WillowDarkling

I’ve been thinking about this most of the afternoon, and it happened in 2008, probably somewhere in February or March most likely. If memory serves I discovered anime that spring, more precisely Death Note, and a little while later Bleach. And googling the interwebs to find out the name of the intro-song in Death Note, I somehow stumbled upon fan fiction. Surprisingly enough, the Pit instantly felt all kinds of wrong, so I never ventured there. Somewhere in these aimless wanderings of the dark alleys of the World Wide Web, I stumbled across of all things, a Supernatural fan fiction, and since that was another silly thing I liked, I followed that rabbit and found AFF. 
I honestly can’t remember exactly how it happened, but I do remember that it had something to do with Supernatural, Death Note, and Bleach, and then in the process I not only discovered AFF but also my favourite band, Nightmare.  

I think the problem here is that you phrase it as “...fan fiction using characters from the Harry Potter world...” That is not enough, since the archive moderators need to see a fandom disclaimer. So, I suggest something along the lines of “This is a work of fan fiction. Harry Potter is owned by J.K. Rowling...” and then the rest as you have it is fine. 
Willow Darkling, forum moderator. 
Edit: And I moved this to a more appropriate forum. 

I think the problem here is that you phrase it as “...fan fiction using characters from the Harry Potter world...” That is not enough, since the archive moderators need to see a fandom disclaimer. So, I suggest something along the lines of “This is a work of fan fiction. Harry Potter is owned by J.K. Rowling...” and then the rest as you have it is fine. 
Willow Darkling, forum moderator. 
Edit: And I moved this to a more appropriate forum. 

Found it
From First Sight by yaoilovers

I always let the IRL Scary know when someone is looking for Nomads, or other stories, just as a bit of a “Hey, you know this is good when,”  pat on the back with the hope that maybe, just maybe someday, Scary will write again. 
 

I’m doing my best to send you some rain, @Melrick, I promise. It’s been almost dry here for two days now, so maybe it’s working… ::crosses everything, knocks on wood, shouts, “seven, nine, thirteen!!”:: Stay safe, and I hope my little loves will be safe down there too. 

I’m doing my best to send you some rain, @Melrick, I promise. It’s been almost dry here for two days now, so maybe it’s working… ::crosses everything, knocks on wood, shouts, “seven, nine, thirteen!!”:: Stay safe, and I hope my little loves will be safe down there too. 

Honestly @Melrick  if I could, I would mail you some rain. I’ve got people I love very much down there in NSW, and I swear every time I hear that there are brushfires down there, it makes my heart sink. But this weather is just getting ridiculous all over the planet. 

For anyone who’s interested, Ghost’s Dilemma is available for preorder on July 27 from Nine Star Press:
https://ninestarpress.com/product/ghosts-dilemma/
I’m really excited about this one, since I’ve made some edits and I think it’s a lot stronger now. So, for anyone who reads it, thank you!

You are all very welcome to take some of the rain… I’ll trade you, as many rainy days as you all want, for a week here and a week there, and a frigging warm autumn! Honestly, we are not famous for our fabulous long balmy summer days up here (other than, you know the sun never fucking going the fuck down, so in that sense, the summer days are the longest) seeing as how 34°C (I thinkz) is the highest temperature on record since we began recording, and that was hit somewhere up in buttfucknowhere-mountains. But for fuck’s sake, summer weather is not supposed to be WET… and I mean that in the most literal sense of the word. It’s either raining or just wet… too light to be rain, but too dense to be fog, so just fucking wet… And I swear, if the rain follows me to NYC, I’m sacrificing a baby goat or something… ::exits stage left, and grabs the wine on the way out::

You are all very welcome to take some of the rain… I’ll trade you, as many rainy days as you all want, for a week here and a week there, and a frigging warm autumn! Honestly, we are not famous for our fabulous long balmy summer days up here (other than, you know the sun never fucking going the fuck down, so in that sense, the summer days are the longest) seeing as how 34°C (I thinkz) is the highest temperature on record since we began recording, and that was hit somewhere up in buttfucknowhere-mountains. But for fuck’s sake, summer weather is not supposed to be WET… and I mean that in the most literal sense of the word. It’s either raining or just wet… too light to be rain, but too dense to be fog, so just fucking wet… And I swear, if the rain follows me to NYC, I’m sacrificing a baby goat or something… ::exits stage left, and grabs the wine on the way out::

From a personal standpoint, I’d love to have an update feature that sends me an email. But from the other side of the issue, I also know it’s not as easy to code in features as people think because we’re working with what’s become a custom piece of coding in the archive. We can’t simply add in features we like, as we can do in the forum, because there’s no library of features for us to browse. Our coder has to write something that will work with the rest of the code seamlessly, and that’s not always possible.
In a perfect world, i.e., one in which I win a huge lottery, I’d give AFF the money to purchase a brand new, super powerful package for the archive, and hire lots of minions to carefully migrate the databases to the new package. The reality is that we’re all volunteers running this place on a shoestring budget which barely covers the cost of hosting the archive. There isn’t anything left for buying software. We do amazingly well with what we have, though, I think.

The short answer is Yes. We set no rules on how many writers can take on a challenge, just as long as they do not copy each other’s work. So, the only thing to watch out for is to not end up writing something that could be taken as a copy of a previous story. 
Of course, if a poster of a challenge or a request clearly states that only a certain number of people can take on the challenge or request, then we ask that people respect that, but we do not actively monitor such requests. Those are at the original poster’s responsibility. 
 
Willow Darkling, forum moderator. 

We are not affiliated with Literotica or any other fiction archive. We enforce our rules on our site, and that’s all. 

And it’s out!
Amazon:  https://www.amazon.com/Ghosts-Sight-Witchs-Apprentice-Book-ebook/dp/B07DH6TFMF
NineStar Press: https://ninestarpress.com/product/ghosts-sight/  (Download offers both ePub and mobi formats)
 

Oh, Bronxie probably went through a couple of versions of that, before she got to the polite response, Melrick    And I’m moving this to GSQ, since it doesn’t belong here… 

Oh, Bronxie probably went through a couple of versions of that, before she got to the polite response, Melrick    And I’m moving this to GSQ, since it doesn’t belong here… 

Was there someone in particular you were looking to find?
I’ve been moderating here for the past 7 years. I’ve seen people come and go, largely based on how their real life has changed. Maybe they’ve graduated from college or university, and don’t have as much free time for writing fan fiction. Some people have moved on to being published. Some have returned after a break.
AFF, like any other Internet site, is in a constant state of evolution and that reflects the way our membership is always evolving. There’s still a good many original members around, but we’ve also gotten some amazing new members who are well worth discovering.

See, this is why I didn’t respond first, because I knew Bronx would be able to find a less offensive way to say “What in the actual fuck are you talking about?”

Oh, Bronxie probably went through a couple of versions of that, before she got to the polite response, Melrick    And I’m moving this to GSQ, since it doesn’t belong here… 

Links are allowed, as long as you put some kind of a description before them to explain what they contain. It should be enough to put something like “Fully clothed” or “NSFW, partial/full nudity/revealing clothing” in the description and any other details you think could be necessary. We are still working out what exactly would be needed in a description of a link, but for now it’s enough to just mark it for NSFW – nudity content. 
As long as you are in the process of writing a story and intend to post it in the Archive, then it’s alright. 
Willow Darkling, forum moderator. 

Brilliant, George  If you need help with anything of that sort, just let me know. And it looks like someone posted a comment for your thread on this thread.  

As Bronx said the Aimless Babble forum is restricted to members. But you can create a thread for discussions in the appropriate Fan Fiction forum like Melrick pointed out, just label or title it as such. I’ve seen a number of our users do this. If you already have some kind of a discussion going in your Aimless Babble forum thread that you would like moved to the new thread, just let us know and I can move it. 

It looks awesome, love! Congratulations, I’m so happy for you! 

Cat dropped down from the rafters to land silently on the bar right next to Fred as Foe started walking towards the cage. Cat meowed softly, and pawed at the black leather coin pouch that had just materialised on the table in front of him. 
“You too,” Fred asked with an indignant huff as he looked at the crescent moon done in dark blue leather on the side of the pouch. “You cheat.” 
Cat meowed again and slammed a paw on the pouch, and Fred huffed again. “Alright, alright. On Foe?” The cat chuffed at him and nodded its head. Fred rolled his eyes and grabbed the pouch, dropping it next to Bronx’s pouch. “You still cheat, you hairball,” he grumbled, and rolled his eyes again when the cat chuffed louder, then sat up as tall as he could, long tail wrapped around his feet and craned his neck to see the fight when Foe put the half human to sleep with only a simple nerve pinch. 
Fred glanced at the cat and muttered, “That’s not cheating. He should have watched his back.” 
One of the elven waiters put a small saucer on the bar next to the cat as he walked past and whispered, “I’d still call that cheating. He didn’t know the rules.” Cat chuffed again, then bent down and tasted the cider with a purr. The elf always gave him the best cider.