GeorgeGlass

Thank you! And as far as reading and reviewing go, you've certainly made up for lost time! The whole thing began (as quite a few of my stories do) with a thought/idea/fantasy that I had while half-asleep. I was imagining Candace speaking seductively to Phineas, telling him that being a boy and a girl living in the same house, it was perfectly normal to have sexual thoughts about each other once in a while. And yes, there's a definite theme in this story of familial love getting tangled up with sexual attraction. As always, I consider this a high compliment. Being true to the characters is extremely important to me, and the slow build-up comes from that, because it's the only way to make these sexual scenarios plausible. Ferb is nearly perfect in a lot of ways, but one of his weak areas is expressing himself and his feelings. We'll definitely be delving into Ferb's mind in this story. Oh, never apologize for that. I'm always happy to get a review from you, regardless of the timing.

Thanks! “Intense” was really what I was trying for, here. Hope you’ll like the next chapter just as much. Thank you! I wanted to show the contrast between normal, waking life and what happens in the characters’ dreams, and how each character makes the transition from one to another. Jomahawk, who is kindly beta-reading this for me, gave me some helpful suggestions about how to make this work between Phineas and Candace. (It was a bit easier for Ferb and Linda, for reasons to be mentioned in the next chapter.) The seductive aspects of the partial characters are the manifestation of each dreamer’s suppressed desires. Candace and Phineas are both control freaks in their own way (after all, it’s never Ferb who says “I know what we’re going to do today”), and it takes the combined force of their own forbidden urges and those of their sibling to overcome that control. Thanks! I like to think that that enmity stems largely from their being in different stages of life. Candace is in the full emotional and hormonal turmoil of adolescence, whereas Phineas is an industrious preteen who is still clueless about all that stuff—even as the 500-pound gorilla called puberty sneaks up on him with its magic sledgehammer. (Oops, wrong story. ) You are. They just had to end up somewhere, and Candace DOES have the bigger bed. Although their being in her room will have some importance in a later chapter. Thank you!

Yeah, I'm not sure I've ever read one. But thanks, nonetheless. Exactly what I was going for. Absurd coincidences are one of the show's trademarks. And I feel that if I'm going to write several chapters of incestuous sex among these characters, I can at the very least give it a proper setup. IMO, much of both the fun and the challenge of writing fanfiction comes from making it true to the source material while doing completely new things with the characters. Otherwise, if the characters aren't going to act like themselves, why not write an original story instead? This chapter was a bit of an experiment. I've written plenty of sex scenes in which the POV switches back and forth between the two characters involved, but this was the first time I've written one in which the two characters were in separate (but parallel) sex scenarios. Leaving Ferb and Linda out of this chapter was a deliberate choice, for the very reason you mentioned. Likewise, in subsequent chapters, there are going to be some very short cutaways to other people's dreams--mainly for the sake of comedy--but I decided not to include any of those in this chapter because it was complicated enough already. I wanted to show how much internal resistance both siblings had to overcome before they could willingly have sex with each other--and then how desperately they needed to do it once they got past their inhibitions. Most definitely. This story will have eight chapters--the intro, three Phineas/Candace chapters interleaved with three Ferb/Linda chapters, and a denouement. In those central chapters, there will definitely be some exploration of the characters' forbidden fantasies about one another. It's at least arguable that Candace's greater resistance to those feelings comes from having more feelings to resist. Being a teenager, Candace is at a stage when both her emotions and her sexual desire are at a new height, but so is her need to adhere to social norms and fit in with her peers. Phineas, in contrast, is less concerned about being normal, and he's more accepting of his affection for his sibling, but he's also much less in touch with his nascent sexual urges than Candace is (if his repeated epic failures to perceive Isabella's attraction to him are any indication). Very different. Stay tuned. Good--I'm glad the ending's not predictable, at least not this far in advance. Thanks so much for the review!

Thanks! Now that the series has ended, I feel like I can take the characters in new directions that I wouldn't necessarily have considered before. Next chapter coming soon!

The lemonlight, perhaps? Thank you! I'm not sure where the Inator idea came from. Won't be long!

That's cool; I don't expect my every story to be to everyone's taste. Maybe you'll like another one I've got in the works: "Hot Yoga," in which Jenny leads a yoga class that gets out of hand in a big way.

Leave a review, win a prize! No, wait, it's leave a review, get a response. (Maybe my forbidden fantasy is to be a carny.)

Re: "Unbidden" Robin, you are one voracious reader! And I'm especially glad that you liked "Unbidden," because I'm especially proud of it. I don't often manage to mesh so much plot and character development with so much explicit action.

Re: "Caitlyn's Punishment" I've never been sure whether it's the bestiality or the sadistic element of this story that attracts readers. Chalking up one vote for sadism. And thanks for the comment! Re: "Wish List" Thanks! "Incredibly hot" is what I strive for.

Re: "Leilaya's Evening" Thanks! I did my best.

Re: "Quiet" Thank you! You know, I hadn't really thought of it as “world building”--I had classified the story in my head as historical (or prehistorical?) fiction--but I suppose it was. Writing about a time period about which so little is known leaves the writer a lot of latitude. As for Paa's language, I wanted it to be simple but not “Ugh, Thog want meat” simple. Plus, I tried to include enough foreign elements in Paa's thinking (like using base five) to make it clear that he's not just a modern guy in a loincloth, but not so many that readers couldn't relate to him. And yeah, I suppose even hunter-gatherers would know what a seed does, just from finding partially germinated ones while gathering them to eat. I didn't have anything mysterious about Quiet's origins in mind. I envisioned Quiet as having a neurological issue that's somewhat like autism--but not exactly like it, because there are a lot of genetic and environmental factors that differ between her world and ours. And good point about the absence of contrast with the normal tribesfolk. Mainly, they take better care of their hair than Quiet does. Communication is one of her weak areas. She's also very much an introvert. But yes, the things you mentioned are factors, too. That came a lecture in my developmental psychology class in college. The professor said that in some early societies, children weren't shielded from having knowledge of sex or forbidden from playing at it, any more than they were forbidden from playing at other adult activities. Some days, you get the boar, and some days... Suddenly, I'm imagining the "Finish him!" scenes from Mortal Kombat very differently. [] Paa's tribe is advanced in some ways, but not in others. They've invented tents and figured out how to preserve meat with salt, but they haven't quite figured out why half-siblings having babies is a bad idea. (Hence Paa and Quiet's baby having a missing finger.) Thanks for reading and reviewing!

Glad you like my stories! And I will definitely be writing more SS stuff--some of which may go in the directions you suggest.

Thanks! I love to write comedy, and I always feel that a fanfic ought to contain about as much humor as the source material does. So you'll need to avoid her from noon until about midnight. Best, George.

Re: "Guidelines" Thank you! I was really going for verisimilitude (my 8th-grade English teacher would be so proud), so I'm glad you saw that in the story. Oh, and I was going for crazy and messed up, too. I see that you've written a couple of M/F stories that appear to be similarly deranged. I look forward to reading them.

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Why? It was a good question. In fact, I just went back and added "Keeping or Abandoning?" lines to the two story ideas I posted previously.

Wow, this thread raises some complex practical issues. I'd say that if the poster is abandoning the idea, then by posting it they are giving others license to pursue the idea themselves if they wish. Otherwise, the poster would be soliciting suggestions so that the poster could attempt to make the story work. So maybe the fifth header should be something like "Keeping or Abandoning?"

Hey, wasn't trying to kick you out of the thread or anything. But maybe story ideas in need of rehab deserve a separate thread, anyway. Anyway, here's a big one: Working Title: none Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender/Legend of Korra Plot: Fifty years after the events at the end of Legend of Korra, twelve-year-old Fire Nation citizen Ziya and her older brother Li attend the opening of Future Industries' first rocket-launch facility--Li because the idea of launching satellites into space fascinates him, Ziya because Future Industries president and CEO Asami Sato will be announcing her retirement, with (it is rumored) her wife, Avatar Korra, at her side. As the gray-haired Asami begins her speech, shots ring out, and Li dives on top of Ziya to protect her. People begin screaming that the Avatar has been shot, and Ziya discovers that Li has been shot dead, as well. Fast forward fifteen years. No new Avatar has appeared, and one by one, the portals to the Spirit World at the poles and in Republic City have closed. Ziya is now an agent of the Fire Nation's National Bureau of Investigation, and in her off hours, she continues to investigate the shooting that killed Avatar Korra and Li. The assassin shot himself before he could be apprehended, and most people think he acted alone, but Ziya believes otherwise--not least because, under his hair, the killer had a tattoo of an ancient symbol for the digit zero, which is associated with an obscure anti-spiritual cult. And while many think that the age of the Avatar has ended and that the closing of the spirit portals is a natural phenomenon, Ziya refuses to believe that anything as mundane as a bullet could put an end to the Avatar cycle. Meanwhile, in an orphanage in the Fire Nation, a fourteen-year-old boy from the Earth Federacy wonders why he is the only non-bender among the children there. He also wonders why they are almost never allowed outside the orphanage, or why the children who are "adopted" are never seen again. Most of all, he wonders why he continues to have nightmares about a long-haired woman with glowing white eyes. Fatal Flaws: This thing would be freaking huge--like writing a whole new Avatar TV series--and having recently finished one epic story and started another, I just can't handle a third. Even if that weren't the case, the thoughts I've had about who is responsible for kidnapping the Avatar, suppressing his powers, and forcing the spirit portals to close have been vague and unsatisfying. Keeping or Abandoning? Abandoning

Maybe not the original trilogy, but the prequels have your fingerprints all over them. My original thought was that it would be for story ideas we have permanently abandoned (although others might take inspiration from them for their own stories). But maybe we could have a fifth header for that, like, "Want to resurrect: [Yes/No]".

I created a thread like this on the WWOEC forum a while back, but since WWOEC is no more, I thought I'd begin it again here. Basically, this thread is for story ideas that you had and really liked but that had some fatal flaw that prevented you from incarnating them as word-flesh. Here, you can tell the world about your great idea--the working title (if there was one), the fandom (including "original"), the plot, and the fatal flaw. I'll start: Working Title: Dead Man's Curve Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Plot: Some time during season 4 or thereabouts, a couple of our heroes' male classmates are killed in solo car accidents on a stretch of cliffside highway people call Dead Man's Curve. They notice that another of their classmates has been lurking around that area and become suspicious, but it turns out that she's an applied math major doing a research project on the inexplicably high accident rate on this one segment of road. Ultimately, Buffy and the gang discover that a demon has been lurking in this area, appearing in a ghostly race car and brain-addling young men into racing against it and crashing. Giles' research determines that if someone were to actually race the demon and win, the demon, in its anger, would take physical form and attack, thereby giving Buffy a corporeal ass to kick. Giles somehow commandeers a muscle car, Xander races the demon to victory, and Buffy beats the crap out of it. Fatal flaws: I liked the basic idea, but it needed some sort of additional twist to make it interesting. While I was thinking about what that might be, a fellow fanfic writer who was a friend of mine lost her mother and brother in a freak car accident. I just couldn't write the story after that. Keeping or Abandoning? Abandoning

Re: "Impulse" Although this story is intended to be erotic and ultimately uplifting, I suppose it is inevitable that the violent portions will remind some people of their nightmarish childhood. Maybe your mind is normal, and it's your parents who are odd?

The original text doesn't have the extra spaces in it, anyway, so re-pasting the text from the original Word document would be a slightly faster fix. Thanks!

Changing the formatting won't get rid of the extra line break characters, will it?

After fifteen months, 20 chapters, and 65,000+ words, In the Light of Day: A Frozen Epic is finally complete! My deepest thanks to everyone who has encouraged me with comments, upvotes, and advice. For those interested in the author notes, I have posted them in the story's review reply thread.