Desiderius Price

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Biopsy doesn’t sound fun, kinda like they biopsied the patient and left a toe in change.

I wasn’t that delusional in the beginning, still not. I know writing/english/literature weren’t my best subjects in school, typicallythe worst. It took an anonymous pen name before I had the courage to even post that first one.

There was a profound difference between fanfic #1 and fanfic #2, and I think the writing’s gotten generally better since then (even if there’s been a detour or two through terrible ideas).

There’s nuances when translating, and while Google can get close enough to make sense, it’s way better if the author’s fluent in both languages to simply provide both, since they know their intent better than anybody else (or at least, should know it better).

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I might suggest an (*) somewhere and state what the English equivalent is, or “Latin (English)”, especially where it’s not guessable.

We’ve got other forum threads on “is it rape” and when to tag. I absolutely agree that nobody shouldn’t come across it without a warning, but sensitivity does vary from reader to reader, which is why I try to provide more information with that tag, as a reader may or may not be able to handle a character merely stating “He raped me X years ago” vs a rape scene. Ditto for abortion, making the distinction between on-screen and off-screen, but still listing it. Intensity of the tag matters too, a single short scene with the tagged content, as an aside to the plot vs it being the center of the plot; both get listed, just a distinction made so the reader can decide, “do I proceed?” Most of the time, they do.

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A review, a review, I feel like dancing! Readers do have imaginations, so I don’t mind leveraging that a bit… and once the essentials of the scene are established, action and dialogue are more needed. I’ve actually been adding the thoughts and feelings to Jeff, because I didn’t have them in there on the first pass. I used to write this stuff trying to stay completely detached, but then discovered that I do like adding a bit of insight, though not too much as I still prefer to show, not state. I used the term “free range kids” which is essentially what the adults are doing here, so yeah, he gets to explore his sexuality in this context, jointly with Peggy and the others his own age. (And, as’ll be evident in my writings, I have a thing for pissing; I try not to over-do it, but it’ll be there.) Nope to that show. It was merely a good way to show Jeff moving along, a landmark along the way. I do love the way I took him out of the house, getting naked for a bath and not getting dressed again for years Verna has a bit of a backstory too, though I’m not going to explore that in detail. I’m having to try to keep the plot bunnies down because Jefferey is already backstory to backstory to the main story. Now it’s time to get to work…. wish I was wealthy enough to quit the day job, but I’m nowhere near there.

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I contribute, partially in the hopes of picking up a new reader or two.

Assuming I edit the links right, for the past three years: Halloween 2015 http://original.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600107953 Christmas 2015 http://original.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600108028 Halloween 2016 http://original.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600108385 Christmas 2016 http://original.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600108443 Halloween 2017 http://original.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600108780 Christmas 2017 http://original.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600108835

Reviews can be a love note too, even if it’s an old story, they’re definitely nice to have. Heck, on my old potter fic, a good review could stir me to actually *finish* it, it’s been on hiatus for years now (started 15 years ago). Constructive criticism, points of like/dislike are nice, but at the end, even a simple “I like this” review goes a long way to stoking the ego.

Dunno, it’d be different to read ‘em out loud on a crowded train/bus

I’m less of a reader these days, so that’s not always guaranteed, I came to AFF because I wanted to post what I was writing, explored the TOS carefully before I signed up. However, when I do read a story, I try to make a point of dropping a review on it. I use the “promote a story” to make people aware of my stories. And I also made a conscious decision a while ago to become more active on the forums so people know I exist around here. This all also helps with some social anxieties that I have, which included getting over the hesitation to talk about my own stories when it seems germane and relevant to the topic at hand (I still fight that hesitation, but the bar is now lower than it used to be).

This is where I really appreciate the first amendment in the US, and it’s one the supreme court holds pretty dear to its heart. It may not be perfectly upheld, corporations try to sway it, but, AFAICT, the strongest protection to free speech on the planet. And, the whole concept of ruling a law as unconstitutional *isn’t* explicitly stated in the constitution either, that has a history too (Mauberry vs Madison is the case that established the court’s authority to rule as such). I just hope the current prez’s attempt to demonize free press doesn’t bear fruit. That said, a little tinkering for the purposes of tackling “anchor babies” in the US (ie, the birthright citizenship), or to allow prayer in school (religious right), to the fourteenth amendment (that’s what carries the first amendment protections down to the other levels of government AND grants birthright citizenship), and a nasty war or two with some Muslim countries and/or Russia and/or China (all very real possibilities), and we could have the universe that *my* stories are portraying, where a resurgence in the religious right means that the government now has a duty to see that promote every person’s spiritual well being, and we get… Yep, and it starts off with an eight year old boy “Jeff” who goes from taking a bath to finding himself in a nudist camp, which lets me explore a group who doesn’t appreciate the government trying to promote their spiritual well being and the implications of that. My universe here is hard-sci-fi, which means any tech has to be plausible/buildable with today’s general understanding of the world; and with the general setup, there’s an implied suppression of the creative talent who’d be advancing the state ofthe art as “promoting the devil”. True, future doesn’t have to be “sci-fi”, though it generally is. I’ve been listing some of mine under Originals/Misc because its sufficiently non-tech enough that sci-fi may or may not be appropriate, despite being in the future and having some elements of tech. Heck, a recent episode I wrote involved Amish, and while they had a tablet computer at their market for scanning/adding prices, that was the only real tech they had. I do make the tablet a ubiquitous item in my worlds, because I figure that’s the form factor that today’s laptops will go to for the general user; iPads for normal work (editing documents, watching shows), and smart phones; but even that line is blurring today. Wireless keyboards might still be a thing for a power user. With how I’ve setup my universe, as the religious right resurges in the US, and across the globe, with the US government’s “Department of Homeland Morality”, people who disagree with this, people who wish to value their freedom to think independently, tend not to have to worry about it for too long as they get weeded out. Thus, to show the interesting stories are with the young adults, the teenagers, so that’s where I tend to pick up those minor1/minor2 tags. When in doubt, keep it in. Now, you do have flexibility to where you put the warnings tags, your options are 1) summary, 2) top of the story, and/or 3) top of the relevant chapter. I tend to avoid #3, because that’s too much of a spoiler, I prefer “somewhere in the story” vs “in this chapter”, unless it’s a series of oneshots at which point, top of the chapter is better. So more recently, I’ve been putting major/significant tags to the summary, and ALL tags at the top of the story; this warns the reader without cluttering up the summary. So, if the story is ten chapters describing a lick by lick on a blowjob, then [oral] would be advertised in the summary, but if its a half line of “sucked his cock”, one of a handful throughout a M/M or M/F story, and none really significant to the plot other than “built a little bit onto the relationship”, it’d be at the top of the story. Now, [rape] is more of a general trigger tag, like Minor1 or Minor2, and I tend to suggest keeping those in the summary. Lots of shades here.

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Whereas, I’m doing sci-fi… well, in the near future, close enough that I don’t always categorize it in sci-fi. And I’ve got that pesky minor1 tag, keeps creeping in, which I realized was unavoidable once I go “nudist camp/colony” with families.

I need to mention the other reason for tags, it can be illegal to access certain materials on this website from other countries. Minor1/2 are such tags, JayDee could elaborate on this.