Can someone remind me when RRs started? I'm sure it was since I joined Lush in 2011. The list of them goes back before then, so I guess there's been a bit of post-dated recommending.
Thanks to everyone for your comments, and especially for taking my post seriously - it wasn't posted lightly, and I was very nervous to see how it was taken.
I agree that everyone's response to poetry is different, and by its nature subjective, but my comment wasn't really about the content, but about the form. I wasn't so much thinking about the more "free-form" type of poetry that Avrgblkgrl does so well, but those poems that attempt to work within the more traditional rhyming stanzas, but don't get it quite right. I find it frustrating when my enjoyment of a poem is spoilt by irregular metre and "beat". There are great artists in all art forms who can get away with breaking the rules, but only after they have mastered the rules first.
If anybody wants to discuss this with me further, outside the public forums, please send me a PM.
Please don’t take this the wrong way, but do the story moderators have any guidance to help them decide whether a poem or story is made a “Recommended Read”? It’s just that I’ve seen a couple of poems recently that have been given an “RR” which I don’t think deserve it. I’d expect an “RR” poem to scan properly at least (unless it was “free verse”) but the ones I’m thinking of didn’t. Regardless of what they were trying to say, on a technical level they failed. So did they deserve an “RR”? I don’t think so. Would you award an “RR” to something that was punctuated and spelt badly? It’s not so very different.
I’m ready to take some flak for this, but I think it’s important that "RR"s should highlight the very best of Lush, and we may be letting ourselves down a bit here.
Straight to the fucking, yay!
Happy birthday! Hope it's a great one!
I hear it's going to be extra warm tonight, Luce ;)
Despite the torrential downpours earlier hee hee
I'm sorry the other thread has been locked - I'm generally in favour of the decision, but stopping people sounding off about it tends to make the situation worse.
I think people need to be allowed to let off steam about it for a while! Even if you don't agree with what they say.
Has to be below - something missing above!
I like to use an appropriate picture whenever I can, though it can be hard to find one that really seems to fit the story. A few times I have an image in my mind that I think would work perfectly, but then can't find one online anywhere. On the other hand, once or twice, I have seen a pic that I think "That would go well with such-and-such a story", and have added it later.
From across the room, she raised her skirt to reveal she wore no knickers. She slid a finger inside her vagina, then held it up, glistening.
One quiet lunchtime in the pub garden, I took out his cock and wanked him until he came, shooting loops of thick white cum over my bare leg.
He fucked me three times that night, each time making me come as he filled my cunt with his hot thick semen. His girlfriend never found out.
Hell yes, why not? Just for the fun of it.
Just a pair of panties with hearts on - got them as a Valentine's Day present ;)
The comp is still open, but one of the entries has already been given a "recommended read" tag. Maybe I'm being over-sensitive, but this doesn't seem right. Wouldn't it be better if the mods waited until the comp was over before giving these? It sort of makes it look like less of a level playing field now, as if one story has been marked as special before the judging even starts.
I didn't realize how important eye contact was until I was giving a blow job to a guy who didn't look at me while I was doing it. I kept looking up at him, but he kept avoiding any eye contact. It felt like he wasn't interested, so I got it over with as soon as possible and went back to the party.
I've only had one guy who wanted to do that, and he was so into his own cum that I don't know why he didn't cut out the middle(wo)man and wank straight into his own mouth lol. But I remember it was fun tasting his cum in his mouth when we kissed.
Name your position, I'm ready.
I pee in the shower, and not just because I'm lazy. A girl has to be allowed a few kinks, right?
When I was younger I used to get jealous of my friends, who all seemed to be bigger than me. But now I love my 32b boobs, and its great not having to wear a bra when it's hot.
Yes, I always have a couple tucked away in a side pocket of my bag. Like Sprite, I've come to the rescue of less-prepared mates more than once!