In order to avoid confusion, I thought a listing and explanation of ratings and story codes might be useful. Mods can make this sticky and/or add to it if they want.

Ratings:


G - Totally clean. No violence or sexual situations, harshest language is schoolyard replacements for swear words (darn, shoot, heck, etc.)
PG - "Superhero action" violence, mild language (damn, ass, hell)
PG-13 - "Action" violence without being explicit about it. Simpsons-level language (bitch, bastard, etc.), innuendo, "ecchi moments" and/or strong suggestions of sexual intimacy without showing actual sexual activity.
R - Explicit violence, language (George Carlin's "7 words you can't say on TV"), tasteful "love scene."
NC-17 - Explicit descriptions of sexual situations, non-consentual sex, anything where sex or violence is the focus of the story as opposed to being merely a plot device.


And now for story codes, or content codes, which should be put in the subject line of the post so no one gets surprised or offended. I'm using 2-letter codes since there's a limit on how long the subject can be.


mf - male/female sex or "het"
ff - female/female sex or "yuri"
mm - male/male sex or "yaoi"
vi - violence
co - crossovers (ie, Sailor Moon meets Dragonball Z)
nc - non-consentual sex/rape
mc - mind-control
be - bestiality
cd - canon-character death (a character from the actual anime dies)
oc - contains original characters (characters you made up yourself)
od - original-character death (one of your oc's dies)
fu - "furries" - animal-like characters with more animal features than human. (Katt from Breath of Fire 2, but not InuYasha)
fs - "furry" sex (sex with "furries")
gr - growth/enlargement of body parts (ie, breast/penis enhancement)
en - enhancement (powers)


That's all I can think of at the moment.

made this thread a sticky

Good job, feel free to add on codes if you see any that missing from the list... but thats real good so far.

And if you cant edit, PM one of us.