MrM

§ § Monday, August 28, 1989 5:30 AM, it is pretty early to be up, but I’d been nervous overnight. I’d never been away from home living on my own before and today is the first day of classes for me at Stanford. I hadn’t slept much either because my roomie, Mike, tends to snore a little. I’m an only child so sharing a room with someone else is kind of weird for me. I met him Saturday as I was getting settled into my dorm. My mom had driven me down here all the way from Newport, Oreg

The Tale of Ambrogio, The Undying From the scriptures of Delphi Translated from the Ancient Tongue into the Greek 🌙 In the lands to the West, where the Ancient Etruscans once made for themselves a great civilisation, there was born a son of Italy named Ambrogio. As a lad, he became known for his bravery and intrepid ways. He took after his father and became a hunter of some note in his lands. His pioneering ways and wanderlust only grew as he did and as he rose to hands

The year is Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Nine and one William Harker is on the brink of starting the rest of his life. Little does young William Harker know that his whole future has been a manipulation by powers he cannot possibly comprehend! From the time of his birth to now in his flowering manhood, he has been watched over by one of the great powers of this world! A power secret, ancient, hidden, and often feared.

We need Katsuhiro Otomo of Akira fame to turn this one into an Anime

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“I think I began to understand what love was, or at least what it could be if given time to grow and evolve into what we have now...” ...now Shane you have passed from under the brash wings of Eros and under the gentle gauze of Anteros, the Greek god of true and timeless love 💕.

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He's cuter than most maple leaves I know!

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CROIKY HE'S CUTE!

Viking boys have always been a weakness of mine! It must be genetic. I wrote my story Snowflake just to live the dream of my particular fetish for Viking guys!

♥️♥️♥️💖💖💖! My Hero Academia is my favorite Yaoi Shipped Rule 34 anime! This was ADORABLE! I think only Link from Legend of Zelda gets my Yaoi cravings going more. Speaking of Breath Of The Wild Blonds: This guy would have been the kind I would have fallen ass over teakettle for back in the day! Huckleberry Finn meets Luke Skywalker! He's so cute, nerdy, geeky, pure, and sweet . . . how could you not love Zack? He likes Turtles!

Thank you so much for reading! This one has been one I've been writing in my head for years and finally got a chance to get it down on 'paper'.

It doesn’t need a label. It’s just a simple truth...Randy 💖 Ryan.

They had journeyed from Ireland to Wales by sea and air. Now, they approached their destination by land and on foot no less. Sean thought it very peculiar that with all the technological advancements in transportation that had transpired in the last hundred years, they still had to make it to this lake by hiking! Fortunately, the day was quite balmy with actual cloudy almost-sunshine, and a wind that was not of a kind to cut through a soul like Brian Boru's gleaming sword! It was chill e

I used to love 'Creature Feature' that we used to get on an LA local broadcast station rather famous for launching horror host careers. Elvira made her 'Hollywood' start on that station and hosted 'Creature Feature' every Friday night. I was introduced to Hammer Horror films through that since this channel usually could only play schlocky B movies or foreign horror films. I think I saw all the Hammer Horror catalogue through 'Creature Feature'. I saw every Christopher Lee Dracula movie and other films that Peter Cushing starred in. I think my favorite, though, was The Creeping Flesh! It had an amazing story and some truly horrifying special effects considering the low budget it had. It has the most bizarre yet compelling Lovecraftian plot that not only makes you wonder about the nature of evil, but also the nature of insanity and what is real and what is not! It's hard to get ahold of this lost classic, but all who see it find it to be one of the scariest things they've ever seen! I completely recommend it as one of the best examples of Lovecraft-style horror ever put to film! I remember watching a lot of slasher films with my kinda-boyfriend when I was 12-13ish. The 80s was a treasure trove of trashy terror and, thanks to cable TV having no scruples and playing horror films during the day and parents being at work, Jon and I could, virtually, binge-watch such Academy Award Winning (not) films like My Bloody Valentine, Deadly Blessing, Prom Night as well as all the Friday The 13ths and the Halloweens. We found Halloween III: Season Of The Witch one of the funniest movies we'd ever seen up till then! It was seriously stupid! All this stuff actually prompted me to get a Fangoria supscription at the tender age of 13 along with my Starlog subscription so I could tap into how these films were made and what grossness I would get to look forward to next summer! Jon actually found the slasher films scarier than I did. The only one that really got my goose was, basically, the very first one . . . Last House On The Left! Wes Craven's debute as a 'professional' film director was a film that looked so inept that it really makes a viewer think they are watching a real snuff film done by vicious amatures! The excellent acting of the two female victims in the film only adds to the bone-chilling horror this film brings. It is, by no means, the goriest of all slasher films (though the uncut version has some scenes that still challenge some of today's jaded horror fans), but what gore there is really makes you feel that these murders really happened. This fact of the film was so provocotive for the time (1972) that the film's tagline became 'Keep Telling Yourself . . . It's Only A Movie!" The villains are entirely believable and their sadism makes the most imaginitive undead mass-murdering mask-wearing monster look like the Easter Bunny! My friend Jon managed to get a video of this unrated version of the film and we watched part of it until I just had to go home because I couldn't watch anymore. It actually left me with a bit of PTSD, to be honest. It helped to cause our break-up because it scared me how much Jon was into this film . . . Speaking of monsters and ghosts: the film that actually most haunted my fertile imagination as a kid was A L I E N - and yes, I respect and love this film so much that I need to put the extra spaces in to the title because, well, that was such a cool title art idea! I had nightmares about this movie even BEFORE I saw it! The trailer alone was enough to scare the living crap out of me at 10 years old! I submit exhibit A for reference: This trailer actually tells the story as to why A L I E N is such a masterful piece of horror cinema! The 'music' that has an actual racing heartbeat in it as well as the slow buildup are what this film is all about! Again, Lovecraft comes into play with A L I E N because the story is straight-up textbook Cosmic Horror that is defined as a story featuring an unknowable horror so completely strange and deleterious to human survival that it only confirms one of our most primal fears: the fear of the unknown! It points to a universe that is completely unsympathtic or even cognizant of human existence and is as likely to destroy a person as enrich them with new knowledge. It is the ultimate insult to our curiosity as human beings. The ultimate 'curiosity killed the cat' idea. Which brings into it why this film has been uniquely singled out as being one of the most terrifying of all horror movies, it is rife with symbols of all of our primordial terrors! Fear of the unknown, fear of one's own curiosity, fear of rape and specifically male rape! The fear of contamination, the fear of parasitism and a new idea of death no one had ever considered for a human being and yet actually exists in nature! A kind of death so horrifying that it leaves a person feeling vulnerable and raped inside just by having watched it! Fear of sex. Fear of the dark. Fear of closes spaces. Fear of falling. Fear of strobbing out of control lights! Fear of one's own complacency and sense of safety when, in actuality, that saftey is a lie! This film is all of these things! The monster, the Xenomorph itself, is the perfect monster! No monster has ever come close to its design! HR Giger, an self-admitted disturbed man, used art as therapy for his night terrors! What came from his dreams makes you wonder about this great surrealist artist. Where had his soul gone? What horrors had he seen in life to justify the absolute depravity and brutal beauty of his artwork? He was a product of World War II and had firsthand knowledge of atrocities we still cannot fathom to this day. The Holocost, the firebombings, the burned flesh mingled with technology creating a new necromorphic form of unlife! All of this was distilled into the Alien! A walking black skeleton with a disturbingly deformed penile head and an eyeless face who's primary feature was a great steely maw holding an awful surprise inside! It was a dinosaur. It was a giant lizard. It was a giant scorpion! It was a huge man-thing with claws that could rip through metal plate like paper! It was the 'perfect organism' and a form of life so superior to humankind that it could become mankind's perfect predator making humans doubt their technological prowess and understand that they, again, were the prey and no longer the ultimate predator. Mankind had met more than it's match in the Alien! The Xenomorph has now become as much a part of pop culture as Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolfman so its shockvalue should have worn off by now . . . but it hasn't entirely. It still disturbs us to this day! When it first came out in 1979, no one had been prepared for it. The very idea of the whole thing kept me up at night even before I watched it. My folks finally relented to see if actually seeing the film would take away what my imagination was terrifying with. But, no . . . the Alien never left me. Not until I got a toy Alien of my own did I finally 'make friends' with my ultimate nightmare. THAT is the bar A L I E N set, and if you haven't reacquainted yourself with the movie in the past few years, you might need a refresher. Forget the stupid sequels and prequels. Watch the original without preconceptions and it will harrow you as it did when it first came out! In other news: The Amityville Horror was pretty creepy for a ghost story, but The Changeling was just bone chilling! I also like John Carpenter's lost masterpiece, The Fog! That was a wonderful spookfest! So many horror films! Modern ones are getting better. I'm glad they got out of the Torture Porn genre, though. That was just getting depraved! Hostle is still, largely, a 'no-watch' for me. As I've gotten older, I have less of an interest in horror movies. Reality is, sometimes, the worst horror show of all and after you've lived a little while things add up, you know? Anyways . . . Happy Horrorween!

“Ariel (Hebrew: אריאל‎, romanized: Ari'el, Arael or Ariael) is an angel found primarily in Jewish and Christian mysticism and Apocrypha. The literal meaning is ‘lion of God’.” ~Wikipedia

Gosh, the 2020s are going to resemble the 80s for having some of the most beautiful men ever to have lived growing up in our midst! These guys are angelic! Anyway, now for something completely different!

I hope he can keep that upper range! I have a feeling he's tending towards a tenor or even a baratone when things start to drop which I suspect will be pretty soon. Greyson Chance comes to mind . . . Before . . . After . . .

That testosterone, dude! Powerful stuff! 😝 Slash oughta be proud of Jack! Hehehe!

It really is infested with Too Cute! But, Tanner makes me ashamed of my own damn self! Naturally, I think 'A Class By Himself' when I see Tanner. Xolo is a hunk and there's no denying it! They gave him a 'karate kid' makeover that really suits his looks. He should stick with it. He reminds me a bit of Lou Diamond Phillips back in the La Bamba days. When the original Karate Kid came out, I harboured a crush on old Ralph Macchio just like everyone else that craved boy-flesh in the 80s. My 15 year old sex drive just loved the way he fit into his jeans! I still do, since that 15 year old didn't go anywhere despite the intervening years.

I am in love with Tanner Buchanan who plays Robby on Cobra Kai. That is all.

Most of my stories exist in their own established time streams and are not, necessarily, right now. Even Brandon Smiling is more of a 2010 meets 1985 amalgam since the Billyverse seems to have a very 2000s vibe flavoured with a dash of 1980s since both you and I are trying to draw upon our teen years and that was in the 80s more or less. I think the rule applies: write what you know. If you are writing a contemporary story set for today then, naturally, you'll want to reflect your current experience of now. An interesting idea, staying with the teen experience theme, might be a story about two boys who meet online and only see each other virtually during class and later Zoom. That might actually touch the experience of what a lot of kids are going through right now. My only problem starting such a story is that, it is my hope, that the story becomes a cute little history piece of a brief time in our lives when all the world seemed to be going to Hell but it all ended up alright in the end. Something to look back on as anomalous after we all get our vaccines by Christmas. Writing against that kind of backdrop can be difficult. But, if this thing drags on and on, then it might be a meaningful piece because it will mean a whole generation of kids will have grown up only seeing each other Through A Looking-glass Darkly.

Ah , yes... welcome to Hollywood, Evan!

(MrM remains inexplicably silent.)