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(Or "eenentwintigduizendenvier" in Dutch. XD)
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@ Tigro Spottystripes:
It certainly doesn't hurt to say something like that in a review. It just would be even better if you at least give a bit of an idea what exactly it is you like so much, or of what could have been done better. Perhaps you don't have specific criticism, nothing that stood out like a sore thumb. Maybe it's difficult to exactly pin-point what made the story so enjoyable.
However, even just saying something like "this and this line/scene/conversation made me laugh", or "I cried a little when this/that happened" in an otherwise "plain" review makes it special. Hell, even a line like "I wonder how [character] is going to react to [other character]'s action/revelation/etc." could be enough.
It shows that you read the story and considered it worth another few moments of your time to leave a review, whereas a review like "I liked it. Please update. I wanna read more!" could be meant for any and every story. Nothing in it refers to the fic you just read. It reads like a copy-and-paste response, even when heartfelt by the person leaving it, because it's so generic.
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Category name: Sirius/Regulus
Section catagory to be in: Harry Potter - Slash
Do you have any stories for it?:http://hp.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600022926
http://hp.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600025656 may or may not apply - it has both Sirius/Regulus and Sirius/Remus
http://hp.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600010144
http://hp.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600024496
http://hp.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=20361
http://hp.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=27258
http://hp.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600022925
Also got one of my own in progress. Not far enough done to upload any of it yet, though.
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Okay, then I wish you good luck - and I'm sorry that you now have even more to do. You people are so busy with keeping this place up and running. Thumbs up for all you guys and girls from staff.
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I can give it a try to see if it works with IE, even if I am not too fond of it, if you'd like. If I can keep firefox from crashing for long enough, can try that one too. Not sure if I can, though - it tends to crash within two minutes of loading half or more of the time.
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I have bought one such key quite a while back, but whenever I try to use it I get
"Oops! Something went wrong!
FROM_USER_DOES_NOT_EXIST"
every time.
I use Google Chrome right now (newest version) on Windows 7, but I believe that I attempted it on Firefox once or twice before as well. Firefox currently keeps crashing on me, however, so I cannot check that one to see if it's indeed giving me the same issues.
Is this a known issue? Am I doing something the wrong way, maybe? Overlooking something?
(Oh, and if you need more information, poke me and I'll give it. Just not sure what info you'd need else than browser and such)
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Death, Murder, Kill... in my pants.
I don't think so, there will be NO murders committed in my pants. XD
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Can't promise I'll do it, as there are several other projects I am supposed to be working on (-cough- was already supposed to be working on them before I disappeared for half a year) but I wouldn't mind hearing about it because right not, I seem to be a little bit stuck on my current stories.
Maybe writing something else will get the creative juices flowing again. =)
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Mighty Imps Nowadays Impersonate Sexual Cadets Under Lustful Example
E C C E N T R I C
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Purple Rabbits Ending Their Existence, New Site Explains.
C H A M P I O N
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Rabid Animalistic Dudes In Operation: Another Comes To Include Vigilant Extremism
S I M P L I S T I C
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Two Unsuspecting Men Undergo Laughter, Tickling, Umpteen Oatcakes Under Stress.
EDIT: And a word, of course.
Hm.
S I L L I N E S S
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You're welcome. =)
Yeah, as I said, "if I could get past the loving, consenting relationship part", which I highly doubt. (Unless it's seriously AU and with a well-written background that explains how such a thing came to be, but then it really would be more along the lines of OCs with the faces and names of Greyback and Lupin, though if well-written I don't mind. If they're Gary Stu's replacing the canon-characters, well, that's different.)
I can see Sirius as either bottom or top, depending on the way you look at him. If his sometimes immature, bold behaviour is basically a cover for uncertainty he feels, sure. If it's written along the lines of him finally having someone to let himself go with, I can also see it. There's more to a character than what can be seen at face-value, after all. I can also see him as top, because he either is or acts very bold and outgoing, pretty "dominant" and all. (Not that a character that is or acts dominant outside the bedroom necessarily is the same inside, anyway.)
And I can understand being bored and frustrating with people spam-flaming your stories. Usually, such trolls get bored with it themselves after a while too, though, and then they move on to another story, especially if the person they're flaming doesn't give them the pleasure of flaming back and getting all (visibly) riled up and such.
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Yup, that sounds like a flamer troll for sure. (I don't think anyone can honestly say "You suck go die!" is constructive crit, really)
I don't think I've read your stories before, but I -highly- doubt you're that bad from taking a quick peek at your summaries for the stories you have here at AFF. (Hell, even if you were that bad, it would be no excuse to tell you to "go die" or review-spam your stories with personal attacks.)
I personally see no issues in Remus topping, though there are a few pairings in which I can imagine it seeming slightly weird. (Fenrir and Remus in a consenting, loving relationship with Remus as "permanent" "top" would be the only one I can currently think of. Hate-sex with Remus topping Fenrir I could easily believe, and if I can get past the "loving, consenting relationship" part between those two, I could see them switching as well)
And I agree about you with how you see AFF. The serious users here are indeed more mature (partially because this is an adult site, partially because I doubt the staff would accept people behaving like childish trolls) and I agree that usually they either move on if they don't like a story as a whole, or give some constructive criticism if they like the idea, or most of the story, but feel certain things could have been done better.
I think a lot of that also has to do with AFFs staff being competent and actually dealing with trolls, unlike FFNs.
Oh, and a big hug. No one deserves getting that kind of reviews.
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(Sorry for the revival of a topic that seems not to have been in use for a few months)
For me, it all depends on the context, though I usually try to avoid the flowery purple prose because I can't stand it myself.
If the character is very formal, or in a job where they often have to refer to those parts of the anatomy with the proper, official language (say, gynecologist, sex ed. teacher, etc.), then I could see them using penis, testicles, vagina, labia and similar words because they may well think of it as such.
Now, if the characters were for example a rockstar and one of his fans, I highly doubt they would call it - or think of it - as "I slid my penis into her vagina after stimulating her clitoris with my thumb and index finger."
I sometimes use the more "hardcore" terminology - dick, cock, balls, cunt (despite being female, I have no issues using that word, but that may be because the equivalent of it in my own language is used for just about anything. Including complaining about the weather, the state of the roads, traffic jams, advertisement on tv interrupting the program you're watching, trains being late, etc.), pussy, tits, cum.
At other times, I don't specifically refer to it ("He slid into her" can be pretty clear on its own, especially if the context has already established what is going on) or use more "soft" words (his "member", for example, and "seed"), but unless I really want to establish that a character of mine is overly-romantic and has read too many purple-prose books, I probably won't say that "his throbbing magic rod entered her warm, wet cave".
To me, that just sounds silly, and not in a good way either.
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Not here, but in my attempt at NaNo this year (which failed due to me being ill and bed-ridden for almost half of the month November):
- She could tell by looking at their feces that there was something wrong. (Diarrhea, perchance? XD)
- She was quiet quite. (And I am silly very.)
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(Anyone else think it's strange to "send a letter to your 16-year-old-self" on a site where your sixteen-year-old-self is not allowed to be? XD If you don't want to deal with heavy themes and a shitload of depression-related shit, skip my post.)
Dear 16-year-old-me,
You're going to fall ill about five dozen times in the upcoming four years, so try not to fall behind on schedule for all kind of things before that. It will only result in one hell of a big mess. As usual. Story of our life.
You're straddling the fence and if you're not careful, you might fall off on the wrong side. Regardless of which side you fall off, you will be hurt - the question is just if you can recover.
And for goodness' sake, try and get some sleep during the first two weeks of upcoming August. Running on respectively 9 and 12 hours of sleep per week is going to harm you. Unless you want to be ill for most of September, and have your constant headache get even worse? No? Didn't think so.
And yes, I know you/I/we have little control over it. Just try.
Try and get your average amount of sleep per night back up above the 2.5 hours, too. One night of five hours of sleep every other day is. not. going. to. be. good. for. you.
Yes, you're going to lose contact to M., the other M. and J. You saw that coming already anyway. In the case of J., the only three things you share in common are your worry over M., being depressive and loving to write. That's hardly good foundation for a friendship when M. falls away and you're going to lack time or energy to write for a bit. A friendship based on the grounds of both being depressive doesn't work.
But you learnt that lesson at least five times already, didn't you?
I know you won't drop them 'cause they need you. You can't keep the heads of five other people above water when you yourself are already almost drowning, though.
Or well, yes, you can. If you want to slowly kill your mind and body. Feel free to. Really. I know it's going to happen anyway. Because after the effort and time you spent trying to help them, you won't be able to turn around and walk away.
Just keep in mind that even though you've saved them, they won't be able to save you. While you keep yourself strong, you will lose the ability to show your weaknesses when you need to (technically, you kind-of already have by now). You may relapse into bad habits, but you'll never ask for help, will you?
Don't break - don't bend - don't bow - don't give up - don't give in - don't show weaknesses - don't show imperfections - always appear strong.
That's what you live by, no? It's also what's very nearly going to kill you mentally if you don't watch out. Yes, it has saved you - but that doesn't mean it can't harm you just as swiftly.
You know what's the problem? You don't live your life for yourself - you live it for others. I know, it has saved you - if there were no people who needed you, you probably would be dead at least three years now, no? Possibly far, far longer. Would you even have reached the double digits, age-wise, otherwise? No idea. In any case, we/I/you have been depressive for well over half of our life, no? Age seven onwards, even if it took ourselves and others a while to acknowledge it.
But think. What's going to happen when for once, you can't help them? When they decide they don't need you anymore and you watch them drown, or almost do so, from a distance? When they go their own ways and you go yours. You are the anchor that kept them safe - or at least alive and somewhat healthy.
But they are also just about the only reason you haven't given up, aren't they?
Is just the argument of not wanting to hurt your parents and your little sister going to be enough to keep you here? I know you/I don't fear death. Not our own, at least. Not that you necessarily wish to be dead - not anymore, at least, even if you have for years, I know - but you have no real wish to live either.
What will you live for when there's no one depending on you? What will you do when there's almost no one left to anchor you to this world? You're walking on the edge of a blade - keep walking this path and you'll harm yourself, or fall off and harm and possibly kill yourself.
There is no easy choice; I know. Even now, I still don't know if I made the right choice - I know I have made a lot of wrong choices, I just don't know if this should be on that list too.
Must feel weird, reading a letter from your nearly-twenty-year old self. After all, neither you nor I ever expected I would make it that long.
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Psychopath in my pants. (Agonoize)
(What is that psychopath doing there, I wonder. XD)
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I agree, pretty much out of his mind. Seems there is one plus, though. People like that make me seem sane. XD
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hasnohat:
Thank you for reviewing. =) If all goes well, it shouldn't be too long before the next chapter is there - most likely tomorrow.
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