Anyway, apparently this thread is for cracking tunes.. so inspired by Jello Biafra and the Dead Kennedys being mentioned a lot of the punk top 5 bands list. Here’s a little ditty he did with Mojo Nixon, name checked in the Dead Milkmen song

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I am a woman who couldn't get pregnant. I had 3 options: adopt, in vitro, or no kids. I chose adoption. My best friend chose in vitro. And some religious people don't like in vitro - "not a Godly creation" they'll say. I think about what if a law forbid in vitro for women who couldn't give birth?

Perhaps we should ban viagra too.. god’s will and all that. The lack of erections must be in god’s plan too 😃

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i understand that talking about abortion makes some people uncomfortable. honestly, though, it makes me uncomfortable to have my rights as a human being and an american citizen taken away from me. it should make ALL of us uncomfortable, so deal. one more thought....

If you want to stop abortions, you need to prevent the ‘disease’ - meaning, unwanted pregnancies and the only way to do that, is by focusing on men, because: MEN CAUSE 100% OF UNWANTED PREGNANCIES.

I so agree. It’s a woman’s right to choose.

I was saddened but not shocked by the events in the USA. Growing up in a conservative right wing country, I often looked to the USA as a beacon of sensible grown ups but over the past 20 years things have changed and conservative religious Ireland has changed massively. 

In 2918 there was a referendum in the legality of Abortion. Instead of relying on a group of old right wing men to decide things, the people decided. And despite orders from the pulpit to vote No, the Irish people voted to allow the individual woman the right to choose. 

No one is forced to have an abortion. It’s the woman’s right to choose. It’s that simple. If your belief says it’s wrong, then you don’t have one. 

Inthe words of many placards at marches over the years pre 2018, “keep your rosaries off our ovaries.”

The following graph shows how the age profile of the voters voted. It’s the old people who will never need an abortion who voted to deny others. 

I can’t imagine the fear and terror young women in America are experiencing now and really hope this is not the slippery slope to a Handmsids tale like America. 

Good luck sisters xxx

Of the top of my head….

X ray spex

Crass

Ramones

Poison Girls

Dead Kennedys

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More 5:

Bikini Kill

The Damned

Death

The Vandals

Dead Milkmen

The Dead Milkmen are so good. I loved Punk rock girl when it came out… a long time ago lol

Congratulations Violet and the top 10. You should all be so proud of your stories. 🍷

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Meanwhile, with the Spring Forward competition winding down, let's post all of Rumps Regulars' Competition Pieces – and by that I mean their stories, not some part of their anatomies!

Sheesh! The minds you people have.

Oh, wait…that's kinda why we're here, ain't it?

Anyroad… here they are, in all their glory: The competition entries of Rumps Regulars!

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Catharsis by  VioletVixen

Finding Flora by  CuriousAnnie

Tomorrow Is Another Day by  ChrisM

The Other Side by  CarltonStJames

Sex On Fire by  StarBelliedBoy

The Raggedy Boy by  JamesLlewellyn

Renewing The First Love by  JefferyB

Turning Terry by  naughtyannie

Back Together With A Twist by  DaddyD_2

Change Your Luck by  Reagent264

Skin, Coils, and Eggs by  LuceDevlin

Spring Fever by  helenmiller2021

The Dreaded V-Word by  DarkSide

The Flower And The Dance by  DonnaCupcake

The clichéd marriage by  deviantsusie

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So, if you haven't read, scored, and commented on these, um, fine stories, now is the time to do so!

What happened The kinky Quill? Where did Kimmi’s story go?

ok.. clearing the history on safari worked. Thanks Mr Ape and sorry for the hassle Jen x

Thank you so much Mr SBB 😘♥️

That is a terrible shame. I’d hate to lose the comments on the stories but I just want to hide a few for a while. There was a suggestion that making a change to the text and saving as a draft might work but don’t know if you’d lose the comments when you’d resubmit for approval again.

We’ll see

Hi Jen,

yes it’s still happening. I’m using safari on an iPhone if that makes any difference.

When I click on any of the novels stories from my stories list I go to the homepage but any in any other category go to the story.

Hi,

In the old Lush, you could make a story invisible if you wanted to hide it from view rather than deleting it.

However, when I try to hide a story now, it hides it from my profile, but not from general view, which is completely pointless.

Is this a bug or just the way things are?

When I click on any of my Charlotte Sometimes chapters from the stories section of my profile, I get taken to the home page. They are all in the novels category. If I click on any other stories, I get to the selected story.

If I go to categories - novels and click on the Charlotte Sometimes chapters from there, I can get to the stories.

Is this happening to other people?

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Hi Susie,

I see a story of yours submitted in the queue and assigned to another story mod currently.

Thanks for that. I only asked as I had the error message telling me to try again later. It happened before one time and then I ended up posting the same story twice.

Ok, I don’t want to come across as the ungrateful precious author and I’m sure the developers are working on this. It is their job after all but Is there any update on when this might be fixed?

Competition stories have been falling into the abyss for at least four days now.

I think we must be up to at least 9 or 10 comp entries no longer listed. Most authors enter for new readers, not the prize money so not getting the new readers sorta defeats the point of entering.

I saw the chatrooms that disappeared weren’t down for four days. I guess lush chat trumps lush stories.

An update would be appreciated.

Thanks

Saunters into the bar and plonks myself down on the nearest seat.

I’ll have a gin and tonic please. Only one more day at work before the St Patrick’s day weekend. We are getting both Thursday and Friday off this year so I’ll risk a drink or two on a school night.

There seems to be a few issues with the stories. I see my comp entry is about to follow Kimmis into the abyss of falling off the list. Hopefully that will be fixed soon and I got error messages when trying to post a story yesterday but then it says it’s in the queue.

Hopefully the next chapter of Charlotte Sometimes will turn up soon.

In the meantime, I’ll have another gin. Slainte x

Hi, I submitted a story yesterday and got a message saying “there was an error. Please try again later”

I saved the story as a draft. When I looked at my stories, the story is in the queue waiting to be verified. It is also in my unpublished story drafts.

Can a mod confirm if the story was submitted properly and is in the queue?

thanks ♥️

Hi everyone. I’d ask what I’d missed in the couple of weeks I’ve been away but the new messaging system gives me a clue.

As usual I’m here whoring for views. My competition entry went live this evening so it might be off the front page soon enough. It involves cheating but is much more restrained and palatable than my recent fare. But I’ll let you be the judge if that.

I hope everyone is good. I’ll have a gin and tonic since it’s almost the weekend here. Only one more day to go. Cheers 😊

Oh yes… the link https://www.lushstories.com/stories/straight-sex/the-cliched-marriage

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Good whatever time of day or night it is for you.

I have a new Micro posted. It's about carnal consumption, but has nothing at all to do with donuts.

Preserving Tradition

I loved this.. it's the perfect midnight snack ❤️

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This whole upswing in the theme is interesting. I did a pair in my first year (2017) to see what would happen and they didn't get 20 votes between them and nowhere near the number of reads you've seen in a few days. They were about twin sisters and written in my usual not very serious style, so may not have enticed the prurient at the time. I wonder what reaction they'd get now.

Yup, more definitely like it now. It's funny most say they don't like it, but it gets way more reads than other categories.

Perhaps it's the sleaziness and sordidness that makes people say they don't like it in public but in the privacy of their own cyberworld, it's their dirty little secret.. like voting Tory in the UK.. also it is illegal, as far as I can remember so who is going to admit it out loud. I'll stand by my belief that fantasies isn't the category for me. Slapping the word fantasy on the end of an illegal act doesn't make it legal.

As an aside, David Cameron was British Prime Minister when a story was published alleging he had sex with a pigs head while at university. There was a discussion as to whether this was illegal or just immoral /sordid/gross. It wasn't beastiality as the pig was dead, and it wasn't necrophilia as it wasn't a human corpse. Therefore, the act of fucking a pig's head wasn't illegal.

When I checked if I could reference this act in a story on lush, I was told that it was so off the scale, not to even contemplate submitting it or risk expulsion from Lush.

I should have claimed the pig was his sister and it would all have been ok 😜

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I like writing sex but when push comes to shove, I'm a writer of stories, not sex scenes, and I'll sacrifice sex in favour of plot and character at the drop of a hat.

I know how you feel. I'm the same. I know some stories on here have the flimsiest of plot to get to the sex but I really need to have the story grounded and have a story, not just.. "hello.. you're hot.. let's fuck.. oh godd.. you're amazing, Ive never cum like that before" kinda story. I've had chapters in a series with almost no sex as there needs to be plot and continuity between one sex scene and the next.

Anyway, it's Sunday night here so I'll just have a glass of red, something like an Australian shiraz if you've got one. Thanks 😘

yeah, it's working for others, but not for me.. they can private message me but I just get that blank message box where I can't type anything in it.. shrugs.. another glitch

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And Y'all may hate this one. No one feel obligated to read. I've felt funny holding the Omnium badge w/o tackling , but wouldn't do it until idea hit that I could live with. MJ and I are proud of what we did, so we've vowed low votes, comments whatever are fine and won't affect us. I'm curious to see read count though. Ha!

I wouldn't sweat about feeling guilty. I feel more guilty about not having written in the facesitting category yet. I've never written in . I find it disconcerting that you can write about an illegal act of sleeping with your barely legal daughter and slap a fantasy tag on it and that's fine and dandy in here yet you can't write about legal acts that some people find disconcerting. The category always stinks of double standards.. but maybe that's just me being a prude.

When I was in the chat room there now, I could type and chat in the lounge but if someone sent me a private message or I opened a private message with someone, I can't type in the text box.

I logged out and in again but the same thing happened.

Is this happening to others?

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It took four months to the day and four thousand plus reads, but someone finally left a number 2 on my micro Every Other Thursday.

To celebrate achieving a full scorecard at last, all Totally Tantric Massages will be half price today in Stall Three. Use the Patron's Pussy Passcode 4.56 at check out.

Congratulations, Kistin, I'm delighted you finally got the full set 💋

2 is by far the hardest to get so I'm delighted it only took you four months.

I always think a 1 says I hate this, a 3 is a meeeh with an added shoulder shrug for effect, 4 for pretty good and 5 for I love you but 2 requires a level of thought and pre-meditation.

Congratulations to Mags, Jake and Violet. I knew Mags would win from the moment I read it. It really was the perfect story. I'm delighted to see Violet on the podium for the first time and I'm sure Jake will have no complaints being sandwiched in between.

Congratulations to my fellow runners up and hopefully see you all for the next one 😘

It is a lot more effort. I like the idea of the story linking back up again, so regardless of what choice you made, you still end up in the same place, just by different routes. I don't think it would need to say 'If you picked this earlier, here are your options...' as you have got to that point so anything can still happen. Unless, in one version he got kicked in the balls for being too forward so is limping and has swollen testicles or something, in which case, you would need two very similar scenarios lol

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Morning Rumpies!

Comp results should post soon. Best wishes to each of you!!! You are ALL winners and great writers!

A hot chocolate, please. Upsets in playoffs yesterday. Hoping Bucs pull through today! Go Bucs!

Ooooh. Results day.. exciting 😀

I so agree. The comps are a great way for writers to be read by more readers and there are so many stories in this comp with some real crackers.

Me I’ll have a coffee please. And one of those little cinnamon biscuits.. gazing longingly at the donuts while thinking about the post Christmas waistline.

Reagent. I think the audio stories will be coming back but you can’t submit one at the minute. Which is a real shame as there are a few writers who read so so well.

Hi, I had exactly the same idea, and got as far as asking the powers that be if there was any opportunity to put more than one link at the bottom of the story so it could branch off in two different directions.. but then the big switch to Lush 2.0 came along and any development suggestions like that would be so far down the list of things needed to be doing that I gave up on the idea.

I love the idea of 'what if...' playing out with different outcomes. My story was going to start in a bar and depending on how well you flirted, wether you got off with someone and if you brought them home or to their home and all that could happen.

I've still got the outline but it ends up as a huge amount fo work. I think I had 60 or 70 different sections to write for a story with four or five choices all branching from the same opening.

I don't know how you could publish it either with so many different stories as if you had even 30 sections, it would take a month at the fastest, unless you could persuade the mods to let you bulk publish as it is all really one story.

It's still worth thinking about but like I say, in the current climate, little development tweaks like that will be months away.

Happy Sunday everyone.. as I sneak into the bar and help myself to a donut to go with my coffee.

I wrote a longer story, 11,000 words which is way more than my usual offerings so I had to split it into three parts. I've just submitted the 3rd and final part for approval. But here's the link to Part 1

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/cheating/keeping-it-in-the-family-a-trilogy-part-1-2

Hope you all have a good weekend.