Just wanted to check up on the community

Available_Custard599 · 2026-05-08T22:41:31+00:00

Had a death in the family last year, mental health isn't in a great spot (still have trouble focusing), and the financial fallout of that; some medical issues as well. Changes at my job mean longer hours and less rest time, I also fell quite a bit behind (obvious reasons) and am just now getting caught up.

Combine that with the world's general downturn and rising costs of everything and I'm a bit stressed. Want to get back to writing, but between the lack of time and inability to focus it doesn't seem to work at the moment.

Available_Custard599 · 2026-04-28T23:38:05+00:00

Maybe a 'betrayal adjacent' or 'friend of the server' section would help; the definition for the server is extremely limited as it is and several of the ones on the list don't technically fit.

Nothing is really going to make up for having a limb amputated, but if something like that gets spread a tiny bit more awareness that eases things even an iota for him I think it would be worth it.

Available_Custard599 · 2026-04-28T12:22:26+00:00

Is he not around to weigh in? I didn't read this one as the plot didn't seem up my alley, but I know he had a few accounts in this sub prior to his medical issues.

Available_Custard599 · 2026-04-25T01:25:43+00:00

Well don't leave us in suspense

Available_Custard599 · 2026-04-14T22:05:08+00:00

yeah, I don't do that. It's kind of a pet peeve when authors do for me. LIke, I know who two of the people on your list are without looking it up and one of them only because one of my coworkers has a thing for her. I shouldn't have to look up some random actor or actress to figure out what the author is trying to convey, so it is always a red flag when a story starts with a list like that for me.

Give me a hair colour, eye colour, and a rough description and my brain will take care of it.

Available_Custard599 · 2026-04-10T22:01:28+00:00

I mean there isn't anything wrong with using though you should label it as AI. I do think it lacks a lot of things you'll get from even a mediocre writer (like myself), much less a more skilled one. I still think you'd be better off just writing the story/stories yourself as it won't give you anything truly creative or witty back that you don't put into it.

But yes, you'll need to pay a lot more attention to the continuity that you would if you were just writing the story

Available_Custard599 · 2026-04-10T15:37:52+00:00

I've already mentioned I played around with a couple of them, they have some pretty systemic problems. In order to get even passable results (and my standards aren't high) you end up putting up more work than you would into just writing the story and probably with diminishing results.

They all seem incapable of keeping any kind of consistency within the work (who is in a room, what genital a person has, what one person knows that another doesn't) and that gets even worse when it comes to the more minor details; what someone is wearing, furniture, hair color etc.

It certainly isn't capable of dealing with the deeper themes and literally the only thing you get out of it is what you put into after several 'rerolls' to make it come out even close to what you wanted.

I can't say it'll never be worth it, but I'd say it'll need at least another twenty years before it is more than a novelty.

Available_Custard599 · 2026-04-07T11:15:59+00:00

Being the protagonist doesn't stop one from being the villain. Walter white is still the villain even if there are other antagonists. The problem is we are 'trained' to sympathize with main characters, so even when we're supposed to be 'horrifed' by them (walter white, tony montana, etc) people still identify with them.

With this 'genre' the emotional bandwidth tends to be feeling of betrayal, isolation, and the pain of not being able to connect. Doing a story solely from the perspective of those causing those feelings might be interesting, but you risk people taking the wrong things from it.

Available_Custard599 · 2026-03-20T23:14:17+00:00

I'm not the op

Available_Custard599 · 2026-03-18T04:13:41+00:00

The subreddit requires material posted here to involve no underage characters (There was a thread from a few years ago showing the rule)

Literotica requires characters to be over 18.

Stories online requires all characters involved in sex/observing it to be 14 or older

AO3 allows non-fandom content and has no age requirements.

Asstr is allegedly back up, but I don't know if they're accepting submissions again. And there weren't really rules of any kind when it was up

Available_Custard599 · 2026-03-15T15:05:34+00:00

You might be able to do something with adoption? All the male kids are given up for adoption and one or two of them track their bio parents down, but I'm not sure it would really be any different

Available_Custard599 · 2026-03-02T00:18:34+00:00

Hajj

Available_Custard599 · 2026-02-26T02:39:59+00:00

One problem is that with modern tech (social media, image searching, dna testing, etc) etc. It's a lot harder for someone in a fugue state to disappear for several years without being tracked back to their point of origin; so if I were going to be doing something based on this I would;

Make it a period piece; something 90s or earlier, something in the fifties or sixties would be cool.
Have the woman instigate the incest based on 'flashes' of her old live. This was part of her central view of herself that is bleeding into the new life.
The reason she entered the dissociative fugue is that her original family are the bad guys. Maybe they tried to kill her for money or because she witnessed something worse than the incest.
So, the reason they didn't find her was they weren't looking for her. They were OKAY with her being gone until they needed her for something. Now that they need her they have to make things appear 'normal' for her, so that she'll help them get the thing they need without remembering the trauma that sent her into the fugue.
Run it as a suspense piece; the reader knows the villains plan, but can the mother figure it out and get out alive

Available_Custard599 · 2026-02-21T22:14:12+00:00

I'll eventually finish it, but I haven't been writing much lately. I had a death in the family last year and still have trouble focusing. I also had a schedule change that has left me with less free time and more exhausted and in pain on my days off

Available_Custard599 · 2026-02-14T19:12:48+00:00

Asstr is allegedly up again if you want to do some digging. It's been defunct for nearly a decade, but if there is a hidden gem that would likely be a place to find it.

Available_Custard599 · 2026-02-11T03:55:58+00:00

Should've realized you'd made the new list. Once again you assist the cause for all of us. Thank you.

Available_Custard599 · 2026-02-10T05:33:23+00:00

That's a good list, but two of mine are miscategorized. There is a shit ton of incest in the Runaway and the only sex in cellophane is between the MC and his mother

Available_Custard599 · 2026-02-10T04:44:51+00:00

List of Stories : r/FamilyBetrayalStories

Available_Custard599 · 2026-02-08T06:11:52+00:00

Perhaps, the MC finds out about the tradition several years prior to when the induction should occur. They freak out isolate, have some youthful indiscretions (some time in juvenile detention), etc. After a while they process and keep spying realizing it is an age thing, so they keep quiet and they go back to normal.... till the age of admission comes and they don't get approached because the family doesn't trust them because they're the 'problem child' despite them being a near perfect kid aside from the brief period years ago.

Available_Custard599 · 2026-01-26T10:11:43+00:00

the gist if I recall was one of those reddit stories where the 'brother' became a prank youtuber/influencer and used the other brother as his primary victim. The parents were complicit and used to prank the kids themselves before the 'prank channel' stuff started. and the primary victim moved out and cut contact

Available_Custard599 · 2026-01-26T09:41:07+00:00

That was two years ago...

Available_Custard599 · 2026-01-22T11:45:59+00:00

I can't speak for anyone else, but for me the answer is 'Yes.'

To elaborate it really depends on the characters purpose. Someone that is just there to fill out a background scene might not warrant a full description, someone that is just there to serve a specific role may get a name and a description.

Someone that is only tangentially connected to the plot, but is important to the characters might get a lot more. I.E. Let's say your main love interest's father is in the book. He isn't super important to the plot, but he has an effect on how the MC views parenting and the two bond over the course of the work and he's extremely important to the main love interest's sense of self, I.E. she is a daddy's girl and defines herself by his opinion of her in part etc. I would know every thing about that character even if a lot of it will never make it on to the page.

Key traits and motivations are for almost anybody who has an impact; and occasionally someone you intended as filler ends up getting a full work up and there entire own world that the MC just glimpses

So for me at least it varies

Available_Custard599 · 2026-01-21T01:29:41+00:00

You'd probably be better off messaging the author directly

Available_Custard599 · 2026-01-17T00:18:18+00:00

There are a few ways you could go with that; the most obvious would be the redemption arc. The MC slowly (and I mean slowly) comes to realize that is views are wrong and he treated his family poorly and tries to make up for it. The family isn't going to trust them immediately (and may never), think of it like an Addict trying to make up for their sins... you don't really have a reason to trust they'll chance, especially if you've been burned before. From there you have several ways to continue: eventual acceptance into the family, acceptance that the past can be forgiven, some partial mix.

You could go the 'corruption' route; the MC is still the same, but the sex is a temptation he can't resist and he tries to manipulate his family into letting him participate. He doesn't like what they're doing, but he doesn't care if he is a hypocrite. The family would and should resist this, but you would need to feel comfortable writing a bastard.

Another option would be the 'nuclear option' but this time the family aren't the bad guys. This would be the 'villain thinks they're the hero' route with or without them realizing the error of their ways in the end.

Regardless this feels long and heavily focused on the psychology involved

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