BronxWench

It would probably help if you gave a few more specifics. Is there a genre you prefer, such as shifters, vampires, contemporary, science fiction, fantasy, or so on? Do you have certain things you don't want to read, like BDSM, or rape, or minor involvement? Our members can be very helpful recommending stories, but you might wind up with things you don't find appealing unless you give them a bit more to work with for your search.

I'm not finding an account for that pen name. Are you sure that was the name you used here at AFF?

I've decided my karmic lesson this lifetime is Patience. I'm not sure how I'm doing, but I have a feeling this isn't my first go-around with this lesson, and it probably won't be my last.

There's a few stories on site I wish had been finished.

Munez is still a member of the site, but hasn't updated since 2011. What there is of "Dandruff" is still there, however.

We need a writer's retreat, all of us. I made signs for my desk, which is in the living room. The signs are mostly polite variations of "Fuck off, I'm working." The signs are universally ignored by all and sundry, who then all claim, loudly, that they are the only ones who let me work. The truth? The only one who lets me work in peace is my autistic Youngerspawn, who is actually quite content to go fuck off, as long as I return the favor and leave him alone. My mother needs me every 5 minutes or so to open something for her, fix her COPD inhaler, check the icemaker, listen to her talk about a tv show I don't watch, order her books, or answer the same damned questions I've been answering all day. My daft one needs me to read his emails and fix them, listen to him rant about the co-op (he's board president), listen to him rant about his job, listen to his plans to boost in the local free wifi so we can have Internet at the lake, and stroke his ego by letting him take credit for the stuff I actually do for him. My Elderspawn was obviously inoculated with a stereo needle (I'm old enough to remember vinyl when it was new). I get treated to the daily discourse on being trans, the daily bitching about diabetes, the stories about the new GF, plans to learn to cook, drive, clean, and fend for oneself, and then I referee argument between Elderspawn and the daft one, which usually end with Elderspawn in tears and Youngerspawn asking when Elderspawn is moving out. Youngerspawn ignores us all, except when he wants to tell me something, at which point the daft one criticizes something and Elderspawn launches into a long discourse on how Elderspawn handled that exact same thing via a video game reference. And when I finally snap, they all look at me like I'm insane. Wait for summer. I'm hiding at the lake place and not taking any of them...just my wine and my new laptop that the daft one doesn't know he is buying for me yet.

I'm just going to wait patiently for you to reveal this, bit by wonderful bit. It's too good to rush!

Nope. Not transphobic at all. The concept of Mpreg revolves around a "cismale" (and gods, how I hate those ridiculous conventions to further divide and categorize people) who becomes pregnant, not a person who's chosen to make their physical and mental genders match. We're pretty good at not encouraging discrimination and bigotry here. And, to short-circuit any hysteria about my profound distaste for labels and other stigmatizing bullshit, I have a trans kid. So, I'm not talking out of my hat. My kid is not a label.

Always my pleasure!

Wait, did Chrissy just defend Yorwrath?? ::squeezes Yorwrath plushie in surprise:: "Currently Valentina is that weird shaped screw that comes with Ikea furniture. You don't know what to do with it when you take it out the box so you set it to the side and pretend it doesn't exist until the instructions need it." ::dies laughing::

WONKY CROSS by Qtness.Quill

To revel with a Veela by Baron

Whatever it takes to Make it work by Debbie

Exactly! I'm having a blast poking away at my favorite stories.

Could I just ask, is there ANYTHING in Australia that isn't trying to kill people?

Okay. The first images are the new format. You should be able to click on a story title in blue and it will open. Or you can click on a subcategory link on the left for a more refined story listing, but that's not in read only form. It's the archive. The second picture is the archive home page. DG was giving the schedule so people would know what was happening. It doesn't mean that the archive is in perpetual read-only mode. It was an alert. As a matter of fact, DG finished the conversions last night, and there's no need to put the archive in read-only mode anymore. Try clicking a story.

You probably need to log in again. The Read-only period logs everyone out, and if you haven't logged back in, you might be having trouble seeing anything. Just remember to use the upper right hand fields only, NOT the center fields.

What is it that you're seeing? The site is definitely not read-only, so there's something else going on. Let's try to pinpoint it.

You're welcome!

And you need to pick one of those categories to get past that main index. Once you choose, you'll see only Teen Titans in that category, like all Teen Titans FemmeSlash. But you need to actually CLICK that category link on the left. Give it a try. It doesn't matter if you're accessing the site on a desktop, laptop, tablet, phablet, or smartphone. The sequence remains the same. Select Subdomain, select subcategory, and then if applicable, select the category level required. In Anime, it would be Anime > +M to R > Rosario Vampire. Until you click the link for Rosario Vampire, you'll see the main subdomain index of latest stories, instead of the formerly blank screen.

Maybe visuals will help. Go to Comics: You see Teen Titans. Choose that: As DG noted, you are still seeing the full Latest Stories page, and will until you pick your category: Now you will see only Teen Titans - General stories. Does this help?

It's been mentioned before that the chapter numbers being visible would be helpful, and from my own perspective as a moderator, I really found that useful myself. Right now, the focus has been on getting the big stuff up and running smoothly, and DG's doing some clean-up to help eliminate the page draw errors that are cropping up, where stuff runs off the page into the right side of the screen. I don't know for sure if the chapter numbers will return, but I'll be hoping for it right along with you!

First of all, this more correctly belongs in the ARCHIVE tech support forum, since it's the archive you're complaining about. The forum's just ducky, thank you so much. Secondly, in case you've missed what's been going on, an upgrade to the site caused the archive to experience issues bad enough to call for an emergency rewrite of the code. I want you to note the word "emergency" very carefully. This was not planned, and certainly DG and our coder manta did not plan on spending a collective 30 hours writing code frantically to get the site up and running, albeit with some necessary disabling of certain features. Those features will be brought back on line once DG has finished the current clean-up of all the character sets left behind by the idiots who were allowed free reign in the database years ago. The stories are in their subdomains. I went to Anime > +M to R > Rosario Vampire. I found, gee, Rosario Vampire stories. But in case that was a fluke, I went to Comics > DC 'Verse Cartoons - Teen titans, and I got the categories. I didn't want to assume which category you wanted, but they're all there. Try clearing your browsers' caches and histories, and then closing and restarting them. Make sure your Java is up to date, and that Chrome has had a chance to update. Please take Explorer out back and shoot it. Even Microsoft has pulled the plug on it. Then I would like you to read this thread, and this thread. For a godsbedamned fiction archive, nobody ever reads the godsbedamned announcements. It's really astonishing.

For Surrender: Thank you so much! Yes, the stories from this world do tend to walk on that edge, where pain blurs into pleasure. I'm very pleased that the characters do come off as feral and elemental, because that's exactly how they feel to me as I write their stories. I like this odd little world, and I need to come back to it more often. But you always make me so happy when you review, and thank you so much for your very lovely words!