Wilde_Guess

Oh I wasn’t using my old password in the reset. I haven’t received an email requesting that I reset my password yet. I was trying your suggestion that if you login, that might trigger your password reset. I tried to do the reset by logging in as you suggested above, and it didn’t work. At least as far as I can see.

So, you’re not allowed to use punctuation, spaces or special characters? That’s something I don’t see a lot.

I attempted to do this and it doesn’t seem to be working. Or perhaps I forgot my password, which is possible. It didn’t allow me to login at all on the site. Which is probably a product of what’s happening.

I think trying to log in might trigger the password reset if it hasn’t been done yet. I can’t verify that, because I tried clicking the links to see if I could duplicate the errors that everyone is experiencing, and managed to not have any errors.

Unfortunately, all I can see is that you aren’t validated. I can’t tell why the link didn’t work for you. I thought I might have had an inkling, but upon looking into more accounts that can’t validate, my theory didn’t pan out, so let’s just say non-coders shouldn’t try to second-guess the people who know what they’re doing.

Okay. I just got MY email, and I copied and pasted the validation link (first link) into a new browser tab. I backed out the “password” at the end, hit enter, and it worked.
I then clicked the password reset link in the email, and I was immediately taken to the password reset page, where I successfully updated my password.
I have NO clue why it worked for me when it’s not working for other members, but there we are.

No worries, do your best.

Should I be concerned that I didn’t get an email at all as far as I can tell? Maybe it’s because this problem was caught before I got my email. Happy to wait.

Sorry, everyone! 
I’m waiting to hear back from @manta2g as to why neither link is working, and why I can’t generate an activation link. The problem is that the password reset won’t work until the account is properly validated, and since that link isn’t working, either in the email or in my link generator, we’re stuck. I don’t have the coding background to do more than yell for help, unfortunately.

Link sent via email.

Link sent via email.

It appears that:
The word “Password” is appended at the end of the activation link. If you remove that, you should be able to properly verify the account; and The password reset link does seem to have a limited period in which it can be used.  If you leave your profile url for me, I can send you a password reset link. Hopefully, it won’t expire before you get it, but if it does, we’ll try again.

It appears that:
The word “Password” is appended at the end of the activation link. If you remove that, you should be able to properly verify the account; and The password reset link does seem to have a limited period in which it can be used.  If you leave your profile url for me, I can send you a password reset link. Hopefully, it won’t expire before you get it, but if it does, we’ll try again.
 

Trouble with Harry pursuing Hermione (or Ron) is that it’d diminish the odd one out.  Prior to HBP, there was Ginny infatuated with Harry, but mostly “Ron’s sister” back to her.  Early in HBP, Ginny gave Harry cookies made “just for him”… rest of the book had poisonings due to bad batches of love potions to others, so yeah, IMO, Ginny drugged Harry up, and I’m guessing with Molly Weasley’s help. I even poke fun at Ginny’s infatuation in the explicit version of my fanfic
Speculating where the author will take the narrative in the next book is fun.  When I was working on my fifth year story, JKR was dropping hints to book five, and yeah, I made a guess, and TBH, I think mine’s better in some ways, more impactful.

Hi, Desiderius Price and all.
Definitely so.  More than a few “Harry/Hermione shippers” believe that JKR had laid the groundwork out for that ship in canon.  I didn’t see it in the books, and the movie actually hinted at the Ron/Hermione dating relationship that ultimately took place.  And, like you said, we the reader never really saw that much of Ginny building a relationship with Harry until it showed up mostly formed. 
JKR gave us all a brilliant sandbox to play in, but she did leave a splinter or two in the edge boards.  And, don’t get me started about Hermione being white growing up and having kids, then suddenly turning Black because JKR liked Norma Dumezweni’s acting.  JKR never said what race Hermione was in the books.  But in the movies, which are also canon, and where JKR had veto power over all casting decisions, she chose the decidedly anglo Emma Watson to play Hermione.  I have a “two or three shot” I might post about Hermione turning herself Black a-la John Howard Griffin for semi-political purposes with a combination of potions and ritual without telling or asking anyone first, only to accidentally turn her children and parents Black too, and also get thoroughly lambasted by her sister-in-law Angelina, who actually was born Black before she sets things back to right with a lot of help from Ron.  It’s JKR’s sandbox, and she can do what she wants with it.  I, in turn, can politely express the opinion that she made a silly and needless blunder.
As for people speculating in error where the seven-book series was going to go, that was actually more or less good mystery writing, since part of the overall story type for the seven-book series was mystery.   She left the clues where she needed to leave them, and once you got to the point where “new revelations” happened, you could see her laying the groundwork.  And Alan Rickman deserves more than a little credit for not ‘blabbing’ where the story was going.  Remember, he insisted on knowing the entire series, “spoilers” and all, before agreeing to play Severus Snape.
Cheers!

And some fanfiction can be better written than canon.  Prior to HBP, the worst of the Harry/Ginny hookups read way, way, better than the “sudden urge” of the books… unless you think she used a love potion on Harry.
Also, prior to book 5, there was a lot of speculative/predictive fanfics that were taking a guess to where canon was headed, many got abandoned when they became “AU” with the book’s release.  (Ditto for books 6, likely 7 too)

Episode TV, or episodic fiction in general, is actually one of the few places where a fanfic author isn’t automatically writing “alternative universe.”  Before the Harry Potter series got big, and made fanfiction bigger, the two “biggies” were the Star Wars and Star Trek series.  With all the “extra” stories Lucas licensed pre-Disney, and with Star Trek being episode TV, you couldn’t tell a lot of the best “fanfiction” from authorized and truly canon stories. 

It’s going by user ID, oldest to newest. Keeping track of any oddities and will address those by the end of the week.

Gotcha, as I thought, probably hasn’t reached me yet. I shall wait patiently. Thanks for answering!

Doing 10 at a time every minute.  It's barely a quarter done as I type.

Totally get that. I was watching a TV show, only ran for two seasons. The first season there was tension between the female lead and another woman in the main group. It was more implied. In season 2 however, they just went full into it and had the two women be very obviously love interests. So it completely took the wind out of my desire to write about them as a couple.

We have a FAQ for that:   https://www2.adult-fanfiction.org/forum/topic/64151-how-to-fix-the-black-diamond-issue/

I’d upvote that comment if I could.  No, don’t give up.

I think I feel that way. Even though I like watching Big Mouth, I’ve never felt the urge to write fanfic about it, and I think a lot of that is because there’s no pervy thing I could do with those characters that hasn’t already been done in canon.

Hi, Deadman and all.
You aren’t feeling nearly as opposite as you might think.  Fanfiction by its very nature is the fanfic author telling a story the original author didn’t see fit to tell, however much of the original author’s universe you preserve in your own.  Likewise, if you read a fanfic where the author took too many liberties in their own storytelling, that can also inspire you to pick up the pen as you’ve done.  You’re not the only one to start writing fanfiction as a defense against fanfiction that didn’t quite do the job for you.
When specifically writing erotic or pornographic fanfic literature, you (or any author) needs to overcome their own internal limits in order to make their writing readable.  Your own personal “internal challenges” differ from others’ only in the details.  In order to write readable prose, you must be emotionally attached to your characters, and cannot write well if you are not; whether writing erotic literature, pornographic literature, or non-erotic literature.  If you’re connected with your characters and your story, you have a greater chance of connecting with the reader.  Likewise, if you’re already fully connected with your reader, such as Wilbert Audrey when he first started writing the Thomas the Tank Engine series, you will quickly connect with your characters if you’re any good at all.
If you imagination doesn’t go “far enough” to be able to form a “live” image from a manga, anime, or cartoon drawing of a character, that’s fine.  You still have plenty to write about.  Likewise, if you can’t figure out where all the “extra tentacles” go, that’s also fine.  Usagi-Chan is extremely grateful for that, even if some potential readers might be disappointed.  Your imagination for what you choose to imagine should be more than sufficient to entertain your readers.  If it isn’t, the “next” key works just as well for them as it does for you.  And if it really works for them, there is Patreon and Ko-fi, if you can’t quite go mainstream with your writing.
“Wilde Guess” isn’t even my “regular” nom de plume.  I use it mostly for any writing I do that is sexually explicit, erotic, homoerotic, etc.  As for your reason to start writing fanfiction, that’s really close to why I started Third Time’s A Soul Bond.  I was totally and thoroughly sick of poorly written, unexplainable-in-canon, and frankly insane slash pairings in HP fanfiction.  Seeing very few examples of “semi-logical” slash parings, I created this pen-name just to write that story.  On “St. Elsewhere.net,” it’s actually the longest story with that particular pairing.  I’ve received fewer reviews on the entire story than a single chapter of the “typical” SS/DM spit-roast of the Boy Who Lived.  Oh, well... 
Riding the Lincoln Way was originally a one shot to cleanse the mental palate from some “train-wreck-bad” “spank-kink” junk I’d encountered in passing.  But instead of just posting the junk, I started asking questions.  That’s never a smart thing when you expected less than five thousand words total, and thus have no outline to defend yourself from the plot bunnies putting on harness and towing your story out to places you never thought it would go.  Hey Joe was the continuation in both directions of two throw-away example scene snippets I wrote in a forum post.  Once again, no “outline shield.”
To answer @GeorgeGlass’s post directly:
I agree with 1. and 3.  completely, except for if I’m writing a crack/bash/parody, then 1. will be broken by the very nature of what I’m writing.  2. doesn’t bother me so much.  When I’m writing fiction, I envision the fictional character exclusively, even if the character was portrayed in film or television.  In the Potterverse, I write about Ron Weasley, Harry Potter, Severus Snape, etc; not Rupert Grint, Daniel Radcliffe, or Alan Rickman. 
Likewise if my original fiction has historical or modern real people characters, they will never be “main” characters, and anything they do do will either be their historical actions, or non-defamatory actions they would likely have logically taken had the entire story been real life.  So, if a group of musically talented kids get some help from a real-life rock star, that’s because had the kids existed in real life, the rock star in question would have helped them.  Of course, if I need a fictional character to hold a real-life position somewhere, “Mr. Real Life” never existed, and the fictional character will not resemble “Mr. Real Life” in any way at all whatsoever other than having turfed them out of their jobs and (fictional) existence.  This, of course, is just one of many challenges when you insert fictional characters into real-life locations and times, and why its done, but done very very sparingly on the commercial front.  But it can be done without legal or other life-changing adverse consequences, as can be witnessed to by Mario Puzo or Allen Drury.
Cheers!

Not even a tiny bit, if anything it adds fuel to the obsession 🤭 I end up thinking of different ways whatever I watched could go down, or add some component to it that I think would spice up the interactions. It’s like a bottomless pit for me, I hyper focus on that one pairing and am not ever satisfied no matter how many times I get what I want out of it.
 
That’s a real shame, that throuple is quite a bit of fun 🤭

This comment alone made me laugh far harder than it should.