AN There is really nothing I can do but apologise. The last year has been incredibly busy. I gave birth to wonderful twin boys, who have just celebrated their first birthday. I completed my first degree and am still continuing my second part time. My husband and I also adopted our three year old God-daughter. We also moved to back to Wales for six months while the adoption process was going through and then back to Melbourne in February.

While Artan and I have been on ffnet in the past year, it has mostly been to read fics, there really has been no time to concentrate properly on writing. Only recently have I began to get back in the groove. With the recent upheaval of ffnet, particularly of stories of this genre and all those M rated stories, that have been unfairly removed, I have decided to continue writing despite this. While I understand that this site has certain rules, the removal of said stories without fair warning is highly offensive not only to writers but to us readers who enjoy such stories despite ffnets delicate sensibilities. I have been sending PMs or reviews to all the authors on my fav stories list (which if you look is quite a few). Unfortunately, there are many authors who no longer write, or have been off ffnet for a number of years, and will be unaware of the purge, therefore unable to back-up and repost their work on a less restricted site.

The only reason I used ffnet was because it allowed me to read such a range of stories in the one place. Rather than having to navigate through five or more different sites. Now, with this, I am going to have to move through at least three.

I will mainly be continuing with Future's Chance, but it will be going through a major upheaval. It will contain, at this stage, one slash pairing, along with explicit content to match – though that may be for other pairings as well – I will post any sexually explicit content in separate chapters with warnings so people may skip if they wish. Violence and such will be kept within the main story, the same way it was in the Harry Potter books. Due to some people being a little adverse to slash, any interaction of the pair as a romantic couple will be of the same quantity as that of het pairings, and will be enhanced during those separate chapters. There may be some 'bashing' of characters. While the bashing of characters will be those I don't particularly like, I will try to keep it as tasteful as possible rather than having all the people's faults poured into one or two chapters where everyone else yells and screams at them, then they disappear. I will most likely keep them in the story for as long as possible to create some angst and contention, otherwise it will be just boring. If you have read CatsAreCool's 'A Marauders Plan' – I will be aiming for that sort of 'bashing' especially with Dumbledore; their story is yet to be complete but at the moment that is where I will try to head.

There may be some differing characterisations to what you usually see in these fics, as I plan on it being a little more angst-y than humourous -but not overly so, most humour will be of the dry sarcastic sort.

I will be cross posting my story to "yourfanfiction (.) com", a site recently started that has yet, very few rules, apart from those of a legal/moral/offensive nature – the obvious really. It also allows stories rated up to MA. Just in case these uppity jokes that don't like characters read stories decide to report or delete it with there little 'red button' program; or ffnet decide that the explicit content (of either violent/sexual nature) is too M to be M.

I don't know how long it will until I do start writing again – by the way has anyone ever seen a story where the HP characters read Lord of the Rings – I started reading one a couple of years ago but I've never been able to find it again (It might also have been LotR reading HP – it was so long ago I can't remember.

Sorry for extra long AN, the main prupose of this is below please read carefully and pass it along to others.

Guinevere

Greetings to the fine folk that moderate our site.

I, along with many, have been writing and posting on your fine site for years now, some of the better examples of up and coming writers out there are now suddenly finding some of the stories we've come to love at risk of being removed without the chance to even rectify our errors.

For some, that means the permanent loss of a story. While I don't have anything that (I believe, from other stories similar to mine that I've seen on this site, also for a number of years), violates your terms of use, there are those out there that are never able to recover a story in its original form, this is something I find to be almost worthy of a legal action, as while we cannot claim ownership of a character, the stories are OURS and simply destroying them is something that is inexcusable.

It's quite easy to simply add an MA rating, additional filters or even a simple requirement for a free membership to read the stories presented here, and would cut down on hateful anonymous reviews and posts at the same time, so I have to question as to why such a thing, in all this time, simply wasn't added.

If you're worried about falsification of a registration then have an appropriate disclaimer and then there can be no dispute, you took your steps and the PARENTS didn't monitor their children, if that is even your concern. If it is more of a personal view or desire then please at least let people know and give them a chance to remove a story that you and yours find offensive, most people on the site are actually rather cordial when it comes to such requests.

While I cannot say for sure if this letter will even reach those that may be willing to listen, of if it's more akin to a wide spectrum purge in preparation for something bigger, please understand that you are going to be losing a LARGE number of your writers, and thus your income from a lack of readers if there is not some level of action taken to help with this situation.

For those that may agree with this, please feel free to sign on and send this to the support server, maybe we can get some movement on this.

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