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Sorry to jump into this thread, but it is badge related.
Is there is a plan to have a list, somewhere on Lush Stories, of all the badges we can try to achieve? I know there was a list on Lush Stories 1.0. I know some of the old badges are phased out & new ones are now available, with more in the works.
Yes… at the bottom of the page in the black bit there’s a badges link where it lists them all
I think around 3 to 4000 is enough for most casual readers and seems to attract more readers. Chapters tend to shed readers with every publication as people get put off going back to the start. If I see a 8000 worder I need to be in the mood and have the time to even open it.
That’s a shame.
It’s unusual that Kimmi lost hers as she hasn’t written in the new face sitting category but Cumgirl still has hers even though she hasn’t written in that category either. All 3 of us got the Omnium before Facesitting was added. I hadn’t written in but CG and Kimmi had.
It’s such a niche badge, I think there were only 13 members out of how many thousands of authors we have here who completed the Omnium so I’m sure it wouldn’t be that much work to assign them manually.. I know there are badges such as Potato and Rainbow which aren’t connected to an algorithm or assigned automatically so perhaps the Omnium could be like those.
Perhaps an email could be sent to Admin automatically when an author writes in all the categories so the Omnium could be awarded then.
I’d be very disappointed if a condition of getting the Omnium back would be that I had to write an story.
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Do you know which two please?
If you are fixing badges, John… both Kimmibegood and I appear to have lost our Omnium badge.. though some people still have theirs like Cumgirl so it’s not like the Omnium has been deleted.
Can you have a check? Thanks ever so much x
Thank you Bear, I’d love a sprinkly donut please to go with a very strong coffee.
Well I finally broke my writing hiatus. I got a nice cheery romantic flash story published this morning… oh alright.. it’s as dark as most of my writing. It’s called Hate sex which may be an indication.
https://www.lushstories.com/stories/flash-erotica/hate-sex
Hoping now I can make some headway on the comp story. I’ll be in the corner writing.. sneaking a second donut with me
I’ve an outline done. Having been on a writing hiatus for a number of months I’m finding it incredibly hard to get the words out.
I’m glad others are straying from the American private eye noir trope too. I’ve taken noir to mean unromantic, seedy and dark without a happy ending… so like Annie told me, just like all my other stories.
I try not to read other entries before publishing mine but I am a tad concerned at the thought of reading so many 10000ers in the short space of time between my last minute entry and results day.
Maybe I should just get back to writing
Hi.. I've noticed some of my fiends are not showing up as Online.. One friend is marked as last online 2 weeks ago when I was chatting to her yesterday and she was in the rooms and posting on profiles.
Is there a secret setting only some people know about that lets you prowl about here incognito? Please say it is so
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Yeah, right after I posted that I saw the GIANT COMP BANNER on the front page. D'oh! Hard to get more obvious than that. Too many damaged brain cells. Just say no to drugs, kids!
It’s a good question though. The banner comes down as soon as the competition closes and then you have to scroll to the competitions icon and the select the right competition from there to see the listing and read the stories, find our who’s won, top 10 etc.
I preferred it when competitions was a tag
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If you amend your Feedback options in Privacy to 'Allow everyone to add feedback to your photos/videos' you will be able to comment on your own photos and reply to other members' comments.
Thank you John , that works even though it defeats the point of having only friends commenting on your pictures if you have to open to everyone to comment yourself. Can I friend myself?? 🤪
Also, you used to be able to put a link in the comments. I want to link my cover pics to the story. But this doesn’t seem possible any more.. or am I missing something simple? Thanks 😘
Slips onto an empty bar stool.. I'll have a large gin and tonic please.. with extra gin.
Is it just me or is the site super flakey today? I get a sorry there was an error message every few pages and when I try to post it tells me I need to upgrade. I thought that was fixed months ago.
Anyway, I heard there was a noir comp going on but cant find details.. is it an unofficial rumps comp like he used to run or what?
I did like the 115 word comp he had years ago to name Big Bertha.. was it Sprite that won that? My memory is going. Line me up another gin.
Anyway, hoping the promised author friendly profile updates happen sometime some calendar month soon. I miss the friends activity so much.. it was my way of seeing which stories were worth reading based on what my friends were reading.
I also miss the badges.. how you could click on the famous story to see who had got one or who were the Omniums or Comp winners.. such a shame that all that still hasn't been updated. It's taken the fun out of publishing for me anyway though it doesn't seem to have put anyone else off. You still get less than 24 hours on the front page.
Anyway, other than that, I've no news so I'll just enjoy my gin and read back through what I've missed.
As Ian Brown sang, here's to you, Elizabeth my dear. Sláinte
No, no one in the RW knows I write, let alone write erotica. It’s my little secret.
I like it this way. I don’t even know how to begin telling anyone… and some of the stories I’ve written might cause people to look at me in a different light.
I’m a different person in here from in RW and I never want the two worlds to collide.
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"dude", in our house, covers all genders, btw. i get in trouble with that a lot when i call someone a dude here. I'M FEMALE! yeah, right. dudes are females too.
In Ireland, Lads covers all genders which gets you all sorts of strange looks when you say it in England.
Wanders in and sees that nothing has changed in the 3 months I’ve been away.
I’d been hoping the rumoured back in January profile changes to make this more of an authors site might have happened by now but I guess it’s only been almost a year since the move. No rush while there are plenty of new writers paying their money who don’t remember the old days.
I’ll have a gin and tonic while I’m here.
Hope everyone is good. Rumps seems quiet these days. Glad to see James, Fuzzy snd Kimmi keeping the place from folding completely.
Must see if I can find put where the old gang are hanging out.
Maybe it was a mistake coming back.
Knocks the gin back and saunters off.
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Congrats on the new story, Kimmie, and BIG congrats on writing a whole frikkin novel, Suzie.
Me, I'm 96,000 words into one, and trying to nail the climax. Heh.
Thank a million, Jeff.
It wasn't supposed to grow so big. it started out as a stand-alone story and kinda grew from there. It's only a short novel. 70,000 words tops. Probably would need a proper edit if I was ever to do anything with it. It's been written over the past 3 years so glacial pace really. I'll have a gin and tonic please.. pretty please 😘
This seems as appropriate as anything
I’ll have a whiskey. Jameson.. no ice please.
I hate when you submit a story that you can’t edit when you notice a bug fucking typo in the title. So the final chapter of my novel is submitted but it’s now called Charlotte Sonetimes. Me and my fat thumbs.
Slante everyone.
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Is that still the case for you Susie? I have had no drama breast feeding in public, I will use parents rooms in malls etc as they are more comfortable but if himself wants the boob in a cafe he gets it. Mind you anyone who gave me the evil eye would get a piece of my mind.
Oh Susie at the risk of controversy that scone you had yesterday …. Jam under cream I trust 💖
Sadly yes it is. Ireland has one of the lowest rates of breastfeeding in the world.
A nurse attempted to get me to feed my son formula in the hospital rather than trying to help me get him to latch on properly to feed.
I have had older women publicly criticise me for feeding him at a table in a cafe whilst he was under a cloth and my tits were not visible, telling me I should go somewhere more private.
Now I’d be more forthright in telling them where to go. Then, it just made me feel inadequate and that I shouldn’t do it.
On the question of jam… always jam then cream on top. What sort of monster do you take me for?
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Since we have gone back to Bill's rules
"Need a place to gossip, share news, talk sports, pimp a story, piss & moan, or just grab a drink? If so, you’ve come to the right gin joint."
Here is something that IS news worthy here in the States I must confess I don't have knowledge if this is world wide.
This is "not if" as some of the previous posts are but is happening across the USA now.
Let's see if there will be an uproar on this story.
That’s not great news. If only there was a safe natural alternative women could use without being stigmatised and made to feel like lepers when trying to feed their children in public without people telling them to put their tits away. After all, tits are for perving over, not providing nutrition
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Did your post make you feel better today by calling out James ? And since you asked yes I had a wonderful day with horses and barn cats. It's been said animals have a calming affect on one's soul, but I'm sure you already knew that
Thanks, Carl. I’m more a dog than a cat person but I agree that animals do have a calming effect on the soul.
Since you asked, no it didn’t make me feel particularly better but that’s life I guess. Some things in life are bad, they can really make you mad. Other things just make you swear and curse…
I’ll hopefully be back later for a mid morning coffee
under the New Neutered Rumps Rules ©JamesLlewellyn where we can only discuss things that happened to us personally, I had a coffee and scone at work today and spoke to one of my coworkers about my plans to run a race at the weekend. I hope you all had as exciting a day as I had
I’d a white Scottish woman, red hair and freckles hook up with a Korean girl which allowed plenty of contrasts. Scottish woman was a reporter covering a gig by a K-pop band.
You can do anything. I think it’s always good to try and be a little bit different from the cliches. Good luck
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I believe what Rumps had in mind when he said "share news" was news of what's happening with each of us.
Thanks to Kimmi for reminding us about the origin and purpose of this thread.
Far from me to try and decide what Rumps intended, though it didn’t stop James having a go.. but if the only news allowed to be discussed is what happens to us, then the sports talk should only be about games we played or races we ran…
Perhaps Rumps bar will be more peaceful with no talk of hockey or football any more. We can all drink in silence in the new neutered Rumps.
