I'd like to relate a recent mishap of mine on Newgrounds in an attempt both to help forum moderators and prevent other users like me from running afoul of mods without intending to.

Just yesterday I punched up "Ganon" (as in the angry-blue-pig form of Link's chief adversary in the Legend of Zelda series) under a search for BBS topics, just for the heck of it. I found one telling NG users to go to www.gamefaqs.com and vote for Ganon in a Ganon v. Magus poll. I made some comment about how I wouldn't vote for any villain until somebody named a foe who could beat the one my bet is always on (hint: he wields a great over-long katana and has glowing aqua-green eyes) in a villains' fight.
Little did I realize (as I hadn't been looking at dates and times on people's posts) that the last post was in 2003, and for bumping the thread, I've been banned from the BBS for 3 days for "bumping a 5-year-old spam thread" according to the moderator who nailed me.

In light of this, I'd like to first apologize for not paying better attention. Second, I'd like to suggest to the mods and administrators a way of preventing other NG users from meeting the same pitfall that I did. My suggestion is this: implement a system that automatically deletes non-locked stale topics to which nobody has responded after a given period of time (I consider a reasonable length of time to be 2 years given that the one I bumped was 5 years old, but I'm okay leaving it up to the admins). However, it may not be a good idea to disclose an auto-delete time in the BBS Rules, as spammers may become more active in their thread-bumping if they know when threads will be deleted, an act that falls under the category of "attempting to smartass one's way around the rules."

I anticipate that moderators who read this news post will also become more vigilant about locking and/or deleting topics that, in their opinions, fall under the "spam thread" category and banning perpetrators of spam threads.

It all started with my most recent post to FanFiction.net: Chapter 9 of my story The Great Revival for the Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles fandom. The chapter is titled "Raem's Waking," and what happens here is the great demon Raem comes to Mount Vellenge to discover that the Meteor Parasite (the source of the miasma) has been destroyed. He wants to catch the meddling fools responsible (my motley Tipa caravan) and make them pay, but they're all dead except for one who hid in a moogle nest--they knew Raem would be coming and plunged into the miasma, hoping it would kill them before Raem caught anybody. To the demon's greater anger, all of the bodies of the Tipa caravanners are under a protective spell that prevents further harm to the bodies until the souls return--the handiwork of Lady Mio, Queen of Memories (the good deity in this realm).

As Raem's gaze falls on one of those who died--my Selkie caravanner, Anais Nin (named for the French novelist)--he remembers a previous effort to kill her before the motley caravan ever reached Vellenge, an effort that failed because he underestimated her. Because he realizes how determined Mio is that Anais Nin will get the happily-ever-after she longs for (to marry the man she's loved almost since they first met years ago shortly after she's brought back to life with Life magicite), Raem lays the following curse on Anais Nin, a curse against which Mio might not have had the forethought to shield her:

Rumble and erupt as Mount Kilanda may--and I know full well it will if Lady Mio has her way--no life, no life at all, will e'er take root upon that isle: Future bleak it follows ahead, all th' eternal while.

The curse caught the attention of my fellow writer SasukeBlade, who asked this question in her review of the chapter: "I'm not sure I understand Raem's curse. Is he cursing the actual Mount Kilanda or is he metaphorically cursing Anais Nin, making her infertile?" SasukeBlade guessed the nature of the curse correctly the second time: I had used Mount Kilanda as a metaphoric reference for the curse. Why, you ask? Well, Kilanda is a volcano and a very active one at that, and volcanic activity sometimes symbolizes passion. ;3 However, Kilanda is also utterly barren except for the monsters that roam (no plant life or whatever), so it only makes sense that a "curse of Mount Kilanda" is an infertility curse. Then it occurred to me, as I told SasukeBlade in my reply to the review, that if I wrote a wedding-night scene for the couple (keeping within FF.net's rating guidelines), I could warn readers of sexual content by writing "rated M for Mount Kilanda" in the summary when I got around to posting that particular chapter. This apparently gave my fellow writer this idea: "Think about it, we could start an innuendo revolution here."

Although I find it kind of surprising that I, of all people, am the one who thinks the idea up in the first place...

That's the one I've got as my picture. My other alias is ladycordelia17, my penname on a site called FanFiction.net.

Specifically, Raem is a demon from the realm of Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles (for the Nintendo GameCube) that devours the memories of the Clavat, Lilty, Yuke, and Selkie peoples. He thrives on painful memories and therefore benefits from the miasma that engulfs the realm and in countless instances assumes the forms of monsters. And like any boss, these monsters serve Raem by causing the good peoples of the realm as much pain as they can.

I have some handiwork in FF.net's FFCC section, including a one-shot of which I'm proud called The Demon Sends His Messengers. The theory under which I wrote it was this: considering Raem's nature, I can't help but suspect his talons in a tragedy (among other tragedies in the course of the story) that's moved many a fiction-writing fan among savvy FFCC gamers.