If your main comment about a story is that you don't like the genre, theme, premise or morals of the characters, then you don't have a comment, you have a complaint.
It's not criticism, it's simple whining that someone did not write a particular story to fit your requirements. Get over it and go read something else.
Genre-based attacks on stories posted as comments are not allowed. I'm tired of this unfriendly behavior. Multiple and repeated attacks of this sort MAY NOT get further warnings and MAY result in banning from the site.
If you don't like the genre of the story you are reading, exercise the muscle between your ears and stop reading it! You don't have to tell anyone publicly about it either.
If you like BC as a place to come and read the kind of stories you like, allow other people the same dignity and respect you would like to have.
It's down to 55F in the daytime and water falls from the sky every half-hour or so. Some locals think this may be the last days but I've seen this before, it gets worse before it gets better. I think we'll survive. :)
I ran across a phrase today I had never heard and it inspired a story idea. It's just that I don't think I'm the right person to write this story and besides, I already have too many things to do and write now. So, I thought I would just throw it out here and see if anyone wanted to do something with it.
Today, September 19 would have been my mother's 87th birthday. It's also International Talk Like a Pirate Day. This curious fact gives me one of my favorite memories of my mom.
There will be no commenting allowed on this post, I just need to say this.
There's a bill in the legislature here in California that would extend the same protections and presence in educational curricula to sexual orientation and gender variation that are allowed and mandated for religious affiliation, ethnic origin and sex.
I just learned that author Jaye Michael, BigCloset author, passed away earlier this month. Jaye's story, 'Neath Quicksilver's Moon, is being continued by Levanah at Jaye's request.
In the More Shortcuts box, you'll find a new link, repeated below. These are selected stories that are at least one year old and have had recent comments made on them. Enjoy!
If you don't get the site, it just means the DNS may not have cleared for you yet. Try to force a reload by holding down the shift or control key and clicking to reload the page. :)
The secondary BC server, the one that handles almost all of my sites except BC and handles my mail, is under attack by spam emailers from the Ukraine. I'm trying to get a handle on the problem. I'm going to be busy with this, so if the site is neglected today, that's why.
Also, has anyone heard from Piper? Last I heard from her was early Tuesday morning. She was on the road with the truck full of servers from Bob's place and had stopped at a motel. Nothing since then and I can't reach her cellphone either.
My dentist gave me a balloon for my birthday (Friday) and the dog thinks it's an evil fairy out to get her. :) She stands at the end of the main hall barking at it where I trapped it in the back hall. Except it just now escaped and yes, headed immediately for a fan. I only just saved it and nearly tripped over the dog who was running along looking up at it. It's now corralled in the kitchen with its string tied to a cast iron frying pan.
It came tied to a bag of cookies but we managed to free the cookies earlier. Mmm. Chocolate chip raisin. :)
Plans right now are that Piper and I will combine our business interests into a company to be called QnEZ, LLC. I will provide capital and Piper will provide contacts and expertise to operate CyberBrats Hosting as a division of QnEZ. Doppler Press publishing and BigLittleUs marketing will be other divisions, most likely. (QnEZ is a name I own with a non-registered trademark.)
Just spent $2300 for purchase of four servers to be new homes for BigCloset, Stardust, Fictioneer, Sapphire's Place, TGFiction.net, TG LIbrary, Tuckerspawn, Storysite and at least a dozen more sites. These servers will be the new homes for the next few years of these sites and will also be a lilypad for as many of Bob's sites as we can get moved before Lani has to shut down Bob's internet accounts.
We're trying to get things so we can make copies for everyone that needs them so we will probably have to keep Bob's servers running for another three weeks or so. It looks doable.
I'm off to the San Diego Comic Con! I'll have my laptop and phone along so I won't be out of touch but things won't get looked at ten or twelve times a day, more like just two or three. :) Have fun and if you're there, I can often be found hanging around Scott Shaw!s table or in one of Mark Evanier's panel shows.
Checks can be made out & sent to:
Joyce Melton
1001 Third St.
Space 80
Calimesa, CA 92320
USA
Note: $6000 is the operating, maintenance and upgrade budget. Amounts received in excess of the $6000 will be applied to long term debt accrued over the last 19 years.
