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  1. You all redecorated… Hope everyone is doing okay. x
    6 points
  2. 21 years for me, as of May this year.
    5 points
  3. One of our members, Sessakag, has had the unfortunate experience of finding their story posted without permission on this site: https://www.patreon.com/WhatIfFanfics/collections. The stories that have been used are largely in the Naruto fandom, although there are some crossovers as well. The worst part? It's behind a paywall. That's right--this plagiarist expects you to pay $10 to listen a story published by the actual author for free right here on AFF. See, that's the plagiarist's hook. These are AUDIO copies. Now, mind you, this plagiarist had their YouTube account suspended, most likely for the very same thing, but they don't seem able to learn their lesson. If your story has been stolen, Patreon wants you to reach out to the "creator" on Patreon and ask them to be nice and take it down. If that doesn't work, they also suggest filing a DMCA takedown notice (https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/208377833). The catch is that you need a Patreon account to report the stolen content. However, the more times this thief is reported, the more likely it is that Patreon will be forced to take action. I want to send a huge thank you to Sessakag for reporting this to us. Even if AFF can't tell Patreon how to run their site, we can be proud of our members, who respect the hard work put into creating the fan fictions we all enjoy. UPDATE: Patreon responded quickly to the DMCA request from Sessakag, and removed the story from the Patreon page, although the account hasn't been suspended. If you too have been a victim, please go and file that DMCA takedown notice with Patreon! ANOTHER UPDATE: It seems there are now YouTube videos where this person reads a story aloud, so they haven’t learned their lesson from the first YouTube suspension. If your story was used here, please report it and file a DMCA takedown request.
    5 points
  4. So uh, manager got axed but she decided to deadman’s switch and nuke alot of other...enjoyers of group extracurricular activities by sending evidence to HQ directly…. And I knew none of this and walked straight into the aftermath of the hidenburg. There’s burning bridges… And then there’s nuking the thing. So the fallout has yet to be determined but on the other hand kinda have to respect going out on your own terms via nuclear fission.
    5 points
  5. SSL maintenance has been done on the archives. Still working on bug fixes, the day job has been a nightmare.
    5 points
  6. Wishing the very happiest of birthdays to my dear pippychick, with love and hugs!
    5 points
  7. Typos happen with me, just a fact of my existence. English is my second language, I think I amble fairly well in it.
    5 points
  8. I had a mini break alone last week. I had dinner at a fancy Italian restaurant. Everyone around me was eating fancy meals with glasses of wine and champagne that they were clinking together. I had pizza, mousse for dessert and a mug of hot chocolate. I’m a takeaway and fast food joint kind of guy. These are not my people.
    5 points
  9. Waiting for my new eyes to arrive. Have both site and forum updates / bug fixes to do but need to see clearly first.
    5 points
  10. Oh that’s much less impressive so its not even AI its a copypaste machine.
    5 points
  11. I’ve gotten unsolicited requests that try to push me into writing for fandoms that I know nothing about. Guess that’s my hard stop for writing, along with the desire to finish what I’ve already started. And TBH, if I had fallen into the potter universe today, it’s unlikely that I’d even delve into fanfiction.
    4 points
  12. Reminds me of an ancient joke I heard when I was a mere lad. A young woman comes into an embroidery shop and asks the proprietor if they can do custom work on something delicate. Asked what she means, she pulls a pair of nylons* out and says, “Up here at the top where it’s reinforced for the garter.” Examining it, the owner says, “It’s kind of touchy but I think we could manage it. What do you want it to say?” “Something I saw on the back of a truck, ‘If you can read this you’re too close.’” “Okay, would you like that in Roman or perhaps script lettering?” “Braille.” *I said it was ancient.
    4 points
  13. How thoughtful that spammers are self-reporting themselves in the “Trolls/Flamers/Spammers” section of the forums… sigh. Can we hang/draw/quarter them?
    4 points
  14. I made 14 years as of October 2023.
    4 points
  15. It turned to 13 years for me, in January. And some five or six years that I’ve been serving as your inept forum moderator
    4 points
  16. I stumbled into this, and realized… come April 5th, it’ll be a decade for me. (Yes, I found the registration confirmation email in my inbox.)
    4 points
  17. I would say so personally. I mean, most characters are the gender they are for a reason. Particularly if the character has appeared on screen, like most of mine have. So I prefer to create an OC rather than gender bend a character. Or I just shift the sexuality of the character. More than a few of the female characters I write about have intense relationships with other women. Though most of them aren’t explicitly lesbians. So occasionally I just give them a broader sexuality, usually bisexual.
    4 points
  18. pittwitch

    I’m ALIVE!

    I’m ALIVE!
    4 points
  19. There’s a lot of bad news out there these days. So I’ve decided that every day for the next week, I’ll post one piece of good news. To decrease summer heat and improve air quality, New York City’s city council has decided to up NYC’s tree canopy coverage from 22% to 30%. A lidar-based mapping system will be used to identify places where the new trees would do the most good. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/30/new-york-city-tree-planting-lidar-mapping
    4 points
  20. The problem I’ve noticed, is even when a user white lists our mail server, we STILL get marked as spam. Not always, but often enough for it to be an ongoing issue.
    4 points
  21. I’ll redirect your attention to the fact you got a review!
    4 points
  22. The VPN kick is intentional, the hackers we were dealing with kept using VPNs to bypass the site security and wreck havoc on the archives.
    4 points
  23. As the wheel turns and the veil thins, we honor those who came before. The blessings of Samhain to all! 🌖
    4 points
  24. “It’s a foolproof plan.”
    4 points
  25. My plot bunnies are so fecund that I have to limit myself to having no more than twenty stories in progress at a time.
    4 points
  26. While my husband fed the cats a moment ago, I squirted the younger one’s liquid medicine down his throat. Woozle, the little shit, let half the dose drip out of his mouth and roll down my shirt and shorts. I grumbled about it—because that medicine stains, turns into tar, and smells like rotten fish a roadkill—and what did Cold say? ”Well. Pussy likes to dribble.” I married this clown. I married him. (He’s not wrong, though.)
    4 points
  27. Hmm….Halloween story, where the happy ending is the tragic ending. Not sure how to pull that off in the original universe I tend to write in.
    4 points
  28. A lot of my stories are primarily erotica, so “happy endings” are par for the course. Seriously, my endings tend to be predictable. If the story has a tragic storyline, then it probably has a tragic ending. If it’s a happy storyline, happy ending. Although if it’s a Halloween story, all bets are off.
    4 points
  29. Wilde_Guess

    Title Help

    Hi, GeorgeGlass. By itself, no. While the spaceships from the Star Trek universe keep Captain’s and Ship’s Logs, other ships of notable size also keep Ship’s Logs, and the ship’s Captain might also keep a “Captain’s Log” or journal/diary of personal observations he or she doesn’t wish to keep in the main ship’s log. Seeing the erotica/pornographic bent of this site, I would also assume that the “Captain” just might be well-endowed (or tragically not endowed,) and was (at least trying) to get “busy.” Cheers!
    4 points
  30. Finally can got to a point where I can think of my book again. I decided to pause in the rewrite and start the 2nd one. Since by being further down the road I know what happens and can foreshadow things in book 1 better. We’ll see if I went supercrazybonkers or that it works.
    4 points
  31. There are a number of us that write original fiction and post it at https://original.adult-fanfiction.org in case some you have non fanfiction stuff you want to post.
    4 points
  32. The procrastination station has returned. We have a chatbox zone again in the forums.
    4 points
  33. The happiest of birthdays to the amazing @Melrick! I’m still trying to find a way to ship you some of that Key Lime pie…
    4 points
  34. Technology is certainly progressing faster rate now than it did. I think if nothing else there should be a discussion to the powers that be if only to prevent someone from spamming ai-gen stories. Only cause I know at least someone will do that.
    4 points
  35. Doing a poll is generally only a good idea if you expect a representative part of the target audience to answer. Even worse you with low response rates don’t know if the same people or even the same kind of people are answering the polls. If you can setup a patron scheme then it makes sense to doing polls, but outside that I cannot imagine that it will work with AFF like stories or fan fics in general.
    4 points
  36. Technically, I just passed my first year on AFFnet at the moment. I believe I had an account before that, but I didn’t use it or post anything. At least that I can remember anyway.
    3 points
  37. I have a sneaking suspicion, that people aren't leaving reviews, because they don't know what they should say in them. It's something that I asked myself about, when I wanted to leave a review on a story I enjoyed. I didn't want to just say 'good job', and I also wanted to avoid saying 'this is bad' or 'good', without being as objective as I could be. So, I sat down and thought about what things a reader and writer of fan-fiction, might want to know or should know, about a fan-fic. With this in mind, I wrote down a list of things that I may or may not put in a review, depending on whether or not I think it should be said. This is the list that I now use, when writing a review. --- Was this story good or bad overall? Could you recommend the story? Give at least a vague reason or example as to why, it was good or bad for you. Do the characters have, for the most part, 'clear' and 'reasonable' motivations that drive them to do what they are doing? If motives are in doubt, can you offer improvements to the motives of their characters? Is the story too, out of place, to be believable in the 'cannon' of that 'universe'? If it does feel out of place, can you offer an improvement, so the story doesn't feel out of line with the 'cannon' of that 'universe'? How is the wording and spelling? Is it difficult or easy to read through? If it is difficult to read through, can you offer a suggestion as to how the writer can improve on those? Does the story's title, description and tags, give the reader a clear idea of what the story may be about, without, spoiling the story? Can you offer advice on how to make these more clear, without, spoiling the story? What else, if anything, do you want the readers and/or the writer to know, about this story? --- These are of course, things that I felt would be important in a review, for both a reader and writer. I think this would be a good template for those who are looking to give an 'objective' review, but don't know where to start. Of course I'm always eager to hear other's thoughts and perspectives on the matter, and on the template I now use.
    3 points
  38. Good news, day 6: A 2,100-year-old tomb with hundreds of relics was just unearthed in China. It is the oldest and largest archeological find in the Wulong District in Chongqing. https://themessenger.com/news/archaeologists-open-tomb-china-hidden-treasures-first-time
    3 points
  39. I use profanity frequently in sex scenes, for two reasons: --My sex scenes are more often about lust than love. --I’m a great devotee of dirty talk in sex scenes. On the second point, though, my friend and beta Jomahawk recently gave me some sage advice: If one or both of the characters are capable of speaking full, uninterrupted sentences during sex, it suggests that they aren’t having that good a time. So now I try to be mindful of that.
    3 points
  40. That’s the sad truth, isn’t it? “Take this position for minimum wage, and we’ll move you up when there’s an opening.” But the opening never comes, or the manager’s kid gets tapped for it, and you get stuck at minimum wage, doing the work of two people because the manager’s kid isn’t actually going to do anything. Or you look at job listings, and they want five or more years experience for an entry level position that was advertised as no experience required. (My Elderspawn is beating their head against that wall at present.) And writing? If you’re talking fiction writing, the generally accepted wisdom is that most writers need a day job to pay the bills. You’ll never make a living as a writer of fiction unless you get very, very lucky. What you’re likely to find is those situation you referenced: Write us a few pieces for free, and we’ll get you a post where you get paid. Possibly. Unless we can figure out a way to get you to keep writing for free…
    3 points
  41. Why not have her call him a little virgin?
    3 points
  42. @BronxWench, thank you so freaking much! I’m FINALLY logged back into my account! I can finally update my stories here. Thanks for your patience and determination. 💜 Give the grumpy corgi a chin scritch for us. (“Us” being myself, and my kitties Woozle and Heiferlump.)
    3 points
  43. On this archive (or AO3), always, always list trigger tags. While yes it’s technically a spoiler, you don’t want to surprise your readers with a “surprise” rape scene or something.
    3 points
  44. Yes, either via immortality or some kind of endless loop. Or it’s clear that the nightmarish quality of the ending is not static and is going to get measurably worse over time, and there’s nothing the MC can do to stop it. I, um, did that too. (sorry Abbe)
    3 points
  45. I think it depends whether you’re reading straight up porn or erotica, since erotic writing is more character driven, and that tends to be what I want from my fanfiction, when I consume it. In any case it’s extremely rare to see multiple orgasms written well, but that’s just my opinion. I’m not sure you’re asking the right question. If I’m answering this as a reader, and you’re the author, I’m countering with: how did you hook me into your story? Was it the promise of porn/sexual gratification, or something more? Did you make me curious about the consequences/aftermath or make me want more? Because those things are the job of the author. If you hook me right, I will read it.
    3 points
  46. It depends on genre mostly. I like endings where the character breaks even or if they’re doomed they at least helped turned the tide in some small manner even if its just that they gave hope no matter how small or fling a light into a darkened future. Hope is fickle like that but like a stubborn ember hope is so very resilient just when you think you’ve snuffed it out. Some stories there can be no happy ending. Like in dark settings. That said, I hate tragic endings and try to avoid them even if the characters themselves don’t see it. ( I think that might be part of reading so much greek tragedies in high-school)
    3 points
  47. I usually have enough sex in my stories that having some variety might be good. (Though yes, usually it’s hands-on).
    3 points
  48. GeorgeGlass

    sex toys in stories

    I'm not always big on using sex toys in stories (I tend to prefer the "hands-on" approach). But if the story is set in a world with magic or advanced technology, I sometimes feel that I'm wasting an opportunity if I DON'T include at least one special toy.
    3 points
  49. Well, the, that makes it a bit easier. Cobblefic is plagiarism, and plagiarism is not permitted here.
    3 points
  50. Oh, trust me, the spamming part will get them banned. Fast.
    3 points
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