WillowDarkling

We don’t mind really, if the story is posted elsewhere and a link to it is put in the response to the challenge, but this forum is meant to be for users of Adult-fanfiction.org, so, if the story isn’t posted in our Archive, we would prefer that the readers not use this forum to discuss it. I can’t see what’s strange about that rule. 
 
Willow Darkling, Forum Moderator. 

Nope, none at all. 

The new layout was done to accommodate mobile users, and the side menus, while admittedly more convenient from my perspective as a devoted desktop user and as someone who trawls through every archive while moderating, were not going to work.
There’s always some give and take, and as much as we’d like to, we’re not going to please everyone. However, we’re hoping this makes it easier for the growing number of our members who want to do everything on their mobile devices. The rest of us will eventually get used to the extra steps (says the cranky old dragon who still uses a Galaxy IIIs phone on purpose).

Just letting you girls know, I just checked… took me a moment to find the login, but you know, this is me we’re talking about… but, I managed to log in, then hovered over my penname and clicked profile, not selecting anything from the drop down menu, and it took me to my profile. But, seemed to log me out at the same time. At least my penname at the right hand side of the menubar, it said “Login” again. Don’t know if it helps anything, or if it’s just me and shit’s going to blow up in a bit… 
::looks around suspiciously:: This is me… I breathe in the general direction of your tech stuff and it blows up… you’ve all seen it happen, girls! 
And just because I’m your neko, I liked the old style better  I know it’s done for the mobile friendly thing, but you know I hate change   ::runs away to hide in the cardboard box::
 
UPDATE: I closed the Archive, wrote this post here, then went back to the Archive… and was still logged in   See, I told you it was my utter lack of technical understanding…   I’m going to bed. Had a final and a presentation today, and got review and a final I’m thoroughly unprepared for tomorrow… Love y’all, and see yous laters! 

I deleted my works too from AO3. I left a note on my profile, lightly plagiarized from Bronxie  but I think that’s ok. Pippychick. 

I deleted my works too from AO3. I left a note on my profile, lightly plagiarized from Bronxie  but I think that’s ok. Pippychick. 

I deleted my works too from AO3. I left a note on my profile, lightly plagiarized from Bronxie  but I think that’s ok. Pippychick. 

I deleted my works too from AO3. I left a note on my profile, lightly plagiarized from Bronxie  but I think that’s ok. Pippychick. 

Probably goes up to like 83/17 in favor of killing you, if you add in the DropBears... Those guys are just brutal...

Merry Christmas!

From my house to yours, the very brightest of holiday seasons, and all possible joy in the year to come!
 

Have a safe holiday season!

On a side note, once you create that topic, I can easily split off the replies and conversation in this one, and merge them to it.

I moved the discussion parts to the story topic

The FAQ threads will explain how to create an archive profile, and post story content there. Make sure you read the parts about disclaimers, too. Oh, and check out the Terms of Service. We actively moderate, and we do enforce it.

November 6, 2016
Firstly, I'd like to welcome all the new users we're seeing daily! Glad to have you here! Please do familiarize yourself with the Terms of Service and Content Guidelines. This IS a moderated archive. The news posts are always posted to the forum as well, and one does need to register to talk with staff about the news post. Click the forum link!
Software Upgrade
Thank you to all of you for your patience through the process. We all appreciate it!
The front end has a few more things to have done. Currently, manta2g is developing a new menu which will be mobile friendly/accessible. After that, she'll be working on selectable skins. Of course, the other bells and whistles you've all asked for as well, such as one click add to rec reading, currently reading, and etc. These are all on her to-do for that.
PHP has been upgraded to version 5.6.x. ALL the software is compliant, up to version 7 of PHP.
The forum has been updated to the latest version. The bug tracker is now here.
The Black Diamonds from Hell
This is a result of the character conversion, and the many, many character sets which lived in the database at the time. What happened was, where the character sets were not latin1, as they should have been, the conversion changed the character set to ANSI (Western, Windows-1252) instead of utf-8. The good part, is that means that the data was not lost, as I was expecting. The bad part is the damn diamonds. I’ve written up something to show you HOW to change your browser encoding so that the diamonds show as the punctuation that they are.
In the meantime, we are going through each story manually, and finishing the character set conversion. This is time consuming, so please use the information at the above link. The only subdomain that is finished with the finalizing of the conversion is books. I’m currently working buffy, and the other gal is working in cartoon. Once I finish in buffy, I will move on to celeb, and so on. I will let you know as each subdomain is finished.
Ad Blockers
Our banners are embedded in the site skin. They do not pop up or under. As we use banners to pay the bulk of the site expenses, please consider whitelisting the site in your ad blocking software. We’d greatly appreciate it!
Unlimited subcategory levels
With this ability FINALLY in place, I’m starting to implement it. Where you see this, such as in the books subdomain, where I’ve already moved Anita Blake and Twilight back to their parent categories (where they should be, after all), an empty category will display the latest listing. Be sure to click the menu at the left to get to the story listings for the categories. Non posting categories are, by their nature, EMPTY. Manta2g has told me that she will make it so that the non posting categories will not display the listing where they are children of top level categories. This should make it less confusing.
 
Reviewing
We’ve made some big changes to the review process. The biggest one is removing the REQUIREMENT of inputting an email address to make an anonymous review. Now, you simply leave the review. Just remember to add your pen name where it’s asked for, so that the author knows who it is!
While I’m on the subject of reviews, I’d just like to remind readers that the authors get paid nothing for what they do. I’m not saying leave a review to fluff ‘em. What I AM saying is that at least acknowledge you read what they wrote. Maybe it’s an old fashioned thing because I’m an older gal, but I feel if I’m going to take the time to READ something, I’ll take the extra minute or so it takes to acknowledge I read the chapter (or in some instances one shot). When I have more time to be more verbose, I am. BUT, even when I don’t HAVE a lot of time, I still at least say that “hey, I read it, and thank you for the update” or something along those lines.
To the authors, a reminder that you can set or unset whether or not you receive anonymous reviews in the first place. Not all authors want anonymous reviews, which is why the option is left TO the author. The author is also able to set or unset whether or not to receive an email when a review is left.
Story Tags
One of the other things we do, as we go through each chapter, is to go through the story properties and remove the non-searchable characters from the tags. With the search made to where you can search with two or more characters, instead of four or more; this made it so you can search the tag field itself now. In order for it to work properly, this means that the ‘/’, ‘&’, ‘-’ and other characters like that that are not searchable have to be removed from the tags themselves. i.e. M/M becomes MM, M/F become MF, etc.
Dribs, Drabs and Doggy Tales
This is the forum where they all are listed. This is the current one. These are open ended, so if one set of words doesn't work for your muse, look at others!
Funding Status
As always, we appreciate and thank everyone who can donate. It's certainly not required of the users, but every little bit helps! I'm in the process of setting aside an emergency fund, equal to 3 times the monthly expenses. That will be noted on the donation page as well.
Deletion notification
For Accounts
When deleting an account because the user is underage, a plagiarist, or whatever else would be a reason to delete one entirely, we do NOT send a notification.
For Stories
When deleting stories, this is done for non compliance with the ToS. Stories are HIDDEN long before they are deleted. The user is told there is an issue, and given 7 days to comply before the story is hidden. Upon hiding, the story is left for 30 or more days (it ends up being more when I have a heavy work load IRL) before it is deleted. If the issue is CORRECTED, the story is restored to public view.
Disposable email
Disposable emails are not checked, and we don’t allow registration with them. Upon finding an account registered with a disposable email address, it is deleted.
Broken resource links
Thank you to the users who thwacked me with the information that they weren’t working. I feel terrible, I should have looked when the forum had its last big upgrade. I saw the change in path, and it just didn’t occur to me to check the linkage in the site pages. Sorry about that, but it’s now fixed.
Email address visibility
By default, the email address is hidden when you register. It will only display if you put it in the bio area of your profile.
Tech Bits
Archive Cleanup
Now, because of the new tools that I (and other staff who do this with me) have at our disposal, this should proceed at a much faster pace. For example, I fixed a 52 chapter story with errors from the old crash in 4 ½ hours last week. That same story, fixing it the way I had to before, would’ve taken me roughly 40 hours to get the exact same results. The new tools make it so I cut out several steps in the process, as I no longer have to do this all directly in the database itself. It also means that the people who help me with clean up, can help me with this part as well, not just finding the issues and giving them to me, which is what we did before.
Something which I do want to stress with you all, is that I completely agree with what was said during the restoral after the big crash in 2005. It’s really not the responsibility of the users to fix all this. It’s the SITE’S responsibility. This is why I don’t insist that people fix it themselves. Does it help to have users do this to? Sure it does! But, I don’t expect it, as it’s the responsibility of the site.
Tech support, directions given
Just to reiterate, when I email out step by DIRECTIONS on how to do something, that is exactly what they are. Not suggestions, but directions. If followed as stepped out, it works very well. This means that the user must follow them in the order the steps are given.

Please remember that the authors you read do like to hear from you! Leave them a review or two, and let them know how they're doing!
DemonGoddess061
 
P.S. On a PERSONAL note! My team won the World Series! I’ve been waiting my entire LIFE for this!!!!!
Okay, I’m done spazzing about it for ya. - DG

I’ve heard agents can be incredibly rude unless you’re a “name.” 
I’ve also heard that increasingly, authors are managing to get published without an agent, and can also publicize their books, and go on blog tours, and reach out to readers all without that pesky agent, and the hand in the pocket. Just sayin’…

Ahem. *Gets on soap box*

What the fuck? I mean seriously what the fuck? How the shit can an agent reject a query letter with material within three hours of receiving it and then have the audacity to say “I’d give you feed back but it’d be overwhelming” in your form letter with links that have nothing at all to do with the material sent. The shit? Seriously? Are you fucking kidding me? As someone who is college educated you can’t analyze dick in three hours to come up with “overwhelming” anything—assuming you read it the instant I sent the fucking thing. Why don’t they just say the truth, “I glanced at it and don’t feel like reading it sorry.” I’d rather have that than some flat out blatant impossible lie. I’m fine with the rejection, I’m not fine with the glaringly obvious bullshit response. That is all. *Huffs and climbs off soap box*

TL:DR

What the fuck form letters.

Name (of challenge): Black Butler Name of challenger (as in your name): Ice Demon Allysandra Fandom(s): Black Butler Due date (if applicable): Anytime Pairings/characters: Sebastion/Ciel Summary: What if Sebastion changed his mind and allowed Ciel to grow up instead of taking his soul? Sebastion's returned to Hell and Ciel, now 18, is about to marry Elizabeth. Suddenly, his old butler returns to claim something other than a soul: Ciel as his mate/bride. Ciel's not the master anymore. Other details: Non-con if you wish, a little AU of course, kidnapping, mpreg, crossdressing…. the sky's the limit. How I would like to be contacted if someone takes this challenge: ice_demon_allysandra@yahoo.com  Reply  8m ago #2

I’d like to offer paid commission for stories here.  Is that allowed?
No.  That’s the short answer.  And now a more detailed answered for those of you who don’t have the attention span of a hyperactive 2 year old.
Firstly, let’s be clear what we mean by ‘paid commission’.  Basically, you want someone to pay you money to write a certain kind of story.  The commissioner might have the exact details in mind, or they might only supply you with the very basics and leave the rest up to you.  We don’t allow these.
There’s an extremely good reason why we don’t allow paid commission on fan fiction: It’s illegal!  Always has been, always will be.  You can’t profit from someone else’s copy-written works; that’s just simple legal facts 101.  Doing so could land you in a lot of trouble for doing it in the first place, and us for hosting it.
But what about commission on original works?  The answer is still no, I’m afraid.
There’s no law against that, it’s true, but it’s still against our Terms of Service.  Adult Fan Fiction isn’t an indie publishing house; it’s nothing more than a story archive.  Work written on paid commission becomes the property of the person for whom it was written.  Given that you accepted payment, our Terms of Service would prohibit your posting that work under your account.  Similarly, the person who commissioned the work could not post it, because it is not their work, any more than a novel I purchased for my Kindle would be mine for the purposes of posting it online.  We just don’t want to go down that particular road.  Everything here is free and we want to keep it that way.
There are other story archive sites out there that couldn’t care less about this, so if this is important to you then I’d recommend trying one of them (and crossing your fingers, if you’re offering commission on fan fiction).  But for us, it’s not allowed and will be shut down the moment we see anyone advertising paid commission services.

15 September 2016
With much help from Nexcess, things are now resolved.  Apparently, someone was attempting either a DDoS or a hack, neither of which was ultimately successful.  Nexcess will be monitoring for unusual activity, and manta2g is adding further security layers to the code.
I'm 90% complete with data restore in the comics subdomain.
For stories where the chapters didn't quite convert right (it's a long and involved process as to why, so I'll not bore you), you'll see black diamonds with question marks in them instead of punctuation.  To temporarily fix this, set the encoding in your browser to Windows-1252.  This will make the punctuation display.  We are manually going through and fixing all these chapters, so that the conversion to utf8 is finally completed.

The weather is cooling off, finally!
September 4, 2016
Firstly, I'd like to welcome all the new users we're seeing daily! Glad to have you here! Please do familiarize yourself with the Terms of Service and Content Guidelines. This IS a moderated archive.
Software Upgrade
Thank you to all of you for your patience through the process. We all appreciate it!
The front end has a few more things to have done. Currently, manta2g is developing a new menu which will be mobile friendly/accessible. After that, she'll be working on selectable skins. Of course, the other bells and whistles you've all asked for as well, such as one click add to rec reading, currently reading, and etc. These are all on her to-do for that.
PHP has been upgraded to version 5.6.x. All the software is compliant, up to version 7.
The forum has been updated to the latest version. The bug tracker is now here.
The Comics chapter table
Restoration of the corrupted data is ongoing. I have 10MB to go. Please keep in mind that when I do this, I look at each chapter, and compare the data to the back up table, to make sure that there is no data missing. If there is, then I restore the missing data.
Site Header/Logo Image
We're thinking about rotating images, plus, we're open to donations of images.
Image requirements: 150x150px, transparent background, easy to identify, must look good in black and white. Send them to admin@adult-fanfiction.org so I can embed them into the forum news topic, for people to look at.
Dribs, Drabs and Doggy Tales
This is the forum where they all are listed. This is the current one. These are open ended, so if one set of words doesn't work for your muse, look at others!
Funding Status
As always, we appreciate and thank everyone who can donate. It's certainly not required of the users, but every little bit helps! I'm in the process of setting aside an emergency fund, equal to 3 times the monthly expenses. That will be noted on the donation page as well.
Deletion notification
For Accounts
When deleting an account because the user is underage, a plagiarist, or whatever else would be a reason to delete one entirely, we do NOT send a notification.
For Stories
When deleting stories, this is done for non compliance with the ToS. Stories are HIDDEN long before they are deleted. The user is told there is an issue, and given 7 days to comply before the story is hidden. Upon hiding, the story is left for 30 or more days (it ends up being more when I have a heavy work load IRL) before it is deleted. If the issue is CORRECTED, the story is restored to public view.
Disposable email
Disposable emails are not checked, and we don’t allow registration with them. Upon finding an account registered with a disposable email address, it is deleted.
Email address visibility
By default, the email address is hidden when you register. It will only display if you put it in the bio area of your profile.
Tech Bits
Archive Cleanup
Part of the rework and rewrite of software is also for the backend of the site, which is what the staff and I work with every day. Manta2g has given us the ability to edit chapter data, so that the clean up crew and I can get IN to the corrupted chapters and fix them more quickly. It'll go loads faster without just me, myself, and I being the ONLY one able to do these fixes.
Tech support, directions given
Just to reiterate, when I email out step by DIRECTIONS on how to do something, that is exactly what they are. Not suggestions, but directions. If followed as stepped out, it works very well. This means that the user must follow them in the order the steps are given.
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Please remember that the authors you read do like to hear from you! Leave them a review or two, and let them know how they're doing!
DemonGoddess061

The delve into Romance/Erotica has begun! A big thank you to Chrissy for her help with the covers.
Isabella Martin was born a hundred years after an economic crash, which changed the whole world. Countries fell, and others rose up in their place. Debt is now genetic. There is no escaping one's family without special dispensation. 

With the help of a few patrons, the government began a Program which oversaw private contracts between the rich and the poor, contracts that would pay off chunks of debt, or even allow a person to remove themselves from their family and hold a private debt. 

Each contract has very clear terms dictating what is to be expected of those who sign it. Each one has several escape clauses. The government employed private workers to check in on the contracts to prevent abuse of power. 

Isabella was a tomboy. She worked as a labourer alongside her father and brothers until she was hurt in a workplace related accident. The other skills she developed in the slums were not exactly marketable, leading her to the Program building in search of a contract to bring her family's debt down any way she could. 

She was presented with a 'blank slate' contract. No rules, no guides, no escape. 

This is her story. 
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LAEH2W8

@Guest_Tower, our Forum Moderator pointed out the rules for a reason. You're spamming the board. If you were planning to actually, you know, write the story, and were brainstorming, that would be fine.
So, please, try and follow the rules, because if we have to remove the entire topic, no one will see the request at all.

jojo, you've asked for cuckold stories in this subdomain a dozen times, in various topics. By now, I don't think anyone on the entire Internet has missed that you like cuckold stories, so for pity's sake, stop making new topics asking for the same thing over and over?