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I did run into that, but my immediate concern was the fact that I wasn’t sure how many spaces to put between paragraphs to make sure the site would display them.
My first attempt resulted in the story being crunched into a single chunk of text, and I don’t think anyone wants to read an 11,000 word paragraph. 😄

Well… Certainly Death and Decay do.
It would? Selfcest? 

So, and I realise this may be the kind of tastelessly offensive question you may want to ignore, but if Famine fucked Fallow, or vice versa, would that be masturbation?
 
 

From JayDee on January 08, 2026
Man, forums really have lost their influence… the holiday stories used to get loads of contributions… Such things happen.
Insidious by InvidiaRed
…is it bad I know what Therion means, but couldn’t quite remember the word/root for Amato? I know more beasts than loved ones I guess.
I’m not… entirely sure what happened overall.  This is very much a fault of mine rather than the story. The protagonist is a horseman of the apocalypse? Famine? The colt is the horseman’s horse, Fallow? Good name for famine’s horse, that. Fallow and Famine. Two beings, two parts of the same whole. Fallow is the more dangerous of the two.
It actually took me a long while until I found the perfect contrast. Death rides Decay, Conquest Rides Conflict, War rides Woe.
 
And the server was just an employee except when it was being an angel with his voice? I got all that. I liked a bunch of the individual sentences I could follow, like the destruction of the satellite, that was cool, It was the perfect way to show just how beyond The Blue Death is. Icarcus is his ult.
 
and the beast rising at the end, and the description of the endless battlefield. All good stuff! Also, I found the half-remembered J, and the past time compelling.  Feel like it’d be neat for ‘em to hook up again. 
“Terrible and proud as only a living blasphemy could. The salted sheets cascading off its lumbering form.” Thank you.
That’s my favorite bit, right near the end. Really good bit of imagery.
JD,
Also a living blasphemy.

I saw George’s thread the other day about a spacing issue on posting. was that what you had? 
https://www2.adult-fanfiction.org/forum/topic/77018-spaces-disappearing-when-i-paste-text-from-word/#comment-458671
Could be there’s something playing up! I didn’t have a comment because I haven’t uploaded anything for a while. 
Great you got it finished after all this time. I’ll get in and get it meaningfully reviewed! Edit – done. Real shame these holiday anthologies don’t get more folks these days

Well, it’s almost a week after the new year...but you know what?  I’m posting it anyway!
@JayDee, @Thundercloud, @InvidiaRed and all the others who were interested but who I can’t remember right now, Meaningful Gifts has been added to the Winter Holiday 2025 anthology!
I thought this was going to be up earlier today, but then I had to spend some time fighting with/learning the secret ways of AFF’s formatting, specifically how to keep the site from compressing all the paragraphs together into a single chunk of text. 😅
And don’t worry about me ignoring your stories!  I will be reading and posting reviews for the already posted holiday chapters over the next few days. 🙂

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. 

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. 

“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.”
 

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...

Oh, cool! I hope it wasn’t too much trouble. Definitely hoping to read and review all of them before I suddenly find myself back in the black pit of despair where I spent the last four or five years! (actually, i hope to avoid that pit entirely. Depression fucking blows.)

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

I am sure we can manage.

Woo! Freestyling! <3

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. 😅

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

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.

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] 

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

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. 

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.