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It’s the holiday season again. Celebratory times down in the village. The lights are up, the tinsel’s out, Old Tup and his fellows are a’roaming for beer money. Locals keep thanking me for ensuring the sun will come back over the next few years. Not really sure what they mean, but as I’ve been invited to be guest of honour at the seven yearly village feast I’ll put up with the local turns of phrase. Last feast was just before I moved here, actually. Oddly enough, the guy who rented Blot Cottage before me was guest of honour then. Poor guy tripped and fell on a “flint knapped biface”,whatever that is, up Ritual Rock on the moor where they have the feast, I heard, so it became available at a great price. I hope you all have a nice time as well! Seasons greetings to all of you!

“Hello, tech support? Yes, I clicked the wrong button and a rampaging porn monster burst from my machine…. yes… yes…. yes I did try turning it off and on again…. I showed it a JayDee story followed by an InBrightestDay one… No, it’s already eaten all the cookies… it’s currently in the other room trying to order a big meat pizza it can’t afford to pay for and then hire a plumber to “clean some pipes out.” Look, just tell me how to stop it playing cheesy synth music every time it starts doing something.”

Pro tip: When it comes to burying bodies, remember to call 811 before you dig!

I am getting dangerously close to actually finishing Meaningful Gifts, but I’m probably not going to have enough time to do much more than proof-read. I’ll try and polish it a little, but it’s still going to be kind of a first draft, so I hope it goes alright for anyone who reads. 😅

For all of us who celebrate, may the light return after this longest night. Solstice Blessings! 🌅

It Kinda feels weird when you’re finishing up a series. But Writing the ending to Duncan and Co feels cathartic. <3

Checking back some (ok, seached the forum for ‘Meaningful’ :D) , I see you’ve been working it on and off since at least 2020. I know that feeling, trying to take the time to get something down exactly right. I generally just said screw it and tossed out something wrong instead :D I for one remain looking forward to it. I like some antici…. pation! [/Dr Frank N Furter]

Got my Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy on 12/2/25, before the surgery I was 75lbs down but now in total I am about 85lbs down since the surgery

I’m currently looking for active forum members interested in beta testing the New Archives system that is currently under development. Message me if interested.

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.

Winter Holiday 2025 is UP!

I’m gratified to learn that there were already several Zootopia stories here before I posted mine! That seemed like an awfully big gap in fandom. I’ll definitely give them a look.

It was actually no trouble at all, with the new beta. I do want to check with manta before I attempt moving the one from Movies to Cartoons, however. We have a new widget for that as well, but there were all sorts of cautionary statements, and I’m likely to end up summoning something I can’t banish...

I was able to move the stories in Cartoons to the proper subcategory.

I am sure we can manage.

Happy Birthday!

This made me think about how many authors I’d recommended. I mean, there’s been a few writers I’ve really enjoyed over the years, so I went and looked. Zero! Zilch! Nada! Sweet Fanny Adams! The square root of fuck all! My “recommended authors” page has less names than the 2025 member’s list at the Harvey Weinstein appreciation society. No idea why I never engaged with the author recommending feature, considering I was at least vaguely active on the archive for a while there. At least I apparently recommended a few indvidual stories over the years on the recommended reading page. Stuck a story link or two in my forum sig. I suppose one way to look at is an author as regularly active and established as George only ended up with 150 odd recs out of all those users slamming the view count up on every story, and in a related point otherwise engaged/active users like me just never even used the feature, not receiving receving a rec doesn’t really mean anything bad.

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

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!

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

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"

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?

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

I’ve said countless times before, on various platforms, that I’ve given Spotify an identity crisis with how varied my listening habits are. My 2025 Wrapped dropped the other day, and hoo-boy. It’s a mess. My most listened to songs were Labour (Cacophony) and Rasputin; I play them on repeat as background noise while editing so the whine of all the electronics, the sound of the furnace, and even my own breathing won’t drive my misophonic ass bonkers. (I’ve tried countless other sounds, playlists, and various colors of noise, but it all either irritates my ears – my hearing is mildly fucked – or it has “water” sounds that make me need to pee every five minutes. The best substitute I’ve found is, oddly enough, a celtic band that combines bagpipes with hide drums, but I have to tweak the hell out of my sound settings to make it not painful.) My most listened to artist, on the other hand, was Steeleye Span; I listen to a custom folk playlist when I’m trying to write or edit for a certain story that isn’t going anywhere, and it’s disproportionately full of Steeleye Span. My most listened to playlist, however, is 11+ hours of nonstop oldies; it’s “safe” for when I’m outside, with family, or both. Because it’s gotten so much play, the app pegged me as over 70 years old. My second-most listened to list is full of punk, emo, and nu-metal, so I guess it assumed I’m letting my nonexistent grandbaby mooch off my account. I’m a millennial. They just stopped carding me. Ouch. I feel like I should apologize for gaslighting the app, but...yeah. Nah. I’ve got work to do and my brain is working against me enough. (You sure make me do a whole lotta labour.)

Okay, I just have to share this because relevance.

Happy New Year to everyone on the Gregorian calendar! Just happy to be here to everyone else!

Hot Dog! By @Thundercloud Thank you for the review! With those circa 1000 word flashfics could be kinda hard getting much character in, so nice that one worked for ya. I tended to find with writing those I’d end up having to cut bits out to make the limit, It’s been a few years but I may well have just not had room for extra jokes. Would definitely be some good gag options though! As for the words… well, obstreperous is probably most common, especially as obstreperousness, will more often feature in broadsheet newspapers or more journal-like magazine articles, while oblation and oakum are probably best known/used in much more niche categories, although you probably wouldn’t be too surprised to find them in fantasy works either. All three words probably count as more common than some of the prompts we used to get! Thank you again.

Another day, another chance to catch up on my New Year’s resolution

Happy New Year from NYC, and good riddance to 2025… 🎉🍾 (As a friend said last night, he’s giving 2025 zero stars on Yelp—does not recommend)

Category name: Zootopia Section category to be in: Cartoons > +S through Z Do you have any stories for it?: Yep. It feels weird and wrong that this very popular movie came out 9 years ago and yet no one has requested a category for it until now.

Woo! Freestyling! <3

I have not seen that word before, but googling it shows it is a very accurate description. Good that you enjoyed it. There are meant to be more and more situations when Ronja participates kind of willing, but normally with a different outcome than what Ronja would have preferred. I totally agree about the preference for bestiality. She would have gone there eventually no matter what Mark did to satisfy her. Indeed. As for mutual assured destruction I would say that Maria is finally starting to trying to play it smart, but she is not ruthless enough to really win the game. Mikaela have reasons to think that Maria won’t go through with her threats, but the same does not hold with the landlord. He is probably the most decent, but I think Mark is not too bad. He might take advantage of nude hypnotized girls, but besides that he is rather okay. It is also worth to notice that Ronja has been asking to spend time with him after they had sex at the school so he has good reason to believe she have the hots for him. Maybe working with the story has warped my perspective a bit...taking advantage of hypnotized girl is rather nasty when you view it from a real world perspective. 😉 I will looking forward for another thoughtful review from you. Many thanks for the review!

I’ll give it a couple of days for Volunteers for the Beta Testing. If no one other than staff volunteer, then the new site code may just go live and deal with bugs as they show up.

@FairySlayer What a lovely comment. I grew up in the Northeast, and I still miss the snow. Nothing else can transform the world around you the way snow does.

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

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!

No problem at all! I didn’t think about the Reading one, but it makes sense it’d come up same way. Google has been come increasingly, well, less than great, but it’s nice to see some of the old search string modifiers pulling through in 2025. BronxWench – It’s a really neat little feature for the site! Yeah, I probably clicked through just as you indicated above to find it, but couldn’t actually remember when I came to post, heh. I may be getting old.

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.

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

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

Brilliant!

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

Will post December 1

*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.

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…