Content Violations Review: Fan Works.Arcadia The Golden Era

A "XXX-rated" Porn with Plot fanfic that seems like shameless smut just from a cursory glance at the page, which I believe violates the "No Porn" part of 5P.

Opening

Edited by MacronNotes on Jul 26th 2023 at 8:08:27 AM

I am not getting good vibes from the page image because of how the characters are presented.

Also, with some skimming, apparently the "Arcs" that are mentioned within the page quote are basically people who attract, seduce, have relations with women, and then discard them to start the cycle again over and over. Considering the type of story, the relations are most likely described. Arcs also seem to have some prevalence within the story, which sets off my alarms because if there is that much sex, it's most likely just porn with a story slapped on it.

Right now I'm leaning cut the page, but I don't have enough info.

I skimmed part of it briefly last night. Very much not my thing (turning Jaune into a womanizing perv? wut?), but it takes until the bottom third of chapter 3 to get an actual explicit sex scene: it seems more like an ecchi High School AU overall. I'm leaning keep.

Edited by StarSword on Jul 26th 2023 at 12:26:55 PM

If StarSword's assessment is accurate, voting keep.

Thanks for that...and if it takes three chapters to have sex, keep.

Noting here that FanWorks/ is the wrong namespace for this, it should be on Fanfic/

If it takes three chapters before the first explicit sex scene, it probably isn't pure porn. I'm leaning keep.

Not sure where "three chapters" came from, Jaune's proactive and explicit sex life (even if a dream) is described from the very first page. Ruby also still being 15 is kinda sus. Guess I'll give it a thorough read.

Edited by Amonimus on Jul 27th 2023 at 9:06:37 PM

Yeah, I'll grant that the sexual fantasy on page one is more lurid than I remembered. I said I was leaning keep but I'm open to being persuaded otherwise.

If Jaune is 17 and Ruby is 15, that's not an automatic kill but it looks like we're gonna have to go deep.

explicit teen on teen with Ruby still being 15 is... sus, at the very least. i'll skim some of it on lunch break but that alone is a solid :/ for me.

Yep, not a good feeling at all. Sex-based character types, explicit rating, and teenage characters. Recipe for the nasty.

Reserving judgment, still leaning keep until we have a more solid read.

An explicit fic featuring minors having sex is already a major red flag to me. It just doesn't feel like something one would consciously read about.

On this alone I'd lean towards voting for a cut, but seeing as that there still needs to be more to be seen before proper judgement can be made (judging by the above, at least), my vote remains unsure.

Edited by ATricksterArtist on Aug 7th 2023 at 6:12:35 AM

alright, i did a cursory read of this one, and— to start, lemme just say the fanfic's page image is. Very . Very on brand

that said, chapter one does in fact, explicitly describe Jaune's horny fantasies (my personal favorite /s was "a trio of white-haired nymphs worshipping every inch of him with their tongues") followed by an Imagine Spot of him fucking Ruby (lovingly described as "petite yet curvy") with intent to impregnate. if she's still 15 here, then.... what can i say but yikes

a little farther in is exposition on Jaune's new gigachad (for lack of a better term) physique, and the baggy clothes he always wears to hide said gigachad physique... and constant erections.

reading this makes me feel extremely skeevy. i'll continue on (ik i'm probably at a pretty early pausing point), but so far my initial judgement is "i want this out of my sight Expeditiously".

Edited by worldwidewoomy on Aug 8th 2023 at 9:31:51 AM

Mm. Are you noticing any of the attempts at parody and deconstruction mentioned in the page description yet?

I'm willing to give a lot more slack if there's an attempt to do something artistic with it, but as you said, yikes. Don't Lewd the Rube.

either i'm worse at detecting sarcasm and parody than i thought, or it just. Isn't written well.

skimming a little farther in, after said lovingly depicted naughty dream is a long Nocturnal Emission joke ^{TMI (and also kinda gross)} Jaune wakes up having jizzed the bed, Clover comes in with an absolutely shitfaced Qrow to try and get him to lay down (he refuses because... yeah), something something "joke's on you asshole I have wet dreams every night".. anyway Jaune (who's kind of a prick to Clover here) decides to go work out while it's early. this is where said paragraph about his testosterone levels and gigachad body and constant erections he tries to hide with baggy clothes) comes in (and a lovely aside about Jaune's visceral disgust at the thought that Clover (a dude) might be checking him out).

the workout scene throws in at least one (1) mention of warm pussy, Jaune's internal monologue going increasingly sleazy ("If this is 450lbs, imagine how easy it would be to toss around a slut"), and lifting. lots of lifting. i'm not going to question a 17yo lifting 800 pounds and i don't think i wanna. i will say, the story dialogue does note that Jaune is 'not' happy with his gross incelish internal monologue, but the scene after this one begins with him ogling a woman named Amber (said monologe then demands to "Wreck. Her.", emphasis not mine).

i'm still only on chapter 1, but i'm voting cut at this point tbh. the writing feels very salacious and porn-y, and that's just without the potential for pedo business.

Edited by worldwidewoomy on Aug 8th 2023 at 1:39:30 PM

Oof yeah, reading the above I'm gonna vote cut. especially if the whole story is like that

Edited by Zanreo on Aug 8th 2023 at 7:55:01 PM

Okay. If it weren't for one thing, I'd be leaning keep still. The problem is that in addition to all of the gigachad-has-sex stuff, said gigachad is also having sex (or explicit sexual dreams) with Ruby Rose. And again, the cardinal rule of early RWBY fic is "Don't Lewd the Rube."

Ultimately, I can't justify a keep with what's been said. Cut.

Cut

i think i'm halfway through chapter 1 now? the POV switch is very much welcome. so far there hasn't been anything problematic concerning Ruby yet (not counting the dream sequence since that's already a damning point) but any more and i'd go from "cut" to "nuke it".

ETA: did we really need to know that Yang was drop dead gorgeous with double-D boobies even as a teenager? and now we know Ruby's chest size too, how nice.

i finally finished chapter 1, which thankfully ended on a normal note... i'm still voting cut. chapter 2 is thankfully a smidge less salacious (much of the horny comes from Jaune's "shadow" being a creeper) and it literally ends with a 'virgin vs. chad' meme. at least my gigachad comparison was spot-on

Edited by worldwidewoomy on Aug 9th 2023 at 8:02:56 AM

Yeah, you know what? I'm changing my vote to cut.

Not sure that fandom's self-imposed standard about a character's un-lewd-ability is pertinent, but yeah. Strongly agree with cut.

Based on Woomy's assessment, I'm also changing my vote to cut.