Forum: Author Hangout

stranger sex

Stranger than what?

Couldn't that more commonly be labeled 'hooking up'?

Stranger than what?

It was a pun!

I was unfamiliar with the term being used to describe sex with strangers.

It was a pun!

It's often wise to add a smiley face after your jokes here so there's no need to make such explanations.
There are a lot of people who sometimes interpret attempts at humour literally. I could send you photos of my many battle scars. :-)
I suspect SB noticed the joke then decided to post a straight answer as a constructive contribution.
And BTW, you need to work much harder that to ruffle SB's feathers!

That was my point about why the standard Category Search codes is a better way. On ASSTR, who would even know to search on "stranger sex?"

I don't know about ASSTR. Their search feature isn't great to start with. Here on SOL, everybody uses the same set of codes, making it easier to search across all stories. Many of the 'ASSTR' codes leave me wondering what the heck they mean in the first place.

there is no Search by Code facility on ASSTR (as you assumed)

That was my point. How can there be a 'search by code' facility if everyone makes up their own coding?

and what do these mean? tf, doll, deflation, bimboization, petplay

and what do these mean? tf, doll, deflation, bimboization, petplay

My dog bit my plastic bimbo?
Bimboization includes making girl scouts wear pelmets, etc.

That was my point. How can there be a 'search by code' facility if everyone makes up their own coding?

The last time I visited ASSTR has to be three or four years ago, but at that time it was possible to search by code. I even remember the seemingly endless list of story codes.

tf, doll, deflation, bimboization, petplay

I read tf as teen female.

I'm not sure about deflation.

Bimboization refers to a style of stories where a female character has her IQ reduced and libido jacked through the roof, usually but not always accompanied by a physical transformation in to a blond with a Barbie doll figure.

Doll and petplay are recognized fetishes.

Petplay, usually in the context of a BDSM relationship involves one partner (the submissive in a BDSM relationship) pretending to be or being trained to act like an animal, most commonly a dog or cat, but ponies, and more exotic animal persona's get used.

Doll play would involve a live person pretending to be or being forced into the roll of an inanimate sex doll. Yes, it's one of the weirdest fetishes, but it's out there.

I've missed you for the last three days ... just a bit. :-)

I've missed you for the last three days ... just a bit. :-)

+10 shield of deflection. :P

I assumed "Petplay" was bestiality.

It's not uncommon for petplay stories to involve bestiality, but they don't have to.

I read tf as teen female.

So the tag should be Fa/ft, ft/ft, Ma/ft, or mt/ft, unless there is no other MC.

I'm not sure about deflation.

Anyone have an answer for this?

Bimboization refers to a style of stories where a female character has her IQ reduced and libido jacked through the roof, usually but not always accompanied by a physical transformation in to a blond with a Barbie doll figure.

That sounds like what a lot of the advertising for teens is trying to do. ;)

Doll and petplay are recognized fetishes.

Petplay, usually in the context of a BDSM relationship involves one partner (the submissive in a BDSM relationship) pretending to be or being trained to act like an animal, most commonly a dog or cat, but ponies, and more exotic animal persona's get used.

Doll play would involve a live person pretending to be or being forced into the roll of an inanimate sex doll. Yes, it's one of the weirdest fetishes, but it's out there.

Although I haven't read any stories with these fetishes they might actually be worth adding to the 'fetish' or BDSM category.

Can anyone suggest any stories that might fit any of these potential codes? (other than the recent new postings)

Although I haven't read any stories with these fetishes they might actually be worth adding to the 'fetish' or BDSM category.

I don't know about doll, but there are definitely some stories on SOL involving petplay.

So the tag should be Fa/ft, ft/ft, Ma/ft, or mt/ft, unless there is no other MC.

The one thing the age/gender tags don't have is age/gender/solo for stories about people masturbating.

The one thing the age/gender tags don't have is age/gender/solo for stories about people masturbating.

In the spirit of being true to life, my story has several instances of masturbation before he ever touches a real girl

Ah, yes, the Mutual-Masturbation Follies. 'D

Solo, the original type of masturbation.

When I started this it was intended as a sex story and I thought it okay to shock the readers who presumably only reading for the sex. Now I'm doing it as a mainstream novel that ha sex in it, and being real literature am putting in all the foreshadowing, etc, so that events aren't out of the blue.

The first scene has this passage

Amy was there with another girl. She was always there. I swear she lived at those alleys. She looked over and sort of smiled. I muttered, "Hey" and stared for a second. I wanted to say more, but, as always, the words never formed. She turned away, back to her friend and whatever they were talking about. Maybe next time would be the one where I wasn't afraid. I'd lost track of how many times I told myself that.

That establishes how awkwardly shy he is around girls. A couple of paragraphs later...

At least I had baseball. The Pirates were on at seven, but I'd miss some of it as I had to be down at the stadium at six to see if the coach would let me play in my summer league game.

Spending the evening on the bullpen bench with Randy gave us the opportunity to admire some of the young ladies who strolled past during the course of the game. Not that I spoke to any but there was one in particular I thought likely to fuel my fantasies once I returned home.

First, he does not get to play much for his team (more failure), and second, he compensates for his failure to talk to girls with masturbating.

In scene two he meets his cousin and a few minutes later has to run to his bedroom to look out the window and reenact the scene from Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

The first chapter ends with...

That night I laid in bed and stared at the ceiling as the radio played the rock station out of Chicago at a very low volume. I muttered out loud, "Dammit - I finally say more than two words to a hot girl and she has to be my cousin." I reached for the Kleenexes.

That night I laid in bed

I really love the english language, but what it did with "to lie" and "to lay" is a disaster.
'That night I laid in bed.'
'That night I lay in bed.'
'That night I was lying in bed.'
That's bad enough already.
But how could a sentence like, "I lie about in bed, to lie about having sex.", could become allowed making any sense?

confusing

That is why they call them codes, because you need to decipher them to understand what they mean.

"Lie" is an exception, as it's an entirely different definition of the word, so should be treated as a different word than "lay") that only applies to humans. So a human "lies" (similar to "reclines") on the bed, while you "lie" an inanimate object (or pet) on the bed).

WARNING: Pedantic Nitpick Alert!

THREE different verbs!
lie (= to be or put yourself in a horizontal position) is irregular with a Simple Past Tense of 'lay' and Past Participle of 'lain'.
lie (= to tell an untruth) is a regular verb. Its Simple Past Tense and Past Participle are both 'lied'.
lay (= to put somebody/something in some position, usually gently) is irregular with its Simple Past Tense and Past Participle both being 'laid'.

Sorry, CW, the Oxford Dictionary states the first meaning of 'lie' as applicable 'of a person or an animal'.

The Wiki entry I look up most often, despite knowing these very well, is 'List of Irregular Verbs'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_irregular_verbs
It is well worth the effort for authors who want to use the correct word to study this entry until they understand that irregular verbs in English really are very simple. There's not that many.
Note that all except two irregular can be completely defined, and yes, I do mean completely defined, by listing just the bare (infinitive) form, the simple past tense, and the past participle.
The other endings verbs may have, typically '-s', '-ed', and 'ing', are always formed regularly - although there are variations in the rules depending on the end of the base form. There are that an 'e' may be added or dropped before the ending is added, final consonents may be doubled, an 'i' may be changed to 'y' - but they are always done in exactly the same way.
I find whether consonents need to be doubled impossible to figure. It depends on the pronunciation and is a bit different for BrE and Ame. I check those in my dictionary.

The two exceptions I mentioned are:
-* the be-verb is very irregular
-* the have-verb has an irregular third person singular present tense. That is 'has', not 'haves'.

That really is everything you need to know to always spell every verb in the language correctly!!!

Not quite. I know of one more exception. The '-ing' form of 'cringe' is 'cringing' according to the standard pattern of dropping the 'e'. The '-ing' form of 'singe' however, does not drop the 'e'. It is 'singeing' because the usual pattern would have the same spelling of a different word, 'singing'.

But how could a sentence like, "I lie about in bed, to lie about having sex.", could become allowed making any sense?

Because the human brain is really good at pattern matching. at a normal reading speed, you are only actually reading every second or third work and your brain fills in the rest based on patterns.

You would be shocked at how screwed up you can make a paragraph and still have it be comprehensible to a majority of readers.

https://storiesonline.net/s/12319/menagerie

https://storiesonline.net/s/12758/a-kittens-tail

Both by Wolfdragon76 https://storiesonline.net/a/Wolfdragon76

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll have to look at them.

I've seen a lot of those in hentai but wasn't aware of any here. I don't really know where they would fit as it's not BDSM or Mind Control. It can be, but it doesn't have to be.

Would be considered 'cross-dressing' but across species instead of gender? >^..^

I don't really know where they would fit as it's not BDSM or Mind Control. It can be, but it doesn't have to be.

Would be considered 'cross-dressing' but across species instead of gender? >^..^

Well, there is a meat space implementation of fury art/stories called plushies where people wear cartoonish anthropomorphic animal costumes, some even have sex wearing them.

With someone who just wants to pretend to be an animal, it could be considered a subspecies of that.

I don't mind the same spelling having different meanings, but it gets really confusing when verbs have same base form, an almost identical meaning, but are conjugated differently.
-* to hang is usually irregular, with both past forms being 'hung', but it's regular when used to mean execute a person. People are 'hanged', not 'hung'.
-* to heave is usually regular, but in a nautical setting it retains old irregular forms: simple past tense of 'hove', and past participle of 'hove' or 'hoven'.
I won't be writing any stories about pirates anytime soon.

pirates

Pies are fairly expensive in the Seattle metropolitan area. Occasional a very small cherry or apple pie is around $6 but normal pricing is in the $10 to $20 range. Pi continues to be 3.141596 (etc.) as it is an irrational number. Corn is the traditional buck an ear.

-* to hang is usually irregular, with both past forms being 'hung', but it's regular when used to mean execute a person. People are 'hanged', not 'hung'.

On the other hand, most of the male protagonists on this site are "hung"; few of them are "hanged".

I've gone with adding "old school story codes" ...

If there is an equivalent SOL code you should quit duplicating. Besides, there is no way to search for your 'old school codes'. If there is a specific 'old school code' you think needs to be added, contact Lazeez using the 'contact webmaster' link and let him know what it is and why you believe it should be added.