BronxWench
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For Safari: To change your web browser encoding, follow the steps below. Click on "View" in your Safari browser. Select "Text Encoding" from the menu. Choose "Western (ISO Latin 1)" as your encoding type. Reload the page.
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Which browser do you use to access AFF?
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If your password is more than 12 characters, it’s too long. 8-12 letters and/or numbers is the range that works. Also keep in mind we don’t allow anything but letters and numbers. No special characters, periods, dashes, et cetera are allowed. And the password is case sensitive as well, so if you forgot and left your caps lock on when you created the password, it’ll always need to be all caps.
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We have a FAQ explaining how to fix the black diamond issue: http://www2.adult-fanfiction.org/forum/topic/64151-how-to-fix-the-black-diamond-issue/
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The email of record we have for you is not an aol.com email. We have a gmail.com email in the database, and that’s what is causing the error. You should be fine using the gmail address, but if you can no longer access it, please let us know.
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Or you could read it right here on AFF: Dawning Affliction by Shigure-san
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I’m glad it worked, and please, if your reporter does come and leave any flames, let us know. I’ll keep an eye out for any reports. -
You shouldn’t need to revalidate at all, since you last accessed your account in 2016, and we haven’t changed anything enough to require a revalidation since 2012. Can you take a screenshot of the error message/page for me? That might help me to identify the issue a bit better. I might not be a coder, but I’ve been able to do a bit of troubleshooting despite that. If we do require admin intervention, I can write it up for DemonGoddess (who has been working double shifts nearly non-stop for the past ten months). One of the things that tends to cause issues is passwords. We do require a password of at least 8 letters and/or numbers, but not more than 12 letters and/or numbers, and it’s case sensitive to boot. No spaces or special characters are allowed. Also, you need to enter your entire email address to log in, and not just your pen name, which is a little different than some other archvies. As an archive moderator, I can tell you that no one has reported any of your stories to us. I am in and out of the staff email numerous times a day, seven days a week and I would be the one most likely to see the reports. If you’re having issues with a specific person, you can PM me, and give me the details, so I can monitor for this person as well.
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The Silent Victims by Kolgrim
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Way Down We Go by TelanaMonteith
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Do you have a story for it, or are you in the process of writing one?
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Grumpywinter plagiarized a story, which resulted in his being banned from AFF for life.
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And it looks like the new hard drive is doing the trick, for which I am profoundly grateful!
Just in time for the first round of edits for the republications….
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I’d probably not be writing if it weren’t for the computer. The ability to backspace, change, revise. I’ve done some hand stuff since then, usually when I’m too far away from the computer; it’s a bit better in quality, but I wouldn’t be able keep up with it.
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And here, I started writing with pen and paper... Then to a typewriter... Then DOS... Now MS Word... i really have a problem... lol. On a serious note, that's always good to hear, BW
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I might still have a few of my very early, handwritten scribbles somewhere. Possibly.
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The encouraging news is that our tech admin has been able to get here a bit more often recently. I don’t know exactly where you are in the queue, however. I’ll try again to get this expedited.
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Okay, the new hard drive is being treated to a clean install of Windows 10, and then I get to reinstall EVERYTHING else so I can move my files over properly.
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A fast and durable hard drive is never a bad thing. As for *nix, you will want to be VERY COMFORTABLE with the “normally hidden wires” of an operating system before using it. I have experience with SCO Unix, Intel Solaris, Linux, and post-Intel Apple OSX. If you have to try *nix, get an iMac. All the unix stuff is in there, but stays “hidden” unless you go looking for it.
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@Wilde_Guess I read the "fast and durable hard drive" way too fast, started to think latex and naughty thoughts (this is AFF after all)
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@Wilde_Guess I’m an old DOS user, so I’m very much at home with working in the command prompt arena. The daft one and I were tidying, and ran across our ancient notes on tweaking HIMEM on our--really—IBM PS1. We’re hopelessly geeky, and the daft one has at least one laptop that runs Linux (don’t ask me what flavor) and one that still runs DOS.
@Desiderius Price Very good! You get to move to the front of the spanking line.
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Augh, an update to the forum, and I’m back to the default theme. My fav is gone… ::sobs::
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Sorry about the blood tests, but I really, REALLY do not need my computer to act up today, nor do I need the aggravation of trying to deal with updates on a website when I can barely load the freaking website as it is, and getting a call from the daft one that he needs me to drive down and pick him up at MIDNIGHT tonight, because I don’t mind going to bed at 1am when I need to be up at 5:30am, and when he’s dragging me to a seminar/trade show/dinner thing tomorrow.
It is either the hard drive deciding to fail or it’s the router. I’m hoping it’s the router, because I can fix that in 5 minutes or less. The hard drive will take a little longer.
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I’d backup the hard drive, just in case…. it could simply be time to reinstall.
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I’ll replace the hard drive. Reinstalling is simply delaying the inevitable. In the meantime, I have the idiot laptop which has very little I can actually use, but….
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Forgotten by traxie
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The stories were all removed by c0p13r himself. He set a deadline of January 1, 2018, and then pulled every last story down. This was his decision, and we at AFF ask that our members and visitors respect that decision.
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Can you post the same story in Current & Reccomend
BronxWench replied to Wilde_Guess's topic in Archive Tech Support
I just tried it myself, and was able to add a story from my Currently Reading list to my Recommended Reading list, and it appears in both lists. I’m not quite sure where this went wrong for you, but I was able to do it just now.- 1 reply
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I can see your account, and you show as registered, but there is no actual login data, so let me go through the checklist. Check to make sure your browser is up to date and that you have it set to allow third-party cookies. Also check to make sure your anti-virus or firewall programs haven’t blacklisted us. Your password should be at least 8 letters and/or numbers long, but no more than 12 letters and/or numbers long, and it’s case sensitive, so if you use a capital letter when you create the password, you must always use a capital letter in that place. If that’s all fine, then please clear your browser’s cache, history, and any AFF cookies which might have been set. Close the browser entirely, and I’d even recommend restarting the computer to make sure the data is cleared. Then log on to AFF and it should allow you access.
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Shaping Your Writing: Does a Lack of Feedback Affect Yours?
BronxWench replied to Tcr's topic in Writers' Corner
Quite frankly, I was in Minor2 territory when I discovered sex. When you’re talking about 16 and 17 year old kids having it off, no one really gets out a pitchfork. But I think the 13-and-under set will always be something publishers, and even some distributors, will treat with caution. That’s not to say a great many mainstream fiction novels don’t have scenes of child abuse, including sexual abuse, and that’s not to say there haven’t been novels which had consensual sexual contact with or between children 13 or younger. But that will bring out the pitchforks faster than anything, and get the novel dropped like a ball of hot lava. -
Shaping Your Writing: Does a Lack of Feedback Affect Yours?
BronxWench replied to Tcr's topic in Writers' Corner
You might have to self-publish, since that’s controversial even for the more fetish-oriented publishers. -
Shaping Your Writing: Does a Lack of Feedback Affect Yours?
BronxWench replied to Tcr's topic in Writers' Corner
I have never had my work pre-edited. Honestly, I’ve never even really had a beta reader. My fandom stuff is too obscure for most people, and I’d need to find a beta who’s willing to read original fic that might be MM, or maybe MF, possibly fantasy-based, post-dystopian, alternate historical, or just plain controversial. I’m all over the place as far as settings and content. -
Shaping Your Writing: Does a Lack of Feedback Affect Yours?
BronxWench replied to Tcr's topic in Writers' Corner
In a nutshell, that’s the biggest issue—the cost. I’m pathologically stupid when it comes to any sort of graphics, but I know people, yourself included, who can do brilliant cover art. I can handle formatting a document, and I’m fairly decent at grammar and punctuation. But I need that editor, and the only way I can afford it is to publish via a small press, and have their editor review it. Yes, I share royalties with the publisher, but I get the editing I need, and the cover art I can’t do to save my life. It seems fair to me, and either way, I’m going to have to market the daylights out of myself once more. I’ll do my bit and work hard, and be grateful for the editing. -
Shaping Your Writing: Does a Lack of Feedback Affect Yours?
BronxWench replied to Tcr's topic in Writers' Corner
You can do the whole CreateSpace thing for free, absolutely. But that brings you back to readers being irate about spending money for a hard copy of an unedited book. They’ll leave cranky reviews, and since CreateSpace isn’t offering books through their own online store anymore, it means those cranky reviews will be on Amazon, its parent company and now sole distribution hub. Revising and editing are not the “fun” part of writing, to be sure. The first time is like cold water in the face. You’ve sold this manuscript to a publisher, and no matter how small the press, it’s pretty exciting. Then you get the first round of edits, and you wonder why they even took the book, if so much was wrong with it. But here’s the thing. As the writer, you know what you want to say, and you have this whole world in your head. You think you’ve put it all down for the reader, but guess what? You left out whole bits you think are obvious, but which aren’t to readers, including your editor. Or you’ve gone into such exhaustive detail, your editor fell asleep during the painfully precise description of the outfit your MC is wearing (right down to the designer brands) which took fifteen paragraphs over two and a half pages. You want to be sure they have that picture in their heads, too, but the readers have already put the book down. I had an editor comment to me, “They drink a lot of tea.” I looked, and sure enough, every time my characters needed to talk about something, they had a cup of tea while talking. The poor bastards were floating in tea. It was just so overdone as to be sort of a joke by the midpoint of the story, and it was taking away from the real point of the discussion, because tea, again?!? It made sense to me for them to be doing something while talking, but I was wrong, and I spent a good deal of time editing that out. Every time I’m facing edits, I remind myself that Stephen King gets edited, too, and I’ll bet he doesn’t let Molly (aka The Thing of Evil) bite his editor, either.