BronxWench

Review Responses for AFF Monthly Challenge Prompt for September 2011: Harrison Winter From Melrick: I'm the one who should be thanking you for setting up the monthly prompts! The various prompts were fun, and I really enjoyed working them all into the one submission. The haunted house story, well, let's just say I had a wildly misspent youth when it came to my reading choices. From JayDee: Thank you! I managed to avoid both elves and slash for once, and wound up with a succubus and a dead guy. Funny how that works out...

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Unless of course you have brass balls...

I guess if we bombard them with reports they act, if only to shut us up. Works for me, as long as they do the right thing.

The story was removed from the site by the author.

Pen Name: BronxWench Story link: Harrison Winter Review replies link: BronxWench's Review Replies Prompts Used: One word prompt; phrase prompt; three element prompt Type of fic: ShortStory Fandom: Original > Paranormal/Supernatural > Het - Male/Female Pairing: N/A Warnings: AFFO, ChallengeFic, Fingering, HJ, M/F, MCD, Oneshot, Oral

Really? Win8? Oh, fer feck's sake... That's a year of waiting for (a) Microshit to debug it and (b) everyone else to write drivers for it.

Teengirl's still running XP. I'm the only one running Win7 so far... just call me a guinea pig and glue a carrot to my ass...

::nods:: Teengirl is on that as well, and she updated to 3.6.23 yesterday as well.

So far 7 is behaving. Well, at least I haven't had the urge to choke the life out of it.

Trying out 7 myself as we speak, and hoping that it's not unspeakable like 6...

The POV markers are indeed just as annoying. We're actually being treated like we're unable to gather that the POV has changed, and I was well past the "POV For Dummies" stage when I was ten. If you feel the need to put something in case we've missed the obvious change in tone between characters, be creative. Put a date, or something equally probable, followed by just a name. It's still an interruption but not as jarring.

Review Responses for AFF Challenge Prompt Lithium: Special of the Day From Apollo: Blame Neko for my obsession with Japanese men! It's a nice change from elves, though. And thank you! From Gslinger: Labs are sort of like restaurant kitchens... best not to know what goes on in there! And thank you! From JayDee: Oh, gods, that's fecking brilliant wordplay! I adore you! But thank you so much, and I'm glad I didn't overdo the meal references. You're so right, it's easy to get ham-handed and I re-read more times than I can count to try and catch that stuff. And oohh... sequel! ::watches Apollo cringe::

Review responses for AFF Challenge Prompt Gamma: Almost Home From JayDee: Thank you! It's always fun to try something new, and I'm glad you enjoyed my little venture into space! From anesor: His raider was already damaged, hence the reason he did not survive, and he was locked onto the hull, so his ship could be scavenged for parts. Tierney, however, took a perfectly good raider with her...

Flashbacks. They can be a wonderful way to bring in some back story, or illuminate a character's motivation or reasons for reacting a certain way. But I need to rant just a teensy bit... Flashbacks should not need to be announced. Please. It's disruptive, and drags me right out of the flow of a story. I'm reading along happily, and there it is. The clue-by-four, in all caps and bold lettering. FLASHBACK. Now I've come to a full stop, and I'm yanked right out of my immersion in the story, and that's not fun at all. If you've been using a regular font, italics can serve to highlight a flashback. Really. It's how it's generally handled in the books you buy in bookstores. Or set it off another way, if you've already reserved italics for characters talking to themselves and bold lettering for mental telepathy. But please... no great big warnings that we are entering the flashback zone.

The story is unhidden.

Pen Name: BronxWench Story link: Special of the Day Review Replies: BronxWench's Review Replies Type of fic: Flashfic Rating: Adult+ Fandom: Original > Fantasy & Science Fiction > Slash - Male/Male Warnings: Anal, AFFO, ChallengeFic, HJ, M/M, Oneshot

I had a member contact me via PM about a disclaimer issue, and the member was concerned because she said the story was missing. I was able to access it with no issues, so I'm wondering if this is connected with the issue tambra had. Then again, this could be a case of member malfunction... trying to find a story in the wrong subdomain...

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We're taking care of this now, since plagiarism is something we take VERY seriously. AND... take a look in the Hall of Shame.

At the bottom of the chapter is a dropdown, in the left corner. It has a "report abuse" option that will open a popup window.

One of our admins also looked at these stories, and neither of us can find actual scenarios that require that tag. Urahara did protest a bit, but he was not forced, and it appeared to us that his protest was more because he did not think Ichigo was dealing with his grief appropriately by seeking sex. In the second story, it is Isshin who is angry about Urahara sleeping with his son due to the age difference, and while Ichigo does make that remark about Urahara saying no, it is more a defense against his father's accusations as opposed to a confession of rape, since the actual sexual encounters are all quite consensual. The mention of molestation, or even the use of the word "rape" without any actual depiction of the act is not enough to warrant a RapeFic tag.

I've read both stories carefully, and I cannot find any instances of rape or even non-consensual contact that would justify these stories needing the RapeFic tag. Obviously, this is a tag and a topic that we take seriously, but I really cannot find anything that would require such a tag at this time.

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