Raiha

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]I went to a rather laid back house party comprised of six people who all loved blood, vampires, and the Muppet Show. We watched the Alice Cooper episode. Also, while there and totally sober, my male creature publically stated to our group of friends that we're not 'utterly together' and I turned it into a hilarious joke that made the whole room laugh. Because I am that tortured about the whole situation. Him: "So we're not completely together because I have commitment issues." Me: "Also known as a Y chromosome. But I hear there's a cure. It's expensive, but it works." He was wearing a red shirt, black slacks tie and suspenders, black fedora, black trench coat....plus fangs. He looked like a rather charming male pimp OR stripper. And because I was in spike heels he looked like my extremely well dressed pet. But with the shoes off off, I discovered he's got a rather wicked handcuff technique that combines judo and military police training. Granted I come with years of ballet and assorted other dance induced flexibilities, so I more or less ended up in a functional position again. I was wearing a black bondage skirt I'd heavily modified to be more cyberpunk than it was goth, wrapped my hands, wrists, and lower arms in black and red alternating strips of pvc bondage tap. Dripped lines of fake blood under my left eye, wrote "Blood Is Sorrow Is Love" in Chinese on my right cheek, trickled some from my earlobes which were stuffed full of safety pins, and wrapped my upper body in a taped black tube top plus a red vinyl.......blouse. In short, we ended up looking like Adam and Evil. (A Cyberpunk Adam and Evil). Pictures will be incoming eventually.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]Strictly speaking as a writer who knows what Vicky is going to expect in her rpgs, I'd like to take a moment to ask you, Dragons Wolfie to please use a spelling and grammar check on your posts for both the backstage and the main thread. It makes things less complicated all together and your posts far easier to follow. I.e. Metallurgist, difficult, etc. The numerous typos make your work difficult to follow. Also, Bear Gillis it turns out doesn't actually spend the night in the wilds and sleeps in hotel rooms, which makes him more or less a not so good at survivalism kinda guy. [/FONT][/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"][i][center]"Grind head down tails up define your purpose Slave til you bleed and you are raw to the bone Grind head down tails up define your status Slave til your wallet is full and your soul is gone."[/center] Algolangia felt Thalia at the door and smiled wickedly, willing her host's fangs to appear only a quarter of an inch longer than the typical human canine's extended. Graie smiled graciously, giving her guest a flash of wickedly pointed fangs as she snaked her tongue across them, pricking the tip just a little. Then she inclined her head, exposing the unmarred flesh of her neck to Thalia as she bowed.[/i] "It is an honor to receive you here. I thought you might want something that felt familiar, when confronted with the unfamiliar." "How sweet of you." [i]Thalia smiled as Graie slowly tilted her body back up, rising 90 degrees up from her horizontal position on the floor. The painslut settled back on her hips and regarded Thalia carefully, a cold fire bursting to life behind her eyes. Algolangia purred deep in her throat and gestured at one of the several student's desks spread across the narror room.[/i] "Won't you have a seat?" "Why not?" [i]She sat, crossing her legs, the pressed creases in her pants creating stark lines across the pale backdrops. Graie leaned forward slightly and let her eyebrows rise upwards slowly. She kept her voice low and smooth, even, not betraying the tingling excitement that was surging through her system, suffusing her with a preturnatural chill.[/i] "Why not indeed." "Do you always honor requests for personal time?" "Not unless those who desire me have the good sense to send their underlings beforehand." [i]At the oblique reference to Stretch, Thalia smirked and shifted her hand's position on her goathead cane.[/i] "But enough of that. You may call me... ...Algolangia. How may I be abused by you?" [i]At her final words, she bowed again, Graie's mind completely withdrawn further back as Algolangia took the front and center. As she did, the Fallen swirled through the pleasure centres of Graie's mind and willed her already large pupils to dilate far beyond their usual scope, drawing the light from the room and sending the electric lights overhead flickering randomly. Thalia didn't draw back so much as she felt herself contract slightly. A Fallen like Algolongia was older than most human's concepts of time, and it'd found a willing and fascinatingly switchable host inside of Graie. Or at least that's what she was being led to believe. Any Fallen could lie as easily as the rain fell. Graie felt herself being borne along in waves of pleasure, anticipation, and base lust. Surrendering completely, if only for a few hours was another release all of its own, and she knew her body was only being kept still by Algolangia's frightening ability to control nervous responses. Her head still bowed, she registered Thalia's voice and tilted it to one side just slightly.[/i] "Do you have any particular vice you would not like me to exploit?" [i]Algolangia let Graie's body shiver and hunch even further inward, the scapulae in her back standing out almost too much to be human.[/i] "No drugs but pain. No chains but those already in my mind."[/FONT][/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"][IMG]http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v343/3/38/11702270/n11702270_33222018_3477.jpg[/IMG] Beware, you're not as muslin as you think you are.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"][b][center]Medical File/Case Study: CIPA[/center][/b] [b]Name:[/b] Gilia Lexica [b]Age:[/b] 32 [2082] [b]Status:[/b] CIPA: Congenital (from birth) insensitivity (indifference) to pain (heat/cold) with anhidrosis (inability to self-regulate body temperature). [b]Physical Makeup:[/b] [IMG]http://wwwdelivery.superstock.com/WI/223/1569/PreviewComp/SuperStock_1569R-289011.jpg[/IMG] Not pictured is a long scar that runs across her jaw and hairline from a hot wire she pressed into her skin just for kicks. Her body is also swirled with various Maori tattoos that sweep across her back, legs, and genitals, if only because she didn't notice they were going that far while being done to her. Blond hair, blue eyes, 5'7", 130 lbs, 28 teeth (Wisdom Teeth Removed at 18), no other defining features. [b]Personality Test Results/Theories:[/b] Gilia is a rather typical chronic disease A type personality complete with anger, inability relax, recklessness, and a consistent burning desire to prove herself. She has no real drive to attempt to act normal even when badly injured because early attempts at mimicking normal responses to pain made her feel stupid. No split personalities or other flaws detected with usual tests. [b]History:[/b] She's special because she's one of perhaps 90 CIPA cases in the United States on record, also because she's one of the long term patients that hasn't died due to overheating or self inflicted injuries. Her family began training her very early to self check for any potential injuries, and as such she is more than capable of avoiding dangerous situations but often chooses to do so anyway. At 12 she broke four ribs after falling down a staircase, fractured her wrist, and twisted her ankle. At 15 she sustained a greenstick fracture of the right clavical after tripping and falling in gym class. At 22 she received a mild concussion and laceration to the forehead while walking in the dark and falling against an armoire. Currently she has no injuries that affect her normal functions, no limps, and no serious dental injuries. She's been obligated to sleep with a mouth guard to prevent night bruxism and showers with cold water to avoid second degree burns from overheated water. Her family was extremely careful with her while simultaneously being not so careful that they ruined her completely. It has been hypothesized that she will never truly suffer from cryogenic side effects and was chosen to be part of the program in the name of scientific investigation. With any luck her case study will lead to breakthroughs on understanding the human nervous system's approach to managing and curing pain disorders.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]Yes, a novella is a book. You've said books. Plural. More than one. Several. So unless you mean three stories intertwined in one book, you'll have to clarify. [/FONT][/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]ADDENDUM: You've called it a novella. But now you're referring to it as a book. Or series of books. You may want to fix that novella bit, as we all know that a novella is typically 17k-40k words. Otherwise it's just misleading and you've suckered the reader into thinking he'll be reading something about as short as "Of Mice And Men."[/FONT][/COLOR]

[quote name='Ace'][FONT="Comic Sans MS"] Raiha is the sister who went off to college a couple years ago, but you still call her when you need someone to talk to or heckle with. Or if you want to order a hit.[/FONT][/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]Oh dear dear dear me. I apparently am my own grandmother. SING WITH ME EVEYRONE! I'm my own grandma....[/FONT][/COLOR]

[quote name='Kaimaster']Bible have Incest, Have Joacb had lots of sons from other women than Rachel. I thought that freedom of speech. Is was allow on this site. I guess I was wrong. YOU JUST DON'T LIKE ME. DO YOU?[/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]The Bible has very little to do with Bleach I'm afraid. Also Jacob as I recall had four wives, a fact that was never disputed or hidden. He had twelve sons, and only two by Rachel, so why even mention her? Leah was the one who did all of the heavy lifting so to speak. It's kind of hard to like someone who can't express himself without relying on anger as a fallback when given constructive criticism. For the record incest typically is defined as oral/vaginal/etc sex between blood related individuals. So kissing your sister isn't incest. Screwing her over a table is.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]It might not be as long as some prologues, but it's definitely longer than other prologues. Also, being a bit of a snob like Allamorph, I'll say that the blatant plot exposition could in fact be revealed later on through various events. I can safely say that if I were a slightly less technical and irritated human being, I'd honestly be bored by the introduction because it feels like a mix between War Of The Worlds and The Handmaiden's Tale. Unless there is no evil government overlord pulling the strings this story falls dangerously close to exploiting various cliches that are common in science fiction and are often unavoidable.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]Ah good old familial dementia. And for the record, I don't eviscerate family members' vital organs. I go for the fingers and toes, much more long lasting pain for my own personal enjoyment. *dark snickering*[/FONT][/COLOR]

[quote name='James'][font=franklin gothic medium]Much of the descrimination against women today is far more subtle (although there are overt cases, like women earning less wages for the same jobs as men - that should be totally and utterly illegal if it isn't already - I think it's illegal in Australia but not sure about the U.S. or elsewhere). I often think about Hillary Clinton and what she's been through and I think so much of it relates to her being a woman. I mean, sure, I think she should be criticized as much as any man. Yet so much of that criticism seemed based on her being a "heartless, cold woman". I feel like a lot of these features would be considered assets on a man (efficiency, logic, pragmatism etc).[/font][/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]Agreed, but there's nothing I hate more than activist women who throw their own kind under the bus when it becomes politically expedient. I criticize Clinton as a conservative, because her principles and mine do not line up and yet she would've been the one to shove them down our collective throats. I think she should have divorced Bill and gotten it over with right away. If she had, she probably would've done just a bit better in the race against Obama. Less dead weight you know... But seriously, as long as it doesn't infringe on my rights, I wouldn't try to infringe upon theirs. And in the same vein, as far as science and homosexuality goes, sometimes it is based on fact and sometimes you just get someone who really really really hated their mother, or their father, or the world. I've met both, and I don't mind at all. Granted once that hatred towards women and boobs is turned towards me, I tend to get pissed, but at that individual, not the whole of the group he or she identifies with. I've known a few transgendered people and they're generally the nicest folks. Then of course you run into one or two who want to abolish all personal gender identifying pronouns who tend to be just slightly off kilter. I mean come on now. You can't change the entire history of the human language and abolish a few words just because they don't perfectly fit with you. Then again, I've only known a couple people like that in an otherwise totally sane community.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]Oh come now, tea is perfectly fine. Unless you laced it with wormwood and arsenic. To me, gender roles are very specific for male and female, but conversely I have a rather fluid view of sexuality. I often mix up my gender specific nouns on purpose just to make people wonder what I really am. And speaking as one of those self actualized bisexual women, I don't find it important to broadcast how I view men and women and transgendered people and what have you. I don't hate transgendered people, I don't hate gay people, I only hate people who demand special treatment and look down on people who don't completely support their life choices 100%. This goes for both sides. It's a murky issue these days with science, technology, and a society that no longer needs a massive amount of breeding pairs to populate the earth. But on the other hand, I've been on the receiving end of a lot of hate from an extremely vocal minority of homosexual people who called me in the following order: "A hate monger" and "A dumb as **** breeder." Equally, my conservative ordained minister mother is convinced that kissing women will send me straight to hell with no stops along the way. But I can't help being erotically plastic, attracted to who makes me feel good and accepts me despite my numerous and delicious tasting flaws. So I can't really say. People are people regardless of their genders and life choices. Better to let them drown in their own ignorance and go about your merry way.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[quote name='Sabrina'][FONT="Tahoma"]Along with watching movies and enjoying the fact that the snow is outside instead of in... that's always fun. Incidentally, I'm good at making said cookies and hot chocolate. [/FONT][/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]Perfect. We'll lock the doors so everyone trying to have an orgy with me can't get in. And then we'll snuggle and you shall be my squishy. I'm good at cookies, not so good at hot chocolate. I propose division of labor! That way our love can be separate but equal![/FONT][/COLOR]

[quote name='Sabrina'][FONT="Tahoma"]As for the actual topic... lolwut?!? There are people I'd like to meet but not for the intentions stated in the opening post of the thread. So I'm going to go for abstinence. [/FONT][/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]So we can like...cuddle under the blankets in front of a crackling fire with hot chocolate and cookies? Well okay then![/FONT][/COLOR]

[quote name='Drizzt Do'urden']Wow, a little OB drama unfolding in this thread...I like it![/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]*shares popcorn with you since it's a non political/sociological thread* I added sugar. That's okay right?[/FONT][/COLOR]

[quote name='TimeChaser'] What if a pregnancy goes wrong, turns toxic or something, threatening the mother's physical or mental health or her life? [/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]Setting aside a personal anecdote which is fine but has no place in a debate except to fuel emotionally driven rhetoric... ...please present statistics on said "toxic pregnancies." I'd need you to explain that scientifically so we know what parameters to search for, as you have this odd tendency to make quasi medical statements and then not back them up with any factual evidence. The only other viable case I can think of [in under five minutes] where the fetus endangers the life of the mother is "maternal mirror syndrome" as featured on the show House M.D. a couple seasons ago. These cases are, like rape, extremely rare and do not happen near often enough to warrant sweeping legislation. Pregnancies go wrong quite often, but it's usually the baby that suffers and dies and the mother that has to deliver a stillborn, miscarry, or go through some other traumatic medical event.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]Aaaaaaaah good old self esteem boosters you all are. And don't worry Iruka dear. I only rape the willing. So tech- NEVERMIND. To be fair if I ever did meet any [more] of you fine ladies and gents in person it'd probably only come to an extremely healthy flirtation. After all, my current heterosexual friend that isn't my boyfriend but isn't my bump buddy that isn't in a relationship but won't commit because he's afraid of his feelings partner would be quite distressed. In a totally uncommitted way.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[quote name='TimeChaser']If you can give me a scientific basis for when a mass of cells becomes a human being, then I will take it under consideration. The fact is, at the moment of conception and for some time after that, it is a simple mass of cells, it is not definable as a human being. Saying life begins at conception usually comes with a religious view that the soul enters at that point. This is just a metaphysical argument with no supporting evidence.[/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]There's no science to this. No scientist can agree because to have a basis for it, you'd have to legislate morality. And religion has nothing to do with it. You can still call it a human life without having to fall back on: "because my religion told me to say so." We're already into metaphysics just discussing when life is life without even having to ask if that's when eternal souls are created or body thetans come to indwell, and blah blah blah blah blah. A mass of cells eventually divides enough to start developing into a fetus which starts developing into an unborn child which eventually is born or is tossed on the ash heap of a doctor's disregard for life. Again, you've failed to address the part where blastocysts become something more. And since the process is a good deal shorter than you're willing to admit... ...it's very hard to take you seriously.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[quote name='Katakidoushi']Um... And what does that have to do with government involvement? I absolutely think that parents of an underage girl should be notified but the government doesn't have to get involved in the actual process. And I was being sarcastic about the throat ripping. You can't actually think I'm that big of a dick?[/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]The legislation of California is pushing an ammendment that'll make parental notification either legal or illegal depending on how the public decides to vote. That to me, is government involvement. Furthermore, leave the sarcasm to me. I make it look much prettier. And I could think you were a dick if I really wanted to. I suppose you'll have to be nice to me to make it all better.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[quote name='Katakidoushi']Oh and regardless of your stance on abortion... the government has no right to get involved in the matter. It's none of Uncle Sam's business.[/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]Do you really want your future daughter to be able to get an abortion at the age of 13 without you knowing it? I know this is a subject of serious debate and then not so serious debate in California, because for some... ...it's impossible to get serious, even when the stakes are the values of human life and death. And I'm not here to rip people's throats out, I'm here to question their beliefs and see just what makes them justify their positions when pressed. Now as far as Roe v. Wade goes, even if I was pro choice, I'd say that it was bad law. It was a poorly rendered choice and the "zone of privacy" they miraculously found in the Constitution still doesn't exist. You can't amend the U.S. Constitution by statute. But that's a question I'll save for the actual Constitutional Law majors. The notification of parents of an abortion when the child is in fact a minor in the eyes of the law is a serious matter. I really REALLY would question both why it's alright for a school principal to take an underage girl to an abortion clinic, and why said underage girl is pregnant in the first place. If I were a pedophile that routinely had sex with young women and impregnated them, then making parental notification illegal would be like the gift that just keeps on giving. Think about it.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[quote name='Retribution'][font=Arial] Unfortunately (fortunately?) group politics is a reality. Welcome to America. While people do exist on a continuum of belief, one is labeled based on where they fall on that spectrum. Sorry you take issue with that, but your views land you squarely within what is considered by the vast majority of America (and the world) to be "pro life." Similarly, you would be considered to be a "conservative" in America.[/font][/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="times new roman"]Do not presume to lecture me on group politics when it's very clear that I have my own beliefs that can and have occasionally crossed paths with both conservatives and liberals. It must be a comfort to know that you can write off people that have differing opinions from you under labels that half the time fail to stay on properly. Since I don't give a fig whether or not the rest of the world or America thinks of my opinions short of: "Too bad you didn't brain wash me just yet," I resent your labels. But since you have consistently decided to argue the "liberal" position and indeed belong to what some on the right have termed the "culture of death," I suppose you might as well enjoy it.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]Nor forgetting that Vicky is conversely my --.... ........Oh sorry, I forgot we were keeping that quiet. Silly me! Gavin is my husband of course, and we have several runty children. Revelation and Vicky are my good and much loved sisters, Korey is my evil son, Lady Asphyxia is my concubine, and Allamorph is a joking/serious partner. But that's not really "family" so much as it's you know ....funny as all getout.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[quote name='TimeChaser']But the point is that it's just a clump of cells, even though it's from a human. It has no brain, no neurons, it cannot suffer like a fully developed human being. It isn't a human being at that stage and won't be for several months at least.[/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]I'm assuming you've never read my post, nor taken a Human Conception and Development course in college, much less opened a biology book. It has a brain developing at five weeks and from that point on, it'll develop far enough to recognize the mother's voice from within the womb, and sense the world around it before birth. A baby can be in distress while still in the womb. In fact, that's the medical term given to a baby that's suffering or close to death. Who are you to presume what a human being is? If we use your rubric, it isn't alive until it's outside of the mother. So while it's still in the womb, even at six or five months when it can still survive outside of the mother's body we can kill it? Oh that's nice.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[quote name='Nerdsy'][color=deeppink]Best thread ever. Even if I wouldn't touch any of you with a ten-foot poll with three condoms on the tip.[/color][/QUOTE] [COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]How big is this poll and what kind of questions does it ask anyway? And yes Crimson Knight, Achilles is correct. Just ask Orson Scott Card.[/FONT][/COLOR]