Devinter
The Dreamweaver
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- Jul 18, 2023
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Over the past month or two, many discussions have been had on these forums about which categories are the most icky, which word combinations gives people the creeps, which writer's clutches and habits that drive you insane, and many other unpleasantries.
I have trawled through these threads and gathered all of the worst stuff and put them into one short story! Category? Non-Consent, because I think it's the least popular. Power dynamic? Man gets taken advantage of, because I think that irks more people. And so on, and so forth.
Now, if I've written a story - as a joke, of course - to essentially gather the worst of the Author's Hangout, then how do I convince you to actually read it? When it's full of things that makes you instantly put a story aside?
Simple - I put YOU in the story! Yes, you. Specifically you! Over 100 of you! If you've been active on the Author's Hangout in the past month, and I could somehow figure out a way to include something of yours in the text - be it related to your username, avatar, something you've said or is known for having written, something in your signature, or something in your forum title, you're in there! This with the hope of enticing your curiosity enough to get through the text despite all else!
Now, I need to make an important disclaimer; none of the characters in the story are based on any of you. Not even if they may share a name with one of you. Yes, I chose that name because of you - but the character's personality is in no way meant to represent you. Nor is this meant to mock anyone. Quite the opposite. It's an homage to how awesome you all are, and how warmly I've been welcomed here for the past six months.
So now you must make a choice. Do you read the story, despite knowing it's full of unpleasantries? (And a fair amount of gibberish; some of you have very difficult usernames and such to work with and I had to get extremely creative, because I wanted to keep the story short at less than 3k words!) - or do you pass, and never know if you're in there or not? (You probably are.) And how many other references to the site, competitions, popular threads and other such matters can you find? Some are extremely obvious, others so subtle they more or less only exist in my mind, and no one will likely catch them. Haha. But they were influencing the writing process regardless, and that's the important that. (For example, @RejectReality 's username was the starting point for the entire plot, and that's not something you could easily deduce.)
Make your choice. Love you all. I present to you; Girl Cum
I have trawled through these threads and gathered all of the worst stuff and put them into one short story! Category? Non-Consent, because I think it's the least popular. Power dynamic? Man gets taken advantage of, because I think that irks more people. And so on, and so forth.
Now, if I've written a story - as a joke, of course - to essentially gather the worst of the Author's Hangout, then how do I convince you to actually read it? When it's full of things that makes you instantly put a story aside?
Simple - I put YOU in the story! Yes, you. Specifically you! Over 100 of you! If you've been active on the Author's Hangout in the past month, and I could somehow figure out a way to include something of yours in the text - be it related to your username, avatar, something you've said or is known for having written, something in your signature, or something in your forum title, you're in there! This with the hope of enticing your curiosity enough to get through the text despite all else!
Now, I need to make an important disclaimer; none of the characters in the story are based on any of you. Not even if they may share a name with one of you. Yes, I chose that name because of you - but the character's personality is in no way meant to represent you. Nor is this meant to mock anyone. Quite the opposite. It's an homage to how awesome you all are, and how warmly I've been welcomed here for the past six months.
So now you must make a choice. Do you read the story, despite knowing it's full of unpleasantries? (And a fair amount of gibberish; some of you have very difficult usernames and such to work with and I had to get extremely creative, because I wanted to keep the story short at less than 3k words!) - or do you pass, and never know if you're in there or not? (You probably are.) And how many other references to the site, competitions, popular threads and other such matters can you find? Some are extremely obvious, others so subtle they more or less only exist in my mind, and no one will likely catch them. Haha. But they were influencing the writing process regardless, and that's the important that. (For example, @RejectReality 's username was the starting point for the entire plot, and that's not something you could easily deduce.)
Make your choice. Love you all. I present to you; Girl Cum
so funny! Thank you!
Wonder how many others you'll catch.
And I've got two half-baked Valentine's stories in the oven. At least one of them should be ready by the 12th!
