Valentines Day Contest Support Thread.

[Priscilla_June]

Argh, mine is coming together super slow, and it's going to be far too long with way too much military stuff (readers don't like military erotica) but I'm having fun.

Readers don’t like military stuff?

 

[Duleigh]

Readers don’t like military stuff?

They stay away from my military based stories in droves

 

[KeithD]

They stay away from my military based stories in droves

Mine get as much attention as others do.

 

[Priscilla_June]

They stay away from my military based stories in droves

Hmmm I had a few plans. We are gonna test that theory!

 

[Devinter]

Finally, after far too many delays, my story has been submitted for publishing.

 

[Devinter]

Finally, after far too many delays, my story has been submitted for publishing.

Already approved! Took less than two hours actually. Wow.

 

[FreyaGersemi]

Already approved! Took less than two hours actually. Wow.

I can't wait to read it!!!!

 

[Devinter]

I can't wait to read it!!!!

I regret to tell you that the story almost certainly won't be to your liking. It does have moments of love and affection, but in between of that is some seriously kinky stuff. It's in the Fetish category. "Dommy Mommy".

 

[StillStunned]

"Dommy Mommy".

If you published it in the UK, that would be "Dummy Mummy".

 

[FreyaGersemi]

I regret to tell you that the story almost certainly won't be to your liking.

Well, you never know...!!

 

[Kumquatqueen]

If you published it in the UK, that would be "Dummy Mummy".

Or make the domme from the West Midlands where people do say Mom. Give her a Black Country voice while you're at it.

Ow yam ya, owa cowin wammel? Quit ya babby blartin, saft wench.

 

[Duleigh]

Or make the domme from the West Midlands where people do say Mom. Give her a Black Country voice while you're at it.

Ow yam ya, owa cowin wammel? Quit ya babby blartin, saft wench.

You lost me at cowin wammel.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

You lost me at cowin wammel.

Cowin - extremely, very, total
Wammel - I think it's dog but extended to bitch, animal, generic insulting comparison.

I was aiming for something along the lines of "how are you doing, you utter bitch? Stop your babyish crying, you weak sissy"

For reference, Black Country accents are usually deemed the least attractive in the entire UK, making Brummie sound sexy in comparison. And anyone more than ten miles away struggles to understand the dialect at all. I've only been there a few times and it was a real struggle.

 

[joy_of_cooking]

Black Country

Today I learned that "black country" means a region in the middle of the UK named for the color of coal smoke and not the skin of its inhabitants.

Kind of interesting to think that any place in the UK could have gotten its name as recently as the industrial revolution, considering it's been occupied by mostly the same people for an order of magnitude longer.

 

[joy_of_cooking]

For comparison there are many, many places in the US that are still using native American names (or our English mispronunciations thereof) even though they've long since killed or evicted all the native Americans.

 

[Duleigh]

For comparison there are many, many places in the US that are still using native American names (or our English mispronunciations thereof) even though they've long since killed or evicted all the native Americans.

I come from Cheektowaga NY. Cheektowaga is an ancient Seneca Indian word that means "Near the Airport"
Actually it means "Land of the Flowering Crabapple", but in the 21st century there's more airport than there is crab apple in Cheektowaga

 

[MelissaBaby]

I come from Cheektowaga NY. Cheektowaga is an ancient Seneca Indian word that means "Near the Airport"
Actually it means "Land of the Flowering Crabapple", but in the 21st century there's more airport than there is crab apple in Cheektowaga

From The Adventures of Ranger Ramona Ch.2:

"I don't think I've ever seen so many stars," he said, "For the first time, I really understand why they call it the Milky Way."

"That's a pretty good name for white people to come up with," Sarah said. "Indians name stuff like 'The Place Where My Brother Caught The Sturgeon' or "Animal Who Stinks.' White people come up with dumbass names like Saw Whet. Seriously, you chop down all the trees and name your town 'the place where you sharpen your saw'?"

 

[Duleigh]

From The Adventures of Ranger Ramona Ch.2:

White people come up with dumbass names like Saw Whet. Seriously, you chop down all the trees and name your town 'the place where you sharpen your saw'?"

??? You made a town named Saw Whet? A saw whet is a little bitty breed of owl. I think they're cute.

 

[MelissaBaby]

??? You made a town named Saw Whet? A saw whet is a little bitty breed of owl. I think they're cute.

Continuing the excerpt:

"I always thought the town was named after the owl," Grant said.

"But the owl got its name because they thought it makes a sound like a saw being sharpened," Ramona told him.

 

[Duleigh]

Continuing the excerpt:

Ok, that part is true about the owls name. So they named the town after the sound an owl makes
That explains Whoville!!!

 

[StillStunned]

For reference, Black Country accents are usually deemed the least attractive in the entire UK, making Brummie sound sexy in comparison. And anyone more than ten miles away struggles to understand the dialect at all. I've only been there a few times and it was a real struggle.

I was born a stone's throw away. Fortunately my parents decided to move abroad a few years later.

 

[Not2Pervy]

I am submitting a story that includes major plot elements in a relationship taking place on Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s Eve, and Valentine’s Day. I resisted titling it “Holiday Palooza” but fear that nevertheless I may have overdone it.

 

[mrs_mackenzie]

Kind of interesting to think that any place in the UK could have gotten its name as recently as the industrial revolution, considering it's been occupied by mostly the same people for an order of magnitude longer.

This tickled the 'boring fact' part of my brain: before the industrial revolution, some of the densely-populated parts of Britain that we take for granted today, like the Potteries, Black Country, West Yorkshire conurbation, Middlesbrough, were essentially rural country areas with small villages dotted around, somewhat like the more isolated parts of Dorset or Oxfordshire or something are now. So although it feels strange that people have been living in the Black Country for millennia and it only got its name two centuries ago, in reality what we think of as the Black Country didn't really exist 300 years ago, it was just open countryside with small towns at best.

Old maps of England don't even mention such nonentities as Birmingham, Liverpool, Leeds... One to be aware of in case you're writing Shakespearian smut.

 

[StillStunned]

Old maps of England don't even mention such nonentities as Birmingham, Liverpool, Leeds... One to be aware of in case you're writing Shakespearian smut.

And yet the tiny shithole where I was born has been around since at least the 7th century.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Kind of interesting to think that any place in the UK could have gotten its name as recently as the industrial revolution, considering it's been occupied by mostly the same people for an order of magnitude longer.

Oh my days, where do I start with this?

Yes, even places like the New Towns, created in the 1960s-1970s, were often named after existing villages that got assimilated, eg Milton Keynes. But there was huge internal migration triggered by the Industrial Revolution, turning northern market towns into some of the most prosperous cities of the world, building towns to house the new factory workers (Saltaire) and suburbs being built and named after existing settlements or features (see every London Underground station outside zones 1 and 2).

Even discounting the movement of people within a country as 'the same people' (which is daft, but would spare kids having to study the Oregon Trail, for example), it's been over 250 years since the Industrial Revolution got going (1750). In the last 2500 years...

Invasion and conquest by the Romans. And what did they ever do for us?
Romans leaving Britain, except for all the ones who didn't, had intermarried, had children, etc.

Invasions by various Angles, Saxons, and any bunch from mainland Europe with a boat.

Invasions by Vikings, mostly conquering the North (there's still a clear line across England, north of which towns end in -by and -thorpe instead of -ton or -ham).

The Norman Conquest, 1066. More Norsemen, only ones who had been in France for a few generations. The first date taught to every schoolchild and the only one everyone can remember. People with Norman surnames are still significantly weather and live 3 years longer than those with older English names.

More French intermixing, related to various monarchs, battles, etc. This island is called Great (large) Britain in contrast to little Britain, aka Brittany in northern France.

Getting near the industrial revolution, you end up acquiring a Dutch king and entourage and army from the Glorious Revolution of 1688, followed by the monarchy becoming German.

Meanwhile you had Hugenots fleeing to England to escape persecution, Jews returning from the 1500s after the 1100s expulsion (the Merchant of Venice is Shakespeare doing a topical political play), and the industrial revolution and later encouraging loads of navvies to move to the growing cities, mainly from Ireland.

Previously you had Scots planters moving to Ireland from the 1400s (and Irish women going off with Vikings), English attempts to conquer Scotland until the simple method of just inheriting their King worked in 1605, until wee issues like the Jacobite Rising...

Hardly 'mostly the same people'!