Wilde_Guess

Yeah, I tend to make sure I’m writing well. The only place where I need help is the Tags which I like to be accurate between WIP and Complete.

Whatever it is, it's really gnawing at my obsessive side. >.>
It seems that the problem only happens to things that are edited.
But whatever is added in the very first instance, seems to work properly.
Anyone who wants to have a clean description or tags, be sure to make the first post count.

Honestly, I think we’re WAY beyond that point by now… I think they’re in the fucking software… they’re in the fucking closet, trying on our heels, sparkly dresses and our favourite lipstick at this point. 

Should we be worried that the Gremlins might get into the wires and eats the connections?

More gremlins. I’ve tried to edit that myself, and even I can’t fix it. 

44054 … I generally only “notice” it being down when others comment on it, lol.

And, St. Elsewhere has been down for the past two days.

Guessing that’s what caused the issues in the first place! 

I am so in accordance with this. All of this. (Except the living on my own, which is something I aspire to with all my heart.)

Not exactly a fandom but a book. I won’t read it. I live on my own these days and nobody makes the long trip up the hill to visit anymore so I have a pretty good idea what I’ve got in the house, and I know for a fact I did not buy that book. I certainly didn’t borrow it from the library. (They are good people there, the librarians, dedicated, and they have standards even in these days when their power and their glory is unknowingly ignored by so many). Sometimes it’s on the shelf. Sometimes it’s on the table. I’ve seen it in the kitchen cupboard and I found it in the attic when I went to investigate the noise (a swallow had got in, and driven to panic by the tome wished to get out. I helped it. Of course I did. I’m no monster no matter what the villagers said). The cover has a nice blue, though the face that gazes from it is not appealing and speaks of an unhealthy appetite, of wealth gained too young. The pages rifle pleasingly in the breeze, even in a still room. I don’t care. Offer me what you may. Tempt me, taunt me. I can’t be bought, or broken. The line is drawn, underlined, surrounded by unevenly doodled pentagrams, in both black, and in red.
I’m never gonna fucking read "May I Have Your Attention Please?" the autobiography of James Corden.
This I swear by the old gods, the new, and those yet to come.

You know the old adage: “Do not invoke that which you cannot banish.”  

Actually, your “upstairs/downstairs bookstore” option is a pretty good example. Basically, the family friendly to Hooters style restaurant is above ground and it has a more adult oriented space underground from a bygone era. They’re treated as separate businesses, but part of the story is that they are brought under a single owner.

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I’ve broken 20k words this month, so that’s “thawing” IMO.  Not quite the 100k+ I was managing in the fall, but yeah, good to get words pumping again.

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After a couple of months of nothing, I’ve finally had some luck this past week, a bit of wind again in my story.

it’s a sense of entitlement that gets to me.  My free time, not going to submit to schedule/demands (which is why I thought I hated writing for many years before I got into Harry Potter fanfiction, there’s a big difference between assigned writing & free writing). 
My current potter story’s now of drinking age, and I stumbled over a plot point I was having trouble deciding on how to show it… that stalled me, I delved into originals, and came back.  And when I restarted, I re-read and realized it needed an overhaul.  A happy little accident in the rewrite, and it’s a lot richer of a tale now than it was then.

Hi, all.
I’m a bit late to this, but I decided to add my thoughts.
I would generally have to agree with you on bringing “real life people” into a fictional story.  B is right out.  For “C,” I might bring a “personality trait” into the mix.  But while I’ve seen the trait or behavior in real life, neither you nor even the person themselves will realize that I “copied” the trait, and only that trait, from them.  There lies the way to lawsuits.
My “A” is only slightly more expansive than yours.  Since I’m using a real-life set of locations, I also need to be very careful with people holding real-life positions.  In fact, my disclaimer explicitly disclaims non-historic actions by historic or public figures.  I have one celebrity help the main protagonists in one story.  That celebrity’s actions were entirely consistent with how he would have behaved in real life under the same circumstances, and were entirely favorable without any potential slight.  That celebrity might be joined by one or two more under the exact same circumstances.  None of the “celebrities” know anything about the more “interesting” details of the protagonists’ lives. 
I’ve also named two different famous local politicians as “background” characters.  Their indirectly mentioned conduct is entirely consistent with the “non-criticized” portions of their publicly reported actions and behavior during the time-frames mentioned.  In the case of one of the politicians, I invented entirely fictitious additional members of their family who did not exist in real life.
I’ve also replaced scores of real-life people with entirely fictitious counterparts even when the behavior of the “replaced” persons appearing in my story were entirely honest, honorable, skillful, consistent with real-life, and beyond any reproach.  It’s just easier to do things that way then it is to try (and almost certainly fail) to describe an “almost famous” person I never met from forty years ago without getting sued.  I do “reference” the occasional real life villain here and there.  In those cases, their real-life villainy was well-known, as in front-page headlines, and followed up by felony convictions.  Any non-historical villainy they get up to is entirely consistent with their real-life behavior at the times and places where it takes place.
That will also hold true for my Harry Potter fanfiction.  Since I’m using a real time-frame for the stories, and since I’m using real-life locations, using historical people (gently) is nearly unavoidable, as well as using real-life positions filled with fictional replacements.
The most annoying “reference” I see in HP fanfiction, and I see it all the time, is using the first names of Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson as the first names for Hermione Granger’s parents.  JKR never even named those two characters, much less had them appear directly; so I get that you have to call them something.  But using the names of the actors who play Harry and Hermione in the movies to (not so subtly) claim that Harry and Hermione were only right to date or marry each other is just too heavy-handed for me.  Plenty of great fanfiction authors do this in great stories.  Plenty of not so great fanfiction authors do this, too.  In the case where I had to give the Grangers names, I used the first names of the actors who played them in the movies, and there were actors who played the Granger parents to a sufficient degree that they had to be named and credited.  Ian Kelly and Michelle Fairley played the Grangers in Deathly Hallows Part One.  Tom Knight and Heather Bleasdale from CoS would also work.
Cheers!

Left my OC sitting between two naked men in front of a roaring fire.  Desperately need to go back there. 

Eww… yeah, that’s not the right name for those parents!  IIRC, it was “Linda” and “Charles” in mine, the origin eludes me ATM.  Though, I did make use of Radcliffe, Watson, & Grint names in a scene where Harry, Ron, & Hermione were getting piles upon piles of hate mail, so some of that was misaddressed to the actors too

Trust me, we have a great many obscure fandoms floating around in the archive.  
But point taken. So let’s stick with Misc TV Shows and just note the fandom in the summary somewhere.

Hi, all.
I’m a bit late to this, but I decided to add my thoughts.
I would generally have to agree with you on bringing “real life people” into a fictional story.  B is right out.  For “C,” I might bring a “personality trait” into the mix.  But while I’ve seen the trait or behavior in real life, neither you nor even the person themselves will realize that I “copied” the trait, and only that trait, from them.  There lies the way to lawsuits.
My “A” is only slightly more expansive than yours.  Since I’m using a real-life set of locations, I also need to be very careful with people holding real-life positions.  In fact, my disclaimer explicitly disclaims non-historic actions by historic or public figures.  I have one celebrity help the main protagonists in one story.  That celebrity’s actions were entirely consistent with how he would have behaved in real life under the same circumstances, and were entirely favorable without any potential slight.  That celebrity might be joined by one or two more under the exact same circumstances.  None of the “celebrities” know anything about the more “interesting” details of the protagonists’ lives. 
I’ve also named two different famous local politicians as “background” characters.  Their indirectly mentioned conduct is entirely consistent with the “non-criticized” portions of their publicly reported actions and behavior during the time-frames mentioned.  In the case of one of the politicians, I invented entirely fictitious additional members of their family who did not exist in real life.
I’ve also replaced scores of real-life people with entirely fictitious counterparts even when the behavior of the “replaced” persons appearing in my story were entirely honest, honorable, skillful, consistent with real-life, and beyond any reproach.  It’s just easier to do things that way then it is to try (and almost certainly fail) to describe an “almost famous” person I never met from forty years ago without getting sued.  I do “reference” the occasional real life villain here and there.  In those cases, their real-life villainy was well-known, as in front-page headlines, and followed up by felony convictions.  Any non-historical villainy they get up to is entirely consistent with their real-life behavior at the times and places where it takes place.
That will also hold true for my Harry Potter fanfiction.  Since I’m using a real time-frame for the stories, and since I’m using real-life locations, using historical people (gently) is nearly unavoidable, as well as using real-life positions filled with fictional replacements.
The most annoying “reference” I see in HP fanfiction, and I see it all the time, is using the first names of Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson as the first names for Hermione Granger’s parents.  JKR never even named those two characters, much less had them appear directly; so I get that you have to call them something.  But using the names of the actors who play Harry and Hermione in the movies to (not so subtly) claim that Harry and Hermione were only right to date or marry each other is just too heavy-handed for me.  Plenty of great fanfiction authors do this in great stories.  Plenty of not so great fanfiction authors do this, too.  In the case where I had to give the Grangers names, I used the first names of the actors who played them in the movies, and there were actors who played the Granger parents to a sufficient degree that they had to be named and credited.  Ian Kelly and Michelle Fairley played the Grangers in Deathly Hallows Part One.  Tom Knight and Heather Bleasdale from CoS would also work.
Cheers!

Somehow, I’m intrigued to the details… maybe I’ve got a dirty mind, but it could be like one toxic review/spam-advert I received on FF.net that was… NUKE, NUKE, NUKE, not only the review, but also wiped out the notification email too.  (And normally I let the notification emails linger.)

Suppose the soft line here is a) real person is already a public figure, on a “stage”, consistent to their public behavior, and it’s incidental to your story, vs b) main-character back at the hotel room, vs c) somebody you knew back in high school.  For B/C, even if I base it on a real person, the name’s being changed, with enough details tweaked to avoid doxxing.  For groups, I’ll typically do a rename too.

After a rather disturbing moment in archive cleaning, I can most honest say that I will not be telling anyone how to get to Sesame Street.    

Yeah, mine is that the character is watching the actor speak about their appearance in Playboy (which is a real thing that happened with the actor), and my fictional character suggests that they were hot and how they sorta looked like their fictional character.

I could imagine a historical rally/speech, or a fictional character getting an autograph at a convention.  I do have a generic… “the Queen’s motorcade drove past my characters near Buckingham Palace” in my potter fanfic.  So, this is why I can’t say never, never.  Within my originals, it’s near future, not today, so I can make up new shows & celebrities