northie

meander

luck

Call

icicle

full

energy

coffee

nemesis

reader

guard

gunpowder

yardage

olfactory

Stavee to shavee (one who is being shaved)

How would I be asking this question otherwise?

Don't you know how often the online catalogue goes down?

mark

haze

yeah

It can be all too easy in a modern, developed country to think that Nature, if not tamed, is at least restrained. The unleashing of the primal forces of fire and wind yet again demonstrates Nature's overwhelming power. The speed, ferocity, destructive power and sheer unpredictability of the fires must be terrifying. To have to leave your home (and everything it represents) in a matter of minutes or risk losing your life, must involve emotions and thoughts I can only guess at. Inevitable, I think, in the circumstances. Hopefully those animals which do survive and can be captured, wil be reunited with their owners. I can imagine that the guilt and sorrow from having to abandon loved animals will be part of what those people are suffering. The pictures of the road out of Fort McMurray looked like a Hollywood disaster movie without the necessity for a CGI backdrop. Am I right in thinking that there has been no loss of life so far? That at least is something to be grateful for and is a great credit to the authorities in Fort McMurray and Alberta.

Yes. I even dislike having an image from outside displacing whatever I've come up with in my imagination. To have images of individuals (who may or may not be minors) in close proximity with sexually explicit material would seem to be asking for trouble.The stories they're 'associated' with might not be sexually explicit but there's plenty of other material close by. Plus, those individuals should be able to control the use of their 'image', and their online life (mistakes of all sorts made online have a habit of hanging around for a long time). I agree with this - just because it's easy and everybody else does it, doesn't make it right. A creator should be able to control the use and redistribution of their work; there may be a financial incentive behind but really, it's because it's theirs. I post photos taken on holiday and I wouldn't dream of reposting anyother work - apart from anything else it goes against the spirit of that part of the site. It would only take one punitive fine to cause very serious problems here.

and he forced you to make that post?! Or was it the dolls?!!

Thanks for tonight's nightmare material! I don't remember ever having a doll - just as well really, given all the scientifically proven information hereabouts brought to us as a public service by Zombie

Lemurs on the other hand are well known for their scientific input ... Love this!

Being fairly new I'm still spending a lot of time exploring - finding stories, lots of stories and not a huge amount of time to read them. Of those I have read, A-Z by Parker Owens and Team building by EB Wilson are top of my list. Clueless camping by Timothy M, the Meta series by JohnAR, and My last day without you by QuinnDK look to be heading towards the top of my list as well.