BronxWench

It’s been around for a while, but it’s easier now to use it.

The number reflects how many people have added the story to their Currently Reading field. So, unless or until they remove it, their number will remain. 

Done

If there are at least five stories for this pairing, we can create a sub-category for it. Otherwise, we would not make the sub-category.
If there are five stories already, please post the links here for me. When the subdomain is fixed and live again, I will make the sub-category and move the linked stories to the new category.
Thanks!

Most of my characters are based on either books or CRPGs, so I don’t get a lot of real person reference points, but I can see it as a valid way to flesh out the character. 

Yes! I’m doing this early =p So every body has time 🥰😎

Once again, the harvest comes to fruition!
The deep ones come ashore with ichthyic  yearnings at the behest of elder things.
Pacts are forged with things yet unnamed for bargains one doesn’t know what is lost till after it is gone.
The scarecrows migrate in greater numbers
And slumbering things stir beneath seals older than memory to a semblance of waking.
Come one, Come all to annual festival!
One Shots Under 45K Include all appropriate tags at the beginning of the story Horror/ Halloween theme Original  Fiction The moon calls and we harken back to primal dark, and though we’ve conquered our world and dwell mighty in our cities…
All it takes is one power outage to remember, the monsters that dwell there still!
So eat drink and be merry! For not all monsters are evil…
Nor all man good! So dream a thousand dreams and wonder… If we still think of them
perhaps they in turn think of us in turn! Sweet dreams ;D Don’t let the Poitín go bad its meant to be drunken!

You’re probably sick of me creating so many topics by now, but here’s another.

Been putting some thought into an upcoming story, featuring a female character working out at the gym. What is interesting though is the actress who plays the character has been posting videos of themselves working out at a gym.

I’ve been sorta making notes without the influence of the actress’ social media feed for most of it. Yet now I’m wondering if I should take a look at the various videos or photos and use them as reference points.

Have any of you done something like this? Why or why not?
 

Why not have her call him a little virgin?

That’s the sad truth, isn’t it?
“Take this position for minimum wage, and we’ll move you up when there’s an opening.” But the opening never comes, or the manager’s kid gets tapped for it, and you get stuck at minimum wage, doing the work of two people because the manager’s kid isn’t actually going to do anything.
Or you look at job listings, and they want five or more years experience for an entry level position that was advertised as no experience required. (My Elderspawn is beating their head against that wall at present.)
And writing? If you’re talking fiction writing, the generally accepted wisdom is that most writers need a day job to pay the bills. You’ll never make a living as a writer of fiction unless you get very, very lucky. What you’re likely to find is those situation you referenced: Write us a few pieces for free, and we’ll get you a post where you get paid. Possibly. Unless we can figure out a way to get you to keep writing for free…
 

That’s the sad truth, isn’t it?
“Take this position for minimum wage, and we’ll move you up when there’s an opening.” But the opening never comes, or the manager’s kid gets tapped for it, and you get stuck at minimum wage, doing the work of two people because the manager’s kid isn’t actually going to do anything.
Or you look at job listings, and they want five or more years experience for an entry level position that was advertised as no experience required. (My Elderspawn is beating their head against that wall at present.)
And writing? If you’re talking fiction writing, the generally accepted wisdom is that most writers need a day job to pay the bills. You’ll never make a living as a writer of fiction unless you get very, very lucky. What you’re likely to find is those situation you referenced: Write us a few pieces for free, and we’ll get you a post where you get paid. Possibly. Unless we can figure out a way to get you to keep writing for free…
 

Because I’m evil and I like to drag people into the darkest bowels of AFF?   

Because I’m evil and I like to drag people into the darkest bowels of AFF?   

I’m a native speaker of American English, with fluency in British English, and the remnants of the French I once spoke (although I’m crushing it in Duolingo). I read a smattering of Latin, and can muddle my way through reading basic things in Spanish, Italian, and German.
Then again, I’m old enough to remember when a foreign language was taught as early as elementary school, along with music. (Never show me one of those plastic recorders—I still have flashbacks.)   

*grins*  You get fast-tracked to becoming staff.
 

*le sigh* I speak English as a second language, but I’ve studied… now… four other foreign languages. I can’t speak any of them, really, to any extent, but I have retained enough that I can read simple instructions in the other Scandinavian languages (except for Finnish, obviously  And no offence, but Faroese is just gibberish) and I can recognise when people are speaking French or German, and related languages. And I still pretend to retain some of my ability to understand a bit of written Japanese   At least I am smashing my Duolingo course in Japanese, and I do have a BA degree in that, so I feel I must pretend that I still know a bit
I also tried to study Spanish, but failed miserably, because I kept mixing it up with my French, so I gave up and took German instead  
So, that’s native language, fluent in English, and studied four more, plus a bit of Spanish   The joys of a tiny country school system. 

Typos happen with me, just a fact of my existence. English is my second language, I think I amble fairly well in it. 

*grins*  You get fast-tracked to becoming staff.
 

*grins*  You get fast-tracked to becoming staff.
 

Why not have her call him a little virgin?

Yes, that’s the correct thing. And you’ll find a few typos in the archive. One of these days, when manta doesn’t have any hellacious security fixes or codes updates going on, I’ll point them out to her for correction.  In the meantime, I’m treating them like Easter eggs, to see who actually notices the misspelled words.

Why not have her call him a little virgin?

Yes, that’s the correct thing. And you’ll find a few typos in the archive. One of these days, when manta doesn’t have any hellacious security fixes or codes updates going on, I’ll point them out to her for correction.  In the meantime, I’m treating them like Easter eggs, to see who actually notices the misspelled words.

It’s not a lot of work for me to add a tag, honestly.
As far as not getting the review emails, check your profile. There’s green button that reads “Review Notify” and if you click that, at the bottom of the page (scroll down) you’ll see the option to say yes or no via a dropdown to getting review emails. Then click the green “Update” button at the bottom to save your choice.

Replace “good” with “shy”?