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1 points NevGuy

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156 points gamblingaddict8g

Back in the day when even fanfic writers had evil clones of themselves. Shoutout to AngryJoe for having one, and AVGN.

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251 points Polibiux

I’m probably too young to know that lingo.

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378 points Infinite-Title575

It's referring to the "citrus scale", a lingo used back in early fanfic days where an author mentioning a citrus fruit in the summary of the fic is them saying how intense the sexual activity is in the fic. Ie, Limes is just for foreplay, lemons for actual sex, grapefruits for the deviant shit

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336 points Lorcout

Grapefuits must've been some deviant piece of arts huh...

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168 points Infinite-Title575

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79 points SunderedValley

It's impressive how this picture is the only thing anyone cares to remember about the upteenth attempt to break the curse on that IP.

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52 points erikmeteenk

I mean, I remember the posters for it that said "Fant4stic"

I still use the word fantfourstic in day to day life

https://preview.redd.it/sa7j293egu6g1.jpeg?width=1599&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4ea27c1c2d94254eb747ba0627c87b24bff23638

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14 points Chezburgor1

I remember it had some body horror like The Thing being stuck in place as a rock creature calling out for help from Mr. Fantastic who is slowly stretching his way through an air vent.

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5 points Applepieport

I think the original pitch for the movie was for it to be a full on body horror movie but the executives backed out last minute so a lot of changes had to be made.

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5 points BruhTaker31

Than what about, oranges...

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14 points Novel_Visual_4152

What type of stuff in particular falls into the grapefruits 👀?

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30 points Buzzy_Feez

Well I always knew it to mean "gRAPEfruit" for one.

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10 points Novel_Visual_4152

Well tbh I recall stumbling toward multiple fics with the lemon scale and yet having this type of content

That why I was wondering just what kind of content grapefruit would have since I never saw it once

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12 points Buzzy_Feez

I think grapefruit was a bit of a niche within the already niche citrus scale which doesn't help.

I'd say rape, kidnapping, gore, toiletplay etc: are the most notable grapefruit kinkd I think of.

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7 points AssistBitter1732

what play

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16 points Th3G00dL4d

skibidisex

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3 points sample_text_01

brrr skibidi plap plap plap yes yes

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1 points Novel_Visual_4152

Fair

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3 points Mast3rKK78

i always thought lime was just fluff without any sexual stuff tbh

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18 points gamblingaddict8g

Code for lewds/explicit stuff in fanfics back in the day.

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3 points CardiologistNo616

Lemon was for straight up smut while lime was similar but less lewd

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59 points YourFat888

oh yeah? do your lemons and limes have an OC with gay panic so bad she almost keels over and dies?

and instead of confessing her to her crush she just yells "I'M GAY!" at her?
yeah I didn't think so

God my first fanfic was ass.

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15 points DontMindMe_J

We all got to start somewhere. For doing stuff we enjoy that is, I've never wrote much of any work based off a media I favored.

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6 points Sleepy_time_yippee

Respectfully, shut the fuck up, that sounds awesome, let me read

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9 points YourFat888

respectfully I wrote that

and because I'm so gracious I will provide a link to my first fanfic
would love to hear your thoughts <3

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5 points evilforska

The first fanfic id read as a kid was up on someones (who was obviously also a kid) blog and written so badly that even a 10 year old me just went "god this sucks but i dont know any better"

The second fanfic id read was also when i learned how gay people have sex

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1 points LordOfStupidy

That is Superior way of confessing fym

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1 points tyrongates

you gotta write cringe before you can write based

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6 points ArisePhoenix

What's lime, I know Lemon is just smut, but the hell is lime

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8 points TheUnownKing

Lime is just slightly less acidic lemon

So in this term line is just slightly less sexual than lemon

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9 points an_odd_child

I’m not even old and I remember it

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8 points AoeAbility

I've only heard of this being the case but to all people who say "who's we? there is no we.", I can confirm it was a thing back in the day.

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7 points kellhound24

i will always maintain that fluff and smut are WEAK terms used by WEAK writers. it should be called sugar and spice.

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5 points KiraWhite66

THEY DON'T SAY LEMON AND LIME ANYMORE?!

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3 points Former-Grocery-6787

I mean, authors still sometimes use it in my experience, i don't usually read lemon heavy fanfics tho

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2 points SilverFlight01

Y'know I wonder who decided to use citrus fruits for that scale

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2 points evilforska

I wasnt in the circles that used citrus scale, and i only ever encoutered the lemon thing and nothing else, instead we had movie ratings ranging from G to NC-17. I still use those out of habit. Also the concept of "hats", when before ao3 people posted fic on their blogs and used a unified standard describing title, genre, rating and summary. Dead dove fics were "NC-you can never be old enough for it".

Hey did anyone else caught the discourse whether gen-fic can also be slash or does slash inherently meant PG rating at least even if it was a total curtain fic, instead of G.

Hey does anyone remember "curtain fic"

God, Ao3 made everything so much easier.

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1 points Hold_Infamous

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I used to think I was young…

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1 points alexdiezg

LeMon James

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1 points NetAcceptable7679

u/SaveVideo

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1 points GatoxGalacticos0906

I remember when I was like 12 and a friend always talked about fics with those words and I asked her what it meant. I got scarred for life

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1 points inquisitor_steve1

So many wattpad stories are like this.

Also speaking of fruit I got flash banged by uncensored NSFW art in a Wattpad story (Curiosity stuck me again)

Also was scrolling for a story on Fanfiction .net and saw 2 characters partaking in coitus

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1 points mikeru78

I still remember the first that would put my 9 year old self on a watch list

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-6 points Theorist_Reddit

https://i.redd.it/dnhqs78x7u6g1.gif

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-4 points Theorist_Reddit

We? Who's we? There is no we.

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1 points Alt-Tabris

There is, you're just not cool enough to be included.

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1 points SpikesAreCooI

There is no Wii, there is only Mii, and U.

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