Well, the move is tomorrow.

I'll be disconnected until Sunday at the earliest, so everybody give each other huggles till I get back!

To my amazed delight, my story, "Headlights Girl," has reached over 11,000 hits! I'm not certain this is from new people actually clicking on and reading the story or if it's the result of all the hits on it from old Big Closet and the new version getting totalled, but for whatever reason I am grateful to every single one of you who clicked on and read the story.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH! And Thanks too to whoever re-posted it so newer people could read it!

Catherine Linda Michel

Well, it seems the Transgender community has come of age and has finally gone mainstream. I wonder if the story below is related to the 26 August 2015 Reuters news story, 'Wanted: Transgender actors for Hollywood, little experience required?'

Hmmmm...

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/27/transgender-porn-quickly-grow...

I'm looking at upgrading to Gigabit Internet and had some questions for the even more intensive tech. people here, at least in terms of networking. So Piper and others..
First, is CAT5e cable backwards compatible with CAT5 devices if they don't support 1 gb. ethernet? I'm looking at my PS3 and on the Wiki page it says that it supposedly supports 1 Gigabit internet but it's Wiki. I'd just use CAT6 to futureproof it all but I get the impression it wouldn't hash with non-gigabit ports.

I am looking for peoples opinion who have used or are using the program Ywriter5. Its a free writing program and would like to know what they think of the product.

It took two tries due to a wonky connection, but TRI 28 is ready for your reading pleasure.
Cheers,
Diana M. Howe, Moongoddess at Large

Pursuing idea stememmed from Sue Broun story...
What if all of the guys in the "seedy" joint were lured there by hiring them to follow someone? Still most of the ideas of how to continue them comes from the old ancdote where God appeared in front of the one of the intended shipwreck victims to say - "it was not trivial to gather all of the sinners on that one ship."

In leaving a comment, I just came across this entry: "Leave this field blank" -- an imperative without a period. What is this about?

so I've been writing a little chapter for someone (with permission) to get back into writing. Seriously ADHD sucks something fierce but as I'm writing it I just shake my head and glower at my screen. I really don't like my own writing and I am insulting myself in my head over it, disliking my word usage, grammar and the structure of the story.

Is that normal? Or am I in a unique circle of hell here?

Soon you can be TG and in the Army:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pentagon-transgender-ban...

Years ago I wrote It Brings On Many Changes. http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/481/it-brings-many-cha...

The lyrics to the song that inspired the title were written by a fourteen-year old Mike Altman. It was meant to be "the stupidest song ever". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_Is_Painless

That suicide is painless
It brings so many changes
And I can take or leave them if I please

Alan Turing
(June 23, 1912 - June 7, 1954)

Seventeen in the U S alone, fifteen were Arfoamericans:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/janet-mock-brings-the-na...

I am having a problem posting pictures and tables in my stories. I've tried cut and paste, I've tried all the buttons above the posting window, nothing seems to work. I would appreciate any help I can get.

Waterdog

Trying to remember a story, it was about a boy who turned into a girl and learned majic from digging up a waystone that was apparently dark majic. ended up being a person in charge

Any ideas

A bit of background first: I'm unable to transition for many reasons including being 5'-20" tall. Yet, I'm also 47, XXY and the proud owner of some natural A+/B-- breasts on my otherwise slender frame. Since I'm posting here, I'll give you three guesses what my mental gender alignment is...

So yesterday I got asked by a male coworker If my recent injury (dislocated wrist) has impacted my training regimen much - and indicated towards my pecs. I told him I might have to transition to something different.

Many people have a chemical imbalance that causes depression. Others have forms of PTSD. I'm in the latter category.

I'm getting better, and that is a fact. I was a mess last Christmas, I let my anti depression meds run out and was spending Christmas alone (actually, it just felt that way).

MoonGoddess posted a thread something like this, and I responded. I agree with everything she said, if you are suffering you don't need to! Get help!

2 sites back up( beverlys balcony and crystals story site). maddybell.com still down. thank you erin and piper for your hard work.

Happy Friday Kittens! TRI Chapter 27 is posted for your enjoyment :)
Cheers,
Diana M. Howe, Moongoddess at Large

Imagine the scene. A mother is talking to someone else

'I didn't have a daughter. I had a son who turned out a bit different'

Sounds familiar?

This was in a brief scenes of a forthcoming BBC TV series. It starts in September.

I wonder if it might turn out to be a tad interesting.

I only caught the tail end of the advert so I can't remember what the series was called.

"Firefox Reader View" generates an extra hit when exiting it.

Two readers mentioned that they thought I should've added something more about how Max survived falling to Earth, and I agreed. I just modified my story. Please see if the change doesn't make the story better.

- Terry

After a long day at work I started browsing. A comment caught my eye and I followed the link.

That led me to Easy as Falling off a Bike Episode 88.

I then looked at the comments and saw this…

It's remarkable
Submitted by Jo-Anne on Sun, 2007/10/21 - 1:55am

Hi everyone this is just a quick posting to let everyone know that I am currently out of town on business. RL just has to ruin a good thing. I finally get my new pc up and running and am writing and I have to go out of town for the week. I should have the next chapters for both EJ and KOD ready for posting by the weekend. Look for them around Friday or Saturday.

I just wanted to say "thank you" to all the crazies on the Big Closet chat site who managed to brighten my day by teasing me about how much a "girly-girl" I am until I was laughing so hard I actually felt better.

Thanks, guys.

I'm going to give you two links. One is the Vanity Fair article.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/08/vanity-fair-trans-ame...

Time has made a world of difference in how trans are accepted. Christine Jorgensen was outed and every low class photo of her looking like a male in drag was posted in magazines and newspapers. Every derogatory crass remark about what an abomination she was, was written and repeated a thousand times.

My first post about my personal rules for what makes writing -- whether it be games, movies, stories, etc. -- good or bad did really well, and a lot of people seemed to think I had good advice, and good points.

Well, of course I'm going to take a chance of mucking all that up by adding more!

You were posting chapters at a pretty good pace, but you've dropped off that pace recently. Is everything okay? Is there anything I can do to help?

I know that, sometimes, real life gets in the way of writing or posting stuff and things crop up that one isn't prepared to deal with just jump up and bite one in their hinderparts. Please let us know how you are and if there is anything we at Top Shelf can do if you need help with something?

Hugs and respect,
Catherine Linda Michel

I though I was done with this story but new ideas came to mind. Like what caused Sabrina, Nicole, Jenny, Jamie and Amber to loss the money that their Grandpa left them. And then the aftermath of chapters 11-13 with a big case that came up.

So if you read the story again I've stopped at

The babies left the nest late yesterday afternoon.

*sniff*

http://bree-ramsey314.livejournal.com/

I know that we all wonder and miss certain writers and members of our group here. I have seen several such queries in the last day or so.
That being said, has anyone heard from or know what has happened to Christina H.? She is one of my most favored authoress' and I have not seen anything from her in a while. I know there were some health issues but I don't like to pry into personal matters unless asked or given knowledge of such.

Come out, come out Chrissy, wherever you are, We miss you!!

Dahlia

Sorry, that address SHOIULD be " [email protected] "

Please, I need to contact those authors!

Sapphire

Hi,
I've been trying to contact four of the authors from my website, Sapphire's Place, and any help you all can give would be great!
While I have their stories, and at one time, had working email addresses for them, I've has a HD crash ( or two ) since then, and I don't have a CURRENT working way to get in touch with them.
I can understand not sharing their contact info, if you have it, but if that is an issue, please, PLEASE have them contact me!

To all of those who I unfriended recently on Facebook, I'm sorry. I had a meltdown and unfriended over 200 people. I'm not always happy and well-adjusted. Not a surprise.

I'm not happy with Facebook. I find it to be a sad replacement for real life so I'm going to minimize my time on it. I hope you understand.

- Terry

Am I the only one who has no idea what cosplay is, much less what the characters represent?
http://talksweetly.com//cosplay-girls/

Had one of my worst days at work in a while. Had trouble focusing and concentrating, which led to me making several mistakes that annoyed my boss.

Ah, well. Tonight's another night ...

Well, yesterday I got berated for an hour by my aunt saying I neglected my grandmother and now I'm killing my mother.

I think my aunt's comments hit me harder than I realized. I struggled all night at work with feeling worthless, feeling like the world would be better off without me.

Book Three, Chapter Twenty Six is now ready to go,
Cheers,
Diana M. Howe, Moongoddess at Large

For anyone who is interested, my fiancee has designed and posted an new design of a transsexual banner which I hope you all will share. It is so true and hopefully will get the message out to all who read it and re-post it.

Here is the link. It is not copyrighted so feel free to share.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/+AbbyHughesSomething4TheJ...

Abby has done it again. Here is the link and image of the second trans tolerance poster she has made today. Sh is amazing.

Once again it is not copyrighted so you can use it freely as much as you wish.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AbbyHughesSomething4TheJourney/...

For those participating in the role-playing game tonight...

If you aren't already aware, the chat server for BC has changed to http://chat.bigclosetr.us/c/ . It DOESN'T auto-reroute you to a room, though, so you'll have to manually direct to the dungeon via the [/JOIN dungeon] command.

I'm heading there now, and I hope to see everyone for the game tonight!

Melanie E.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUUUUUU...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUUUUUU...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUUUUUU!!

And many mooooorrre!!!

Catherine Linda Michel

I am so happy to be able to make another announcement so soon after my last one!

Late last night, I received the latest chapter from Forsythe of his story " Away for the Summer", his hit new Age Regression story!

You can find a link to it from our NEW page at:

http://www.sapphireplace.com/new.html

and while you there check out the other great authors from out " Features Authors Page at:

http://www.sapphireplace.com/feature.html

A few months ago it was announced that Harper Lee had decided to publish anther book.

I was so excited I signed up with Amazon for first day delivery, because To Kill a Mockingbird is one of my all time favorites.

Before I had a chance to read the book I started to hear negatives remarks, but I was in no way prepared for the amateurish writing in Go Set a Watchman.

Either –

1.) Harper Lee was blessed with one hell of a good editor for Mockingbird, or,
2.) She didn’t write Watchman.

Back when I was a teen, I was definitely fairly trans. Though I hadn't a clue that such a thing existed.

I recall things like standing in front of a full length mirror with my boy parts tucked back between my legs. And trying to tape things back inside for a smooth front. Never could get the tape to hold though...

Then I found a book mom had been reading. I read it. And it was my introduction to transexuality. It was also why I didn't even *think* about it for a number of years afterwards.

The book? Myra Breckenridge by Gore Vidal.

Yep. I'm still here. I check the site every day, in fact, though I've been quite remiss in my commenting.

Work is keeping me thrashed. Writing is, as a result, going slow. With luck the more I get used to the former the better I'll do at the latter. Until that time, though, sorry for the delay on any and all projects I've been working on, though just so everyone's up to date...

Hi Everyone! The new BigCloset WebChat can now be accessed at the following address:

For General information, you can also connect to IRC with your favorite IRC client using the following details:

So, today I am having a 3 hour, total spine, with contrast MRI. "With contrast", means they will inject material into my spinal fluid. I am having increasing difficulty with coordination and things.

I have obligations to some of you, and I am sorry that I can not meet them right now.

Sorry

Gwen

We spent money this week on a new hard drive, new VPS, and a new SSL certificate. We also owe $528 for our major colocation fees. And at the end of the week, we will have $790 in other bills due. We don't have that much in the bank, so we do need contributions.

You can send us a gift via the Janglewood link: http://janglewood.com/

Or you can subscribe to the Hatbox via this link: http://bigclosetr.us/hatbox