Georgie DHainaut

Very subtle kid, this Colin..."Since you now have a boyfriend"😄

I felt obliged to write this "dose of reality", as you prosaically call it, although I'm very well aware that it is a very unpopular subject. But an artist has to take a stand so every now and then, even if it brings him/her the wrath of a whole bunch of uninformed snowflakes...with or without PTSD.

Although I appreciate your thanks the circumstances under which the tale was written makes it impossible for me to say "I was happy to share it"". It was more that I felt it was necessary to share it. And I was not discussing politics, I was only nailing brute aggression and violence on the pillory, as I already did with the gay porn industry and child abuse. I sure subscribe to your views about our present days: yes...we're back in 1939 and it seems we haven't learned very much from it. Unfortunately

I'm afraid you are right. That is exactly what made me real scared when the psychopath ordered his Strategic Rocket Forces on full alert last Sunday. I freely admit: the story was a direct result of that fear. And I saw history repeating itself: the whole world stuck his head in the sand in 1938 when another certified weirdo threatened everything and everyone and in the last years exactly the same thing happened. Fortunately for all those western leaders there was still sufficient sand to go around😞. The only thing the world as a whole can do right now is find a way to defuse the situation without giving the Kremlin lunatic what he wants. Fortunately the American people took care of the White House nuts case. The idea of two psychopaths with each a nice red button to play with is really terrifying. The only thing I can do is use my art in protest. I know it doesn't mean a thing in the big arena of world politics but it is the only way to raise my voice against brute aggression. Don't get me wrong: I didn't write this story to get high reader scores and high ratings. I'm perfectly aware that these kind of stories are really unpopular, since they push people's noses on the real facts of present. But it is my only way to condemn war crimes and give a measure of support to the LGTBQ-scene in both Russia and the Ukraine. Because...never forget one thing: this is Putin's war, not the war of all 145 million Russians. The only way I can end my comment on your reaction is in support the victims.

Unexpectedly and totally devoid of any anticipations for the coming evening I sauntered into my regular gay pub in the small alley in the city’s center. A look around confirmed that hopes could remain low: there was just the regular bunch of guys, some of whom I only knew from face and others more intimate. Until I saw one person that I had never seen before. Don’t ask me where he came from, I don’t know. But it seemed as if he was there all of a sudden, tucked away in a dark corner of the

This is a story I wrote in 2019. However, in the light of present circumstances I felt it was necessary to re-write it, placing the spotlight on an especially vulnerable group in a country and a people that was plunged into vulnerability as a whole by brutal aggression. It is actually a fast shot from the hip, re-written in the heath of anger and frustration, and it may contain some mistakes, since it is only very scarcely edited. If so, I sincerely apologize for them.

Don't get me wrong...it is great his newest painted sold for a lot of money. But more important is the sudden increase in heartbeat🙂Let's wait and see where this leads to.....

Yeah, experience tells me that artists can be rather touchy. But Armand seems to have a knack of dealing with that. And like GG said: He'll survive Yale....and make a name for himself. I feel he is stubborn enough to stick to his own thing and not simply follow the art in vogue at that moment.

How is this English saying? Something like "it was short but sweet"🙂. I like how you develop the character of Armand. He stays modest, there's no brawling about his artistic successes. How easy it would have been to do mysterious about the smile. But not Armand, he just refers to the greatest work of the master Leonardo da Vinci. He just does his thing and he does it well!

You know, there is not that much I can add to what I already wrote about chapter 3. That Arrow is becoming an artistic genius very rapidly and that the story remains in a very sweet style. I'll try to think of something more original for chapter 5, to which I'm already looking forward🙂

This kid turns out to be a great artist!!! I wonder what his first piece of art on sale will bring. I agree with another comment that it might by a big encouragement for him. And, furthermore, I continue to love the style of writing of this story.

Apart from the very sweet contents of the story: the story on itself is great! Please go on!

I like this beginning. I'm curious for the next chapters.

Yes, he is in desperate need of therapy, but suicide? I don't know, but as things stand now: not yet! And yes...his self-confidence and self-esteem is not only zero but at an Antarctic level.

Glad you gave me some time off from reacting on each chapter like last week. My fingers might get overworked from typing.😃 But seriously now: it remains a delicate, sweet and tender story despite the short brawl at the end of the chapter. But I know that is what can happen with cave dwellers around. River is a real character, one I could fall in love with! He's cute but yeah...he has a concrete spine as well. I wish I had me a River around in the old days. But OK, I had my boyfriend and we fought it out ourselves without outside help, with our fists if need be! But a kid like Alec can sure use a pal like that. Now, although the story remains sweet, the proverbial rattlesnake in the grass has grown as well since last week. I mean Alec's mental state now. You gave me another clue, his self-loathing. I'm starting to think in a certain direction, but since I have no clue in the world as to the reasons I shut up for the time being.🙂 Anyway, I'm very curious about chapter 7. Don't keep me waiting for too long.

I'm afraid I have to concur: a lot of schools were or still are this way, and not only in the USA.

Apart from thanking you for the kind review: many thanks for your comment as well. Don't know how to put it...my partner did not die of ALS but from another even more unknown disease, but Einar's feelings and experiences are largely my own. As far as the constructive comment is concerned: depends on which medication is involved. If he had taken 41 Targin 10 he would have been dead before being halfway. But I had no specific medication in mind, so I just gambled that 41 would work without nasty side effects like vomiting. Love Georgie D'Hainaut About the comment I only saw later: Don't remember which book in the Bible it's from, but it sure was a text the Byrds used🙂

Apart from thanking you for the kind review: many thanks for your comment as well. Don't know how to put it...my partner did not die of ALS but from another even more unknown disease, but Einar's feelings and experiences are largely my own. As far as the constructive comment is concerned: depends on which medication is involved. If he had taken 41 Targin 10 he would have been dead before being halfway. But I had no specific medication in mind, so I just gambled that 41 would work without nasty side effects like vomiting. Love Georgie D'Hainaut

Hi, Only one symbol, but the symbol that says it all. 💗

Shrewd way of answering. But it is a well known effect: artist in general, so authors as well, use own experiences in their work. I do the same....

LOL...I don't know you well enough to diagnose JSDS...but eeeuhhh....in another reply I noticed you had blue hair as well. Is this by any conincidence partly autobiographical?😄 No, don't reply...none of my fucking business anyway😊

LOL...I don't know you well enough to diagnose JSDS...but eeeuhhh....in another reply I noticed you had blue hair as well. Is this by any conincidence partly autobiographical?😄 No, don't reply...none of my fucking business anyway😊

Very kind of you to warn for mental health-issues at the beginning of chapter 4, but I already saw them in chapter 3, unless one wants to call a full-blown panic attack during a party normal behavior. Now, I start to read this story in two ways. First of all I read it as a very crafty developed, delicately construed story with lots of beautiful style in it, in other words: as a story. But I also read it because of the psychopathological background, a field that has intrigued me for years. I'm not a psychiatrist, but I read pretty much on the field. You built in indications, no...you blend them in... in a very subtle way and I hope I can find the actual disorder at the end of the story, if I'm lucky even before that. First of all: Alec pierced his nose himself. Now THAT HURTS! That hurts a lot! It indicates the urge to inflict wounds to himself, yes...JSDS...he is a-social, apart from River totally content with being alone but at the same time he develops feelings for Finn, feelings that don't go very well in a tiny Iowa community. He fences himself off as if he wants to protect his soft inner core with sheer abrasiveness, he has panic attacks. And then...in just a short sentence, that could easily been overseen, you gave the most important clue: the "disconnection between Alec and his parents". That is: up to chapter 3. who knows what will follow! But don't get me wrong: it is one of the best stories I've read in a long, long time, both literary and psychologically. And in a way I got the feeling it'll only get better. You really got me curious. Pity I have to wait a full week between each new chapter🙂 But for the moment there is still a chapter 4 so I start that this very evening.

I can only confirm what I said about the first chapter...it's of a delicate beauty...and tender and sweet on top of that. I noticed this "wall"-theme...about scaling a very, very high wall. I know that syndrom....so I'm very curious how you are going to develop that.

I know the kind of writing...we're fishing in the same pond as authors. On the bright side: I overcame my dislike for apples, now I just ignore them😂