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LOL. I have no opinion on this as I've avoided the little pop icon completely but I had to respond because you guy's comments made me laugh. Oh, the funny things we talk about.

Hi Aaronwriter! A good place to start looking to understand the ins and outs of the site is the site rules page here. Sex, sometimes graphic sex, isn't going to get a story banned unless it between adults and minors, usually signifigantly minor teenagers. Also, as Nephy said, if a story is solely about the sex involved and does not have a plot beyond that it is typically something that isn't well accepted. Other than that it is pretty wide open. There are a wide variety of genres and options available to mark your stories with when you get ready to post in e-fiction. Technically if you created a profile in there, I recommend you use the same name as you use on the forums page btw, you do not need permission from Joe, or Jsmith, to post. Anyone can. You can also create a topic in the e-fiction discussion forum for your story as well. What you need author status for is to post a topic with a story announcement in the e-fiction announcement forum to let everyone know you have updated a chapter. Be prepared to not have your stories immediately post in e-fiction when you have uploaded them as well. New authors are put in a validation queue to prevent plagarism and such, something that has occured in the past. A moderator will validate your story before it can appear. For future reference, the List of Who to Contact and the previously linked site rules page are both in the Administration Communication forum. GA has a very well developed Writers Corner and a pretty good group of people who can help a writer along with reviews, critiques and opinions if you care to search them out. Many people both write and operate as editors or beta readers. I've found this to be a great site to learn and grow as a writer as everyone is very accepting. I hope you continue to explore the site and enjoy the community you find here at GA. If you have any questions please feel free to send me a pm as I am a forum moderator for the site. I remember how overwhelming this place can be for a newbie Cia

I'm still with my first love. I met him just after I turned 16 and I'm still with him, celebrating our tenth wedding anniversary in 2 days actually. Sap story isn't it? To be truthful, it was never a leap for me. We just... fit. We moved very quickly, or at least as quickly as we could with me still a minor and in high school. In a year and a half we were living together and in 3 years we were married. I think that it didn't seem like a risk to me because I was so young. Teenagers naturally don't view things as adults tend to, they are more leap and then look. Perhaps your situation calls for a little bit of that. What is the worst case scenario if you do move forward or don't? Can you live with either of them or neither of them?

You know my msn if you need to vent and clear your head. Hopelessness breeds helplessness. You are having a bad moment but you are trying which means that you haven't given up yet. Keep trying honey!

Well I got what I expected from you Mark, sex in a story. But using second person was interesting, almost as if we are getting to listen to the voice in the main character's head. That gave this short story an intimate feel very quickly. Army man was an dual character, a mix of alpha male and young man. I got the sense that the main character was older from certain lines such as, You think that

Awww... moving out on your own for the first time is a bit scary but freeing at the same time. I was so young when I did it I was lucky my stupid phase was over. Sounds like you are ready to hit the ground running and are getting all the details out of the way before the move, good for you! I hope it all works out!!

*Gasp* You're cute... What are you doing with Cam again? Oh yeah, he's a cutie too, Who'd have thunk it? Oh wait, I've seen a pic of you before, what am I going on about?

OMG, that's awful Heart!! For me any sort of repetitive sound or tapping noise gets me in seconds. I lose my cool. Obviously my kids will never ever have drums. On the hubbies side... leaving dishes lying around for me to pick up. How hard is it to put it in the dishwasher? And NO, there are no points for putting it in the sink 2 feet away from the dishwasher. If it's not that big of a deal for me to have to put them in there why can't he do it himself? Grrr.... just thinking about it irritates me

I have used a variety of Canon's and some Kodak cameras. If I had to choose, I like Canon's better. They are not as expensive as Nikons but I feel they do just as good a job taking pictures. Unfortunately I'm not really up on the point and shoot versions of their lines, I've Canon film and slr Rebels. However, I saw this one in store, the SX130 IS I liked the way it felt and the features provided. It gives you many options on shooting settings, providing both pre-set shooting modes as well as manual. There are a variety of flash features, jpg file quality and it even does movies. With 12.1 mp it will take fine quality photos, though it only has a 4x zoom, the biggest downside in my mind. The Canon website price is $249, though often that is the higher end of what you can find a camera for if you shop around your area. The link goes to the Canon website spec page. Hope that helps a little. I'm not an expert by any means but if you have any questions about cameras feel free to pm me, I'll help if I can.

Marriage means a lot to me in some ways, but I am in no ways possesive of a name of a ceremony. I've actually been thinking a lot about the subject in general and mine in particular lately. In a year of many ups and downs I celebrate my 10th wedding anniversary to a man next week. We were married all those years ago by a minister in a local country grange hall twhere we grew up. The minister was simply because he was a close friend of my husband's family who took the time to fly down from Alaska to perform the ceremony because as a teenager my husband asked him to, years before I ever met him. My family was there, his family was there and we said before everyone we cared about, "I choose you" by taking those vows. Of course, anyone who knows me wouldn't be surprised I made the minister take out the words, "and obey". I think that is what marriage is about. Being with someone you love and sharing that with the world. Children might come of it, they might not, but that is not what it's about. It's about loving and committing to another person. Religious people use the words, 'my marriage' to own it. It's not something you can own, at least it shouldn't be. Everyone deserves to be able to declare their love the same way, those emotions in life are what make us the most human. Denying a person that is like relegating them to a lesser status. If I had found my other half in a woman or if my children should turn out to be bi or gay I would never want that forced upon them or me. I do think it inevitable that people will wake up and marriage between two people of the same sex will be universally legal. Some day they will see that showing the love a couple shares should be allowed to all people equally, no matter who they are under their clothes.

Happy Birthday!

I carry my cellphone around pretty much constantly as well. But I rarely text, it's not a fancy phone with picture capabilities and such. Mostly it's because I am on the go a lot with 2 kids and it's safer to have a phone with me in case of breakdowns, key lockouts, schedule changes and such.

Hope you have a great day Kia!!

I've unfortunately run the gamut of abuses children can face, abandonment, physical, emotional, sexual. It's not ever something you just 'get over', so no, it's not absolutely ridiculous that it would still be affecting you Tipdin. Unfortunately and fortunately the experiences I was faced with as a child made me into the person I am today. Would I love to go back in time to protect the child me from the bad people in my life? Hell yes. But if I did that I would wipe out many of the sources to my own convictions as a parent now. To be there for my kids always, to never use a belt or strap, to be attentive and fair to both equally, to listen and not always dictate, and above all LOVE them, no matter what. With both words and actions. That's sometimes not easy because I'm a raging touch phobic as a side affect of my childhood but it's important. And yes, that means if either of them come to me and say I'm gay or bi I'm okay with that, since I've been asked that question by quite a few people on here. Basically, being an adult means trying to overcome those influences and trying to 'patch things up' with those in our life that may have treated us badly. If it takes a counselor to get you to that point then well and good, that's what they are there for. If you don't feel like they help you then don't use one. I personally never could but I know of others who believe that therapy saved their lives, so obviously not everyone out there is a quack. Also being an adult means that if you find that the attitudes and actions of the abusers has not changed you can write them off. You tried, you gave it a shot. Good for you. Now do what needs to be done to be happy and live your life the way you want to. Because it's too short to stay unhappy if you don't have to.

Sounds like you are in a better place right now than earlier blogs. yay! I'm glad things are looking up.

The hand on the left is Paya I would guess that makes West the nailbiter Though sometimes being with a nibbler is fun Congrats guys!!!

Have a great day, Kev!

I read anything and everything. Genre matters to me somewhat as well as age but I try not to judge until I've tried each story myself. I don't care if it's f/f, m/m, m/f, m/f/m, f/m/f, whatever other combo you can throw in there. I'm forever trying to find new books to read, though I am much pickier in those than I am in online fiction, mostly due to length. Really I don't need sex in the stories, graphic or discreet. A good story stands on it's own. That's not to say I don't enjoy a good sex scene if it's done well, because I do. And it doesn't really matter to me who is having sex, as long as it's well written I can enjoy any combo of characters. As for writing, I write the characters that come to me. I don't think I write guys who are especially feminine, if anything I have regular guys or a bit more 'alpha' male types. I am not arguing, I've read stories that the 'alpha' male character calls the other male lead character derogative names and feminize them, especially in regards to sex scenes. I've never liked those kinds of stories honestly. But what do you mean unrealistically feminine traits? Is a guy who is in touch with his feelings, who is comfortable sharing them and being open about them 'being feminine'? Is it a guy who likes to shop, who knows fashion and is open about that 'feminine'? What exactly is it that makes something a 'womanly' trait versus just a human trait? Why do we stereotype that way? I've known men in real life who were gay and as 'macho' as they come, as in they love sports, beer, hanging with the guys and all that and I've known gay men who dress in drag at times and who get mani/pedi's and go shopping with their women friends. I also know straight men who do the shopping thing way better than I can and who don't like most sports but enjoy reading a good book with a glass of wine. I myself write m/m but it's just the characters that come to me. I don't view it as sex for me, it's not the sole thing I think about when it comes to sex. I happen to be married to a man but I'm bi. I like to think I have a wide variety of interests and experiences with people (of all types, not just sexual experiences) that easily identify with what you might think of as a 'male' character. I hunt, I fish, I like football, I don't like to shop or be fussy about being a woman with things like fashion, hair or make-up. That being said, I like being a woman, I just am not your 'stereotypical' one. Being secure in myself, in watching scenes it doesn't matter, f/f, m/f whatever, I don't feel the need to put myself in the actor/actresses place in any way. I'm not the ideal size 6 or whatever and I really don't care too much. Does not being an 18 year old slim waisted perky chested girl with tight clothes limit a woman's options? Sure. But it is similar for men I'd think. Does that mean watching videos and reading stories with sex isubstitutes sex for them because they feel they can't get it in real life? Maybe. But I think younger people often think that sex is only for them and don't realize that most people as they age give up those 'ideal' body types and issues and find someone based more on compatability and overall attraction not just appearance, so not being that perfect type isn't as much of a hindrance as you might think. I don't think women who like m/m stories or vids are interested solely to avoid comparison to their own bodies or because they lack other options. I think it's an interest for them, that's it. You can't really pin down interest like that as having a single sole reason. Attraction, desire and sex are really so much more complicated than that.

Vote didn't work for me but it would be No, and Nope, never seen it and not interested just because. Not because I think it's nasty but just because it's not even on my radar for interesting. I'm not icked by it and my own motto happens to be to each their own as they say.

I have several pillows that I rotate depending on the night. I have a regular fill one, a body pillow, a body pillow sized bolster pillow, a down pillow, a king sized pillow and a really broken down cheapo pillow. I started using more than one when I had my car accident and then the kids came along. Now each night I use a few to do my reading or writing anjd then use one to sleep on usually but it varies which one. It's like, test-nope not this one, test-nah too fluffy, test-hmm... almost but... test-oh yeah, this is the one. Snore zzzzzz

It's a GA birthday greeting! It's great, yeah? Hope you have a good day!!

Awww, thanks everyone!! You are all so sweet. to everyone!!!

Yeouch! I've burned my palm before. It's a very bad place. Make sure you keep it clean Read those car peoples the riot act!

I'd like to say, I am not now nor have I ever been any part of the C.I.A.! Cia is part of my real name and has been my nickname since I was a baby. Of course there was more added to it but I don't let anyone call me the rest anymore. lol Way too embarrassing.