The "I don't want to talk about AI" thread, and the new topic is: boobs and bits

[Bamagan]

I'm not letting you get away from this so easily!

My story Red Hot is told from the POV of Daz, a former boyband heart throb who meets a sexy woman who used to be a fan. She seduces him over the course of a series of meetings, taking things further each time.

Several readers commented that they'd like to know more about the woman, Myrna. In my head, her story already exists: after an upheaval in her life (divorce or separation) she's determined to play by her own rules. She was an awkward teen, and she's just beginning to realise that as a grown woman she's sexy and desirable, and she can get what she wants. But she does things at her own pace as she forces herself to adjust to this liberating mentality.

None of that is mentioned in the story, and I'm not sure all of it was crystalised in my mind when I was writing. But that's Myrna's tale, and there in the negative spaces in the story. The encounters are as much Myrna's tale as they are Daz's.

Guess we should have known that discussion of literary techniques would kill a thread.

 

[StillStunned]

As long as the thread is ready to spring into action as soon as the AI discussions flare up again, I'm happy to let it slumber for now.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Bitch, pussy and plot bunny ....

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

New topic ... fuitcakes!!!!

The food, not the people.

When done right, they're great.

A heavy, honey brown bread/cake loaded with dried fruits (apples, dates, cherries, cranberries, apricots and whatever else you can find at the time). Once cooked, wrap in cheesecloth and slather liberally with Frangelico, Amaretto, Peach or Apricot Brandy or similar. Store in a closed container and let sit for 30 days or more before indulging.

Nobody passes them along. They don't last long enough to get passed on. The liqueurs soak into the body and fruit and the whole thing becomes one with itself.



The doorstops full of candied 'fruit' and nuts sold at dollar stores give the delightful delicacy a bad name.

 

[Erozetta]

New topic ... fuitcakes!!!!

The food, not the people.

My family soaked dried fruits in spiced rum for a few days before making the cake.

I soak them in apple cider to make a sober version, but haven't made it in years.

Otherwise, it's essentially a bundt cake recipe with a lot of spices and dried fruit. Candied ginger and citron is my favorite part. But I also use dried apples, apricots, dates, pineapple, cherries and a lot of fresh lemon zest and spices.

Lately I've been preferring panettone, which people also seem to hate, lol. I like fruity things.

 

[stickygirl]

It's nearly time isn't it? A couple of years since I made Christmas fruit cake but I feel the time ( and can afford it!! )

 

[onehitwanda]

It's nearly time isn't it? A couple of years since I made Christmas fruit cake but I feel the time ( and can afford it!! )

They've been playing christmas music for nearly three weeks already

Wanda's Winter Wonderland:
1. good mulled wine
2. pubs with fireplaces
3. proper roast lamb
4. home made redcurrent jam from the redcurrants I harvested in august
5. fluffy blankets
6. fluffy socks
7. the unquenchable hope for my first ever white Christmas

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Allspice is OK. No candied stuff. No nuts. Spiced rum is fine, but I prefer the liqueurs mentioned.

Time ... close ... like I said ... about 30 days to mull, so mid-November-ish.

Unless you wanted it for Turkey Day, then you better get on it.

 

[StillStunned]

1. good mulled wine

I make mine with brown sugar and ginger liquor (red) or with honey and triple sec (white).

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Don't forget to rum the raisins too. Cherry spiced rum works well there.

 

[iwatchus]

1. good mulled wine

Never had a taste for it, but probably because I have never had a good one. My Christmas beverage is spiced hot apple cider. I flirted wih my first spouse originally over hot cider. My love for the cider has well outlived that marriage.

 

[Erozetta]

Never had a taste for it, but probably because I have never had a good one. My Christmas beverage is spiced hot apple cider. I flirted wih my first spouse originally over hot cider. My love for the cider has well outlived that marriage.

Yes! The only hot drink I enjoy!

 

[onehitwanda]

Never had a taste for it, but probably because I have never had a good one. My Christmas beverage is spiced hot apple cider. I flirted wih my first spouse originally over hot cider. My love for the cider has well outlived that marriage.

In my experience the Swiss and Italians do it very well. My week in Zermatt was delightfully fuggy.

 

[StillStunned]

In my experience the Swiss and Italians do it very well. My week in Zermatt was delightfully fuggy.

If we're still talking about mulled wine, the best I ever had was in Budapest.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

My problem is that I can no longer get real cider. Only store bought and shipped in from somewhere.

I grew up where I could get to any of 5 or 6 real cider mills where they pressed on site. I sometimes hit 2 in the same day just to taste the differences. You could be drinking what was an apple yesterday.


There isn't one within hours of me now.

 

[onehitwanda]

If we're still talking about mulled wine, the best I ever had was in Budapest.

Still want to go there some day. And to Salzburg and to Prague and Copenhagen.

 

[NuclearFairy]

My problem is that I can no longer get real cider. Only store bought and shipped in from somewhere.

I grew up where I could get to any of 5 or 6 real cider mills where they pressed on site. I sometimes hit 2 in the same day just to taste the differences. You could be drinking what was an apple yesterday.


There isn't one within hours of me now.

There are still plenty of farms that make small batches of cider and sell them during tours.

 

[iwatchus]

My problem is that I can no longer get real cider. Only store bought and shipped in from somewhere.

I grew up where I could get to any of 5 or 6 real cider mills where they pressed on site. I sometimes hit 2 in the same day just to taste the differences. You could be drinking what was an apple yesterday.


There isn't one within hours of me now.

We still have them, but I can think of two active apple orchards within a ten minute drive of my house. There may be more I'm not thinking about. My son's partner just picked a bunch of apples and made a big batch of apple butter.

 

[StillStunned]

Still want to go there some day. And to Salzburg and to Prague and Copenhagen.

Another reason why my redhead is the best wife in the whole world: she's taken me to all those places. Including Budapest.

 

[onehitwanda]

Another reason why my redhead is the best wife in the whole world: she's taken me to all those places. Including Budapest.

The people who made me spread my wings hold a special place in my black, calcified heart that is slightly less black and slightly less calciferous.

 

[Nynah]

7. the unquenchable hope for my first ever white Christmas

Can I interest you in spending Christmas in Duluth, MN?

 

[AwkwardMD]

I was experimenting with trying to adapt 'negative space art' into writing. That phrase may be interpreted in various ways, but in the art class I was thinking of, the idea was to capture the shape of an object by drawing/painting the 'empty' space around it. How can that be rendered in text or verse? Kind of a "tell me without telling me" situation. I'm still probing the void, but I figured I might mention it to see if the concept provokes anyone else. Might be an interesting writing exercise for some.

For context, the idea came to me while I was trying to write a philosophical conversation between characters discussing how being part of a community 'compresses' people into 'shapes' that can fit (more or less) into the whole, and how being removed from that pressure can prompt them to develop in strange ways as their nature seeks to fill the social vacuum.

I did this in one of my most recent works. I decided I wanted to have an incredibly busty character but didn't want to say that, so instead I explored all the ways she might try to divert attention or cover herself, or how they would impact her life, etc. They come up in the story, sometimes, but always indirectly. I'm very proud of how it turned out.

 

[nice90sguy]

I did this in one of my most recent works. I decided I wanted to have an incredibly busty character but didn't want to say that, so instead I explored all the ways she might try to divert attention or cover herself, or how they would impact her life, etc. They come up in the story, sometimes, but always indirectly. I'm very proud of how it turned out.

What a waste of brain cells! You could have just said she was 44DDD and moved on,

 

[AwkwardMD]

What a waste of brain cells! You could have just said she was 44DDD and moved on,

But then I never would have gotten to write this sentence:

Esther turned more toward the table, resting one elbow on the table, and Ruby swallowed hard. She'd done well not taking too much advantage of the angle, and Esther was always very careful to hold something in front of herself, but the other girl's relaxed, asymmetrical posture was making it very hard to ignore the fact that her chest must have measured somewhere closer to the middle of the alphabet than the beginning.

 

[StillStunned]

So are we done with fruitcake? I'd like to change the topic to boobs.