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You're right, it's not just teenagers, adults do it too and it's most frustrating when it happens between couples. Good point, he did cause people seeing him this way, so he's a victim of his own mistake. But I still feel for him to some extent, even with it being self inflicted.

I'm going to leave a trail on the original comment for anyone who cares enough to figure it out.

No, I didn't know why Dylan was. I'm bad at remembering names, but I looked it up and holy shit. He's the allegedly straight guy from the cabin. This makes for a whole mess, I love it. This means Brandon suggested Billy not go after Dylan, but, unknown to him, leaves Dylan more free to go after Tyler, which Brandon very much wouldn't want him to if he knew that was a thing.

Christine flat out told Brandon she doesn't have a boyfriend but, considering how much of an asshole he continued to be to her, he probably didn't believe her and still thinks she's with Tyler. I hope I'm wrong because thinking Tyler has turned straight again plays into Brandon's worries about dating guys confused about their sexuality, making it harder to resolve this situations. Matt once again makes a comment about Tyler's father that the person he's talking to thinks doesn't match Mr. Scott. The difference this time is, unlike other people, Brandon will remember this. It doesn't mean anything to him now, but maybe it will if more evidence of something fishy about who Tyler's father really is comes up. Dylan is not very good at lying, his excuse for asking Tyler for a ride got blown way too easily. It sounds like's attracted to Tyler, but I think Tyler is too in love with Brandon to consider dating anyone else, so I don't know what to guess about where this plot is going. As for Devin, it's quite telling that even his brother, who is younger than him, thinks he's childish. I said in the previous paragraph that I think Tyler wouldn't date anyone besides Brandon at this point. He did call an ex-girlfriend, but that was different, he doesn't want to date her. That was a desperate attempt to convince himself he's straight because being gay would mean he lost Brandon. It failed epically, which had never happened to him before, so now he can't pretend Brandon isn't the cause.

Edit 1: Nevermind, I posted this comment on the wrong chapter. I'm going to move it to the right one. Edit 2: In an unfortunate timing, Jason replied while I was moving the comment. So, in case anyone wants to try to understand this, I'll eave a link to where I copy pasted the comment Jason replied to. https://gayauthors.org/stories/chapter/68512-part-one-its-not-you-its-not-me/#findComment-739864

How did we end up on lashings in a topic about good parenting? That's awful parenting!

It feels likes James' boss set up the situation to leave with no choice. It sounds like he knew the outcome was probably going to James taking over the project, but didn't tell him in advance of going to Toronto because he could try to push back against being away for so long. By waiting until the client already wanted him, it was too late for James to try to wiggle out of it. Things are going great with Evan, with both guys putting in the work, but I wonder if James' work situation could become a risk. With work forcing him to spend multiple weeks at a time away from Evan and giving him more responsibility, he needs to be careful to not risk dedicating too few of his time to Evan. He's doing great for now, but I wonder about a potential reversal of the past. However, after rereading the story summary, it sounds like it will go in a completely different direction from what I was saying above.

What do you mean offtopic? This topic is about parenting and you've been talking about Krista as you and Jason's mother. See, totally on topic. 😛

I don't know how me joking mentioning pineapple pizza somehow resulted in subscribing to bacon facts, but I'm enjoying it.

I know about that argument. The joke was I was agreeing to lay off of the pancakes vs crepes debates, while casually igniting two more heated debates at the same time. I expected people to read it as a joke, not actually start those debates.

That and the pizza comment were bait for the sake of humour (although I do like pineapple on pizza). According to the cube rule, as seen on https://cuberule.com/, a hot dog is actually a taco because it's covered in three sides.

Ok, ok, I'll lay off the crepes vs pancakes discourse and I'll go eat a pineapple pizza, or maybe a hot dog sandwich. 🫣

To be honest, it's probably only luck that landed us in this situation. There was a time when enough Portuguese adults couldn't read that would have justified dubbing. But the country wasn't in a good financial situation, so I think we stuck to subtitles because they're cheaper to make.

Sure, not at a young age. But, once they learn some English in school, the internet helps a lot, they learn faster because of it. But movies and series help here in Portugal, because we don't dub them, unless they're animated because young kids can't read the subtitles. So hearing English and reading Portuguese helps. Even if they're not paying active attention to the spoke words, some stuff still seeps in passively.

I meant to write straight guy, that was central to the point I wanted to make and I used the wrong word. I'm going to fix it.

"Aah, Luigi, would I force food on you the minute you got here?" You're an Italian grandma, of course you will. Walking around in underwear next to a friend's grandmother is almost stranger than walking around naked next to a friend's fathers. But none of that compares to teenagers learning the fathers of one of them heard them moan, Jesus! But everything went well, the family tried to put them at ease. Of course the grandparents aren't homophobic or the fathers would already know. Back home, Sam and Virgil having sex in front of their friends was a bold move. But some people like having an audience, Virgil clearly being one of them, and it's good to experiment. It's great to see a straight guy he so comfortable with his sexuality that he openly masturbated to that. And I get it, the fact that his own friends allowed him to see such an intimate thing can be hot, regardless of the kinds of bodies involved.

Kids nowadays learn English just by existing on the internet. You're right, it's different, crepes are better.

Absolutely, and it's great to see that progress from one generation to the next.

I expected Natasha to be very bad, but she manages to be even worse. I love the way Marty threw her religious outrage at her by pointing out she's done stuff that's worse in the eyes of her religion. Also, Ben's "We fuck each other" was satisfying to hear after she went on an on after what Justin was doing to him. Plus she's been lying to her kids and even not giving them allowance money Marty paid for them. I hope she takes this to court, it will be fun to see it explode in her face. I'm also waiting for Natasha to learn Marty's rich now, for her to hear what she missed out on by no longer being married to him. Marty finally told Benjamin and Justin the news about his father and they took it very well. Ben didn't even mind that his grandmother had an affair. It makes sense for Marty to not drop another bombshell on the same day, but I'm waiting for them to learn Marty is rich now. They also don't know Marty is not straight, so I'm curious to find out how much Justin saw of Marty and Nate's call at the end.

So we meet a new asshole, Melton. Not much to say for now, we'll see how that goes. Meanwhile, the previous asshole, Gavin, finds he doesn't actually have any allies after Terry tipped the balance enough that they don't have to be as scared of Gavin as before. But he still tried attacking the guys, despite being alone, because he's a bully and he's not smart. Leon to the rescue again and he makes sure to stop right when continuing would no longer be self defense, because he's not a bully and he's smart. It seems none of the good guys had anything too bad, but Gavin being in crutches will act as a reminder of what happened to him, that's good. Plus the police is involved, let's hope they teach Gavin a lesson. There's another reason I'm glad he ended up in the hospital, Jeff would have probably done something stupid if he had found him at home. And he still might, if he runs into Gavin, but maybe having time to cool down will stop him. I don't have much to say about swim practice. Anytime Stephen will be with new kids, there's always a risk of one of them being mean. Thankfully, everything went great this time, they seem like a good group.

I've been wondering what made Evan change so much. Maybe something happened to him in between dating James and returning that changed his perspective. But maybe he just realised that, when they were dating, he took James for granted and that's why he lost him. We know Evan was, and still is, very busy. When that happens, it's easy to slip into the bad habit of not dedicating enough time to the people or things you take for granted, because you think they'll be there regardless, so you can use the little time you have for everything else that's swamping you. Now that he knows he lost James once because of that, maybe all of the ways Evan changed are the result of making him a priority. In the meantime, things seem to be going great at work for James. Having someone that's blunt like Ted is very useful in this situation, you can't solve things if the person explaining what the problems are dances around them or sugar coats them. James wonders if his boss saying all eyes are on him could mean there's a chance of a promotion if things go well. If that happens, I wonder if it will result in work taking more time of his life. And then he'll be the one who'll need to make sure to keep Evan as a priority, even through the extra work load, to avoid doing the same thing Evan did to him.

Everything would be so much easier if people communicated with each other when they're upset, instead of making assumptions about each other. But that's rarely how things go, especially with teenagers. And now there's an additional misunderstanding, with Brandon thinking Tyler is dating Christine. While I think it's natural for him to think this in the circumstances, he's effectively doing to Tyler the same think he was upset that Tyler did to him, jumping to a wrong conclusion based on incomplete information. Brandon is frustrated at Tyler, but it was his own doing. Tyler only left because Brandon was very harsh in the way he dismissed what they did as meaningless sex. Brandon doesn't even really think that, I think he said it to protect himself because of him being unsure if his crush could turn straight at any point and push him away. But, ironically, this is resulting in exactly what he was trying to avoid. I do feel for him, despite it being self inflicted, this is difficult to deal with, especially considering Tyler already pushed him away when they didn't talk for years. Brandon's advice to Billy is, of course, coloured by his current situation with Tyler. Just like with Brandon, I think Billy should openly talk to the other guy. Billy needs to be ready for the possibility of the other guy to not be interested in him in that way, but there's a chance it could work out. The point of Brandon's advice is that what happened between him and Tyler made him lose the little hope he still had of it being possible to turn a guy who thought he was straight. Devin is also upset at Brandon, which means he probably saw Tyler with him and that's somehow related to why he's upset at Tyler. I maintain what I said that I can't imagine Devin being homophobic. Devin being interested in dating Tyler and seeing Brandon as competition crossed my mind, but then ignoring Tyler would be counterproductive. So I don't know what to guess at this time. Meanwhile, we learn what Brandon has been doing behind the building. It makes sense for Brandon to be hurt about Tyler's wrong assumption.

I'm also 3 years older than my brother, just with us being 3 years younger than you and yours.

Thank you. And I know that, it's why I pushed through my shyness. And it worked, I'm comfortable around people here now. Maybe I should say something on topic for a change. I was born in 1985, right at the end of the given window. So I wasn't surprised that the things said in the video are only somewhat true for me.

Good point, your humour was probably the main reason. As for people who don't like silliness, they have the right to their wrong opinion.