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Alright, that took longer than I’d expected. Invidia also has my apologies if there are a million notifications for a review, because I kept trying to fix a problem with the review of BW’s story, which meant deleting the review and resubmitting it. I put emphasis on “trying” because ultimately, the site seemed insistent upon crunching the entire review into a single block of text, removing all the spaces between paragraphs. I am sorry for how much of a pain that is to read, as it was not my intention. 😅

Well, as you all know, I was able to make progress on The Lake House, but not to finish it by a week after Halloween. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, though, because I was struggling with how to integrate the theme of the piece into the ending, and it wasn’t until after the deadline had passed that I realized how I might be able to use it. So the extra time will (hopefully) lead to a better end product when it’s finally completed. I’ll keep working on The Lake House, and will either post it when it’s finished or throw it into the ring next Halloween season (fingers crossed that things are still stable for me next Halloween). In the meantime, I’m working on Meaningful Gifts again and have left reviews for both Invidia’s and George’s chapters of the Halloween story. I’ll read BW’s chapter on break at work tomorrow!

OMG that works! It pulls up both “Recommended Authors” and “Recommended Reading” lists, but that’s great because it creates a vast pool of other authors and stories I might like to check out. Thank you! I’m not sure about the alt account thing, though. Jan has a lot of time on her hands these days.

That’s a feature on the Site > Members menu, showing the top 50 recommended authors, and should be available to anyone from the archive home page. (Just click on the three little bars, and you’ll see the submenus.) It’s a fun little Easter egg, I think!

Hey, so a bit random but while just messing around trying to get back into my archive account I saw there’s now the most recommended authors listed on the members page (I don't remember it before!) sadly it doesn’t say who has George recommended, but I couldn’t help but go “Wow” at the numbers there. After George at number one, the most recommended authors at 2-5 only just have more recs combined than George does on his own! A very popular author, it seems, I for one am hoping to find time to read that Zootopia fic. I do like me some rabbit cop. And it would surely be nice to read a Zootopia fanwork that doesn’t leave me thinking Arby’s. Well, unless it does. I assume she gets the meat at any rate. The page I was stumbled on with the list: https://members.adult-fanfiction.org/ (-does everyone else see that table at the top? Wasn’t sure if it was just showing because of how I reached it or something. “Top 50 Recommended Authors”?) And back on topic slightly, I think a google search using a search string like this in bold would bring up most of the recommended authors pages with your username on it, probably missing some, but worth a shot if you then had time to click through them all to see! I’m sure they can’t all be Jan Brady’s alt accounts 😛 site:members.adult-fanfiction.org "recommended authors" "GeorgeGlass"

Okay, I just have to share this because relevance.

*dies laughing* I’m telling you, that would be my luck! And I’d probably get extra lashings for random abuse of Gaeilge while they’re at it.

*Bronx opens the door to find two men in suits standing outside* ”We work for the Irish government, and we hear you’ve been telling an unhealthy amount of stories about faeries...” “...The Irish government reads Adult Fanfiction?” “DON’T QUESTION OUR METHODS!”

@InBrightestDayFrom InBrightestDay on November 16, 2025 The intent wasn’t to get you thinking of any particular movie, but yes, we’re all armchair quarterbacks when it comes to judging the decision-making of horror-movie protagonists. You’d kind of hope that were we in the same scenario, we’d remember that its smarter to run out the front door than down into the basement or up to the attic (thank you, Sydney from Scream), but you just never know what snap judgments you might make. Thanks for the comments!

It’s a wonderful review—thank you!

I was wondering why my phone was randomly going off. lol.

Oh, I didn’t realize this was actually on the table as a possibility. Good to know. I’m liking the upgrades you’re making so far.

It’s not there yet, right now we are in the process of doing a site wide code upgrade. A link to the development beta will be available to members near the end of December.

I have wondered something similar in the past. Sometimes it feels good to know who likes you.

I’m still at zero recommendations, so no need to reverse-see who’s signed up.

I’m pretty sure I’m getting old, but I’m in denial.

You are very welcome!

Thank you! That has worked. I really appreciated the step by step guide. it must be tough making things fool proof when the fools get down to my level! I’ve made a note for it somewhere I am less likely to lose it this time. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if I wrote the old one down, picked it up a year later and went “No, that sounds unhygenic” and threw it out. Your time and effort for the site is as ever appreciated!

Re: “What Am I to You?” @InvidiaRed “A delightful ode to snow and the tranquil quiet of winter! Well Done!” Thank you! I’ve always loved the eerie but beautiful silence that a blanket of snow brings.

No worries! I’ve sent the links via email.

Ask and you shall receive! https://original.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600110635

I wrote a poem for this year’s AFF Winter Holiday. It’s called “What Am I to You?”

I found the story in the archive and added my poem, “What Am I to You?” IR, would you post the link to the story so others won’t have to go searching for it?

45917 Well, whoever gets there first is the champion and has bragging rights.

I find myself without any good story ideas. But I’ll do a flashfic or another poem if inspiration strikes.

Brilliant!

Posted! Lol. So might have gotten a tad carried away with homemade eggnog.

Will post December 1

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From GeorgeGlass on November 24, 2025 "Leaffall"Once again, you've written a story soaked in Celtic myth and dripping with drama. I have to wonder what the ultimate outcome will be for Darri after selling his soul (No afterlife? Bound to the water fae forever?), but he did win Angaine her freedom and got a bonus water-breathing ability on top of that. He'll probably be persona non grata in the human world unless he starts wearing sunglasses or something (I recently watched Blue Eye Samurai, so...), and he's not fae either, but being half this and half that is a great start to becoming a legendary hero. Or else a cool bartender at an edgy tavern. Great story! Thank you! Darri was just a victim throughout the story, the village idiot so to speak, and the only one who was consistently decent to him was Angaine, so of course he’d want to win her freedom. The fact that she was merely using him as her errand boy didn’t matter to Darri, although I do think she felt some measure of guilt when the sea fae took him. As far as the Cailleach Mhara, she didn’t really care that Darri was making a less than informed choice either. She had her own ends in mind, to protect her people, and taking a human soul was the means to that end. What it would mean for him to be soulless was largely irrelevant, which is why deals with the fae are never a good idea. The only one who acted to help Darri was the Wavesinger, and he destroyed an entire human village in the process, along with Angaine. Again, fae ethics are not inclined to include humans, even if the Wavesinger saw Darri as someone to be honored for sacrificing his soul. If I had to guess, I would say Darri and the Wavesinger are going to swim off and become the lead characters in an underwater buddy movie, overturning human fishing boats and sneaking into human villages to drink a little blood…

Our amazing manta2g has begun to roll out the emails to all our members, asking everyone to verify their email address and reset their password. This is the first phase of unlocking the site, and I'm pretty excited about it! Please keep an eye out for our email, and follow the directions to verify your email address and reset your password. As always, if you run into any issues, you can email us at tos_team@adult-fanfiction.org or give us a shout over on the forums. EDIT: Okay. I just got MY email, and I copied and pasted the validation link (first link) into a new browser tab. I backed out the “password” at the end, hit enter, and it worked. I then clicked the password reset link in the email, and I was immediately taken to the password reset page, where I successfully updated my password. I have NO clue why it worked for me when it’s not working for other members, but there we are.