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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. 😅

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]

Oh, I didn’t realize this was actually on the table as a possibility. Good to know. I’m liking the upgrades you’re making so far.

It’s not there yet, right now we are in the process of doing a site wide code upgrade. A link to the development beta will be available to members near the end of December.

I have wondered something similar in the past. Sometimes it feels good to know who likes you.

I am sure we can manage.

This made me think about how many authors I’d recommended. I mean, there’s been a few writers I’ve really enjoyed over the years, so I went and looked. Zero! Zilch! Nada! Sweet Fanny Adams! The square root of fuck all! My “recommended authors” page has less names than the 2025 member’s list at the Harvey Weinstein appreciation society. No idea why I never engaged with the author recommending feature, considering I was at least vaguely active on the archive for a while there. At least I apparently recommended a few indvidual stories over the years on the recommended reading page. Stuck a story link or two in my forum sig. I suppose one way to look at is an author as regularly active and established as George only ended up with 150 odd recs out of all those users slamming the view count up on every story, and in a related point otherwise engaged/active users like me just never even used the feature, not receiving receving a rec doesn’t really mean anything bad.

I’m pretty sure I’m getting old, but I’m in denial.

OMG that works! It pulls up both “Recommended Authors” and “Recommended Reading” lists, but that’s great because it creates a vast pool of other authors and stories I might like to check out. Thank you! I’m not sure about the alt account thing, though. Jan has a lot of time on her hands these days.

That’s a feature on the Site > Members menu, showing the top 50 recommended authors, and should be available to anyone from the archive home page. (Just click on the three little bars, and you’ll see the submenus.) It’s a fun little Easter egg, I think!

Ask and you shall receive! https://original.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600110635

Hey, so a bit random but while just messing around trying to get back into my archive account I saw there’s now the most recommended authors listed on the members page (I don't remember it before!) sadly it doesn’t say who has George recommended, but I couldn’t help but go “Wow” at the numbers there. After George at number one, the most recommended authors at 2-5 only just have more recs combined than George does on his own! A very popular author, it seems, I for one am hoping to find time to read that Zootopia fic. I do like me some rabbit cop. And it would surely be nice to read a Zootopia fanwork that doesn’t leave me thinking Arby’s. Well, unless it does. I assume she gets the meat at any rate. The page I was stumbled on with the list: https://members.adult-fanfiction.org/ (-does everyone else see that table at the top? Wasn’t sure if it was just showing because of how I reached it or something. “Top 50 Recommended Authors”?) And back on topic slightly, I think a google search using a search string like this in bold would bring up most of the recommended authors pages with your username on it, probably missing some, but worth a shot if you then had time to click through them all to see! I’m sure they can’t all be Jan Brady’s alt accounts 😛 site:members.adult-fanfiction.org "recommended authors" "GeorgeGlass"

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?

I find myself without any good story ideas. But I’ll do a flashfic or another poem if inspiration strikes.

Okay, I just have to share this because relevance.

*dies laughing* I’m telling you, that would be my luck! And I’d probably get extra lashings for random abuse of Gaeilge while they’re at it.

Woo! Freestyling! <3

@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 have not seen that word before, but googling it shows it is a very accurate description. Good that you enjoyed it. There are meant to be more and more situations when Ronja participates kind of willing, but normally with a different outcome than what Ronja would have preferred. I totally agree about the preference for bestiality. She would have gone there eventually no matter what Mark did to satisfy her. Indeed. As for mutual assured destruction I would say that Maria is finally starting to trying to play it smart, but she is not ruthless enough to really win the game. Mikaela have reasons to think that Maria won’t go through with her threats, but the same does not hold with the landlord. He is probably the most decent, but I think Mark is not too bad. He might take advantage of nude hypnotized girls, but besides that he is rather okay. It is also worth to notice that Ronja has been asking to spend time with him after they had sex at the school so he has good reason to believe she have the hots for him. Maybe working with the story has warped my perspective a bit...taking advantage of hypnotized girl is rather nasty when you view it from a real world perspective. 😉 I will looking forward for another thoughtful review from you. Many thanks for the review!

@FairySlayer What a lovely comment. I grew up in the Northeast, and I still miss the snow. Nothing else can transform the world around you the way snow does.

I’m still at zero recommendations, so no need to reverse-see who’s signed up.

You are very welcome!

Thank you! That has worked. I really appreciated the step by step guide. it must be tough making things fool proof when the fools get down to my level! I’ve made a note for it somewhere I am less likely to lose it this time. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if I wrote the old one down, picked it up a year later and went “No, that sounds unhygenic” and threw it out. Your time and effort for the site is as ever appreciated!

No problem at all! I didn’t think about the Reading one, but it makes sense it’d come up same way. Google has been come increasingly, well, less than great, but it’s nice to see some of the old search string modifiers pulling through in 2025. BronxWench – It’s a really neat little feature for the site! Yeah, I probably clicked through just as you indicated above to find it, but couldn’t actually remember when I came to post, heh. I may be getting old.

Re: “What Am I to You?” @InvidiaRed “A delightful ode to snow and the tranquil quiet of winter! Well Done!” Thank you! I’ve always loved the eerie but beautiful silence that a blanket of snow brings.

No worries! I’ve sent the links via email.

I wrote a poem for this year’s AFF Winter Holiday. It’s called “What Am I to You?”

45917 Well, whoever gets there first is the champion and has bragging rights.

Brilliant!

Posted! Lol. So might have gotten a tad carried away with homemade eggnog.

Will post December 1

*Bronx opens the door to find two men in suits standing outside* ”We work for the Irish government, and we hear you’ve been telling an unhealthy amount of stories about faeries...” “...The Irish government reads Adult Fanfiction?” “DON’T QUESTION OUR METHODS!”

From GeorgeGlass on November 24, 2025 "Leaffall"Once again, you've written a story soaked in Celtic myth and dripping with drama. I have to wonder what the ultimate outcome will be for Darri after selling his soul (No afterlife? Bound to the water fae forever?), but he did win Angaine her freedom and got a bonus water-breathing ability on top of that. He'll probably be persona non grata in the human world unless he starts wearing sunglasses or something (I recently watched Blue Eye Samurai, so...), and he's not fae either, but being half this and half that is a great start to becoming a legendary hero. Or else a cool bartender at an edgy tavern. Great story! Thank you! Darri was just a victim throughout the story, the village idiot so to speak, and the only one who was consistently decent to him was Angaine, so of course he’d want to win her freedom. The fact that she was merely using him as her errand boy didn’t matter to Darri, although I do think she felt some measure of guilt when the sea fae took him. As far as the Cailleach Mhara, she didn’t really care that Darri was making a less than informed choice either. She had her own ends in mind, to protect her people, and taking a human soul was the means to that end. What it would mean for him to be soulless was largely irrelevant, which is why deals with the fae are never a good idea. The only one who acted to help Darri was the Wavesinger, and he destroyed an entire human village in the process, along with Angaine. Again, fae ethics are not inclined to include humans, even if the Wavesinger saw Darri as someone to be honored for sacrificing his soul. If I had to guess, I would say Darri and the Wavesinger are going to swim off and become the lead characters in an underwater buddy movie, overturning human fishing boats and sneaking into human villages to drink a little blood…

@InBrightestDayFrom InBrightestDay on November 16, 2025 The intent wasn’t to get you thinking of any particular movie, but yes, we’re all armchair quarterbacks when it comes to judging the decision-making of horror-movie protagonists. You’d kind of hope that were we in the same scenario, we’d remember that its smarter to run out the front door than down into the basement or up to the attic (thank you, Sydney from Scream), but you just never know what snap judgments you might make. Thanks for the comments!

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