Taking Chances, by E. L. Van Hine and L.H. Nicoll

[belbbmfan]

okay gang...

Fred and I are sitting here looking at each other in chat... why don't some of you gossipy girls click on the red lips and come say hi in the chat room?  Hmmm?

well, i tried that late  last night. And then my computer decided i should probably go to the bedroom instead of the chatroom. I'll have to spank him for that 
so, instead, i read a few Looking For Answers chapters, which was also nice 

anyway, i'll try again this evening.

but first, off to read chapter 66!
thanks Louise

[yb]

Thanx. 
Believe it or not, it got worse.  One of my innocent feedback comments to Louise was actually displayed and poked fun of on an LJ in a way that was made to make me feel like an idiot.  I wanted to curl up and die with humiliation.  Just no call for that atall.  I was also told LJ's are 'not public'.  Huh.  A person can write whatever and with a simple mouse click, anyone and everyone in the whole world can read what they post.  Well, that's pretty damn public, doesn't get much more public than that, does it. 
However, I am putting it all in perspective now (medication helps) and like Ennis, I'm movin' on.  It's just not worth worrying about anymore.  I've come to a decision and taken steps to protect myself from any further distress of situations I have no control over.  I'm going to be a lot more careful about every word I post, coz ya never know when it can get used against ya.  I've removed myself from certain BBM discussion forums and will steer clear of of reading LJ comments.  They can say whatever they want about me, I won't care if I don't know about it.  I'll have to give up certain WIP's I've been following, but that's okay, I'll find others elsewhere I'm sure.  Guess I'll never know how they end.  Actually, I've been trying to read everything out there, since there's too many, I think I need to get a little more particular and drop the less interesting ones.  A few AU's are really getting out there anyway.
There's more than enough great fics to keep me busy.  I'm just gonna consentrate on reading and enjoying the stories.

Anyhoo, can't believe I'm up this late, gotta crash.  I believe things will look better in the morning.   

I think right now there are a few safe places to post your comment on LS.  Here at Bettermost, Louise's story on LJ and ennisjack.com.  You have no control if some lurkers copy your posts on these 3 places and paste them on other forums but at least you're sure you will not be attacked here and at the other 2 places.  I only hang out at these 3 forums in regard to LS, what you do not see you'll not be affected emotionally is my motto.  It's pretty passive but in light of all the attacks on Louise and the stories, I guess I'd rather take this approach.

[souxi]

Morning everyone. I,ts a grey rainy old day today in the UK so plenty of hip thrusting please Louise to warm up my day.  . Cooooooeeeee June.

[souxi]

This will brighten your day a bit..from shelter from the storm. Ennis getting riled because of Brad lol. I love the comment from Ellery at the end of the chapter.


Ennis continued to buck, making those excited groaning noises, and finally broke his silence. “Fuck me darlin...!” he begged, his voice edged, cracking. This was something new, both arousing and somewhat worrisome to a man who was used to doing the begging, gripping the headboard and being pounded violently to orgasm. Ellery closed his eyes and pulled off Ennis’s cock, his mouth dripping saliva, and pulled out his fingers, sliding his hands down Ennis’s thighs to the knees and pushing, raising him up before letting go his right knee and aiming his cock. He thrust slightly as the head connected with Ennis’s twitching sphincter, and Ennis’s head thrashed once, back and forth.

“Easy does it,” he soothed, and was met with Ennis’s pale stare.

“Do it hard,” Ennis gasped.

Ellery gulped, closed his eyes once, and nodded, lowered his right hand again to the meat of Ennis’s muscular thigh, clenched both hands on him, and ploughed into him with a fierce moan, and began to thrust as hard as he dared, watching Ennis’s face and neck flush dark red, the cords standing out on his neck.

“Oh darlin...” Ennis growled through clenched teeth, his ass clenching fiercely on Ellery’s pistoning cock, trying to buck up to anticipate his plunge, held fast by Ellery’s long, grasping fingers.

Ellery surrendered to Ennis’s need, no longer driven by his own desire but by a frantic lust he had not yet seen before, his hips slapping Ennis’s taut flanks, another tide of pleasure building up in him as he rode that tight, narrow passage, his cock now thick and rigid with overstimulation. He reached over with his right hand and grabbed Ennis’s hand, which had been grasping at the bedspread, and put it on Ennis’s bobbing cock, closing his hand over Ennis’s hand and making him pump it, feeling the change in the tightness of his sphincter as Ennis started his own buildup, and Ellery thrust deep, letting Ennis’s hand go and gripping his thighs, arched his back and ground his cock deep inside him, and threw his head back, with the final arching thrust, he came explosively, the jolt of his final thrusts causing Ennis to spurt messily over his hand and stomach.

Ellery let his legs down gently, softening as he pulled out, and looked down at Ennis, who had gone still almost immediately after he came.

“Ennis?”

Ennis looked up at him drowsily, a smile flickering on his lips. “Hmm?”

“You all right down there? Did I hurt ya...?”

Ennis shook his head. “Nope.” His eyes drifted closed again.

Ellery patted his cheek, and Ennis opened his eyes once more, then closed them, this time, his eyes rolling up. He reached his hand to pat Ennis’s cheek again, and Ennis’s head fell back against the bed, this time, completely out cold.

“Damn I’m good,” Ellery said, standing up and stripping off the rest of his uniform before climbing back in bed and wrapping his arms around Ennis’s wet, unconscious body.

 

[Bigheart]

I think right now there are a few safe places to post your comment on LS.  Here at Bettermost, Louise's story on LJ and ennisjack.com.  You have no control if some lurkers copy your posts on these 3 places and paste them on other forums but at least you're sure you will not be attacked here and at the other 2 places.  I only hang out at these 3 forums in regard to LS, what you do not see you'll not be affected emotionally is my motto.  It's pretty passive but in light of all the attacks on Louise and the stories, I guess I'd rather take this approach.

This is what I do too. I only hang out here at Bettermost and on Louise's journal with regard to LS. I went over to this one journal a while back to see what it was all about and it made me feel sick to my stomach. I'll never go back there again. And yes, it's pretty passive but that's just the way it is for me. I can't handle all the nastiness, really makes me feel ill, so I simply avoid all those places.
 

[Bigheart]

Morning everyone. I,ts a grey rainy old day today in the UK so plenty of hip thrusting please Louise to warm up my day.  . Cooooooeeeee June.

Morning Souxi 
Pretty grey and dull over here in Holland too 
I think Ennis will have to whip up those silk scarves to restrain Ellery    because the lovin they've got going on now isn't at all good for Ellery's health.....and I do wonder what Ennis will say to Ellery about his health the next time he sees him....
SO Souxi, I think you'll have to make do without hip thrusts for a while! 
I'll manage, what with those gettin fancy parts you keep posting! LOL!
Damn! Ellery *is* GOOD! 
Thanks Souxi, I think...

[souxi]

I think Ennis will have to whip up those silk scarves to restrain Ellery    because the lovin they've got going on now isn't at all good for Ellery's health.....and I do wonder what Ennis will say to Ellery about his health the next time he sees him....


Yup I think a bit of restraint is a bloody good idea...all for the good of his health of course..*ahem* 
What will Ennis say to him when he sees him again? ermmmm welllllllll , maybe he,ll give him a stern telling off and a good seeing to with one of "those" toys like he did before when his back hurt. For the good of his health again of course. *ahem*

[magicmountain]

This is what I do too. I only hang out here at Bettermost and on Louise's journal with regard to LS. I went over to this one journal a while back to see what it was all about and it made me feel sick to my stomach. I'll never go back there again. And yes, it's pretty passive but that's just the way it is for me. I can't handle all the nastiness, really makes me feel ill, so I simply avoid all those places.
 

All the carry on about LS used to bring out my love of a jolly good debate on issues and ideas. But its all gotten way past any of that. Like you, the comments now make me feel physically sick. It has turned into something rotten - to be avoided just as one avoids a stench for the sake of one's good health.

[christie wood]

This will brighten your day a bit..from shelter from the storm. Ennis getting riled because of Brad lol. I love the comment from Ellery at the end of the chapter.


“Damn I’m good,” Ellery said, standing up and stripping off the rest of his uniform before climbing back in bed and wrapping his arms around Ennis’s wet, unconscious body.

 

Moring everyone.  Sorry I've not been posting much lately, what with me posting over at ennisjack and keeping up with this wonderful fic and others I'm following, oh and a bit of RL thrown in the mix, I seem to fall behind quite quickly!  

But I just want to say how much I really enjoy coming here and enjoying all your comments, even if I dont always reply.  

I particularly like Souxi's reminders of wonderful past chapters, so please keep them coming!!!!  

This one was particularly good, as we dont get to see Ellery on top much do we?  I love all the hot talk and the mention of hips thrusting.  

And yes, Ellery, you are good.  Very, very good.  

[louisev]

This is what I do too. I only hang out here at Bettermost and on Louise's journal with regard to LS. I went over to this one journal a while back to see what it was all about and it made me feel sick to my stomach. I'll never go back there again. And yes, it's pretty passive but that's just the way it is for me. I can't handle all the nastiness, really makes me feel ill, so I simply avoid all those places.
 

There is no regulating the Internet.  For your better understanding, Navyvet, there are configuration settings on Livejournal that allow various levels of control by the individual:  the default configuration is open and public.  This allows anonymous comments, does not track IP addresses or users, and people who log in from anywhere, can post anything they like.  In the Terms of Service of Livejournal, the only things that are not permitted are things that are prohibited under international law, and personal attacks that encourage harrassment of individual users including full name or phone number that enable people to harrass another personally.  It does not regulate copyright, nor does its abuse team address anything the user can do by reconfiguration.

The next step up in security is disallowing anonymous comments.  This allows  some control and discourages people from leaving unwelcome commentary, because the person's LJ name is visible on their entries.  You can also set IP address logging, which allows you to track and compare IP addresses.  Any individual address can be put in a banlist, which prohibits them from commenting on the LJ, and recently I implemented Ip logging and disallowing anonymous entries, and this enabled me to discover the 9 duplicate accounts in Canada that were spamming my LJ with unwelcome comments.  I locked them all out - they were clearly all the same one person.  Good news for me: because without that, I would not have known that instead of an unknown number of discontented and sincere readers I had one bizarre troll!

Livejournal can also be configured for "friends only" which requires an invitation from the LJ's owner to see entries, and all entries are protected.  A step up from this is "private."

Bettermost, on the other hand, can be read by any lurker, and many lurkers do read the E&E site.  This means that content from Bettermost CAN be posted in people's private blogs on LJ or other places, and see exactly what we're talking about here.  If that makes you uncomfortable, you can always ask the people who are quoting you elsewhere to please leave you alone, which - if they are polite - they may do.

I find it mildly amusing that people who come over to a forum I moderate, and in which I warned you about dissent, would copy my remarks, and then describe me as oversensitive.  Protective of readers - yep.  As far as I know, up until now, no other BBM fan fic writer has had a site set up for the express purpose of warning people not to read my work, but that is what has happened.  Does that upset my readers?  Clearly - yes.  Does it upset me?  Not anymore - it is patently obvious that what was meant to discourage people is actually doing the exact opposite - four months after writing "Taking Chances" the story is now getting a real bump of new hits and readers, and more enthusiastic comments.  I would urge my readers to be reassured that the people who are warning people not to read my work feel as if they are doing a public service to the BBM Community.  All they are really doing is bringing in new readers with a controversy/curiosity factor.  I couldn't pay for that kind of publicity.