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Thread #6 - We are crazy talkers here! Join in the fun!

ADULT DISCUSSION HERE, SO TRY TO KEEP IT CLEAN! UM NO, WAIT! IF YOU ARE EASILY OFFENDED, LOOK AWAY NOW! 

This is the new thread as the other was sooo long and had lots of pages. Continuation of our wonderful discussions on Twilight Fanfiction, Books, and Life in general.  But mostly Twilight fanfics... and life stuff that will get me a NOT ALLOWED statement. 

Okay, here is a place to discuss what you are reading, ask for recommendations and complain about the writing.

Everyone is entitled to an opinion, so please play nice   

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You'd think with all the complaints about ff.net that they'd get the message that they have a problem.  Obviously not.  If they continue along this path, they'll be boycotted by a significant amount of at least Twilight fans and maybe a few more people will come back to Twilighted instead of fleeing to ff.net because its so great. One can dream.  A large percentage of the fic forums on Twilighted are all on fics that are on ff.net and not on Twilighted.   That always seemed a little unfair to me but then I'm prejudiced in the favor of Twilighted.   
 
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I know Sassy - its a little disconcerting.  I went from contributor to expert and I went "Huh?".    Isn't it a nice feeling knowing you belong.......
 
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there was a writer that posted about 40 stories in a 3 week period. Some writers discovered she was paraphrasing their stories and reported her. She stated she got the ideas from them but it was all her original work and refused to remove them and reported the authors for harassment.  FFnet suspended the author's account without checking it out. And the plagiarizer sent nasty pm's to anyone who said anything to her about copying stories. There was more.  So the harrasser continued to copy and harrass and the legit writers get punished.  It's been going on for almost 3 months and FFnet wouldn't remove the stories. Though they all disappeared today after a petition was sent to them. 

So they pull stories with no notice for having sex in them, but take three months to remove plagiarized stories. :P

Why am I not even slightly surprised? 

I recently reported someone for plagiarizing, I let the original author know through a PM since I know how nasty things can get on that site.  In that case, the story was gone very quickly, but I don't know who removed it.


 
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Why am I not even slightly surprised? 

I recently reported someone for plagiarizing, I let the original author know through a PM since I know how nasty things can get on that site.  In that case, the story was gone very quickly, but I don't know who removed it.
Actually, this whole thing kind of surprised me because usually FFnet is good about removing plagiarized stories. Maybe it's because they weren't exact replicas.  Since the original writer didn't write stuff I read -mostly True Blood - I wouldn't know.  But I do know that 40 multi-chapter stories going up in such a short time is very questionable. 

But they do allow the crazies now with anonymous reviews. But then,  I am never sure how bad these reviews are because I hear authors complain and delete before they can be seen.

On another subject, my phone updated today and suddenly singular I's are not being automatically capitalized. Grrrr. 
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You'd think with all the complaints about ff.net that they'd get the message that they have a problem.  Obviously not.  If they continue along this path, they'll be boycotted by a significant amount of at least Twilight fans and maybe a few more people will come back to Twilighted instead of fleeing to ff.net because its so great. One can dream.  A large percentage of the fic forums on Twilighted are all on fics that are on ff.net and not on Twilighted.   That always seemed a little unfair to me but then I'm prejudiced in the favor of Twilighted.   

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Why am I not even slightly surprised? 

I recently reported someone for plagiarizing, I let the original author know through a PM since I know how nasty things can get on that site.  In that case, the story was gone very quickly, but I don't know who removed it.




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Actually, this whole thing kind of surprised me because usually FFnet is good about removing plagiarized stories. Maybe it's because they weren't exact replicas.  Since the original writer didn't write stuff I read -mostly True Blood - I wouldn't know.  But I do know that 40 multi-chapter stories going up in such a short time is very questionable. 

But they do allow the crazies now with anonymous reviews. But then,  I am never sure how bad these reviews are because I hear authors complain and delete before they can be seen.

On another subject, my phone updated today and suddenly singular I's are not being automatically capitalized. Grrrr. 


This is completely unreal! Personally I favor TWCS over FFnet. I don't know who is in charge over there at FFnet but they clearly need a reality check! I try to stay away from FFnet, but I have to admit that it is hard because there are some stories on there that aren't anywhere else.
 
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This is completely unreal! Personally I favor TWCS over FFnet. I don't know who is in charge over there at FFnet but they clearly need a reality check! I try to stay away from FFnet, but I have to admit that it is hard because there are some stories on there that aren't anywhere else.

I've decided I prefer AO3 over them all. It seems most of the Teen Wolf people post there, they have different themes, and I can DL right to my tablet when it's a longer story and I want to be able to make the font bigger without distorting the page. Plus, I love their sorting options and tags. Plus, if they pull for content, I've never heard about it, and I've seen some FREAKY stuff on there!

Does anyone know of anything bad about AO3 I might should know?
 
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I've decided I prefer AO3 over them all. It seems most of the Teen Wolf people post there, they have different themes, and I can DL right to my tablet when it's a longer story and I want to be able to make the font bigger without distorting the page. Plus, I love their sorting options and tags. Plus, if they pull for content, I've never heard about it, and I've seen some FREAKY stuff on there!

Does anyone know of anything bad about AO3 I might should know?
The only bad thing i ever heard about AO3 was that they weren't allowing authors on fast enough. There were some issues with the filters not working but I think they fixed that. Also, because it was so hard to join, you couldn't sign up to get notifications.  All little things I believe they fixed. ;)
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The only bad thing i ever heard about AO3 was that they weren't allowing authors on fast enough. There were some issues with the filters not working but I think they fixed that. Also, because it was so hard to join, you couldn't sign up to get notifications.  All little things I believe they fixed. ;)

Did they fix that? Because I remember 'joining' ages ago and I never heard squat back, no verification email, no alerts,  nada! I've not gone on the site in ages that I doubt I can even remember my login details....
 
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I've never heard of AO3. I don't like Twilighted very much because it wants me to log in every time I click a link. :( I do like TWCS. I like the women who started it and wish they would finish their stories. Lol. I know they are busy. I must be honest though, I spend most time one here because there is alway a finished older fic I may have missed. I also feel that there aren't too many great fics that are wip, I haven't had one that made me hold my breath when I see the update email in a long time. :(
 
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Did they fix that? Because I remember 'joining' ages ago and I never heard squat back, no verification email, no alerts,  nada! I've not gone on the site in ages that I doubt I can even remember my login details....
Well, i just got an alert this morning from Nolbucgrl's story on FFnet, Fictionpad, and AO3. All worked. FFnet was the only one that took me right to the new chapter though.  The other two took me to the story page and I had to figure out how to get to the newest chapter.  I also haven't figured out the review system on the other two. And I like to review updates when I can.  ;)
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I've never heard of AO3. I don't like Twilighted very much because it wants me to log in every time I click a link. :( I do like TWCS. I like the women who started it and wish they would finish their stories. Lol. I know they are busy. I must be honest though, I spend most time one here because there is alway a finished older fic I may have missed. I also feel that there aren't too many great fics that are wip, I haven't had one that made me hold my breath when I see the update email in a long time. :(
AO3 is Archive Of Our Own. It was created during one of the large FFnet purges.  At least that is how I remember it.  A number of pulled stories ended up over there.  They have an age appropriate warning system so any rating goes. You can also download from their site.  It is not a bad site. They just had a lot of growing pains that made it hard to navigate at first. 

I have the same issues with Twilighted.  I tell it to keep me logged in but every time I go there I have to relog in. Which is a pain if I am clicking a link to a story because after logging in, does it take me back to that story?  No, of course not. It takes me to my account.  Then I have to go back to the place where the link was and click again. So annoying.   :P >:(  >:( >:(

LOL!  Yeah it must annoy me somewhat.  ;)
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Oh and you don't have to be a member to read or download on AO3. But you do to get notifications.  ;)
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I am  more than a little bit excited about this:
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Just saw that Robb from Game of Thrones is playing Prince Charming!
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I just finished reading Power Play by Carano. AWESOME STORY!! That's one off the the TBR list.
 
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Hello my lovelies, not been on for a few days as finally moved back into our place, it's official moving sucks.

But I did manage to read a whole book in one sitting (what a shocker!!): You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login by Emily Minton, I definitely wouldn't recommend it though as it's an alright read but it's so predictable and annoying, but I randomly gave it 3*. ^-^ :P :P
Will I read the next book in the series? Yeah, I will.  ???

Just started The Fall Away series by Penelope Douglas, I'm only on chapter 8 of Bully and I'm not too impressed by it so far.
It's another predictable read so far I reckon the reason behind the bullying is because of
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if this is the case I will eat my hat.  >:( >:( :D :D
Has anyone read this series, if you have please tell me it gets better.  ;D ;D

I finally read the final chapter of Wisp, it was definitely bitter sweet as I didn't want it to end but glad it did. I thought the ending was kinda perfect for it. I bit like Dusty, if it ended any other way it would of just been wrong.  :)
 
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I read Knight and liked it ok, but wasn't crazy about it.   Isn't that the one where she calls him "daddy"? LOL

Demaris, have you read any of Kristen Ashley's Fantasyland series?  You watched Game of Thrones, right?  If so and you liked the Khal Drogo storyline you REALLY need to read the Golden Dynasty (book 2 of the Fantasyland series).
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login   It is straight up Game of Thrones fan fiction! ;-)      I liked GD, but my favorite so far from the series was #1, Wildest Dreams.   I thought the book was a great escape!  Her writing style takes a bit to get used to with all the clothing descriptions etc, but I can look over that stuff since these stories are so much fun to read.

No. Thank. You.  I'm not reading any more of her stories after the Unfinished Hero series. I don't really like her writing, I HATED Rock Chick, seriously gave me a head-ache, I remember she described every article of clothes down to the stitches in their socks in that one and she does the same in Unfinished, including the colour of their pedicured nails! Her witticisms aren't witty and if I read the phrase 'bottom of my soul" once more it'll be time for a new lappy.. >:( What she does very well is sex scene but again, as we all know, after a while lemons get....well, boring, without something else to cement the story together.

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I've always heard the MI series takes quite a bit from her Draco Dormiens series, and that Jace was essentially her version of Draco. I've never read either one, because of all the stuff about Clare AND I prefer my fics to have a Harry/Draco romance, and I believe they are just friends in the fic.  The movie kinda sucked though, from what I watched of it. From what I hear, the movie left out too much, and that a person who hadn't read the books might be a bit lost.


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I'm going to admit that I didn't understand a bloody word of that Journalfen post... :o  Was that English?!


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Well, i just got an alert this morning from Nolbucgrl's story on FFnet, Fictionpad, and AO3. All worked.

Interesting, I've never, ever got one...FFNet, Fictionpad, yes; AO3 nope. Maybe verification went into my junk mail and so I didn't reply and got bumped off.  ;D

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Just started The Fall Away series by Penelope Douglas, I'm only on chapter 8 of Bully and I'm not too impressed by it so far.
It's another predictable read so far I reckon the reason behind the bullying is because of
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if this is the case I will eat my hat.  >:( >:( :D :D
Has anyone read this series, if you have please tell me it gets better.  ;D ;D

I finally read the final chapter of Wisp, it was definitely bitter sweet as I didn't want it to end but glad it did. I thought the ending was kinda perfect for it. I bit like Dusty, if it ended any other way it would of just been wrong.  :)
I read Bully and didn't like it but most of my reading buddies did.   I thought it was just blah with a few nice moments thrown in there.

The description of Wisp has not pulled me in at all!   Is this one everybody is saying is a must read?

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No. Thank. You.  I'm not reading any more of her stories after the Unfinished Hero series. I don't really like her writing, I HATED Rock Chick, seriously gave me a head-ache, I remember she described every article of clothes down to the stitches in their socks in that one and she does the same in Unfinished, including the colour of their pedicured nails! Her witticisms aren't witty and if I read the phrase 'bottom of my soul" once more it'll be time for a new lappy.. >:( What she does very well is sex scene but again, as we all know, after a while lemons get....well, boring, without something else to cement the story together.
I didn't like Rock Chick either...  And just thought Knight was OK.   (those are not my preferred genre) I felt like her fantasyland series was just so much better.   Did I read something about her getting picked up by a different publisher or something and then cutting out a lot of her excess descriptions or did I make that up in my head?
 
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I don't know why everyone is having such a hard time logging on to Twilighted.  Maybe it depends on how often you go there?  I usually get right in.   Every now and then (and I really need to write down the dates when it happens) I go in and need to login and I don't know if that is part of the program?   All you have to do Ella when you log in and it takes you to your account, just hit categories again.  The first couple of times it happened I kept thinking I had to do something with my account and and then I figured out that if I just hit categories, everything would be fine.   Log in and then to keep the automatic login going, try going in once a week and see if it keeps you on (or a couple of times a week) and see if you can beat the system that way.   I know you don't do the forums - I get in there most of the time there too but every now and then it won't let me in unless I log in (which leads me to believe its in the programming) and then it takes you back to where you wanted to be.
 
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Well, i just got an alert this morning from Nolbucgrl's story on FFnet, Fictionpad, and AO3. All worked. FFnet was the only one that took me right to the new chapter though.  The other two took me to the story page and I had to figure out how to get to the newest chapter.  I also haven't figured out the review system on the other two. And I like to review updates when I can.  ;)
Sooo many forums! I can't keep up! LOL I tend to go where I'm told to
Otherwise its a bit overwhelming. One of my reader buddies uses A Different Forest, but to me the site set up is confusing
 
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I read Bully and didn't like it but most of my reading buddies did.   I thought it was just blah with a few nice moments thrown in there.

The description of Wisp has not pulled me in at all!   Is this one everybody is saying is a must read?

I didn't like Rock Chick either...  And just thought Knight was OK.   (those are not my preferred genre) I felt like her fantasyland series was just so much better.   Did I read something about her getting picked up by a different publisher or something and then cutting out a lot of her excess descriptions or did I make that up in my head?
Glad I'm not on my own with Bully as I know some of the girls on PTS have read it and the loved it and loads of the reviews are 5*.
Also loads of the reviews I've read say it's angsty, I suffered through more angst while eating a bowl of cereal than reading this so far.  :D :D

Wisp is definitely a must read, I think the only problem is that if people read it now while it's complete some  people might think it's a bit boring in places as not a lot happens in some of the chapters, but it is a brilliant read none the less.  :)

I know that KA was picked up by a different publisher so you're probably right about the excessive descriptions.

I liked RC but kinda started to pull my hair out after about the 3rd one as they got a bit repeaty, though I do love Lee. :P :P
I think we all know on here that I FLOVE knight, but that's only cos of Knight and the whole "Daddy" thing.  ^-^ ^-^
Deacon was alright but definitely not worth all the 5* reviews I saw.  :(
 

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