DemonGoddess

In Memory of Elizabeth Reed - Allman Brothers Band

A TRUE friend will accept you how you are. Period. Bad traits, good traits, it should not ever matter. If a person cannot accept you unconditionally as the kind of person you are, then keep 'em at acquaintance distance. .

Nothing to be sorry for. After all, that was the only way you HAD to get 'em uploaded for the longest time.

My little brother is 5 years younger than my oldest kid.

thank you. they will be taken care of.

Example link? They shouldn't be posting that in the archive anyway. That's for fiction uploads.

I just tried it. How it works is that you can remove your reviews from the review panel you left it in. To use the "remove review" button requires that you be the author who's story it is, and thus removing a review from your story review board. So, no, you're not doing anything wrong on your user page.

Just a few things... Give a brief description of what you're looking for from your prospective beta. Say what fandom this is for, or if it's an original story. Let the prospective beta readers know what type of story this will be (in general). For example, if it's an erotic story then you really should point out what they can expect to find, so if it contains slash or rape, for example, and the prospective beta isn't into either of those things, they'll know not to bother enquiring. On the other hand, if it's right up their alley then they'll be more likely to enquire with you further. The prospective beta reader needs to know if what you're writing is something that will interest them. State whether you'd like to read examples of the prospective beta reader's works before you agree on anything. This is a good idea, since if a person is going to be critiquing your work, wouldn't you like to know whether they really do know what they're talking about? Very simple, and up to you guys to flesh out from that.

Put what fandom you'd like to beta for Be sure to state what you will NOT beta, as to story type and pairings When making your post, show good language usage, so the authors looking for betas have some idea as to your capabilities. Finally, tell us a little about yourself, if you like. Those are the basics of what you should post. The rest is up to you. To expand on the above a little, something else that would be a good idea is to provide a link to a profile where your stories are located, giving people a chance to read your stories to see if your writing style is appropriate for them. Some writing styles just clash too much, and would likely cause arguments over what's "right" and what's "wrong". If you don't have any stories uploaded anywhere but you have them on your hard drive then tell people that you'd be happy to send them some stories of yours for them to go over. If you don't have any stories anywhere, then... why are you offering to become a beta when you have no practical experience? Would you offer to teach someone how to fly a real plane simply because you've read a lot about them? I should certainly hope not! Being an avid reader is no substitute to being a writer. If you're offering your services as a beta then you really should be able to prove that you know what you're talking about. Finally, if you later change your mind about being a beta reader, or you feel you have enough on your plate without taking on any more, then it would be a good idea to come back here and update things to show that you're not taking on any more work. That way you save everyone's time!

yep, high school drama it is, isn't i? Unfortunately, some never grow out of the need to make that sort of drama with others. I can count on one hand how many close friends I actually have. That's quite alright with me. I've ALWAYS had the attitude that if one is not willing to accept me as I am, then that person really isn't worth wasting time on. Certainly not worth making myself feel bad over, ya know?

size restriction? I know there has to be one.

Woulda been buried if it was in the HP section

THAT part of your original post said all I ever really needed to see about your intent. Someone ending an opening post in a topic like that is WANTING a flame war. I assure you, if it goes to that, I will not be nice. I am more than a little intolerant of someone starting flame wars. I had hoped to see good discussion from this, and for the most part, there has been. So, retract the claws, and discuss this rationally. @NinjaGaijin- As far as I know, there is no intent to restrict content, as there never WAS content restriction. No reason to start it now, ya know? The only restriction I know about there is to properly tag, label, and rate the stories, so the readers have some idea of what they're looking at. As to the bad fics published, we're not here to be elitist and say someone isn't good enough to put up their stuff for public consumption. That's up to the readers to tell the author in review, if you ask me. Think about this, how else are writers going to learn how to improve, if they don't put up the bad stuff too? They gotta start SOMEWHERE, right? So, no...don't see the stories we all know to be horrid going away. I'll keep doing like I always do with those, which is to skip 'em, thanks. Don't need to punish my eyeballs

Like I said, my big thing isn't so much words as a descriptive, but words used wrongly. Or the use of "unwords". THAT really gets me.

It should be gone now.

LOTS older (in my case at least)

yes, it's because of your level.

Yes I've seen the behavior. I've been using the skin as I've been designing it. And as I said, it's the hover setting.

*sighs* The last one is being the worst one for converting. 30+ hours into the conversion, and have to do yet some more FIXES in the database before the damn forum is ready to go live. --I'm ready to pull my hair out at this point--

I thought it was funny too.

it's a hover setting, what it's doing is italicizing when you hover yer mouse thanks for the compliments

Agree with what Rosemarius said. @haruha_raharu The disorganization overall in the archive is a real problem. We are certainly aware of it. We're also working on a way to fix it. However, that's not as easy as you might think. Once we have everything in place to start moving stories around in the archive (in a manner similar to the way we can move topics around in the forum), we will be doing exactly that. The new working structure is already hashed out, but we need the tools to implement all this. The tool creation for this IS in progress (among many other necessary things being done). You are looking at literally THOUSANDS of stories spread across 22 subdomains that must be gone through so they can be properly categorized. That's a whole lot of work ya know. Once that's all done, it'll be very easy for those of you who dislike slash/yaoi to avoid it entirely. Think about it. A category that says either slash or yaoi is one you'd never click on, if you don't like to read the subject matter. Pair specific categories would be listed below the pairing/story type, so that can be avoided entirely as well. As to whether or not a particular user tags his/her stories in a way to make it so that one knows definitely it IS a same sex pair story, is on the user, not the archive program or the admins and mods. It is the user who inputs the data and makes the form choices when uploading after all. @TurtleHermit Obviously we do not restrict who uploads what, and in what quantities here, as to pairing type. THAT is up to the individual author. If the author chooses to write het, that is his or her choice. If the author chooses to write slash/yaoi that is ALSO his or her choice. You will find in the archive subdomains, for the most part, they all do have a subcategory specifically for m/f or m/m or f/f etc. The only ones where you don't really see this are the subdomains such as cartoons, anime, and books which have literally hundreds of subcategories, aimed at specific titles. So in those, sure, you have to look in the description to see what the story is about more carefully. As to the bad writing you mention? You find that in any category. On any fan fiction site.

I searched the archive (by both author and story) and that is not a story nor author here. Sorry.

select quills from the skin selector. I've finished it up.

Post your nightmare story in originals, I would think. Provided its all your own OC's and whatnot.