narva | Rating Guide

The ratings for the Eastern Europe Santa Exchange will be the following (listed under each point is what can be part of art/fic this rating group and higher):

A (all ages): No violence/threatening/frightening content, sexual themes and nudity only in very limited amounts (f.ex. chaste kisses and non-sexual/sexualized nudity)
7 (ages 7 and up): Dark/frigthening themes (that may not be pervasive/last too long), off-screen sex scenes
11 (ages 11 and up): Moderate violence in a reasonable context, violence when used in slap-stick or other exaggerated contexts, coarse language, mild/non-descriptive sex scenes; nudity; moderate drug use (includes alcohl, smoking, etc); suicide scenes and attempts that don't glorify or encourage a similar behaviour
15 (ages 15 and up): Realistic portrayals of violence and sex; psychological terror; infrequent acts of strong violence which may be bloody; strong drug (ab)use (this includes alcohol, smoking, etc); strong sex scenes; glorification of suicide; murder; abuse (verbal and physical; if on screen, it may not be sexual); a pervasive gloomy/threatening mood; issues that clearly belong into the adult world; disasters
18 (adults only): Combinations of sex and violence; sexual violence; bdsm/degrading sex acts; serious acts of violence; violence depicted in a cold and cynical mood; centers around gory violence/excessive violence; centers around sex (porn); explicit drug use; hateful ideologically charged narration/characterization

[aka using the Norwegian movie rating system
Please keep in mind that "hetero" or "homo" does not impact the rating.]

The most important differences to the American system that for example FF.net uses is that

language has much less impact on the rating ("coarse" mostly means degrading, offensive, gross or very strong language (language that carries certain attitude that may influence the child's worldview), not necessarily neutral curses - think the difference between "damn" and ethnic/misogynist/etc slurs).
fully consensual sexual content/nudity is permitted to a much higher degree
violence (including verbal and sexual violence) impacts the rating more strongly
there is a difference between nudity that sexualizes/objectifies the person and normal nudity

This can change the rating of a movie from PG to 15 or from NC-17 to 11 when American movies are adapted for the Norwegian market, and thus your fanwork may be rated a bit differently from what you are used to here.

Please keep in mind that the following content is not permitted for this exchange:

Pedophilia (children 14 and under in sexual situations).
Rape portrayed in a manner that glorifies it.