lotripping and otherwise

I am a lemming

2008-11-30T21:28:39Z

I am lemming, hear me roar
1. Answer each of the questions below using the Flickr Search engine.
2. Choose a photo from the first three pages.
3. Copy the URL of your favorite photo into this site.
4. Save mosaic to some form of photo hosting thing and share with the world.

the mosaic

the prompts
1. first name (m)
2. favorite food (Dungeness Crab)
3. hometown (Berkeley)
4. favorite color (emerald green)
5. celebrity crush (Vigoooooooo)
6. favorite drink (very fresh orange juice)
7. dream vacation (Europe & the Middle East)
8. favorite dessert (chocolate)
9. what I want to be when I grow up (energetic and happy)
10. what I love most in the world (friends and family)
11. one word that describes me (busy)
12. my Livejournal name (msilverstar)

the credits
1. Guarding the Wildlife Books, 2. Dungeness Crab Dinner, 3. Berkeley and the San Francisco Bay Area by night., 4. IMG_0031, 5. Viggo Mortensen firma centinaia di autografi, 6. Oranges never lie., 7. Rochester Cathedral and Castle in the evening light, 8. Chocolate pastry 3/6, 9. *, 10. Pair O Pears, 11. 54/365 - Pick Your Battles, 12. Project: Hertfordshire - St. Albans

ETA: I don't send holiday cards (I used to try, but then it was February...). So please don't feel you should send me anything. Let's just make some time for each other, soon. Even if you've been lurking, I'm curious about who you are and what you like.

United States President(-elect) Barak Hussein Obama!v

2008-11-05T05:58:58Z

United States President(-elect) Barak Hussein Obama!

Yes We Can, And We Did

We're watching Obama's victory speech, and I am so happy that we, as a country, can leave behind so much hate and cruelty. We can move forward positively into the future, the world, the century. It was a great speech, full of intelligence and sanity, and left me crying.

Oh my peoples, we managed to not screw it up this time. Now let's stop grousing about the government and do what needs to be done.

election stresssssssssss

2008-11-04T18:55:25Z

[This badge is for sharing! It was apparently made by lunaris and shareable, found it via a friend, and it's on my scrapbook so OK to hotlink]

Argh, last night I was so stressed I couldn't sleep (after the last two elections got pretty much stolen) so I got up and filled out my ballot. That did help. Walked over to my precinct and dropped it off, no lines at 9 am.

We have a Democratic candidate who is smart, caring, charismatic, energetic, black, and has a foreign-sounding name, is much more than I'd hoped we could do in my lifetime. I will be incredibly proud of my country if we do suck it up and elect him! And proud of my parents, who were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. Because that's the kind of thing we're supposed to be about, hope and community and working together (with the rest of the world) for a better future. And now I'm making myself cry, sorry to blither all over your friendspage.

(and thanks to matildabj for letting me blither at her first)

US DST and funny videos

2008-11-02T05:33:40Z

We go off Daylight Savings Time tonight, so turn (or digitally reset) your clocks back one hour, so that 2 am is 1 am. timeanddate.com has more if you're curious.

The best ever kitty in a box video (link from cesare)

Don't Speak For Me, Sarah Palin, done by a Hockey Mama for Obama who can really sing

And in conclusion: a bigger photo of Dom with eyeliner and a really dorky smile (from yesterday, a Cirque de Soleil opening in Las Vegas)

LJ will be offline for maintenance

2008-10-30T01:39:37Z

Just in case you didn't see the LJ reminder:

LJ will be down for maintenance, they say for four hours only.

03:30 UTC - 07:30 (on Thursday)
Coordinated Universal Time / GMT / British Standard Time

Melbourne Australia time: Thursday 2:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Eastern Daylight Time: Wednesday 11:30 PM - Thursday 3:30 AM

Pacific Daylight Time: Wednesday, 8:30 PM - Thursday 12:30 AM

By the way, the US changes from Daylight Savings Time on the first Sunday in November, aka this Sunday, the 2nd

If you need another time zone, use very helpful time converter at timeanddate.com, set to the start of downtime

argh I think I have food poisoning :-(

OH snap. I did not mean the pun with my Mood of 'listless'. On the other hand, it's a really good pun.

a little US politics

2008-10-21T07:24:12Z

Colin Powell said a great thing: "Is there something wrong with being Muslim in this country? No, that’s not America." Finally someone points out that being a Muslim is not an automatic indicator of terrorism. I blame the Bush Administration and John McCain for this open-ended "War on Terror", as opposed to The World United to Suppress Al-Queda, which I am pretty much for.

Also, California, Alameda County, and especially Berkeley voters: the Green party voter guide (page will lead to PDF) is very helpful. Well-written explanations of the issues and candidates, even the obscure ones like BART board and judge. I may not agree with them 100% but at least I know why. Get this: the Greens agree with the fiscal conservatives (and me) that bonds are a bad idea, better to pay as we go.

And here's to Viggo "War Is Not The Answer" Mortensen, who got me into fandom. It was his smile, from the FOTR extended DVDs, that completely seduced me. May he have fifty more good years.

vaguely fandom-related

2008-09-21T04:13:38Z

Who left a pair of salt and pepper grinders at the last moot? They look rather Alice-in-Wonderland-ish, nifty!

The mystery writer with the Italian policeman who loves his food is Donna Leon. Her Guido Brunetti is middle-aged and a bit conflicted, but his world is not completely corrupt, unlike Michael Dibdon's Aurelio Zen series.

Via hanarobi: video of dolphins blowing bubble rings and playing with them. JUST what I needed to see, cheered me right up.

And I just discovered a fabulous Doctor Who video, Handlebars, by flummery, to the song by Flobots. I don't know about their other songs, but that one really works for me. They're apparently "alternative hip-hop", so some rap with all kinds of music threaded through (they have a violinist!) and great lyrics. (I can't get their Flash-heavy site to load, and the guy on the front page looks like Elijah: I keep doing double-takes). They're also social activists and really quite darling. Many thanks to LofA for the link!

Must go work on Arwen costume now: kidlet is persistent.

de-friending explanation & amnesty

2008-08-27T23:51:22Z

I am de-friending most of the Establishment journals, as I really can't participate any more (it's just not happening). Thanks to everyone for a great time! Feel free to defriend this journal as appropriate: I'm posting at http://msilverstar.insanejournal.com and http://msilverstar.livejournal.com, fandom stuff is all public.

msilverstar @ 2008-02-21T23:34:00

2008-02-22T07:36:13Z

Interesting survey on the economics of fandom.

Also, feelforfaith and I found 65 new stories and series chapters this last week, we listed them all in lotrips, as we do every week...

itunes meme and genre question

2008-02-22T00:23:56Z

gacked from lineaelyn

Because I am not hurting for money, I try really hard to pay for everything. If possible, I use a link from the artist's web site: they sometimes get a little affiliate fee that way. I wish we had a better system.

How many songs total: 9454
How many hours or days of music: 49.8 days
Most recently played: Neptune City ~ Death in Venice (The Continuo Sessions)
I'm going through unplayed music and adding genres and ratings. This turned out to be Electronic and kinda neat
Most played: Bransle Gay, Bransle De Bourgogne ~ John Renbourn (The Lady And The Unicorn)
All those years in Medieval Studies and the SCA, I still love the music
Most recently added: Turn ~ Travis (The Man Who)
matildabj and I were talking about Billy being a Travis fan and she said this was the best Travis song. It's impossible not to sing along :-)

Sort by song title:
First Song: Aal Eah ~ Samira Saeid (Putumayo Presents: North African Groove)
we listen to a lot of world music, heard this CD in a restaurant and bought it
Last Song: 1999 ~ Prince (The Hits / The B-Sides)
new itunes sorting -- too singable and prophetic a song to not own
alphabetically: Zodiac ~ Laurie Berkner (Victor Vito)
Laurie Berkner does very catchy kid music

Sort by time:
Shortest Song: 13 seconds Here Come the ABCs ~ They Might Be Giants (Here Come the ABCs)
snarkiest group evah
Longest Song: 38 minutes Water Music--Horn Suite in F major ~ Christopher Hogwood; Academy Of Ancient Music (Water Music-Suite; The Musick for the Royal Fireworks)
We have a lot of classical music too.

Sort by album:
First album: Abbey Road - The Beatles
Last album: 20th Century Masters - Best of Fairport Convention
We ignored disco in the 70s in favor of folk-rock, and still like it
Alphabetical: Zion Roots Abyssinia Infinite

First song that comes up on Shuffle: Lord Thomas and Fair Ellend ~ Ula Kapala (Coventina's Well)

Search the following and state how many songs come up:
Death - 37
Life - 78
Love - 306
Hate - 8
You - 493
Sex - 9
Christmas - 26
Heart - 86
Candy - 9
Turtle - 1
Wolf - 80
Zebra - 0
Aardvark - 1

Question: what's the difference between Rock, Alternative, Alt-Rock, Alt-Punk and Classic Rock? Where do The Mountain Goats, Patti Smith, and The Decemberists go? For that matter, are the Beatles Pop or Classic Rock or something else? The Proclaimers? Elton John? If there are violins involved, does that make it Pop? Do drums and/or electric guitars signal Rock? I am so lost!

How about Electronica, Trance, Techno, House and Industrial?

What I'd like to do is use bigger categories here, as I don't really care about subtle distinctions, but I don't want to be so wrong as to make people go "huh?" (I do lots of subtle distinctions in Classical and World music categories).

mostly posting at IJ now

2007-09-03T00:28:34Z

I'm on a Mac and it's a bitch to cross-post, so I'm mostly posting just on my journal at InsaneJournal (and still LiveJournal). I'll be happy to friend people on either system. Recent entries: fandom/slashers moot, how to set feed (syndication) settings, Gogol Bordello concert reportlet, and one locked comprehensive whinge.

wish me luck and no mosh pit

2007-08-30T02:20:26Z

I'm a little nervous, but wearing my "Start Wearing Purple" t-shirt and we're off to SF to see Gogol Bordello at the Fillmore. We'd take teenboy but he's got school early tomorrow morning. So it's just us middle-aged types, and I hope it's more Gypsy and less Punk. I gotta find my earplugs.

there's a lol_meme?

2007-08-29T03:56:49Z

Some days, I'm glad I'm oblivious to these wanks.

Fic: Ian's Eyebrow (Billy, Ian, G)

2007-08-26T17:09:14Z

A drabble from my BillyViggoverse, Ian's Eyebrow.

yet another wtf? LJ post

2007-08-19T01:14:20Z

perseph2hades has a post that nails the LJ debacle. Read that now, I'll wait.

My opinion is that LJ management apparently has complete fluff-for-brains and a sincere desire eject child pornography, but are not able to tell the difference between photographs of harm being done to children and drawings of fictional characters of indeterminate age.

It's all very well and good when they apologize, but then they give artists one "strike" for pictures that have been annotated with ages above 18 and/or deleted from their scrapbook but retained in the system cache!

They're going far beyond even the Bush administration, how about that? From the New York Times (reg. required): Federal Effort on Web Obscenity Shows Few Results: In the last few years, 67,000 citizens’ complaints have been deemed legitimate under the program and passed on to the Justice Department and federal prosecutors. The number of prosecutions resulting from those referrals is zero.

So much for legal obligations of LJ, because we know there's really gross stuff out there. Including videos of people being beheaded. Drawings of clearly consensual sex including fictional teenagers are not exactly a threat to anyone.

Given that LJ has screwed this up, over and over, I wonder what else they're going to do? I'm slowly reducing my dependence on LJ, crossposting to IJ, GJ, and JF and reading in that order. I have a reading filter on LJ and will be commenting on other journal systems first. It's not much, but it's something I can and will do.

celebrity sex meme

2007-08-18T06:16:29Z

public post on insanejournal if you want to know who I lust after.

ETA: forced IJ entry to be public, took about six tries, wtf?

little shaking going on

2007-08-12T07:23:49Z

little earthquake, just a surpise
Talking on the phone to Hanarobi, and we had a definite rumble and roll only a 2.7 Richter. My house is directly between the center of the quake and the SF Bay on this map
Maybe the fact that I had some handmade linguini with parmesan, semi-successful peach crisp and two whole glasses of wine made me less nervous, whee!

I <3 fandom

2007-08-09T05:31:02Z

Happy Birthday telesilla and azrhiaz ! (I know you didn't want wank for your birthday but you got it anyway.)

In happy fanfic news:

Establishment!Billy's story arc is finished: he started a vanilla straight bloke who had cheerful sex with any pretty woman he could pull, but was quite scandalized by Est!Dom/Elijah's kinky ways (but supportive!). Now he's married to Rachel Weisz (written by ripsgirl), who has broadened his horizons enough to have tried exhibitionism, erotic photography, bondage, fisting and anal sex. And now, they're going to experiment with something long-term and absorbing: parenthood. But we're not writing it -- domesticity is really hard -- so that's our ending to their story. Links are at the Billy/Rachel story list.

I love writing with ripsgirl and am glad we have push-pull-push to play in. We have a new story, in which Billy's tired but Dom's horny, and imaginative. Pretty much PWP with mild bondage, and an unusual configuration: Turnabout (NC-17)

Someone who works for an actual gay porn movie site and is writing an article on why and what women like in gay porn: let her know with a screened comment on her journal or send email to hellen @ strictlybroadband.com

Don't forget to sign up for lotrips_remix!

LJ statistics and migration tools

LJ user stats in graphic form indicate that while the number of accounts created continues to skyrocket, the absolute numbers of accounts which are updated within the last 30 days / 7 days / 1 day are flat or actually going down. My theory is that LJ is losing out to MySpace and Facebook, and that venture capitalists and potential purchasers are good at statistics too...

Mac (and Linux) migration tool handles comments as well as posts.

How to install newer LJ journal layouts on other services. I'm using Smooth Sailing on GJ and it's lovely, so many thanks to musycal_test!

The skunkworks of migration - things to save, icon keywords, co-moderators, and more.

And a fake LJ User tag generator: a generic HTML version of the user tag, so it it works across all journals, thanks to mhari

interesting articles about social networking in general and pitfalls in particular

Jared Spool, a User Interface guru on Learning from the Facebook Mini-Feed Disaster.

From Bokardo: Common Pitfalls of Building Social Web Applications and How to Avoid Them part 1, part 2 which includes "moderation is a full-time job", and part 3.

Wired magazine calls for open standards for social networking. This would allow us to have "friends" outside our networking system, so we could watch and/or share even locked posts.

my mind boggles

2007-08-07T00:48:21Z

Brad Fitzpatrick (LJ's founder and original developer) is leaving LJ. Brad confirms this. Fans yearn for the good old days when he was in charge.

Then he posts that in 30 seconds, LJ management told Brad: it's all child porn and he believes them. (I have several screenshots of this).

I don't know whether to be relieved that they think they really are going after child porn (and are therefore sincere) or appalled that they can't tell the difference between child porn erotic art, (and are therefore stupid). Sincere but stupid is the kindest interpretation of all their actions.

ETA: LJ is sending out standardized email answers to people who sent them angry messages, saying there will be a post on the lj_biz community tonight.

(crossposted to LJ, GJ, IJ and JF)

LJ doesn't want us. Time to make other plans.

2007-08-04T04:05:29Z

I've come to believe that LJ doesn't want to deal with sexuality and those parts of fandom that are sexually explicit. They'd rather do sponsorship deals with Pepsi and Citibank. and sell the attention of their users. Anything that would scare off corporations is simply not worth it to them, despite all the financial support they've had from fandom over the years.

They don't want us any more. The only power we have is as consumers, the power to take our money elsewhere. It's time to start. I'm cross-posting everything from now on, and making new communities on other journals. I bought a permanent InsaneJournal account ($30, why not) and will be happy to make syndicated feeds from LJ journals and comms. I'm going to support fan efforts to make new systems of community and archives that we can never lose. This is why:

Despite all assurances that the Abuse Team would warn people of any problems with their content, and allow them to make changes, at least two fan artists have been summarily booted off of LJ. Their journals and scrapbooks are inaccessible, their posts everywhere are removed, not just for the offending journal, but for other journals with the same email contact address. This includes paid and permanent journals. And to add insult to injury, their names aren't even marked with a strike -- so ponderosa121 and elaboration just look... weird.

LJ user stormcloude got a response to her question about the rationale for deleting the journals. It comes down to a self-selected and anonymous group of LJ staffers and Abuse Team members making judgments about whether the artistic seriousness of the work outweighs the sexual nature. FOR THE LOSE.

As of now, I'm boycotting the term "suspended" -- if a journal is suddenly and permanently removed, that's "deleted by LJ". Suspended generally means a temporary thing.

Remember when I said they'd add a "report abuse" button to every post? They're doing it now. It's a link at the bottom next to "Be a Support Volunteer"

And while we're at it: paid users now get to see ads, if they're sponsored by corporations (Pepsi, wow) the form of moods or journal styles. And get this: they're animated, so if you're like me, you'll hate them intensely. Firefox tip: press the Escape key after the page loads and all animations will stop.

OMG, it goes on... LJ has warned a deleterious commentator (laughing at badfic, like Mystery Science Theater) that they must remove their post due to a copyright complaint. A HP fic author claimed copyright on her stuff was being violated (fair use, everyone!), and the only way the OP can deal with it is to file a counter-claim which will disclose their name and address.

elaboration's posts about being deleted: 1, 2, 3. She doesn't draw underage sex, she drew adult Weasly twins wanking each other. ponderosa121 who has drawn underage sex, has some thoughts on being deleted. zenfu, who does shota art, was also deleted, and misses his/her friends.

synecdochic [who (ETA used to work for LJ) and is also a fan]blames US law for all this. No mention of warnings. No comments allowed.

Useful communities: Fandom Directory on IJ, fandom_tossed on GJ innocence_jihad on LJ, 07refugees on IJ

How to syndicate journals to to multiple services

elke_tanzer has some great thoughts about what to do next. The most unexpected one -- make sure all communities have multiple moderators in case one gets deleted.

shaggirl has a list of alternate journaling systems, also a poll on fan support for a new system

almostnever has directions for mass-adding friends on any LJ-clone system

fandom_flies is a LJ community to coordinate all efforts to try to create a LJ-clone run by fans for fans.

twocorpses is starting an LJ clone

rahalia suggests signing up at the Directorium wiki.

ETA: one last good link: shushu addresses objections to leaving LJ
Wow this sucks. I'm msilverstar.greatestjournal.com and msilverstar.insanejournal.com and msilverstar.journalfen.net. See you there.

LJ back up as of now

2007-07-25T04:49:37Z

Slow and probably fragile, but up. I am not assuaged.

One more reason not to depend on LJ

2007-07-25T02:14:09Z

Because it's sometimes not there.

SF has its power back, LJ is working on coming back up. I read somewhere they said that LiveJournal user emails are never shared, which is why Vox accounts got an email notification and LJ accounts didn't. Makes me wonder what they're doing with Vox accounts, and who they are selling my address to...

In any case, this is a good reason to migrate, at least partially. Which is why I'm crossposting!

eta: We should also be downloading Google Docs and other shared documents. And saving really vital emails on local disks, in case gmail or other web mail systems go down. Can't trust the Net further than you can throw it.

finished HP 7

2007-07-22T05:28:46Z

I'm not a huge fan of the series and I could see a lot of flaws, especially towards the end. But I like imperfection and there was a fair amount of that in the book, which was gratifying. Mainly, I'm just a fandom lemming and have much more fun when I know what you all are talking about!

(crossposting to various journaling systems, trying out Deepest Sender. I'm msilverstar everywhere, here are links to add me on journalfen, greatestjournal and insanejournal.)

Fic: "Untwisting" (Dom/Billy, NC-17)

2007-06-02T23:43:49Z

Third post in our Push/Pull/Push universe: Dom/Billy backstory, (co-written with the lovely and talented jarofclay).

Fic: "Push/Pull/Push" (Dom/Billy/Rachel Weisz, NC-17)

2007-04-27T05:49:54Z

Title: Push/Pull/Push
Author(s): msilverstar and jarofclay
Pairing: Dom/Billy/Rachel Weisz
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Billy brings his girlfriend to meet Dom in Hawaii. Only now does Rachel understand what Billy meant when he said 'share'.
Disclaimer: Not true, we made it up.
Warnings: BDSM (mentioned), threesome sex

Notes: The Push/Pull series began as a kinky AU to our Establishment RPG Billy/Rachel Weisz vanilla romance.. We've only posted one other fic but there are more half or fully written (this is actually #6).

~~~

Dom's wandering restlessly round the house as he waits. It's been too long since he's seen Billy, and now he's not only coming, he's bringing an utterly gorgeous woman with him. Jammy bastard, Dom thinks in an uncharacteristically Anglicised burst of thought. Billy had phoned to say they were on their way from the airport: they should be here by now. He rearranges the cushions on the couch and puts a stray CD case back in the rack. He should probably just put the kettle one, Billy will likely want a cup of tea. Or he's just as likely to want to shag Dom senseless the moment he sees him. Who knows?

Billy shifts in the cab, willing the driver to speed up. The Hawaiian way had seemed nice before, laid-back and relaxed. But now, waiting to introduce Rachel to Dom, he'd rather get it over with. Not that he's any real doubt, unless Dom is in one of his most outrageous moods. Rachel's a lovely person, great fun to be with even out of bed, holds her own with the lads, and he's seen her stand up to some of the big directors. But what Billy really wants is for his best mate and his new girlfriend to click, and to like each other as people. And he can't help worrying it won't happen.

At last the cab pulls up. The driver goes to get the bags out of the boot and Rachel gets out, flinching as the humid air hits her skin after the air-conditioned interior of the car. Billy's paying the driver, and just then the front door opens and Dom appears. At least, he looks like the photos of Dom that Billy's shown her.

"About bloody time!" Dom calls, and then walks down the path to where they're standing, as the cab drives away leaving them with their bags.

"Not my fault!" Billy protests, as he claps Dom on the shoulder and then reaches down to the ticklish place on Dom's side. With him giggling and gasping, Billy slings an arm round him, turns to Rachel and says, "When he's not being a naff git, this is Dom. Actually, he's usually a naff git, and he's still Dom."

"Oi!" Dom grabs Billy in a neck lock, and Rachel laughs, enjoying the two of them together already.

"Nice to meet you, Dom," she says. Dom immediately lets go of Billy and takes her hand, kissing it. "A gentleman," she grins.

"And don't let Bill tell you anything different," Dom says. He bends down to pick up a bag and turns to head back into the house. "Now, Bill, you're going to have to explain to me in small words exactly how you managed to pull this vision of gorgeousness."

Billy laughs, "My classic male good looks and sterling personality, of course!" Rachel grabs her carry-on and handbag while Billy gets the last two bags -- she'd laugh in his face if he tried to come round all gallant and shift them all. Not that she doesn't like a little cosseting sometimes, the occasional chivalrous gesture, especially if he's been very strict in private. But she's made it quite clear she's a modern woman and won't be stuck on a pedestal.

As they walk into the house, Billy looks round in pleasure at the comfortable furniture and lovely views, but then remembers the frequent visitors. "What pets, exactly, do you have this time? Any spiders or lizards?" he asks.

"No spiders, but I do have a gecko that's taken up residence in the living room," Dom says happily. He drops the bag he's carrying and ushers them into the living room. "What can I get you to drink?" He grins. "Don't tell anyone at home, but there's iced tea in my fridge. I'm so ashamed. It's the last straw in my complete assimilation."

"Iced tea sounds great, actually," Rachel says, falling on to the sofa. It feels much later than it is, mostly due to the flight and partly to the time difference between LA and Hawaii. All her body wants to do is curl up and nap, but she's determined to stay awake and acclimatise.

"Beer," Billy says firmly, "cold lager, if you have it." Tropical damp heat calls for it, as does the memory of far too many hours inairplanes and airports. He follows Dom to the kitchen, bumping up against him, saying "Bloody fantastic to see you again," as he pushes Dom against the fridge door with his whole torso. No matter how many other people Billy shags, the feeling of Dom's body against his is always amazingly sexy.

"Well, hello there," Dom says, sliding his hands around to cup Billy's arse. "Missed you, mate. Give us a snog and I'll give you a beer."

With an invitation like that... Billy leans in just that last inch and reaches Dom's lips, kissing him thoroughly before relaxing and letting Dom's tongue into his own mouth. "Missed you too," he admits, when they break off for a breath.

"That," Dom says, "Was a snog worthy of a beer." He doesn't move, though. Instead, he slides his hands into Billy's back pockets and licks his neck. "Didn't you say that lovely girl of yours is an exhibitionist? I want to know when I'm going to see her naked."

"In due time," Billy pushes his chest against Dom's. "After I get my beer."

"Pushy bastard," Dom growls, nipping the join between Billy's neck and shoulder. "You bring totty into the house and then tease me with your 'all in good time'. I should withhold beer privileges." His cock is becoming attentive to the situation, and he grinds his hips against Billy's in a highly satisfactory way.

"Always were a greedy bastard," Billy grins and grinds back. "Beer first, she must think we've fallen into something in here."

"Oh, all right then." Dom reluctantly pushes away from the fridge and releases his hold on Billy. He grabs beers and hands them over, pours a glass of iced tea for Rachel, then shoos Billy out of the room. He puts ice in the glass, a slice of lemon quickly cut and hooked on the edge, and then he digs out a small round tray on which he sets the glass. A folded tea towel over his arm and the look is complete; arranging his face into a Jeeves-like neutral expression he walks slowly back into the living room, coming to a halt in front of Rachel.

"Tea, madam?" he asks, bending to offer her the tray.

Rachel laughs. "Why thank you," she says, taking the glass and sitting back. "Billy, you didn't tell me the service would be so good here."

"He's just softening you up," Billy explains, taking a long pull at his beer, and sitting next to her. "Once he gets to know you, it's 'the fridge is over there, bring us a bottle while you're up'." He nudges Dom with his foot, "He's generally a lazy bugger."

"Oi, drink my beer and slander me in my own home, would you?" Dom says, all mock indignation. "I'll have to spank you for that."

"I agree," Rachel grins, winking at Dom and hoping that he wasn't joking.

"It's not slander if it's true," Billy says mildly, and then, with a lift of an eyebrow, "Just you try and put your hands on me." He's let Dom top a few times, but it's not their usual thing, and certainly not in front of Rachel.

Dom puts his beer down on the floor and then launches himself at Billy, tackling him so they sprawl on the sofa, Billy's head in Rachel's lap. Dom uses his slightly greater weight and the advantage of surprise to gain the upper hand, tickling Billy's ribs as Rachel shrieks, grabs Billy's beer bottle out of his hand and tries to hold her own glass out of the way of the wrestling pair.

Hooking a leg round Dom, Billy flips him right off the sofa and onto his back on the floor. He's a bit more serious about it than Dom is, and has morepractise , so manages to pin one arm above Dom's head and his own other arm across Dom's chest. "If anyone's getting spanked today, it's you, wanker," he says, still a bit breathless from the tickling.

"Mmm, yes please," Dom says, grinning and pushing his hips up into Billy.

Rachel watches all this with great interest, wondering where it's leading, how serious they are and loving seeing Billy like this, so easy and familiar with Dom. Dom's funny and sexy and the banter between them, the jockeying for power, is quite a turn-on to watch. She knows Billy will win in the end, but it's fun to see just how far Dom will push him, something she's never really dared to do.

"After beer," Billy says, and pushes Dom's other arm above his head to pin them both, and sitting on Dom's chest. He looks at Rachel, who's watching a bit glazed-eyed, as though they're performing for her, and maybe they are. Billy reaches to pull her down on the floor with them, murmuring "Doing all right?" as he snags the beer bottle.

Dom watches Rachel slide off the couch on to her knees beside them. Billy leans in to kiss her, and Dom gets a mesmerisingly wonderful view of the action right over his head and stares, not even trying to pull his wrists free from Billy's grip. The chemistry between Rachel and Billy is obvious, making Dom whimper slightly at the sight of wet lips and tongues and jaw muscles working.

"Bloody hell," he murmurs when they finally separate.

After taking a long draught of beer, Billy grins down at Dom. "You like that? Good thing she likes to show off." The two of them, so close, it's making his pulse race. The things he'd like to do to them... He drinks again, savouring the sharp tang of it, girding himself: while Rachel's cooperative, Dom's a handful and needs firm treatment.

"I love to show off," Rachel says, smiling at Dom. She drains the last of her iced tea and puts the glass down well out of the way. "I love being shown off as well." Billy catches her eye and grins at her, and she just has to touch him, reaching out and stroking her palm up the inside of his arm. Not wanting Dom to feel left out, she runs the fingers of her other hand through his hair, watching as his eyes flutter closed and he lets out a long sigh.

With Billy pinning him down and Rachel's hand in his hair, Dom allows himself to feel thoroughly blissed-out. He's mildly aroused but with no sense of immediate urgency, the taste of beer is in his mouth and Billy's weight straddling his ribs. Oh, and the small matter of an incredibly sexy woman touching his head. Life really doesn't get much better than this while still being fully-clothed.

Billy's beer is gone, and he puts the bottle aside, rather wishing he could get another without destroying the mood entirely. But he has two gorgeous people waiting for him to tell them what to do, and how can he regret that? Sliding back down to Dom's thighs, he says, "Be shown off? You need fewer clothes, then." As he reaches to pull her shirt up, he says, "You too, Dom. Shirt off."

Rachel helps Billy pull her t-shirt over her head and then she watches Dom struggle to get his off with Billy sitting on his legs. "Can you tell us what you've got in mind?" she asks, trailing her fingertips up Billy's arm.

"Yeah, Bill, give us a clue," Dom says. He squeezes Billy's thighs and grins. "Although anything that involves being naked with Rachel will suit me fine."

"If you're very very lucky," Billy looks levelly at Dom, and then turns to Rachel, who's wearing a wispy lacy silk bra that emphasises her tits nicely. He itches to leave some marks on her, ones that will last for days, but they'll be out on the beach, far too public for that. British winters are good for something -- all those clothes cover bruises quite nicely. With a hand pushing Dom's chest down, he leans to Rachel and nibbles gently down her neck and along her bra, enjoying the little sounds she makes.

"That's the stuff," Dom says, sliding a hand up Billy's back under his shirt. He doesn't dare touch Rachel, that would probably be pushing Billy further than even Dom is prepared to go. But Billy's right there, Dom can practically taste his skin, and watching his mouth on Rachel he hums his approval. "Fabulous tits your bird's got," he says.

Rachel sighs, her hand in Dom's hair stilling at the feel of Billy's mouth on her skin. She pushes her breasts together a little, knowing how much Billy likes her cleavage, practically glowing at Dom's admiration. With two men here to put on a show for, she's very, very happy, and feels like flinging off all her clothes and spreading herself wide open for them to look at and use for their pleasure.

Billy likes the way Rachel's responding, she's practically flaunting herself for Dom, who's hand is warm and teasing along Billy's skin. "You can feel his eyes on you, you love it," he growls into her skin, nipping at her tit where it won't show later. She starts a little and then nearly melts against him. Billy looks at Dom, who's watching with a hungry look, and says, "you're a lovely little slut and I should spank you in front of him."

"Yeah, you fucking should," Dom says as he scratches his nails over Billy's back. "Strip her, tie her up, spank her," he babbles.

"Oh, please," Rachel breathes, feeling herself sinking at Billy's tone and words. "Want to show Dom what a good girl I can be for you."

This is going faster than Billy meant, but it's mind-blowingly hot to have them both asking for it and he's not going to stop it. He says, "Oh yes, but first, give him a taste," and directs Rachel to bend down over Dom, offering him her tits.

"Not going to get much of a fucking taste with her bra on!" Dom says frustratedly, imagining a soft nipple hardening on his tongue, and groaning. Rachel bends low over his face, elbows on the floor, offering herself to him, and who is he to refuse what's offered? He puts his mouth to the lace and then because Billy hasn't said no, he cups the breast with his hand, squeezing it gently and rubbing with his thumb. Rachel moans softly and he finds her nipple, making her move so he can put his mouth over it, scraping it with his teeth through the lace.

Billy's hand on Rachel's back gently asserts his authority as Dom's mouth works on her breast, teeth through lace on her nipple making her catch her breath. She hopes Billy's going to undo her bra and let Dom see her, but it seems that's not in the plan just yet and so she enjoys what he's doing, enjoys letting Billy take charge, knowing they're all going to have a good time under his control.

The gentle curve of her back is delightful, not yet straining or arched with need. Billy runs his hand down it to her bra strap, and anticipates opening it, letting Dom taste her skin....

Billy's hand rests on Dom's chest, reminding Dom that he's in charge. Just as Dom starts to think about pushing Billy again, seeing how far he can go, Billy's hand removes itself from his chest and Dom lets out an involuntary "Oh god," as Billy undoes Rachel's bra and slides it off her arms. Rachel's gorgeous, fabulous breasts are now in Dom's face, and he cups them in his hands, bringing one to his mouth and sucking hard on her nipple. Rachel gasps and Dom moans, a sudden rush of blood to his cock making him try to roll his hips -- a futile gesture, as Billy is sitting on him.

Billy finds himself licking suddenly-dry lips: he always forgets how beautiful Dom is when he comes undone like this. He bends forward, unable to resist the two of them. Shifting a bit, he kisses Rachel's skin, savouring her quivers and moans as Dom sucks her tits. Dom's wriggling under his legs, Dom's cock is pressing against his thigh, the feel of Dom's chest against his body is heating him up as well. This is all going so fast, and Billy has a sudden desperate urge to fuck them both right now, despite all laws of physics and anatomy.

It's like a dream coming true, caught between Billy and Dom. Dom is sucking her breasts, Billy kissing her neck and shoulders and stroking his palms over her bare back. She shivers, wishing he'd pull her trousers off and fuck her blind, she's so aroused and a quick sideways glance to check out the bulges at both Dom and Billy's crotches confirm that they're both as excited as her.

If only there was nakedness and fucking imminent, Dom would be over the moon. As it is, he's got Rachel's tit in his mouth, Billy's cock pressing against his belly, and Billy's voice muttering not terribly coherent things about how fantastic Dom and Rachel look together. Dom knows that Billy could easily drag this out until both Dom and Rachel are begging for it on hands and knees, that this could all be just to tantalise them and lull them into a false sense of imminent fucking. So Dom's going to enjoy it while he can, and with one hand still cupping a breast he pulls Rachel's face to his for a snog.

There's a flash of temptation to pull them apart, to tease them separately until they're both desperate for his touch, but Billy pushes it away. Plenty of time for that later. Now he wants to see if it's even possible to kiss them both at once, because they're so fucking beautiful and he's a greedy bugger like that.

Dom's kissing her, and it's wonderful, and then suddenly Billy is lying beside him and his mouth is seeking hers -- or is it Dom's? -- or it could be both. Rachel finds herself stretching out over Dom's body and kissing Billy hungrily while Dom's hands wander all over her.

"Amazing, fucking amazing," Dom mutters, kissing first one and then the other of them, managing to tangle his tongue with theirs for a second before eventually giving up. And why not? There's a half-naked woman lying on him, kissing Billy, his Billy, and pretty soon they'll all be naked and his cock will be inside a warm, wet orifice. At least, that's what's going to happen according to Dom's imagination.

Fumbling, eager for skin, Billy's unbuttoning his Hawaiian shirt and then pushing at Rachel's trousers, muttering, "Naked, want you naked right now: clothes off, my girl." He kneels up to strip off his own jeans and and turns to Dom, who's grinning like a mad thing. Mock threatening, Billy says, "Jammy bastard, have your fun now, I'll do for you later." And he will, he'll bend Dom over the table and thrash him till he's begging, or tie him up and make him watch while Billy eats out Rachel. But for now, Billy just strips and watches while Dom and Rachel do the same.

For once, Dom's imagination hasn't let him down. He lifts his hips and kicks his shorts down and off and is pleased when Rachel's gaze lingers on his cock. Seems only fair, since he's staring at her tits, and had a good look at her arse when she bent over to take off her trousers and undies. "So what now, Bill?" he says, still lying on the floor, hands behind his head, displaying himself proudly. "Who does who?"

Only Dom would be that blunt. Billy quirks his mouth, and tries to concentrate, "Ah, well, my girl has a lovely mouth on her, would you like to taste him, Rachel?"

It's an order as much as a question, Rachel knows that. "I'd love to," she concurs. Dom (whose smug grin is about to split his face in half) spreads his legs, and she kneels obediently between them.

"Yeah, lovely mouth," Dom says as Rachel's lips close over the head of his cock. He pulls his knees up so his feet are flat on the floor, saying, "Feel free to use your hands, too," and can't resist stroking her hair. She looks up at him, and fuck, if that isn't the most beautiful sight he's seen in quite some time.

Watching them, Billy's cock grows to the point of aching: he pushes the heel of his hand against it, just for some relief. Rachel's mouth is distended, completely filled and more by Dom's cock, and the sight of it is so hot that Billy's starting to sweat. Moving beside her, Billy strokes his hands down her back and round the curve of her arse, strokes down her thighs and up again, inside, close to her cunt but not touching. Her head bobs up and down, and Billy can just see Dom's body rocking in the same rhythm, Dom's moans striking a chord in him. He crawls up along her and reaches for Dom, shaken with a sudden desire for Dom's lips and tongue and open willing mouth.

Dom groans into the kiss, grabbing the back of Billy's head and snogging him hungrily. "Gonna fucking die of pleasure," he moans against Billy's mouth when they finally come up for air. "Want you, Bill, fucking missed youohgod!" Rachel's just pushed a finger into him and Dom sees stars for one glorious moment.

With a response like that, Rachel can't help pushing a little bit to try and get more of the same. She gently wiggles her finger in Dom's arse as she licks and sucks his cock, making him writhe, clearly desperate to thrust into her mouth and so she backs off a bit to let him. What she really wants to do is watch Dom and Billy kiss, but there's no way to do that without letting her concentration slip... Plenty of time to watch them kiss later. For now, she focuses on what she's doing, and doing it well.

It's a bit weird, but sexy, feeling Dom arch and move with Billy barely touching him. "She's bloody amazing, yeah," he says, reaching down to pet Rachel, pleased she's so enthusiastic with his Dom, lovely girl.

"Wanna watch you fuck her, Bill," Dom manages to mutter between gasping with pleasure, and having Billy's tongue in his mouth.

"Yeah," Billy can't think of anything better, hotter, than having Dom watch him and Rachel, except if he could somehow do it without having to let go of either of them. He turns away reluctantly and finds his backpack, scrabbling inside for a condom.

"In my pocket, Bill," Dom says hoarsely, gesturing feebly at where his trousers are lying in a heap on the floor.

Rachel's acutely aware of what's going on and trying to remain submissive, but it's hard when she's so bloody excited. She lifts her head, continuing to massage Dom's cock with one hand. "Please, Billy, please fuck me," she says. "Want to feel you both at once."

Billy finds the packet and tears it, turning back and grinning at the both of them, naked and panting as they are. Fucking heaven. "Oh yeah, I'll fuck you," he tells Rachel, putting the condom on himself. "Back to work on Dom now," he says, giving her a friendly swat on the bum, rubbing his cock along her cunt, "but don't let him come yet."

"I'll try," Rachel says, determined to keep Dom right on the edge for as long as she can. "But you feel so good, it'll be hard to concentrate."

Dom can hardly believe this is happening to him. Rachel bending over him, her mouth around his cock would be enough. But there's Billy behind her, rubbing his cock over her pussy in the most leisurely fashion, as if he's not desperate to fuck her hard and fast. Oh yes, Dom knows Billy well, knows Billy won't let on to Rachel how much he desires her. But Dom can see it, and has to stamp hard on the tinge of jealousy he doesn't want to admit to feeling.

The pure pleasure of the feeling of Rachel on his cock runs like fire though Billy, make his eyes close and his hand tense around her hip. "God, 's good," he murmurs, his voice shaking with it. He can feel Dom's eyes on him, and reaches his other hand to Dom, feeling like he's completing a circuit.

Dom's hand automatically takes Billy's, gripping it tight and using it as a lifeline, as Rachel's mouth does unforgivable things to him. Billy's eyes open and their gaze locks, and holy fucking hell Dom realises this is where he belongs, right here, in Billy's eyes and under his control.

The two of them, Rachel and Dom, right there for him: it's so hot Billy feels like he's melting with it. "Be still," he whispers harshly as he pulls back to the right angle and pushes slowly into Rachel, feeling her shift and open for him, unbelievably hot and slick, so different from fucking Dom, not better or worse, just different. "God, Dom, she's so sweet, you're gonna love fucking her," he groans, knowing how sexy the show will be when Dom fucks her.

Rachel stills as Billy enters her, suddenly aware of the connection between Dom and Billy that goes back a long time, the depth of the feeling between them. She's never been with two men who are so into each other that they're practically using her as a conduit to fuck each other. She moans softly around Dom's cock as Billy thrusts slowly and gently into her. It's intense and unbelievably good.

Rachel's moan makes Dom gasp and grip tightly on to Billy's hand, he's so close to coming. But Billy's got Dom submitting with just his gaze, and there's no way Dom's going to come without Billy's say-so. He watches Billy move above the perfect curves of Rachel's arse and tangles his free hand in her hair, soft and warm. Everything in him is now focused on staving off the inevitable orgasm; thankfully, Rachel's eased off with her mouth and is licking around his balls, her tongue dancing over his skin.

The logistics of this are a bit weird, and no matter how good, it's complicated. So Billy won't drag it out, there's plenty of time to tease later. He says to Rachel, "Go on, wanna watch you make him come," and gives a squeeze to Dom's hand, permission to let go.

On Billy's command, Rachel's mouth closes around Dom's cock and Dom sees stars, coming with a strangled groan and a jerk of his hips. His back arches and his head thuds against the carpet as he feels himself ejaculate over and over into Rachel's mouth. "Oh fuck," he mutters, "Fuck, Billy, fuck!"

Rachel swallows and swallows as Dom comes, thankful that Billy's stilled himself so she can focus on pleasing Dom. He groans and writhes beneath her, finally settling after what seems like a long time, and Rachel lets his cock slide out of her mouth.

Dom's orgasm is so intense that Billy's nearly coming just watching, holding himself back only because it would be too rough on Rachel. "Good girl," he murmurs to her, sliding his hand round to tease her clit, "such a good job, so sexy."

Now she can relax and let Billy take care of her as he always does. Dom's legs slide down flat on the floor, and she rests her cheek on his belly, elbows on the floor either side of him. She moans softly as Billy's fingertips find her clit, rocking her hips in time with his thrusts and sinking a little as Dom strokes her hair.

Rachel's breasts brush against his thighs as Dom quietly watches the two of them, blissful in the afterglow of his orgasm. "So beautiful," he murmurs, his eyes roaming over Billy and Rachel.

The force of Billy's thrusts is moving Rachel's head along Dom's stomach, almost as good as fucking her into him. He pulls back and rubs her clit, watching her body move at every tiny touch,revelling in his ability to make her suck and fuck and like it. When she's panting and grinding back against him, body slick with sweat, Billy meets Dom's eyes and pushes hard into her. Mine, he's saying, you can play, but she's mine. More than you're mine.

Billy's gaze is fierce, and he won't release Dom from it, much as Dom wants relief from its intensity and would really like to fix his eyes to where Billy's fucking. His fingers are buried in Rachel's hair and she's moaning and panting into his skin, fingertips digging into the carpet. There's something in Billy's face that Dom hasn't seen before, and it scares and excites him in equal measure.

All Rachel can do is submit to what Billy's doing to her, with his mind almost as much as his body. Her orgasm is close, but not quite there; she wants so badly to come for him, please him, and hopes his self-control can last out as long as it takes.

Billy can tell Rachel's close, and he knows she loves dirty sex-talk, so he murmurs to her, "You look so good, two men at once, such a good hot slut, I want to keep you naked and ready for us." Just the thought of that makes him look away from Dom, run his fingernails over her clit, and thrust hard, setting up a rhythm that should drive her out of her mind.

It's fucking perfect, Billy knows exactly what she needs. Rachel arches her back, tensing up her abdominal muscles and resting her forehead on Dom's stomach before letting out a long, low groan as she comes. Her body shudders involuntarily and Billy's fingers press hard on her clit, prolonging and drawing out the exquisite pleasure.

"Holy fuck," Dom mutters. "Fuck."

It's Dom's voice as much as Rachel's cunt that tips Billy over, as he comes with a moan, hips still moving, greedy for every last drop of pleasure. He holds Rachel gently as they slowly slide down on their sides to rest on the rug. His other arm, still trembling, he moves up to reach for Dom.

Dom wriggles around until he's facing Rachel, Billy's arm around both of them. "You've broken my brain," he murmurs, a stupid grin on his face.

Rachel lays her palm on Dom's cheek, feeling Billy behind her. She's sated and intensely happy, wondering why they've waited all this time to meet up with Dom -- Billy must have known it was going to be good. But then he'd said he wasn't ready to share her like this until now, and despite the fact that they've both fucked other people since they've been together, there's been nothing like this. Only now does Rachel understand what Billy meant when he said 'share'.

How will you be suspended from LJ? by Anonymous LJ User
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