BronxWench

Prompted by a conversation I wandered into this morning in our very own Procrastination Station, I found myself wondering... In how many languages can our members say "Shut up, asshole, and fuck me!" (or something close to that sentiment, of course)? Let's play!

For Masking Intentions: Thank you! This world is one that's been pulling at me for a while now, but I'm finally doing more than dabbling. I'm glad I'm off to a good start. I always worry that the things in my head don't quite make it to the page, so to speak. ::hugs pip:: I'm so glad you like it! I wanted to do more than just a quick flashfic, and I did promise you I'd tell you about Kdis' past. It just took me a while. But Kdis wants this told, and I promise not to take so long to finish this one. Thank you! And yes, I promise! Thank you, CL! I know you've read the little flashfics where I stuck my toe in the water with this one. It's a harsh world, but I really like it there, and I'm glad you do as well! And for everyone who's read but not reviewed, thank you, too! Keep those cat pokes coming, because those make authors happy, too!

For First Step: Um, sorry? It's actually not so much a story about the past as it is about the potential of the future, or so I thought, which is why I call it one of my fluffier ones. That, and I always think we forget that domestic abuse is not always exclusive to women. In fact, it's harder to get men to even admit to it, much less deal with it. So Trey's taken a huge step backinto the light, and Sam's there to help him. But thank you for reading, and the fact that I could get that strong a reaction means I'm getting better as a writer, no?

Actually, the date/time of last update is noted on the "Latest Stories" page as well as the profile/stories written listings, but it wouldn't help even if we were still treating the archive as separate entities instead of a global domain. I can sympathize with the issues of tablet versus laptop/pc. I love my tablet, but it's not my choice of venue for accessing AFF, nor is my phone. Your reading list is far more extensive than mine as far as stories followed actively. But an archive profile here is free and fairly simple to create, and I honestly love the Currently Reading feature as it stands now. It's very useful, and keeps me from pulling out my hair.

Hi, Mary! I'm going to quote our admin, DemonGoddess061: " As we're making things more centralized to run GLOBALLY across the domain, the only title you'll see is the subdomain (archive) title." While we can appreciate your difficulty, we can't take a step backward and restore that old format for tab labels without having to also go back to 23 individual scripts. When something does blow up, it takes a lot longer to fix when each subdomain operates independently for those functions. A global domain function is much more efficient and expedient. If you're a Windows user like me, opening stories in separate windows would allow you to peek at each window's thumbnail in the task bar. Just a thought, since that would give you the ability to check each window's content quickly. I'm not a Mac user, so I can't speak for how it works on a Mac, but I imagine it wouldn't be hugely different. What does still show the title in the tabs is the Review Page for the story. If you bookmark the review page, you should see the title in the browser tab like before, and in the bookmark title as well. Another thought is to use the Recommended Reading and Currently Reading features on your archive profile. I absolutely love Currently Reading, since it is now a live link to both the story and the author profile, and the story moves up to the top of the listing when it updates, making it easy to check even on a longer reading list. I hope there's a glimmer of help in all that!

I can see a re-reading of the Princes Three saga in my near future...

Do you have the url, or even the author name? I might be able to check and see what happened.

I'm not going to complain. I'm also a fan of some good twincest, so...

Poor Elrond. It's a very good thing he'll be immortal, because those three could kill him with love.

Heh, because it's you, I'll share the Campari. You know how few people actually ask?

Oh, I agree! I always see Elrond as one of the stalwart bastions of the elven ranks, strong and competent, so his surrender is both unexpected and glorious at the same time. Thranduil is very dramatic, and I love that about him. Still, I do think he'll manage to train Elrond to be the perfect Master, especially because he is able to teach Elrond the bliss of surrender.

I'll make sure our tech admin is aware of the pulldown issue. Just for completeness' sake, which mobile browser/platform do you use?

Honestly? I'll be longer than a month. The issues with text being way offscreen are largely due to users creating in-chapter breaks by inserting long lines of a single character, such as an asterisk. We get the same stretched screen on a PC as well, so that's not a purely mobile issue. What pulldown errors are you seeing? It helps us to know what's wrong. Personally, I never access the site from a mobile device myself, since the screens are too small for my old eyes to be comfortable reading more than a quick text.

Right now, we're focusing on getting the code for the main archive updated. Once that's been done, and we have all the features properly enabled, we can think about the mobile skins. For the time being, the site is accessible, if not terribly pretty on mobile devices.

Oh, my goodness, that was completely amazing. I honestly couldn't imagine how the chapter could be better, until I re-read it. It's superb, completely glorious and dark, and thank you!

Oh, I am so enjoying this story, so never fear! I'm completely yours until the end.

The general punishment for being forsworn would be to have a small cut made in the belly, and a bit of intestine pulled through. The intestine is nailed to an oak tree, and the forsworn bastard is passed from hand to hand by a ring of Druids until his guts are wrapped around the tree like wool on a spindle. Ideally, the forsworn bastard doesn't die of shock during the procedure, and the cut is too small for him to bleed out, so he gets to stand there and hug the oak until he dies of exposure, or falls asleep and tears something vital out (along with the rest of his intestines) on the way to the ground. But given that Caiolfionn serves Arwn's Gift, I think it would be a very nice bit of closing the circle to have him sacrifice the Druid. And all that pretty blood is a lovely contrast to his whiteness. And yes, your characters are that compelling, m'dear.

Hm. That's a very tough call, to be honest. He's acted in his own best interests all along, regardless of the harm it's done to his people. Obviously, he's destroyed Valentina by tearing her beloved Aneurin from her, but it goes deeper. The Swynwr is not entirely the savior he's been painted to be, is he? He'll fight his own people as fast as he will the dy'ne, so Islwyn did the elves no favors there. Islwyn also did what no Druid should be allowed to do and live - he's forsworn. He broke his oath to Valentina, and he knew damned well who and what she was. Lying to Arwn's Gift is just a huge breach, right there. Now, with all that on his shoulders, how does Islwyn redeem himself? The only chance he has is if he betrays the Swynwr when it's least expected. He needs to undermine the Swynwr so definitively that it's unmistakable where his loyalty lies, and so it can be assumed he was acting against the Swynwr all along, as some sort of cocksucking catamite double agent. Either that, or he can break the Swynwr's hold on Aneurin with his own life's blood. Let him sacrifice himself, or better yet, let the Unicorn sacrifice him.

Heh, not like I have room to talk, since the daft one's a good six years younger than I am, but I'm being an incurable romantic and stumping for Tino.

This will be released to Amazon, and a couple of other outlets like All Romance, I believe. I don't know if Amazon will get it on the 16th, but I believe so.

There's feeling needed and there's just silly, and yes, my daft one can cross the line. I tend to let him have at it when it comes to electrical work, since he's got a very substantial background in that. I am the painter, since he's dreadful at painting, and we both tend to be decent at the rest of the chores. It's just cars. He's so stubborn about cars. I actually find it amusing most of the time, as long as we have the money to fix his little hiccups.

That's a very interesting point. When you're dealing with a fandom that began as books and has since become movies, there's going to be serious differences between the two. So, in a sense, the movies are AU themselves, and the original novels must be considered canon, I'd think.

For very good reason, I should point out. It's far too easy to crash a database like ours with too much access to the code, as was demonstrated a while back, before my time here. Given that we host over 9Gb of story data, that's a LOT to lose.

From Tosmail: Story Profile Upon looking at this, chapters 6, 9, and 10 appear to be cut off after the author used a ">_>" emoticon, since they end at ">_"

Spaces count, too. Frustrating, isn't it?