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  1. JayDee
    It’s the holiday season again. Celebratory times down in the village. The lights are up, the tinsel’s out, Old Tup and his fellows are a’roaming for beer money. Locals keep thanking me for ensuring the sun will come back over the next few years. Not really sure what they mean, but as I’ve been invited to be guest of honour at the seven yearly village feast I’ll put up with the local turns of phrase. Last feast was just before I moved here, actually. Oddly enough, the guy who rented Blot Cottage before me was guest of honour then. Poor guy tripped and fell on a “flint knapped biface”,whatever that is, up Ritual Rock on the moor where they have the feast, I heard, so it became available at a great price. I hope you all have a nice time as well! Seasons greetings to all of you!
    6 points
  2. manta2g
    I’m currently looking for active forum members interested in beta testing the New Archives system that is currently under development. Message me if interested.
    3 points
  3. Deadman
    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.
    3 points
  4. manta2g
    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.
    3 points
  5. Deadman
    I have wondered something similar in the past. Sometimes it feels good to know who likes you.
    3 points
  6. InvidiaRed

    Winter Holiday 2025 is UP!

    GeorgeGlass and 2 others reacted to InvidiaRed for a status update

    Winter Holiday 2025 is UP!
    3 points
  7. InBrightestDay

    Halloween 2025

    GeorgeGlass and 2 others reacted to InBrightestDay for a topic

    Alright, that took longer than I’d expected. Invidia also has my apologies if there are a million notifications for a review, because I kept trying to fix a problem with the review of BW’s story, which meant deleting the review and resubmitting it. I put emphasis on “trying” because ultimately, the site seemed insistent upon crunching the entire review into a single block of text, removing all the spaces between paragraphs. I am sorry for how much of a pain that is to read, as it was not my intention. 😅
    3 points
  8. DemonGoddess

    Happy Birthday!

    GeorgeGlass and one other reacted to DemonGoddess for a status update

    Happy Birthday!
    2 points
  9. JayDee
    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.
    2 points
  10. BronxWench
    I’m pretty sure I’m getting old, but I’m in denial.
    2 points
  11. GeorgeGlass
    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.
    2 points
  12. BronxWench
    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!
    2 points
  13. JayDee
    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"
    2 points
  14. Ghost-of-a-Chance
    I’ve said countless times before, on various platforms, that I’ve given Spotify an identity crisis with how varied my listening habits are. My 2025 Wrapped dropped the other day, and hoo-boy. It’s a mess. My most listened to songs were Labour (Cacophony) and Rasputin; I play them on repeat as background noise while editing so the whine of all the electronics, the sound of the furnace, and even my own breathing won’t drive my misophonic ass bonkers. (I’ve tried countless other sounds, playlists, and various colors of noise, but it all either irritates my ears – my hearing is mildly fucked – or it has “water” sounds that make me need to pee every five minutes. The best substitute I’ve found is, oddly enough, a celtic band that combines bagpipes with hide drums, but I have to tweak the hell out of my sound settings to make it not painful.) My most listened to artist, on the other hand, was Steeleye Span; I listen to a custom folk playlist when I’m trying to write or edit for a certain story that isn’t going anywhere, and it’s disproportionately full of Steeleye Span. My most listened to playlist, however, is 11+ hours of nonstop oldies; it’s “safe” for when I’m outside, with family, or both. Because it’s gotten so much play, the app pegged me as over 70 years old. My second-most listened to list is full of punk, emo, and nu-metal, so I guess it assumed I’m letting my nonexistent grandbaby mooch off my account. I’m a millennial. They just stopped carding me. Ouch. I feel like I should apologize for gaslighting the app, but...yeah. Nah. I’ve got work to do and my brain is working against me enough. (You sure make me do a whole lotta labour.)
    2 points
  15. GeorgeGlass
    Okay, I just have to share this because relevance.
    2 points
  16. InvidiaRed

    Happy Turkey Day! <3

    BronxWench and one other reacted to InvidiaRed for a status update

    Happy Turkey Day! <3
    2 points
  17. Desiderius Price
    For those that celebrate it today, HAPPY THANKSGIVING! p.s. Also, remember to set your bathroom scales back 10 to 20 pounds.
    2 points
  18. BronxWench
    *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.
    2 points
  19. InBrightestDay
    *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!”
    2 points
  20. GeorgeGlass
    @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!
    2 points
  21. BronxWench

    Halloween 2025

    InBrightestDay and one other reacted to BronxWench for a topic

    It’s a wonderful review—thank you!
    2 points
  22. InvidiaRed

    Halloween 2025

    InBrightestDay and one other reacted to InvidiaRed for a topic

    I was wondering why my phone was randomly going off. lol.
    2 points
  23. Desiderius Price
    I’m still at zero recommendations, so no need to reverse-see who’s signed up.
    1 point
  24. BronxWench
    You are very welcome!
    1 point
  25. JayDee
    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!
    1 point
  26. JayDee
    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.
    1 point
  27. GeorgeGlass
    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.
    1 point
  28. BronxWench
    No worries! I’ve sent the links via email.
    1 point
  29. InvidiaRed

    Winter Holiday 2025

    GeorgeGlass reacted to InvidiaRed for a topic

    Ask and you shall receive! https://original.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600110635
    1 point
  30. GeorgeGlass
    I wrote a poem for this year’s AFF Winter Holiday. It’s called “What Am I to You?”
    1 point
  31. GeorgeGlass

    Winter Holiday 2025

    InvidiaRed reacted to GeorgeGlass for a topic

    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?
    1 point
  32. InvidiaRed

    BronxWench reacted to InvidiaRed for a status update

    1 point
  33. Melrick

    Count To Infinity

    Desiderius Price reacted to Melrick for a topic

    45917 Well, whoever gets there first is the champion and has bragging rights.
    1 point
  34. GeorgeGlass

    Winter Holiday 2025

    InvidiaRed reacted to GeorgeGlass for a topic

    I find myself without any good story ideas. But I’ll do a flashfic or another poem if inspiration strikes.
    1 point
  35. BronxWench
    Brilliant!
    1 point
  36. InvidiaRed

    Winter Holiday 2025

    BronxWench reacted to InvidiaRed for a topic

    Posted! Lol. So might have gotten a tad carried away with homemade eggnog.
    1 point
  37. InvidiaRed

    Winter Holiday 2025

    BronxWench reacted to InvidiaRed for a topic

    Will post December 1
    1 point
  38. InBrightestDay

    Halloween 2025

    InvidiaRed reacted to InBrightestDay for a topic

    🥰
    1 point
  39. BronxWench
    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…
    1 point
  40. InBrightestDay

    Halloween 2025

    GeorgeGlass reacted to InBrightestDay for a topic

    Well, as you all know, I was able to make progress on The Lake House, but not to finish it by a week after Halloween. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, though, because I was struggling with how to integrate the theme of the piece into the ending, and it wasn’t until after the deadline had passed that I realized how I might be able to use it. So the extra time will (hopefully) lead to a better end product when it’s finally completed. I’ll keep working on The Lake House, and will either post it when it’s finished or throw it into the ring next Halloween season (fingers crossed that things are still stable for me next Halloween). In the meantime, I’m working on Meaningful Gifts again and have left reviews for both Invidia’s and George’s chapters of the Halloween story. I’ll read BW’s chapter on break at work tomorrow!
    1 point
  41. BronxWench

    Check your email!

    QueenBoadicea reacted to BronxWench for a topic

    Our amazing manta2g has begun to roll out the emails to all our members, asking everyone to verify their email address and reset their password. This is the first phase of unlocking the site, and I'm pretty excited about it! Please keep an eye out for our email, and follow the directions to verify your email address and reset your password. As always, if you run into any issues, you can email us at tos_team@adult-fanfiction.org or give us a shout over on the forums. EDIT: Okay. I just got MY email, and I copied and pasted the validation link (first link) into a new browser tab. I backed out the “password” at the end, hit enter, and it worked. I then clicked the password reset link in the email, and I was immediately taken to the password reset page, where I successfully updated my password. I have NO clue why it worked for me when it’s not working for other members, but there we are.
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