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  Welp. Short story: It all got nuked.

  There was a DDOS attack and the server died, fled to Majorca, got dragged back by mercenaries, held hostage and finally brought back to life when I tracked down all seven Dragon Balls.

  The truth is, we've owned the URL five-ever and a Tumblr Shenanigans Thing (tm) brought it back from the dead before I discovered that Steemit was a thing. So now it's more or less a blogspot-slash-hub with a forum attached.

  The menu on the main page leads to literally every pie I have my fingers in, and it's a LOT of juggling, I can tell you.

  I have some of my ficcage up on AO3 now. Some has been irrevocably toasted and I'm going through all of my folders and figuring out what I can shove where [no rude suggestions!] but progress is slow because focussing on Novel and Instants.

  Feel free to put up your own fics here if you like. The Fanficcery forum can be adjusted. Just as soon as I remember how to do so.

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  • InterNutter

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  Yes! That counts. I'll be using that link for you in future.

  As for the prompts, I routinely erase all traces of past prompts I have used. Before I imported my Tumblr feed to here, though, I used to get prompts via my Tumblr inbox. And, on the rare occasions that I actually run OUT of prompts, there's a few writing prompt tumblrs I follow just to get some to hold me over.

  All prompted stories are labelled, "Challenge #SERIALNUMBER:" so people can keep them straight.

  All others are based entirely on shits and/or giggles.

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  Replying to Gallifreya's linguistics prompt:
  • RecklessPrudence

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  "Why not Both?"
  Can do, small Mexican girl!

  So the version I've seen is the same as that one, but with one additional post:

  "It’s not even consistent; it varies wildly by geographical region, ancestry and personal history of the individual, which, like, how is a poor anthropologist meant to know that sort of detail? How do humans divine this sort of thing upon meeting new members of their species? Do they have some sort of associative telepathy? No? Argh!"

  And I will post this as a prompt after the story for your prompt appears, so I know which number to use as reference.

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  Replying to prompts
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  Yes, I know you want to have a discussion. That's what this part of the board is good for.

  However, if you have a discussion in a prompt thread, you make that thread newer than any of the others. And since I work from oldest to newest prompts, you're making the prompt you apparently love take longer to become a story.

  So please have discussions over here. Thank.

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  Well crap
  • InterNutter

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  I just learned something about the way this forum works.

  If you reply to a thread, the entire thread becomes new. Which kind'a mucks up my procedure for prompts, because I work from oldest to newest.

  Thank the Powers that we have yet to have any members attempting to 'bump' a prompt threat owing to impatience. That's going to be a zen yoga lesson for them when they do arrive.

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  To add to that free games post:
  free games interactive fiction • • RecklessPrudence

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  Oh, and Frog Fractions. Starts out like an insipid edutainment game. Give it time. Seriously, it won 'best game' awards left right and centre for being not what it seems.

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  An old post on the tumblr - better creative writing software than Microsoft Word.
  • RecklessPrudence

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  I both concur with and endorse the opinions in that blog entry.

  Though my objections are more end-user oriented. Like - the autosave doesn't always, or its alarming habit of crashing JUST when you're in the flow so you enter a whole bunch of random commands before you wake up and realise that your document isn't there any more. OR the ever-reliable BSOD...

  When/if I finally get a nice enough lappy [I may have to settle for a cruddy Windoze micro-lappy] I will probably use Google Docs for all my travelling fic needs. Maybe Novl'r for my pro WIPs.

  Clouds are nice and don't often crash. And they have the benefit of an autosave that DOES.

  I haven't played with Scrivener because broke.

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  Teething issues with the forum.
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  Ah, okay - I thought I could choose something other than Gravatar, not that I had to change my Gravatar. Comprehension fail.

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  Welcome to your NodeBB!
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