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  1. Herzer Herrick?

    And yeah, The Paladin of Shadows books (Ghost, Kildar, Choosers of the Slain, Unto the Breech, and A Deeper Blue) is about a guy with some serious issues. The author already has admitted to never intending to publish them (the first was given to a few fans who asked, and then the publisher himself insisted. It was also a way to give Ringo a chance to deal with some personal demons. (It backfired, by the way. In his report on Ravencon, he reports, "I've now got to beat of female subs with a stick, which is a difficult proposition considering they like being beaten with sticks.) The first book involves him teaching two girls about bondage, before seriously abusing a hooker. Then he ends up with a harem, before being told he has to screw every farmer's daughter in the valley. It sort of tapers off in the last two books though. Unto the Breech contains maybe two scenes, and A Deeper Blue doesn't cover anything except when one of the girls is planting spy devices or breaking out of capture.

  2. For starters? Put the cat girl on top. Its easier for a big guy to get laid if he lets the woman take as much as she wants rather than simply trying to shove it all the way in there. Lube and such helps of course, but remember: its simply impossible to slip a ten inch rod in a eight inch deep hole. No matter how hard you push, one of two things happens: You've got two inches sticking out one end (and if its the wrong end it means you broke something) or you end up busting the rod.

    If you really want to try to figure it out, take a cucumber or pickle and a thin necked glass with a shallow draft and play around with them.

  3. From a sequal to a book I haven't even finished writing yet...

    "So how is it that you can sleep through class everyday and still pass?" she asked.

    "Because I have an alien computer parked five blocks away and it feeds me the answers." I said it before I even realized I was giving her the truth! Oh, I was so spracked if the others found.

    Alyssa laughed. "Really? An alien computer?"

    "Ah, you didn't believe it?" I blushed. I actually blushed! "I guess I'll just have to come up with something else."

  4. Don't worry Zombie, I'm still here and kicking, despite the best efforts of some folks IRL. Knorg's still around, though that might be a mixed blessing, tongue.gif , and I think Big Sam might still be here. Eve Knight hasn't gone anywhere, and SJ stopped by earlier. So there are still a few old hands around.

    I think the big thing is that we need to get the newbies talking. Probably need something drastic though. Abortion? The Environment? Nuclear power? War against Terrorism? First Amendment issues? I think those few are still popular.

    You get them talking, I'll spike the punch

  5. As to this being a closed community, in my opinion that was an inefficient usage of this board. It should be a place where all the archive users can meet and greet, as well as other things that are already done on the board currently. I think it's fun to get to know authors whose work I've enjoyed over the years. This is the place to do it, too. No reason why not, right? Yes, many of you were here first (in the forum, that is) , and maybe somewhat set in your ways, but if you think about it, we can in fact all get used to each others quirks and personalities. In any case, what's the harm in looking at this as all part of whole, and not a separate entitiy? It's truly not it's own animal, but a part of AFF as well.

    Actually, I meant that as a community it wasn't growing. We might get one, maybe two new posters a month, and they didn't tend to stay long. It sort of stayed that way for a long time, until about three months ago, when suddenly we had an influx of people posting. That might have helped scare some people into thinking 'New Leadership = Bad'

    I have a hard time believing that enforcing TOS has anything to do with banning any writings on the site, of course, unless it is sued. That's a perfect example of a 'false analogy'. I can understand the trepidation though.

    Sorry Snowfall, if I wasn't clear. I wasn't questioning the removal of the letters as an act of censorship, I was trying to point out that your post questioning why people would want to read them as being questionable. It was mostly intended as a "Be Careful: This Can Be Hazardous!" kind of warning. As I said, I trust your intentions, or at least what I've seen so far.

    And I'm not new to the forums. You apparently haven't been here long enough to know that I was admin on the forums. However, the forums have changed, drifting almost completely away from the site. The owner intends to correct that. Hopefully, author and reader discourse will become more vibrant. That is an exciting possibility. I do believe that this encouragement is the exact opposite of censorship.

    Well, then either you set up a new account for the purpose of moderating, or your talking about another forum. Looking at your member info you joined the tenth of last month. I've been here since the beginning, way back in '06. (Way back? It was a year and 10 months ago! I'm dating myself with that one!) Personally, I can't remember seeing you listed as a mod or admin for any of the forums. You might have been on the main site as an Admin, but I don't recall anything of the like here.

    As for drifting, I'm not really sure it did. Yeah, we discussed a lot of politics and aimless babble, but that's because we felt comfortable with it. The forum became about more that just writing, even though there was still plenty said about that. Personally, I think trying to force it to paralell the archives is somewhat of a bad idea. The Archives are our stories, but the Forum is our community, and a community is more than just the products it turns out. Its the people who live there and the ideas that they share as well. Start alienating them, even through good intentions, and you might end losing the community.

  6. First for the old hands (those of us that are left, which probably isn't many), for now we should probably wait and see. Its true that for a long time we were pretty much a closed community, with a core group of maybe thirty people and a massive amount of lurkers. Now some of those lurkers are all grown up posters, so we have to remind ourselves not to play the old geezers who are stuck in the mud. Leader types come and go. Sucks that friends left, but maybe we can make some new ones or reform some into decent types eh?

    Now, for the new folks. And I mean to include the Moderators and Admins in this as well, as looking at the posts most people in this thread joined the forum in the last three months. That's not exactly a bad thing, but tread cautiously on what to you is new ground. We were here first, and we're a bit set in our ways. You might own the site, both the rights and physical properties, but don't expect people to just sit up and play good dog because of it.

    For example, Snowfall posted this earlier. She's one of the new Mods, and she's got the right and power, but she also provides a good example of how to scare an oldhand. So here's the quote:

    I truly do not understand this interest, by a tiny faction of people, in the subversive posts that have been properly handled by TOS guidelines. The only explanation for the constant desire to expose members to that strife is an intentional desire to harm the environment. Intentional, with foreknowledge of the effects. If you are so interested, copies of those can be found on other sites, as I'm willing to bet you know.

    The biggest problem? All but the last line smacks of censorship, at least to me. We're a community of fanfic smut writers, and nothing gets the hackles raised faster than a threat of censorship. I trust Snowfall's intentions were to mean well, but seriously. "subversive posts"? Redsliver, Nanaea, and the rest were pissed off at what they thought was a power grab. Right or wrong, that was their opinion on the matter. People are definitely going to be curious as to why such recognizable names just up and quit. Taking down their letters doesn't help (which Jaxxy already admitted might have been their original intent) as it just raises more questions about the new faces we're seeing.

    So my suggestion? Talk. Don't assume, but ask questions. Most people are willing to listen, and can understand that things have to change. But when someone comes goose stepping in, barking orders and rearranging things, that's going to cause a bad backlash.

    So now, now children. Play nice.

  7. Huh. Not actually sure how many of us left with the answer.

    For the record, naughty points are earned by posting to forum topics here. Each post is worth 5 NP. The points can then be redeemed in the forum store (not to be confused with the site store, which sells actual real life products) for fun gimmicks to use in the forum, such as name tags, magic markers, etc.

  8. Actually, it is the Kildar books. But I don't think he had sex with her, he just smacked her around a bit while the other guy was there. I don't think any of the girls who have had sex with him were any younger than 16.

  9. I'm currently in a debate on another forum about whether or not an author having wirtten a series in which the main character effectively builds a harem of minors (12-17 years old) and has consensual sex with the girls over 16. The biggest problem seems to be the fact that this isn't played off for drama purposes, but that everyone involved seems to enjoy it.

    The situation:

    -Guy buys farm in Georgia (Country, not state)

    -Farm involves several clans beholden to the farm owner

    -Local terrorists try to kidnap one of the clan girls

    -Guy stops van, finds it loaded with other kidnaps, program is not Catch and Release

    So essentially he ends with a harem. A later adventure has him and the clans busting up a rather large portion of the international sex slave market, leading to few new members, but not many. The youngest of the girls rescued is 12, oldest is sixteen or seventeen, which is about the standard age of marriage for those parts. So ok, no big deal. Him having the harem offends no one, most of the local girls would actually rather be in it, and its sort of expected of him.

    Anyway, what I need to prove the above situation is not evil is a list of authors/books who have told stories about adults engaging in sex, either abusive or not, in some detail. This way I can demonstrate that most of these do not pose as Evil Works of Perversity, and neither should the series in question.

    Thanks!

  10. Is there anywhere to find a specific list of acceptable codes to use in the HTML format for the story postings? Is it the same as the ones used for the forums? I ask because I find myself wishing to use certain inflections on certain words, but can't because my knowledge in this regard is horribly limited. I figured better ask here than elsewhere because a knowledge of HTML could come in handy on other sites as well.

  11. Would it be safe? I mean, the thing uses radioactive stuff. Nuclear?

    Radioactive just means it emits radiation. Your tv is radioactive. Your boiler is radioactive. Your radio is most definitely radioactive. What kind of radiation is the difference. Comparitively, nuclear power plants are some of the least radioactive sources out there. Coal plants are more hazardous. (Granted, this is not to say that nuclear power plants produce radiation. They are simply subject to more stringent guidelines concerning how much they are allowed to release to the environment. Coal plants, on the other hand, aren't subject to those regulations.)

    The battery described in the article doesn't even come close. All it is is an electron transfer caused by neutron decay. That happens in most non-standard isotopes, plenty of which are naturally occuring. So, yeah, over all, probably pretty safe.

    And if it is safe, why aren't they applying it to something more beneficial like cars? I mean, the bigger complaint is about fuel prices and toxic emissions and all that junk. Why not create the electric car and just get it out of the way?

    Honestly, this I'm a little shakier on, but it could simply be a matter of mass/power ratios. Most people might not notice a three or four pound laptop battery, but if it would require a thirty or forty pound battery to power the car, that's quite a bit of extra weight added on to the engine, not to mention cost of the fuel. 3 ounces might power the laptop. A car is another story.

  12. After she moved to Europe, she was dating someone known as the "Immortal", but from what Andrew told Angel and Spike, it was a steady thing.

    And according to Season 8, that wasn't even her, but a stand in they were using to confuse the baddies. She actually ended up in Scotland.

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