to recognize any of these trans-people, but their stories are interesting.

Trans Performers

Sorry about the outage earlier folks. The virtual boot image for one of our front-end servers recently corrupted so I pulled it out of the hunt group while I work on it. Around the same time I decided to process upgrades on the remaining 2 front ends, using the standard rolling reboot pattern that I usually do but with one server down I forgot that we were short coverage while the front ends finish their boot process and really get rolling.

Well, it's been a mild-ish day hereabouts, I had a short walk earlier around the nearest town to me (I live 10km from Sheffield Centre but less than 2 from Dronfield and 9 from Chesterfield even if my address is Sheffield!)

Then I set to at the KB and after a full ten hours, i've completed the final part of 1902 Sunbeam Safety! I'm pretty happy with it, it would have been so easy to have spun it out but that was never my intention with this. I'll get it edited and so on and you should be able to read it over the holiday.

Long ago when I wrote and published some stories on this site it was less active. You were doing pretty good with 100 Kudos and 150 was an amazing story. Times have changed. Now it is much more common to see a story with over 200 Kudos.

Today I visited the My Stories page and saw one of my stories had reached 200 Kudos. I was shocked, but happy about the development.

I am looking for someone to protect a servant (Protagonist) of the Queen while she performs secret work in the Palace. This young woman answers only to Her Majesty. These soldiers must be absolutely reliable. Would that be a British Royal Marine, not a spook?

Would someone be able to give this tale a read for the correctness of British speech, customs, and Royal protocols? At this time I do not think this story will be overly large. Perhaps twenty thousand words? It may be seen as a bit of a parody on the state of the world, and not a criticism of the Royals.

I have a rather unusual request. In my next story I have a character who will be offering trans people the opportunity to re-write their personal history, so they always were the girl (or boy) their heart says they are. And what I would like is to use a couple of real-life people as getting the offer. Talia has already given the go-ahead for me to use her, but I would very much like to get a couple more if I can. So if this sounds interesting to you, please PM me.

Gonna be a real tough day tomorrow.

My ex has asked me to take Sam and her to a Christmas party at West Edmonton mall, no less.

So an evening surrounded by crowds, being deadnamed

Fun!

The next chapter of my magic serial is up a day early on Patreon. Check it out!

I Dream of Jonni -3- Meet a Genie

Hugs,
Erin

Made a mistake in my saga. Last week I forgot to mark the posted chapter in my master file as being posted. So I accidentally reposted it. I'd like to thank Beoca for PMing to let me know. It has been corrected about 2:15.

I've been working on an entry for the January Contest and wasn't paying attention to Time on My Hands. I'm currently working on Chapter 69. It's getting towards the end, honestly!

New chapter posted

in this one the issues the twins are having with Mistress Ellena and their slavery are left in the background for now...MUHAHHA

I hope you like this one better, my read counts were the sames but comments and Kudos dropped like a rock strangely?

I know the subject is touchy, but it is my huge character arch that breaks them free from the past eventually!

The Dragonsword trilogy by Gael Baudino consists of Dragonsword, Duel of Dragons, and Dragon Death. I first looked into it because I’d heard of its having strong TG elements, and though the covers were unpromising, looking like fairly generic high fantasy, I was pleasantly surprised to find it much better and more original than I expected.

I’m wondering if I could get some help for a story I’m in the planning stages to write.

If there are any Smokers out there, can you explain to me how it “feels” to “Need” a smoke.

In a body swap story, a non-smoker ends up in a smokers body, and not being originally a smoker himself, how would the swapped person know the new new body is craving a cigarette ?

Thanks in Advance.

Sapphire

So there was this story I read awhile back and I’m trying to find it again. It was about a trans kid who comes from a family of mechanics and does something drastic to keep from developing during puberty. They repair an old Camper and upon graduating they pack up and move cross country.

I just finished reading the entirety of a certain very large story here, and it took me 3 months. Wow, what an epic! It is very well written and caused me to do considerable self examination.

It helped me immeasurably in dealing with the antics of Jabba The Hutt.

Now to properly purchase it.

Thank you.

Gwen

Things in my life are a mess and I feel like things just keep adding up. It seems like everything I do just makes things worse. I’m losing everyone that ever cared about me and I’m not too sure how much more I have to endure before things settle. First I lost the one person on here who would even talk to me. Then I lose my husband who decided to cheat on me. Now I’m losing my family because they think I don’t deserve them anymore. I’ve had to move into an apartment with just me and my kids. It’s just awful, my life is just falling apart on me and I just have nothing left.

Well, when the day started, it was a pain and cane day.

Then it was a blood and bad memories day.

but then we found a beautiful model of a planetarium that lights up with Christmas lights, and that made the day much better ..

Yes there is some good news from Sheffieldland today - the first part of the new Gaby book just needs a run through the spell check and it's ready to go, cover illustration is selected' yup, Sunday is the day!

The wrist, having been confirmed not broken yesterday, improves by the hour but it still hurts like F! The problem now is the trauma to my hand, it got well rattled and the compensatory pains and strains - suppose I could take something for the pain but that's never been my way. I'm just fed up of hurting, can it go away now?

OK. I have spread myself WAY too thin. :-(

....did not expect to be 'ditched' by the muse.

Summer of Love ...while SO not forgotten.... is being pushed aside while I struggle to advance "Secondhand Life" and "Roomies".

My imagination reels with all three tales, but 2HL & Roomies have ....connectable dots... while SOL has been pushed aside.

Ironic... since SOL is the most fleshed out narrative in my mind.... which, ...maybe, is why I think it's the best able to wait....

I just wanted to let everyone know that I've just posted a new short story, Legends. If you've already read it since I posted it, I have just revised it (fixed the typos, hopefully all of them, and added some extra bits to the story). I want to add that the story is a mix of mystery, a puzzle of the past, and a hodgepodge mixture of science fiction, magic, mythology, gods and the continuation of a long-standing vendetta. Creating the main character's voice and how he tells his story was hard and--in the end--very satisfying.

I'm hoping for some completed book recommendations. I've read and enjoyed Daring Diane, Maddy Bell and Karin Bishop.

I don't like forced sissification or humiliation. I'd also prefer longer stories.
I've found a few authors on the site that I enjoy but usually the story is still ongoing...

Any recs are welcome. If there are already posts that ask similar questions, please link them in.

Some of you might know that Crazypagangurl (aka Tiffany) had been working with me on a pathfinder story. I intend that when it's finished, the story will be dedicated to her.

I hope that's okay ...

I’m looking for a story about a were wolf where the father was a blacksmith who made custom knives..... wish I could remember more. I think it’s set on the west cost of the US but I am not really sure. TIA.

BitStream

Found wolfjess7, Her electronics decide to do an illegal and savage strike just before Thanksgiving.
She'll be back as soon as they agree to come back to work.

Hugs tmf

I'm really sorry to do a double post, but I just heard back from the Toronto PD, and Crazypagangurl, aka Tiffani passed away Nov. 15.

I'm ... gonna go cry now ...

Do anybody have any news about WolfJess, she didn't post anything since the last Racing Angels (2018/11/18) two weeks ago?

tmf

Peace and Love

I blog here again, because I hope someone can help us. Our friend who is know here under her nick crazypagangurl has gone missing. She suddenly didn't appear like she always did in our chat and when she missed the fridays D&D session, we started worring. That was 4 weeks ago. Since that time Dottie tried to call her numerous times, but only got to the answering machine.
We know her computer is online but that's about it. Unfortunately she doesn't live near anyone of us.

If anyone knows anything, please contact me or Dottie or Arwens Tears.

Saphira

I finally completed the mermaid floor to the shower in my new apartment (Ground floor extension to my house.)

The tiles took 10 weeks to cut and lay.

It was strictly a labour of love for mine own delight but would be impossible to do on a commercial basis.

Today, I listened to an interview on radio of the new president of planned parenthood.

My ears perked up when she spoke of their efforts to service the trans community.

https://the1a.org/audio/#/shows/2018-11-29/planned-parenthoo...@00:00

Has anyone had experience with this?

Jill

I've been doing a lot of thinking about how to develop a realistic female character. In the press, movies and TV, their all exaggerated so of little value to me. Besides, in real life, what woman runs around with her butt pushed out and her tits threatening to escape their confinement?

Church or the Mosque are rotten places to observe the natural woman, so I've sat in shopping centers to glean what I could.

After a 4 month hiatus, I decided to try writing and posting again. I've been frequenting the site every day almost as a reader and decided I should really get back on the horse. So first I'm going to try mining my back log to see what I can do. First, I posted a never posted chapter of Spectacular, the latest story I was working on. I never posted it before because its as far as I ever got with that story. Frankly, I NEED help trying to finish it.

Yeah, you read that right. I planned to post the remaining part of the story in five different installments, but, what the hell, I decided to suprise everyone and post it all in one fell swoop (totalling just under 10,000 words). So let's get this show on the road, shall we?

Did Indigo Knight act in time to save Ashira? Will Sapphira and Amy have their happy ending? What has become of poor Awe and Hailey? All these questions will be answered and more. Come on over to my site for the conclussion to this epic tale.

new little song parody up!

https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/76885/will-i-need-sti...

Do you have a humorous holiday riddle, story or quote? Post what you have and let’s see if anyone can guess your riddle or enjoy your sentiment, one liner or observation. It’s the season for reason. Who wants to play? Here are a few examples to get us started.

Here’s a Jeopardy format holiday riddle:

Q: Name two gifts that have great value but cost nothing.
A: What are Acceptance and Understanding?

Quotes:

The only blind person at Christmastime is he who has not Christmas in his heart. - Helen Keller

Today, 27th of November 2018 @ 18:30 and on the 28th of November 2018 @ 17:30, Ms Jessica Lynn, transgender activist from the US, will attend/hold an information event at the University of Nicosia and at the CVAR, Severis Foundation in Old Nicosia, Cyprus.
Please see the links below for further information:
• Trans activist to speak about her journey at two Nicosia venues this week

I went to a local pool today, and they have a "lazy river". It was really nice and kind of fun to let the current take me along, but there was always the security in knowing that if I wasnt happy with where I was going all I had to do was stand up. Gee, there might be something profound in that, dont you think?

Story told from POV of a teen who is only child of single father due to split-up

Can't remember if bullying is involved due to this, but reading between the lines it is possible

Child becomes rebellious when Father seems to be entering a gay relationship

Hi Everyone, Karen is still in hospital, having had a few problems which I'll leave to her if she wants to share with you (medical confidentiality you know). She's hoping to be out in three weeks and start posting again. She also sends her thanks to everyone who has sent their best wishes for her recovery.
Bron

Today was a good day.
Then i woke up to leftovers.

I just got out of bed this Thankgiving morning. We've had a busy week, and today will be no exception. It would be easy to complain about all the work and all the fuss, the traffic everything else that this season brings. But you know, I'm here in a warm house that I co-own with the bank; out front there's a reliable car, my refrigerator is full of food, so much so it was a chore to find room for the Thanksgiving turkey prior to roasting.

I've decided that when your 73 that recovery from major surgery takes a lot longer than when your in your 60's. And that the doctor was right, you will have good days and bad days. It looks like it's 2 steps forward and 1 step back (sometimes 2). Well, yesterday was a good day, so look for a new chapter of Tommy sometime this morning.

in honor of TDOR, here is a link to a story I wrote: https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/32200/tapestry-stars

wanted to give you guys an update. Now that my new computer is up and running, I am hoping to get back to writing as my spoons allow. unfortunately, as the two projects I have on the go are longer than my usual, including one I hope to make into my entry in the next contest, it will be a while before I have something to share with you all.

But I'll still be my usual comment-happy self, so no worries there ....

Don't know if the story was part of a Universe or a stand-alone

It was quite dark.

MC mutates, becomes catatonic, ends up in an institution

While in the institution is abused along with the other patients, used for drugs testing.

MC's begins to come out of the catatonic state, finds they have telepathy, telekenesis.

Hi all!

Thank you so much for all your support, comments and Kudos on Witch's Apprentice. I'm going to do another editing pass on it and make some corrections for future viewings but I'm also considering a slight spin-off of the series with a story focusing on Skuld and what happens next with her story from her point of view. Let me know if you'd like to see that.

Things are calming down with the move so I'm hoping that now I've got some stability I'll be able to work on things more.

Thank you again!

On October 18 Casey Brooke wrote and posted Svala which started me rereading her stories and her stories I have not read. I just wanted to give a shout out to so many great stories and if you are looking for hours of reading check them out.
Also for you new members check out some of the authors that no longer post stories by going to categories and then type of stories you like go to last page and work back to present
Have fun and enjoy so many good authors and stories

Hi Everyone,
If' you've been wondering about Karen Lockhart and her current novel 'Ginny's Story', I'm sorry to inform you that she is currently in hospital after a fall. I am in touch with her cousin and will post any news. There are no chapters of Ginny available to post at present. Some of you know that I do the proofing, so as soon as I get another chapter I will proof it as soon as possible. I'm as keen as everyone else to know what happens next.
Regards, Bronwen Welsh