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Good thing I had my TV volume really loud, because I heard this all the way in my room.

David Duchovny will be on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition which airs this Sunday, November 15th, at 8/7c on ABC. :)

alright i took the sugestions and finally had my first PIV ORGASM lol!!! dont really know what happend different, but i went with the sensation and BAM! it happened really quickly lol. now i just want to have it all the time lol, sadly the bf will be at hunting camp for the week. but when he gets back its on. i want to see if it will happen again. does it tend to get more intense over time??? still in awe!

 So I am a 27 year old female and have enjoyed anal play with past partners, mostly just rimming. Recently I have had some problems with external hemorrhoids and although they have seemed to go away for the time being, I am left with some extra skin, skin tags I think. Now that I have a new partner I am worried that I will no longer be able to receive something that I very much enjoy for fear of how it looks and possibly feels. This is so embarrassing and I am wondering if anyone else has had this problem. I am even embarrassed to 69 while I am on top because that area is visible. I feel that this issue is greatly inhibiting me!

me and my girlfriend are both clean and in a monogamous relationship. we've always used condoms but recently we've tried without.
both times we've started without a condom but i put one on before i finish. afterwards, it really burns when i urinate. it's only the times that we start without condoms though.
is this a reaction to something?

Soooo...my boyfriend and I are in a long distance relationship. I was supposed to fly out to see him yesterday, but he got picked for jury duty and we canceled. We decided that not this weekend, but next weekend, I'll come visit.

The bad news is, I'll probably be having my period that weekend. I really want to get laid, but the problem is that my boyfriend and I don't like period sex because it smells. Like...you know, blood. And if my boyfriend were Edward Cullen, I'm sure that'd be just fine, but he's not (fortunately). Neither he nor I like that smell, and considering I will be visiting him on my heaviest days, it will be very, very present.

Is the only way to fix this by having sex in the shower (something we've tried and failed miserably at, multiple times)? Because if so, then I shall be very disappointed. And I can't use an Instead cup because we've tried them before and they just...are super uncomfortable during sex and I also have an IUD.

Suggestions?

(Cross posted to vaginapagina

Hey everyone, I'm looking for a book in the fantasy genre, but I don't remember the title or the author's name. The main character was a young man (late teens, I think) who was a slave in a desert type setting. His master was very cruel and one detail I remember about the book is that the boy had made a sort of voodoo doll of the master and would bury it where he had to walk (he had to walk back and forth for his duties) so he would walk on his master. Anyway, a man who's traveling through the desert comes to their house and ends up rescuing him (I think because the boy had given him water, but I could be wrong). He's still a slave but the man takes him to a place where he's treated much better and he becomes a dragon keeper... basically he tended to the dragons' needs, like feeding and cleaning pens, but he wasn't allowed to ride them or train them or anything. Well by the end of the book he'd stolen a dragon egg and hatched it in an unused pen, and he trains it and ends up riding it out of the place he was working for. The man who'd originally brought him there got on his dragon and chased after him, and the boy thought he was going to try to kill him, but it turned out he just wanted to wish him luck or something along those lines. I'm pretty sure the boy ends up going back to his home country, which was at war with the country who'd captured him and turned him into a slave. Those are all the details I can remember, and some of them could be wrong. Thanks for any help finding it!

OK, we were discussing how children learn to talk in class and it brought up memories of a short story I read a while ago. It was from a blue book of short stories, maybe called something like "thirteen chilling stories" or similar, possibly by someone called Peter something...

The main character was invited to the house of this mad scientist, who wanted to discover if children could learn to talk simply from the television. He taught his daughter the wrong words for everything, kind of like opposites so no was yes etc. then tried to see if the television would correct her way of speaking. The main character asked the girl to meet him by the lamp-post outside the house, but she misunderstood and he realized that she went to the tree, or vice versa I don't really recall. I think the main character did try to teach the girl that her language was a lie. At the end of the story for some reason the house was on fire with both the girl and her father inside, and the firemen managed to get the girl out, but they asked her if anyone else was in the house. "It was clear in her eyes that she understood the question." She answered No, and the question was whether she understood the answer and was trying to get rid of her cruel father, or that she didn't understand and meant yes.

I would really like to read this story again, so any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks :)

The IBG Charity Q&A

This event happens tomorrow. A few points:

A. Mitch Pileggi is no longer attending, due to a death in the family. But Chris Carter will be there, which brings our list up to: Chris, Gillian, Frank Spotnitz, Rob Bowman.

B. Apparently no pictures or video recordings are allowed. So unlike Wondercon, Paley Fest, the IWTB premieres, etc., we probably won't have anything to post here when the event happens. If we get any recaps or info, I'll let you know... ETA: I think (maybe?) pictures (not video) will be allowed during the Q&A portion, so if that's the case, we may get something.

C. But there will be an official DVD, that you can buy. So look out for that.

Here's another item made entirely from t-shirts! And of course - yes, I wore it to their concert here in the summer-time! The pictures really don't do it justice - but maybe that's because I wasn't really in the "picture" mood when they were taken! I took a basic Simplicity halter-dress pattern and modified it for the bust area and to accomodate the different fabric stretch t-shirts have compared to normal. This dress was SO comfortable!!! I used 2 t-shirts with the same print so it would still say Slayer on the front and back and then used the left-over parts from those 2 shirts to double the material so it wouldn't stretch too much or end up see-through!

Since I kept this one for myself, it's not listed on Etsy!

I've been watching this community for quite some time, but of course, just didn't take the time to sign up so I could post too! Everyone here rocks - there is SO much talent and I get so much inspiration from this site! Anyways, I've been doing some t-shirt surgeries for a while and selling some of them on etsy at www.reworkeddesigns.etsy.com, but my most exciting has definately been the Hatebreed shirt that I just wore to last week's concert here in Detroit!! The exciting part is that I actually met the singer (jamie jasta for those of you who don't follow Hatebreed) and he said - Wow - that's really cool - you took a lame shirt and made it awsome!! And took a picture of me with him! Unfortunately - no "before" pictures, but as you can guess, it's cold here in Michigan (as always!), so I took a standard long-sleeve shirt with Hatebreed print, but just for Jamie's sake since I know he's the host of Headbanger's Ball AND it just so happened to be the Headbanger's Ball anniversary, I also took a Headbangers ball logo shirt to do the back. Basically, I cut a square neckline, sewed the front and back together, added elastic at the sleeve opening to give it a feminine gathered type look, did a basic "corset" style front, and added some vintage loop braid for a "wentch" added accent to the top.

Sorry for the crappy picture - I really didn't think I'd meet him, so it's actually taken off a cell phone! Below are pictures of the shirt a little better!!

Hi, I hope this counts as t-shirt shirt surgery, it was made using a cami top and some thrifted polka dot fabric!



I have some camis left over so I'm making some in zebra print and the best animal fabric I have ever seen

( reconstructed dead kennedys top under the cut )

I can't remember the name or the author of this book, I read it a really really long time ago. Luckily my memory says I can probably detail the plot ad nauseam.

It was a hardcore sci-fi, with the main focus being on the aliens, not at all a space opera so much as worldbuilding the alien's society and genetic makeup, birth of society etc etc. They were pretty small, and looked like beige Shellos Pokemon, though I can't tell you if that's from a description in the book or from the fevered recollections of preteen!me.

There's a scene where the aliens create a numeric system by naming each number after a preexisting noun. When the aliens die, they are chopped up and eaten. At one point, one of the aliens is an albino, and starts some sort of fringe religion. The aliens don't raise their young, all the eggs are put in a sort of communal orphanage thing and cared for by aliens assigned the job of keeping after them. Eventually, humans make contact with the aliens, and find that the alien society moves ten times faster then theirs (or something like that-- you know, basically, an hour for us is like a year for them). Because of this, it's implied (or stated outright, can't recall) that the humans who make contact, introduced in the beginning of the book, have been alive for about the same amount of time as the entire span of the alien civilization. Eventually the humans send down like, literature and stuff, and one of the aliens is named Moby Dick. The humans leave the aliens on a vaguely disappointing 'it's not our place to mettle!' note.

OH AND on a completely unrelated note, I once read a book where a character was named 'Plastic', it was some kind of dystopian thingummy completely unrelated from the above alien book. Ring any bells?

All I remember is that the book was about two sisters. They were both Korean. The older one was stressed out about her SATs and then met this Hispanic guy (I think)? Then the younger sister became scared that her older sister was going to run away with the guy, but in the end she didn't. I remember their parents worked in a laundromat (or something along those lines). Their mother was a real b*tch. I really liked the book, but I cannot for the life of me remember what it's called. I'd be grateful if anyone can tell me the title~!

So I was directed here from bookish and hopefully you can help me, and apologies if you're seeing this twice.

I read the book in like grade eight, and thinking back on it I probably shouldn't have been reading it at that time.
It was a comedic take on a number of fairy tales, the main character was Prince Charming, Charming was his actual name, and he goes on a quest to save and then marry Sleeping Beauty, along the way he encounters both Cinderella and Snow White, I think in the end he ends up with Snow White because Sleeping Beauty ends up being pregnant by the king? I'm not sure about that particular part but I know she wants nothing to do with Prince Charming.
I also remember that either Snow White's mother or Cinderella's step mother tries to seduce the prince while he's at their palace, for some reason I remember her as a dominatrix figure.

Sorry that this is so long, but still fairly vague. Hopefully someone knows what I'm talking about and a plate of internet brownies to you if you do know.

Okay, I once found a book of Edgar Allan Poe poems and stories that was illustrated in graphic-novel form by someone who did another somewhat-famous graphic novel/comic book series, and I want to say it was the same guy who did Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, but I'm not sure....

I read this book when I was pretty young, and I've been trying to remember what it is for years! The main character is a young girl who I believe is home schooled. I think I remember her saying she got to do her classes in her pajamas.

The girl had stuffed animals that came to life and I think it was fun for her at first but it got out of hand. I believe a family member mailed her the stuffed animals from another country/place. At the end, there was a spell that made the stuffed animals come to life only on certain nights.

If anyone has an idea of what this might be, it would be amazing! Thanks so much!

Hi all!

I read a novel online a while ago - 2003-2004 that I only ever found on a web site for free, although it was available for print too. It was about an ex-government operative who had reclused from the world, purchasing land in Colorado under the shell nonprofit the "Letterbed Foundation For Children" (or something similar). In this world, computer experts are called "Wizards" and typically all are part of the "Guild" of systems administrators. There is VR, both for business purposes and for gaming.

He gets pulled into a large conspiracy involving other hackers that ends up pulling him away from his isolated home and into this conflict. In the process he runs into an old colleage with whatever three-letter agency he worked with, and a woman agent in the same agency who he becomes romantically attached to. The end up on the run from the cops when the hackers they are trying to fight frame them for murder.

Does this ring a bell to anyone? I thought it sounded a lot like Cory Doctorow's work, but it's not one of his novels.

1. On Being Sarah
by Elizabeth Helfman

YA-fiction, read between 1995-98, about a young girl with severe cerebral palsy, who cannot speak and uses a letterboard to communicate. She has an older sister who I think calls her "Squib", and no, it's not the book Squib by Nina Bawden. I'm pretty sure it's told from her perspective, but is not first-person narrated. For some reason, I remember the corner of the school library it was in was either the author's last name R through Z, or title R through Z section!

2. No More Monsters for Me! by Peggy Parish

This one's in bits and pieces: pretty young (probably not chapter-style) book, read in late 80s or early 90s. All I remember: there are monsters hiding in the house, and a basement where the protagonist's (I don't even remember if it's a young girl or boy) grandma has lots of canned goods and jars of things like sauerkraut (maybe). It's a loooong shot. But the Where the Wild Things Are hype is bringing up memories of it.

I'm trying to remember the name of this book I loved having read to me when I was a kid.  It was a picture book, and the story was about these kids, I think a brother and a sister, who were going to be babysat by their uncle.  The book ended with them taking a bath, and the uncle got in the bath too with all his clothes on. Any help?

About six years ago I rented a book from the library. It was paperback, thin (about 100-150 pages) and tall. I want to say the cover was purple or blue, possibly. (I'm in the US, btw)

Anyway, it's about a girl, fourteen or so, who has new neighbors move in across the street. They have kids so she takes up babysitting them. The father of the children ends up coming on to her and molests her. I don't remember many scenes. At some point the main character asks her older (female) cousin what 'popping a cherry' is. Then later, after she confesses to her cousin what happened, she's outside and the wife of the guy who molested her comes up and attacks the girl, scratching her with her nails.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?