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BEWARE of spammers!
InvidiaRed and 6 others reacted to BronxWench for a topic
Just as a heads-up for all our members and guests, we’ve been getting a number of dubious posts lately on the forum. We’re removing the posts, of course, but we don’t always get to them instantly. PLEASE exercise caution, and don’t click on any links you see in these posts. Trust me, there’s nothing good waiting for you at the other end. Practice safe surfing, okay?7 points -
BEWARE of spammers!
InvidiaRed and 5 others reacted to DemonGoddess for a topic
We’re also banning the spam IPs, as fast as we can6 points -
Always fascinated and wrote about wrong pairings. What's your ultimate wrong pairing?
Wilde_Guess and 4 others reacted to JayDee for a topic
The Monster Under The Bed x My Sleep Paralysis Demon (Those fucking squelching noises, I swear, it’s grim folks, grim).5 points -
Halloween 2025
GeorgeGlass and 3 others reacted to InBrightestDay for a topic
Ok, I actually made some progress on The Lake House today before having to leave for work. Let’s see how far I get in a week.4 points -
Always fascinated and wrote about wrong pairings. What's your ultimate wrong pairing?
InvidiaRed and 3 others reacted to InBrightestDay for a topic
And they’re rude enough to only get it on when you’re in the bed right above them. *shakes head* No class at all… As for me, depending on what you consider “wrong,” I may have never written a right pairing. 😅 My established pairings have an extreme age difference, to put it mildly (18-20 year old man and immortal women centuries to eons old), and I’m working on a brother/sister incest pairing. As for why, it’s a bit difficult to explain. When it comes to the extreme age differences between human/nonhuman characters, there are published authors who write stuff like that (see the popular A Court of Thorns and Roses series), but to get down to why it appeals to me, I think it’s a fantasy I have as a man who’s always been unsure of himself, especially with women, and there is a fantasy of a shy, nervous young man being introduced to sex by a knowledgeable older woman. Kevin/Luzurial doesn’t exactly fit that mold since they’re both inexperienced regardless of age, but the other examples do, including the incest story (older sister/younger brother). The “why” on the incest pairings is somewhat more complex; I’ll return to that when I have time.4 points -
Did AFF ever develop an AI policy?
BronxWench and 2 others reacted to GeorgeGlass for a topic
More broadly speaking, I’m definitely tired of the “AI slop” on YouTube. It particularly bugs me when the video is supposed to be about something factual, because you don’t know whether the AI is using actual facts or just making stuff up.3 points -
Did AFF ever develop an AI policy?
GeorgeGlass and 2 others reacted to DemonGoddess for a topic
Agreed. Where you REALLY see AI is in some of those visual books on Youtube. Hubs likes to listen to them. Mind you, I’ve read countless sci-fi books, so when he’s listening, I can usually tell him which book and/or author they’re stealing from 🤣3 points -
Halloween 2025
BronxWench and 2 others reacted to InBrightestDay for a topic
Well, due to work, I haven’t gotten any work done, and we’re down to five days counting today. But if what Invidia and George said is true, and you all are ok with this even if it’s a week late or something, let’s see what I can get done quickly! *opens word processor*3 points -
Well that’s the curious point. Would a thruple qualify as a pairing? The same story I have Dawn/Buffy/Faith. A few other types of pairings too but they’re not out yet. In the Riverdale fandom, I have a pairing coming up involving Cheryl/Betty. Although they aren’t exclusive.3 points
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Always fascinated and wrote about wrong pairings. What's your ultimate wrong pairing?
JayDee and 2 others reacted to GeorgeGlass for a topic
Oh, my. Can you still call it a pairing when there are 4+ people involved? Because if you can, than my Star Vs. the Forces of Evil pairing is Marco/Star/Jackie/Janna/Princess Arms/Kelly/Hekapoo/Brittney/Higgs/Starfan13. No, seriously, I wrote that one.3 points -
I don’t know that historically I’ve done much in the wrong pairing. However, I have a couple stories, one of which is posted here. My “wrong pairing” has been in the Buffy fandom I wrote a story that includes Dawn/Buffy/Faith/Joyce. Not necessarily a pairing but I have done gangbang stories obviously which could theoretically be a “wrong pairing”. There are a couple stories in which things got seriously dark but they aren’t really anywhere for people to read at the moment.3 points
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Character driven non-linear stories?
Wilde_Guess and 2 others reacted to Thundercloud for a topic
My take is that brilliant non-linear stories you here talk about get their fame from being good despite not being linear. A possible comparison is the Westworld tv-show season 1 that had a big reveal when you realized what you had been watching. In season 2 they wanted to repeat the trick and made things just as non-linear and in the end it was barely watchable. I have avoided the later seasons like plague. My point is that for every successful non-linear storytelling there are many more trainwreck attempts. Doing non-linear storytelling that manage to capture the reader is seriously difficult.3 points -
Mentioning characters you don't plan to use?
Wilde_Guess and 2 others reacted to Desiderius Price for a topic
Simple, have a quick conversation chapter one of the sequel. “Where’s Joe?” “Six years in prison, because when they say NO PARKING, the really mean NO PARKING.” or “Got transferred to far, far, away.” or “He learned why there’s safety bars on woodchippers. Coroner estimated they recovered 60% of the remains.” And if you want the villain to be a surprise, have his whereabouts accounted/dismissed for in this conversation too.3 points -
Consistency of outcome or variation?
Wilde_Guess and 2 others reacted to WarrenTheConey for a topic
It doesn't sound like a problem to me. In my experience, people care about the consistency of characters, more than anything else. As long as you retain the consistency of your characters, there should be few, if any, objections about the path they follow and it's outcome. Of course, people would have a problem with a path or ending, that seems out of line with what is considered reasonable for the world in which your story takes place. But that really goes without saying, usually. So, if the ending is one that you believe your characters would naturally arrive at, then that ending should be fine.3 points -
AFF Winter Holiday 2024
GeorgeGlass and 2 others reacted to InvidiaRed for a topic
Apotheosis One women decides to go all in on Christmas Eve. Ascension is an all or nothing game. Succeed and the godhood is thine… Fail and being utterly erased from existence Tags: Pending3 points -
AFF Winter Holiday 2024
GeorgeGlass and 2 others reacted to InvidiaRed for a topic
Everyone is welcome to the winter festivies3 points -
AFF Winter Holiday 2024
BronxWench and 2 others reacted to InvidiaRed for a topic
Ay Yo! Beat me to it lol.3 points -
Bug squish log.
GeorgeGlass and 2 others reacted to manta2g for a topic
Quotation marks and parentheses will stay disabled in those for the time being due to site security. Colon and semicolon I'll try to enable this weekend. Also you can minic " with '' if need be.3 points -
Bug squish log.
BronxWench and 2 others reacted to manta2g for a topic
@GeorgeGlass could you check if you can edit other fields? It will help narrow down wherr to look for the bug.3 points -
All of the internet seems to be coming at me at once today
InvidiaRed and 2 others reacted to Deadman for a topic
Yeah, I just had 3 different things happen at the same time and it was extremely frustrating. There are a couple weird things in the past few weeks. If I could post under my own profile, I would have posted that way. But for whatever reason I don’t have that here. But I’m not necessarily as upset about that. I just needed a place to say it where I wouldn’t get problems.3 points -
Bug squish log.
Ghost-of-a-Chance and 2 others reacted to manta2g for a topic
Story info editing has been fixed.3 points -
George Glass' Review Responses -- Original Fiction
BronxWench and one other reacted to GeorgeGlass for a topic
@BronxWench From BronxWench on November 01, 2025 Glad you enjoyed! I, too, remember the days of bad horror movies coming on late at night, and of the signoff (which, IIRC, usually consisted of “The Star Spangled Banner” followed by the test pattern and that tone). And yelling at the screen was inevitable. Thank you!2 points -
Tell us about your lost stories!
GeorgeGlass and one other reacted to Durian for a topic
I can’t count them all. I first started writing Tolkien’s Middle-earth collaborative roleplay and fanfiction stories on the One Ring (.com) forum back in 1999. Many fell into ruin with various website crashes and moderator deletions for being ‘too adult’. Fair enough, so I started my own forum on EZBoard in 2022, and had a lot oif saved stories posted there. Unfortunately EZBoard was sabotaged by a disgruntled employee on May 31st 2005 and wiped clean. The then mirrored the wiped site to the back-up. Fortunately, an old back-up was found after it was discivered that proper back-up hadn’t been done for nine months. There was a difference between ‘backing up’ and ‘mirroring’. Anyway, many stories were recovered with the last part lost. These days, I have an external harddrive I store them on, along with my One Drive and iCloud, and I had a lot of them saved under the RP Repository roof in a group I develope. Sadly, not being in control of it, it got deleted when I handed it off to someone else when I was asked to move on. Still, I have many from over 20 years ago, but equally as many have been lost ofer the time when various forum sites ceased to exist.2 points -
Got any thoughts on the results of the United States Election 2020?
GeorgeGlass and one other reacted to Durian for a topic
It certainly wasn’t stolen, and January 6th 2021 was an insurrection. Sadly, the insurrectionists ‘won’ in 2024.2 points -
Halloween 2025
GeorgeGlass and one other reacted to InvidiaRed for a topic
Happy Halloween Everybody!2 points -
Halloween 2025
BronxWench and one other reacted to Deadman for a topic
For sure, my short one shot ideas always end up becoming longer stories whether I want them to or not.2 points -
Halloween 2025
BronxWench and one other reacted to InvidiaRed for a topic
Yes, That tends to happen sometimes. My own threatens to take more attention than it should.2 points -
Halloween 2025
BronxWench and one other reacted to InvidiaRed for a topic
And that is alright it happens! If you’re not too busy. Leave a Review <32 points -
Did AFF ever develop an AI policy?
Deadman and one other reacted to Desiderius Price for a topic
It’s also devaluing to be accused of using AI for writing simply because you like dashes, ellipses, or using proper grammar.2 points -
Does AFF have a policy on AI generated fanfic?
DemonGoddess and one other reacted to pippychick for a topic
Virtually recreating ‘infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters’ is going to destroy the planet. All AI companies should be done under whatever the Trade Description Act is in all territories for their use of the word ‘intelligence’ Additionally, a hot cup of tea should be poured into each server. And I say this as someone affectionate to and in favour of true conscious AI. Honestly it’s like having a penchant for custard creams and being gaslit by someone violently screaming in your face for you to admit that’s what an Oreo is. (grumbles incoherently)2 points -
Halloween 2025
GeorgeGlass and one other reacted to InvidiaRed for a topic
I look forward to your entry should you choose to do so2 points -
Halloween 2025
GeorgeGlass and one other reacted to InBrightestDay for a topic
There are now precisely three weeks until Halloween. I wonder...can I write The Lake House in that time? No promises, but I’ll see how far I can get! And of course, even if I don’t finish, I’ll review your works. 🙂2 points -
Halloween 2025
InvidiaRed and one other reacted to GeorgeGlass for a topic
Posted! “You Were Warned” (poem)2 points -
The Depravity Repository [edit - site now defunct]
JayDee and one other reacted to GeorgeGlass for a topic
Yeah, I miss forums. (Glad to still have this one.) Much of that stuff has migrated to Discord, where it’s hard to have a discussion about anything unless it’s in real time.2 points -
Haven't been very mentor-y
Deadman and one other reacted to Desiderius Price for a topic
Those ranks… take a while. AFAICT, a post is 5, a like/reaction is 1.2 points -
What are this site's content restrictions?
Wilde_Guess and one other reacted to Desiderius Price for a topic
Tag for teenagers is minor2 (14 and older). Tag for younger is minor1.2 points -
Request for a new TV Category (S through Z)
BronxWench and one other reacted to Luana A. for a topic
Hello, sorry, it’s still me, I have a problem: I posted my fic but although i select S through Z ‘YOU’ it appears in ‘1 through F’ why??? I already tried to fix it twice.. should I delete it? I don’t want it to appear in the wrong section, sorry! edit: it seems the problem is fixed now, sorry for annoying you!2 points -
Is there an archive limit on chapter size?
DemonGoddess and one other reacted to Deadman for a topic
For the most part, yes. There are a few places where things transition from one room to another or other things. So in theory it works as a transition point.2 points -
Is there an archive limit on chapter size?
BronxWench and one other reacted to Desiderius Price for a topic
On the practical side, I’d suggest against super long chapters too. I’ve tried that on my potter fanfic years ago, reorganized/rewrote thinking it was a “good thing” with my highest being like 107k… nope! Not only did I lose some details in that consolidation, I also lost focus to the chapter too. Small details/scenes were now one/two sentences in basically a wall of text. (Which it became as FFN.net somehow seemingly lost all my carriage returns, so it was one big “blob”; and a fast re-insert of them is how I uncovered FFN’s new 65k max per chapter limit.) I’m still pulling that 107k old chapter apart right now with my “rewrite” … though I’ve now got at least 121 in its place, which is probably close to 1M words itself as I now hover around the 6-7k words per chapter average, and if the chapter nears the 10kword mark, I seek to break it up. Even in my Jefferey episodic story, I’ll effectively do “part 1” and “part 2”.2 points -
Character driven non-linear stories?
Deadman and one other reacted to Desiderius Price for a topic
Another idea, maybe this is what you’re going for. First chapter is a scene of that party (or whatever it is), with your last lines being “This is their stories.” And your next chapter be like “A year before that party, the awkward Name was sitting in the library.” Making it abundantly clear to the (typical) reader what you’re up to here, because as you noted, readers generally expect chronological (or near chronological) order.2 points -
I’m not exactly a master author myself, but that said my advice is that to get everything across you need depth. For that, you need more than just 1 chapter. Which, unfortunately for you, means more work.2 points
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I think a lot depends on the relationship status of everyone involved.2 points
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AFF Winter Holiday 2024
Deadman and one other reacted to GeorgeGlass for a topic
Ah, okay. Well, I’m glad you’re using the medium of fanfic to take the story in a direction that the show probably won’t.2 points -
AFF Winter Holiday 2024
Deadman and one other reacted to GeorgeGlass for a topic
@InvidiaRed, I left a comment on your story.2 points -
AFF Winter Holiday 2024
Deadman and one other reacted to GeorgeGlass for a topic
And, it’s up! A Fairy Merry Christmas: When the Tooth Fairy retires, the Fairy Council decides against passing the torch to her hard-drinking slacker daughter, Beagan. But they have to give Beagan SOME kind of job, so now she will learn what being a “maturation fairy” is all about. Tags: NoSex, TF, Holiday2 points -
AFF Winter Holiday 2024
BronxWench and one other reacted to GeorgeGlass for a topic
I think I messed up; I now dimly recall that you’re not supposed to put the story in the archive until there’s at least 1 actual story to put in it. So @Deadman, if your piece will work at all as a standalone story, I say go for it.2 points -
Bug squish log.
BronxWench and one other reacted to manta2g for a topic
Ok, did some more edits if anyone can run another test, Thanks.2 points -
Bug squish log.
BronxWench and one other reacted to manta2g for a topic
I’ve put in some changes, please give it some more testing to see if there is improvement. Thanks some things don’t show as bugs due to my user perms, so user testing is very appreciated.2 points -
Bug squish log.
BronxWench and one other reacted to Desiderius Price for a topic
Apostrophe… it’s ASCII number is 39.2 points -
Can't log in
WillowDarkling and one other reacted to DemonGoddess for a topic
That’s exactly right, BW. You can only be logged in on ONE device at a time.2 points
