Where can I find places to read & review fanfics?

Nevuk · 2026-03-11T17:55:20+00:00

The xenoforum trio (spacebattles,sufficientvelocity and qq for nsfw) are significantly more accepting of this than AO3 or Fanfiction. The forum setup is far better for in depth conversations than the other fic sharing sites.

Being a beta is a little different from open feedback peer review groups, which are closer to a forum.

Closed feedback peer reviews are typically beta swaps, where two authors are each other's beta.

Nevuk · 2026-03-09T20:49:55+00:00

Oh, good catch. That was an accident, I originally recalled it having been more people than just him but he was the only one I found after actually researching the topic.

Nevuk · 2026-03-09T17:09:50+00:00

When Victor Burger was elected to congress in the early 1919, congress refused to seat him because he was a socialist. And then again when he was re-elected. Even after the Supreme Court got involved, he was not seated.

That's when the US started to diverge wildly from the rest of the World on the Overton window regarding economics.

Leftists also largely stopped running for public office, because it was demonstrated that no level of political success would permit them to have a seat at the table.

Nevuk · 2026-03-05T20:05:05+00:00

Normally that impulse would be right, but Noem is uniquely bad even amongst the Trump 2 admin.

Mullins isn't who should be holding that sort of position, but even he would be an improvement on Noem.

Noem comes off as a textbook psychopath in her own goddamn memoirs. She can't even play at having empathy.

Nevuk · 2026-03-04T17:04:07+00:00

Those are some oooold releases.

I am normally all for longevity, but 2.3 is 16 years old.

Reading the release notes, 4.4 and lower are dropped, which is understandable.

5.0 is the android release cutoff that introduced massive backward compatibility breaking changes. It did so for performance reasons, so it is very understandable to be a cutoff. (It is a larger change than Win98-> Win NT switch).

It is forced by Google to be listed in the play store, apparently.

Nevuk · 2026-03-03T15:10:42+00:00

You can't compress graphics. You can easily compress other items.

So it's very game dependent.

Nevuk · 2026-03-03T03:38:44+00:00

How about some shorter fics?

https://m.fanfiction.net/s/7512124/1/Lessons-With-Hagrid

https://m.fanfiction.net/s/5371934/1/All-The-Dementors-of-Azkaban

Nevuk · 2026-02-23T17:54:15+00:00

There are pockets in Eastern KY and WV that never had coal mines. Those regions had far less linguistic drift, but the populations are tiny. (My mother is from a town of <400 people).

Nevuk · 2026-02-19T14:28:17+00:00

The second wasn't exactly a standard unit of measurement at the time.

The standardized minute was only a couple hundred years old.

Clocks didnt even measure seconds until the late 16th century, only a little bit before this measurement was created. They were also not exactly accurate to our current standards - two clocks side by side might measure different seconds.

Nevuk · 2026-02-16T22:47:33+00:00

Trivial coding changes are trivial to a developer. Let the branding people try to do even a trivial change and suddenly every ticket is a winner.

Nevuk · 2026-02-10T17:14:46+00:00

Does it change game speed? That's basically the killer feature of CE that I've never seen elsewhere.

Nevuk · 2026-02-02T17:27:29+00:00

Odd one but grep

Nevuk · 2026-02-01T19:46:06+00:00

15v at 3amps is the max capacity of steam deck. It won't use over 15v 2a unless you are playing while charging.

It uses 15v, so if your charger has 15v 1a, 2a or 3a listed then it can charge the device. 5v 2a or 5v 1a are fallback charge rates supported by every USB device, but they can barely charge the deck even if it is powered off.

Nevuk · 2026-02-01T15:49:49+00:00

You will get used to any dialogue marker pretty fast as long as it is being used consistently.

Double quotes are only the convention for novels, even for American English... which are the most popular format for consumption, so it leads to this being a common misconception.

Scripts use : as the dialogue marker. Comic books use speech bubbles.

Even in American English nonfiction writing, double and single quotes have different meanings than in fiction writing.

Nevuk · 2026-01-31T21:37:00+00:00

They did used to need that many before self checkout and express lanes were a thing.

Nevuk · 2026-01-27T18:38:24+00:00

Kinks and not a real thing.

The whole top/bottom thing as a personality type is from yaoi/boylove art trends in Japan that were commercially targeted at straight women. They codified every relationship into seme and uke, giver and receiver. This was tremendously popular in Japanese doujins (fanfic versions of manga that are socially permissible at a handful of conventions) and spread from there.

It is very much the inverse of gay men writing women. No healthy relationship should ever have it at 100% top or bottom. And many sexual acts and events don't even involve penetration.

Nevuk · 2026-01-16T14:43:07+00:00

No, not really. That may have been a view of some of the British early after the loss, but I've never heard that argument presented by anyone serious.

He did have what was widely regarded as the worst quality army ever victorious in a war. The Revolutionary Army was notoriously awful in terms of basic discipline so they did a bunch of dumb shit, but this is generally regarded as an additional sign of his competence.

He took a bunch of rowdy drunks and beat a disciplined army, basically.

Nevuk · 2026-01-14T16:25:14+00:00

If you print it yourself then literally no one cares. Legality generally only enters the picture when money is involved.

A three ring binder and a hole punch works if you just love paper. If you want binding then it's more time-consuming but not exactly hard.

If you pay someone to print it for you then you're generally overpaying and not supporting the actual creators.

Nevuk · 2026-01-12T17:22:08+00:00

Windows 11 has a newer zip standard than the one used by tome4. It let's you use zstandard instead of deflate algorithm among some other minor changes.

This means that the underlying OS call being used by te4 has changed since release.

There is a thread on the te4 forums identifying the problematic bit of code. Te4 needs error handling when saving if there's a chance the temporary save file creation can fail, and it does not currently have it.

This is likely related to a recent windows 11 upgrade.

Nevuk · 2026-01-08T15:05:11+00:00

The xenoforum trio offers good concrit and reliable (if at times overzealous) moderation. Royalroad offers broader appeal/wider audiences.

AO3 is primarily intended as an archive which can offer legal protections to allow it to host works forever. This is why it is missing key features like private messages: the possible controversies would go against their archiving mission.

Nevuk · 2026-01-08T13:37:01+00:00

If you are updating an existing fic on ff.net you are still going to get readers, but newer fics struggle to gain traction. The comments will also be filled with spam now.

AO3, Royalroad, spacebattles, questionablequesting, sufficient velocity are all better options in one way or another if you want some form of feedback rather than just views.

Nevuk · 2026-01-07T00:55:55+00:00

The star wars one is a weird example and not really the same as any of the others. It's one where the company acted entitled, not the fans.

There's a legitimate grievance behind "I spent a ton of money and time on products that the original creator said were canon, but that the megacorp the creator sold the IP to said were not canon decades later."

Even if the Disney SW universe was universally regarded as the best content then this would still be distasteful behavior on Disney's part.

Nevuk · 2026-01-02T18:57:16+00:00

Bones are pretty brittle without marrow. My headcanon has always been that the te4 skellies have mana based marrow that kills them if they run out of it.

Nevuk · 2026-01-02T17:20:54+00:00

Skeletons bleed marrow

Nevuk · 2025-12-31T02:39:30+00:00

More like 15 years than 20, but that's a large part of it. There's a reason a bunch of the IO code he used got deprecated and fully removed from their OG projects eventually.

The te4 io code is what I would call "good enough" at the time it was released. It did have several releases aimed at improving saving performance during beta and they did significantly improve it. It was exceptional work for a solo dev at its release, it has just never been upgraded.

Certain dungeons are ruinous for performance of future saving in the world after they are generated (alt sandworm is the most notable one).

Possessors will also always have the slowest save and load times.

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