One month after the launch: Headed for closure

[Claire]

@riffraff, @peterfrisk, @CFarmwood, @John_F_Drake, @bob202, @RSlice, @boooboo2

All of you have expressed in this topic that you would like me to keep running this forum. And trust me, I want that more than anybody. But I also see that currently this forum is on the same path as all those other sites that no longer exist. We all know where this path leads.

So what I am asking you guys: Show that appreciation that you have expressed in this thread by doing the following two things.

First, in little more than 24 hours (see the timer above) the 3 day voting period of the Semi-Final of the Ravished in a Flash tournament begins. Read those 4 Flash Fiction stories (<15 minutes reading time to read them ALL), rate at least the ones you think should win their match and maybe leave the authors some encouraging words, including the potential losers of their match that might not advance to the next round.

Second, please support my team. If every time someone had thanked me for running this site, they had instead taken 20 minutes to read one of my short stories and left some encouraging words on them, I would be drowning in comments by now. Please ignore my stories if you don't care about them, but show @Vela Nanashi's and @LaLia's stories some love. Give for example their entries for the RavishU Memorial Contest some attention. Chances are, this contest brought you here in the first place because it told Google that this site is related to RavishU. Even if their stories might not speak to your personal kinks, I am sure you will be able to find something about them to appreciate. Showing the people that keep running this place a hint of appreciation every now and then by acknowledging their creative work can do wonders for a forum like this.

If just you 7 found it in you to maybe comment on 3 stories per week over the next 2 months, then this forum would be a very different place already and there is no way in hell I would ever consider closing it.

[HistBuff]

@Claire Here's a big reason why people don't comment on porn stories. Embarrassment.

Embarrassment is indeed a thing. I have a young date who loves my stories, but she prefers to remain a lurker and just read. And it's not just the fact that she's both a student and a weightlifter who trains 7 times a week; she's very shy about those things. But trust me, she does get horny when reading such stories. Now that I've seen this "shy yet horny" process with my own eyes, I understand it better.

What I miss the most from RU is the word from rape survivors who told me reading my stories helped them understand that what happened to them wasn't their fault. Knowing that my writing makes such a difference is what truly keeps me going.

As for commenting others' stories, I've already done it a couple of times only and I'll keep doing it on my own free time and free will. As for contests, I participated a lot back in 2021-22 on RapeCage and a little on TBV, but the style of my stories isn't very well suited for a single posting, and much less for flash stories, and it doesn't fit the tastes of the majority, so at one point I decided to leave this alone. I'm the kind of writer who could write a rapey version of War And Peace and find much enjoyment in it.

[Vela Nanashi]

If/when I run a story contest HistBuff, it will have a minimum length requirement, not an upper one, and it will be valid to use a specific chapter in a story that has not yet been in a contest (or a whole story that has not). Though if we use reputation for votes we may require the story also be new for the site, so that it will have a fresh reputation score for the contest.

[LaLia]

@HistBuff

So, just off the top of my head...a contest with the theme "Theatres of War" or "History Must Take Place Before 1900" would be interesting topics, wouldn't it?

[Blue]

So, just off the top of my head...a contest with the theme "Theatres of War" or "History Must Take Place Before 1900" would be interesting topics, wouldn't it?

I've always found stories set in wars interesting. Regardless of the era, whether ancient, medieval, or even modern times. They can be easily embellished with true events, sometimes in more, sometimes less detail as needed. They can be rather soft or quite brutal. Just as wars obviously were.

You can write a short story with a single episode from the war. Or a sequel, like @Histbuff likes to do. Or like I did with my story "Zoran's Rape Squad/Zorans Schändertruppe)," which I hope to continue soon.

[LaLia]

I think no matter what war you read about, rape is always an issue...it doesn't matter whether you go back to the Middle Ages, Romans against Germanic tribes, World War II, Vietnam, Yugoslavia wars or more recently Russia and Ukraine, Afghanistan or Iraq...one thing remains the same: rape is always an issue, whatever fits