The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 09

[cw5523729]

@RRRyan oh and also heads up: The first X comments you make on stories with your account have to wait for approval too. This includes commenting on your own stories.

I have no idea what number X is, I haven't hit it yet, and people seem to have experienced anything between 10 and 100.

I'm not sure that's true. The # of comments I've made could be counted on both hands with fingers to spare and yet my comments always show up immediately. I didn't even realize that approval thing WAS a thing until someone on here commented about it. The only thing I can assume is that maybe it has to due with account age? Even though I've only really posted in the past few months, my account is technically from 2018.

 

[TheLobster]

New to the site, put my first story in the queue the other day, it will go live sometime tomorrow. I write mostly incest tales.

Welcome! You picked your debut category wisely.

 

[RRRyan]

Welcome! You picked your debut category wisely.

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Well, it's what I do best.

 

[Z_TheWriter]

I'm not sure that's true. The # of comments I've made could be counted on both hands with fingers to spare and yet my comments always show up immediately. I didn't even realize that approval thing WAS a thing until someone on here commented about it. The only thing I can assume is that maybe it has to due with account age? Even though I've only really posted in the past few months, my account is technically from 2018.

I'm just parroting stuff other people said. Maybe it's both?

 

[Z_TheWriter]

X is always 69

That or 42

 

[TheRedLantern]

That or 42

We probably ran with different crowds in college

 

[cw5523729]

I'm just parroting stuff other people said. Maybe it's both?

Beats the hell out of me.

 

[Z_TheWriter]

We probably ran with different crowds in college

What? You didn't mostly hang with the theater kids doing variety shows across most of the science faculty majors? I'm shocked.

 

[NotWise]

The replacement battery for my lost-and-found laptop came today. Replacing the old batter took a tiny phillips screwdriver and a few minutes. It's charging now. I'm supposed to put it through several complete charge/discharge cycles.

Oh. Experience suggests that x=exp(-iθ).

 

[ColtonWrites]

Assuming everything continues to improve, I get to go home tomorrow!

Which is good but I'm also scared.

Im also worried about how much all of this hospital stuff is going to cost.

 

[NotWise]

Assuming everything continues to improve, I get to go home tomorrow!

Which is good but I'm also scared.

Im also worried about how much all of this hospital stuff is going to cost.

Those can add up, but I imagine you know that.

 

[ColtonWrites]

Assuming everything continues to improve, I get to go home tomorrow!

Which is good but I'm also scared.

Im also worried about how much all of this hospital stuff is going to cost.

Everyone send me good vibes. They just drew the labs that will decide if I get to go home today.

And oh my GOD do I want to go home. The staff is doing their best but being in the hospital sucks.

 

[Z_TheWriter]

Everyone send me good vibes. They just drew the labs that will decide if I get to go home today.

And oh my GOD do I want to go home. The staff is doing their best but being in the hospital sucks.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Even though I've only really posted in the past few months, my account is technically from 2018.

That's probably why you got past Go quickly. The site thinks you've been here for a while, whereas in fact you've been a lurker .

 

[sirhugs]

Assuming everything continues to improve, I get to go home tomorrow!

Which is good but I'm also scared.

Im also worried about how much all of this hospital stuff is going to cost.

The upside of the Canadian medical system... I get to consune huge resources at no direct cost.

 

[cw5523729]

That's probably why you got past Go quickly. The site thinks you've been here for a while, whereas in fact you've been a lurker .

I like to think of myself as more of a creepy uncle that shows up on holidays rather than just a lurker. Oh look! I found a quarter behind your ear!

on a serious note: maybe that's exactly it? I did make a few random posts in the forum back in 2018 and I published some stories at the same time, so it isn't like my account was unused and I doubt I ever commented on anyone's stories back at that time so I never would have known about the approval process. And, frankly, don't know that I would have noticed if my comment didn't appear even if I had commented.

 

[iwatchus]

I'm not sure that's true. The # of comments I've made could be counted on both hands with fingers to spare and yet my comments always show up immediately. I didn't even realize that approval thing WAS a thing until someone on here commented about it. The only thing I can assume is that maybe it has to due with account age? Even though I've only really posted in the past few months, my account is technically from 2018.

I created my account (and what it shows) in 2015, when I first toyed with the idea of writing here. And I did use the account as a reader, starting to record favorites, etc. I'm pretty sure I had not commented at all until I realized how much I appreciated it on my stories when I started writing earlier this year. I appeared to have crossed the magic line a few days ago, when I commented on one of StillStunned's stories. A bit below 100 for me. I only say positive things in comments. If I have more critical feedback, I will send ii in a DM. I'm a big believer (both as a teacher and a manager) in praise in public, criticize in private.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

Got some unexpected snow overnight and we have a light coating to contrast against the dreary gray sky. We're supposed to get 2 to 4 inched tonight and another inch or two on Saturday. This is definitely the coldest and snowiest Nov/Dec we've had since I moved here 27 years ago.

There's hot coffee brewing and the teapot is boiling. Hot chocolate is on the back burner and the Jameson is in the cupboard next to the 'fridge. There are donuts and muffins on the counter. There are more presents under the tree. I see one for @iwatchus that I'd take it outside before opening it.

I'll be over in the corner working on my new story. I don't have a deadline so I can take my time to get it done. Ahhhh ...

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

My mind is crap, really bad crap. It no longer works well. Among other things it has me in an extended 'dream' day and night about moving, something I have no intention of ever doing.

But it's to the extent of looking up tax maps to see who owns property and pricing of sectional homes and rather extensive plans of how I would lay it all own including landscaping. Then it morphs into what utilities and taxes would cost compared to where I am now.

I think it all started back when I dealt with home insurance on this place and what I might get for a total loss. I got into thinking about going back to a city type setting instead of so far out of town.

It won't happen.

It can't happen.

Unless this place gets wiped out.

 

[RoperTrace]

Everyone send me good vibes. They just drew the labs that will decide if I get to go home today.

And oh my GOD do I want to go home. The staff is doing their best but being in the hospital sucks.

Only positive thoughts from me, Colton. Time to go home.

 

[RRRyan]

My first story is live, Reflections of Desire

 

[ColtonWrites]

I am going home!

Oh my GOD do I want to go home.
I still feel sick but I can be miserable in my own bed.

 

[MiaBabe23]

Everyone send me good vibes. They just drew the labs that will decide if I get to go home today.

And oh my GOD do I want to go home. The staff is doing their best but being in the hospital sucks.

Healthy thoughts and good vibes!

 

[sirhugs]

Everyone send me good vibes. They just drew the labs that will decide if I get to go home today.

And oh my GOD do I want to go home. The staff is doing their best but being in the hospital sucks.

good vibes from one who knows what you are going through, sort of, not exactly, but close enough I think.

 

[TheRedLantern]

Looks like the sixth time might be the charm for me. I got something that felt like just about the right distance from the characters, close enough that it's working with the narrative but not so close that the protagonist can't keep a few cards hidden. The sequence I'd been working on was two scenes, one of which was a sex scene.

This sixth draft worked well enough that it can continue and it feels like it's on stable ground in terms of the tense and POV.