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Tigro - Instead of continuing this here because, yes, it has become slightly combative, I'm gonna send you a PM instead.

Prompt: Bitter Please remember to follow the rules as outlined here: Rules Happy Writing!

Naturechild02 - As a registered member, you must vote via the poll in order for your vote to be counted... Please make sure you do

Thank you to the smartalec’s out there who voted “Wait, I should actually be reading the news?” as it gave me a good giggle! Since out of the overwhelming 17 people who voted, 70.59% of the people who voted like the new format, we shall continue on with it! What a mouthful!! I hope you have a wonderful holiday no matter how you celebrate! Take a look below at the last news post of 2011! (Wait, 2011 is almost done? When did that happen...) A quick summary of what is included in this month’s edition: Repeat & Update: A fellow Fan Fiction Site needs help! Donate to TheSilverSnitch! We currently have a PayPal balance of $400.03 after December’s hosting costs have been paid. Calendar Contest voting has closed! Store is revamped for 2012! Important changes to the Archive Registration and Log-in. If you read nothing else, please read this post. Duplicate Accounts Underage users Archive Moderation and Clean-up status AFF has long been dedicated to ensuring Fan Fiction freedom. It was brought to our attention that a much loved archive TheSilverSnitch.Net has gone down. The Harry Potter community seems to be extremely saddened by the loss; however it is not due to the owner, but due to the lack of support. The poor owner has been deluged in email asking why the site isn’t up, where everything went etc. People have been yelling at her even! Most Fan Fiction Archives need donations and TheSilverSnitch is no different. Believe me, I don’t run this for the money (I make none) and I don’t have the money to do it alone. AFF has been extremely lucky to have fans that have contributed in the past before we became able to cover our costs with advertising revenue. So before you get on your high horse about the site being down right now, remember that us Owner’s do this for you guys and often can’t afford to pay for it on our own. On behalf of TheSilverSnitch, please if you can spare any money; donate to TheSilverSnitch by sending money through PayPal to the following address: arwenelve13@yahoo.com Update: While TSS has gotten a fair amount of donations, don’t forget that money is key. We have it on good authority that it shall be rising from the ashes (pun intended), but keep the money coming and don’t forget to donate to not just TSS but any Fan Fiction site that is run via donations that you love to read on! Speaking of support, our PayPal balance is currently at $400.03 after we paid December’s hosting costs. As mentioned above, donations are always appreciated! We are slowly diminishing our reserve as we pay for the upgrades, so please if you have any spare money and would like to support us and the upgrade, we would appreciate it! Did you see all the wonderful entries into our Calendar Contest this year? The top three entries have been added to our CafePress store. While there are some edits still to be made, the photos have been uploaded, the calendars have been put together and products have been picturefied! If there is something you’d like to see with one of the pictures on it and you don’t see it, just let me know and I’ll add it! I’ll be adding things periodically, but asking can always make it come up faster! All items have a $3 markup on the base cost, so we do make a small amount of money off it. Because this topic is so important, it has its own topic here! A basic overview is that as part of the upgrades we in the midst of making, our registration is being made more secure and log in procedures are changing. Registration and login will be governed by email address. Registration will REQUIRE self-validation. This also means you MUST use a valid, WORKING email address. Users registering with disposable email addresses will be rejected and/or deleted when found. As the email is hidden in the profile, unless the user CHOOSES to display it, there's no real concern for spam and other issues. Please make sure you read this topic before the changed are put in place in mid-December – It’ll help save all of us a lot of headaches!! Because again, it’s so important, despite it’s already being in the topic listed above, let’s talk about this again! With the upcoming changes to registration, this will also be affected. If you think you've registered before, but aren't sure, please email. If you know you've registered before, but no longer have access to the email account you registered with, please email. I'll be happy to assist you in regaining access to your account. If you want to have more than one archive account, be aware that it's only allowed in rare circumstances. You do need to contact us so we can tell you whether or not it will be allowed. If you have a joint account with someone else, or want to have a joint account with someone else, be sure to contact staff with the individual user details. We do need to have that on file. I'm revisiting this because with the changes to registration, if you have duplicate accounts, they will be locked until I merge them. The software will do this locking, not me. If there are a great many like this, and I suspect there will be, as I have to do the merging in the database itself, it'll take some time to work through them all. I won't be able to do this in a week or two, if the numbers are as I expect. So, as you can see, it's very important that we know about multiple accounts belonging to one user, as I don't want to see any of you unable to access your data because of it when these changes do occur. I'm stating the obvious here. You MUST be 18 or OLDER to use any part of this site. Regardless of where you live in the world. We are governed by U.S. age laws, so if you're from overseas and not yet 18, we'll be happy to see you here when you are 18 years old. I'm going to revisit the old minor problem. If you were under 18 at the time of registration, up through approximately fall of 2008, if you have data you posted before you turned 18, it will be deleted. Understand that I have to do this. I CAN'T grandfather this in, due to the type of material on the site itself, and the age restrictions we must operate by. If the user is inactive, and all data is pre age 18, user and data are deleted. You are welcome to repost your data as you're now over that age, but, I do have to do this. You can always make this easier on yourself, make sure the data is backed up, and contact staff. It'll be modified from there. Unfortunately, when I process this, this also means the reviews attached to the stories, the reviews left by the underage users, and etc. It's all deleted. We are still working on moderating the archive and cleaning up from the crash, you can always review our progress at the following links: Monthly Moderation Update & Clean Up Update Thank you so much for taking the time to review the news and of course if you have any questions, please let us know! Happy writing, Apollo & DemonGoddess061

IP checks complete - 1 vote DQ'd as voter was a registered user and did not use poll, 1 vote DQ'd due to being a registered user and voting in both topic and poll. Guest votes: Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 Image 4 - 2 Image 5 Image 6 - 1 Image 7 Image 8 - 2 Image 9 - 2 Poll votes: Image 1 - 5 Image 2 - 2 Image 3 - 1 Image 4 - 14 Image 5 - 0 Image 6 - 3 Image 7 - 2 Image 8 - 2 Image 9 - 19 Combined votes: Image 1 - 5 - Luminari Lillium Image 2 - 2 Image 3 - 1 Image 4 - 16 - Luminari Lillium Image 5 - 0 Image 6 - 4 Image 7 - 2 Image 8 - 4 Image 9 - 21 - Anie Knipping/Adelphus

Prompt: Chestnuts Please remember to follow the rules as outlined here: Rules Happy Writing!

Prompt: Blizzard Please remember to follow the rules as outlined here: Rules Happy Writing!

What may have happened is that the person who left the review was either a minor at the time of the review and all underage content including the review was removed, or they committed some other ToS violation that resulted in their removal from the site which also includes all related reviews.

While you may get some responses here, I might recommend asking in a BDSM forum. They are normally very open and quite willing to help you get the details right!

Everything has been posted for the contests! We decided to put up the images for the Calendar contest and the top 3 images will have specific one sheet wall calendars created and their images used on the store items this year. Please review the topic here. We received 5 entries into the 10th Anniversary Logo contest, as such the image with the highest number of votes will be unveiled on January 1st! The topic can be found here.

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I'm still in shock that we are hitting 10 years in 2012! The logo submissions are in and now we need your votes to determine who will hold the place of honor on our site next year! Voting is open to all members of the forums as well as guests, though there are different steps for each. Voting closes 11:59 EST, Dec 18, 2011. If you are a forum member: Please review the pictures here Come back to this thread and vote for your favorite image. If you are a guest: Review the pictures here Then come back to this thread and in a reply to the post, vote for your favorite image. Please note that only guests should respond in the thread. Any forum member responses will be removed from the thread to keep everything in order.

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The time is here! The entries for the 2012 Calendar Contest have been reviewed to ensure they meet requirements and here they are for your perusal and voting! Because we do not have enough entries for a full calendar, we will instead be doing three single sheet print calendars. What this means is that the image will be up top and all 12 months will be on the bottom. The top 3 images will then be used for the 2012 calendar and products! This way our artists that submitted still get recognition for their work and we still have a calendar - Everyone wins! Voting is open to all members of the forums as well as guests, though there are different steps for each. Voting closes 11:59 EST, Nov 26, 2011. If you are a forum member: Please review the pictures here Come back to this thread and vote for your favorite image. If you are a guest: Review the pictures here Then come back to this thread and in a reply to the post, vote for your favorite image. Please note that only guests should respond in the thread. Any forum member responses will be removed from the thread to keep everything in order. If you are a staff member, please refrain from voting. Thank you to all of the artists who submitted work!

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Please visit the News topic for more information

Since last month’s new format (and delivery method) managed to triple the amount of views we’ve had for the news, for now I think I will be sticking with it. Please note there is a poll at the top of the news to see if you actually like the changes or not, I would appreciate it if you would let me know. A quick summary of what is included in this month’s edition: A fellow Fan Fiction Site needs help! Donate to TheSilverSnitch! We currently have a PayPal balance of $754.92 after November’s hosting costs have been paid. The Calendar Art and Logo contest entries have ended. Due to lack of submissions only the Logo’s will be voted on. New Moderator Account created for moderating activities. Are you a member of our Forums? A few minor Forum Upgrades Important changes to the Archive Registration and Log-in. If you read nothing else, please read this post. Search Engine Upgrade Archive Moderation and Clean-up status AFF has long been dedicated to ensuring Fan Fiction freedom. It was brought to our attention that a much loved archive TheSilverSnitch.Net has gone down. The Harry Potter community seems to be extremely saddened by the loss; however it is not due to the owner, but due to the lack of support. The poor owner has been deluged in email asking why the site isn’t up, where everything went etc. People have been yelling at her even! Most Fan Fiction Archives need donations and TheSilverSnitch is no different. Believe me, I don’t run this for the money (I make none) and I don’t have the money to do it alone. AFF has been extremely lucky to have fans that have contributed in the past before we became able to cover our costs with advertising revenue. So before you get on your high horse about the site being down right now, remember that us Owner’s do this for you guys and often can’t afford to pay for it on our own. On behalf of TheSilverSnitch, please if you can spare any money, donate to TheSilverSnitch by sending money through PayPal to the following address: arwenelve13@yahoo.com Speaking of support, our PayPal balance is currently at $754.92 after we paid November’s hosting costs. As mentioned above, donations are always appreciated! We have some things going on coding wise that will really appreciate your support, so keep reading! One thing we do yearly to help support the site is have an Art contest to gather art for our CafePress store. Unfortunately, we only got a few entries into the Calendar contest, not enough to make a decent calendar. We are still in the process of determining what we will be doing for the Calendar this year, but the good news is that we did get entries into our Logo design contest. I had originally planned to have it go live Sunday, but due to my boyfriend being home on leave before deployment, I’m afraid I got a little caught up and fell behind on my timeline. I will have it posted by next weekend though and will make sure that it’s put up on our Facebook, Twitter and an email is sent out to our Forum Members. Due to some people deciding that it would be a good idea to harass our moderators on their own Author Pages and stories, we have decided to move to a Moderator account for all moderating activities in the Archive. If you receive a review from AFF Moderator on a story, please note that it does come from one of the staff. All moderators will be signing their reviews, but as always, please remember that they are enforcing our ToS. If you have an issue with the ToS or review, please feel free to contact myself and DemonGoddess through any of our listed contact information or admin@adult-fanfiction.org. Hey, since you are at our forums reading this, have you joined us over here yet? If not, I’d love to have you! There are games, the Shoutbox and all types of discussion to be had. Click the link to register, follow the instructions and we will get you approved as soon as possible! For those of you who are members: There was a minor forum upgrade done in the last month. Along with it, we updated a few of the modules we use in the forum. In doing so, I’m pleased to report that the Arcade scoring is now working correctly. Have fun playing!! Because this topic is so important, it has its own topic here! A basic overview is that as part of the upgrades to the site we in the midst of making, our registration is being made more secure and log in procedures are changing. Please make sure you read this topic before the changed are put in place in December – It’ll help save all of us a lot of headaches!! (Yes, it is important enough that I linked to it twice!) Another coding change we have been trying to implement is upgrades to our search engine. However, the current script will not allow us to do so at this time. We have a pretty new core engine even, but all attempts to implement the search upgrades have caused some rather spectacular crashes in the test site we use, so you can understand our reluctance to put it in place quite yet! We are almost done with the re-write we are working on upgrading from php3 to php5; once that is complete, we will be able to get our new search engine up and running. As this is still a few months out, please be patient with us! We are still working on moderating the archive and cleaning up from the crash, you can always review our progress at the following links: Monthly Moderation Update & Clean Up Update Thank you so much for taking the time to review the news and of course if you have any questions, please let us know! Happy writing, Apollo & DemonGoddess061

AoA is art... At least that's what I tell myself

Not only that, but please know that if you are flaming, even when it's a nasty such as this, that it could have repercussions on your own account as well. Unlike FanFiction.Net where all you can do is spam the reports and flame the author, we actively moderate the archive and every single report is reviewed with in 24 hours. Just because you may not hear back immediately doesn't mean that we aren't working behind the scenes to ensure we have the truth (Like DG mentioned) and stopping it