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many congratulations, Ada! Mischa is beautiful! i hope she, and mommy, are doing well.

what Nan said.

you know, i've never given any real thought to this subject because i've always just known where to stop. both on chapters and on stories. i think that length is something you'll have to play with until you find what works best for you. there will always be people who are looking for just a short read. they mostly look for one shots. anyone who sits down to read any thing other than a one shot knows what they're in for. i don't think the readers here are going to be turned off by a multi-chaptered fic unless it isn't what they're looking for. that's one of the reasons story codes are your friend. and there's really no set length for a story. i've seen some fics stretch on into well over 50+ chapters. its all dependent upon what kind of plot you have and how many ideas your bunnies can throw at you. and length is, again, an issue that varies from one reader to the next. i generally prefer to read long chapters. however, if the chapter is chock full of vital information, be it through thoughts, action or speech, i can overlook the length of the chapter. what's important, ultimately, is that you are happy with what you've written. regardless of what your readers do or don't think about your stories..... you've written them for you. and if you aren't happy, change them. i've got a tendency to battle my own chapters. length is..... something of an issue for me. i don't know how much i write in terms of word count or pages. i go by how big the file is. before i add my disclaimers, A/N's and other assorted tidbits. my longest chapter (for a multi-chaptered fic) was over 80k. for a one shot, it was 124k. which, i found out later, was over 22,252 words! that's a lot of damn words. i've been told i write long, juicy, packed chapters. which is something i strive for, no matter the length. so, in the end.... its all a matter of personal choice. what ever works best for you is what you should follow. trying to please someone else will only make you want to quit writing. after all, we started writing for ourselves, didn't we?

no, no, no. it isn't the people with good social skills who are getting promotions, Madlodger. its people with good ass kissing skills. everyone else gets shit on.

i have, for the majority of the week, been silent on this subject. some of it was to allow my brain to soak up everything that's been going on. some of it has been simply to keep me from responding with something vicious or cruel or just plain wrong. however, i find i can no longer hold my tongue. i've seen much... MUCH... verbal bashing going on here in the past week. the shit slinging, yes... that's what i said. that's what it has been, has been coming from both sides. as i do not know the whole story, i cannot verify the veracity of either party's words. however, i take deep and sincere umbrage with any claims that the head mods didn't do a fucking thing. i'm a mod on the main site and i can tell you from personal experience that they did their own work. they didn't rely on others to do it for them. claiming they're lazy is the biggest crock of shit i've seen come through here today. i've been a member on the site for over four years. in that time, i've seen it fall apart more than once. and, also in that time, i've seen it roar to life again. the reason for that is because the head mods, set in place by Jaxxy herself, did what they were fucking supposed to do. DA literally worked herself into being ill trying to make shitty code work, trying to please everyone when they requested or whined for something to be fixed or to just run the way they wanted it to. in the past year alone, AFF has run smoother than it ever did. no one has ever thanked the head mods for their work. all they've ever done is bitch and whine and complain. and now they're doing it again. you know what? i don't care if someone stole this or someone hijacked that. i wasn't in on the decision to take the site. but i do know that i hadn't seen a single post from Jaxxy to even the groups in almost over six months. no offense meant to anyone, but leadership requires that you be there constantly, to watch and supervise and to fucking get your hands dirty. its like raising a child. you can't sit back and watch from afar. i don't care if you don't like the tone of my post. i don't care if you don't like me. that isn't what i'm here for. i could give a shit one about a popularity contest. i will, however, be blatant enough to give my opinion. and if i damn well have to sit here and sift through yours, you're fucking going to have to show me the same curtesy and read mine.

honestly, i don't watch much tv. i hate commercials and it always takes my attention off of whatever i'm working on. usually my chapters. never mind the fact that i spent much of the first twenty years of my life glued to the tv. now i'm glued here. hmmm.... when i do watch the tv and don't have a dvd in the player, i like to watch things like CSI and CSI: Miami. the few episodes of House i've seen, i've really enjoyed. i have to admit that i love Hugh's character in it. gotta love the rotten bastard who has no problems speaking his mind. i've also been known to watch Cartoon Network a time or two. but mostly, i prefer to listen to music or watch movies.

well, my family's birthdays all occur within five months of one another. Dad's birthday is in November, while both of my brothers and my son were born in December. i came along in January and my mom is in March.

great list, Keith. i shared it with a friend and now she wants to write a fic using all of them. oh we of twisted minds.

oh wow! its beautiful. even if it does look as if its been doused in peptobismal! thanks for sharing, Trae.

technically, the bill for AFF's server was paid for through selling ad space to other sites and by donations that came in from members of the site itself. it isn't a privately funded archive. thus the reason for the Cafe Press store and for having advertiser's banners flashing across the top of each screen. to help pay for the server space and bandwidth we use each month.

read, reviewed and really enjoyed. thanks for sharing, Daz!

christ, i feel old. *goes off in search of her cane.*

dunno if we should be surprised or not. i mean, it was inevitable, wasn't it? look at what happened after the site got a write up in a mag a few years ago, back when Ayla still owned it. BOOM! member and visitor explosion. we've been growing through the years. and since we're one of the biggest sites for adult content in any archive or fandom, i think it would have been more surprising if we didn't end up mentioned in some kind of article like that. especially now that the Harry Potter series is done. and, let's be honest. HP is one of our biggest fandoms. so, really. its no surprise. it only means we'll have to be that much more vigilant.

Happy Birthday, DC! have a drink for me, too. hell, i might have my own later. sadly, i can't recally my 21st birthday. i think mom and dad took me to a steak place and i had my first legal drink. hell if i can recall what it is. it was a mixed drink and it came in a huge fucking glass. maybe a tequila sunrise. then again, i tend to block out my birthdays because they all suck. my drink of choice now is either 151 and coke or Jägermeister. straight from the bottle. screw the shot glass. no need to dirty something when i can just chug from the jug.

well, that explains everything. i was born on a Wednesday.....