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Escaped the hospital just in time for vacation. C y’all real soon!

“oopsie” Yeah, I think these characters might have grounds to sue us for emotional distress…

Stupidest reason I have ever had for killing off a character, was because my beta at the time thought the character was irritating. It was the main character… And I killed him like chapter 2. lol, story took a maaaaajor shift in another direction right there, and not for the better. I don’t recommend it.

I understand he was no longer invited to carve the turkey at Thanksgiving.

Family reunions were likely not the same afterwards….

That’s the most epic story disaster I’ve ever read about happening to someone. That family’s life is never going to be the same after that shit show, all because Brother Dearest made a request that involved way too many personal details.

Good question…. a bit of google fu & a couple other search engines on the names shows it’s no longer coming up in searches so it’s gone and forgotten until one of the people who copied it at the time (There’s always folks who do, even if they shouldn’t) reposts it, I guess. I’ve re-written some of my old RPF stories to be non RPF/fanfiction stories – leading to the always hilarious accusations of stealing from myself despite note at start – but given the circumstances I don’t think I’d re-write those ones.

Is there some setting I can change that will make the default text color in the Forums something other than light gray? It’s really hard to read against the white background. I tried the other themes available, but each had its own problems.

Well, with his taste more for pork.…

@CloverReef Because I owe you and, despite saying it earlier, happy birthday, hope your day was great.

Seven years might be enough for them to have moved on. Or then again, maybe you never do get over a story about your brother and you with that kind of content. Incest tag is bad enough, but the torture, death and cannibalism tags would likely have made it quite a bit worse.

I think about 80/20 is where I put it. Under the definition of all action, even foreplay as sex.

Relatives tend to sanitize the obituaries, though there’s occasionally an exception and you’ll typically see those listed under “odd news”.

Damn….that’s a trojan horse @JayDee Has the internet forgotten the story or is it still lingering out there by now?

Update to this case …. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOTlj4MARbo

I now follow the author dedicated to fighting her on Twitter, so I can follow the insanity without adding to her follower count. So I can be amused/baffled/angry daily.

Yes, yes ‘coincidental’. Judge: Why… Why are you making air quotes?

Not libel if any resemblances are purely coincidental

How did you know libel is my favorite genre of lawsuit?

I made the mistake of checking out our cocky friend, and I urge you all not to do it. Seriously. Talk about ego?

Wow. I just woke up so wut r werds, but wow. Very first thing that came to mind was “fuck you, now I’m gonna write a romance with cocky in the title” too. There’s like a million books titled “Alone” and somehow the suspense reading community doesn’t implode. I remember looking for a series called Raised by Wolves, and finding a million other books, but I was able to purchase the right one by looking at the authors name. If your title is distinct, sure, but then trademark the whole thing. You shouldn’t be able to trademark a single word that exists in the dictionary. It’s just greedy and mean. And I kinda wanna debate point 4.

Yeah, that's true, but then again... unless she was a COMPLETE idiot, she probably had an inkling already. This was just confirmation. Hah, good point on that last bit. Hahahah, funny as that sounds, I think I'll pass. With my luck, someone will stumble upon that story and be utterly convinced it was written by a person they know. And then I'll be actually ruining lives without being there at all! But yes, I agree with JD. Your friend did the right thing.

Doing even regular request stories for people has twisted me up inside, even for complete fiction. I can't imagine later finding out that it led to such a horrible situation. Sadly(?), it's easy to imagine that the sister could have had different feelings than we assume, even though it would be impossible to not at least show great shock and disgust. On second thought, that could make for a great meta-story where the sister finds his written fantasies and then acts it out with him, though never admitting that she found the stories. The real-life author would have to use names that absolutely don't exist! Also, could be actually be written as a comedy too? (Shadowknight? ) The creepiest thing I've ever heard was about a friend who does "more than risqué" cartoon fan-art (along with clean stuff too): he received e-mail from a father asking that he draw his young daughter in cartoon style, but nothing ecchi in the request. He wrote back that he wouldn't do it for the requestor's own good, since if anyone who saw it found out what else the artists draws then the father could get screwed. Of course, my friend was also worried that it could eventually bite him in the butt too. Potential disaster avoided. I think you have the right attitude going forward, and I'm glad it isn't going to change what kinds of things you'll write about.

My first reaction: Holy fucking shit, that sucks. My second reaction: Wow, that guy's a fucking moron. My third reaction: There's a depressing amount of hilarity in all that. Other than that, I have to agree with you. I don't do requests from people I'm not on at least acquaintance basis. I'd only accept a request from someone I've talked to several times before, whose sanity I can verify. I honestly don't know what to say, JD. That really sucks. What happened to you is bizarre, almost horror story-like (and considering this is you we're talking about, that's rather ironic, as well!), but it's something that may ring true to many people. I'd say that the vast majority of authors crave feedback like that, and most would find themselves agreeing with what you did, only to be horrified at what happened later. It's good that you posted this. If it was up to me, I'd make it a sticky/pinned topic and say "read and learn." I think that this is a valuable lesson for anyone, regardless of outlook or experience. So, I guess I just wanted to say "thanks for sharing." And yeah, don't let it get to you. It's not your fault. It's like trying to blame the dildo manufacturing company for the actions of a man who beat his sister to death with one. You can't be held accountable for how fucked up other people are.