englishwitch

Neither have i. i hear the one in florida is good despite the long lines but i'd stay away from the one in Paris, apparently the French don't like tourists in their park. I have never found out my blood type

Explore (explore the great unknown)

I have to admit, i was a pokemaniac. when pokemon swept the nation i became a big fan. never missed an episode. even after it stopped being cool i was still obsessed. I'm still a fan of pokemon, but i'm less obsessed than i used to be, i guess i've matured slightly though i can't imagine how. right now i'd say my faveorite Tv show is CSI. i also like CSI: NY but not CSI:Miami, i just don't like it. i love all the cool computer graphics, all the science facts and the mysteries of the case, i try and figure out who's done the crime before the team does but only managed it on one episode so far.

Yu-gi-oh is a terrible show. you're right, nothing but talk. then there the fact the main chracter yugi seems to change size just before he plays a match and no one seems to notice, seriously, not once is it mentioned. then of course just as the match is looking gruim the good guys say something like 'i'm not going to lose' then they draw the card that they use to win the match. They are on the verge of losing, how the fuck can they be so confident before they know what they've got? My brother loves it though so i've had to see this crap through from start to finish and if i don't watch it i hear about it whether i like it or not. now to most recent series doens't even contain Yugi, the main character after which the series is named: how the hell can they do that?!

I think we can leave it all there. i think we've found ourselves in agreement on common ground. debate over as far as i see.

I am the one and only Oh yeah! Call me, call me by my name Or call me by number, just put me through I'll still be doing it the way I do it And yet, you try to make me forget Who I really am, don't tell me, I'd know best I'm not the same as all the rest I am the one and only Nobody I'd rather be I am the one and only You can't take that away from me I've been a player in the crowd scene A flicker on the big screen My soul embraces one more in a million faces High hopes and aspirations Ideas above my station Maybe but all this time I've tried To walk with dignity and pride I am the one and only Nobody I'd rather be I am the one and only You can't take that away from me I can't wear this uniform without some compromises Because you'll find out that we come In different shapes and sizes No one can be myself like I can For this job I'm the best man And while this may be true You are the one and only you! (Sorry couldn't resist. enjoy the nostalgia)

i find myself in total agreement on this. when i first started writing i knew nothing of grammer and prose. but i learned. my first fic was rubbish compared to what i write now, but there was effort involved in writing it. thanks to the feedback i got from reviews from AFF members i knew exactly where to improve. but some people don't. they just keep writing terrible fic after terrible fic.

well thats a shame, a crying shame. thats all i can say on the matter really.

But you have to agree that there is a...how to describe it?...a group minimum standard that everyone who comes to this site expects and some of those fics fall far below it. if your not going to actually try, why do?

that first sip of beer, knowing there is a long workless weekend ahead.

Christopher Lee. (he played Dracula once)

Writing for me is both a hobby and something i want to try and make a carreer out of. i have a couple of works that i'm trying to get published at the moment and i keep working on new stuff all the time. After i've spent hours trying to write some of my novel, i relax by writing a little fanfic. Even though i do it i still find it weird that to relax from writing i do more writing. Really though i am trying to get into a childcare career. a playgroup assistant would be good for me, i have always enjoyed being around little kids and find i get on quite well with them. i have a lot of experience and am looking, applyed for several job, but heard nothing yet.

TRY SAYING: I'll certainly take note of that. INSTEAD OF: What the fuck do you know?

When we're feeling down there are always things that just cheer us up a little bit. some tiny little bit of happyness. it may be immature, it may be silly, it may even be naughty but we like them because they cheer us up. for me its daft stuff like: A slice of cheesecake from the local bakery. an ice coffee on a summer day a candyapple from the fair the first scissor cut into a new piece of construction paper.

such a shame. a real shame. if you're going to write a fic you should at least be prepared to put in effort, thats why is called work.

Neither have i, what red blooded male wouldn't want to though? I have never done anything about the grudges i hold.

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You do have a point, on some of the issues. I do think it's unfortunate that underage people find their way onto this site, even though i was one of them. I was sixteen at the time and, speaking for myself, no one was luring me along. a person of sixteen quite often goes on the internet for one thing and if they don't get it here it will be somewhere else. below that age though, when they're still impressionable; that i protest to. I never meant to imply that just because i waited two years to post made me better. Like you've mentioned some of the underage posters sound like their in their thirties, that's a quality and respect you can't buy. all i was trying to say was that while i was underage when i was a reader i wasn't when i became an author. freedom of speech, displaying your work and efforts on a website for others to read and review; those are things i like. part of the reason i wrote for AFF is because of the lack of taboo's here, allowing a mind and imagination to truely be open. what i mean't by the 'waste of memory' comment was fics by those who clearly have put no effort in at all. we've all read stuff like that i'm sure; it's half a page long and runs similar to this. The two main chracters looked at each otehr they said "i love you" they took off their clothes they had sex the end. Because it's those fics to me that say 'immature, underage writer.' because those kinds of crappy little fics that an immature mind would post because they think it was funny. those are the fics i protest to.

While they do say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery it does piss me off when i think someone is ripping off my work. While borrowing ideas from each other is fine in my book "hmm, Hermione ends up with breasts so large she can't walk, thats a good idea." but then you're supposed to rework the concept and retell it in a brand new way so that only the two authors would be able to spot whats happened. Your's had a potion, so mine will be a spell, you'rs was in an empty classroom, so mine will be in a bedroom, you'rs was an M/F pairing with Harry, so mine will be an F/F pairing with Cho. simple, quick, basic and done. the real changes come in the telling of the story because two authors have different styles of writing. i haven't run into anything like that yet on AFF but i have aon another site where some of my work is posted. I can understand that you are so fed up you want to jack it in. But don't. leave a few bad reviews, challange the authors by letting them know they've stolen your ideas and more importantly let the site moderators know whats going on. If the rip off of your work is obvious then they WILL do something about it. I wouldn't be able to give it up myself. writing is something that gets into you. Once you've channelled your creative juices down that road you ccan't pull them back. you might not write, but you'll catch yourself thinking of pairings and working on ideas even if you're determined not to do anything about them. i personally couldn't give it up neither fanfics nor my serious writing. i have tried and i have failed. sooner or later you will return to the keyboard and there will be no shame if you return to AFF as well. If you still you've got to leave, go ahead and try, sometimes only by trying will you learn. good luck to you whatever you decide.

That is fabulous and goes to show the true power that is still behind the written word. it just goes to show that if you raise a big enough fuss somthing will happen. I am a self atmitted underage reader. I found this site when i was 16 and began reading fics. but i had turned 18 when i posted my first fic. mostly because up until that point i'd never actually thought about writing for AFF. But after a couple of years of reading i was tired of running into the occasional fic and thinking 'thats crap, i can do better than that.' so i decided to put my money where my mouth is. while we can't stop an underage person reading the fics on the site, i think it is good that we try and make sure that underage peole don't post. More than anything its because their immaturity shines through on the text and makes for a pretty dull fic that is a waste of memory space.

I have, they conned me out of 10 euro's when i was on holdiay. it all ahappened so quick i didn't realise until they had gone. I have never done anal.

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