Pink Orchid 2024: Story Event for Women-Centric Erotica - Official Support Thread

[StillStunned]

No-one is ever going to search "pick Orchid" so you've just wasted a tag.

Oooh, burn! EB has got you there, @Devinter!

 

[Devinter]

You know, I don't want to shift the blame over to someone else, but I could have sworn I CTRL+V's that Pink Orchid in there since I had already copied it to the Admin field. And the tag moved from the second spot to the last as well, even though everything else is in the order I submitted them. That part I am 100% sure about. So there is actually a chance that someone else made the mistake, and not me - but I don't want to accuse anyone, soooo..

 

[StillStunned]

Well, according to an ancient joke, it's easy to confuse "pick" and "pink".

 

[Omenainen]

No-one is ever going to search "pick Orchid" so you've just wasted a tag.

While this is untrue in absolute terms, because I did search for “pick orchid” today, I agree that it’s not the catchiest tag… it did make me laugh, so it wasn’t totally useless

 

[ElectricBlue]

You know, I don't want to shift the blame over to someone else, but I could have sworn I CTRL+V's that Pink Orchid in there since I had already copied it to the Admin field. And the tag moved from the second spot to the last as well, even though everything else is in the order I submitted them. That part I am 100% sure about. So there is actually a chance that someone else made the mistake, and not me - but I don't want to accuse anyone, soooo..

My guess would be the autocorrect on your keyboard. You'd think mine would have learned my vocabulary by now, but the bloody thing is always giving me the dumbest typos. It trys to help, but I still need to check every word!

While this is untrue in absolute terms, because I did search for “pick orchid” today, I agree that it’s not the catchiest tag… it did make me laugh, so it wasn’t totally useless

Still, it got a laugh from the Finnish woman, and that's not always easy to do .

At least my three koalas have gone, so my plan this morning is to get some more written on my story. A thousand words here, a thousand words there, I should be able to do it (but you watch me write s something else!).

 

[Devinter]

My guess would be the autocorrect on your keyboard. You'd think mine would have learned my vocabulary by now, but the bloody thing is always giving me the dumbest typos. It trys to help, but I still need to check every word!

I do not use autocorrect, so that's not it. Either I typed it wrong - which is very possible; I make a lot of writing mistakes all the time - or something went wrong on the editor's side of things.

But I am going to focus on the positives, which is that people seem to enjoy the story so far. I got a few 1-bombs but almost every other vote has been a 5, and I got quite a handful of new followers with female usernames. Honestly, that's what I worried about the most; that I'd make it only appeal primarily to a male audience, which wouldn't have been optimal for this type of event, even if the story focuses on sex-positivity and women having a great time.

So is it the orchid I would pick? No, Omenainen's story is better. But this isn't a competition and I'm decently satisfied with what I managed to produce!

 

[StillStunned]

Still, it got a laugh from the Finnish woman, and that's not always easy to do .

I've only ever known one Finnish woman, and I don't think she stopped giggling in the two years I knew her.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I've only ever known one Finnish woman, and I don't think she stopped giggling in the two years I knew her.

@Omenainen doesn't sound like the giggly type to me. She sounds much more serious. I might be wrong, but if you had all that snow, would you giggle about it? I don't think so.

 

[Omenainen]

I've only ever known one Finnish woman, and I don't think she stopped giggling in the two years I knew her.

Are you sure she was Finnish? Sounds like a Swede in disguise. For reference, if I’m abroad and I fuck up something bad enough, I start taking Swedish as loudly as I can (sorry not sorry, Sweden!).

 

[StillStunned]

Are you sure she was Finnish? Sounds like a Swede in disguise. For reference, if I’m abroad and I fuck up something bad enough, I start taking Swedish as loudly as I can (sorry not sorry, Sweden!).

No, she was Finnish. Maybe she was just happy to be out of the snow.

 

[Omenainen]

No, she was Finnish. Maybe she was just happy to be out of the snow.

That’s entirely possible. -17°C, feels like -24°C, at the moment. Which is… 1.4/-11.2 in Fahrenheit. Other countries shut down with less severe winter weather, we had a an outdoor concert to celebrate New Year and one artist performed topless. It’s kind of funny, in a miserable way, but doesn’t induce giggling in me.

 

[ArdentHemingway]

No-one is ever going to search "pick Orchid"

I do now that I know about it.

 

[AwkwardMD]

Just pushed submit on my entry.

 

[joy_of_cooking]

snowed in with a predator

 

[Lifestyle66]

"The Maneater" went live last night in Loving Wives.
"A Barbie-wife/anti-heroine learned to control men."

With something for everyone to hate in Loving Wives, predictably it's at 2.17 with 29 votes, but almost 2K views. It's long at 23k words. But it describes in detail how and why the powerful woman does what she does.

 

[joy_of_cooking]

Oh no. I've been wondering why my new story is getting such poor ratings (3.33/9) and I realized I accidentally submitted it under non con instead of fetish.

I guess I could ask Laurel to change the category but it would take weeks and I'd never get another shot at the new list.

Ugh what a careless mistake.

In my head it was always a non con story that I dressed up with some fetish content for marketing purposes.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I'm posting this thread to officially kick of the "Pink Orchid 2024: Story Event for Women-Centric Erotica"

Hi,

I’m 33-50% through a story. Sorry if I’m being a pain, but assume there will be a page with the 2024 stories. Any ETA? Just wanted to add a link at the top of my text .

Em

 

[Omenainen]

Hi,

I’m 33-50% through a story. Sorry if I’m being a pain, but assume there will be a page with the 2024 stories. Any ETA? Just wanted to add a link at the top of my text .

Em

The stories can be found with the tag search for now. The list will come out at International Women’s Day, March 8th. I suppose the page will be named similarly to the previous years’ lists, so I guess it’s possible to link to it even before it goes live. The previous years’ threads are linked in the beginning of this thread and the lists are linked in them.

 

[Omenainen]

Oh no. I've been wondering why my new story is getting such poor ratings (3.33/9) and I realized I accidentally submitted it under non con instead of fetish.

I guess I could ask Laurel to change the category but it would take weeks and I'd never get another shot at the new list.

Ugh what a careless mistake.

In my head it was always a non con story that I dressed up with some fetish content for marketing purposes.

Check your categories and tags before posting, people we’ve had a statistically significant percentage of mishaps in the stories posted so far.

 

[EmilyMiller]

The stories can be found with the tag search for now. The list will come out at International Women’s Day, March 8th. I suppose the page will be named similarly to the previous years’ lists, so I guess it’s possible to link to it even before it goes live. The previous years’ threads are linked in the beginning of this thread and the lists are linked in them.

Thanks

Em

 

[Omenainen]

Thanks

Em

You’re welcome

O

 

[Kumquatqueen]

A story I failed to post last year can now be posted for this! Now to decide which tag to remove...

Who knows when my planned Pink Orchid story will get done...

 

[Lifestyle66]

The anonymous comments are starting to come in on my Pink Orchid story "The Maneater", and they're what I expected from the Loving Wives crowd:
*****
More feminist bullshit. The problem is people believe this bullshit amd let it happen that is really scary. 1☆
*****
Hmmm ...,
Pro: Well written
Con: Jan's a bitch.
Jan's a slut.
Jan's a manipulater.
Jan's a self centered narcissist.
Jan's a ...
*****
A femdom daylight dreaming fantasy from some far away femdom world.
*****

I took such great pains to make her a balanced hater of all sides of sexists, misogynists, and male-bashing feminists. And she even said she's not a narcissist, but a predator (but she does say she's a scheming bitch, DUH!)

 

[KerosPoet]

I posted my story about the Greek goddesses. I have no idea what to expect. I went for NonHuman; nothing really fits.

Fingers crossed!

 

[ArdentHemingway]

Makes me scared to publish my no-sex lesbian story.