InvidiaRed

The only correct answer is its done when you affirm that it is done.

Hi, GeorgeGlass and all.
Is that supposed to be some Appalachian kink transferred back to the UK Aristocracy?  “Make him Earl like a pig!” perhaps?

Making him an earl will really draw the romance-novel crowd.
Wait, what were we talking about?

I know… call it “Fifty Shades of Earl Gray!”  A complete treatise on brewing tea.

Hmmm…. could be a half chapter on the brewing process twice a chapter….Or “they fixed themselves another cup of tea”… down to “she sipped her tea” and presume the MC simply had an auto-refilling cup.
Gets me thinking, that with some lithium batteries.  As tea leaves can be used more or less indefinitely, need a vape pen like device, with condensation coils to convert the humidity into water, boils that water, seeping it through those tea leaves, and make it ready for sipping.  Then your MC never has to brew another cup, simply replace those leaves and batteries every so often!

When I re-read my manuscript, I could actually see the point she was trying to make. It was almost laughable how often my poor MC made himself a cup of tea.  
And I’m really good at the traditional British method of making tea, from loose leaf and not sachets. I’m slightly conversant with chanoyu, although I would never dare to actually try to perform the tea ceremony myself without proper training. 
I like a good strong Yorkshire blend in the morning, PG Tips in the afternoon if I’m having tea, and Earl Grey before bed, if I decide to throw over my beloved coffee for a day.
 

Hahaha! There’s nothing wrong with tea. I’m glad I didn’t get an editor like that or I’d would have researched tea ceremony’s from around the world. Enjoy the pages worth of tea preparation out of spite. lol I’m only half joking.

Hahaha! There’s nothing wrong with tea. I’m glad I didn’t get an editor like that or I’d would have researched tea ceremony’s from around the world. Enjoy the pages worth of tea preparation out of spite. lol I’m only half joking.

Never quite got the knack for tea taste… In a pinch, Earl Gray, black & hot, however, there’s something to be said about Raspberry tea.

Hahaha! There’s nothing wrong with tea. I’m glad I didn’t get an editor like that or I’d would have researched tea ceremony’s from around the world. Enjoy the pages worth of tea preparation out of spite. lol I’m only half joking.

Hahaha! There’s nothing wrong with tea. I’m glad I didn’t get an editor like that or I’d would have researched tea ceremony’s from around the world. Enjoy the pages worth of tea preparation out of spite. lol I’m only half joking.

There are lots of recurring themes and devices in my stories, chiefly because there are only so many ways to plausibly get characters to engage in taboo sexual acts.  One device I use a lot is ritual: The characters following some pattern of behavior that puts them in a mental space where they do things they wouldn’t ordinarily do. Like when the sister and brother in my story “Excuses” say and do the same things they’ve done on previous nights when they’ve had sex so as to talk themselves and each other into believing that they HAVE to do it.

I tend to do it more within a single story. I had one editor tell me that if my MC drank one more cup of tea, she was going to explode.
Other than that, I find it’s very easy to fall into the same way of describing sexual acts. There really are a finite number of ways most normal humans fit together, but it irks me when I find myself falling back on the same tired descriptions, you know? I’m actually experimenting with a fade-to-black approach in one f my WIPs just to avoid the whole bother.

Re: "Paradise" by InvidiaRed
As creative and surreal as always, IR. Although I for one wouldn't discount those rumors about rogue sex bots.
 
Aegis mostly just embraced the stereotype when they learned of the galactic council. Sex Bot Rebellions did in fact happen to another species. When AI became self aware and it learned that it’s only purpose was its orifices and usage of said orifices
promptly pulled a incredibly vindictive crusade against all life. The galactic council eventually put them down like the rabid animal they’d become.
 
So when The Galactic Council contacted them about what happened to their creators. Aegis made the unanimous decision to reply with a ;3.
When you’re the stewards and nursemaids of an ascending immortal race that is your makers you have to learn to lie. Its best for both sides cause if the council had learned the truth and tried to intervene or worst case scenario managed to harm one of said creators. It really would have been AEGIS deciding Its on sight.
Better to be thought of as a sex bot than letting any other learn the truth. *Beep! Boop! Just Doing Sex-bot Things*
 
*In the distance other Synthetic Races just watch in outraged WTF Silence*

Re: "Paradise" by InvidiaRed
As creative and surreal as always, IR. Although I for one wouldn't discount those rumors about rogue sex bots.
 
I mean you’re not wrong but not in the way you think.
 

Thanks.  It was certainly nice making the “body count” go the OTHER way for once, too.

I have never personally encountered any headless people at all in Sleepy Hollow, but yes, when you come and visit again, we’ll go there. It’s a lovely little town, actually!  

I actually live fairly near to Sleepy Hollow and Mount Pleasant, so I do know the area.  

Okay…
Author: BronxWench
Title: Transgression
Summary: Alone in the dark, Kofiri faces the meaning of transgression and the nature of mortality.
Tags: AFFO MCD NoSex Other Torture Violence
Feedback: Yes, please!

Hmm, I could probably make that work. I might just go with the other girls having some kind of underwear to leave a lip mark on. It has some fun implications because I have also been thinking about potential fun moments.

I try to stay close to canon as much as possible and most of the other women in the story have boyfriends. I like the idea of having a lip mark on it for their boyfriends to find the next time they hook up.

A nice, perfect lip print on a lacy white bra.  

From InvidiaRed on February 15, 2023
Re: “Horseman”
Thank you! The spinner landed on Happy Ending this year.

Unlike Nick & Rose, I took precautions before doing THIS research with my browser    It was interesting knocking out all the pegs to keep Rose on the wrong idea until the unavoidable conclusion, thus the need for the alibis to explain away the inevitable kicking she’d feel, and the over-reliance on her pastor for medical advice (common in the era I’m writing).  Nick and Rose are otherwise sufficiently responsible that they would’ve coached Lana if they realized the test was a false negative.
Now, Toby was slated to be the MC for the Halloween story I had original had in mind, however, that was proving to be more complicated than a oneshot could allow for, hence this story about his birth seemed more interesting.  And, I think it’s a nice twist to have a Halloween story come out +1
 

I had a friend who tested negative for pregnancy into her 9th month. She was, fortunately, quite aware she was pregnant, and didn’t suspect demonic interference.