[Lack of reviews.]

Laughing so hard as I catch up on this thread right now. I took all of several years worth of reviews from the two sites I posted on, the good, bad, and ugly. Now I am completely revamping a whole series at the moment and moving them to this site in the Initial D archive section.

Looks like I must warn everyone that I helped a dear friend who is a reading fanatic to get onto this site. She doesn't write, but she will review anything that catches her eyes. Every single chapter . . . Not even kidding here. She and I met when I was an active Urbis contributing writer who royally sucked at the time.

For 10 years, any site I start posting on, she starts combing through looking for gems to entertain herself. She's partially paralyzed and something of a shut in so she does have plenty of time. The reason she has stuck with me for so many years is she likes my way of turning phrases. She has helped me get even better at finding new ways with words.

Please be nice to OldOwl if she does review your work. She's one incredible asset if you look at her review with an eye for "maybe I can fix that little problem" mindset. She tells me every single typo and every grammar problem, and I absolutely love her for it. She's helped me improve my writing greatly over 10 years. Sometimes she goes on character kicks, and sometimes she's a grammar Nazi, but OldOwl is one of the greatest assets any writer could ever befriend.

She broke me of the horrific bad habit of not being well versed in which character was talking to the other. Now I have that trait down pat. She is the reason I learned to use idioms, catch phrases, and other tricks like stuttering and other personality keying factors to make the character personalities clear through the way they spoke to each other. I can assure everyone she is worth listening to when she does tackle a project. After all, I'm pig headed and she tackled me and won me over. ROFL.

Frankly, this is the first time she has reviewed any of my work without growling that she should have known which character was talking without the proverbial Character 1 said and Character 2 replied tags.

[Reviews anyone?]

ah yes.... the fanpoodle!

That is an excellent way to describe them. ROFL. I have to remember your description of the poor plagued souls coerced into reviewing because it is funny.

[Lack of reviews.]

Thanks for the input everyone. Demongodess, I checked out the FAQ link, and put it in my important links book mark in case I forget anything I read. I'll get everything figured out shortly. Thanks for the extra Tip Danny, I switched to Firefox a month ago. I am still figuring that out also. I will get there eventually. Snicking@myself on this one.

[Lack of reviews.]

Great! I appreciate the helpful tips. It was making me a bit crazy that I could not easily post reviews. I'll see if I can figure out where the sound button is located on that dratted recaptcha box. If I can get that working then my troubles are solved when my eyes don't want to work. Thanks so very much.

[Lack of reviews.]

Hi all. Seems like a lot of folks get upset when it comes to reviews, or rather lacking in receiving them. I've done my best to give feed back to the other writers in the Initial D section I'm adding tales to, but due to having vision problems, I can't always read the stupid captcha to actively leave a review I have typed up. If I can't get something clear enough to make sense of, the review won't take. Could this be one of the biggest reasons for the lack of reviews everyone seems to have? Once I get frustrated enough I give up.

I use the control + symbol a lot from my Firefox browser to increase the stories to an easier readable size. However, Captcha does not get bigger when I try that trick to leave a review. I know it has frustrated me personally. I wonder if other older people who love to read a lot are having a similar problem to me. Us granny types can't help having bad eyes. When possible I leave reviews qhen one of the kids are around to tell me the captcha so I can go back and leave a review whenever possible.

My series of completed stories are going into a very small archive that only has two pages worth of stories which I am doing my level best to turn into 3 pages by loading a fully revised copy of all my completed stories from another site. I know I have had lots of trouble leaving reviews when I can't always get a captcha I can read and type in, so I don't actively expect many reviews. I look at the hit counts and use that to measure whether people are enjoying the story. All I can say is I wish there was some kind of chapter break down for the hit counts so I'd know whether the story is read through to the end or not.

I think if I had a way to tell if a story gets read all the way through, it means people like it. IF it is not, then I know it has flaws. If it has flaws, I'll need to look for an editor of sorts. IS there something in the works that might address that kind of ego booster?

[Religion]

I would disagree with that because monotheistic religions incite violence and hatred with direct calls to forcibly convert the heathens or put them to the sword.

And Jesus spake saying:

Matthew 10:34

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

Luke 12:51

Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division: For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three. The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

Revelation 19:11

And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.

And Allah doth reveal:

5:33

The only reward of those who make war upon Allah and His messenger and strive after corruption in the land will be that they will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off, or will be expelled out of the land. Such will be their degradation in the world, and in the Hereafter theirs will be an awful doom.

4:89

They long that ye should disbelieve even as they disbelieve, that ye may be upon a level (with them). So choose not friends from them till they forsake their homes in the way of Allah; if they turn back (to enmity) then take them and kill them wherever ye find them, and choose no friend nor helper from among them,

8:50

If thou couldst see how the angels receive those who disbelieve, smiting faces and their backs and (saying): Taste the punishment of burning!

thanks to www.skepticsannotatedbible.com

I am aware of your well backed feeling on this, Porkchop. However, I wish to make a concrete point on this anti religion variety blanket argument: All the most blood thirsty religions to have ever existed all sprang from one specific geological region of the world. By the time I was nine years old I understood the Middle East has always been, and shall always be overflowing with extremely violent people who more or less still choose to live in the proverbial Dark Ages such as we saw during Europe's Burning times, and Crusades. Christianity if also founded on older religions from The Middle East. Hence it gets lumped into the same bloody history program because it is a revised continuation of the more blood thirsty ways of the predecessors.

I request that you not put those of us who do not share the same blood lust history into your blanket views of all branches of religion. All you have cited is the Middle East religions, and I for one do not subscribe to their views one iota. Those who follow "war" gods alone should be placed in this little blind box of violent religions with a known history of committing mass murder in the names of their blood thirsty God(s). Allah and Jehovah as Judaic Christian God is often called are both known "War" Gods.

There also exist religions which are historically peaceful, and therefore should not be lumped into the same blanket universe of being violent for their daring to exist. Many shamanic faiths had zero bloody history before Middle East influenced religious nut jobs put them to the sword so to say. All the slaughter I can think of off the top of my own head has been done in the name of "demonic possession cleansing" by the antiquated ancestors of the "True Faith." Such insanity has repeatedly been cited as justification for Middle East religions' zealot frenzy that leads to committing mass murder.

Shamanic ecstatic faiths do not have anything to do with gratuitous killing and consider it a deadly sin. The paraphrased law that is unshakable: "Only kill in order to insure your own survival within the balance of the area you live within at any given time because we do have to eat." That law automatically includes people, plants, and animals. Nothing exists to perpetrate wholesale slaughter against for any reason. It can unbalance the world harmonic that keeps life going being the most obvious reason for following such an iron clad law. Do not waste a damned thing about an animal you kill, or a plant you rip from the ground is a matter of disciplining ones self as a matter of decency. Use it all, or leave it alone to exist is an unshakable law in non violent religions. Such faiths believe we are part of the food chain, not the arrogant lord over it all with the right to do as we please to everything else.

Science buffs, and Religion nuts alike need to learn their appropriate places and stop trying to pigeon hole each other as stupid or whatever other flavor each chooses to spout from day to day. I believe in both having a valid place within this world. Society has religious moral codes and ethics built into its structural underpinnings to prevent certain unsavory behaviors in many parts of the world. Beautiful cultures have evolved thanks to both religious and scientific branches working together in a harmonic way within our world's past.

The Middle East specific religions have done much to damage the reputation of all religions of this world, and I do know this and understand your views. However, there are over one thousand religions in this world that have nothing to do with the Middle East, nor adhere to any such violent natures also. They are based on living within our literal means, and trying to uphold harmony with others. Are such religions perfect? Of course not. Each religion is only as good as the followers of the faith they feel gives them the best lifestyle model they can live within and make a positive impact upon their surroundings.

I have studied many religions in my lifetime and can only speak from my own life experiences. There are good frameworks and bad frame works in religion the same as within science. Both can be abused by the unethical and power mad.

[Religion]

Ahem.

First, I'll say I'm a Deist. That's somebody who believes that if there is a god, he doesn't have much to do with us.

I'd just like to say, if there is a God, what makes you think that He created Man in His image? No. If anything, we created Him on our image. If God created Man in his image, why does God have a penis? Its only purpose is reproduction. Ergo there must be a Mrs God, and also, all the little gods.

Godliness is relative. To Neathadrals (sp?) we would be like Gods. But when aliens come down from space, nobody calls them gods. People just scream and run.

Clapping my hands on this post. I think you meant Neanderthal in that comment. Humans made the written records in many religions and have elevated ourselves within the context that we mirror God(dess), a thought I do not prescribe to since that is the height of ludicrous. There are those people in all religions who commit atrocity on a massive scale, however, they are usually the minority.

On the mention in another post about Greek Mythology; it is also a Bible, however the domination of Judaic Christian religion refuses to allow any other holy writing the same grandiose validity as their own. IF the rest of the holy writings are only mythology, then so to is the Bible is my final answer to that specific can of worms. The tendency of those who want to become trillion dollar rich, such as the yearly offerings the Catholic Church rakes in gives proof that Scripture is too often taken out of context and abused for financial gain instead of used as it was originally intended. I come from a religious background and know that there are plenty of people who use it as a tool to control others which is something the Deities forbid unilaterally in every religion I have ever studied.

Having said my peace on the abuse spectrum of religion, I do not believe that science and Religion are so far apart on some things. Both have a rigorous discipline oriented structure system that can, once incorporated into one's daily life, provide good structures worthy of living by to promote personal stability. In this, both disciplines are not so far off in their core intention.

As to whether or not exists God: Belief is personal and should remain in that classification is my feeling. The Atheist is devoted to debunking most religions and does not bother to look at how religion has played such a huge role in promoting effective structures for living a harmonic life with the atmospheric/World at large stimuli surrounding each and every individual. Of course, plenty of people proclaim religion who refuse to live within the structure of the original religious discipline. When that happens, they are not actively following their religion, but practicing abuse in the name of faith which smacks of falsehood.

When the Atheist becomes as hide bound as the minority flake variety zealot butcher ready Militant Islamic, Muslim, or Christian, then they have indeed crossed into a type of religious zeal also. That is my opinion based upon this specific criteria: When anything gets too much obsessive compulsive zealot fever, it becomes destructive. Whether it is a religion based view, or a scientific experimentation advocate arguing their case ceases to matter. A line has been crossed where the Science buffs degrade others for having a belief not agreeable to their own I have found. Then they act and speak as viciously in many cases as the bible thumpers hell bent on converting another to their way of thinking. On facebook alone I see dozens of Atheist sites that do this regularly. It is not about scientific debate, it is outright attack. Even though I understand it comes from the overwhelming number of Zealot convert to my Religion or be called demonic, it still applies that some on both sides need to shut up and keep their insanity to themselves. Not saying such to offend anyone, but I do feel it should be pointed out that both sides tend to get out of control on this specific subject.

Quantum Theory and mechanics conduction experiments on atomic particle observation are actively proving religion specific theories that close to 300 very ancient shamanic class religions have believed for thousands of years. Yet priests by whatever title over all those millennium never thought to do scientific experiments to prove that God did or did not exist. That is one of the biggest quandaries I have with this whole debate. A handful of persons have for thousands of years been able to do unexplained things based upon a set of very deep seated and learned disciplines that have no supposed scientific measuring capabilities at this time.

Some religion oriented individuals are spouting that this specific group of scientists are stumbling upon the concrete evidence that has been purposefully hidden within several oral traditions for thousands of years. Perhaps in a few more decades science will find the final answers to the riddle of whether God(dess) or ghosts and a host of long held religious beliefs actually exist.

IS Quantum theory and Mechanics going to ultimately give the world irrefutable proof that ecstatic branch faiths have been exonerated in the theory of God(dess) existing? I have my personal opinion on that, but it is very provocative for both sides of this particular debate has been my experience.

On a final note: I understand the huge atomic accelerator in Europe has given Scientists reason to believe they are finding what they call the "God Particle." Since the Atomic accelerator is based upon Quantum sciences, perhaps it will answer the question once and for all in a few decades. In the meantime, I will cling to the disciplines of my particular faith and enjoy reading on about this never ending war between religion and Science. I also look forward to he day when both realize they both have a role in the evolution of human civilization and need to respect each other equally to promote peaceful solutions to the genuine troubles within our planet's confined sphere of existence.

[Is science going too far?]

The article talks about meat that is grown without creating a living animal. They are just cloning the muscle tissue. If the can do that it would probably be alot cheaper then raising animals when you consider the cost of land, feed, water, operating a slaughter house, etc. Yeah scientists are expensive and you have to run the lab, but if you just get a bunch of muscle stem cells, code them into chicken, beef, or pork and then let them grow, it could probably become a fast and easy process.

I beg to differ on this topic. The FDA has put laws in place that make Feed Lot Cattle into steroid chemical dumps already. The number of animals my relative sees suffering with cancerous tumors at his slaughterhouse is horrific. 1 out of 3 cattle have mass cancer when they are slaughtered as a yearling. The reasoning is that Free Range cows require 3 years to mature to slaughter stage. Economically, feed lot Steroid cattle are slaughtered as yearlings and produce the same amount of meat as the three year old Steroid free cow.

Here's the kicker, Human rates of several types of cancer has risen alongside the cheaper meat Government enforced feed lot Steroid heavy cow and pig production. The FDA has prevented a group of scientists from doing the research that could potentially link the specific steroid class fed to Feed Lot Cattle and Pigs to the rising cancers noticed by this group of researches.

Second: Cloned animals are being produced with human organs in three research facilities in America. Other countries known to me that are using pigs for identical research; China. They have eight research facilities that are known the last time I checked on that.

However, does it not beg consideration that a sheep with a human heart and liver once slaughtered for a life saving Organ transplant could get passed off in the local grocery store because some politician gets a kick back from somewhere? Happens all the time in the USA. And we still re-elect such corrupt jerks because they are the lesser of the two evils we get to choose from at the ballot box. I consider that cannibalism since it is a fusion of Human and Sheep DNA that made the creation of the specific human organs possible.

On to Nano tech: If you want to have your local, State, and Federal Government knowing everything about you that can be known and potentially abusing nano tech with you becoming the patsy for any number of unethical uses, more power to you. I for one refuse to have anything capable of tracking me implanted. I would rather die outright and remain free. The potential abuses that will be brought into play by Governments across the world is staggering. Big Brother as some refer to USA Government surveillance is bad enough that every email and all the rest are monitored. You can't even walk down the street in some major cities without a camera watching you at every one of the traffic lights.

To put it tongue in cheek: I would like to know that whenever nature calls I can take a crap without a machine measuring the chemical composition and centimeters of length and width at some politician's whim. Same goes for what I choose to eat, drink and say in private. IF I wanted to Government to know who I sleep with, or my fave sexual position, I'm quite capable of telling them.

Seriously, in this case, the possibility for abuse and the potential for some unidentified government group to order a soldier to hit a kill switch from outside the human body on another whim exists. Nano tech can be set up in very dangerous ways that I do not like overall. Even a diagnostic tool can be re-programmed with the right equipment. When it gets turned into a tracking chip that reveals all, it is too late to protest that branch of science getting abused by soldiers, politicians, the FBI, CIA and any other number of government entities.

[Is science going too far?]

I am a naturalist. Those are my personal beliefs. I'm trying to discover the knowledge that was lost when the age of technology started. The age of technology isn't working for me very well. It turned me into a schizophrenic depressed person with anger issues. And the only solution modern technology gives me is drugs that make me high and turn me into a zombie. When I discovered crystal magic it did wonders for me. Aromatherapy works well too. And this stuff is ancient knowledge. Speaking of which, I need to go find my grounding stone.....

I also prefer to do the naturalist style whenever possible. The chemicals a series of doctors force fed me when I was teenager caused a massive stroke, damaged my heart, and worse. There are plenty of drugs on the market that you see advertized of late with side effects far worse than the original medical problem. I want no part of said FDA approved drugs. I found an awesome herbal healer that did wonders for my genuine medical condition and has removed the probability of a second catastrophic stroke such as I suffered in 97 from the damned prescription drugs meant to control my unstable blood pressure/hormone imbalance.

I know what you mean about being turned into a schizophrenic zombie. You see, I had a bout of schizophrenia myself. I am a staunch researcher of what one might call Shamanic Science, or as I like to put it an Independent Occult Science Researcher. As such I am involved in the deep mystery of ancient magic such as is outlined in The sacred magic of Abramelin the mage, The key of king solomon the king, John Dee's five books of mystery, and other such things.

Insofar as my bout of schizophrenia is concerned, I can chalk that up to bad LSD and a botched experiment in Bicameral Thinking.

I come from an ancient religion background because my whole family is considered an old Priest born blood line. Most of those who grew up with the old ways flat refuse to give any of the knowledge we managed to keep alive to individuals like yourself, which I think is absurd. The Dion Fortune cop out has become the norm among the old bloodlines. Shake my head over the stupidity as I fight my own on the topic almost daily. The second huge excuse is that if the old bloods start talking to outsiders, we will face a second burning times. Can't remove their paranoia about getting slaughtered, so you were forced into such a horrific experience. For that I am genuinely sorry. Every time I come across your situation I get even madder at the terror still overwhelming the old priesthood blood lines who could put an end to this kind of suffering. Sadly, I do not see that happening so long as there exists a pocket of militant variety minority Christians. The Burning times saw 13 million women slaughtered simply because they knew herbal remedies and cures. Teaching genuine "Hermetics" openly is not going to happen any time soon. Magic is the use of a very specifically focused mind type of prayer. If you can't find the right mental discipline and the correct way to shift your life force into the correct channel, you can't perform magic with any ease. Of course, Science can't prove that theory yet. ROFL. However, they did prove that the mind controls things with quantum mechanics experiments. Hahahaha. They might even catch up some day and the old bloods will not have to live in fear of a few fanatical zealots who have convert or die on their minds.

[Aussies: Your Simpsons toon smut is child pornography featuring "persons".]

Shaking my head and snorting. Must be a plague of (Hum Smurf's tune) La la lu la la land etc. . . . going on down under in the legislating branch of their government. Anything to control the masses, and tell them what is or is not morally correct and be damned with the fact that it was not meant to be a child's cartoon. Narrow minds who think age 10 is the turn off the cartoons and never look at them again because you are too old is in operation on this one I think.

[Mary Sue How-to]

Reading the game console post makes me glad I was never big on playing video games. Sadly, Sue and Stu seems to be the world's sell worthy asset to the entertainment industry. It is becoming prevalent in television, Movies, books and video games. Perhaps that explains the hatred of the O.C. specifically female versions. Whether it is a fashion magazine or what have you, girls are under so much pressure to conform to fads, and all the rest. They measure themselves against the beautiful and flawless lie produced by so much makeup cake that you can't see the moles etc that are there under the paint.

[OCs... what do you think of them?]

Trust me, I know the frustration! We do try to ensure that stories are tagged properly here, but as is to be expected, we are not going to be familiar with canon for every fandom. We're a small team, actually, given the size of this archive. You can always let us know of a mistagged story, and we can look into it and get it corrected to avoid future frustration.

I am so relieved to see that you are on the ball. I have not noticed the problem here yet. There are not many Initial D stories in the archives here at this time. I read almost all the archive in two days. ROFL. When I read I read pretty much everything, even if it is a bit squickish for me. ROFL.

[Character Development sheets To beat Sue/Stu Problems]

Oh Yeah! I totally love that idea also. I have a coupe world builds that are science Fiction variety so you have to know basic physics to design planets. My fave book of all time came from Writer's Digest publishing. It's about building alien Worlds and Species. It includes physics and so much more. But it is way too big to turn into an easy enough crib.

[Why Do We Hate Mary Sue?]

Trust me, I spent a long time working this out.

Well, when people read fanfics, they look at say... some Anime guy, and they think "Baby I'd like to be fucking him." Or that they'd like to be saving the day.

So, we can't possibly be the ones fucking or saving or starring. It's somebody else who's the star, and we can't pretend they're us, or that they'll fall for us, because they've already fallen for somebody more perfect than we could ever be. In other words, we hate Mary Sue because we are JEALOUS of her. She makes us feel inadequate.

The real problem with the Mary Sue is that usually the only person who can identify with her is the writer. Her personality, looks and perfection are just too hard for a reader to identify with. And we're jealous that she's got the man we wanted, that she's in the setting we want to see ourselves in, that she's perfect but we can't be. And why shouldn't we be? Mary Sue has everything we desire, but we could never have. The hot fantasy robot as a boyfriend, the good looks, the adoration - and though she's got a million friends, there's no way we would ever be friends with her because she's too freaking-ass self-centered. And on top of all that, all the important things in this world we once loved are now happening to her. True, in the story, she has to be deeply integrated, but she's always there, involving herself.

If I think of more, I'll add it, but that's a start to why we hate Mary Sue.

We are JEALOUS.

I like your response because it totally smacks of honesty. My only problem with the OC female bash in my story is that she does not get the hot guy cause He's already taken by his equally hot male teammate. ROFL. As to the save the day bit, well I suppose that might be a reason to have a fit with my O.C. female. After all she's a trained body guard who takes down a demented stalker to save cannon character lives. Other than that, my O.C. is very imperfect. She's an anal perfection freak from hell that makes a couple of the cannon characterless from the real anime series want to murder her. But I suppose if you can't do the saving because my O.C. is coming through so strong personality wise, this answer makes the best sense to me yet.

Concerning the comment that those who are convinced their O.C.is not a Sue equals a Sue: I have seen a few of those authors also. However, when I think about the fact that the Sue squeaks actually started when My O. C. did her Body Guard Job description, I tend to agree with the poster that feels it is a jealousy because the reader could not take over Samantha's position to rescue the stalked Project D team. I did not give readers that opening. It was described from a dazed and shocked Cannon's view. HE was like; "what the fuck? Is that bitch insane or what?" Smacks of the reader did not get to save Takumi's life by playing the O.C. as I consider the reviews I have received, and where the actual hate began.

[Character Development sheets To beat Sue/Stu Problems]

That is actually the idea of these character design cribs. By having a way to flesh out some of the psychology, you bring depth to a flat cardboard doll image. It makes it easier to develop the back story, the history and other elements as you go. I don't always fill out every single line either. However, it does make it easier to have the click of a button access to a character as they are developing. I add, change and revise these, yet the characters will stay complex instead of going flat

[Rude and /or Malicious consumers]

I've worked retail, and I've been a customer too. I've seen horrors on both sides of the aisle. I've apologized to clerks unfairly attacked by others, and tried to make their day bearable by doing so. As to the Customer is always right, well I can't say my retail career lasted very long because I hate liars, cheats, and thieves. I have a very strong belief in honesty, and doing the right thing. People wish to yell at me because they are lying pond scum thieves, I inevitably call it exactly as I see it. Tact is not my strong suit.

Humanity has no moral fiber any longer because of the customer is always right crapola drivel spouted by moronic managers among others. People are too narcissistic to give a damn about fellow human beings because of the poor abused me must get even mentality. Worst of all, on both sides of the aisle, bad days equal vicious or negligent behavior heaped upon innocent bystanders. The clerk gets unfairly reamed, or the customer gets verbally hammered. It is a horrible human failing that goes both ways.

[Sexuality and Categories Pertaining to Such]

I went with Fuck labels also. My bisexual son has suffered because of labels, so I refuse to play that game. Whatever's clever that promotes a person's happiness within reason is my philosophy. So long as you do not harm others, who are the rest of us in society to play superiority based upon sexuality. Hell, Sex was a sin for how many centuries because of Religious intolerance?

How can we not have an explosion of sexual identity crisis now that human biological needs are once again getting a bit of breathing room? Far as I'm concerned anyone who insists on regulating someone else's sexuality better look in the mirror and pull the splinter out of their own eye before chasing the supposed beam in their neighbor's eye. Half the time it is the splinter in one's own eye causing the problem. The beam is an exaggeration of one's own skeleton's trapped in your eye's proverbial closet shining through.

[Separation of Church and State]

Here in Maine, the legislature passed, and the governor signed into law, a bill that would allow same sex marriages in this State. This law is now under attack by a small but highly vocal group of individuals who wish to have it amended in the State Constitution that Marriage is between a man and a woman. One of the biggest segments within this group spearheading this yet another attack on the personal freedoms that you and/or I enjoy is the Mormon Church. Yes, Christianity is at it again. (one of the tenants of the Mormon Church is that marriage is NOT between a man and another man, but between a man and his multiple child brides.) Now, What if you happened to belong to a particular belief that not only allowed same sex marriage, but actually encouraged it. It would seem that Christianity once again has shoved it's beliefs down your throat, and made you into a criminal for wanting to follow your own Belief's tenants.

To those who wish to pass these various laws and moral judgements in the name of their God, I have this to say: It was Jesus himself who said "Judge not, lest ye be judged." Basically, he was saying that we do not have the right to judge others, and that there is only one true Judge. For some reason, it seems that the Religious Right seems to forget that certain tenant of their own belief system. Could it be that they choose to believe only the aspects of their own religion that suit their own purposes? History does seem to point in that direction.

Hip Hip hoozah! To this post. I do come from a religious background that allows same sex and even triadic marriage, and has done so for several thousand years. WE supposedly have freedom of Religion however the laws state we are free to believe in other faiths, but we are not free to practice anything the Christians don't like ultimately here in America. I do know my Constitution and Bill of Rights very well. I am so sick of Mormons and Jehovah Witnesses hounding me at my home I could commit a crime some days. Average door knocking and ramming things down my throat, 3 times per every single week because they heard from another neighbor that I'm a witch. Wrong religion, but it isn't as if they give a rat's ass about reality. They are trying to coerce me into converting for the money in my opinion.

Church and State need to be separated. However, since there is a huge hypocrisy among the organized sectors of religion, it will never truly be a reality for those of us who still get persecuted because we don't conform to the big trillion dollar industry standard known as Organized religion. I've heard rumors about the least tolerant and more Militant Christianity factions trying to pass state legislation back East to become legally Christian state Ruled. Our Constitution said to Separate, but those who are obsessed with their own sick little lala lands won't ever practice the things they preach!

I know genuine Christians also. I love them to pieces. They accept me for my (in their Opinions) oddities without trying to convert me. Those are the people who practice "Judge not Lest Though Shalt Surely Be Judged". One of my closest friends is Conservative in Finances and liberal in the tolerance department. She's also recently left the Holy Roller churches behind because she got yelled at for accepting human beings for themselves. Go figure that one out.

[What Are Your Views About Fanfiction.net Purging M Stories?]

That i can totally relate to Demon Goddess. If you get paid to do a job you really should do the job or get canned. My only thought about the 18+ was due to Gravitation, Blaze and other known Adult categories they have encouraged sex in by listing. I wish our legislators would pull their heads out of the butts and make the parents responsible again. Then Places like this and FFnet would not longer have to be under continued stress and hassles to track down and delete rebellious children's nonsense every day. It isn't fair to you guys.

[Question about Fanfic warning preferences]

Thanks for the topic. I have a couple readers of my fics who grumbled I did not write a true rapefic per say because it is set up as a flash back sequence the victims have. I opted to remove rapefic from the main tag and put it into my first chapter and clearly tag each additional chapter dealing in the trauma induced flashbacks after that. Sadly, you can't please everyone who reads fan fiction I've found. I have people who follow my work who do not like graphic sex so I put a Warning Graphic lemon on each chapter I post that involves sex. It improved my readership by being so careful. Perhaps it will work for you also.

[A.C.T.A. and how it affects the legallity of fanfiction and fanart]

I think ACTA is mostly concerned with movies music and Video based copyrights. I haven't followed it all that closely, but I am fairly sure that so long as proper credit is given books, art content such as manga and the like, those publishers are not going to hit fanfcition very hard. Sadly, that could change at any time. So let's cross our proverbial fingers that the publishing industry does not go all out psychotic about their profits any time soon.

[Polygamy?]

Actually, Shinju, it tends to be more about the way it gets carried out. For right now the biggest proponents of polygamy in America are some very orthodox Mormon sects, which also tend to think the best age to marry a girl is around 13 or 14, even when her husband is in his mid to late 50s. If it was proposed by another group, one with out the Mormon's history, then I think it would likely pass, especially in today's modern world. We've already accepted gay rights. (Actually, the entire gay rights movement is, in my opinion bull. I was fairly we'd taken care of all that back when we passed the Civil Right's act of the sixties. What was the line again? "May not be discriminated against based on sex, race, age, or creed?" I'm sure we can define homosexuality based upon one of those... Either it's genetic, which makes it a sex, or its a personal choice, which makes it a creed...)

Chuckles. You make an excellent point. Here's the rub: There are several religions that condone same sex and polygamous marriages. However, the uber conservative right screams so loud that those who already have such states of private marriage keep a very low profile. In some cases, it is actually for their own survival. Triadic marriage is the best known. It has had many names throughout history. My favorite is Sword/Shield/Hearth which is rooted in ancient Viking and Celtic lore. Obviously two went to war and protected each other's back in battles while the weakest stayed home and minded the children. Gender had no bearing on which two went A-Viking. It fell out of fashion about 400 years ago. It has been part of Druid and a dozen different Shamanic faiths for several thousand years also. Mormons simply jumped onto a very ancient bandwagon.

The ideal was that the triadic marriages, or more in some cultures, relationship was considered separated from sexuality. Sexuality in all these above mentioned faiths was considered to be a form of prayer. Nobody had the right to tell anyone who to pray with being the underpinning that made it work in ancient times. The regular routines were established based upon abilities, not upon gender in most of these old religions. However, there is little possibility that a predominately Christian country will ever embrace anything organized religion calls satanic despite that tag being a complete lie. Mormons are reviled for accepting a "Paganized Philosophy" even though as was pointed out, bible has polygamous marriages listed.

My aunt and Uncle were in an open marriage with a specific third party for 25 years. Their third lover was killed in a car wreck last year, or they would be celebrating 26 years next month. They of course come from a Pagan religious base, so they have a different world view about making a relationship work. They enjoyed all kinds of fun together for all those years. However, they also understood that moods shift and change. People need cuddles and they need space. Because everything was about the ebb and flow of emotions, they paid attention to each others' needs. That is the only way to make a relationship filled with diverse opinions work.

[Fan Fiction Magazine?]

AS a person who worked for a magazine in the nineties, I have to say it is possible only so long as you get the correct legal documents from the original licensing companies that provided the original stories. My experience in the industry (pre stroke) was that to print reviews of music or anything in the USA, you had to send a copy to the parent publishing company of the artist or author to get their stamp of approval as often as not. In a sue happy society, the more licenses and permits you have the better when anything goes into public domains.

I have heard that Japanese companies are often more lenient. You might be capable of producing a manga/anime specific fan fiction magazine by contacting and getting the same types of permits as publishers grant (SP?) Doujinshi artists. However, I think it also depends upon which country you originate in whether or not said permits/licenses would effectively apply. You have to effectively cover your legal fanny across the board.

Same goes for writing software and all the rest. Are you going to contact Microsoft to get their stamp of approval to put up a fan fiction author's feelings about their software? Are you going to contact Apple about their writing software? Running a Magazine, even an E-zine requires you to keep a long list of contacts even when the magazine is free to the public. Who will be your advertisers? You have to pay for your site and the publicity somehow. Now that I have given you a few tidbits of how to run a magazine or E-zine, I hope I have not scared you off the ideal. Do some research into the above mentioned topics, and Very Good Luck to you.

[What Are Your Views About Fanfiction.net Purging M Stories?]

Too many parents are too lazy to police their teenagers which resulted in this latest purge. That is not FFnet's fault, but they are taking the hit. Still, complacency on FFnet's part helped create this newest purge scenario because the mods, and the domain have removed their own ability to police the archives they run. MA Is still listed with a click of a button on that site. M and MA should be set up differently. See all fics button should not automatically show M and MA or Sexual Content based stories to minors. They could easily correct this problem. I don't blame FFnet for covering their butts. However, I think they need to be more aware of the anime's they actually host in this instance.

Whether or not they enforced ToS over the past ten years is actually irrelevant. Just as it was irrelevant here for when ToS was not enforced for almost 4 years. That's a MOD failure. Now, just as we did here, these particular mods will catch the flak from past mods having not done their jobs for so long. I suspect current staff there will likely be as overloaded as I was, and the rest of the staff was, here; with actually enforcing after so long of nothing really being done.

Aside from that, with allowing registration of users as young as 13, they honestly have no business hosting any kind of adult material. At least that's my opinion on it. Their ToS expressively FORBIDS adult material, because of the ages of the member base. The real people behind the site can get in to a whole lot of legal difficulties by allowing the content to remain. I understand perfectly well why they have to do this.

I understand your position very well. However I have a couple asides to your thought. Number one is the fact FFnet has Anime such as Gravitation listed as acceptable categories. That is a gay centric anime and manga series. It is by the very nature of it's existence Adult themed. Due to their having put up known Yaoi and Yuri titles on their site as options, FFnet has ignored their own policy all along. I understand that they are in panic mode again. I do not blame them for having this panic response yet again.

My only argument to this latest purge is that if one can not stop the publishing of smut to begin with, why not make M and MA or any form of sexual content clause into an "are you 18 or older" fill in the Birth date sector to end the problem of their getting into repeated legal trouble? This site has such a monitoring system in place, so should FFnet. Since they have so much trouble with smut getting written, it seems illogical to continually have these panic attacks happen. They could logically move animes like Gravitation to the 18 and older sector that way, and end all the threats by irresponsible parents at the same time. I believe that having Anime genre listings for known adult themed erotica like Gravitation makes their new policy a very hypocritical act. If you have Gay specific cannon anime listed in your site's fan fiction archive, you have in effect proven yourself to be condoning smut all along. If you write anything Gravitation, you automatically are writing gay smut variety fiction. The FFnet group needs to have all sexual content such as is expected in Gravitation set up with an 18 or older button as we see here in this site.

IF a child goes to 18+ and clicks they are old enough, types in a fraud birth date and reads, then the parent can no longer hold FFnet responsible being my whole point. The parent has to be responsible for stopping their child. It should not be FFnet's fault when so many 13 year olds write and post smut. I've seen lots of smut written by the kids at that site. Many of them are young enough to be my grandchildren. That is not FFnet's fault. That is a parental laziness passing their responsibility onto another entities shoulders problem. They really should create an adult area so that they are protected more concisely. IT would resolve some issues, and put the blame where it ultimately belongs. I know this site gets children who lie also. It is very unfortunate, but it does happen. FFnet should take a lesson from this place. It would save them so much in headaches if they simply would moderate/Design their site better.

[Is there an point where story content is not accepteble?]

Quite a lively debate going on here. Some of it on topic and some off topic. I believe that Adultfanfiction net is about the freedom of expression first and foremost. I think I will use an illustration or two to tackle this specific topic. Three things stand out about this forum. Everyone loves to voice their own likes and dislikes. Some here seem to wish to see their dislikes removed.

I took psychology courses back in the age of dinosaurs. (for those in the 20's age range to understand this is coming for your mom's peer age) Back in the era of T-Rex, learning a lot about history's significance on modern cultures etc was mandatory. Here's the rub, . . . Let's look at the end of World War One; Germany. The rise of Political Correct politeness was being government enforced through legislation. PC Nazi ethics have been directly linked to the creation of Concentration Camps and Jewish genocide during World War Two. That is a well documented historical fact, not a fictitious wishful thinking statement. When we embrace Political Correctness, we are censoring freedom of speech. To be PC, you have to censor yourself. The more afraid you are to speak your truth, the easier it is for the government to control you and your friends in the end. IT is the beginning of a shift toward victimization prone thin skinned individuals who refuse to try and improve their lives because P.C. has historically made others into villains instead of teaching personal self responsibility.

Go to China and check out their lifestyle. P.C. is a law nobody dares argue. In fact for those too young to recall China's Tienanmen Square, crack your history books and learn how abusive Government becomes once it silences free speech. Learn the truth about Political Correctness and how it removes responsibility from the individual who often is already too lazy to stand up and raise their own children and worse. Free speech, even that which is rude, or infantile, gives human beings their number one emotional venting system. Remove the venting system, and the human being begins an unstoppable slow simmering emotional boiling of resentments. It has turned into genocidal tendencies at it's worst breaching points that humanity can never deny. Shut down the venting system, and the steam backs up.

Ever heard of a steam engine? That is how emotions eventually work in a sense. Forcing steam to build to set levels of pressure to make a train that weighs several tons to move forward at very fast speeds is the same as forcing people to keep their resentments and fancies to themselves. Just like the steam engine will self destruct if the steam is not vented correctly, so will the individual's emotions blow up after P.C. fears can no longer restrain the pressure of resentments.

This site has many diverse written formats for a reason. It is a venting system that can prevent the pressure build up from turning into destructive reality. Whether Cathartic or to simply needle those with holier than thou agendas, it has a place that should be respected by all. Removing topics that are uncomfortable for a set group is about breaking down the ability to vent emotions positive or negative that need a place to go. Shut off any taboo form writing and those who read and write them have less pressure release options to slow the explosion rate is my very well educated theory.

Don't like the content? How about trying the do not read it rule? Allow those who need to vent such ideals room to contain their emotions through a non violent format. Those who act on such pressurized emotions are a different beast entirely. They require damage control measures because those are perpetrating harmful or even exceedingly violent crimes. If this site can help prevent even one such violent explosion by giving a person a place to write it out, or read it, kudos and congrats. It worked to relieve the building emotional pressure in an individual somewhere. Otherwise that individual backed into a pressurized emotional corner would have committed an atrocity.