AuroraAvengarde
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So I had a particularly bad experience on RoyalRoad, simply from trying to post my first story there. I'm thinking about coming over to ScribbleHub instead, as a result....and without trashing RR too much, I just wanted to see if anyone else has had an experience like mine?
Essentially my submission kept getting these vague rejections like "We allow sexual content on this site, but it can't be the focus of the story blah blah blah, we are worried your submission may be too suggestive blah blah blah" and I was really flabbergasted. Because keep in mind, my story wasn't erotica or smut or anything like that. It was a genderbender/mecha title...kind of like Evangelion or Gundam Wing. But it wasn't fanfic...it was an original universe. And the first chapter obviously has zero sexual content.
And it even included this disclaimer in the synopsis:
"There is romance. It may have some of the elements of a harem, though that is not the primary element of it, and its definitely not the type you typically see in anime. I also marked it for having possible sexual content, though I haven't planned any as of yet. It may be included in specially marked chapters later on if I feel it fits."
So a moderaror kept rejecting it with these vague messages, despite that disclaimer being there from the start. So I removed the sexual content tags entirely, and sent in an angry support ticket like "I just wont include it at all then. Fine. Its a Gundam style story anyways so its not that important to the plot! So stop rejecting it. Jeez. Right?
Then it gets rejected AGAIN. This time he wants me to change the cover because he says it's 'incredibly sexual.' And demands that I change the cover art...which I paid money for. So now I'm really upset by this point and was just like...what is their malfunction?
The cover art was pretty modest. It was just a curvy girl in a kind of body hugging space suit. Like the kind you see the females wear in some sci-fi/mecha (non-ecchi mind you) anime/manga. She IS thick. Maybe a tad overweight (but notnquite chubby). But fully covered from head to toe. No skin showing below the neck. No transparent sections either, in the suit itself. And her pose was a neutral standing pose...not anything suggestive.
So I'm super mad. I flat out refused. Now I'm waiting for one of the site owners over there to review the case (since I asked for an escalation above that mod). But he said she is "stricter" than him. Which is even weirder. So whatever, we'll see I guess.
But listen guys, am I the crazy one here? lol.
I just feel like they are straight up banning any images of women who's bodily dimensions exceed some vague skinny parameter. Like she must be in violation of RR's rules, subsection Double-D or something. (lol!)
I mean she was sexy...but that was it. It wasn't to a crazy level.
For reference here is my 'incredibly sexual' cover art:
Essentially my submission kept getting these vague rejections like "We allow sexual content on this site, but it can't be the focus of the story blah blah blah, we are worried your submission may be too suggestive blah blah blah" and I was really flabbergasted. Because keep in mind, my story wasn't erotica or smut or anything like that. It was a genderbender/mecha title...kind of like Evangelion or Gundam Wing. But it wasn't fanfic...it was an original universe. And the first chapter obviously has zero sexual content.
And it even included this disclaimer in the synopsis:
"There is romance. It may have some of the elements of a harem, though that is not the primary element of it, and its definitely not the type you typically see in anime. I also marked it for having possible sexual content, though I haven't planned any as of yet. It may be included in specially marked chapters later on if I feel it fits."
So a moderaror kept rejecting it with these vague messages, despite that disclaimer being there from the start. So I removed the sexual content tags entirely, and sent in an angry support ticket like "I just wont include it at all then. Fine. Its a Gundam style story anyways so its not that important to the plot! So stop rejecting it. Jeez. Right?
Then it gets rejected AGAIN. This time he wants me to change the cover because he says it's 'incredibly sexual.' And demands that I change the cover art...which I paid money for. So now I'm really upset by this point and was just like...what is their malfunction?
The cover art was pretty modest. It was just a curvy girl in a kind of body hugging space suit. Like the kind you see the females wear in some sci-fi/mecha (non-ecchi mind you) anime/manga. She IS thick. Maybe a tad overweight (but notnquite chubby). But fully covered from head to toe. No skin showing below the neck. No transparent sections either, in the suit itself. And her pose was a neutral standing pose...not anything suggestive.
So I'm super mad. I flat out refused. Now I'm waiting for one of the site owners over there to review the case (since I asked for an escalation above that mod). But he said she is "stricter" than him. Which is even weirder. So whatever, we'll see I guess.
But listen guys, am I the crazy one here? lol.
I just feel like they are straight up banning any images of women who's bodily dimensions exceed some vague skinny parameter. Like she must be in violation of RR's rules, subsection Double-D or something. (lol!)
I mean she was sexy...but that was it. It wasn't to a crazy level.
For reference here is my 'incredibly sexual' cover art:
