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Sooo tired of thinking up names for characters. Time to start writing with variables instead. AFF, I am pleased to introduce you to the new stars of my stories: X, Y, and Z.

I wrote fanfiction before I even knew it was a thing. I was huge into the Star Wars novels and, naturally, as all kids do at some point, wrote Mary Sue self insert stories. Mostly in the Young Jedi Knights era and Old Republic when that game came out. But in the beginning, when the world was unformed, before cell phones could go on the internet but after Personal Computers became primarily for web browsing (so 2006ish) I found that there were whole communities of people who also indulged in this hobby. I actually found AFF before regular FanFiction, but I considered quality on this sight substantially superior to FF, which I don’t suspect is moderated. Harry Potter dominated the fan fiction circuit at the time and I found an OG known as Ms Figg (RIP) who wrote amazing stories that made me realize how good fanfiction could actually be. It helped that AFF has an easy to navigate and well maintained forum, which I would visit from time to time. I didn’t sign up and start creating content until a few years ago when I saw all the challenges that weren’t getting taken and decided to try my hand at writing, figuring it would be good practice for becoming an actual novelist. Turns out smut fics are a lot easier to write than cleaner stories because they typically have a lemon that is the meat and potatoes of the story and everything is support, so there’s not really a holistic outlook in reading or writing them and they can be serialized easily.

I so loved the Figg’s stories too! She is sorely missed.

I didn’t sign up until I had an original I wanted to post w/o stripping it of the adult material. I was content with some toning down for a different site, but the originals, no, I didn’t want that. When I found out that AFF allowed originals, I signed up. Depending on the extent, a story with some smut elements can be watered down a bit, made passable w/o ruining the story, or at least the effect. However, other stories...I’ve got one that starts out at a nudist colony, that’s not being watered down w/o putting clothes on them all, which would change the flavor of what I was going for.

I’d have to say this would have to be a must if you got two parties going. From what I’m seeing the smaller hidden party is playing hard for the endgame. The cusp of victory is that sweet spot where everyone isn’t at their best guard after all. Victory is in your grasp the goal is practically touching. Focusing too much on the impending victory. Main party should have some distrust. As in why are certain things happening that only the party planned together unfolding? I think the hardest part would be the hints that the smaller party isn’t as dead as everyone thinks. I mean did people actually see the bodies? The smaller party would be going off the plans the party made before they got separated.

MrsFigg was amazing, and very much missed, but I’m glad to think she inspired people to write fan fiction.

I’ve not heard anything about an SQL injection. If there was one, the hosting company would have informed me of such. They’re very good about that, and do monitor

It’ll be even worse than that for the main party In my smut version, I’m planning on a curse they’ll have to deal with. (Yes, it’s a fandom with magic, I’m just trying to keep it sufficiently nebulous here so that on the off-chance a reader is reading this post...spoilers and all.) Small party’s influence will be more of unexplained events from the perspective of the main party; the main *won’t* be looking for the small party, because of how convinced everybody else will be of the small party’s demise. (ie, I’m splitting hairs with how a canon device works, and the interactions of another character with said device; such that everybody sees the small party come into contact and assume “dead”, which is why I might need to portray some of the small party’s happenings before the story climax.) At a certain points in the story, the small party’s actions will even lead the main party to believe they have a spy among their midst as the main party gets whittled away and things “leaked” to the enemy; this is because the small party will realize that going along with the villain’s plans will actually give them the best opportunity to vanquish the villain, at just the right moment. Now, on a practical level, I am writing some scenes from the perspectives of the main party and the smaller party, this does help; and in that era of my writing, I did use spreadsheets too (unlike my originals where I’m using a database). I’ll be creating a database for the fanfic works too….