This is also a poll on your LBT fan fiction, do you think yours is light or dark.
If it comes to LBT stories I do think that they can be improved if they include some degree of "dark" matters. [...] It is a thin line though that separates LBT stories with an LBT like degree of dark elements (e.g. the Pterano incidence, the death of Littlefoot's mother, the (rather lighthearted) execution of sharpteeth in LBT 6 etc.) from stories featuring LBT characters combined with a degree of violence and brutality that turns the story into a very different genre.
There is not (and never will be) an agreement where exactly that line between a "proper" and an "improper" degree of dark stuff in LBT stories is running. This always depends on the minds of authors and readers. There are just a few things which we can be quite sure would not have been in any LBT movie
This is Malte's quote on light and dark themes in writing.
What exactly is do YOU feel is too "dark" for LBT fan fiction?
I personally think
Out of the Shadows is one of the best dark fics I have read. Obviously, Mr. Grosvenor is not gonna make a movie out of that (as much as I would like that fic bought to life on the screen).
And even my own fic; I don't think it's a dark fic as there are a few comedic moments but they are tempered with a atmosphere of high tension and some violent and dark scenes (the beating, then execution of 2 dinosaurs in Chapter 7 is a good example).