Comicality

It would be near impossible for them to mess this up! And trust me...they've been TRYING! Hehehe, but just let the MCU do what they do best! Please? Because if they can pull THIS off??? It'll be a game changer for movies in general! I'm keeping my fingers AND my toes crossed! Woo hoo! Hehehe, @2:08...how is he supposed to fight Electro, Sandman, AND the Lizard, all at the same time??? JESUS!!! 😮

Awwww, cute! ::Giggles:: Get my back, bro! Ahhhh, that feels good! LOL!

Youtube decided to start censoring all gay teen short films, and wiping out all favorite lists that include anything that MIGHT make the gay youth feel okay and normal about who they are. Just out of nowhere, for no reason. Saying that it violated their 'child safety' rules and regulations. But that's bullshit! So I'll be posting ALL of the stuff that I had suddenly 'removed' from my youtube account without warning. You guys please feel free to stop me when you find a short film that you think is 'dangerous' (Their words, not mine) for gay teens. K? What's so offensive about liking and sharing the stuff that I find on Youtube? Why am *I* getting a strike on my account??? Wednesday is now "Gay Like Me" short film day. Since 'shame' is the agenda for those who don't have to live with it these days. Every week! Every Wednesday! I'll be right here with another one! FUCK those people! Seriously! These are all gay short films that I had on my account that, for some reason, they found so dangerous and offensive. Like I said...you tell me what YOU think about them, and why they needed to be erased from my account. Is *THIS* what they were so afraid of??? Maybe I'm missing something here. Enjoy! This week's Short Gay Film - "James"

D'awwwww! That's cute!

https://gayauthors.org/story/comicality/shelter/ The most recent chapter of "Shelter" has just been posted to the site! So check it out when you get the chance, and let me know what you think by leaving a comment or hitting that like button! K? And if you like this series of gay teen boys falling in love while the rest of the world is dealing with a sudden zombie apocalypse, hehehe...then be sure to check out all of the prequel stories as well for some more backstory on the characters that you've come to know and love!

Chapter 25: "Reality's Burden" Walking towards the cafeteria where everybody else was laying down, more than half of them asleep after all of the commotion that we had been through earlier...I half expected to find Spencer just spread out somewhere on the floor, doped up and probably trying to get his equilibrium back, or whatever. But as I looked around the room, he was nowhere to be found. Even Walker and his friend, Eddie, had both drifted off at this point. It to

https://gayauthors.org/story/comicality/myonlyescape We're almost there, folks! This is the penultimate chapter of "My Only Escape"! Which means that we only have the big grand finale left after this one! It has been a long and wild ride, but all things have to come to an end eventually! So check it out, and let me know what you think when you get a chance! K? I'd really appreciate it! Also, the first four ebooks are now available in the Comicality Ebook Section if you want to grab a copy! https://imagine-magazine.org/store/comicality/ Enjoy! And I'll seezya soon with the end of an era chapter of Zack and Brody's relationship!

"My Only Escape 39" I think that Sam had either guzzled down too much caffeinated soda during lunch, or his school pizza was yummier than usual...because he was practically bouncing on the balls of his feet the whole way out of the cafeteria. Hehehe, the little twerp can be so easy to please sometimes. Adam had to practically keep him at arm's length to keep Sam from humping his leg like a frisky puppy right out of a 'last-minute' shelter. But whatever...at least it made

To be honest...I definitely fight valiantly against shedding tears in front of other people if I can help it. Unfortunately, depending on the circumstances, I'm not very good at it. Hehehe! I grew up in an era where boys didn't cry. Ever. You could break a leg, cut off a finger, lose your favorite pet in a woodchipper accident...whatever, suck it up! BOYS don't cry! And I find myself still trying to hold it all in, even when I'm alone. Bad habits, I guess. But I DO cry sometimes. When I lost some friends to Covid-19, or when some of my family members were sick, I cried. There are times when I'm writing really intense or sad scenes in my stories where I dig deeply enough into my emotions or my past to cry as well. And some songs will hit me a certain way when I'm in a certain frame of mind...and it'll catch me off guard. Hehehe! I was watching the "Squid Game" series recently from Netflix...and (no spoilers), there is an episode that totally broke me down! I couldn't stop crying. Jesus! That was a rough one...it really was. BUT...it's not, like an apocalyptic or traumatic experience that I could never recover from. I ust thought it was a really well written and emotionally engaging episode. Not many shows can affect me like that. I've had movies make me sad before, horror movies that have scared or disturbed me before, films that have angered me too. But I cherish the idea of me being moved to feel something. I like it. When I'm writing my stories, I can only hope to have that kind of effect on people. FEEL something! It's ok. I'm giving you permission. Hehehe! What's everybody so terrified of? Anyway, I feel like I'm seeing people work harder and harder to avoid anything that makes them even slightly uncomfortable for most of their lives. And when the time comes when something becomes unavoidable...it's almost like they're unable to handle it. They're not equipped to deal with the situation. And I'd think that would be scarier than the situation itself. I'd much rather take my hard times and heartbreaks in small doses and build up a tolerance than delude myself into thinking that I can avoid all of the bad things, all of the time, everywhere, for the rest of my life...and then have it hit me like a truck anyway. No thank you. I don't mind crying over a movie every now and then. And I have this automatic reflex that tries to stop me, especially if anybody else is around to see me tearing up...but so be it. I don't want to spend my life locking my emotions up in a dungeon for the rest of my days. It's gotta come out some time, right?

Sometimes I enjoy watching reaction videos on Youtube. Seeing them watch movies that I always loved for the first time, or listening to songs that meant a lot to me, etc. And some of them can be really sad. Some can be really scary. Some can just be uncomfortable in general, hehehe! But what fascinates me more than anything is this recent panicked EVASION of emotion in general. I mean...I'm a little confused about that. Now, I totally understand that watching a really sad movie and shedding tears over it can feel pain and misery for a short period of time. But, I mean...it's not going to KILL you or anything, right? To feel something that you might find temporarily uncomfortable? Why can't people do that anymore? I've cried over movies or TV shows, and I've shed tears over an especially moving cover of a song or something like that. And I reach for my box of tissues or whatever, and I deal with it. Do you think we're losing that in this day and age? What's wrong with crying? What's wrong with laughing? What's wrong with being turned on by what you're watching? I see soo many people nearly suffocating themselves to death, trying not to let the tears fall. But why? Have we become afraid of emotion? What's wrong with having a heart and feeling something every once in a while? Do you ever find yourself being emotionally 'constipated'? Is it affected by whether or not you're in the presence of other people? Is it different for men than it is for women? Is it considered a weakness, or is it just an honest expression of what you're feeling? How do you personally handle emotion? Overwhelming as it may be. And do you think that's something that is going on with the rest of humanity, or is it just you? I'd be interested to find out. Let me know what you think down below! Unless you're holding these emotions back as well! In which case...hehehe, I guess you'll stay silent!

We've got stuff to do! Hehehe! Enjoy! I think you're gonna like this...

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I would LOVE that! Definitely! Hehehe!

Thanks, Dodger! No such thing as giving away too much. Take it. And let other authors go out and do it better than I ever could.

Sighhh...I'm trying, you know? And I LOVE comic books! I LOVE vampires! And I even love Morbius himself as a character! I just...ugh! Sony? Not so much. The trailer looks interesting, but...dammit, Sony. Can you just...go away? Please? They are SOOOO thirsty for attention, trying to leech off of the MCU's Spider-Man success and steal some of their billion dollar spotlight that it's actually getting kind of embarrassing at this point. Just go away. The original Spider-Man movies were great, and then you tried again and...meh. Then you got two Venom movies out of the deal. Again...meh. The MCU is obviously better at this than you are. Just leave it alone. Go find something ELSE to do, already. You know? Sony reminds me of having your bratty little brother who's like 6 years old, constantly trying to get a turn on the Playstation while you're playing video games with your friends. Like, "When is it gonna be MY turn! Ok MY turn, MY turn! Mom...they won't let me play! Mom says you guys have to share!" Fuck off! You don't know HOW to play! You suck at this! And you're wasting our time and breaking up our fun by constantly sticking your filthy little hands into everything! GO...AWAY!!! Let Marvel do what you couldn't do! Relax, and collect a free paycheck! I wish Marvel had never sold them the rights to the character in the first place. Anyway...we'll see. I'll give it a chance. But to say that I had high expectations would be a lie at this point. Go build your OWN legacy franchise somewhere instead of sucking the life out of somebody else's. Geez!

Always good for a few Halloween giggles! Hehehe!

Well, we only avoid THIS by a few million votes! Yikes!

Well...that's the 'bonus' part of my job! Giggles!

As many of you guys already know (Those who have been around for a number of years, or possibly from the very beginning) I was both an actor and a boy model back when I was in my tweens and teens. It was what I wanted to do. I had a passion for it. But the fantasy of it and the business side of that whole industry are two completely different things! So buyer, beware! if that's what you want to get into, I wish you the best...but it's not what many of you might think it is. So you really have to want it! You know? That being said...when I write these stories online, hoping that you guys will really enjoy them....I have an 'actor's' mindset going the entire time that I'm writing. I can't help it, it's just something that I do when I'm writing. Maybe you guys have a few quirks of your own...and that's awesome! These are mine. And this article is going to be another one of those major secrets that I give away to all of you so you can decode and figure out exactly how it is that I do what i do...and have done for over 20 years now! So, at long last...let me answer the big question that has been on a lot of people's minds for years... COMSIE...what the fuck is with the literary theatrics all the time??? "Hehehe!"....that's where it all started for me. Finding my personal voice, and a certain vibe for my stories. Have you ever been to your local shopping mall on a weekend? Seen teens hanging out and having fun together? Listen to them joke around with one another. Everything isn't a big "HAHAHA!!!" type of funny. But they're not silent, either. They're having FUN, you know? But it's not like every single remark is 'ha ha' funny and causing them to fall out of their chair. There's a middle ground. Just a pleasant moment of shared enjoyment. A boyish giggle or two. So...how do I incorporate that into my stories? And my answer was to mimic the sound of a casual giggle as best as I could. Thus..."Hehehe!" This may sound weird to you guys now...but I had to really FIGHT to have them accept this expression as a part of my stories! Readers simply couldn't embrace it in those first few years of me writing. But I stood my ground and kept it going, and now it's simply a natural part of everything that I write. Like...people 'get it' now, and they don't complain. in fact, many of them have adopted it themselves, and I see it in other stories or even in my emails these days. It's not like I 'invented' it or anything...but by sticking with it, it became a norm. And now that part of my literary voice can be heard the way that it was meant to be heard. So, you'll get no complaints from me! Is that where the specific 'Comicality' theatrics end? No. And I am fully aware that for a select group of people...they get really distracted and pissed off by the way that I write sometimes...but, ummm...tough! Hehehe! This is my 'actor's' voice when I write, and I want the story to read a certain way when an audience is diving into it for the first tine. My 'word theatrics' present the vision and flavor that I want my stories to have. Love it or hate it...this is my writer's voice. And I had to fight really hard and swim upstream to get it to be accepted and embraced as an effective way of writing an emotional and engaging narrative without having the 'experts' pick it apart on style and outdated rules of fiction alone. I wanted to build my own style...and I'm happy to say that it ended up working out for me. Flaws and all. One thing that absolutely bothers me? Honestly. Is reading subtitles in a movie. And I LOVE foreign films and stuff...but the text comes up on the screen...and I just read it as...'text'. Like, I can't feel the actor's emotion. The tone of voice, the creative choices he/she made to deliver that line. The little pauses in between. Soooo much of that intricate nuance gets lost when I'm just reading their words on the bottom of the screen. Does that make sense? When I write, I try to keep those pauses, that nuance, those performances, in the story. I want people to feel it. I guess that you could say that it's my way of 'acting' through the written words on the screen. I want people to feel it like I feel it. And not just read the words on the screen, as is. I don't expect everybody to understand it. The capitol letters, the quotes, the bold print, the italics...but I treat my writing the same way that I would a performance. Or an audition for an on stage production. This is how I convey an added touch of emotion in my stories that other might not. When I have someone who is nervous or scared, I might add extended pauses in their dialogue with, "...umm..." those three little dots can imply a hesitation and can give readers a sense of tension and have them physically lean further forward towards the screen to see what happens next. SPIT IT OUT!!! Hehehe! We've all been there before, right? As a writer, isn't it your mission to recreate that moment for your audience? I use capital letters for emphasis in the descriptions and in explanations of the main character's feelings, mostly. What is he thinking? What is he worried about? More often than not, I'm using capitol letters to create a sense of desperation or heartache. It's almost like the protagonist is weaponizing the capitals to protect himself. So, when you see me using capitals for emphasis, it's usually a defensive measure, or something to express something that he simply can't believe is real...such as young love, loving him back. Hehehe, I should NOT be giving away all my secrets like this. Now...when I use italics in my stories, that's usually more emotionally engaging. More times than not, I use italics to give readers a feeling of 'yearning', 'craving', or 'deep fantasy'. It's an emphasis on the more emotional sides of my main characters. Just someone that you want sooooo bad ('Sooooo' being another one of my theatrics! Hehehe!) that you can hardly contain yourself. So, if capital letters have a more defensive and aggressive feel to them, the italics are more like emotionally vulnerable, helpless, love stricken, expressions of emotion. Now, both sides can be interchangeable, but that's how I usually view them as I'm writing. And I don't indulge in these tricks as much as I used to, but they are still a part of my 'writer's voice', and most people can pick my stories out of a line up because of the quirks and little tweaks that I've learned over time. Way it goes, I suppose! So, if my protagonist is having an inner dialogue? I could write it like this... "Every time he laughs, every time he even smiles at me, I feel my stomach begin to shiver and shake with these nervous tremors that threaten to, literally, make me sick. Sick, I tell you! And all I want to do is get my so-called peace of mind back by having the goddamned guts to tell him how much I like him. Love him. Need him in my life. But I can't. I don't know how. So I'm just left here, spinning in confusion. It's pure torture." And that's perfectly ok. Functional, conveys emotion, makes its point, and progresses that part of the story forward. It does everything that I need it to do. There's no real reason to think that it needs any extra flair or anything. And yet...if it were me, I'd probably take that same inner dialogue and write it as... "Every time he laughs, every time he even smiles at me...I feel my stomach begin to shiver and shake with these nervous tremors that threaten to, literally, make me sick. SICK, I tell you! And all I want to do is get my so-called 'peace of mind' back by having the goddamned guts to tell him how much I like him. Love him. NEED him in my life. But...I can't. I don't know how. So I'm just left here...spinning in confusion. It's pure torture." There's not a HUGE difference, but it feels more closely connected to me as a person. A little emphasis here, a little desperation there...little breaks and pauses as my main character tries to gather his thoughts. It's more than just the way I would write down for you guys to read. It's the way I would verbally say it to you if we were sitting in the same room, having an intimate conversation. I decided a long time ago that I wanted my stories to have that kind of 'feel' to them. And yes, I guess you could write them off as a bunch of unnecessary theatrics in my prose, but it's a part of my hobby that I truly enjoy. It makes me feel closer to the story I'm telling, and will hopefully make you guys feel closer to the stories you're reading. Maybe it'll bring the actor out of all of us. Hehehe! Trust me, I have spent years and years getting flak for some of the things that I do to write my stories! Hahaha, oh MAN! You have no idea! But once the 'traditionally established' folks get used to my writing (Dragged in, kicking and screaming), most of them realize that I'm not such a terrible writer after all. And for some, it actually ends up being somewhat endearing. The whole point of this article is...find your voice, and STICK with it. I know that there are rules and regulations and writing mechanics that everybody is pressured to adhere to at all costs...but this is YOUR world, right? What is it that you guys really want to do? What do you really want to say? Who can tell you that you're 'wrong' for incorporating something that's personal to your particular voice in your own story? I'm not saying that you should completely abandon the idea of story structure, or try to get people to spell the same word the wrong way when you know better. Hehehe! Just feel comfortable when you're writing. Let the rest of the world catch up to what YOU'RE doing instead of always trying to do the opposite. If you have a different take on how you 'say' things, or how you plot out you story...then stand by it. And keep pushing forward. Let everybody else whine and complain and eventually end up copying what you were doing in the first place. K? Always remember...this is your rodeo. Your science project for the fair. Be unique with it, and enjoy pouring a piece of your unique ability every word of it. Always. As always, I hope this helps you guys out by giving you a little food for thought. Happy writing! And let's see if you can make some more of that magic happen!

I've been working hard on it, and I wish that I could have this new ebook exclusive ready in time for Halloween, but I need it to be quality stuff...and that takes time. So, next year for sure! But "Darkness Waits" IS getting a Volume Two, and it is well underway! So if you enjoyed the first one, you can expect more in the ear future! "Darkness Waits: Volume One" was a HUGE success, thanks to you guys who grabbed a copy! And it is ranked in the top 400 gay themed horror books on Amazon! Considering how many millions of ebooks there are on Amazon, I think that's pretty damned impressive, considering it was my first outing! Hehehe! So let's see if I can top it with Volume Two! Thanks, you guys! Love you lots! And I'll keep churing out quality material for as long as you keep supporting me! Promise! ((Hugz)) And enjoy the four stories of the Volume One horror anthology as well if you haven't seen it yet! Happy Halloween!

Youtube decided to start censoring all gay teen short films, and wiping out all favorite lists that include anything that MIGHT make the gay youth feel okay and normal about who they are. Just out of nowhere, for no reason. Saying that it violated their 'child safety' rules and regulations. But that's bullshit! So I'll be posting ALL of the stuff that I had suddenly 'removed' from my youtube account without warning. You guys please feel free to stop me when you find a short film that you think is 'dangerous' (Their words, not mine) for gay teens. K? What's so offensive about liking and sharing the stuff that I find on Youtube? Why am *I* getting a strike on my account??? Wednesday is now "Gay Like Me" short film day. Since 'shame' is the agenda for those who don't have to live with it these days. Every week! Every Wednesday! I'll be right here with another one! FUCK those people! Seriously! These are all gay short films that I had on my account that, for some reason, they found so dangerous and offensive. Like I said...you tell me what YOU think about them, and why they needed to be erased from my account. Is *THIS* what they were so afraid of??? Maybe I'm missing something here. Enjoy! This week's Short Gay Film - "The Violation"

Hehehe, that's actually pretty funny! Cant wait! Ugh!