So… I write fanfiction.
Erotic fanfiction.
For a popular child’s cartoon franchise.
According to various people within the community, I’m pretty good at it.
How much should this bother me, and those around me? Should I not have shared this around here? Is it okay to be proud of being good at writing a raunchy sex scene between things that most definitely should not be having raunchy sex? And how bad of an idea would it be to share my latest work with friends, or on my facebook feed?
My Horny Pony?
As long as it’s not erotic fanfiction FOR children, who cares?
Now if you told me that you wrote Twilight…well then son I am so disappoint.
If you are worried about how people take it I’d disclose this to close friends first. Maybe it will spread by word of mouth.
ETA: SpoogeBob Squishypants?
Embarassed about it? Not really. Public with it? Also not so much. So long as you don’t do it in the street and frighten the horses, it’s all good.
Pinky and the Little Brain?
As long as it’s not erotic Rugrats fanfic, I suppose you needn’t be too embarrassed. Still, it is not something I would bring up outside the community that is your target audience.
:smack:
I wouldn’t say you write it “For” the popular children’s cartoon franchise…at least, I’m sure that’s what they would say, but rather “about”, perhaps?
But leaving that aside, I really would not want to know that about you if you were one of my friends, in life or on Facebook. But then, I am a middle-aged grandmother whose Facebook friends range from twenty-something rock musicians and churchy home-schooling moms to older sci-fi/fantasy editors and local politicians. And my ministers. It’s like the whole Meredith Viera underpants thing…once you learn one odd fact about someone, it is often the only thing that you think of when you see them. Unless you are earning your living from this and need to explain where that money comes from, I’d keep this to yourself in real life. But I’m sort of discreet about my stuff. If you don’t care about employers and others knowing this, then go for it.
Furry erotic fanfic is almost the lamest thing out there, but according to this, if you don’t put a furry version of yourself in the stories you might be somewhat above the bottom of the barrel:
Geek hierarchy
OTOH at least you’re creating something. The people who read your stories and beat off are lamer than you are.
That chart may be the best thing I’ve read all day. 
Although somewhat dated - people who read science fiction are definitely geekier than video gamers at this point.
Dirty clopper.
Raunchy erotica in your facebook feed? That is a *fantasic idea!
*terrible
Well, I was initially going to post something about how I wouldn’t put it on your resume if I were you, but beyond that, who cares? But Facebook? These days, putting something on Facebook is pretty much tantamount to putting it on your resume. So I’d only do that if you don’t mind the idea of potential future employers running across it on a Google search.
Don’t put it on FB but, you got to tell us what franchise you write for!
Do you write serials for a single, or a few, franchises?
How did you choose the franchise?
How did you get started?
Surely I’m not the only one who thinks this is worthy of an AMA thread.
While trying to think up a joke, I suddenly realized that I have no idea about any current childrens cartoons. Middle-aged and no kids. The closest thing I could think of is, “Thomas the Wank Engine.”
“I could not, would not, on a boat.
I will not, will not, with a goat.”
I’d also suggest firewalling the target audience community contacts behind a pseudonym and e-mail address that isn’t linked to your real name or any of your other online identities.
My niece writes what amounts to literary porn under an assumed name. And I mean whips and chains and all that. On one hand she is very good at it and makes more money than she could almost any other way - and brings in the majority of the household money. On the other hand, she is doing it under a pen name so --------- figure out your mileage from that.
I’d say you should be pretty embarrassed and definitely shouldn’t tell us about it, but I fear that it wouldn’t be very helpful at this point.
I second this.
Yeah, I’d keep that to yourself.