Well, that's not good...

[przed]

I just got an email from someone about one of my Wild Wild West stories. And not in a good way.

The main reason I love writing Wild Wild West is that I get to indulge my love of historical research. I usually find something interesting that happened somewhere between 1860 and 1875, research it to death, throw Jim, Artie and sex into the mix and watch what happens.

Problem is, someone just found my WWW Civil War story when they were Googling the real event it's based on. I'm sure James West and Artemus Gordon having sex wasn't quite what they were expecting.

So now I'm not sure what to do. Search and replace the names of historical figures in all my WWW stories? Add pop-up disclaimers to all stories? Say fuck it and let the chips fall where they may? (I'm tired enough at the moment that the last alternative is looking the most attractive, but I'll problem look to come up with some way of covering my ass sometime in the future.)

Comments

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

Do you have a disclaimer at the top of the story? That's what I do with all my fic. It's the first thing people see in the file.

I had something similar happen once with someone googling on 'saccharine' which happened to be a word I'd used in a smutty story, but I figured since it said very plainly at the top of the page when it loaded that it was a smut story featuring men having sex, that if they went ahead and read it anyway, then they deserved whatever discomfort they got from reading it, because it was there and they ignored it.

[przed.livejournal.com]

I've got a disclaimer on the main page, but not the story. I think that's about to change. Or at least it will when I've got the energy add disclaimers to all my stories. Starting with the WWW ones.