BronxWench

Please refrain from asking for copies of stories which have been removed from the site and/or the Internet.

You might want to ask on that site, rather than here, since all we ever had was the one dodgy link Melrick removed, and we’re not going to be happy about more dodgy links being posted here. We try to keep our forums free from that sort of thing.

Either DemonGoddess061 or I will let you know when the accounts have been merged. We’re happy to help!

Not a problem at all. I’ll write this up for my tech admin, and we’ll get them merged, with the new account as the surviving account, and all the stories and associated data merged.

Hi, I think I have both your accounts: Poem (original) Poem (new) The email accounts are different, so I need to ask which account you want as the surviving account. We can then merge them for you, so all the data from the original account will remain intact.

MistressMalfoy has only a few stories here. That is sadly not one of them.

I believe this thread is applicable.

The author is PervertedHamster, who seems to have removed the story. There had been a correction requested by staff back in January of this year, but the story was properly corrected, and I see no further staff actions with respect to the story.

We’re sorry to see you go, but we hope your readers will continue to enjoy your stories on your blog, and elsewhere! We’re still happy to have you come and read stories here, review your favorite authors, and chat with us on the forums.

Jeff, I’ve emailed you back, and let’s see if we can fix this now.

Honestly, I get angry when friends of mine are subjected to cyber-abuse. I’m much more likely to pursue options to see them blocked or banned entirely in that circumstance. For myself, I’m much more prone to snubbing the trivial wretches.

As I said, it’s not always helpful advice, because it’s hard to let go of the negativity in those words. But at the end of the day, the person leveling those harsh words at you doesn’t know you. They are simply lashing out in a tantrum, and the why of it is largely not relevant. What is relevant is not giving them the power over you that they seek.

I think we’ve all been on the end of advice which makes us feel uncertain about our work, and often ourselves. As writers, we invest a great deal of ourselves in what we write, and while most of us understand we’re not perfect, we’d rather not be berated or scoffed at in the guise of helpful advice. I keep in mind the relative anonymity of the Internet, and the way it can bring out the baser sides of people who are otherwise probably quite decent. It’s astonishingly easy to level invective at someone you will never meet face to face, someone whose reality is still abstract at best. I reverse that for myself, and remind myself that this person doesn’t know me, or my life, and if they are projecting something from their own life onto me, it’s not something I need to own. I am responsible at the end of the day for the people around me, who I love, and who make my life worth living. The words leveled at me or at my work across the ether of the electronic universe are only as valid as I allow them to be. If they contain sincere and constructive criticism, I’ll embrace them. I might not incorporate all of the critique, but I will welcome it in the spirit of wanting to grow as a writer. If they are mean-spirited, and designed to make me doubt myself, I’m sufficiently thick-skinned enough to let them slide past. That’s not always a helpful bit of advice, since words have a great deal of power to wound. We’re writers, after all, and we understand that. But words leveled at me which are designed to hurt my confidence rarely have that effect if they come from a relative stranger. I just write that person off as trivial, and move on.

I’d suggest trying again with the new email address. If you experience issues, please email us at tos_team@adult-fanfiction.org from that email address, and let us know what happened.

Links for above: Better Than Cookies by crmoon

There is nothing public as far as an email. All I can suggest is that you try searching that pen name to see if it is used elsewhere. As AFF staff, it’s policy for us not to link to an external site, and I can’t give out any information which isn’t made public by the member. I really am sorry, but sometimes people’s lives or jobs create the need for them to remove online work. We respect the wishes of our members if they do remove their work from AFF, though we’re sorry to see them go.

All I can tell you is that the stories were not removed due to any staff action. I’m sorry!

I’m not showing that pen name as registered in the archive. I’m going to flag this for our tech admin to check, since I do not have the database access to view registrations stuck in process. Bear with us, and we’ll get this sorted out.

You may actually have registered at one point, and the repeated registrations, using the same email address, will result in that error. If you can supply me with the pen name you are trying to use, I can check for you. Generally, the registration process is smooth, as long as the steps are followed exactly as stated in our FAQ here. The most frequent trouble spots are the password, and entering a birthdate correctly, to be honest. But with a little more information than was supplied in your initial post, we can assist.

Links for above: Lucky Strike by SpeedyTomato

We generally only make a category if there is a story in the works for it. Do you have one you’re working on?