Bastille Day, 14th July, is the anniversary of the French mob storming the hated fortress/prison in the centre of Paris in 1789, and is commonly regarded as one of the beginnings of the French Revolution.

A few years later, 1986 to be precise, I rather sedately broke out of my own prison, coincidently on the same day. It came about by my going to see my general manager, who had got wind of my intentions via the grapevine--someone who'd been told in confidence, blabbed.

I've posted six more chapters of Some Enchanted Girlfriend as one post, Part 3, over on Stardust. This is for the convenience of those who don't like reading short chapters.

I've been visiting this site for some time before deciding to contribute, and during all that time I've had absolutely no problem accessing it.

Which story is first in her series venus cursed or dreamwalker??

Ive started reading venus cursed then noticed dreamwalker references ????

any ideas???

I don't even know how to say this. I've always known that my man doesn't like women in any way, in fact, he hates anything even remotely tinged with femaleness. I, on the other hand, have never wanted to be anything else. I thought for many years that I could just accept his misogynistic world and deal with it, just cope with being who biology fated me to be.

I recently received my new Veteran's I.D. card, with my real pic on it. That makes two picture ID's. Driver's License and Vet's ID... both with me as Cathy. When I get back from The SCC conference, I will submit the paperwork to legally change my name.

Baby steps, my friends, but important ones.

Hugs 'n love,
Catherine Linda Mchel

A few days ago Sue Brown listed seven basic plots and asked if there were more. A lenghthy discussion ensued during which I mentioned non-confrontational plots. I ascerbically stated I didn't think anyone would want to read a TG story based on a non-confrontational plot.

After additional thought I decided to write U Go To Hell which I posted yesterday. It features a non-confrontational plot. It is a slice of life leading to a revelation.

You can judge for yourself if anyone would want to read that kind of story.

A couple of weeks ago, Grover told you about our Delta and having to say goodbye to her. Well, there is hopefully going to be a new addition to our family. I have been going through depressive bouts, and Grover has been kind enough to encourage both of us to adopt a new pet.

Please keep your fingers, toes, eyes, and whatever else crossed so we may have good luck in adopting a new family member. We should have more info before the end of next week.

Thank you for your kind words, thoughts, and prayers as Grover and I mourn the passing of a wonderful doggy friend.

Just read an article in a Canadian newspaper about a TG woman who is taking action after being humiliated in public.

My little dog and I were playing on the front porch, me throwing her favorite toy and her chasing it. At the far end of the porch, she tried to grab the toy, stop and turn around all at the same time and I think she hurt herself.

The Daily Mail in London is reporting that scientist's at Newcastle university have developed an artificial sperm, Raising the very real possibility in the future of a world without the need for men!... Having said that they do say that at present sperm can only be created from male embryo's so ruling out for the moment women becoming the supreme biological being...But you know what they say, Where there's a will there's a way!!

There are evidently 7 basic plots and every story utilises one or more of them.

The plots are:

1. Man v (Wo)man

2. (Wo)Man v Nature

3. (Wo)Man v Environment

4. (Wo)Man v Machine

Those nice people at The Daily Express, have found another way to stir it up, without picking on individuals.

We're going to hit 8000 published stories and chapters here on BC, probably before the 10th of September.

There is a really interesting program on the Documentary Channel now about Gender research in Australia.

Just Interesting Information! Richard

Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men
who signed the Declaration of Independence ?

Five signers were captured by the British as traitors,

OK, this may sound really stupid, but I don't know how to vote for the stories... anyone can give me a simple step-by-step? Or point me to the place were I can find out about it.

I have one story by Lisa Paige in my personal archive: Alex. It's a well written piece and I'd like to read more of her work. Does anyone know where she may have posted more stories?

Pre-race coverage is on in the US now on Versus. Web Link: http://www.versus.com/tdf

Mark Morford: San Francisco Newspaper Columnist Extraordinaire

My thanks to everybody who replied to my question about the best ever story published on Bigcloset/Topshelf...Its certainly pointed me in the direction of many stories that i could have missed without all your replies... One thing is for sure its going to take me a long time to read through them all, But i'm sure i'll enjoy it.

Kirri

This is what Piper posted at CSS:

Tomorrow, all the sites we host will go away. The downtime will be somewhere between 6 and 48 hours.

There isn't that much real estate for listing the blog posts on the front page. It seems to me, having three sticky posts in that little left-hand column doesn't leave that much room for anyone else's post to survive for very long before scrolling off.

Does anyone remember a story called, I think, "When Carl Met Lauren?" I can't remember if it was here or on FM. The plot is essentially a woman discovers a man at college, who she finds out works at a drag bar playing Pink (the singer.) By the end, he's basically her wife and they have two kids. He had Couvade syndrome (makes him think he's, and shows the signs of, pregnancy.) Thanks for any assistance.

Briar alerted us to an item on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour at 1000 BST today, Wednesday 1/7/09 regarding Cher's daughter transitioning to male.

I recently discovered that I still have the assignments that I did for a creative writing class several years ago. I was looking through them and was surprised that I actually liked several of them! I expected them to seem juvenile to me, as I often do with my own work. None of them are TG, but I was wondering if there would be any interest if I posted some of them here?

Please let me know!

Saless

Hi everyone,

Well after the success of the Gabycon 2009 Guide i thought it only fair to offer a similar volume for the first poroper Gabycon in 2008.

Not having been a member on Bigcloset for that long, I wonder if anyone can tell me has there ever been a vote to find out what readers here consider to be the best ever T.G story published here on Bigcloset ?

Kirri

So i was flipping through TV today and i came across Maury Povich which i normally avoid because i think he just exploits people pain for profit but today's show was about Tg mtf teens which i thought was tastefully done.

Doctor Who is a B.B.C. Iconic T.V. series abot a wacky Gallifreyan Time Lord who has adventures through time and space as he travels in his T.A.R.D.I.S. But until now, he hasn't broached the T.G. theme in his adventures. That changed tonight.

Tonight, he met a homan male who was made to believe that he was the Doctor. The Cybermen had attacked Victorian London in pre industrial times to resurrect their fallen empire and Crown their ruler, the Cyber King.

Hello all:

I have just sent Football Girl 14 off to Gabi for her editing magic. Also I have Changes 13 ready to post early tomorrow.

Today my wife and I had to do a hard thing. Our beloved half-Rottie Lab went to sleep for the last time. It broke our hearts but Delta had cancer. She had already survived one operation, but there was nothing anyone could do when it once more came back. Delta was 11 years old and had been with my wife for ten years after the dog had been rescued from a bad home. She was a big dog at near 90 pounds but was really a sweet coward. Almost everything would send her into hiding, although her bark would scare anyone. It was so deep it would rattle the windows.

It seems a day for sad news. Farrah Fawcett has died of cancer at the age of 62. How I loved her in my teen years; of course I didn't want to be with her, I wanted to be her -- but I'm sure there are others here who can sympathize with that. I think Charlie might say something like this; "Spread your wings and fly, Angel, fly! You soar in the heavens now, forever young and beautiful."

I'm staying with my daughter for the next couple of nights, so real life might well get in the way of my art(if you believe that you'll believe anything!). Viz, I might just be too busy to have time to write.

The connection time to the internet has been awful tonight, taking twenty minutes to open BC to post. I haven't yet managed to get to my emails, lost the will to live before they opened. Must be the location, it isn't like this at home.

I'll post again when I can, possibly sunday or monday.

Angharad.

Even if no one is hurt, even if the other car looks like it lost a fight with a brick wall while the only damage to yours is a piece of styrofoam from the other car's front bumper wedged into the rim of your rear wheel.

Especially if you're transitioning (as I am), already 24/7 but some of your documentation shows your new name, some shows your old one, and none shows the correct sex. Hey, I only changed my name legally a week ago.

Over the past several months, I've been going over how Big Closet operates. I've had a couple meltdowns over it and now I've come to a conclusion.

If you are going to do something do it right? At least I think that was the name of the story.It was about a girl who lived with her grandfather who died and started going to school as a girl.

Many times, when I try to vote on a story, a dialogue box opens that says, " An HTTP error 0 occured (sic). /topshelf/drupalit/count-vote/7441/1" and the 'vote/voted' box goes blank.

I know that this is way off topic, but I beg you to indulge me for a few moments. For those who really know me, one of my obsessions is to try to figure out the real nature of what I believe to be the intelligence who created all this. I must shamefully admit that at times everything seems incredibly chaotic and mostly evil. But in my quiet moments I know that perhaps I am just not sophisticated to understand everything.

250,028 hits on my stories at Crystal's!!! I feel so humble and yet proud at the same time.