RJ Santos

Forever's the plan Until you walked out on me— I dread tomorrow.

Your lips are heaven— Water to my thirsty heart. I wish you'd leave him.

Just real life haikus.

I did think that you seemed to have had a short fuse back then... Things seemed to be looking up for you now, and I hope it goes on. I wish you luck in your writing too.

Um, after something like that ^^ ... it's hard to create something in the same caliber.

I've been searching the right words for how I feel about this subject, and I just found it. Thanks! *Two thumbs up!* Rad

Thanks, guys! And :hugs: BSK.

Wow, that's a response I didn't think I'd get. But thanks! And Mike, too, thanks. You too, Benji, thank you. Right now, I'm feeling so determined that I feel I can get my degree even with the usual hurdles.

Hey guys, No big announcement really. Just thought I'd inform everyone (who's concerned) that I had changed my pen name from Rad Steven to RJ. I hope there'd be no confusion about this in the future. For anyone curious about my reasons, please read this blog entry of mine: "Amazing Grace". Thanks.

Being a minority, we should all hope for all of us to succeed rather than expect one of us to fall.

Exactly. For me, the reason Archer's list became what it is, is that a lot of people fantasized about what could be, could've been. The geek/jock romance is a perfect example of this; it's a fantasy worth fantasizing about. Just imagine that there's only one story on the planet that depicts this story... geek bumps (literally) into jock, they get along, one of their parents died and now the other's parents offered to take care of him... so on. Imagine there's only one written story about that and there's a million variant of Gone from Daylight. Imagine. Would you think the story is without literary merit? Even in the real world, I'll say there is. It's about going against the odds. It's about crossing the absurd lines that society has drawn. Like I said, going back to the real world... imagine - again - that it's someone's first time at Nifty - everything began there anyway - he found one of that story and he's like "this is great". It's his first time, so cut him some slack. He finds more of the same kind and now he's like "this is really cool". But eventually he finds that there are a lot of that kind of story and he grows tired of them. But what if he had only found that one story the first time he was at Nifty? Dunno what you mean exactly. Anyway, to be a bit off-topic - LOL - I think there's a lot more to "Thou shalt not kill" than what I've thought of it when I wrote it last. When I wrote it back then, what I thought it meant was "thou shalt not kill" the first person you meet in school, or the guy sitting next to you on the bus, or your neighbor, etc; I really hope no one disagrees with that here. Capital punishment - I agree with it (how barbaric must I be! LOL). Wars - silly events, but they happen.

Where do you find someone to be penpals with, btw? ( Yeah, I think I'm interested.)

I like being here because of the forums. I don't really think much of GA as a story site, but more as an online gay community. Though I'm really more of a lurker. I think the community is GA's best asset. As for stories, the authors I enjoy here are Comicality and dkstories. They have great imagination. I tried reading the others', but I can't seem to connect much with them. But I found I enjoy the stories at AwesomeDude, DaBeagle, and CRVBoy much more - many sleepless nights because of them. And anyway, I don't find Nifty that icky. You just have to know what to look for in titles.

When it happened to one of my first stories, I was both flattered and angry. I contacted the admin of the site and we just agreed on a setup. I think though that site owners should be responsible with this thing. It's stealing and all sorts of bad things.

Well, if this: meant this: I can see why we didn't understand each other. Grammar rules are rules that we should follow to write properly, like "Thou shalt not kill". Nick Archer's list is a list of the things he doesn't want to see in a story -- some of the things he listed, mine too. If you agree with him, that's fine, but don't expect others to agree with you. It's your opinion, but others also have their own opinion, which could be the polar opposite of yours.