Diana the Valkyrie

Diana the Valkyrie's Newsletter - October 1998

A hard man is good to beat

September

Conkers all over the grass, but it's still summer. When I was a young Valkyrie, we used to hang about the conker trees, because that's where you'd find boys. You can tell it's summer, because the clouds are light grey.

New and updated Galleries

The big news from the Galleries, is that I split up the West Wing (which had become huge) into eight different categories.

I added a lot of athletic stuff; tennis and skating and so on.

Stu went to the Team Universe competition, and I've put up several hundred pictures from there. Stu sat in the audience with a telephoto lens.

Also I put up a load more vidcaps of lift-and-carry, taken from the Jeff Urband videos (which are now in the Shopping Mall).

And there's a sequence from Joan Rhodes "I'm an iron girl in a velvet glove" cabaret act. Now, has anyone got a recording of her act on the Ed Sullivan show?

The Library

Julie got her own Bookshelf, and so did Karen. Karen's series on how she dominates and overwhelms her husband are useful reading for anyone likely to end up under the thumb of someone like Karen.

Newsgroups - NewsThumbs

Now we're on a new newsfeed, things are running really well. I'm still open for suggestions of newsgroups to add.

The Women's Strength Extravaganza

Members of the web site will be there in large numbers. Wear a badge for recognition, you can get the badge from the web site, download it and print it out. If you can't do colour, do black-and-white. You can put the name that people know you by underneath.

The web site will be one of the main sponsors of the event, a Hosting Sponsor. Watch the WSE Message board for discussions about the event, how to meet up, and so on. At the event itself, look out for the "Diana the Valkyrie" table. It'll act as a meeting place and focal point for people.

Also, I have eight VIP tickets worth $100 each to give to members. I'm open to offers; what I want is people who will be willing to take pictures and/or video at the event (you're allowed to take pictures inside, and pictures and video outside the main hall). I'll pay for film/development/tape. These VIP tickets get you a good seat, and to the evening buffet, where you can rub elbows with the competitors.

So far, Stu, Tex, Jabber, PJ and Fistman have put their hands up and will be attending the WSE as guests of Diana the Valkyrie; free VIP tickes to each one. There's three tickets left ...

The Movie Theatre

There's a new series of wrestling/domination from Sonia and poor little Pierre. Also Sonia versus ShyGuy. ShyGuy doesn't believe in suffering in silence; when he's in pain, you can hear it three counties away.

This is a complete list of all the video clips available on the web site that were posted in the last thirty days. This index is recreated daily. In the small hours of the morning (while you're tucked up nice and safe in your bed) a Valkyrie looks at every movie on the web site and lists them. Of course, any alteration to a file will change its date, so some of them might be re-uploads of an old clip.

The files are sorted with the most recent at the top.

The Shopping Mall

There's also a bunch of new LH Art books, for people who like illustrated stories, and the artwork is magnificent. You can see samples in the Shopping Mall, LH Art Bookshop. You'll find stuff there by many members of this website, including the famous and infamous Kandor.

Also, check out LH Art's own area on the web site because the JUNE/JULY 1998 Supplemental List is just out.

And look for the new Celebrity Wrestling bookshop; five books about Hollywood stars fighting and wrestling. Also some free samples, of course.

And there's a new video; Sonia Fernandes teaches ShyGuy a lesson. You can see the pictures in the Gallery, download the video clips, and buy the video.

Ladybumps

Some updates here.

The links

I added a link to a somewhat pornographic and allegedly true story set in the White House; it's called the Starr Report. Not for under-18s, of course. You'll find it with the other fetish links, just after "Mistress Miranda's firm control" and before "Harder Erections! Plus, rare solutions for Impotence, Premature Ejaculation and other male sexual challenges". You'll have to make up your own minds about whether it's true.

New Servers

On 21st September (the Autumnal Equinox) we moved Joan up to New York to do what Greta had failed to handle, and she got to work at once. So far, so good! Greta (summoned back to Washingtom for a dressing down and a kernel upgrade) has been behaving well for the last several weeks, so she'll be taking over more and more of the News load. Ultimately, I plan to use all Greta's 70gb for the News, as soon as I'm happy that she can stop being the backstop in case Joan feels umpty. Meanwhile, Katie got a 32 gb upgrade (Katie does a lot of the video processing), and Linda arrived in England; Linda is Linux, and it means I can try things out here, without having to shovel them across the Atlantic first. Linda's a bit short on the old gb, being a bit experimental, so Katie's lending her the 32gb she got.

The Clubhouse

The big news in the Clubhouse was the on-line suicide of Warrior Poet. You can read it in the archives, and since that evening, we haven't seen him again. People have asked me if he really did suicide - well, I don't know. I remember Scooby once castrating himself in the chatroom, but he seemed quite frisky the next day.

I've also added a thing so that, if you know how to look, you can see the member-name of who is speaking. This is mainly there so that CaptainCorc can do his statistical summaries in future, more accurately

Chat stats for 8/28 through 9/27. No attempt has been made to track different nicknames to a single owner. You're safe, Shy Guy. As always, I have not listed my own counts to avoid accusations of tampering.

Top twenty posters among humans (posting count):

HardbodyPaul 2829
TomNine 2568
Scooby 2143
Warrior Poet 2132
Diana the Valkyrie 1803
JoanneFan 1679
Beowulf 1406
Crystal 1326
Richard 1113
JoanneK 1106
Sen 1095
sonia 995
Blasterman 862
2Hd 814
Tex 785
Ghost 775
Sheila 772
wb270 660
PJ 632
TwoPossums 567

Top clocks (by posting):

Clepsydra 7851
Big Ben 0
Clock at Waterloo Station 0

Top twenty postings for humans (by word count):

HardbodyPaul 37090
TomNine 30333
Warrior Poet 22175
Scooby 14595
Diana the Valkyrie 12993
JoanneK 12528
Beowulf 12366
JoanneFan 12344
Richard 11697
Sheila 11005
PJ 9568
Sen 8736
wb270 8392
Crystal 6760
TwoPossums 6579
Charon 6491
Sonia 6443
Blasterman 6121
squishedfish 5823
2Hd 5546

Top clocks (by word count):

Clepsydra 76063
Big Ben 0
Clock at Waterloo Station 0

Back Page

I was very pleased to be able to get "Iron girl in a velvet glove", I've been looking for that for ages.

I've now got a fairly stable bunch of servers to run on, but it won't stay that way; ever onward, ever upward!

I checked the site statistics. that Sandra counts up each night. About 106,000 pictures (four gigabytes), 5.8 gigabytes of video, 2400 text files (mostly stories) and a total of about ten gigabytes. That's not including News, which is another ten gigabytes or so.

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