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Desktop OS: Ubuntu Linux Breezy Badger uname -r says it's: 2.6.12-10-386 I'm running the K Desktop Environment (KDE) Kopete (for chatting) Kword/OpenOffice/Kwrite/vi (for writing, and editing) Konsole (Using linux without a konsole is just boring). Firefox (for webbrowsing) Amarok (for music) and a bunch of daemons, ftp, ssh and gnump3d to access my box from anywhere... For the Laptop OSX 10.3.9 NXClient (For accessing the desktop) Word (Yecch Microsoft) Adium (Chat) Camino (Browsing) Terminal (Again, I like my command line) //shadows

Okay, didn't want to bump this but xander made it easier. Thanks everybody. Tis much appreciated. //shadows

Hmm, and what does being a capricorn entail anyway? ttob, thanks for the cake! Chocolate is my favorite...

Damnit, I was supposed to make the first "I'm legal" comment. Ah well. THANKS! Anyone got cake? //shadows P.S. I can still get a restraining order...

Well, the reason there's a cute teen guy in 24 is pretty much 3 reasons. 1) It's 24's target audience. The teenage male, it lets the audience feel as if it might possibly be them, it's someone to identify with. 2) 24 seems to have a fairly large gay following, so maybe if you're a gay teenager and you can't have jack you can at least fantasize about brady.... 3) I forgot three. //shadows

whoa, somebody with my name! Sorry I can't help you though.

If you can't tell the difference between fiction and reality then you're either insane or dumb enough that you'd kill yourself doing either of those two activities anyway. You don't need help from an author. That being said, I'm weird and I will often find myself imitating in style or manner of speech a character from a particularly good novel or movie I've read or seen. I'll steal words from their vocabulary or start posturing on top of tall buildings/cliffs while laughing maniacally. Maybe I don't need a novel to make me do that, but yeah... That being said I'm about as innocent as you can get, so no drugs/alcohol don't remind me of high school. They remind me of umm, college? Or what I'll expect it to be like? //shadows P.S. Don't starve to death, we need many more chapters of DD! And they aren't too short, I think the only way you could satisfy some people is if you typed faster than they could read...

That is freaking awesome. You've got good friends. Happy Birthday! //shadows

That's a really cool idea. I want to think of a good question!

Wow, it's playing in my hometown. That's... surprising. We're a traditionally red county. (in a rather blue state). I don't think I'd want to see it just because I get very attached to characters. That and honestly who'd want to see two guys having sex. Yuck!

That would be an interesting story. I can't get the LOTR elf guy out of my mind though so that's who Eliot/Del is looking like. And oddly what you wrote sounds a bit like my engilsh class minus the technology aspect. I'd read this. But I guess what I really came to ask was, was that the end of Yankee? I really hope not. If so, I'm feeling rather depressed. I thought it would have a happy ending. Are you going to write another story after this? Or is it just going to be pieces of stories? //shadows

Hey, Happy New Year (okay, I'm a little late ) I'm sure you enjoyed DD 23, unfortunately I have a feeling you're as unhappy as me about the time it's taken for DD 24 to come out. Someone needs to invent a time machine for Dom so we can read all of DD in order at once. Taiwanese elections sound like lots of fun! I'd love to see one. Seems as though the President isn't very popular right now though. And he wants a Constitution now. Do you have an opinion on the whole China/Taiwan situation or do you tend to keep to yourself when the topic comes up? And where is this "My New Brother" story, I can't seem to find it. //shadows

I'll add more later because I"m going for a walk, but http://outpostnine.com/editorials/teacher.html is well worth a read for anyone who wants to laugh. I had to bury my head in a pillow when I first read them to keep from waking up my parents I was laughing so hard. //shadows

Every Gay Highschooler's dream, to ditch their parents without being in the wrong or feeling guilty, and be able to be successfully independent. The ability in case things really go south to just say "screw this" and be gone for good. If only... This could be the ultimate in revenge fantasies, and since I"m not a nice person that's how I'd write it This is a very promising start and could go in any number of directions. But this does bring up a point. I know Justin has parents, but they're pretty faceless from my remembrance of them. Shall we psychoanalyse Mr. Zot here? I k id. I would rather see you finish Yankee though. I want to know what'll happen to Justin! //shadows P.S. A question. Did you ever spend time in Japan like Justin? Do you know of the horrors of... the kancho?

Awesome, someone in Taiwan. That's pretty cool. It's probably the area in Asia I have the second most interest in right now. As a non-native how'd you become interested in studying there? From what I've heard Taiwan U is pretty hard to get into, that's pretty impressive that you got in as a foreigner... and won a scholarship. wow. Well, I'm not really a member of the welcoming committe, but welcome anyway! It's always nice to have smart people joining us. You're a student working on a graduate thesis on homoerotic literature. How'd you decide to write your thesis on that topic? What's it like being a foreigner in Taiwan? I have some friends who are in the opposite position, Taiwanese studying in America. They have a hard time mainly with the language. Are you pretty well accepted? What's it like to be an American dating a Taiwanese guy? Is being gay accepted in Taiwanese culture? I'm looking forward to reading more! //shadows edit: Younger guys aren't all bad!

Haha, now you can suffer with the rest of us. I say we create a band of rabble rousers, find Dom's house, break down the door and find his computer so we can read the stored chapters... You with me?! //shadows P.S. Food is good. We like food.

Whatever you do, the best of luck. The only "adult" that I'm out to is a former science teacher. They seem to be the best to come out to, more rational than the rest. I told her in an e-mail after she'd moved 2,000 miles away though lol. Whatever you do, just think through the repercussions and decide if you're ready for it. For me, it helps to know that there's somebody I can fall back on even if I have to ride a greyhound bus to seattle... //shadows Best of luck!

Hmmm. Rules and regulations are very annoying, but look at it this way. If you'd been on the team four years and had faithfully shown up at every meaning wouldn't you be kind of po'd if some freshmen replaced you? You could always try to be somebody's alternate or something or even try for "team mascot" if you're really desperate. Ah... I wonder do most gay guys focus on an object of intentions and then devote all their attention to observing him? I know I'm no better but I tend to switch around a lot (why not if they're never going to reciprocate anyway?). Is HCCG a senior? Or a freshmen like you? I don't know if you ever mentioned that. Is he gay? Oh... those crazy catholics No insults intended. Depending on how perverse you want to be Catholicism as a religion can be kind of fun if you're willing to step outside of it and view it in an unbiased manner. Whenever I'm forced to sit through a mass I view the ceremony as an anthropologist. "How curious, they all rise like a group of sheep at a signal from one man..." or similar perversions of the gospels are constantly on my mind. Or less offensively, just think of it as a way to view history. Chances are your ancestors chanted the same prayers, sang the same songs and ate the same bread. It's a way of identifying with the past and if your children (if you choose to have them) have children, the future. Also, generally the sermon is there for you to think about. Dwell on it, what does it mean? Can you see its effect on society? Do people follow it? Or are they merely empty words practiced in your community? Mass is only boring if you sink to doing surface level analysis. The best part of mass imo is seating two mortal enemies together so when it's "time to give each other a sign of peace..." well, you get the picture. Oh, dear. I've gone and posted an entry longer than your blog. I need to stop doing this... *grr* //shadows

*shakes head* Smoking is bad for you. Then again someone compared my coughing to a cat hacking up a furball... I seem to be getting better, no more doubled over wheezing like yesterday. We'd make quite a pair I second the Under Armor = A Very Good Thing comment. I feel sad for not knowing it existed until this year. Then again any kind of form fitting clothing on hot guys = awesomeness. And what's Mr. Captain done now? You can't just say that and let us wonder. //shadows

Oh. Wow. I've taken Honors Chemistry, Biology and now Physics and I haven't heard of any of that (well, I know about solar winds vaguely from sci-fi) but baryon's and luxons? How did you learn this? And I wouldn't feel too bad about him not taking your answer immediately. He has a responsibility to the entire team, and it's better to get 5 points then no points. I'm sure as time goes on and you prove yourself to be the science expert there won't be a problem. P.S. Sorry about the hair cut, and don't you dare tell me you're already reading Faust, If you are, I want to transfer to your high school, it sounds so much more fun... //shadows

You've spotted a gap, why not fill it? Nobody's stopping you from writing it. In every genre you'll have your archetypes and the "touching coming out story" is definitely one of them. Thankfully, Gayauthors seems to be lacking in this department. Dio writes sci-fi & fantasy and I'm not even sure if his main characters are gay yet. Their sex drives are incidental to their story, and imo that's better. A constant obsession with sex is unhealthy... or so I've been told. I think that's what annoys me so very very much about the gay "culture"/scene and we are therefore in complete agreement. Sex doesn't define who you are, your sex and attraction are nothing compared to who you are and what you do with your abilities. If you allow yourself to willingly be defined by the color of your skin, your geographic location, your monetary income, or your sexuality than I'm not interested in getting to know you. The people who break the mold are the interesting ones in this world. Note to self: Don't write forum messages at 2 AM //shadows

Sounds like a fun day. I used to decorate for Christmas... Then I realized the only one who ever saw my decorations were my parents so I stopped. Electronics are tricky, you have to let them know who's in control... That said, the sudden sparking of a 1000 lights all at once and the visits by fire departments is quite fun... Academic competitions? What exactly do you do for those? Do they test you on random trivia? Problem solving ability? We don't really have any at my school, but a local school is the Academic Decathalon Champion. It sounds like fun! Harry Potter, I want to see it really badly, but I have to wait until Wednesday when I can see it with a friend. Guess I'll have to suppress my moans if what you say is true. Lol, the music man. I was Winthrop once a long long time ago. I love singing "Iowa Stubborn" as I walk past my Junior English teacher. She's from Iowa and she gets all excited...

Hmm. I'd probably skip it, cause personally, I find the "smut" sections of your story the least interesting. Probably because I have nothing to relate them to, or maybe because what I really want to continue reading the story... I mean, c'mon sex is sex... I'll second that James on Taylor. He may be my favorite of all of your characters including the protagonists. Thanks for getting out these DD Chapters so fast! //shadows

emo can be best defined in this song: http://emosong.ytmnd.com/ (listen, it's hilarious). and from what I can see slaveboy, you're nothing close to emo. For one, you seem like a pretty cool guy. For another, you have a good sense of humor. And a word of advice about making an asshole of yourself. I do it a lot. Most of the time you're the only one who notices. It's only a big deal if you keep drawing attention to it. Otherwise most people tend to forget about it. //shadows

I'm a slow learner. At age 17, I've done none of those things. I don't feel too badly about it though. It'll come eventually. Until then, it's one less thing to worry about. Though, having a first boyfriend or kiss would be nice... //shadows P.S. I don't count Truth or Dare...