JayDee

and short a month's pay or so (price of the boiler+install)

Buying a new oil boiler....

Life is too short to have people like that in your life.

@pippychick  Get some rest!  I looked for a sleeping emoji, but all I found was

Thanks @CloverReef She’s in bed now, but it’s been stressful for her for weeks and weeks to be honest. This has been the final straw tonight.
@Desiderius Price I’m off to bed myself now, so we’ll see, but I have to be up in like four and a half hours for work. Trust me, my mother has not had the best of luck. Even hours later, I can’t believe her own sister, someone she’s given refuge to, would say something like that.

Wow what a gross human being! Hope your mother is okay!

Well, best of luck to her, and I trust she didn’t let the door hit her in the arse on the way out. You are well shut of her, and I agree—I pity her children as well. Karma will deal with her, lass, don’t worry.

The great thing is that also works when you have 49600 words to go too!

@Desiderius Price What about a compromise? Plague Priest lol I wonder what that would look like… maybe a priest with a plague doctor mask?

I’m just enjoying how George’s wife knows exactly what to tell him to get those last words in place.

The great thing is that also works when you have 49600 words to go too!

The great thing is that also works when you have 49600 words to go too!

Sounds like a big pile of shit to have to deal with. I hope things improve for you somehow.

Sounds like a big pile of shit to have to deal with. I hope things improve for you somehow.

I’ll just write A Song of Ice and Fire Mpreg until the day the torch and pitchfork waving mob charge up the mountain, overpower the guard marmots and put an end to my reign of ass-baby infused terror. 
Or not. I dunno.
I changed last time because some folks out here in meatspace knew my pen name and a Femdom Buffy story I wrote kinda frightened some of ‘em, an original set on a train made it worse, and I also wanted to write some even more extreme stuff, so it made sense to pretend to be an entirely different writer and not have to answer awkard questions about vampires with chainsaws while out drinking.
Some folks just want a new username because they want to reflect a maturing writing style, or they just hate the old name. Especially one picked in haste, or say “SnapeFan360” eight years after they last wrote for HP or something.

@JayDee Pretending to be another writer to write crazy fun shit does sound like a good idea. Especially when it comes to the more populated fandoms. So does that mean when you stop writing crazy fun shit, you’re gonna change again to not rile up crazy fun shit fans? Though why anyone would go from violent GoT Mpreg and tentacle shenanigans to boring vanilla and republican politician celebrity WAFF (that’s the shift I’m imagining, btw) is beyond me. 
@Desiderius Price I… I actually am considering that now. Thanks a lot. My original plan was to pick a pen name to spite my brother’s accusing me of ‘Identity Politics’ as if it’s a bad thing. Spite seems like a good, meaningful way to go. But… Naughty Priests are so much more fun. 

In my not so humble opinion...  If you feel the need to change it, then that's something only you can decide, ultimately.  However, if you feel that you've worn out the name or that it's time to "grow", then wholeheartedly, do it.  The pen name should reflect some part of you within it, whether it changes every few years or not at all.
I mean, you know mine.  It reflects me.  So, let yours reflect who you are :).  And, whether CR or something different as can be, people will find your works :).  As for now or after, if you feel the need to change it now, you always have my backing :).

@JayDee What direction did you go/will you go with a new penname? Something similar to JayDee, or just whatever you feel connected to?

I changed mine in what 2005? something like that. Might change it again some time if I start writing again. I already had to use a different one on fanfiction.net anyway because JayDee was taken so I am kind’ve half there already.

I changed mine in what 2005? something like that. Might change it again some time if I start writing again. I already had to use a different one on fanfiction.net anyway because JayDee was taken so I am kind’ve half there already.

Sounds like someone’s going to be getting “a damn good rogering”.

Sounds like someone’s going to be getting “a damn good rogering”.

Brilliant!

Well… I’ve been taking a break watching Lucifer, because I went out and got the DVD today. I love Tom Ellis. But… I couldn’t help myself. To be honest, I think it still sounds like them.
[An unusually large and fearfully well-armed woman is decorating a Christmas tree, when she is disturbed by an unusually large man]
ROGER: [A man who is not a Knight] “A fucking Christmas tree. Does it have to sparkle like that?”
BELLA: [A woman who is also not a Knight] “Yes, of course it does! Oh wait, it should be twinkling too.”
BELLA: [Messes with the plug socket. Lights begin twinkling.] “There.. isn't it pretty?”
ROGER: [pulls a face]
BELLA: “Here, hang some knights on it.”
ROGER: [rather more cheerfully] “Oh, well. All right then.”
[ENTER a VIKING, also of unusually large size]
VIKING: “What the fuck is that?”
BELLA: “It's a Christmas tree. It's to do with Christ being born.”
VIKING: “You southern twats are always inventing Gods. I think you long to be taken in hand, all of you.”
ROGER: “Fuck off!”
VIKING: [touches one of the tree branches] “Oh yeah? What's this then?”
BELLA: [smiles with delight] “Artificial snow.”
VIKING: [looks utterly aghast] “Artificial snow? Right. That's it. I give in.”
ROGER: “What?”
VIKING: [cracks knuckles and pats knee] “Come here. I'm going to give both of you exactly what you want... you can say you're getting it for Christmas.”
 

Maybe you could retool the chapter into something else? Rename the characters, stick in a Christmas tree and BAM! Holiday fic. I bet it’d work for E L James...