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Posted 13 years agoFish Tacos Can Only Be Fish Tacos
If fish tacos smell,
It means the fish isn't fresh.
You might want to wash your mouth
After eating your fish taco.
Tusen takk!
If fish tacos smell,
It means the fish isn't fresh.
You might want to wash your mouth
After eating your fish taco.
Tusen takk!
Update regarding Furocity
Posted 14 years agoDaemonshyai's post is here: (yes, this is from the REAL Daemonshyai, not the imposter)
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/2918238/
Tusen takk!
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/2918238/
Tusen takk!
good-bye
Posted 14 years agoI'm sorry that I have to leave. I had so many high hopes to make a difference here. Unfortunately, circumstances are forcing me to leave. I could deal with hostile admins, but the security issues force me to be realistic about everything.
I apologize to everyone. I did not want to leave. And I hate doing so. I had hoped I would be here for a long time, but that is not the case.
Please be at peace and write with the fire in your hearts and a million universes springing to life in your head.
Thank you, everyone.
Tusen takk!
PS: No, I am not killing myself. Merely removing myself from FA and returning home to Furocity.
I apologize to everyone. I did not want to leave. And I hate doing so. I had hoped I would be here for a long time, but that is not the case.
Please be at peace and write with the fire in your hearts and a million universes springing to life in your head.
Thank you, everyone.
Tusen takk!
PS: No, I am not killing myself. Merely removing myself from FA and returning home to Furocity.
just some humor before the East Coast is wiped into oblivion
Posted 14 years agoIgnorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use. ~Mark Twain
Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar. ~Robert Brault
There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. ~Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ~E.L. Doctorow
Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say. ~Sharon O'Brien
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. ~Isaac Asimov
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. ~Flannery O'Connor
Ink on paper is as beautiful to me as flowers on the mountains; God composes, why shouldn't we? ~Terri Guillemets
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. ~Lord Byron
Publication - is the auction of the Mind of Man. ~Emily Dickinson
And finally…
The road to hell is paved with adverbs. ~Stephen King
Tusen takk!
Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar. ~Robert Brault
There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. ~Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ~E.L. Doctorow
Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say. ~Sharon O'Brien
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. ~Isaac Asimov
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. ~Flannery O'Connor
Ink on paper is as beautiful to me as flowers on the mountains; God composes, why shouldn't we? ~Terri Guillemets
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. ~Lord Byron
Publication - is the auction of the Mind of Man. ~Emily Dickinson
And finally…
The road to hell is paved with adverbs. ~Stephen King
Tusen takk!
The AUP and writers
Posted 14 years agoThis was my response to a question from Poetigress regarding how the AUP would apply to writers:
Specifically, I was speaking of minors in adult situations. I'm sure other items will be found to add to that, thankfully, short list, but for now those are the ones we are keeping an eye out for.
In regards to minors, that is also where the focus of a story gets called to attention. Technically, the story I posted to my FA page contains a scene of a minor in an adult situation. However, that is not the focus of the story and nor was that scene written for anyone's pleasure. The event occurs to snap the main character into action. It is based, sadly, on real-life bad things which can happen to people (adults or children), and the intention behind the story was also to educate the audience and draw them into what it really may be like to go through that.
As writers, there is so much we can put into a story. Even the goriest or smuttiest book can be written without reprisal because, while the written word can evoke an incredible emotional response, images are much more in the audience's face. For instance, you can read an article about someone dying in a car accident and you are fine. However, if you drive past that same accident and see the yellow tarp over a body and a bloody, mangled arm sticking out, THAT will haunt you (to some extent) for a while.
Ratings for stories are tough. The story I wrote, if published as a full book, would not be marked as "mature" because (in my experience) only erotica is ever rated (or separated from other fiction) (and Manga, but again, that has a visual element). However, here on FA, we should follow the ratings rules just so no one can argue with us. For now, I would consider romantic sex (like you would find in a romance novel) in a story whose focus is NOT the sex as Mature if the sex is written out. Hinted-at sex (like a movie fading to black as the characters are kissing passionately) is fine for General. Erotica (stories about sex written for the sex) should be rated Adult. This is more for your protection so you don't get the parent who has found one of your romance stories, which contained a scene of a married couple having sex, on their child's computer all up in your hizzie for "allowing" their child to be exposed to your "porn".
If you post a story in chapters, you do not need to make the entire release Mature or Adult if the events which would create those ratings are only located in certain chapters. Feel free to rate each chapter individually. I encourage you to make it clear to your readers if any elements in your story may offend, starting off with language (swearing) and going right on up to violence, drug use, and sexual situations, much like the new ratings boxes you see on movies and TV shows nowadays. As a writer, I will say I find this aspect challenging because I don't like to give away specific events of a story but I do want to make sure I warn the reader ahead of time what they might be getting into. HOWEVER, let me also add that, if I find a story containing a BANNED subject, I will delete the entire story, not just that chapter.
If anyone has any questions about anything I've said in this post, please don't be afraid to discuss it with me, either here (in this thread) or through a PM on FA. If you want to know whether a story/chapter in your gallery should be rated differently, I would be more than happy to review the situation with you.
I am not here to wipe out everyone's galleries because I deem something inappropriate. Writing is such a flexible medium and contains many grey areas which just don't exist in other mediums. If you are willing to work with me, I am more than happy to work with you. Especially if you come to me before someone else creates a Trouble Ticket about your work.
Tusen takk!
Specifically, I was speaking of minors in adult situations. I'm sure other items will be found to add to that, thankfully, short list, but for now those are the ones we are keeping an eye out for.
In regards to minors, that is also where the focus of a story gets called to attention. Technically, the story I posted to my FA page contains a scene of a minor in an adult situation. However, that is not the focus of the story and nor was that scene written for anyone's pleasure. The event occurs to snap the main character into action. It is based, sadly, on real-life bad things which can happen to people (adults or children), and the intention behind the story was also to educate the audience and draw them into what it really may be like to go through that.
As writers, there is so much we can put into a story. Even the goriest or smuttiest book can be written without reprisal because, while the written word can evoke an incredible emotional response, images are much more in the audience's face. For instance, you can read an article about someone dying in a car accident and you are fine. However, if you drive past that same accident and see the yellow tarp over a body and a bloody, mangled arm sticking out, THAT will haunt you (to some extent) for a while.
Ratings for stories are tough. The story I wrote, if published as a full book, would not be marked as "mature" because (in my experience) only erotica is ever rated (or separated from other fiction) (and Manga, but again, that has a visual element). However, here on FA, we should follow the ratings rules just so no one can argue with us. For now, I would consider romantic sex (like you would find in a romance novel) in a story whose focus is NOT the sex as Mature if the sex is written out. Hinted-at sex (like a movie fading to black as the characters are kissing passionately) is fine for General. Erotica (stories about sex written for the sex) should be rated Adult. This is more for your protection so you don't get the parent who has found one of your romance stories, which contained a scene of a married couple having sex, on their child's computer all up in your hizzie for "allowing" their child to be exposed to your "porn".
If you post a story in chapters, you do not need to make the entire release Mature or Adult if the events which would create those ratings are only located in certain chapters. Feel free to rate each chapter individually. I encourage you to make it clear to your readers if any elements in your story may offend, starting off with language (swearing) and going right on up to violence, drug use, and sexual situations, much like the new ratings boxes you see on movies and TV shows nowadays. As a writer, I will say I find this aspect challenging because I don't like to give away specific events of a story but I do want to make sure I warn the reader ahead of time what they might be getting into. HOWEVER, let me also add that, if I find a story containing a BANNED subject, I will delete the entire story, not just that chapter.
If anyone has any questions about anything I've said in this post, please don't be afraid to discuss it with me, either here (in this thread) or through a PM on FA. If you want to know whether a story/chapter in your gallery should be rated differently, I would be more than happy to review the situation with you.
I am not here to wipe out everyone's galleries because I deem something inappropriate. Writing is such a flexible medium and contains many grey areas which just don't exist in other mediums. If you are willing to work with me, I am more than happy to work with you. Especially if you come to me before someone else creates a Trouble Ticket about your work.
Tusen takk!
Uploading soon
Posted 14 years agoI hope to have some of my fiction ready to post soon.
Tusen takk!
Tusen takk!
