greenwizard

Oh, don't get me started on Comcast!!! We have two computers, and therefore have a router. So everytime we call up tech support, it doesn't matter what the problem really is, we get told it's the router! And of course they suggest we buy one of their routers for the total bullshit price of $60. Hell, one time we were told it was the router when the service wasn't even on!! We had just gone through three routers and problem wasn't fixed, so we decided it was the modem. We decided to take their crappy modem back to them that they charge us $3 a month for, and spend money we didn't have for our own modem. When we took their modem back the idiot receptionist assumed we wanted to cancel our service and have it shut off! We also paid $34 to have a tech come out to tell us the problem was our router. Not to mention that while fucking with our network he did something so that my wireless antenna wouldn't read the router, so we had to buy a new router and wireless card for me anyway. My recent Comcast encounter has been fun too. We weren't able to get pages to load, but my messenger was connecting just fine. I called tech support and the guy I talked to said my modem response was slow. So of course he sent a tech out. The tech told me that the signal in my house was fine, but there were occasional lag spikes. He also informed me that a few of my neighbors were having the same problems! So I pretty much paid another trouble call fee for something that was wrong with their system! I think they got it fixed now finally. I HATE COMCAST!!! I'd switch to DSL if I could. The only problem is that the local phone company doesn't have service in my area. I'd have to get other neighbors who want their service to sign a petition for service. So basically, unless I drum up buisness for them I'm screwed. Their prices have gone up three times in the past year!! I have fantasies of blowing up their main office. Can you tell I hate Comcast?

I have. It involved a can of pineapple. I still have the scar on my finger where a chunk got cut out of it. Those can lids can be dangerous. I've never gone bungee jumping... and never will cuz I'm very afraid of heights.

Ok, I was just looking through the Harry Potter stories for something good to read. The category list has like trippled since I started reading. And I noticed that alot of those categories only had one or two stories in it. While those sub categories were probably requested, and the staff was probably trying to be nice and helpful, in my opinion it clutters things up. My suggestion is to make it so there needs to be at least 5 stories with a certain pairing to be given it's own subcategory. That should clean up the clutter and make it easier for most to find what they're looking for.

I'm a role player myself. I sat and rp'd with someone for like 11 hrs yesterday in fact. I prefer doing it over a messenger, but I've gotten into PBEM. The forums and email aren't so bad I guess. The biggest downpart is you have to wait for a response. I don't think I'd like sims or anything like that. Maybe I'm just set in my ways.

Put lots of cheese in it and you might have something I'd eat. I love cheese. I used to refuse to eat baked potatoes when I was little. I'd have my mom scoop out the potato and make myself a potato skin sandwhich with butter and sour cream though. Now I use sour cream and cheese which is equally as yummy. I've been craving sea salt and vinegar chips lately too.

^ banned for being a higher lvl than me

Editing is definitely work, but very neccessary. I'm only writing one story, and I give each chapter a once over before sending it off to my betas. But once the work is done and I have a good polished story, I have something to be proud of. So I guess the work is worth it. Editing someone else's story is more like work than editing my own because I'm not emotionally invested in it. It isn't my story. I did beta work for other people twice. I ended up bowing out both times because my depression ups and downs combined with my really bad memory made it so that I took forever getting chapters back. I didn't think that was fair to the writter.

In putting down yaoi, did you really not think that you would offend yaoi writters? Because seriously.... The whole reason for fanfiction is so that creative people can write about their favorite book, movie, ect in a way that THEY want it. If you were just griping because you can't find very many good heterosexual stories, then that's what you should have said. I guess there just aren't many people who write in the categories that you read who like het pairings. The popularity of yaoi has nothing to do with it. People write what they like.

I love that pairing! I just wish there were more good stories with that pairing. I was looking for a good one yesterday.

My Valentines Day sucked as usual. My birthdays always suck too. Though I guess it's kind of silly to expect someone to love you and shower you with presents because it's a holiday. I want to be loved and showered with attention and gifts all the time. Maybe not gifts, but I at least want loved everyday; though I won't say no to presents... My mom got me a card. I did get lots of hugs yesterday, but that had nothing to do with what day it was.

There have been times where I'll be reading a story and the author will use a word for something that will make me laugh or roll my eyes. But I think it's stupid to stop reading a story because of a word. If it's a good story, forget about the word and enjoy it! And from a writers perspective... What do you people want!? Someone said they don't mind the word "cock" as long as it isn't used over and over again. But one by one all of you have eliminated pretty much every other word out there. So what words are we supposed to use exactly? Am I supposed to just sit down and invent words? That's something I as an author have always had trouble with. I never know what terms to use for certain parts of human anatomy. And this topic just completely blew me away. What irks me is to find out that I can pour my heart and soul into writing a story, and no matter how good it really is, someone is likely to turn away in disgust because they didn't like a word I used.....

Yeah, my true friends are the ones who randomly drop by just to see how I'm doing. They bring me food and make me eat it. And we can have a political or religious argument, but then forget about it and go out to dinner and a movie. I can be myself around a true friend and they don't shy away from me because of my odd little quirks. The problem comes when a fake friend disguises themself as a true friend. That's why I tend to keep people at an arm's length. That way when they do dump me (and they always do) it doesn't hurt quite so much. People who I do open up to usually don't know how lucky they really are. It was only a few months ago when I let my guard down and got stabbed in the back by not one, but two people. I was in tears for three days.

*sighs* Saying that male/male pairings are all shit implies that my stories are all shit. When someone calls my stories bad I do take offense to it. I am a bisexual male, and the only person I have willingly had sex with is a bisexual male. Hmmm... I wonder why I would write yaoi. And yes, I know that yaoi writters are mostly female. And yes, a lot of those writers aren't very good. I know this from actually reading them. If I start reading 20 stories, it's very likely that only 2 or 3 of those would've actually been any good. I can usually tell within the first few paragraphs. Then I do something amazing.... I go read another story to see if it's any good. I don't know what categories you read so I can't say much on whether writers in that category use tags; but I write and read Harry Potter. Authors in that category are usually pretty good about tags. And I write the pairings that I do because that's what floats my boat so to speak. And if the pairing isn't something that would generally be found in the cannon universe, I use character traits to write some sort of explination. I take pride in my writting. A lot of the problems you seem to be having have to do with the writers themselves, not the genre they write in. I've read some crap het stories too when I've been in a het mood. But AFF is open to anyone who has a fanfiction that they want to share with the public. I think that that is a very good thing. I think limiting what people can publish would kill the site.

My dreams don't make enough sense to be made into stories. I mean, in one dream I had I was Indiana Jones. I was fighting off little blue people and then running from that big boulder. I was safe once I got into this maze of bedrooms. But then I had to rescue the daughter of the guy that hired me from the evil pink teddy bears. Would anyone actually ever want to read a story about that? Though I did once have a dream that I was the first ever pregnant man. That one was interesting.

[^ Banned for accusing me of banning myself

Well, thanks for looking out for me I guess. I said in the beginning, everyone is allowed to disagree with me. But since I don't call them crazy, they should do the same for me. And it is possible to not agree with Christians totally, and still believe in God and Jesus. Men wrote the bible, and I don't agree with them. And did you know that the first testiment is actualy the Jewish bible? Christians are only supposed to follow the new testiment. Jesus actually contradicted Jewish law in his teachings, hence why he wasn't well liked by a lot of people. But Christianity was created by a group of men who got together and decided what they wanted to believe. I don't follow organized religion period. I did a lot of soul searching and decided what I believe. I guess you can say I invented my own branch of the Christan religion. I'm not the type to let someone tell me what to believe and what's right and wrong.

There are times to be civil, and times to rip the other person a new one to make yourself feel better. Ok, I admit it, I have a violent temper. But.... I learned to control it While in very public places, or places where you're supposed to be adult and professional, the best thing to do when someone throws crap your way is to sit and smile at them. It makes them look like an ass and you look like the the more mature person. I have a good example on this one. I run a yahoo role playing group. There is a member who drives me crazy. I've given him chance after chance, but he continues to be a thread stealer. That's when a person just kind of takes over everything and significantly changes the plot without the other person's permission. It's incredibly rude. Now, if I would have just thrown a tantrum and kicked him from the group, I would've looked like an ass. Then the few members I do have probably would've left with him. Instead I sent him an email voicing my concerns. We finished the thread quickly, and I will probably avoid writing with him as much as possible.

Those are the lyrics to a song called Beneath a Phrygian Sky. I find myself listening to it when I'm incredibly depressed. I only put up the parts that pertained to this thread, not the whole song. It kind of sums up how I feel. Lots of people used the name of God to serve their own selfish purposes. But as human beings there is something inside us that makes us want to believe in a higher power. And for some people their love of God is what gives them the strength to carry on through all of life's shit. I don't follow the Christian beliefs for the most part, but I do believe that Jesus Christ was indeed sent to earth as the son of God. I have a good relationship with him, and in my darkest hours it has been a life saver... literally. I'm a very old soul, and as far as I've seen, there are two types of Athiests. The first type is the very young souls. They are incredibly naive. They only exist in the physical world, and don't know how to listen to their souls or God. This belief in the physical world makes them think they know everything. In reality, they don't know shit about shit. Most learn eventually. Those that want undeniable proof get it when they die. Then there are those that choose to believe that there isn't a God so they can sleep better at night. There are the type of people that do things that they know would send them straight to hell if there actually was a God. So they deny his existence and just go on with their happy little lives. They get theirs in the end. I should probably state that Athiests shouldn't take my views as offensive. I'm old, cranky, and a bit emotionally unstable at the moment. To sum up how old.... I watched the spynx being built.... You do the math.

This topic is inspired to the song I'm listening to. But it got me to thinking... I am so fucking sick and tired of people leaving me without having the guts to tell me to my face that they don't like me anymore. They just stop talking to me and avoid me. And I am so fucking sick and tired of making a new friend and being terrified that they're going to leave me too. It causes me to try too hard and I've probably scared a few off. I've had my heart broken one too many times. I want people to like me so much that I haven't been able to eat for two days. And all of this has been brought on by pretty much every single friend I've ever had abondoning me! I can count on one hand the number of actual friends that have stayed by my side through it all. It's made me a paranoid wreck. But I've been thinking... Those fucking cowards aren't worth my caring. I'm a human being that's the most loyal friend that you can get if you actually get me to care about you. And at the very least I deserve some closure. Don't just fucking disappear on me. Don't make me sit by the phone with my stomach tied up in knots. I've cried so many tears over people that I thought were my friends.... I've just had it. Those assholes really aren't even worth it. So, this goes out to every cowardly asshole that just brushed me off. KISS MY LILLY WHITE ASS!!!! Sorry... .if I'm not good enough for you, well, your loss. *sighs* It feels good to get that out.

banned for being confused!

I'll go with that. Love is a strange and complicated thing. It's possible to love someone and have no idea why. They could drive you crazy most of the time, but you love them more than anything.

I said I'm not mean to overweight people. I just said that I don't understand it. I've had weight issues of my own. It doesn't happen overnight unless you're in some strange denial that I've never even heard of. And I'm not talking about the average person who puts on 20 extra pounds. I'm talking to the people who my boyfriend sees walking into the restaurant that can barely fit through the door. They order enough food for 6 people and then take it home and plop down in front of their TV to gulp it all down. There are people that the restaurant is not allowed to serve because of doctor's orders! How bad does it have to be to make your family get power of attourney over you and go to the local fast food restaurants with law enforcement showing your picture around. Then the person comes in and when you won't serve them, they break down in tears. How can someone need a burger that badly? I don't understand how when you can eat more food in one sitting than the average person eats in a week, that it doesn't dawn on you that there's something wrong with that picture. And I will say again, I don't put them down. It's just one of those enigma's that I don't get.

Yeah... I've been curled up in bed watching Harry Potter. It's sad that the movies differ so much from the books... Anyway, I think I'm just in one of those depression slumps. You know, when life just hardly seems worth living. And there isn't really a reason for it. Stress doesn't help either. My mom said it best when she said someone can take in the blink of an eye but you have to work your ass off to get it back. Well someone cleaned out my bank account in one day, and two weeks later I still don't have my money back. In fact, the bank is accusing me of lying to get out of paying for the stuff I bought!! It's bad when identity theft victims get kicked and treated like crap by the very people that are supposed to help them.

I invite you all to join my yahoo group 'Journey to Camelot'. It is an adult medieval fantasy role playing group. All types of original characters are allowed, including magical creatures. Right now we are in search of a Gueneviere. If you have any questions feel free to ask. http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/journeytocamelot/

Yeah, you've got a good point. The fact that people act like that is disgusting. I try not to judge people about weight. When I was younger, I was occasionally looked after by a woman that was about 500 lbs. She was a nice lady and I enjoyed spending time with her. But there's another side of it too. Really huge people do digust me a lot. I mean I'm nice to their face. I don't have it in me to be mean to a nice person that didn't do anything to piss me off. But good lord... after like 300 lbs, shouldn't they realize that there's a problem? I'm sorry if I sound mean, and I know I'm getting a bit off topic. But grossly overweight people who live off of fast food annoy me. I'm not perfect. I eat fast food on average of about once a week. But I also make it a point to also eat healthy things like fresh fruit and salads. And in nice whether my boyfriernd and I go for walks with the dogs. I just don't understand how a person can let themselves get so huge. And I really don't understand how a greaseball that McDonalds calls a burger could mean so much to someone that they'll break down in a tantrum when they can't get one. That's where my boyfriend works and he's seen it happen.