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A few weeks back, our tech guru extraordinaire, A.J., compiled the reading stats to date for me. I poked them around to see what I could see and I made a little pie chart for everyone. Now, any math person will tell you that you need context to understand what that means. So here are the relevant details: Data is compiled based on "reads" from Jan-April 2018. This is about one quarter of the year. The data shown here represents 2.89 million views, which compromised the top 717 stories. The cut off for that number was 1000 views in the time period. Stories can (and do) have more than one genre listed on them. The displayed data was compiled this way: Stories were ranked by most views Jan-April All stories with more than 1000 views were left in. We counted up the number of times a genre was tagged in those stories. The pie shows the proportion of stories so tagged. As you can see, people are reading Romance and Drama in high numbers. Though, to be honest, many of the stories on the site are tagged with Romance in addition to whatever else someone wanted to be listed. Western is not shown but is half the size of Paranormal. Enhanced story stats will be part of a future update to Stories.

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I forgot to set this to post this morning... oops. This is one of those late 90's action movies full of one-liners. And it features Samuel L. Jackson doing his thing as a BAMF. If you haven't seen it and you like action movies and one-liners, this is a good movie.

Thanks so much for your comments. I'm trying to get more writing time in

This is another coming-of-age story by Mercedes Lackey that she does so well. This story is powerful and emotional, like so many of Mercedes Lackey's first book in a new series. (This is a pattern with her. Pretty much every first book in a series she does is a powerful coming of age story). The dragons in this story are fairly unique compared to others. They are characters in their own right, though not speaking or human intelligence. They are definitely not stupid either. If you haven't read this story, and you like fantasy, this is definitely worth a read.

We are jumping back to Fall of 2011 - Legends

I picked these up a while ago so that I had some tools on hand for emergencies. They do the job. Nothing too fancy.

Depends on your notifications: https://www.gayauthors.org/notifications/options/ For content you follow, you'll get online notification if the left check mark is checked. And Emails if the Right check mark is checked. In this case, I do NOT get emails. Stories also allows for notifications for other things: In theory, if you Follow an Author, you'll get alerted if they post a new story. If you follow a story, you'll get alerted to new Chapter. If you select any of the options in Stories section of notifications (Shown above), then you should get notified in those cases as well. I'm saying should here because we've had an issue with not everyone getting notified every time when they should. Something we're still working on.

There has been a lot of news lately about Privacy and information breaches all over the place. Combine that with the new EU law, GDPR, going into effect on May 26th, and every internet company on Earth has been bombarding you with alerts, messages, and requests for re-agreements. The amount of regulation that you have to deal with as a small business is frankly crushing. As the laws were written by technical half-wits (and I'm being generous), the law is written in such a way as that everyone is in violation of the law in some way or another unless you have a large team of well-paid lawyers making everything more complicated and messy. The USA wasn't to be outdone and passed a moronic Anti-Sex Trafficking Bill... that basically puts every company that operates on the Internet in harm's way....unless you have an army of lawyers. Expect more changes as we make adjustments to make sure we are well inside what's allowed by these laws. In the meantime, you can find our most up-to-date Privacy Policy linked at the bottom of every page: You can find the Rules/Terms of Service/Guidelines for the site under the Help Menu as Guidelines: The Terms of Service Short form is here: https://www.gayauthors.org/terms/ It links to the full Guidelines as well. Opt-in for Site News We have the capability of emailing members from time to time via the system. This is a strictly opt-in system and we had people cycle that some time ago. If you wish to change your current status for on-site email contact, you can go to your Notification settings here: https://www.gayauthors.org/notifications/options/ For people that Subscribe to the Read! Write! Enjoy! site newsletter, there will be a new opt-in going out soon so that we comply with the new EU GDPR law. Keep an eye out for that.

This is an oldie but goodie. The visuals in this movie are stunning, especially when you consider it came out in 1984. It has long fueled my thoughts of space and space exploration. It is also a much tighter story, unlike the very plodding 2001. Sci-Fi movies suffered from long, slow scenes to soaring music in the 1965- 1980 timeset. You can see this in the first Alien movie, the first Star Trek Movie (The Motion Picture), and to a lesser extent Star Wars. I think Star Wars was the one to start breaking towards action faster. Anyway, someone beat on Arthur C. Clarke to get him to cough up some explanations for the weird near acid trip of 2001: A Space Odessy. I'd like 2001 a lot more if it cut out about an hour. 2010, probably over-explains, but it makes more sense. Anyway, I strongly recommend this movie, just for the cool visuals of Jupiter, though it is also well acted.

This and Mario have me looking. I figured a couple other things would pop up. I'm really liking the look of Detroit: Become Human. Those more narrative games are good for relaxing at times. The only thing stopping me from going out right now is that I don't have time to play anyway. lol. So, I'll wait until a big sale comes along and snag something.

This is one of the games that have motivated me to put PS4 (Pro) on my buy list. There are a handful of really good single player games on PS4 and Switch that have me looking outside my Xbox and PC.

@Reader1810 This is definitely something that should go over better when someone that has some life experience in how the world works.

There are a handful of things that would finally get me back to Nintendo, at least for awhile. Zelda would be one of those things.

As an engineer, I have always been fascinated by how things work. You can boil down most engineering to "Problem Solving". Problem solving is a skillset. The most popular problem solver in popular culture when I was growing up was MacGyver. Lock the man in a room with some spare parts and a knife and he'd make an airplane. The people that make the world work are real-life MacGyvers. In our world, there are not a whole lot of people that fall into this category. Atlas Shrugged is a book that asks the question, what if the people that make things work suddenly stop and disappear? This book is absolutely despised by 'progressives' because it torches socialism like the dungheap it is. It's maligned by the left because it torches their sacred cows and it is maligned by social conservatives because Ayn Rand wasn't too fond of religion either. The big concepts are great. The romance in the book is cheesy at best. There is a cool bro-mance thing going on too. And there is a tendency to monologue, at least by John Galt. If you've never read it and only heard it's evil or some 'progressive' snowflake melted over it, it's worth your while to educate yourself. Enough people out there that make the world work, feel as the characters do in this book. Who is John Galt?

The server is currently locked up on that task and is tied to ongoing issues. We are working with our programmer and support to deal with it.

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I love these spoons! They are so handy for cooking and they clean up really easy. If you are still using a wooden spoon, for all that is holy, try one of these spoons!

I must admit that this movie is a bit of a guilty pleasure for me. It is very well done and the actors do a great job all across the board. It has gay characters and that are really in a hard spot in the movie. The reason for my guilt is because this movie is clearly a propaganda piece by someone that doesn't understand history at all. This movie is what a 'progressive' thinks a 'conservative' is. While in reality, it is projection on the part of the writers. The movie is interesting and important to watch, as well as entertaining.

I'm an Xbox guy. But I have to say, Sony is banging them out of the park one after another with their games lately. To the point where I'm going to end up picking up a PS4 so I can hit some of these games. (God of War, Detroit Become Human, Spiderman, Last of Us, etc) And look how real these people/androids look.

I had fun last week posting the movie on Monday and the books on Friday, so I figured I'd do it again this week. This book is a fast read and enjoyable. I am someone that enjoys science and science fiction. This is the more interesting science fiction in that it is in the realm of "could happen". "hard Science"-type sci-fi is the most difficult, of course. But I think it makes it all the more powerful when done right. Have you read the book? seen the movie? both? What do you think?

It is time for another Anthology Flashback. This week we are featuring Spring 2011 's People are Strange anthology. Anthologies 2018 Spring Anthology: Now or Never - Due May 15th 2018 Spring Anthology: Encounters - Due May 15th 2018 Fall Anthology: Fight Back - Due Nov 15th 2018 Fall Anthology: Good Intentions - Due Nov 15th Would you mind taking the time to leave a review for our writers?

@Timothy M. I'll remind you once again that the vast majority of the people reading on the site are "guests" as in not member or not logged in and unable to like or comment in such a state.

I want to be clear right up from that I'm all for getting properly toasted. This toaster does the job and beeps when it's done. There is a bit of an issue when you go back to back if you are doing 4 slices for some reason. It does the job. Cheers to getting toasted!

We are actively developing a change to the story system that will go with our forum software upgrade. There are a lot of things going on under the hood, but there is a fairly sizable visual change coming as well. Clicking on Newest Stories currently shows you this: Our still-in-development software update shows you this: A couple of notes here on the image: This is a work in progress and subject to change This is in the default color scheme and has not been updated to GA colors yet The idea with the interface is to put all the story sorting options right in front of you and have the listing update as you make changes. For example, if I wanted to list all the stories by either @Cia or me, I can do this: Or maybe I want to see the Premium Stories? We are working hard to make things easier for everyone. The Stories Archive software offers some really powerful features, but they are a bit fidgety and in out of the way places. The idea of the new update is to put the power right in front of you. Like... show me just the stories that I follow: Do you think this sorting method will be easier for you? Do you think it will be helpful to find specific stories? Now is a great time for feedback!