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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! 🙂

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.

This is more of an issue for me on the reader side of things. There was a story I was curious about which I kinda wanted to read but the formatting of the first couple chapters is off. I looked at some of the later chapters and they seem to fix it later but I’m a little put off by the first several chapters. Would it be considered bad of me to point this out to the author? I feel it’s probably better to do one on one but I’m not sure how to go about doing that. Rather than get a moderator or admin involved in it directly. I could write a review but that feels too public and somewhat mean.

If the author has a forum account as well as an archive account, you could PM them. Otherwise, unless they've put an email address or something in their profile, a review might be your only recourse. If it were me, I'd be glad for someone to point out a problem like that, even in a review. Remember, the author can always delete the review if they take offense -- or after they have fixed the problem you pointed out.

A very big birthday shout-out to WillowDarkling! Happy Birthday, Neko-baby!

My take is that brilliant non-linear stories you here talk about get their fame from being good despite not being linear. A possible comparison is the Westworld tv-show season 1 that had a big reveal when you realized what you had been watching. In season 2 they wanted to repeat the trick and made things just as non-linear and in the end it was barely watchable. I have avoided the later seasons like plague. My point is that for every successful non-linear storytelling there are many more trainwreck attempts. Doing non-linear storytelling that manage to capture the reader is seriously difficult.

Adding a WIP tag is personal choice. I’m happy to do it for you, of course, but we aren’t sticklers about WIP or COMPLETE. I do know some readers like those tags, though.

May the fourth be with you all!

IMO, a nonlinear story can work IF you make it clear when the events of each chapter are happening. You could use a literal timestamp (eg, starting each chapter with the date) or a figurative one (“Iggy was exhausted from training, but the championship was only two weeks away”). Or a narrator could explain it (“Now that I’ve told you ____, let me tell you how it all began”).

Once the time turner gets written in, “linearity” is out the window Not that it was the first point of non-linearity, as I’ve also got some “alternate reality” creeping in too. Thus, quirks are starting to appear, like new yet old paintings showing up on the walls at Hogwarts.

I guess I’ve gotten into your head? My bad.

Heh… was recently thinking of this thread while working on my potter fanfic as it involved a time turner

Double header! First, we have the concluding chapter of “The Business of Pleasure”: Chapter 8: A New Arrangement Second, we’ve got the next chapter of “Band Together”: Chapter 5: The Band, Part 1

Hi guys Merlin here . I've always liked and wrote about wrong pairings. Most non con and blackmail . Hypnosis Older-younger Looser/hottie etc Not always wrong in real life but in tv shows etc when you know the characters you'd know it's not normal. Especially with tone and other love interests. Not sure if this is the right part to post about this. But in TV, movies, games etc what is your favourite wrong couples you'd love to see adult fics written about. For example I've done Hitchcock/Rosa b99 Astrid Hofferson/Mildew how to train your dragon Sarah Walker/Morgan grimes in chuck And more. So what's your ideal, wrong pairing ? And why?

Hi, all. For truly “wrong” romantic/erotic parings, I tend to go towards dark humor. So, Dipper/Mabel isn’t quite a “wrong” pairing, though it raises the question that if they married in Kentucky and divorced in Arkansas, would they still be fraternal twins. I’m thinking more along the lines of Mr. Ed/receptive Wilbur, Granny/Mr. Drysdale, Uncle Joe/every female over the age of consent, etc. Cheers!

Huh. I tried correcting it just before complaining but it hadn’t changed, Maybe the Db took a while to update.

I had a burst of inspiration over the weekend and made a lot of progress on the final chapter of “The Business of Pleasure.” I will probably send that to beta tomorrow.

*millions of years later...* Neat!

45119 hi Red

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.

Jeez, where do I even start? As wrong pairings go, I loves me some incest. I’ve written stories about Hiro and his Aunt Cass from Big Hero 6, Dipper and Mabel from Gravity Falls, and Lincoln Loud and virtually all of his sisters from The Loud House.

Chapter 5 of “Band Together” is now off in beta-land. Probably the next thing I’ll finish is chapter 6 of “Rewire.” It’s a hard chapter to write, though, for a lot of reasons—including the fact that it’s the linchpin of the whole story. Not that I’m feeling any pressure to make it perfect or anything.

I added it in on the story, since you have it in the Promote A Story tag list.

Hi! The new tag is added!

The penultimate chapter of “The Business of Pleasure” is posted! Chapter 7: The Tale of the Tape

While I overall consider the first real big “rewrite” of my potter fanfic to be a disaster on several fronts; one good thing I added was a snippet of a near-climatic scene at the start of it (Voldemort proclaiming he had the elixir of immortality) along with “two years earlier...” line. On my originals, which I marked in AO3 as a “series”, I start with a quote from a future historian, which sets up the atmosphere; all stories are timestamped at the start, though the years are renumbered to avoid an explicit earth-year connection (which can present challenges in dialogue).

Yeah, I think I can reasonably say that it should be clear. Essentially, in chapter 1 it says that the villain took over a business from a particular character in the past from the perspective of chapter 1. Then in chapter 2, it features the character who the villain took over the business from and explores the reasons why they decided to allow the villain to do it. So I think that will be clear.

The saddest little face in the world…

For October, I’ve been quietly rolling out small bug fixes, most are just performance based. Two user side ones -Site based e-mails are now fixed (turns out this was not a code based bug, fixed as of this post) - Bold text has returned to stories. DG is going to be doing some proofreading and squishing typo gremlins.

We’re also banning the spam IPs, as fast as we can

Yeah, I just had 3 different things happen at the same time and it was extremely frustrating. There are a couple weird things in the past few weeks. If I could post under my own profile, I would have posted that way. But for whatever reason I don’t have that here. But I’m not necessarily as upset about that. I just needed a place to say it where I wouldn’t get problems.

Story info editing has been fixed.