There is so much good work on this site that I have long been frustrated by my inability to discover it, primarily because of the problem of not being able to see the wood for the trees.

It’s been almost ten years since I published my first story on this site in which I introduced Sensotouch into breast and hip enhancement garments, although I don’t think I actually used that term until subsequent stories. Its function was to transfer feeling from the outer skin of the garments to the human skin beneath by a number of electrodes in contact with the skin.

It appears a company has now designed a VR electric bodysuit to simulate feelings in just the same way as Sensotouch.

An interesting video on the BBC news site about an experiment with gender stereotyping.

Gender specific toys: do you stereotype children?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-40936719

I've just watched a superb video on a m2f conversion made for TV at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt_xjQ1gcy0

It not only covers the special effects conversion, which is beyond most of our pockets, but also the ways in which females move and behave differently to males. It's 22 mins long, and well worth a watch.

When uploading a picture, we're given the option of generating a thumbnail. I want to include a thumbnail in my story so that when the user clicks on it, the normal-sized picture is uploaded, which is the typical use for a thumbnail..

I've been messing with html and can do it if I put a link to the main picture from a title beneath the thumbnail. But I'm not certain how to link the thumbnail itself to the main picture. (It's worth saying I haven't much used html for 15 years, so I'm quite rusty!)

Is there an easy way to use thumbnails on this site?

I saw this on the BBC News and thought you should see it:

Teenage boys in Rottingdean school skirt protest over hot weather http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-36868781

Four teenage boys who were disciplined for wearing PE shorts to school on the hottest day of the year so far, stage a protest by wearing skirts instead.

Since we're normally confronted with a pair of so-called flesh-coloured tits whenever we go to the BC homepage, I wonder if any readers actually have flesh of that colour.

My skin around the breast is very pale, almost white, and if I do expose it to the sun goes a shade of brown. It never goes to the pinky colour of most silicone breasts. Does anyone's skin match that colour?

There's an interesting TED video given by Martine Rothblatt which talks partly about her transition at Ted talks click here.

However, there's a whole lot more about how she moved from being a satellite communication engineer to form a medical company to keep alive her daughter who has a life-threatening illness, and about digitally saving our minds so we can be reborn at some time in the future!

For those that don't know of them, TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design, and the website contains videos of well-presented lectures on all kind of fascinating subjects.

The Boy in the Dress Is to screen in prime time Christmas viewing!

It's on BBC1 at 6.55pm on Boxing Day.

Brilliant news!

Maybe just one or two bigots will become more open minded, and the rest will see it as a little more normal behaviour.

Charlotte

So often I see blogs from authors talking about their stories. Maybe they're bemoaning the number of comments or kudos. Maybe they're talking more generally.

But so rarely do they provide a link to the story. If I click on their name, it doesn't take me to a page showing their titles.

They may think everyone knows the story they're talking about. We don't. Please provide a link so we can quickly look up your story.

Charlotte

The new skin looks great. So fresh and inviting - really love it.

I've just written a new standalone story. I've marked it as complete but can't find how to set it to Standalone, so it's in the Serials section.

Can you help me, please?

Incidentally, all my kudos points seemed to have disappeared. Is this temporary, or are they gone for ever?

Charlotte

An article in this week's New Scientist gives details of an experiment where a person 'inhabits' another's body. Fascinating stuff, but, as you can see from the video, still a long way to go.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25855-virtual-bodyhack...

In the UK, we use a special symbol to represent the British pound (monetary, not weight), shown here.

I have been in recent correspondence with another writer who wanted to know why I don't allow public comments on my stories. I said that one negative comment had far more affect on me than 20 positive ones, and I felt I didn't have to take criticism if I didn't want it.

Nowadays, I have the courage to publish stories with public comments disabled. (And there's certainly plenty of moral bullying to imply there's something wrong with you if you don't allow public comments.)

Quite a few readers on this site, myself included, tend to prefer completed stories to part completed serials, many of which will never be completed, so it would be good if there was an effective way of searching for Completed stories.