I know, I know, but…

I’ve had this photo up on my desktop as a wallpaper for quite some time, but I don’t know where it came from.

My friend, Karen Anne Summerfield, sent it to me in a batch at one point, but didn’t include any additional information.

A Beautiful Victorian Gown

I figure it is a part of some photoshoot someplace, and if ANYONE who reads this knows where it came from, if you would please comment and let me know? Pretty please?

I’d so love to have this. I know it’s heavy and it is not practical for much. It’s probably a mourning suit. But it looks lovely.

In other news, Chaz Bono is finally officially a man. Don’t read the comments unless you like being pissed off.

United ENDA is making a call to EVERY GBLT person out there who is unemployed. They want you to go to your Congressperson’s office with your resume and to apply for a job.

Full details here.

I’m out of work, I’m transgendered, and I want a job. Honestly? I want to do this. But I am afraid. I know I don’t pass when I’m dressed, and I don’t have many work-appropriate clothes. I could do it.

I want to do it. I am terribly scared.

I don’t want to talk myself out of it, but then it’s one of those things that could be so easily ignored.

So scared.

Hello all,

Sorry it’s taken so long for me to get back here, but real life has intervened again and again. First there were all kinds of emergencies with our power and Internet, then HE decided to completely screw with his laptop and get Linux instead of Windows. That done, he had to spend time getting it all back to the same level of functionality as we had before.

But now that’s done and I can start writing again.

The muse has abandoned us, but we hope it will come back sometime soon.

Meanwhile, I found my perfect collar. http://cli.gs/GthEz It’s the perfect collar for me, so does anyone want to buy it for me? I plan on having it inscribed with my owner’s name, my name and title and the Slave Registry Number and bar-code. As soon as I have the money to buy it, I will apply for a slave registry number.

Then I want to get one of the medical chips and get all my medical records transfered to it, make sure it has a GPS tracker on it, and then my SRN and barcode and so on. Can’t WAIT for that. I will be truly owned by my Lady, and a happy little Maid.

Thank you for following me and reading here.

Okay, so it looks like things have come to an ending with both Crystal’s StorySite and FictionMania. Both have stopped accepting new submissions, and in some cases have turned off critical functions such as forum posting.

I have to say in some ways I’m relieved. People can calm down now and allow things to settle some. But it is up in the air as to whether Crystal’s StorySite will continue as it is. FictionMania has made their position clear (in their own way.)

For those of you who aren’t current on the flamewar, basically it comes to one person’s stories.

Click here for a brief history of the problems

So now we have a few alternatives. Go to a pay site like TGFiction, stay with sites like BigCloset and TopShelf and Stardust, create your own archive of stories and post them all there. And this is a very sad state of affairs indeed.

I’m sad things have come to this. I’m sad that problems have caused this fracture. My offer to host stories for authors who are leaving those sites still stands. This will remain a free site. I will even build a new site, complete with URL to host others stories if there is enough call for this.

I’m not really happy about all this, but there’s not a lot I can do. I’ve made my opinion plain as I can, and I stand by it.

Well, things have become confrontational on the message boards of both Crystal’s site and FictionMania. It’s starting to bleed over to TopShelf too, but hopefully it won’t reach there.

The problem is with a gentleman by the name of “Noah Vail” (a cute pun on “no avail”). He wrote several stories featuring an 8 year old being taken by adults in a sexual manner while dressed as a little girl.

The controversy’s shape is about “what is censorship”? There are a lot of people on both sites that want his stories removed posthaste, because they promote kiddie porn. They deal with sex situations with minor children. That is an accurate definition of the problem.

My take on it all? I don’t really have one. You see, I believe deeply in “live and let live”. While I do feel that both FictionMania and Crystal’s should stand by their posted Terms of Service and delete the stories (for promoting illegal acts, which is on their terms of service), I don’t think they should be removed from the Internet.

Let’s be rational. People are going to write stories that fit their perversions and nothing and no one is going to stop them. Him writing this for his own use is fine. Him sharing it with others is also fine. I don’t agree with the content at all, nor do I get aroused by the thought of a 10 year old having sex, but in America speech is protected.

He’s going to advocate that kind of activity, fine. He may do so. I don’t have to read it. The sites he has posted them on have Terms of Service that explicitly prohibit illegal acts, and as such they should stand by it and remove the stories. If they did not have such in their TOS, I wouldn’t ask them to remove the stories.

I can exercise my option and “change the channel” so as not to read what I find offensive.

Point in fact, I started reading one of the stories, just to see what was objectionable. I saw “my mother dressed me as a girl at 8 years old for her Johns” in the first sentence, and that was enough for me. I closed the window.

Let him write it, let him post it to sites that do not have clauses about no illegal activities. I’m fine with that. I don’t have to read it. It is as simple as that.

Well, it looks like there aren’t any more Chasti-Permalock stories I can archive here. I found them all and now all of them are posted. So, thing have to change now.

I have three stories that are making in the back of my mind, and they will be finished, edited and up soon. They are one of each series, Sissy, Samantha and Mindy.

So, now back to the regularly scheduled stories.

But I’m also busy getting my OTHER site and moving it. So things will slow here. I’m not abandoning you all, but I’m not going to post as often here. Sorry about that.

I still love you all, and plan to continue this site. Don’t fret, things are wonderful, and I am very happy.