#grapefruit on citrus scale

[latent-thoughts]

Ravished by a God - Chapter 38

Summary: When a God decides to chase you, what do you do? You’re Tony Stark’s employee, living in the famed Stark Tower. One day, you get cornered by the notorious God of Mischief and have a very revealing experience about your own kinks. Hence begins your clandestine dance with Loki, who is all too keen to claim you as his and show you all the forbidden pleasures he has to offer.

However, your kinky dance with him is not the only concern you have. Something murky is brewing within SHIELD, and Tony Stark specifically wants you to find the root of it. What can a mere human do when caught between superheroes, gods and a deviant government? You’re about to find out.

[WARNING: This work contains NSFW explicit and taboo sexual themes like noncon/dubcon, BDSM, spanking, etc. It is strictly 18+. Reader discretion is advised. Consume your media wisely.]

Pairing: Loki/Reader

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[sourfacedlemon]

"in another time, in another place"

Gifted to me for the Consent Issues Exchange 2024!

Spite appears at Emmrich's door, overcome with a mysterious affliction.

Rating: Explicit

Archive Warning: Rape/Non-Con

Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Relationships: Lucanis Dellamorte/Spite/Emmrich Volkarin, Spite/Emmrich Volkarin

Additional Tags: Consent Issues, Hand Jobs, Sex Pollen, (more or less)

Words: 1,725

Collections: Consent Issues Exchange 2024

[skizz-that-man]

i've been scrolling through your page like wow ✨ then i realized you were kranich and i was like WOW ✨ and suddenly all the gem and skizz posting made so much sense !

your fics switched the flip in my brain to reaaaally look st their interactions differently, i’m a huge fan :-)

:D thank you so much for the compliments! gem and skizz are a great ship to play around with so I keep coming back to them. they fill a niche for me of this power imbalance that my other ships don't quite offer in the same way and it's so fun to make it play out in various scenarios

and it's an incredibly honor to get someone into a ship, it's so nice to hear that I did that for you!!

[hella-spicy]

Naruto can’t form words at this point, moaning brokenly as the dog uses him like a toy. Kakashi’s knot begins catching on his abused ring, and the filthy pop of it slipping in and out of his bitch’s ass fills the room. The sound and sensation of fucking the boy with his knot pushes him over the edge, and the dog slams his hips forward to force the knot as deep as possible, tying them together as Kakashi unloads in the boy’s ass.

[dee-daa]

i think we should start using the citrus scale again

[olddirtybadfic]

my faves when they try to break the fourth wall in my e rated slashfic

[fruity-edge-chase]

Admin's pinned post on how my version of the Citrus Scale works:

Tangerine: completely clothed, sfw gen tag stuff on Ao3 style. Handholding tier.

Lime: Still innocent, but there are Implications, like hickies. It's the T tag on Ao3. There is leeway on this tag.

Orange: heavily suggestive, like making out, usually the M tag on Ao3, but there is some leeway here.

Lemon: Full, usually artistic, nudity goes in this tag.

Grapefruit: that kinky stuff. Will not show up much here.

*Attendum: i will also tag characters and their ships!

**Attendum 2: any partial nudity is an automatic Orange on the citrus scale!

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Word List: Honey

beautiful words with "honey" to sweeten your next poem/story

Honeybee - a honey-producing bee (genus Apis of the family Apidae)

Honeybell - a citrus fruit that is a hybrid between a tangerine and a grapefruit and that has a reddish orange rind and orange pulp and a prominent, rounded neck giving it a bell-shaped appearance; also called Minneola tangelo

Honeyberry - the fruit of either of two trees having sweetish berries: an Old World hackberry (Celtis australis), or genip

Honeyblob - gooseberry

Honeycomb - to penetrate into every part; subvert, weaken

Honeycreeper - any of numerous small bright-colored oscine birds (especially genera Cyanerpes and Chlorophanes) of tropical America; also: any of a family (Drepanididae) of often colorful oscine birds found only in Hawaii

Honeycup - sensitive pea

Honeydew - a saccharine deposit secreted on the leaves of plants usually by aphids or scale insects or sometimes by a fungus; also: a pale smooth-skinned winter melon with sweet greenish flesh

Honeydrop - a drop of honey or something like a drop of honey in sweetness

Honeyeater - any of a family (Meliphagidae) of oscine birds chiefly of the South Pacific that have a long extensible tongue adapted for extracting nectar and small insects from flowers

Honeyflow - a supply or period of availability of floral nectar suitable for bees to convert into honey

Honeyguide - any of a family (Indicatoridae) of small plainly colored nonpasserine birds that inhabit Africa, the Himalayas, and the East Indies and that include some which lead people or animals to the nests of bees

Honeying - to speak ingratiatingly; to flatter

Honeyless - lacking honey

Honeymoon - a period of unusual harmony especially following the establishment of a new relationship

Honeymouthed - sweet or cajoling in speech

Honeymyrtle - an Australian tree of the genus Melaleuca

Honeypot - one that is attractive or desirable; a substantial source of money

Honeysuckle - any of various plants with tubular flowers rich in nectar

Honeyvine - sand vine

Honeywood - a Tasmanian shrub (Bedfordia salicina) of the family Compositae having white foliage and heads of yellow flowers

If any of these words make their way into your next poem/story, please tag me, or leave a link in the replies. I would love to read them!

More: Word Lists

[latent-thoughts]

Ravished by a God - Chapter 40

Summary: When a God decides to chase you, what do you do? You’re Tony Stark’s employee, living in the famed Stark Tower. One day, you get cornered by the notorious God of Mischief and have a very revealing experience about your own kinks. Hence begins your clandestine dance with Loki, who is all too keen to claim you as his and show you all the forbidden pleasures he has to offer.

However, your kinky dance with him is not the only concern you have. Something murky is brewing within SHIELD, and Tony Stark specifically wants you to find the root of it. What can a mere human do when caught between superheroes, gods and a deviant government? You’re about to find out.

[WARNING: This work contains NSFW explicit and taboo sexual themes like noncon/dubcon, BDSM, spanking, etc. It is strictly 18+. Reader discretion is advised. Consume your media wisely.]

Pairing: Loki/Reader (F)

The doors opened and closed with a loud thud, welcoming in whoever had knocked. From what you could hear, it was only a single individual.

“Greetings, sire, am I disturbing you?” a feminine voice asked after a moment of silence—likely because this person was bowing to Loki first, before speaking.

“Greetings, Lady Gefjon. Not at all,” he replied cheerfully. Too cheerfully. “How fares the fairest of my mother’s handmaidens?”

A giggle resounded in the room, clearly in response to his words. You scowled, then bit his inner thigh, making him jump slightly. His hand tried to push you away, but you bit his fingers too.

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[sourfacedlemon]

"sticky sweet stuck in your teeth" 🔒

Written for tabitabipo for the Parental Discretion 2024 Flash Exchange!

Rating: Explicit

Archive Warning: Rape/Non-Con

Category: M/M

Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types

Relationships: Feral/Darth Maul

Additional Tags: Twincest, Sibling Incest, Extremely Dubious Consent, Consent Issues, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Drunk Sex, whatever the tag is for taking advantage of a drunk person, Unhealthy Relationships, Rape/Non-con Elements, Past Rape/Non-con, Nightbrother Maul, Non-Traditional Knotting, Background Feral/Savage Opress, Background Darth Maul/Savage Opress, Biting, Blood and Violence, Dead Dove: Do Not Eat

Words: 1540

Collections: Parental Discretion FLASH [Jan 2024]

[duckprintspress]

Fandom 101: The Origin of the Citrus Scale

A guest post by Aeryn Jemariel Knox. (@jemariel)

Ah, the citrus scale. It’s like a cryptid roaming the edges of modern fandom communities. Long-tenured veterans speak of it with affectionate mockery while newcomers google curiously. A relic from a bygone fandom era, the citrus scale saw a brief resurgence in 2018 during the Tumblr porn ban, suggested as a way to avoid the new bot censors trawling for posts with the NSFW tag—though never, I think, in seriousness. 

That may have been jocular and short-lived, but it does point to the reasons why the citrus scale was created in the first place. Certain fandom activities have always had to fly under the radar to one degree or another. Whether you’re trying to evade legal action or simply avoid deletion based on explicit content, a certain level of obfuscation is sometimes worthwhile.

It’s not hard to find the generally agreed-upon definitions of the citrus scale’s levels. According to Fanlore, KnowYourMeme, and others, this is more or less the “official” citrus scale:

Orange: Light stuff, kissing, nothing below the waist or under the clothes. 

Lime: Groping, implied sex without details, fade-to-black, no intercourse or intimate contact.

Lemon: Sex, in full detailed glory. Woo-hoo! Regardless of the actual acts performed, if you can tell who had an orgasm (or, perhaps, had an orgasm denied), how, and where, it’s a lemon.

Grapefruit: We’ll get into this later.

But these tidy categories are clear thanks to the benefit of hindsight. In the Wild West of the early internet, it was not so easy to pin down exactly what you might be getting into based on which term was used.

At its origin, the citrus scale wasn’t a scale at all. It has its roots in hentai (and was always more popular in anime fandoms), stemming from a specific early hentai film by the title of Cream Lemon (1984). Hentai being what it is, this led to certain subculture communities referring to any story with explicit sexual content as a “Lemon.” And for a while, that was the extent of it. Then came fanfiction.net purging explicit content (2002), Livejournal suffering Strikethru (2007), and other events that pushed burgeoning fandom communities out of their growing hubs and back into smaller, isolated communities centered on a single fandom or pairing. In the relatively sparse early ’00’s internet, anybody could spin up an Angelfire website, pass the link around to their friends, and get a reasonable amount of traffic.  Websites devoted to the works of a single author or small group were common.

I mention this to describe the landscape in which fandom lexicons grew and evolved in the early-mid 2000s. Each pocket community had its own rules, lingo, and expectations; venturing outside of your home pocket could lead to some pretty major miscommunications. 

“Lemon” was established early and its definition has hardly shifted. It means that the labeled content (art, fic, mood board, etc.) includes sex. Intercourse, bumping uglies, etc. However, some yaoi fandom niches used it specifically to mean gay sex of the male variety. In some communities, “lime” developed as a corresponding term for feminine gay sex, while other communities brought it up with the usage that eventually “stuck,” “not quite a lemon.” Given that lemon and lime often go hand in hand when discussing actual flavors, the fact that we had some divergent term evolution is not surprising. But coming in from a different pocket of fandom and seeing “lime,” thinking you’ll be reading semi-softcore sexual tension and instead being confronted with graphic sapphic antics? Bit of a shock, I’m sure.

A more dramatic example is the rating level of “Grapefruit,” which occupies two completely different ends of the scale. In some circles, grapefruit was defined as “less intense than lime,” G or PG-rated stories that were more soft or cute than sexy. In other circles, it was used to mean the exact opposite. Kinkier than kink, smuttier than smut, grapefruit art and fic was where you went to have your eyebrows singed off. Some communities were even more specific, using grapefruit for stories featuring non-consensual sex. This was where darkfic lived – in modern day parlance, your “Dead Dove, Do Not Eat” works. To say that this usage difference caused some disagreements would be putting it mildly.

Nobody really worried about orange. Orange just existed, not bothering anybody.

When these terms were coined, the internet was not an assumed aspect of everybody’s daily life the way it is today. There was no Tumblr, no Facebook, no social media to speak of. There were no large repositories of internet lore and knowledge such as Urban Dictionary or KnowYourMeme. It was a playground. And what do you do on a playground? You make friends! The citrus scale, like so many fandom tropes and concepts, was defined by groups of friends that created them ad hoc to meet their own needs at the time. No one could have predicted that it would become so much a fandom history that it’d be enshrined, nor that I would be writing a blog post about it two decades later. From the common source of lemon, people extrapolated what the rest of the scale might look like, and there was no authority to tell them they were wrong. (Except other fans. That hasn’t changed.)

In conclusion, it’s best not to take the citrus scale too seriously. At best, it’s a cheeky way to avoid censors who try to bar a community from engaging with explicit works, but it’s also varied to a fault and open to interpretation. If you and your community have come up with a use for it that suits your needs, then congratulations: you’re part of a fandom tradition stretching back to the roots of the internet. Just don’t try and tell anybody else that they’re wrong. You might start a flame war.

References:

Prokopetz: Orange and Grapefruit

She’s Got Plans: What is the Citrus Scale in Fanfiction?

Unwinnable: Lemon and Lime

Past Fandom 101 Posts:

Everything About A/B/O Dynamics You Wanted to Know (but were Afraid to Ask)

How to Diversify Your To-Be-Read Pile

Recognizing AI Generated Images, Danmei Edition

[hella-spicy]

She moaned again, having trouble forming coherent thoughts through the intense sensations. But it... somehow made sense, didn't it? She might as well be his, after all, she was his daughter, his special little girl… and he loved her so dearly… It only made sense to find herself impaled by his massive cock, feeling it pulse and throb inside her womb, filling it completely. - Blitzø/Loona

Fic Rec👹

[the-bar-sinister]

Fandom old! Help me understand 'the citrus scale.' What are 'limes' and 'grapefruits?'

Oh this is such a fascinating question!

ALRIGHT 👏

The first thing that you have to understand is that "the citrus scale" was never an official list of terms. There was no widely used ranked list of what citrus fruit to call something with what content.

"Lemon" was a widely used term in the anime fandom (and later other fandoms) to indicate that a fic had explicit sexual content.

Because the term "lemon" was in popular usage, some people then started riffing/meme-ing/extrapolating on that and using the term "Lime" to refer to fics that were kind of racy or erotic but not explicitly sexual. This term was never as widely used as "Lemon", and there are lots of people from the era who never saw it used.

Other citrus fruits were occasionally used to describe fics, mostly in a joking way, or in a way that was specific to the fandom or fan-group of origin, as a kind of in-jokey term. So "orange" might have a certain connotation in one group, but mean something different in another.

"Grapefuit" I have heard in modern day as having been used to describe *kinky* or weirdly sexual fic but I read a lot of anime and hentai fic back in the day but never saw it used myself.

Fanlore has a pretty decent article about the history and discussion of the term if you're interested in digging into it a little more.

[dehydrated-for-donghae]

Masterlist

GIFset here

all fics are now cross-posted on ao3

I write Super Junior x female reader, usually in second person.

I'm pretending it's 2009 again and we're using the citrus scale:

🍊: SFW | 🍋‍🟩: M | 🍋: NSFW | 🍇: NSFW+ there is no grapefruit emoji so we improvise

🍤: porn without plot | 📖: storytime | 🐑: fluff | 💢: angst

Stand Alone Fics

Lilacs (Donghae)🍊🐑 Only You (Donghae) 📖 part one 🍋‍🟩 | part two

Series

First Kisses with Super Junior 📖

Leeteuk 🍊🐑 | Heechul | Yesung 🍋‍🟩💢🐑💍| Shindong | Eunhyuk | Siwon | Donghae | Kyuhyun

Blind Dates 📖

Leeteuk | Heechul | Yesung | Shindong | Eunhyuk | Siwon | Donghae | Kyuhyun

Submissive Super Junior 🍋🍤

Anniversary (Donghae) 🍋 Jesus on a Leash (Siwon) 🍇

Super Junior Reverse Harem 🍋🍤

Massage Rock, Paper, Scissors

NSFW Alphabets 🍋🍤

Eunhyuk Donghae 🍋🐑

HEADCANONS

Aftercare with Super Junior Breaking Up with Super Junior Calling Them "Oppa" for the First Time Cooking with Super Junior 🐑 Dirty Talk with Super Junior 🍋 Dominating Super Junior Dry Humping with Super Junior Getting Bred by Super Junior Pet Names with Super Junior 🍋‍🟩/🍋 Spanking with Super Junior 🍋 Spanking Super Junior Spitting with Super Junior 🍋 Submitting to Super Junior Super Junior in Panties Talking Dirty with Super Junior 🍋

GIFset here

[thirstkanaphan]

https://www.tumblr.com/thirstkanaphan/784012812378849280/raise-your-hand-if-you-got-this-reference

I don’t get it 😭 hELP

noooo my dear anon, you're making me feel ancient!

Back in the olden days of fandom, if you wrote fic (especially on ff.net) you rated the smut level on the "citrus scale."

Lime: PG13

Lemon: Rated-R

I have never in my 15+ years of reading fic heard of a grapefruit rating

Here's some fun (and tragic) fandom lore

[citruswriter]

Hello and welcome to my writing blog!

I like to write. So uh, I'm gonna write. Yk, when I have the motivation. ANYWAYS-

Name: Lofi/Tavern

Age: Chrono young 20s (I'm secretly a primordial entity tho, obvi 💅)

Pronouns: They/Them, Thou/Thee, Ech/Echo, Bee/Bees & Fae/Faer

Honorifics: Vs, Sai, Mir, Miss (playfully), Ma'am (formal/if close)

Terms: Feminine, Masculine, Neutral, Nonhuman

Relationship Status: Single and Not Looking and Queerplatonically Taken x3!

Extras: Multireligous, Objectum, Fictospec, Queer, etc.

Divider Credit

My Omegaverse Ranks

Used your artwork and you want me to remove it/credit you? Send me a message and lmk!

Citrus Scale: The Levels and What They Mean

Orange 🧡 - General Writings. So this would be fluff, angst, comfort, and similar.

Lime 💚 - Slight spice but not flat out nsfw. Heavy make out, sexual tension, maybe some milder things like grinding or choking.

Lemon 💛 - The filth and sin. Full blown tango. Actually nsfw. Le sex. General kinks added in as well.

Grapefruit 🩷 - A rarer ranking not often used to be alluded to darker things. Such as yandere, Stockholm Syndrome, gRape, murder, body mutilation, etc. Usually sexual or has sexual themes but not always.

Fandoms I Write For

Baldur's Gate Three

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Hazbin Hotel

Creepypasta

Hetalia

Star Wars

Hogwarts

MeChat

Melanie Martinez/Crybaby

Anyways I think that's it. Send in those requests!