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so, are you sticking around this time or not? cause I'm a little confuzzled... then again, that's not all that unusual. situation normal it seems... carry on!

I would watch Disney more often if the leading guys actually looked like that....

sounds like someone is lazy... and to think the title of the course is social ethics

You are completely wrong. Slash fiction does have the / between the coupling like m/m or f/f yes, but it is typically set in a world where there is not any homosexual couplings such as the original star trek or harry potter. Slash is TYPICALLY written by women FOR women (to get their rocks off) and is not sold nor marketed nationally (nor even locally). On the other hand, there are a lot of nationally marketed books with homoerotic themes written by both male and female authors. They are the creators of their worlds. Therefore they have not borrowed nor stolen them, thus created them with homosexual-friendly elements which makes them not fan-fiction, thus not slash. The Nightrunner books are excellent reads. Lynn is a very fun person to talk to. She encourages fan fiction (including slash) by the way. She gets a kick out of reading it too and has a forum where her fans can post fiction and art dedicated to her stories. Way kewl author there.

Actually, that would be a no, David. King Arthur is a historical figure, per se, and authors are free to play with his tale as much as they like with no reprocussions from pissed off copywrite lawyers who do not want their "universes" mucked with by mere amatures. Delores also does not write FAN FICTION she writes ORIGINAL FICTION which is the big distiction here. Maybe you missed that part? Slash deals primarly with fan fiction. Always has, always will.

I think Wiki does a pretty good job of explaining slash. Personally, when I think of slash I think of homoerotic fan-fiction written by women, generally for women.

ok...

The bitch is dead and good riddance. Here is a link to a letter I wrote him prior to his demise.

raises hand... hands... both of them... I don't... love spongebob... at all... he sucks.

herm... he was in Twilight...

ah I just think that there is a creative gene that is closely linked with the gay gene, if one is flipped on so is the other even if the person does not acknowledge it.

I die in embarrassment for you who like(d) the care bares or my little pony and will not admit his own obsession with the teletubbies.... unless of course I already did...

happy b-day Paya!

heh take a look at the 00:48 mark of the second video...

Well the whole point of Nanowrimo is the grand ole try... do what you can and do your best at it... more is better... most is best... but we will take what you can do.

Sorry to hear that Rilbur. Try to write something in the spirit of the exercise though. It's all good and we still like you anyway, well at least I do.

I guess you guys (and gals!) want to be able to find me on there too, eh? Well... here I am!

This year is going to be tricky for me as I am going on a cruise the last week of October. We will be flying home October 31. So, I should be very very relaxed for November 1... NOT! Gads I just hope my house is still standing! (Not an idle hope considering my son's rather checkered history!) Not to mention the housekeeping I will have to catch up on and then real life will come crashing down... bleh. Oh well I write best when stressed. We will see what happens.

So here it is October and the Nanowrimo season is sneaking up quickly... are you ready? Are you writing? Are you clueless?

People saw the date on things like calendars and newspapers and the like. I'm not so sure I believe how observant some people claim to be in this show.

Two opposing views here: I wasn't thrilled. DC loved it.

There are private donations where you can donate to family members or someone designated (these are usually living donations though, such kidneys or bone marrow, but some are post mortum) and only the parts requested/required then there is a general donation where all usable parts are harvested. The person who fills out the donation forms decides which type of donation it is and the process moves on from there. As a parent, I can understand your position, Neph, but being on the other end of the stick really changes your perspective. I would want another kid to live and another parent to not have to worry will my kid find a heart or a lung or an eye if DC were to come to an early end. It would be hard, but I would sign the papers and let them have as much of him as they wanted.

When I took DC down to get his ID, we had a long discussion on what the little red heart means (organ donor) and why a person would want to do that or why they would not want to and what organs are donated and how they could save another persons life. Now, you must understand that DC will one day need a kidney to live and his organs may or may not be usable to another person, but he chose to allow them to determine what is useable and what is not useable in the event of his untimely demise. I thought that was very brave for a 13 year old. As for your scenerio... I think all personal feelings should be set aside and the organs should be donated. Your family member may be a good preliminary match but the secondary matching may not be a good fit so the organs would go to someone else. Would the family give permission for the organs to go to someone else? And what about the other organs? Would they only be donating to family members or would they be harvesting them all?

hides from the spongebob fan(s) EEEEWWWWWW

um I don't understand what the big deal is.. got 100% on the first try. Nice straightforward instructions and only a little confusion on the first one as I had to remember the instructions before clicking. And yes Mike, I think five times might be bad in this case.