CloverReef

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Oh I believe Meid already found there way there, but I just want to be clear about the current status of the server! 

A year ago I made a discord server with a bunch of other members of AFF, sort of as an unofficial extension of the chatbox. I’m not 100% certain if it would be appropriate to link it here, as it is not completely an AFF thing anymore: it’s more an erotica writing server run by a long-time member and lover of AFF. HOWEVER, you can find a link to it in the Great Wall Of… Subforum. 
 
 

I was a kid. It was like 1997 or 1998 and I was kinda exploring the internet for the first time. Found some websites for my favourite (at the time) TV show, Breaker High (A canadian high school drama) and lo and behold, one of the sites had fics on it! I didn’t know wtf fan fiction was, so I read those fics thinking they were like transcripts of episodes. I thought I had watched every episode there was so I was super excited that they didn’t sound familiar. 
And then they got dirty. That’s when I kinda realized that these ‘episodes’ did not uphold the Canadian Broadcast Co. standards. Then I realized if other people could write that shit, so the hell could I! With my newfound godly powers, I impregnated the whole cast of characters, because… well, because I could. 
Yup. 

Thanks for the heads up George!

I am… Probably in?! I don’t have an idea yet, but I have faith in me!

I am… Probably in?! I don’t have an idea yet, but I have faith in me!

I am… Probably in?! I don’t have an idea yet, but I have faith in me!

Dingle nuts! Dingle nuts!  Hear them dangle long!  Grab those pens, write some smut, get on Santa's dong!
I may need to work on smutty songs...  but.…
The Holiday Party is taking gifts!  Get into the holiday spirit!  Chug down the egg nog and alcohol!  We got some writing to do!
If you wish to add a story to the anthology, the rules are simple:
Complete Oneshot (Under 50k words, please) Original fiction Holiday theme (Any december-ish holiday: Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa) All applicable warnings listed at the top of the story On the 20th of December, I will open up on the archive and all gifts can be wonderfully delivered.
Participants:
TCR
CloverReef 
Bronx
GeorgeGlass
InBrightestDay 
InvidiaRed 
 
EDIT:  The Holiday Party is now ready for unwrapping!  (http://original.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600109489)

After Party gets another review!  This one comes from the awesome @CloverReef
This may sound a bit odd, but thank you for that!  I definitely wanted sweet, but I was worried that I lost creepy in the process, so I’m glad to hear that I did get both feelings in the story.
Don’t count on me to do that crafting thing as well in any other story!  As for the brief glimpses, that was very much intentional.  See, this was originally supposed to be a sequel.  I mentioned this in my response to JayDee, but I have a planned story called The Spider House, which is going to be about how eighteen year old Cody is forced one day to go near the neighborhood haunted house.  It’s covered in webs and the forest around it is crawling with spiders, so the local folks all just call it the Spider House.  To Cody’s surprise, a beautiful woman named Yua lives in the Spider House, and the two begin to bond.
After Party was originally just catching up with Yua and Cody two years later, but when I had the mad impulse to throw this into the Halloween Party, I realized I couldn’t depend on readers knowing who these characters were.  Still, I didn’t want to spoil too much of The Spider House in the process.  Obviously I spoiled that Yua is a creature from Japanese mythology, but aside from that I tried to keep things vague: that Cody had a rough life and that Yua rescued him, but not what was rough and how she did so.  I’m glad that actually paid off.
I loved writing that whole thing.  I was shooting for fear of the unknown, and I felt like Yua was at her creepiest there in the beginning, when we know she’s some kind of spider-themed creature but we don’t yet know what she looks like, we can only hear her voice and see the web shift and hear the wood creak as she moves around.  Hearing that you got so absorbed that you forgot to take notes is an amazing compliment.
And this is also an amazing compliment!  I was very nervous about the sex scene, as I always am when I write them.  It’s only the third one I’ve ever written (well, the third one involving the main characters; there’s a tentacle scene involving a minor character in another story), and the first time I’ve ever written anything involving bondage.  It’s also my first try at a dominant/submissive relationship, but given that Yua is a giant, intelligent spider, and given the (arachnophobe warning: link leads to spider pic) size and power difference between female spiders and their male counterparts (yes, those are N. clavata males and a female in that photo), female dominance seemed like the right way to go for the character.
Tragically, “porn writing skillz” is not something I can tell my family about or put on a job application.
As far as making Yua erotic and beautiful in her in-between form, it was sort of a balancing act.  Jorōgumo (the specific type of yōkai that Yua is) have been depicted many different ways.  One of the more common depictions is the “drider” type (like a centaur, but with a spider instead of a horse for the lower body), but I didn’t want to go that far in the monster direction.  I liked the other common type of jorōgumo illustration, a woman with spider legs sprouting from her back, and used that as the base, adding a few more spider characteristics like the six eyes and the claws on her fingertips.  I think the eyes were what I was most worried about turning people off, and JayDee does seem to have felt a little squirmy over those!
I think something that helped was the sensory deprivation aspect of the bondage.  Since the story is told from Cody’s PoV, once Yua webs over his eyes, we experience the world through what he can hear and feel, so it’s really just like he’s with a normal woman, with only occasional reminders that she’s anything else.
The one idea that I came up with in the scene that I was kind of proud of was the idea of Yua talking while her lips were touching Cody.  I thought the idea of feeling her lips brush against his skin as she spoke, or her, as I wrote it, caressing him with her breath, was kind of hot.
Hey, the only part she destroyed was the shirt!

...I’m sorry but I draw the line at sifting through giant spider poop.
Just long enough to outdrink everyone with the beer bong!
Even if you’re not, that many legs is definitely a bit of a brain squirm! And those eyes!
Seven years time. Yua’s birthday. There’s a knock on the door. It’s Shannon, from the party. She just says:
“Nice.”
And that’s another great thing you have with their rerlationship I figure. They have a real understanding. Similar to how she probably really didn’t need to confirm he remembered the safe word because It seems like with her experience and that close bond she’d stil be able to tell he wanted things to stop.
Thanks so much for writing a story and taking part! Us non contributing readers are basically leeches. Leeches, I say! (Well, just me then. No offence to the busy/un-motiviated folks!)

Thank you for the story!
There are times I desperately want to see a quote posted somewhere, completely free of context, just to see how people react.  One of these is now officially...
Phone: “Rowan?  Where are you?”
Rowan: “I’m in FUCKTOWN and Guy Fieri’s the mayor!”

Responding to reviews from Inbrightestday and JayDee~

@InBrightestDay
I loved your review. It's been a while since I wrote this fic, so I totally forgot the research I did and the lil things I incorporated, so having them pointed out was a whole lot of fun. I'm also super glad a little characterization got through. I've been dying to use Rowan for something longer, and this was my first toe-dip outside of my character pool box of studs. 
Thank you so much for this awesome review!
@JayDee
Woo! Anything I write getting described as dark and gory makes me unbelievably happy. Especially after the uber vanilla challenge fic I did last month. One day I'll post that here... maybe... "Kinda had to imagine a Serbian Guy Fieri as the mayor of Fucktown." That made me laugh because FUCK YES. Now I'm gonna imagine that too. Thanks a lot. Also, I'm working my way up to that sex dwarf thing. I'm fucking determined to get Rowan laid. 
Thank you very much, JD! 

Responding to reviews from Inbrightestday and JayDee~

@InBrightestDay
I loved your review. It's been a while since I wrote this fic, so I totally forgot the research I did and the lil things I incorporated, so having them pointed out was a whole lot of fun. I'm also super glad a little characterization got through. I've been dying to use Rowan for something longer, and this was my first toe-dip outside of my character pool box of studs. 
Thank you so much for this awesome review!
@JayDee
Woo! Anything I write getting described as dark and gory makes me unbelievably happy. Especially after the uber vanilla challenge fic I did last month. One day I'll post that here... maybe... "Kinda had to imagine a Serbian Guy Fieri as the mayor of Fucktown." That made me laugh because FUCK YES. Now I'm gonna imagine that too. Thanks a lot. Also, I'm working my way up to that sex dwarf thing. I'm fucking determined to get Rowan laid. 
Thank you very much, JD! 

It’s shaping up to be another great year! It only took me three months to start sleeping with the lights off again after reading BronxWench’s last one.

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This thread might also be helpful.

I might have a story.  I’m thinking I want The Spider House to be something you can find from my profile page, but I have a story already started (it just sort of popped into my head one night and I wrote part of it; JayDee’s seen what I have) that I’m calling After Party that does feature the same couple and is set, as the title implies, just after a Halloween party.  I’ll see if I can get it done in time.

I am in. this might be fun to do!

I’m soooo in! I got my submission all ready too! *rubs hands together* 

Hmm, my timing is off again, having some RL agency issues presently.  I’m a firm maybe, likely after the 1st.

YAY!!! I’ve been waiting

 

I’m in. I’ve been holding onto a story idea since last Halloween; now I just have to incarnate it as word-flesh.

A review on A Private Triumph from @CloverReef, thanks dear.
I keep that more in mind now since you’ve mentioned it before. I guess it was always something I’ve kind of done, but now I’m a bit more aware and keep trying to work it in. I like that it works and helps sell the story and setting.
Glad you liked the gore. I do like to think I can do gore decently. Good to know about the lack of a proper introduction. While opening with a bang is good for the hook, I do like decently lengthed battles, so perhaps I need to think of other ways to open. Even if with action, cause you are right: need to give the reader a reason to root for Rhoda, and leave those longer battles for later when you actually care about her.
I added bits more in there, mostly cause it’s this central little display piece, but it’s moving, and it’s erotic. So I put more detail into the stuff than I had originally planned.
Perhaps I’ll get more opportunities to explore her character, but yeah I did want to play with the stoic soldiery type, and part of me writing this was my fascination with the Romans, but also the debauchery they used to get up to. So I figured a dedicated soldier would be just as up for that debauchery. Plus, real soldiers often are
 
Labda was fun to write, and interesting. Slavery is so frowned upon in today’s society, yet I had a slaver character who I wanted the reader to look at just like any other merchant. Well… a sexy merchant that really likes sex anyway. 
Glad you thought it was all hot. that’s pretty key for a short like this me thinks. And that the part was absorbing like that is pretty good to hear. 

I suspect that once again I won’t get anything done (Halloween Haiku anyone?) but I look forward to reading and reviewing.

I’m soooo in! I got my submission all ready too! *rubs hands together*