Wars (original movies), Kung Fu, the Legend Continues...others, if the author is someone I like
• Stargate: SG1, Lord of the Rings, That 70s Show
• Harry Potter, Anita Blake, vampires, shapeshifters, high fantasy
• Highlander, Stargate Sg1, Stargate Atlantis, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes, Pirates of the Caribbean, ..
• The Invisible Man, The Sentinel and Stargate SG1
• I read a large number of fandoms mostly related to TV shows/movies
• Highlander, The Sentinel, Stargate SG-1, Enterprise, other fandoms occasionally (Farscape, MASH, X-Men, Master& Commander and various others) if the story is by someone I know
• Magnifcent Seven, Sentinel, Stargate, Stargate Atlantis, Without A Trace, West Wing, Hardcastle & MacCormick, Andromeda, Buffy/Angel, Star Wars, Due South, Equalizer, Lord of the Rings, Firefly, Pirates of the Carribean, Man from UNCLE, Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, Smallville, Simon & Simon, Star Trek (Deep Space Nine & Voyager), The O.C., Kung Fu The Legend Continues, NCIS, Homicide, Nero Wolfe, Houston Knights, Farscape
• LotR, Harry Potter, Star Trek (K/S), Star Wars (Han/Luke + Obi/Qui), Smallville, Batman, Blake 7, Sherlock Holmes, Horatio Hornblower, DS9, Man from Uncle, Ghostbusters, CSI, Wiseguy, A-Team, Professionals, SG-1, Quantum Leap, Black Hawk Down, Composer Slash, A KnightŽs Tale, Buffy, Hercules, X-Files, Due South, Highlander, Kung Fu:TLC, Forrever Knight, Anne RiceŽs Vampires, Phantom of the Opera, X-Men, Miami Vice, Riptide, B5, Sharpe, Sentinel...and some more. Been in Fandom since the early 80s
• Current fandoms: Due South, Battle of the Planets, Gatchaman, Stargate SG-1, Angel
• Harry Potter
  Stargate SG1
  CSI
  Alias
  Lord of the Rings
  Buffy/Angel
  Anita Blake
• X-Files, Miami Vice, Highlander, Harry Potter, Due South, The Sentinel, Stargate SG-1, Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, Master and Commander, Fast and Furious and quite few others
• Harry Potter, sometimes Anita Blake
• I've been reading for more than three decades, so the entire list would be impossible to list, frankly! (I was there when we came up with the term 'slash' to indicate m/m sex and m/m relationships, as in K/S.) Currently my *favorite* fandoms include: Alexander the Great, King Arthur, Troy, LOTR, RP(S mostly), Harry Potter, various Law & Order. In the past I've read *tons* of Boyband/Pop (RP) fics, Star Trek, Star Wars, The Wild, Wild West, Starsky and Hutch, Wizards and Warriors, Profiler, MUNCLE, Magnum P.I. and on and on and on. (Lots of random stuff.) I don't generally read 'original' (non-fandom) fic online. For that I'll read a published book..
• Stargate SG-1, Babylon 5
• I read Harry Potter fic. And some fantasy/sci-fi original fiction
• Mostly manga/anime series (such as romantic shoujo, stories with historical themes), fantasy-type fiction (Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter), some other interesting movies/books (Pirates of the Caribbean - my interest in these fandoms tends to last a shorter time than with book/manga-based ones)
• Currently only "The Sentinel"
  Past: "Star Trek" and "Forever Knight"
• Harry Potter, Wind on Fire (tiny fandom :sigh:), occasionally Star Trek
• Highlander, The Sentinel, Queer As Folk UK, Oz, Harry Potter, Smallville
• A-Team, M.A.S.H., Hawaii - Five 0, Starsky & Hutch, The Pretender,
• trigun, harry potter, naruto, gravitation, good omens, original yaoi
• Harry Potter, Inuyasha, Gargoyles, X-Files
• Stargate SG-1, The Sentinel, Starksky and Hutch, Diagnosis Murder
• I read Harry Potter and Real People Slash (RPS) with Linkin Park, Hoobastank, and occasionally NSync
• I read almost exclusively Highlander Duncan/Methos
• The Sentinel,
  The Lord of the Rings
  Stargate
  Real Person Slash - LOTR actors
• Harry Potter, MASH, Sherlock Holmes
• Band slash
• Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, The Sentinel, Stargate, Queer as Folk, Star Wars
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Slash - Star Wars TPM, Stargate SG1, Due South, Highlander, X-Files, and Andromeda
• Buffy, Harry Potter, Star Trek TOS, X-Files, Sentinel, Highlander, some lycanthropy or vampire original fiction (mostly slash), some original science fiction/fantasy (slash only), Due South, Star Wars, M*A*S*H, some gay erotic original fiction
• star trek voyager, law and order SVU
• SW, HP, JL, Thunderbirds
• Stargate SG1, Stargate Atlantis, Angel, House MD, Firefly
• Smallville, the Sentinel, CSI, Fullmetal Alchemist, Ranma 1/2, FAKE, Rurouni Kenshin, Peacemaker Kurogane, Stargate, Star Wars, Earth the Final Conflict, X/1999, Tokyo Babylon, Weiss Kreuz, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dragonball Z, Yami no Matsuei, Hikaru no Go, Due South, Inu-yasha, Naruto, Gundam Wing, Nightwalker, Harry Potter, the Magnificent Seven, Kindred the Embraced, Andromeda, Saiyuki, Vampire Chronicles, Ai no Kusabi, Gundam Wing, Batman, DC Universe, Marvel Universe (X-Men), X-Files, Highlander, Fast and the Furious, Forever Knight, Lord of the Rings, original yaoi/slash
• Lord of the Rings: real-person and canon
  Troy: real-person and canon
  Pirates of the Caribbean: real-person and canon
  Harry Potter: real-person and canon
  Master and Commander: canon
  Boondock Saints: real-person and canon
  Lost: real-person and canon
  King Arthur: real-person and canon
• I read fan fiction in the Harry Potter fandom
• Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, X-men, El Mariachi/Desperado/Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Pro Wrestling, ocassional stories in random fandoms
• Mostly Stargate SG-1 and mostly slash. A little bit of Sentinel, X-Files, and CSI
• Harry Potter, Master & Commander, LOTRips (fiction about the *actors* of the Lord of the Rings movies)
• Smallville
  Hercules:the Legendary Journeys (just for Ares & Iphicles characters)
  Xena: Warrior Princess (just for Ares character)
  Harry Potter (for Sirius Black/Remus Lupin & sometimes Snape)
  Buffy
  Angel
  X Files
  Eric Bana/Orlando Bloom (& their characters)
  Blackhawk Down
  Troy
  ER
  Third Watch
  The OC
  Lord of the Rings
• mainly Harry Potter, some Buffy the Vampire Slayer, some Highlander, very rarely a piece of fanfic about a movie/show/book I know and come across by accident (Hellsing, X-Men, Gladiator, Star Wars, Star Trek...). No original fiction unless I know and admire the author
• Just about all, but I also read on-line manga. I have far too many fandoms, mostly centered around things like Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, Starsky and Hutch...there's no real limit
• Sentinel, Stargate SG-1
• HArry Potter, Star Trek (all), MASH, Gundam Wing, Naruto, Inuyasha, Yu Yu Hakusho, Digimon, Sailor Moon, Hikaru no Go, Shaman King, Lord of the Rings, Sports Night, various others
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Highlander, Brimstone, Dogma, Good Omens, and other books, various DC comics, Smallville, Jonathan Creek (and others, rarer)
  
  
• Mainly videogame RPGs - Final Fantasy, etc
• BuffyAngel; The Professionals, The Man from UNCLE; Red Dwarf; Starsky and Hutch; Wild Wild West; Taggart; Midsomer Murders; Blackadder; Pirates of the Carribean; Diagnosis Murder; Sherlock Holmes; Sleepy Hollow; Knightrider; Quantum Leap; Inspector Morse; Captain Scarlet; Les Miserables; X Men; Star Trek (Original, TNG and DS9); A Team; Avengers; LA Confidential; James Bond; Batman; Buck Rodgers; Dalziel & Pascoe; HerculesXena; Jeeves & Wooster; Randall & Hopkirk Deceased, PLus a few more oddments
• Science Fiction/Fantasy including:
  Xmen (comics, cartoon & movies),
  Anime (several type such as Gundum Wing)
  TV shows (SG1, Stargate:Atlantis, Star Trek Voyager, Star Trek: DS9, Roswell, The Sentinel, Highlander, Earth Final Conflict ect.)
• Harry Potter, M*A*S*H
• Harry Potter, Fruits Basket, Yami no Matsuei, original, other animes
• Star Wars - The Original Trilogy
  Yu Yu Hakusho
  Card Captor Sakura
  Harry Potter
  (I've read fics from many other fandoms too, but only the four above I can consider a habit.)
• Harry Potter (mostly; only slash and only certain pairings), Todd & Karl stories (Coronation Street), have also read a few Oz slash stories & LOTR stories. If I had the time, I might read more & other fandoms as well
• fandoms: harry potter, the sentinel, due south; don't read any original amateur fiction that isn't fandom related
• Anime fandoms, Film fandoms, few literary
• Read Currently, Often: The Sentinel; Stargate: SG:1; Law & Order: SVU.
  Used to Read: M*A*S*H; X-Men (Movieverse); ER; Providence; In a Heartbeat; Emergency!; The Baby-Sitters Club (books).
  Read Occasionally: Lord of the Rings (movieverse); Pirates of the Carribean; Queer as Folk; OZ; Sports Night; others
• Robin of Sherwood (Robin Hood), Harry Potter, The Sentinal, Beastmaster, continuations of canceled series, whatever looks good
• Mostly The Sentinel and Stargate SG-1
  In the Sentinel Univers I read both gen and slash. For Stargate just gen
• Harry Potter, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Star Wars, Queer as Folk UK, Red Dwarf, Starsky and Hutch, Jay and Silent Bob (and all films owned by Kevin Smith), Lord of the Rings, Horatio Hornblower, Velvet Goldmine, Back to the Future, The Sentinel, Jeeves and Wooster, Beautiful Thing, Enterprise, Angel, Buffy:The Vampire Slayer, Galaxy Quest, A Knights Tale, other various fandoms
• Harry Potter
  Lord of the Rings
  West Wing
• Harry Potter
  Chobits
  Fruits Basket
  Various
• Current, I read only Buffy the Vampire Slayer fanfic, although I have also read The Sentinel, and Star Trek
• CSI, Stargate SG-1, Gundam Wing, The O.C., X-Men (Comic and movie-verse), Andromeda, Queer as Folk, The Sentinel, Lord of the Rings
• Harry Potter, Master and Commander, Star Wars
  
  Anime including but not limited to: Saiyuki, Descendants of Darkness, Prince of Tennis, Hellsing, Gravitation
• I generally like to read slash fanfiction, but I am not limited to it. Some of my favorite fandoms are: Harry Potter, Prince of Tennis, Peter Pan, and various current movies such as Alexander. Crossovers tend to fascinate me because I enjoy watching characters from different relams/worlds/universes interact as they meet each other
• CSI, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Lost, Lord of the Rings
• Fandoms: M*A*S*H, Queer as Folk (US), Harry Potter, The Bill, Law and Order, any TV show that strikes my fancy.
  Original: angsty and humour
• Mainly television and/or movie fandom fanfictions
• Harry Potter, original slash fantasy
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Stargate SG-1, Discworld, some Harry Potter
• Highlander, gen and slash (R/M *only* - will *not* read D/M)
  The Sentinel, gen and slash (haven't found a pairing I don't like)
  Stargate SG1, gen and slash (prefer J/D, but will read other pairings as long as Sam is left out of the mix!!!)
• CSI: Crime Scene Incvestigation
  Teen Titans
  Justice League
  Static Shock
  Power Rangers Ninja Storm
  The Forsaken
  The Day After Tomorrow
  Eric Szmanda/George Eads RPS
• Original general fiction
  Original erotic fiction
  Xena fanfiction
  Sometimes other fandoms
• Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, Ultraviolet, Babysitters Club, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Enterprise, CSI (Las Vegas), The West Wing, X-Men (movies), Master and Commander, Minority Report
• ER, Lord of the rings, Harry Potter
• fanfiction - dark angel, stargate, sentinel, harry potter, X-men, NCIS, Magnificent 7, Smallville
  
  original - science fiction/fantasy
• Sentinel, Starsky and Hutch
• Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, The Sentinel, Due South, Pirates of the Caribbean, Andromeda, Hornblower, The Professionals, various minor ones...anything that takes my fancy if a pairing sparks interest or recced by someone I admire - or a new fandom if it's by an author I admire
• A little bit of every thing. The Sentinel, QAF, Xena, and other's
• The Sentinel, Stargate, X-men, NCIS, The Invisible Man
• Highlander, X-Files, Stargate, The Sentinel, Magnificent 7, Star Trek: Voyager, Discipline Partnership, West Wing
• Pirates of the Caribbean, Master and Commander, Lord of the Rings, Troy, Harry Potter
• Yuu Yuu Hakusho, Gundam Wing, The Sentinel, The Professionals, Star Wars (Ep 1), Lord of the Rings
• dueSouth; Magnificent 7; The Sentinel; Man from UNCLE; Highlander the Series; The Fast and the Furious; Stargate SG-1;
• Harry Potter, Jane Austen, occasionally readings by local artists
• I read in Harry Potter
• HArry Potter; I started with Trek and B7 but don't read in those fandoms any longer
• 2 x The Sentinel
• queer as folk the sentinel
• The Sentinel, The X-Files, Starsky & Hutch, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Miami Vice, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, Stargate SG-1
• Smallville
  Sentinel
  Stargate
• Harry Potter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and crossovers with those two fandoms
• Harry Potter, Gundam Wing, original slash
• Harry Potter, Discworld, I would read Austenfic if I found good ones
• Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter are my most common fandoms
• Tolkien, Harry Potter, Patrick O'Brian, Lucy Maud Montgomery
• Harry Potter universe,
  Ultima (Final Fantasy et al) universe
• Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Pirates of the Caribbean, King Arthur, Black Hawk Down, CSI, Smallville
• Harry Potter, Buffy
• Harry Potter, Newsies, Star Wars, Baby Sitters Club, Redwall, Original
• Forever Knight, Highlander (series only), Star Trek (original series only), The Sentinel, Stargate & Stargate: SG-1 (both movie and series)
• Mostly Inu-Yasha right now, but it seems to have changed as I've gotten older
• sentinel, pros, starsky & hutch, fake (anime), kizuna (anime)
• Harry Potter, The Dark is Rising
• Primarily X-men slash
• Anime fandoms, Harry Potter
• Wrestling, The West Wing, CSI, Dawson's Creek, Law & Order
• Harry Potter, Good Omens, Starsky and Hutch, Star Trek (Original and TNG), James Bond, Lord of the Rings, Jurassic Park (Usually III), Road to El Dorado, Yami no Matsuei, Gravitation, Cowboy Bebop, PG Wodehouse's Jeeves and Bertie, Weiss Kruez
• Harry Potter fan fiction
• Harry Potter, X-Men, Ghostwriter, Digimon, DBZ, Elizabeth Peters
• Stargate, The Sentinel, Babylon 5, Man From UNCLE, and various stories in other fandoms written by authors I like. (For instance, I've read a bunch of "Starsky and Hutch" things after finding a fave "Sentinel" author wrote it; I got into Sentinel fandom because a fave B-5 author wrote Sentinel stuff too -- had never watched the show before reading her stories...)
• Harry Potter, LotR RPS
• Harry Potter, sometimes (almost never)Tthe Lord of the Rings
• Earth's Children (Jean Auel), Harry Potter (JK Rowling)
• Harry Potter, X-Files, CSI, Friends, X-Men
• Harry Potter, but only stories based on the adult characters, especially Remus & Sirius
• Harry Potter, occasionally His Dark Materials or Phantom of the Opera
• Mostly Lord of the Rings Real Person Slash
  
  Some Buffy-fic
• Harry Potter
  Sherlock Holmes
  
• The Sentinel TV series, K/S, H:TLJ
• Due South, Smallville, Highlander, Angel, BtVS, Firefly, The Sentinel, Oz, Stargate: Atlantis
• HARRY POTTER
  GATCHAMAN (JAPANESE ANIME)/BATTLE OF THE PLANETS
  JANE AUSTEN
• 2 x Harry Potter fandom
• Stargate SG1, The Sentinel, Man From Uncle, Highlander, Harry Potter, Due South, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Star Trek (The Original Series) and The Sentinel
• Primarily: Star Trek, all series. Highlander. Battlestar Galactica. The Sentinel. Smallville. Stargate SG-1. Harry Potter. The X-Files. Batman. However, I will read just about anything if I'm bored enough. I rarely read het and I rarely read femmeslash
• Harry Potter, Fantasy fiction
• The Sentinel, X-files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Sentinel, Stargate SG1, X-Men, Harry Potter, Invisible Man, X-Files, Hercules/Xena, Van Helsing, Pirates of the Carribean
• Blake's 7, Star Trek (TOS), SG1 (set in early seasons only), The Professionals, NCIS, Bonanza, Laramie, High Chaparral
• Read very seldom. The few bits I have read have been in the Harry Potter and Buffy realms
• West Wing, Stargate SG1, The Sentinel, Magnificent Seven - sometimes Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Dawson's Creek
• Harry Potter, mostly. Some Star Wars. Various TV fandoms when Potter-fandom friends involved in those fanda post their stories in their journals
• Harry Potter, Babylon 5, Stargate
• star trek,sentinel,s&H,law & ORDER,highlander
• Harry Potter
  L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)
• Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings RPS, Harry Potter RPS
• Star Trek, all flavors; Babylon 5 and B5: Crusade, although I've had a hard time finding any live groups/sites; Buffy the Vampire Slayer (my focus is Giles and Ethan, and Buffy's emotional, psychological, and sexual relationship with them), and most recently, "The Lord of the Rings" (blame this on an adorable demented lady who has a 'thing' for kinky wizards)--does Christopher Lee know what people are writing about Saruman?!
• Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, drama, humor, fantasy, Ella Enchanted, Lost, Degrassi, Star Wars
• Rurouni Kenshin, Detective Conan, Inuyasha, Ranma 1/2, Harry Potter, X-Files, romances, action adventures, mystery, dramas
• Harry Potter, Friends, His Dark Materials
• Stargate
  The Sentinel
  Special Victims Unit
• Harry Potter by JK Rowling, Young Wizards by Diane Duane, Bruno and Boots by Gordon Korman, minor/rare fandoms if I see them on my lists or while browsing, NCIS (rarely), Discworld by Terry Pratchett, some authors' original poetry or prose if I have already read their work in a fandom and liked it, occasionally original RPGs like the New York Journal RPG at http://www.livejournal.com/community/ny_journal
• Harry Potter, Les Miserables, Lord of the Rings, anything that sounds good
• Pirates of the Carribean
  Lord of the Rings
  RPS
  Master and Commander
• Highlander, Lord of the Rings, CSI, Invader Zim, Hellboy, Van Helsing, Miscellaneous Anime, Miscellaneous Movies, Anita Blake: Vampire Executioner, anything except Buffy and Angel
• Artemis Fowl, Good Omens, Harry Potter, Spooks, Edward Scissorhands, Cowboy Bebop, Paradise Kiss, Gravitation, Arjuna, Anne of Green Gables, Naruto.
  
  I also read the original fiction of my net-friends,
• LOTR, Harry Potter, Historical slash, some Star Trek (TOS and Enterprise)
• Harry Potter, Roswell, Dark Angel, Buffy, JAG
• K/S (That's kirk and Spock from star Trek) slash fiction, and occassionally star trek gen fiction but only if the focus is the friendship between Kirk and Spock
• Harry Potter only
• Sentinel, X Files, Stargate SG1
• Anything Harry Potter, Anything by Janet Evanovich
• K/S, DUE SOUTH // first two seasons. UNCLE I/N
• Harry Potter, Buffy/Angel, Discworld
• Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy is my favorite but I read a few random Manga fanfiction
• Sentinal, Stargate, Due South, anime
• Harry Potter, Star Trek, Inu Yasha, Lord of the Rings
• I read mostly from The Sentinel fandom, have dabbled in Stargate, Star Trek, Sue Thomas FBEye
• Harry Potter, Dark Angel, Original fanficton at fictionpress.com (romance/fantasy/historical/humor)
• Fanfiction: Harry Potter, Stephen King, Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy, occasional Lovecraft.
  Fiction: Most types except heavy, graphic romance, or poorly written sexual assult, especially on minors
• Select Harry Potter, select InuYasha, occaisional His Dark Materials, occaisional Old Kingdom, occasional Pet Shop of Horrors, and miscellany
• Blake's 7, Harry Potter, The Dark is Rising
• Everwood, Gilmore Girls, One Tree Hill, Harry Potter, Moulin Rouge, Star Wars, The O.C., Queer as Folk (UK and US), Y Tu Mama Tambien, RPS of all fandoms, Dead Poets Society
• Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Dark is Rising, Digimon, Final Fantasy VII, Hikaru no Go
• Harry Potter
  Lord Of The Rings
  L.J Smith
• Roswell, Buffy, Angel, HP, Charmed
• Buffy mainly, Harry Potter, Angel, possibly will get into Joan of Arcadia, Everwood, Firefly in the future
• Harry Potter
  Star Trek (all series)
• I have only read in the Harry Potter fandom. I have read some crossovers involving Buffy the Vampire Slayer mixed with Harry Potter, but didn't find these very successful
• Harry Potter fan fiction. Sometimes fan fiction from other fandoms
• Witchblade
  Diagnosis Murder
  Star Trek--all versions
  Harry Potter
  LEXX
• sugarquill.net
  phoenixsong.net
  checkmated.com
• 2 x HP
• Harry Potter fandom only
• Harry Potter, some Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Fandoms: Harry Potter, Jane Austen
• Harry Potter fanfiction, specifically at SugarQuill.net
• Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings
• Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Farscape, Black Books
• Mostly Harry Potter, some Lord of the Rings, Queer as Folk, His Dark Materials, Pirates of the Carribean, a very small amount of Pride and Prejudice, Lord of the Flies, Lost, maybe a few others I'm blanking on right now
• Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Historical, King Arthur, Original, Real Person Slash, X-Men
• Mainly Degrassi right now, especially slash, also X-Files, Buffy, Oz, Trixie Belden, Six Feet Under, Harry Potter. These are the main ones, but I've read other kinds as well
• Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction
• Mostly Harry Potter, started out in Ella Enchanted, will read Lord of the Rings one-shots if they sound interesting
• Harry Potter, Will and Grace, Jimmy Neutron, X-Men, Scooby Doo, His Dark Materials, Jane Austen, Lord of the Rings
• right now mostly stories dealing with television series and or characters
• Original Star Trek, The Professionals, Man From Uncle, The Sentinel, The Magnificent Seven (TV), X-Files, Lord of the Rings
• Primarily Slash: Sentinel, Professionals, XF, SW-TPM, HL, BSG, S&H, Smallville
• The Sentinel including Crossover Stories
  Stargate SG1
  Kung Fu The Legend Continues
  McGyver
  
• Stargate SG1, Sentinel, Harry Potter = main fandoms
  too many to mention - where I read the odd story
• Harry Potter, Star Trek (occsaionally) and Tolkien (*very* occasionally)
• Magnificent 7, The Sentinel, Star Gate: SG1, Hercules and Xena, Highlander, Starsky and Hutch, Houston Knights, Pirates of the Caribbean, Vampire Chronicles, Man From Uncle, The Professionals, with occassional forays into other fandoms
• Hornblower,The Professionals,King Arthur,Starsky and Hutch
• SugarQuill.net
• Harry Potter, Gargoyles, Stargate SG-1, Lord of the Rings, Star Trek The Original Series, science-fiction, fantasy
• Harry Potter mostly. Some Buffy, although not involved in any Buffy-specific groups or communities
• Blake's 7, Doctor Who, Farscape, LotR, some random other fandoms
• Star Wars, Smallville, Harry Potter, Master and Commander, Troy, Fast and Furious, Sherlock Holmes, Batman, X-Men, Wooster and Jeeves, Highlander, Sentinel, Stargate SG-1, Lord of the Rings, Red Dragon
• Harry Potter based.
  Once upon a time I read Star Trek fan fiction (30 years ago, when it was paper zines).
  I also read original fiction by friends, and also in a critique group setting
• Harry Potter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel the Series (spinoff from Buffy), Lord of the Rings
• Touched By An Angel, 7th Heaven, Stargate SG-1, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Emergency!, The Brady Bunch, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order:CI, Third Watch, The Fairly Odd Parents, ER, The Outsiders, Rugrats, Batman & Robin, The Mighty Ducks, Leave It To Beaver,CSI: Miami
• Magnificent 7
  Lancer
  Harry Potter
  Star Trek Voyager
• Mostly Harry Potter..
• Harry Potter, basically (and otherwise too ^^)
• Harry Potter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, The Sentinel, Firefly, Magnificent Seven, Lord of the Rings, Spirited Away, Stargate: SG-1, Highlander, Good Omens
• Buffy, Angel, Smallville, Harry Potter, Startreck, Films, Original..
• Harry Potter, LOTR RiPS
• Harry Potter, From Eroica With Love, Xena, The Faculty, Lord of the Rings
• Harry Potter
  Lord of the Rings
  Master and Commander
  Jerrasic Park
  
• Harry Potter. I'd read others, but I between work and family I just don't have the time
• Harry Potter, as well as various anime series: InuYasha, Escaflowne, Cowboy Bebop, Fruits Basket, Wolf's Rain, Last Exile..
• Xena, Hercules, Highlander, The Professionals, Star Trek TOS, Harry Potter, Queen Of Swords
• Mostly Harry Potter fanfiction
• Only Harry Potter fic
• Fandoms: stargate, harry potter, pretender, weib kreuz, gundam wing, due south, from eroica with love, sailor moon
  
  Originals: slash stories mostly by authors I'm familiar with or that are recommended by someone I know or recommended by an author I read
• I only read Harry Potter
• Harry Potter
  Xanth
  Clan of the Cave Bear
  
  (I leave open the possibility to find more, but this is what I've read and what I follow with any regularity.)
• I used to read a lot of anime fan fiction (CardCaptor Sakura, DragonBall, Angelic Layer, etc.), but now I'm mostly into Harry Potter fan fiction, though I wouldn't turn down some original fiction
• Harry Potter
  Pride and Prejudice
  The Simpsons
• Mostly Harry Potter stuff
• Harry Potter
  Digimon
  Buffy
  Angel
  Lord of the Rings
  
  
• harry potter, buffy, angel, the o.c, jane austen
• Harry Potter, Alias, Buffy, Joan Of Arcadia

Question 2a.1

What measures have you encountered to prevent you accessing adult material (select all applicable)?

Nothing	100
Warnings	271
Sites asking you to click a button/link to say you are an adult	277
Sites asking you to send an age statement	159
Sites asking you to create an account giving your date of birth	161
Sites asking for verifiable offline contact details	26
Sites asking for credit card details	26
ICRA/PICS labels or other type of metadata to allow filters installed on your computer to block pages	28
Other	15

Other reponses: (15 responses)

• Passwords, without requiring an active age statement but an implicit one
• Sites with password protection that require you to join a group/site/etc. to gain the password details
• Back in the day zine publishers occasionally asked for age statements, but I never actually sent anybody one and it was more a culture of 'don't ask don't tell'
• sites with hidden entrance links to ensure reading of statements and warnings (location of entrance link is in statements and warnings)
• this was before the internet :)
• Sites that force you to read warnings in order to get past the front page; sites with trivia questions that require knowledge not easily available to minors
• a password you have to e-mail an age statement to receive
• Being banned from accessing sites
• Password-protected sites
• contract that you understand that it's adult material
• Censored versions of chapters containing adult material
• password protected sites
• sites requiring you join adult only groups to get teh password to adult material
• Invitational passworded sites
• Sites asking for a copy of my birth certificate

Question 2a.2

Nothing

Have not encountered	50	15.58%
Realised quickly and hit the back button	23	7.17%
Realised and was horrified - I did not want to see/read that!	5	1.56%
Realised and kept reading	144	44.86%
Realised, loved it and went to find more	99	30.84%

Why? (190 responses)

• i don't think fanfic has adult stuff any more
• Because I am not American, and, as such, do not feel that these ratings are appropriate - in fact, I find them prudish and awkward. I also believe I know myself well enough to know when something is not appropriate for me
• I was having sex before I was of legal age, and one can legally have sex here several years before one is allowed to view erotica or pornography. It seemed stupid to say that I wasn't allowed to read about things that I'd already done
• I liked it. Do I need to say more?
• Because I was and still am capable of recognizing what I wish to read/am interested in reading without the need to adhere to arbitary and generalized age standards. If I thought I could handle it after reading the warnings I read, if not I passed
• Because although I am not legally an adult, I'm over the age of consent for my country and believe that I should be allowed to read such material
• I mainly prefer to read smutty fanfic
• Sometimes it's nice to find archives/websites that treat you like a fully formed adult, and realise that warnings don't really put anyone off
• Because I was interested in reading angst-fic and such fic involving the character I was interested in tended to be slash, usually abusive
• I have two answers for this - when I was younger, I quickly hit the back button. Now, if I didn't intend to find adult fanfiction, I'll leave the site. If I'm feeling curious, however, I'll explore it
• I think that I am near enough to the legal age (and certainly beyond the legal age mentally) to handle such content as would be found in adult material. I also did not want to miss out on a pivotal piece of fandom work solely because of a subjective rating
• It was sexually exciting. I was curious
• Curiosity, at first, now because it is easier to find well-written slash than well-written gen or het, especially if entering a fandom in which I have never seen the source material
• When I first began reading fanfic, it was all offline (this was in the early 80s) and I never encountered anything like slash until I was old enough to read it without worrying about the warnings
• Because I knew I was mature enough to read whatever material I wanted and would not cause legal trouble for the site owners
• I believe I am mature enough to read something explicit
• I probably wanted to get there in the first place anyway
• My parents allowed me to read whatever I wanted, including sexually explicit material, so I felt I had implied parental permission. Also, I assumed I wouldn't get caught
• I was precocious? Or not, really. I think I was pretty typical in my interest in reading erotic fiction. I just think it's too bad it's so stigmatized, or maybe I would have found better stuff to read as a kid. (ASSTR isn't the hotbed of stellar writing, IMO.) I didn't find slash until I was of age
• I was always a precocious reader, and warnings never stopped me. I figured if I was mature enough to make a concious decision about what I was reading, then I was mature enough to actually *read* it
• Well, I was young and gay and there were very few gay characters in the media... slash fic was sort of a "Hey! Here are characters I like... and people are writing them being attracted to people of the same sex! Cool!" And a lot of that was adult, so... *shrug*
• I went looking for the stuff, didn't I? Why would I react badly? :)
• Because I wanted to read the fic! Also my feeling when I was under eighteen was the same as it is now--if you're smart/interested enough to successfully lie to me about your age, go for it
• Because I was interested in reading adult material before age 18
• Er, well, in the case of "nothing," I tended not to notice that there was no warning. And it wasn't ever accidental-- I went looking for it
• My friends were into reading Romance novels off-line, and I was into reading slash online. I generally ignored warnings and lied on age statements. You don't have to give an age statement to pick up a steamy romance at the the drug store when you are underage, why on earth are people so freaky about it online?
• Because, hey, why not?
• Because I knew then that I was mature enough to handle such thing. Even at 15, if you didn't know the facts of life by THAT point, you're going to find out anyway. Besides the fact that people under the age of consent masturbate too
• If I wanted to read it I would just keep on going, it didn't really bother me then or now
• I dislike sites that don't warn for content - but if the story merits reading regardless of not warning, I will continue. If I find something I don't wish to read, I stop. I tend to only read fiction without preliminary information when it/they have been reccomended
• Because I felt I was mature enough to deal with what I was reading, and if it was not to my liking, I could always go back
• Because it was good - and because I have always been a readaholic and never really bothered about the supposed age appropriatesness of books - why should anything written be any different?
• Felt I was mature enough
• I was not intimidated by the content, and if I was enjoying myself, I just continued reading
• Because the age rating systems is to protect the author from legal action by the gaurdians of the minor reading the text. I understand the consequences of my actions and will not take any legal action.
  This may be compared to an adult allowing a child to watch a movie in which the rating system has reccomended to be to mature for the child
• Simply because I need my porn
• It did not seem important; I had had access to adult material earlier, and anyuthing related to sex or voilence was never really a "taboo" subject for me so it was not anything I found myself concerned with. Also, since English is my second language, I did not fully understand some of the warnings; "NC-17" did not mean anything to me
• Why not? (BTW this is about when I was still an underage slash fan. Obviously, now I'm not)
• I live in the UK and although material is frequently rated nc17/18, sex is actually legal at age 16. If I was allowed to participate in such activities then it makes sense to me that I should be allowed access to material regarding those activities
• I don't think that the age warnings are appropriate. If children can go to a library and read explicit HET fiction, why can't they go online to read explicit fiction (het or slash)? Kids manage to get their hands on this stuff, and for someone young, it can be a form of sex-ed
• Generally was looking for that type of material in the first place
• Novels in bookstores don't carry ratings, right? So, even though, I was only thirteen when I began reading fanfiction, I could still walk into Walden's and pick up some Laurell Hamilton-and she has some of the most explicit stuff that I've ever seen, unhealthy sexual attitudes included in the sex itself. I was hitting puberty, interested in the mechanics, of sex, and lived in a very conservative household that didn't allow ladies to discuss such topics
• Because if I know I can skip the adult bits if I want to
• Often the writers irresponsible enough to not mark their fiction with a warning lack skill when it comes to their writing. I tend to notice in the first five minutes of reading, if not sooner
• I considered myself mature enough to read adults things (and I don't think it's pretentious to say that I was). I knew my parents wouldn't be upset if they ever found out
• If I'm going to read a fanfic, then I've read the summary. I know what I'm about to read and I know the rating. I'm a 15 year old girl, I like to read about sex
• I get mildly irritated when adult content pops up with no warning, but only because I try to avoid it on public computers and appreciate NSFW warnings
• To be blunt, I love sex. Having it, seeing it, writing it, reading it. I don't think there is anything wrong with that. We were all created by sex. At one point in our life, most of us have had, have, or will have sex. That fact isn't going to change, no matter how hard they try to desexualize America
• curiosity at first then just beause i liked the stories and or authors work
• With no warning was really too worried about the content of the site
• Because that was the material I was looking for to begin with
• I had had a sexual education through various teen magazines and my parents already and I knew what I was reading. I also used it to further my knowledge of the topic..
• I clicked "realised and was horrified - I did not want to see/read that!" because when I first read smut, I was eleven. I wasn't really interested in that at the time. However, now, I "realise, love it, and go to find more"
• Because I *loved* it. And reading graphical sex is not a crime in my country even though you are under 18. That age is just when you can vote, need to get paid as an adult, and your signature is now legal. In my country you are allowed to be sexual active at the age of 15, and like I said, there is no rule as to when you can read sexual contents, so I was not incriminated
• Realised and kept reading, if I liked it.
  Realised and was annoyed that I hadn't been warned about something, stopped reading and went to find something else
• Because I felt I was a mature enough reader to continue
• i'm a very sexually oriented person and i personally enjoy the thought of two gay men. a lot of the fandoms i'm into involve that, usually with a great big bunch of talented writers. media has put sex into our everyday life, so it is not something i'm ashamed to read, and i think it adds to a story because it makes it more lifelike. it gives good plots, especially exploring a character's sexuality. i'm mature enough to handle it, so i don't think i need to be stopped from reading it. i've always found a way around it. if i unable to, then i moved on to another place
• Because my parents let me watch rated R movies and the stories weren't any worse than any R rated movie I'd seen, maybe a little more sexually graphic but that wasn't any worse than the Romance novels I'd read
• If I'm in the middle of a story that I'm really into, I'm not going to stop reading it just because there's sex or violence. Sometimes it's necessary to make a certain point or create a certain emotion - those are the best kind of stories, in my opinion
• Depending on the site, sometimes I don't think a warning of any sort was needed anyway, and in other cases, I didn't really feel it was a problem for me
• I know by the rating whether it will be "adult" or not, and I keep reading for the same reasons listed below
• I am so close to the age of majority that it hardly matters
• As long as it adds to the story and isn't just thrown in needlessly, I don't find a problem with it. Its helped me learn about what is out there, and discover my sexuality in a time where thats not clear and life is confusing. Its always bothered me when things that could add life and strength to a char. were censored
• because I donŽt have nothing against the sites without preventive methods
• I prefer to read alternative fiction anyway
• If a story interests me, I'll keep reading, perhaps skipping over parts I don't want to read. My parents trust my judgment in this
• There are some very good NC-17 stories that I wouldn't have anted to miss out on
• Hormone driven, in search of naughty thrills
• I read printed zines from conventions and snail mail lists - there was no internet back when I was underage
• Because sexually explicit situations do not ruin a story, and sometimes all I want in the sex
• Right, so I was a great big geek from a very young age. I was 12 when I wrote my first fanfic, and it was, while not an adult fic, quite steamy. I didn't even realize until later that I didn't invent fanfic myself
• It was there and I lived to far out of town to get to the Library as often as I needed
• I wanted to read adult material!
• When I was first reading slash, when I was about 11, I came across pretty graphic stuff and it didn't traumatise me at all, I just skipped it because I didn't find it interesting. These days I do find it interesting, and I believe that I am mature enough to handle it
• I knew what I wanted to see and I didn't care about the "legal" age at which I could enjoy myself
• I think that trying to censor adult content in fan/amateur fiction is a form of censorship and violation of free speech. Sexual content in books that one might find in a bookstore or library is not limited-- a minor may buy or check out books with explicit content without anyone batting an eye... I don't see that it should be different for online fiction
• It's my choice what to read
• Its what I was looking for in the first place
• I was curious
• did not read sexualy explicit contet untill after 18. warnings i encountered while underage warned off from depictions of homosexual relationships & I do not feel that that is a legitimate reason for denying underage people from reading
• I just think I'm old and mature enough to read such things. Period
• I'm nearing the legal age anyway
• Because my mind is terminally stuck in the gutter
• I don't think that maturity should be based on age - there are some 30+ year-old people who have the maturity of a child. None of the stuff in the adult-rated fiction is anything I haven't read before, or know about. My mom knows what I read/write, and she's ok with that, so I see no problem
• Because I was only one year under the legal age limit and considered myself to be an adult
• I enjoyed the content
• I was curious. I liked to read and most published books seem so tame and bland after read fanfic. In fanfic, it didn't have to be sale-worthy material. It could be a light-hearted day in the lives of the characters. It came in a few pages or hundreds. It's like those Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books where you get a choice in what happens. The characters you liked came together in fanfic where in canon it wasn't the creator's choice or possible plot-wise. In fanfic, it's almost a regular occurence to twist the imaginary world into something you choose. If you don't like one plot or pairing, look for another.
  
  Sometimes it was that fanfic authors weren't censoring what they wrote. I really liked that. Reading fanfic has helped me to be comfortable with myself
• Well, im not sure really but i think i should be the judge on whether i should read it or not. If I don't like a story I will stop reading it and because there is a warning i am prepared for it
• Because there are a lot of fics that have sex scenes, and I'm a voracious reader. I would have run out of stories to read much more quickly if I hadn't read some "explicit content" when I was underage
• I was enjoying the story and did not find anything objectionable about it. After all, published fiction has no age-related warnings
• Maybe it's because I'm American, but I don't see a problem with extensive sexual/violent content. I was exposed to it enough when I was a kid anyway; what's the harm now that I was bigger and understood it better?
• If I'm mature enough to deal with and accept the content contained in the site then I don't see a problem why I should be prohibited from visiting said site
• I believe that the legal age limit in America is to high. Also if I could go out and buy cds that sing about violence and sex, and video games that let me mutilate someone, then I saw no reasons for me not to be able to read nc-17 fanfiction
• I like to read what I like to read, no one should be able to say I'm too young to do so or not mature enough
• I do not believe that younger people should be penalised and not allowed to read excellent literature, due to veiws based on what some adults think we are mature enough to read, and believe the content is too explicit. A few secenes do not change the quality of the story telling. If people are not happy reading such content, then they should turn back when they realise, or skip those particular parts
• Exactly what I was reading didn't quite hit me at the time. I just took it in stride as another form of fanfiction. I was actually quite distant as I read it, and I read it in a purely technical sense, i.e: mentally commenting on word choice and sentence structure
• I just love that kind of fanfiction, and besides slash is my favorite and the vast majority of it is R or NC17 just for that simple reason
• It was good fic, the adult content didn't factor into that
• I find some times that things like sex and violence are integral to the story. If I find that the story has unnecessary graphic violence I don't enjoy it but sex doesn't bother me so much. As long as it's well written
• Some people are more mature than others. I know some people who are over the age of consent who are much more immature than I am. I think I have a right to read what I want to as long as I don't blame the moderators of the site, since they usually already have warnings
• I was born naughty; why else? No one stops kids from buying romance novels, and they've got twice the sex of the average fanfic. (At 14, I had to hunt hard to find the less than average fanfics that have astronomically more sex than even the likes of Laurel K. Hamilton.) People are too uptight about sex
• It's the same reason why kids will watch R movies... If it's good, and you know that you can take it, why not? Ratings only really matter if you care, but if you don't, like me, than whether the story contains adult material is nonconsequential. I look for good writing and good plot, not cleanliness
• Human sexuality doesn't begin at midnight on your eighteenth birthday - and what have we learned from abstinence sex ed? That kids and teens will find the information any way they can, whether or not the local government approves. If the way they find that information is essentially riskless - physically and emotionally - then more power to them
• If the story was well-written and about a character/pairing that I liked, why wouldn't I?
• I was aware of my actions, and it was my choice to read. I was not really supposed to, but I understood what I was doing and still chose to read on
• I have no qualms about reading various different types of fiction. I love reading and I love character development, so ratings and situations don't really bother me. I tend to look more at the quality of the writings, the fluidity of the plot, etc. If I get into a fic and find that I do not enjoy the style of writing or find the story highly improbable even within the fandom the writer is in, I will stop reading. Furthermore, violence does not bother me and some stories only have the rating NC-17 without elaboration so some of the stories may end up not containing any sexual situations at all. I find as a reader and a writer that it is more about what you are comfortable with as a person than it is about doing something naughty and rebellious. I'm a teenager, but reading a story that contains a couple of sexually explicit scenes or extremely violent scenes is not going to make me promiscuous or homicidal. I have my own standards and what I read does not have bearing on that. I recognize it as fiction and derive enjoyment from reading it
• Once I found slash...it was too late to turn back. I was between 14 and 16 when I started reading adult stuff
• It is expected of writers (well at least it should be) to post warnings if their work should contain elements that might offend people. At first I found them annoying, being underage I had to find ways around. Usually this wasnt hard but still a pain in the butt
• If the story was interesting then I would keep reading
• *shrugs* I've read romance novels since I was 12. Fanfiction simply involved characters I already loved. The only things in adult fics that have ever scared me off, when I was younger or now, are tentacles and beastiality
• Well, I was going to be of age in 6 months anyway... at 17-18 the level of maturity does not depend on the exact age
• I felt that I was mature enough to handle the adult material
• (I'm... borerline on the age thing. Only a year or so too young right now. However, when I first started reading, there was a SHORT bit of "holy crap that's nasty, I shouldn't be reading that" - and then I jumped right in. I was probably 11 or 12 at that point.)
  
  Because I read entirely for the PLOT and CHARACTERIZATION of fanfiction, I don't care about warnings. I'll skip over a bit of sex if it makes me uncomfortable, but that almost never happens - good plot leads to good, emotional, hot sex
• I enjoyed the stories and went to read more of them. I was glad that I got warnings about the content so I was aware, but I knew what I was about to read
• Why not?
• I was intrigued by the depth of many of the stories and the developments of the relationships. If they weren't up to my standards, I wouldn't read them
• I like the idea of warnings because some people might not realize what there getting themselves into. I do and I usually continue if I encounter no type of warning. Although I do get slightly annoyed with that site and it could be under harsher judgment from me because of it's oversight
• simply easier to get to fiction that doesnt have some stupid thing about how old you are...if you're going to read it anyway, its not going to make a difference how old you are. Does the government really check? noooo...
• I was almost never upset or disgusted by anything I read when I was younger. In fact, if I had been prevented from reading fanfiction, I would have been extremely upset and offended. Whenever I came across something I didn't want to read about, I would just click the back button. I never had a problem with this
• because i enjoyed the fic and the extra relationship between characters. the only reason i'd back off a site asking for age-verification data is because i'm not going to lie to get into a site
• because it's still (often) good writing and good stories and I didn't mind reading adult content
• I don't care whether or not a story contains adult content
• What child doesnt want what they are not alowed?
• When I was under 18 and had started reading fan fiction, I thought about reading adult material before I actually read any. I considered whether I wanted to or not, and how appropriate it would be. I decided that I was curious about sex and wanted to read this type of material. My parents, had I consulted them, would perhaps have disagreed, though we always had the understanding that I was allowed to read whatever I wanted so long as I knew enough to talk to them once I found something I couldn't handle. While I was underage, I never read something I didn't want to read. I still don't
• Because I don't see why I shouldn't see adult material, I'm already aware of it so it does me no harm reading it
• Well, I would probably be looking for something like that if I had encountered it. I'm not so dumb that I wouldn't notice an adult site if I entered one, even if it was by accident
• because i was there for that sole reason, but at the same time, i do heed warnings. if there is something in the warning that would traumatized me then i hit back and go search for something else
• It didn't make any difference to me if there was a warning or not. I would continue to read it
• I was old enough to make my own decisions pertaining to reading material, and had been considered old enough by my family for years
• Speaks for itself really. Although sometimes you get some pictures and ya woulda liked a warning
• Because I wanted to
• Why now? I realized I am underage, I want to read it, and I accept full responsibility
• i was interested and enjoyed it
• I like sexually orientated stories as much as non-sexually orientated stories, it depend on my mood
• Curiosity
• I like what i read, and i read what i like
• It was at fkfanfic.com and the story was adult content but was not marked as such. I kept reading and that was my first introduction to slash/yaoi material
• I knew what I was getting into and knew I would enjoy the story
• Was not bothered to read adult fiction at a young age
• [Was always expecting the warning having seen the ratings before starting reading.] Found I enjoyed the more explicit fics
• I was 17 when I discovered fanfiction. Not only is that only one year younger than the "age of majority", but where I live, it's old enough to see both R-rated and NC-17 movies (though not to buy them, I don't think. I'm not sure). Also, I'm not a big fan of people other than individual people's parents preventing anyone from seeing anything once they hit about age 13. At that point, they're still mostly under they're parents' control, so let their parents control what they see. By the time they're on their own enough to be away from their parents (say, around age 15), they're old enough to see most of this stuff. It's not like it's not on HBO every day anyway. In other words, by the time you're 15, you know about sex. So why shouldn't you also be allowed to read about it? Besides, my parents knew I was mature enough to read/see/hear whatever I wanted when I was 17, so they wouldn't have cared. I knew what I was getting into, and I knew I could handle it. That's good enough for me
• I felt I was of a mature enough age to be viewing such things, I understood that these warnings and precautions are there for a reason but like most people my curiosity took over and I had to find out why they had warnings, after that I either stayed away from the things I knew I wouldnt like or read them and then decide for myself, you cant be sheltered forever
• Because kids see/hear things like that everyday, and if we make sex something taboo, most 'rebels' will want to do it even more
• Well, actually, at first I did avoid the adult content, by choice, but by the time I was seventeen or so I felt like I was mature enough to handle adult content, and so just kept reading
• Because I believe that I am mature enough to read the subject matter that I was attempting to access. Also, it usually is nothing I haven't seen on TV or read in books
• I'm able enough to handle it
• I like to read all sorts of literature, even that outside the "norm", persay, and I am mature enough to decide what is appropriate to read and what is not. If I encounter something in a story that I consider obscene or immoral, I simply stop reading and move on to something else
• I answered this by mistake, I am over 18
• I believed I was emotionally mature enough to handle adult issues and so I went ahead and read about them
• Because I am responsible for my own actions
• Because often the ratings are not accurate, and because often, R-rated fics are OK for me to read even though they're rated R
• These are usually at Fanfiction.net, if you mean some sort of pop up (they do rate; if you mean totally unrated, I've never seen that). Some things rated R don't deserve the rating, so if the summary is misleading, then I might click on it and be horrified. The HP characters are almost all kids--I don't want to see them having sex at school!
• The first time I came across the warnings I hit the back button, but that was when I was 11. I was smart enough to know I didn't want to read that. But I went back again about a year ago, when I knew I was older, and then I clicked the warning away and kept reading. I loved it, and went to find more! I haven't come across another warning since: I think they only appear once
• It is socially responsible to attempt to at least ensure underage readers do not see adult material
• I would like to add "and went ew!" because horrified is a bit much.
  
  Anyway, why? Well, it's the same I would do with anything that I don't want to read. "This book is about the Civil War! I don't want to read that! Put it back!"
• I think myself mentally old enough - compare to the news these days, a fifteen-year-old will hardly be shocked by the word 'shit'
• I'm 17. I don't think the 6 months will make a difference
• I didn't want to get into trouble if someone saw, and even though I was a teen, I still didn't want to read about Hermione and Ron sleeping ogether
• Depending on why it got the rating, I would go it. If it had sexual reference or the theme was the issue, etc. I would not go, but if it included a few words I could skip over, I would go ahead and read
• I would not be comfortable accessing adult material
• I don't mind sex, and if it's a good story, I'm not going to stop for that - although warnings should be there
• I'm mature enough to read it. I want to read it
• Because it was Ron/Hermione and I can never get enough... no, seriously... I'm not sure
• I do not believe in censorship
• I felt I was mature enough to handle the content
• I was also mildly amused... I have been reading explicit sex and violence since I read Storm Constantine's "The Monstrous Regiment" when I was very young, and have pretty much been comfortable with it since then. I don't think non-explicit sex should be censored from any age group, and beyond that I think if anyone is comfortable reading explicit sex (or violence, which I personally make a concerted effort to avoid) then they're old enough to read it- we all have our own self-censors telling us where we are comfortable, and it is this personal age barrier that is the important one. This rule of course can easily be extended to sexual intercourse in the "real world-" teenagers under and over the legal age have sex all the time, and some of it's good sx and some of it's bad sex- and the age of the participants tends not to have a lotto do with it: rather their attitude to and comfort with sex.
  
  Also, I've found it ironic that the age of sexual consent in my country is sixteen, not eighteen- younger than the legal age or majority, in other words- while in other countries, most notably of course the USA, the ages are the same. Keeping this in mind I have frequently ignored NC-17 warnings with a clear conscience on the grounds that I am legally old enough to have sex- why not read about it?
• I generally did not want to read that kind of stuff, therefore..
• No warning, no problem. I feel mature enough to read any content on the net
• I've answered this section since I just turned 18. I would ignore the warnings at 16 and17 because I felt I was mature enough to decide what I was going to read
• Good writing is hard to find, and I wasn't going to ignore a good story just because it has adult content
• Well, if there was no warning I didn't know what I was getting into. But I would have kept reading when I found out
• I have the matruity to deal with that sort of thing. I can acess adult fantasy fiction somtimes with sexual content, why can I not acess fic like that?
• Adult content is not interesting to me, and is generally just porno with fictional characters and bad grammer/spelling
• I'm not looking for that type of fan-fiction. I could buy a $3.99 romance novel at Wal-Mart if I wanted that
• Depends if I was interested in the story or not
• Mostly I will keep reading because I heard it was good and want to keep reading. Because I had read stuff (non-fandom) before of similar content and rating I knew I was mature enough to handle it. However, sometimes specific warnings will make me hit the back button because I'm not interested in reading something like that
• I was interested, and think it's completely ridiculous that I'm allowed to have sex and yet not actually read about it. But having said that, I was reading adult fanfic before I turned 16
• Because I've read more explicit things in library books, and have watched even more graphic scenes on TV and in movies. I try to find more because it's the easiest way around to get access to NC-17 material
• I think ratings in general are idiotic and I will keep reading just to see what the story is like. If I like it, I'll finish it, if not I'll hit the back button
• I am the age of majority and can vote in the country of my current residence, just not the country of my permanent residence
• Why not? There was nothing in there I didn't know already XD
• Did not expect it and didn't especially want to read it
• Because I was reading erotica in books by that age anyway
• I believe I am mature enough to read adult-oriented fan fiction
• I'm almost 18 and certainly mature enough to read sexually explicit scenes
• I'm mature enough to handle most adult rated stories. If anything makes me feel uncomfortable, I'd stop reading. Though, most of the time, the stories I read don't have much explicit content, it's usually mostly just swearing and the like
• Because I have parents, and my parents have rules
• The stories were still good even though they had adult content, if it was just purely pornographic i probably would have left it
• Because I really wanted to read the story

Warnings

Have not encountered	9	2.86%
Heeded the warnings	49	15.56%
Ignored the warnings	216	68.57%
Was intrigued by the warning and more interested in reading it	41	13.02%

Why? (201 responses)

• see above [ED - i don't think fanfic has adult stuff any more]
• Because warnings often tell the readers of something that may be cruel, unusual etc. - but which gives you a physical kick to read. Catharsis
• See above. [ED - I was having sex before I was of legal age, and one can legally have sex here several years before one is allowed to view erotica or pornography. It seemed stupid to say that I wasn't allowed to read about things that I'd already done.]
• If you're a horny teen (Or, er, preteen...) and prekinky, you're going to keep going. It's a fact of life. I didn't and still don't care about the age warnings
• Because I was and still am capable of recognizing what I wish to read/am interested in reading without the need to adhere to arbitary and generalized age standards. If I thought I could handle it after reading the warnings I read, if not I passed
• It's my responsibility, there are no foolproof ways for the site owners to stop minors accessing their work, it is up to the minors to decide if they should read such things. I decided that it wouldn't bother me or affect me adversely in any way and thus proceeded past the warning
• Warnings often let me know what fics have the specific kinks I like most
• It's always nice to try new things
• Because I felt mature enough to police my own reading
• See above answer...if I'm feeling curious, I'll be interested in reading it. I usually have to decide whether I can handle reading whatever's on the site, though
• I enjoyed the material, and, so long as no one else will get in trouble for what warnings I choose to ignore, I see no problem with lying about my age to access something I consider myself mature enough to read and understand. If material turns out to be too strong for me, I stop reading, and may or may not return to it when I think I'm ready
• See explanation for "Nothing"
• It was sexually exciting. I was curious
• When I was younger, 12-13, I would always heed warnings or read a non-NC17 version if available, except if the author was one I was familiar with. Later, the board I frequented began deleting posts with "adult material," resulting in a huge flame war, and I began bypassing warnings to see what all the fuss was about. Eventually do to desensitization I began ignoring warnings, and now only heed them if they say the fic is PWP. I prefer plot-driven fics
• When I first began reading fanfic, it was all offline (this was in the early 80s) and I never encountered anything like slash until I was old enough to read it without worrying about the warnings
• Because I knew I was mature enough to read whatever material I wanted and would not cause legal trouble for the site owners
• I probably wanted to get there in the first place anyway
• Same answer as above: I had parental permission to read whatever I wanted, and I assumed I wouldn't get caught
• Same as above. Teenagers don't think warnings apply to *them*. [ED - I was precocious? Or not, really. I think I was pretty typical in my interest in reading erotic fiction. I just think it's too bad it's so stigmatized, or maybe I would have found better stuff to read as a kid. (ASSTR isn't the hotbed of stellar writing, IMO.) I didn't find slash until I was of age.]
• See above. [ED - I was always a precocious reader, and warnings never stopped me. I figured if I was mature enough to make a concious decision about what I was reading, then I was mature enough to actually *read* it.]
• For a little while I didn't read anything marked "adult", but then curiosity won out, and I figured, "Hey, everybody says I'm mature for my age!"
• *shrug* I was 16/17, I figured it was to cover their arses, and in any case it applied more to younger kids than to me
• What are they hiding?
• See above [ED - Because I wanted to read the fic! Also my feeling when I was under eighteen was the same as it is now--if you're smart/interested enough to successfully lie to me about your age, go for it]
• The warning informed me that adult material was contained therein, but since I had an interest in reading the material it did not stop me
• I was quite aware of what I was being warned about and wanted to read anyway
• Well, as PTerry's wizards prove, labelling something "do not touch" would make anyone want to touch it
• I have read 'adult' fiction in the past, both online and from our local library (where I have never been asked to confirm my age if I am not accompanied by a parent), so I don't feel that such warnings are of any consequence to me anymore
• Because I was arrogant
• I usually ignored the warnings, because I don't random-surf for stories. If I find an author I like I tend to read all that they've written, be it smut or not
• I don't agree with the rathing sceme in my country, but at the time I just didn't feel like stopping if I didn't have to
• By 'heeded' read 'didn't read if warning was offputting, read if content I was being warned of didn't bother me'
• At 17, I felt I was old enough to make the decision to read what I wanted. The warnings were there to protect people who didn't want to read adult material but I did
• By then I already liked the adult stories - besides, I couldnŽt see what harm there was in it
• Because they were the kind of fiction I was looking for, I was above the (sexual) legal age to read explicit sex scenes and read about violence etc, so I didn't find anything wrong with it
• As above [ED - Felt I was mature enough]
• Since I am nearly 16 with multiple medical problems, I doubt I'll be having sex any time soon. The only stories I'll read are ones that are written well if they have sex, and not like porn. I am very interested in the subject of sex, but only if written in a way that isn't offensive
• At first I was unfamiliar with the expression NC-17; I assumed it referred to people under 17, and since I was already 16, I figured it wasn't too important. Later on I judged my own maturity to be adequate to reading this kind of fiction, especially since most of what I read then was not outside the scope of Harlequin romances I could buy in any newspaper kiosk
• Usually, only experienced authors try to address the more taboo themes and concepts in the story. Because these pieces of fanfic are more rare and certainly require more defense from the author against attacks by readers, the quality, characterization, narrative, etc, of the story is better
• I agree that there have to be warnings to prevent kids from finding adult material, but I was already 16 when I started reading slash - basically, I believe that the choice was up to me. I wouldn't have stopped and turned away just because the legal age of majority in my country is 18. It's a matter of personal maturity and CHOICE
• Because I already knew what I was looking for
• It did not seem important; I had had access to adult material earlier, and anyuthing related to sex or voilence was never really a "taboo" subject for me so it was not anything I found myself concerned with. Also, since English is my second language, I did not fully understand some of the warnings; "NC-17" did not mean anything to me
• Ditto. I can judge best what I can handle. [ED - Why not? (BTW this is about when I was still an underage slash fan. Obviously, now I'm not)]
• By the time I get to a page that has a warning, I usually know I'm going to explicit fiction anyway. In some cases, if I don't know, I might be more interested
• See above. [ED - Novels in bookstores don't carry ratings, right? So, even though, I was only thirteen when I began reading fanfiction, I could still walk into Walden's and pick up some Laurell Hamilton-and she has some of the most explicit stuff that I've ever seen, unhealthy sexual attitudes included in the sex itself. I was hitting puberty, interested in the mechanics, of sex, and lived in a very conservative household that didn't allow ladies to discuss such topics.]
• Because if I know I can skip the adult bits if I want to
• The best fanfiction tends to be written by older and more mature writers, so often those writers include at least some sexual content in their stories. So I find to access the best fiction you must often work around age barricades
• Because I knew I, at least, wouldn't cause any trouble for the poor author. My parents wouldn't be kicking up a fuss about me reading gay porn if, again, they ever found out. Only my dad would have been able to figure it out, and I can't see him giving a shit except just being confused and weirded out. (Or not weirded out, which would in turn weird me out.)
• It's nice to know what's coming, but being under an arbitrary age doesn't mean I'm too immature to deal with adult themes
• By that point I'd realized what was on the other side and didn't really figure it mattered. If I really didn't like the content I would have gone elsewhere
• I knew what I would be encountering
• In the beginning I heeded it, but with time I ignored it since I had already read this type of fiction before. Mostly depended on the warnings
• My mother has told me that she doesn't mind if I read/look at smut. She believes that I'm mature enough to decide whether or not I want to read/look at porn, and advises me not to look/read it when there's small children in the room. So, I may not have the law's aproval, but I have my mother's
• Because the warning made me curious: what was so special about a story that I wasn't allowed to see? Also, I considered myself mature enough to handle it
• As above. [ED - Because I felt I was a mature enough reader to continue.]
• i didn't need the warnings to know what was in the site due to the fact i was at the sight for the same reason the warnings were up
• Because my parents let me watch rated R movies and the stories weren't any worse than any R rated movie I'd seen, maybe a little more sexually graphic but that wasn't any worse than the Romance novels I'd read
• It often said 'over 18 or over the age of consent in your country'. Age of consent is 15, I was of that age, but not 18: allowed to vote.
  Also; my parents raised me to decide for myself what I was mature enough to see/read
• Because usually the sex is secondary to the actual story. I don't read fiction centered around only sex - PWPs, as they're called
• I understood the warning, but felt I was capable of deciding for myself what I could handle reading
• Unless the warnings contained subjects I didn't want to read (e.g. slash, underage sex, undesirable pairings, etc) I didn't care. I enjoy following romantic relationships through consummation, explicitly or nonexplicitly. If I reach a point where I'm uncomfortable, I stop reading
• See above. [ED - I am so close to the age of majority that it hardly matters.]
• I find its more for the author's protection then mine. and my parents know and don't mind
• because the warnings are only a confirmation of the success of my searching
• Same
• Warnings are there to protect innocence and to protect the site against angry lawsuiting parents; I am not particularly innocent, nor do my parents particularly mind
• See above. [ED - There are some very good NC-17 stories that I wouldn't have anted to miss out on.]
• Extremely curious
• There used to be warnings of adult material on printed zines, but I thought those were just there for people who didn't want to read it
• I was in almost all cases actively looking for the content described at the time. I didn't really think my parents would care, so I didn't worry about the chances of the writer/artist getting sued
• Because I'll read what I want to
• Sex is good
• I read them, still read them, and will continue to read them. If the things in the warning disturb me, I don't read the fanfic. It's a simple system
• Heeded it, and read.
  After all, the warnings went along the lines of "This fiction portrays (...), if you click you accept responsiblity and will not flame the author".
  
  Hence, since I didn't intend to report them and was perfectly aware of what I was going into, I consider my continued reading as abiding by the rules
• If I had been younger I would have hit he back button but I read my first fanfic at about 16 and just didn't see the need not to read it. I didn't start hunting for the adult content fics until I was around 19
• see above [Ed - I wanted to read adult material!]
• See above. [ED - When I was first reading slash, when I was about 11, I came across pretty graphic stuff and it didn't traumatise me at all, I just skipped it because I didn't find it interesting. These days I do find it interesting, and I believe that I am mature enough to handle it.]
• I've never been one to heed warnings unless I agreed with them
• ...The warnings, however, are appreciated-- as a minor, I could decide whether or not it was something that I wanted to read
• Still my choice what to read
• The warnings were to discourage people who didn't want to read the kind of material that was on the site
• did not read sexualy explicit contet untill after 18. warnings i encountered while underage warned off from depictions of homosexual relationships & I do not feel that that is a legitimate reason for denying underage people from reading
• See above. [ED - I just think I'm old and mature enough to read such things. Period.]
• They're there for the more younger ones
• I wanted to read it anyway
• I don't think that maturity should be based on age - there are some 30+ year-old people who have the maturity of a child. None of the stuff in the adult-rated fiction is anything I haven't read before, or know about. My mom knows what I read/write, and she's ok with that, so I see no problem
• Not sure this counts for me - when I was under 18 there was no such thing as online fandom. It was all zines. Basically I started reading slash from about 17ish or so and haven't looked back :) I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have paid any attention to a age button on a website though. I wasn't meant to buy slash zines in the '80s either, but I did :)
• A warning is there for a reason, and I wanted to read on and see what it was about
• I enjoy the content
• Warnings were for people who didn't realize what they getting into. I fully realize the consequences of reading what I do. I've realized since I was 17. It's like when I started cracking open those books at the library about puberty, years before I even entered the stage. I'm not so naive and I learned more in fanfic than I did in sex ed and guidance counseling sessions. I learned how to socialize and deal with being around people through reading books and magazines and I learned how to be myself and comfortable through reading fanfic
• Because im 15 and at my age people know about all the violence and sex that will probably be in it
• It didn't matter to me. I knew I could handle it, there was no reason to suffer those constraints
• Its fair enough to be warned, but it was something I had no objection to and didnt want to miss out on a good story because it wasnt 'age-appropriate'
• By the time I got to warnings, I was seventeen and by the time you're seventeen, no one honestly cares. The actual rating is NC-17; I was seventeen. So it didn't really matter
• Say pron site just popped up but without any graphics and there was a warning there, if I'm not interested in the site and know that I won't be comfortable with such material, I heeded the warning and pressed the back button. But if a site said male/male relationships and told the visitor to click the back button if they are offended, I read the warning and carried on since I'm not offended by such trivia. Basically, I follow the warnings either way, if I'm going to visit the site or not (did that make sense?)
• Because I'm mature enough to handle it
• While the warnings are usefull in giving an idea of whats to come, they didn't really affect me in my decision to read a story or not
• I knew what the stories that I wanted to read were about, and I feel that I'm mature enough to read them
• See answer above. [ED - I like to read what I like to read, no one should be able to say I'm too young to do so or not mature enough.]
• A few secenes do not change the quality of the story telling. If it is a good story, regardless of such content, i will read it, if it is not then i will find something else to read
• By the time I was old enough to understand what the warnings meant, I no longer cared. Most fandom writers (the coherent ones, anyway) never seem to age. Every coherent fandom writer that I've met, whether their actual age is thirteen or thirty-three, acts like a twenty-two year old. The younger ones are usually far more mature than others of their age while the older ones seemed to stop aging once they hit twenty-two. Warnings will not stop writers who want to, for example, study an author's style and word choice in order to write their own, similar material, and it certainly won't stop the drooling fangirls who desperately search out smut involving their favorite characters or pairings. I know because I am a member of both of these groups
• Alot of people overreact and worry about wornings, but I find it makes it far more interesting
• They didn't seem to matter
• I feel I can decide for myself. I think I'm old enough to tell for myself if I want to read it or not. Or should read it for that matter
• Because I don't usually care that much about them, and am not easily offended by adult content
• I am interested in what I am intersted in and I don't think age should be a factor
• Well if someone wants to keep me away, there must be something NAUGHTY to be found, right?
• Because, honestly, I like most of it. The thing is, most fiction containing such themes are likely to be good. For some reason, stories containing adult material are more likely to be good. At a guess, I would say that it's because the truly great writers are the only ones who are mature enough to know that they can properly deal with them at a plot device
• I felt like I was adult enough to handle it
• I take those warnings to mean "We must cover our butts legally but this is an informal online site with high traffic & we don't have the money, time, or staff to actually verify everyone's age," and also, soem of them say "I am old enough to read this story," which might mean "I consider myself old enough EMOTIONALLY to read this story," without any specification of physical age. I also think that barring people from reading things because they happen not to have lived for 18 years is stupid. That often has very little bearing on the maturity of the individual
• As above. I have no interest in causing legal trouble for these writers but feel no need to heed restrictions when I believe myself to be mentally capable of dealing with whatever I might find within. The daily news is far more scarring. [ED - Human sexuality doesn't begin at midnight on your eighteenth birthday - and what have we learned from abstinence sex ed? That kids and teens will find the information any way they can, whether or not the local government approves. If the way they find that information is essentially riskless - physically and emotionally - then more power to them.]
• Unless it contained non-con (sometimes even then), I was more interested in how well it was written than on whether or not I was supposed to be reading it
• I wished to read it, and I knew what I was getting into by reading it
• Warnings are only to let you know that your comfort level may be threatened if you proceed. If your comfort level can take an NC-17 story as well as a PG story, I think you're rather well-rounded!
• Once you have read an author's work, it does not matter what their rating is. If you like it, and are not overly sensitive, then rating does not have that much of an impact. It also depends on how dedicated you are to a pairing. In addition, many authors do not properly rate their fanfiction, so their word is not always accurate
• As a teenager at the time, the more 'forbidden' it was, the more interesting it seemed
• There is not much that offends me, I enjoy reading a wide variety
• The adult material (sexual, violent, and questionable) didn't really matter to me. I see nothing wrong with reading it
• back when I first started reading fiction I was 13 or 14. I read het exclusively. Then I read a novel containing a gay couple, they became my fav. characters. At 15 I encountered a warning for homosexual content on a fic, and, thinking back to that novel, decided that I'd like to read one of 'those' scenes with 2 boys, rather than just a guy and a girl. It was the same when I first came across a femslash warning in SM fiction at 16
• See above [ED - Well, I was going to be of age in 6 months anyway... at 17-18 the level of maturity does not depend on the exact age.]
• The way I see it, warnings are put up to let those who would be offended by the materal know beforehand. And as I wasn't going to be offended by the material, I saw no reason to stay away
• I am old enough to realize what I am about to read and to make an inform decision whether or not I want to read it. A few months difference in age is not going to make me anymore of less able to handle NC-17 stories. Also, NC-17 means not appropriate for people under 17. Too many sites say only people over 18 should read NC-17. If you want a story to be only for people 18 and over, rate it X and I might possibly be slightly more inclined to follow the rules
• I know what I'm reading, and I know what the warnings are. I know what they're warning against, and it doesn't offend me at all. In fact, I rather enjoy it
• Always appreciated site mods taking the time to protect children accidentally reading, however I was only a year or two under the legal age and never really encountered anything to bother me. More often than not I set out with the intention of finding stories with more adult content, as they are, somtimes better written through a lack of 'glossing over' esp. in some fandoms
• Hey - I'm mature for my age, and I know that. I'll lie if I must. I know my limits. Hell, if I know enough about it to know what I'm avoiding, there's really no point, right? If I enjoy it, I enjoy it, so I read it. If it doesn't look... appetizing... then I can decide for myself that I don't want to read.
  
  Oh - by "ignore" I mean ignoring the usual 'sex, slash, homosexuality, swearing, age statement, etc'
  There are a few odd kinks that I desperately avoid, like mpreg, and I very much heed those warnings and run in the opposite direction
• If it's a warning then obviously it contains what mainstream society would call "questionable content". I can decide what I can and cannot handle, thank you all the same.
  
• I consider myself mature enough to read what I choose to read regardless of my age
• They got in the way
• I always read warnings because they're important, if I do find something I don't want to read I would like to know about it before hand
• i want to read it, i like reading it, some of it is actually relevant to the plot, its possible to miss out on amazing stories just because it has a rating on it, its easy enough to get into movies with ratings on them and i would say that movies would be more 'scarring' than fiction
• Most often, the warning indicted that the fic was good enough to need a warning. It has been my experience that for the most part, the best writers write about situations that would require warnings. I have never, in my entire life, read a het fic that was decently written. Some were amusing, but a far cry from the dramatic and thought-provoking nature of slash fics. I have no interest in reading bad writing, so I quickly learned that the warnings were there more as a marker of brilliant writing than anything else
• Mostly this was when it was only a few months to my coming of age, so I found it rather pointless to quibble. Am I any more mature now than I was one day before turning 18?
• Not so much more intrigued as in I took in the warning and based my decision on whether to read the fic on the warning. sometimes i'm looking for something explicit, sometimes I'm not. the warning is generally an aid to determine whether i want to read the fic or not
• See above. [ED - because it's still (often) good writing and good stories and I didn't mind reading adult content.]
• I am only concerned with the quality of the fiction, and not the rating given to it
• As above. ;-) [ED - What child doesnt want what they are not alowed?]
• As I said, I read what I want. Sometimes, when I didn't feel like reading anything adult, I heeded the warnings and read something else. The rest of the time, I accepted the responsibility for myself and my actions
• It's good there's warnings becuase some people do not want to come across adult content, me I have no problems so i took note of the warnings and continued reading, my fault if I'm offended
• I heeded them, yes, but I still believed that it didn't concern me and went to access the website still
• because i don't need to become any more disturbed at certain pairings and kinks people are into, i don't want to know
• The warnings are just their to protect the author. I felt mature enough to continue reading on with the fanfic
• See previous. My family does not believe in literary censorship. [ED - I was old enough to make my own decisions pertaining to reading material, and had been considered old enough by my family for years.]
• Because I wanted to read the fic
• I read it if I thought it had merit, didn't if I thought it didn't
• I respect the warnings but I have no particular compulsion to follow them
• I can decide for myself what is appropriate
• It's My choice of what i read
• They can't verify my age and I was mature enough to handle it
• Warnings are there for those who might be alarmed or angered by the content to follow - they don't apply to those who aren't bothered by the content
• I already knew what kind of site I was going onto. I never really cared about ratings, just the story
• The warnings gave me a hint of what I was likely the read about and wanted to see how characters got into and [hopefully] out of the situations. [and I like hurtcomfort]
• See above. I don't care about warnings telling me I'm too young for this, too old for that, too short, too female, whatever. I'll always be "too" something to do something I want to do, and the only way to get past that is just to do it anyway. Unless II'm going to get arrested for something, a warning is not, to me, a good enough reason not to do it, especially when it's a completely arbitrary one, based on something useless like chronological age
• they are there to WARN you, you need to take notice because if you dont that's how FLAMES occur, these are usually pointless and only serve to a) amuse the author or b) annoy the author. If you dont like it dont read it, it's really very simple
• While the warnings are useful for people attempting to avoid adult subject matter, I was not
• I'd like to think that I'm a mature, literate enough person to understand and appreciate it without being disturbed or horrified by it
• I'm able enough to handle it
• My parents and I have discussed the matter and decided that, although many consider adult-rated (R or NC-17) materials inappropriate for their adolescents, I am mature enough to view such materials in an intelligent manner
• I thought I was mature enough to handle it. I had been reading published adult fiction (book form) for quite some time, and therefore I didn't think there was much difference
• I think many people underage are already exposed to most things contained in adult fiction. It is up to the person to decide whether they want to read it, and it is not the same as watching a porn movie
• I answered this by mistake, I am over 18
• I know what I'm getting myself into
• I believed I was emotionally mature enough to handle adult issues and so I went ahead and read about them
• Because I am responsible for my own actions
• See above. [ED - Because often the ratings are not accurate, and because often, R-rated fics are OK for me to read even though they're rated R.]
• Overrating, and an interesting summary. Generally I realize quickly if the fic is too adult, and can click back
• Because I know that I'm old enough now that I can read this kind of stuff without being "mentally scarred" and whatnot
• I didn't want anyone to get in trouble because often these warnings included "it is against the law to read these if you are not an adult"
• Because I like reading something different, and just natural curiosity I guess
• I did think again, whether I really wanted to read it or not, and whether I thought myself capable of handling these things
• See above. [ED - I didn't want to get into trouble if someone saw, and even though I was a teen, I still didn't want to read about Hermione and Ron sleeping ogether.]
• Because most times, its things I don't want to read the story
• Didn't want to access adult material
• I am under the age of majority but over the age of consent in my country, so I believe I have the right to decide what I read - it's generally nothing unavailable in books, so it's generally nothing I couldn't read anyway. The site owners do have a duty to make sure young kids don't read that sort of thing, but I don't fall in to that category
• I didn't feel that they restricted my reading in any way. I didn't feel like they could tell me I couldn't read it
• Because-- they're just warnings
• I do not believe in censorship
• Again, I felt I was emotionally mature enough to handle the situations
• Because reading about sexual intercourse can be arousing and pleasurable; fan fiction has the considerable advantage over photographic and filmic pornography (and even prostitution) in that it does not involve the harm of any woman or child (or man), or require the degradation of "models."
• I wouldn't want to miss something really great, even if it is "adult material."
• Because I felt that I was mature enough to read the material anyway
• Again, good writing is hard to find
• I knew what I was going to read, and felt it was my decision to make. I could have sex at age 16, so why should I wait 'til I was 18 to read about it? It was a lot less dangerous than having underage sex or other things people my age were doing
• As above. [ED - I have the matruity to deal with that sort of thing. I can acess adult fantasy fiction somtimes with sexual content, why can I not acess fic like that?]
• Adult content is not interesting to me, and is generally just porno with fictional characters and bad grammer/spelling
• Respect author's decision - otherwise I know could get them into trouble. There's plenty of other fic out there I can read
• I do not believe in censorship. My parents know that I watch R rated movies, they know that I write fanfiction and they know I aspire to become a published author. As such, they see no reason to FORCE me not to read something. Warning me against something is acceptable, but I can make my own decisions. Besides, I can hit the back button if something disturbs me enough
• If I still want to read the fic I'll ignore the warning, but sometimes I don't want to read what the warning warns against
• I wanted to read it
• I don't like rape or incest fics, so if I see a warning, I hit the back button or don't read the fic
• I'm old enough to decide what I want to read, regardless of what it is "rated."
• I don't think there's anything in them about which I don't know. If I find a story offensive or gross, I'll stop reading
• I'm plain weird. I mean, I'm a girl and I love slash! Slash ratings are usually around R or NC-17 :)
• I am of legal age
• Ignore this section, i completed it until I realised that I wasn't supposed to (whoops)
• Didn't want to read story if it was NC-17
• I usually use warnings as an indicator for stories I'd like to read. I knew what most of the warnings meant by that age anyway, and avoided the stories that had warnings that didn't interest me, or that squicked me
• Same as above. [ED - I believe I am mature enough to read adult-oriented fan fiction.]
• Again, I'm almost 18. Plus, at 17 I can see rated R movies in theatres, so reading rated R fics or reading fics with warnings against minors' usage to not stop me
• Same as above. [ED - I'm mature enough to handle most adult rated stories. If anything makes me feel uncomfortable, I'd stop reading. Though, most of the time, the stories I read don't have much explicit content, it's usually mostly just swearing and the like.]
• Because I have parents with rules
• same as above, also wanted to find out what they defined as 'adult content' - in some ways the warning is more inviting than no warning at all [ED - The stories were still good even though they had adult content, if it was just purely pornographic i probably would have left it]

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Why? (202 responses)

• dito [ED - i don't think fanfic has adult stuff any more]
• As I've mentioned, I believe I am mature enough to know when something is not appropriate material for me. There is always the back button
• See above. [ED - I was having sex before I was of legal age, and one can legally have sex here several years before one is allowed to view erotica or pornography. It seemed stupid to say that I wasn't allowed to read about things that I'd already done.]
• See above. Heh. [ED - If you're a horny teen (Or, er, preteen...) and prekinky, you're going to keep going. It's a fact of life. I didn't and still don't care about the age warnings.]
• Because I was and still am capable of recognizing what I wish to read/am interested in reading without the need to adhere to arbitary and generalized age standards. If I thought I could handle it after reading the warnings I read, if not I passed
• Again, I'm over the age of consent. Although I admit to reading when I was under the age of consent, but I feel that it is my decision to do so
• Nice simple way to alert the reader of site/story content
• Because there are certain buttons fluff cannot press, and it's nice to know exactly where to find the fics that can. Also it's often the case that the websites which care enough to do this for whatever reason generally have show a markedly better selection of fics
• I wanted to read the fics
• I click if I'm curious and if I really want read something that's been recommnendd on the site. Sometimes I leave, though, because I feel like I'm not ready to read adult fanficiton
• I enjoyed the material, and, so long as no one else will get in trouble for what warnings I choose to ignore, I see no problem with lying about my age to access something I consider myself mature enough to read and understand. If material turns out to be too strong for me, I stop reading, and may or may not return to it when I think I'm ready
• See explanation for "Nothing"
• It was sexually exciting. I was curious
• Why not? How will they know?
• I am an adult
• Because I knew I was mature enough to read whatever material I wanted and would not cause legal trouble for the site owners
• I was aware of my personal, intellectual and emotional limits, and felt that the negative consequences to lying were negligible
• I probably wanted to get there in the first place anyway
• While I was willing to ignore warnings, I was uncomfortable with lying outright about my age
• Same as above. [ED - I was precocious? Or not, really. I think I was pretty typical in my interest in reading erotic fiction. I just think it's too bad it's so stigmatized, or maybe I would have found better stuff to read as a kid. (ASSTR isn't the hotbed of stellar writing, IMO.) I didn't find slash until I was of age. & Teenagers don't think warnings apply to *them*.]
• See above. [ED - I was always a precocious reader, and warnings never stopped me. I figured if I was mature enough to make a concious decision about what I was reading, then I was mature enough to actually *read* it.]
• See above [ED - *shrug* I was 16/17, I figured it was to cover their arses, and in any case it applied more to younger kids than to me.]
• In my opinion, these buttons/links with warnings are there to warn people off who aren't interested in the material. It won't stop an underage person if they'll find what they're looking for by clicking it
• I understood that this placed the moral burden upon myself (for lying about my age) rather than the website administrator (for giving an underage reader access) and since I did not consider it significant was willing to accept it
• Yet again, I was quite aware of why I was being asked to do so, and I knew I could handle it
• I am over 18
• I was curious, and it's not like anything stopped me
• Because I was arrogant
• If I want to read the story, I'll read the story
• see warnings
• Felt adult enough to be reading the content and also adult enough to stop reading if I didn't like it. In clicking that I was old enough, I was making it my responsibility that I read it, not the archivists who had taken reasonable precautions to prevent underage readers
• Again, I felt that I was old enough to make the decision to read what I liked. Generally the statements were fairly vague, since the age of majority varies
• Again, I had already learned to like the tales..
• Because they were the kind of fiction I was looking for, I was above the (sexual) legal age to read explicit sex scenes and read about violence etc, so I didn't find anything wrong with it
• Adult cannot really be defined by age alone
• See above [ED - Since I am nearly 16 with multiple medical problems, I doubt I'll be having sex any time soon. The only stories I'll read are ones that are written well if they have sex, and not like porn. I am very interested in the subject of sex, but only if written in a way that isn't offensive.]
• See above. [ED - At first I was unfamiliar with the expression NC-17; I assumed it referred to people under 17, and since I was already 16, I figured it wasn't too important. Later on I judged my own maturity to be adequate to reading this kind of fiction, especially since most of what I read then was not outside the scope of Harlequin romances I could buy in any newspaper kiosk.]
• What they won't know won't hurt them. Again, see above. [ED - Because the age rating systems is to protect the author from legal action by the gaurdians of the minor reading the text. I understand the consequences of my actions and will not take any legal action.
  This may be compared to an adult allowing a child to watch a movie in which the rating system has reccomended to be to mature for the child. & Usually, only experienced authors try to address the more taboo themes and concepts in the story. Because these pieces of fanfic are more rare and certainly require more defense from the author against attacks by readers, the quality, characterization, narrative, etc, of the story is better]
• Same as above. [ED - I agree that there have to be warnings to prevent kids from finding adult material, but I was already 16 when I started reading slash - basically, I believe that the choice was up to me. I wouldn't have stopped and turned away just because the legal age of majority in my country is 18. It's a matter of personal maturity and CHOICE.]
• Because I am an adult and wanted to read it
• I have never had any cmoral compunctions concerning lying about my age, and by the time I encountered fanfiction i could buy my own alcohol without a fake ID:
• by the time fandom went internet, I was above legal age so this never applied
• I wanted to read the story and a button wasn't going to stand in the way
• Okay, this one I have to admit to. Because it seems stupid to me to enforce a ratings system that is just not logically applicable to fanfiction. I was willing to accept the consequences if I was caught; we can try to fudge that into civil disobedience
• Because if I know I can skip the adult bits if I want to
• See Above [ED - The best fanfiction tends to be written by older and more mature writers, so often those writers include at least some sexual content in their stories. So I find to access the best fiction you must often work around age barricades.]
• Because I wanted to read the smut!
• 2 x Because I wanted to
• It's just a button--no one will know, and I've known people who were over [insert arbitrary age limit here] who were less mature and able to deal with it than I was at 12. Ain't nothing but a number, and if I have to 'tell' a small, anonymous lie to get my smut fix, so be it
• No one's gonna catch you for clicking a button
• It was the only way to access the page
• Felt bad about being untrue about this until I was 17
• 2 x Because I wanted to read the story
• Because there was no harm done, and I was addicted to fanfiction
• See 'warnings'
• As above. [ED - Because I felt I was a mature enough reader to continue.]
• i may not be 18, but i'm adult mentally. i'm mature enough to handle the content and i don't think i need to be restricted from it
• Because my parents let me watch rated R movies and the stories weren't any worse than any R rated movie I'd seen, maybe a little more sexually graphic but that wasn't any worse than the Romance novels I'd read
• I was 14. You tell any kid they can't do something they're going to try their best to do it. I did make sure I was never caught ;) I didn't like everything I found and quickly learned what I deemed appropriate and what I did not
• It often said 'over 18 or over the age of consent in your country'. Age of consent is 15, I was of that age, but not 18: allowed to vote.
  Also; my parents raised me to decide for myself what I was mature enough to see/read
• Same as above. [ED - Because usually the sex is secondary to the actual story. I don't read fiction centered around only sex - PWPs, as they're called.]
• I understood the reason for it, but felt I was capable of deciding for myself what I could handle reading
• Same reason above. Usually you have to click the button when the content is considerably more mature (e.g. underage, adult/child, slash) and I never read those, but I might as well click to check. [ED - Unless the warnings contained subjects I didn't want to read (e.g. slash, underage sex, undesirable pairings, etc) I didn't care. I enjoy following romantic relationships through consummation, explicitly or nonexplicitly. If I reach a point where I'm uncomfortable, I stop reading.]
• See above. [ED - I am so close to the age of majority that it hardly matters.]
• again the same reason
• Was interested in reading
• It's really just a more insistent version of a warning -- getting in your face about the fact that there's adult content, but not really saying anything more about it, really. What's more, I have been told by intelligent and wise adults not related to me that they consider at least as mature as most people ten years older than me. *shrug* They're people I trust the judgment of
• See above. [ED - There are some very good NC-17 stories that I wouldn't have anted to miss out on.]
• Wanted to read the material because I knew it would be explicit
• not online
• I was in almost all cases actively looking for the content described at the time. I didn't really think my parents would care, so I didn't worry about the chances of the writer/artist getting sued. I didn't mind lying to a piece of HTML
• I'll read what I want to
• Because I knew what I was getting in to
• I was about 10 when I sat on the floor in front of the librarian with the book Interview with a Vampire, and read it all in the course of three days. I've always believed the idea of 'suitable content was a little bit variable
• Fanfiction.net used to be legal age NC-16, I was above sixteen, but the legal age is 21 in my country
• don't like to lie
• see above [ED - I wanted to read adult material!]
• I don't believe in censoring underage people from some things, like sex. If they aren't old enough to appreciate it, like I was when I first starting reading it, they'll just skip it or not read *shrug*
• To see the fic!
• ...so I could read the story, of course. ^.^
• I figure it can't be that bad
• To access the fiction archived
• did not read sexualy explicit contet untill after 18. warnings i encountered while underage warned off from depictions of homosexual relationships & I do not feel that that is a legitimate reason for denying underage people from reading
• See above. [ED - I just think I'm old and mature enough to read such things. Period.]
• Depends on my mood..
• Again, I wanted to read the fanfiction
• I don't think that maturity should be based on age - there are some 30+ year-old people who have the maturity of a child. None of the stuff in the adult-rated fiction is anything I haven't read before, or know about. My mom knows what I read/write, and she's ok with that, so I see no problem
• Because at 17 I considered myself an adult
• I wanted to read the story
• I considered myself adult enough at 17. If people in the past were married off at 17 or younger, I think I can handle learning the lesser known aspects of sex and the like. It's the naive and ignorant that choose to ignore knowledge. Besides, I always thought fanfic was written sort of like romance novels and they have a lot of those in the library
• The same as i said before, im mature enough to handle it
• See above. [Ed - It didn't matter to me. I knew I could handle it, there was no reason to suffer those constraints.]
• I wanted to read the story. There's no way for the site to confirm what you say by clicking the button
• Because i think that the age standards are stupid. People know what they do and do not like to read. some of the 'adult fiction' is very well written, and honestly i don't care if there is something 'inappropriate' in what I read. I can handle it. I am mature enough. Some people aren't. Everyone knows their limit
• I was close enough. And how's a button going to know?
• Like I mentioned before, I don't see a problem in me accessing adult material if I believe I'm mature enough to deal with such situations
• Because I could
• I knew what the stories I wanted to read were about, and I feel that I'm mature enough to read them
• I want to read it
• To find out if the story is good enough to read or not. I can't judge with just a summary.If it is a good story, regardless of such content, i will read it, if it is not then i will find something else to read
• As I said before, those who truly want to read this material aren't going to be hindered in any way, shape, or form. They'll click the button because they want to read some smut, dammit
• So I lied, sue me
• To get to the fic
• Why not?
• Because I believe that mentally I am an adult
• Why not. Those buttons won't protect you in court, and I see no reason not to read porn just because some fussy old fool has delusions about the purity of 14 year old girls (as I was when I started reading fanfic porn in earnest)
• Same reason as everything else
• Same deal, I felt adult enough. plus, I knew that my parents would blame me and not the site administrators. If that had not been the case, I would have waited. And clicking a button didn't feel like the same thing as lying directly the way sending in a written statement did
• I take those warnings to mean "We must cover our butts legally but this is an informal online site with high traffic & we don't have the money, time, or staff to actually verify everyone's age," and also, soem of them say "I am old enough to read this story," which might mean "I consider myself old enough EMOTIONALLY to read this story," without any specification of physical age. I also think that barring people from reading things because they happen not to have lived for 18 years is stupid. That often has very little bearing on the maturity of the individual
• As above. [ED - Human sexuality doesn't begin at midnight on your eighteenth birthday - and what have we learned from abstinence sex ed? That kids and teens will find the information any way they can, whether or not the local government approves. If the way they find that information is essentially riskless - physically and emotionally - then more power to them. & I have no interest in causing legal trouble for these writers but feel no need to heed restrictions when I believe myself to be mentally capable of dealing with whatever I might find within. The daily news is far more scarring.]
• Because I wanted to read the story, and if I was emotionally mature enough to handle it and accept responsibility for reading the content, my physical age shouldn't prevent me from doing so
• I wished to read it, and I knew what I was getting into by reading it
• I hate being limited by my age. I'm very close to being of adult status anyway and many of my friends already are of age and like to recommend stories to me. Adult confirmation buttons are also, in a way, just a form of protection for the site owner so that parents cannot complain about their children reading explicit material. I'm not about to cry and attempt to sue them. If they make me cry, they're obviously a great writer
• Wanted to get in
• Why not? If I that button is getting in the way of me reading a story then ill click it
• I was more interested in reading the stories. Besides, I think most literary censorship is overrated
• Even though I was at the time too young to be reading it legally, I enjoyed it immensly. I've always loved the development of the relationships of the characters in fics that lead to sex, and when I was younger I was fascinated by sex in general. Fanfiction gave me a way to explore it without actually doing anything with anyone
• I considered myself mature enough... again, see above. [ED - Well, I was going to be of age in 6 months anyway... at 17-18 the level of maturity does not depend on the exact age.]
• I saw it as a warning as to the adult content of the site, and treated it as I would any other warning
• See Above [ED - I am old enough to realize what I am about to read and to make an inform decision whether or not I want to read it. A few months difference in age is not going to make me anymore of less able to handle NC-17 stories. Also, NC-17 means not appropriate for people under 17. Too many sites say only people over 18 should read NC-17. If you want a story to be only for people 18 and over, rate it X and I might possibly be slightly more inclined to follow the rules.]
• because i have a very high reading ability and find it hard to find reading material that challanges my reading. also i enjoy it and want to find more material that interests me
• Again, I know what I'm getting into. I made an informed decision to click
• see above [ED - Always appreciated site mods taking the time to protect children accidentally reading, however I was only a year or two under the legal age and never really encountered anything to bother me. More often than not I set out with the intention of finding stories with more adult content, as they are, somtimes better written through a lack of 'glossing over' esp. in some fandoms]
• I'm... adult-ier than quite a few adults I know. Again - mature for my age.
  
  And anyway, it's nothing I haven't seen/read before at this point
• I wanted to read the fic, and as far as I am concerned, can handle whatever the contents of the story are
• Coz I wanted to read what was there
• Because those buttons are pointless and completely uneffective and only serve the purpose of covering the site owner's/authors ass. Why should I pay attention to any of that?
• I wanted to read the stories, of course
• I think this method is good for people with a conscience, but alas I have no shame and have been writing this stuff for years (although not very well) I should be able to read it
• to get in duh
• It was just clicking a button. Who's to say how old the person is clicking the button? The first time I clicked a button that said I was an adult, I think I was twelve. The button has got to be the worst of all the methods I've encountered, simply b/c it pretends to be a good age restriction device, when in reality it does nothing at all
• Only occasionally. See answer to previous. [ED - Mostly this was when it was only a few months to my coming of age, so I found it rather pointless to quibble. Am I any more mature now than I was one day before turning 18?]
• because i wanted to read the fic...and dammit, i'm a teenager, nearly the legal age limit, not some ignorant 7 year old I go in with both eyes open
• See above [ED - because it's still (often) good writing and good stories and I didn't mind reading adult content.]
• I don't believe in age, but the mental maturity of a person
• Dito [ED - What child doesnt want what they are not alowed?]
• Because I wanted to read the story. I actually didn't start encountering this until I was over 18, but I think I would have accepted the fact that I was actually lying and just got on with it when I was underage. A button is not much different from a warning
• I feel I am an adult and capable of reading these types of stories without suing the webowner or author or anything of the sort
• to get through because i felt i could handle it
• It made no difference to me; I wanted to read the story
• See previous. [ED - My family does not believe in literary censorship. && I was old enough to make my own decisions pertaining to reading material, and had been considered old enough by my family for years.]
• Because I feel I should be able to choose if I want to read the fiction and I believe I am of an age to be able to decide what I want to read
• I tend to ignore these things anyways. What self-respecting teenager do you know that would think, 'I'm underage, I'd better not read it'??!
• Same as above. [ED - I respect the warnings but I have no particular compulsion to follow them.]
• See previous question. :) [ED = "I like sexually orientated stories as much as non-sexually orientated stories, it depend on my mood.]
• 2 x I wanted to read it
• I write fiction which is far more explicit than some of the things that come with warnings. Therefore, I don't believe that I will be terribly traumatized by them
• As long as it was the only block, I continued
• I was an adult when I encountered this method
• I already knew what kind of site I was going onto. I never really cared about ratings, just the story
• Wanted to read, I knew what I was likely to see, it wasn't like I was going to upset myself
• No one was going to bother looking, or caring, and if they did, one of two things would happen: by the time they got around to checking, I'd be 18, OR they'd find me, and I'd tell them my mother clicked it. She'd stand up for me, too, cause she doesn't think me being prevented from seeing something at age 17 makes any sense either! Also, on sites saying you have to be 21 to enter, I clicked the button on the grounds that, at the time, I was already 18, and that's legal age in my state
• curiosity, plus the fact that I didnt understand this concept when I first encountered fanfiction. I have adhered mostly to the rules and only entered sites if they say they have gen peices or avoid reading the peices with NC-17 signs
• Because I believe it should be about maturity, not age
• I think I'm mature enough to read those stories, and the button is more for the website owner to stay out of legal trouble than to actually keep readers out
• I'm abke enough to handle it
• Same as above question. [ED - My parents and I have discussed the matter and decided that, although many consider adult-rated (R or NC-17) materials inappropriate for their adolescents, I am mature enough to view such materials in an intelligent manner.]
• I wanted to read the stories, and besides, some people overrate their stories, so oftentimes what is warned as NC-17 would register as PG-13 on TV, anyway
• See 'Warnings.'
• If I wanted to read it, just clicking a button wasn't much hassle
• I answered this by mistake, I am over 18
• Know what I'm getting into
• I believed I was emotionally mature enough to handle adult issues and so I went ahead and read about them
• Because I am responsible for my own actions
• Because if I click it and realize that the story is quite adult, then I can click back before being scarred. And often the fic is overrated
• Because I felt I was mature enough to read the material
• Because I know that I'm old enough now that I can read/see this kind of stuff without being "mentally scarred" and whatnot
• I didn't want to get anyone in trouble. Besides, that would be lying and when I grew up, I could go back and read it
• Because I wanted to read those fics, curiosity and the thrill of reading those type of explicit material
• Considered myself old enough and the rating wasn't that high anyway (not NC-17 or anything)
• Again, I'm close enough...and I've only read stories with adult content a few times
• See above. [ED - I didn't want to get into trouble if someone saw, and even though I was a teen, I still didn't want to read about Hermione and Ron sleeping ogether.]
• Because I'm not an adult. :)
• I was not interested in accessing adult material
• Again - I am over the age of consent and, in my opinion, old enough to choose my reading matter, no matter what the age of consent/majority is in the author's country. Often the material is nothing I haven't seen, or something I consider not that bad anyway
• Because I don't believe in censorship and I thought that I could handle whatever was there
• I was "in the mood" and wished to read the story. I don't always. Sometimes, if it's in a fandom of a televisions show (like The X-Files) I hit back
• Because the legal age of consent in my country is 16 not eighteen; and I decided that it was my choice what to read, since I was certain that no harm would come to the site as I wasn't planning to sue them and was sure my parents wouldn't (and would probably not find out about it.)
• Just to see what was there--sometimes the content's not that bad
• Because I felt that I was mature enough to read the material anyway
• Again, good writing is hard to find
• It's not exactly difficult! It shows it was my decision to read it - the webmasters shouldn't be blamed for me clicking it. It meant I'd made a conscious decision rather than just stumbling upon it
• Otherwise I wouldn't be able to read the fic I wanted to
• Respect author's decision - otherwise I know could get them into trouble. There's plenty of other fic out there I can read
• As if they have any right to stop me reading what I choose to read. Like I stated above, I do not believe in censorship. My parents have never given me express permission to access material such as that, but only because it is a topic we do not need to address. There is a mutual understanding that my life is my own and therefore I should have full rights to read what I choose. If I am disturbed by something, I can close the site. I do not see the need for such extensive measures as entering credit card details etc. In my opinion, this would be an intrusion of my privacy and freedom
• See above answers. [ED - I was interested, and think it's completely ridiculous that I'm allowed to have sex and yet not actually read about it. But having said that, I was reading adult fanfic before I turned 16.]
• Sometimes The story started out not NC-17 but changed in later chapters and I wanted to continue
• I don't do it anymore, I used to and then started feeling guilty. Though at one site, they also give the option of saying whether your parents would object or not, so I click that button
• Well, why not?
• see previous [ED - I don't think there's anything in them about which I don't know. If I find a story offensive or gross, I'll stop reading.]
• I am an adult in the country of my current residence
• Look in the upper box XD
• I am of legal age
• I knew the story was not that explicit because of a review/rec I read
• Because I'd been reading erotica for a couple of years by that age, and had had enough experience with it to be able to decide what I did or didn't want to read
• Same as above. [ED - I believe I am mature enough to read adult-oriented fan fiction.]
• Same as above. [ED - I'm mature enough to handle most adult rated stories. If anything makes me feel uncomfortable, I'd stop reading. Though, most of the time, the stories I read don't have much explicit content, it's usually mostly just swearing and the like.]
• because online you can, it's a kind of thrill being able to do something 'adult' without having to prove it with id etc, also same as before, was interested in reading the stories even though they had adult content
• Because I am an adult

Send an age statement to the archivist

Have not encountered	126	43.6%
Went elsewhere	74	25.61%
Sent in a false age statement	89	30.8%

Why? (116 responses)

• you should make it so that ony some questions you have to fill this in
  i wanted to enter the site
• As I've mentioned, I believe I am mature enough to know when something is not appropriate material for me. There is always the back button
• I didn't want to actively lie to someone. I've always seen clicking something as a form of passive lying, but the minute someone else gets involved..
• Because I was and still am capable of recognizing what I wish to read/am interested in reading without the need to adhere to arbitary and generalized age standards. If I thought I could handle it after reading the warnings I read, if not I passed
• It didn't seem a big deal at the time, I didn't think the material would bother me, and I knew I was mature enough to not go back if it did
• It's absurd to expect people to pay attention to things like that in such a place as the internet. Also, the people who ask you to do this know that anyone can fake it. If it's so obviously such a nicety, then why bother?
• I don't want to lie and get into a group or site under a pretense
• Seemed like too much trouble
• See explanation for "Nothing". I also am willing to take full responsibility for what I find by knowingly giving false information
• Didn't want to lie in writing
• Also created a false yahoo account with a fake birthdate, just to send such emails. Generally it's not worth the effort, since I have to go log into yahoo!mail and remember to check it and everything.. I only send in an age statement if I have seen something rec'd a number of times and thus have become curious
• I didn't encounter this measure until I was over 18
• While I was willing to ignore warnings, I was uncomfortable with lying outright about my age, especially when I knew I was lying to a specific human being
• See above. [ED - I was always a precocious reader, and warnings never stopped me. I figured if I was mature enough to make a concious decision about what I was reading, then I was mature enough to actually *read* it.]
• I feel bad about lying directly *to* someone. With a button, there's no contact, no one to hold you accountable. It felt more like lying
• See above & it annoyed me that I was stopped from reading something I was old enough to handle. Even now I tend to think that except for the really bad stuff (explicit child abuse/ extreme violence/horror where it's implicitly or explicitly condoned) 16 is old enough for something you read. [ED - *shrug* I was 16/17, I figured it was to cover their arses, and in any case it applied more to younger kids than to me.]
• For the same reason as above regarding the placement of moral burden. [ED - I understood that this placed the moral burden upon myself (for lying about my age) rather than the website administrator (for giving an underage reader access) and since I did not consider it significant was willing to accept it.]
• Well, I have encountered it, but I never ran across it when I was underage becasue there was a lot less locking down of things than there is now
• Actually, I only sent false age statements once or twice; after a while, I decided it wasn't worth the guilt and went elsewhere, especially when I was getting close to my sixteenth birthday and was only going to wait a few months before sending a genuine age statement
• I don't think that I should be required to lie about my age to access fiction, so I don't visit sites with this kind of age-confirmation request
• Too much work, I'm lazy
• A subtle difference, I suppose, between telling a computer I was older than I was, and actively lying to a real person. The first I am fine with, the second I don't like doing
• I didn't think it was right to make false age statements, so I just waited until I was old enough to join
• It seemed like too much trouble when there was plenty of other stories available
• Because they were the kind of fiction I was looking for, I was above the (sexual) legal age to read explicit sex scenes and read about violence etc, so I didn't find anything wrong with it
• See above [ED - Since I am nearly 16 with multiple medical problems, I doubt I'll be having sex any time soon. The only stories I'll read are ones that are written well if they have sex, and not like porn. I am very interested in the subject of sex, but only if written in a way that isn't offensive.]
• I could not be bothered - even after I was 18, and then 21
• I don't go to archives that require age statements - too much work, and I am lazy
• Again; I have no mora compunctions concerning lying about my age; it sois not seem like a big deal to say that sure, i am legal when I could access similar material in the piles of old magazines we had home. (Think "bodice ripper")
• because that protects them, but still gives me my stuff to read
• Wanted to read the stories
• I was already a member of the list with standing, reputation, and friends before I had to switch to a different email address and resubscribe. The list hadn't been using age statements the first time I subscribed, and I wasn't about to give up the friends
• See Above [ED - The best fanfiction tends to be written by older and more mature writers, so often those writers include at least some sexual content in their stories. So I find to access the best fiction you must often work around age barricades.]
• Whatever it takes to read it..
• No one's gonna be able to get proof that you're not the age you say you are if it's just a statement. Besides, by that point, I'd nearly reach the legal age anyways
• If I truly wanted to read something I made myself a year older (only encountered this when I was 17)
• Sending age statements is more personal, and it feels more like lying. I don't feel bad when I click on a button that tells me to confirm that I'm an adult
• See 'warnings'
• I wasn't going to lie to a person, lying to a machine is one thing but having an actual statement saying I was older than I was is something else entirely
• Eh, too much bother
• I sent in a true age statement just in case and they refused me, so I went elsewhere
• I feel gulity, but I WANNA READ! and I feel really gulity the couple times I've done it
• Too lazy to send in age statement
• See above. [ED - There are some very good NC-17 stories that I wouldn't have anted to miss out on.]
• When I was underage there wasn't a big portion of websites using such measures
• not online
• I was in almost all cases actively looking for the content described at the time. I didn't really think my parents would care, so I didn't worry about the chances of the writer/artist getting sued. I didn't want to lie to an actual person
• I'll read what I want to
• Because, you've got to respect the wishes of someone who put that much effort into it
• don't like to lie
• lying by clicking a button is different than lying in an email, didn't want to do the latter
• I don't think that maturity should be based on age - there are some 30+ year-old people who have the maturity of a child. None of the stuff in the adult-rated fiction is anything I haven't read before, or know about. My mom knows what I read/write, and she's ok with that, so I see no problem
• As above [ED - Because at 17 I considered myself an adult]
• I was specifically searching for a story in the archive
• I'm not going where I'm not wanted
• I really wanted to read a certain story that was only on that website
• See above. [ED - It didn't matter to me. I knew I could handle it, there was no reason to suffer those constraints.]
• I wanted access to the storie. It was nothing I hadnt read elsewhere. The age statement is just a way of protecting the archivist. If i choose to falsify the info I provide that is my responsibility, not the archivists
• Because otherwise I won't be able to access a site, which might contain some good material even if it contains adult issues
• Again, simply because I could
• I knew what the stories I wanted to read were about, and I feel that I'm mature enough to read them
• Bacause I know that some of the stories archived on some of those sites are excellent, as i have read the elsewhere, and i want to know the quality of other fiction on the sites my favorite authors display their work on. Sometimes it is the only way to get to a sequal or completed version of a tory that i have fallen in love with
• Because having to be of a certain age to be exposed to *any* ideas, regardless of how controversial they are, is bullshit
• I don't like having to prove myself to people. I don't think there should be censorship like this for underage people, if someone understands and is mentally mature enough for such subject matter, than it's no one else's right to censor things like that IMOP
• As I said above, I believe mentally I am an adult
• Because I wanted to read the porn. Duh
• I felt guilty sending an age statement lying
• I take these measures to mean "We must cover our butts legally but this is an informal online site with high traffic & we don't have the money, time, or staff to actually verify everyone's age." I also think that barring people from reading things because they happen not to have lived for 18 years is stupid. That often has very little bearing on the maturity of the individual
• Because going through that amount of effort to read fic was just silly. Now that I am of legal age, I might if I know there's a good author on the site, but back then it wasn't worth the bother of lying
• If the community asking for the age statement has a piece of fiction that you really want to read, but no other community has, then you will do anything to read it
• I've done this ONCE. But the author was kind of my favorite one and when she passworded her site, I was heartbroken and couldn't stop myself from trying to get the access. I got it
• There is no way for them to validate it unless they have sex link protection or something like that
• I don't like to e-mail strangers
• I wanted to get to the stories. Nothing was gonna stop me. I wanted to read them, as they had become my obsession. Besides, most archives that carry slash stick it all together, regardless of raiting, and if they protect the higher rated stuff, it means lower rated slash is also protected. But mostly, I just wanted to read the adult stories
• Didn't want trouble. Waited 6 months
• See Above [ED - I am old enough to realize what I am about to read and to make an inform decision whether or not I want to read it. A few months difference in age is not going to make me anymore of less able to handle NC-17 stories. Also, NC-17 means not appropriate for people under 17. Too many sites say only people over 18 should read NC-17. If you want a story to be only for people 18 and over, rate it X and I might possibly be slightly more inclined to follow the rules.]
• I only do this if I really want to read the fic, like if it's very highly rec'd. I clicked because I wanted to read and knew I was mature enough to handle it
• ...only occasionally, when I really wanted in to a group or something. I lurk anyway, so it doesn't matter. AGAIN - mature for my age. It's my decision
• I have encountered this in several Yahoo! Groupss, and have sent in a false statement because I wanted admittance to the group and was well aware I wouldn't be allowed unless I gave an age statement
• See this goes under lying to someone, not just to the computer, this does make me feel bad so I don't do it
• What do you say? "Hey, yeah, uhm, I'm twenty, like to read your porn please?"
• to get in
• Too much like lying for my conscience
• see above [ED - because it's still (often) good writing and good stories and I didn't mind reading adult content.]
• If there is a story that I want to read on a site, then I will do whatever it is that needs to be done so that I may read it
• Too much hassle
• I did not encounter this until I was over 18, but if I had, I would have gone elsewhere. It doesn't seem fair, otherwise
• because, i don't like to lie, it's bothersome to lie to people and it hurts me in the process
• Because it wasn't worth it
• Same as above. [ED - I respect the warnings but I have no particular compulsion to follow them.]
• "
• It was at a yaoi site, aesthecisim or something like that. I had to wait until I was eighteen because the age statement required a scan of an ID with birth date
• Wanted to read, I knew what I was likely to see, it wasn't like I was going to upset myself
• Fortunately, I mostly only encountered these after I turned 18. I think once or twice I sent something in declaring that I was of "legal age in my area to veiw pornography and erotica". While not technically true (I still couldn't buy Playgirl, or rent Deep Throat), I was technically of age to see NC-17 movies, a large number of which are pornography. So I got around it that way
• I have only odne this once and instantly regretted it, it was to join a yahoo group, the people on the list were not welcoming, I left the group and have not done such a thing again
• See above. [ED - Because I believe it should be about maturity, not age.]
• Hit a threshold on the amount of lying I was willing to do
• I'm not going to lie
• I answered this by mistake, I am over 18
• Took too long
• I believed I was emotionally mature enough to handle adult issues and so I went ahead and read about them
• Sent in a valid age statement. Because I am responsible for my own actions
• Because I'd tried the "under 13" thing before, and was bored out of my skull. I couldn't see what was so bad that I couldn't see it; I've always been mature for my age, so I was positive that I could handle it, or be smart enough to back out when I knew I was in too deep. I guess my point is that I knew that I was capable of deciding for myself when I was in over my head, and I sure as heck didn't need a computer program to do it for me
• Just didn't
• I've never been to a site that has had that
• I'm not going to lie, as there are generally consequences, and I don't want to read smut _that_ much
• I didn't want to be bothered with sending an age statement. It was too much work
• I kind of dislike lying in a direct sense to a real person, as it is so often easily disproved by people finding my at my weblog or sites I frequent and finding me out 9also I just don't like lying much.)
• Because I felt that I was mature enough to read the material anyway
• I've generally drawn the line at sending a false statement, except maybe once, and then I tried to be a bit ambiguous about it. It's more like actively lying
• See above answers. But I felt guilty lying about it. [ED - I was interested, and think it's completely ridiculous that I'm allowed to have sex and yet not actually read about it. But having said that, I was reading adult fanfic before I turned 16.]
• Because I'd have to get a new email address,and I didn't want to go through the hassle simply to read adult content
• I sent an age statement
• Didn't want to bother with the trouble
• Because I wouldn't have wanted the list/site owner to get in trouble for me reading stuff I shouldn't be reading; if I lied about it, it wouldn't be their fault if anyone complained
• Same as above. [ED - I believe I am mature enough to read adult-oriented fan fiction.]

Sites asking for your date of birth

Have not encountered	121	42.31%
Went elsewhere	58	20.28%
Sent in a made up date of birth	107	37.41%

Why? (106 responses)

• for crying out loud why don't you tell people to fill this only when they have to
• It was actually merely a yahoo group which one had to be 18 to join. I joined to be able to read a fic - rated PG-13, by the way - that wasn't available anywhere else
• THIS I didn't really care about. Felt more passive to me
• Because I was and still am capable of recognizing what I wish to read/am interested in reading without the need to adhere to arbitary and generalized age standards. If I thought I could handle it after reading the warnings I read, if not I passed
• It's absurd to expect people to pay attention to things like that in such a place as the internet. Also, the people who ask you to do this know that anyone can fake it. If it's so obviously such a nicety, then why bother?
• See previous answer. [ED - I don't want to lie and get into a group or site under a pretense.]
• I enjoyed the material, and, so long as no one else will get in trouble for what warnings I choose to ignore, I see no problem with lying about my age to access something I consider myself mature enough to read and understand. If material turns out to be too strong for me, I stop reading, and may or may not return to it when I think I'm ready
• See explanation for "Nothing". I also am willing to take full responsibility for what I find by knowingly giving false information
• Didn't want to lie in writing
• Because I knew I was mature enough to read whatever material I wanted and would not cause legal trouble for the site owners
• Same as above. [ED - I was precocious? Or not, really. I think I was pretty typical in my interest in reading erotic fiction. I just think it's too bad it's so stigmatized, or maybe I would have found better stuff to read as a kid. (ASSTR isn't the hotbed of stellar writing, IMO.) I didn't find slash until I was of age. & Teenagers don't think warnings apply to *them*.]
• Again, felt too much like actual lying
• For the same reason as above regarding the placement of moral burden. [ED - I understood that this placed the moral burden upon myself (for lying about my age) rather than the website administrator (for giving an underage reader access) and since I did not consider it significant was willing to accept it.]
• Again, I knew what I was getting myself into. Sometimes even now that I'm legal, I still make up a birthdate, because I don't figure it's any of anyone's business
• I think it's rather invasive, especially of big sites like Yahoo, and casual info-gatherers like newspaper sites. I lie about my gender, too, about 50% of the time, on principle
• Again, I prefer not to lie about my age, despite believing that there is nothing wrong with reading 'adult' fiction below the supposedly correct age
• Because they were the kind of fiction I was looking for, I was above the (sexual) legal age to read explicit sex scenes and read about violence etc, so I didn't find anything wrong with it
• See above [ED - Since I am nearly 16 with multiple medical problems, I doubt I'll be having sex any time soon. The only stories I'll read are ones that are written well if they have sex, and not like porn. I am very interested in the subject of sex, but only if written in a way that isn't offensive.]
• Again, see above. [ED - Because the age rating systems is to protect the author from legal action by the gaurdians of the minor reading the text. I understand the consequences of my actions and will not take any legal action.
  This may be compared to an adult allowing a child to watch a movie in which the rating system has reccomended to be to mature for the child. & Usually, only experienced authors try to address the more taboo themes and concepts in the story. Because these pieces of fanfic are more rare and certainly require more defense from the author against attacks by readers, the quality, characterization, narrative, etc, of the story is better]
• My fandom is not that big, anyway
• Again, "I have no mora compunctions concerning lying about my age" applies
• Because I didn't see the point to it and I wanted to read the stories
• See above; the site was tied to the list. [ED - I was already a member of the list with standing, reputation, and friends before I had to switch to a different email address and resubscribe. The list hadn't been using age statements the first time I subscribed, and I wasn't about to give up the friends.]
• See Above [ED - The best fanfiction tends to be written by older and more mature writers, so often those writers include at least some sexual content in their stories. So I find to access the best fiction you must often work around age barricades.]
• It's not like its that hard..
• Same as 'click the button.'
• Too much effort to get a fake or something. Could find another site without the hastle just about anywhere else
• Felt bad about using a wrong age for a longer time
• a couple of years on my age never hurt anyone. and it's still never come back to haunt me. in real life i usually say i'm older anyway if i can pull it off because i don't like being treated like just another teenager
• Wasn't going to lie about my date of birth
• I did it once, when my favourite author's list was suddenly only available to those 18 and older. I was 16 at the time; over the age of consent in my country
• because I do think that if I have practised sex I am ready to read about sexual scenes. Well, and now I'm adult
• See above [ED - There are some very good NC-17 stories that I wouldn't have anted to miss out on.]
• When I was underage there wasn't a big portion of websites using such measures
• not online
• In most cases, the sites in question were not specifically adult content sites, and the adult content involved was not always something that was actually illegal for me to see. I also didn't want the sites to have any real data on me at all, as it really wasn't any of their advertisers' business
• I'll read what I want to
• don't like to lie
• See above [ED - I don't believe in censoring underage people from some things, like sex. If they aren't old enough to appreciate it, like I was when I first starting reading it, they'll just skip it or not read *shrug*]
• For a Yahoo account, it was easy to put in any DOB
• did not want to lie
• I don't think that maturity should be based on age - there are some 30+ year-old people who have the maturity of a child. None of the stuff in the adult-rated fiction is anything I haven't read before, or know about. My mom knows what I read/write, and she's ok with that, so I see no problem
• As above [ED - Because at 17 I considered myself an adult]
• I was specifically searching for a story on the site
• I always make up my birthdate online anyway
• Because theres no way they can tell and i wanted to read the story
• See above. [ED - It didn't matter to me. I knew I could handle it, there was no reason to suffer those constraints.]
• As above [ED - I wanted access to the storie. It was nothing I hadnt read elsewhere. The age statement is just a way of protecting the archivist. If i choose to falsify the info I provide that is my responsibility, not the archivists.]
• Same reason as above. [ED - Because otherwise I won't be able to access a site, which might contain some good material even if it contains adult issues.]
• It seems that the more they didn't want me to read something, the more I was determined to read it
• I knew what the stories I wanted to read were about, and I feel that I'm mature enough to read them
• so i can recieve access to the fiction on the site
• See above. [ED - Because having to be of a certain age to be exposed to *any* ideas, regardless of how controversial they are, is bullshit.]
• Because that's easy to fake.. ; )
• I don't know, maybe the type of authors I read aren't that strict
• So I could read more porn
• Because that's just a bother, and I don't like to lie
• Mostly, these are major, corporate sites (yahoo.) No guilt in lying to them. Also, sometimes, I want access to a specific fic, one that I knew wasn't really more than a hard R. Baically, if I knew the admittance process was automated, I went ahead. If I had to lie to a person and not a machine, then I went away
• I take those warnings to mean "We must cover our butts legally but this is an informal online site with high traffic & we don't have the money, time, or staff to actually verify everyone's age," and also, soem of them say "I am old enough to read this story," which might mean "I consider myself old enough EMOTIONALLY to read this story," without any specification of physical age. I also think that barring people from reading things because they happen not to have lived for 18 years is stupid. That often has very little bearing on the maturity of the individual
• If I'm willing to accept responsibility for reading the stories, they shouldn't need to know something that personal
• It's like sneaking into AA movies when you're underage. Every kid does it to get their way. What's setting the clock back a year or two?
• I never really bothered to lie if they asked for this much detail. Most stories could be found elsewhere with less hassle
• The few I have encountered of these usually had a regestration process that I did not want to fill
• accurate day and month, false year. Again, wanted to read the fics there. I just LIKE the adult stories, and have since I was too young to read them. I did what I had to to read them. At least I knew what I was getting myself into when I got daring enough to lie to get to them
• See above. [ED - Didn't want trouble. Waited 6 months.]
• See Above [ED - I am old enough to realize what I am about to read and to make an inform decision whether or not I want to read it. A few months difference in age is not going to make me anymore of less able to handle NC-17 stories. Also, NC-17 means not appropriate for people under 17. Too many sites say only people over 18 should read NC-17. If you want a story to be only for people 18 and over, rate it X and I might possibly be slightly more inclined to follow the rules.]
• because i want to enter the site as it has been sugested to me and i may find some material to read that interests me
• I wanted to read it enough to send in a fake DOB
• see reason given above [ED - I have encountered this in several Yahoo! Groupss, and have sent in a false statement because I wanted admittance to the group and was well aware I wouldn't be allowed unless I gave an age statement.]
• To read the fics
• This is lying also, see above for full explination. [ED - See this goes under lying to someone, not just to the computer, this does make me feel bad so I don't do it.]
• It's a precaution merely: the process is what's important, not the actual information given
• get in
• I used my actual birthdate, just a different year. If I wanted to read the fiction, I was going to read it. Period. And it worked, too
• See answer to previous. [ED - Mostly this was when it was only a few months to my coming of age, so I found it rather pointless to quibble. Am I any more mature now than I was one day before turning 18?]
• Dito [ED - Too much hassle]
• Same as above. [ED - I did not encounter this until I was over 18, but if I had, I would have gone elsewhere. It doesn't seem fair, otherwise.]
• because i wasn't of age, there would be no other way around it, and i didn't want to lie
• See previous. [ED - My family does not believe in literary censorship. && I was old enough to make my own decisions pertaining to reading material, and had been considered old enough by my family for years.]
• So I could read the stuff/join the group
• Because I wanted to
• Same as above. [ED - I respect the warnings but I have no particular compulsion to follow them.]
• I couldn't be bothered with the hassle of creating an account
• Wanted to read, I knew what I was likely to see, it wasn't like I was going to upset myself
• See above. [ED - Because I believe it should be about maturity, not age.]
• (see above) [ED - Hit a threshold on the amount of lying I was willing to do.]
• I'm not going to lie
• See 'Warnings.'
• Because I wanted to get to the fiction, and didn't believe what I was doing was wrong
• I believed I was emotionally mature enough to handle adult issues and so I went ahead and read about them
• Wnt in an actual dob. Because I am responsible for my own actions
• Because I'd tried the "under 13" thing before, and was bored out of my skull. I couldn't see what was so bad that I couldn't see it; I've always been mature for my age, so I was positive that I could handle it, or be smart enough to back out when I knew I was in too deep. I guess my point is that I knew that I was capable of deciding for myself when I was in over my head, and I sure as heck didn't need a computer program to do it for me
• Just didn't
• I wanted to read
• Usually they ask you to join and state your DOB there- I'm comfortable with this because it's easy enough to create throwaway accounts which can't be connected with your other accounts and it's less like lying to an actual person directly (although of course it is a lie.)
• Because I felt that I was mature enough to read the material anyway
• Only on Yahoogroups - I made a second account a couple of years older. There's no way for them to tell that it's not true. Once again, it proves that I consciously chose to read it
• Usually it's not compulsory to put in your date of birth
• I am beginning to sound like broken record here. My reasoning for this is the same as above. What I read or don't read is my choice and my choice only. [ED - As if they have any right to stop me reading what I choose to read. Like I stated above, I do not believe in censorship. My parents have never given me express permission to access material such as that, but only because it is a topic we do not need to address. There is a mutual understanding that my life is my own and therefore I should have full rights to read what I choose. If I am disturbed by something, I can close the site. I do not see the need for such extensive measures as entering credit card details etc. In my opinion, this would be an intrusion of my privacy and freedom.]
• See above answers. But again, I felt guilty. [ED - I was interested, and think it's completely ridiculous that I'm allowed to have sex and yet not actually read about it. But having said that, I was reading adult fanfic before I turned 16.]
• Same as with the age statement, plus it would feel really weird to make up a birthday just so that I could read something. I once sent in my real date of birth and got rejected
• Same reason. It's not a big deal. [ED - I don't think there's anything in them about which I don't know. If I find a story offensive or gross, I'll stop reading.]
• semt birthdate
• Didn't want to bother
• See previous answer [ED - Because I wouldn't have wanted the list/site owner to get in trouble for me reading stuff I shouldn't be reading; if I lied about it, it wouldn't be their fault if anyone complained.]
• Same as above. [ED - I believe I am mature enough to read adult-oriented fan fiction.]

Sites asking for verifiable offline contact details

Have not encountered	234	82.98%
Went elsewhere	40	14.18%
Made something up	5	1.77%
Gave someone else's details	2	0.71%
Gave someone else's details with their permission	1	0.35%

Why? (36 responses)

• i don't know if i should fill this in
• I'm paranoid. I don't like people knowing these things
• I honestly couldn't be bothered. There are so many other places to go anyway
• I prefer to keep my real life private
• Didn't want to give out contact details
• Rule number one on the internet: don't give Joe Random details about your real life, kiddos
• I don't like giving out information, especially on the net
• Because I just don't think my fandom is that big after all
• I am sure this is a v. rare phenomena, and if I ever encountered one I would go elsewhere - unless osmeeone I trust could prove me it was not for "bad" purposes
• because somebody asking me for private details really annoys me
• really wanted to read the stories
• I don't like people getting offline information over the net
• Wasn't going to make up stuff, also my parents always told me not to do stuff like that
• Too lazy
• not online, but that's very creepy
• don't like to lie and it is unsafe to give out such information
• I will not fake offical details
• Gave in mom's driving license because otherwise I won't be able to access the site, my parents see all the sites I go on as the computer is used by the whole family and so far no issue has been raised
• I don't know of a fanfiction archive that would go that far to keep underage people from reading a story
• It's not worth the bother of making something up
• Same as last question. [ED - I don't know, maybe the type of authors I read aren't that strict.]
• I don't like letting internet kooks find me, and there's plenty of poorly protected porn to be had elsewhere
• Because I didn't know these people-- Who knows who they really were? Why would I risk/want to get phone calls from people about fanfic sites? They're not my parents
• Kind of hard to fake without a lot of trouble
• I don't like to give out personal information
• See above. [ED - Didn't want trouble. Waited 6 months.]
• Again lying. [ED - See this goes under lying to someone, not just to the computer, this does make me feel bad so I don't do it.]
• I dont like lying on verifiable info, and info that could be traced back to someone i kno who could get into trouble
• i don't have that information-_-
• My fandom doesn't do that...It's a bad idea, and a dangerous
• Gave my own details because I wanted an access
• Wanted to read, I knew what I was likely to see, it wasn't like I was going to upset myself
• Because my mother agrees with me
• Just didn't
• I don't need them looking me up or telling my parents
• Usually if they ask for too many details, I don't bother and just head elsewhere

Sites asking for credit card details

Have not encountered	231	81.63%
Went elsewhere	46	16.25%
Tried my debit card	2	0.71%
Gave someone else's card details	1	0.35%
Gave someone else's card details with their permission	3	1.06%

Why? (36 responses)

• next thime one o these comes up i won't put anything
• See above, AND that I am not going to give my credit card to any Tom, Dick or Harry, even back when I was lying. [ED - I'm paranoid. I don't like people knowing these things.]
• As above, it's really not worth it. And giving your credit card details out when it's not secure is such a stupid thing to do. [ED - I honestly couldn't be bothered. There are so many other places to go anyway.]
• I *think* this is what I did, but I may have just given up. Both seem equally accurate in my memory, honestly
• It seemed like it might be a scam and I did not have my own card at that time besides
• I NEVER give out credit card details to 3rd parties
• I didn't have any cards when I was younger, so this would have defenetly stoped me
• See above. [ED - Because I just don't think my fandom is that big after all.]
• I am not paying for fanfic; and I don't have a credit card anyway
• If they're that hellbent on keeping me out, fine. But even once I turn 18 I'm not giving my credit card details to random Web sites
• really wanted to read the stories and i had my dads card number so why not
• I don't have a credit card
• Sites that ask for that aren't safe because if they get hacked there goes all the info. Also I do not have and have never had a credit card
• not online
• The only sites I've ever found asking for credit cards were real-person pay porn sites. I have no interest in those for several reasons
• don't like to lie and it is unsafe to give out such information
• I don't want to waste my money on it
• Why would someone need your credit card information so that you can read a story?
• I suppose it really does violate someone's privacy. I would not trust a stranger with my credit card details
• I prefer cheap porn
• I don't have a credit card, mainly, and it would be too much of a hassle to get one
• I didn't feel comfortable using someone else's credit card and I obviously didn't have one myself
• I don't like to give out personal information
• I give my parents details with their permission this is also important, I don't think that I would read fan fiction if my parents disapproved. They don't mind anything I do creatively.... it's not drugs right?
• I dont like lying on verifiable info, and info that could be traced back to someone i kno who could get into trouble
• that's crazy, but i remember that there are some sites that ask for payment because they are taking time out for people, i don't give out my credit card info because i don't have one
• Same as above. [ED - I respect the warnings but I have no particular compulsion to follow them.]
• I found two sites like this when I was looking for fanfiction. One of them seemed to be mostly a porn site, so I just left. The other one seemed to have a lot of stuff I wanted, so I asked my mother for permission to use her card number, and recieved it. Nowadays, I'm 20 and have my own credit card, so it's no longer a problem
• I resent the presumption that all adults have credit cards
• Just didn't
• I don't have a credit or debit, nor do I want to put in someone elses
• I did not want my identity stolen
• I don't have and don't know any credit card details
• I didn't have a credit card and didn't feel like going to the trouble of finding someone's to borrow
• Even if I'd had a credit card, I wouldn't have given the details to a random site!
• I'm not paying for fan fiction

Question 2a.3

Nothing

Have encountered	166	62.17%
Realise quickly and hit the back button	20	7.49%
Realise and be horrified - I do not want to see that!	2	0.75%
Realise and keep reading	79	29.59%

Why? (49 responses)

• -
• Those I haven't encountered seem like too much of a hassle. There's other things to read and they aren't so difficult to access. If I really want to read something, anyway, I could probably find a friend that has access and use their access password and the like
• I enjoyed the material, and, so long as no one else will get in trouble for what warnings I choose to ignore, I see no problem with lying about my age to access something I consider myself mature enough to read and understand. If material turns out to be too strong for me, I stop reading, and may or may not return to it when I think I'm ready
• See above. [ED - I was always a precocious reader, and warnings never stopped me. I figured if I was mature enough to make a concious decision about what I was reading, then I was mature enough to actually *read* it.]
• I don't think this part of the section applies to me - I'm over 18 now
• Depending exactly what it is
• I would be a little concerned about the lack of warnings for other readers, if they might not want to read slash for example, but it wouldn't bother me personally
• You can't see what's not there
• I just wanted to read I didn't care who they thought it was suited for
• I would be bit shocked at no warnings because I think they ought to be there for those who don't want to read adult material. Since I did I don't think it would bother me
• Because they were the kind of fiction I was looking for, I was above the (sexual) legal age to read explicit sex scenes and read about violence etc, so I didn't find anything wrong with it
• See above [ED - Since I am nearly 16 with multiple medical problems, I doubt I'll be having sex any time soon. The only stories I'll read are ones that are written well if they have sex, and not like porn. I am very interested in the subject of sex, but only if written in a way that isn't offensive.]
• I would have kept reading, but I would also have realized that adult material needs to include warnings of some kind. I'm in the Harry Potter fandom, so I guess small children could stumble upon adult fanart/fanfiction accidentally. But I've never encountered a site with adult content and no warnings, so I'd like to think we're very careful with that. However, I don't believe most small kids are traumatized with sex. When they see something like that they usually laugh and forget about it in the next five minutes. If you're older and are horrified - well, maybe you're just not mature enough, in which case you're not going to read it anyway. There are also people who are horrified by slash because they're homophobic and they don't like the thought of their favourite character being gay. I guess it's the 'Don't like it? Don't read it' rule. In any case, nobody has died or become a horrible person just by reading adult fanfiction, so it's not really a harmful activity. On the contrary: it's fun, it's creative and it lets you explore the aspects that are not explained in canon
• Compulsive reader
• Paraphrasing Aquinas: unjust laws are not laws at all. I think it's stupid to hold fanfiction to standards that other written works are not shoehorned into, and I think it's equally stupid to assume that adolescents hit eighteen and, by golly, suddenly the sex parts start working and it's time to be educated! Frankly, I think the optimal situation would be one in which the family was open enough for sex to be talked about realistically and gradually, but I learned more about the mechanics of sex, safe sex itself, and the shedding of sex as 'wrong' or 'dirty' than I ever got from home or school
• Er, wel, it's nothing. So I'd keep reading without even a thought towards it
• Assuming we're speaking of adult content in general, I've never really worried about it when I found it by accident in professional works or in any other form, so I don't see any reason I would worry about it in fan form
• I don't mind that kind of material
• Because I'm very stubborn
• I don't think that maturity should be based on age - there are some 30+ year-old people who have the maturity of a child. None of the stuff in the adult-rated fiction is anything I haven't read before, or know about. My mom knows what I read/write, and she's ok with that, so I see no problem
• Because i would never go as far as to steal my mums credit card
• I would probably just fin a site that didn't ask for them. I'm very happy with fanfiction.net and fictionpress.com. I'm not stupid enough to give out things like that online
• Because I'm not afraid of it
• I knew what the stories I wanted to read were about, and I feel that I'm mature enough to read them
• Redundant question
• Smut doesn't phase me. period
• This actually depends on what exactly was not warned of. If I realized I was reading something I objected to (which isn't much), then I would leave, and probably send an email to the site admins about it. Leaving off all warnings entirely is very dangerous, because you can potentially offend all sorts of people, who can then take legal action against you (for posting adult content with no measures against minors accessing it. Not that it makes that much difference. . .)
• As above. [ED - Human sexuality doesn't begin at midnight on your eighteenth birthday - and what have we learned from abstinence sex ed? That kids and teens will find the information any way they can, whether or not the local government approves. If the way they find that information is essentially riskless - physically and emotionally - then more power to them. & I have no interest in causing legal trouble for these writers but feel no need to heed restrictions when I believe myself to be mentally capable of dealing with whatever I might find within. The daily news is far more scarring.]
• Even though I am now of age, I would have continued reading. I think that as long as there are fair warnings, it is fine. If the reader is aware of what they are doing, it is fine. I have a sister that is underage and I do not think it is fair to make someone send credit card information in order to read. Some adults don't have a card, so it is not an accurate way of preventing people underage from reading. It would make the fiction world disappear
• See Above [ED - I am old enough to realize what I am about to read and to make an inform decision whether or not I want to read it. A few months difference in age is not going to make me anymore of less able to handle NC-17 stories. Also, NC-17 means not appropriate for people under 17. Too many sites say only people over 18 should read NC-17. If you want a story to be only for people 18 and over, rate it X and I might possibly be slightly more inclined to follow the rules.]
• Why wouldn't I keep reading?
• never encountered it , but would be alarmed at the lack of caution, esp in some fandoms, such as Harry Potter
• If there was no warning and I felt in the mood for it, I would just do it
• I think it's rude not to warn. I would probably shoot off an annoyed email to the writer or archiver. I feel that everyone should have access to information, but it's not fair not to warn for violence, sex, or other tough topics
• if i can't get through, then i can't get through, i'll eventually get through once i become of age
• Because I can, love
• Not bothered by much in the way of content. It's not likely to hurt me
• Because i would have read it even with a warning
• The website/author must know that only certain interested people would access the site
• Because I am responsible for my own actions
• Told you above. [ED - I would like to add "and went ew!" because horrified is a bit much.
  
  Anyway, why? Well, it's the same I would do with anything that I don't want to read. "This book is about the Civil War! I don't want to read that! Put it back!"]
• Thought about it, decided I wanted to take a look at the story anyway. if it was too horrible, I'd stop reading
• If it's a well written story, I'll probably read it anyway
• Unless it asked for something like a credit card, or ended up being really complicated, I would probably keep clicking until I got to the archive
• I like to read the fic that I want to read
• If I were already engrossed in a story, I would not turn back purely because it addressed 'adult' or 'mature' issues. There is no point trying to hide from what is real. Fiction is not a fairytale.
  I am confident that I can deal with adult content perfectly well. In fact, should a plot line call for it, I would WRITE a story containing adult/mature issues and not be 'scarred' by it
• I would continue until I'd get uncomfortable or the writing became really bad
• Well if ther's nothing I can't very well notice
• I love all fanfic! I'm addicted. If I like the title or summary, no can stop me from reading

Warnings

Have encountered	213	80.99%
Heed the warnings	9	3.42%
Ignore the warnings	25	9.51%
Beintrigued by the warning and more interested in reading it	16	6.08%

Why? (8 responses)

• somtimes i would ignore it, if i wanted to
• Just signposts to find the good stuff
• Not really worried about it. And especially once I got to be 17, I was practically there, might as well just go read it rather than wait a few months
• It makes it sound more interesting, sort of like the forbidden fruit
• authors always warn you, if not for your own protection, then for their protection, either way, it's stupid not to heed warnings
• Told you above. [ED - I didn't want anyone to get in trouble because often these warnings included "it is against the law to read these if you are not an adult"]
• I heed the wanrings but usually read on anyway, I can click that back button if I don't want to read any more
• I'd like to read it if it's good writing

Click button to confirm you are an adult

Have encountered	211	81.15%
Go elsewhere	13	5%
Click the button	36	13.85%

Why? (13 responses)

• see above [ED - somtimes i would ignore it, if i wanted to]
• Just signposts to find the good stuff
• Just a little hoop to jump through before I get to read what I want to read
• really wanted to read the stories
• why not? Censorship is stupid
• don't like to lie
• Theres no way they can tell
• Same as before. I believe I can decide for myself
• obviously because they don't want people who they do not believe can handle it to view and then blame them, thare are many idiots out there that do just that. read the warnings you twit
• Told you above. [ED - I didn't want to get anyone in trouble. Besides, that would be lying and when I grew up, I could go back and read it.]
• I don't like to lie to often
• I want to read the fic and the age thing doesn't bother me
• Because I'd realize I don't belong there

Send an age statement to the archivist

Have encountered	125	46.99%
Go elsewhere	93	34.96%
Send in a false age statement	48	18.05%

Why? (65 responses)

• -
• Never happened, but for the same reasons as above. [ED - I was having sex before I was of legal age, and one can legally have sex here several years before one is allowed to view erotica or pornography. It seemed stupid to say that I wasn't allowed to read about things that I'd already done.]
• Because I felt able to police my own reading
• too much effort - not that interested.
  Plus, it feels too much like commercial pron sites - I have imaginary lines in my head against that!
• I would take the age limit in the spirt intended, but considered myself able to handle the adult content in a mature manner
• It'd be too long and complicated... Not really worth the trouble
• Same as above -- plus, in this case I know it's just to cover the archivist's ass. I'd have justified it by saying, "They don't care what I read, they just don't want to get sued!" [ED - I was precocious? Or not, really. I think I was pretty typical in my interest in reading erotic fiction. I just think it's too bad it's so stigmatized, or maybe I would have found better stuff to read as a kid. (ASSTR isn't the hotbed of stellar writing, IMO.) I didn't find slash until I was of age. & Teenagers don't think warnings apply to *them*.]
• Why bother?
• See above. [ED - Because the age rating systems is to protect the author from legal action by the gaurdians of the minor reading the text. I understand the consequences of my actions and will not take any legal action.
  This may be compared to an adult allowing a child to watch a movie in which the rating system has reccomended to be to mature for the child. & Usually, only experienced authors try to address the more taboo themes and concepts in the story. Because these pieces of fanfic are more rare and certainly require more defense from the author against attacks by readers, the quality, characterization, narrative, etc, of the story is better]
• I am too lazy
• I'd be 18 someday. I'm not going to get them in trouble and neither is my family, therefore lying isn't really a problem
• Same as 'click the button.'
• really wanted to read the stories
• Its the only way to access the fiction
• There was plenty of fic to find (X-FIles at the time), so I just didn't bother
• Too much effort involved
• i have sent in false age statements, but sometimes i just don't feel like lying
• I feel like I can handle adult situations
• To be honest, it seemed like too much hassle
• I don't like giving out specific personal information
• Emmm... I donŽt know what exactly is an age statement (I am not an English native speaker) and, having doubts, I find more reasonable to go elsewhere
• If they're that uptight about it, their stuff can't be all that great - probably focusing more on porn than plot
• Dislike of lying. Maybe. Not really sure what I would have done when I was 16
• It's not worth the risk - no amateur is that good for me to waste time providing contacts
• don't like to lie
• see above [ED - I wanted to read adult material!]
• See my other reasons for not sticking to underage stuff [ED - I don't believe in censoring underage people from some things, like sex. If they aren't old enough to appreciate it, like I was when I first starting reading it, they'll just skip it or not read *shrug*]
• Honestly, it's too much bother. Even now that I'm of adult age, I think that it would really be too much trouble unless the author was one of my favorites
• It seems uneccessary and too much hassle
• I wanted to read it and they cant tell
• Why waste my time?
• Because I'm not going to lie to someone
• 2 x Because I can
• Same. I can decide for myself thanks
• It's a bother
• I refuse to give out my credit card or birth certificate information online due to hackers and other more sketchy characters. After having been asked to "cyber" with people and having turned them down with a good deal of exasperation and disgust, I would never let my most personal information be given to anyone I did not know and trust as there's always that chance of someone taking things too far
• I would have figured that it's too much trouble, and if the person is so concerned about underage readers as to require an age statement, probably not worth my time
• What is this? I have never heared of this before. It seems a tad bit ridiculous to me. Even though I am old enough now, I would still not send an age statement to the archivist. If they want to keep their work such a secret, they shouldn't be posting it online
• why not, i want to read the fic
• same as the other similar questions, if the age matches mine or is lower, i just send my info because i am doing it the legal way. if it doesn't match or it higher than my age, i don't bother sending anything in
• Most things are archived in multiple places; assuming I couldn't locate it elsewhere, I would send the false age statement -- but only if I really wanted to read the fic
• So I can get on the archive, y'know. If I want to read fic, then that's what I'm going to do
• I don't care what people think, it my choice
• I don't think that a few years should matter in the reading of stories, when you can buy books or watch shows on HBO that are far more explicit. I also know people who are of legal age and probably aren't mature enough to read some stories. I think that age, ultimately, says very little about a person
• Too much effort
• Because I wouldn't know quite what do, and if I would get away with it. It would seem like too much hassle
• I do not give out personal information
• Too much work for something that might be adult
• It would be lying and it's too much work
• It would be too much effort to go to, you can just as easily read fics of that type on non-regulated sites
• I wouldn't want to send my age in this personal a way to someone I don't know at all
• If I to send something to someone, I probably don't want to read it anyway
• I would not be comfortable accessing adult material or releasing personal information
• If I'm there, I inted to read. If I'm there, I can handle it
• It's too much effort
• There's enough good writing out there that was easier to get to
• I don't want to do that
• I really couldn't be bothered sending fake 'proof' of my age. If the archive is so pedantic about censorship I don't want to have anything to do with it
• That would be too much lying for me
• Too much work to be honest
• It's not worth the effort
• This would depend. Most of the time, I would just pass by it and find something else to read, but if said story appeals to me, or I've heard good reviews about it, then I'd send in a fake age and give it a go. If I don't like it, I'll just find something else
• Because I'd realize I don't belong there
• It's too much hassle to have to send things and wait for a reply, when I'm reading fiction I want to read it then and there, later I probably will have lost interest

Sites asking for your date of birth

Have encountered	127	48.29%
go elsewhere	67	25.48%
Send in a made up date of birth	69	26.24%

Why? (65 responses)

• dito [ED - somtimes i would ignore it, if i wanted to]
• See above [ED - I was having sex before I was of legal age, and one can legally have sex here several years before one is allowed to view erotica or pornography. It seemed stupid to say that I wasn't allowed to read about things that I'd already done.]
• Only if the site was worth the bother. Now I tend just to leave such things unless I can be bothered
• Because I felt able to police my own reading
• I'd send in a real dob - I'm of legal age
• Only if it seems worth the effort--curiosity
• Again, I felt mature enough to handle the content
• It'd be too long and complicated... Not really worth the trouble
• When I was underage, I was willing to ignore warnings, but I was unwilling to lie outright about my age
• See above. [ED - I was always a precocious reader, and warnings never stopped me. I figured if I was mature enough to make a concious decision about what I was reading, then I was mature enough to actually *read* it.]
• It's easy
• Way too easy to get around, I can give my correct month and day, but tack on however many years to "age me up" to 18
• I think it would depend on whether it was a site or a mailing list, but generally I wouldn't take the trouble to lie
• Because if the stories sounded like something I would want to read, well, I have always been able to get my hands on what I wanted - why should a little thing like some overrated American rating system stop me?
• See above. [ED - Because the age rating systems is to protect the author from legal action by the gaurdians of the minor reading the text. I understand the consequences of my actions and will not take any legal action.
  This may be compared to an adult allowing a child to watch a movie in which the rating system has reccomended to be to mature for the child. & Usually, only experienced authors try to address the more taboo themes and concepts in the story. Because these pieces of fanfic are more rare and certainly require more defense from the author against attacks by readers, the quality, characterization, narrative, etc, of the story is better]
• to get at the stuff and protect the people asking
• Um, why not? I've done this before with a 18+ only game. I just added a year to my age, since I was 2 months away from 18 anyway
• See above. [ED - There was plenty of fic to find (X-FIles at the time), so I just didn't bother.]
• Would have felt I was mature enough
• once again, not always worth it
• I suppose I could've made something up...but why bother?
• Same as above. [Ed - I feel like I can handle adult situations.]
• Too much hassle
• It's not worth the time to contact the authors/archivists/list moms, when I can just browse somewhere else
• See above. [ED - I don't like giving out specific personal information.]
• I did this to sites like Neopets when I was younger then 13, so I assume I would do the same thing
• Interested
• I would probably only do that if the site had been recommended to me by a friend, or if it looked really interesting
• filling in numbers doesn't seem like a lie
• It's not worth the risk - no amateur is that good for me to waste time providing contacts
• don't like to lie
• see above [ED - I wanted to read adult material!]
• Again, too much bother. It would have to be -really- good
• Same as before, they cant tell
• Again, why waste my time?
• I won't lie
• This is the same as clicking the button. When we want to read smut, we WILL read smut, one way or the other. If that involves lying, so be it
• It's not the end of the world, is it? So why not have some fun
• I can decide for myself
• It is just too tedious, I know that there arel aw suits but unless I really needed to read what was contained within, I wouldn't bother
• I might send in a made-up date, but only if it's been recommended as being really, really, really good
• I would have figured that it's too much trouble, and if the person is so concerned about underage readers as to require my date of birth, probably not worth my time
• becausse i want to enter the site
• It's easy. If you're not scared off by this kind of thing, really, there's a good chance you're "old" enough to deal with whatever the site's got
• Because I can
• why not, i want to read the fic
• same as above. [ED - same as the other similar questions, if the age matches mine or is lower, i just send my info because i am doing it the legal way. if it doesn't match or it higher than my age, i don't bother sending anything in.]
• I want to read stuff
• I only encountered these after I turned 18, so it wasn't a problem; I just sent in my real information
• See above. [ED - I don't think that a few years should matter in the reading of stories, when you can buy books or watch shows on HBO that are far more explicit. I also know people who are of legal age and probably aren't mature enough to read some stories. I think that age, ultimately, says very little about a person.]
• It's not lying to a person, it's adding another to the ranks. I'm able enough to handle it
• I do not give out personal information
• i may have done this, but I can't remember
• It would be lying and it's too much work
• Thought about it, decided I wanted to take a look at the story anyway. if it was too horrible, I'd stop reading
• I would not be comfortable accessing adult material or releasing personal information
• I won't lie and I'll be eighteen soon enough anyway
• I repeat, if I'm there, it's because I want to be, and I will read what I wish
• I'm not really that interested
• See above. [ED - There's enough good writing out there that was easier to get to.]
• I have encountered it, i just don't want to do it
• To read the fiction of course!
• Same as above. [ED - This would depend. Most of the time, I would just pass by it and find something else to read, but if said story appeals to me, or I've heard good reviews about it, then I'd send in a fake age and give it a go. If I don't like it, I'll just find something else.]
• Because I'd realize I don't belong there
• As above, it seems a waste of time when there are other sites with adult stories readily available with no hassles [ED - It's too much hassle to have to send things and wait for a reply, when I'm reading fiction I want to read it then and there, later I probably will have lost interest.]

Sites asking for verifiable offline contact details

Have encountered	22	8.18%
Go elsewhere	207	76.95%
Make something up	28	10.41%
Give someone else's details	6	2.23%
Give someone else's details with their permission	6	2.23%

Why? (128 responses)

• you should add coment boxes, i have to use these. in would do any of the last three. see above for reason [ED - somtimes i would ignore it, if i wanted to]
• I believe I know what I can take
• A site asking for offline contact details seems intensely skeevy to me, but if there was something that I wanted to read, I'd not be above looking in the phone book and making up an identity
• More likely to get caught
• I was not interested enough to enter into an elaborate deception
• Too much trouble
• Don't want to get on mailing/contact lists. Suspicious of why they would want it if not for marketing
• It's too much trouble to send personal information offline, plus the security and anonymity of the internet are gone, therefore exposing the author/site administrator as well as myself
• I'd be doubtful that anyone was actually checking. If they were, I wouldn't give someone else's details, as that would have to be may parents, who are fairly conservative and would not react well to my reaidng slash
• I do not give out my personal information for something as trivial as fanfic
• My privacy is too important to me to give people real contact information just to read fanfic
• It'd be too long and complicated... Not really worth the trouble
• I was, and remain, wary of giving verifiable offline contact details to anyone I don't know online
• I wouldn't want verifiable contact details floating around the internet -- way more personal than credit card info. Plus, this (like the credit card thing), I'd assume they could check
• I don't want someone contacting me offline
• It seems like it could be the basis of a scam
• Because it's none of their business
• I would not have provided real contact info or credit cards
• This seems far too over-protective and complicated, so I would be much less likely to bother with this kind of site
• I never give out personal details
• Too much work, and my parents/ friend's parents would probably freak out if they knew I was reading OMG SMUT!! Hypocrits, my dad still has a larger porn collection than I do
• I wouldn't give out offline contact details online, even now I am over the age of majority
• To much trouble, again..
• Because it's too much hassle
• Because I have no desire to give out that detailed information online just for reading fiction
• I would have never given offline contact details to a complete stranger on the Internet
• Too much hassle. Easier to find elsewhere
• Didn't know how to fake and/or didn't want to get caught
• I wouldn't give out private information anyway. Good fiction is easy to get without doing that
• Heh. I don't like giving out offline contact details to people online
• Why not? That's too easy..
• Same as credit card details
• To much trouble
• my offline life has nothing to do with my online life. I feel better and safer being anonym
• See above. [ED - There was plenty of fic to find (X-FIles at the time), so I just didn't bother.]
• Too much effort
• I suppose I could've made something up...but why bother? asking someone for their information was NOT an option
• too much bother
• I wouldn't want to give someone else's details, and I wouldn't want to go through the trouble of explaining to my friends or family what it's for. Making something up isn't reliable, but I could try at the very least
• This seems waaay too personal for my liking. I wouldn't feel comfortable with it
• I would never give verifiable details to anyone on the internet, because I read "in secret" (underage)
• See above. [ED - I don't like giving out specific personal information.]
• Not only is not safe to give out those details to sites, esspecialy fansites, but there are other sites I can look at. And if they feel that strongly towards prevention I'd respect that
• I donŽt like giving that kind of details via Internet
• Why would they need that stuff?
• No story is that important
• very creepy
• I refuse to give my real contact details to any site that isn't sending me things I bought from it, a government tax/scholarship/form fill-out site or a place (like a bank) I have personal business with offline. I don't see any other reason they need to know
• Giving someone verifiable offline contact details for fanfic would have made things a little uncomfortable, had they actually called my home. Especially had my mother, who is a Calvinist, and believed in corporal punishment, been the person contacted
• It's not worth the risk - no amateur is that good for me to waste time providing contacts
• don't like to lie and it is unsafe to give out such information
• There are plenty of places I can go that don't have that level of security. I don't mind lying on an anonymous website about my birthdate, but I'm paranoid about my offline details
• If I really wanted to see the material, I'd lie to get to it
• That's a little too invasive of personal privacy for me, whether before or after achieving adult age
• don't want to lie
• I don't think that maturity should be based on age - there are some 30+ year-old people who have the maturity of a child. None of the stuff in the adult-rated fiction is anything I haven't read before, or know about. My mom knows what I read/write, and she's ok with that, so I see no problem
• I do not feel confortable giving anything other than my email address out on the internet
• I'm not THAT trusting
• I dont understand what that means
• I think it would be too difficult to make something up, and it wouldn't be worth the effort
• Too much effort, whether i was under or overage, when I could easily find fic of a similar nature elsewhere
• I'm not giving out anyone's personal information. It's not their business
• Probably not worth it
• When it gets right down to it, what I choose (chose) to read is up to me and my offline contacts is nobody's buisness but my own
• I don't think it would be worth the hassle to make false details up when they have to be confirmed off-line
• I don't trust personal details on the internet
• It isn't too hard to make up contact details, so why not?
• Because the sites normally don't check anyways
• What's the point? If I want to make contact with that person I'll do it myself. Besides, I don't like giving that stuff out without knowing them
• Same as last. [ED - It is just too tedious, I know that there arel aw suits but unless I really needed to read what was contained within, I wouldn't bother.]
• Who does that? It's just WRITING. That's like fining kids for sneaking into R movies..
• I would be lying to a person, not to the computer admitting me. Plus, that would be too detailed a lie
• Any time a site reaches into the real world, it becomes very difficult to hide the fact that you are underage in ways that cannot be prosecuted. It's too risky, and there are plenty of other sites
• I cannot think of any decent fanfiction page that would utilize this type of method - fandom is a community, and a fairly paranoid one at that. Almost every writer uses a penname, and the readers beside. Asking for verifiable details somehow seems like an affront to this, especially as the fandom itself could be construed as illegal or a violation of copyright - a paper trail on either side is not recommendable
• Same reason as listed for verification of birth
• I don't want to give people on the net details about my personal life. If they want my information, they will have to look for it, without assistance
• I don't give out my RL info to anyone, even for fics. I don't like the risk involved, being a writter myself. I do not need one of those crazy. anti-slash nuts who threatens writters to have a way to find out who I am. All it'd take is setting up a site like that and claiming to have the fics, afterall, you don't know they don't til they get the info they want
• I don't think it's a good idea to give out such details on the internet; especially for a fic now, and I certainly didn't then
• I don't mind making an account with false information, but I'm not going to try and get other people to lie for me
• It's too much effort, particularly if it's just one story
• Too much of a bother
• Well honestly, it's not worth that much. If the site owner/author is that paranoid, I wouldn't want to be the straw that breaks the camel's back, so to speak
• Suspicion of the internet. Never needed to read something that badly
• too lazy to make up details
• Never would I consider giving any details to anyone online, fake or not. The closest I have ever come is what state I live in. This is just asking to be taken advantage of
• Risssky, my precious
• too much hassle
• That can't be safe, can it? I don't want to give out my personal details online
• seems shady and dangerous
• Offline contact information is not something to be shared
• Because it wasn't worth it
• I would be alarmed by this method, seeing as how it is very dangerous to give contact details to complete strangers
• I probably would have asked my mother if I could use hers, since she doesn't believe in censorship at that age (17)
• seems very dangerous
• There are enough fanfiction archives online that I wouldn't bother with sending in offline contact details. I use the internet to read stories because it is convienient. If it begins to interfere with my real life, then it's lost that convienience
• Why bother? Go elsewhere with easier access
• I would ask my parents if they felt that I was old enough to handle the content of the site the site, explain to them why I felt I was old enough, and then based on their reaction, if they gave permission, use their details, if not, go elsewhere
• Wouldn't want to be traced by random people I don't know on the internet. Could be a scam
• Because it would seem simpler just to go somewhere else where i could get to fiction more quickly
• Quite simply put, the idea that children need to be "protected" from adult content is pure nonsense. They could always go to the movies/watch tv/read romance books/ask friends/etc to find out about adult issues. It's silly to try to shelter them from the real world just because they're under some arbitrary age. Do people really want formerly sheltered children to suddenly be bombarded with adult issues they're not prepared to handle? Second, some people who happen to be younger than the age of majority are incredibly mature; on the other hand, some people who are supposedly adults cannot think of behave maturely. I believed I was emotionally mature enough to handle adult issues and so I went ahead and read about them
• I do not give out personal informations
• Too much work for something that might be adult
• Because lying on stuff like this makes it seem more like I'm doing something illegal than aware that I can make my own decisons
• I am very careful about giving out personal information online
• Because that is stupid. You should never give your personal information online unless you really know the person
• It would be too much effort to go to, you can just as easily read fics of that type on non-regulated sites. Plus I don't want to go giving out too much information
• I wouldn't want to send information about me to someone I don't know at all
• Because the fact that to register to use messageboard requires zip codes and stuff really bugs me; it's not anybody's buisiness!
• I would not be comfortable accessing adult material or releasing personal information
• This is the internet. Contact details are...dangerous, unless it's someone you know very well. I'm not going down that road
• I wouldn't want to have to deal with it
• I don't feel comfortable with giving any verifiable offline contact details, whether they're mine or someone elses; this level of complication is just too much trouble, and I've never yet found anything I had to do this for so my refusal to do so isn't really inconveniencing me at all
• Too much effort, and an invasion of privacy
• See above. [ED - There's enough good writing out there that was easier to get to.]
• Too much hassle, though it depends what they were asking for. They would probably only be available to Americans anyway, or it would be to expensive to call / write and verify details
• Why on earth would I want to do that? Too much risk
• I would be outraged if a site asked for offline verifiable contact details in order to make sure I was of age. The stories I choose to read are my choice and my parents' choice. The government/law has no business in it
• Because it would have to be verified, and I don't give out contact details
• That would be too much lying
• It seems like such an invasion of privacy to ask for offline contact details
• Dude, too much work just to read a story that will probably be crappy anyway
• not encountered
• I don't give contact details online
• Too much trouble; most stories are archived on several sites
• Not worth the effort
• It's not worth going through that much trouble just to read a story.
  
  But, if the story was supposed to be super-duper-amazing, then maybe I'd make something up
• Because I'd realize I don't belong there
• as above [ED - It's too much hassle to have to send things and wait for a reply, when I'm reading fiction I want to read it then and there, later I probably will have lost interest.]

Sites asking for credit card details

Have encountered	25	9.4%
Go elsewhere	228	85.71%
Try my debit card	2	0.75%
Give someone else's card details	5	1.88%
Ask a friend or parent's permission to give their card details	6	2.26%

Why? (124 responses)

• the last two i would do but i don't think i really want to be bothered
• I never give out my credit card details. Never
• I'd go elsewhere, less because I am/was opposed to paying for fic (which I do, at some points,) and more because I'm poor
• Would never give credit card details to a fiction site
• I do not have a credit card, and I would not give out credit card information over the internet
• 2 x Too much trouble
• Don't want to pay for such things; wary of giving out credit card info not at major commercial sites
• Credit card information completely destroys all semblance of anonymity
• Would be suspicious of a scam. Also, I don't have a debit card
• Don't have a credit card, but would not give out such information if I did. I would be wary that any site asking for such info. is scamming me
• My privacy is too important to me to give people real contact information just to read fanfic
• It'd be too long and complicated... Not really worth the trouble
• I still wouldn't give credit card information to a non-commercial website that asked for it
• I'm not comfortable asking a friend to use a credit card in order to read adult materials
• Right, give someone credit card details so I could illegally read fanfic. I was a lot of things as a young teen, but *that* stupid I wasn't
• No way am I giving out my credit card number
• I would not have provided real contact info or credit cards
• I don't trust credit card details with that group/individual
• I am generally suspicious of giving out my credit details over the web in any case, unless it's from a notably secure site like Amazon, so I would ignore sites like this
• I never give out credit card details
• At 16 I *had* a credit card with my mom's name on it, so that wouldn't have been difficult to get around. I didn't encounter that much security, though
• I wouldn't give out my credit card details online, even now I am over the age of majority
• I don't do the whole online credic card thing, it's just too dangerous to me
• It seems to be overkill to ask for a credit card for fiction
• Same as above. [ED - I would have never given offline contact details to a complete stranger on the Internet.]
• N/A
• no fan would do this
• Too much hassle. Easier to find elsewhere. Also, sounds like a scam
• Don't have a credit card and don't want to give out that info
• I wouldn't give out private information anyway, and certianally not a credit card number to a site I don't find reliable. Good fiction is easy to get without doing that
• I didn't have a credit card. And I generally don't like giving out my credit card details either unless I'm actually buying something at a reputable site
• I don't want to give out any true personal info just to read a story that may not even be that good to begin with..
• If the fic asks for a credit card statement? WTF? No way. It's not worth it. I can find better writing elsewhere
• To much trouble
• I wouldn't give this away
• Same. Wouldn't bother. [ED - There was plenty of fic to find (X-FIles at the time), so I just didn't bother.]
• Unsafe
• I don't give out those kinds of details
• Too much of a hassle
• Again, this is waaay too personal, and there is no way I'd trust a stranger with that kind of info
• I would never give these out to anyone
• See above, especially with something as sensitive as credit cards
• 2 x Not safe
• I donŽt like giving that kind of details via Internet and IŽm not gonna pay for reading a hot fandom
• Too lazy
• Again, why would they need that? If they're really running that level of security, it's probably not stuff I want to read anyway
• See above. [ED - No story is that important.]
• fear of being charged
• I don't have a credit card, neither would I pay to access fanfiction
• don't like to lie and it is unsafe to give out such information
• I'm not prepared to go that far to get something I can more easily get elsewhere
• If I'm going to spend money on a story, adult or no, I'd rather it be something I can hold in my hands
• 1) don't want to lie
  2) don't wish to give out that info
• I won't fake official documents
• I'm not giving my credit card information out
• I would never go that far
• I'd be paranoid they were going to make charges on it
• I wouldnt give credit card details out online to an unknown source, under or overage
• Now worth it at all
• That one just screams " SCAM"
• I generally don't trust websites that ask for credit card numbers anyway
• Forging credit card details takes too much work and somehow seems more dishonest. Besides, there are plenty of other places where adult material can be found
• My friend always lets me use it anyways
• Uuuhhhh, never in a million years. WAY too risky. It's like I'm iniviting identity theft
• Too many opportunities for fraud and such
• Okay... That borders on the creepy. If they care that much about age, I'll leave their damn writing alone
• Same as above. Plus, if a site requires a credit card, I ignore it for security reasons
• Any time a site reaches into the real world, it becomes very difficult to hide the fact that you are underage in ways that cannot be prosecuted, especially when money is potentially involved, as with credit cards. It's too risky, and there are plenty of other sites
• As above. [ED - I cannot think of any decent fanfiction page that would utilize this type of method - fandom is a community, and a fairly paranoid one at that. Almost every writer uses a penname, and the readers beside. Asking for verifiable details somehow seems like an affront to this, especially as the fandom itself could be construed as illegal or a violation of copyright - a paper trail on either side is not recommendable.]
• Because I wasn't (and still am not) dumb enough to give my (or anyone else's) credit card information out on the internet lightly
• because i dont have a credit card and i dont lie about that..
• This one there is no way to get around it without stealing someone's card details or at least using them, which I would not like to have to do. That is relying on someone. I don't like being under that kind of power
• no way to get around it
• Same reason as for birth and offline details
• 2 x I don't have a credit card
• Because I would have thought that it's a scam designed to steal credit card data (which I still would if I came up on it now)
• I wouldn't give credit card details to anyone I wasn't buying something from
• FUCK NO. Unless it's an zine, they need not know anything about any credit cards. Are they really THAT interested in keeping underager's out? I mean... come ON!
• I have yet to encounter a a fiction site that I'd be willing to give anybody's credit card information for
• Could well be a scam
• too lazy, plus more traceable if you fake
• Do people actually do this? Later, when they've realized $12,000 is missing from their credit accounts, do they wonder why?
• Altogether reprehensible and risky, not to mention utterly inane to give one's cred details to an unknown source
• I will not give out anyone's credit card details, in fear of causing credit card fraud
• Dito [ED - Too much hassle]
• This is even less safe than giving out my address
• i don't have a credit card
• This is something else that ought not to be shared
• Because I never give out credit card details on line. It's a bit risky
• Because it wasn't worth it
• Same as above. Why would I give my credit card number to some random fanfic author? [ED - I would be alarmed by this method, seeing as how it is very dangerous to give contact details to complete strangers.]
• didn't have a credit card
• I don't have a credit card, and I wouldn't feel right sending in someone else's credit card details
• Why bother? Go elsewhere with easier access
• Neither myself nor my parents ever give out details about their credit cards
• Could be a scam
• I wouldn't want the danger of getting found out
• Quite simply put, the idea that children need to be "protected" from adult content is pure nonsense. They could always go to the movies/watch tv/read romance books/ask friends/etc to find out about adult issues. It's silly to try to shelter them from the real world just because they're under some arbitrary age. Do people really want formerly sheltered children to suddenly be bombarded with adult issues they're not prepared to handle? Second, some people who happen to be younger than the age of majority are incredibly mature; on the other hand, some people who are supposedly adults cannot think of behave maturely. I believed I was emotionally mature enough to handle adult issues and so I went ahead and read about them
• I do not give out personal information, plus, I don't have a credit/debit card
• Too much work for something that might be adult. And I have no credit card
• Because lying on stuff like this makes it seem more like I'm doing something illegal than aware that I can make my own decisons
• If the first is stupid, this is moronic. Never, EVER give out your credit card information!
• It would be too much effort to go to, you can just as easily read fics of that type on non-regulated sites. Plus I don't want to go giving out too much information
• Because being asked that would tick me off. Every messageboard does the zip code thing, its not the admin, and its easy to lie. But what if I gave a false credit card number, and caused someone to be ripped off? I couldn't risk doing that to someone
• I would not be comfortable accessing adult material or releasing personal information
• Exposes you to fraud, danger, and your parents' scrutiny when explaining why you want their card details. I don't think so
• Why do they need my credit card details? That would irritate me. I wouldn't want to give the details to them, even if I was an adult
• Same as above- dont feel comfortable with this level of intimacy. I wouldn't give my creditcard or debit card details to _anyone_ except an extremely reputable site like Amazon, and it's jsut too much trouble that I don't need to go to
• There's no reason that they should know any of my credit card details
• I know my parents wouldn't let me use their card. There are plenty of other, easier places I could read anyway
• I only do that if it's a reputable online store. Even then I've only done it once
• As above, I would be disgusted if a site asked credit card details in order to make sure I was of age. Who do they think they are?
• Because I don't have a credit card, don't want to ask anyone else, and think it could be quite dangerous
• That would be too much lying for me
• Again, way too much of an invasion of privacy. The idea of giving my credit card information to a site just so that I can access adult material makes me very uncomfortable
• have not encountered
• I only give credit card details to online shopping sites
• Not worth the effort plus privacy concerns
• This is totally not worth it. You don't know what these people will do with your information
• Because I'd realize I don't belong there
• Again, this is just way too much trouble, especially if you had to go to the lengths of making up a card, and I would not use someone else's

Question 2a.4

If you said you have done, or would do, something other than leave when you encountered an age checking system that required action on your part, do you consider what you did, or would do, to be lying?

I always left the site	24	8.51%
Yes	102	36.17%
Yes, but you are expected to lie so no-one really cares	14	4.96%
Yes, but it doesn't matter because it isn't illegal	17	6.03%
Not really, it is all a joke anyway	6	2.13%
Yes for some of the things, no for others	66	23.4%
No	36	12.77%
No because I had permission	5	1.77%
Not sure	12	4.26%

Why? (155 responses)

• it does not matter becuase it is needless censership and is fundermentaly wrong and should be based on the users opinion and judgement not some random adult who has NO idea what kids are like or even what the person is like
• Because, for one thing, the "rules" that say only over-18s should read explicit material are only unwritten rules. And I disagree with the age-limit. The age of consent is the same thing in my head; merely something to protect those who are innocent from harm. I knew what I was doing the first time I clicked the button saying I was above the age of 18; ergo, I was not an innocent and ergo I was consenting
• Well, it's obviously untrue, so it's a lie. That said, I feel like it's sort of a justified lie. I mean, honestly, it seems ridiculous to say that people can legally have sex at sixteen, but no porn until you're eighteen
• I think I explained my active/passive lying thing above. [ED - I didn't want to actively lie to someone. I've always seen clicking something as a form of passive lying, but the minute someone else gets involved...]
• Because age verification is designed to confirm that one is mature enough to read items with X content, as well as protect the author. So long as I feel I am so then I feel I'm obeying the spirit of the idea, if not the letter, and I would not get an author in trouble (nor would my parents be the type inclined, even when I shared a computer) for something *I* chose to do
• Yes it is lying. I'm quite happy to admit that, but I feel that it is not harming anyone but me. Perhaps the web administrators could get into trouble, but I doubt it. My parents would not prosecute for a start, and it is not the administrator's responsibility to monitor what I read. If they have warnings it is my responsibility
• Because you are deliberately telling an untruth. Even if 'no one really cares'
• Because I was saying I was old enough to read the fics when I wasn't
• The only one I do, I believe, is click the button to say I'm an adult. No, I would not consider that to be lying because I believe what that's really asking is, "are you mature/adult enough to read this type of fanfiction?" If I feel like I am mature enough, then why not answer yes?
• Physical age isn't the real issue; it's maturity, and whether the reader is emotionally and mentally prepared for "adult" content. If a reader goes ahead and tries to read because they consider themselves ready, then I wouldn't say it's lying
• I'm of
• I understand that I am lying but I don't think that my lies affect anyone except me. If an author or administrator has an age-checking system on their site, they have turned responsibility over to the reader and therefore I don't think they're liable for action taken by an individual
• Most people are just covering their asses. They don't care if I'm technically a few months too young to be reading their fic. I've also come across adults who, knowing I was about 12, made sexually explicit stories easily available to me. Had I encountered an age-checking system at that time, I would have turned away
• No, because, as I stated, I have only encountered such measures as an adult and the information I've given has been true
• Certain authors left me with the impression that they only put the age restrictions in place to avoid getting in trouble if a minor was caught reading their fiction.
  
  I also knew that if I'd asked my parents for permission to read it, I would have been allowed to. But I was embarrased to ask
• It was lying, definitely, but I don't really regret it. Reading adult fiction never changed my behavior; it was just something else to read
• I considered it dishonest, but taken in the spirit intended. I've encountered age-statement lists after I'd reached the legal age of majority; I think I'd have had a harder time faking those because it involves lying to a person (even via email) rather than a button
• My parents didn't mind at the time, nor do they now. They don't care
• A lie is a lie, whether it's digital or not. However, I'm not sure I'd consider it to be an unethical lie (depending on circumstances), because I genuinely think it's *un*ethical to restrict teenagers from reading erotic fiction
• I felt like if I sent something in to an acutal other person, that would *really* be lying, and I felt too bad about that. Clicking a button, no one else had to know. But it was still, you know, *lying*, I just didn't bother feeling bad about it
• Yes, and I shouldn't have. It's still dishonest, even if it affects nobody but yourself. If it does end up affecting someone else - which it could if a younger kid/teen with really strict parents were caught reading it and the parents do something about it, then it could have pretty serious consequences
• I was aware that I was establishing that the moral burden was upon myself but did not care
• Well, of course it was lying. But it didn't hurt anyone. Those systems are in place to prevent children accessing things they can't handle. I may have been underage, but I was no child
• It's not true, ergo it must be a lie; but what they're actually asking is "are you mature enough to read this content without freaking out and getting your parents to sure us?" Since I didn't freak out, and I don't think the content did me any damage, nobody's lost-- it's one of those rare things, the victimless crime
• The less severe warnings, like 'click a button to show you're an adult', would not seem to me to be so much of a lie. (Many places I've heard of operate a Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy for this kind of thing anyway.) But things like giving false credit information would be much more serious
• Because, by definition, I *lied* about my age. I was curious and wanted to know more
• I'm presenting false information about my age, I know that. But, honestly, especially on small websites, who is going to go through and check every IP address that comes through? What do you do about people who log in from school computers or library computers? They certainly can't be traced without a good deal of work, and what's the point? Are you going to charge the minor for reading about sex? I hardly see how that is fair when one can walk into the romance section of the library at ANY age and pick up a Harlequin novel and be exposed to pretty much the same thing
• I was lying when I clicked the 'I am an adult' button because legally I was not an adult, but I was also accepting responsibility, as I understood it, for lying
• I felt that I was old enough to make the decision to read what I liked. I took the view that the warnings were there to protect people who didn't want to read, or weren't adult enough to make the decision for themselves
• Never really thought about it - there was stories, I wanted to read - and what kind of system requires minimum ages for written material anyway...?
• Well, I see the age warning more in regards to a warning asking the readers if they truly want to read that kind of content. If people know and approve, actually even want to read it, then I don't consider that to be lying. They aren't really asking for an age, more relieving themselves of any culpability should there be any to begin with
• I know the person who owns the site is trying to protect themselves. I personally feel I am mature enough to read what I'd like to a this point
• I don't believe in fixed age limits, and I judged my maturity then to be enough to read the stories in question, in particular since I was already reading mature material in deadtree format, with my parents' permission
• While I understand the issues associated with lying about my age, I feel confidant that my legal guardians would support my decisions if contacted about my actions. We would not be the party that would have taken legal action
• It is lying, but as I said in one of my previous answers, it's all about personal choice. I wouldn't go so far as to give personal or credit card details, but ignoring a warning to read adult fanfiction is no big deal. It may be illegal for you to read that, but laws aren't perfect and they can be wrong about some things. I won't let my government decide for me if I am mature enough to read slash. I happen to know myself better, thank you very much
• Mental and chronological age are not the same thing; I was "matuire" enough to handle the content, even if I was not technically legal
• Many writers I know were in the same position and it's just used to cover your own ass. They know underage people are reading their fic and they don't mind
• The barricades are put in place to protect the authors, I understand that. But if the goverment believes that most, say 16 year olds, have no concept of what sex is, they are deluding themselves. Also, it's not really the protection of the teenage reader, it simply perpetuates their ignorence. I believe a teenager should be exposed to the idea of sexuality instead of being left sheltered. Ignorence like that is what causes unwanted pregnancy's and STD's. Sex is not something dirty, something to be hidden, it's a part of human nature, and among consenting parties, should be treated as such
• Well, it is. "Are you 18 or older?" "Nope, but you can't tell that." That's a lie. It was a lie without much in the way of consequences, however. Those warnings are there to protect the authors and archivists, and I respect that
• Everyone lies, I think this is pretty silly in the scheme of things
• I consider my own judgment more important to whether I can handle reading something than the number of years I've been on this earth. Lying about one's age in these matters won't hurt anyone, and if a webmaster is silly enough to think that only people over 18 are mature enough to read what's on her site, she deserves to be lied to on that particular issue. If she only puts the verification system there to please TPTB, then she obviously doesn't care if you lie, she's just (understandably) trying to cover her ass
• Sure it's lying. But the situation is the culture's issue, not mine
• well alot of the stories that had warning did not really need an NC-17 rating an R rating would have been fine so it wasn't really rong for mr to read them at the time
• The warnings are mostly just there so the website owner doesn't have to deal with people flaming them, I don't many of them even CARE what age you are, so I don't really consider it lying
• I felt guilty to say something that wasn't true, but I knew that my parents wouldn't mind
• A lot of kids are very mature even if they aren't legal yet. If a kid isn't mature or legal, then it's up to the parents to prevent them from going places they aren't supposed to (ie monitor their internet activity). I don't see why people who write fiction and publish it online should have to concern themselves with age warnings. It's pointless
• Because you are giving false information so it is lying
• Some of the things specifically said '18 or age of consent in your country'. Then I definitely wasn't lying. Some only said 18, so I suppose I was lying, but I felt it was implied that it meant 'or age of consent'. Some others, yeah, I definitely lied
• Yes it's lying, but I don't care. I have a more mature mind then some adults I could mention
• I was mature enough to know what I could and could not handle reading
• Why do I consider it lying? Because it is. I do feel guilty for it, so I usually avoid checking systems. I don't consider it lying to read a warning about mature material and read anyway-- that's a different sin. :-p
• As I said before, I am very close to the age of majority, and I doubt that I'll suddenly become more mature on my 18th birthday
• Yes, I feel gulity when you have to send in an age statement
• The answer is appliable to the present day. Before being nineteen years... the answer is yes
• It is unquestionably lying, but I take (took) full responsibility for my own actions
• Because it *is* lying. However, it doesn't hurt or affect anything, except perhaps the author's sensitivities if s/he finds out, which I can scout out and be careful of
• Because no matter how you twist it, I'm still underage
• Again, my country has 21 as the legal age, but the ratings were NC-16, so I believe I qualified to read it.
  
  Also, at that time I was /writing/ fiction with that rating, so it is quite ridiculous that I would not be able to read my own works
• don't like to lie
• Well, it's stating something which isn't true, so it's lying by definition
• I considered the legal age limit to be a stupid rule
• I don't know that you can lie to nothing or a warning. A button is lying to a computer. Things where you have to tell someone else your age would be lying
• There's no point in trying to keep people from freely reading what they wish
• If a person is old enough to make concsious decisions on what they choose to do, then it shouldn't matter if they are 17 or 18, a difference of one day or one year is not a big deal. But it's different if the matter involves minors, those not above the age of consent
• I was afraid of reading something that would shock me or being caught in a lie if I tried to cheat those checking systems
• i don't consider lying to an automated server lying
• Yes, I know that telling an age other than what you are is lying, but no, I don't look at it that way most of the time
• Some ratings are NC-17, and as I was 17 at the time I felt that I could read them
• I am not over the age of majority. I dont care because I don't believe that one should have to be over the age of majority to read those things
• Lying is lying, no matter the excuses. I accepted the consequences for my own actions
• Well, i dont see why i shouldnt read it ive heard all about the sort of things that are in it. Maybe a young child shouldnt read it but i dont see why i shouldn't
• It's lying, but I think the age restrictions are stupid. Admittedly, a lot of people couldn't handle it at that age. I could, so I ignored it
• In certain situations I have lied, for example sying I was over a certain age, but this is not a lie I have a problem with, because there are unlikely to be consequences, it's my responsibility if there are, and the warnings are there more for the protection of the site owner than the reader - I believed myself able to cope with the material I would access as a result. Its no different to watching an 18 rated film when underage
• I know my maturity level. I don't really care. It's writing
• Because most of the sites that I went on were run by friends of mine who knew I was seventeen and able to handle it. I got sexually explicit fanfiction as a joke for my seventeenth birthday; none of them cared
• Because technically it is lying. But you can't prosecute someone for being a liar
• It is lying , but i didn't care because I knew I could handle the story
• If you say you're older than you are, of course it's lying. It's not even justifiable. I just do it because I like reading R- and NC-17-rated fanfictions
• because i don't judge fiction on whether it contains adult material, and i consider myself to be mature enough to deal with it. If i find anything I can't cope with reading, i go elsewhere
• Of course I've lied. According to my records, I've been eighteen since I was twelve. I'm not going to deny the fact that I've lied. I just don't feel particularly dishonest. I know that it IS a lie, but it doesn't FEEL like a lie. After all, I'm spreading my art form. Shouldn't I get the opportunity to learn from my peers, regardless of my age?
• But hey, it's not hurting anyone is it? So the real question is, why not?
• Some of the sits ask if you're an adult. Adult isn't really a chronological thing
• I appreciate the warnings but I really do think I have the right to decide for myself. It's my own fault if I'm offended or hurt by what they wrote so it's not like I'd go after them or anything
• In my opinion, the warnings are there to make sure you know what you are getting into. The moderaters do their part by telling you that the material is not suitable for certain ages. If you go through and don;t like what you see....it isn't their fault anymore, it's yours
• Obviously, if it asks specifically, "Are you over 18?", then I am lying. If it simply says, "No! Don't sully my lily-white mind!", then no, I'm not. Because I honestly do appreciate good writing with adult themes, and I understand that sometimes, they're absolutely necessary to the plot
• Of course I was lying, to say otherwise would be fooling myself. However, I made it a policy only to lie to machines. If a human verified the information, I went elsewhere
• Submitting false information about yourself is technically a lie. But unless the age-checking system requires something more substantial than your word, there's no way for anyone to find out that you lied, so obviously many people are going to lie, so you'll never get caught & it doesn't matter. Also, I don't personally believe that restricting access solely on the basis of age makes real sense (though I guess for lack of a better one it works), so I don't consider myself to be breaking any real rules anyway
• It is absolutely a lie. It is, in my mind, a lie without terrible implications for one's moral compass, but it is a lie
• Lying about my age is still lying, but if I felt I was mature enough to handle the site's contents, that was my decision. The site admins weren't my parents, had no connection to me, and therefore were in no position to tell me what I could or could not read
• It is asking for confirmation on age, but what it is really there for is to ensure that the reader is aware of their actions' implications. When someone has to click something, they have to understand what they are doing. If they do, then it should be fine
• Technically I was lying. But in a way, it was a white lie. I don't condone lying to people, but when it's lying to get into a site so that you can read stories that are potentially explicit...you're not hurting anyone. If it was going to hurt the site owner or make them shut down their site, I would be less inclined to click that little button. Of course, you can always have your of-age friends send you account passwords and such. There are ways around these things
• But really, what choice did I have if I really wanted to read the stories? What teenager wants to wait 4 years to read something?
• But it wouldnt matter because my parents would give their consent for me to read explicit materials at the time i started reading stories of that sort
• It depends on the wording of the age checking system. I cannot, to my sensibilities, out-right lie. It is against my honor system
• yes, it was lying. plain and simple. But I figured so long as I knew what I was getting myself into, and didn't care, what did it matter? I know how to use the back button when I DO get in over my head, or find I don't care for a story. I wasn't about to complain to anyone just cause I didn't like it. All I had to do was not read it. It was my choice, and I was mature enough to make it
• Well... legally I wasn't of age... but, come on, guys!! 6 months!
• I'm either implying my age to be other than it is, or explicitly stating it to be otherwise. That's a lie. However, I don't really care
• And I won't lie to you now.
  It's all automated - no computer is going to meet me, have a conversation with me, and acknowledge the fact that I might be a bit ahead of my age. (I was reading Ayn Rand in 7th or 8th grade, here...)
  Again, it's the same with anonymous people online. If they know me, I'm fine with them knowing I'm a bit young. But they're in no place to make judement calls like that having never met me
• I do not really consider it to be lying because age verification is more of a guideline, it cannot possibly adhere to everybody's tastes and mind development. I enjoy adult content, am aware of human sexuality and am not ignorant about it. I can handle reading adult content whether it be of a sexual, violent, or an abusive nature. I know what I can handle, the age verification systems do not!
• Well it is a lie, obviously, if it's not the truth. But I'm not worried about it
• Some things are differnt, I don't consider clicking a button to be lying to anyone
• its sending in false info...like getting a fake id. its by simple definiton lying, and also illegal. im not ignorant of that but it wont make a difference to me because the chance that anyone will check is THAT slim. and anyway, they're really only there so that the author doesnt get in trouble with anyone - theyre so easy to get past that its quite obvious that noone cares
• It was lying. But I just didn't care. I still don't care. If I hadn't started reading fanfiction at an early age, I wouldn't still be reading it now. I have no problem with saying what needs to be said in order to read an online story. If there is such a problem with the story that the author feels it needs so many security features, why post it online at all? Take it offline and avoid the hassle
• As I have said, most of the time I was a few months from 18, so I did not feel great pangs of conscience. When I was younger, however, I did feel guilty afterwards, because conscious lying is not a trait I like to perceive in myself
• well...its sending false information isnt it...its lying but a white lie that ain't goin to get noone hurt
• I know that giving a false age statement of any kind is lying. However, the restriction of age is designed to retain the innocence of childhood. I've been reading slash fiction containing adult content since I was twelve years old. Even at twelve years old, I had been a part of events that, if written, would be considered "adult content," and so reading fiction of that kind is of no loss of innocence
• I was willing to lie. I would not lie about something important, and I would not have lied to my parents if they had asked me what I do online, but I felt that I ought to be able to read what I want
• I do not consider it to be lying because I understand that you can be over 18 and still be immature, just as you can be under 18 and be very mature. I consider myself to be in the latter category more often than not
• there is no why. if i get permission i go, if i don't i leave
• Because it is lying. However, I am responsible for my own actions, and in my home I'm allowed to read whatever I please. So, although I was lying, I would not have gotten in trouble for it
• Yes, of course it's lying. But somehow I don't feel too bad about it. As long as my 'rents don't find out of course
• Yes, it is lying, and yes, I am okay with that
• It's my perogative. f i want to see something, i'll find a way to see it
• The age verification is there to protect children and those easily offended from "harmful" info, my lying was wrong but it only affected me so I'm not very bothered
• The only thing I ever lied about was when it said "Click here to verify that you are 18" because that was just so pointless. My seven-year-old cousin could have clicked that. I think it's more a way for the webmasters to cover their a**es in case somebody's parent complained, than anything else. All the other things, I either told the truth, streched the truth, or used my mother's information, all of which was true
• Its hard to explain, if you obey the rules to an extent you can still explore a site safely and without encountering anything that you wont like
• My mother knows I read fanfiction and I'm responsible
• because I was, technically, falsely representing myself. However, at the point when I did start reading adult material, as I said, I felt I, personally, was mature enough to handle it
• Legally, I understand why websites have age verification systems. But I honestly don't think that someone who is 18 is necessarily more mature than someone who is 16. I know plenty of 18-year-olds who are quite immature
• Most of what I have encountered says, "You must be 18 or older to enter." When I am asked if I am 18, I generall leave. It's all in semantics -- I'm not lying if I wasn't asked
• Yes, proceeding through warnings to such sites while underage is lying. So in that vein, I have lied. But just as with the MPAA movie rating systems, I feel that if one's guardians approve of their child viewing the content, that is the parents' choice. Age limits for content should be used as guidelines, not solid restrictions. Maturity is relative
• It's lying for a purpose--I understand the need for such measures, but I also think that the laws that create such need are ludicrous
• I think i would consider it lying, but not wrong, because i should be given the chance to chose what to read based on what I'm mature enough to read. Age doesn't tell you everything
• It's telling a lie. That's basically all there is to it
• I have never encountered this, and I don't quite understand. A site that adult, I probably wouldn't be on. If you mean leave the story, I might or might not leave, depending on the quality and amount of plot
• Because I knew that I could make my own decisions. That's really all how I saw those things, anyway: "Can we trust you to be a grown-up about this or do we have to monitor you?" Or something along those lines. I just knew that if I thought I was in too deep I could just back out; no harm, no foul. Saying I was older gave me that freedom I knew I could handle
• Yes, I considered it lying
• My parents are okay with this kind of things, as long as it's not violent ot too graphical I can read it
• I would consider it lying if I had done this when I was 14, but 17 - I'm not going to all of a sudden be ready for adult content on my birthday, and like I said, I've only read stories with adult content a few times
• Even though I heeded the warnings, there were circumstances in which I still clicked on the links. There are adult materials in which I do not want to read (e.g. explicit sex) but there are those that I do not oppose to because we see them even in our daily lives. Plus, the links that I clicked on were always rated 'R', never 'NC-17'. I do feel that what I did to be lying, though
• Because its not true, but sometimes if I permission, I'll read it
• It is lying, but it's my own decision in the end. I treat the warnings as just that: warnings. They allow me to make an informed decision
• The are-you-an-adult warning is to safeguard the site's owner from prosecution. I've seen it, I consider myself to be old enough to read the material contained within, and that's essentially what it's asking. I'm within a few months or a year of the age, if there's an age, and I'm not reading something I've never read
• There was no way the people that posted the stories could in any way be punished for my actions. Reading the stories is my choice alone. If they are posted, the author has done their part (for legal purposes) to put the age warning on. It is my decision if I chose to ignore it
• Some sites are very overprotective, and they didn't need to have such a warning on there. Other times, I felt I was lying, but I knew I could handle it, so I felt I was justified
• Mostly, yes, it is a lie, but I don't think my clicking "I am over seventeen" buttons is lying in the most classic sense- what this bar is really asking is whether I am over the age of consent, not whether I'm over theage of seventeen- otherwise seventeen would be a simply arbitrary date, and I am over the age of consent in my country
• Sending in false age statements or other information is wrong. Choosing to ignore age warnings is my own decision
• I've clicked on buttons verifying that I was legal when I wasn't. I consider that lying, but I don't consider it wrong
• In some cases, it asked about 'are you over the age of consent', which I took to be consent for sex, not consent to read porn, so I didn't feel that I was lying. But when sending a statement to an actual person, I really had to think about it and usually turned back
• I lie. Big deal, half the time it gets out anyway and no one particularly minds if you are mature and not stupid about it
• I don't want people knowing my exact birthdate and real name. Stalkers are not something I want in my life
• Guilt
• I don't consider it lying. I am merely making my way around a system which infringes upon what I consider to be my right of freedom or free speech
• Because it was lying. And the site owners could have got in trouble. But I've been doing it for years, so I guess I think I'm never going to get caught. It'll be legal in a year anyway
• If there's a button to click for over 17 or under, nobody cares or knows if you lie, and I'm pretty close to 17 anyway. For others like credit cards or other official things, that would really be lying and possibly illegal?
• Because I'm saying that I'm older then I am. On the other hand, my mother doesn't really care about what I read, and I know she wouldn't have an issue with this stuff because she knows I read it and has never said anything to me about it
• Erm, I think there are bigger things in the world than reading "adult" fiction. Eh
• It just doesn't matter
• Technically am of legal age
• I wasn't telling the truth, I just wasn't too concerned about it
• Pretending you're older than you are is lying. I'd have rather lied to make sure that a legal adult, who was the owner of the site/list wouldn't get into trouble on my account
• Age rules are ridiculous and unfair
• Because although I am still a minor until I'm 18, if I were arrested now I'd be tried as an adult, so in that sense I'm an adult. Plus at 17 I can see rated R movies, so reading rated R fics isn't wrong. Exaggerating my age, well, it'd only be by a few months. Plus, some of the sites are sponsered by people in countries where you're an adult at 17
• Yes, I know it's lying, but as stated above, I feel I am mature enough to handle certain things. Age doesn't really define everything about a person: it's how capable one is to handle these things
• Yes, i mean it is lying, if the site is asking 'are you over seventeen?' and you say 'yes' even if you're not - but the tricky part is who you are lying to. It's hard to define what's 'legal' and 'illegal' online because every country has a different age of consent/legality so it's hard to say who should and shouldn't be reading certain stories

Question 2a.5

Would you ask a friend to lie for you to help you access fiction with adult content?

Yes	24	8.42%
Only if there was something specific I really wanted to read	74	25.96%
No I don't read that sort of thing	17	5.96%
No	170	59.65%

Question 2a.6

Would you lie for a friend to help them access fiction with adult content?

Yes	121	42.61%
Only if they were doing the same for me	19	6.69%
No	141	49.65%
No and I would inform their parents about what they were trying to do	3	1.06%

Section 3

Question 3.1

How do you share your work with others?

I don't let anyone else see it	28	3.84%	2.51%
I show it to a few of my friends or family	46	6.31%	4.12%
I publish in zines but not online	5	0.69%	0.45%
I publish in zines and then put it up online	5	0.69%	0.45%
I publish both in zines and online but which depends on the fandom or the type of story	23	3.16%	2.06%
I publish mostly online but I write stories for zines occasionally	79	10.84%	7.08%
I only publish online	543	74.49%	48.66%
No response given	387	-	34.68%

Question 3.2

If you share your stories with others online how are they archived?

They aren't archived	39
They aren't specifically archived except in the mailing list archives	58
Personal home page	283
Journal/Blog	376
Fandom/Community Archive	474
Multifandom Archive	165
Fanfiction.net	271
Anywhere that wants them except Fanfiction.net	77
Wherever asks for it	199
Other	50

Other reponses: (49 responses)

• Pairing specific archives
• Requests from archives I like
• email
• Usenet - rec.arts.anime.creative
• I mostly post on a whim, and mostly write just to have written the story out
• Rec sites, both single- and multifandom
• Also in mailing list archives
• message boards
• Well, there actually is stuff of mine still on fanfiction.net, but only because every time I go to delete it, the stupid site is down
• I will link stories in some fandom specific archives hosted by people I know
• Almost anywhere that wants them, though I do a little quality control
• Many of these apply since I have had many "phases" in my writing, which includes having used FF.net in its glory days
• Google.groups.com newsgroup archive
• Nifty
• friend's website
• My website
• Occasional relevent archives, by choice only
• adultfanfiction
• Wherever asks for it if I approve of the host
• I do not share online
• someone else's personal home page
• They're friends-locked on LiveJournal; only a few people have access to see them
• Yahoo groups/LJ communities
• In other personal home page
• quizilla.com
• Fictionpress.net
• Re question 3.1 - was unable to select both 'show to friends and family' and 'publish online'. I do both of those, primarily publishing online
• AdultFanFiction.net
• Specifically my friend's fanfiction archive site
• FictionPress.com
• Mailing list/ yahoo group
• 2 x adultfanfiction.net
• Yahoo group
• Archives linking to my homepage
• One QoS Fandom Site
• I often put things up on FF.net for a brief period just to test the reception
• on challenge sites
• very rarely in a community
• many lists at Yahoo! groups, as well as others listed here
• Friend's pages
• A bloke decided to collect stories we've posted on a discussion forum but mine are just linked to my own site, not physically archived there
• If someone asked, I might let them archive it
• on they yahoogroups lists
• Only archives where I have complete control of my material
• fictionpress.org
• Original writing archives
• stories to be archived in 2005
• Sell in own zines

Question 3.3

Do you write fiction that contains adult content?

I don't write adult content	86	11.81%	7.71%
I might write the occasional 'R' rated story but not really	181	24.86%	16.22%
Yes	461	63.32%	41.31%
No response given	388	-	34.77%

Question 3.4

Did you write fiction that contained adult content when you were under the legal age of majority?

I didn't write fiction at all when I was a minor	210	28.97%	18.82%
I didn't write adult content when I was a minor	207	28.55%	18.55%
I wrote the occasional 'R' rated story when I was a minor but not really	114	15.72%	10.22%
I wrote adult content when I was a minor	147	20.28%	13.17%
I am legally a minor and I write adult content	47	6.48%	4.21%
No response given	391	-	35.04%

Question 3.5

If you have a personal home page or an archive which includes adult content which if any of the following does it include (select all applicable)?

No specific information about the content	12
Warnings	337
ICRA/PICS rating (or equivalent)	124
Click a button/link to say you are an adult	63
Age statement required for log in	17
Date of birth required for log in	9
Verifiable offline contact details required for log in	5
Credit card details required for log in	0
Not applicable - I don't have a page that includes adult content	297

Question 3.6

If you do not include ICRA/PICS or equivalent tags on your site why not?

I don't know what they are	288	68.74%	25.81%
No one uses them so there is no point	12	2.86%	1.08%
I didn't understand how to implement them	11	2.63%	0.99%
I didn't feel they were relevant to fiction	30	7.16%	2.69%
I don't have anything objectionable so there is no point	33	7.88%	2.96%
It was too much effort	4	0.95%	0.36%
I keep meaning to I just haven't got around to it yet	5	1.19%	0.45%
My site is so small and get so little traffic it didn't seem necessary	36	8.59%	3.23%
No response given	697	-	62.46%

Question 3.7

Which of the following do you typically include information about with stories you have written (select all applicable)?

Fandom	659
Pairing (if extant)	630
Mood (funny, happy, sad, scary etc)	149
Type (het, slash, gen etc)	452
Canon character focused or original character focused	222
Happy ending or not	14
Rating/Level of adult material in contents	556
Size/Length	238
Title	682
Author	659
Summary	617
The format the story is available it (HTML, PDF etc)	60
Genre (drama, action/adventure, missing scene, horror etc)	323
Whether it contains major non-canonical elements (Alternate universe, out of character behaviour, alternate species characteristics etc)	246
Whether it contains major character death	193
Whether it contains minor character death	77
Whether it contains kink (unspecified)	90
Whether it contains kink (specified)	150
Whether it contains large scale violence	131
Whether it contains non-explicit sexual violence	102
Whether it contains explicit sexual violence	180
Whether it contains portrayals of alternative lifestyles	67
Whether it contains portrayals of hate groups	46
Whether it contains portrayals of sexual abuse	144
Whether it contains portrayals of psychological abuse	113
Whether it contains portrayals of physical abuse	125
Whether it contains portrayals of child abuse	136
Whether it contains portrayals of drug abuse	91
Whether it contains portrayals of recreational drug use	71
Whether it contains portrayals of non-explicit sexual situation involving underage characters (e.g. As in Romeo and Juliet)	82
Whether it contains portrayals of explicit sexual situation involving underage characters (e.g. As in Queer as Folk)	124
Whether it contains portrayals of illegal activities	41
Whether it contains blasphemous language	55
Whether it contains sexually derived profanity	64
If the bad guys win	10
Other	91

Other reponses: (91 responses)

• Disclaimer, arciving information/permissions, instructions for feedback, author notes
• I write primarily novel-length so I believe it's less necessary for a great deal of lead-in- info for a work. People are either along for the ride or not. I'd give more details to classify the fic if it were a one-shot
• I include warnings if the fic is based on "spoilers" for recently-aired episodes
• Spoiler warnings (if applicable)
• Spoilers for episodes not everyone may have seen
• Gratuitous Latin puns, Excessive poetry
• One sentence selected from the story, or a quote from canon if such information is extremely relevant to the story, as a psuedo-summary
• Date written; Spoilers
• My warnings tend to be scatter shot. I do try to warn for things that I think may upset readers. (Which is to say that a lot of things I didn't check have never come up in my fics.) Just because I'm not much interested in warnings, doesn't mean I don't understand why others want them or that I'm not willing to provide them
• The Beauty and the Beast fandom tends to be divided into different sections: people who only follow the first two seasons and disregard the third (classic fans), people who are only interested in the third (3S), and people who are interested in all three (AS). It is considered polite to specify which area your story falls into, because classic fans in particular find it hurtful if they are mislead into reading third season content. (see Henry Jenkins, 'Textual Poachers' for more info.)
• Most of that other stuff is automatically excluded when I explain that it's another "friendship, day-in-the-life" story. I generally just say, "No warnings necessary."
• This probably also seems contradictory given my earlier answers. I think part of this is that I don't necessarily want my readers to know things like how the story ends beforehand. Plus, a lot of this stuff I would only include if I had it in the story. I mean, who'd writer a header that says, 'doesn't have this, that, or the other' -- and I haven't written any stories with serious potential squicks
• Warnings are dependant on content
• This is about the average I put on a story. I have warned for rape, I have warned for slash, and there are stories where I have not warned for those
• characters involved
• I only write very short fics in a specific fandom, so they're only ever posted in that lj community. The only thing that's 'needed' is the title, although pairing can be useful
• I warn for anything I think someone might be offended by. Not to say that all the things I ticked turn up in my stories, but if I wrote them, I'd warn about them
• Anything that will bette give a reader some idea of what they are getting themselves into
• I write Oz fiction and do NOT provide ratings for it. Oz is TV-MA and I have a warning that sex, drug use, and violence are typical for the show. Other than the initial warning, I do not provide ratings or pairing so there is some element of surprise to it
• I have not written on topics such as sexual abuse because as a rule I play in the fluffy end of the pool, but if I did, I would warn for severe sexual/physical/child abuse. Underage I would probably mention, because although I don't expect to be warned for it, others do. (Underage varies considerably - see ages of consent around the world - not to mention that in Tolkien canon, the elves hit legal adulthood at 50.... so if I write about elves below that age, I will warn for *relative* underage, and leave it up to the reader.)
• Those who assisted with writing, proof readers, sources of inspiration, credits, etc
• Basically I try to warn people off anything that someone might consider a squick
• notes and dedications and thanks to my proof readers
• incest or non-consentual sex warnings
• I also use the mpreg -- male pregnancy -- label. This is to (a) help those wanting it find it quicker and (b) warn those who aren't familiar with that or who'd rather not read it so they don't get unpleasantly surprised
• General warnings
• I mentioned above the ratings system I use. I do not use a warnings system at my home page, but a number of the lists I post to require warnings for major character death, rape, and underage sex. In order to avoid spoilers - and in order to avoid the impression that my stories are darker than they actually are - I use the following warnings, where applicable:
  
  Man/youth attraction. Feelings of friendship. Feelings of romantic love. Impulses toward religious devotion. Impulses toward BDSM. Impulses toward emotional, physical, and/or sexual abuse. Impulses toward voluntary dominance and submission. Threat of death.
  
  This is preceded by the words: "My warnings refer to feelings, impulses, or threats rather than activities."
• This is a woolly question because so often the information to be included with a story is, in fact, determined by the archive, list or community rules, not by my own preferences. And my preferences will vary with the venue, too.
  
  In my own fiction journal, which has a limited and controlled readership, I would only give fandom and pairing, and - perhaps - warnings for underage sex, bestiality and character death. In my fan journal, which is generally public, I would definitely give a summary, warn for those three things and other interesting kinks, and perhaps add genre and adult rating.
  
  For an archive, mailing list or community journal, I would add more warnings and information as above, but any spoilers would be posted separately
• If there is anything that the reader needs to know for background, or a pointer to the source if I use something I think might be obscure or of interest to the reader (eg: historical fact)
• If it contains some violence or language...don't use it much, just the occasional profanity and the like...nothing more than they show on the shows basically. Only thing explicit is sometimes the sex and that is definitely declared up front as well as if there is any slash involved, no matter the rating
• I only include the usual important information. I feel that if one puts too much information people may be biased to not want to read it. I think it's best to put enough without overdoing it. But, since I do not like writing adult fiction then I don't worry
• How the story relates to the canon
• If I display a character in a negative manner to warn those that like said character and generally as much info as possible
• episode(s) spoiled, date written, some keywords occasionally (AU, angst, MT.. etc)
• Images or ideas which I consider people may find disturbing are also highlighted. Where I have written explicit material in fandoms popular with younger audiences I have archived, not on my site, but on fandom archives with age statement access enabled. When I've worked out how to do this on my website I'll take these stories off the archives and onto my webpage alone.
  I'm not particularly uncomfortable with free access explicit material in rare fandoms available on my website, 'cos with the way I write you have to trawl through rather a lot of odd ideas and images to get there - I can't see the average thirteen year old bothering. And if they're not average - I was reading this kind of material when I was that age
• general warning for violent content
• Disclaimer.
  Author's note, crediting betas, etc
• didn't select "child abuse" because I don't write / haven't written any stories that have child abuse in the plot
• generally if there is something such as abuse or something significant that people may not want to read, I include that in the summary, it's not a separate section unto itself
• whether it's PWP, OTP, OT3, or mixed het/slash or poly
• Name of beta, positioning in canonical timeline (if applicable)
• I also have info on spoilers and disclaimers(in the case of fanfic)
  
  CLARIFICATION- On every single one of the 'whethers' above, I don't usually include most of that in my fics... but if and when I do write one that fits into one of those you mention there, I do indeed warn and mention it in the fic's header. I just write fics with that content much less frequently
• I write original fiction and keep it to myself and a few friends who are familiar with my work, so it seems unnecessary to post long author's notes. Usually, I just post the title, the word count, and the characters involved. If it's a longer piece, I'll include a short summary
• If it contains something that people might not want to read about, I.E. Mpreg
  Dedications or authors notes in applicable
• complete or not complete(WIP)
  contain weather or not it is part of a series and whereto find the other parts if any
• Anything that would be courteous to mention before a reader begins the story
• Spoilers, and for which book
• Whether it contains something that may "trigger" people; for instance, I wrote a fic where one character had a problem with self mutilation, and wrote a huge warning about that. Also, if it has disturbing imagery (I say, "contains some disturbingimagery) but it's not in anyway explicitly disturbing
• profanity
• finished or WIP or abandoned without finishing
• I do not think I would ever write a story containing portrayals of child abuse or sex involving anyone under 16
• what I think they should know, or if it spoils the story, some kind of "surprise" warning is there
• Fluff
• Since I only share my "fan fiction" (a phrase I only learned about in the past few years) with two friends, I have no need to use a ratings system
• Disclaimer stating that the characters in a piece of fanfic don't belong to me and I'm not making money from it
• Since I don't write anything with adult content most of the questions following "character death" would be N/A
• If the pairing is slash or femme
• Legal disclaimer about not profiting from the work
• Name of beta reader
• Whether it's unbeta'd or not
• I generally try to hint some things strongly in my summary if I think people would care but I don't want to assign a specific label. For example, my summaries usually suggest what sort of mood and genre the story is without explicitly saying so
• Anything that overzealous people would reply with, "HOW COULD YOU EVEN THINK OF WRITING SOMETHING LIKE THAT?!". Because those are so annoying, it's not even funny. Not to mention the fact that they clog the inbox
• By the way, the answer to all of the "whethers" is no, and is answered in the rating. That is a stupid question, thank you very much
• I usually use a quote from the story in lieu of a summary
• I warn/spoil for absolutely *everything.*
• that it is entirely fiction and a product of my imagination, not based on real events
• I usually use the generic disclaimer of adult situations, read at your own risk
• I don't write stories with underage sex, or sexual violence. If I did, I'd warn for them. ^__^
• I only write general stories in keeping with the content shown in canon, so the majority of your examples of warnings are not applicable
• The other information categories haven't been applicable with my writing so far but I might include some of them
• Note: The instructions for this question weren't clear to me. I have never written several of the categories above, therefore, I ticked the boxes as to the warnings/information I would give if I *did* write fiction with all these elements
• I don't write fics containg any of your "Whether". Also I usually add comments and my e-mail adress for feedback/
• I WARN to the point of being redundant and excessive with each chapter of fic I post, both at list and at my website (where we have additional warnings posted before you enter the site). What's listed here doesn't match my warnings specifically, but I get the same meanings across
• I didn't check many of the above because I never write them (examples are: major character death, kink, child abuse, etc.). Many of the above I **would** warn for (most (but not all) of the above, in fact) IF I wrote them. I know there are people out there who are very sensitive to certain subjects, especially where it concerns death or abuse. I would rather OVER-warn people, and let those who don't like spoilers skip the warning paragraph, rather than let someone who might be offended by the content accuse me of not having proper warnings in place
• I have also warned for fluff as well. OC is not an issue with me because I don't write OCs
• Warnings such as death and other issues, or even warnings for psychological triggers are used when applicable, but not in general
• i am known for my prologues, as i feel i need to explain myself, rather than a real 'summary'
• I don't post my stories anywhere online
• Well, I have no adult content, but I say who the main characters are
• I don't write alot of the above eg. anything /with/ drug abuse, so I don't put warningd for them..
• If I wrote a deathfic or a story with a "kink" or with a main character being raped and/or tortured "on-screen" (as opposed to allusions to something which happened "off-screen"), I'd include warnings
• Whether or not it has been beta read
• I do also warn for bad language in the headers of my fics. I don't like the term 'blasphemous language' because I don't feel that it's blasphemy
• I have been writing specifically about the same-sex marriage law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and also witchcraft (I personally do not use the term 'Wicca'), so I have mentioned them
• Basically any warnings that are applicable to the fic
• I only archive where set pairings are accepted, so I don't need to specify that. And since I only write fluffy funny things, I don't need to attach warnings
• I don't
• Summary and information depends on the requirement of the particular community
• Potentially non-consensual elements
• The warings I do are mostly generic "warning: adult/dark" and so on as not to spoil the story
• Most of the items on this list don't apply to my fiction, but if they did, I'd definitely warn people. I try to include a movie-type rating with my fiction, because it's all G and that helps readers who seek fiction to share with children

Question 3.8

How long do you typically spend adding additional category information about the story?

A few seconds	28	3.93%	2.51%
Less than a minute	105	14.73%	9.41%
A few minutes	240	33.66%	21.51%
five minutes	59	8.27%	5.29%
five-ten minutes	75	10.52%	6.72%
More than ten minutes	30	4.21%	2.69%
I don't - they don't need to know anything but my name and the title	10	1.4%	0.9%
Some one else does that for me	4	0.56%	0.36%
Not very long each time but I have to do it differently when I post to different places	101	14.17%	9.05%
Not very long I just paste in my standard information	61	8.56%	5.47%
No response given	403	-	36.11%

Question 3.9

If it took slightly longer to add additional data but more readers were able to find your work as a result would you be willing to take that extra time?

Not really, I just don't have time	31	4.43%	2.78%
If it took less than a minute	33	4.71%	2.96%
If it didn't take more than a few minutes	180	25.71%	16.13%
If it didn't take more then five minutes	111	15.86%	9.95%
If it didn't take more than ten minutes	179	25.57%	16.04%
If I only needed to spend that time the once and the information could be used for all the places I posted the story	166	23.71%	14.87%
No response given	416	-	37.28%

Question 3.10

Which fandoms or what type of original amateur fiction do you write?

(698 responses)

• alias
• Harry Potter
  Hornblower
  Age of Sail
  Master and Commander
• Harry Potter, SG-1, Poltergeist the Legacy, Kindred the Embraced, Highlander, The New Professionals, Star Wars TPM, Invisible Man
• Harry Potter (slash, femslash), Sherlock Holmes (slash), Star Trek (DS9 slash, VOY femslash), Babylon 5 (femslash), Xena (femslash, extreme kink), Alias (slash, non-explicit het), Stargate SG-1 (femslash), The West Wing (femslash)
• Magnificent Seven, Sentinel, Ghostbusters, Highlander, Buffy, Angel, Stargate, LM Montgomery
• Harry Potter, Stargate, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, X-Men, The Mummy,
• Harry Potter, Lotrips, The West Wing, RPS, Ocean's Eleven
• 64 x Harry Potter
• Lord of the Rings (FPS and RPS), harry Potter, various book fandoms, generic original fic, science fiction
• fanfiction: Harry Potter; Antonia Forest
  original: fantasy/detective
• Mainly slash in Star Wars the Phantom Menace, Vampire Chronicles, Sky Captain. RPS, mainly Jude Law/Ewan McGregor
• Harry Potter, Tolkien
• The same ones I read
• Harry Potter, Buffy The Vampire Slayer
• Farscape, Stargate: Atlantis, Stargate: SG-1, The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, Forever Knight, The Invisible Man, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: Voyager, The X-Files, Crusade, Mission Genesis.
  
  I also write original stories concerning my own characters and poetry, but do not publish them online
• Harry Potter, X-Files
• Startrek
• The aforementioned RPS, a touch of Harry Potter fic, and I used to write Digimon
• Harry Potter, Andromeda, Stargate: SG-1, Jossverse (Buffy/Angel), Pitch Black/Chronicles of Riddick, various others as the mood strikes me
• 4 x Harry Potter fandom
• same as the above: mostly HP right now but also other lesser known fics
• I have posted/published slash fan fiction for Due South, Law & Order, Stargate SG-1, Twin Peaks, and have written crossovers with Quantum Leap, The Professionals and The X-Files. I am currently writing slash for Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings. In the past I have written but not posted/published het or gen stories for Dr. Who, Battlestar Galactica, Robin of Sherwood, Trixie Belden, Zorro, Star Trek, and Columbo. I have also written unposted/unpublished slash for Nero Wolfe, Highlander, X-Files, The A-Team, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Star Wars, The Sentinel, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• LOTR RPS and related actor RPS
• Harry Potter, His Dark Materials, Firefly, Science Fiction, Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Dr Who, Final fantasy, Digimon, M*A*S*H, Metal gear solid, Gundam Wing, Self-created stories&scenarios
• Harry Potter. In the past I have also written Angel and Gladiator
• Smallville, Queer as Folk
• Currently just Harry Potter. In the past I've written Herc/Xena, stories based on characters played by actors from Herc/Xena in other movies, and Highlander. I have various crossover ideas I haven't written yet
• Harry Potter and random drabbley things that aren't any fandom
• So far, Harry Potter universe
• Sailor Moon, Metal Gear Solid, Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy X, Digimon, Harry Potter
• Harry Potter, romance, humour
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Smallville, The West Wing, Fastlane, Anita Blake, M*A*S*H, Harry Potter, Stargate, and original dark fantasy
• Highlander, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings
• Harry Potter; Lord of the Rings and other fandoms, if I've recently seen a movie/read a book and have a slight interest in fanfiction for the fandom. Original fiction - long-term fantasy novel, short stories and such whenever I am inspired. Types of fanfiction - missing scenes in school, things involving Muggle life (Harry Potter), a long-term alternate universe project, and occasional fluff (romance). Some seasonal fics like Christmas fics
• Queer as Folk (US)
  Dead Like Me
  Monk
  Firefly
  Darklight
  Lord of the Rings
  Pitch Black
  The Sentinel
  original fantasy
  original drama
• Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Harry Potter, Babylon 5, etc
• Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Harry Potter, X-files, poetry
• Anime/video game fanfiction, occasionally Harry Potter
• Fandoms: Yu-gi-oh
• Star Trek, Harry Potter, The Sentinel, Twin Peaks, Homicide: Life on the Streets, others
• Phantom of the Opera Dracula Hellsing (thinking about writing for)
• Primarily Buffy, Due South, and The X-Files
• Farscape
  Star Trek
  Nsync/Pop
• Fandoms: Sailor Moon, various other anime mainly as one-offs.
  
  Original: Science fiction, magical girl, spy thriller
• Buffverse (including Angel the Series); Harry Potter; RPF; Pirates of the Caribbean; The Italian Job
• The West Wing
• Dawson's Creek, Harry Potter
• Fandoms: Harry Potter, Weiss Kreuz, Naruto, Vampire Chronicles (before Anne Rice came out against it), Picture of Dorian Gray, RPS. Original amateur styles: short, plotless pieces, fairy tales, and action stories
• Buffy; Stargate SG-1; Stargate Atlantis
• Harry Potter at present. Formerly Gundam Wing, X-Files. Exceptions as inspired
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation; some Harry Potter
• Blake's 7, scifi
• So far, Angel, Blake's 7, Tolkien (Lord of the Rings & Unfinished Tales), Smallville, Austen, Bronte, Earthsea
• 4 x Lord of the Rings
• I would write anything, if inspiration hit, but, specifically, I have fiction for Harry Potter, Ranma 1/2, Fullmetal Alchemist, Sailor Moon, Digimon, The Simpsons, RPS, anon fanslash, various books I've read, Boy Meets Boy (online comic), original
• 4 x Stargate SG-1
• Fandoms: Indiana jones, Shanghai Noon/Knights, Smallville, Brimstone, Star wars, Star Trek, Simon & Simon, a number of orphan fandoms
  
  Original: speculative fiction (horror/fantasy/sf) mostly, some with a strong erotic element
• Pern, X-men, Buffy, Lawrence of Arabia, original fantasy
• X-Men movieverse, Harry Potter, Star Trek
• Earth: Final Conflict
• Sentinel; Smallville; Harry Potter
• Jossverse; Wonderfalls; SW:TPM; Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Star Trek, Dark Shadows, Yugioh, Knight Rider, Quantum Leap crossovers, Forever Knight, Robocop, The Crow: Stairway to Heaven, crossovers, parody, Real Ghostbusters, Transformers, Thundercats, Fright Night, original fiction
• The Professionals, The Sweeney, Man from UNCLE, Ocean's 11
• Chrono Trigger, Harry Potter, Weiss Kreuz
• Weiss Kreuz (an anime fandom)
• Batman, Batfamily, DC comics universe
• Fandoms (to date): Alias
• Various anime (particularly Sailormoon, Shoujo Kakumei Utena)
• The Professionals
  LotR
  RPS
  RPwriting (various movie characters)
  
  
• Harry Potter, Star Wars, Discworld
• MASH, Angel, SVU, Friends, the Tribe, RPS
• Lord of the Rings FPS, Lord of the Rings actor slash fic, Mary Renault
• Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Beauty and the Beast, Death Note, Eerie Queerie, The Faculty, Harry Potter, Kizuna, Lord of the Rings, Smallville, Star Trek: Voyager, Tintin
• Sentinel, Due South, Queer as Folk, HCL, West Wing, Dead Zone, popslash; original genre fic
• Lord of the Rings, Sailor Moon Flash, Bastard!!, Ranma 1/2
• The Sentinel - gen only. However, I read slash, and may write it someday... but it would be non-explicit
• Buffy, Angel, Harry Potter
• Lotr FPS and RPS
• Buffy, Hercules
• Anime fandom
• Fantasy
• Stargate SG-1, The Sentinel, Phantom Menace, X-Files
• Fic: Idol, Original: romance, mostly normal teen's life..
• I have written original amateur fiction, but I have not published it online. I write in many fandoms, but especially in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel the Series, Firefly, E.R., Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Judging Amy, Sports Night, Gilmore Girls, and Farscape
• SV
• lord of the rings-real person slash
• I've written Harry Potter, Buffy, and QAF (US). I may write other stuff in the future. I'm not very prolific at this point
• Naruto, Slayers, Harry Potter. Original wise I write fantasy, sci-fi, and occasionally a horror or mystery. Random comedy too
• DC Comics, Lawrence of Arabia, Buffy, Cabaret, Good Omens, Harry Potter, M*A*S*H, Peter Wimsey, politics, The Professionals, Sex Pistols, Sharpe, Smallville, Split Second, Swordspoint, Velvet Goldmine
• DC Comics, DC Animated, CSI, The West Wing, Law & Order, M*A*S*H, Quantum Leap
• DC Comics, Harry Potter, RPS(musicians), horror movies, etc etc
• Currently I don't write a lot- I've written a couple Harry Potter stories that I deny any knowledge of in public, heh. I was actually deliberating between "Publishing Online" and "I don't let anyone else see it" because at the moment I don't. I'm considering coming back to writing, though, and if I were writing fanfic at this point it would be PG Wodehouse or DC Comics based. I do write original stuff, although I'm focused on writing comics at the moment, mostly sci-fi and fantasy
• Buffy, Xena, Carnivale, Firefly, The O.C., Harry Potter, LoTR and LoTR RPS
• Buffy & Angel, Harry Potter, Doctor Who
• X-Files, Farscape, Stargate SG-1
• Anime fandoms
• Firefly, Farscape, Lord of the Rings are my major ones. I have a few other minor fandoms where I've only written one or two stories
• Alias, Smallville, X-Files, Angel, Firefly, Superman, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
• LotR
• The New Professionals, CSI, The Professionals, Mutant X, Stargate SG-1, The Sentinel
• Hockey (RPF), Battletech, Shadowrun
• Professionals, New Professionals, original novels (thrillers)
• Stargate: SG-1, ENT
• Currently: popslash, Harry Potter, Coldfire. Have written in around 20 fandoms altogether
• Comic books, Star Trek, Buffy, Farscape, Highlander to name the big ones, minor things in other fandoms probably too, but I can't even remember
• Pokemon, Digimon, Final Fantasy (esp VI), Street Fighter, Batman: The Animated Series
• Oz, Sentinel, Stargate, Batman, many small, rare fandoms
• Hercules, The Legendary Journeys, The Sentinel, Starsky and Hutch, xovers with Stargate 1 and Mag Seven with The Sentinel, Hardcastle and McCormick, The Professionals (forgot to say I read Stargate 1 as well). I write under the name Arianna
• A-team, The Sentinel, Battlestar Galactica
• Harry Potter, Gundam Wing, Weiss Kreuz, Stargate SG-1, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel
• hignfy
• Fandoms: Oz and Star Wars; slash, het and gen
• DC comic and cartoon, X-Men comic and movie, Enterprise, Stargate, Smallville, Secret Adventures of Jules Verne (previously)
• Stargate: Atlantis, Everwood, Barney Miller, Horatio Hornblower, Pirates of the Caribbean, Stargate SG1
• Harry Potter, Star Trek
• I have written in Highlander, Anime/Manga, Vampire xovers with original characters in various fandoms, SW:TPM, Smallville, Magnificent 7, The Fast and the Furious. I tend to only write in one fandom at a time
• angel, highlander, ST:Enterprise and ST:Voyager, Babylon 5: Crusades, Firefly, CSI, Discworld, Farscape, Stargate, Invisible Man and crossovers
• Star Trek Enterprise
• Harry Potter, RPS, Forever Knight
• Magnificent Seven (tv show), Newsies, RPS
• Care Bears fanfiction
• original furry fiction, general fiction
• Star Trek, Harry O
• Much the same as what I read: Buffy, Angel, HP, Smallville, Stargate, crossovers, etc
• LOTR RPS
  Harry Potter
  Firefly
• Oz, Highlander, Forever Knight, Harry Potter, Equalizer, Pretender, Enterprise
• Original character "slash"; Smallville; West Wing
• Smallville, Harry Potter, Good Omens, many other minor fandoms occasonally, and all kinds of original fiction
• Fanfic: Neon Genesis Evangelion
  Original: Fantasy, Sci-fi, Drama
• I write for a lot of anime fandom, for a lot of TV show and comic fandoms, not to mention scores of originial story ideas that I've been beating into shape for the last seven or eight years. I focus mainly on the action/epic adventure bent, and my stories lean heavily into the 'epic' category, so they include all genres in them but are mostly action
• Original: Fantasy, erotica, thriller
  Fanfiction: Once a Thief, Sentinel, X-Files, Due South, War of the Worlds, Comic Books, Mutant X, Mack Bolan The Executioner, Andromeda, etc..
• Sailor Moon
• Tolkien (Silmarillion/pre-Third Age book-based). Jossverse (occasionally). Very occasionally other fandoms as a one-off if a story strikes me.
  
  Original fiction I write a lot more these days - fantasy, urban fantasy, scifi, realism, often but not always some form of non-het (which covers m/m, f/f, multiples, alternate sexual norms, cross-sentient-species, etc)
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Pirates of the Caribbean
• Master & Commander
  Obscure Movie Slash
  RPS
• Stargate, Lord of the Rings
• Backstreet Boys
  CSI
  Erotica
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel the Series
• Fanfic for Pirates of the Caribbean - so far..
• CSI (FPS), CSI (RPS), Popslash, The Young Riders, Damon/Affleck (RPS), OZ, Star Wars
• Buffy: the vampire slayer, Angel: the series, X-men, Harry Potter, Highlander, Xena: The warrior princess, Hercules: The legendary journeys, poetry
• Harry Potter, Star Wars
• Highlander, Forever Knight, Stargate
• I write original vignettes, mystery, thrillers, science-fiction and fantasy, so far mostly in short-story format. I also have written for the following fandoms:
  X/1999, Tokyo Babylon, Gundam Wing, Once Upon A Time In Mexico, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Silmarillion, DC comics, Get Backers, Pirates of the Carribean
• Pirates of the Caribbean, X-Files
• Buffy, Angel, original
• Harry Potter, Tolkien, King Arthur
• Babylon 5, Magnificient 7, LOTR, CSI, Demon Under Glass, The Sentinel, Stargate SG1
• Pirates of the Caribbean
• Lotrips, LotR, Backstreet Boys, X-Men movieverse and several fandoms that I've only written one or two stories in. It's slash all the way, with the notable exception of X-Men movieverse, where I've mostly written het
• Original slash, Harry Potter, crossovers
• Highlander, Real Person fic (some slash, some het, some femmeslash), and a little bit of writing in several other fandoms
• I write original sci-fi and fantasy type stories and some childrens stories (in collaboration with my children). The latter are based on what they want to write about and varies with their daily writing assignments
• Fandom: Harry Potter
• Lord of the Rings (and wider Tolkien-'verse), Buffy, Angel, Stargate, X-Men (movies), Real Person Fic, Sharpe
• My current amatrur fic in progress is a slash/het/poly romance; I write (somewhat actively) only Once Upon a Time in Mexico and assassins
• X-Men: Evolution
  X-Men
  DC Comics
  Baby-Sitters Club
  Good Omens
  Pirates of the Caribbean
  Lord of the Rings
  Gilligan's Island (humor, mind you)
  Wizard of Oz (sadly, not so much with the humor)
• Stargate SG-1; MacGyver; Law & Order; Starsky & Hutch; Lethal Weapon
• I used to write live action fandoms but no longer do. I have written for various series over the years (Next Gen, DS9, Due South, Highlander, Smallville, Gundam Wing, DNAngel, Yami no Matsuei) but for the last year, I have exclusively written slash fiction for the anime/manga series Trigun
• Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Highlander, LA Confidential, Robin of Sherwood, X-Men
• Harry Potter, Master and Commander, Smallville, historical slash
• anime (various), queer as folk, lord of the rings, master and commander, original fantasy yaoi fiction
• fandoms: Master and Commander, JRock, Linkin Park, System Of A Down, Star Wars, Sailor Moon
  original: Fantasy, Science-Fiction, Drama
• Starsky & Hutch, X/1999
• Stargate Atlantis, Yu Yu Hakusho, Tremors the Series, RPS, original fiction, whatever catches my fancy
• Fandom Mainly: Highlander, Power Rangers
  Fandom Occasionally: Airwolf, Buffy, X-Men, Queen of Swords
  Original: Fantasy/Sci-fi (when younger); Thriller
• Pirates of the Caribbean
  CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
  Harry Potter
• 2 x Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel
• lord of the rings, actor rps, harry potter, the italian job, boondock saints, once upon a time in mexico, original horror, buffy, troy
• Pokemon, Amadeus, Josh Groban
• Biker Mice From Mars, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Gargoyles, and Legend of Zelda
• Horatio Hornblower, Les Miserables, historical real person fiction, Scarlet Pimpernel
• Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Wars, Stargate SG-1, boyband RPS, really strange crosssovers, and sci-fi/fantasy original short stories
• Buffy, Angel, Firefly
• Highlander, Forever Knight
• 'Lost', 'Angel', 'Blade', 'Harry Potter', the Bourne movies, Robert Rodriguez's El Mariachi trilogy
• Magnificent Seven, Tour of Duty, Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, Without a Trace, Enterprise and orginal gay fiction
• Mainly Harry Potter, also The Sentinel, Star Wars, Star Trek, X-Files. Sci fi & fantasy
• Wrote Talespin episode idea as a child, typed up Star Wars g-rated slash as a teenager- never released... on ff.net starting from age 20: Pokemon, Digimon, South Park, Emperor's New Groove, Rankin-Bass holiday specials, LOTR, Dragonball/Z/GT, Star Wars, G.I. Joe, Pirates of Carribbean (movie), Yugi-Oh, Gargoyles, Boston Legal, Get Along Gang, Sky Captain, Team America... working on Team America/Incredibles crossover once I go on break
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel, predominantly; I've also written or co-written Firefly, Doctor Who, short pieces based on published novels, X-Files, and Lord of the Rings
• Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, L&O (Original, SVU, CI), 7 Days
• Lord of the Rings, Stargate, Quantum Leap, TPM
• Fandoms - Battlestar Galactica, A Team, Three Musketeers
  Original - Historical romance with fantasy elements
• Science fiction, supernatural, mystery, Pirates of the Caribbean, King Arthur, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Kill Bill
• Transformers, Avalon (a defunct webcomic I read)
• Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
• highlander, anne rice, anita blake, charmed
• star wars, sleepy hollow, harry potter
• real person slash, movies, books
• Original m/m fiction - romantic darkfic and romantic angstfic, mainly historical fantasy. I've recently begun writing contemporary leather (BDSM) stories that have more of a gayfic feel to them, though I also post them at slash lists. And I have written two literary slash stories (Arthurian and Dante's Divine Comedy). I also write original gen fiction, but I usually market that to publishers rather than post it online immediately. (I also try to market as much of my m/m fiction as possible, but there aren't many markets for it.)
• Slash. 'Star Wars: The Phantom Menace', and a little 'Harry Potter', with one regrettable lapse into 'Pirates of the Caribbean'
• LOTR, King Arthur, Harry Potter, Buffy, RPS:LOTR, RPS:KA
• Harry Potter, anime, psychological thriller, parody, slash
• Harry Potter, Beyblade, Digimon, Lord of the Rings
• Highlander, The Sentinel, Quantum Leap, LotR, Due South, LotR RPS
• TPM. RPGs
• Star Wars
  non-fanfic short stories
• Only Stargate and Stargate crossovers. This includes Atlantis and Enterprise so far, but I'm open to any crossovers if I see a good challenge somewhere
• Biker Mice From Mars, SWAT Kats and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (new series)
• Stargate SG-1 (gen and slash), Man from UNCLE (slash), Magnificent 7 (slash)
• Les Miserables, Coast of Utopia, various 19th century classic novels, other novels taking place in the 19th century, obscure dead real person slash
• BtVS/Ats
• Fandom - Highlander The Series
  SF and Fantasy in original, but only for submission to book publishers
• I write InuYasha and Rose of Versailles. I also participate in a LiveJouranl Writing Community
• Naruto
• Anne Rice's 'Vampire Chronicles', "Angel: the Series"
• 3 x The Sentinel
• The Invisible Man (based on the 2000-2002 Scifi channel show)
• Harry Potter and assorted RPS, with occasional forays into minor fandoms and original fic
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel the Series. Mostly Spike/Angel slash
• In order of first fandom I wrote for:
  
  Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  Angel
  Harry Potter
  Alias
  Everwood
  The OC
  Radio Free Roscoe
  Degrassi
  
  Those are where I am the most prolific
• original slash (used to write fanfiction in Weiss Kreuz, Yami no Matsuei, Highlander and Due South fandoms, but not any more)
• Pirates of the Caribbean, a few anime fanoms, Final Fantasy, Harry Potter, the odd original slash story, generally fantasy
• Lord of the Rings, X-files, Robin Hood, Arthurian, Due South, Sherlock Holmes, Coldfire, James Bond, Equilibrium, Star Wars, Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, Pirates of the Caribbean, Jack Higgins thrillers, various RPS
• I write a lot of kink and dark fiction as far as original works go. I'm also hopelessly enamored of science fiction.
  
  Fandom: Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Naruto, Harry Potter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel the Series, Roswell, DragonLance, and Pirates of the Carribbean. I have written in many other fandoms before, but those are the ones I'm currently active in now
• Harry Potter, and any genre for original fiction, mostly containing slash
• Rammstein, LOTR and some fetish-related original fiction
• Fandoms: Harry Potter, CSI, Stargate, Dark Angel
  Fandoms in Crossovers: Buffy, Stargate, CSI, Highlander, CSI,..
• X-Files, limited Buffy .. but I'll write anything if I get inspired, just haven't yet
• Star Wars, Stargate
• Almost always slash. Highlander, other book-based fandoms (quite a few with one or two stories in each)
• Star Wars The Phantom Menace
• harry potter (drabbles)
• smallville, csi, harry potter, some mangas
• Harry Potter, Gundam Wing, Master and Commander, West Wing, Sports Night. That's only so far, though, I have plans for fic in my other fandoms too
• Star Trek: TOS (slash, Kirk/Spock)
  X-Files (het, romance, adventure)
  Cupid (het, romance, adventure)
• King Arthur, Harry Potter
• Harry Potter, sports slash, Real Person Slash
• Lotrips, other RPS
• Jossverse (Buffy, Angel, Firefly), one Bujold story, one War for the Oaks/Emma Bull story
• Babylon 5
  Forever Knight
  Pirates of the Carribbean
• Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, King Arthur
• Slash
  thus far only in the Pirates of the Caribbean fandom
• The Invisible Man, Highlander, Stargate: SG-1, Starsky & Hutch, Angel, Smallville
• SW TPM
• Star Trek: VOY & ENT
  Stargate: SG-1
• Weiss Kreuz, Gundam Wing, Yuyu Hakusho, Magnificent7, Lord of the Rings
• BtVS, PotC, HP
• Batman and Robin
• Pirates of the Caribbean
  Master and Commander
  Harry Potter
• a few years ago i wrote for the musical cats, phantom of the opera, pirates of the caribbean, little shop of horrors, rocky horror picture show, with dabblings in some original work
• Highlander, X-Files, crossovers, Firefly
• Spiderman, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The Sentinel, Highlander, Harry Potter.
  Short Stories, Poetry
• X-Men/Gen X, In a Heartbeat, seaQuest & GI Joe mainly, I've begun writing for other fandoms but have not yet finished the stories
• The X-Files, The West Wing, CSI: Miami, Fastlane, Dangerous Curves, Mean Girls, Xena: Warrior Princess, ER
• Final Fantasy X, Kingdom Hearts, L.J. Smith, and my originals usually include the supernatural
• Stargate SG-1
  Stargate Atlantis
  Lord of the Rings
  Harry Potter
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  Angel the Series
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel: The Series
• King Arthur, LOTR, Highlander, original stuff
• Slash mainly, although I've written some non-slash stories. My main fandoms are Back to the Future and Re-Animator currently, or Crispin Glover characters, and I've written in other fandoms as gifts or for a writer's group
• Highlander, Queen of Swords; mostly slash
• The X-Files, occasionally Harry Potter
• Same as I read, plus original works
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel the Series, Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, the occasional short original story
• Phantom of the Opera and Toy Soldiers are currently active -- in the past I've written in The Sentinel, Harry Potter, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, From Eroica With Love, and Lord of the Rings. I've also written original fiction that tends toward fantasy/science fiction, horror, and romance
• Matrix; Harry Potter (Gen Only); Angel: The Series (Angel/Lindsey); The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Tick/Adam); Firefly; Ocean's 11 (Remake); Original Fantasy Setting; Russian Doll
• I usual lurk in the fandom for a few months after I read the book. I've only consistenly been in the Harry Potter and Pirates of the Carribean fandom
• Original yaoi. Fandoms: Gundam Wing; Digimon; Beyblade... I write fiction for the fandoms I like, but also feel that I know the stories and characters well (as I don't want to write things inaccurately)
• Harry Potter, X-Men, Shakespearean
• Starsky & Hutch, The Sentinel, Due South, Horatio Hornblower, From Eroica With Love, Pirates Of The Caribbean, The Boondock Saints, Harry Potter, Reservoir Dogs, M*A*S*H, Doctor Who
• Tolkien, RPS,
• Fandoms- Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, X-Men, Star Wars, Highlander, Stargate, Gravitation, Wolf's Rain, Weiss Kreuz, FAKE... and then about 40 other fandoms more infrequently (1-3 fics in each of the 40 fandoms over the course of a few years, on average)
  
  Types- mostly hurt/comfort or fluff/PWPs (<- consists of maybe 85% of what I write) I also write some historical fiction original fiction
  
  
• 3 x Star Wars
• Professionals; Harry Potter; Gerard/Kimble (from the film "The Fugitive")
• aubrey/ maturin
• biker mice from mars, young riders, original stories
• The same ones I read in-- I have written in all those previously listed, as well as some old Starsky and Hutch, Man From UNCLE, and one Peanuts fic..
• Fanfiction: Rurouni Kenshin, M*A*S*H, Utena
  
  Original fiction: fantasy
• Angel the series
• Harry Potter and Digimon
• I write original fiction more often than fanfiction. When I write fanfiction, it's usually for Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, or some very obscure anime fandom, and is usually either satiric or super-serious in nature. I tend to write short stories, not having the attention span to work on a story (and keep it in more or less the same tone throughout) for more than a week or two at most. I'll write just about any idea that strikes me, but I won't usually spend a lot of time or effort on something unless it's something I would consider really worth reading
• Star Trek: The Original Series, Angel
• Harry Potter, assorted movies.
  
  Original: fantasy, short stories, poetry
• Pirates of the Caribbean, Will-centric slash fics. Troy, Paris-centric slash fics
• Joaquin Phoenix character fic (movie slash)
  Damon/Affleck slash, but only a little
• Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Harry Potter, Due South, The Sentinel, Vampire Chronicles, Smallville, Final Fantasy III, The X-Files, original m/m fiction
• CSI, Harry Potter, Sailor Moon
• Primarily original fantasy, with both slash and het content
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer" & "Angel
• Star Wars: Phantom Menace
• Jossverse; Daria; Pirates of the Carribean; Good Omens
• LOTR and actor slash
• Various comicbook, various Manga/Anime
• Stargate, Smallville, Harry Potter; dramatic, humor, fantasy
• Actor slash, band slash, Harry Potter slash, and various rare fandoms in het slash or gen
• Fanfic: BtVS/Angel, Hercules, Roswell
• The Phantom Menace
  
  Have also written
  Velvet Goldmine
  Pirates of the Caribbean
  Trek: Voyager
  X-Files
• Stargate SG-1 (slash and gen),some original fiction
• Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, The Talented Mr Ripley, Coupling, Pirates of the Caribbean, RPS
• Law & Order, X-Files, Stargate SG-1, The Sentinel, The Dead Zone, Charmed
• Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean
• Lord of the Rings, Star Trek Voyager, Man From UNCLE, Sentinel, OZ
• Final Fantasy Seven, Kingdom Hearts, Pirates of the Carribean, Original fiction
• I written and published Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, X-files, webcomics, kidlit, and literary fanfiction; original speculative fiction and creative non-fiction Have written but not polished in a vairety of other fandoms and genres & may get around to publishing eventually
• Magnificent 7 in the ATF- verse
  The Sentinel mostly cannon
  Buffy: The vampire slayer cannon but xander centered
• So far, only BTVS
• JAG - general, hetero, and slash
• Biker Mice from Mars
• Currently only in Pirates of the Caribbean
• BtVS/AtS. I write the occasional fic for all fandoms previously mentioned
• Master and Commander
• Or rather, what have I written for.
  
  Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Starsky and Hutch, and some other random obscure fandoms.
  
  
• Star Wars, King Arthur, Hogan's Heroes, Lord of the Rings, Master and Commander, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, A-Team, spy/action original
• Buffy: the Vampire Slayer. Cyberpunk. Fantasy
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel: The Series. I also write original fiction
• 21 Jump Street, Alien Nation, Blake's 7, Brimstone, The Corruptor, Due South, Forever Knight, The Fugitive, Homicide: Life on the Streets, Law & Order, Mission Impossible, The Professionals, Quantum Leap, The Sentinel, Stargate, Star Trek, Star Trek: Deep Space 9, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, Pirates of the Caribbean, Tequila Sunrise, V, Willow, Wiseguy, The X-Files, and original science fiction and fantasy
• Aubrey/Maturin
• certain anime fandoms, original fantasy/sci-fi
• Buffy/Angel, Dark Angel, Smallville
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
• Historically: X-Files, Due South, Stargate, Doctor Who, Horatio Hornblower.
  Currently: Angel
• Final Fantasy, Xenosaga, Xenogears, Dragon Warrior, Chrono Trigger
  
  Original- Fantasy, Magical Realism
• Various types original fiction now. In the past I would occaionally write Babylon 5 or Wheel of Time fanfiction, most of which was humor/parody
• At the moment Stargate, but I have written in almost every genre I read (L&O SVU, CSI, Popular, ER) in the past 6 years. Prior to that, I wrote only offline and never made any of those works available to anyone, nor have I even looked at them in years. Many were Star Wars, but I also wrote original works and poetry. I am also currently working on several children's stories that I am illustrating and will print to give to children in my family
• Star Trek (The Original Series); Highlaner; and Stargate SG-1
• Velvet Goldmine, Pirates Of The Caribbean, World Of Darkness Roleplaying Universe, Harry Potter, Askewniverse/Kevin Smith Films, Arthurian Legend, Lord Of The Rings, Labyrinth, The Princess Bride, Pearl Harbor
• Bon Jovi RPS, Bryan Adams RPS, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Good Charlotte RPS, Harry Potter, Heather Locklear RPS, Hilary Duff RPS, Jurassic Park III, Mest RPS, Savage Garden RPS, The Sentinel, Star Wars, The Vampire Chronicles, Velvet Goldmine, Will Young RPS
  Original erotica, original poetry
• Harry Potter (formerly X-files, Pokemon, crossovers)
• Harry Potter fanfiction with some swear words (because of that and the things that will happen later on in the story it is rated 'Y') and fanfiction of Hogan's Heroes (not published).
  I also write stories I would like to publish in a book. One is about a gay guy and I also wrote some fantasy stuff
• Highlander, Angel
• Harry Potter, Gilmore Girls, The O.C
• See what I read, and you will see what I write
• Buffy / Angel Fandom - only slash
• Buffy
  Angel
• I haven't written anything in the past 18 months, but in the past 13 years I have written fan fiction (some gen, mostly slash)in the following fandoms: Star Trek TOS, Professionals (British TV series), The Professionals (1967 Western film by Richard Brooks), Rawhide, The Magnificent 7 (TV series), Due South, Rawhide, Inspector Morse, Inspector Rex
• Green Wing, Giant
• Tomb Raider
• Fandoms:
  lord of the rings
  highlander
  harry potter
  fullmetal alchemist
  sailormoon
  dragonball
  fushigi yuugi
  star wars
  
  Original:
  fantasy
  dark fantasy
  classic romantic
  drabbles
• Same as reader catagories
• what strikes my fancy. star trek: tos; lord of the rings and lord of the rings rps; pop music rps; actor rps; sherlock holmes; good omens; jeeves & wooster; she-ra; harry potter; some assorted one-offs including finding nemo, the tombraider movies, etc
• Used to write Forever Knight, now I write Harry Potter
• Star Wars, Harry Potter, Smallville, medieval romance
• harry potter, highlander, star trek, angsty orginal character stuff
• football slash, JAG
• mostly action
• gundam wing, buffy, heart of kings
• Original: Fantasy/Science Fiction adventure, urban fantasy, fairy tales, surrealistic vignettes.
  Fanfic: Vampire: The Masquerade, Highlander, Perry Rhodan
• Legend of Zelda, Generator Gawl, Lord of the Rings
• Lots of differnt kinds of anime slash, original fiction in a variety of different genres
• At this time, I am only writing a _Pirates of the Caribbean_ story. This is the first fan fiction I have written in over a decade. In the past, I wrote about a number of different people, including Duran Duran (when I was 12) and the American television show _21 Jump Street_ (early high school)
• Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of the Rings, Underworld, Ravenous, Star Trek:Voyager; fantasy, sci-fi, romantic
• Fantasy/sci fi original fiction, Harry Potter, the X-Files, Roswell, Star Trek: DS9 and Voyager, Lord of the Rings, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Metallica
• harry potter
  lord of the rings
• Harry Potter, Dragonlance, biblical, Micheal Moorcock, Fairy Tales, Dungeons and Dragons, Warhammer, Lord of the Rings, Jules Verne.
  
  I also write poetry and am writing an original novel
• Football RPS, Harry Potter and yaoi
• For fandoms, I write the same as I read - Harry Potter, Kingdom Hearts, Inu-Yasha, and Inu-Yasha/Yu Yu Hakusho crossovers. In Original, I don't do much, but when I do it's usually poetry, or humor
• Harry Potter fanfiction, my original fiction is weird stuff for young adults
• Highlander and Star Trek-TOS
  
  some slash
• Lord of the Rings both FPS and RPS, Blakes 7, Lost
• Harry Potter, Newsies
• Harry Potter, Firefly, Buffy, Angel, Lord of the Rings, crossover fiction, generally more humour, romance or adventure than serious/angsty
• Lord of the Rings exclusively
• male slash
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Sentinel
• Harry Potter, Lord of The Rings
• Newsies and RENT, mostly, plus Pirates of the Caribbean, Animorphs, Chasing Amy, Mighty Ducks, real people slash, and some fic of classic literature. I also write original fiction, usually semi-autobigoraphical. Most of what I write in fanfiction is slash, but not all
• I only write Harry Potter fanfiction. I post them in www.harrypotterfanfiction.com and www.fanfiction.net and my website which isnt working at the moment
• fandoms: Harry Potter, Lord of the Ring
  original: mainly fantasy
• Buffy, Harry Potter, gay fiction
• Rammstein Slash
• Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings
• Harry Potter, Newsies, Peter Pan
• Newsies, musicals, Tamora Pierce, History, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
• Newsies
• Harry Potter, Newsies, original fantasy
• L.J.Smith
  Harry Potter
  Anime: Beyblade
  Cartoons: Mulan
• Fanfiction for The Lord of the Rings and Star Trek: Enterprise
• Original fiction, Harry Potter fanfiction
• Harry Potter, short stories
• CSI, Harry Potter, Crossing Jordan, poetry
• Original fiction of any genre. Fandoms - Harry potter(slash), L.j.Smith, Tamora pierce
• Harry Potter, Sailor Moon
• I write mostly Newsies, though I used to write anime and dabble in Harry Potter and the His Dark Materials series. My current original fiction ideas include a group of friends with psychic powers, an author who gets sucked into her creation, a group of gay men and their faghags, and the rise and fall of a punk band
• Fanfic: Pirates of the Caribbean, Fight Club, Carnivale, crossovers
  
  Otherwise, I write original professional fiction
• Buffy, Angel, LotR, Harry Potter, Firefly, Mutant X
• Harry Potter slash
• Angel, Buffy, Charmed, CSI, Dead Zone, Highlander, Invisible Man, Pretender, Sentinel, Smallville, StarWars.
  
  Three original fantasy/adventure novels
• Buffy, Xena, Harry Potter, Evangelion, Digimon, Trigun, X-Men
• Newsies, Harry Potter
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Harry Potter
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of the Rings, and X-Men
• Busted, Newsies
• Harry Potter--original, mostly slice-of-life vignettes and romantic/angst
• Slash, yaoi, shonen ai, original fic, in a range of fandoms (ie: WeiÃ??? Kreuz, Fruit's Basket)
• X-files, smallville, Harry Potter, Buffy tVS
• Most of the fandoms I read in. As for the original stuff, it depends on my mood and/or current inspiration
• Fandoms: Harry Potter
  Original Amateur Fiction: Realistic Fiction bordering on memoirs
• Harry Potter, poetry, short stories
• Sherlock Holmes, Rurouni Kenshin, Harry Potter and whatever strikes my fancy
• "Newsies". And occasionally, "Gundam Wing" and various other anime fics. I refuse to write book fiction, though I've broken that rule with "Harry Potter"... It's just such a good series for fiction. Either way, I've written an HP fic, but it's not posted anywhere but my writing journal, and it's a Friended entry. So
• fantasy, science fiction
• Star Trek, Smallville, Gundam Wing
• Again, mainly Pirates of the Caribbean and Newsies. But also Diagnosis Murder (I also read that one too), Lois and Clark, Smallville, Indiana Jones, Star Wars (I read that one too), Dinotopia, thinking about writing a Sue Thomas: FBEye one
• Highlander, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
• Final Fantasy 8
  Forgotten Realms
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel het and slash
• Very little. Lost, Smallville, DC Universe, Buffy/Angel
• So far just DBZ, Harry Potter, Yu-Gi-Oh
• Original Gay lifestyle fiction, pop-slash,
• Harry Potter, X Files, Final Fantasy 7
• Harry Potter, Pirates of the Carribean, Firefly, Popslash, X-Files, Highlander, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Gundam Wing, Buffy/Angel
• Harry Potter, original fantasy, a variety of genres including angst/romance/sexual/friendship/adventure
• 2 x Highlander
• Harry Potter, Priates of the Caribbean, Yami no Matsui
• Lost
• RPS, Buffy and Angel slash. The VERY occasional original
• Gundam Wing, Weiss Kruez, Card Captor Sakura, Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Harry Potter, Gravitation, mostly angste and romance, with AU, OOC, OC, some fluff, abuse, rape, whatever strikes at the time
• Lord of the Rings, Star Wars
• Yami No Matsuei
  Harry Potter
  Sailor Moon
  Saint Seiya
  (99% of stories all slash)
• Harry Potter, School of Rock (that's the one I forgot!), Beatles, CSI, my own original work, Yami no Matsuei (used to)
• Digimon, Harry Potter, Gargoyles, X-Men, and Gundam Wing with any consitancy. Fruits Basket, Cowboy Bebop, Petshop of Horrors, Highlander, Inuyasha, and any other fandom I think will cross over well with my main ones
• I write for the Gone With the Wind fandom and Pirates of the Caribbean fandom
• Harry Potter fandom and original poetry
• Harry Potter Slash and Gen
• slash, het, buffy the vampire slayer, Stargate SG1, Harry Potter
• Harry Potter fandom
  Original real life and romance(slash)
  
• Garrison's Gorillas, Rat Patrol, Equaliser, Sentinel, Eroica, Diagnosis Murder, Highlander, Magnificent 7, Romeo & Juliet, Space above and beyond, Scent of a woman, War of the Worlds
• I have written in many fandoms in the past decade-plus, but I am currently into A&E movieverse "Hornblower" slash up to my eyeballs and have been for the past two years. I enjoy some other characters, but concentrate very heavily on Horatio/Archie
• The A-Team, Battlestar Galactica, Battle of the Planets, Gatchaman
• Fandoms: I write so sparsely that I only get around to writing one or two stories in the course of a few years. I've written some Harry Potter (slash) recently. My most highly-liked story was back on the j-rock indiefic circuit (for the band Art Marju Duchain - slash). Before that I wrote a bit in Fushigi Yuugi (het and slash) and Sailor Moon (het). My Star Trek stuff from 6th grade has never seen the light of day, nor will it.
  
  Original: fantasy, space opera, lightly romantic, medieval otherworld; short, YA novel, adult novels-in-progress
• Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter
• I only write a bit - in quite a few of my fandoms. However, I publish very little
• Harry Potter, Pern
• Lotr RPS, The O.C., Ocean's 11
• A-Team
• Lord of the Rings. I'm getting into the Greek Gods and Harry Potter
• Highlander, Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, The Magnificent Seven, Man from U.N.C.L.E
• Biker Mice from Mars
  Harry Potter
  The Mummy
• Queer as Folk
  Lord of the Rings
  Silverchair
  Placebo
  Bright Eyes
• Have dabbled in several book, TV and film fandoms, but published little. I mainly write original fiction, drama, adventure, het and slash
• Anything I like and have throughly studied
• I'll write about anything that interests me, or that I feel I have a comfortable amount of information on the characters i'm writing about
• Harry Potter, Pirates of the Carribean, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, James Joyce
• Harry Potter, Final Fantasy, Digimon, Cardcaptor Sakura, Weiss Kruez, and Kareshi Kanojo no Jijuo
• I write many kinds of stories for my own pleasure - they are of multiple genres (ranging from fantasy of sorts to more 'realistic' stuff). I have only written a tiny amount of fanfiction (and showed it to no one) in the fandoms of Harry Potter and Master & Commander. (I also do not intend to show it to anyone.)
• Magnificent Seven, Stargate Sg-1, Hornblower
• Only original character fiction, no fanfic
• Harry Potter and a little X-men and Buffy
• SG1
  Buffy
  Angel
  New Profesionals
  X overs
• I write in fantasy. Fairy stories and all that jazz
• Queen of Swords
  Highlander
• The Sentinel
  Stargate
  Battlestar Galactica
  A-Team
  RPS of a music group "ok" with fic about it
• Hp, LotR, DBZ
• X-Men, Horatio Hornblower, OZ
• Harry Potter; Anita Blake/Merry Gentry
  
  fantasy focusing on vampires and weres
• Harry Potter, and original short stories and fantasy works
• LOTRS RPS Smallville
• Roswell, Harry Potter
• I have written Babylon 5, Magnificent Seven, Sports Night and West Wing. However I am no longer active in any of those fandoms and I'm mainly working on an original mystery novel...I've also written some short fantasy stories
• Original: SciFi/Fantasy
  Fanfic: Highlander, Brimstone, Sentinel, Harry Potter, Witchblade, Stargate, BtVS
• Master and Commander, Metropolis
• Buffy, Angel, WWE
• Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Enterprise, Voyager, Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, Hornblower
• Smallville at the moment
• Rammstein RPS, F1 RPS, Die Aerzte RPS, Van Helsing FPF/S, historical and classical RPF/S
• Mostly Harry Potter. Batman, Battlestar Galactica(2004), Stargate Atlantis, Firefly and a whole series of Original Fiction which I haven't published or shown (yet) that is set in it's own universe
• X-Force, X-Men, Resident Evil, Silent Hill
• Lord of the Rings, Master and Commander, Legend of Basara
• Original, Big Wolf on Campus, Master and Commander, Pirates of the Caribbean, Smallville, Harry Potter, Vampire Chronicles, Batman, FAKE, Recess, Lord of the Rings, Velvet Goldmine, X-Men, the Lost Boys, Jake 2.0, Labyrinth, Angel, Stargate SG1, the Sentinel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the Simpsons
• Fanfic: Lord of the Rings, Silmarillion, Harry Potter, Quantum Leap, Highlander, The Monkey King, Three Musketeers, Perry Mason
  
  Original: high or urban fantasy with m/m themes
• Daria, Harry Potter, Misc. Original Fiction
• Star Wars, Stargate, Harry Potter
• comicbooks
• Again, I used to be in LOTR, but now I write Pirates of the Caribbean. I don't write much because I'm horribly busy with sports, theatre, school, etc
• Used to write Horatio Hornblower and Queer as Folk but got tired of them. NOw I write mostly for myself (two books are in progress and have a go-ahead from a literary agent to finish them). I occassionally write DC Comics fic
• Queer as Folk and CSI
• music pairings, some original characters included
• DC/Marvel
• Friends, M*A*S*H*, Buffy
• I only write "The Sentinel"
• Saiyu drabbles are let out into the world
• Professionals
  Sentinel
  CSI
  Star Wars
• 2 x Stargate
• Slash, Harry Potter, Fushigi Yuugi, Weiss Kreuz, other anime
• Stargate, Sentinel (now) Kung Fu, the Legend Continues (in the past, but not anymore)
• Highlander, Stargate Sg1
• The Invisible Man and The Sentinel
• Highlander, Stargate SG-1 (so far)
• Star Trek, Highlander, Harry Potter, LotR, Due South, Troy, Star Wars
• Fandoms I have written, in order of most recent to least recent: Battle of the Planets, Stargate SG-1, Smallville, Due South, Angel (Joss Whedon), Once A Thief, X-Files
  
  My original stuff is intended for professional publication, and is, I suppose, irrelevant.
  
  
  
• X-Files, Miami Vice, Highlander, Harry Potter, historical original
• As I explained before, I've been in fandom for more than three decades, so that covers an awful lot of ground! Currently, I've been writing: Alexander the Great, King Arthur, LOTR, Troy and RP(mostly S)
• For Stargate SG-1-slash
  For Babylon 5-het
• I only write Harry Potter slash. :D
• Currently: "The Sentinel"
  Past: "Forever Knight"
• Harry Potter, Wind on Fire
• trigun, harry potter, good omens, original yaoi/shonen-ai
• 2 x harry potter
• Harry Potter and Original work
• RPS with Linkin Park
• Stargate
  The Sentinel
  RPS - LOTR actors
• Band slash fanfiction
• SW, HP, Thunderbirds
• Stargate SG1, Stargate Atlantis, Firefly
• Kindred the Embraced, Hikaru no Go, Crossovers, Harry Potter, Star Wars
• Harry Potter canon fic
• Professional Wrestling
• Harry Potter Slash
• The Harry Potter, Master & Commander and LOTRips fandoms. And I only write slash (gay and lesbian)
• I write around characters:
  Ares & Iphicles (Hercules: the Legendary Journeys & Xena: Warrior Princess
  Krychek (X-Files)
  Eric Bana/Orlando Bloom (RPS & their movie characters
• Harry Potter, with one foray into BtVS and a crossover; some *very* rare original stories
• Harry Potter, Gundam Wing, Yu-Gi-Oh, Digimon, Yu YU Hakusho, Sports NIght, Star Trek, various anime catagories
• Buffy, Brimstone, Highlander, Smallville
  
  Historical
• Same as those I read
• Harry Pottet, original slash
• Star Wars - The Original Trilogy
  Yu Yu Hakusho
  Card Captor Sakura
  Harry Potter
• Todd & Karl (Coronation Street) is the only kind I've posted anywhere so far, I've written some Harry Potter but no one has seen it yet
• Harry Potter (mainly slash)
• Anime, some Movie, some literary
• Currently Write: The Sentinel; Stargate: SG-1; Law & Order: SVU; Judging Amy.
  Used to Write: M*A*S*H.
  Original Fiction: None, unless you count poetry
• Robin of Sherwood, The Sentinal, The Tribe, Roar, whatever series or movie takes my fancy
• I've never posted online any of my own original amatuer fiction, but it is mainly fantasy. occasionally I will write short peices on people I've observed in real life
• Harry Potter
  LOTR
• Harry Potter
  Vampire Game
  Glory of Nescia (original)
  Fire Emblem
• I write Buffy the Vampire Slayer het and slash at the moment, and have written Star Trek gen, het and slash, and The Sentinel slash
• CSI, Stargate SG-1, The O.C., X-Men, Andromeda
• All the ones listed above. [ED - Harry Potter, Master and Commander, Star Wars. Anime including but not limited to: Saiyuki, Descendants of Darkness, Prince of Tennis, Hellsing, Gravitation.]
• I like to write historical fiction based around the Napoleonic Wars, slash, and works of fiction based on minor characters in books, movies, or shows and what they may be thinking at certain points throughout the series/whatever.
  
  The highest MPAA-based rating I've ever accomplished was R -- I would feel silly doing anything higher
• Fandoms: M*A*S*H, Queer as Folk (US), The Bill, Harry Potter, some complete randoms.
  Original: humor and fantasy
• Movie & Television fandoms
• Harry Potter, original slash, original fantasy
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Discworld, some Harry Potter
• Highlander, slash(R/M)
  The Sentinel, slash and gen
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
  Roswell
  Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  Angel
  Teen Titans
  Mutant X
• Original general fiction
  Original erotic fiction
• Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, Babysitters Club, The Lone Gunmen/X-Files, Star Trek: The Next Generation and original series, Star Wars (original trilogy), Ultraviolet, X-Men (movies), Minority Report
• Sentinel, Starsky and Hutch
• Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Andromeda, The Sentinel
• The Sentinel, Stargate sg-1
• Olympic RPS
• Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter
• dueSouth; Magnificent 7, Highlander; Man from UNCLE; X-Files; The Sentinel; Forever Knight;
• Harry Potter, Jane Austen, and a great desire to come up with an original idea someday
• Only original -- short stories and novels of a mostly general nature (ie. not sci-fi, not fantasy, etc.) Most are somewhat autobiographical
• the sentinel for the net and other stories hoping to be published elsewhere
• Harry Potter, and most genres of original amateur fiction
• Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean (read as well, forgot before)
  Used to write Newsies, Les Miserables, Tenth Kingdom, Tamora Pierce, L M Montgomery, fairy tale
• Tolkien
• Harry Potter universe through descriptive writing, so far minimal storyline. There will be adventure and there will be fluff :-)
• Buffy
• Forever Knight, The Sentinel, Stargate: SG-1
• I've written one each of: Inu-Yasha, Wicked, Kingdom Hearts, ZOIDS, Ranma 1/2, Pirates of the Caribbean
• sentinel
• X-men, mostly slash
• Original works, Harry Potter, anime works
• Harry Potter, Good Omens, Star Trek, PG Wodehouse's Jeeves and Bertie stories, Weiss Kruez, Sherlock Holmes, Vampire Hunter D
• Harry Potter fan fiction
• Harry Potter, Digimon, X-Men, DBZ, Elizabeth Peters
• Babylon 5, Stargate, Sentinel, Man From UNCLE
• Harry Potter, LotR RPS
• Earth's Children and Harry Potter
• X-Files, Harry Potter, Friends
• Harry Potter, but only Remus Lupin, or Remus/Sirius slash pairing
• Harry Potter, HDM
• HARRY POTTER
  GATCHAMAN/BATTLE OF THE PLANETS
• Sentinel, Stargate, Man From Uncle, Wild Wild West, Star Wars, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Star Trek: The Original Series. Star Trek: Voyager. Highlander. The X-Files. The Sentinel. Smallville
• Good Omens, Lord of the Rings (FPS and RPS), star wars, brittas empire, red dwarf, Dalziel and Pascoe, Harry Potter, various other britcomedies
  Fantasy and horror.
  I only write slash fic (m/m and f/f)
• Tekken fanfiction
  Harry Potter fanfiction
  Original high fantasy fiction
• Sentinel exclusively
• The Professionals, Blake's 7, Star Trek (TOS), The A Team
• I cover a fairly wide range. Fanfiction is Harry Potter, Buffy, His Dark Materials.
  
  Originals cover fantasy, rites of passage 'real world' novels, poetry, mystery, humour, pastiche/parody
• Harry Potter, Star Trek, Babylon 5, Lord of the Rings
• Harry Potter, Harry Potter RPS, Lord of the Rings RPS, Lord of the Flies
• Star Trek: Enterprise (focusing on the Tucker/Reed slash relationship), Buffy (focusing on Giles/Buffy/Ethan and Willow/Kennedy), and LOTR (focusing on Gandalf/Saruman and Gandalf/Aragorn);
  
  Original fiction: SF cyberpunk; regency romance (long-term, full-sized novel outline that I work on every few months); horror with erotic over- or under-tones
• Harry Potter, fantasy, Star Wars, Degrassi, Lord of the Rings
• Night World by LJ Smith, Harry Potter by JK Rowling, Young izards by Diane Duane
• RPS
• Miscellaneous. Depending on my mood and whim
• Artemis Fowl, Paradise Kiss, Harry Potter
• LOTR, Harry Potter, Robin of Sherwood, HP Lovecraft, Georgette Heyer, "Molesworth"
• Harry Potter, Roswell, Dark Angel, JAG
• humorous observations...situations may be enhanced to enhance the humor, so techincally, it's fiction
• K/S only
• Only Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy
• Harry Potter and Star Trek
• Fanfiction: Harry Potter, Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  Fiction: Humor, Horror
• Harry Potter, His Dark Materials, occaisional Old Kingdom. I write in Original Fantasy as well
• Mystery, "literary fiction," mild romance
• I've written RPS, Everwood, Gilmore Girls, Harry Potter, and The Tempest
• Harry Potter, short original fiction
• Harry Potter fanfiction, specifically R/Hr or H/G shipper one-shots
• Roswell, HP Buffy, Angel, General Hospital
• Science fiction
  Fantasy
  I don't write fanfic but I may reference characters or stories in context
• I write in the Harry Potter fandom, in a multitude of genres. I am not a big enough fan of any other fandom to want to write fiction for it
• Diagnosis Murder
  Harry Potter
  Star Trek
  Witchblade
• angst
• HP
• Harry Potter only
• Harry Potter, other various novels in the past
• Harry Potter at the SugarQuill.net
• Harry Potter, occasionally His Dark Materials, once Lord of the Flies, perhaps in the future Queer as Folk or Lord of the Rings
• Lord of the Rings, Real Person Slash, Harry Potter, Historical (Alexander the Great)
• I've written Trixie Belden and Degrassi Fanfic, so far
• Harry Potter, Fantasy, Young Adult
• Trek, The Professionals, Magnificent Seven
• Slash: Sentinel, Professionals, XF, Highlander
  Original Character Het & Slash
• Mainly original homoerotic fiction. Some gen original fiction.
  I have written in many, many fandoms in the past but write very little fanfic these days. What I do write is Stargate SG1, Sentinel and Harry Potter
• The Sentinel and Magnificent Seven
• Hornblower
• SugarQuill.net
• Harry Potter. Have also written small pieces in Buffy, Lord of The Rings and Star Wars
• Blake's 7, Doctor Who, Farscape, miscellaneous others. Mostly relationship stuff, slash/het/general character interaction stuff
• Harry Potter-based (no other fandoms)
  Original--for ages 6-14 (middle grades and young adult, in U.S. publishing terminology)
• Harry Potter, Buffy/Angel
• Stargate SG-1,CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The Fairly Odd Parents, and Law & Order: SVU
• Harry Potter, though I've been considering writing more adult World of Darkness stuff..
• Harry Potter, mythology, fantasy
• Harry Potter, dabble in various others
• Harry Potter
  Master and Commander
  
• I used to write in the Card Captor Sakura and Angelic Layer fandom, but now I focus on Harry Potter. I read more than I write, though
• Mostly G-rated spin-offs of the Harry Potter Series. Missing scenes, that sort of thing
• Harry Potter
  Digimon
  Lord of the Rings
• harry potter, the o.c, jane austen

Section 4

Question 4.1

Have you ever read any on-line amateur fiction?

No	4	13.79%	0.36%
No but my child/sibling/parent/spouse/friend does	3	10.34%	0.27%
Only officially licensed publications	0	0%	0%
I tried some but I didn't like it	1	3.45%	0.09%
Maybe once or twice	13	44.83%	1.16%
Yes	8	27.59%	0.72%
No response given	1087	-	97.4%

Question 4.2

How did you hear about fan and/or amateur fiction?

No response given	1087	-	97.4%
Friend	13	44.83%	1.16%
Parent	0	0%	0%
Child	2	6.9%	0.18%
News/Article	3	10.34%	0.27%
School/University assignment	0	0%	0%
Stumbled across it accidentally	7	24.14%	0.63%
Other (enter below)	4	13.79%	0.36%

Other reponses: (4 responses)

• adult daughter
• Web links and email lists
• Wrote some long ago. Never questioned that others probably did too
• Your brother <name deleted>

Question 4.3

If you stumbled across some fan and/or amateur fiction online would you read it?

Yes	20	68.97%	1.79%
Not after the first time	3	10.34%	0.27%
No	6	20.69%	0.54%
No response given	1087	-	97.4%

Question 4.4

If you stumbled across some fan and/or amateur fiction online that warned of containing adult contents or carried a high "movie rating" would you read it?

Yes	1	3.45%	0.09%
Depends who or what it was about	20	68.97%	1.79%
Not after the first time	1	3.45%	0.09%
No	6	20.69%	0.54%
No and I would complain (or seriously consider complaining) because that sort of thing should not be allowed	1	3.45%	0.09%
No response given	1087	-	97.4%

Question 4.5

If you stumbled across some fan and/or amateur fiction that warned of containing adult "slash" contents or carried a high "movie rating" would you read it?

Yes	1	3.45%	0.09%
Depends who or what it was about	15	51.72%	1.34%
I don't know what that means so I would avoid it	2	6.9%	0.18%
I don't know what that means so I would try it	2	6.9%	0.18%
Not after the first time	1	3.45%	0.09%
No	7	24.14%	0.63%
No and I would complain (or seriously consider complaining) because that sort of thing should not be allowed	1	3.45%	0.09%
No response given	1087	-	97.4%

Section 5

Question 5.1

Do you consider 'R' rated stories to be 'adult'?

Yes - anything over PG-13 is 'adult'	148	13.27%
It depends on why it has been rated 'R'	624	55.96%
No - only NC-17 stories are 'adult'	221	19.82%
Isn't the some form of X classification that should apply to that sort of thing?	9	0.81%
I don't understand the American Movie Rating Scheme	81	7.26%
The question is irrelevant because the ICRA/PICS system should be used instead	3	0.27%
Not sure	29	2.6%

Question 5.2

Do you think "Het" and "Slash" fiction should be treated differently from each other with regard to the way it is created and made available online?

No response given	2	-	0.18%
Yes	63	5.66%	5.65%
No	571	51.26%	51.16%
Not if they are the same rating	274	24.6%	24.55%
I don't understand the terms	22	1.97%	1.97%
Not sure	24	2.15%	2.15%
Yes, but...	29	2.6%	2.6%
No, but...	131	11.76%	11.74%

Yes, but... (30 responses)

• this is more like it ;-)
• Just that they could carry a correct warning so that people who would like to can avoid accidentally happening on to the wrong fic
• only to allow those who prefer one or the other to find what they like
• Only for the protection of those who write it. Sadly, people find slash fiction offensive where they won't find het fiction offensive
• Only because I prefer to read slash and want to be able to easily identify it
• only so people can find what they like more easily--I can't deal with people whining abouyt how het/slash/chan/RPF whatever squicks them, and I can't talk about slash any more this week, for which I again apologize. Basically people have to chill about some of their issues, though; if you don't like it, don't read it, and complain privately or, you know, I reserve the right to choose not to read what you have to say if I don't feel like it
• It's more of a case of society pressures, not personal preference. It should, because you get in trouble otherwise
• only for search purposes
• that is because some people find even g-rated slash fic offendable; thus watrnings should be applicable in the manner of "if gay stuff freaks you out, don't read"
• not because I believe one is better than the other. Only to avoid clashes/arguments. I would like there to be time when slash fanfiction wouldn't have to 'hide' behind warnings
• we need to stop labeling slash stories as R/NC-17 for characters that are just IN a relationship and not doing anything explicit. I do believe we should (as a society) recognize that homosexual activities and lifestyles don't automatically need warnings for activities we can see on the street (holding hands, hugs, kisses) when heterosexuals do them. Just b/c the characters/persons are in a slash relationship does NOT automatically rate an R/NC-17 (b/c the same level of activity in a het relationship/story wouldn't rate the R/NC-17)
• Yes because not all people are into it. I usually rate my slash stories higher then I would if it where just normal stories. And I warn more then once before people read my stories because I don't want anyone to feel uncomfortable. But on the other hand higher rating means that less people will read it. Because not every fanfic reader readds R or NC17. And some websites don't want to post it or don't allow it to be posted
• there is absolutely nothing wrong with slash. It's just that it's awful how people who just can't accept it have the nerve to flame the people who write it. It should be in places where people are aware of the content and that it contains fiction about homosexuals
• only in terms of making it clear which category the story is -- if slash is your kink, more power to you, but I personally prefer to know beforehand. Homoeroticism is not my thing so I prefer not to read it. I also do not think it is appropriate to write "real person slash" if the real people in question are not actually gay. The same goes for "real person het."
• only in the sense that I think they should be housed seperately to make it easier to filter out which stories are which
• that's only because I believe slash should be more readily available
• only because some people may be offended by slash - mainly minors - it may be too strange a world for them to easily wander into. The term 'slash' should at least always be explained somewhere on the site, because I myself was quite confused when I stumbled upon my first slash fic
• Most will archive them togeather ,but my page is only slash
• only because a lot of people get really up tight about it if not properlly warned
• No, but I do think it's simply common courtesy to label het or slash as such--some people do get quite upset about these things, after all. I've actually had readers tell me that they're praying for my soul after reading a slash death-fic
• I read both slash and Het fiction in certain fandoms, but do not like extremely graphic details regarding the sex part. Either at a cinema or at home reading fiction, some things are best left to your imagination
• only to help find what you want not to discriminate
• only by telling potential readers whether slash is included in the story
• I do think that "het" and "slash" should be noted somewhere outside the story, whether in the summary or author's note, etc. so that readers who choose to avoid slash can do so. Sometimes it helps if it is archived separately, as people (in my experience) usually have definite opinions about it, either for or against.
  I do not, however, believe that slash should automatically receive a higher rating simply because of the nature of the pairing
• there needn't be seperate sections. A warning of slash vs het is always welcomed; I'm not comfortable reading slashy stories
• only because some poeple are soooooo anti slash that they should be kept separate so those people can't be pigheaded about it. They don't need to read it if they don't want to, so why shoudl they stop others from doing the same?
• Not as moral policing, but more because I would like to be sensitive to the community at large and try not to offend
• I think that explicit fiction of any sort (any kind of sex, explicit violence) should be labeled in some way so the reader knows what to expect and can choose those stories that he or she will enjoy (and avoid those they won't). There should be a way to block minors from viewing it, but once they're old enough, I don't see a reason to make a distinction between het and slash
• slash should NOT be discouraged-- it as as many fans as het!
• only a warning shall be included in the description of the story. However, it should made clear that what kind of homosexuality is involved (male or female)

No, but... (131 responses)

• I'm assiuming that it will be judged on content as if it were origional fic
• If it is considered to be an issue, fiction should be labelled het/slash as appropriate. I'd like to think that I live in a society where with all other things being equal (explicit content, etc), the sexuality of the characters in a piece of fiction was considered irrelevant for ratings purposes. Bye bye Section 28, and all that
• Seperating the two is useful so that if I want to read slash I can and if I want to read het I can
• some of it is very funny
• they probably should be marked so that people know what they are reading. (ALthough the pairing will indicate that)
  
  Slash should NEVER be treated differently simply because it involves gay relationships. It can be warned for, as I will warn for het content, but it should never be given a higher rating etc
• Slash is always going to bring negative and potentially harmful reactions from those outside the 'community', while het is much more likely to be simply humoured. Still, it would feel far too much like conceding defeat to do other than treat the two genres the same
• it should depend on the archive, ML, or other place the story is - it shouldn't be treated differently in a neutral area, but in an area where bias is known it may be judicious to add more warnings for one than for the other or not post it at all. If the story is at a neutral archive who have no problem with that sort of Het or Slash, the only markings and/or warnings should be inline with rating and whatever is considered acceptable at the archive/ML/whatever. It's a matter of knowig your audience and catering to them
• the difference in social acceptibility of homosexual vs. heterosexual relationships, and the difference in valorisation of slash vs. het in online communities, probably makes this question a little irrelevant in a wider social sense
• I think if there is any het/slash romance, people should label it "het" or "slash" (yes, that applies to "slash" AND "het".)
• But I usually put up a warning when posting to a mixed community that there is slashy content and to be on the safe side I give all my slash stories at least a PG-13 rating, preferring to err on the side of caution
• Both Het and Slash fics should be labeled as such, to avoid someone reading something that will anger them and cause them to write nasty letters to the author, causing the author undue consternation
• Ratings-wise, no, but a warning for people who may object to slash but not het
• I find it offensive when they are treated differently and would avoid an archive that did not treat them in identical fashions
• I think that the real world still requires even mild slash (to the extend of, say, a kiss) to be R rated because there are many people who finds same sex relationships offensive
• and I don't think that they should be rated differently based on their hetness or slashness
• ... if the story depicts a romantic relationship (whether it's het or slash, explicitly sexual or not) that information should be made available to the reader. Many people only want to read gen stories
• There is a strong consumer demand for a difference, and it seems that (right now) two fairly different sorts of people writing the two types. And there are people who would freak if they read any smut unlabeled, much less slash. Warning saves trouble
• I do think they should be labeled, so people can find one without wading through the other if it's not their thing
• Since each appeals to a different interest, I expect special-interest archives to file them seperately as they would any other special interests
• this isn't really possible the way things stand today. Slash has traditionally been an underground subculture of fandom, and many writers still prefer to keep their stories "under the radar", so to speak, especially from those directly involved with the source media
• Het squicks me
• as long as they're labeled, I hate reading het
• slash stories should be clearly labelled as such, because people may be more shocked by it
• it's important to state explicitly whether a story is het or slash, so people can choose what they want to read
• I find it irritating that a story that contains a single mention of two men kissing is automatically 'slash' for many zine editors and site owners, whereas that level of heterosexual interaction would leave a story in the 'gen' category of fiction, not 'het'. It's homophobic and discrimatory. I believe that stories containing het and slash should be labelled so that people don't have to read what they don't like, but the labelling should be consistent for both
• Both types of stories should say if they contain content that goes beyond 'hand holding'
• they should be clearly labelled as het, slash or gen to allow the reader to choose what they want to read
• They ought to be labeled so a slash-only fan doesn't get het fic and vice-versa
• In an ideal world, no. In reality, some readers have very different reactions to slash and het. In the slash world, I treat my m/m and m/f ratings exactly the same, because I assume that no one in the slash world has strongly negative reactions to m/m. At my home page, I've found ways to word my warnings that doesn't call special attention to my m/m content. But if I were posting at a place where m/m was rare, I might feel the need to call special attention to it
• I understand the need from the *writer's* point of view to protect themselves from unwanted flames, which usually leads to them considering their slash stories as more 'adult', even if the sexual content is actually quite low, and trying to limit access to them more than het writers might.
  
  If a list, archive or community is specifically open to both kinds of fiction, I think it is silly (and morally objectionable, because of the implicit homophobia) to have different rules for one type of fiction than for the other, either as to what falls under what rating, or how either is accessed. However, I understand that lists, webpages and archives which are solely slash, especially in fanfic, might prefer to have stronger warnings on entry, and perhaps even other protective measures. (And there is a sad tendency of slash authors to rate their own stories more highly in a mixed het/slash environment.)
  
  I do also think that there is the question of appropriate venues. Lists and communities exist to be filters as much as forums: I have no objection at all to a list, community or archive dedicating itself solely to het or to slash
• it should be made available online, but not treated differently
• they should probably warn when made available. Some people have no interest in reading Het or Slash fic, and so they should be labelled a little different from the rest of basic rating, but seperation is not required
• A warning of slash should be made, in the header.
  Otherwise it might be assumed to be Het, which doesn't require warnings of itself.
  Although, the pairings would also point this out, it doesn't hurt to repeat
• I think it makes sense to mark them clearly and archive them separately, since many readers are only interested in one or the other
• For access, it probably helps if slash is in its own little corner so that people who don't like it can avoid it. As long as it's clear what it is, fine. As for creation, I don't get the point of that question
• No, but it should be clearly marked whether the story is slash, het, gen, or a mixture
• It should be clear which is which before they are made available. For some (not me) slash may be offensive to personal or religious beliefs
• It should be clearly labeled and divided since I've heard of authors getting complains by readers about it being slash and horrible although the authors put warnings of it being slash in several places and kept repeating it...
  I do like Slash and Het the same way although I read Slash more in the last year
• it should be made clear which type of story it is
• I believe strongly that the distinction between slash and het is artificial, although I am aware that this is a view not shared by many readers or writers. But I also believe all fictions should be appropriately age-signposted (whether an estimate or by AMRS)and appropriate warnings given for potentially disturbing material. I also think some fiction (by which I mean highly explicit or violent) should be only accessible via age-statement verification. I don't believe any distinction should be drawn between gay, straight, or queer reader, writer or fiction
• it should be made sure to maybe explain what slash means, exactly
• They should clearly mark it andin archives seperate it to make it easier for people not interested in the one or the other to avoid it.
• Warn me first. Say which it is or put in a pairing. I might go blind if I read het by mistake
• it is important to indicate explicitly wether a story (especially one with adult rating) is het or slash. I know many people who object strongly to reading one kind or the other - those who dislike same-sex stories and those, who, like myself, would rather not read het with adult rating
• slash is frequently more sexually explicit or cavity-inducing sweetness. There doesn't seem to be much variation inbetween. I prefer a good mix of choices in both slash and het fic, happy, sad, silly, etc. not just "horny" or "sugary."
• I think it's better to have a slash "warning" even if it's not adult, so people can decide if they want to read slash or not
• Personally, I am an avid slasher and seldom read anything else, but I still think slash should be clearly marked so that those offended by such material can avoid reading it
• perhaps with the rating system.
  I wouldn't want it treated differently in the way it is created, archived, distributed, available, archived... but it should have its own rating system, perhaps, at least until cultures such as the US' catch up to other parts of the world
• it is because some people have problems
• both should be warned for
• "only-slash" or "only-het" archives are perfectly acceptable, as long as the communities are not the proselytizing type *and* there are more-or-less equal venues for both varieties of work
• I would prefer people know going in which category the story falls under, being that some are sensitive to the material and may feel the need to "flame" the author for their choice (so more for authorial protection than protecting the reader)
• society apparently disagrees with me. I think it's silly that a story about two people of the same sex falling in love without any kind of sexual mention at all is rated NC17
• I think that both het and slash should be labeled so people can better choose what they want to read. Some people are offended by slash and they shouldn't have to be surprised by it. But I don't think slash should require more adult verification or have more barriers to access
• They should be treated the same, other than to identify them as het or slash (and I prefer to know what kind of slash, as well, as I've no interest in femslash)
• Sometimes it's nice to be able to know the stories are all slash or all het
• I'd like at least a warning, so I can avoid the Het
• I don't think they should be, but let's face it, they *are*; both writers and readers approach slash and het from very different angles and as long as that is the case, it's a good idea to at least post labels
• Whether the story is het or slash should be specified, given there is such a deep divide in reader tastes
• It should be specified
• There should always be something to tell you wether it is Slash or Het
• I'm not aware enough of the issues to make that an informed "No", more of an "equality is a good principle" base feeling
• like many authors are already doing: clearly marking the stories or the web-site when they contain slash. I like slash stories so I don't mind if I would stumbling over a slash story. But I know that some readers hate/dislike them....and before they complain about it and the story/web-site is deleted....well, let's say it's better to be safe than to be sorry
• both of them should have warnings. there are people who don't like to read het or slash. Or gen
• slash is abit less well known, espcially for those new to the scene/internet, and is not as easily accepted by all, thus should perhaps have some lable explainng waht it is so less ppl get into slash areas by mistake
• Some people are very adverse to slash and should be granted the warning. The ratings are the same
• The pairing should be warned in the summery, I personally hate Harry/Hermione het fics and would much prefer to be warned so I can avoid those fics more easily
• As long as the fiction is identified as het or slash, and info on how graphic sex, violence, etc are, that should be sufficient
• I don't usually whack off to fanfiction. That being said, they should ideally be separated either on different pages or at least by a few column inches to prevent the horny from accidentally seeing either too many or too few cocks but that's a matter of courtesy rather than morals
• the author should state somewhere that it is het or slash, so that people who only want to read one (or neither) don't end up reading anything they don't like
• It should be marked for readers who may only want one or the other
• I do want to know which I am going to be reading, or whether both are present
• It should be labeled as such
• they should be labeled as het or slash
• Why is everyone so sexist about it? That's what I'd like to know. Alot of them are very sweet and romantic and in no way whatsoever innapropriate
• A warning, even if it just says "Slash"
• It's nice to warn for both since people look for fic on that basis. I don't, however, wish to cater to the delicate sensibilities of morons who think that gay characters are icky and scary
• I do think that slash fiction, at least, ought to have something indicating that they are slash, whether it's the pairing or just a huge, bold "SLASH" in the summary. As I said, there are too many people out there willing to waste their own time writing up a lecture about why homosexuality is wrong, and it's very, very annoying. Enough people do it even with the warnings as it is, which leaves one to wonder why anyone would read something that expressly contains something he or she doesn't wish to encounter
• they should be kept in their own catagories, so people looking for slash can find slash, while those wanting het can find that
• When they are segregated it makes it easier to search for different pairings
• IT WOULD BE NICE IF THEY WHERE LABEL WHETHER OR NOT IT'S SLASH OR HET
• It should be made clear whether a fic is slash or het. First of all, because I personally do not read het. Also, because I don't want to deal with issues caused by some closed-minded people who think slash is "wrong"
• I think they should be identified het or slash
• I don't think fiction should be "treated" at all. That's what's so awsome about the 'net - there are no controls. No bitchy Puritians breathing down your neck. You CAN'T BE SENSORED on the net
• there should be a warning in front of every fanfiction, about the pairing in the story. I want to know if the pairing is het, slash, or femmeslash before I go into a story. Also, I want to know the ages of the characters involved (not if they're underage or not, but the age difference b/t the two characters), and if there's any explicit scenes in the fic. Also, if a fic is going to have BDSM, rape, or anything of that nature, it should be addressed in the summary
• It should be made clear as to whether a fic is Het or Slash, just as a courtesy to a reader...some people don't want to read a certain type of fiction, its their choice and they should be given the necessary information to choose
• Ok, if there are different levels of maturity, than they should be treated differently. For example: kiss in a slash story vs grope in a het. The het should be rated higher. People make such a big deal about slash when there really isn't anythign people have done in slash that they haven't done in het. Het is often the more risque of the two. The difference is that het is not condemned by the goddamn hypocritical Catholic Church. Slash is always clearly labeled as slash, so that no Catholics (that's me, so I'm not being rude to a religion, I promise) are offended. However, ratings SHOULD remain the same, based upon content and level of content. Thank you, and good night
• I would have said that the warnings would need to be clearer on a slash fic because not everyone finds it acceptable, except that almost all that I've read do have very clear warnings
• they show be archived in different places for easier accessiblity depending on what people are into
• in the perfect societ they definitly should be treated equally. However, there are a lot of people on the net who are not exactly gay friendly, so to protect the author from unwarrented flames it's probably a good idea, for now, to have some sort of warning label attached if it's slash/yaoi
• I prefer them to be in separate categories as het is definitely my second preference (ie. i don't want to wade through a load of het to find the slash)
• oops...see above
• they should make it clear that story is slash as some poeple don't wish to read it
• Don't think they "should," but the reality of the world and its prejudices means it's usually easier for all if they are
• I think that anything with sexual content should carry some kind of warning that would set off filters that parents might put on their kids computers. I DON'T believe that we should censor what goes on the 'net because a child might see it. Parents are responsible for monitoring what their children access on the internet, or TV, or videogames, or whatever
• This is a difficult question. I myself would like to see them treated equally but slash writers are more likely to receive threatening mail from bigots. I understand the extra warnings slash writers include (even when everything's clearly marked in big red letters some people will flame them anyway). If archive maintainers want to separate the het/slash sections I understand them. They may not have energy to deal with all the cricism they'd get.
  I enjoy both het and slash myself; it all depends on the skill of the writer and whether they can make the pairing believable. Slash should be rated according to the same standars as het. If a straight kiss gets a PG then so should a gay one. It's sad that some authors feel they'll have to make their fic an R to please bigots. A minor thing like a rating won't make much difference
• I would like to know whether the story was het or slash, as I prefer not to read one of the types
• It seems important--especially with sexually explicit pieces--that they be labeled appropriately. I read everything, but I know that there are some people who have no interest in reading certain kinds of fics
• warnings should be given as to whether the fiction is Het or Slash
• I would hope that they would each be clearly labeled as 'het' or 'slash'
• it should be stated somewhere that it IS either het or slash
• Make sure that people know if the are going to read slash, some people seem to find it by accident and get upset
• some people are still 'squicked' by slash, so there needs to be warnings for them (and of course for any minors who I think am right in saying are supposed to not come across slash by accident, hence the warnings)
• I do think that just as with Slash, Het should be also in a summary, and thus you know what you're about to read, especially if you're not into Het (or Slash as the case may be)
• it's okay to have them in the same archive, but sometimes it is not listed as to which it is, and that part annoys me
• Unfortunately, it is. Friends of mine read soley slash, while others are utterly disgusted by it
• I can understand why some would believe that it should. "Slash" fiction could be considered offensive to some based on religion, etc. It doesn't bother me, personally, but in my experience people are usually more bothered by homosexual relationships in fiction than heterosexual ones
• i think readers should be made aware of what slash is before reading, there are a lot of homophobes out there and it isn't fair to the author to get abused for writing it
• I believe that there should be slash warnings noted before a story. While I'm bisexual myself, I recognize that others may not enjoy certain kinds of stories--I personally don't enjoy much male/male slash. However, I don't think that there should be an restrictions on creation or publishing
• There should be a note for people who don't like het and / or slash. (I write gen exclusively--which can have an R rating; "gen" does not equal child-safe!--but there are people out there with strong preferences about the non-gen stuff they read, so labels are good.)
• I think the reader should be told whether a fic is het or slash before they start reading
• ... as I don't want to accidentally stumble into a het-story, I think there should be a small warning like "het" or "slash" in the disclaimer of any story with explicit adult content. In the fandoms I'm in I couldn't care less about any woman walking away with a major character in the end..
• it should if there is mention of sexual activity in the story
• I do think both slash fiction and het fiction (and gen, for that matter) should be labeled clearly, but otherwise, there should be no difference in the way it is treated. In a perfect world, there would be no difference in the way straights and gays are treated, and since it is my firm belief that sexual orientation shouldn't be treated prejudicially, neither should the fic. In my opinion
• Works should specify beforehand the content of the work so the reader can decide what to read according to preference
• I do like to know in advance whether a story is het or slash. Rating-based restrictions should be applied equally to het and slash fiction
• ...people always like warnings for Slash (and Het, but assumption tends to be for het in any case, if a story is ratede NC 17 for explicit sex.)
• I believe that because more readers are likely to find slash more objectionable, a warning should be given in the details of the story
• yes,Only if it contains sexual content
• It should say the pairing or "Het" or "Slash" somewhere before the story is read
• there should be warnings put up. If you think that a fic is het, but turns out to be slash, and are not a slash person it isn't a good thing for you. The same goes if you are expecting a slash fic and get a het one
• I think young people should be aware of that before going into the story
• I think slash should be marked as such (or het in a place where slash is the norm) because not everyone wants to read it
• There should be additional warning/notification that a story is slash. Though I'm not sure there are many out there in fanfiction land who haven't run into the term and understand what it means
• so long as they are explicitly and coherently labelled (i. e. I find the term "slash" is confusing as it can be used to occasionally overlap with "het")
• given the amount of people uncomfortable with slash pairings, and to save the author from 'flames' there should be a slash warning if the pairing is a main focus of the story
• given the hassles slash writers have with deliberate attacks on their servers, email accounts etc., it pays to be over cautious and bump the rating up regardless of themes or graphic depicition, and also make readers acknowledge that they are supposed to be age of consent before entering the site - after that point it's the reader or reader's family/social institution which is responsible for whether or not they access it
• The content should be mentioned anyway, some people get upset over adult/sexual content whether it's het or slash
• I think the author should state whether a story is slash or het in the summary or story information
• It's nice to be able to find slash or het specifically when you're in the mood for either, rather than wading through a whole bunch of stories trying to dig up a slash one
• it should be if slash writes are specifically targeted by WB, etc

Question 5.3

Do you think adult and non-adult fiction should be treated differently with regard to the way it is created and made available online?

No response given	6	-	0.54%
Yes	158	14.23%	14.16%
No	191	17.21%	17.11%
Only concerning the precautions that need to be taken about access	615	55.41%	55.11%
Not sure	37	3.33%	3.32%
Isn't that the same as the previous question?	8	0.72%	0.72%
Yes, but	55	4.95%	4.93%
No, but	46	4.14%	4.12%

Yes, but... (55 responses)

• there should still be a way to create and give different ratings to different chapters of a story, as long as there's an acceptable transmission/alternative for readers who don't want to read up the rating
• only because some people genuinely don't want to read adult fiction, and should have a warning before they get involved in something
• the definition of 'adult' and what precautions should be taken vary so widely from person to person. I think they should both be available, and have serious reservations about restricting access to written materials, but an indication of the possibility of adult content is responsible. (It's the use of the word 'access' that prevented me from choosing the above option.)
• There should be clear warnings for adult fiction and adult themes
• only to have some warning systems in place, enough that the person clicking on the link will know what they're getting into. That would help out the people who're looking for that thing exactly, and the people who want to avoid it. As for minors, they can walk into their local bookstore or library and get a racy romance story or erotica fiction, and get similar content, if better editted
• only insofar as it's polite to label explicitly sexual fic so that those who wish to avoid it may do so
• Only very explicit or violent material
• Only to help people who want it, to find it, and to insure that people who don't want it, don't; I'd say it should be more like classifications in a bookstore. Nobody should be surprised by the content of adult fiction; you want people to have some idea of what they're getting, but I wouldn't want to restrict access to anybody based on arbitrary rules
• my answer is similar to the previous question. A gen story that is rated R for violence and language should be treated similarly to a slash story that is rated R for sexual content. I say yes only in that gen fanfic tends to have less objectionable content than het or slash
• if the fiction involves romantic/sexual things about the characters, it should be with other slash, but if it's just "elijah and dom went to get pizza", it shouldn't be with the "grown up" stories (unless it's part of a series)
• honestly kids aren't going to pay attention to the warnings if they don't want to, and shouldn't the parents be supervising them anyway? Nobody wants all those really complicated methods to protect them up. In the end it should come down to a warning, the honour system, and parents actually watching their own bloody kids
• but what I mean by that is that, again, it should be labeled so people know what they're getting. Saves time and aggravation for everyone
• ... but only with minor differences - such as warning for adult and extreme content. Paper books, while they do not have rating systems, have other ways of letting the reader know type of content - coverart, blurb onback, section of the book shop it's in, flick through the pages and see... there are no similar information systems for most online fiction, which is why some form of prior description is a good thing, even if it is a simple rating such as films have
• Warnings should be sufficient
• Homosexuality automatically gets labelled as adult. I knew that was wrong as a kid
• I only think it should be labelled, not necessarily slapped with ridiculous warning pop-ups and confirmations
• On in as far as a warning should be given. I used to read written porn as a kid, starting when I was about 12. I knew it was adult material (I lifted it from my elder brother and parents bedrooms), but read it quite cheerfully anyway. I know underage people read adult material online - Not my problem. If their parents give them internet access, then it's up to them to monitor their kids.
  
  I feel a simple warning or rating system is quite sufficient
• here, my own personal beliefs run counter to societal norms.
  
  I think that precautions about access and warnings are needed for adult fiction - whether the 'adult' nature concerns sex, violence, or moral issues - because our society wants to see them, and will be quicker to stamp out all adult content if none is regulated. (A good example of this is the way that Britain used the 9pm watershed on tv to push adult content out of children's viewing slots, while still allowing it to exist. In the US, this seems to be achieved by having ludicrously restrictive rules enforced on public broadcast tv, and very few for cable tv - thus leading to differential treatment by income, which strikes me as utterly daft.)
  
  From my own point of view, I loathe all censorship. As a child, I read decidedly adult material. When I was 'too young' for it, I simply put it aside, either with boredom or distate. But being too young or old enough was an emotional and intellectual state that certainly wasn't gradable by a simple definition of '16' or '18'. I don't believe that there should be any difference in the way adult and non-adult fiction is created and made available online. I'm all for kids lying to the 'age 18' statements, if they have a desire to access that fiction, even in recognition of the fact that they are almost certainly doing so against their parents' wishes.
  
  But I'm also practical enough to realise that my views are very much in the minority, and hence are probably not feasible in our culture.
  
• minors can get around any 'road block' to "adult" material - but I still think the road blocks ought to be there so that the minor is made aware of where they are going
• I'd consider this solely about allowing people to decide whether they consider themselves old enough to read something rather than forcibly preventing them from doing so simply because they're under a certain age
• Not differently in the way it's created. Should be different online in that there should be clear warnings of content due to adult/age/legal issues
• i don't think you should need a credit card or major details to do it. some people don't want to read adult, and some people just can't handle it
• By making very clear whether something contains adult content or not, disclaiming it, or possibly asking for an age statement. Restricting access to adult content for people unsuitable to handle it (an age statement is just a measurement and doesn't cover it, but... well) is not something that can practically be done by the one that makes it available, and it's not alltogether the responsibility of the one offering of the person on the other side can deal with the content. Choosing a solution that lays it into the hands of the ones asking may not be perfect, but I feel it's about the only way to go. Like democracy, in a way :). For kids, it's the call of the parents to make
• I can understand wanting to make adult fiction difficult for children to access- but adults should be able to access it without problems. It all comes back to parents paying attention to what their children are doing online
• I don't think the difference should be huge. I think it's only courteous to let people know whether a story is adult or not so they can make their own choice about whether to read adult content or not. I don't agree with locking up "adult" fiction behind passwords and age verification schemes (I don't think it's wrong for kids to have access, even), although I understand why some archives and authors feel it's necessary
• there are some cases wherein authors mistakenly rate the stories as R when it could've been PG-13
• only in so far as a rating should be given so that people can decide whether to read it or not
• what do you call adult fiction?
  You need to write warnings, and those who have eyes, can decide to read or not
• parents can't really stop their children from age-inappropriate material if there are no warnings or guides on the site
• it seems much of the nc-17 stuff is written by 13 to 17 year olds. Go figure
• I think it should depend on whether the reader consents to reading the material or not. Obviously, a good lot of people who are NOT legal rather enjoy adult fiction, and I find it ridiculous that people think age is the real dividing line..
• only in terms of them actually having the different ratings on them. I don't like seperate pages as much since it's a hassle to get to different stories, sometimes even by the same author
• I think warning pages for adult fiction should suffice. If anyone is reading, whatever age they are, it is *their* problem, not the site/author hosting the fiction
• only insofar as accessibility is concerned
• I believe if you know what you getting yourself into and your parents don't mind, being underage shouldn't hamper creativity
• only with extra warnings needed where applicable. There is no need to make accessing an adult fanfiction like getting a credit card
• Only in that there should be much more clearer warnings on it and it should perhaps be on a seperate site or section from lower rated stories so that it's not accidently came across by those who don't, or really shouldn't read it
• Only in as much as I think that the stories should be 'rated' using whatever system to indicate that the stories might contain whatever the author considers to be 'adult' content
• unless there is agreement about what "adult" means, how can you.
  
  I don't like adult and mature being used as euphemisms for a 15 year old's idea of explicit and graphic sexual or violent content
• 
  I think warnings should be sufficient for sexually explicit content, and this is only to warn people who might not want to read it (like myself). In all honesty, if the kids want to find it, they are going to find it. And the instant you're on the internet, there is no way to avoid sexual content -- you can put "Disney" into a search engine and sex will come up.
  
  Frankly, the internet is not for kids, never was, there is no reason for under 15 year olds to be on the net. The idea that the internet is a good research tool for school is flawed -- books are far superior. I'm not blaming the parents, BTW, it's the whole cultural obsession with logging on
• Perhaps, actually -- not yes outright. I have adult-oriented lists (at Yahoo!) and an adult-oriented website -- so I feel having access to these implies from the beginning that all content is potentially adult. (There are no underage areas, in other words.) But I had access (with parental permission) to adult-oriented literature at a very young age myself, so I often feel too much is made of it. Fanfic doesn't stalk. With proper parental guidance in place -- never mind. I'm getting 'rant-ish' here
• Adult fiction, whether it's sex (straight or gay) or violence, should be marked. When I was thirteen I know I wouldn't have wanted to read a fic that included gory battle scenes. Luckily I never did, because the authors I read made clear what caused the fic's rating without going into spoilers about the plot.
  Adult fiction shouldn't be banned but I do wish authors of very explicit stories would understand that you can want to avoid such stories and that doesn't make you a narrow-minded person (in my case, just one who can't read violent fiction any more than she could sit through Silence of the Lambs)
• I'm not sure what you mean about how it is *created*, as I simply write in MS Word, then convert to text and HTML. However, as to how it's made available on-line -- it would be good to find some way to lock minors out of adult material -- either through meta tags that prevent adult sites from being cataloged by web crawlers, or through passworded / age-protected sites, or other means
• Many people have stories of all kinds of different ratings on their websites together
• I think the feel-good clause, i.e. do you understand this this slash is enough. Parents need to teach their children to accept this. anyway you can find real porn easier than some slash. I do not wish to give an author my email etc before accessing. If this is the case, I will simply not access
• you only really need warnings, to make sure that people want to read those stories
• A warning about the specific adult content(s) is enough
• Adult fic should have sufficient warning so the reader knows that and why it is adult, but as an adult reader I wouldn't want to have to register or anything to read a fic. A "click here if you're legal age" button is okay if it absolves the author of liability, but if a site asked me to register or get one of those "age-pass" things that people use for porn, I would look elsewhere.
  
  Sites that have adult fic should communicate by their design and content that they aren't intended for children
• rating is warning enough
• there's no way to tell if the person getting on is 7 or 77, so it's somewhat pointless. Someone can always find some way to either get around the rules or break them altogether
• Yes- I think there should be appropriate warnings for those readers who don't want to read explicit sex or violence so that there is a choice available. The step take by fanfiction.net to keep NC-17 off their pages is their own choice and fair as they have an extremely large number of younger teenagers who don't spend a lot of time in fandom and might be horrified/shocked etc... possibly this is useful in that mostly those who find it are those wo are looking for it and comfortable with it, rather than happening across it at fanfiction.net
• There should be taken precautions about the access. ButI really don't think that a fourteen year old reading NC-17 would be done any harm. I was that age when I found my mother's Nancy Friday's books and I can say that it didn't scar me for life. It's part of being a teenage to be interested in that kind of things.
  A nine year old searching for a story about Harry Potter and a pussy (as in kitten), well that's a different story. Sites must make sure that no child accidently finds smut. But if a teenager wants to read about sex, I don't blame them. And that doesn't bother me at all
• only so long as people are not restricted from reading material that they wish to
• It just needs to be clearly labelled as such. There is so much worse that is accessible on the internet, that I just can't get too worked up over the underaged reading adult fanfics
• only a warning shall be included in the description of the story

No, but... (46 responses)

• there shoud be a warning saying:
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  ==!WARNING!==
  you are entering an adult site
  there may be adult materal
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  click to continue
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• I think people should be clear about content so people can avoid certain content if they like
• I take exception to the word "should". I think it is adviseable to have some kind of age warning on a site or archive, just to protect the author(s), but I wouldn't say anyone has to
• if it involves characters from a source text intended for/marketed to children (e.g., Harry Potter), there should be adequate warnings
• it's polite to warn about elements that might be disturbing for reasonable people
• as a nod to paranoia, much base-covering does occur
• a single warning page at the entrance of a site is reasonable, and generally sufficient to throw of those who are much too young to be reading explicit fiction
• This is really a No, not a "No,but", but I wanted to comment: just about every library contains material at least as explicity as material available online. I don't see any reason why we need to set up safeguards to "protect" children from sexually explicit fiction, though I do understand a lot of authors do it to prevent possible litigation
• I wouldn't mind labels in order to know which stories are "safe" to read at work
• I am a first-amendment absolutist (US) hence ideally the answer is simply NO. However, US law is completely ridiculous about "what children might see online", hence it might in practice be necessary to restrict online access to "adult" materials that would be easily available to children in a library or bookstore. I am answering the questions below as though this idiocy did not exist. And by the way, question 5.6? Where is "Yes, all persons old enough to read should be able to decide for themselves what they want to read"?
• Keeping ideas that kids aren't ready for out of their hands is not just the responsibility of parents, but also of the community as a whole
• it should just be marked as adult so people know what they're clicking on
• warnings are appropriate for adult material so that people do not have to read what they don't like. I personally do not believe that knowledge of sex is something that children need to be sheltered from. If some parents do, it is their responsibility to monitor what their child does online or use nanny software
• No, but again, warnings should be posted for adult fiction
• there should be clear warnings about adult fiction
• again, warnings help
• As above. I personally find explicit violence far, far more disturbing than explicit sex
• there should definitely be a note that a story includes adult content
• adult fiction should be clearly marked as such
• There should be some archives that don't have adult content.
  
  I'm not sure if that is the answer to this question or not
• No, but there are legal issues that sadly have to be taken into consideration, as well as minors who need to worry about adult supervision and people using the internet from work and other restricted locations. I also think that fic with highly *disturbing* content (such as *extreme* sexual situations, cross-generational chan and incest, torture, violence, etc) should carry warnings
• I think that warnings about the content should be posted in case minors really don't want to read things with adult content. (Myself, I like warnings about overly violent content.)
• if parents want to keep their kids away from the stuff, that's their responsibility, not anyone else's
• I understand why some authors get squicked when they find out that under-13s are reading their explicit sex scenes. However, kids have been finding ways to access information about sex (ie, Hustler and Mills & Boons) for forever, and you don't feel young at the time, so I think most of them overact. Or possibly are projecting their own guilt over the pleasure they feel in writing/reading this material onto the situation
• People should be aware of what they are going to read. If they get the warning, and go on reading - it's their problem then
• fandom is a community of survivors. The sanctimonious will succeed in closing more than their share of sites but this will only drive the . Where once a fourteen year old would be likely to see nothing worse than inaccurately written fellatio or anal sex, now they will be forced onto sites where the afformentioned inaccurate fellatio and anal sex stories are sharing the directory with stylized rape fantasy, inaccurate hermaphrodites and Sirius Black, through the power of coincidence and bad writing, becoming the seventh Road Rover
• an age button to indicate content on the adult material is always sensible
• Not necessarily, but again the author should warn people if a fic has adult content so that nobody is offended. I don't have anything against all-adult or all-non-adult sites, but I don't think all fiction should necessarily be split like that
• I think adult fiction should be clearly marked so that it can be found, or avoided, as desired
• I think there should be adult content warnings, but there shouldn't be any effort made on "search and destroy" missions to remove minors
• warnings and disclaimers should be attached. Having some places that are designated as child-safe would be important, so that parents can safely allow their children to read fanfic
• It should be labeled as such
• Again, a simple warning should suffice
• 
  
  I am a firm believer that as a parent, parents should be monitoring what their children reads on-line. The sites they visit
• for protection of the website owner, I think it would be a good idea to have a disclaimer saying that the reader is about to enter an adult website and if by entering they are agreeing that they understand what an 'adult' website contains and are of legal age to enter. Other precautions such as passwords, user i.d., etc. are almost useless because anybody can *claim* to be anyone or any age in order to enter a website or requesting a password
• If people can read the ratings, it's all cool. If they can't read, they can't read the history neither, so..
• warnings should be given and made, ultimately its the readers choice whether they read a fic, but solid and honest info should be provided
• I accept that there are qualms about minors accessing pornography and so as a politeness for society's mores ratings and control can be put in place
• really it depends on how graphic the story is. Extreme violence (sexual or otherwise) probably should be treated somewhat differently. I think. On the other hand, there are some 13 year olds out there that are more mature than the majority of the population. Again...in the perfect world we would all be able to make these types of decisions on our own
• I don't have a problem with there being warnings on slash fiction because I understand that some people might be offended by it
• again, it should be prominently listed as to which it is
• adult fictions should be labeled because some people prefer not to read adult fiction
• All NC-17 fic should be labeled as such and measures taken to prevent access by minors
• I don't think you can distinguish between adult and non-adult fiction in a realistic sense, in much that same way that books at a public library are not rated or classified as adult or non adult. However I do believe that warnings should be given at the beginning of stories and that parents should supervise what their young children read online, just as they would supervise what books they take out of a library
• I suppose adult fiction should carry a warning, so that people can choose not to read it. But I don't belive it should be restricted
• It's up to parents to censor their childrens reading material, not fan fic authors or archivers. If the story has an adult rating or is in a "questionable" category (eg. slash), the parents are the ones who should be the guardians of their childrens reading level. I think it's good to put some sort of rating system on the fiction to help guide the parents, so they don't have to muddle through innumerable stories to find appropriate ones for their kids. Without ratings, the sheer number of fanfiction stories is so daunting that parents might not let the kids read any of it, without a baseline to start with (PG, PG13, R)

Question 5.4

Do you think fiction written by children should be treated differently, with regard to the way it is created and made available online, to that written by adults?

No response given	1	-	0.09%
Yes	249	22.33%	22.31%
No	442	39.64%	39.61%
Not sure	210	18.83%	18.82%
Adults write fiction?	3	0.27%	0.27%
Children write fiction?	55	4.93%	4.93%
Yes, but	60	5.38%	5.38%
No, but	96	8.61%	8.6%

Yes, but... (60 responses)

• this might depend on the age/maturity of the target audience
• there are limits to how much children's thoughts need to be censored. On-line availability should be limited as if it were written by adults, dependent on content and whatever limits there are set for such things
• it depends on the age which you are defining children, and it depends where they are making their stories available and what they are asking from readers. You can't expect the same standards of grammar, characterisation etc from a 10 year old as from a 25 year old, so stories by kids shouldn't be torn apart in the same way that bad stories by adults should be. HOwever if a child asks for feedback on a story they should expect criticism as well as praise
• only in the sense that not all fiction wirtten by adults may be suitable reading for children
• I think that if children write fics, they should make that fact known
• it need to be clearly marked that itÂŽs by a child so people,on a whole, will not waste their time on it
• that's because we ought to be extra vigilant about protecting kids under the age of 13 online, and it would be too easy for an under-13 to be linked to stuff with a high rating. Also, because of US law in a general sense, sites with adult users would be better off not to attract children. Just because.
  
  Over 13, well, they ought to be taking care of themselves
• only in terms of spelling and maturity of content
• that depends on the age you're considering "children" to be
• depends on content (its rating)
• I hope I wouldn't be ABLE TO TELL
• I don't know how you're defining "child." Under 13, I assume, is where you draw that line. So, yes, under-13s shouldn't post to the same archives that adults do. It's a whole different level
• I would want to know more about who is defining 'children'. I am happy to read and send feedback for a publicly available erotic story by a 17yo, but not a 12yo
• again only minor distinctions - not mixing adult rated fiction in with children's fiction. Very few adults will want to read children's fiction, and whether children want to read adult-rated fiction or not, legally they are not supposed to, so placing it where they can't help but trip over it is asking for trouble
• For the sake of us adult readers' mental health (and I'm semi-joking here), I would prefer that fiction written by adults and minors should be kept separate. This is not a moral issue, but an issue I have with the material minors write (Mary Sues,generally appalling grammar and immature attitudes)
• not a but, children's fiction should be avaliable to all who wish to read it, but precautions should be taken about protecting identities, and locations. Children may inadvertently reveal too much information that can allow for predators to locate them, much in the same way that predators troll children's chat rooms
• it depends on the fiction. There are stories by older teens out there that are well written and aimed at an adult audience. There are also young children, such as in our homeschooling group that share their stories with each other online and I feel we take more precautions that only the children in our group read these stories than should/can be taken for much fiction out there. Keep in mind, the children I am referring to are all under the age of 10
• Parents should be responsible for regulating their children's activities online
• this refers more to their level of writing ability than their physical age, so it is practically impossible to implement
• I think they should be archive in a different section so that children would not be able to see adult fiction. That way the parents can restrict their access to only those pages. I also think that this way people will understand that children are writting these stories and hopeful be encouraging to the young writers
• only so we can can avoid it :) So the only difference should be the filter of where it is posted - which Fanfic.net does nicely for the rest of us.
  
  If a person can write well enough that you can't tell they're a child - and it would have been helpful of you to give a definition of 'child' here - then I see no need for a difference at all.
  
  However, I understand that an archivist, mailing list or community which allows 'adult' fiction will almost certainly have to restrict fiction written by children in some way, especially if that fiction contains sexually explicit material
• usually, the identities of the authors (especially children) are anonymous. Children should be encouraged to write fiction
• see former answer
• I'm not aware of any child centred fanfic sites, although I know of roleplaying sites, such as Phoenix for 'Harry Potter' One reason I avoid Fanfic.Net is because it's awful, in part because a lot of young teens post there. A 'safe' place for kids to write might be nice, although god knows how it would be organised
• Can of worms. Who has access to what? At what age is a child a child? Does that relate to a (variable) age of consent, or age of legal responsibility? Fanfiction.net, for all its faults, seems to have taken a responsible position on the issue, and so long as FF continues to act as a highly visible honey pot the rest of us can just get on with it.
• minors who write fiction can write EXCELLENT works, and often they can produce work that is better than many adults produce. we need to honour their efforts, and also need to provide them with places to post safely with other adult-written material of the same rating!
  i think that just b/c a fiction item has been written by a minor does not mean it shouldn't be archived with adult-written material, BUT there should be a way for other minors to access peer-written works, so they can see that they are not alone in the production of fiction!
• This is purely based off the fact that I want to be warned on what I'm about to read. I don't want to read some rambling 13 year old's sordid fantasies
• what is the age we are considering children? i'm 17 and have friends who are in their 20s and 30s, but they treat me like one of them. i know people my age who have written amazing adult fiction like professional writers. i know people my age who can't even spell 'you'. so i think it all depends
• Well, I could be cruel and say something about torturous grammar, but I won't. Kids created the current incarnation of ff.net, and that's good. But a certian amount of precaution should be taken. I wouldn't link to or post a fic written by a child (under the age of ~16ish) on my site, at least not knowingly
• There are a number of issues with authorship, apparent age, maturity of author and data security that would need to be addressed in the current political climate of "protect the Children at all costs!" I have no idea how to go about doing that
• Children should not write adult-fiction no matter how talented they are
• if only because a separation by writer's age might sheild them from harsher criticism than is warranted which can happen when their writing is judged against mature writers. I would like to think there could be more support for young writers out there
• sometimes an age range of the author helps. As an adult, fiction written by young teens is often badly written in terms of grammar, punctuation, etc
• not in a way to deprecate their efforts, but to seriously assess if it is of atype that most adults would like to read. It could be good to create teen or child archives- archiving by age of author
• If the story is well written, I'm not really concerned about the age of the writer. On the other hand, children might benefit from having sites that are designated as being for children.
  
  Since there really is no way to be certain of the age of either the reader or the writer, it seems to be a moot point
• Allowances must be made-- Adults need to realize that some children (12 and under) have not fully developed their writing skills--I think that it can be intimidating for a young person
• more because writing by adults is more likely to be of a better quality; and possibly it would be good to have a space for fanfic for children, where there will be known to be no fic that could be seen as objectional or adult: a community dedicated entirely to children
• How can you actually tell whether or not a child or an adult wrote the fiction? Also, (depending on the country) legal age differences and place of origin would effect the way a person is seen (as either a child or an adult). There is no true way to police the ages of children on the internet, there are always ways to get around so called 'security measures' (eg Net Nanny) if the child is determined enough
• it depends on the quality of the fiction. I want to read good fiction - fiction that is gramatically correct and mature in outlook. By that I mean well thought out and constructed, not necessarily adult in content. I have no objection to reading fiction by minors if it meets that criteria but most people's writing matures with age
• Children should be restricted to areas that do not also have adult (R and/or NC17) fiction. These sites also have many adult members who are not interested in R or NC17 stories, so there would still be a good mix of members
• Children writing is not up to par with the writing that adults have. That sounds cruel, but it's really not. Unless the child is the second "Demon In My View" than they just haven't had enough experience. Already, no one under thirteen is supposed to post on ff.net. But children still do. Anyway, some adults reading children fiction might be more inclined to flame it because of the childlike way with which it is written, which is unfair, and means that the children might stop writing
• Not 'but' so much as, 'should be' kept in separate archives so that someone looking for a good fic isn't overburdened by a bunch of dribble with poor grammar and spelling and little to no plot. Additionally, the definition of 'child' should be extended until past puberty, so that horny little girls can get to 'OMG I'm writing myself into a story where I'm shagging Legolas' out of their hormone-infested systems
• The question is phrased problematically for me. I don't want children getting access to things they shouldn't be seeing, or, say being on a "adult" ML or getting involved in a role-play game that gets into sexual situations with adults who might or might not know their age.
  
  That doesn't necessarily mean that a G-rated fic by a child should be archived or treated any differently than a G-rated fic by an adult. More that... there are spaces that should just be for adults. I see no reason there couldn't be a shared adult-child space and treatment if it was all child-appropriate.
  
  Of course, if kids would rather have their own adult-free space (more fun for them perhaps), that's fine too... although there should probably be adult supervision to make sure creepy pretender don't slip in.
  
  (also for question 5.5, 5,6 and some others, I didn't exactly agree with any of the choices, but chose the closest one... it's also too bad you don't have a "unsure" choice)
• how can you make a devision? Some people are still writing like children at 25 and some legal childen are quite mature
• what do you consider children? I know of underage teenagers (16, 17) who write thoughtful, deep, wonderful fanfiction which I love to read and I don't think it should be thrown in with the mary sue stuff from the 12-14 year olds.
  Also I'm german, so I was an adult when I was 18. I wouldn't want to disregard all the writers and readers that are 18-21 just because or because not live in the US.
  If someone is mature doesn't depend on the age but the mind.
  I do want to seperate the immature 'fiction' from the mature one, but I thinkit should be decided by content, skill of the author, etc. not strictly by age
• 
  See above. The internet is not for kids. They should put together a school newspaper instead.
  
  I think you needed to define 'children' BTW. I think 15 year olds are probably mature enough to go online, with training (eg. for internet predators and such)
• I've long felt we (especially in America) have a tendency to 'infantalize' young people. I've known plenty of 'children' who were mature and intelligent at so-called 'tender' ages -- and lots of so-called 'adults' (age-wise) who were the opposite. It's a hard call for me, personally
• only in the sense that children should have access to works written by other children and have safe places to go. Although I realize that children ( and by that I mean teens) do want to sometimes write adult stuff
• only if the writing is not up to par with their adult counterparts. If the child writes very good, then it does not matter, because there are many "adults" who write horribly
• Only to make sure it is clearly marked so that an adult quality is not expected
• It depends on the rating of the fiction written by the adult. I believe that anyone should be able to access G/PG rated stories, even if they were written by an adult
• only with regard to the work of children under 13, which isn't allowed to be posted anyways
• It depends what you mean by "children". There's a big difference between an 8 year old, a 13 year old, and a 17 year old. I think it's appropriate for archives not to accept fics of younger authors for liability reasons, and I think measures need to be in place to make sure that unaware younger authors don't reveal too much personal information online. As an adult, I'm not that interested in reading fic written by children, so I'd rather it was kept separately as a matter of personal preference. However, if someone underage can hold their own in a "grown-up" archive, more power to them!
• it depends on what you mean by 'treated differently', and the age you would consider the person to be children
• Only to ensure that people know what they're getting (since, frankly, children are poorer writers than adults.) A "kids only" archive would allow a) children to get help with grammar and spelling, b) a collection of child-reader-friendly works (er...mostly) and c) that adults don't have to trawl through loads of, um, not very well written fic
• ... only as regards standards judging grammar, spelling and literacy
• Children are less likely to know more about the writing process. The methods of finding out more information should be available to them. Then again, it should also be available to adults, but slightly differently approached
• It should be made clear that it is children who are writing and posting it so that someone reading and then giving feedback take the age of the writer into account. You wouldn't want a child writer to be given harsh feedback because someone thought it was a poor adult writer instead of a child who was just starting to write
• only because I think fiction written by children tends to be bad. It should be created with more care and, I don't know, maybe *run through spell-check*
• only in that stories written by children should be marked as such so that readers who are reviewing the story can take into account the authors age before making major critisisms regarding the writing style, spelling mistakes, grammar, etc. I would prefer to be a lot gentler in any critism I would make about a piece written by a child who does not have the literary training that someone older who has taken writing classes in secondary school has

No, but... (96 responses)

• keep it away from me. :p
• it depends on what you consider 'children.' If we are talking younger than fifteen years old, I personally would like to know. I try and make it a point not to read 'adult fiction' written by young people. It feels a little wrong
• That already happens, to some extent. The worst amateurs are invariably found at FF.n of either agegroup. It's not age I object to so much as quality of writing. And there are teenagers out there who can write better than adults I have seen (Under 13 year olds should really stick to sharing with their friends or shutting up, staying low and having quadruple thoughts about whether or not they're going to instantly be recognised as excessively immature when their story is read)
• I'm a little iffy on this - there are very good "children" authors, while some not-so-good "adult" authors, but "children"'s fiction tends to be of less quality than adult fiction, and it's not really fair to judge how good a children's story is compared to an adult's. It'd be easy to insult the children's story when you're reading an adult's. I don't know. I think they should be distinguished, but it depends on the quality of the story
• In my experience, much material written by younger children isn't of interest to anyone beyond their social circle
• I'd like to be warned, if only because I'm harsh about grammatical inepitude, and would be less so on a child than on an adult
• it is anyway, because children (I'm taking this to mean, say, 14 and under) generally don't know how to make their own, decent webpages, and thus are forced into fanfiction.net or badly formatted sites that are ignored by adults
• Writers who are children probaly shouldn't pretend to be adults, as their output shouldn't really be compared to elder writers. It's OK if they write less mature stories
• I think it depends a lot on how you are defining "child." Also also who is doing the "treating differently"--I certainly think parents have a right to monitor what their children are doing online, especially children under 14
• but it honestly depends on the whomever is the writer, really. In places like fanfiction net where there is a visible, practically unrestrained review system it could be seen as somewhat intimidating. As flames are also unavoidable no matter what fiction you write, or the quality, there is always going to be some moron saying idiotic things which a child may react to in a different way than an more mature (note, not older) writer would. However, the same is applicable to adults as well, as I have seen more than one writer meltdown as a result of flamers. IMHO it would be too difficult a thing to try and enforce..even the creation of a "kiddy" fanfiction net which is geared towards young writers is likely to be unsuccessful as I cannot see them ceasing to use the regular site, which you can't restrict in that it then affect the adult writers.
  
• warnings would be nice - I usually don't like stories written by people who're teenagers. They usually lack the life experience to write the kind of fic I like (sure, there are some exceptions...)
• I'd prefer if children would use different archive as adults to post their stuff. Mostly for my own personal convinience. I wouldn't like to read what they write
• it should be labeled as such since, at the risk of making generalizations, the quaility isn't going to be the same and I personally have no interest reading fiction written by children
• Fiction written by minors is typically very different from that written by adults. In that respect, I know that I almost certainly don't want to read anything written by a child because I have very high expectations of what I read. Children, especially preadolescents or people just beginning their adolescence, are very different cognitively than adolescents and adults; different things are important to them, and they have different ideas and standards on things like character development, plot, etc. It would be interesting to see how an archive solely aimed at stories written by children would fare
• it would be nice if there were fanfic archives specifically designated for younger writers, perhaps where they could get constructive criticism that is mindful of their age and inexperience
• one look at a fic is usually enough to give you a rough guide to the age of the writer. Mostly on archives such as ffnet, the summary gives it away
• Parents should take care about what their children read
• if the author is a minor, that should be disclosed so that adults do not respond to a story with inappropriate commentary
• As long as the child is over 13 years old
• You can generally tell. Proper grammar, you know. It's almost a dead give-away of legality
• "children" can write NC-17 rated material even if they can't legally read it, therefore there should be some safeguards against publication of material without parental consent
• it is up to parents to keep on eye on what their children are doing - if parents don't want their kids posting fiction online, they should be controlling this. Though if particular site or community moderators are not comfortable hosting fiction written by children, that is up to them to decide how to handle it
• it would be *really* nice if there were quality ranking systems on archive sites
• I'm not sure what you mean by 'children'. Some kids are very mature, have a mental age of 18 and over. Some so-called adults have the mental age of immature 13-year-olds. Age is very individual and needs to be treated as such
• I can see where some parents whose children write fic, might want an online forum for child-authors only that is patrolled / protected from adult interlopers
• maybe when it comes to the quality of the writing; plot, character development, grammar, spelling, etc
• Content should be clearly defined no matter the author. I know some very young authors with vivid imaginations, who access detailed descriptions off "sexual information" sites, and they write better than some adults do.
  
  
• No, because some people that are considered children write better than those who are older than them. If your story is crap, then no one is going to read it, regardless of age. And if it's good, then your age shouldn't be taken into account
• tighter controls about adult-rated fiction written by minors would be good, if they were enforceable
• I'm not sure if children (what's the age group, <14?) are always aware that if they present themselves as authors on sites like fanfiction or others, they realise that they can or will be treated as adults. Meaning they possibly will have to deal with (very) critical reviews or some of the communities dealing with what they consider 'badfic', in a way that doesn't take age into account (if not aware of it). Not to say that everything written by a kid should necessarily be badfic, and maybe a lot of the kids and adolescents posting would prefer writing for a generic site, age wise. But still
• if the children are inept, I won't read their work. I was gifted/talented, though, and if the child in question is adept at writing, then their work has the same value as a skilled adult. It's more to do with ability than with age
• again, separate communities are fine but both should be equally accessible
• one can ususally tell when children are writing fiction. Their style is less polished and their grammar usage is often . . . painful
• young kids need to be careful online anyway about giving out email addresses and other personal information
• I think there should be some communities/archives for children only and some communities/archives for adults only
• it's pretty easy for a child to pretend to be an adult online so it wouldn't really matter anyway. Plus, how could fiction written by children be restricted? Some teens considered "children" are also very talented writers and I would hate to see their fiction not found because it could only be found with other fiction written by kids, a lot of which is not so good
• we should be kind to people who are just starting out and may not be skilled or know what they're getting into. Also, see legal issues
• It should be noted that 'newbies' are prone to make the same mistakes, whatever their age
• I admit I'm not very interested in reading a lot of the Mary Sues or poor speling/grammar content which a lot of beginning authors are prone to write. Still, some younger authors write wonderfully, and it would be a shame to shunt them to a "for children" section that might scare older readers off
• often it is very bad, which kind of self-censors
• only on g - pg13 work. I am particularly concerned with r & nc17 material written by those under 17
• with the exception of keeping the minor's identify secret. That should not be public knowledge or easily accessible
• in general, only adults are capable of truly horrifying fiction. I mean, maybe a sixteen or seventeen year old has the proper amount of freudian issues to create a story where Mrs. Brisby grows vaginal tentacles and joins the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (original NOT Zeo or Dino Thunder, Ninja Force OK) or something of that overly specific ilk, but mostly it's up to the truly revolting 30-year-old manchildren and possible schizophrenics to produce the work that I can't quite bring myself to turn away from
• I don't believe children should be banned from reading any type of fiction
• I'd like a warning in a way, but that's purely selfish, and just because fic written by teens is often not very good. Also I like to avoid Mary Sues as often as possible :)
• Children and their guardians should take care to make author-contact difficult if not impossible
• There should be more archives with fanfiction for children, written by children
• having forums that contained only child-created fiction would be nice. Not that children's fiction should be limited to those places. It should be available anywhere
• I would not like to see them writing and posting "adult" material - whether Het or Slash.
  Pre0supposing "Children" are being counted as under - 16's
• I think that very young kids (under 13) shouldn't be able to post. They should work on expanding their writing skills in notebooks or such so their writing might be partly decent by the time they can post
• I think it's important that children get the feedback they need to improve their work
• I don't usually read a kid's writing in major pairings because they don't have the...'feel'. They really don't have experiences to right a lot of good material
• Usually, it's the kids writing the explicit material
• I think that by thirteen, or younger, many of the young people I know have a better sense of what is appropriate in a given situation than the ones that are over forty five. And they seem to have a wider pornographic vocabulary, too. MAybe the over forty five crowd needs to be warned away from teh teenager's writings, not the other way around
• Archives with just non-adult fic should be available for children to read
• Not necessarily 'no, but'; 'no, because' people who are legally minors often write fiction that has greater grammatical and literary strength than some works produced by adults
• It depends on whether the story was written childishly or not. If you can't tell that a child wrote it, it shouldn't be treated any differently in an archive. The only exception might be if the author is *known* to be underage and the story has adult content, in which case archives would have reason (protecting themselves legally) for not archiving that work
• I know very few people who readily expose personal information about themselves in fandom - real names, ages, etc. It's often difficult to determine the age of a writer except, possibly, by literary prowess. And that rarely works
• The kids should have a site that's safe, meaning the MOD's restrict what stories can be posted to the site. Parents can feel safe that their children aren't going to run into an adult story
• it kind of depends on your definition of children. If they write with a childish fashion and uses childish grammer and concepts, there should probably be a mention. However, if you can't really tell if the work was written by a child, I really don't see the point in making a difference in the way it's made available
• If written by a child, I still think there should be a disclaimer stating the material has been written suitable for general audience. Children have no business either readng or trying to write 'adult' material
• Put a warning if there's adult content
• only in that it should be made clear that it was written by a child in the headings
• I think that the fiction should be available as widely as the author wants it to be, no matter their age. However, I think it would be nice for readers/reviewers to know if the author is very young, so that they can be a bit gentler and more encouraging with their feedback and critique
• Some sort of a note stating the author is underage, or of what age the author is, can help the reader to tune in better to where the author is coming from, and to also view assessing the merits of the fiction from the point of view of it having been written by a minor. e.g. A 13 year old will write with a different level of content and ability to a 33 year old adult, and readers will be less critical of structure to the 13 year old, who is still learning and growing, than they would be to the 33 year old, who hopefully has learned to apply by then at leat the basics of grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc. i.e. Readers make allowance for age and experience when reading fiction, whether it is fanfiction or not
• Some consideration should be taken by site mods to allow for the age of an author... FictionAlley, for example, had occasionally unnecessarily harsh editing requirements. A child would, most likely not be able to meet those requiremnts whilst not in any way being a bad author. As to content... if they're old enough to write it in the first place. Although lack of actual experience can make a difference as most authors of this age will allow. See the under 25's list on Fiction Alley (Harry Potter Fandom)
• I'm not aware of children writing fiction. But if they're up to it, they should be perfectly safe within the normal 'net - most fandoms are inherently very supportive
• I also tend not to like work written by children unless they also happen to be decent writers (and so few are)
• Quality should be an issue here, adults are more likely to thoroughly check there writing then children
• it should be obvious by the summary how old the author is, and if someone has a problem reading something written by a person of a certain age, they shouldn't read it
• then again most kids dont write fiction...the net is fairly egalitarian in the sense that 'nobody' knows who you are, the fic is evaluated on its own merits, not the authors. (Off Topic: but does this Anonymity foster egalitarianism?)
• I'm sure many would argue the point. I personaly feel that if somebody has a wish to write then they should do so. If that writing happens to be of a mature nature then who am I to say they are wrong?
• children need to be more careful online than do adults. Children need to be taught not to give out information and not to do anything that makes them uncomfortable
• it should be equal, though most sites are bias to what they accept anyways. people should have access to both. there is crappy fiction written by adults and children so there isn't really much of a difference. depending on where you go, you get what you ask for or you click back and get out of there
• I would avoid immature dreck - some sites seem to aim at a lower age range and to have a lot of very badly written stories. Quality not age is the key here, but I think quality suffers in some sites because of the age and immaturity of writers
• I would want to know what they're writing. A ten year old writing graphic slash would make me uncomfortable, and I'm speaking as a parent here. I know I'd want to know what my kid was doing and why
• when responding to a fiction <a LoC>, it's good to be aware of the age of the author. I'll never forget LoCing a wonderful, *hot* St:Voy het fic...turned out the author was a 14 year old Canadian. She was writing and participating in on-line communities because she lived in a very remote part of Canada and was the *only* kid in the community <I think it was a community dealing with pumping oil>. She went to school on-line and the internet was her only social life
• children are capable of writing material they should not be allowed to read, so it is silly to censor things really
• depends what one considers children. All ages under the age of majority cannot be treated the same
• Children should have adequate resources so that they can maintain their anonymity. Perhaps also other resources to protect their privacy
• what age are we talking about here? ten or fifteen
• there should be some way for people to see the age when they write their review--you need to be a bit more tactful with the younger set, or they explode. There must be a way to make them see the light without flames
• I believe that fiction where the author is try to create an interesting plot, use grammar, extra. should be treated differently and be archeived at a different place
• it should if the rating is too high for the child's age (if the child can't read it, it shouldn't write it)
• I am wary of children posting so openly on the internet. It opens the doors to all sorts of comments, replies, etc that may be harmful and/or dangerous for the child
• it should be made clear if a piece written by an adult contains heavy themes younger readers wouldn't understand
• Fiction written by children is often easily identified because they do not have a comprehensive understanding of human nature nor the life experience to portray characters in the same way that an adult can. More often than not, fiction written by chilren is only read by other children
• Obviously children and adults write at different levels. They should have the same opportunity...but the adults are going to write fiction that is higher quality- simply because of their education level.
  
  Perhapswe could use age based archives??
• I do think that fiction should be archived based on quality. Some children write better quality fan fiction than adults though (and vice versa, of course) so I don't the the author's age needs to be taken into account
• I'm much less likely to want to read or respond to something that a child has written because the quality of the story telling and the technical aspects of the writing aren't as good as those written by adults
• it might be nicer if there were sites for children so they didn't stumble across something their parents wouldn't approve of
• there should just be a mention because reviewers expect different things from an adult and a child, and knowing that the author is young sometimes forces a normally harsh reviewer to tone it down when critiquing the childs writing
• Depends on your definition of "adult"--I've seen tons of stuff written by teenagers that's much better than a lot of fic written by middle-aged folks, in some of the fandoms I've been in. Maturity and talent aren't always tied to a person's age
• ...warn about it! Sometimes it hurts to read fiction written by chidren when you're expecting something else
• It depends on the individual writing the piece. Stories shouldn't be separated by the authors' ages

Question 5.5

Which of the follow best expresses you level of concern about persons under the legal age of majority accessing adult fiction?

I am concerned	48	4.3%	4.3%
I am not concerned	113	10.13%	10.13%
It depends on why the story got the adult rating. Some of it I am not concerned about a minor seeing but some of it definitely isn't appropriate.	180	16.14%	16.13%
If they can't understand and react appropriately to warnings then they shouldn't be allowed on the Internet unsupervised - I'm more concerned about the parents that let them.	278	24.93%	24.91%
I'm not concerned about them reading it but I am concerned about them getting me or someone else in trouble because they have got caught.	48	4.3%	4.3%
They wouldn't be interested in it anyway, as long as the warning are there so they don't find it accidentally it should be fine.	14	1.26%	1.25%
I think some steps should be taken to avoid younger children coming across it accidentally but I think it is probably a positive way for mid/late teenagers for explore adult issues	259	23.23%	23.21%
I am concerned about young children getting hold of it but I think most teenagers aren't going to read anything they don't know already	106	9.51%	9.5%
I am concerned it is a bad influence. Teenagers especially don't always know what is best for them but think they do.	7	0.63%	0.63%
I am concerned about anyone accessing at all, child or adult, and that someone is actually creating this stuff.	3	0.27%	0.27%
I am under the legal age of majority and I don't want you to take my adult fiction away from me	26	2.33%	2.33%
I am under the legal age of majority and I worry about what my friends are reading	3	0.27%	0.27%
I am under the legal age of majority and I don't see what the fuss is about.	30	2.69%	2.69%
No response given	1	-	0.09%

Question 5.6

Do you think teens should be allowed to decide whether they wish to access fiction with adult content?

No, everyone under the legal age of majority should be treated in the same way.	52	4.67%	4.66%
Teenagers over the legal age of consent in their country/state should be allowed to make their own choices about what they read	282	25.31%	25.27%
Teenagers over the legal age of consent in their country/state should have greater freedom about what they read but some material should still be restricted	65	5.83%	5.82%
Parents should be able to decide when their children can make their own decisions about what they read	158	14.18%	14.16%
People over 12 should be allowed to make their own decisions about what they read	139	12.48%	12.46%
People over 12 should have greater freedom about what they can read but some material should still be restricted	20	1.8%	1.79%
People over 13 should be allowed to make their own decisions about what they read	74	6.64%	6.63%
People over 13 should have greater freedom about what they can read but some material should still be restricted	25	2.24%	2.24%
People over 14 should be allowed to make their own decisions about what they read	62	5.57%	5.56%
People over 14 should have greater freedom about what they can read but some material should still be restricted	30	2.69%	2.69%
People over 15 should be allowed to make their own decisions about what they read	64	5.75%	5.73%
People over 15 should have greater freedom about what they can read but some material should still be restricted	29	2.6%	2.6%
People over 16 should be allowed to make their own decisions about what they read	61	5.48%	5.47%
People over 16 should have greater freedom about what they can read but some material should still be restricted	32	2.87%	2.87%
People over 17 should be allowed to make their own decisions about what they read	14	1.26%	1.25%
People over 17 should have greater freedom about what they can read but some material should still be restricted	7	0.63%	0.63%
No response given	2	-	0.18%

Question 5.7

Would you lie about someone else's age to help them access fiction with adult content?

No	578	52.07%	51.79%
No and I would inform their parents about the request	51	4.59%	4.57%
Only if it was someone I knew and knew they could handle it	395	35.59%	35.39%
Only if they had really restrictive parents	15	1.35%	1.34%
Yes, if someone asked me to	66	5.95%	5.91%
Yes, I'd offer to do it for anyone who wanted	5	0.45%	0.45%
No response given	6	-	0.54%

Question 5.8

If you have your own computer or can install software on a shared computer do you use filtering or other web site blocking software on your computer?

I do not own a computer nor am I able to install software on a shared computer.	30	2.71%	2.69%
I do not have any such software installed	861	77.78%	77.15%
Filtering software	87	7.86%	7.8%
Whitelist-only blockers	3	0.27%	0.27%
Blacklist blockers	8	0.72%	0.72%
The is something installed on it but I am not sure what	118	10.66%	10.57%
No response given	9	-	0.81%

Question 5.9

What personal information do you think it is reasonable for a web site containing no adult content to ask for before allowing access?

None	382	34.38%	34.23%
A pen or user name	38	3.42%	3.41%
A pen or user name and a valid e-mail address	150	13.5%	13.44%
Real name and valid e-mail	7	0.63%	0.63%
Real name, verifiable offline contact details and valid e-mail address	0	0%	0%
Credit card details	1	0.09%	0.09%
None for readers but a pen name and a valid contact e-mail address for archived authors	490	44.1%	43.91%
None for readers but a pen name, real name and valid e-mail address for archived authors	34	3.06%	3.05%
None for readers but a pen name, real name, verifiable contact details and valid e-mail address for archived authors	7	0.63%	0.63%
None for readers but a pen name and credit card details for archived authors	2	0.18%	0.18%
No response given	5	-	0.45%

Question 5.10

What personal information do you think it is reasonable for a web site containing adult content to ask for before allowing access?

None	166	15.02%	14.87%
A pen or user name	53	4.8%	4.75%
A pen or user name and a valid e-mail address	392	35.48%	35.13%
Real name and valid e-mail	58	5.25%	5.2%
Real name, verifiable offline contact details and valid e-mail address	60	5.43%	5.38%
Credit card details	9	0.81%	0.81%
None for readers but a pen name and a valid contact e-mail address for archived authors	317	28.69%	28.41%
None for readers but a pen name, real name and valid e-mail address for archived authors	38	3.44%	3.41%
None for readers but a pen name, real name, verifiable contact details and valid e-mail address for archived authors	11	1%	0.99%
None for readers but a pen name and credit card details for archived authors	1	0.09%	0.09%
No response given	11	-	0.99%

Section 6

Question 6.1

How would you rate your technical ability with computers?

I don't use them at all	0	0%	0%
I surf the web and get my e-mail but that is about it	90	8.06%	8.06%
I am comfortable using computers and software	281	25.18%	25.18%
I can create web pages and/or personalise my journal if I don't have to deal with the underlying code to much	229	20.52%	20.52%
I can code HTML by hand but I don't know how to write scripts or to program	348	31.18%	31.18%
I can create dynamic web content and am happy coding	62	5.56%	5.56%
I program for fun	30	2.69%	2.69%
I program professionally	50	4.48%	4.48%
I am a guru	26	2.33%	2.33%
No response given	0	-	0%

Question 6.2

What operating system(s) do you use when you read and/or browse for fiction in electronic format (select all applicable)?

Windows	1042
MacOS	163
Linux	70
Unix	19
Solaris	9
Whatever my handheld runs	27
Other (enter below)	15
I'm not sure what my operating system is	17
None - don't read the stuff	5
None - I only read the paper version	1

Other reponses: (14 responses)

• Irix
• really whatever OS is handy at the time
• 2 x PalmOS
• Openwave
• AOL
• Firefox
• Wins XP
• What ever is installed on the computer I'm using
• Fish
• eBook
• used to use Windows
• Firefox, Windows Mobile ppc
• ipod

Question 6.3

What browser do you primarily use to browse for, read or download fiction online?

No response given	1	-	0.09%
IE 3.x	0	0%	0%
IE 4.x	5	0.45%	0.45%
IE 5.x	41	3.68%	3.67%
IE 6.x	298	26.73%	26.7%
IE (various versions or don't know version)	200	17.94%	17.92%
WebTV	1	0.09%	0.09%
Netscape 3.x	1	0.09%	0.09%
Netscape 4.x	2	0.18%	0.18%
Netscape 6.x	6	0.54%	0.54%
Netscape 7.x	45	4.04%	4.03%
Netscape (various versions or don't know version)	24	2.15%	2.15%
Opera	35	3.14%	3.14%
Mozilla	82	7.35%	7.35%
Firefox	207	18.57%	18.55%
Lynx	1	0.09%	0.09%
I don't know the type of browser	70	6.28%	6.27%
I don't read fiction online	9	0.81%	0.81%
Other (enter below)	88	7.89%	7.89%

Other reponses: (90 responses)

Safari (Mac OS X)	2	2.22%
SAFARI!!!!!!	1	1.11%
Safari	24	26.67%
Opera & Safari equally	1	1.11%
BT Internet	1	1.11%
safari	5	5.56%
Camino .8b	1	1.11%
Mood Dependant	1	1.11%
iCab	1	1.11%
would depend on the site: if it doesn't work in Opera, I use Firefox	1	1.11%
or Mozilla or Safari	1	1.11%
Opera and Firefox equally	1	1.11%
Safari or Netscape	1	1.11%
Avant	3	3.33%
aol	3	3.33%
Netscape 7.x and Mozilla almost exactly equally	1	1.11%
xp	1	1.11%
Equal amounts of Mozilla and Firefox	1	1.11%
Internet Explorer?	1	1.11%
Safari 1.2.4	1	1.11%
AOL	8	8.89%
Avant (as well as IE or Firefox)	1	1.11%
google	1	1.11%
I use IE6x and Firefox equally	1	1.11%
msn don't know if IE or netscape	1	1.11%
SBC Yahoo Browser	2	2.22%
Mozilla 1 and IE 6	1	1.11%
MSN Explorer	2	2.22%
I am completely baffled	1	1.11%
MSN	1	1.11%
Maxthon	1	1.11%
Aol	1	1.11%
road runner / or MSN explorer	1	1.11%
the aol browser	1	1.11%
whatever is available at the time, I don't really have a prefrence	1	1.11%
CrazyBrowser	1	1.11%
Avant Browser	1	1.11%
IE6 *and* Netscape 7, depending on the site	1	1.11%
Several of the above, actually! Not just ONE. As regards the next question, I use both browsers I like and don't like	1	1.11%
MyIE2	1	1.11%
Explorer and/or AOL	1	1.11%
i move the story to word and print it out and read it like a regular book	1	1.11%
Safari-came w/Mac	1	1.11%
Not sure	1	1.11%
Earthlink	1	1.11%
explorer	1	1.11%
Internet Explorer	1	1.11%
Mozilla Firefox	1	1.11%
Yahoo!	1	1.11%

Question 6.4

Do you use that browser from personal choice?

I use it because I like it	492	44.4%	44.09%
It is better than the alternatives	164	14.8%	14.7%
It was the default one that came with the computer	393	35.47%	35.22%
I can't stand it, I just haven't got around to looking at or installing anything else	35	3.16%	3.14%
I mostly use public computers so I have to use whatever is installed	19	1.71%	1.7%
I am disabled and am restricted to that browser	5	0.45%	0.45%
No response given	8	-	0.72%

Question 6.5

Would you consider changing to another browser?

Never	64	5.79%	5.73%
If it had better features	456	41.23%	40.86%
I'd give another browser a chance if it was recommended	342	30.92%	30.65%
I can't because it isn't my computer	35	3.16%	3.14%
I can't because I need features that only this browser has	10	0.9%	0.9%
I don't know how	65	5.88%	5.82%
Sure	134	12.12%	12.01%
No response given	10	-	0.9%

Question 6.6

Are you the sole user/owner of the computer you primarily use to access fan or amateur fiction?

Yes	734	65.83%	65.77%
I have to share it but I have my own secure profile which only I log in to	97	8.7%	8.69%
No, I have to share it with my family	159	14.26%	14.25%
No, I have to let my children use it	9	0.81%	0.81%
No, I have to let my parents use it	30	2.69%	2.69%
No, I have to share it with other children	2	0.18%	0.18%
No, I have to share it but only with other adults	71	6.37%	6.36%
I don't have access to my own computer, I have to use a public one	13	1.17%	1.16%
No response given	1	-	0.09%

Section 7

Question 7.1

What steps would you consider reasonable for a web site containing adult fiction to take to prevent minors accessing content that might be inappropriate (select all applicable)?

None - let them read it if they want to	77
Warnings - inform the potential reader what the story contains. After that it is up to them if the read it or not.	846
Confirmation button - the potential reader has to click on a button/link to confirm the material is appropriate for them	698
Age statement - the potential reader should have to send the writer/archivist a statement to say they are of age to receive a password and log in	339
Date of birth - the potential reader should have to enter personal details such as date of birth to receive a password and log in	207
Electoral Register - the potential reader should enter personal details that can be confirmed against the electoral register to receive a password and log in	28
Credit Card - the potential reader should have to enter credit card details to prove they are of age to receive a password and log in	11
ICRA/PICS labels - the site has metadata labels describing it's content so that readers using either the free or commercial filters that support this standard can choose to block the site	157
Other	45

Other reponses: (45 responses)

• Warnings not specifically for minors, but in general - it's polite to warn people if they may be upset by the content. After that it's their choice whether they read it or not
• Short of an in person inspection with a birth certificate and a photo id, you aren't going to be able to keep minors out. An underage person can even use a parent's credit card, and quite frankly, as an adult, I would NEVER give out my credit card information online for this purpose. I think it is pointless to go to great lengths to keep minors from reading smutty fanfiction when they can go to the library or bookstore and read smutty published fiction, no questions asked. The first explicit gay porn I read was NOT fanfiction or online (this was before the internet was widespread). No, it was by going to a bookstore and picking up a book by a best selling, mainstream author. I wasn't scarred for life by it either.
  
  I think there should be warnings for content so responsible parents witih YOUNG children can guide them. I think there needs to be warnings for content so I don't have to read icky things I don't like. I think there should be warnings for teens who don't want to read things they aren't ready for. However, no one is protected by age statements and clicking buttons
• By "warnings" I mean only that there should be a statement about NC-17 content. I don't mean "warnings" in the sense of "character death", etc. IOW, nothing that spoils the story
• this is the internet, people. as with television, IF YOU DON'T LIKE WHAT YOU SEE, TURN IT OFF OR CHANGE THE CHANNEL instead of whining for someone else to censor what you're very small brain cannot handle. and as with television, if you find an internet site you don't like, USE THE BACK BUTTON. it's about tiome people stop waiting for someone else to solve their problems for them, and do it for themselves. as for children, THEIR PARENTS are responsible for USING THE BACK BUTTON AND FURTHERMORE MONITERING THEIR CHILDRENS' ON-LINE TIME. to expect someone or something else to do this is lazy and ludicris
• Frankly, age statements and DOBs can be lied about; confirmation button can be clicked by anyone. Other methods seem too cumbersome for the site master. I believe in personal responsibility. Warn people about possibly objectionable content, and then it's up to them to choose
• When I say "warnings" I don't mean detailed warnings, just a simple indication, through rating or otherwise, that there is so-called adult content
• I know I said before that my birthdate is none of anyone's business, but I do ask for one on a couple of communities I run to cover my own butt
• Sponsorship system
• I think the age statement or date of birth could be applicable if the content was truly extreme; I don't think run-of-the-mill sex between consenting adults of either gender or moderate violence falls under that label
• They don't really work. An underaged person simply lies about their age on most, and the credit card option blocks out people over 18 without credit cards as well. Still, warnings should be present to inform the reader of what they are going into
• A statement noting that niether the website nor the authors are responsible for an individuals use of the site, and that entrance by an illegal user (like an individual of less than legal age) is not the legal fault of either
• I don't know but I really don't like the idea of giving my personal info online. First of all, you can put warnings but those only encourage people to venture further. And people usually ignore them. For me, the Electoral register is probably better but the disadvantage to that is that if there are people capable of using your credit cart number without your knowledge, the same thing can happen with that. I still think that the best prevention is Parent supervision and Kid Blocks.
  
  Most of these things happen because many parents are negligent and do not take the necessary precautions
• 1) Entering a date of birth, age statements or using confirmation buttons can be problematic. Mainly because it is down to the reader to honestly enter those deatils. There is no independent verification.
  2) Using the electoral register is also problemmatic as it will apply only to countries where there is an accesible electoral register, and even then not all legal adults choose to be registered.
  3) I (like many other people I know) are uncomfortable entering my credit card details - particularly if the site is not large or well known, for fear of poor security and fraud. Again there are people who do not have credit cards so this would exclude them.
  
  My suggestion would be to use a combination of electoral register, credit cards and a "trust based" system (reccomendations from those trusted members of the fandom / community who can vouch for incoming members ages). This would cast a wider net (pardon the pun) to allow as many people as possible to access the site, whilst taking as many precautions as possible to prevent "children" from accessing unsuitable material
• Personal information can be asked for the access, if they are also kept absolutely secret and private. I am not convinced I'd trust any fan site that much
• AND warnings about fiction content specific to that piece of writing
• Anybody who's stupid enough to give ANY site credit card details needs to be taken out of the gene pool
• Dates of birth are all very well, but are as easily fake-able as any other detail. Credit cards are going too far in my opinion, and some adults don't have them!
• I'm very unsure. There are friends I have that are mature enough to know what they can read and can handle just a warning. I have other friends who I find don't have that maturty and really shouldn't be exposed to something they aren't ready to handle becuase they couldn't resist something "unapproprate"
• There is no way to stop teenyboppers from reading adult fanfic. It may be sad, but it's true. The safest way is to make sure the warnings are up, and visible, and encourage them to make informed decisions.
  
  I was always fond of the double link: the warning page has a Giant "Click here" button, and a tiny link in the corner. You have to read the whole warning to find the link. It worked for me when I was 15 and reading way to much slash on my high school's computer
• It's not the age, it's the intellectual maturity. Extract a promise, "If you click, you bear responsibility" type of disclaimer
• Using a credit card won't work as you don't have to be of age to get one
• Just registration where they confirm that they are above legal age. Once that is complete - if they chose to lie, the author shouldn't be held accountable. (I am aware that they often are made accountable anyway - my opinion, that is wrong.)
• I feel if the warning is CLEARLY there, and they STILL click it, then it's their responsibility, not the site's, if parents start whining about it
• Only problem with credit card details and/ or electorial register- wouldn't that mean requesting details from relevent companies/ systems? Is that possible?
  And what if, say a person aged 18 and legal in the UK, but not yet on an electorial register?
• I might agree with the ICRA/PICS thing if I knew what it was
• Ask for the parents email address and don't give acess until, they have Confirmation from the parent
• I like the way that Yahoo! groups can be set up so that only over age persons can access them. Options like these are helpful
• If there are legal restrictions in the web site's country of origin, then I think they should follow the law (in a lax, but nonchargable manner)
• American Movie Ratings as well, that covers all the bases that I normally look at, and most other readers I know, both minors and adults
• I've implemented an age statement request on my page, but only for fandoms where I know that the creators/owners are really a pain in the ass about minors accessing their fiction (Star Wars and Potterverse). And even then, that's just a CYA for me. Given my druthers, I would not ask for an age statement at all
• none of these systems are foolproof, they just test teh determination a reader has to get onto a site
• The Electoral Register is unreasonable as it restricts access to countries which the site has access to the electoral role and in many countries registering is optional
• Only what they're forced to by law. I don't see any harm in reading fan fiction
• I would not even read it if it contained adult material
• I would never go to any site that asked me for Credit Card details
• It's frankly possible to circumvent anything we use. It's fascinating to imagine this is such an issue to so many. I find it ridiculous, generally speaking
• I have nothing against age statements or dare of birth statements, but they are just a flimsy legal protection. They won't keep anyone out who wants to see the site. The warning is, to me, more a matter of courtesy for everyone, not just minors
• This is a really tough one. I really don't think personal details are appropriate, but think underage users should have some limits placed on them.... Hmmm
• If a minor can't be trusted to avoid material they "shouldn't" read, then it's their parents' or teachers' duty to supervise their computer use. It's not the duty of writers providing *free* material to police their readers and play detective in order to verify their ages. Parents who don't want their children seeing things they consider inappropriate can bloody well stop using the computer (or t.v., etc.) as a "babysitter", and whining to the government if their precious infant is exposed to "porn", or gay sexuality, or whatever. OTOH, internet pedophiles and other predatory types should be castrated and then shot... but then, that's the penalty I'd like to see for *all* pedophiles, rapists, and such abusers
• As an adult, I very much appreciate it when site clearly states that there is adult fiction posted
• I think if a website _chooses_ to take any of the suggested measures it is their right to do so. Confirmation buttons especially help to, in the vernacular, cover the webmaster's or -mistress' ass(es) in the case of a legal problem. But I don't think they _should_ have to do anything except place an appropriate warning on their fic out of concern for readers who aren't comfortable with it. As a minor I must say that I prefer to be in a position where there is fiction available to me _without_ my having to lie to obtain it
• A question or series of questions that a minor may find hard to answer ( like a question about something that happened in the 1980's)
• a way parents can either allow or stop child from accessing the site
• Many Mag 7 slash sites require an age statement before they will send the URL for the author or archive website
• Warnings are sufficient. Filters can be (and they are) misused to block all sorts of information (medical, scientfic, religious) from children in the most tyrannical of ways, so I don't want to have anything to do with them