gold.august

Ah, thank you! Very swift with your answering, and I appreciate that very much. I can't wait until it's back up, but alas, patience I must have! Good luck with your rewrite, it looks like it is coming along very nicely.

How do I change it so that people do not need to be logged in to leave a review on my stories? I have only gotten feedback from one person so far and I've been hoping to get more thoughts from other people as well, and I know that it is harder to get reviews if people who review my stories have to be logged in. I cannot find any settings anywhere to change this, but I have noticed other stories can be reviewed by non-members, so I thought maybe it is a setting ... somewhere on here, lol. I have tried going to the 'edit details' section, and looked everywhere in the user control panel, and the only things I can find that has to do with reviews is deleting them. :C I also looked through the FAQ and I can only find things like 'how to read / delete reviews'. I don't know if it has to do with the rating, cause the story I have posted is Adult++ . Or maybe when I registered I stupidly selected something that disallowed non-members from leaving reviews? D: If anyone can help me or explain why it cannot be changed, that would just be so awesome! Please and thank you! : )

If there is one thing I hate about a lot of yaoi-fanfiction (I prefer original m/m slash myself), it is when every single female in the story is a bitch or something. I've seen it so many times, again and again, and I've always found it sickening. I know that mostly young teen girls write it, which I view as ironic in a hypocritical sense, but that kind of a mentality seems rather unhealthy and jealous, even? I've had an instance when I was dating a girl back when I was a teenager, and after like 2 months she decided to show me a few of her stories. We had gotten together because we both liked art, and I do love drawing more than writing. What appalled me was that in all her stories EVERY SINGLE GUY was gay, and ALL the women were bitchy and/or antagonists. Why? How...? I know that stories don't ever have to be realistic, but still-- you want a sense of realism in a story anyway, right? Even in fantasy or science fiction, there are some laws that are kept in all stories, right? I just find that a world in which all females are angry horny bitches that try to turn males straight (because somehow all of them are gay, or maybe all the heterosexual men got eaten?) is just a waste of writing. I am sorry if this offends anyone, but really. :/ I do not mind it if there are sexist characters in a story, that is a character. That is their flaw. But when a story itself is sexist, that's just ... no. That's all it really is. Just, no. Then again, if there is a world where all the men are gay, I truly would not blame the females for being bitches. Hell, I'd be one of them. I mean, I have never, in all my life, come across a story in which all the woman in the world somehow were lesbians and all the men were abusive assholes that forced woman to be straight (I bet they'd all be rapists or something...!). If I wrote that I'd probably get my head beaten off for being such a sick person-- which makes me want to write one as a parody. I'd write it well, but make sure it's bad all the same. NOT that I agree with sexism against men either ... it's just not that common. And nooo I'm not talking about something a texan politician would write (no offense, but have you seen the attacks on planned parenthood? I may be Canadian, but thanks Obama for supporting woman, and stating that females are not an 'object of interest' <3 ). And for those who disagree with me, I do not see why females should be viewed as such. I am a female, I do not, and would never in my life, try to make a man straight to fuck me O______O;. BLAH, I guess that's ... all I have to rant about on that subject. PS. To be fair, I do know that most of the stories I'm talking about are written by teenagers.