Let's Talk The Birds & The Bees >>> (Mature Rating - For Authors Serious About Sensitive Scenes)

IN SCYTHE ONE OF THE FIRST SCYTHES EVER NAMED HERSELF AFTER SAPPHO!!!!!

LESBIAN ICON. I LOVE SAPPHO.

_{also Scythe is a ridiculously good series? like wtf?}

_{I know! I didn't expect it to be as good as it was, I can't wait for the conclusion this fall!!!}

_{about time amiright???}

_{You know you're deep down the rabbit hole when you've figured out what your name would be if you were a Scythe lol}

_{gasp What is yours??? Because I totally picked mine out already.}

IN SCYTHE ONE OF THE FIRST SCYTHES EVER NAMED HERSELF AFTER SAPPHO!!!!!

LESBIAN ICON. I LOVE SAPPHO.

_{also Scythe is a ridiculously good series? like wtf?}

_{I know! I didn't expect it to be as good as it was, I can't wait for the conclusion this fall!!!}

_{about time amiright???}

_{You know you're deep down the rabbit hole when you've figured out what your name would be if you were a Scythe lol}

_{gasp What is yours??? Because I totally picked mine out already.}

_{Mine would be after Carrie Fisher or Mary Shelley}

_{Niiiiiice. I would chose "Nefertari"}

_XD

ahem

So anyway… XD

I'm trying to decide if one of the couples in a story should be a romantic couple or just FWB

what's their dynamic

There aren't a lot of FWBs in books, now that I think about it

I'm trying to decide if one of the couples in a story should be a romantic couple or just FWB

what's their dynamic

One is a charismatic guy that has like 10 different personalities he rotates through depending on who he's talking to because he acts cocky but is pretty insecure, and the other is a hyper and energetic girl who has like no impulse control.

(first of all the guy is a huge mood)
make them a couple but make it slow-burn

FWB for sure. but leave it open to reader interpretation if they have more feelings for each other

FWB for sure. but leave it open to reader interpretation if they have more feelings for each other

ok i changed my answer go w that

I understand none of this.

unfortunate

Sorry.

Okay so I’m writing a book that has a teen target audience and a huge part of the MCs character arc is his sexuality. For most of the book he’s expressed a fear of sex and it isn’t until near the end that he’s able to trust his partner enough to have sex with him, which is a huge step for the MC. However, because of the target audience, I’m not sure how to write sexual things without going too far. I don’t want to go into complete detail but I also don’t want to be too vague, what should I do?

what i usually do in fade-to-black is make someone do a single action that implies sexual stuff (his hands crept lower) and say something that implies sexual stuff and then end chapter/ cut to different scene

K so in most YA books, the type of sex used is either fade-to-black or emotional.
Fade-to-black would show them going into the bedroom together and might have them discussing the act (obviously consenting, if it's a m/f couple then discussing what type of birth control, etc.)
Emotional sex focuses on the feelings moreso than the act ("He felt a new sense of love for LI, felt closer to him than ever before in that moment" maybe, idk I'm not good at this lol)

If this is for Trigger Warning, have you considered categorizing it as NA, due to the other factors? If so, NA allows for more sexy times that YA shouldn't

Yeah it’s for trigger warning. But idk what NA is

"new adult"

It's really up to you how much you want to show. If it is big to the MC's character I do think that you should not do a fade to black. That would rob your readers of a climax (HA THAT PUN THO) that they have been waiting for while reading. It can be a short and sweet scene, but I do think that there should be one.

Hey so um sex in my series is actually seen as super casual, except to the MC, who is a prince who has been sheltered his entire life until finally leaving to see the world for himself.

So… at two different points, he accidentally walks in on an orgy and someone masturbating. I need to realistically write how both parties would react so um… help?

Goddammit the curse

First of all, I wheezed so hard

Second, if he’s sheltered his personality definitely affects how he reacts to those situations

his reaction would probably be yelling in surprise and closing the door immediately, then walking away as his mind is reeling from what he saw and his brain shoves disparate sensory impressions at him

And everyone else would be like "oh" and then just go back to what was going on there idk?

First of all, I wheezed so hard

Second, if he’s sheltered his personality definitely affects how he reacts to those situations

😆

Yeah… he was sheltered but not of his own choice. He wants to see the world and serve as a sort of anthropologist because he's fascinated by other people and their different ways of life. Thing is, his mother (the current ruler) didn't want to expose him to certain things and is generally very overprotective of all of her children (long story).

So he basically knows absolutely nothing when it comes to sex and the connotations it has in his world. He's travelling in a group, who has been instructed not to tell him about certain things about the world (but he finds out anyways cuz he's a curious little shit). So "what are those weird noises?" turns into "wHAT THE SHIT" and I don't know where to go after that.