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Sleeping naked is the shit when you’re young. Then, one day, you’re middle-aged with a cat who likes sleeping between the sheets and has frigid toes, and you start second guessing everything. Heiferlump, by the way, wasn’t just thawing out her frosted toebeans on my bare ass. She also kept wiping her cold, wet nose on the ticklish spot between my thigh and cheek every time I dozed off. I’m not ashamed to say I committed the unforgivable crime of yeeting the baby off the bed. I’m not sorry. Kid needs some fuzzy socks or something.

"will-o'-the-wisp happenstance acclivity" or "brown library movement of good fortune compulsion " or "guesstimate happenstance door " Are these spam bots, or just trying to come up with some old style weekly prompts?

Don’t worry about that; it’s definitely not just a you thing. There have been plenty of days I decide I’ll sit down to write, and then just stare at a blank word processor, nervously poking at it with a stick. In my experience, inspiration likes to arrive unannounced. There have been several times when, after nights of writing a few sentences at a time, one night I sit down and just suddenly write over 1,000 words. I think there’s a good chance it will just suddenly happen like that for you. 😄

So, I ran into kind of a wall again with writing, but I think it was just pushing myself too much and if I give it a bit it’ll come back again, and I won’t just be staring at a blank page. It kind of knocked my confidence a lot, but I’m hopefully to get more done and finish the Buffy story especially, I’ve got so many notes and @julpups was so supportive with it all and I feel I’ve let them down with this break off. Ah well. On a brigher note, review! The Man on the Clapham Omnivorebus Thank you for the review! I want to say I really appreciated getting it, it brightened up my weekend. I have to say that while not intentionally inspired by Clive Barker, I’ve read a lot of his stuff over the years and I would imagine anything where I try to write a more supernatural gore type setting will show influence from him on me. He’s a hell of a writer! I’m glad you liked those elements, it was ages since I’d written/finished something and I really didn’t know how well it kind of fit together, whether I didn’t get it to make sense as it progressed. Thank you again, It was very kind of you. ...

Is there a way to update a story without sending it to the top of its category? I sometimes go in and correct errors that I find after a story is posted, but the new system treats these stories as though I’d added a chapter or something and sends them to the top. I don’t want to be unfair to the people who have posted new stories or chapters, so I’m wondering whether there’s a way to prevent this.

They actually are linked to now. In addition, if the user doesn’t read it and/or doesn’t understand, then they are directed to the bug tracker

From my perspective as a moderator, it’s a good thing, since I wouldn’t see updates like new chapters otherwise.

It works! I just uploaded my story, and now the Murphy and Mitzi category is visible in the archive. Thank you!

Thank you! I was worried that I had screwed it up, but that makes sense!

It’s in the dropdown for you to publish. If memory serves, the category won’t display until there’s actually a story in it

I can see it in the admin view, but not in the user view, so I have no idea if I actually created it or not. Maybe @DemonGoddess or @manta2g will be able to tell if I did it right. (I swear, I’m flying this thing by the seat of my pants sometimes...) EDIT: I can see it in the dropdown if I say I’m going to create a new story. It’s just not visible in the menu, and I have no idea why that is.

There’s no way to make the code differentiate. Any change to a story, whether a chapter edit or a new chapter posting, will bump the story up. Honestly, it’s not like you're tweaking errors just to bump your story up. If we do see that some members are doing just that, however, we will take action.

No, I get that you want stories with new chapters to move to the top. My question is, if I go into one of my old stories just to fix a typo, how do I stop that story from moving to the top?

Poor Melrick slept on that 69! 46170

Suggest updating the age verification popup itself to have those steps listed next to it with “If you get stuck...”? Not sure the effort there, just an idea.

Looking through the a-z menus I am not seeing any stories showing a count of less than 1 [ie none showing (0) ]- maybe under the new software there needs to be at least one story in a sub catagory to show on the menus, but they’re there for adding a story in the drop downs? Edit: Which actually feels like a good thing in some ways, as on the old site I’d sometimes see a game and click on it, only to find any story had been deleted!

Sorry about taking a solid five days to reply to this! It’s been a little rough at work, and I’m preparing for a friend’s wedding, which will be happening in April, just a week after my birthday. I’ve never been invited to a wedding like this before, especially as part of the wedding party itself, so I’m pretty excited. 😊 😄 I’m probably going to be alternating between stories over the next little while, writing a bit of Legends (the bounty hunter story), The Lake House, or this third thing, depending on what I’m not getting writer’s block on at any given time. The hint I will give is that what I was working on is the first chapter of a story I’ve wanted to start for literally years now. 🤔 Actually since you mentioned it, I might as well throw The Spider House into that rotation as well, since at least doing the first scene would be really cool, and that’s also one I’ve wanted to write for years now. Anyway, on to the rest of your reply! God, it’s a great bit, and the image is pretty much just like that. I’m glad you didn’t feel forced into writing this. I wanted to make sure that you weren’t writing stuff you didn’t love because you were trying to please me, but specifically about Sarsa healing Dylan’s hands, I definitely understand what it’s like to write yourself into a corner and then have to improvise a solution! I hadn’t thought of the “walking biohazard” angle, but it does make sense. I did like the idea presented in the text itself, that Sarsa knew that if she didn’t pick something, Kizzy was going to get very nerdy with whatever she chose for the binding mark, either the Starfleet logo or some inscription in Klingon or who knows what else. 😄 They do. I blame the animated series The Mighty Nein and Marion Lavorre for my personal reaction, though admittedly she’s a tiefling (so...I don’t know, like 1/16 demon or something), but definitely the example that came to mind first. Sarsa has her own variation on the look here, of course, with the hooves and the black hair, but as you say it is a perennial favorite of people! It is a good line! I hadn’t actually thought of the “sexiness backwash” as you put it still being in effect, but that’s a good point, and as you said, a lot of Dylan’s emotional reaction could also be the normal powerful emotions that come with sex. It could lead to a long-term romance, but the story isn’t spelling that out precisely here. You did a good job explaining it in the story itself, for sure. I had wondered about the shapeshifting, actually, specifically whether it was just a succubus thing or Sarsa could do it too. It does make sense, though, since just hiding wings and other features to blend with humans would necessitate some level of appearance modification ability. 😁 Kizzy’s seriousness works so well for that sort of deadpan comedy. Again, welcome back, and I’ll try not to keep you waiting too long before I have something to share, whatever that may turn out to be!

Happy Birthday!!!!!

Nothing like a trip to the veterinary ER to make a night interesting… Long story made short, Freyja had an abscess of her left anal gland. How did we know this? She decided to pass blood. While I’m not particularly squeamish, nor prone to the vapors when confronted with blood, this is my baby girl. She is not allowed to bleed, or have pain, or do any of the things that will make me want to strangle a handy god or three. She is an innocent furbaby, and deserves nothing but joy. But this at least was something that can be dealt with, and she is now home, loopy on pain meds and wearing the Inflatable Collar of Great Annoyance. She would like everyone to know that she lives with exceedingly evil humans, but we will be forgiven with sufficient treatos.

Always love your pets. You never know when you’ll lose them.

And for those of us in the northeast, here comes Snowmageddon Part 2, beginning Sunday morning and featuring blizzard conditions, winds of up to 55 miles per hour, and accumulations of 18 to 24 inches. For everyone affected, stay home, stay safe and stay warm!

i need to sage the house or find someone that can lift a curse off my family. my mom needed foot surgery again last month and last week i slipped on some ice and fractured my left wrist (thank the gods im right handed).