ladydeathfaerie

allow me to toss my two knuts worth in here for a moment. while i'm sure some people don't see a problem with creating an article for AFF on Wikpedia.... the decision do to such a thing will ultimately be made by the owners and the mods of the site. valid points have been brought up by all. server issues which, thank DA and whatever deity is listening, are pretty much gone at this point. DA spent alot of time fixing bad code so that we could have the entire site back. not just for reading, but for updating and posting new stuff, too. words can never, EVER, express how greatful we are for all of DA's hard and dedicated work. there is also the issue of legality. disclaimers on the fics aside, all of us who write fan fiction could be in big trouble if we attracted some really big attention. now, granted, there are some authors who don't mind. we all know Jo Rowling knows that there is fan fiction circulating about her books. she also knows that there's some pretty racy, adult stuff out there. but i don't know that we need to wave a red flag to attract more attention. so, even if a Wiki article sounds like a good idea... there is much discussion that will need to go into just agreeing to write one. us main site mods (including myself, cos i'm certainly not modding anything here ) will talk everything out. rest assured, we do it because we love the site and we want to protect everyone here.

congrats, Adara! that's great news.

ROTFLMFAO!!!!!

actually, i think the idea of a Hall of Flames is brilliant, ZD. it could be used for many different things. warning others, showing off another person's ignorance, a good laugh. it isn't so far fetched. i'm sure most everyone has been flamed a time or two in their lives. i know i have. hmmm. perhaps we should emblazon it with large, golden letters so that people flock to it from all over the galaxy. they way they did to that super computer that was meant to find the question to the answer '42'

once upon a time, Madlodger, AFF was a small... and i mean small... community. then a magazine wrote up an article on the site and BAM!!! there was an explosion of writers and readers on the site. so i suppose anything is possible.

The Gates of Istanbul - Loreena McKennitt

so that's where my will power went! how long will i be forced to listen to the stupid video game music?

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I Like It - Lords of Acid

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chocolate chip cookies

nope. um..... Daz?

i do that, too, Leon. i don't lose memories when i get drunk. its cool to meet someone else who's weird like that. i have never had a hangover.

i am eating spaghetti (the boy's favorite meal) i am considering working on two chapters tonight. i am also considering putting on music. i am considering (not very hard) doing the dishes. i am wondering who changed my member title from Sweet and Scary to Purple Ink and Violence.

Madlodger: the smut is actually completed. i'm merely adding a little on to the end, thoughts and feelings and the like, that i couldn't put in the main body of the smut. so, i could conceivably post tonight if i finished it. but i likely won't. i'm going to go to trying to post two chapters at a time, one each on different stories. i've got four going and so much more in my head...... i'm doing my best with it. i've been assured by a woman who writes slash and a woman who doesn't really read it anymore that the sex was great. hot and steamy. i only hope that everyone finds it to be so. and i do honestly appreciate your words. its nice to know that i'm doing as well as people tell me i am. hearing 'this is great' from a friend is good. but when you hear it from someone you don't know, that makes it all the better. no chance for opinions to be biased. teeta: the best advice i can give about slash sex is to try and write it as if you were writing het sex. you just need to remember to put a more masculine spin to it, if that makes sense. i've been told that i have the ability to 'channel' the character i'm writing, so..... i don't know. i'm trying not to make either of them too girly or too masculine. and its good to go with what the characters want sometimes. i've found that they help me write a better story when i go along with what they've decided should happen. that isn't to say that they control the entire enchilada. they don't. i pick and chose some events, whether they like them or not. helps keep things interesting. i'm sure that someone will want sex before ten more chapters are up and they'll let you know in no uncertain terms that they're reading to get busy. trust them. if they're wrong about it, you'll know.

gods, i'm so late with this. tells you how much i pay attention some days. actually, there is a following for the pairing, i know. Madlodger is eagerly awaiting the next update of The Harlequin (the title of my fic) and will soon have it. i've finally gotten around to writing the smut for this and it took me quite some time. i've been hammering the chapter out for a little over the week and kept stopping and starting while working out the sex. i was so afraid that i was doing it wrong. i'm fortunate that a woman i beta for is a slash writer, though not in my genre, and she agreed to look at what i'd had done so far for me yesterday. she decided to keep it, as a tool to help her write her sex scenes better. she was shocked that it was my first slash sex scene. her faith in my writing helped me finish the sex off and gave me the confidence to keep going as i had been. i really was worried that i wouldn't write the proper feelings or emotions. but i guess, as i didn't go for clinical, i did alright. don't let anyone pressure you into doing something you don't want. i always let my characters guide me. so i might have ideas for a chapter, but they're the ones who get final say. stick to your guns and write it the way you want to. while we are posting our work for people to read, we're still writing mostly for ourselves. i mean, isn't that why we write? because the idea appeals to ourselves. and all i meant about the Lucius/Harry pairing is that it isn't as popular as Harry/Draco or Severus/Harry. good luck with that smut. i'm sure you can keep it credible.

happy birthday, Foe!

wow, i get into the best clubs without even trying. and no need to worry about the whole Guy Worthy of Spending Time with. i don't think he exists for me. at least, not in the real world. so i'll keep on writing. and i am writing. i'm currently working on one chapter each for two different stories. one of them is The Harlequin so i know that should make you very happy, Madlodger. now i should find some music and get to work.....

oh, i know that things like ADD and ADHD run in both sexes. all i meant by my question was why do they have to be anything but kids. now, its like some right of parental passage when you can walk into a room of your friends or peers and rattle off the list of meds your child takes, what's wrong with him or her and why its slowly driving you mad. what i want to know is why do kids have to be this or that or the other? why can't they just be kids? it used to be moms and dads got together and tried to outdo each other with statements like 'Little Tommy ran the 400 in just under a minute' or 'Suzy is the best in her dance class' now you hear things like... 'I can't give Prozac to John because it makes him see things and he went psychotic on us the last time. Now we have to give him this instead.' or 'Tina can't stand her psychologist, so we're in the market for a new one.' its just sad.

those are both impressive. it reminds me of The Mall of America. they have a Legoland inside and it has dinosaurs and all sorts of other things made out of legos, naturally. the dinosaurs move and they have light up eyes and some other things like that. its really kind of cool. but yes, definitely the product of someone with far too much time on their hands. speaking of legos, has anyone seen the Camelot song from Monty Python and the Holy Grail done in Legos? frigging great......

oh yes. they called it PDD at first. and now.... even the behavioral specialist at his previous school called it Aspergers. she even purchased a work book for him to use so he could understand what was different about him. his junior high was filled with amazing staff members who damn near bent over backwards for him. i'm going to miss them. but i think he'll be doing good in the high school he's moving on to now. frankly, diagnosing kids with autism seems to have replaced diagnosing them with ADD or ADHD. why can't they just be kids?

sorry, Agaib. i misunderstood. eh, she's an entity and you either deal with her or let it bother you. personally, while the thought that she likes my story well enough to leave that standard review is cool and i appreciate her taking the time, it isn't her reviews that make me really want to write more and do my best on my chapters. its everyone else, who can point out what it is they love about the story and then can pick out the best lines and parts. and the ones that really make me smile are the ones who tell me that i should be published. i love the reviews, but they aren't the reason i write. .... most of that stems from the fact that if i don't get the shit out of my head, it'll bloody explode and then there'll be brain matter and evil plot bunnies everywhere. someone has to protect the innocent.....

your nephew's lucky to have you. sadly, when i was growing up (read: young), kids who were considerd autistic were the ones who didn't want to be touched and would scream and beat their head into the wall if allowed. there wasn't this huge umbrella of different types of autisms. when the school diagnosed my son with Asperger's, i was in tears. of course, i was still a single mom and fairly young. i was in my mid 20's at the time. and it was hard to deal with and even harder to accept because, somewhere along the lines, either myself or the sperm donor passed it down to him. dunno who for sure because.... well, 'sperm donor' should say alot. and the whole autism=silent and prone to self-abuse when i was a child. its really only been in the past couple of years that i've finally started to understand what it is that's different about my son. i mean.... i really had no clue and what i got for an explanation from the school was.... its going to affect his mental growth more than anything else. i had nothing to tell me how it would present itself and its only been through trial and error that i've found some of these things out. fortunately, i found a woman who's son has Asperger's and it was because of her that i now KNOW what it is that goes on with my son. when he was diagnosed, they called it Pervasive Developmental Disorder. no one said that it was also called Asperger's. so..... its still a trial to see what comes and what doesn't. and its frustrating for me because he's so smart and he's pretty talented and there are little blockers in his brain that make it hard for some people to see that he's all these things. until they get to know him. he's a whiz in math and now science. what about you, Sam? did you have that one area where you just stood out?

i voted pirates. but i have to agree with you, Sam, about the Vikings. they be's my people. my mom's mother was full blooded Norwegian while my dad's family was Swede and Norwegian. so.... there you go. now figure out why i'm all about the Scots part of me. and lets not get started on the German..... mmmm. kilt

happy birthday, Wotan.... and many happy more!