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Oh, it’ll be that newfangled alt.sex.stories over on that usenet I expect. I’ll get my 56k modem out and soon be speeding down the information superhighway! JayDee, never managed to summon a dragon, but did attract a drake with a dropped sandwich by the river.

When I say, “The world would work better if women were in charge,” I mean just about anyone but me. Why? First fact: It’s “my job” to make sure that all the lights are off and doors are locked when we go to bed because my husband will zombie walk right past a door that is standing open. Second fact: we go to bed when the sun is still up and wake up after dark so customers of my husband’s store can panic-buy their milk, eggs, and bread at the crack of dawn. This means when I check the back door, I get blinded by sunlight through the kitchen window if I’m up too late. Well, a few minutes ago, I flipped the switch on my way out of the room, but the light only got brighter. I spent probably about a minute and a half squinting at the glowing boob-light, wondering what sort of black magic electrical fuckery I was in for now, and contemplating what a sledgehammer would do to the fugly glass shade. Then…it hit me, just like a sledgehammer. Y’all. I just tried to turn off the sun. With a light switch. And got pissy when flipping the switch just made the room brighter. So, yeah. Just about any woman except me. I would do my level best only to get knocked down by a barrage of blonde moments. I’d attempt to bring about real, needed legal, societal, and economic change. Instead, I’d get hung up on ridiculous things like declaring boob-lights and whining electric cords illegal and enacting laws decreeing that pets are taxable dependents and people can be considered pets if they’re not fully housebroken. The world would burn.

You all are making me miss my IBM PC XT, with its blazing fast 8088 CPU, 64k of RAM, and that spanky 10MB hard drive. And talk about operating systems? MS-DOS, baby! (I blew up 2 XTs and an AT before they gave me a PS 2, guaranteed not to faint under pressure.)

😆 “Gawd as my witness, that man is broken in half.” Well, next fic won’t be smut (The Lake House is non-erotic), but hopefully it’ll still be a good read!

Now I hear a pro-wrestling announcer, “Bah gawd! It can’t be! InBrighestDay has returned to AFF, swinging that sex fic like a mad man!”

As a follow-up, specifically to the @JayDee point I missed in my previous post, I too miss the days when there were tons of entries to these holiday anthologies, but maybe it’s cyclical. The other writers are still around, and if I can throw a story into the anthology after being absent from the holiday lineup for years, then you never know when someone else will reappear! 🙂

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. 🙂

“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.”

Pro tip: When it comes to burying bodies, remember to call 811 before you dig!

So, getting some running around done, so I don’t have to deal with the chickens and the snow…. Ye gods...you’d think they never saw the stuff before. 🤣

Dunno, I’ve have some good writing sprints while in a foul mood.

Ah shucks, that kinda thing might chip away at my deep seated self loathing!

Given the current tech market, might be the way we’re all heading.

Use gopher?

If you can’t get it by FTP, is it even worth getting?

God we all missed you here, JayDee. It really must be said. 😄

I imagine there are people who would be into chanting and incantations. Not to mention demons and dragons for some fun. I believe there are a couple stories on here which write about that.

I’ve been out of fanfic so long I don’t even know what the other website is anymore It were livejournal, long ago…

@InBrightestDay No apologies needed for not mentioning the others, silly.

I actually wanted to say a bit more here, not just to apologize for speaking up here before seeing if clearing the browsing history would help (I knew it fixed an issue with the age verification button, but arbitrarily assumed this problem was completely different), but also to say something I think goes unsaid a lot. I know @DemonGoddess and folks like @manta2g do a lot of work behind the scenes and may be stretched very thing, since donations can be scarce. I just wanted to say that I appreciate everything you all do, especially when something happens with the site and I’m suddenly anxious about what to do, as happened just now. I’ve never really interacted directly with either of you, but since I know that sysadmin can be a stressful job and can feel very unappreciated, I just wanted you to know that I don’t take you for granted, and that what you do for the site and for the people here means a lot to me.

Start time: 9 pm CST on 1/18. Projected end time is 6 pm CST on 1/19 Manta2g has been working her coding fingers for us, to update the archive to support PHP 8.x and other things that sorely needed to be updated. Members: Updated members dashboard Members have an account and can log in Email system fixed to prevent email providers from bouncing emails Activation and password reset bug fixed Resend activation option available on login screen (This may be needed if having problems logging in) Notifications system (if enabled in profile) Authors receive new review notifications (fixed) stories in the current reading list send notifications when a new chapter is added (New) Authors can now report & hide malicious reviews Authors can now see who has recommended them Authors can see who is currently reading their stories Authors can see who has recommended their stories Authors can add AFF forum links to review replies and story discussion. Authors can now set stories to only be visible to other members (required to be logged in to read) Members can now report stories directly from the archive for TOS violations. New story manager & editor Users: New archive level search engine New archive level advanced search engine Stories can now be filtered by tags Users are people who use the site without an account. Cleaner interface Robust authors/members search Updated TOS, Content Guidelines, & Privacy Policy Content Tags for AI usage Updated contact form Advertisers: New advertising system. self serve detailed statistics Something to keep in mind, once these changes roll out, you’ll need to manually clear your cache and cookies, or the pages won’t draw correctly. Beta Feel free to poke around!

Ah well, I have to actually finish it first. But Julpups had a dream, a dream to see Willow getting cocked more times than Davy Crockett’s rifle, and left with a face like a painter’s radio, and in possession of an exceptionally well-travelled hershey highway, (admittedly, the challenge was not expressed in quite those terms, Julups being a somewhat higher-class individual than me), and it is now my hope to actually succeed in finishing what I started! That all babbled, if you’re a Buffy fan and like the sound of the idea, you could probably take the challenge and do a better and quicker job than me. It looks like the subdomain’s been a bit quiet of late, so I am sure any new contributions would be good ones. Although when the new series happens it’ll hopefully get busier. I haven’t really been to check it out myself for years, I only just got back into fanfiction mindsets recently.

Apologies if this is annoying, as you almost certainly guessed this from reading the topic, but just in case, you weren’t aware, @GeorgeGlass, I have posted a review of your holiday story. Again, not trying to be annoying; it’s strictly a just-in-case thing. 😅

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. 😄

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

It Kinda feels weird when you’re finishing up a series. But Writing the ending to Duncan and Co feels cathartic. <3

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]

Got my Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy on 12/2/25, before the surgery I was 75lbs down but now in total I am about 85lbs down since the surgery

One time I got into a really fowl mood and wrote that Naruto turned into a chicken story. I tried. They stopped me, shook their heads, said “Write what you know.”

That won’t work well for your writing. Or maybe you could write about happy things?

I had assumed that speaking the incantation would summon dragons & demons… it’ll remain unspoken & unwritten here.

I think all of us on staff feel the same way about the site. It’s a home online for us all, and we all want to make this site a haven for our members. We all have each other’s backs, and honestly, I can’t imagine not being a part of AFF. And that goes for all our members, too. I’ve gotten to know some of you, and I thoroughly enjoy feeling like I can make friends here like all of you.

Manta is our coder and when she makes a suggestion about site code, I listen to her. While I was working abominable hours, BronxWench and all the other moderators picked up the slack for me. For years, all I did was work and sleep. I certainly appreciate the acknowledgement, but, there are others more deserving of it, such as manta2g, BronxWench, Melrick, etc. I’ve only just recently (the past few months) become more active like I should be. It’s taken over a year to recover from the years of overwork.

I also did this just now, so that might have played a part. Sorry for being a bit behind everyone else. 😅

You shouldn’t have to apologize for anything! You’re doing great work, nobody was sitting here expecting it all to be 100% through straight away I am sure Thanks for all the effort and work!

I quite like that Originals has its own menu separate from the fanfiction.

One year… might’ve been my first. I did a Halloween story, and decided to continue it with a sequel for the holiday story.

Think that’s what everybody is referring to, the typical halloween/holiday format.

I think it should be okay, as it’s a collections of one shots, basically in round robin form, yes?

In my case, I created a master listing at the top of my review thread here in the forums; links to my stories/oneshots in the archive. That’s an option too, but yeah, it’d be nice to have links from our profiles too.

I really appreciate the clarification there! I’ve seen worse too, but I’m happy with a B. B minus maybe. I can say also you’ll probably want to avoid the Buffy fic I’m working on since there’s a whole lot of frantic sloppy drool-splashing face fucking with extra heavy loads planned for it, on the plus side I don’t usually write sound effects so only 2 out of 3 would be really bad… Also, instead of choking frog I picture a Goblin, Glurk, who just gives the best BJs. “Tavenkeep! Why’s this place called The Goblin’s Head?” “Go see Glurk in the back room, traveller, and take a gold piece.”

I just… I mean, when everyone who sees it says the same thing about a commercial you just have to wonder how it ever made it past those focus testing audiences they ran in Alabam-oh right. Having to share beds was very common in poorer families for years, especially before central heating and that. It was just something people did. It only changes as their relationship does, which is neat! Partial nudity beating out full nudity once again! Those seven veils dancers knew their thing, no wonder you could lose your head over one. IBD over here trying to attract the attention of the valkyries a much less violent way Heh, been a while since I loaded anything but I can still very clearly remember how some issues seem to be utterly invisible until posted.

This is true! And a well-done Halloween story it was, in my opinion. 🙂

I did manage a Hallowe’en fic this year, for a change! I started a Holiday fic but things got crazy. I might still try to finish it, maybe by Midwinter?

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

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.

Happy New Year to everyone on the Gregorian calendar! Just happy to be here to everyone else!

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 am sure we can manage.