MrM

Yeah. There's an old saying I've always liked: "God created pussycats so that we could pet tigers."

I wish they didn't want to eat me sometimes. I love tigers so much!

IT'S TOO CUTE! I'M ABOUT TO HAVE A DIABETIC FIT!

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!

It will be interesting to see if they can get the Dark Phoenix story right for this next X-Men. They completely mauled it in the 3rd X-Crap movie. Dark Phoenix was what initially got me into being a completely addicted slave to X-Men forever after. It was just such a beautifully sculpted shakespearean comic book tragedy! "Scott!" "Jean!" ~cries~

"I like old technology! I love classics!" ~ the boy will be a future Antiques Roadshow expert. Oh and HUSH YER HOLE! I'm older than you are dammit!

Thanks for the update, Comsie. As of this morning Irma has been downgraded to a Tropical Storm last I heard. Still very messy but not a Cat 4 cataclysm like before. Regardless, be careful, Fearless Leader. Yeah, I think the most 'fun' I've ever had was the 7.0 Earthquake we had back a few years ago. It felt like I was suddenly on a bucking bronco while sitting in my easy-chair. Fun times.

Trevor's found a pretty new toy to play with!

I've been laughing my butt of at this for a couple of days. These two cute dudes are soooo totally clueless, particularly the teenaged older brother. OMG! HAHAHAHA!

When I saw Bryan Singer's loving treatment of the X-Men in that first movie I felt like I'd come full circle. I always dreamed that I'd see a live action X-Men movie that was worthy of the stories I was reading. He pulled it off with the first movie and I felt fourteen all over again! I was an 80s kid too. For me it was Arcade Summers, Role-Playing Game Afternoons, and New Comic Saturdays! Occasionally, I'd get to go see a cool movie or two along the way. My first 'boyfriend' (JOE-seph/Jose) was a role-playing pal of mine. That role-playing stuff was priming me to be a writer because for years after playing those things I'd come up with these scenarios and stories that I'd just have to jot down in a notebook or somewhere. Anyways, I remember reading the Infinity Gauntlet miniseries Marvel put out in the early 90s and was totally blown away by the theatrical presentation of that story. It was a storyboard already. Even now, 46 years old, I can't wait to see how the Avengers Crew manages to put that epic to screen! It looks like I"m in for being a 14-19 year old again! Hehehehe! I always thought DC was corney except for Batman, but this new gritty series of stories is taking the 'Superfriends' vibe out of the DC heroes. These movies for DC are truly epic! I LOOOOOOOVED Wonder Woman!!! I watched it with my Mom's spirit sitting right next to me in the theatre. She was a WW Fan from waaaaay back. I can't wait to see Justice League. It looks like a ride in a half! ~fist bumps~ Let's roll a 20+ all cats arcade summer for the next couple of summers and pretend that all our aches and pains, wrinkles and gray hairs are gone and we're wide eyed, innocent yet horny fourteen year olds in the theater again waiting for Indiana Jones to start!!!

It makes me feel better about my insecurities about my writing when my Guild Master gets the same exact feelings writing these things as I do. If a touching scene doesn't make me cry then I've not done my job. But, boy . . . it leaves me emotionally exhausted almost all the time! I just finished GFD up to the point you left off and I feel like I've just gotten off of a roller coaster! I can't wait to see your next jewel, Mr. Jeweler!

See, this doesn't bother me too much because I just went and saw the 40th Anniversary release of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Now we know what Richard Dryfuss was up to on board the Mother Ship!

Um . . . how close are you to the Florida Keys? Don't mess with this stuff, Lovemuffin! Hurricanes are NO fun! I've only experienced a glancing blow by one (yes San Diego does get some wild weather sometimes despite the press) and that was uckfing SCARE-eee! BE CAREFUL! I've survived El Niños, tornadoes, wildfires, earthquakes, Sacramento, AND the City Council. So I know how sssspooky these things can be!

I've been doing similar things with my Brandon Smiling story and with Comsie's Billy Chase story. There was a recent sex scene in that story that was just juicy. What's cool is I've been finding some unknown artists who come up with some of the best music for stuff like this. This one is by Trevor Something who is a Retro Wave artist that calls back a lot of the early 80s vibe with a modern sensibility. This song is so uckfing hawwt!

Thank you very much.

Brilliant, Comsie! Brilliant and harrowing. "Walking Diseases" that's what my poor abused and murdered literary character Christopher called such men as 'Chuck'. May Chuck come to the same fate as Christopher's murderer only at Vampire hands rather than a detective's bullet! 😡

Thank you very much @BDANR! Yes, I love the Pearl as an entire album on its own but the starting track is really amazingly three dimentional and 'Mediterranean' somehow. Thanks again for reading. I hope you continue to enjoy the book.

Sometimes souls connect to each other through shared pain. A nice parallel in how Justin's intimate connection translated differently between the older brother and the younger.

Yet, standing still behind a door and never leaving makes the room you are in your eventual tomb. But, there are more ways to get through this door than by just 'walking' through it.

Yaaaaaaay

There is an opening in the soul Beaten out like a golden door Bought by pain and completed by love That becomes noble by war Fractious enemies that tear They compete against the opening Fighting to keep closed what should be wide This Fear and this conceit, live as constriction Which is death Withering they fry and freeze to Pull closed the golden door Sucking it shut and sealing it in pain A Nobility ransomed for safety The golden door hides within a For

My Sire. My Savior. ❤️💖💜

The Seashell: ~~~~~~~~~~ From the Brothertiger album 'Out of Touch' and 'The Pearl' by Brian Eno and Harold Bud. 1. The Pearl (The Cove) 2. Fall Apart (The Love Song of a Sea God) 3. Engulfed (Under the Wine Dark Sea) 4. A Stream With Bright Fish (Neptune and the Wonders of the Deep) 5. Upon Viridian Waters (The Rapture of Alexis) 6. Dark Eyed Sister (Aphrodite's Curse) 7. High Tide (To Lose and to Be Lost) 8. Beyond The Infinite (Eros' Counsel) 9. Lost In The Humming Air (Upon The Winds of Zephyrus) 10. Out Of Touch (Searching The Horizon) 11. Wake (Swept Out to Sea) 12. Drift (Guided by the Nereids) 13. Their Memories (Nerites and Alexis Touch Through Morpheus) 14. Jungle Floor (The Island of Pan) 15. Against The Sky (The Divine Discussion) 16. Grenada (Nerites' Choices) 17. Let Me See - Clannad (Alexis' Prayer) 18. Angel of the Sirens - Cinnamon Chasers (The Calling of the Seashell) 19. Locust Point (Alexis' Eyes Are Opened) 20. Still Return (The Blessings of Faith) 21. Song To The Siren - The Celtic Angels (The Sea and the Longing) Lyrics ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Pearl (The Cove) --------------------------------------------------------- Instrumental *** Fall Apart (The Love Song of a Sea God) --------------------------------------------------------- You, you came into this life To see what you could find You took me for a friend Afraid, I know you feel this way But I can’t seem to take Your mind away from it And I know that these things will fall apart I’m growing from the very start I finally see the place Where you and I will make our final mark Upon our interrupted hearts And finally a flame erupts inside: 'Wait! Don't Go!' And I feel the wave crashing down I hear that solitary sound And I feel the wave crashing down All around, you were always on my mind... (The Prince of the Sirens Sings) Go, see it to it’s end Make all your amends and tell me when it's over Fade into the silent light I feel it all the time But you don’t recognize this world I feel for you my Love 'I’m afraid of this world' Fall away from the night 'Hey! Don't Go!' And I feel the wave crashing down I hear that solitary sound And I feel the wave crashing down All around, you were always on my mind (X1) *** Engulfed (Under the Wine Dark Sea) --------------------------------------------------------- Satin shadow These eyes couldn’t capture Forgetting myself As the days are running faster Connecting the edge Of a life to another Sending the echoes Of an essence rediscovered Calling out again To the silence of the deep wood Looking at the world through a new light Following the fallen leaves That drift along the water I can hardly recognize What I am on the inside You could stay but I don’t care Enough for anything in this life These days I’m unaware of what Is really deep inside Faded, fallen I’m engulfed in emotion Your careless calling Is alive with devotion The sudden silence Deviates from the steady sound I’m flooded with defiance As the echo races all around Coming to the edge of the forest In the deep wood Looking at the world with a new light Following the voices That are drifting through the water I can hardly recognize What I am on the inside You could stay but I don’t care Enough for anything in this life These days I’m unaware of what Is really deep inside *** A Stream With Bright Fish (Poseidon and the Wonders of the Deep) --------------------------------------------------------- Instrumental *** Upon Viridian Waters (The Rapture of Alexis) --------------------------------------------------------- We’ve gone so far beyond emotion In daylight Surrounded in my own mind Against the cold night *** Dark Eyed Sister (Aphrodite's Curse) --------------------------------------------------------- Instrumental *** High Tide (To Lose and To Be Lost) --------------------------------------------------------- You run through the forest Away from it all You soak in the current With your back to the wall You swim through the tides When the summer calls You follow the sounds of The waterfall I follow to the edge And I fall to the floor I swim in circles And I drift evermore It seems I can’t remember Who I was before I’m floating in an ocean That I can’t explore But I can hang on to the surface In flowing, oscillated time My lungs are filling up with water But I won’t sink to the void I climbed to the top Of the fiery wall I swallowed my emotions And embraced the fall Exploring through the silence Of the shadows call I’m swimming through the current And I feel it all But I can hang on to the surface In flowing, oscillated time My lungs are filling up with water But I won’t sink to the void *** Lost In The Humming Air (Upon The Winds of Zephyrus) --------------------------------------------------------- Instrumental *** Beyond The Infinite (Eros' Counsel) --------------------------------------------------------- Sinking to the floor I found another life Waking to the color Fading I was rusted Unrecognized Molded to the others Making a connection To the other side Thought I found a lover Lost into ascension To my blinded eyes Calling for another 'Let go of your lying eyes Lying eyes Let go' Hanging on to someone That I recognized Bright beyond the colors Withered to the marrow I realized Nothing like the others Falling through the floor I came upon your eyes Thought I found a lover Searching evermore I demoralized Calling for another 'Let go of your lying eyes Your Lying Eyes Let go' (X) *** Out Of Touch (Searching The Horizon) --------------------------------------------------------- Midnight coming I’m farther away than I used to be Running down these city streets Where the future beckons to me We’ve got nothing Written down in our history Moving on two hearts agree But you can call on me On the horizon line I see the form reflecting in time In the blue-green light There’s a movement all around me I feel there’s something Coming on this sudden breeze Colors changing on the leaves The scene’s got nothing on me Drift from the softness Drawing out this strange disease Moving towards the deeper seas The future’s calling to me On the horizon line I see the form reflecting in time In the blue-green light There’s a movement all around me *** Wake (Swept Out To Sea) --------------------------------------------------------- Time and again I’m rushing to the end I could never really figure you out And when it comes to this I’d rather reminisce ‘Cause reality is wearing me down Open up your eyes to the sunlight Breaking the dawn When the night draws out And my hopes are gone This fire is still burning Right into my bones I don’t want to stick around this town anymore The wake you form is surrounding us The days are gone and we’re starting over The wake you form is surrounding us Drowning in the water Filling me up I open up my lungs To breath I have begun As I go between the night and the dawn I calibrate the sun And follow everyone To find I’m barely hanging on Open up your eyes to the summer night Silent and warm As the light endures like it did before These tides are still turning Right into the shore I don’t want to stick around this town anymore The wake you form is surrounding us The days are gone and we’re starting over The wake you form is surrounding us Drowning in the water Filling me up *** Drift (Guided by the Nereids) --------------------------------------------------------- Hallowed ghost So suddenly I find Wandering the night Growing shadows on the floor Falling through I have to look inside Reflected on my eyes There I see myself before Child in the dark Grows fond of all illumination Emanating from the city light Leading ever on Towards the outskirts of this city Where our pasts would reunite Our pasts would reunite I’m calling out But I’m too far gone to see you When the night falls I drift into the chasm below I know now That I am still no different From anything around me I still implore Following The footprints left behind Trailing through the times Where we’ve gone through once before She can open up my eyes To deeper seas Of distant memories That I’m dying to explore Child in the night Moves forward to a new direction Moving towards a new and distant light Leading ever on Towards the outskirts of this city Where our pasts would reunite Our pasts would reunite *** Their Memories (Nerites and Alexis Touch Through Morpheus) --------------------------------------------------------- Instrumental *** Jungle Floor (The Island of Pan) --------------------------------------------------------- (as written in The Second Jungle Book...) One moment past our bodies cast No shadow on the plain; Now clear and black they stride our track, And we run home again. In morning-hush, each rock and bush Stands hard, and high, and raw: Then give the Call: "Good rest to all That keep the Jungle Law!" The dew is dried that drenched our hide, Or washed about our way; And where we drank, the puddled bank Is crisping into clay. The traitor Dark gives up each mark Of stretched or hooded claw: Then hear the Call: "Good rest to all That keep the Jungle Law!" *** Against The Sky (The Divine Discussion) --------------------------------------------------------- Instrumental *** Grenada (Nerites' Choices) --------------------------------------------------------- Open up the doors into my mind Fill me up with colors So strong and refined Go into the place that we call A paradise Where everything around you and I Is alive Falling through the memories to explore I could not imagine what I was looking for You, you’re just a presence of something Before Never mind the sadness you’re bound to Adore All again there is nothing wrong I’m floating in the ocean for days Hoping to find myself again So I dive beneath the waves Show me down the path you know is right Now I’m just a traveler Who’s lost in the night I can’t tell the darkness Apart from the light Reaching for some substance With all of my might Running through the memories I explore Struggling to imagine what I was looking for Counting all the places where I stood Before Til I came upon you as I walked through The door All again there is nothing wrong I’m floating in the ocean for days Hoping to find myself again So I dive beneath the waves Save me, oh my will Save me, ever still Won’t you save me? Oh my will *** Let Me See - Clannad (Alexis' Prayer) --------------------------------------------------------- Let me see generation times Will we hear children singing rhymes? Sweet memories gone by, they're gone by Let me be wiser with my eyes Let me see my love by my side Let me see heaven Lonely years of searching the wilderness How this world can lead us all astray Don't let me cry over colourless pictures No more bitter winds No more troubled seas Just forgive me and let me see Let me see my love, let me see Let me see my love, let me see Let me see generation times Will we hear children singing rhymes? Sweet memories gone by, they're gone by Let me be wiser with my eyes Let me see my love by my side Let me see heaven Crossing the room, I recognize the child in me I'll close my eyes to release away all my fears We silence the rose to see it blossom back again Step by step we walk on Word by word we talk on Just forgive me and let me see Let me see generation times Will we hear children singing rhymes? Sweet memories gone by, they're gone by Let me be wiser with my eyes Let me see my love by my side Let me see heaven *** Angel of the Siren - The Cinnamon Chasers (The Calling of the Seashell) ___________________________________ Our dreams are old Our friends are gone And our story's been told Just, carry on A break in the clouds will guide us home You look like an angel of the sirens I, can't believe the wait has been so long I feel like I've been burning bridges to stay with you Friends and lovers have come and gone We have just stood here alone Although I'm pleased to be beside you I'm, lonelier than I have ever known And you look like an angel of the sirens I can't believe the wait has been so long (The endless calling of the Seashell) *** Locust Point – Brothertiger (Alexis’ Eyes are Opened) --------------------------------------------------------- Inside of my own mind I feel Him again I opened up my young eyes To the water's edge I climbed up to the branches To watch the flow I saw Him, I saw Him far below! So I reached out to the edge there I felt the flow I extended my own hand To gather more Then I felt the tremor, I felt it on the inside! I fell into the rubble Fell into the daylight But He took me back to the top And I found myself again! He took me back to the top And I found myself whole! I walked through the sun Toward a voice so far away In a silent wind It drifts upon the waves I reached out to the daylight That fell upon my face As I opened up my eyes To a familiar place! And He took me back to the top And I found myself again! He took me back to the top And I found myself whole! But he took me back to the top And I found myself again! He took me back to the top And I found myself whole! (X) *** Still Return (The First Blessing In Faith) --------------------------------------------------------- (Mysterious and Inspiring Interlude) The Song To The Siren - Celtic Angels (The Sea and the Longing) ___________________________________ Long afloat on shipless oceans I did all my best to smile 'Til your singing eyes and fingers Drew me loving to your isle And you sang Sail to me Sail to me Let me enfold you Here I am Here I am Waiting to hold you Did I dream you dreamed about me? Were you hare when I was fox? Now my foolish boat is leaning Broken lovelorn on your rocks, For you sing, "Touch me not, touch me not, come back tomorrow: O my heart, O my heart shies from the sorrow" I am puzzled as the newborn child I am troubled at the tide: Should I stand amid the breakers? Should I lie with death my bride? Hear me sing, "Swim to me, swim to me, let me enfold you: Here I am, here I am, waiting to hold you" ***

The 'Jeweler' better explain himself soon or he'll loose Justin entirely.