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Isn't mature content less accessible because readers need to become members? Or has it always been like that?

Great!! Since I came back to the site, i noticed there seems to be less readers than before. I thought because I hadn't updated my story in a few years so it makes sense, readers have moved on, unlike me 😂 but I noticed that other newly posted stories had a very low number of views. are there less readers than before on gayauthors ? Aw, what happens if you edit a story, do readers get a notification ? I hope not because ive edited my story way too many times recently 😆

Not many readers left I'm afraid, but I'm still having fun with them, so I added this today to the chapter: Another video Rachel posted that fans loved was footage from our latest “breakup anniversary,” back before she got pregnant. Ever since Rachel and I broke up, I’d made a habit of taking her out once a year to celebrate it, usually by choosing something I knew she’d hate. That year, I took her to one of those restaurants suspended in the air where they strap you into a chair before lifting the whole table hundreds of feet off the ground. Rachel filmed the staff fastening the harness over her shoulders while she stared up at the guy securing the straps. “Has anyone ever died on this?” she asked him. The guy didn’t even hesitate. “Unfortunately no.” You could hear me laughing before we’d even left the ground. Later in the video, we were already up in the air, Rachel sitting perfectly stiff beside me and refusing to look anywhere except straight ahead. “Let’s look down together, okay?” I told her. “No.” “Come on, you can do it. On three.” “I hate you.” I counted anyway. She looked down for maybe half a second before jerking back with a horrified expression on her face while I gasped, my hand over my mouth because I already knew she’d freak out. At the end of dinner, the staff brought us a little cake with Happy Anniversary written across it in icing. Rachel filmed me immediately throwing an arm around her shoulders while we posed with it like a happy couple, me holding up my wedding ring for the camera, very much married to Rob. The comments under that video were full of people envying how Rachel and I had gone from teenage boyfriend and girlfriend to the fun straight girl and gay guy duo we were now. **** Sometimes, she was the one choosing the activity, though, and she was a lot nicer to me. After the reaction to the breakup anniversary video, she posted a few more old clips she knew fans would love. Most of them were just stupid little moments of all of us together, showing sides of us people never really saw, like one video of Rob, Damon and me arguing for nearly five minutes about whether having scales would make us fish or reptiles, and whether mermaids counted as fish while dragons counted as reptiles … fascinating stuff … Or me lecturing Rob jokingly after he broke my suitcase and exploded toothpaste inside it in Japan trying to cram a giant stuffed Pokémon between the two already closed sides, like he had already done with his own suitcase, while Jordan sat there laughing as he watched me go and on about it until I walked out the room to go buy myself a new suitcase. And, of course, Rachel had posted another video she’d filmed during another one of our breakup anniversaries that started with me walking into her apartment in London while she was waiting by the door with her keys in one hand and her phone in the other. “Oh, good,” she said immediately. “You’re wearing something that can get dirty.” Once we were in the car, I kept trying to guess where she was taking me. “Painting in the park?” “No.” “Pottery?” “No. Just drive,” she said, giving me directions. When I pulled into a gravel parking lot somewhere outside the city, I climbed out of the car and stopped for a second. Rachel was still filming while I looked around before saying carefully, in French, “Ça sent le crotin de cheval.” Rachel gasped immediately, realizing I’d said it smelled like horses. “I got it right?” She nodded, laughing. “No way,” I said immediately, already sounding excited. “That’s so cool.” The video ended with Rachel filming us galloping across a field together.

I added a scene with Mark's family in this chapter. Thought that'd be a nice addition.

@FanLit Yes, exactly… I love that about them, because Rob pushes Mark out of his comfort zone, but Mark pushes Rob too throughout the story, through the songs he writes and what he expects from him, and there’s no ego in it, just love.

@FanLit Thanks for commenting, as usual I love your comments. I know there aren’t many people still reading, but I still really enjoy coming back to the story anyway. What you said about Mark is probably why I loved writing this chapter so much, and why it felt so easy to write. I really loved writing the fans’ comments, I always do, it’s not the first time, because it shows how they see them… and especially how they see Mark. Not just as the guitarist and main songwriter, but as a real artist. They see something in him that he hasn’t fully embraced yet. And even though he’s never wanted the spotlight, and would rather just play guitar, write music, and be on stage with his friends, because yes, they mean everything to him, and that’s what makes him feel safe… At the same time, now that he’s older, it kind of feels like it’s time for him to come out a bit more. Not to leave the band or anything, just to let that side of him exist too. And Rob pushing him is really fun to write, but it’s also important. He doesn’t force him, he just doesn’t let him hide anymore, especially now that they’re older. This chapter actually happened because of Loïc Nottet’s song. I already had the idea, but he came back to Dancing with the Stars after 10 years and danced to his own song, and when I listened to the lyrics again… it honestly felt like Mark had whispered them to him. It was just too perfect not to write. I’ll see if inspiration strikes again, there’s still the three weeks part… I’m not really sure how/if I’m going to write it yet, because it wasn’t a fixed idea when I wrote the conclusion. I guess I’ll see what comes. So yeah… I’m really glad I waited five years to write this, because I wrote it for myself, and it just felt so easy.

@VBlew 😂 Yes , it kind of demanded to be out in the World! You should all go and listen to Loic Nottet now! Mark may be scared, but I'd say fate has its own plans for him, dragging him more into the light, whether he's ready or not.

I woke up to a phone vibrating somewhere between the sheets. Rob and I were still half-asleep, tangled together, and I seriously considered ignoring it until it stopped but Rob groaned, and I felt his hand searching for where the noise was coming from. He found it before I did and glanced at the screen. “It’s Tom,” he sighed. “Get it.” I checked the time. It was almost ten in the morning, a reasonable time to call, technically, but we’d fallen asleep around three so it still fell too

I woke up to a phone vibrating somewhere between the sheets. Rob and I were still half-asleep, tangled together, and I seriously considered ignoring it until it stopped but Rob groaned, and I felt his hand searching for where the noise was coming from. He found it before I did and glanced at the screen. “It’s Tom,” he sighed. “Get it.” I checked the time. It was almost ten in the morning, a reasonable time to call, technically, but we’d fallen asleep around three so it still fell too

Hey, because I sent you a few emails but you didn't respond and you said in your email in december that it took you almost an hour to get into your emails... so I put two and two together...

yeah i have no idea what happened with this chapter, i just kept writing and writing and writing. If you remember the first draft i sent you in december, it was literally just the beginning. but i actually love how it turned out, and it kinda made me want to write another one right after! Editing? whyyyy?

@ShadowDweller wait—you’re back too?? i lowkey thought you died 😇 or just lost access to your email since december, which felt just as likely tbh Yeah i’m back too I guess. I missed Rob and Mark lol. Unfortunately my readers didn’t really come back, but honestly it’s fine, i’m just having fun with it. edits? what edits, I don't see anything, you're gonna have to me more specific. But at the same time, does it even matter!

@FanLit I had a feeling you were going to say that.😆 I haven’t written in five years, but lately I’ve really been wanting to again. The thing is, I don’t feel like I have a completely new story in me, it's always been about U-N-I and honestly, I love writing about Rob and Mark. They’re my favorites. Creating A.I pictures was fun too. I started by reworking the original story, adding a few things here and there. Then I tried writing from Damien’s point of view, which was actually really fun, and now this little chapter just kind of happened. I wasn’t even sure about posting it, because it doesn’t seem like there’s much interest anymore, and I didn’t want to embarrass myself. But I guess if I keep writing, I'll have to try to write about the three weeks, I think i'll write just for me, and maybe a handful of people who might still enjoy it along the way.

Jordan, our bass player, walked into the green room. “Hey, Rob, whatcha doing? Do you wanna come kick a ball in the pit with John and Steve?” Rob didn’t even look up at first. He was lying on the floor with Damon, Rachel and Grainne. “Oh, no, thank you,” he said, waving Jordan off. “They’re going to destroy me again.” Jordan laughed. “Oh, come on, get up, we need a rematch.” “No,” Rob replied. “I have plans.” He sounded smug enough that Jordan narrowed his eyes

I missed my characters so I wrote new stories about Robbie and Mark, frontman and guitarist of a world-famous band, as they balance their relationship that’s both private and public. There’s a bit of humor, some teasing and jokes in the first chapter I wrote, and of course their closeness, as they’re so comfortable with each other, even with cameras and fans catching glimpses of their moments. I might write more if inspiration strikes.