Deadman

You’re probably sick of me creating so many topics by now, but here’s another. Been putting some thought into an upcoming story, featuring a female character working out at the gym. What is interesting though is the actress who plays the character has been posting videos of themselves working out at a gym. I’ve been sorta making notes without the influence of the actress’ social media feed for most of it. Yet now I’m wondering if I should take a look at the various videos or photos and use them as reference points. Have any of you done something like this? Why or why not?

I would’ve thought that The Boys would be the obvious choice.

I’m in the middle of writing something and I noticed that I have been very unstructured in how I refer to a particular character. They’re the mayor of a town and in canon we know their full name. But when I write about them I often use just a piece of their name. For instance: “Mayor John Smith says” “Mayor Smith declares” “Mayor John suggests” “says John Smith” Part of me worries that while I have established their full name within the context, if I’m constantly switching like that, I might confuse the audience. How do you go about figuring out this problem? Or do you not worry about it?

Yes, generally speaking. My browsers are set so that any time I close the browser, it deletes all cookies. So I tried it again today and the same thing happened.

It’s not as serious an issue as originally thought. Looks like it’s specifically messenger pop up and appears to be only me who has this problem. @Desiderius Price appears to be able to use the pop up without an issue.

All right, @WillowDarkling, it looks as though the problem is limited to the Messenger pop up option and not the main website messenger option.

Though it’s looking like it is possible if I quote you in the message. There’s a chance it depends on what type of way I message you.

@WillowDarkling Okay, made an attempt and it looks like what happened is that my first attempt at a message went through, but attempts to respond a second time, it didn’t go through.

Thanks. It’s possible that it had to do with the topic, assuming there’s some kind of filter? We spoke about something like this: I’m testing out messaging them again with a new topic. Just in case that was the problem.

Is Belle like the character from Beauty and the Beast? I assume given that it’s called “Hamster and Gretel” that it’s like Once Upon a Time.

Well I’ve always found money problems to be a good suggestion. Seems rather obvious though. It’s a question of how to go about it.

Hmm, weird thing going on with my account. I was in discussion with another member and for some reason, my messages are coming out as blank. Can’t seem to figure out why and I’ve tried it a few times and it doesn’t work.

I’m not someone who watched it, but from what little I know, I assume Penny would probably be someone to get on there. Might even do really well.

Holodecks are definitely something people can do it.

So, @Desiderius Price were having this discussion elsewhere but we wanted to move it to another forum. There have been a few stories about characters in a fandom which ends up working at a gentleman’s club/ladies club. I actually wrote one involving the main character being somewhat “trapped” into becoming a stripper. However, I don’t think I have ever seen a story about a character becoming an OnlyFans model. Making money by doing all kinds of things. Most of my fandoms are either early internet or before something like OnlyFans were a thing. So it would be difficult to make it work. Maybe one of my fandoms, but not sure I could read it. What fandoms would make sense for someone to become an OnlyFans model?

Well I’m thinking more in the sense of, most of my main fandoms are early internet/before social media. Except maybe one, Riverdale. I suppose you could have one of the characters decide to get an only fans account. But I kinda feel like a gentleman’s club is a more obvious story line. In fact, technically Riverdale does have a gentleman’s club/adult entertainment business.

For sure, and I’ve made an attempt at the idea of a day job but those seemed to have dried up or get filled by younger people than me.

Working at gentleman's/ladies clubs is something that happens a lot in content on archive. Though I don’t think I’ve seen anyone who has gotten an only fans. Not even sure if there’s a fandom which would have the opportunity to do it.

Yes but what I tend to find is people who say “Hey, we can’t pay you right now but if you generate revenue for us, we’ll pay you for it.” or something along those lines. I’ve been having this argument about writing in particular, but it doesn’t happen in just writing. For some reason, in writing people are expected to do free work on the promise of future financial success. The way I’ve put it is “No one ever says come work at this retail outlet for 10 years for free and if you do a good job, I’ll think about paying you at some point”. It happens more often in writing, but increasingly I’m seeing it in other opportunities.

That’s your motivation probably, but it’s not just AFF where this happens to me.

I certainly didn’t mean to imply that it wasn’t. I’m a native English speaker and I’ve done so many typos a lot. Obviously it happens, totally understand it.

Why is everyone trying to give me jobs where I don’t get paid? Seems to happen a lot.

Do you eat a lot of Easter eggs?

Do we win anything if we find the Easter eggs?

Hmm, okay. I think I figured it out. I put in the correct email that should be available. I just assumed that I would get the emails. When I clicked the link in the email, I got an “Activation Successful” message. Is that the correct thing? Also, just FYI, the word successful is misspelled when you do that. It’s got one less ‘c’ than it should.