I am working on a story that is set in Denise's QT Diaries universe. It is the back story for a couple of characters that will appear in her next story release (Ep. V).

This involves an extremely rare case of twin QTs. The two are not originally even related, but are genetically 'merged' in the transformation.

One of the gained characteristics is 'twin speak', the non-verbal communication that twins use. I am thinking of portraying it as a limited form of telepathy, but am open to suggestions.

it's more of those crazy cross-dressing cos-players. What makes this interesting is the Retcon angle. I could totally see some of these fitting in.
http://blastr.com/2011/10/19-hot-halloween-costume.php#15
hugs
Grover

Hi Everyone!

For all you GuildWars players, Today (October 15th) from 12pm CDT to 6pm CDT is "Pink Day in LA!"

Pink Day in LA is an annual event that happens in GuildWars and is Sponsored by GuildWars Entertainment Network (GW-EN) and Gamers Giving Back.

The goal this year is to raise over $13,000.00 for The Canadian Cancer Society, and if you donate $10 or more, you'll get an entry into the super-awesome raffle that has a ton of great prizes that you can check out soon!

I'm absolutely, positively in shock!! I just got my renewal package for my health insurance. I am, for medical reasons, retired from the University of California.

This year, (drum roll please) the University has included Gender Reassignment Surgery (GRS/SRS). The very last hurdle for me to go forward with it has been removed.

Now all I have to do is make up my mind (okay, it's already made up, but...) to do IT.

(sigh)

Blessings,
Beth

And please as you read this, remember that this is just my opinion, that i don't assume to speak for anyone else and yes it was fiction i just read. on to the rant:

I just read a story series that was well plotted, well thought, a good read and... it made me fracking angry. Not at the author, not at the ideas presented, but at the concept of behaviour modification and ego death. The idea of 'We don't like how you think, so we will change the way you think'.

Keep Wren Phoenix in your thoughts and prayers. She is awaiting news about her arm and it doesn't sound very good. I know she has had her ups and downs lately. I am really hoping that she does get some good news because she really deserves it.

Oops... I said I was going to ave a 300 Rains chapter ready for Sunday and here it is Friday and no Chapter. Well, life and school has been crazy and the edits have not been really high on my list of tasks. I fully intend to get to it and I will post it as soon as it is done regardless of the day.

Sorry. Mea Culpa.

Our very own author, Cyclist, blogged the other day about a Very Important Programme* on the subject of intersex births that aired on the BBC.

Hey all!

Just wanted to let you know what's been holding up chapter 24 of Becoming Robin Book Three. Well, the short answer is, I have a new website, http://www.robinverse.info in preparation for launching the Robinverse as an actual universe!

If things continue as they normally do, then I should post episode 1500 on around Sunday. I'm pleased to see that I still get 6-700 reads per episode, not as many as some stories or some authors, but I suspect I get as many Kudos as most, and rightly or wrongly assume my cadre of readers enjoy my output.

I assume those readers want me to continue turning out tales of Cathy and her family for a bit longer, and also that Erin is prepared to have me clogging up her servers with my ponderous, prosaic and precipitous prolixity for a persistent period.

Are my assumptions correct?

I seem to be pretty much good to go. My vision in the eye that had the cataract is now 20/20. After careful testing by my doctors, I have no further eye issues in that eye at all. No macular issues, etc.

In my last blog, it may have seemed I was saying something insulting, I sometimes have difficulty getting words out if I don't think them through fully. I did not intend to put anyone down if that's what it seemed like.

thats 34, is now up - i'm away for the weekend so it'll act as the Sunday posting this week!

Mads

Hi all. If anyone here read my story, Unfinished Business, and balked at the idea of a Teen TS model becoming the "it" girl in fashion... It seems that reality has caught up with fiction!
This is fantastic, and she is gorgeous!!
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/genderless-worlds-popular-mal...

Ciao!
Brianna

A recent BBC documentary takes an in-depth look at the question. Are there more than the two designated genders?

The documentary takes an in depth look at the inter-sexed condition. Apparently they are as common as the birth of twins or even those born with red hair. (These stats. say 1/50 chance. The birth of of inter-sexed babies are more common than most are aware of. Due to the shame and stigma it is not admitted to by the parents.

I personally always wished I was born with obscure genitals as it would be physical proof when I argued against my designated maleness.

Intersex baby/child programme

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0139jv4/Me_My_Sex_and_I/

Edited to add the link I meant to put in first time round! Mea culpa.

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.

I am not imagining things. To be honest, I was slightly concerned after my mothers stunt last night that perhaps I'm merely seeing what I want to see. That my own measuring is the measuring that's wrong. That she was correct in measuring my loose flab as waist - loosely.

But this morning at work, my boss was all like, "So now you've lost all that weight, when are you gunna start bulking up?" Several other comments, and then, the bombshell: "You're starting to get a bit of a girlish figure." Damn. That felt good. Scary too though.

i sit here reading the stories on bc and i wonder do transgender people mind that none transgender people are reading about about them. i have a friend i play games with on a game site and shes proud of her self. so the sex none sex whatever of people doesnt bother me at all. yall excuse me but my my mind wanders in strange paths sometimes.

Just Released... the first trailer for May 2012's The Avengers movie:
The Avengers

Tony Stark: "Dr. Banner, your work is unparalleled and I'm a huge fan of the way you ...lose control and turn into an enormous green rage monster."
Bruce Banner: "Thanks."

YAY!
Diana

For those who read it, Through the years has suffered a slight hiccup. My computer decided that it would die, while I was in hte process of working on part 20. I lost it all, plus two other story ideas I had open. I usually save it to my portable hard drive (i mean who wouldn't, it's got like 1 T of space to save things on) but before I could get to that point, the computer gave up the fight.

So I am trying my best to re-write the story to where I had it

I'm less than a week from having been a member of this fine site for five years - can you believe it?

I just wanted to say thanks to Erin and her fine band of pixies that do their doin's keeping the place together. Also, thanks to all the kind people I have met, who take the time and trouble to read my gobbledegook, perhaps even clicking the Kudos button, dropping me a comment or both.

Here's to another five :)

Nick

Anyone else having trouble?

I though it would be cool to find out where everyone is from, I think someone already did this but still...

Also I'm from Sydney, Australia and I was wondering if anyone from this site who lives nearby might want to meet face to face, if so PM me.

Is there any way to copy the attributes and keywords for Part 1 of my serial into subsequent parts?

In MS Word, I would simply open "Part 1", Save As "Part 2", delete all the text, paste in the new text and re-save. I would then have two files titled "Part 1" and "Part 2" with identical attributes.

At the moment, I go through the whole set-up sequence, trying to remember what keywords I set for Part 1, to repeat in subsequent Parts. It seems a long-winded process.

i just found bob arnolds "zapped" story. what a great writer he was. just one one small point i dont know if he spoke from personal experience or not but i watched my daughter pass on with the removal of life support. it wasnt thirty minute a process. suffice to say its not something i ever want to go through again with anyone. if this offends please accept my apology.
robert

Well, thanks to all the loving support I get here, I'm doing better. Now with that crisis behind me (hopefully), I wanted to talk about my boy name. I'm not sure why I've been so reluctant to share it, going so far as to create a pseudonym even in my autobiographical story "night entries". I'm gonna have to mull this one for a bit.

Just went to a local thrift store where no one pays much attention to what others are doing and tried on various pant sizes. 30" mens relaxed fit slip off my waist and sit around my crotch, 29" mens relaxed fit compress my hips and still want to slip off my waist, just can't with the hip compression going on.

Sizes 4-6 womens though... depending on style, are almost perfect. There was this pair of size 5 skinny jeans that were practically molded for me...

Seeing the entry in the list this morning for Bike 1491, it occurred to me how eeire that it would have been, if the 1492 entry had fallen on Monday, which is the day we celebrate Columbus day here in the states.

So close...

Now back to your regularly scheduled programming..

Kristy

I came out to my older brother at work yesterday. I'd been debating with myself internally over doing so, but since we were about to go off-property for a while to do another properties shrubs, and it got over 80 degrees quickly, I really wanted to take the uniform t-shirt off. Problem was, I was wearing a bra with straps and a thin tank top underneath.

I know I could have told a half-truth about gynaecomastia and nipple chafing, but I wanted to be fully honest with him. To be honest, I think I was hoping in some corner of my mind to find some local support.

This is just a quick note to let those who keep track know that I'm still present.

Sorry Everybody who's waiting for this weeks "You Have it all Wrong" by SaraUK this week, I'm afraid I'm had a thumping headache most of the day and I haven't got the HTML done for it. Hopefully I'll feel better after a nights kip and if so I'll do it first thing Sat morning.

Huggles

Sammi

Thought I'd post a quick update and tell everyone that the sequel to Incompatible is finished. As I mentioned before it's roughly half the length of incompatible at almost 12,000 words. Once the story is edited I will post it as soon as humanly possible.

For those that haven't read my previous blog entry, the title for this particular story will be 'Transfigured: Makings of a Spellbinder'.

So it's been a while since I posted anything of real substance, no?

Well, here's the sitch.

I think I've already said this, but I've moved back in with my parents in my home town. I've got another job (at a surprisingly small pay cut) and I'm getting to see my cousins more often than I have in over ten years, which is great, not to mention playing with my niece Shelby and spoiling her with lots of toys.

Hi Everybody,
     now that most the work with transferring servers seems to be finished, I thought I could take some time to post this note.

Some of you may know, but other's probably don't, that I've been making book covers for not only my own, but other people's stories.

I make these using Stock Art purchased or found freely (royalty free archives) off the internet.

Here are some examples of my work:

My grief lies all within, and these external manners of lament are merely shadow to the unseen grief that swells with silence in the tortured soul. ~ William Shakespeare

I would like to remind ALL readers here of the 2011 Transgender Day of Remembrance, November 20, 2011.

I know it's more than a month away, and I will probably submit this again next month, BUT, if you haven't visited the Day of Remembrance website, http://www.transgenderdor.org, I would encourage you to do so.

Why is this so important? Because trans people are in greater danger of being killed.

Well, I got the green light. I started female hormones today. (Does a little happy dance)

very quickly. Back from surgery. All went well. Back up tomorrow for followup. still blurry but looks promising. Lots of eye drops to use...clear shield over my eye to protect it until it heals. touch typing sucks. LOL

can barely read what I'm typing...can't even start reading responses. Thanks to everyone who responede to my blogs. will type more as I start seeing better.

Be seeing you all soon.

Cathy

Greetings all,

I am wondering if I should continue with Maiden of Magic. I only had 7 comments from people other than myself on the second chapter thus far. The lack of comments is disheartening, since I enjoy reading the feedback that I get from them, which helps with writing the additional chapters.

Also, are the retcons themselves disinteresting now?

Comments?

Drakira

Off I go to have things stuck in my eye. I should be back this afternoon. Hopefully I'll be able to update. If not, don't worry. Simple surgery for the cataract and I'll be okay in a few days.

Thanks for all the info and encouragement you all have shown me in my previous posts about this. I feel confident and I'm looking forward to be able to look forward, if you get my drift.

Be seeing you all.

Catherine Linda Michel