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Important Canon stories finished migration - Correction List
- Phoenix Spiritus
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If you see things wrong with the Canon stories please post in this topic and I'll start compiling a list so that the editors can fix things.
First SOME SUGGESTIONS!
Suggestion 1: Keep it polite.
All the editors have real jobs and aren't getting paid to do this, if your post makes us want to reach through the screen and grab you by the throat, well, something has to be last on the "to-do" list
Suggestion 2: Give us enough information to fix the issue.
As a general rule, tell us which story, what's wrong, what it currently is, what it should be. Copy and past is your friend, if you copy out enough for us to use to find the error, its more likely we can find it an fix it.
Suggestion 3: Be Patient
Crawling through pages of code / stories to find and fix a typo is not exactly the most interesting thing to do, we need to get in the right mood to fix things, might take a little bit of time for your particular issue to be fixed.
Suggestion 4: Be thorough
The is nothing worse then getting drip feed single mistakes at a time over and over again for the same story. If you are going to post mistakes in a story, try and post all of them so we can do the whole story at once.
Other then that, let it rip guys, I know lots of you have been storing them up for us.
- Phoenix Spiritus
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Date wrong of story (Admin Required)
* I Looked into the Abyss, and it Winked (Part 2) (out of order with other parts)
* Being Merry In Spite Of It All: Merry #6c dated same as 6A and therefore before 6B
Pending Editorial Decision (whether to migrate / where to migrate too)
* Fey: Learning Curve
* Heyoka 3: Survival Class
* Wild Times
Already resolved issues:
Duplicate Stories
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* Parkour Jam Hooligans (April 14th has had editing done)
* Yet Another Day as an Outcast (July 16th has been edited)
* So I'm a Freak. Sue Me. (25th June has been edited)
* Against Ill Chances ("Merry 3" seems to have been edited, but title needs to be fixed to be Capitalised)
* Anecdotal Antidote Apocalypse (11 February one seems to be edited)
Author Attribution
* "The Play’s The Thing" is attributed to "Written by E.E. Nalley" (note the missing space after the first "E."
* Most of Dr. Bender's stories are attributed with a period after the "Dr", but three are not.
* Caitlin's origin stories (Editor required)
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- Should be named "Upheaval: Instructor", "Upheaval: Walking Alone" and "Upheaval: New Friends, New Problems."
Site titles that mismatch rest of the list formatting
Jade 9 – SIT IN
Jade 7 – OVER THE TOP
Jade 6 – DREAMS and AWAKENINGS
SILENT NACHT: Chapter 5
VAMP
SILENT NACHT: Chapter 4
SILENT NACHT: Chapter 3
SILENT NACHT: Chapter 2
SILENT NACHT: Chapter 1
HAVE YOUR SELF AN EVIL LITTLE CHRISTMAS: Part 3
HAVE YOUR SELF AN EVIL LITTLE CHRISTMAS: Part 2
HAVE YOUR SELF AN EVIL LITTLE CHRISTMAS: Part 1
THE CLUE OF THE UNSEEN SWITCH
THERE’S AN ANGEL IN FATHER JOHN’S BASEMENT: Part 2
THERE’S AN ANGEL IN FATHER JOHN’S BASEMENT: Part 1
IT'S GOOD TO BE THE DON
Merry 3: Against ill chances
Issues with migration
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- Two chapters 5 and all subsequent parts miss-numbered (one chapter 5 is chapter 6, all numbers then shuffle up)[/strike]
- Valentine
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When I migrated stories, I did my best to leave them as-is, the way they were originally posted at the old site. So those stories will contain misspellings, odd formatting issues (Diane changed the way she formatted stories between chapters), whether these should or can be fixed is up to Kristin and the other canon authors.
The same thing with titles, if the author put the title in all caps, so did I. I did change the way some chapters/parts were titled to keep entire stories consistent.
Don't Drick and Drive.
- Kristin Darken
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1. Story not actually migrate in (the list we were working from was wrong, or we just messed up somehow)
2. Prevent people from reading a the story when they should (ie improper original publishing date skewing its placement in the list, wrong name, error in loading the story, etc).
3. Things that prevent a story from being properly credited (inaccurate byline or CMS Author/Alias attribution, lack of editor)
4. Bad format making it hard to read
5. Typos
6. Story edits (some things have been typos or incorrect details in the posted story for years, they'll hold for a few more months)
Fate guard you and grant you a Light to brighten your Way.
- Sir Lee
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OK. I have a couple "little things" to suggest...
First one: "Straight from the Squirrel's Mouth." There are two Chapter 5 of the story, one of them with the filename "Chapter 6".
And, consequently, the actual Chapter 6 has a filename of "Chapter 7"... and so on until the last part, "Chapter 10" which has a filename of "Chapter 11".
Also, Chapter 6 is dated way out of sequence with the rest (months after Chapter 10). I do believe that the Chapters 7-10 also have minor dating discrepancies.
Second one: the three parts of Caitlin's origin story lost their overall title, which is "Upheaval". That is, they should be named "Upheaval: Instructor", "Upheaval: Walking Alone" and "Upheaval: New Friends, New Problems."
If those things ARE changed (and the change affects the URLs for the stories), please post a notice in this thread so we can update the Wiki links accordingly.
- Phoenix Spiritus
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i.e. use " whateleyacademy.net/index.php/original-timeline/257 " instead of " whateleyacademy.net/index.php/original-t...evenge-of-the-alphas "
- Sir Lee
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- mittfh
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Two duplicates not yet mentioned: Anecdotal Antidote Apocalypse (#396 and #442), Chou 5: Aftermath (#295 and #394).
Meanwhile, the Fan Wiki's List of Canon Stories has been updated to mid-December (essentially, any entry with a darker yellow background) - report any oddities there in the Wiki Wiki Wiki thread over in The Quad.
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
- Sir Lee
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Pending Editorial Decision on whether to migrate at all:
* Fey: Learning Curve
* Heyoka 3: Survival Class
* Wild Times
- Sir Lee
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I didn't include things like date issues and capitalization issues because those don't affect the URLs -- the URLs are all lowercase anyway -- so changing them in-place shouldn't have repercussions.
- Valentine
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I will post the missing stories tonight.
The Power of Cute is missing an image at the end. I don't have it.
Tea with a Serpent is also missing an image at the beginning of both chapters.
All of the missing stories have been entered, with the above missing elements.
Don't Drick and Drive.
- Phoenix Spiritus
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- Sir Lee
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Now that the main job is done, it's time to look at the secondary things, to wit:
1. Auxiliary non-canon material. This comprises, but is not limited to:
* Author interviews (AFAIK, only Bek's has not been migrated yet)
* Articles (a few were migrated, but is there any one missing?)
* Teasers (already on the list awaiting Kristin's ruling) (*)
* Notable fanfics (Brandy's done, Renae's in the queue, but are there any others?)
* April Fool stories (Kristin's and Diane's have been migrated, Tensai's and Drunkfu's haven't, Doc Bender's was pulled from the old site but now that we had years to cool down, maybe we could reopen the matter for discussion.)
2. The Library. I haven't looked at it, but I suppose there might be quite a bunch of stories there to be migrated.
(*) Note on the teasers:
The Wiki lists a few more teasers in the "List of Canon Stories", but I'm not sure about migrating those other ones.
-I'm pretty sure that the one by E.E. Nalley has already seen the light of day inside another story, although I can't prove it because I apparently deleted my copy. Anyway, E.E. is an active author and can make up his own mind on the subject.
-Kristin is also active, so if she wants to repost her teaser it's her own decision.
- Tensai's two ones are actually listed as fanfics. So, the decision to migrate or not those should be remanded to the notable fanfics discussion.
- J.G. has two listed. One is actually a teaser for the next chapter for his pre-canon fanfic saga. So, as above, it depends on whatever criteria Kristin establishes for migrating fanfics.
The other one might fit with the three already under discussion, but the thing is... it does not add any additional understanding of the Whateley Universe.
- Kristin Darken
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Fate guard you and grant you a Light to brighten your Way.
- mittfh
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As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
- rubberjohn
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John.
- Arcanist Lupus
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"Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased — thus do we refute entropy." - Spider Robinson
- Kristin Darken
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Ya... keep in mind that this was the same period of time in which the fan base aggressively pushed out multiple authors.
But, admittedly, it was probably a bit risky to have on the site - we are pretty careful to keep the issue of underage relationships / sex off-camera for the most part, while still being realistic about it (we know its happening, but we're not making erotica about it). Basically the same point that we make with the policy about it at Whateley. And B's prank story did cross that line. So ...
Fate guard you and grant you a Light to brighten your Way.
- Kristin Darken
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WARNING - DO NOT READ THIS SPOILER UNLESS YOU ARE 18+ AND ARE WILLING TO EXPOSE YOURSELF TO CONTENT THAT IS OF AN ADULT SEXUAL NATURE.
By Dr. Bender
“Ms. Wilkins?”
Jobe forced herself not to scowl her perfectly formed pink lips, remaining calm under Ms. Hartford’s condescending gaze. The office ladies around them busied themselves with paperwork, keyboards clattering with furious strokes. She stood with lithe grace borrowed from her stolen elven genes, brushing one hand through her white hair.
“Ms. Carson will see you in her office now,” Hartford said, scowling in disapproval, “I’m sure she’ll have something to say about your uniform while you’re there.”
Jobe smirked in amusement. Of all the things she had problems with; Hartford had to pick on a girl for wearing trousers. “I am a man, Ms. Hartford. This is regulation boy’s uniform.”
Hartford removed her wire frame glasses. “And your guidebook clearly states that students are expected to wear a uniform appropriate to their current gender or a gender appropriate to their current uniform. Hard enough telling the Shifters apart as it is. Change as soon as you get back to your dormitory, please, or I’ll have you on detention.”
Jobe nodded before walking past the arrogant secretary without another word, completely focussed on the task at hand. Stepping up to what looked like a plain wooden door, she knocked. Absently, she wondered if the door was merely clad in wood or if it was really a force field with tactile and optical camouflage.
The door swung open as if an invisible hand were controlling it, revealing Ms. Carson sitting calmly behind her desk, legs crossed under the table. Holographic displays hovered in the air in front of her, blurred from the opposite side so that it was impossible to tell from Jobe’s viewpoint what she had been reading. A single empty chair sat opposite her, which Jobe found slightly creepy. Did the room just create chairs for visitors to sit in? If so, what else was the woman in front of her capable of? Girding loins she no longer had, Jobe stepped across the threshold, the door closing smoothly behind her.
“Ms. Wilkins,” Carson greeted absently as she reviewed something on her holographic screen, her voice no less intimidating. “Sit.”
Jobe followed the order without question.
A few seconds later, the Headmistress flicked the hologram off to one side and levelled her full attention on the student sitting across from her. “Now, I understand you have an issue to discuss with me.”
“Yes,” Jobe answered, her throat suddenly dry. “I have to report a rape.”
“Go on.”
Jobe glanced at the door. “Is it safe here?”
“Nothing said inside this room can be heard from the outside. We are as secure as all the forces of the world can make us. Speak your mind.”
“Well, to the point, I was raped,” Jobe confessed, trying to sound like a lost and scared little girl, “by Sara Waite.”
Carson didn’t even twitch a single eyebrow. “I see. Why don’t you describe what happened in detail.”
“Well, it started with me accidently stabbing myself with an experimental serum that would turn me into… this,” Jobe explained slowly so that Carson would understand. “It was a frivolous side-project I was working on…”
“To create a Drow from the popular roleplaying game Dungeons and Dragons,” Carson interrupted, “probably for your own amusement.”
Again, Jobe had to fight back a scowl. Condescending know-it-all bitch, she thought. “I swear, I would never have used it on an unwilling subject.”
“No, just a willing sucker. Get to the point, Jobe.”
“Yes, Headmistress. After I stabbed myself with my own serum, I turned to the only person I could think of that could remove the… virus, I suppose, is the simplest way to describe it.”
“So you went to see Sara Waite.”
“Yes. I wasn’t stupid about it; I wrote a contract and vowed to end our feud, which was initiated due to a gross misunderstanding.” Sara’s misunderstanding of my genius, Jobe added in her thoughts. “She signed; I thought we had an agreement! But then she… she…”
“She encouraged the ‘virus’ to spread and had her way with you during your vulnerable moment. Then, she revealed that the contract she signed was a sham and left you pining away for her touch. Does that cover it?”
Jobe blinked. Maybe the Headmistress was smarter than she’d initially estimated. “How did you know that?”
“Two reasons,” Carson said, holding up two fingers for emphasis. “First of all, it’s standard daemonic contract practice. You may be a genius biodevisor, Jobe, but you’re way out of your league dealing with demons, nothing good ever comes of their involvement. If you were a Wizard, you’d also know that Whateley takes no responsibility for the outcome of infernal contracts made by students. Harsh, yes, but the only way you’ll all learn is by making examples of the few that try it. You’re lucky to get away alive, most demons would have consumed your soul.”
Jobe was gripping the arms of her chair so hard that she could swear that the wood was being crushed under her grip. “And the second reason?”
Headmistress Carson sat back in her chair and smiled. “Why, Jobe, the second reason is that I ordered Sara to do it.”
Stunned for a moment, Jobe didn’t notice the tentacles that emerged from her chair until it was too late. In moments, her wrists were bound to the chair, another wrapped around her neck and head even as others emerged between her thighs to entrap her legs. The Drow girl screamed. She screamed as the tentacles slid into her clothes, tearing cloth with causal ease as they removed her secret weapons. She screamed as she was lifted into the air, thighs spread apart until she was practically spread-eagled. She screamed as thousands of tiny Sara-heads grinned down at her from the ends of tentacles high overhead. She screamed until she was hoarse and out of breath.
“Quite finished?” Carson asked calmly, stepping around the desk to sit where she had a view between Jobe’s legs.
“Why?” Jobe gasped.
“Predictable. I’ll answer the question with a similar question. How? How, Jobe, do you imagine that I keep control of a school where the future superheroes of the world mix with the future supervillains? How do I maintain control of the worst elements of our society? Or maybe I should answer the question with the same question. Why? Why do I keep that bitch Hartford as my secretary? Why do I let the psychopaths in this asylum mingle with the Underdogs? Why do we treat children like guineapigs and lab rats?”
Stepping forward, Carson slid her fingers up the ruins of Jobe’s trouser legs, tearing away any remaining shreds of clothing as her fingers caressed the soft curves beneath. Jobe shuddered at the woman’s touch, unable to move a muscle.
“I know what you were doing, Jobe,” Carson whispered. “I know you were selling my student’s genetic tissue on the black market.”
Panic hit Jobe’s body like a sledgehammer. “I wasn’t! I’d never! I…”
“You cut into the board’s profits, Jobe,” Carson stated with cold clarity, “I can’t allow you to interfere with my work. But, your abilities are too useful for me to dispose of you in the usual way. Burnout is such a convenient excuse, you can make as much mess as you like and still people are none the wiser. But I digress, I needed a way to control you, so I sent my pet demon here to lure you in.”
Sara purred as Carson scratched one of her heads behind the ear.
“Fortunately,” Carson continued, “she discovered your delightful little Drow Serum. I liked the irony too much that you would be undone by your own invention. We made a few modifications while Sara removed your troublesome maleness, when we’re through here you’ll be quite the little mind slave.”
Jobe’s brain was racing at the speed of light, trying to adapt to all the new information. “That’s it! SPERM! Neither of you can control me with my own invention! You’re both women! There’s no way female cells can bond with my nervous system and altered stem cells would be too far out of alignment with your genetic code! You can’t control me that easily!”
Still smiling, Headmistress Carson reached down to grip the hem of her skirt. A few sensual shimmies of her generous hips pulled the material up her legs until her panties were exposed. Pulling her underwear down over her stockings, she revealed a hairless female sex that was nothing out of the ordinary… at first. A moment later, Jobe noticed how swollen the area was. Then, the tip of something peeked through the slit. With a great heave of her stomach muscles, Carson pushed her phallus out of its internal sheathe, pushing the enormous engorged member out into the air. It throbbed, visibly pulsing with blood as the shaft extended between Jobe’s thighs.
Eyes wide, Jobe gazed at the thing with a mixture of disgust and longing. Her body was reacting just to the sight of it, the wet ache of longing growing between her legs. “N-no, please… don’t…”
Her protests fell on deaf ears. She gasped with forced pleasure as her diabolically enhanced pleasure centres overrode her survival instincts. There was a sudden spurt of juices as the bulbous head of Carson’s member touched her hot and ready lips, the shaft sliding slowly in as the Drow screamed out her ecstasy.
“Damn, the younger ones are always so deliciously tight,” Carson commented as she grasped Jobe’s hips to force herself deeper into the schoolgirl.
Jobe squeaked cutely when the head bumped her cervix. “S-stop,” she gasped, “I feel… myself… slipping…”
“Shhh,” Carson whispered like a mother comforting a child, “just let it all drift away. Everything will be all right.”
With that, she started to move her hips, thrusting in and out with growing violence. Jobe’s eyes rolled into the back of her head as the pleasure assaulted her mind, drool dripping from the corner of her mouth as she was tamed. Soon, her hips were thrusting to meet Carson’s strokes as she moaned incoherently. “Don’t stop! Please don’t stop! I need you in me!” She pleaded, only a trace of reluctance left.
“You really did a number on her,” Carson commented to Sara between lustful grunts.
“Don’t look at me, I didn’t change her that much,” Sara protested.
With one last thrust, Carson came, filling Jobe with so much of her seed that it leaked out around her shaft. Jobe wailed as she came in turn, her mind shifting as her willpower was drained away. “Please, do it again,” Jobe begged, “I need you inside me…”
Fear fell across her features as Carson pulled out. “NO! Please! I need you! I’ll do anything, just put it back iiiiiiiin!”
“Shut up,” Carson snapped, wiping herself off with a towel that Sara pulled from a nearby cabinet. “If you do everything that I order you to do without fail, I’ll reward you with what you want.”
“YES! Anything! Please!”
Carson reached down and patted her new pet’s head. “Pity Hekate didn’t get the collar on Fey; I’d have a matching set, one for each foot.”
Sara dropped Jobe onto the floor and let her crawl to lick the feet of her new mistress. “Neatly done,” Sara congratulated as one of her nemeses debased herself at the Headmistress’ feet. “I know I picked the right side now… Nimbus.”
Fate guard you and grant you a Light to brighten your Way.
- mittfh
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One more tale which appears to have escaped unnoticed (until now) - Dream Quest of the Underage Taoist (originally published 6th June 2010).
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
- Sir Lee
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...yeah, here it is:
whateleyacademy.net/index.php/original-t...-the-underage-taoist
- mittfh
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[EDIT] Now available - thanks!
Meanwhile, a couple of minor (trivial) errors I've spotted, for the very back end of the "To do" priority list...
Loose Cannons 1: There's a rogue "</p" at the end.
Saks and Violence: 'Self Destruct Trigger. DO NOT TOUCH!' The red text should end there, but continues to the end of the paragraph.
-oOo-
Checking the publishing dates against the Wiki (as many tales appear to have a publish date over here one day later than at Crystal Hall, which may be due to stuff published a few hours either side of midnight appearing to be on different dates in different localeds), there are a few with significantly different dates that might be worth checking:
Hive 1: What's Buzzing You? Wiki: 2006-05-09, Here: 2008-05-09
Molly 2: Summoning Tactics Wiki: 2008-08-10, Here: 2008-10-09
Merry 6c: Being Merry In Spite Of It All Wiki: 2007-08-05, Here: 2006-06-07
Lily 3 p1: A Wellspring of Sorrows, Part 1 Wiki: 2009-05-17, Here: 2006-05-08
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
- Kristin Darken
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But thanks for starting in on those.

Fate guard you and grant you a Light to brighten your Way.
- Phoenix Spiritus
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- Phoenix Spiritus
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Sooo, anyone have the final two parts as forum posts so I can post them here?
Also, seriously, does anyone have all the stories posted by the authors into that special forum they had so I can just migrate them over in one big batch?
Also, for those that are good at seeing what I missed, with the exception of two library stories (Tangled up in green, 16 parts & Maiden by Decree, 23 parts) I believe everything else has been migrated, and with the exception of two other stories (Dead Heroes & Dead Girls Don't Cry) all are viewable now (Kristin is still fixing publishing dates and stuff), so if you're not seeing something you believe should be there, now's the time to let me know.
- Sir Lee
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In this particular case, yes, I do have all seven parts (27 chapters) of Anathema, plus a cast list appendix. It's a single nicely-formatted HTML file which I can send it to you if you want.
- Phoenix Spiritus
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If anyone has the original forum versions so I could work out which chapters where "part 6" and which "part 7" I would be grateful.
- Malady
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Maiden is missing parts 13, and 17, if the Posted For Review menu is right...
- Phoenix Spiritus
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- Sir Lee
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Although I just noticed that I forgot to fix the scene separator images, so instead of a nice image you will see three asterisks (* * *). It shouldn't be a problem.
- Sir Lee
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- Valentine
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Don't Drick and Drive.
- Phoenix Spiritus
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- Phoenix Spiritus
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Only Maiden Chapters 1 - 24 was posted to our site, the best I can suggest is putting a comment into the last one telling people the rest are posted at BCTS.
I left up Sir Lee's version of Part 6 of Anathema as it has extra information from somewhere (it not in the part six version from Kristin's package).
Other then that, the only thing I suppose I'm still looking for is anything posted to the old "Authors forum" that isn't already migrated to this site.
- Sir Lee
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- NeoMagus
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Hey, Phoenix, I just wanted to point out that it also seems you've somehow missed adding Part 17 of Maiden by Decree. I was reading through the story yesterday and stumbled across the gap.
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- Phoenix Spiritus
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I miss set its permissions and it went into an area I can't control and Kristin will need to fix it...
But I did migrate it!
(Also, technically all these are posted in the Fan Fiction sections still, you can only see them because you are Fan Fiction authorised. Non-FanFiction members won't see them at all until Kristin moves them into the Library section of the site.)
- NeoMagus
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... . . -.- / .--- ..- ... - .. -.-. . .-.-.- / .-.. --- ...- . / -- . .-. -.-. -.-- .-.-.- / .-- .- .-.. -.- / .... ..- -- -... .-.. -.-- / .-- .. - .... / -.-- --- ..- .-. / --. --- -.. .-.-.-
- Phoenix Spiritus
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http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/book/8375/maiden-decree
- Arcanist Lupus
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The three Upheaval stories (Instructor, Walking Alone, and New Friends, New Problems) are listed in reverse order (i.e. Instructor, the first story, is above the other two in the stories list). I would guess that it's partially because they were all published on the same day.
"Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased — thus do we refute entropy." - Spider Robinson
- Phoenix Spiritus
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Also, I worked out the difference between Sir Lee's copy of Anathema and the copy in the Library backups, the "backups" only had part 7, not part 6, so since Sir Lee's was Part 6 and 7, that's why it had there was more to it.
I split Sir Lee's version into Parts 6 & 7 and posted separately, so now the material is back in the posting form Bek originally had.
- Phoenix Spiritus
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I put a post in the comments for Maiden by Decree 24 pointing people to BCTS for the ending.
Please let me know if you spot any issues other then the dates.
- Sir Lee
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Er... does that include Doc Bender's Lucifer's Daughter? It's supposed to have been posted to the forums.
Also, E.E. Nalley's Whom Gods Destroy.
- Phoenix Spiritus
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- Sir Lee
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- cprime
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This is library rather than canon, but.... In Part 2 of 'No Time for Second Chances', it appears that about half of Part 1 was appended, starting with the following line:
>>> [Session terminated automatically at 08:20 per user request. Have a nice day.]<<<<<
Is your muse looking for inspiration? Send them to Parkerville! Welcome to Parkerville is the latest edition in my series of writing prompts.
- Malady
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Phoenix Spiritus wrote: OK, all Library posts have been migrated, and all but two of them have been moved to the Library section (though Kristin hasn't yet had time to correct the dates).
I put a post in the comments for Maiden by Decree 24 pointing people to BCTS for the ending.
Please let me know if you spot any issues other then the dates.
Have dates been fixed yet? 'Cause (Library)No Time For Second Chances (Part 1) is off.
- Kristin Darken
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the Library isn't a list of things that must be read in order to make sense. within the context of a series of stories? Yes. Within context of one story compared to another, no. So while I'm not averse to eventually spending a little time clarifying when said stories originally published just for historical accuracy... I'm not seeing any value to prioritizing that over other things that need doing.
Fate guard you and grant you a Light to brighten your Way.
- Malady
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Kristin Darken wrote: People asking about library material dates being fixed... let me ask... why does it matter?
... Well, I asked 'cause No Time For Second Chances (Part 1) isn't collected with the other parts of the story in the Library section due to its date placing it several pages after the other 10 parts.
So, really, I should have asked for a re-dating to something from March 19 2016, to place it before Part 2... ... What the heck? Part 2 has a year of -0001...
- Phoenix Spiritus
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cprime wrote: This is library rather than canon, but.... In Part 2 of 'No Time for Second Chances', it appears that about half of Part 1 was appended, starting with the following line:
>>> [Session terminated automatically at 08:20 per user request. Have a nice day.]<<<<<
Fixed, Thank you for the heads up.
Malady wrote:
Kristin Darken wrote: People asking about library material dates being fixed... let me ask... why does it matter?
... Well, I asked 'cause No Time For Second Chances (Part 1) isn't collected with the other parts of the story in the Library section due to its date placing it several pages after the other 10 parts.
So, really, I should have asked for a re-dating to something from March 19 2016, to place it before Part 2... ... What the heck? Part 2 has a year of -0001...
Technically Part 1 has been fixed, and the other parts need to be updated to be the same.
To again do the numbers, there are 110 Library story posts that need their dates fixed, at an average of about 3 minutes each to fix (saving stories in the system seems to take forever, believe me, after doing it hundreds of times, I know) so we are talking 110 x 3 = 330 minutes ÷ 60 = 5 and a half hours to fix them.
Five and half boring hours to fix them.
Please, give Kristin a break, that's mind numbing work.
… And yes, I'm aware that fixing the issue with Part 2 has put it out of order, I'm sorry, I can't get it back into order (and I tried editing Part 3 as well, it didn't work), so I'm sorry, please feel free to sort the Library via Tittle or Author until Kristin can fix my mistakes.
- Malady
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Phoenix Spiritus wrote: sort the Library via Title or Author
... Oh! That's possible... That's what I get for changing my screen's colors. I miss things.

- rubberjohn
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Phoenix Spiritus wrote: ...Snip...
Five and half boring hours to fix them.
Please, give Kristin a break, that's mind numbing work.
… And yes, I'm aware that fixing the issue with Part 2 has put it out of order, I'm sorry, I can't get it back into order (and I tried editing Part 3 as well, it didn't work), so I'm sorry, please feel free to sort the Library via Tittle or Author until Kristin can fix my mistakes.
I would have thought that the really important thing was that the story had been salvaged and reposted not how it happens to be entered in the listing. Phoenix, Kristen and all the other 'elves' helping behind the scenes deserve many kudos for their hard work.
John.
- Phoenix Spiritus
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Topic Author
Kristin gave me editing privileges, so I've gone through fixing the titles to all the original canon stories, they should all now be in Title Case with the chapters / parts in brackets.
If you spot any continuing issues, let me know.
- cprime
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There are some editing issues in whateleyacademy.net/index.php/original-t...44-chaka-duel-damsel . From the looks of things, whoever did the conversion goofed when stripping newlines, and words are running together, at the rate of about every 60 characters.
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- Malady
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cprime wrote: There are some editing issues in whateleyacademy.net/index.php/original-t...44-chaka-duel-damsel . From the looks of things, whoever did the conversion goofed when stripping newlines, and words are running together, at the rate of about every 60 characters.
Messaged Phoenix about that, last night, so it's gonna be taken care of?
... And as to not just be a confirmation... Also notified (him?) of the sentences broken by line spaces in Glimpses of the Sun.
- Phoenix Spiritus
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Topic Author

Just a note, if you could copy paste the problem text and tell me it, it makes it a lot easier to fix.
Most of our stories are 20+K words long, when your reading it, the problems stick out. When I'm scanning through trying to find something wrong, its got to be pretty obvious for me to find it. If I need to read line by line through a whole storey to fix just a couple of issues, its going to take forever for me to fix everything

- Phoenix Spiritus
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Topic Author
If I've missed some places, please provide information so I can find them, I've already looked through multiple times and I haven't found them, saying "there are more" is not helping me find and fix them.
- Malady
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Phoenix Spiritus wrote: I tried to fix the broken sentences in Glimpses of the Sun, and the missing spaces in Dual Damsel.
If I've missed some places, please provide information so I can find them, I've already looked through multiple times and I haven't found them, saying "there are more" is not helping me find and fix them.
Right... I forgot to do that... Or should have thought of that when I logged on today...
Thankfully, Glimpses of the Sun is a bit shorter than most? ... Gonna try and find that word count sheet... Oh, right I have a local copy... Getting the shortest stories and checking them for errors... Maybe.
Working on Duel Damsel first...
you
know.”J Dean’s voice was tired. “
*...
I’ll think about it.* she finally stated. Couldn’t Amaterasu understand?
would
fall to the ground
had
to be somewhat amused
There isn't a time delay between you updating and me receiving on refresh, right?
- Phoenix Spiritus
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Topic Author
There's not a "time delay" as such, just me doing one story, moving onto the next, and so on, and only getting back to reading the comments later after I've "fixed" 2 stories and also some Author names (to be consistent for all stories).
i.e., I'm working my way through the list

Also Im fixing, republishing, checking for more faults, fixing, republishing, etc. round and round till I make it all the way through a scan of the published story and don't find another fault. Unfortunately, if you are going through the same story I'm doing, it could be changing each and every time you refresh as I update a newly "fixed" version.
But I've stopped now, its time for me to sleep

- cprime
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Dual Damsel notes:
I haven’t got allday! (all day)
poked my head in."Hey, is everything okay?" (space needed between period and quote)
in the cafeteria.It seems (space between period and It)
"Y’mean Harrygot you fired? (Harry got, note italics on Harry)
It was the butthead‘Montana’!" (space between butthead and quote)
after he got youfired." (you fired)
to a table as‘Dangerous’." (space between as and quote)
occurred to me thatI couldn’t (that I)
as much asI’d like to. (as I)
and besides,Tennyo (space between comma and Tennyo)
have a few wordswith him!" (words with, note italics on words)
don’t get many pretty girls inhere..." (in here)
get Monty.Y’don’t have to hurry (space between period and Y)
skin, and said,"Newt,go get Mirror (space between command quote and comma and go)
much better time thanKludge did. (than Kludge)
tell me to mind myPs and Qs (my Ps)
pulled his hand free."Okay, but (space between period and quote)
halfway home beforeI realized (before I)
me until lunch.Then Nikki came up and asked me,"What (space between period and Then, space between comma and quote)
Twain’s main fixer,a guy called ‘Mirror’, (space between comma and a)
that. "What?"Tennyo grated, (space between quote and Tennyo)
you meditating on so hard,Sempai?" (space between comma and Semapi, note quotes on Semapi)
You can’t Dothat! I won’t let you!" (Do that, note underline on Do)
You wouldn’ts wat him (wouldn't swat)
gloom, "I knowexactly what (know exactly, note underline on exactly)
probably good strategy."Billie, let me (space between period and quote)
second eschelon Reverend AlSharpton, which means (Al Sharpton)
Theyset themselves up as your betters, and make you jump throughhoops to get (They set, through hoops)
by the staircase,and we started (space between comma and and)
is,naturally, the Twain boys. (space between comma and naturally)
pointed to a slenderAsian girl (slender Asian)
I gave a brief barking"Kiai!" (space between barking and quote)
one of my more aggressive‘Kiai’ shouts. (space between agressive and quote)
He was trying to manoeuvre me (should be maneuver)
began a count-down. At‘ten’, he finished with"Yame!" (Space between at and quote and with and quote)
the doctorspromised me that they’d replace that broken thingwith one (doctors promised, thing with)
bad jokes, then I mustbe all right" (must be)
I wasn't aware of Malady's message, and hopefully I'm not staring at a stale copy.
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- Malady
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Duel Damsel Typos to be corrected:
cprime wrote: I wasn't aware of Malady's message, and hopefully I'm not staring at a stale copy.
You've got some I haven't gotten around to at the time you posted... Or missed... Here's the fusion of our lists.
***http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/original-timeline/144-chaka-duel-damsel
allday
body,and
poked my head in."Hey, is everything okay?" (space needed between period and quote)
cafeteria.It
Harrygot
butthead‘Montana’!"
" ‘Montana’?
youfired."
as‘Dangerous’."
occurred to me thatI couldn’t (that I)
_I_can!"
asI’d
besides,Tennyo
wordswith
don’t get many pretty girls inhere..." (in here)
Monty.Y’don’t
hispanic -> Hispanic
‘Kludge’was
said,"Newt,go
Mister Metalon
thanKludge
Carapice -" Carapace [Unless intentional lisp typo-thing? Happens twice.]
gota
bare footing -> bare-footing or barefooting ?
the girl who lodged a complaint against -> the girl who (you) lodged a complaint against ?
nastily."Good
God,Monty-
said,"He
and make a -> and made a
again."Hey,
myPs
beforeI
me until lunch.Then Nikki came up and asked me,"What (space between period and Then, space between comma and quote)
youcalling
fixer,a
that. "What?"Tennyo grated, (space between quote and Tennyo)
hard,Sempai?"
Dothat!
wouldn’ts wat
knowexactly
that‘We’re
made is sound -> made it sound
strategy."Billie,
Gideon Thorne -> Gabriel Thorne ? [Chaka calls him Gabe and Gabriel later on... Gideon or Gabriel... Which one is it?]
AlSharpton
departments -> department's
me."Toni,
watershed moment -> watershed moments ?
aloser’!
Theyset
throughhoops
any thing -> anything ?
are-I’d
dont’
staircase,and
is,naturally
Fuheads.
slenderAsian
barking"Kiai!"
aggressive‘Kiai’
in the cafeteria.It seems (space between period and It)
"Y’mean Harrygot you fired? (Harry got, note italics on Harry)
He was trying to manoeuvre me (should be maneuver) [Both are valid...]
began a count-down. At‘ten’, he finished with"Yame!" (Space between at and quote and with and quote)
row."I trust
plain wrong -> plain wrong.
the doctorspromised me that they’d replace that broken thingwith one (doctors promised, thing with)
bad jokes, then I mustbe all right" (must be)
green beans" -> green beans."
griddle" -> griddle."
fur" -> fur."
Cats -> cats ?
snarled."But
- Valentine
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Phoenix, I have unedited copies of all the stories from the old site, minus artwork if you need them.
Don't Drick and Drive.
- Phoenix Spiritus
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Topic Author
There's something different about this story as it's the only one that did this, so I'd need to work out what that was, or I could just fix a few more typos

- Malady
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whateleyacademy.net/index.php/content-me...es/123-a-simple-game
... And now I'm looking over it when I should be sleeping!!!

Still haven't gone through the whole thing. Just stopped at 'immanence'.
- Phoenix Spiritus
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Topic Author
For those wondering why this story has issues, it has a lot more HTML code in it then other stories, and its managed to be "cleaned up" in our CMS system. All the issues are where HTML code butts up against text, and its very hard to pick that a space got missed in the cleanup.
- cprime
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Only one more miss that I saw in Dual Damsel:
"What is this about youcalling out some guy in Twain?" (you calling)
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- Phoenix Spiritus
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Topic Author
cprime wrote: Only one more miss that I saw in Dual Damsel:
"What is this about youcalling out some guy in Twain?" (you calling)
Thanks, fixed it.
- Malady
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Standardizing capitalization of The Best Days of Our Lives?
Kayda 8: The Best Days of our Lives (Part 2) : whateleyacademy.net/index.php/original-timeline/657
Kayda 8: The Best Days of our Lives (Part 3) : whateleyacademy.net/index.php/original-timeline/681
- Phoenix Spiritus
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Topic Author
Malady wrote: Standardizing capitalization of The Best Days of Our Lives?
Warning: Spoiler! [ Click to expand ] [ Click to hide ]Kayda 8: The Best Days of Our Lives (Part 1) : whateleyacademy.net/index.php/original-timeline/643
Kayda 8: The Best Days of our Lives (Part 2) : whateleyacademy.net/index.php/original-timeline/657
Kayda 8: The Best Days of our Lives (Part 3) : whateleyacademy.net/index.php/original-timeline/681
Done
- Malady
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"I Don't Think we're in Kansas Anymore" is missing capitalization of We're for Parts 5 and 6?
- Phoenix Spiritus
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Topic Author
Malady wrote: "I Don't Think we're in Kansas Anymore" is missing capitalization of We're for Parts 5 and 6?
Fixed.
- Sir Lee
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Take, for instance, the "Canon (Original)" tag, which I found via the tag cloud at left...
whateleyacademy.net/index.php/component/...ag/77-canon-original
What IS that listing supposed to be? It includes both Whateley and non-Whateley stories.
- Kristin Darken
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Fate guard you and grant you a Light to brighten your Way.
- Valentine
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whateleyacademy.net/index.php/component/tags/tag/105-arc-or-story-series
I don't normally pay attention to it.
Don't Drick and Drive.
- Dawnfyre
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Missing tags for
Even Murphy’s Law has Loopholes
A Lit Chix Story
By Joe Gunnarson and E.E. Nalley
Chapters 2 and 3 are missing Joe Gunnarson tags
( they don't show in the story list under his name / tag. They are under E. E. Nalley )
Stupidity is a capitol offense, a summary not indictable one.
- Phoenix Spiritus
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Topic Author
Dawnfyre wrote: Missing tags for
Even Murphy’s Law has Loopholes
A Lit Chix Story
By Joe Gunnarson and E.E. Nalley
Chapters 2 and 3 are missing Joe Gunnarson tags
( they don't show in the story list under his name / tag. They are under E. E. Nalley )
Unlike the other chapters, these two are stated as being written by E. E. Nalley only in the story heading.
The tags match the headings, so seem fine to me.
- Dawnfyre
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it's only if you use EE's tag that you get those 2 chapters showing.
it might be incorrect to give Joe author credit for them, but it will save getting reports of missing chapters from those who don't check the other tags.
Stupidity is a capitol offense, a summary not indictable one.
- Phoenix Spiritus
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Topic Author
- Malady
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The older stories need that stop-point thing that cuts it off when previewing.
Moderator: Fixed
Merry Descent Into Madness has at least
Typos wrote: Decent -> Descent
Brintney Spears -> Britney Spears
verses -> Versus
Its not surprising is it? -> It's not surprising is it?
Gonna stop editing this.
- Phoenix Spiritus
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Topic Author
Yeah I know about the read more tag. I got through doing the first six pages of the original stories, but there is 134 pages of stories yet to do just for the Original Canon stories, not to mention the 2nd Gen, Library, etc. luckily WhatIF stories are so new, all them have it

Feel free to write up lists of things to fix here, I'll get around to them eventually

- Malady
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Or we could just remember to read through the whole thread before posting...
- Kristin Darken
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Fate guard you and grant you a Light to brighten your Way.
- Malady
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- Sir Lee
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- Phoenix Spiritus
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Topic Author
I just tried all the menus and I could not find them anymore.
The teasers were never migrated, that's true.
- Valentine
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Don't Drick and Drive.
- Phoenix Spiritus
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Topic Author
I think that was the major re-org when the April Fool's stories got accidentally removed from the menus.
- Kristin Darken
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Fate guard you and grant you a Light to brighten your Way.
- Sir Lee
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- Kristin Darken
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Fate guard you and grant you a Light to brighten your Way.
- Malady
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^ - Yeah, picking out what's canon and what's not, is fun indeed!
***
Incorrect tagging: "Spark" as "/Spark" : whateleyacademy.net/index.php/component/.../119-names-pov-spark
Only story: whateleyacademy.net/index.php/original-t...ine/372-the-big-idea
... While cool, she's Spark, not /Spark.
***
out fit -> outfit [x2]
rye > wry
I when through > I went through
your mother(')s
gene's > genes
mom(')s
***
whateleyacademy.net/index.php/original-t...he-turks-or-the-geek
packpack > backpack ? [He's injured, and sort of sedated-ish, so could just be that? Or is slang.]
- Malady
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What is this tag: Names/PoV/Anomaly ?
And its only story, whose link doesn't work. ... Also, the "/Spark" tag as mentioned above.
- DanZilla
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Malady wrote: What is this tag: Names/PoV/Anomaly ?
And its only story, whose link doesn't work. ... Also, the "/Spark" tag as mentioned above.
It's a tag that needs to be fixed to appear correctly, like with Spark. When we see the tags to be added to the stories they include slashes and categories and such... but they have to be edited to appear without them on the backend. they'll get fixed-up when we can.
And we'll get the story link straightened out too...
- JG
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Malady wrote: What is this tag: Names/PoV/Anomaly ?
And its only story, whose link doesn't work. ... Also, the "/Spark" tag as mentioned above.
It's an Anomaly!
- Malady
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JG wrote:
Malady wrote: What is this tag: Names/PoV/Anomaly ?
And its only story, whose link doesn't work. ... Also, the "/Spark" tag as mentioned above.
It's an Anomaly!
Oh! It's the Anomaly Origin! ... Small Mercies ... That is so mysterious due to lack of info! Is Anomaly even a mutant, I wonder...

... Wait... "an Anomaly"... One mutant across multiple bodies, permanently? *Shrugs*
I guess I could interpret that tag name wrong and have Names and PoV as codenames, but I guess there's noone who'd codename themselves Names or PoV... Although, there are the Protagonist and the Narrator, IIRC... Mmm...
- Kristin Darken
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Fate guard you and grant you a Light to brighten your Way.
- Malady
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- Phoenix Spiritus
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Topic Author
Kristin Darken wrote: My April Fools 2010 story and Dianes are both there in the Canon list. It looks like Tensai's is not currently in the files. Brandy's story is definitely in the Featured WhatIF stuff. Technically, that's probably where we should put the April Fools stories... because despite the 'joke' being in canon, the stories and their contents are not.
I can't move things once they are published, you'll need to do this Kristin.
- Phoenix Spiritus
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Topic Author
Malady wrote: Perhaps update the 1st/2nd post with Current Issues, so we don't bother you with things you already know about or make a new one at this point and link from 1st post or something, if you're hitting message length limits.
Or we could just remember to read through the whole thread before posting...
I updated the second post, and I tried to go through all these postings and add a moderator comment to the ones that have been fixed.
But honestly, if you see a mistake, create a post, I don't mind double posts if it helps me remember what needs to be done.
- Malady
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Diamonds Are a Vamp's Best Friend (Part 1)
If it's Sir Wallace Westmont, then this:
"Because I knew that it was the surest way that all of you would come and eavesdrop," Sir William said puckishly. Then his urbane smile faded and his genial tone went hard. "Which is also the reason why I asked you all here."
"As is THIS," Miss Hagarty reached over to the lapel of Westmore's jacket and pulled out what looked like a straight clothing pin with a slightly oversized head.
Sir William -> Sir Wallace
Westmore's -> Westmont's
- cprime
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This isn't a content issue, but more of a permissions issue. One of the Caregiver stories (I believe it's whateleyacademy.net/index.php/the-librar...-the-song-of-corazon based on the view count) is not available to the general public.Not a huge issue, but I noticed a mismatch between the article count and article list when I was looking at the category last night.
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- Arcanist Lupus
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"Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased — thus do we refute entropy." - Spider Robinson
- Esar
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- Kristin Darken
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Yes, I understand that this one wasn't meant to be restricted... that is beside the point.
I left the article names based on title in place because it makes things simpler for the people running the WIKI. If this sort of snooping around behind the surface continues, I will have to resort to using more secure document access methods and it will no longer be possible to directly link to specific stories from outside the site. It would really suck if we lost the ability to link info in the wiki to the stories that info came from... just because some people couldn't wait for us to release stories when they were ready and had to go poking around for information that they weren't supposed to have access to.
Fate guard you and grant you a Light to brighten your Way.
- JG
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- Malady
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How should we be reporting tagging issues? Links to tags? Or can tags just be selected just by knowing what they're called, such that me saying that the "Nikki" tag only has 1 story on it, is enough for you guys to know what I'm talking about?
... Oh, wait... Is tag modding and tag adding an Admin-only thing? ... Well, sorry, if that's the case. ... Gonna try and find a Feedback page for the Starting Points series so that I could possibly help there.
- Kristin Darken
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Fate guard you and grant you a Light to brighten your Way.
- Valentine
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Kristin Darken wrote: Tagging everything is NOT a planned project, let alone an active project. If something doesn't have tags, it doesn't have tags. There's a damn good chance that if we DO get around to implementing a working tag system that be used from the front end, that it will clear all the existing tags, anyway.
[sarcasm]Kristin will you and the authors please stop writing so you can set up a tag system that only a few readers will use or care about? Thank you.[/sarcasm]
Don't Drick and Drive.
- DanZilla
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I DO know that as we add new stories we're trying to make sure the Author and POV characters are tagged and that's all you should generally expect to see on the stories. (and we sometimes miss those but do try to be consistent in doing so)
- JG
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Next time someone spoilers one of my stories' titles and/or new characters because they're trying to peek behind the curtain?
I will DELETE the story.
I came very close when someone went poking and mentioned Anomaly and Small Mercies being "Dead links."
If a story's title/PoV character is to be announced prior to the release of said story, it is the privilege of the author to do so, not the peanut gallery.
- Malady
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JG wrote: Let me amend:
Next time someone spoilers one of my stories' titles and/or new characters because they're trying to peek behind the curtain?
I will DELETE the story.
I came very close when someone went poking and mentioned Anomaly and Small Mercies being "Dead links."
If a story's title/PoV character is to be announced prior to the release of said story, it is the privilege of the author to do so, not the peanut gallery.
... Sorry... ... I'm not sure if I found it by seeing it in the tag field,
I click on them 'cause they're interesting, like... ... Well, I literally just saw one, right now, that's got slashes in it... And "lex blackstone", who I'll say, 'cause we know he's a character...
V - Well, I was gonna ask about PM-ing you guys about it, but tags aren't high priority? ... gonna sleep, I know which one it is, so PM me if you need to know to fix it or something... *night.
- JG
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Someone posting that they found it on the forums, or using it in a foodie bookie's bet before it has been announced (you know who you are...) isn't cool.
If it's a title you've never seen, or a PoV character you've never heard of and no links to said tags/title can be found?
That means it's probably not meant for public discourse yet.
- Kristin Darken
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JG's summed it up pretty well.
And I will point out again that I KNOW that the way things are set up, it allows you to sneak peaks at titles of things that aren't released (along with what tags are associated with that file). This is by choice. I specifically set it up so that these titles are visible in this way... because doing so is the only way we can allow the WIKI to reference specific stories from offsite. I can (and will if people continue to feel it necessary to abuse this) flip a toggle switch in the options that will obscure specific article names with randomly generated URLs. This will mask the titles of articles that you are not authorized to see... prevent you from typing those article names into a browser to bypass the menu system... but will also screw over the WIKI folks and significantly reduce the value of an offsite WIKI.
Snooping around behind the curtains, by the way, is against site policy. Talking about said snooping and the information that you found while doing so in a public forum... is not only against site policy, its just plain foolish. It's like finding an exploit in an MMO and then telling everyone in a public channel how to use it. Just because you don't plan to abuse the knowledge.... doesn't mean you didn't just completely destroy game balance and economy because not all the people who heard what you said had the same 'benevolent' attitude.
Fate guard you and grant you a Light to brighten your Way.
- Malady
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Saks and Violence : Overcoloring Words:
DO NOT TOUCH!’ She took a dummy made of ballistics gelatin, with synthetic bones clearly showing through the mock flesh, and a few pouches of liquid inside the chest and abdomen, placed it on stand and set it in front of the console and set the hand on the lever. “Okay, you’ve seen this in a couple of thousand cheesy TV shows: The hero is tearing up the nefarious villain’s lair, spots the self-destruct button and says, ‘Aha! I’ll end Dr. Nefarious’ nefarious nephariousness with a single push of a button!’ And a voice starts a countdown, and everyone heads for the exits, with just enough time for that one last-minute rescue and punch-up with the villain before getting out just before the big explosions, roll the credits.
I assume only "DO NOT TOUCH" is supposed to be in red...
- Malady
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The Devil’s Dance
(Part One)
A Whateley Academy Tale
By Renae
(And Everyone in the Whateley Writers Crew)
(Author’s note: Song lyrics credits, and suggested play list at the end of the story. Yes I know, abnormal for me but well J .)
- Malady
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Double Post 'cause it's been over a week.
Is A Pocket Full of Tansy supposed to open with no header, no time-location stamp, and:
But it wasn't Gene or Angelina that had Tansy down in these filthy tunnels.
Because it sounds like there should be something before that "But"... Although, I do remember it starting like that. It just seems
... And I guess headers are a thing that only started with some of the later uploads. ... *sigh*
- E. E. Nalley
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MODERATOR: Fixed
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791
- Malady
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... Did we notice this already?? *Checking...*
List by Author:
The Art of Being The Imp - 96 to 99
First Imp-pression - 103
A Touch of Mischief - 109
The Penance Factor - 108
Medicine Girl - 119
The Back Side of Paradise - 100
The Island of Dr. DNA - 101
---
The stories in that set are:
18 doesn't exist.
19 is News, so it's fine.
20 doesn't exist
47 - Roulette Part 2, is fine.
Mama's Boy - 49
As Beauty Does - 52
The Kodiak Conspiracy - 77 to 81
Riddle Of Sappho - 82 to 87
Wings Over Bedlam is fine? - 88 to 91
An Imp-Perfect World - 92 to 95
The Art of Being The Imp - 96 to 99
The Back Side of Paradise - 100
The Island of Dr. DNA - 101
Date Night - 102
First Imp-pression - 103
Diamonds are a Vamp's Best Friend (Parts 1 and 2) - 104 to 105
106 is News, so it's fine.
107 doesn't exist.
The Penance Factor - 108
A Touch of Mischief - 109
110 to 113 don't exist.
Whisper (Chapters 31-35) - 114
115 is News, so it's fine.
116 and 117 are Fate Sucks (Part 1) and Kitsune, which are both fine?
Hank 2: So Shalt Thou Show Me Friendship - 118
Medicine Girl - 119
120 is News, so it's fine.
Rails and Recollections - Fanfiction - 121 ... I'm not sure if it's supposed to look like that.
- E. E. Nalley
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I DID fine some odd marker in Pocket Full of Tansy like a page break or something and deleted it, but the full text was in the edit view and restored after I deleted whatever it was, but maybe I did that too quickly...
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791
- Malady
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The Riddle of Sappho
by EE Nalley & ElrodW
Canto II
Skimming down the paths of the sky's bright ether
On they brought you over the earth's black bosom,
Swiftly--then you stood with a sudden brilliance,
Goddess, before me;
Hymn to Aphrodite, Sappho
May 5th, 2007 - About 3:30 pm
Arena 77, tunnels between Schuster Hall and Doyle Medical , Whateley Academy
"Two murders in as many weeks," muttered Mrs. Carson as she shook her head. A pair of crime scene techs from Coos County police were finishing up while the coroner was supervising the gentle handling of the remains into a stretcher to be taken to the morgue. Chief Delarose was stone faced as he let the Headmistress vent her anger and now she was winding down to depression. "I want to know who did this, Franklin," she ordered.
If it's actually there, it's not showing in the page source.
- DanZilla
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- elrodw
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Never give up, Never surrender! Captain Peter Quincy Taggert
- Kristin Darken
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Alternately, authors can put Title/blurb/image in the pre-readmore section... and leave the start of the story for below the line (as is typically done at BCTS). But we have to choose one of the two... do you want the 'stuff above' visible or not?
Fate guard you and grant you a Light to brighten your Way.
- E. E. Nalley
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791
- Malady
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... I think is what you mean? It sounds like it's the only solution that works...
- Phoenix Spiritus
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I've been slowly going through and adding the "read more" tags to the older stories.
Didn't realise this would be a problem for them.
- DanZilla
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Phoenix Spiritus wrote: Ah, this probably me then.
I've been slowly going through and adding the "read more" tags to the older stories.
Didn't realize this would be a problem for them.
More a combination of things... going by what Kristin said...
But, we know what's wrong and it sounds like Kristin can fix things globally... unless there's something else that that screws-up.
- Kristin Darken
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Phoenix Spiritus wrote: Ah, this probably me then.
I've been slowly going through and adding the "read more" tags to the older stories.
Didn't realise this would be a problem for them.
It isn't... if you access those stories via the blurb style list. If you access them from the master category lists, then its possible that the settings I originally used may start the 'visible' story section at the readmore tag. The data isn't lost, it just isn't being show if you get there via a category table vs a blog post. And that's purely a matter of the original set up being purely table based acess... now that we're using the blog style, I need to tweak some settings. It'll be fine... I just need to find all the categories that have the settings that way and toggle a button from 'hide' to 'show.'
Fate guard you and grant you a Light to brighten your Way.
- E. E. Nalley
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791
- Kristin Darken
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Fate guard you and grant you a Light to brighten your Way.
- Malady
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Hope you can find a nice fix, instead of having to use a kludge!
- Kristin Darken
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THIS btw, is exactly the sort of thing we keep saying not to do. a CMS based site loads things using code templates. Not pre-defined html. when you tell it to just load "X" or "Y"... it may try to do so... and actually get you something approaching what is intended. But it ISN'T how the site is intended or designed to be used. And it isn't our responsibility to make it work right when you are doing things this way.
Fate guard you and grant you a Light to brighten your Way.
- Malady
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Kristin Darken wrote: You will have to go to it via one of the lists, not a direct link Malady. You're 'forcing' a story to load outside of the context of it being a story. There's no code telling it how to handle the readmore tag that way. You'll notice it also doesn't show you a submenu in the left hand sidebar when you load it that way.
THIS btw, is exactly the sort of thing we keep saying not to do. a CMS based site loads things using code templates. Not pre-defined html. when you tell it to just load "X" or "Y"... it may try to do so... and actually get you something approaching what is intended. But it ISN'T how the site is intended or designed to be used. And it isn't our responsibility to make it work right when you are doing things this way.
OH! Okay... So... it seems I should have "index.php/stories/" instead of just "index.php/"... And I totally missed that tags are at the bottom of stories. I expected them at the top. Ah well! ... Things work, so all is good!
- Malady
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There are a lot of uncapitalizations... But, hey, spellcheckers aren't programmed for Whateley.
There's no misspellings, so that's nice!
ju(s)t
(D)iedricks
lo(o)se
after Ember(.)
(G)rimes
materiel > material [?]
“What did you fill the runes in with(?)”
I will never do it again. (Mach)-5” [Or does he sign with just "-5"??]
(N)oms [x2]
class<
dre(a)dlock
she steals > she stole
Junior (H)igh
(P)uzzle
reached Hawthorne(,)
- cprime
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The first line I'm noting is 'No,”...', with the last being 'I make a note of all the lives I've taken...'. I mentally took note of a couple other issues (homophones I believe) towards the start of the story, but I'm having problems finding them at the moment.
"rugged, tare resistant", should be tear.
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- Kristin Darken
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Fate guard you and grant you a Light to brighten your Way.
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- DanZilla
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Phoenix Spiritus wrote: Well, that explains how I keep accidentally doing that too.
heh... that or adding an extra > or <
- Malady
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Carmody swallowed heavily. “What are you saying?”
Presumably, that's not supposed to be bolded?
Also, perhaps add a paragraph space before "January 6th:" to separate it from the newspapery parts?
- Kristin Darken
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Fate guard you and grant you a Light to brighten your Way.
- Malady
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Kristin Darken wrote: lol... lets see... we can work on big picture feature improvements like... viable searching and tags. or we can play whackamole with 10k typos that have snuck into the stories over the years. *raises an eyebrow*

- Kristin Darken
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If we had some reader/reviewers whose part in the process was doing that sort of thing and NOT writing or web development or something else... then we probably would do a typos/homophone/format tweaks list. And any time they didn't have a piece in the pipeline to work through, they'd be asked to whittle down the tweaks list.
So its not completely wasted effort. Just... ahead of its time.
Fate guard you and grant you a Light to brighten your Way.
- Phoenix Spiritus
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If you have a list of typos to correct, we could do that too while we're editing those stories.
- Malady
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Phoenix Spiritus wrote: Malady, [...] If you have a list of typos to correct, we could do that too while we're editing those stories.
Okay... Here's my list of typos .
It's not comprehensive though. Some are super minor and could just be writer's style... Father John 2's section is still growing...
Uhh... How do you access the stories in the new tags? ... Oh, you need to click the Read More? Unless I'm missing something?
Also the only story in the Kim Possible tag doesn't have a read more note, but as it was one of the first stories tagged, I guess that was just a test?
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- Phoenix Spiritus
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What are you guys seeing? Because I'm seeing an image of a line break with a shadow, are you seeing words or something instead?
- OtherEric
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- Phoenix Spiritus
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- DanZilla
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- Valentine
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Phoenix Spiritus wrote: OK, E. E.'s complaining of "linebreak shadow" too.
What are you guys seeing? Because I'm seeing an image of a line break with a shadow, are you seeing words or something instead?
It's the text that is printed if the image fails.
Don't Drick and Drive.
- Kristin Darken
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Doesn't help that any changes to images also has to deal with cached files and such for who knows how long after you change things.
Fate guard you and grant you a Light to brighten your Way.
- Phoenix Spiritus
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Malady wrote:
Phoenix Spiritus wrote: Malady, [...] If you have a list of typos to correct, we could do that too while we're editing those stories.
Okay... Here's my list of typos .
Any chance of getting the full sentence with the typo, rather then just the single word?
Single words could be in a story dozens of times, tracking down which of them is the one with the problem could take forever, whereas with a sentence we can usually do find and get straight to the problem.
- Malady
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Single words are capitalization errors... Likely they aren't capitalized that often, but okay. More information, yes.
- Phoenix Spiritus
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Sorry.
- Malady
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So how far have you gotten? ... Meh, I'll just run through the stories and check later...
- Phoenix Spiritus
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- cprime
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'Combat Final, Nikki admitted,” as Jericho snickered.', should be 'Combat Final," Nikki admitted, as Jericho snickered.'
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Siblings and Savages, parts 1 - 3, each time Kayda shows up, she's called "Petuja" instead of "Pejuta" (or "Petula" , which would be wrong, but amusing). Valentine mentioned it about 6 weeks ago, and Google's indexed all three instances already.
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Fate guard you and grant you a Light to brighten your Way.