Aleric

Heya Patrick, I am working on my first story too - since 18 januari now. I keep going back and EVERYTIME I find grammar errors and worse In the beginning I wrote 1000 words per day, but now I spend almost all my time on fixing what I already wrote in the past - and I haven't added anything new for days The fact that just one chapter takes me 2 months of hard work makes me feel nervous too: what if nobody reads it at ALL?! heheh. Where are you going to post your story? What do you think will reach most people? Aleric

Hey now! I didn't know what a labia was either until I read this story! Aleric

Myr, here's a new smiley - I call it 'tears': Maby you can link it to You know, sometimes I AMAZE myself! In case others didn't notice yet, Myr has been so kind to add two other smileys that I created already: and Aleric (Alerics boyfriend) PS Does anyone have a suggestion for another smiley that he feels is really missing?

Of course this is really the decision of the moderators and all, but isn't this a bit too off topic? I know at least that I rather NOT read about these kind of things That's nothing personal dkstories, I appreciate it that you think about us when you want to share your frustration; but I like to think of this board as a safe-place AWAY of gay-misery. At least, that is what I think about when I say 'fantasy stories about my favourite topic'. Aleric

You MUST read 'SongMaster'. Its the best book I ever read. Its about friendship and perfect communication.

I've always thought that OSC was interested in boys himself. If you read his books, then you cannot conclude otherwise then that he is a boy-lover. I am surprised to read that he is a homophobe. Maybe the reason is that he always suppressed his feelings because of his religious background. It would be very well possible that he wrote his stories without even realizing that he likes boys. Or, maybe, just thinking nobody would ever notice. But it is VERY clear that he is popular with the gay community, and I am sure that I am not the first one to suggest that he is gay himself because of his stories. His reaction might therefore be out of frustration: being a married mormon he really, really doesn't want to be 'outed' by others while not even accepting his own feelings about this himself! That explains, for me, his extreme articles about homosexuality. Aleric PS Did you notice how many people on this site list Orson as their most popular writer? (I even listed him as the ONLY writer; he is definitely the best non-net writer that I ever read. And yes, SongMaster is the Best Book I ever read Holy shit!)

I think most of these laws exist because the majority of the people is straight and very badly informed. There is pressure from the side of religion and media. The bad information means for example that 90% of the people think with 'sex with a minor' about f**king the child, where only the pleasure of the adult man counts (ie, rape). They simply don't understand that 'sex' can be adjusted to the experience of someone. Two boys of 13 that are experimenting almost never have "sex", they just jack off mutually. However, when a boy of 13 would have 'sex' at their own level (ie, only jacking off) with an adult, then it is clear to me that this adult can talk the kid into ANYTHING - including f**king. A kid of that age is simply no match for an adult here. It wouldn't be rape, not at all, but it is also not the case that I think a kid can say 'no' in a situation like that. Remains the question if they are 'ready' for it or not. After all, it's a pretty personal experience and I am inclined to think that sex should indeed only happen when one is 100% concenting and there is no pressure whatsoever. Some kids will be ready (and willing) for whatever at that age, and others will not. But, which adults can be trusted to not pressure their lover? That is a very difficult problem. The straight (or rather, non-pedophile) majority just thinks "what the f**K - just forbid it. THAT is at least not bad for the kid". It's very easy to just forbid it, much and much easier than judging each case separately in detail. Anyway, it's not a simple problem. Relationships can be extremely complex in a psychological way. Think about those islamitic women that are beaten up and suppressed by their husband (have to think of that cause its in the media a lot over here), some may not even leave the house. Those wives are not children, they are mature adults. Yet, they are "programmed" to accept all the abuse... The main problem in a case of abuse is that often 'running away' is simply not an option (too drastic - and when you'd fail in running away COMPLETELY and instantly... the fear of failure for a successful 100% cut off of a relationship can make it very hard). I can think of a society in which children of 12 or 13 are allowed to do what they like sexually, but only when it would be so normal and accepted that it would be easy to talk about any type of stress in such a relationship: friends at school and parents should think it is ok and normal and a relationship should only be with people from which it is easy to run away from (ie, not with a school teacher). This point of view would defend to start with (officially) allowing sex of minors when the age diffference is not too large, say at most 2 years till both are over 16. Nevertheless, start with teaching the majority the difference between sex (games) and rape - cause they don't even seem to understand that!

Please do! I read it in one blow. Its wonderful! Aleric

Psionic Corpse, part 3. The next morning I woke up around 5:30 am as usual. While brushing my teeth the phone started to rang, so I quickly rinsed and picked it up. "Ian, the president here. There has been a change of plans. You are to go to a man that calls himself Myr. The address will be handed to you in an hour at which point you will be escorted to the airport. You will have to ask him, tell him, or even use your psionic powers to FORCE him to continue with his work on the 'PC' project." "Yes, sir." I replied. Force him? What happened to privacy, I thought? "This is more important than anything Ian." The president sounded tired, as if he had not been sleeping all night, as if he'd been laying in bed awake, perhaps reading, all night. "This is more important than Dave, my son, more important than National Security." He paused for a moment. "This is about the very continuation of humanity, Ian. I am sorry that I have to put this on your shoulders. But you're our only hope." Aleric

Boxers for me too, with a flat/broad elastic band. In fact, last week I bought 4 new ones One of them has a picture of Garfield on it *giggle* Aleric

Hmmpf. I can't lie. Aleric

Hi Comsie I've been posting in 'General discussion' mostly... but I never see you post there, so I guess you don't read it. The reason I ended up on this forum, recently, is because started to write my own story, just two weeks ago or so. And well, you are the reason for that as well as me finding this site to begin with I am having a very hard time with my story... it seems I started off with an extremely difficult and complex story line... but, I can't tell you about it, don't want to give anything away. I just ... hope ... that you will read it too, once I am ready to post chapter 1 Aleric

Bah, I get sick when I read this I hope this stuff is limited to sick (sorry) countries like the USA. What is WRONG with people these days? Don't get me wrong, I am not attacking you guys, but to read that "you can't even f**king MAIL an under age back out of fear for whatever!" ARGH! This really really upsets me to hear it! Kids are people too, and they happen to be the people that I care the most for (as does everyone or so they claim). So, when a kid would email me then sure as hell he gets priority with a reply from me! Now I understand that children do better when not going into a request to meet someone - because there are enough sickos out there, so I'd be the last to encourage them to think that it is ok to meet anyone, ever, by trying to set up a meeting myself. But I am not aware of a law that would forbid me to try and set up a meeting with a kid either. Not that I intend to, but I refuse to a-priory "promise" not to do that. I think that I have the common sense to know what is right and wrong - and I won't do anything wrong, simple as that. "Wrong" here means, anything bad for someone else. If these kids are reading your stories, and those stories contain graphic descriptions of sexual acts and other emotional stuff; then does ANYONE think that it will help those kids if you tell then they are not allowed to read it? Or shouldn't read it? Or, God forbids, that they will be punished if they read it? Now, law or no law, I see no harm in reading the type of stories that we write (although I didn't read all of them of course). Children are healthy curious, and when they are interested in this type of story at a young age than I don't give a damn they read it; there is just ONE thing that matters: they very likely need a little help, a comforting word, understanding, a pat on their shoulder. Hey, you're not alone and it is ok, kind of thing. Sure, in some cases it might better if they had not read it, but we can't change that. I am not going to try and contact the parents anyway (I'd never betray a kid like that, except when it was to save their lifes). Grmbl. Sorry, I suppose you can tell that I am pretty mad about this pathetic "Oh lets protect the childeren against this EVIL called sex!", yeah - guess what they will get a trauma of What I want to say is this. If we can't HELP boys, like Myr said, in the "highest suicide rate" age group, because of some #@!$@$ witch-hunt beep beep beep. Then they can stick their morals in their beep and beeeepbeeeep beep beep. Now, .. I really don't want to add this, cause I believe that this site is only read by intelligent people. Sigh, but here it goes: No, I don't mean that it is ok email them porno graphics texts, or links there too, or encourage them to do things you wouldn't encourage your own son to do too. And I also don't think it is ok to encourage them to do anything (including meeting you) that you think their parents wouldn't agree with. But we ARE responsible, we ARE the right people to give them the support they might need. So just give it when you think they need a friend. Now, if that still doesn't make you nod in agreement, here are a few examples what I think is common sense: 1) Boy of 13 reacts to a story with lots of graphic sex in it. He says he liked it. Reply: Thanks for mailing me John. 2) Boy of 13 reacts to the same and tells you that he is thinking about committing suicide cause his parents will never ever understand it. Reply: Send him a long, understanding mail in which you explain that things might look bad now but that suicide is not a solution. Remind him that his parents love him and will always love him, and give him a few real good links to sites for further help. Most importantly, make it clear that you are there for him whenever he needs you to be, and that he is welcome to mail you anytime he feels like it. Ok, I hope I made my point clear . Common sense thus. Aleric

Its not true. Enough proof for that is the fact that it is untastefully set up as a chain-letter. That makes no sense, therefore it is clear that THAT is the main objective. Some people just like to write chain letters and do anything to get them to go around the world a few times (and see them back like graphity on the walls). Another reason to see that it can't be true is simply because besides that it is very sad, it is extermely unlikely: the kid was HOPELESS. Then how can he ever, suddenly, self-taught, play mozard like some wonder-child? And then the mother is deaf?! Do you really think that she'd have taken a kid for lessons without ever speaking a single word to the mother? Pure bullshit. Still a nice story though

Sexual attraction and how one feels are not entirely correlated. Did you know that most male crossdressers are straight? That means, they feel 'female' but they still hit on females. Aleric

Heya friends, I changed my avatar It's me, a recent picture, as you can see. I just thought it would be cool if you guys could see me when I posted something. Aleric

Xander, although others are right if they want to spare you a heartache, I believe it didn't answer your real question. The fact alone that he is dating a girl doesn't say much, after all, you are dating a girl too now right? What are you going to do when she kisses you? My advise would be, don't tell her that you are gay - that would hurt her feelings and she might get, as a result, so mad at you that she will tell everyone else too. Well, unless you want that of course . Instead, if you don't feel for her, take the responsibility for that on a per-relationship basis. That is, it didn't work out, but it could have been as far as you were concerned. That is, act as if you think that you are straight or bi-sexual, just don't mention it. So, follow your heart and do what you like, but don't do what you don't like (trying to hurt her feelings as little as possible). Don't use the "excuse" that you are gay towards her, ok? A straight boy can dislike a certain girl too! And a relationship doesn't have to be black and white, you can say: this is ok, that I don't want. No need to explain. Then about your friend. Try not to get sad. Being sad won't help at ALL. People like happy people. Now that is easier said then done... how to stop yourself from being sad? Well,.. by putting yourself over it I am afraid. You can tell yourself that he is straight, so you will never have (sexual) relationship with you and he will put a lot of time into his girl friend. If you can accept that, then you can continue to be friends. If that is not acceptable for you, then maybe you should chose to aim your attention on other boys? About 5% of the boys on your school will be gay. Try to make 20 cute friends (just ask them what their name is, and if they like movies too or something , its really that easy - and smile heheh. Who don't have girl friends ... and I am SURE one of them will fall in love with you! When I complained in the past that I had no (boy)friend, a wise friend of me said: that is because you don't have friends. Make more acquaintances. Acquaintances become friends, friends become lovers. That is the way it works. So, don't ignore people because you don't feel the same for them as you feel your current friend! If you do that you will end up lonely. Keep smiling and making new acquaintances, also when they don't look cute ok? Via them you will get to know other boys (their friends) and so on. That is how it works. The secret here is always that you are content (and happy) with yourself. You can only start a friendship without expecting a relationship when you are, in principle, happy all by yourself and with who you are. That is the reason that people always say: figure first our who you are; and then, try to love yourself. Only then you can do the above with a smile, make lots of acquaintances who will all love your happy company, make friends from them, who will also like your company when you are sad, and finally find the lover between those friends. I always say: don't expect. If you don't expect you will be able to enjoy whatever happens to you. If you have expectations, then things can only be different and you will not see what you DO have. Ah, and the advise that I'd give ANY boy your age: find yourself an aikido club and join it; and stick with it for many, many years (forever?). I promise you, it will be the VERY BEST investment you can do with your young life and it will cause your life to change, for the better - a lot better most likely! Just do it, and you'll understand what I mean in a couple of years. Love, Aleric

If you have an otherwise working bittorrent client (I recommend azureus, see http://azureus.sourceforge.net/), then you will have to register with http://www.filelist.org first probably. Also, don't forget to change the default port of bittorrent (see http://www.filelist.org/blacklist.php) Good luck!

... 'k ... But, hmm. Let me give an example right out of my current story . I decided deliberately NOT to place a comma in front of 'Victor' in this case: "Please come back soon, will ya Victor?" In most case I do add a comma. But in this case I want it pronounced without a pause: I just place a comma where I want a pause, not somewhere else How can I recognize this exception? Is it only because of the word 'said'? I suppose also when you'd use 'whisper', or 'shouted'? Are there other cases? Aleric

Wow. I just saw the movie "I am David". To be clear, there is nothing gay or erotic about this movie at all, but... I haven't been crying this much since I saw the Green Mile. If you have a bittorrent client, this link should work for another 383 hours after I post this. You might need to 'register' first, but it's worth it (good site anyway, this filelist.org). Movie description: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327919/ *Myr Edit - Removed illegal file sharing link.

Dear authors, can someone give me rules of thumb of how to format dialogues in my stories? The questions that I have are: When to start a new paragraph, when to use a comma and when to use a period. By reading your stories I came up with the following guidelines myself, but I am not sure it works in all cases... 1) A sentence, whether spoken by a character or the telling person, starts with an uppercase when the previous sentence ended with a period. 2) The punctuation of spoken sentences (in between quotes) is independent of the story line sentences. 3) When a different character than the last one that spoke starts to speak, a new paragraph is started unless the immedeate preceding story line sentence did not end on a period. In that case a new paragraph should have been started earlier, like at the beginning of said line. Examples Rule 1 makes things like this: I said "I want to hug you.' And then I blushed. Note that according to rule 2 the sentence that is spoken has its own punctuation: it starts with an uppercase and ends with a period. The quotes go around that. The word 'And' starts with an uppercase because the last sentence (the sentence between the quotes) did end on a period. Even while normally a sentence doesn't start with 'And'. Ie, it's more like 'I said something and then blushed.' Also according to rule 1 we might have: "You are so cute," he said "more cute than anyone I've known before." Note again that according to rule 2, the punction of the spoken sentence is independent and reads 'You are so cute, more cute than anyone I've known before.' The word 'he' however doesn't start with an uppercase now because the last sentence (You are so cute) didn't end on a period. Also, in this example no new paragraph is started because it is still the same person talking. Rule 3 leads us to things like: I said "Come over here, now!' He looked at me and but didn't move. "I said, NOW!" "Don't sweat it. I am not coming over." He replied. "You are not to tell me what to do, anymore." "I wouldn't be so sure about that." I said with a wicked smile. But he didn't give in at all, softly whispering "But I am. Try to change my mind without coming over to ME!" The things that I am confused about here are the following things: 1) Are my rules still correct in sentences like: "I love you." He said. Or should that be: "I love you", he said. "I love you." he said. "I love you," he said. Also do we use a comma before a quote starts, or not? Ie, is it: He said "I am going to kiss you while you are asleep." or is it: He said, "I am going to kiss you while you are asleep." Any help would be greatly appreciated! Aleric

It would be better not to link the word "victim' with 'paedophile' like that. You may link 'victim' with 'rape' or 'sexual abuse', but not with with 'paedophile' (which refers to someone attracted to kids, not even to someone actually having sex with kids (read: playing erotic tinted games with kids). Also, the stories on this site show that we ALL think that 'gay' should be linked with ROMANCE and true LOVE. Let that count for every relationship, independent of age. Hence, no 'victim' as prejustice here, please. There are no victims in our stories, even though there might be a paedophile here and there. Aleric

Dear authors, Of course I do NOT mean that everyone should be telling their sexuality to everyone they meet in real life. I am not doing that either, not at all! Only when I feel comfortable with it I might. No, I was solely and only talking about the profile field of the authors on this site. Even then I don't need to know what the exact sexuality is, but - reading the stories you write and the fact that you are an author on the site gayauthors.org might give a MAJOR clue heheh. My concern is the use of the words "Not telling" by someone KNOWN to be gay (being an author on gayauthors) which signals that they are ashamed of saying it outloud. The reason I thought that is because I looked at the profile of my God-author Comicality and was shocked to see that he said he didn't want to come out for his sexuality! My world tumbled down, I ran to close my curtains and hide in shame.. If even The Great Comicality stamps his gayness as "something that you can't come out for" then then... But surely Myr is right. He probably just didn't update it. So, then a request to Myr - perhaps you can change the *default* value to 'not updated' or something like that. I tell you, I was really shocked - so it's not unthinkable that many other young readers get a mental kick down too, by this default. No need to remove it - everyone has the right to take that as their answer. Aleric PS There are many many different kinds of sexuality. Perhaps some will be shocked if I say it bluntly outloud here... but concluding from the type of stories on this site, this is NOT just another 'gay' site. Absolutely not We, or at least most of us, clearly, are the kind that know how to appreciate the beauty of youth over masculine muscle power and huge cocks. THAT is why I like this site, and that is why I hope to make friends here. We should understand eachother a whole lot better than the average 'gay' would. ... However (moral)... I am not saying that the list of 'sexuality' in the profile is to be extended with too much detail. I, too, would feel uncomfortable with that, even -just- on a site like this.

Thanks everyone for the replies! I went for the long-chapter in which I attempt (I am still attempting) to actually straight-forward end up where I wanted to endup. Fortunately I am a Physics PhD and a computer expert :graduated: So, the only problem left is whether or not readers will be able to follow it * * * * * * * * The astriks separation is very useful though, I might use it, thanks! Sorry for the late reply, but I wasn't notified by email when you guys added replies to my post; I had forgotten to click the ''Enable email notification" checkbox. Regards, Aleric

As you can see I am an emoticon newbie and loving them heheh. Where is the blushing emoticon smiley though? I usually use this: I also miss an emoticon for the smiley Now for the emoticon with a bare bottom! Aleric