What I learned from publishing a Loving Wives story

[gordo12]

To gordo12:



then how can they be called Loving Wives stories in the first place?

My, you do blather on! Perhaps you've never heard of the word IRONY or Tongue-In-Cheek.

Your opinion only, and how is it any better than those who scream it belongs elsewhere? Why don't you relax, enjoy and let the readers sort the stories out according to their own interests? Not yours!

 

[EmilyMiller]

Nice weather for the time of year. Much less ash falling than of late.



Em

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Nice weather for the time of year. Much less ash falling than of late.



Em

Is that some convoluted "Mistborn" reference?

 

[EmilyMiller]

Em, 50% - not bad, but you forgot the most important one. No handling the ball. The batter cannot touch, pick up, fondle or caress the ball while it's in play.

Technically, it's now part of the "obstructing the field" way of getting out.

Absolutely nothing to add about learning from LW...

They say you can’t teach girls cricket

They say you can’t teach Americans cricket

They say you can’t teach blondes anything

But blonde, American girls…

Em

 

[onehitwanda]

But blonde, American girls…

Are you strictly American, any more?

If we average your geolocation data we'll probably find you somewhere out in the Atlantic somewhere

 

[gordo12]

The beginning and end of this "discussion" is very simple. The OWNERS of this site allow the kind of stories you eschew. Live with it.

I've put notes in the author's box every time I've decided to scribble outside the lines and every time Laurel (The OWNER) has let it go through.

That means they're comfortable with LW, and frankly, being their site, that's all we need to know.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Are you strictly American, any more?

If we average your geolocation data we'll probably find you somewhere out in the Atlantic somewhere

In the last few weeks, yeah.

Didn’t have any foreign trips for a while. There was this plague, you know.

Em

 

[alohadave]

Some of the people in this thread need to log out, go outside, and tough grass.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Is that some convoluted "Mistborn" reference?

Never read any of it. Just a reference to our fucked up planet.

Em

 

[LIDiver]

Never read any of it. Just a reference to our fucked up planet.

Em

There was no where to hide,
the ashes fell like snow…

 

[HordHolm]

They say you can’t teach girls cricket

They say you can’t teach Americans cricket

They say you can’t teach blondes anything

But blonde, American girls…

Em

I thought it was pretty awesome that you got those. As for 'can't teach American blondes...' well, you guys have a special language called Baseball vocabulary, and despite being rather into various sports, and arcane knowledge (once upon a decade I took the trouble to learn some Sumo vocabulary - now since departed through lack of use), it just shuts my brain down. When Americans start to talk about baseball it is, for me, as if they are talking a Dutch/Korean hybrid, translated into Icelandic by a Swahili monoglot. Thus, as you have managed this much cricket there is no way I will criticise.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I thought it was pretty awesome that you got those. As for 'can't teach American blondes...' well, you guys have a special language called Baseball vocabulary, and despite being rather into various sports, and arcane knowledge (once upon a decade I took the trouble to learn some Sumo vocabulary - now since departed through lack of use), it just shuts my brain down. When Americans start to talk about baseball it is, for me, as if they are talking a Dutch/Korean hybrid, translated into Icelandic by a Swahili monoglot. Thus, as you have managed this much cricket there is no way I will criticise.

I played softball at college - mixed teams. I was shortstop [insert dwarf joke here].

People who say “throw like a girl” have never seen me throw. I think the muscles from rock climbing helped.

Em

 

[MrPixel]

I played softball at college - mixed teams.

I have a lot of respect for women's college softball. I was on a HS team, typically pitching 'cuz I had more or less mastered the windmill pitch. Then I saw college women's teams play. Jaw-dropping pitching. I put my glove away. (Well... mostly because I'd f'ed up my shoulder playing tennis. Killer serve, but at a high cost. Shoulder's aching right now just pushing the mouse around.)

OK, enough thread drift. Weren't we talking about cricket? Or was it ocean sailing?

 

[onehitwanda]

Or was it ocean sailing?

keel-hauling.

 

[LIDiver]

I have a lot of respect for women's college softball. I was on a HS team, typically pitching 'cuz I had more or less mastered the windmill pitch. Then I saw college women's teams play. Jaw-dropping pitching. I put my glove away. (Well... mostly because I'd f'ed up my shoulder playing tennis. Killer serve, but at a high cost. Shoulder's aching right now just pushing the mouse around.)

OK, enough thread drift. Weren't we talking about cricket? Or was it ocean sailing?

Ocean cricket, i thought.

 

[onehitwanda]

View attachment 2240957
Ocean cricket, i thought.

This is, believe it or not, actually a thing in what was once my stomping ground.

https://calendarcustoms.com/articles/brambles-cricket-match/

 

[LIDiver]

This is, believe it or not, actually a thing in what was once my stomping ground.

https://calendarcustoms.com/articles/brambles-cricket-match/

I don’t want to believe it but, yep, there it is!

 

[onehitwanda]

I don’t want to believe it but, yep, there it is!

Brambles Bank, coincidentally, is always hungry and loves to eat ships of all sizes.

 

[LIDiver]

Brambles Bank, coincidentally, is always hungry and loves to eat ships of all sizes.

Even cat-boats and dinghies?!
(Ok, i’m all stupid humored out right now. I’ll stop…)

 

[Trionyx]

Are you strictly American, any more?

If we average your geolocation data we'll probably find you somewhere out in the Atlantic somewhere

Look who’s talking. Your location puts you on a rock/in a lighthouse off the SW coast of England.

 

[onehitwanda]

Look who’s talking. Your location puts you on a rock/in a lighthouse off the SW coast of England.

I've been through many a hard ship...

 

[TxRad]

I've been through many a hard ship...

Isn't that what the Mermaid said with a grin on her face.

 

[onehitwanda]

Isn't that what the Mermaid said with a grin on her face.

Not sure a cloaca full of sea-men is what she had in mind, to be honest.

 

[LIDiver]

Not sure a cloaca full of sea-men is what she had in mind, to be honest.

points, wanda.

 

[onehitwanda]

points, wanda.

giving, taking away, or... some depraved innuendo I'm not getting?

Cos if it's the third, well, I'll vote for that