Is my work too crude for an average reader ?

Hello, I'd like to hear your thoughts on my fic.


The further I get, the more i think that my work is too crude for the public. It does not involve any sex scenes or gore, however it's incredibly sleazy and morally disgusting. Every character from the main party is either a horrible human being or blissfully ignorant to care. I try to write it in ironic and subversive way, but I'm starting to think the readers might not catch that.

I'd love to hear your thoughts, is it too:

• sleazy?
• dark?
• absurd?
• shameless?

Or maybe you even enjoyed it for those reasons ? Let me know.

LitSam said:

Hello, I'd like to hear your thoughts on my fic.

Fortune’s Favored. Scumbag’s wishes granted by insane luck. [Isekai Comedy]

“Inevitable Triumph” sounds cool until you realize the universe only grants your wishes after maximum embarrassment, property damage, at least one felony. Meet the protagonist fate loves to bully, self-proclaimed Emperor Vortex the Unyielding. He introduces himself with at least five titles...

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The further I get, the more i think that my work is too crude for the public. It does not involve any sex scenes or gore, however it's incredibly sleazy and morally disgusting. Every character from the main party is either a horrible human being or blissfully ignorant to care. I try to write it in ironic and subversive way, but I'm starting to think the readers might not catch that.

I'd love to hear your thoughts, is it too:

• sleazy?
• dark?
• absurd?
• shameless?

Or maybe you even enjoyed it for those reasons ? Let me know.

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no one really cares if it's crude because they are characters, they are meant to be that way.

Probably not crude enough.

Readers in general are crude.

It doesn't matter all that much, what matters most is the plot.

who cares? Pasolini made Salo.

LitSam said:

It does not involve any sex scenes

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Dude... don't lie. In "content warning", your fiction clearly contains sexual content. Why do you claim otherwise?

Eldoria said:

Dude... don't lie. In "content warning", your fiction clearly contains sexual content. Why do you claim otherwise?

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How am I lying ? I said there are not sex scenes, the tag is not limited to just that. Sexual content can include other things than just sex scenes.

LitSam said:

How am I lying ? I said there are not sex scenes, the tag is not limited to just that. Sexual content can include other things than just sex scenes.

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You should use content warning tags more wisely. If your fiction doesn't contain explicit sexual scenes, there's no need to include a sexual content warning. Readers could misunderstand.

Eldoria said:

You should use content warning tags more wisely. If your fiction doesn't contain explicit sexual scenes, there's no need to include a sexual content warning. Readers could misunderstand.

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According to content guidelines on scribblehub:

"All creators are expected to include warnings (gore, sexual content, strong language, etc...) if the intended audience is 17 and up but if for some reason the story has not been labeled as such, please report it and we will fix it."

It's a warning, not a tag. Even if the work does not include sex-scenes it does include sexual themes, not intended for minors.

LitSam said:

According to content guidelines on scribblehub:

"All creators are expected to include warnings (gore, sexual content, strong language, etc...) if the intended audience is 17 and up but if for some reason the story has not been labeled as such, please report it and we will fix it."

It's a warning, not a tag. Even if the work does not include sex-scenes it does include sexual themes, not intended for minors.

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This guideline is intended to indicate age-specific content ratings, not to require you to label every R18 content as explicitly sexual. Gore, sensitive content, and sexual content are indeed R18. But not every R18-rated fiction contains sexual content. This tag would be more relevant if you included it with the genre.

For example, the smut and adult genres have sexual content warnings. The mature genre has a gore content warning. Furthermore, for fiction with heavy and traumatic themes, a sensitive content warning is more appropriate.

If you insist on including a sexual content warning simply because your story is dark and contains (implicit) sexual violence, then you are simply saying that most dark fantasy should be labeled as sexual content, as the majority of dark fantasy is inseparable from dark, sensitive themes and elements of violence (physical or sexual).