but her heart was thumping like a punk drummer on P, and slow heat was spreading through her loins.

You sure it wasnt Deep Heat?
And the drummer must have been Des Truction

She frowned. He must mean Canterbury.

You mean all the Canterbury team are gay?

You mean all the Canterbury team are gay?

As gay as President Lincoln.

You sure it wasnt Deep Heat?

OW.

Would that opening sentence be a Dan Brown tribute?

Oh, well spotted.

This Megan character isn't based on someone (or some Megan) in real life is it?

Sheer fear prevents me from answering this question in the manner I'd like.

... but there was something about him that caught at her heart like a fishhook in a seagull's throat.

Oh, more wild applause. Love it!

Because otherwise, you are right. You should be very very afraid.

Am I the only one who suspects that Emma enjoyed writing this ... a little more than she should have?

I'm fairly sure she's still feeling a little flushed and weak at the knees over it ;-)

Am I the only one who suspects that Emma enjoyed writing this ... a little more than she should have?

I'm fairly sure she's still feeling a little flushed and weak at the knees over it ;-)

Oh stop it. What I did, pretty much, was drink merlot and hunch?

As gay as President Lincoln.

It's knowledge , bro!

That seagull line is a pearler! Among many.

This Megan character isn't based on someone (or some Megan) in real life is it?

And Robert isn't based on a certain Richie is he?

Someone had been needed, and he'd valiantly rushed in with no thought to his safety, or the effect of his lack of headgear on possible future underwear contracts.

Heh. You're funny. You should write stuff and post it somewhere.

Oh stop it. What I did, pretty much, was drink merlot and hunch over my keyboard giggling to myself.

I can't think of a better way to spend an evening.

"Sweat, liniment and Lynx" would be an excellent title for a rock album I think.

And Robert isn't based on a certain Richie is he?

Heh, unlike 'Megan', Robert was based on a person, a current AB. During the rewrites, I worked on making it less obvious who it was. Mark is totally Richie McCaw, but.

Purely out of interest, did you write this before or after hearing about this?

Wow. Before.

"Alan's images are fantastic and they really capture the essence of what we do every day," Borthwick said.

Erm...

Heh, unlike 'Megan', Robert was based on a person, a current AB. During the rewrites, I worked on making it less obvious who it was.

Tony Woodcock?

Tony Woodcock?

Actual spit-take here. Then I tried to picture his underwear ad.

can't be tony woodcock if 'he got caught in a ruck; not his place' is meant to mean that Robert is a back. and if 'not the most famous man on the team' translates onto whoever it's?

All of this is correct.

The "not the face! not the face!" guy. Whatever his name is.

From one season to the next I still forget about 60% of the names of the All Blacks. I'm clearly not ready to take the citizenship test.

The "not the face! not the face!" guy. Whatever his name is.

Giovanni is full of Win. I say we just call him 'the not the face guy' from now on.

Megan knows who we mean.

I say we just call him 'the not the face guy' from now on.

Why not? Speaking as somebody who is fairly comfortable with his (hetero)sexuality, I do worry about his delicate features when he gets approached by a speeding brute. Damn if the guy doesn't look like he was?

His thigh under her hands was hard and unyielding, like a bundle of pipes wrapped in hairy canvas.

Although I think it might be a wee bit explicit for Mills and Boon.

Although I think it might be a wee bit explicit for Mills and Boon.

Mills and Boon (and Harlequin, who own Mills and Boon) have shexay sub-series called things like 'Desire' – they usually have red accents on the covers and are very explicit about throbbing manhoods and whatnot. (When?

I'd like to see the BDSM-azoola as well, mind you. More?

(When I worked at a public library, we used to hold up those books as they came in and see which pages they fell open at: invariably the throbbing manhood scenes!)

Ah, a fond memory emerges. The school library. A copy of Clan of The Cave Bear. Our English teacher?

The "not the face! not the face!" guy. Whatever his name is.

Giovanni is full of Win. I say we just call him 'the not the face guy' from now on.

Megan knows who we mean.

mmmm. Not the face indeed.

Having said that, that Mark sounds like more my?

>(When I worked at a public library, we used to hold up those books as they came in and see which pages they fell open at: invariably the throbbing manhood scenes!)

Ah, a fond memory emerges. The school library. A copy of Clan of The Cave Bear. Our English teacher?

Wow, thats enormous writing Emma. Is it a sign of things to come.

I'm slightly shocked at how many people are keen to turn the System into a erotic fiction site :)

I wonder what Russell's next political post will be like.

I wonder what Russell's next political post will be like.

"Their eyes met across the floor of the house, the distance between them so little physically, yet so immense politically.

She hated him for what he had done to her beloved Criminal Justice amendment, and yet, when she found herself?

I'd like to see the BDSM-azoola as well, mind you. More

Here's an 80s flashback for the kids:

"HAH! Missed BOTH my legs!"

This stuff prectically writes itself.

Although it would seem that it would benefit from a decent spellchecking editor....

This stuff prectically writes itself.

Although it would seem that it would benefit from a decent spellchecking editor....

(I can handle just about anything else by this point, but RPF is still a no.)

The day of judgment will come, and all the peoples of the world will be gathered in the valley of whatsisname. And the Lord (or one of its representatives) will judge them and send?

"No, wait, now I remember: the acronyms, you guys, always with the bloody acronyms. Down you go."

LOL.

LOL.

Damn! Foiled again...

I wonder what Russell's next political post will be like.

Oh yes, lets have all the bloggers write "in the style of..."

And please have them do a reading of their Mills & Boon columns at the next Great Blend?

RPF

there seem to be quite a number of the below that fit. Canadian lumberjack with a rear projector maybe?

Railway Protection Forces, India
Rassemblement du Peuple Français, a former French political party
Rassemblement pour la France, a French political party
Raster Product Format, a United States military standard for?

The Rehabilitation Project Force of the Church of Scientology

Thank you, now I know what my next nightmare is going to be about. Hell, I have a feeling it might be a two-parter.

his sallies and counter-thrusts seemed to catch in her throat....

ew. ur gross.

Ah, a fond memory emerges. The school library. A copy of Clan of The Cave Bear. Our English teacher suddenly Very Disappointed In All Of Us. Good times.

A friend and I once 'expurgated The Mammoth Hunters by ripping out and throwing away every page that wasn't a sex scene.?

Thank you, now I know what my next nightmare is going to be about. Hell, I have a feeling it might be a two-parter.

Ooo I love those kind of nightmares. The second episode doesn't have to waste time setting the scene. But my nightmares got all huffy about being?

Five guys, all playing cricket for their country have a secret life as superheroes. As most superheroes do. The Black Caps Five can charm, can dominate, be posh, be funny and simply make up the numbers.
Their main enemies are Twosey's Bad Guys. The leader, Twosey,?

But my nightmares got all huffy about being eagerly awaited each night, and went away :-(.

You obviously need a TiVo.

there seem to be quite a number of the below that fit. Canadian lumberjack with a rear projector maybe?

More prosaically, RPF stands for "real person fic", usually in the context of writing stories about the actual actors having sex rather than thinly-veiled stories that are theoretically about the characters?

The Black Caps Five

Following the 'if you're looking for slash-fic look on LiveJournal' practice, I'm now wondering what it is with slash-ficcers and twins. Also the theory about how Damian Martyn 'retained his place in the team' is... disturbing.

I mean, they've got as far as "we will do everything *but* have them make out, and take advantage of the wild popularity that ensues" but no-one seems to be willing to go that extra step.

And for extra, extra steps, I have two words for you. Petrelli. Brothers.

More prosaically, RPF stands for "real person fic", usually in the context of writing stories about the actual actors having sex rather than thinly-veiled stories that are theoretically about the characters they portray but might as well not be

You can locate yourself on this chart, and see how far?

Would that opening sentence be a Dan Brown tribute?

Oh, well spotted.

Not sure which is the most terrifying...the tribute or the speed at which it was spotted by our host.

And for extra, extrasteps, I have two words for you. Petrelli. Brothers.

Ah, Petrellicest. As far as I'm aware, though, they haven't actually made out on screen yet. If they had, my LJ flist would have exploded. And they were hardly the first; Supernatural went there, insomuch as either show?

And they were hardly the first; Supernatural went there, insomuch as either show goes there, about two years before them.

Huh, I've never been weirded out by the Winchesters. I don't think Jensen'n'Jared are nearly as ham-handed at rendering Super Awesome Fraternal Devotion. Adrian'n'Milo always look like they're about to?

Huh, I've never been weirded out by the Winchesters. I don't think Jensen'n'Jared are nearly as ham-handed at rendering Super Awesome Fraternal Devotion. Adrian'n'Milo always look like they're about to make out at any moment.

You do have a point; I think the popularity of Wincest in the Supernatural fandom?

But my nightmares got all huffy about being eagerly awaited each night, and went away :-(.

My girlfriend gets very excited when she dreams about receiving something (like dinner at a restaurant) but wakes up before she dreams about paying. She's like "ooh! Free dinner!"

You obviously need a TiVo.

I read a book as a teenager which seriously suggested you could achieve something like this. They called it 'Lucid Dreaming' and the idea was that you could not only become aware that you were sleeping, but also control your dreams.

However, when I tried?

I think the popularity of Wincest in the Supernatural fandom is as much down to the fact that there are only two main characters who spend most of their time with each other as to anything else

I'd just like to point out that when we start getting hits from?

So Wincest doesn't bother me as much as that Marshall-twins stuff I just accidentally read.

And there's something to add to the list of Things I Never Wanted To Think About. (Which is pretty hypocritical considering I just exposed innocent PA readers to the fact that gay incest is so?

And there's something to add to the list of Things I Never Wanted To Think About

It's not good for your head. I just went to Stuff, saw the headline 'Symonds an "enormous distraction" – Chappell' and giggled smuttily.

Which is pretty hypocritical considering I just exposed innocent PA readers to the fact that gay incest is so common in some fandoms there are nicknames for it, but.

I don't think it's really hypocritical. There is quite a big gulf between "I think gay incest is sexy" and "these?

Emma ... giggled smuttily

If PAS can add sound to the comments section I want this emote :P

So yes,?

I read a book as a teenager which seriously suggested you could achieve something like this. They called it 'Lucid Dreaming' and the idea was that you could not only become aware that you were sleeping, but also control your dreams.

As a kid I taught myself, somehow, to go?

I can't fly in my dreams any more though. I have tried.

I love flying in my dreams – except when I have frustrating experience of not being able to get altitude, then I spend all my time dodging powerlines or worse only being able to skim along the ground?

Tangentially, I saw a Billy Idol video the other day and was shocked that he didn't look more like James Marsters.

James Marsters is tangential to a contemplation of slashfiction? Who do you think you're kidding?

And then I'd go 'well if its only a dream, I can fly!!' And off I'd go.

So far as I could make out, that is exactly what a lucid dream was. I had pretty much the same thing, curious that flying is such a popular choice. If I had?

"people who write erotic versions of Star Trek where all the characters are Furries and put a Furry version of themselves as the star of the story'

I know you are supposed to learn something new every day, but does this apply even when you don't want to? And quite?

I know you are supposed to learn something new every day, but does this apply even when you don't want to? And quite possibly wish you hadn't?

It's rapidly turning into my reason for being, so I'm saying yes.

James Marsters is tangential to a contemplation of slashfiction? Who do?

it is just plain wrong.

I can never watch the Flintstones again.

My girlfriend gets very excited when she dreams about receiving something (like dinner at a restaurant) but wakes up before she dreams about paying.

I get the opposite. I dream that I'm at work (usually when it's stressful) and feel ripped off that I'm not getting paid for the hours.?

My only excuse is that I did it when I had two wide-eyed, sleep-defying children under?

Oh, the shame!

Finishing a book of any kind is nothing to be ashamed of. I know people get terribly snobby about romance novels, but for me they're simply not to my taste. I DO like formula detective fiction, so there's no moral high ground there. (Also the pron, doubly?

Finishing a book of any kind is nothing to be ashamed of.

With the possible exception of Mein Kampf.

People just should not be allowed write erotic versions of much loved TV shows.

it is just plain wrong.

I can never watch the Flintstones again.

Dude, if it was right it wouldn't be half as fun.

Not Russel T Davies or Joss Whedon, who both know exactly what they're?

Oddly I also finished a book when I had two children under three. I'd get up to feed and then stay up and write.

Yeah, when I finally got one or both kids asleep, I'd be the wide awake zombie who didn't know what day it was. The husband worked?

P.S. I once saved the taxpayer about $4M as the result of a dream.

Yeah, you might have to tell us a little bit more about that.

I can never watch the Flintstones again.

Oh please. 'Pebbles' and 'Bambam'? They were watching porn when they chose the names.

My daughter is named after a young woman that I met in a dream that I had when I was a teenager (all very good taste, I believe I?

Another of the contributors, Joan Smith, says she has been fielding scandalised callers demanding to know why a feminist such as herself would even countenance writing erotica.

Yeah, I think there's probably another column full of ragey frustration there.

P.S. I once saved the taxpayer about $4M as the result of a dream.

Well, I did try to come up with a complicated sporting metaphor (involving Duckworth-Lewis, a horrendous run-chase and the Marshall twins) but failed miserably.

The boring and prosaic truth is that we were given a big?

Most of the time, actually.

That's pretty cool. I once believed I'd solved a particularly difficult maths problem in my sleep, and got up to write it all down. When I woke up in the morning and had a look at it, it was random garbage.

I once believed I'd solved a particularly difficult maths problem in my sleep, and got up to write it all down. When I woke up in the morning and had a look at it, it was random garbage.

There's an episode of Seinfeld about this very thing of course.

And?