I'm very sorry having to tell you, that since 12:00 CET there are issues finding Hypatia's Garden. As far as I know, it's a DNS issues somewhere along the line. The server itself is still working nicely.

So as it unfortunately is out of our sphere of influence, I hope it will be resolved soon.

Greetings from eastern germany,

Saphira

Ummm why do they call them sissies? Doesn't that mean likes your big sissie, or your little sissie? Like mes, I love my big sissie Kitty, and ummm I just don't understands what the other sissies means, because umms is that what it means?

At last I got the next chapter of Maiden finished, and it's waiting to be posted at the site I always give precedence to with this story. Once it's posted there, I'll be putting it up here.

Good news everyone...

Okay, so I have a weird life...

I won't be able to get back to it for a bit longer, hopefully by the end of January things'll be up and running here... more when I have time!

In the last chapter posted of Kelly's Journey-Despair, It ends with her suicide because she despairs of living.

I am sorry if this offends anyone, I do not intend to.

My preferences are:
From child to adult, M to F, most real life style, some types of magical or si-fi transition, some mild femdom.

This Article was on COX Cable News

Transgender model steals the show on Fashion Rio catwalk

The 2008 Terry Awards - Final Story List

I created the Terry Awards to celebrate past stories. Older stories are too easily forgotten once they move on to the archives (back pages) and I thought that was a terrible fate.

For the last few days, when I open my browser to Big Closet, the Log-on/Register option is not on the right side near the top. So far I've had to leave the site and log back on several times over an hour or two before the option appears. Am I the only one having this problem or am I missing something?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have to apologise for not posting the next chapter of Football Girl - unfortunately work commitments have got in the way.

Bob and I are in the BC/SD chatroom. C'mon in! -- Erin

Click here to Chat

Update -- Things are looking good. Server load is nominal and the number of visitors is almost back to normal. :) We'll keep an eye on things and make sure it's all okay but when the DNS has finished propagating in 24 to 48 hours, all should be copacetic. Starting Monday, we have a few more changes to make, like bringing the old site back up as SecondShelf etc.

Hugs,
Erin and Bob

For those with SKYPE, a VoIP phone, I have always been frustrated by having to switch from speakers to earphones when I wanted to talk on the phone. I had somehow thought that I needed to make a switch box to do this, and so finally after months of forgetfulness, finally bought the parts to do it.

I want to ask if anybody has had contact with T. D. Aldoennetti since Christmas. I want to know as she lives in the outskirts of the Seattle-Tacoma area and as if you have followed any of the news from that area they were hit real hard with snow before Christmas and and then heavy rain after Christmas causing a lot of weather problems with flooding and other things. She hasn't posted anything on the site since the Dec 20th.

My son, Max (not his real name), will be starting at the high school next year. Therefore, they are starting to send materials home and have assemblies to discuss what things will be like for them next year. Today, they got the Curriculum Guide at an assembly. Max was excitedly showing my wife the extracurricular activities available to him next year: freshman soccer, jr. varsity volleyball and the chess club are the three he has circled as "must-do's". And he had crossed out, as "must not do", the Gay/Straight Alliance and the International Thespian Society.

Once again, I've had to turn guest searches off here at TopShelf due to server load. At 2:36 pm PDT, we had a dozen or so guests doing searches simultaneously and this effectively slowed the server to a crawl that it took Bob and I twenty minutes to get in and correct.

Guest searches can be done at Second Shelf: http://bcts.stardustr.us/

Sorry. Maybe we'll have a new server by next month.

Hugs,
Erin

Thank you everyone.

A google search of site:bigclosetr.us hanger
shows that we use the word "hanger" as a misspelling for "hangar" more often than we talk about coathangers.

Not really a TG post, but I have to beg for some help right now.

I have a page up at this location:

http://www.davensjournal.com/APlea.html

As I think about my own SRS and the attendant frustrations, I wonder if Penile inversion is the best route to take? Perhaps it would be best to do an intestinal resection because, what I am hearing, is that lubrication is better and dilation much less frequent after the initial healing period.

Owing to my own lack of diligence perhaps, dilation continues to be about as much fun as scrubbing the toilet. So far, there is absolutely nothing fun about it. All this is simply a question, and a little whining on my part.

Thank you everyone who has helped. It is so wonderful and you are so wonderful.

Sorry....

Okay, this is as good a place as any to ask. I've been wracking my brain trying to remember the name of this movie because it's a really good example, to my mind, of what makes not just a good transgender story, but a good story in general. I'm hoping someone here has seen it and can tell me the title.

a belated happy new year or hoppy news rear, yes my lil sides running rampant a little bit to enjoy life. things are getting into perspective and fun again for me and i am starting to see the fun in things and life.

alot of it is i get down over the holidays as i am so far away from those i consider my true family and friends and it gets me down.

to all of you i wish a good 2009 and may all your dreams come true or as many as possible this year

2008 Terry Award Nominations

For some reason (that is beyond my understanding) several people seem to have gotten the mistaken idea that I've abandoned this story. This couldn't be further from the truth. I do admit to falling way behind where I expected to be, but it's far from abandoned. (1st draft of Chapter 13 is complete, and 14 has been started - barely). (Historically, once I get a chapter close to where I want it, it generally takes two weeks to get through my four overworked editors and finally get into a shape where I can consider posting it. Sorry, but that's just what it takes, even with e-mail.

Amy sent me an email saying:
I have been without work for a month and am unable to find work.
As of now I'm forced to use a library computer to get online so I'm not able to write or visit BCTS.

OK, I've never made a blog entry before, so here goes. I just have to get this out somewhere.

The good news is my wife and I have health insurance again.

It's possible that you saw that chapter 45 of Being Christina Chase was posted today. This was a mistake. If you read the story, I apologize. It should have never gone up. It is not ready for public consumption.

We're deep enough into BC's history that four years ago will include enough stories often enough to make it worthwhile to put up a new Jewel Box in the header links. Enjoy. :)

I finally started writing last night. I haven't made a serious attempt at it in so long that I know I'm going to need some major editing advice later, but I don't mind. I wouldn't be here if I didn't enjoy it ;)

Well for all of you who know, Sephrena, and me have been dating kind of on again off again for quite a while now. We've been at each others throats like cats and dogs for quite a while mew, but we always seeemed to come back, some force seemed to hold us together, on november 13th, near my birthday, I realized that force was love mew. So we started our relationship again, and this time, it became something more. Then while Sephrena was in Thailand, I got a call from her, and she proposed to me, and I said YES! WERE GETTING MARRIED MEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I see the quote "Life is hard. It's harder when you're stupid." being atributed to a Sir Charles Panther, who seems to use it as a tagline in several book reviews on Amazon dot com, digging a little further back it was used by John Wayne in "Sands of Iwo Jima"

Christine
Semper Foo Foo

I registered with BC a month ago after being one of the guests for a very long time and it is through reading many of the stories and the blogs here that it has given me the courage to stand up and leave My Closet. I first came to believe I was different when I was eight years old and at twelve knew what was wrong, but then believed there was nothing I could do about it.

My son sent this to me, and I don't know how to respond, except that I disagree with it. I am sending him the link to this blog so that he can see what you all think.

Gwen

Sunday, April 24, 2005 -
Surgical Sex by Dr. Paul McHugh
Paul McHugh is University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University.
Copyright (c) 2004 First Things 147 (November 2004): 34-38.

Let's all try to comment more on the stories.

OMG!

The 2008 Terry Awards - Award Categories

Here's a link to today's Dear Abby. Joe in Pennsylvania finds skirts more comfortable, but some of his relatives are gossiping about him.

I don't know about global warming, because we've had two lousy summers, and we seem to be having something of a mini ice age in the UK at present, with temperatures well below normal.

Hi to all friends and readers out there. I have a new story to launch. However before I do I would like to know if some of you can remember a story with a boy called Alex and his future wife called Christine. I can not remember the Author however my initial story is based on that. There also is an apperance of Drew Bond. The parts with Drew/Gaby in have already been seen here and on Maddybell.com. Look forward to your replies. I wish you all a very happy New Year.

May the power be with you Sharp.

I have had a ball this year as I have read the many wonderful stories and have made many new friends. I hope and pray that y'all enjoy a prosperous new year in your lives.

As much as I love Deirdre's antics and the way she gets into trouble without even trying, it will be a while before I get much more done with her story. I've had a death in the family, with all the attendant hooraahh, paperwork, and obligations needing to be seen to. Probably next week, I'll be able to get back to writing.

I apologize to those of you who have been waiting, but take heart. Deirdre isn't near done yet! *evil laugh*

Just wait for the mayhem I have planned. Wait for it, wait for it...

I am feeling extremely cross right now and need a spanking and to be forced to stand in the corner. :(

Ballet for me has never been about the clothes for me. I love being graceful, trying to create something beautiful....

This is going to be long and about as dry as day old toast, but I felt like rambling to complete strangers on the internet for awhile :)