I use the words "pussy", "sex" (as in, "her pink, swollen sex"), and "cunt" most often in my pieces, followed by a herd of assorted other terms as deemed appropriate to the situation. Never have used "vagina"--too clinical.
Being out with a s/o or boyfriend or whatever, someone with whom you're already intimate, and having him touch and "grope" you when you're in a public place, is distinctly different from a stranger doing the same, discreetly or not.
The main difference with me is, if it's my s/o, then the evening ends with kisses and more. If it's a stranger, then the evening ends with me administering first aid to a guy I just knocked out, stabilising him until paramedics arrive.
He's Canadian. Enough said.
Yes, but with sugar alone...hold the other ingredients, please.
Had my ears pierced when I was about four years old. That's about the extent of my journey into piercings. Earrings.
I'd not even seen any kind of porn until very recently, and it really didn't do much for me. Too fixated on the details--the awful blandness of the room, the stilted conversation, etc.--to actually enjoy watching the porn. Pretty sure I'll stick to reading well-written literary erotica, here or in print.
Wash them. Kind of important to maintain cleanliness when it comes to high-quality sex toys.
Mine is me. Just me. Mostly b/c when I realised that I needed an avatar, I didn't know that Lush had stock avis and I didn't have the patience to do a Google Image search. So I ran upstairs and took the pic that became my avatar in about 45 seconds with my Nokia 810.
As to showing my face--not in my avatar, no, but a pic of a slightly disheveled version of me is in my gallery, visible to friends.
Funny. I love Calvin & Hobbes.
The first cut freesia arriving at the florist's shop. Hyacinth and tulips and daffodils, their green tops barely peeking out of the ground. Reminders that Spring will eventually arrive.
Wow, so much going on here. Hannah, Mike, congratulations on your new awards! Laura, TY for schooling Bill in Maori.
Mike, Jeff, this weekend is going to be crazy busy, so I might not shoot back your pieces until Monday.
Bill, toddling off to bed, may I have a nice toddy before toddling?
My partner? He can do whatever he wants with my panties, except wear them. A stranger? Ummm....no. No, I do not want a stranger sniffing my panties, be they "used" or clean panties. No.
Skittles...the candy even my dogs won't eat.
Buz, Sweetwater Brewery? Just out of curiosity, is that sold outside of the South? Sam Adams can be had anywhere, but I've never heard of Sweetwater.
The Pacific Northwest and Lower Mainland is rife with microbrews, both local and from far-flung places, but even my brother, a true beer aficionado, hadn't heard of Sweetwater. The bottles, oddly, look a great deal like New Belgium Brewing's bottles (NBB is out of CO, I believe). Their Trippel Ale is by far one of my favourites. Another local favourite gone national is Pyramid Brewery, which is now brewing all over but started in Seattle--their Hefeweizen and Apricot Ale were both served at my wedding in lieu of champagne--because at the time, six kegs of either could be had at a bargain price if you picked the kegs up at the brewery itself. Not so much anymore.
FTR, we did have champagne at my wedding...I think that might be where that horrid looking bottle of Moët et Chandon Champagne that I gave Mike a few days ago might've originated. The Champagne survived the wedding...and the marriage. So there's that. Not entirely sure that Mike survived whatever the Champagne may have turned into in the interim years.
Anyway. I digress. Jeff, thank you for forwarding the second (or third?) PDF, it's on my lap now. Mike, yah, sort of at a loss re the comp...poring over the rules, the story appears to need to be specifically about her, and even more specifically about what it is that she's looking for, which sort of blows my initial thinking, about the contents of her (way-too-expensive-for-a-hitchhiker) suitcase and how it relates to her ending up beside the road.
Laura, it doesn't really ever get truly hot here--nothing like Australia, for sure, or even like most of the rest of Canada and the United States in the summer, because we have a "temperate marine climate"--but still, a good vodka tonic, with mint and lime, on the warmer days is nice. Or a Caipirinha, if you can find the sugar cane liquor (cachaça). If you can't, replace it with gin and you have a Caipibrit--both are very tasty.
I'm sure that Hannah is off pounding out something brilliant for the comp, so no worries, Bill.
Okay, off to herd boys to bed and then to pore over Jeff's story.
I am looking forward to the advent of the "Cooking With Ping" thread.
I don't know how I've not seen this before, but thank you, Morgan, for posting this funny, precise, spot-on guide to English punctuation conventions. Very helpful, I'm sure, to many or most writers, whether they're submitting stories here on Lush or choosing to do so elsewhere.
Thank you.
Favourites as of late: Burquette, oceanrunner, browncoffee, RumpleForeskin, Verbal. I've not had as much time as I'd like to have had to read since late October, so I'm a bit behind, gradually catching up.