Your "Not giving a fuck about what other people think" skills leap to a whole new level

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The one with the (so far useless) degree in Mathematics will calculate the scores and winning team. That’s me!

Heading to Smokies early Saturday! Woohoo! Celebrating my son’s bday!

You're in charge of the math, Kimmie! It takes one more thing off the plate of my poor depleted brain-cells.

Hunkering down before The Big Freeze this weekend. Went to the store, and going to bring home a mess of takeout so we can eat leftovers all weekend and watch Flow and Starve Acre (our designated weekend flicks).

Coffee please. Say hi to Marigold.

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I question the validity of your results, given the number of SS entries the blue team is assured of a score greater than zero. 😋

Coffee for me please. Those nanaimo bars look delicious but I shall resist.

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i am guessing it will be a negative number.

The only team mathematically able to beat a score of 1 is Kisten, who, as the only member of Team Transparent, and unentered in the comp, has a score of 0. Gasp! 0, I should point out, is an evil number. The Wikipedia link of today's first rabbit hole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_number

Coffee please. My knee hurts this morning, but I will resist gummies, as they will make me all goofy.

Crushing. Damn. This hurts, unexpectedly. I didn't know him well, and his final poem makes me wish I'd known him better. I'm glad his words are still here. Give him a read, please, and maybe a passing prayer. He seemed a kind, gentle, terrifically talented soul. Godspeed. You're missed

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/love-poems/im-still-here

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Congrats to Ensorceled and WannabeWordsmith on the Comp and thanx for the well wishes. It must be the gummies.

Just a coffee for me. I may have had an early start...

I completely forget how the team scoring works but that's OK doesn't only Ensorceled need to know?

It’s very simple. Okay, simple-adjacent. Best average score wins. 1st place = 1, 2nd place = 2, 3rd place = 3, top ten = 4, unplaced = 5.

Add up the scores, divide by the number of team members. No, not that kind of member.

Hi everyone. Hope the day is treating you well. A coffee please.

Ping is in the contest on Bleu! Come read him! And us! https://www.storiesspace.com/

Team Red: CuriousAnnie, Ape, Sprite

Team Blue: Verbal (me), Writergirl, Lyfbuzz (tincathat), Bear, Courgette

Team Transparent: Kistin

Anyone wants to join a team, or leave a team, or change teams, or ignore the teams, or make up a new team, or declare teams unnecessarily competitive and yet another sign of the end times, feel free. I was just doing this to ramp up some interest. Highest average wins, and the losers have to go to the winner's bar/coffee shop, and, I don't know, say something nice. Don't mention Lush over there. Pearl clutching may ensue.

Me? I'll have a shot of bourbon. If there's a gummie floating around recklessly at the bottom, I shan't complain.

My favorite Lush member is the guy who started this thread. Not kink-shaming, just curious.

https://www.lushstories.com/forum/ask-the-gals/swimming-pool-or-hot-tub-of-cum

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Bearkeep, pour me your strongest, please.

Heartbreaking day with Dad. I’m not strong enough to go through this again. At least Mom’s not here to see it… 😢

I'm so sorry to hear of your day with your Dad. You are a good daughter and a good person for doing that so selflessly. My heart goes out to you. I hate that fucking disease.

Congrats to Dubya and Life and the other winners. A drink for all of them.! I truly did not think mine worthy of a podium.

I'll have a coffee. Trying not to eat so much junk this year, so no sweets.

The true prize is seeing Jen's boots.

I did not expect the podium for this story - so many hot clever takes on this, and I didn't think mine had the heat to compete (good rhyme though!).

Also so cool to be on the podium with Dubya and Lifebuzz! I'm honored. Congrats you guys.

Congrats to the top ten too. It takes so much courage to put words on paper and let others read it, especially when it's something as personal as your sexual fantasies. So, congrats to everyone who entered.

I'm also a little relieved to not come in fourth place.

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Do what I did in church, vaguely gesture a cross while circling your hand around your chest and mumble ‘Jesus Mary homina homina homina’.

My sister told me that Catholics said "Head, chest, shoulder, other shoulder." I believed her for years.

I think non-Platinum stories should be auto-translated into pig-Latin via bot. Only platinum stories get re-translated back into English.

Ersonally-pay, I'd-way ov-lay is-thay articular-pay erk-pay.

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You know, that thing on the trapeze, with peacock feathers, glitter, and a bag of gummy bears. What's it called again?

Friday night

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But what if I finish 4th (lol okay let me hallucinate) and I don't want a Canadian boy toy?

If I win fourth I'm going to have him paint my house.

A Public Service Commission: don’t ever leave your butt plug in when getting an MRI.

https://www.unilad.com/news/health/woman-screaming-pain-sex-toy-inserted-mri-086994-20250109

Coffee and a donut please!

True story

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What about 5am then?🙃

If you ever see me awake and communicating before 10 a.m., it's an imposter.

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Leave a friendly note to the mod and tell us where that line is. "Hey, Moddy, I know that what I did <here> and <here> is unconventional, but it's intentional. BTW, I love what you've done with your hair!"

We will happily back down unless it's unreadable, in which case we will push back. We can't tell whether an author doesn't understand typical grammar rules or is sidestepping them for style unless we are already familiar with the author's work.

Good answer. And I love what you’ve done with your hair!

Here a micro rule I used to keep myself in line during my short-lived experiment with micro: someone in the story has to be changed by the events of the story. Not exactly a character arc, because you only have 100 words, but a character shift in some noticeable way. It worked for me, anyway.

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Unfortunately, this video doesn't play in Canada – probably a copyright issue.

Oh, well. Once Canada's part of the US, that will all go away…

NO FUCKING WAY!

Monroe tried it in 1812.

Didn't go well.

The British burned Washington in retaliation for America trying to capture York (now Toronto), which is why "The Executive Mansion" became "The White House" – they had to paint it white to cover the scorch marks.

Who had Land War in North America on their apocalypse bingo card?

Morning all. Windy as the dickens out. I enjoy hearing the wind howling as I write. Trying (unsuccessfully) to match Carton’s 10,000 words a week. I might break 6000 this week with a running start.

Coffee would be swell. I hope the Annie/Piquet writers thing went well. Two fine writers. I swear Annie is channeling James Joyce sometimes.

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Thank you all who came to this fab event with these fab authors. In the coming days we'll post the links to the stories mentioned in the chat so check back in this thread!

Also look out for our February Meet the Authors event featuring Sprite & ScreamQueen (formerly known as Vanessa)! It's going to be a Meet the Authors: Tentacle, Horror and Sci-Fi Edition 😜

Sprite and Vanessa! What an unholy alliance! I’ll be there with all sorts of inane questions! Assuming it isn’t at 4 a.m.

Thanks for these LL. I love to see the emphasis on writers and writing.

Pretty quiet in here. I dropped in for a shot of bourbon, with a purple gummie dissolving lazily in the bottom of the shot glass like a sunlit daydream.

Sigh

It involved a belt.

What's the nicest thing you've ever done for someone?

Nope

Have you ever worn a collar during sex?

Coughing. I kind of like sneezing, it's orgasm-adjacent. (Hi Beth)

Would you rather have too much coffee or not enough?

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Thanks, but I guess I’m still unsure how to think about that.

If a character is drinking and conscious and not being coerced but acts a little more freely than they might normally even though it’s of their own free will is that problematic?

Regarding the Hypno, it seems a more precarious. Theoretically a person wouldn’t do something under hypnosis that they wouldn’t normally do, but the basic premise of hypnosis stories is control over someone else. How should we think about consent in that context?

Let’s say a guy puts a woman under and while in trace he asks her to undress. Under normal circumstances if he had gone up to her and asked her to do that she would say no, but under trance she agrees. Is that problematic?

I apologize in advance if this comes off as pedantic, but I do want to understand this better for future stories I have in mind. Thanks!

These are really good questions. I wrestled with these myself when writing a tentacle sex story. It's a nuanced discussion, and I was really trying to avoid any hint of -i-ness. Thanks for helping clarify.

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It’s 27 degrees F here. If you each pick a place to start licking, I might thaw out by Valentine’s Day.

That strategically placed v-shaped twig is genius.

Nothing new here. It's cold, but the snow is melting a bit under a bright sun. Writing about cosmic horror in the Iowa cornfields I grew up in.

4 days left in the Bleu comp. It's really a strong one.

Coffee. No gummie, I need to focus.

If you could provide us late risers with a copy of the text after the chat, that would be awesome!

Happy birthday Kis!

Big snowfall here, had to cancel my eye doc appointment. My big chore for the day will be shoveling the driveway. Still, should be a cozy day, snuggled together indoors.

A coffee please. Hope everyone is doing well. Go Team Bleu!

I have been given a hall pass for Nicole Kidman.