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Should a reply to a comment, from the author of the story, count in the comment total?

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I have a question that I would like to get other's input on.
Should a reply to a comment, from the author of the story, count in the comment total.

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Catherine Linda Michel - The Rest Of The Stories

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Catherine Linda Michel -
The Rest Of The Stories

Including works using the pen name Cathy_t_

Catherine Linda Michel is a warm, loving, single transwoman. A denizen of the Great White North...not the Yukon, Western New York, Cathy claims to brush more snow off her coat than most people shovel. Cathy is presently retiered due to health reasons. She has been writing for over ten years, solely on the internet, but has published HEADLIGHTS GIRL, achieving a lifetime goal. She thanks all those who have helped her along the way, for their kindness, and help. She sends love and hugs to all her fans and friends on the internet.


Catherine Linda Michel's Blog
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editing assistance

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I am repeating an offer I made earlier which I misaddressed. I run an editing business at www.write-it-better.com and I would like to offer free editing to authors on bc/ts in thanks for my reading enjoyment. People who want editing can go to my web site and send me a story. (I did an edit on Song of Corazon for Maggie Finson and she was pleased with the work.

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SHBGSEA for Trans Folk

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In looking at my latest blood work, I did some online research to find out what some of the items were. Along the way, I found a website that may be of particular interest to those of our ladies who reside in the UK.

http://www.pfc.org.uk/node/613

My Dermatology Doctor is interested in this family of tests in an effort to resolve a scalp condition I have developed that causes bloody lesions there. It is frustrating that she seems unfamiliar with the changes in Endocrinology that T folk experience.

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Prue. PLEASE contact me.

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I so miss you and our talks, whacky though they may have gotten. I'm concerned about you, and I just want to make sure you're okay, and that we're still friends. You know you're still responsible for me, don't you? An old Chinese belief is that if you save someone's life, you are responsible for them for always.

At least let me know that you're okay and that you haven't forgotten about the old Drama Queen, Cathy_t_?

huggles 'n love from,
Catherine Linda Michel

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Blizzard + Satellite internet = delayed stories

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All of the ones I put in the Shortcuts were meant to be up today. I'm going to try to get them up by the end of the weekend. I've been all distracted by the getting in of firewood and such, and then internet is making me not able to hit here except sporadically.

So... sorry. But I'm gonna keep trying.

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Idea for a new story

I'm sorry, but I'm a bit of a twit today, and I'm becoming increasingly agitated with " I have an idea for a story". Your ideas sound like fun, by why not write the story yourself? All I can see is someone too lazy to write the damn thing themselves. I know some are thinking, "What a prick, how dare you say that? I thought of the story line, so you write it." It doesn't work that way. I started writing because I wanted more stories that I wanted to read, and so I wrote. Yes, it's hard work, and yes people are going to say things you don't like, but so what?

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The plague train has wrecked. ;)

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Just wanted to tease you all. I'm in the middle of writing episode 21 of P&P and the Train has wrecked, the shit has hit the fan, the house of cards has collapsed.

neener, neener, neener :P

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Exploitation!

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Edeyn That is, me that's being exploited. I seem to have found my way out of a bad situation, into one that is worse, and I can't seem to ken my way out of it. I really and truly haven't a clue what to do here, and this seems to be the only way I get any kind of answers at all.

I've tried asking for advice and help privately, but I'm at wit's end and no one seems to be answering.

I was on my way back to Michigan when I got the information that I no longer had a place to stay. I sent out a distress call, of sorts, and people responded. A friend of mine in Kansas City said I could stay with him and his grandmother, in exchange for some help with chores.

Some help with chores has turned into most of my time, and even being "loaned out" to other relatives WITHOUT EVEN ASKING ME! A reasonable amount of work, I would not be averse to. I have been here 34 days. I have put in somewhere between 156 (her estimate) and 197 (my estimate) hours of work. The Missouri State Minimum Wage is $7.05 per hour. That's the minimum. Using her estimate and the minimum wage, that's $1,099.80 worth of work. For a bed, food (a snack, a light meal, and an average meal per day usually), and utilities including access to the internet.

She still says I'm not pulling my weight.

She says I make it "very hard" to like me.

And, she holds the spectre of eminent homelessness over me.... every... single... day...

It's not light work I'm doing, either... raking leaves, trimming hedges, scrubbing floors (by hand), moving furniture, climbing out on the roof to clean windows on the outside, and toting the full gallon jugs she uses to make wine just to name a few.

When I have attempted to stand up to her, she accuses me of outright lying about it. Who is my friend supposed to believe? His friend, who he only really has known well about a year, or his grandmother... who raised him when his mother was disabled and unable?

I need advice. I need somewhere to go that'll be fair. I need to be able to have time to LOOK for a damn job so I can have enough money to go to Australia later this year!

And yes, the Australia move is a MUST, as it's going to be my future. My lovely lovely girlfriend/fiancé is there waiting for me... every day that we're apart is agonizing.

What I'm looking for, is someone willing to let me use a basement or even a couch as a homebase while I earn money and get my passport and visa going, in exchange for a FAIR amount of work... if it's possible in any way!

The best answer would be something in the Kansas City area... as that's where I am now...

I'm just at the end of my rope and it feels like this old lady (86 years old) will kick the chair out from under me at any time.

I realize that I have a hard time standing up to her because of my grandmother issue/fear. I'm scared of old ladies. It's irrational, but it's very real.


Edeyn Hannah Blackeney
Wasn't it Jim Henson who said, "Without faith, I am nothing," after all? No, wait, that was God... Sorry, common mistake to make...
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Midnight Downloads

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Many of the long time readers will know of Wendy J and her epic story Midnight Downloads, but if you have started reading since the first President Bush took office, you may have never heard of her or seen the story. Wendy was upset over the election and withdrew her works from the sites she had posted them.

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Nude Paintings of Irish Prime Minister exhibited

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Two paintings of the Irish Toaiseach (Prime Minister and pronounced Tea-Shock) have appeared mysteriously on the walls of two Dublin Art Galleries. Have a look at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7960997.stm

Maybe I ought to have put adn Audience rating of EXTREMELY EXPLICIT for this Blog! :)

Gabi

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Kell'ys Journey To Go ToHatbox

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Kelly's Journey
Kelly's Journey Goes Premium
 
By Stanman63
 
Edited By Nora Adrienne with Special Thanks To Terrynaut
and to Heather Rose Brown for the Illustration!

 
Kelly's Journey will when completed be offered to Erin as a premium book. I want to publicly thank Erin, and the administrators and readers for this chance to post.
     
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I guess not......

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Okay, the whole, "I'm going to let you in on every little secret" idea isn't working. It all came down to almost fifty scene cuts and made it nearly impossible for even me to follow, AND I WROTE THE DANG THING!

Experiment: Failure

What am I going to do tonight? Same thing I do every night, Try to take over.... I mean, Cut out all the garbage and tell it like a damn flowing story.

I will show off some twists in the end.

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Dreams

We all have dreams, at least I hope you do. Our dreams, not aspirations, probably reflect many of our desires, fears, hopes and events in the past and expected. I see it expressed in many of the stories concerning transformation that the persons dreams are permeated with the individual being in the physical form they have desired. They dream about finding their ideal partner, and other fantasy filled scenarios relating to their transgendered state.

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LOGO Television

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I don't know what the Cable TV channel lineups are from state to state, but if you have LOGO TV, 139 for me, it may be interesting for you. It seems to be a GBLT channel. I am watching a program right now that features a dozen or so 20 somethings who are going to live together as they are trained to be performers. One of them is a rather pretty transwoman. It is coed housing. I am wishing the transgirl was a little more confident. Really, that is the only tip off that she is trans. It is like looking in the mirror for me. Hope this works for you.

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Stereotypes, who needs them mew?

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Stereotypes, we've all heard and seen them mew, and every single time all they do is offer a ridiculousness and place us in a box that we don't really need mew. For instance, the umbrella term transgender has more than just one category. Transgender by definition covers transvestite, crossdresser, bi gender, meta gender, androgynous, neuter gender, gender queer, gender #%$%, transsexual, and anyone who identifies outside of the binary gender system that identifies as transgender.

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Renee Richards Revisited

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This is currently being run on AOL and elsewhere. We went through this controversy decades ago and it was resolved. Poor Sarah Gronert, she wants to play tennis and is reasonably good and a few bigots want to steal that from her. I have not seen any mention of what her chromosomal makeup is. I'll research later.

http://www.aolhealth.com/condition-center/womens-sexual-heal...

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Kelly's Journey 20 On The Way!

Along with other series that I am working on. I am also helping other authors with their stories. Now, it'll be a bit before I can do anything because I must go to therapy today where I shall shower [can not get bandages wet] and have legs rewrapped. My legs are nearly back to normal and hairless, not a way to get rid of body hair.

    Stanman
May Your Light Forever Shine
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In Need of a Discussionista

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Alright, so I've got like a lot of projects I'm working on right now. The problem I'm having is that I could desperately use some guidance and help keeping on track. I tend to be one of those people who bounce back and forth between different projects getting a bit here and a bit there, with nothing coming in a timely fashion.

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Jwargod’s Uncommon TF/TG Story Contest Has Started!

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Jwargod’s Uncommon TF/TG Story Contest!

Submissions Start <March 18th 2009> till <May 20th 2009>

I’m looking to get some inspiration going in the rarely explored parts of the TF/TG communities, so this contest is being held to promote thinking in those areas.

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Friday Featured Freelancer - Entries due by 9pm Central!

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Edeyn Alright, since there don't seem to be any objections, I'm opening to accept entries for the first drawing.

Rules

  1. You may only enter yourself
  2. No members of admin staff may enter
  3. After the drawing, the pool is emptied, which means there are no carry-overs -- you must re-enter each week you want to be in the pool
  4. If you are chosen, you may not enter for 13 weeks following

It will include links to stories, a short bio, Q&A interview, and a picture or graphic. NOTE: Any part of the feature may be opted out of by the winner. If the winner does not WANT a bio or picture, but wants links to stories and the Q&A, that's perfectly fine.

To enter, simply reply to this posting or send a PM to me (Edeyn). Drawing will be on Wednesday night, winner informed on Thursday, with the page being built on Thursday, and posted on Friday.


Edeyn Hannah Blackeney
Wasn't it Jim Henson who said, "Without faith, I am nothing," after all? No, wait, that was God... Sorry, common mistake to make...
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A taste of things to come.... Whispers in the Soul (Book 2 of Michelle)

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Just to prove that Book 2 is not a myth. I have reached page 176, and am still going strong.
Here is a brief glimpse of part of Chapter One......................

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Twitterbug

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Edeyn I am now on Twitter, if anyone cares to follow my goings-on. The username is easy to remember, as it's the same as here :)

edeyn


Edeyn Hannah Blackeney
Wasn't it Jim Henson who said, "Without faith, I am nothing," after all? No, wait, that was God... Sorry, common mistake to make...
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Too Much

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I am on disability due to my weight. Through Medicare, I have 20 rides per year. Well, I was told that after the twenty were used up that I would get twenty more that year by the sales rep. that convinced me to go with the medicare provider he was with.
Turns out that I only get twenty per year and medicaid in my state takes over a month to get you the vouchers to pay for the rides.
Tried to tell my brother, but he says that I should have been ready. How can I when I was lied to?

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Understanding Smoking As A Social Activity

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Just ran into a fascinating article on the social value of smoking. No, not the costs of healthcare, or the burden it puts on your body, or the damage to the economy in lost worker productivity. There are a million reasons to not smoke. It's not healthy for you. But...

The author of the article identifies the social role that smoking plays in social settings amongst smokers.

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About to go off line.

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It is the 16th and I have been unable to pay my bills due to the non arrival of my fabled, much promised retirement check. I am working very hard to suspend my disbelief that it will ever happen. I have three letters that promised that I would have it by the 11th. Well we all know about this sort of thing.

So, if I disappear off line and off SKYPE it is not because I have done anything asinine like suicide.

Gwendolyn

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Can the Story Name be added in the New Commentary Section in addition to Subject and Author.

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On the front page in the New Commentary Section, the subject of the comment and the name of the author appear. I wonder if the name of the story could also be included.

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State of my Muse

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I have learned a lot by writing A Little Fox Tale. I had never written fiction before (unless you counted the enlisted evaluations I had to write in the military), and was unsure of the pacing and style. Also, I knew nothing about dialog. Getting my hands on and reading a copy of Inspiration for Writers by Sandy Tritt, and a copy of Mugging the Muse by Holly Lisle helped a lot.

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Something good in my life

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Greetings family, members, people, and others;

I've noticed that many blogs relate significant life events. I have good news. This hasn't happened since 2000. Probably most of you won't be especially interested, but maybe Angharad will care.

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'Daring to Hope' Final Part Posted!

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I just posted the final part of my book, Daring to Hope. It is the sequel to Standing Up to Life, and the second of the three book trilogy. I hope you all have enjoyed the book as I have posted it this week, and I look forward to your thoughts on the third book this summer! :-) Thank you all for the comments, I really do appreciate them!
-Tiffany Shar

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Founding Fabulous Fun Fresh Feature -- Friday Featured Freelancer!

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Edeyn Okay, I asked earlier this week what kind of possible new feature you all would like to see added to the Shortcuts! box, and got very little response. But, I'm going to explain the one feature idea I do have the details for, and I'd like feedback on it -- if you'd rather tell me in a PM, do so.

The Friday Featured Freelancer

This will be run as a raffle of sorts. Any author on the site that wishes to may enter her or his name, and each week on Thursday night, the names will be dropped in a randomizer and the winner will have a feature page for the week, linked off of the Shortcuts! box.

There will be no favoritism, but only an author herself or himself may put in her or his name. The pool is emptied every week (meaning that you must re-enter every drawing, there is no carryover from week to week), and the only 3 limiting factors will be that

  • you must be an author with works on BCTS
  • if you are featured, you must wait a certain amount of time before you can enter again
  • you cannot be a member of the Admin staff

This is NOT in effect yet, as I want to know what you all think of the idea. Discuss, please. Hee!


Edeyn Hannah Blackeney
Wasn't it Jim Henson who said, "Without faith, I am nothing," after all? No, wait, that was God... Sorry, common mistake to make...
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A big, little change for me.

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Confused about the opening for this blog? Well, don't be concerned. The big, little change, has to do with getting a new drivers license...with my NEW pic on it! Yes, that's right. I'll no longer have to worry about being stopped by some over-zealous public servant, and having to explain, however patiently, why I don't look like the picture on my license.

I hadn't even thought it was something I COULD do, or would be allowed to do, but I checked and found that I could, indeed, have a new picture taken and placed on my license.

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Despite Detractors, Dear Diary's Delinquincy Defined Daily Delimitation Deposed

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Edeyn Have you all noticed that I REALLY love alliteration?

No matter.

There will be postingness from me on Friday, 13 March 2009, and there will be NO changes to the latest chapter of Dear Diary, but there will be an explanation added.

Also scheduled to resume that day are at least two other pieces that people have been waiting for. There may be more, but I cannot say for certain.

Edeyn Hannah Blackeney
Wasn't it Jim Henson who said, "Without faith, I am nothing," after all? No, wait, that was God... Sorry, common mistake to make...
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God and the Big Bang

Garden News

Hi folks,

Things are developing at Hypatia's garden. Right now there is a discussion about ... well, you've already read the headline. So, if you're interested, please go to Hypatia's Garden


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who was that author?

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there was a story a few months ago, it was a part 2 (of 3) it was about a military guy that had gone back to uni studying engineering and back to crossdressing, she had some adventures with a rich girl and her family, there was a robot excavator that she provided tech help on.

if i recall the author left the site and removed her story, can anyone recall her name or the title?

i've finally got a few dollars to spare and was thinking of buying the parts 1 & 3, of course with a comp crash in the interim i lost the author and title.

thanks

Amanda

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Offer from Maddy Bell

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I was just perusing the forums at gabyzone.com and found an interesting post from Maddy herself. For those not up to snuff on Maddy, she has authored quite a few stories besides the Gaby and Hostess (Nina) series. If you check her library page at maddybell.com you can find a wide variety of stories besides the kid biker and the bus hostess. All are good, with a wide variety of tg/ts/tv/corsetry/tattoos/dom,sub/other themes. The post at the Gabyzone can be read by non-members (members to post etc)so just click and go look.

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My first entry

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...Just to put my work into context, I am retired, in that I have ceased one job, but am too young to stop working altogether. I need to work, but the financial climate is such that my line of work is suffering from corporate budget cuts and streamlining. I therefore have more time to write and am working on seventeen full length novels, several of which I shall post free here and on other sites. Some of them are sequels to works I have already posted.

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A prayer answered. Two new chapters

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I've posted two new chapters to "A Prayer Answered. I hope you enjoy this story as much as I am writing it. I have to go on a business trip for a few weeks Tuesday which may give me free time to write, but posting will be imposible. So be patient.

I am now asking for a proper gramer and word edit by someone here. Please if you like go ahead and edit this for me. Thanks Again to all those who have responded to this story. My plan is to take this story into Sandra's twenties.

Huggs
Sara D.

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Why Do My Votes Vary?

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For a long time when I've voted the register has shown 2 hits. Recently it has sometimes been registering 3 hits and the other morning I even registered a 4 (lucky TD). I'm not complaining. I just wonder why it varies. If I knew I was going to score a 4 I could be a big help to my favourite authors, or maybe there's a market for votes. Any offers?
Joanne

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My writing

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I am apparently incapable of, "... ever producing an idea without stealing it from someone more talented than..." myself. I have received 37 emails and 1 PM here accusing me of such in the last 12 hours, in addition to a PM from a friend who pointed out similarity in one of my stories to hers. In addition to THAT, one of the other admin just informed me (between Previewing this blog and actually posting it) that I "needed" to change my story, because I'm stealing the driving theme behind the main character of a friend's story. So... I suck.

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Feature Presentation

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Edeyn It has been very nearly a year since any kind of new dohickey was added to the Shortcuts! box. It's time to add something new. But, in keeping with getting feedback FIRST... I'd like to know what kind of suggestions folks have. Now, I want folks to PM me full details of their ideas for something fun or useful (or both!) to add, and I'll give it a few days before I post up the suggestions... not for voting, but for discussion! Talk about the pros and cons of each idea. The reason I want them PM'd to me is so that the ideas are known only to me and the rest of the staff. Comments are disabled, but that Write to author link should work fine.

Edeyn Hannah Blackeney
Wasn't it Jim Henson who said, "Without faith, I am nothing," after all? No, wait, that was God... Sorry, common mistake to make...
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Introduction

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Hi
I'm Mary Beth Sanford

This is my first blog entry...

This picture, taken some number of years ago, was always my favorite. The photographer was from San Francisco, developing a pictorial study of transgendered people (never saw the end results - if any). It was at a monthly meeting in Walnut Creek (California) and I was then, a member of the "Lost Girls". The lost girls were a loosely organized group that often went out to "mainstream" places first (mostly dinner) then off to one of several alternate life style or meetings places around the Bay Area. Anyway, if I had to show a picture that I felt represented me - this is the one.

Did I tell you how much I love this place! I do!

Hugs
Mary Beth



 

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New New Server and Possible Site Outages

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The server is up and is running a version of BC and it looks pretty good for moving the site tonight or tomorrow. The problem will again be propagating the domain so that bigclosetr.us/topshelf will take you to the right site. So, I'm going to set up a temporary URL that will take you to the new site if you can't reach it through the usual address.

Stay tuned for more info.

Hugs,
Erin

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Fred

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Edeyn Was not just being named for my uncle, but sharing a BIRTHDAY with him. He attempted to 'rescue' me from my grandmother -- anyone remember those disc players from the early 80s? The ones that tried to vie with Betamax and VHS for the market... about the size of a laserdisc, but was in a sort of cassette casing, 2-sided? He had one of those players. I remember him coming over and informing my grandmother that I was going with him to his house for a while (when my mother was away)...
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Dear Diary

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Edeyn There will not be an entry tonight. And possibly not tomorrow. My uncle died this afternoon. The only one of my mother's brothers to be worth anything. I was originally named for him. He was the first of her brothers to accept me as a girl. He was the most gentle and caring man I've ever known. His standard being impossible to live up to is probably part of why I am a lesbian.

That is all.


Edeyn Hannah Blackeney
Wasn't it Jim Henson who said, "Without faith, I am nothing," after all? No, wait, that was God... Sorry, common mistake to make...
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Coming Soon!

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Edeyn March 13 will see the TopShelf exclusive premiere of my Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time fanfiction effort that I've been waiting on posting for so long. If you're curious as to what I'm talking about, go ] here [ to see the Teaser I posted in January 2008 -- It's part of Chapter One, which will be reposted in its entirety one week after the Prologue is posted (13 March 2009).

Edeyn Hannah Blackeney
Wasn't it Jim Henson who said, "Without faith, I am nothing," after all? No, wait, that was God... Sorry, common mistake to make...
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A Stern Ribbing

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I injured myself last Friday. Nothing of the usual home injuries. Didn't take a fall, step on a pin, hit my thumb with a hammer, pick up the business end of a soldering iron, or bang my head on an open cupboard door. No, I executed a sudden maneuver. I was outdoors, testing a type of lightweight fabric used for roofing, when my sample started blowing away from me. I lunged for it after chasing it across the roof a few feet, to catch it. Something happened in my ribcage and knocked the wind out of me temporarily.

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looking for some one

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hello Topshelf well i was wondering if any one has heard anything from the author of unexpected mommy or new of any way to get a hold of that person please if so could you please let me know in a PM i would really like to talk to the person again
well bye bye till later i guess
or maybe now where i could find some more of their writings

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Response to CoyotePuma's comment

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Edeyn Started this as a 'reply' comment, but realized it was way longer than merited... so moved it to its own blog!

Only a bit short of 2 years ago, I found TopShelf by way of a friend pointing me at a piece of fiction here (Leeway, by the way) and was rather pleasantly surprised. You see, a large amount of my friends figure that if it has any TG content, why, since I'm TG I must like it! Well, I'm not especially fond of forced femme, not especially fond of one-handed fiction as a whole... and in past experience, that's pretty much what was out there.

Now, over the years, there had been some excellent pieces of fiction that I'd been pointed at. I always tried to read them if only to be fair. I would save the ones that were, in my opinion, well done!

Then after enjoying Leeway so much, up to the point where it had been finished at the time, I decided to go ahead and look around the site.

Wow.

I was pleasantly surprised. In the past, TG Fiction sites seemed to specialize in the stuff I didn't like and maybe 1 in 1000 were something I liked. Now, this isn't to say that those sites were BAD. No. Just not the kind of thing I was into.

TopShelf, however... it was like the ration was the other way. There was about 1 in 100 that I didn't like!

Why, most of the stories I'd archived over the years were here, too!

I settled in and began to explore for a few months. There were a lot of really good TG stories that I had never seen or even heard of the authors! Then I started to think... "Hey, I can do this..."

And so I did. In 11 days, I wrote and posted as fast as I could, the first 8 pieces of Sk8r Grrls and to my surprise... people loved it.

Now, at that point, Erin was ecstatic about the fact that she was up to the point where her authors were posting an average of a story per day!

Wow!

Nifty!

Gee willikers!

... and I watched the site grow.

... and grow...

... and grow! By January 2008, we had an average of 8 to 10 stories being posted daily! Why, some days there were lots more... there were even the rare days with over TWENTY stories being posted in a 24 hour time period!

Stories were being posted so frequently, in fact, that they couldn't stay on the front page for more than a few hours and people were missing some really good stuff!

So I had an idea. I asked a few folks about how it would be received, and then took it to Erin.

She said, "That's a great idea, but it's awfully time consuming. I don't have time to do that. If you code it and post it and do the updating, sure, I'll add it."

So I joined the admin team here on 2008 January 19, with the introduction of Shortcuts! and over the next few months expanded it to give the Holiday of the Day, and then a link to information about that holiday, and provided a way for folks to be able to see what they'd missed that day without having to click through pages and pages of links to figure out what they'd read and what they hadn't.

The point being, that the method of posting here, making it so that the authors add their own content, is a great deal of what makes TopShelf so special -- it's constantly updating. Glad you're enjoying it!


Edeyn Hannah Blackeney
Wasn't it Jim Henson who said, "Without faith, I am nothing," after all? No, wait, that was God... Sorry, common mistake to make...
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Why can't authors posting stories which have been previously posted, state that and where they've been posted. I'm all in favour of recycling, and have posted stuff here that appeared elsewhere but have usually said so. Why can't others do the same?

Angharad.

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