Zuri

Actually, I find my character's journey (the sexual/internal, not the roadtrip) somewhat similar to the one of two characters in the series Heartbreak High 🤔 And if you want to get an idea what I imagine the characters to look and be like: https://mastodon.online/@shaedrich/111828623720975440

There's one chapter left still 😉

Although, you were wrong, your hopes were heard ^^ You probably see now, why I couldn't reply to this back then 😅 I find it funny how being honest can be the hardest in a relationship that close that is built on so much mutual trust but also with the constant fear of offending this person, you care so deeply about, and losing them. On the other hand, this showcases that communication (and more specifically truth) is key in a relationship. One might be surprised at times and happen to save time and trouble. For me, it was a "fun" twist to work both with a protagonist, who shares his thoughts with us and a second character about whose motives the protagonist knows not more than we do. They only just met each other and start things straight out of the rule book by the letter. That's what I meant about our society and the queer community being drawn to social constructs, even if we hide it better these days. Up to this point, they both are completely unable to imagine a relationship (to work) entirely without sex. That's just beyond them. Ironically and sadly enough at the same time, they both kinda played the role a woman used to play in a marriage for centuries.

When it got late, and we had watched our third or fourth episode, I knew what came next. Resigned to my fate, I took things as they came. We went to bed, and regularly as clockwork, I felt his hands taking off my shirt in the dark. Instead of continuing to undress me, I heard him getting rid of his boxer briefs. His hand returned, hovering over my body like a metal detector, barely touching my skin, trying to get me horny. Then, his hand disappeared again. I felt him turning around. “

Thanks for the hint—I certainly wasn't aware of that fact. Turns out, you never stop learning—but after all, almost nothing is entirely new under this sun.

Yeah, I forgot, she's out and proud. Well, that's the thing. You know me. In terms of relationship stuff, less is more for me in a story 😉 But your story is more than that. And so much fun to read despite that 😜 Oh, I can confirm that 👍 You're very welcome, it's always a pleasure. And you know my opinion towards the currency around free stories: You deserve them, that's the least I can do. So, I should be thanking you, not the other way round 😉

Coming from the lady with the chains in her basement. Yep, unfortunately. They just can't help themselves, apparently. It quickly turns brown and when it turns brown … icky … Well, Edna knows Dave … 🤷‍♂️ By the way, Edna seems to be a bit like Arabella Figg in that she knows about the other world and takes care, that everything is fine with the supernatural creatures. But she seems to be anything but a Squib (smell, familiarity with Clara's people, etc.) If it's only mildly concerning, then it's not that urgent, it seems … I guess, Mark prides himself to be something special

I think, the icon should be shifted down a bit in the CSS. Example: https://gayauthors.org/story/drown/oregon-in-the-fall/7

First, I was like, nah, not this straight stuff … wait a minute. I know that face … 😅 Well, to look attractive, he sure didn't have to do anything 😂 Well, he sure got the moves convincing.

I'm curious: On a scale from 0 to 10, how uncomfortable do you feel, reading the sex scenes? ^^ Leonard might disagree Agreed. I liked watching the whole of the series, but the aforementioned scene particular disappointed me especially, when Sheldon turned out to be an allosexual heterosexual. Sure, he didn't have to be not straight, but they straight out retconned him into being allo. #NoHomo—gay chicken ftw

We arrived at the motel comparably early, but soon after, there’d be the border, so we decided, we didn’t want to cross it in the late evening and try to find accommodation thereafter. The motel room had a TV, so we squeezed up on the bed together—this one was smaller than Rhys', yet they insisted on it being a double bed—and Rhys logged into his Netflix account. As with most people who aren’t watching shows on a regular basis together, it took us quite some time to figure out what ea

And a drug dealer has to be high uninterruptedly to set a good example? In that case, I'm glad, they are not in an arms shop … Well, they do already know The Good Witch of the Pacific Northwest Yes, I'm making fun of something, no, it's not your show don't tell attempts

They can drink any time of the day, can't they? Well, I know the film of Grey's and Dave's next movie night 🤷‍♂️ Somewhere, over the rainbow … 🌈🎶 It's nice to see, that she has emotions like the other three, and is not just unnaturally happy all the time. Probably self-explanatory ^^ Every breath you take And every move you make Every bond you break Every step you take I'll be watching you Turns out, math isn't the Alpha's strong suit. Sure thing, she already told us, she runs a basement for playful customers special interest in chains 😉 Well, there haven't been too many obstacles, have they? 😜 Would you have been more surprised if she brought a Ouija board?

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They do. I never intended to erase them. But they have their share of representation. Others getting it too, doesn't mean, taking it away from the aforementioned. What I meant, was not that they can't be monogamous, homosexual, and/or homoromantic, but that they have stereotypical thinking like "top" and "bottom" as defining, often exclusive and dividing traits for example. Sounds interesting 🤔 I might check that one out, too 👍 It was an epiphany when I first read a novel (written in German) where the protagonist turned out to be aroace, and focuses on more platonic relationships, which she experiences more intensely. I don't know, where you asked this, but yes, I'm also asexal. I just didn't want to spoil you ^^ So, even though, story-wise I can't relate this much to my protagonist, character-wise, I definitely can.

I'm sure about Clare not being fazed, but I'm less sure about Dave. And just because you aren't fazed, you don't have to watch your step-brother between the sheets with his blood brother's ex lover 😉 Well, he is—isn't he? Do the others disagree? In that case, they are just clueless or jealous 😜

@James Baxter I'm afraid, I have to ask: What do you mean by that in this context? @drown Thank you ☺️ I'm glad, I was able to write characters, you can emphasize with Oh, and bittersweet is the best taste 2 in 1, so to speak 😜 I think, that's a topic not talked about often enough. And gay men, while being marginalized in terms of their sexual orientation, are privileged in terms of their gender. Another eye-opening thing, I read in a fascinating book, is that gay people, despite having had the chance to create a community from scratch, decided to model it closely after the cisheteromononormative society, they were ostracized by. While rereading my own chapter, especially the last paragraph, I thought, it would be fun to turn it into an audiobook, but then I thought back to Rhys' announcement only a few lines above that or the sex scenes which were uncomfortable enough to write 😅 The tweet in question: https://nitter.net/SHaedrich/status/1526161700097085442#m I should have known this, but I had to look it up. I won't tell my protagonist, what his labels are and he hasn't told me. I don't think so in terms of what is based on me, but beyond that, who knows … 🤷‍♂️ What would be a story without drama? 😜

Yeah, the belt buckle gave that away 😉

It looks like Grey and Mark (very telling that there's no good shipping name 🤔) are even now—in terms of chaining at least. Wow, what a passion for detail 👍 I mean, isn't that a pleonasm? ^^ Young on the outside, ancient on the inside? I take it that wolves aren't monoamorous 🤔 This theory is … both innocent and weird at the same time 😂 But we've yet to see what is impossible in this world—even turning into a wolf doesn't seem to count anymore Grey has a tough time, splitting his time comforting his past and his future lover. You won't make it so easy for us to not redeem Mark 😜 Mark seems to love to torture Grey. Hands of two people he's drawn too … might be too much for Clara to witness 😉 Dave sure gets the most eloquent dialog (but he makes up for it with cute clumsiness)

The waiter brought the receipt. He was around our age, and I’d lie if I said, I hadn’t noticed that he looked hot. But what does it mean when you look at someone, and you like what you see? What do other people think at that moment? Does “hot” mean, you would like to have sex with them? Is it weird that I would be fine with just looking at them? Why is sex even that important to many, even if a fair amount of them would deny it? I handed the waiter my credit card, and while he disappe

Do you just drop that after the introduction? Works well if you want people to remember you. Oh, you will. Soon. 😉

They are a couple—isn't that what couples do? An unwritten law of nature so to speak. The newer the relationship the more the sex—who doesn't do that? 😜 I'm glad, my tweet made you chuckle—by the way, here's the original tweet: https://nitter.net/SHaedrich/status/1417923742374768643#m Hobbyist writers talk about both writing chat messages and self-inserts but a social media self-insert like this was a first for me, too 😅 Thank you for your comment. This is what I meant by below each chapter. It's not only a currency, it's also the fuel, I run on 👍 Btw: The next chapter is already underway 😉

I'm pretty sure, Grey already un-packed when he left home 😜 The leaf or the sudden touching? Don't make Dave jealous by muttering Freudian slips 😜 By slamming heads into floors? Well, crude but effective … Now, I don't want to know what's in her basement … Now, two things, I didn't like that much (a little nit-picky though): This is a little much info dumping for me. I just imagine this read out loud and … it just doesn't work for me. But Grey and Dave (I guess, the shipping name "Grave" is out of question—and "Day" … I don't know … 🤔) would be so lost without Clara 😂 I know something waaaaay better: Dave and Mark become a couple in the end 😜 I'd say, she better not run a hardware shop in the woods. So, I suppose, this wasn't a voice in Grey's head but a comment from the author to the author 😜 Yeah, I mean, what are your chances against a man wo… werewolf, a shaman son, and … whatever Clara is? Uh, Matrix—this really is 😜

I heard the toilet flush and some water from the wash bowl as he washed his hands. We got a double room with a king-size bed. When we came in, I directly collapsed on it. My eyes were closed when he returned from the bathroom, and I felt his weight when he crawled onto the mattress right next to me. His arms and legs touched mine as he was quite close, and I noticed he was probably just wearing his boxer briefs. Then, he turned off the lights and pulled the sheets over us. “You asleep?” he