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@kbois Amazing series!

Ahahahaha, true! 🤣😂

Omg, I've just read the rules... It's like Nobel Prize award procedure!!!! I suppose, nomination is the easiest part... How to do it - just send the name, or some explanation, resume, review...?! 🤔

Do we know who is Danny - the mighty toaster warrior...or not yet?! 🤔

All incl

Btw, after "ironing", "bookshop" is my second favourite scene! Definitely the most favorite from flashback chapters!

I think lady @Laura S. Fox deserves promotion! #justsaying

Ugh, I hate not having my laptop near, right now. Fantastic chapter for comparative analysis! Two households, one warm and cosy...the other cold like a "tomb". Two receptions - again, one warm and welcome...the other cold, arrogant, hostile. But than, two guys... Brad is oblivious, friendly, charming, but not much perceptive while Alexander...he's...he's everything. He stays with his arrogant grandfather just to spend holiday with Lyn. He confronts old man. He notices what Lyn likes and buys a present. He asks Lyn to put a friendship bracelet on his hand. He charish touch. Touch of the fingers which was more erotic than Brad cleaning the snow from Lyn's body (though, Lyn might not agree with me, yet)! Brad forgets the present and makes fun of Lyn's...putting it on (himself), just out of politeness! He was unaware that this is personal moment of fondness between two friends (even more for Lyn), braking any intimacy by bringing in Alexander in the conversation. Seems to me, he is not doing it because he cares too much about Alexaner's feelings, but he escapes any stronger emotional conection between him and Lyn. Oh, if I could only have a peek in Brad's subconsciousness right now! 😉 Btw, I must share this with you... I've seen the restorant on the beach, exectly like one in the story. Exclusive, but people sitting in the sand! I was laughing immagining furious Alexanded walking in a shoes on the sand and Lyn avoiding to admit he was stupid about it!!!

The Horsemen of the Apocalypse! 😜

Oh, c'mon...isn't she annoying?! 🤪 Btw, you're right, I like this 'new-old' Kieran!

Same here but...Kieran is not a child, and he's horny...and his mother jus now wants to talk about her wedding...not to mention traditions and a first child gender! 🤪

Ash leaned back smugly. “Weird how the fate of the world always comes down to gay sex.” “Yeah, so?” Ash laughed, clearly amused by Elion’s discomfort. “What do you care anyway? It’s not like you were invited. I ADORE your humor @mastershakeme!!! Btw, foursome was amazing and hot (hot read under the hoot Greek sun). You've exceeded my expectations @mastershakeme!

Oh, don't worry about it, she was just in the wrong place at the wrong time! We all take it out on our parents occasionally...

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But this...late supper gossip session - priceless! 😂🤣😂

I make it without oil and lemon, but I add salt. No grated cucumber but cut in a small piece. It's because we are not making it as a sauce but as a salad and eat it with a spoon. I know that Greeks add dill, but we don't like it.

Mmmm, Greek dinner... I make tzatziki too, how you do it?

Thanx, but it's not because of me, it's because of the chapter! Although, my favorite scene yet is Lyn ironing Alexander's shirt! 🙂 From time to time, I go back there and reread it again...

Cal is also maturing. Sad, he seems a glue for bastards!

Sorry, but I had to check the 'other kind'... It was not so long time ago... NATIONAL DAY OF ROCK 'N' ROLL | July 7 - National Day Calendar

It's not a song - it's a bloody soap opera! 🤣

Btw, guys and @Laura S. Fox, I'm off to Greece for two weeks since Monday, so, if I find decent wi-fi, I'll read new chapters and leave some short comments. I cannot write analyses on the phone because it's a hell of a job and beautiful Mediterranean inspires only for brain rest! Cheers!

Amazing chapter... Oh yes, Lyn baby, this is some 'new' Alexander... Or maybe, the nicely tuned old one... Now seriously... The expected roles are inverted: the one who is “gay” (Lyn) is cautious, skeptical, afraid of exposure - while the one who is “straight” (Alexander) moves with eerie calm, absolute self-possession, and emotional clarity. Lyn may be openly gay, but he’s still closeted emotionally. Everything he does - from jokes to vulgarity, from teasing to dominance is about not being vulnerable. Even his openness about sex comes with strict rules (he tops, he chooses the type, he never kisses too deeply, he doesn't let anyone get too close). He doesn’t trust emotional intimacy. To Lyn, emotional closeness is more dangerous than sex. That’s why the smallest gestures as being held, being called “Lyn,” hearing Alexander breathe beside him, feel more threatening than Alexander going down on him. So yes: Lyn is still convincing himself that Alexander is straight because if he admits otherwise, he’ll have to face the possibility that this what they’re doing, might actually mean something. 😉 But Alexander...omg, he shows no fear. He doesn’t flinch. He doesn’t second-guess. He doesn’t joke or try to deflect what he feels. He says what he wants: “I want to taste your cum.”; “Come to sleep. I’ll hold you."; "I might keep you awake thinking about you blowing me.”; “As much as shock value has its perks, your nudity is off-limits for anyone else.” He means all of it. No fear. No bravado. No performance. Alexander doesn’t act like a man experimenting with gay sex. He acts like a man falling for someone and completely accepting of that. Which is extraordinary, given how the usual gay/straight dynamic tends to play out in fiction. There’s also no trace of internalized homophobia in him. No “this is wrong.” No “what does this make me.” Instead, he focuses on Lyn’s body, Lyn’s comfort, Lyn’s pleasure. Not for dominance. But for closeness. Alexander is not trying to win a game - he’s just being emotionally present. He doesn’t demand reciprocity. He’s not keeping score. When Lyn offers to return the favor, then withdraws it, Alexander just says: “That’s okay. We have all the time in the world.” That’s why he feels so unnerving to Lyn: Alexander has no defenses, and Lyn only has defenses. What is really interesting - Alexander would absolutely bottom for Lyn, but not as an act of submission. It would be about mutual trust. It’s not “I give in to you” but “I let you in.” That’s a different kind of surrender. A profound one. And that’s a core theme emerging between them: intimacy through vulnerability, not dominance. Alexander isn’t trying to prove he’s gay. He’s trying to be close to Lyn in the only language Lyn seems to understand - sex, teasing, physicality. But through it, Alexander is quietly pushing toward something far more intimate. He would Let Lyn fuck him without making it a test of power and let Lyn see him exposed, not to be conquered, but to be known. And poor Lyn… isn’t ready for that yet. But he feels it coming. That’s why he recoils after the blowjob, says “this is too intimate,” refuses to sleep next to him, then reacts so strongly to hearing his name said softly. Alexander is “out” in every way that counts. Not in terms of sexual orientation, but in self-possession, acceptance, and willingness to feel. Lyn, despite all his openness and experience, is in emotional lockdown. Finally, my overall impression of this chapter could be described with one word - tenderness. It doesn’t speak loudly, but it’s there, thrumming beneath every sarcastic remark, every mock challenge, every sexually charged dare. That’s what gives the scene its emotional gravity and keeps it from tipping into pure erotic performance or emotional detachment. The chapter is about two emotionally stunted men fumbling toward real connection, using sex as a proxy for feelings neither of them can name. They’re not in love, not yet actually, but they’re touching the outline of something like love, or at least something unbearably close to it.

C'mon Chris, I'm the naughty one!!! 😉

Ahahahah, well, I'm sure that if his mighty 'Valiant Edge' king issue an order, poor Ewan might do even that...but I'm not so sure that queen would approve!