This has raised it's head again in my 'never-ending' tale of life and dormice. It's done so because it is a constant problem. My own transition was quite public and was known to hundreds if not thousands of people locally. I've also been 'outted' in the press two or three times, including mention on local TV and radio. So short of sending out six billion letters notifying everyone on the planet, it meant there'd be some who didn't know.

Some years ago, I came up with what I call My Three Rules of Behavior.

At last, the secret GLBTQ agenda is revealed to the world! Mwahh-ha-ha-ha-haaaaa.....

If the plan succeeds, everyone will soon be female, or a reasonable facsimile.

TV Friday, 6 p.m. ITV4 "The Science of Lance Armstrong"

Why Kindergarten? Well, that requires a bit of explanation, I guess.

I thought you might find this interesting and encouraging. It was posted on AOL and I put the essential link below.

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10636013

Portia

In everything there are certain stereotypes that get played upon constantly whether people intend to or not. Everybody knows that not everyone fits them, but when we think of whatever subject they apply to, they immediately spring to mind. 'Baseball players do steroids,' 'the good guy always wins,' these are just a couple of the more common stereotypes and tropes that people can easily identify from popular culture.

Here's my question: what do you consider to be the stereotypes of TG fiction? There's a ton of them, so they should be easy to list. Bonus points for catchy names for them.

I've posted a snippet of my latest project, Forged In Fire, at my TGLibrary site. This is a military sci fi story very heavily influenced by the works of David Weber, so if you like that kind of thing please give it a peek. Be aware that this genre includes violence, explosions and even harsh language!

Oh, and this is a totally raw draft, so please, there is no need to point out the typos. I will get to the proofing in time, but right now I'm primarily interested in overall impressions. On my site you can also find some background material about the story setting.

Subject Line of Comments and Revealing the Story Content.

Sometimes the subject line of a comment can give away an important element of the story.

I will be posting the next P&P episode tomorrow late morning,(server time).

Hiya girls!

I'm looking for a story that I read some time ago that I just loved and cant seem to find it.

I collected Brian on the way through, and stopped to eat my sandwiches at his house, then we went to play with the traffic. I'd left home at just before ten, and was at Brian's just before one pm. I'd only got lost once as well, which is good for me - I was to make up for it later.

The M42 seemed not too bad, Friday traffic is always heavy on the motorways, and we got held up a few times. Then the M1 near Nottingham was stop go, mainly stop. However, we chatted as we waited for the bottleneck to clear itself. This was almost habit forming, because it happened several times.

We see so many "blonde" jokes that when I saw these I just HAD to share them:

.......

One day my housework-challenged husband decided to wash his sweatshirt (for the first time ever).

By all of the positive words of encouragement and the many new friends that I have found. I know that I do not deserve so many friends, But you are out there, all the same.

Sephrena called me about 3 hours ago, letting me know that she was on her way to the airport, in Richmond VA.

I have a few thoughts that I want to let you know. The first is that this story of mine isnt entirely original. I got the original idea for this story from Linda Lafrance and her story "The story of Prissy" In that story a sexist boy makes a bunch of nasty comments during a debate and the girls get him back by feminizing him for a weekend. They inflict terrible humiliations on him and he submissively goes though it even in the end, he seems to have no backbone.

Over the course of the past seven months my elderly Dalmatian passed away while I held her; I've lost my job, used up my credit, and had to put my house up for sale; had my wife of thirteen years request a divorce, get her own place and move out; developed skin cancer (albeit a relatively mild form); and just this past week, had our beloved miniature schnauzer, our only pet, escape and get run over and killed by a speeding van.

Due to general unwellness, please accept my apologies. Not even up for the planned festivities at the weekend.
Take care - Jay

The opportunity to spread a few groans. Here we go:-

-The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much Pi.

Someone asked so here they are; my songs that were performed in the recital this morning. These are Garage Band mp3 files and are quite large.

The Copyright Symbol ©

Inserting the copyright symbol

by Puddin'

While it's possible to simulate a proper copyright symbol like this: (c)

It looks a little more elegant to use the authentic character: ©

I was online looking for more comfortable Dialtors, and stumbled into what is said to be a major GID conference by the American Psychological Association on May 18th. I don't understand what some of the issues are and might even disagree with other T folk. I did write one of the speakers for the event, and made a comment that those on heavy doses of Psychotropic drugs are not competent to make the SRS decision. Any one who can should perhaps attend.

Gwendolyn

With any luck Angel Marquez will probably post Tuesday after next Tuesday.

I wa reading something this morning, and saw this:

"She was wearing a dress in blue velour, with three quarter length sleeves...."

My mother just made plane reservations to go visit my brother in Virginia for his graduation from Graduate School. She has made it clear that I can't go, but she is more than willing to have my other brother fly there with her. I told her that I know the real reason they don't want me to come, but she tells me there is no room or I can't afford to go. I know that it wouldn't matter if I was independently wealthy, they still wouldn't want me because they don't want me to be seen. They are ashamed that I am their transsexual daughter and sister.

Whether or not any of us here are actually Mothers, I think we'd all like to be, and I think we all deserve to have someone wish us a Happy Mother's Day, so here it is:

My cycling group did a thirty miler, which seemed to be forever climbing hills today - not hard in Dorset, place is full of them, 'delightful rolling countryside' say the visitors. They don't usually try to ride up them.

I am totally cream crackered, as the Cockney's would say. However, I have finished a complete story for the gabycon next weekend (8.5k words)which I will post here after it's been up on Maddy's site.

Hello all... just a heads up that I will start posting chapters from Something Feels Strange again very soon. I have also been working with Gabi to clean up the first four chapters, which I updated earlier today.

I have been having fun lately seeing where Chris/Kris goes. I can hardly wait to share it with you.

- Tiff Q

I finally had the chance to view Mamma Mia, The Movie. All I can say is... I had a BALL!!! What a fun, touching, musical! Loving Abba's music helps a lot, but everyone did a great job of either singing or lip synching and the whole thing was a wonderful movie experience. I particularly liked the sing a long feature on the DVD. *giggle*

Voulez-Vous!!
Catherine Linda Michel

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Plagiarism and Copyright

As an author, one thing I would hate, and so would probably everyone else who writes on here, is someone copying your work. Indeed, I remember before there was a discussion regarding this June 2008.

However, one thing that I've noticed recently is that some people don't seem to think this applies to images. Some people have been good and if they use something under "fair use" they do then acknowledge the copyright owner. Heck, I am aware of one author who went as far as licencing the images they used.

Some people though don't appear to even be abiding by the "fair use" rule, and using complete pictures from other people's websites. Like people on this site spend a lot of time writing stories, some people have spent a lot of time creating images. I personally feel it is double standards to get upset if someone copies somebody elses writing, but then copy other person's imagery work. And to top it all off, even if they thought it was covered under "fair use", there is no acknowledgement of the image owner.

I finally went out and bought a guitar.

Well hello all. It's my first blog entry here. Part of the reason I'm posting it is I plan to get around to putting up my first story which I hope you enjoy. It's quite short and only my girl Mags has read it so far. I plan to put it through the cleaners a bit after I add some content, submit it and see what all of you think.

I've seen this before, somewhere. I think someone here may have posted it already, but I haven't seen it in a while, and today Andrew Sullivan posted it on his widely-read blog at The Atlantic magazine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEaGbTr8B2o

My name is Laika and this is my canto
And you might think it’s some strange mad-dog rant though
If you’ll spare some indulgence and hear this tale out
You’ll see just as plain as the nose on your snout
That every last word of my grim account’s true,
And be glad this all happened to me and not you…

Hi all I am starting my RLT,

I had been thinking about it, and I've changed the Easter Sunday series to Samantha's Story and used the original titles as a subtitle for the chapters. I hope this doesn't confuse everyone.

In case some of you have not seen this yet, I was real sorry to see this. I met her once once and she was absolutely adorable.

http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2009/05/03/rip-virginia-prince/

Tonight, driving home from an all day D&D session with my friends, I almost hit a power wheelchair that I didn't see until almost too late. The chair had NO lights on it, NO reflectors, the person piloting it and the one walking with him were both wearing dark clothing. The chair was in my lane, traveling toward me and it was dark.

I updated the title page for Amari to include chapter names and characters name and possision. Hopefully this will help you keep track of everyone as the story progresses. Chapter 3: The Hidden Truth was posted today. This is all I have completed so far. Chapter 4 and 5 are in work and I hope I will have them completed plus more by October. I know that is a long way off but my work will have me away from home for 5 months.

Today I was out with my fiance and we were talking about things from our past, past relationships and experiences, and talking about when we first met and our initial thoughts about each other. During this time I got a pretty big surprise. She looked at me and said. "When we first started dating, I thought you were transgendered." I was more than a little bit surprised by this and asked if she thought I wanted to be a girl. She said, "No, I mean when I first met you, I thought you used to be a girl but became a man." Once again I was surprised and asked her why.

I got a heavy dose of reality not long ago, and it cured me of my obsession with the hit counts for my stories.

Wow I am really surprised that within the first hour of posting chapter 3 of The Dream I already have 16 hits.
No I do not plan on having as long of a break as I did between chapters 2 and 3.

Those of you awaiting the next chapter (22) of At Aunt Greta's can rest assured that it is on the way and should be posted in a few days, after it has been checked by Bonzi and his Mum to be free of naughty words that might upset the kiddiwinkies, who probably know them better than I.

I'm at a point in P&P that I can end it happily or end it horribly. Or I can end it on a sad but sweet note.

In Ma'at 5, Dani visits Thebes and Ma'at's Temple in the Karnak complex.
Here is a UCLA site about the place.

In the future, I'd like to request that people who want to violate the rules of posting here, or annoy others for such transgressions, or anything that does not contribute to the peace and tranquility of what is essentially a library -- I'd like to request that all such disturbances, disagreements and denunciations take place while I'm here at my desk and not in bed, at dinner or in the bathroom.

Thank you all and hugs,
Erin

My middle son sent this to me and I thought this applied to alot of you and it was cute and I'm sure this is and old joke and alot of you have read before especially the last paragraph probally applies here. A friend to all of you and alot of Hugs to you all! Richard

The pastor entered his donkey in a race and it won. The pastor was so pleased with the donkey that he entered it in the race again, and it won again. The local paper read: PASTOR'S ASS OUT FRONT.

http://www.hrc.org/12625.htm

U.S. House Passes Inclusive Hate Crimes Bill

Updates to Federal Law Would Strengthen Law Enforcement Ability to Investigate, Prosecute Hate Crimes.

4/29/2009

I learned a lesson today about getting the background for a story right.