There isn't a benchmark. You can be score-whore if you want but it's not actually going to give you the validation you're looking for. All it'll do is prove that you're good at marketing yourself.
The comments are probably best for validation because you can see who's giving them and that will help you judge the validity and honesty of the comment. Comments from someone who has "editor's picks" or "famous stories" or have won competitions here will probably carry more weight than someone who just gives everything a 5/5
If it's important to you, I'd suggest you busy yourself making friends. Not just anyone, people who actual matter. People who comment a lot. People who are well networked themselves. Or you could just write really good stuff - at least one mod will see it and if it's really good - they might recommend it
No. But like tattoos if it makes them feel better who am i to judge
I hear girls say stuff like "yeah guys go wild when i run my tongue stud over their cock" - really? guys go wild when you lick their dicks. Who the fuck knew?
Bizarrely it might be some fucked up sense of control over the woman (as these things usually are). One explanation could be that the fact that he is there puts him in a supervisory role as if he's delegated his duties to someone else. There are a lot of different power plays in operation here: watching, being watched, the still nature of female infidelity - all rolled into one.
Something perhaps more likely is the role of porn. Imagine a guy who watches a lot of porn (if you can). For hours and hours he gets himself off watching other people fuck - then goes to bed with his wife and can't get it up. Maybe his brain's rewired - maybe now he wants his wife to be the pornstar in his own private show. Does kind of bring us back to control again.
You might not believe in fairies but that doesn't mean Tinkerbell should have a lower case T.
Sex is a something rooted in the id - it's why it's so often associated with violence. Because they are the more base of instincts they're easy to use but at the same time very easy to get wrong.
Sex in fiction, without intrigue or romance, is just porn. Violence without drama or consequence is purely gratuitous. There's nothing wrong with either of those, if that's what you're going for and what the reader expects. Sex scenes followed by violent scenes are a staple of horror and fantasy writing - keeping the reader in a primal state. Of course the most shocking and disturbing scenes are when the two are combined (and those are rightly forbidden on here).
It's probably a good thing the scene with Hooper and Mrs Brody didn't make it to the film. If it had been left in, the story shifts from being a small town america disaster movie to a small town america love triangle - if that's your story, you really don't need to buy a 25 foot mechanical shark to help tell it.
Maybe they weren't aware of the original version
It's not really a poem though. Just a collection lines vaguely smacked around an old musical hall number.
What is it? Well it looks to me like one of those drunken ramblings you hear at an open mic night. Maybe that's what you were going for.
That said i'm surprised it wasn't accepted. 95% of the poems on here are utter tosh.
You do realise that your IT department know what you're looking at, right?
While a lot of people here wouldn't consider Lush a porn site, it definitely comes under the header NSFW. Story titles are also page titles - your web activity report will have things like "Fucking my neighbour's daughter" or "Taking a monster cock up my ass" on it.
And no, using incognito settings will not stop this happening.
If you have your own website or blog chances are these days it's going to be a Wordpress site
This month saw the launch of Wordpress 4.0, aka "Benny". It's the first new version of WP for four years but on the outside, at least, the changes don't appear all that radical. Personally, I was quite pleased they didn't add too much to it - content management system always seem to move to a point when they become over-bloated with features until they become unusable. Given the amount of third party plug-ins though, it's difficult to see how they change it too much without screwing up a lot of people's work.
Have you upgraded your site? Have you experienced any issues or problems with it?
If you haven't got around to it yet, the one-click upgrade "should" go through fine - but it never hurts to back-up your precious data before you do it.
According to Google only 2% of those stolen details would have actually worked - that's still 100,000 accounts though.
As Liz says, they claim there wasn't a breach but it was simply a collection of data from a load of phishing scams, shifting blame from themselves to the end user.
