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Girl, if I was Gondwana, I would never have split up with you. That's the best my sleep deprived butt can come up with, but I couldn't stop myself from brainstorming (buttstorming?) after Laurasia first appeared in the story. Do you perhaps use autocorrect that holds grudges against Larisa? The chapter was like picking up Larisa's coffee order from Starbucks for a week, which was too amusing, at least in my current condition. You keep painting an exquisite picture of Avery looking and feeling out of place, and of the rising tensions inside the (love) triangle: Avery's mystique and Darlene's off-putting hands-on conduct. I knew the mess that Avery would make the moment he uttered spaghetti out of his mouth. Isn't there an unwritten rule that you do not order spaghetti on a date because there's no dignified way to eat it? Twist the fork all you like, but the dangling ends coated with sauce will still dance on your chin. As a person who hasn't learnt to appreciate the art of wine, the first image that popped into my head is Christy thinking: "Okay. This tastes like wine. Now say something smart." So turns out Jobs went to heaven and sold Jesus on an iPhone. I guess those Christian content filters paid off. I expected him, sorry, her to be more fun... I need someone to lock up my phone at night. I can't keep living like this. I hope it at least produced funny commentary. Anyway, until the next nightly chapter read! I will devour the rest of this story like Avery a bowl of fancy pants pasta.

I use the dark theme, so for me reading this was a bit problematic, because of the black font colour being used instead of the default one (which changes from black to grey with the dark theme). This story flows nicely and is pleasant to read. There just was one glaring continuity problem in this chapter when Darlene slams the door of Julian's office closed twice. Also, the last part here confuses me. Did Darlene tell Avery about the accusations or not? From Avery's reply it seems she did. Does it mean that she had initially chosen to leave them out, but then told him anyway? Another thing that caught my attention was Darlene setting out the lotion before even checking Avery's tape job. I love the nonverbal implications of it. It seems like a statement: "I already know you did a sloppy job, young man." Lastly, Bryan has been Byran from time to time in the story, once in this chapter. Alright, please carry on stirring the plot. I'm ready to eat it right up.

I think there's a chance for one more twist. It didn't seem right to me that Sarah would have to move to another state without saying goodbye to her friends. She might be going to Lisa just to do that before catching a flight to Wisconsin. This can still go either way.

So the good kind of hell of a trip, not the fiery, getting grilled alive for centuries kind of hell of a trip? Right..? Right?

Oh wow! What a way to blindside her. In Kath's position I would probably have a panic attack and never be able to trust him again, but for the story I like how it emphasises that as a little she has no say in the matter. In a story: kinda kinky. In reality: relationship crushing abuse of trust.

I'm beginning to get invested in this story! Kathleen diving into this dynamic by signing a contract before a face to face meeting as equals is quite reckless, but at least she has Tiffany looking out for her (albeit with possible ulterior motives). To be fair, it's reckless from both parties. I'm one with the darkside on this forum as well as UIs in general. I like to read the latest chapters before going to sleep. Could you perhaps look into your work flow? Invision can be wonky with text formatting as you can see from the included screenshot I took of the beginning of your latest post. It's been a while from when I last copied something from Word to this forum, so I don't know exactly what's the easiest fix. Anyway, thank you for sharing this story! I'm looking forward for more!

Getting babysat by your crush's boyfriend. I don't envy her! It shall be a valiant sacrifice for a good story.

If I remember correctly from a Last Week Tonight episode, the requirements vary from state to state. Some states have almost no supervision on homeschooling. It's unfathomable that is allowed in a developed country.

It has to be obvious to the mother that Sarah is trying to go to the bathroom whenever she needs to and is physically incapable of holding her bladder for a longer time. She has to be delusional to still think Sarah wants to have accidents. I hope whatever is causing the incontinence doesn't cause Sarah to crash before she can see a doctor. The incontinence could be caused by neurological damage, tumour or diabetes. To my recollection no other symptoms have been mentioned in the story so far, which could make psychological cause more likely, but that requires treatment nonetheless. Urinary tract infection can cause incontinence as well, but given how long Sarah has had problems with her bladder without other symptoms, I highly doubt it's the cause.

It was already established that Kelly is less than nice person, but this has to be a new low.

The prints are cute enough, but at least in the store where I first saw them, they are more expensive than some more absorbent diapers or diapers with some features I find desirable, such as hook-and-loop tapes, that the Land of Genies don't have. I couldn't see a reason to pick them out of all the options.

I almost bought some diapers from ABU's EU store during the sale, but eventually decided against it. For 120 € order you would have gotten a free t-shirt. The problem was that the diaper bag that got me over 120 € also doubled the shipping cost. In addition, they were out of Little Kings that were what I was mainly after. Given how frequently ABU seems to be out of stock, there must be more than one problem in their supply chain. I ended up buying from Diaper Minister instead. They had cheaper shipping, more variety, and Little Kings! Is ABU's main priority to restock their retailers instead of their own store? I don't know anything about business.

In Finland it at least used to be typical for younger children to just wear long underwear or tights indoors. During the cold winter months you'd just take off your snow pants or snow suit after you came home, and you'd be left with tights or long underwear that you had worn underneath. As you got older, you'd more often opt to change into something else, such as sweatpants, to wear indoors. I would say by the age of ten, I more often wore sweatpants indoors than long underwear. Boys only really wore tights here as toddlers when I was a child, which was the 00's. That's partly why I now have a few pairs of tights myself, plus that I find them more comfortable than sticking the legs of my thermal underwear into my socks.

Because it would then be capybare. Are you going to finish eating your meatballs?

Net Nanny is still around. Whether it has anything to do with the original in addition to the name is another thing. I don't know about Cyber Patrol. Net Nanny was sort of synonymous to parental controls back in time, but I don't think they are the market leader nowadays. I also installed Qustodio to my desktop PC when I found out about the free version. Because you can only install the free version on one device, here I am typing away on my laptop in the middle of the night... Having typed that I feel as guilty as I should and will go to sleep.

He has already started dissociating. It's definitely a more realistic reaction to the treatment than starting to play the part. I'm starting to think Zack won't do anything drastic in response to Kelly's actions anymore, but I wish someone eventually does on his behalf. Hopefully his father at least won't just be happy with having an "easy" child, and realises what's happening to Zack.

Shatter

And major Windows updates. They're always the Russian roulette of what will break, but you never know how many bullets you're playing with.

I do use DND as well. In addition to receiving calls from favourite contacts I've enabled repeat callers, so same caller trying to get through twice within 15 minutes can reach me. I understand the concern. I would say I've made it rather minimally obtrusive. I only really use the screen time limits and downtime. If I just changed the Google account password to something I can memorise, I would be fully in control of it with just the illusion of not being, even when I only have my phone on me. I shortly considered using the content restrictions too, but decided it would just be a nuisance in everyday life.

After being inspired by a story, I decided to try setting up parental controls on my smartphone. I had been using Android's Digital Wellbeing already to limit my screen time in the apps that you're designed to get lost into. It was helping a bit, but I took it a step further with Google's Family Link. It was bit of a pain to set up at first, but after getting through the few bugs in the setup process, it seems to be working fine. I made a new Google account for the purpose of controlling the one signed in on my phone. You can set up time limits per app, always available apps, downtime and content restrictions. I set up limits per app at first to lock the apps that were problematic to me before I've lost hours to them in a day. Sadly those didn't work. For some reason the timers didn't reset overnight and they stayed locked the next day. I changed to use just the overall screen time which means all the apps that aren't set to always available will lock when the screen time runs out. Because I of course need to adult with my phone, I set the messaging apps, e-banking and such to always available. I didn't set up all that many content restrictions, because adulting. If I had someone in charge of them, I would want to try them during a play day. The downtime locks the phone entirely for a set time, but you should be able to make calls or receive them. I scheduled that for sleeping. There's also many possibilities for enforcing a power dynamic. The content restrictions I mentioned. You could set them so the user has to request their caregiver to approve any app installation. You can set age limits for the apps the user can install. The user can request more screen time when they run out. The caregiver can block the use of an installed app entirely or manually lock the phone. They can force the user to request permission every time they try to sing into a device with their Google account. If the user only has Chrome browser installed, it's possible to filter which websites they can access and enforce SafeSearch on Google. However, you can't see the websites the user has visited or their search history, which is a positive thing in my opinion. The caregiver can turn on restricted mode on YouTube, which turns off the comments and stops the user from watching age restricted videos. There's location sharing as well, although many people already have another method to check where their loved ones are in case of an emergency. The caregiver can have the app send them notifications when the phone leaves an assigned location. I'll detail my settings below for the more curious ones, but I have to say the parental controls on my phone and scheduling offline time to my other devices from my router have helped me stick to a bedtime a whole lot better. I know I can turn them off at any time. I have an old tablet that I use just to adjust the settings in the Family Link app, although it's also possible in a browser on PC. However, it's just enough more effort to go add more screen time or change the downtime schedule that I don't do it. Doing it would also give a greater feeling of failure than browsing Instagram without limits late into the night would. I also love the slight feeling it gives me, the feeling of not being trusted to use a phone without limits, even when I'm enforcing it myself. I should mention that I'm a student, so I often have weeks without or with very few lectures and I'm supposed to schedule my work myself. Hence the issues with sticking to bedtimes. There are some risks as always with technology. I haven't memorized the password of the account in charge of the parental controls. It's a generated password in a password manager. When my phone locks for downtime I can't access the password manager app, so if I'm out and about at night without a secondary device, I'll be locked out of my phone. It means I need to remember to change the downtime schedule or turn it off for nights like that. The app has also had some bugs, but nothing serious yet. There's the small chance of a bug locking me out. The risk of someone hijacking the Google account is quite low. I have a strong password and two-factor authentication on it and I don't use the account for anything else. There are the privacy concerns with Google, but I want to think they're somewhat worried about getting fined for not following the general data protection regulation (GDPR). Feel free to educate me on how naïve I am. Has anyone else set up parental controls for their devices or does someone even have a caregiver in charge of them? My settings Screen time: 1 h 30 min on weekdays, 3 h on weekends Downtime: 23:00-6:00 on nights before weekdays, 23:59-07:00 Friday-Saturday and Saturday-Sunday.* Content restrictions: Play Store: PEGI 12 limit *I will probably move the downtime to start sooner on weekdays as I get used to it.

I almost seems as if Tykables has been forgotten here. They dropped their first positionally printed diaper last year and a new cloth-backed diaper last month. I was surprised to see the new products when I checked their website earlier this month, because I hadn't heard about them anywhere. Perhaps ABU got all the hype, because they were the first to use the printing technology on an ABDL diaper and well, subjectively speaking, they did it a bit better. I probably would have bought more Little Kings in my latest restock, but the new Tykables were less expensive, so now I'm waiting to receive a pack of Waddlers and Animooz. Choosing between 3.1 € a diaper and 4.8 € a diaper (excluding shipping) wasn't a difficult choice to make.

@Arkili34 As far as the story tells, Anna probably wasn't a child of anyone politically significant, so the odds of her country's government risking to burn bridges regarding a single citizen's human rights are microscopically low. Before even getting to the point where they might need to do so, her story would most likely need to attract worldwide attention. A respected news agency would need to pick up her story, verify it and publish it. Verify events that happened over a decade ago or so. I've forgotten the specifics of the story's timeline. To put it short, I don't see that happening. However, if you have some more of that optimism of yours and you don't know where to put it, I'd love to have some.

German language is my minor, so this is really interesting to me. Thanks for sharing!

Peeing in a diaper makes so much noise that everyone in a 100 meter radius will hear it. Everyone can afford a several thousand dollar nursery makeover for a bedroom, and is willing to spend the money just to teach a lesson.

@pamprdguy "Bad Girls from Valley High". It's in the name of the thread.