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A very big birthday shout-out to WillowDarkling! Happy Birthday, Neko-baby!
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Happy Birthday Willow!
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A very happy birthday to you!
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Thank you all so much
I am getting back on track, and hopefully you’ll see me around a bit more from now on
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Earlier tonight, I fed one of my non-fanfiction short stories through Pro Writing Aid’s “chapter critique” to see how it measures up against my fanfiction. I never thought I’d see the day when AI would smut-shame me.
Yep. Seriously. “…some might find the level of detail in the sex scenes excessive.” What if I don’t wanna associate with that sort of person, huh? Fade to black is for wishy-washy people and FFN, not my filthy shapeshifter plowfest. Stay in your lane or bend over.
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Or do both… some people would enjoy the experience of staying in the lane AND bending over
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Looking for work but getting the jitters as it looks like self/indie publishing might be viable.
Idk the garbage collectors may over 30+ an hour here lol.
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In my experience, making good money is a matter of finding the right opportunities, and writing is a matter of making time.
You can always make time if you try hard enough, but you can't always find the right opportunities when you need them.
I wish you the best of luck.
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I’m juggling a lot of stuff in my life right now, from watching shows people want me to watch (Frieren most recently) to trying to overcome fears about my appearance to sign up for a dating site, but I hope there are still some people around here. I feel bad that I don’t post things as often as I did when I showed up here...six and half years ago now.
I may not be one of the OGs, but I’ve been here a while, haven’t I? 😄
The good news is that I actually have a new story in the works! I’ve finished the first chapter, and will keep working on it. I don’t really want to start posting it until I’m done, but it’s a sci-fi/adventure fanfic and I had a lot of fun with that first chapter.
In broader terms, I hope people here are doing as well as they can. I know I don’t show up as often as I’d like, but I think about you guys a lot! 🙂
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Its always a welcome day when you post. I can’t wait to see what you’ve written lemme know so I don’t miss it. Haha! You might wanna catch up on Duncan and co.
Fear is a natural response but I think you’ll find that this world and its bounty is a daunting but majestic place once you find your place within it.
We all may walk different paths but this hub is a respite intersection.
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New story! Great news indeed!
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Happy Birthday!
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Thank you for the birthday wishes. 🙂
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Happy Bday!
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Thanks!
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The saddest little face in the world…
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Poor doggie.
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Corgis are a force of nature. We won’t discuss how hard it is to drive when you are being subjected to a mournful glare by a corgi who just had her butt examined.
I keep a stock of soft cones at home, which is a good thing. That hard cone lasted all of 4 hours before she managed to destroy it, in the process discovering she could flip her water dish over, and use said hard cone to ram knees of the criminals who took her to the vet in the first place. There are sins no amount of treats will expiate.
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Ah, the cone of shame. I’m not sure who ends up being more pleased when they finally come up, the animal or the owners.
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🍀 Happy St. Patrick’s Day! (We need the luck this year.) 🍀
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Beware the Ides of March! 🗡️
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Thank you for your review of my story, “First Date.” I did work for a while on the dialog between Zuko and Jin about going all the way getting it to sound plausible – clearly in the series she was hoping for more than she got. “But Mai would kill him,” becomes a recurrent phrase when talking about Zuko boinking anybody but his goth-girlfriend.
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Just checked the YT link to the Naruto-reader’s channel and got a 404 error.
https://www2.adult-fanfiction.org/forum/topic/73569-beware-this-patreon-plagiarist/#comment-449045
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Thank you! I’m glad someone acted to curb this plagiarist!
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Would really like a portkey out of here. Or a timeturner?
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me three
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Got to be honest, never have I been more glad to live in Australia.
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I’d like both, please.
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Rewrite is doing better.
Felt like I had to separate it.
Now for some reason I have a romance story prequeling/concurrent with the dark fantasy one.
… No I don’t know how that happened.
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Kids these days will never experience many of the rites of passage my generation valued more than gold. For instance: saving up your allowance for three weeks during the summer so you can buy one of those giant plastic Pixie Stix at the public pool’s canteen and downing the whole thing in one go to use it as a snorkel and spending the rest of the month with a burning feeling in the back of your throat that tastes like cherries, chlorine, and stale pee.
…those lucky saps.
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Wooden skateboards with roller skate wheels and zero flexibility, ridden at top speed on concrete sidewalks. The road rash we could achieve when we hit the inevitable bump in the pavement made hardcore, leather-clad bikers green with envy.
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Makes me glad I was never coordinated enough to skate, really. I found out the other day that my husband was once “a skater boy,” and a small, silly, girly part of me sighed over how hard I would have crushed on him if we’d gone to the same school. The larger part realized it explained so many things; I love him, but he clearly did some damage to his noggin. 😆
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Ah, Pixy Stix, aka kiddie cocaine.
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There are many unmentioned benefits to marrying your best friend…benefits such as them bringing you a cat to cuddle because said cat got too comfy in their lap and ripped a loud, wet, nasty fart.
Yep, it was Heiferlump. Also yes, Cold did run away cackling afterward. Boys.-
Also, third yes. Heiferlump definitely ripped another in my lap. Twice. She’s getting gassy in her old age. What are we feeding this cat? 💀
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This day 6 years ago, I landed in New York, my first time in the US. Hard to believe it was that long ago. That trip was when I saw snow for the first time. That was very exciting. Although I soon realised what a pain in the arse it is.
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I’m used to sweating, not freezing, so doing both within seconds of each other just confuses my poor mind. lol
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If you decide to visit again, come in August so you can laugh at all of us when we complain about it being 95°F, and we’re melting.
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Deal!
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The winds of change have come
Embrace it or resist it is the question.
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Throw up a windmill and harness the power!
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What winds of change??
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I wish the winds of change would arrive here, because these current ones are hot and humid, and I’d like them to fuck off now, please.
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So. Learned a lesson while upgrading my OS. Somehow, my personal IP was blocked from the domain. Manta and I have been pulling our hair out trying to figure out why the hell I couldn’t connect
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today i join the jack benny club! Im gonna be 39 til im in my 80s! LMAO!
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I have been down with this nasty flu bug since Monday. Finally able to move around again. Ugh.
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It’s been a rough season already. I had a cold that took me out for nearly a week, and I’m still not quite right.
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This flu hits like a fucking freight train. Type A strain that’s currently going around. Thankful I was vaccinated, or I’d STILL be down.
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Best wishes to the both of you for a speedy recovery.
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I managed to get a new iMac I didn’t want to buy yet a hop, skip, and jump before the old one died. My “old” version of Office won’t install on the new one. I’ve tried “Pages.” I’m a lot less unimpressed than I was before trying it.
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Microsoft is brutally awful with older versions of Word. Basically, they want you to buy a subscription to Office 365, so they make it incredibly difficult. I had to uninstall Office on my old computer, and still couldn’t reinstall it on my new computer. We don’t want to talk about how hard it is to actually buy a new copy of the standalone program.
I’m not an Apple user, so I can’t comment on Pages, but someone told me you can save Pages documents as Word documents, so that might be helpful if you really need the Word format.
But anyway, congrats on the new Mac!
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Microsoft will still sell Office “outright” instead of the “crippleware that only works with an Internet connection,” for about $240, but you have to buy it straight from Microsoft, not the Apple App Store.
And, it isn’t the “Intel vs Apple Processor” issue, either. The current Mac OSX, even the “A chip CPU” version, will run older “Intel era” OSX programs via an emulator. However, the Office install program claims that I already have a “newer version of Office installed,” and I haven’t been able to find out anything about what exactly the Office installer says that it sees. This computer was new out of the box, and I had not installed anything on it.
But, at least it “plays nice” with my iPhone. And all, or at least most of the websites that were “broken” on the old iMac work just fine with this new one. I’m tolerating the Bluetooth keyboard with no “forward delete,” and I bought a Logitech MX Anywhere 3S Bluetooth mouse to replace the POS mouse it came with, along with a USB hub and a DVD burner.
Thanks.
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I wound up buying Office as a digital download, and got the product key via email, which is the least secure method for purchasing software ever. The biggest issue was getting past the zillion “Are you really sure you don’t want Office 365 because it’s neat and you can save everything to the Cloud and everyone will think you’re completely awesome and we get RMR which is our dream scenario because we don’t have to do a damned thing to get your money every month” sales pitches.
Of course, the installer was suspicious about my older version of Office that had lived on my 10 year old Dell, despite my having uninstalled it. I was lucky enough to get someone in Tech Support who actually knew what they were talking about, rather than just reading from a canned script. It was a miracle...
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No prostate cancer for me! So that’s pretty good news to get just before Christmas.
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Fantastic good news!
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that is fantastic news!
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Great news! Glad to read it.
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