I just read an interesting novel , A Lion in Waiting (Kindle Edition) by H.W. Coyle.

just a quick note.

Notes on Fitness class
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“Gender-bending” chemicals mimicking the female hormone oestrogen can disrupt the development of baby boys, suggests the first evidence linking certain chemicals in everyday plastics to effects in humans.

Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7440-gender-bending-c...

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7440-gender-bending-c...

A few months ago, an item of interest to our community came across my twitter, which is unusual, as my twitter is almost totally devoid of gender related content.

It was the graphic novel, "The Prince & The Dressmaker" by Jen Wang. Published in 2018, it has come up again recently.

This will be a "how it made me feel" review to avoid (most) spoilers.

Set in what I suspect is a fantasy of Paris and Europe in the 1800s,

Hey everyone,

Just a quick note to let you all know that Apocalypse Dawn and I Wish might be a bit late this week. I've had a busy couple of days and it's really cut into my writing time. I'm working on the new chapter of AD now, but I don't know if I'm going to have it finished and edited tonight. So, it's sort-of likely that both stories will be a day late this week unless I'm super productive.

*big hugs to you all*

Amethyst

The next chapter of You Are a Meany is up. The long delay between chapters came from another flare-up of my health issue.

The following chapter is in the process of being edited. I am now working on the chapter after that. I do not want people to think that I will not get the story done. I know the ending I just have to get there without rushing. I feel bad about the long space between chapters. It feels like I am taking my writing cues from George R. R. Martin.

Love N Hugs
Sarah

My latest story "Deniability" was just a bit of whimsy, but it did throw up the consideration of a real issue affecting the two most populous countries in the world, and that is sex or gender Imbalance.
In my recent comment I referred to a couple of articles in the Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/world/too-many-...(link is external)

how badly am I missing getting physical hugs?

Today I bought a toy octopus plushie.

I'm pretty sure that's on the list of COVID cabin fever symptoms.

Hello out there,

I hope you're all doing well and are enjoying the latest Walker's Path.

When I first started this story I posted a blog about Walker's Path being an exclusive for BigCloset. I've been thinking about spreading the story to other platforms.

Walker's Path will likely always be posted here first but I want to expand the reader base.

Does anyone have any thoughts about this?

Let me know what you all think. I'll make my decision based on the feedback I receive.

Have a wonderful Sunday,
Katherine

I saw this poem and soon realised it applies to most if not Veterans

He is an armchair critic
Who likes to watch the news.
Staring at his old TV,
He mumbles as he views,
And when the politicians speak,
He almost blows a fuse!

He disagrees with everything,
Or so it seems these days.
He doesn't like the news anchor
Or half of what she says.
It seems to him the world's gone mad
In oh so many ways.

Another reminder As per this blog, I will be removing Battle for Earth, the prequel to this series, from Bigcloset Topshelf and my website soon. So if you haven't read it and still want to, you may want to make the effort.

Legacy of Earth: Birthright Brown Bottle Flu By Daniela A. Wolfe When Jek and Tanner awaken from their night at the bar, some things come to light and their relationship is changed forever.

Got two stories Im looking for think might be fictionmani
But not sure just remember both take place in England hope you can help
First boy ends up as a girl at a horror house transition and eventually becomes a women of the house
Second boy has run in with dad ends up in England goes into a shop that sells women's cloths think for the lgbt but not sure the owner helps turns out her mom is a therapist
Falls in love with shop owner think mom does
Thanks charlize

I had read, or heard someone say that Transgender folk have a high incidence of Autism or something on the Spectrum, but I know a woman that spent many years working with the folk and she does not see the connection.

Then I was reading on the internet and it seems to be a popular idea among PhD. Psych. folk that Transgender folk have a predominance of three serious personality disorders; Paranoid PD, avoidant PDs, and comorbid PDs. Someone else indicated that many were Borderline Personality.

Now, some of the mustard in our front yard is going to seed. To thrive in their nitch as a weed they, of course, have lots of seeds. Seeds are 1.0 mm by 0.5 mm. The cylindrical seed pods are about 4 cm long and about 0.8 mm in diameter. In the plant I picked, seed pods extend 20 cm below the initial flower every 8 mm or so. The flower has petals and male parts that look like pollen sacks. Since the plants are in seed, the pollen must have been released weeks ago.

Between working remotely (the recent snow storm to hit the east coast resulted in our offices being closed for the past two days) and clearing snow, I starting thinking about the friends and acquaintances I haven’t or heard from in the past year. We are coming up on 12 months since the pandemic hit the shutdown phase, and we began to lose track of a lot of people.

This was really pointed out to me as I was looking for a story to read this evening. While going through my bookmarks, I noticed several stories by Elsbeth.

revised version of "The Secret of M.Y.T.H." is up:

https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/88718/secret-myth-rev...

I looked through some old posts about milestones and kudos, and found this one of my own from 4.5 years back: https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/62570/milestone. It seems almost quaint, talking about pushing over 100 Kudos and such. My latest off-dashing, Still Another Dress Code, posted last Tuesday, zoomed up to 100 Kudos in a couple days, and is now at 126.

I'm pretty sure just about everyone knows the title comes from the first season theme to the anime "Magic Knight Rayearth". I based the mood of the main character on the lyrics, specifically to the English translation made for the US Sega Saturn version by Working Designs.

I've got an idea for a story and not sure if it would go over well

the story is about a man who had committed assault and rape tries to reform and make up for the harm he's caused, and may involve him changing into a woman.

would you read a story like that?

I've had new contact with my estranged Son, something I had given up on. He first emailed me, saying he was thinking of me, and tried to talk about my living in sexual sin. Sorry to drop the Religion Bomb on you, but I shared Matt 19:12 and Isaiah 56:4-5 with him, and later I got an email from him asking for my forgiveness.
He can't speak a sentence without using Scripture or mentioning God.

I'm very thankful but I do not plan on a deep relationship.

Gwen

Scottish musician and producer, Sophie, has died following an accident in Athens, according to the Guardian see link below. It's always a tragedy when someone so young dies and at age 34, would have expected to have many more years to live.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jan/30/sophie-acclaim...

Trying to find a story a boy leaves home and transition then becomes wealthy and adopts a little girl returns home to the shock of her parents and sister that there son is now there daughter
Thanks charlize

Based on a little "What If" scenario, I decided to attempt to write a new story. Surprisingly, it took only a couple months to complete. I imagine some will pick up on what's going on right away. I am being deliberately vague in the first chapter, but all will be clear, hopefully, after second chapter. There are six chapters in all, and the story is a bit over twelve thousand words. I would rate it a mild PG. Things are seldom as they seem. Skim milk masquerades as cream.

so apparently last night I started shouting in my sleep.

I cant remember what I was dreaming that would make me cry out.

The thing is, as a kid I did that a lot, and even as an adult I still did it until I started going to therapy and recovered some of the memories of my abuse (which is when I started having flashbacks instead), and as far as I know I no longer cried out in my sleep - until last night.

You're gonna have to forgive me if that's a little concerning for me.

for a new Gaby volume coming on Jan 27th!

Cheerleading is part of the American identity and frequently used as a story device or plot on this site. But how much do those of us not actually involved really know about it. A new film claims to take the lid off a less than glamorous world of exploitation nastiness and the victims as always are women.

See attached link from the Guardian and see if you still want to write about cheerleading.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/jan/26/a-womans-work-d...

The whirlwind of Kissy's life seems to be slowing down... or is it?

Butterscotch 35 - Bamboo on BC

Butterscotch Remedy (Song)

I begun a new tale I've been working on for too long; two years. I got to chapter 8 when the virus reared its ugly little head and interrupted life as we all have known it. Unfortunately I had to post it as a pfd. I simply couldn't post it as a regular tale because I got error message after error message. I can't figure out whether I derped or the program derped. And I simply couldn't waste more time messing with it.

Just watched Joss Whedon's film SERENITY again, his follow on from his tv series 'Firefly'.
If anyone here is a fan of them and doesn't know. Randalynn on BC has a fantastic follow on story from the film here
Connecting Flight

Okay, so yesterday, after I has an exhausting day running Sharon and Sam around, my mom offered to make supper for me.

And while coming back to the kitchen while carrying a heavy pot with a heavy lid on it, the lid fell off and hit her on the top of her foot.

the top of the joint of her big toe was pretty swollen, couldn't put any weight on the foot, and I started struggling with guilt.

And then the day got worse.

I managed to trip and slammed into the carpet just about as hard as I could

So at this point I was sore, guilty, and worried about mom.

Just a notice before I get to our regularly scheduled programming. As per this blog, I will be removing Battle for Earth, the prequel to this series, from Bigcloset Topshelf and my website soon. So if you haven't read it and still want to, you may want to get on that.

Legacy of Earth: Birthright Battleground By Daniela A. Wolfe When a mysterious ship appears to confront the Valiant, all hell breaks loose.

Not the Night Master and the Dragon's Hand (a bit risqué):

https://tinyurl.com/yyshyyaa

(Part of large set of photos I took at NolaCon, the 1988 World Science Fiction Convention.)

Not sure why it took two attempts for the Tiny URL to go through. :-(

Just an FYI in case folks don't see me there.

its not been a bad week so far.

Just noticed a new Julie O. story on Fiction Mania for those of you interested.

President Elect Joe Biden is planning to nominate Dr. Rachael Levine as HHS Secretary. I wish them the best, though I think that some will fight this. She is Transgendered.

Youth sports have a purpose. They can be wonderful environments to teach valuable life lessons. Or, they can be culture cauldrons to develop bias and hate.

I love youth sports. I also love the effort to win. Excelling is a basic human nature and vital to the perpetuation of mankind.

Winning and compassionate youth sports are NOT incompatible.

I once ran a youth basketball program with about a thousand participants. The players were boys and girls ages ten through fourteen. Our program fed into three high school programs.

Four men with a secret little hobby get swallowed up by a cosmic phenomenon...

Pete, Doc, Josie and the General fall through the Hole in the Sky into a new world. Where are they? Or is that even the right question?

Because I am A: a nerd, and B: a bit strange, I sometimes picture my body as a starship, and every morning Captain Brain gets into the command chair and gets the status updates for the day.

Well, to extend the metaphor a bit, you ever see an episode of any of the Star Trek shows where the ship starts having a bunch of malfunctions and nobody knows why?

Yeah, that's pretty much me right now. as my balance is off, my PTSD is on red alert, various parts of my body are complaining of pain, and I'm just generally getting all kinds of error messages that I can't track down.

or something like that.

Kravaal Island and the background tales of what happened there were inspired in part by the Boris Karloff movie The Man With Nine Lives and the music video for the Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star," as well as the Dark Star ominous, minor key version of the song.

In an interview a few years ago, Trevor Horn of the Buggles said he still had those glasses. ;-)

Just a notice for those who don't already know. As per this blog, I will be removing Battle for Earth, the prequel to this series, from Bigcloset Topshelf and my website soon. So if you haven't read it and still want to, you may want to do that.

Legacy of Earth: Birthright Raising Cayne By Daniela A. Wolfe Aboard the Valiant, Jek must not only face down Kaya Briggs, but also the headstrong Colonel Cayne. To make matters worse, a new danger lurks on the horizon.

Too bad transgender policies are so easily changed with a change of administration.

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-connecticut-courts-coll...

I'll put a CAUTION on this. I'm likely to get pretty dark. Somewhere in here I expect to dig into existential angst. You have been warned,

so far!

We’ve all seen the hype and heard of the great dangers of the Covid-19 virus. It seems the talking heads can’t stop talking about the dangers and the need of the anti-virus injections. Every once in a while, we hear someone from the outer fringes trying to tell us that this virus is no worse than another flu virus. Yes it can be deadly, but no more or no less than the flu. Of course the voice of those fringe naysayers are quickly drowned out by dozens of experts any time one rases their head.