Desiderius Price
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What Happen To The Procrastination Area?
Desiderius Price replied to a topic in General Staff Questions
That’s the ugly truth of the legal system, rights extend farther when you can afford good lawyers. And yes, EVERY minor is totally a rules follower and would simply go away … like how sexual urges and fantasies are bequeathed on their 18th birthday, and every boys school locker room is a point of clean jovial fun, at least according to the various TOS I frequently find at various websites. (And that’s something I have to be careful on with my writings.) -
What Happen To The Procrastination Area?
Desiderius Price replied to a topic in General Staff Questions
My take was from my personal experience, haven’t really experienced the real downsides that you’ve mentioned (yet), and cross my fingers, I won’t. (Got one person who’ll popup with a comment every few months – “write me a game of thrones crossover fanfic?” on my potter story, like my first “NO” didn’t get the point across.) They did recently institute a 75-tag-per-story limit, so unfortunately I had to pare some of mine down. In the staff question topic too. I could see this going into a different topic like the “Great Wall of.” Now, TBH, the looseness inthe rules is one of the things that drew my potter fanfic to AO3. It technically crossed a line here, but was alright there without having to “file off the serial numbers”. -
What Happen To The Procrastination Area?
Desiderius Price replied to a topic in General Staff Questions
I’ve used both archives. I admit, I prefer AO3 over AFF for story posting; better UI, I can use style sheets instead of text-formatting-games, better search, and more statistics (Kudos, word counts, etc). They do more aggressive fund raising, so likely a fully funded coding staff, something AFF lacks. However, the forums here… AO3 doesn’t have that, which means the staff/member interaction is way better here. As to procrastination, we still have the chatbox, the successor to the shoutbox. -
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That moment when you realize your potter fanfic has more posted words than JKR’s books 1-7. Yeah, I checked--mine’s longer and this Harry’s having a worst time than canon too.
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I know some people dis on the daily writing habit, however, I’m finding it quite useful. In my case, this has become my most overall productive time of the day, squeezed in between when I wake up and when I have to punch into work. This morning, it was 1.2k, so not too shabby for a work day.
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Black’s so overdone as a nefarious color choice. In my current potter fanfic, it’s now canary yellow! Really helps distinguish this group from the others. (The next group in this story will be using bottle green.)
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Yeah, sterile white sounds good, especially when the nefarious group thinks/believes they’re doing the right thing. Even in my case, the canary yellow group thinks they’re doing the right thing too. As I re-read the material (rewriting), I did notice a lot of black, however, I think the switch to canary yellow is a *WAY* better decision.
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For villains, I like to use colors that seem unnatural or out of place. I once wrote a Steven Universe fanfic about a nefarious collective intelligence called the Splinter, which could infect people and control their minds. Infected persons had swirling orange specks in their eyes. I chose orange because it's not a color you ever see in human eyes, or a color that was normally associated with any of the main characters.
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I really make my plots complicated. In my case, it’s not the intention of the canary yellow group to be evil, the canary yellow simply being a close proximity to the Hufflepuff colors around the martyr that’s been chosen, and this group is being tricked/fooled into being evil toward Harry. Bottle green is by the next group is to (incorrectly) affiliate themselves with Harry, reinforcing the fears at the core of the slander/smear campaign being waged against him.
In prior drafts, I had both groups in black (ie “dark”). However, this pass through (of what I hope to be the FINAL draft), the canary yellow simply evolved, and I realized it was more effective than the black had been. I applied the same logic to the next group, and so they’re going to be in robes of bottle green, to match Harry’s eyes.
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