Cyhort

I'm confused. Is he complaining or coming out?

When I was a kid, like three or so, my favorite color was pink. My parents even bought my a bright pink umbrella that I loved the hell out of and I'm pretty sure we still have it shoved in the back of a closet somewhere. (and no that's not a metaphor for anything, lol) Then I got a bit older and realized that pink was a "girl color" and stopped liking it so much. But I switched to turquoise/aqua/cyan so that wasn't really a step up in the manliness department. Gay stereotypes don't really bother me all that much, most of them anyway, it's the straight stereotypes that get under my skin. The whole "butch, manly man" thing always annoyed me, even during my "I'm almost completely straight" days. There's just something about guys that love sports and drink and talk about all the girls they've screwed and have tear ducts that they haven't used since they were four that just gets to me. It seems so forced and fake. I like people, gay, straight, girl, boy, whatever, to have some.....softness about them I guess. Something that lets you know they're a real person and not just a series of signals they wanna send out to people. And I know I'm judging them without knowing them and it might even be totally unfair but that's just how I see things. *shrugs*

Usually I have a movie playing while I exercise. I mostly just run so I need something to distract me from how boring running in place on a treadmill is, not something that gets me pumped up, but when I do need something to pump me up 80's inspirational montage songs do it the best. J-pop is pretty good too. But you can't go wrong with anything fast and up tempo.

Mine usually smells like a mix between Head and Shoulders and Suave. My shampoo is more bout making my hair look a certain way (dandruff free and straight,lol) than the way it smells. I would love a strawberry/vanilla smelling shampoo though.

I'm not really a total fem and considering almost all my shirts have a video game character or logo on then I'm not at all a fashionista but I do have some characteristics that people would see as "gay". I won't list them all but if you spend any time with me without knowing me you'd at least be "suspicious". If I'm with people I know I don't really hide it, I'm mostly comfortable with who I am. But if I'm alone or with a group of people I don't really know I'll usually be reserved. Not because I'm trying to hide or anything but because I'm naturally shy. Actually the only time I ever actively tried hiding any trace of "gayness" was about a year before I told my parents I was dating a boy. For some reason I didn't want to tell them and have them look back on things I did or said and think "Well, in hindsight it was obvious" or anything like that. Kinda stupid I know but I'm weird like that, lol.

Holy crap! Someone else who saw the Puppet Master movies?! I LOVED those when I was a kid. I even went as Blade (the one with the hook and a knife for hands) for Halloween like two years in a row, lol. But yeah It gave me nightmares when I was a kid. A killer clown was like my worst fear.

Lol, no, I don't really spend much time on YouTube. But that does sound hilarious.

I'm not saying they're into it, it just doesn't weird me out the way two straight guys kissing does. I really have no idea why it bothers me. Even if I think both the guys are hot I still have the urge to look away when they start kissing. *shrugs*

It doesn't bother me if it's just a gay character in an otherwise "straight" movie. When it's a gay movie with a focus on romance or sex between two guys it does though. I just get very uncomfortable watching guys who I know aren't gay making out and pretending that they're into it. I have no idea why, it just kinda weirds me out a bit and takes me out of the movie.

I use Windows 7, Firefox, home use (read: games and internet) and I use Open Office which I guess is kind of an Office clone. I'd love MS Word but it's way too expensive.

Yeah, a bunch of times. I'm actually a total girl when it comes to happy moments in romance stories, lol. I haven't really cried happy tears because of something that happened to me in real life too many times but every time it's happened it's been because of my boyfriend. Usually right after we have a fight and we make up and he tells me he loves me and forgives me for whatever awful crap I said during the argument. It just makes me so happy that I have someone who can put up with all my shit and still love me at the end of the day.

I tend to either completely close down and do the whole avoidance thing or I get really bitchy and try to make everyone around me feel worse than I do or if it's out of nowhere I totally flip my shit and start screaming at things. I don't deal with anxiety well at all. Out of all that the only one I'd recommend is the avoidance. Getting lost in a book or a movie or something like that is a good way to just get your mind off stressful things for a little bit.

Sorry I.......kind of have a one track mind.

*shudders* I've never heard either of those but they're horrible. I hope I never run into hot spot though because I'm never gonna be able to see it without thinking about doggie sores now.....

The most important thing about dialogue is that it sounds natural. I hate hate HATE dialogue that has proper grammar 100% of the time because that's just not how most people talk. We misuse words and say things like "like" and "just" and "maybe" all the time and characters should say those things too. I want characters with personality, not stiff formal language, and it's one of the things that turns me off a story quicker than anything else.

Another one that annoys me is when a writer calls the prostate the "sweet spot". It just grates on me and it's pretty much only female authors that do it. I don't think I've ever seen a book or story written by a guy where any of the characters called it the sweet spot. It just comes off to me as a female trying really hard to sound like a gay guy and failing miserably.

My grandma's favorite swear of choice back when I was 5 used to be cuntlapper. Until my mom told her what it meant then she denied ever saying it to her dying day. lol. So yeah I grew up with swearing so I kinda think it's stupid to fake censor swear words. They're just words. Totally meaningless. But yeah I get the cultural difference thing. Personally I don't care either way unless someone who's obviously not British/Australian saying it. Arse just sounds weird when a midwesterner or a New Englander says it.

Am I the only person who finds the Italian accent really annoying? I'll definitely say Irish too but I like British more.

In our defense the only reason we can't swim in it is because NYC uses it for it's water supply. Can't have the filthy peasants messing up the drinking water for the Chosen Ones in the city We do have a lake in the next town we can swim in but the "beach" is tiny and I haven't seen anyone swimming in it since I was 4. And you're a lot more tolerant to your son than I'd be. Instead of posting online I'd be looking for a place to dump the body Oh, and trust me, the LAST thing New York needs is a population increase so just keep him with you.

Oh, quiet you. It's not that bad. As long as you stay away from the people and don't mind insanely high taxes. And at least I don't live in the city. I live in what the city people laughingly refer to as the "country", we've got a lake we can't swim in and everything.

Dude, I've lived in New York my whole life and even I think we're being pussies. It barely even shook over here and people were flooding out of buildings like there was an anthrax alarm going off. And then to make it even worse some stupid news lady in NYC was going on about how surprised she was that people in the city weren't freaking out at the tiny shakes because according to her, and I'm paraphrasing here, New Yorkers are constantly living in fear of gang violence or terrorist attacks that a little shake should have totally freaked them out and sent them into a panicked mob. I've never lived in the city, but I was offended for them.

*insert required "that wasn't an earthquake, that was me having sex" joke here* Now that that's out of the way, I felt it up here in New York. It was just a tiny shake. My mom flipped out and started panicking and my dad thought it was the washing machine. I thought it was fun. A few weeks ago we had a tornado and now an earthquake, maybe the world really is gonna end next year....lol.

Winter, easily. I love wearing layers and I LOVE snuggling up under three blankets when I go to bed at night. And for some unholy reason I kinda like cleaning snow off my car too sometimes.

To be fair to the Nifty stories most of those "straight" guys end up being deeply in the closet or in denial anyway. A better question for this topic would be how do you find out if a guy really is straight or just in extreme denial about his gay or bi-ness.

I can't BELIEVE I forgot Paranormal Activity. I need to turn on every light between my room and the bathroom just so I can get out of bed and pee at night for days after I watch that movie. *shudders*