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Matriarch
Halloween and Horror Competition
The Celts are thought to have been the founders of what is now known as "Halloween", around 2000 years ago. Their new year started on the 1st of November. The night before they enjoyed a large festival called Samhain which was a celebration of the harvest and the start of winter. It was also thought to be a time when ghosts would come out. The Celts would dress in masks and build big bonfires on the night of Samhain, and also put out food and extravagant offerings for ghosts.
Competition Theme
Our Halloween / Horror contest is all about ghosts, ghouls, vampires, the devil, demons and gods, legends of monsters and other supernatural and scary phenomena.
We want to see exciting scary stories of adventure, evil spirits, mystery and thrills.
So wipe the cobwebs off your keyboards and set pulses racing with your cold sweat and goosebump inducing sexy tales of horror and intrigue!
1st Place Prize: $150
2nd Place Prize: $100
3rd Place Prize: $50
4th Place Prize: A dead spider
Full details and dates can be found here >>
The Celts are thought to have been the founders of what is now known as "Halloween", around 2000 years ago. Their new year started on the 1st of November. The night before they enjoyed a large festival called Samhain which was a celebration of the harvest and the start of winter. It was also thought to be a time when ghosts would come out. The Celts would dress in masks and build big bonfires on the night of Samhain, and also put out food and extravagant offerings for ghosts.
Competition Theme
Our Halloween / Horror contest is all about ghosts, ghouls, vampires, the devil, demons and gods, legends of monsters and other supernatural and scary phenomena.
We want to see exciting scary stories of adventure, evil spirits, mystery and thrills.
So wipe the cobwebs off your keyboards and set pulses racing with your cold sweat and goosebump inducing sexy tales of horror and intrigue!
1st Place Prize: $150
2nd Place Prize: $100
3rd Place Prize: $50
4th Place Prize: A dead spider
Full details and dates can be found here >>
Matriarch
Quote by Milik_the_Red
With the enormous drop off in recorded views we have seen as more and more readers use the mobile site, it is insanely difficult to reach the 25K famous story level now, let alone a 100k legendary peak. A change like this will only punctuate that new works have little or no chance of equalling these posted before the changes.
I can confirm this is not true.
Traffic on the desktop site has remained around the same level since we made the switch over to the new mobile platform.
On the mobile site, we've actually seen quite a drop in traffic as a result of the change. It seems that quite a percentage of people preferred the no frills read only mobile site. That's probably where you're seeing the dip in views. It's not from more people using the mobile site.
When we first started, we had a simple thumb up or thumb down option. It didn't work.
No other site we researched uses a 1-10. It would be almost impossible to implement that now considering 55,000 stories have been voted on using a 1-5.
We tried allowing anonymous voting. It was abused, particularly during competitions.
The scoring will remain the same for the foreseeable future.
Matriarch
We had a fantastic array of stories entered into this competition which was exactly what we'd hoped for.
This was a difficult competition to judge, so much so that our judges were given a dozen stories in the shortlist.
Winning out though were these excellent entries:
1st Place ($150): His Pleasure, by Saucymh
2nd Place ($100): Naked in New York, by Dark_Apollo
3rd Place: Behind Closed Doors, by Milik_the_Red
Congratulations to our runners-up (due to the way it is coded, the Top 10 only get a runners-up badge, sorry Tech and Susan!):
Perversion Therapy, by Ping
The Little Things, by TangerineSky
Altocalciphilia: Auntie Rachel's Stilettos, by Gil_Renard
That ain't no way to treat a Lady?, by CuriousAnnie
Criminally Obsessed, by vanessa26
Tiny Dancer and Daddy Danseur, by Green_Man
The House of Mirrors, by freespirit13
The Experimental Fuck, by techgoddess
Another Caning by Miss Strictwell, by SusanHarper
A big thank you to everyone else who entered, to those who voted and left comments of encouragement.
A new competition will be announced shortly.
Cheers!
Nicola
This was a difficult competition to judge, so much so that our judges were given a dozen stories in the shortlist.
Winning out though were these excellent entries:
1st Place ($150): His Pleasure, by Saucymh
2nd Place ($100): Naked in New York, by Dark_Apollo
3rd Place: Behind Closed Doors, by Milik_the_Red
Congratulations to our runners-up (due to the way it is coded, the Top 10 only get a runners-up badge, sorry Tech and Susan!):
Perversion Therapy, by Ping
The Little Things, by TangerineSky
Altocalciphilia: Auntie Rachel's Stilettos, by Gil_Renard
That ain't no way to treat a Lady?, by CuriousAnnie
Criminally Obsessed, by vanessa26
Tiny Dancer and Daddy Danseur, by Green_Man
The House of Mirrors, by freespirit13
The Experimental Fuck, by techgoddess
Another Caning by Miss Strictwell, by SusanHarper
A big thank you to everyone else who entered, to those who voted and left comments of encouragement.
A new competition will be announced shortly.
Cheers!
Nicola
Matriarch
The Mod of the Month for August award goes to someone who goes above and beyond for the site, and has done for close to a decade.
Indeed I've threatened to suspend her several times as she truly takes the role to heart.
I have heard that she has an unfortunate condition. She's only able to orgasm when being spanked on all fours in a bath full of blancmange, with a Top Hat on whilst listening to The Proms. It must be some weird English fetish thing
(not sure about the choice of dessert though?).
A MASSIVE thank you to Rach ("Sprite" to newcomers) for putting in so much effort, and for your enduring friendship
The cheque is in the post!
Nicola xx
Indeed I've threatened to suspend her several times as she truly takes the role to heart.
I have heard that she has an unfortunate condition. She's only able to orgasm when being spanked on all fours in a bath full of blancmange, with a Top Hat on whilst listening to The Proms. It must be some weird English fetish thing
(not sure about the choice of dessert though?).A MASSIVE thank you to Rach ("Sprite" to newcomers) for putting in so much effort, and for your enduring friendship
The cheque is in the post!
Nicola xx
Matriarch
Quite a few verifiers are running their rule over our latest competition shortlist now, so apologies for a longer than usual publishing time. It's normally under 2 days.
All verifiers are volunteers and we're in the Top 3 most visited story sites on the web, so things can sometimes not go as quickly as we'd like.
All verifiers are volunteers and we're in the Top 3 most visited story sites on the web, so things can sometimes not go as quickly as we'd like.
Matriarch
Quote by Verbal
You want kitties? We got kitties!
So jealous!
I want to own my own place and to have little rascals around the place. Just been told I have to move again from my rental place. This time, the owners who promised a long-term let have reneged and after less than 2 years I have to move again.
I'm so sick of renting. But where needs must ...
Matriarch
Quote by DontNokItTilYouTryIt
Nicola,
I'm not sure. Are you saying that because I received the mobile version auto-generated email, that is what caused all the links to take me to the finish profile page?
Precisely.
In future you will not receive emails which point to the mobile site if you are on desktop only.
Those active on the mobile site, will get the email with the correct mobile links (and may be "prompted" to complete their profile as that's how the software matches up stories / members who might be of interest).
Desktop users will be sent a revised version with correct links to the desktop stories etc.. I need to manually organise that as it's not going to be an automated process like it is on the mobile platform.
Matriarch
Unfortunately the auto-generated emails from the mobile site are unable to be coded in such a way that desktop users receive an email with desktop links. The email was sent to all members not just those who signed up on the mobile site.
This will change.
Only members active on mobile will get the auto-generated emails (which you can unsubscribe from in one click if it's your preference) in future.
Desktop members will be sent a different version of the fortnightly emails, with desktop links.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
This will change.
Only members active on mobile will get the auto-generated emails (which you can unsubscribe from in one click if it's your preference) in future.
Desktop members will be sent a different version of the fortnightly emails, with desktop links.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Matriarch
It gives me great pleasure to award the Moderator of the Month award to someone who is the perfect gentleman (that's what he'd have us believe) around the site.
He is very encouraging to authors, regularly recommends stories for EP / OS awards, and every month churns through the queue.
A huge thank you to ChrisM for your time and dedication to the betterment of our writing community.
Cheers!
Nicola x
He is very encouraging to authors, regularly recommends stories for EP / OS awards, and every month churns through the queue.
A huge thank you to ChrisM for your time and dedication to the betterment of our writing community.
Cheers!
Nicola x
Matriarch
It's dead easy. Works just as well in a frying pan. 2-3 minutes each side, leave the skin on while cooking.
https://www.thespruceeats.com/grilled-brown-sugar-bananas-recipe-334494 (Without the cinnamon unless you like it
)
https://www.thespruceeats.com/grilled-brown-sugar-bananas-recipe-334494 (Without the cinnamon unless you like it
) Matriarch
8.
More green and they leave that horrible taste at the top of your mouth.
Riper and they don't have much texture
I like cutting them lengthwise and bbq'ing them. The caramelisation goes beautifully with vanilla icecream (the proper kind with vanilla beans not flavouring) for an easy dessert.
More green and they leave that horrible taste at the top of your mouth.
Riper and they don't have much texture
I like cutting them lengthwise and bbq'ing them. The caramelisation goes beautifully with vanilla icecream (the proper kind with vanilla beans not flavouring) for an easy dessert.
Matriarch
Quote by GraceW
I think Milik deserves a badge for his decade as discussed recently. And I still believe the badge should be called Decadent.
We had a 10 year member badge in the works. I forget what we decided upon calling it though, and it hasn't been actioned yet.
"Decadent" and "decadence" mean nothing to do with 10 years though.
I'll check with those who have better memories and we'll get it going!