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Vote Thread for Ack's Omake Corner

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Honestly, I enjoyed both your SFW and NSFW works, they were all very well written and honestly, very interesting story wise. That said, it is a shame that people can't disconnect a writers NSFW from their SFW, or they can't see the line between them and I am sad to see you were forced to delete them. At the very least, I hope things get easier for you in the future.
 
It is a shame that this happened honestly though at the same time maybe having so much cut out will be a boon in your other works Ack, so don't despair but find ways to turn this around and bounce back better than before! :D
 
ahh thats a shame. Ive seen some posts about people warning others about it being an ack fic like its something bad. I've seen some others smut/reg fics combined and non of them that I have seen have received similar levels of caution. I was quiet mad at the post and even logged in to downvote. =(
 
HearthBorn said:
And, of course, down to nine once the last chapter of Confrontation 2 comes out.
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At which point we shall ascend another story to the pantheon.

Scythro said:
ahh thats a shame. Ive seen some posts about people warning others about it being an ack fic like its something bad. I've seen some others smut/reg fics combined and non of them that I have seen have received similar levels of caution. I was quiet mad at the post and even logged in to downvote. =(
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While this probably won't make you any friends on there, I do appreciate the sentiment.

Anyways, that's a chapter of my writing career that's over and done.
 
Ack said:
At which point we shall ascend another story to the pantheon.



While this probably won't make you any friends on there, I do appreciate the sentiment.

Anyways, that's a chapter of my writing career that's over and done.
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You'd have been better off just not tying your original works to 'Ack'. With the animosity some of them have towards you a lack of a fic to link to won't stop them from spamming your reviews if they know it's you.
 
Damn. This is another example of some utterly stupid bullshit. People can write explicit torture scenes, play video games that graphically depict mass murder, and TV shows enjoyed by hundreds of thousands can depict narcotics and drug traffickers, but everybody clutches their pearls as soon as someone writes a sex story about a fictional character, or as soon as someone draws a cartoon of a loli getting railed.

That outrage doesn't help anybody - if someone's jacking it to loli hentai or explicit stories featuring underage sex, they aren't hurting anybody. The people who are actually hurting children, or the children being hurt, are completely unaffected.

I'm sorry that some fuckwits are screwing with you, Ack. I sincerely hope they experience severe and prolonged acid reflux in the next couple of days.
 
Wytsfs said:
You'd have been better off just not tying your original works to 'Ack'. With the animosity some of them have towards you a lack of a fic to link to won't stop them from spamming your reviews if they know it's you.
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My problem was, I did SFW and NSFW versions of the same story, so I couldn't really separate them.
 
Ack said:
My problem was, I did SFW and NSFW versions of the same story, so I couldn't really separate them.
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I think he means that you should have published your original, professional stuff - the stuff you're worried about some ass killing by creating a review linking to your NSFW work - under a different pen name. It wouldn't matter much if people thought that 'Ack' is a pervert if they didn't know that, e.g., Welcome to Utopia was by Ack. (The downside, of course, would be that people who are fans of your work as Ack would not be able to then follow you to the new stuff.)
 
macdjord said:
I think he means that you should have published your original, professional stuff - the stuff you're worried about some ass killing by creating a review linking to your NSFW work - under a different pen name. It wouldn't matter much if people thought that 'Ack' is a pervert if they didn't know that, e.g., Welcome to Utopia was by Ack. (The downside, of course, would be that people who are fans of your work as Ack would not be able to then follow you to the new stuff.)
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Always a good point, but (le sigh) I didn't think of that before publishing my book on this damn site.
 
Ack said:
Cool.
So, did you like it?
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The truth is that I prefer your fanfic. I thought the book spent a lot of time with characters' ooh-ing and ah-ing at the city. This both slowed down the actual story and seemed implausible on it's face, as it's unlikely that anything like Utopia City could exist in our world without having absolutely everyone learning about the details from TV shows and the like.
I'm hoping that the next book is able to spend less time touring through engineering marvels, since we should already be familiar with them.
 
Robert Stadler said:
The truth is that I prefer your fanfic. I thought the book spent a lot of time with characters' ooh-ing and ah-ing at the city. This both slowed down the actual story and seemed implausible on it's face, as it's unlikely that anything like Utopia City could exist in our world without having absolutely everyone learning about the details from TV shows and the like.
I'm hoping that the next book is able to spend less time touring through engineering marvels, since we should already be familiar with them.
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I drew a good portion of that mindset from the fact that when I visited the US (in 1996), I'd already read about New York, seen movies, etc, etc, etc,

But still, I took a day riding a tour bus through the city and took photos of everything. It's one thing to see the Statue of Liberty on the small screen or even the big screen. It's another to walk around it and take photos. And that's stuff that's mundane.

Moreover, the tech that's prevalent in Utopia is still trickling out to the outside world (partly due to the fact that licensing aircars outside the city would be prohibitively expensive). Thus, you'd hear about flying cars and maybe even see them on TV, but to watch one one land five yards away is a whole different kettle of fish, and to ride one in person, mindblowing all over again.

Sense of wonder. It's a thing.

However, the tech is acknowledged but not explained all over again in the next book because as you say, the reader will already know about it.
 
Vote 169: I, Panacea
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    • Thanks, as always, for voting.

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    Announcements
    Throne3d 's vote counting system is once more working well. Thanks, Throne!

    It has come to my attention that I have been slacking off. I'm going to try to speed up my posting of vote stories.

    I have removed Meet the Heberts and NSW from my vote lineup. Danny & Taylor will be strictly SFW from here on in. Apologies to everyone who was voting just for those.

    Novel is PUBLISHED. [Welcome to Utopia]

    I'm posting it, one chapter per week, in my sig.
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    Any votes to any stories not on the list will not be applied to any stories, on or off the list. The stories that have been taken off the list will not be abandoned, just put on hiatus until I've actually finished a significant number of stories that are actually still on the list.

    MirrorVerse 1140
    Bait & Switch 1164
    Junior Hero 140
    Nemesis 161
    All Alone 25

    Afraid of the Dark [0] (Danny is an expy of John Wick. Taylor just went through the Locker. Be very afraid.)
    All Alone [0] (Emma dies in the alley, so Taylor makes a new friend. Sophia Hess. But after some very bad decisions. she's all alone again. Or is she?)
    Another Way [0] (Marquis beat shit out of BBB, then spent the next eight years in Boston. Now that his daughter has triggered, he's come back. She's having a ball.)
    Conflict [0] (It's 1980. Contessa managed to shank Eden without getting nerfed. Doctor Mother now has Eidolon's powerset, without the insecurity complex. They've got two years to prepare before Scion shows up.)
    Entanglement [0] (Taylor has her bug powers. However, she is now randomly body-swapping with a Taylor from an Earth without super-powers. Both are rather confused.)
    Fuck Worm! [0] {NSFW} (A double SI, where a couple gets dropped into the Wormverse on opposite sides. Only just started.)
    Gravitas [0] (A crossover fanfic with a novel I'm in the process of writing).
    I'm HALPING! [0] (Taylor has a new friend. He's a cute teenage boy, who also happens to be an Endbringer. Cue hijinks.)
    One Bad Day [0] (Sophia murders Grue. Taylor murders Sophia and Madison. Lisa murders her new team leader. Amy mindwipes Vicky. It's one hell of a bad day.)
    Prodigal Daughter [0] {Taylor isn't quite right. But that's okay. She's Jack Slash's daughter. Brockton Bay is in for ... a time.)
    Yet Another Way [0] (A spin-off of Another Way, where Carol killed Amy. The BBB is now out of the picture, and Marquis has managed to adopt the Dallon and Pelham kids.)

    A Friend At Winslow - Non-Taylor-centric, but involving Taylor.
    The Centre Cannot Hold - Taylor gets a really weird power, and makes full use of it. Crack.
    Dinah Alcott, Ruler of the World - Exactly what it says on the tin.
    EverYthiNg YoU kNow iS WroNg - The Birdcage is a luxury resort. Marquis was sandbagging. It's all a LIE, I tell you! Pure crack.
    Force Projection - A sequel to my original fiction Number Two.
    Hostile Takeover - Marquis had a son. He's just come back to Brockton Bay.
    Identity Theft - An international freelancer needs to hide out in Brockton Bay. Guess who she looks like?
    Isel - Prequel to my original fiction King's Man
    Parallel - A time travel story, involving Taylor's son from after Gold Morning.
    Living in Brockton Bay is Suffering - A perfect storm of bad events happens, leaving Tagg in charge of the PRT, based in Brockton Bay.
    Library Blues (working title) - A massive AU where Taylor is an adult, working in the library of Winslow High. Brian is the principal, and Sophia is the head coach.
    Terminal: A cancer sufferer triggers with powers. His life does not improve. News at eleven.

    User Errors:
    Kejmur - Alea Iacta Est was incorrectly spelled. I fixed it for you.
    Rodon - Recoil does not have the number 279 attached. I fixed it for you.
    Chase92 , 1986ctcel , Sol Mark-1 - The fics Meet the Heberts and NSW have been discontinued. Sorry.


    On to the main event.

    Alea Iacta Est 467
    Confrontation II 547
    Danny & Taylor 294
    Hostage Situation 147
    I, Panacea 0 (615)
    One More Trigger 68
    Reality Intrudes 599
    Recoil 577
    War Games 467
    Wyvern 344


    Following the unexpected drop-out of two fics (see Announcements) we have I, Panacea, probably to be shortly followed by Recoil, Confrontation II and then Reality Intrudes.

    Check out Sleepyfoo for a reasonable prediction.


    Anyway, thanks again for voting, and I hope you enjoy reading the stories as much as I enjoy writing them.


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    [X] Alea Iacta Est - 6
    [X] I, Panacea - 5
    [X] War Games - 4
    [X] Recoil - 3
    [X] Hostage Situation - 2
    [X] Reality Intrudes - 1

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    • [X] Confrontation II - 6
    [X] War Games - 5
    [X] Alea Iacta Est - 4
    [X] Wyvern - 3
    [X] One More Trigger - 2
    [X] I, Panacea - 1
     
    [x] Recoil - 6
    [x] I, Panacea - 5
    [x] Alea Iacta Est - 4
    [x] Hostage Situation - 3
    [x] Wyvern - 2
    [x] One More Trigger - 1
     
    [X] Recoil - 6
    [X] One More Trigger - 5
    [X] War Games - 4
    [X] Wyvern - 3
    [X] Alea Iacta Est - 2
     
    [X] Wyvern - 6
    [X] Hostage Situation - 5
    [X] Alea Iacta Est - 4
    [X] I, Panacea - 3
    [X] Recoil - 2
    [X] Danny & Taylor - 1

    Predictions:
    Vote 170: Recoil by 67 Votes
    Vote 171: Confrontation 2 by 24 Votes
    Vote 172: Alea Iacta Est by 64 Votes
    Vote 173: Wyvern by 49 Votes
    Vote 174: War Games by 71 Votes
    Vote 175: Reality Intrudes by 157 Votes
    Vote 176: I, Panacea by 13 Votes
    Vote 177: Recoil by 185 Votes
    Vote 178: One More Trigger by 30 Votes
    Vote 179: Hostage Situation by 65 Votes

    Notably the prediction is perfectly stable (some minor margin adjustments) from the updated prediction from last time. It will be interesting to see if that holds.
     
    [X] Hostage Situation - 6
    [X] I, Panacea - 5
    [X] Reality Intrudes - 4
    [X] War Games - 3
    [X] Wyvern - 2
    [X] Confrontation II - 1
     
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    [] Harem Protagonist Marquis - 42
    [X] I, Panacea - 6
    [X] One More Trigger - 5
    [X] Hostage Situation - 4
    [X] Wyvern - 3
    [X] Alea Iacta Est - 2
    [X] Recoil - 1
    [] Reality Intrudes - 0
     
    [X] Confrontation II - 6
    [X] Recoil - 5
    [X] Hostage Situation - 4
    [X] I, Panacea - 3
    [X] War Games - 2
    [X] One More Trigger - 1

    Up for voting and I'd like to see it, just not quite enough to get a vote this time...
    [] Alea Iacta Est
    [] Wyvern
    [] All Alone

    Not up for voting but I'd still like to see it: (hopefully more stories will be added to the voting soon!)
    [] Entanglement
    [] Slippery Slope
    [] MirrorVerse
    [] I'm HALPING!
    [] One Bad Day
     
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