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Unlike Nick & Rose, I took precautions before doing THIS research with my browser It was interesting knocking out all the pegs to keep Rose on the wrong idea until the unavoidable conclusion, thus the need for the alibis to explain away the inevitable kicking she’d feel, and the over-reliance on her pastor for medical advice (common in the era I’m writing). Nick and Rose are otherwise sufficiently responsible that they would’ve coached Lana if they realized the test was a false negative. Now, Toby was slated to be the MC for the Halloween story I had original had in mind, however, that was proving to be more complicated than a oneshot could allow for, hence this story about his birth seemed more interesting. And, I think it’s a nice twist to have a Halloween story come out +1

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I reserve the right to be sad whenever somebody decides to pull their stories/accounts.

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Lemme mention how I’ve geeked out on all this writing Cron-job to back up my regular files to another BIG hard drive, runs every six hours, rotates to a new folder every month. YES, this has bailed me out on more than one occasion with “didn’t mean to wipe out/overwrite a file”. Every several months, usually when my file-explorer shows the disk to be full, do I go and clear out those really old copies. In theory, also backing them up with subversion (a source control software coders can use…) But I’ve kinda let that one slip. WROTE a formatting tool, it’ll take marked up text files, spit out files formatted to the different archives I use (AFF, AO3, & FFN) or even ordinary HTML (using CSS). It’s even got a filtering feature that I lean on to make the explicit vs cleaner versions of my potter fanfic. (Note, if you’re not afraid of compiling software, of using the command line, I open source this utility, it’s up on GITHUB.) Writing a database software for tracking my story details, this has been an ongoing project since it first started in java many years ago, when I realized that spiral notebooks were getting more & more obnoxious… and I tended to not check them like I should. It’s now evolved into a web-server with sqlite (for caching), that’s effectively becoming a wiki with attributes, that repeatedly scan your database in files for changes – it’s very much a WIP. I want to bring the automatic family-tree graph back from an earlier version (I’ll be overjoyed when I do). For those that aren’t also software developers… I’ve seen advertisements for World Anvil, it might be equivalent to what I want to do, not sure, but then I like controlling my own data files, not willing to trust them to the “cloud”. And, been building/maintaining two databases (ie directories with lots of files), one for the potter fanfic, the other for my originals. I know this doesn’t address the dragon prints head on, but it’s why I worry less… got nice HTML browsable versions of my stories on my drive. On occasion, I do have to verify the formatting after I post, so that’s why I’d like this feature myself … it’d be good for the author to be able to check w/o bumping the counter. One suggestion, as you’re the author, save-em from the archive so you’ve got a local copy w/o having to rummage into that old computer.

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First, I’m super glad to be able to post stories again! Second, *do* have a copy somewhere else, whether it’s USB or google drive, or even pen/paper.

Well, I could say mine, but how about recommending all the halloween & holiday stories?

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IIRC… there are three points you can put the tags. 1) Summary, 2) Top of the story, 3) Top of the relevant chapter(s).

If you can edit the story itself… put the tags in at the top. (That’ll warn your readers before you can edit the summary)

I’d suggest also listing tags at the start of the story itself, to CYA.

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Oh, the research I had to do into pregnancy tests and why they may fail! 1) Age of the test itself, being old stock from before Lana was born, 2) Too late in the pregnancy, 3) Rose having irregular periods and a tendency to miss periods due to her nature of work (framing carpentry, for houses, buildings, etc). And I needed the reasons into why Rose would dismiss the symptoms; A) belief that she was infertile due to her pastor’s prior assertions, B) the negative test, and C) locking onto the conclusion that she’s “possessed” by a demon to explain away the inevitable kicking that she’d feel. This, of course, leads to the development I needed for Lana… no warning, “poof” there’s a little intruder in her world, the shift in attention – I’m saving her FULL reaction for another story, to setup her influence on Toby’s character.

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And it’s now posted! Author: Desiderius Price Title: Demon Summary: Young Lana’s extra soul surprise in the Haunted House. Feedback: Yes Warnings: NoSex, Preg

With Manta’s unlocking, Jefferey #15 (King) & #16 (Family) have been posted to the archives.

Mfr number for the brass terminal ring adapter, 14-18 AWG (crimp style)

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