Leaderboard

😆 “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.”

I am getting dangerously close to actually finishing Meaningful Gifts, but I’m probably not going to have enough time to do much more than proof-read. I’ll try and polish it a little, but it’s still going to be kind of a first draft, so I hope it goes alright for anyone who reads. 😅

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

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]

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

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 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.

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

Try doing a forced reload CTRL+F5, sometimes it takes a bit of force for changes to show up.

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.

There are many having issues at the moment. We are aware, and there are things that a user has to do in order for everything to work correctly. No matter WHICH browser, you must clear cache and cookies for ALL TIME. After doing the clear, close and restart your browser. Finally, you need to force refresh. (Press Ctrl+F5) That should fix the issues. You should be able to proceed once you do that. Remember, major software changes generally do require this sort of action. If you are experiencing bugs, please post them to the bug tracker. What we will need from you are specific steps you took to get the error, and screen shots if you are able. This will help in getting everything fixed, if there are bugs. DG

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.

@InBrightestDay FYI, I just reviewed “Meaningful Gifts.”

I’m going to have to leave myself a note, as this user is claiming that their main profile is locked. It’s more like they didn’t activate into the new system after the password changes, or were not inputting the password allowing for case sensitivity.

Summary: Caught by the bus, wounded, horrified, Dylan needed an angel. No mortal alone could escape the insatiable public transport vehicle once snared. He got something else... Feedback: Appreciated but not expected. Fandom: Original / Supernatural. Pairing: OC / OC Warnings: Hum MF Oral Violence Solo story or chaptered story: Chaptered. Part 1 up. URL: Here

The bug preventing new forum registrations has been fixed.

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.”

@InBrightestDay re: “What Am I to You?” It’s nice to cover all the bases. Don’t worry, I’m sure I’ll be back to smut next year. Thank you! Wait, you’re Florida Man? I see you in the news all the time. This is all pretty autobiographical. I remember snow in all of these ways. Thanks for the review!

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?

So, and I realise this may be the kind of tastelessly offensive question you may want to ignore, but if Famine fucked Fallow, or vice versa, would that be masturbation?

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.

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 was able to move the stories in Cartoons to the proper subcategory.

I am sure we can manage.

I went and re-cleared all the cache and the rest of it again and that seems to have done it – originals showing now Thank you again!

When logged out The bar just shows “Home” “Fanfiction” and “Forum” options without originals option – When logged in it also has eg Account drop downs you don’t get logged out. I wonder if it’s something to do with the way Firefox is loading the bar when logged out? I just logged out, originals disappeared, logged back in, there it was!

Yep, basically. I remember some of the one shots ended up getting sequels – I think mine re-used characters – but were all generally self contained. Great then, thank you for the ruling

I am right there with you on a presumed resurgence. If it has any success at all there’ll be all the fanworks for the new series, but also a lot of the new generation of fans will be streaming the old stuff too, and so it’s just gotta lead to more scooby goodness! My memory is somewhat hazy, but there’s absolutely collaborative stories on here. InBrightestDay and I have a non-sex story up we jointly wrote with some of his pre-existing OCs (and some new collaboration specific ones), but that was all posted in one go. There’s functionality though for what they called Round Robin stories, where someone started it and then someone else puts in another chapter and so on. I’ve mostly seen it used on the holiday anthologies they do, with everyone having a different chapter for the theme, but it’s absolutely there for ongoing story collabs too. Probably one that would do best if the fandom resurgence happens and it suddenly gets a lot busier over there I can’t imagine those stories don’t run into issues sometimes whether it’s because one writer favours a specific ship that another is really turned off by, or just not having strict enough pre-agreed content guidelines so someone’s slipping in scat or whatever. “Chocolate Brownie?” “Oh, no, not after last chapter. You aren’t catching me out again.” “Oh, fine, have a glass of lemonade. Wash your mouth out.” “...it’s warm. Why is it warm?” And the worst thing is when someone adds a chapter that’s just straight plagiarized. When I was going through my reviews the other day, deleting all the spammed bot links, I saw a negative review from someone for apparently stealing another story – the reviewer didn’t seem to care mine had been posted 10 years before the ‘stolen’ one – And I remembered that in in that case somoene had changed the names from my original and then pasted in as a chapter in an ongoing collab “choose your own adventure” on another site. That kind of thing makes it hard for me to trust folks in fanfic sometimes

I’m fairly sure they never properly activated when they registered back in November.

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.

Well, I responded to Invidia’s review first because of how brief it was, but by far the most detailed review of Meaningful Gifts comes from @JayDee! So perhaps there is no such thing as bad publicity. 😄 Also, many people with incest kinks were awakened that day… Honestly, I hadn’t really considered that until you pointed it out, but it is rather appropriate. I am honestly proud of how the finished product turned out, so, much like Lexi and Drew’s relationship development, this story might have happened exactly when it was meant to. 😊 That was a tricky, but I felt really important part of the story. Meaningful Gifts is a kind of incest story I rarely see. Usually in these stories the sibling relationship starts off completely normal, and then something happens that causes it to shift. I can see why this premise is used, as it works with the basic storytelling structure of the status quo and its disruption by the inciting incident of the plot. However, this was a different approach, about a brother and sister who have been inching toward an incestuous relationship for the majority of their lives, a journey of a thousand tiny steps instead of one or two huge leaps. Thus, it became very much the story of a life together, so the flashbacks were snapshots of this long, gradual evolution of their relationship toward something romantic. I was particularly fond of what you mentioned regarding the bed, because it wasn’t precisely sexual, but instead about this sense of deep emotional intimacy, and how much the siblings have come to enjoy and draw comfort from each other’s physical touch without even really thinking about it, how that started as a way to comfort each other in childhood and now became this deeply cozy form of intimacy. The messed up childhood was part of that, explaining why Lexi and Drew have always been intensely close. Their parents were never outright abusive, but at the same time they were a source of anxiety and stress, which meant the siblings had each other’s backs for most of their lives, leading to an abnormally close bond which just continued to grow, even after they got way from their parents. Thank you! 😊 That was a very late addition, actually, emerging when I was trying to structure the dialogue exchange there in the epilogue, but I think it’s very appropriate. Even if that final step into the sexual dimension of their relationship happened very organically, I like this idea that when they realized it was happening, both siblings needed to consider it and make sure it was what they really wanted before they went further. Me too! There are a few little callbacks like that, but that was the most prominent, and is probably my favorite. In the vein of the general vibe I was going for, it felt both kind of sweet and hot. Ok, so amusingly, the choker had been around for a while, but the chemise was something that only materialized in my head in December. When designing the actual gift-giving scene, I’d known for a long time, like at least a year, about Drew’s “for my soulmate” card, and then later settled on him giving his sister some kind of necklace, something that you could give a sibling, but that feels more romantic given the context of the card. I hadn’t thought a ton about Lexi’s half of the scene, until December when I suddenly panicked because it hit me: Oh shit, what did she get for him? It had to be something more explicitly for a romantic partner, since Lexi was more confident about this in general, and was also going to be the one to guide her little brother through sex, but I wasn’t sure. I finally thought “What if it’s something she wears for him?” and lo and behold, there were holiday sales going that allowed some manner of slip or sexy nightgown to be bought within the financial constraints I’d established for the siblings. I used a photo of a real item I saw available online as reference for Lexi’s chemise. I do have to go back to the choker for a moment, though, because that is one that is very up my alley. I’m not sure why, but when thinking for writing erotic fiction, there is something extremely hot to me about a woman wearing nothing but a necklace, and the contrast of the black lace band against her fair skin was really striking and hot. Glad it worked for more people than just me! 😄 Aaand she won’t be the last tall, well-endowed woman I write! Much appreciated on the point of sensuality, though. I wanted this to be...well, as you said: That is my favorite kind of sex scene, and it’s also fairly rare in terms of what I’ve found in my reading: spicy and sweet. It was very appropriate here, given the emotional context it takes place in. It’s also a reason I’m thankful that this took a little longer to write than it would have otherwise, because I feel like I only got it right during my second attempt at the scene. It is interesting to think about this in the context of another story I must get to some day. There are important differences, but this almost served like a training run for The Spider House. Yua is also a tall, full-chested woman who is deeply sensual a lot of the time, Cody comes from an unpleasant home and their first time together is likely to have some similarities to this. Hopefully I haven’t set a bar so high that TSH can’t measure up! Honestly, I am! I did have to go back and edit a few things even after posting it, but they were mostly minor tweaks here and there. By and large, I’m pretty proud of this one. 😊

Category name: Zootopia Section category to be in: Cartoons > +S through Z Do you have any stories for it?: Yep. It feels weird and wrong that this very popular movie came out 9 years ago and yet no one has requested a category for it until now.

@GeorgeGlass Kind of dark poetry maybe. Not quite like my main man Edgar Allan Poe but possibly a start? Thanks for reminding me of this. It was hard to keep it in the limit for the challenge but definitely seems to have worked. BTW Just wait until Karen finds the culprit!

I found the story in the archive and added my poem, “What Am I to You?” IR, would you post the link to the story so others won’t have to go searching for it?