BronxWench

I did get your email, and have responded. Let’s see if we can sort this out for you, and get you writing again.

Are you still able to access the email address associated with your AFF archive account? It is a yahoo account, same as the forum account. If so, while I’m not aware of a specific issue with Yahoo like that with Microsoft’s various email clients, it may be a case of our email being sent to some email limbo. The reset email comes from anonymous@affnet.nexcess.net, so adding that to your address book helps keep our mail from getting sent to a junk folder. The other issue tends to be when members try to use a password generator. We only allow letters and/or numbers—no punctuation or special characters permitted, which password generators adore. We also require passwords to be between 8-12 characters long, and they are case sensitive. Anything that doesn’t meet those requirements causes the reset to fail, as does trying to reset with the same password. If none of the above is an issue, what has worked in the past is a temporary change of email address to a gmail account, which I can do for you. We seem to never have an issue resetting passwords for gmail users. Once the password is reset, and you have access to the account again, you can always restore your preferred email address. If you want to try using a gmail address to reset the password, I do ask that you email us at: tos_team@adult-fanfiction.org. I strongly advise against posting email addresses on an open forum. Spambots and other unsavory types harvest those.

Unfortunately, once a story is deleted, it’s gone. I’m sorry—I know that’s not the answer you wanted to hear, but we don’t keep backups of the archive.

This is the Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/set-character-encoding/bpojelgakakmcfmjfilgdlmhefphglae?hl=en After adding the extension, the encoding should be set to Windows-1252 to fix the black diamond issue.

I moved this to the correct thread—it’s not a bug report. The archive doesn’t support graphical content like images, nor will it display urls as actual links. If the chart is comprised of text, there should be no issue. Now, from the point of view of an archive moderator, one of the things we find problematic is overly long author’s notes, or chapters that don’t contain actual story content, like tables of contents, or character descriptions. Those aren’t allowed, and we will warn members for that content, and hide the stories if the issue isn’t corrected. If the chart isn’t an essential component of the plotline, it might be better to have it posted here, on the forum. You can post something like that in the review reply thread for your story in the Fan Fiction section, under the right category for your story. The exception is any imagery with adult content. The forum moderator will remove anything like that so we don’t fall afoul of international laws regarding pornographic imagery. Without actually seeing the charts, I’m trying to cover all bases here, and hopefully I’m not missing the point entirely.

Please bear with us. Our admin is the one who adds the new categories, and she is unfortunately working ridiculous hours despite the shutdowns here in the US. I’m sure she’ll get to adding categories as soon as she can, but in the meantime, posting the story under Misc TV Shows with the actual fandom in brackets in the summary would be fine. We can move the story once the category is created.

I can delete the archive account for you, and you can send a PM to @Melrick to have the forum profile deleted.

I’m just going to check a couple of things with you. Is your password between 8-12 letters and/or numbers long? Does it have any punctuation or special characters (those aren’t allowed in the archive passwords)? Did you remember to capitalize where needed? When I log in, because I jump between the moderator account and my personal account on the archive, I use a dropdown to choose my correct email address for the account I want to use. Can you see your email address in the dropdown? If so, highlight it and then type in the password in the correct field. Click “Log In” and it should work.

My blog is moribund. I’m also avoiding FB and Twitter for the most part, except for sporadic bursts of marketing. It all feels so toxic lately, and I don’t need toxic right now.

*dies laughing* Mpreg is shorthand for male pregnancy, otherwise known as “not another ass baby!”

Honestly? By all rights, AO3 shouldn’t be hosting any adult content, because they aren’t an age-restricted site, and have no method in place to verify the age of a reader. What they DO have is a seriously deep-pocket not-for-profit backing them, and a team of lawyers who are exceedingly adept at obfuscation. I’m not saying anyone shouldn’t post there, but I will venture my opinion that if a legal issue arises over adult content, AO3 will throw the author—I’m sorry, “creator”—under the bus faster than a cartoon villain.

Fetuses. One of the exceptions to the Latin plural rules in common usage. Aside from that, I agree that the likelihood of success is pretty much nil. Then again, people write mpreg stories, and that’s just as improbable, so who am I to get picky?

I have no way of knowing who the author was, since the story was not removed by staff action as far as I can tell. I should also point out that if an author doesn’t make their email public, we will not give that information out. We respect our members’ privacy and keep that information completely confidential.

Glad to help!

I’ve deleted the submission in the Books subdomain, but you will need to repost it in our Harry Potter subdomain.

All I’ve been able to find is a mention in our records that the author pulled the story back in July 2017. Once a story is deleted from the archive, we don’t retain any copies of it. The deletion is permanent. I’m sorry—I know that’s not what you were hoping to hear, but it’s all I can find.

Well, you certainly won’t be able to make a forum profile using someone else’s archive profile, that’s for certain. Do you have an archive profile? If yes, I can find your url for you. If not, you’ll need to create an archive profile before you can join the forum, or you can read this FAQ carefully, and see if you will be allowed to create a forum profile without an archive profile. Remember—this method requires patience—even more now that we’re all in various stages of lockdown and self-isolation.

I can confirm that the member in question removed her account at AFF. At that point in time, there were no stories posted under the account, So I can only assume they were removed prior to the account removal. I’m sorry it’s not better news.

Okay, so the default browser for your phone would be Safari. On a Mac, you would open Safari, and go to Preferences > Advanced, and there should be an option for “Default Encoding.” I don’t know if Safari for mobile platforms has this option, but from what I’ve seen, Safari for iPhones doesn’t have the same options under the Advanced settings. Even checking the Dummies Guide for iPhones online didn’t show any options to change encoding/fonts the way you can on a Mac. Now, I don’t know if you can add an extension to Safari on the iPhone like the Chrome extension which allows you to change encoding. The link DG had for that is here.

Are you viewing the stories through a browser, or on a mobile device using iOS? And if a mobile device, which version of iOS? I’m not an iOS user myself, but I can poke about and see what I can find.

Straw, Wood and Brick by KittyRae

Ah, spambots… harbingers of spring break and self quarantine… It’s gone, and thank you!

First of all, I should start by saying I never intended to have quite so long a dry spell, but… It may honestly have been a good thing to have to repost work, because I’m getting a chance to look at it with a fresh eye, and hopefully make it better. And now to business! For Masking Intentions: Thank you! This is one of my favorite worlds, of all the places that live in my head. I’m cleaning it up and tweaking, and that will hopefully put some energy into the remainder of the story. I’ve really wanted to tell Kdis’ story, and I’m excited to be working on it again. Yes, yes, I know. I’ve been a bad author and neglected this one terribly but I hope the edits make it stronger and a better read. I’m telling myself that, anyway. And thank you! Keep poking me!