BronxWench

From the How to Use This Forum post: Please include the following information in all posts: In the Topic Title, put the fandom and story name. (Example: Twilight: Inferno in the Snow) In the Topic Description, put that the fiction is up for adoption.; If the story is adopted, moderators will edit to reflect that it is no longer up. In the actual post: Pen Name in Archive Story Title Genre Pairing Summary How many chapters posted/written Link to story if posted already Basic plot along with any additional details you are interested in including, keeping in mind that if you include possible spoilers this is an open forum How you would like to be contacted, email, PM etc When a story is adopted, please respond to the topic with the following information: Pen name and link of the person taking over. Each author must also reply that they have both agreed to the story being taken over. At this point, DG will move the story over to the new author's profile, while maintaining the original author's information connected to previously written chapters. We will then close the topic and change the description to adopted. Even if someone has agreed to adopt the story, we need the original author to post so we know permission to adopt has been given. Thanks!

Mine as well, since the troll never read my review reply. Oh, well.

Indeed! I thrive on challenging myself, and I think it helps me in my longer pieces. Yes, the tradition of the Elysian Fields in the subterranean version was to earn your way to the proper, sunlight fields of eternal bliss. It required three incarnations in which one was supposed to do something heroic. For my narrator's sake, I do hope that death counted.

For Hunting Elysium: Wow! Thank you! That is seriously a completely wonderful compliment, and made all the better because it comes from someone whose writing is always of the highest caliber. Thank you, so much! Writing flash fiction is a challenge for me because I tend to be wordy, but it's invaluable in learning how to hone prose to the essentials. I always have mixed feeling about how well I do, but I'm also happy to know when I've managed to do what I set out to do: to entertain, even for a few short minutes. For Punch Line: Thank you again! My poor nameless narrator... I wasn't terribly nice to him, was I? One of the traditional myths surrounding lamiae was their habit of seducing and devouring young men. My narrator might not be young, but in the version of the Elysian Fields where he woke, beggars, including his ex-wife and a certain lamia, can't be choosers. It's hardly a heroic death, but perhaps Cronus will be kinder than Hera, who definitely knows how to hold a grudge. Thank you again! I'm glad his gallows humor worked. He's a wry sort, my poor bastard.

I can see your stories in your profile listing, so they're there, and not hidden or otherwise amended. Are you getting any particular error message, or there's just nothing in the Story dropdown?

Happy anniversary!

That's exactly what I was thinking.

Hi, Calanthee! In the Rich Text Editor, you should be able to go all the way down to the very bottom (the blank part) and backspace away all those extra lines. I have no idea why the RTE does that, but I know if I use the Paste from Word option (even for OpenOffice or LibreOffice), it keeps my formatting a little better. Except for centering. I have no idea why, but I have to edit to make things centered again. Do you copy and paste into the text box? That's usually the best way, I've found. And I use either Word or LibreOffice, depending on my mood. (And I'm really enjoying the new story, too!)

I feel obliged to chime in here about the edited comment in the story, and Smint45's review. I'm a moderator, and when I'm working as a moderator, I only review stories to leave a warning about an issue. The reviews are left from the AFF Moderator pen name, and although we all sign our own pen names, so as not to be anonymous, there is a reason for that separate account. It's to separate the writer from the moderator for those of us who are both. The person leaving the nastygrams on CL's board started on another author's board, and I warned them to stop, as AFF Moderator, because I was working. The troll responded by attacking me on a personal level, both on this hapless author's board and on one of my stories. CL happened to also stand up for this author, in her personal pen name, and has been harassed as a result. The reviews are not about the story. They're loathsome personal attacks and the troll leaving them is a bully and a coward. I don't feel particularly obligated to tolerate that sort of abuse, nor should anyone. But the point is that what we do or say from our personal pen names has nothing to do with our moderator duties. If someone has an issue with us as moderators, they can email DemonGoddess061, our admin, and bitch about us to their heart's content. To expect CL to have to be "on duty" even in her personal pen name takes things too far, in my opinion. We volunteer our time to moderate, but the truth is, we all wandered here first because we're writers. Let us continue to be writers, and to have opinions, and express them like every other writer on this site.

Tahn, click the "Follow this topic" button, and then in your forum profile settings, make sure you get notifications via email.

::waves to JayDee who obviously has custody of the brain this week::

Can you give me a link for some of the stories you can't read? There's no block I'm aware of on our end.

I'd have to see the url you're being sent to to be sure, but if the story was on AFF before our domain change, that might be the issue.

Huh! Teaches me to try typing html code when I'm dead tired. I'll re-review without the screwup.

Excellent! Our lovely DemonGoddess 061 is a bit snowed under with work, but I know she'll get to it as quickly as she can, so please be patient with us.

Exactly. He can make a new topic under this forum heading, and that will do it.

He can just post it here, and that would work.

We do have a thread for story adoption, and the process is stepped out as to how we need to proceed. And as long as the series is here on AFF, you can promote it here using the format for a story promotion. I'm going to assume that by various media, you mean various fandoms as well, so each story would have to be published in that fandom's appropriate subdomain, or category within a subdomain. That would mean each story would have a unique url, so you'd need to make a promo post for each story, but you can reference the larger series, and perhaps suggest readers check out your profile to see the stories you've written.

Willow is correct about placement, so depending on the primary fandom setting, we'd determine the appropriate archive. We don't have specific pairing subcategories for Inuyasha or for Naruto under the Crossovers category of those subdomains, and YuYu does not have category divisions at all. However, crossovers for YuYu can be placed in the general subdomain. We're always happy to have new members posting here, so welcome!

While I don't normally do this sort of thing, since this anonymous coward has decided to cross the lines between my role as a moderator and my postings here as an author, I'm going to actually respond. For Masking Intentions: Dear Anon, First of all, I am a moderator, not an administrator. I don't hold myself out to be an administrator. Second, it is "an admin" as opposed to "a admin." If you're going to try to belittle me, at least attempt to observe the very basic rules of grammar. I am also rarely ahead of myself, since I cannot manage bilocation, no matter how hard I try. You might also want to avoid using the pronoun "we" when speaking about yourself, unless of course YOU are the Queen of England or have other voices in your head. The author in question was not begging for reviews. If you think that you are the arbiter of what constitutes a Terms of Service violation on this site, by all means report it using the proper channels. However, your sort of bullying and abuse is as much a violation of our ToS as is the practice of review demands. So really, are you saying that two wrongs make a right? You'll never manage to justify that, no matter how much you try. It's an infantile argument, and trivial. As far as your comments regarding the site itself, you do nothing more than demonstrate your own ignorance. I volunteer my time so that this site won't go the way of other sites which have failed, vanished, or been so overrun with bullies as to be untenable. The entire staff is a volunteer staff. That means we donate our time and efforts because we believe in this site and the freedom from censorship it represents. Before you even attempt to equate freedom from censorship with anarchy, please go and read the Term of Service and Posting Guidelines. You do nothing more than demonstrate your sole purpose here as one of harassment. Were I actually to give your sort of idiocy credence, I might even find myself offended. However, I'm merely amused. If you expect me to take you seriously, log in. Leave an email. Come out of the closet, dear Anon, and show yourself.

For Masking Intentions: Thank you! I'm very happy I've caught your interest, and I hope my odd little world will continue to hold it as we go on. It's a story I've wanted to tell for a while, and now is the right time. Thank you again! Thank you, my lovely Witch! I'm glad my world interests you. It's not always a very kind place, and the people in it aren't very gentle, but it's oddly welcoming for me, at any rate. I hope I can continue to entertain as we go on. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart!

I have to ask, and can't assume, so thank you. I'll get that set up for my admin.

I'm not seeing the answer. We only allow two accounts under special circumstances, and with prior permission. You need to tell us which one you want to keep.

CL's right. I started with a fan fiction because the game I was playing had plot holes that could be mistaken for the Chunnel. I decided I would write my own version and fill those in, since nothing I wrote could possibly be worse than what the developers had done. I'd been reading fan fiction for my games, and for things like LotR. So... I sat at the pool while my kids swam, and I wrote. I went home and input what I'd written on the computer after they went to bed. I rewrote, and rewrote, and rewrote, and then I decided to take the plunge and publish my little work to a site. I was petrified about what people would think, and I read the first reviews expecting to be told to never do that again. One said, to paraphrase, "What happens next?" It's fun, actually, to let the things in your head come out to play.