Desiderius Price

Here’s the reason for this post: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15592645/filipino-snake-man-dies-cobra-bit-tongue/

oof, sounds like the cobra manged to get the lingual artery.

Lemme add to the NSA bait and research cyanide….

Sometimes when I write a death scene I start with a preface of dear future fbi agent I can tell the difference between IRL and fiction =p

Not sure if that’d matter, if a FBI agent would read it how you’d want it read.  In this case, no google search is needed as it’s a rewrite, I already know the method & effects.

Emb3rSky283 is the penname (id 13561264), joined a year ago.  And this, from their bio, is telling.  “I have written on here under other pennames, but lost access to those accounts, usually by losing the account information“  means they’ve likely been kicked before.

Now, I did actually send FF.net’s support an email advising of this troll in case they try to do something else (ie, flagging stories for abuse in an attempt to get my account deleted).  Maybe it’ll help.  Of course, my best hope is the troll gets tired and moves along.

I’m not seeing that pen name in my archive membership, but I’ll keep an eye out. 

Not with that attitude you can’t =p

I do like to stay semi-realistic with sizes, so no forty feet (unless there’s a potion/spell involved).  A few inches is average, and this particular character’s still growing, so he’ll be above average when done.

Honestly, if I thought it would do any good, I’d say to file daily complaints with FFN. Is it being reposted elsewhere? Perhaps you can file complaints with those sites as well.

A google search later, some of the ghost mirrors (mostly), thinking they’re redirects for … countries with more restrictive internet policies.  Plus a (small) blurb on one hacked website. 

But the aggravating part is simply that it drowns out the real readership numbers, because all I now see in the stats is bot after bot after bot slurping up 700k, no humans (about 300k of new material + 400k of the old yet-to-be-revised).   Until now, I had been trying to maintain  “explicit” vs “clean” versions, carefully marking up my story as I rewrite it (only way, TBH), close to a 3:1 word ratio; but if few to nobody is enjoying the clean, if they’re all enjoying the explicit, then it makes sense to not bother with the clean version given the extra hassle it takes.

Wow...a button here on AFF to remove reviews on AO3!

As a software developer I am suitably impressed by the dragons that runs this place...

*sticks tongue out at @Thundercloud*  We have the ability to delete reviews here, which is not the most obvious feature, sadly. I just thought I’d do that educate folks thing we mods are supposed to do from time to time, to earn our, well, nothing, but you know…  

@Thundercloud They know the secret handshake.

A minimum of a billion words is short =p

What’s scary is that there are a couple of 2M+ harry potter fanfics on the other archive, and mine might join them – simple projection of pre-revision word count and the effect of my rewrite on it.  (ie, started with 500k, and my rewrite has transformed 100k into around 900k, so that’s potentially many millions of words, with LOTS of smut baked in).

What bothers me more is that my parents are here because both sets of my grandparents got frisky… and they had more kids than just my parents… so that’s a lot of frisky grandparents… 

Guess it depends on the age they did it at, but yeah, not letting my imagination go there, plenty to imagine  before that.

Hence the aristocracy’s similarity of appearance!

I kinda like how complex it is across the USA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_marriage_law_in_the_United_States

Like, Utah “ Only if both parties are 65 or older, or both are 55 or older with a district court finding of infertility of either party “

So, does that require bringing the court into the bedroom to prove infertility?

But, yeah, the USA tends to be complex due to the notion of dual-sovereignty, enshrined in the 10^th amendment, as the laws vary from state to state.

ooh which one?

It’s on AO3, not here, due to being out-of-TOS here, and trying to fix it to be was a bit more drastic than I’d like.  I’ll PM the link.

I’d read it

There wasn’t too much more to the column itself, from the poster.  Started off with the brother of the boyfriend moving in to the couple due to the pandemic, liaison started off in secret before cluing the boyfriend in, became double and she obviously enjoyed it.   Now that lockdown’s ending, the brother was going to move out, and the boyfriend didn’t want it to continue, downgrading the sex back to monogamy.  But there’s definitely a lot of material for a good short for anybody who wants that plot bunny.

For pervy curious educational purposes only, I swear: https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/05/boyfriend-brother-sex-advice.html

Depends on how much you need to rewrite later...

Well, technically, it *is* a rewrite, with enough new material to make the earlier versions seem like Cliff Notes.

That ain’t good!

Well, it’s good I have the generator option, small thing, enough to keep the fridge & computer (or CPAP) running.  But sucks to go out in the middle of the night to have to fire it up – at least I don’t bother putting the extension cords away, so they’re easy to pull into the house & plug things into.

Most people I know who’ve had the immunization didn’t have much reaction to their first shot. Reaction to the second shot varied substantially; I felt a little off for a day, my wife had a fever for 3 days.

Part of me wants the strong response, and the sane part of me knows that I don’t get sick days.

My first shot just left me with a sore arm. With relatives dead from covid now I have zero tolerance for the anti-vaxx anti-mask bullshit.

...I thought they mostly lived in New York and Florida and only went to Washington when taking a break from golf?

That was like the only negative I could think of on EVICTION day.

“Typical, she didn’t even show up to her funeral on time.”

Or, in reference to a crazy driver “late for their funeral”.