This short popped up in my YouTube home page. It is very funny, though you might want to be in the privacy of your home before opening the link. Even though there is nothing overtly sexual in the story and video.

-Dr Nick Voice-

Hi There Everybody!

So, I've spent the week working on the server layout, and getting us more resilient than we have been for 2 years.

We are currently split amongst multiple virtual servers again, as well as being able to scale our resource usage and whether attacks (intentional or accidental) better than we have been in a while.

To watch the Men’s Ice Hockey Gold Medal game if the US team makes it that far, as well as the closing ceremonies. Vance has already attended the opening ceremony and various venues; he was booed at the opening ceremony as well as while watching luge. Plus, apparently Kash Patel decided to attend a few ice hockey games as well. Patel, whose use of a government jet has frequently come under scrutiny, flew on a Justice Department plane Thursday to Italy with plans to attend the Olympic hockey medal rounds, according to public data and sources familiar with the matter.

who knew?

And she was watching the last of the current season’s auditions this evening; she had previously recorded it so that she could watch it at her leisure, which obviously turned out to be tonight. The last person they auditioned was singing a song he had written for his father, who had died of leukemia. I wasn’t really paying attention to most of the show as I was reading while she watched, but something made me pay attention to this last audition.

Rhapsody part 6 is available Here

In the world of Rhapsody, where the lines between art, memory, and political gravity blur, my songs attempt to bridge gaps and fill a void.
Here is a glimpse into the sound and soul of the journey:

Fractured Rune just hit 50 orders since its January 20 release. Five. Zero. That may not sound like much in a world where bestseller lists exist and algorithms demand blood sacrifices, but in indie author land this is A Thing. This is fifty real humans who saw a queer, anti-theocratic, mildly unhinged epic fantasy and went, “Yes. That one. I will put this in my brain.” I am vibrating at a frequency normally reserved for malfunctioning machinery.

As you all can see, I have a whole lot of open stories that I have started. A few, I am stuck on the direction I want to take them. In order to combat my gender dysphoria and my ADHD. I am constantly coming up with ideas. I have started many ideas but also abandoned a lot, since I don't see a story beyond the change. I am revisiting the stories and see a clear path forward. I am also constantly learning how to write better, and I have seen the difference in writing styles from the beginning to now.

I put up a little essay about my brother, enjoy!

Recent shooting in small town British Columbia that is making news for all the wrong reasons.

The shooter was a troubled transwoman. From what I have been able to gather thus far she was cyber bullied. The one pictured showed someone that had been through male puberty even though she supposedly transitioned at age 12 then quit the school two years later.

The victims were either adults, two, or children around the same age as her step brother 12.

Small remote redneck Canadian town.

Repeated calls for police which included suicide. Guns.

busy writing that is.

Any proper poet has a desert in their soul and I had not visited mine in weeks, so yesterday Melanie and I drove out to the area where I did most of my growing up, Imperial County, California.

This is the southeasternmost county in the state, a land of bleak hills, sand dunes, alkali dirt, canals and farm fields. And small desert towns like dusty jewels on a beige apron.

Read my latest 7,000 word installment of Rhapsody: Butterfly In a Box

Two new songs just released with lyric videos on YouTube!

Unfinished
The Wishing Well

Warning! Unfinished may lead to uncontrollable leg and hip action, also known as dancing!

This evening, I was exposed to greatness. Colbert’s guest was Ian McKellan, who performed live a speech from Shakespeare’s play Thomas More, which was written some 500 years ago and represents the only work actually preserved in the Bard’s actual handwriting. For political reasons, namely that it was considered seditious when written, the play was first performed in 1967. Ian McKellan was the actor who created the part of Thomas More in that first production of the play; a play which is as fitting in today’s world as it was 500 years ago.

Duets and An Aria for Cami are now fully accessible on BCTS.

yes, we are already 1/12th of the way through 2026!

Mosaic was my very first web-browser back in ... 1993 (I think).

In those early years of the internet commercial websites. largely, did not exists. A few amateurs wrote a single page of Hyper-Text code in text editors and and ran an Apache web-server on their home computers that allowed the World to connect and read their page, see their pictures, understand their lives. It was before Google and most search-engines.

Two words which use the same letters and even sound the same, but have utterly different meanings.

I have noticed writers here using the wrong ones over the years and even in some recently posted offerings.

When your right to exist is a common topic of public debate, every thing you do or say is political.

While trying to feed the birds this morning, I slipped and fell on the ice, busted my face and broke my right arm. The ice is extra dangerous from the snow melting and refreezing. This is all being typed left handed. Stay indoors if at all possible and stay on pavement!!

Sephrena

And I was disgusted by an article based on a podcast recently given by Ryan Helfenbien, the Vice President of Communications & Public Engagement at Liberty University and the Founding Executive Director of the Standing for Freedom Center. Mr. Helfenbien professes to be a “Christian”, but this is his take on the murder of Renee Good by ICE and CBP agents in Minneapolis:

We're buried und a foot of snow, so no work today. I spent the morning mapping out the second half of "Mud Creek"

I'm so excited for this now. This story came together like magic. I struggled with the ending and resolution for over an hour, just contemplating people in my life, stories I've read, my own emotions. Then it came to me, like, how did I not realize it had to end like that.

I'm currently writing Chapter 21, and plan to end the story at Chapter 28. The Story is currently at 31,000 words and should hit 50 I think.

I promised myself that I wouldn’t comment here based on the comments over the past several days……..

But I cannot stand in silence while others bury their heads in the sand hoping that the bogeyman will pass them by. I cannot pretend that I have not seem what I have seen, that what is happening is not happening. But I will only make this post.

For those in Minneapolis who are standing up and being cut down for all of us……..

Hey BG family!

Hope your new year is off to a roaring start. Mine has been sunny with tons of creative flurries. Sorry I've been MIA for so long. Holidays and a huge creative spurt. I wrote 20 songs and finished a novel, all in one month! Now I need to post them so they don't just live in my head and my laptop. Here is the link for the lyric video of the song: Extra (The X-Factor)

Look, I get that the "orange arcturian clown" is upsetting a lot of people. Yeah. That is his job. I certainly did not vote for the nut, but he made it in. If you feel the need to post about politics, please choose The Guardian Post, National Enquirer, or Washington Post type of sites to gripe on. They certainly get a lot more views.

BCTS is about writing, and commenting on said stories concerning GTLBQ category.

which just about sums up this week.

Hey, everyone,

The Frankfort (Kentucky) ComicCon is this Saturday:

http://www.frankfortcomiccon.com/

I'm rather cross with myself as I seem to have forgotten the name of the author and the title of the story. I remember it was a kindle book I either bought or borrowed on Kindle Unlimited, so if you can remind me I'd be very happy.

https://youtube.com/shorts/gwthkJrMMdg?si=2XbGzHCRQ_KLAy2L

LOL.

Hugs,
Erin

Did I Break Google? Apparently My Book Is Now Fractured Prune

So today I searched my own book title like a normal, well-adjusted author who definitely does not Google herself for validation.

I typed Fractured Rune.

Google paused. Reflected. Consulted the ancient spirits of autocorrect.

And then gently asked, “Did you mean: fractured prune?”

I appreciate Google’s concern for digestive regularity, but this is a queer epic fantasy, not a cautionary tale about fiber intake.

But it shouldn’t surprise me. Queensbury, NY is a community some 30 miles north of where I live. It is a community which is fairly agrarian, but also has a fair amount of old paper mills. It has become somewhat more cosmopolitan over the past decade as people move north from New York’s Capital/Saratoga Region where I live, but it is still a pretty red part of New York State.

Each sicker than the other. It's just a cold, but it is a junkyard dog of a cold. (Covid test negative). I'll be okay in a few days. Been to the doctor, cocooning with meds and heated blankets. Going back to bed.

Hugs,
Erin

Like many of us who suffer from gender dysphoria, I have had more than my fair share of suicidal thoughts over the years. Hell, I spent a good deal of my time in service to my country inadvertently placing myself in harm’s way, subconsciously seeking my own death.

Big Brother strikes again.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-house-webpage-january-6-a...

Trump’s administration officially rewrites history.

With me having to help my mom, I haven't been around much, and probably wont be until her arm heals.

But if anybody needs me, just send me a message.

I would like to get the opinion of the site...

I want to release my short stories as an ebook...but what can I call the collection (book)?

We spent a quiet New Year’s Eve, my spouse, my three sons, one daughter-in-law (one stayed home as she wasn’t feeling well and didn’t want to expose the baby), and my 11 week old granddaughter.

I've been running BigCloset for more than 26 years. I've lost loved ones and found new ones. I've made friends here and elsewhere. I've written novels, stories, essays, poems and songs. I've published books.

And you all have been here with me to share this space that we have created together, a friendly place to read, write and discuss TG fiction...and other things that interest us.

After cleaning up the kitchen from dinner this evening, I sat down to read while my spouse watched the end of the Philadelphia/Buffalo football game. My oldest son and his wife were at the game; my son is a Philly fan while his wife is a Buffalo fan, so both of them were excited to be at the game - especially in light of the fact that it was the last regular season game at the Buffalo stadium as they move into their new stadium before the start of the next season. Buffalo is a five hour drive from our home, so they are spending the night and coming home tomorrow.

and all that jazz!