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What ate these two supposed to be? As in, when you look at them what do you see? All I see is like looking down a funnel. Nothing moving nothing shifting. The only one that stood out to me was the shifting non existent black dots. Ive never seen what most others see in these

Roman, I really hope that over the next few years that anxiety eases and you can experience a gay club as many of us have, and will continue to do so. Hoping we never lose the memory of the past, but we continue on into the future even more resolved.

Shock, anger, sadness, resentment, and thoughts of revenge. Those are the thoughts and feelings I am personally dealing with this morning waking up to the news of what happened early today in Orlando, Florida. I’m sure there is much more we are all feeling and trying to work our way through right now. As of the last report on CNN, there are 50 dead and 49 injured in a mass shooting at a gay club in Orlando called Pulse. It happened at 2 AM just around closing time. The gunman, who the FBI have reported as having ‘radical Islamic views’, parked his van outside the club, started opening fire with a semi-automatic rifle and handgun in his possession and continued into the club where he took hostages and continued his slaughter. Police SWAT teams swarmed the club 3 hours later and shot the gunman. I’m sure this account will be changed as more information comes forth. All of our thoughts, and if you are religious, prayers go out to everyone affected by this not only there in Orlando, but wherever you are as well. The fact that this now has been the deadliest mass shooting in US history, I can’t help but feel the above emotions on the fact that so many lives have been lost, with the added weight of knowing that the gay community was specifically targeted. We all know that our identity is hated by certain groups of people, but the fact that someone went so far as to target a large group of our community is really troubling to all of us. The idea that terrorism can make us afraid and question how we live our lives; this is the real blow to any community touched by heinous acts of terror. Will I feel safe going to a pride event, will I be okay to go to a bar, and will I be okay openly saying that I’m LGBTQ? The one thing that helps is talking about this. How do you feel? What are your fears? Put them down on paper or share them with us here. Writing this has me looking at the tragedy a bit different. Maybe even a glimmer of hope? If we can learn from the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, we need to show our support, but more importantly our resilience. Go back to the club, go to a Pride event, and don’t let this stop you from being who you were born to be!! Some other thoughts. Yes, religious ideology may play a role in this, but please remember that a small group of radicals or maybe even one lone wolf is responsible for this. Don’t condemn an entire religion or race just because this person may have been associated with a radical sect that isn’t reflective of the entire group. If you are in favour or against gun reform, don’t hate the people who are on the other side of the fence. Go out and join a group you identify with regarding guns. Be it the NRA or the anti-gun lobby, join, and make your voice known. Most importantly, learn from this and talk to your opponents rather than lash out at them. Generally, blogs are open for politics and religion. Due to the tragic nature and the sensitivity of this subject, even though I have touched on religion and politics here, please do not post comments on those subjects, they will be deleted without notice. The Pit is open and ready to have your discussions on those matters. What we would like this blog to really be about is empathy for the victims, your feelings, your fears, your resolve, and your hope. Steve On Behalf of the GA Site Administrators

I loved the fact that Grace FINALLY grew a pair at the end With Grace holding Jackson by the elbow at the same time Cindy was holding Henry's elbow was too funny. They seem to be able to control men the same way Hoping to see soon the first interaction between Luke and Jack post kiss, post apology.

Wow, Renee takes the weekend off to be a mountain lady and she leaves me in charge of the Weekly Wrap Up. To top it off she changed the format on it too!!! Well since Valkyrie was the only one to weigh in last week and said she had no preference of which format, I will use the old one On Monday we had a Featured Story of Song and Dance by Headstall. LitLover did a very good review which sets up the story and will pique your interest to check it out. Tuesday Renee did a Premium Promo and featured a story by wolfwriter called A Chance At Love. Not only did we get a synopsis of the story but also an excerpt from the story as well. If you want to help keep the majority of GA free, make sure you stop by here and see how you can help. Thursday was a special day when AJ posted in the Gay Author News that we have a new Promising Author promoted to the ranks on the site. Albertnothlit has a few stories to check out that he has contributed in just over a year stay here at GA. Friday saw our count-up to 1000 continue with the ever popular Prompt Me with Weekly Prompts 502 & 503. The weekly prompts this week were: Prompt 502 – Creative Tag – List of Words Use the following words in a story : a cop, a statue, a ship, a pink ribbon, a bag of candy. Prompt 503 – Creative Tag – The Exhibit You were told by your lover that you had a date Saturday morning and you were to dress up. When the time comes you find yourself dragged to see local museum to see an exhibit of your favorite eork. What was the exhibit on and what happened? Renee also put up some links to the previous weeks prompts by Timothy M, Mikiesboy, Hunter Thomson, and JohnAR. I also want to give a shout out to Slytherin or LBO for making sure we have topics set up every week in order to post the responses to. Anthology Announcements: ***NOTE: All Deadlines are for submission to the Anthology Proof Team 2016 Fall Anthology: Blindsided - Due August 26th, 2016 2016 Winter Anthology: The Forgotten - Due November 26th, 2016 All Pre-2016 Anthology Themes - Due December 14, 2016 Premium Updates: Journey's End by M.A. Church; Book 2 of The Harvest *Premium* Signature Updates: Third Shift by Cole Matthews Mine! by Cia Innocence & Carnality by Mann Ramblings From the Cup of the Worthless by Cynus Songs of the Mongoose Tribe by Cynus Promising Updates: One Hundred and Fifty-Five Sonnets Book 5 of Verse by AC Benus My Twentieth Year Book 4 of Verse by AC Benus Morningstar: The Malaise by Headstall Writing prompts by albertnothlit Life Seed by albertnothlit Falling Apart by craftingmom Headstall's Reflections by Headstall Scraps from a Diary by AC Benus Don't forget.... Read, Write, and REVIEW!!!

Hmmm. Might see it, but I hate to say it is very unlikely to unthrone the original cult classic.

Yay!!!!! They kissed. Now I'm more confused then ever Jack has never indicated that guys interested him before, yet he didn't push Luke away but in fact pulled him back to him. Is Jack doing so because of his guilt of how he has treated Luke so far, or because he actually is attracted to Luke. Waiting for for the next chapter

So that was interesting Im glad Ty was there to diffuse the situation and without saying it assured Roscoe he was among friends. The he only other thing which would have made things REALLY interesting would have been Kevin showing up at the same time. As always Graeme, thank you for sharing.

Happy Birthday Graeme Hoping the sexiest Echidna at GA had a great day!!!!

I personally liked Boaty McBoatface over Sir David Attenborough

Ack, I new I forgot something, my sincerest apologies

:music: Happy Birthday Suvitar :music: Belated Happy Birthday, I hope it was a great one!!

Hi Everyone, a little late today as I was sleeping on the job Renee has taken some much deserved time off and will be back later. This week in the GA News Blog we had a couple of different posters. Monday started off the week with Cia announcing the May CSR Feature, London and Love By Carringtonrj. The invite is out to all to read and then review and discuss this 45K story later on in the month. Make sure to add it to your reading lists for this month. Wednesday, I made a special appearance on the Blog to discuss new guidelines regarding the posting of images and links to the site. Due to recent events GA has to change and enforce these to ensure our revenue stream continues to make the site nearly 100% free to Members and Guests. Friday the Weekly Prompts were missed for a week for a big announcement. AJ let us know that Cole Matthews is now a Signature Author!! Congrats to Cole and make sure you visit this blog post or his forum post to ensure you pass on the congrats to this much deserving Author. Anthology Announcements: ***NOTE: All Deadlines are for submission to the Anthology Proof Team** 2016 Summer Anthology: Wicked Games - Due May 26th, 2016 2016 Fall Anthology: Blindsided - Due August 26th, 2016 2016 Winter Anthology: The Forgotten - Due November 26th, 2016 All Pre-2016 Anthology Themes - Due December 14, 2016 Premium Updates: Journey's End by M.A. Church; Book 2 of The Harvest *Premium* Signature Updates: No Flash by Cia Innocence & Carnality by Mann Ramblings From the Cup of the Worthless by Cynus The Best Year by Krista Black Widow by Mark Arbour; Book 16 of Chronicles Of An Academic Predator (CAP) The Secret Life Of Billy Chase 9 by Comicality; Book 9 of The Secret Life Of Billy Chase GA Writing Prompts by Dolores Esteban Leopards Leap by Graeme; Book 3 of The Lilydale Leopards Promising Updates: Morningstar: The Malaise by Headstall Falling Apart by craftingmom Gay Metal by carringtonrj One Hundred and Fifty-Five Sonnets AC Benus; Book 5 of Verse ...And All Shall Fade To Black by layla Don't forget.... Read, Write, and REVIEW!!!

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Congrats Cole, much deserved and nice to see someone work their way up . I'm sure you will keep your readers and supporters happy for the years to come!

The one bit of good news is that there has been no loss of life to date. The people who fled North have been evacuated from there by planes and the RCMP yesterday coordinated conveys of fifty vehicles a trip through town until they were well south of the city. People who have driven talk about driving through hell as fire and flames can be seen on both sides of road. Driving through town seeing cars and trucks on both sides of the road that are burned out hulls reminded many of them of Hollywood Movies. Flames have jumped the Athabasca river which is a kilometer wide (.6 of a mile). As of now, most experts are saying humans can only react to the fire, only Mother Nature and rain will beat it down. Last I heard was for rain on Sunday evening. One interesting thing I heard today, was fire lightening happening. I guess it is a phenomenon that happens when the heat from a fire being so large that the clouds of smoke actually generate lightning from them. Interesting but not something that you would hope for.

I just wanted to start a topic about something that I'm sure we have all seen happening in my home province. Last weekend a fire broke out near the Northern Alberta City of Fort McMurray. Provincial trained wildfire firefighters were immediately dispatched to help try to contain the fire. As a precaution, two communities were evacuated. It looked like things were going to be under control and people were beginning to relax. That was when things changed for the worse. In little over 24 hours, all 85,000 people of Fort McMurray were evacuated. Right now there is Wildfire experts fighting the fires in the forest, urban firefighters from around the province fighting fires within the city and RCMP. Basically that is it. More wildfire firefighters and equipment are on the way from across the country and I do believe Australia is dispatching men and equipment as well. The Canadian military has been mobilized as well. Efforts were hampered by the fact that there is only really a two lane paved highway that goes up to Fort McMurray with an alternate gravel road, and the paved highway continues north. Eventually the fire jumped the highway and has made it nearly impossible to drive south. Towns of 2000 people are accommodating up to 8000 extra people who have been evacuated. People are getting out and heading to the major cities of Edmonton and Calgary as well as the smaller cities as well. Universities and Colleges are opening up there recently vacated residents to house evacuees. The province and the country are pulling together to help in whatever way is possible. Today my city's human society is trying to collect nearly 900 animal carriers, with the other major city asking the same. My company has started a nationwide campaign to raise funds for the Red Cross and matching dollar to dollar donations, like many other companies. The Canadian Government will be matching dollar for dollar to the Red Cross donations. This fire will be measured in the amount of billions, as already over 2000 homes have been completely lost. I just want to have a place to come and say that I'm proud of what we all are doing for the people of Fort McMurray, but my heart goes out to all the people who were uprooted in 24 hours and do not know if they have anything left. Yes, I know there is natural disasters all around the world, just surprising that now, close to 90,000 people have been uprooted. If you want anymore information, please check out any major Canadian or International news web page, the pictures will leave you breathless. Edit to add, yes I know I misspelled Fort McMurray, but the forum software doesn't allow two capitals in one word in the title

On the site for the last while there have been discussions with the members on the public forums as well as privately in our Staff forum about the use of pictures and what is allowed on GA and what isn’t. As a site we strive very much on keeping most of GA free for all our members and guests. Our main revenue streams are Premium Membership and ad revenue from Google Ad Sense. Our Premium members contribute monthly or yearly to help defray the server costs as well as the helping to run the popular contests as well as soliciting Premium works. Google Ad Sense is applied to the site needs the same way. The staff are all 100% voluntary, giving generously of their time. We have been evolving as a free webpage over the years, from our early beginnings to our current format which will be updated even more in the near future. One of the aspects of the site that is very popular is the Gallery Bar at the top (if you haven’t closed it) of the Forums page. Those pinned images also take visitors to the public member galleries with personal albums where there are even more pictures. Recently an active topic started up in the Lounge where we got down to what constitutes a copyrighted image and what kind of images are allowed on the site. If you haven’t seen that topic or would like to read it again, it can be found here. Mentioned in that topic is that Google Ad Sense has some certain rules regarding what images can be allowed when shared with a Google Ad on the same page. If you click through our pages, you most likely will see a Google Ad at the top or bottom of the page. This helps create the revenue to keep the site free. Google Ad Sense rules are what we, the Administrators of the Site, have used as guidelines to protect our ability to use their program. They are: Not allowed: Nudity Strategically covered nudity (eg: arms and legs covering genitals or breasts) Sheer or see-through clothing Lewd or provocative poses Close-ups of breasts (women), buttocks, or crotches Partially clothed underage persons (below 18 years of age) There will always be images that push those boundaries, and we, as a site, will now be more proactive in monitoring these basic rules. These will be for images posted to our galleries, images in member Avatars, Blogs, and also but not least, images linked in stories or topics. We included the last rule because as a site we strongly discourage minors from posting images of themselves. This is a basic internet safety precaution and we will continue to stress this. These images won’t be banned, but we ask that underage members take into consideration their own personal internet safety by not posting searchable images of themselves or friends who haven’t given permission for their image to be on site. Going forward, you will be notified of these rules when uploading pictures in the Gallery and on your profile for your avatar. The no links rule will be upon the individual members to police themselves and, if reported, the Forum Moderation Team will investigate. In the past the FMT hasn't really leveled warnings as there was a grey line on what was allowed. Hopefully with these clearer rules, we won't have to investigate more because members will understand our reasoning and adhere to the rules. Please also understand that we know you can turn on any major sports channel and see male divers/swimmers in their ever revealing speedos, but this does not constitute what normal dress is. If you want to post a picture of shirtless male, we don't want to see him in either his underwear or his speedos.

That is so cool. I'd get one though and catch spiders outside and release them inside Zombie's home

Congrats Sean, i anxiously waited for every new chapter to be posted. Might have to get a digital copy now

Happy Birthday Drew Hope you had some delicious Birthday Pie.

:music: Happy Birthday Reader :music: Hope you had a great day!!!

Just found your story and got through the 7 chapters in one sitting. I had had a feeling the deal of being on the same page made in the arena was doomed when they said it. The fact now that Ezra has agreed to at least try is hopeful if their current situation doesn't ruin things. Im hoping for A well rested and well fed Dan pulls up in a SUV between the mob and the guys and whisks them off to the press conference.

Hammy Hamster rocked!!!

Grab yourself a bowl of popcorn, maybe a soda pop, curl up on the couch and then click on this link to see what has been loaded up for your viewing pleasure. And if it isn't enough, there is lots of other videos on the right side of the screen too https://ca.news.yahoo.com/creepy-crawlies-video-playlist-165000448.html Enjoy!! Note the link is from Canada, nothing bad ever comes out of Canada