BronxWench

Hi, If this is you, then you need to revalidate your account under the new archive software. I’m showing the account as last active on 3/30/2010, and we’ve done a couple of updates since then. This FAQ should help with revalidating your account, with apologies for the missing screenshots. For reason, the screenshots still appear on the new user instructions, though. We’re happy to help with any issues that might crop up with the revalidation. You can post here or email us at tos_team@adult-fanfiction.com.

I think there are a couple of things we can try. The first is to clear any and all old cookies lurking about in your browser. Clear all AFF cookies from your browser’s history and cache, and then close the browser to make sure those changes actually happen. AFF will reset cookies for you, and the subdomains actually require a reset every month in the form of confirming you are over 18. The second thing is your password. Somewhere between your last login and now, we changed the way passwords work. Passwords need to be between 8-12 letters and/or numbers long, with no special characters, and they are, as always, case sensitive. Additionally, if you reset your password using the existing password, it blanks the field and forces a reset yet again. So, once you’ve eliminated the potential issue of old or currupt cookie strings, this would be the next thing to check, to make sure your password actually fits the requirements. You should see the Login option as an item at the end of the menu bar. It’s a dropdown, and you need to input your email address and password, and then click the login button. The Login item at the end of the menu bar should now show your pen name if login was successful. If these steps don’t help, let me know and we’ll see what else it could be.

Oh, my dear sweet gods. If I ever submitted anything that bad, my editor would smack the living shit out of me and make me rewrite until the pixels fucking bled...

Per your request, your account has been deleted.

I feel like I should break out of my bloody holiday mode, although Yule lends itself so well to death and despair.

I’m in! I might even manage something vaguely fluffy this time. Maybe. I can be fluffy, sometimes.

I do believe the Yahoo group page is still working, although you might have to join to see anything, as I recall. I admit I don’t use Yahoo, and haven’t for a very long time. The story you’re looking for was not posted here on AFF, as far as I can tell. I’ve looked in the staff records, and can find nothing. I do know this author also published for sale, although I don’t know the pen name used for that work. Perhaps the story was published?

Per your other thread, I’m hoping all is well.

I’m glad you were able to solve the issue! Happy writing!

I think it was back in 2012? Or thereabouts. Then there was the HF purge, which was not quite as dramatic or frantic, but still busy enough.

It goes through spurts. Some weeks, Cartoons is more active than Naruto or Games. Other weeks, Harry Potter outstrips Originals. But the last time we had mad activity was when FFN decided to enforce their ToS regarding mature content. Quite honestly, I am hoping they never decide to do that again, or at least confine it to one subdomain, please.

sagewhistler’s profile There are some links to various websites on the profile which might help.

I would never disavow a review, but DG doesn’t need any more work for my sake, really.

That’s not a project I’m going to ask our techies to take on. They have far more important work to do, and the reviews are still there. Just anonymous.

Sadly, I lost all my stories and all my reviews. I do have many reviews copied over onto the review replies threads, so that’s good. I also keep several forms of backup for anything I write, so I still have the stories themselves. But my issues shouldn’t be indicative of anything wrong with the site itself. I just think it was a glitch with mine, and now that my anon reviews are working again, we’re all good! My biggest regret from the snafu is that reviews I’d left over the years are all now marked as from Anon, so I hope those people I reviewed remember that I did love their work.

DG hasn’t has to run the script for a while now, not since the more recent code updates. I had some issues with my account recently, which might have resulted in my settings going back to the new account defaults, and it never occurred to me to check the anonymous reviews setting. It read “yes” but wasn’t allowing anon reviews. Selecting “yes” and updating seems to have set it properly to accept anon reviews.

I wonder if it’s something to do with the “yes” state being a default, but not really activated unless you specifically set it?

I will say my visual aids are largely not explicit. I find I like to collect images that feed a mood, or a facet of the world I’m building. For the Tales of the Seaborn Crown ‘verse, I collect steampunk images, mostly objects, Carnivale masks, costumes, and other things that flesh out the little details. I might save various bits of armor, or weapons that amuse. The explicit stuff doesn’t need visual aids, other than perhaps a pretty toy here and there. I like chastity cages lately...

Hi, I’ve written this up for deletion. You do have quite a few stories posted between these two accounts. Those will also be deleted as well.

Do it! Do it!

Huh. I checked my account, and I am allowing anonymous reviews. I clicked “Yes” again, and updated it, so maybe it took this time?

I am something of a pantser when I write by myself. When I co-author with someone else, I keep copious notes, but left to my own devices, I let my characters tell the story. It’s not even remotely efficient, but it’s how my brain works best when I don’t have someone else to bounce ideas off. The only thing I might make notes for are certain elements of the backstory, like pantheons, place names, and a very, VERY rough timeline. Otherwise, I wing it madly. I also do collect pictures as mental prompts, which I save to private boards on my Pinterest, just to fuel the imagination a bit, or aid me in describing something. I’m very visual in many respects, even if I prefer not to describe my characters in such minute detail as to rob readers of a chance to imagine the characters themselves.

For Indigo: First of all, thank you! Thank you from the bottom of my heart. This has always been a favorite of mine, maybe because it does tug a bit at one’s feelings. I was deliberately vague about what precisely was wrong with her, although the consensus seems to be dementia, and I won’t say it’s not. And you did actually catch the paradox of their lovemaking—for him it’s most definitely a bid to recapture their old intimacy, while she is merely trying to cling to what she remembers of their past. I won’t apologize for the feels, however. It means I did my job as a writer, because I was able to coax forth that reaction, and I’m pleased I pulled it off. But thank you, again, for the read and the review.