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I threw in a few jokes and references for those who got it. An interesting fact about the Quantum Leap episode "The Color of Truth", it premiered in May 1989 before the movie Driving Miss Daisy premiered in December 1989, which held similar themes and settings. It's a very memorable episode in the 1st season of the show, while the subject matter may seem dated in 2023, back in 1989, it was a more powerful reflection on the corrupt natures of racist views that still permeated the American consciousness from generations of segregation.

(Elliot Taylor) As I wake again, someone begins speaking in my voice. “Your life is messed up, dude.” I open my eyes and stare around the now-empty room, but there was no one around. “Jeff’s probably calling Dave, so he doesn’t get in trouble for being a bad wingman. If Dave is going through what I am, he’s going to be scared shitless hearing Jeff’s voice over the phone. So, we don’t have much time for a conversation without sounding like we belong in an asylum.” Realizi

This is ancient, but honestly, just write what makes you feel makes you happy. I've written some HP fan-fic too, just not on here. I like the idea that Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder version) was a Wizard from the Harry Potter universe, maybe even a member of the big Weasley family tree, who just changed his name when he left the UK.

You can, just be smart about why you're asking. Most people in our field knows a lot of personal information and are bound by secrecy like lawyers, heck some of us are lawyers Here's an interesting example of what you are referencing, a heterosexual female wanted to be exempt from foreign bank account reporting and some income taxation, so she skirted the IRS by holding the account. Under EU-US tax law, technically the account would have been taxable in theory, I learned that she had a domestic partnership with another person to obfuscate this. Interestingly enough, while gay marriage is recognized in this EU country, so are domestic partnership from the older laws. Essentially, there's a loophole currently that allows you as a US citizen to shelter income under the protections of your EU partner from this old law that was meant to be a stepping stone for gay marriage (To me, if you have gay marriage you should remove these kinds of old laws from an administrative standpoint). It's purely a business relationship, despite the gender of the partners. So, that's one example where same sex grouping may not be in an LGBT relationship. I dislike the idea of people abusing laws that originally were meant for gay couples who had no other choice, but it's fairly common among those with means and reasons to do so.

As a Tax practitioner and EA as well, I can relate, you meet a lot of interesting people in the practice with different circumstances. I do it as a side business for both profit and enjoyment to work on other people's affairs. Heterosexual relationships are also complex, one male client who owns a business is married to a woman for 30 years, has children around 12 and 15 with another woman he claims as dependents, and another child with another woman who is around 14 that he removed as dependent so the third woman can claim separately. I can tell he has the money and the means to support them. It's a curious reality and situation, but I'm a student of history, I know that polygamy and polyamory technically was normal among those with means and ability. Christian traditions turned against it, only for common folks (Popes, nobles, and Kings had public consorts). He was not the only man with such relationships I've met, among what we would call the high income earners of $1 million+/annual. One interesting thing many may find odd though, if so many people with money are promiscuous or having poly relationships, why don't they just make it official or seek redress for their "bastard" children to be acknowledged? @gdaniel That's the rub, they come from your generation, when such relationships are open secrets and not meant to be publicly acknowledged due to "common decency". People cling to false sense of morality despite the reality sometimes being far different than what is preached or taught even in the realm of heterosexuality. So if you apply those lessons to homosexual relationships, it's hard for people not to have judgements on just a normal gay couple.

Thanks, like I said I am playing with my imagination in this story. I am glad others enjoy it. Feels like a lot of the older Sci-fi no longer get any fanfare or love, so I want to re-explore them again.

(David Freeman) Jealousy is an awful emotion, especially if it is undeserved. Elliot and I have no real emotional bond, except surface attraction, and no shared happy experiences except a few fleeting moments of tenderness. Looking at these two, despite the odd pairing, they share something that words cannot define. It reminds me of a memory. Growing up in Fort Lauderdale where the first camps were built in 1984, I was curious as to what type of people would be brought in. I imagined t

@ComicalityThere's also another aspect too with sexual intimidation based on the books and stories I've read in recent years. Sexual healing seems to be a big thing in some writers. Sometimes it's due to the characters' closeted nature, so after they do the deed, they are completely different. Sometimes, there's an underlying psychological issue that sex helps alleviate (usually found in BDSM and power-exchange genres). When you create characters with complex backgrounds or plot setups that require a sexual release, it makes sexual intercourse harder to execute. Realistically, the type of sexual scenarios authors develop are often contrived in order to fit their intended plots. However, due to the contrivance in the scenarios, I think good authors find ways of using the detail of the sexual encounter to help make the story flow better or make us forget how contrived he plot point is. There are very few authors who can manage low-level abstract sex scenes with complex LGBT characters. Mark A. Roeder's rural 1970s setting lends itself to abstract scenarios, but even so, I do find some of his books like Nudo Twins to be glossing over a lot of the sexual chemistry that the genre of sexual healing would have entailed since I can tell he was uncomfortable exploring homosexual relations between gay twins.

Elliot' has some psychological attachment in his adult character within my story, not really issues per se, but after everything that happened in that movie, it's kind of self-explanatory pathos, He's easier to understand for his character motivations. David on the other hand is more complex and nuanced. In the movie Flight of the Navigator, he reconciles with his little brother, Jeff, who in an alternate history as a 16-year-old, helped him without reservation. There's a great deal of guilt and insecurity that underlines David and Jeff's interactions due to David being missing for 8 years between 1978 to 1986, along with a deep bond between the brothers. I took that angle along with some creative liberties about David's personality and sexuality based on Paul Reuben, That's where his psychology is coming from. Writing fanfiction to some authors, even on GA, is an uncreative exercise, but to me, it's an exploration of the characters as they were and what they could be, if you are willing to invest time in the original content and reasonings behind motivations. Creativity can be born out of abandoned stories.

The original movies are just the template for the the main characters. Let's just say, I have a few interesting directions to take them in

Thanks, I'm not sure how many people are reading this fan-fic, but I am glad I got someone's attention. @akascrubber If you are still reading, one thing you will notice about this chapter is the stuff I mentioned, there's an obvious attraction between them based on a unique bond of experiences that no other human being has, but their environment doesn't permit any kind of sexual relationship. Even so, little things like coffee and muffins or chicken soup on the doorstep are still possible. Even when we cannot take actions or speak words, the unspoken acts and feelings expressed in them are there. @chris191070 I hope you are ready for some test balloons, I want to see if I can write a complex relationship before I start on Chip's story from my As True As it Can Be series. While dissimilar in genres, I'm taking core elements of Chip's story from Charles Dickens Oliver Twist and the parallelistic romance from Tale of Two Cities. I've never written complex parallelism within romance plots that Dickens used in ToTC, but I like the idea. Essentially it's a love triangle with mirrors and inverted characteristics between different characters with similar motivations behind a massive epic story arc. Beyond Imagination will be my test of concept, building on what others have done. @Clancy59 Hopefully, you still find the story interesting and engaging. ----------------- Some interesting things to think about: By 1991, the damage was already irreversible in Soviet Union as East Germany and Baltics had left the USSR sphere. Yeltsin had won the presidency and a showdown would occur. In our history, Boris Yeltsin stayed in Moscow and had rallied popular sentiment to turn against the minority Communist party and KGB coup leaders. In this story, instead, Yeltsin went to a Cold War Era nuclear air base to rally support among military units, while an active Civil War was taking place. Due to the internal focus of US policy, which had intensified over the years due to various moves Some apologist obscure this fact due to Christian value orientation, but racial segregation was still a major topic in the 1980's especially among Christian Conservatives who championed "fair" deals for those that did not want to integrate. One of the major policy points of the Evangelical Right was the issue of merging "White Christian" children with non-Christian minority children, polluting good American morals and values. In our history, the US Supreme Court did rule that outside municipalities where diverse population would continue to be integrated, but non-municipal areas outside major urban center did not need to integrate. This helped create the so-called "White flight" phenomena, where populations of white families moved into the suburbs to avoid integration. However, despite this, urban centers still maintained a decade of racial integration practices, creating a much more diverse and liberal urban society, which today adds to the polarization of US political spectrum. In this reality, the Supreme Court went one step further and invalidated the Civil Rights Act, causing vast social issues with incomplete integration and various problems. Selective segregation would rise under such a ruling. While I love @dkstories Do Over series for what it covered on LGBT history during that era, it was lacking commentary on race relations and Christian Fundamentalism during the 1980s and early 90s. Those issues are staples for Science Fiction and fantasy in the era, so I'm going to tackle them as well.

Chapter 2: August 20th 1992 (Elliot Taylor) I wanted to forget and leave it all behind me, but I couldn’t. When he confirmed that everything, I remembered was real, I couldn’t ignore the voice in my head any longer. For years, I forced myself to accept the world as it was, believing nothing I felt or wanted would matter. All the experiences of connection and understanding beyond human comprehension were just childish dreams. Then, the proverbial pandora’s box was opened when I kne

That's the human condition, we don't act rationally. They probably could help each other, but both have been hiding this secret for years at this point. If you've seen both movies, they both depict Elliot and David being held by US government due to their involvement with aliens. The main villains of ET and Flight of the Navigator were humans. David had it worst out of the two, being denied access to family and held against his will by scientists seeking to extract his precious knowledge (He basically has the entire Encyclopedia Universe in his head as part of another alien experiment). David knows too much, but cannot act on it. David remembers a timeline of where his little brother actually lived as well (Flight of the Navigator takes place in 1978 and alternate 1986). For David, he knows of a different timeline, where things weren't as bad for his family (and possible gay people) as they are in his reality. He internalizes a lot of this, blaming himself for the current state of the world. Elliot was always empathetic in ET, ET's influence and his symbiotic relationship shaped him. He and ET were "we" at one point, so memories/thoughts were shared. However, Elliot remembers what happened with the government stalking him and nearly dying due to the ignorance within human science. Different Sci-fi writers explore time travel concepts in different ways, I personally want to explore the impact of what the characters lose in the process as much as what they gain. --------------- This isn't a straight up Romance, they're attracted to one another due to similarities and shared experiences, but neither of them are willing to explore it. This is a very repressive environment that really doesn't make gay relationships easy, not to mention David might have bit of kinkier side

September 10th 1990 (Elliot Taylor) And so it begins, whatever this is. I’ve just been living my life, keeping a low profile and hiding the fact that nothing seems right. I want to tell everyone what I remembered before the world changed, but the idea of men in white lab coats dragging me away or being locked in a government vault somewhere haunts my dreams. While I want to believe everything that happened eight years ago was real, including the promise he made to come back for me, I’v

Human salamanders must be neutered early

Cat boys exist in the omegaverse (PS: There's an amateur Author named Eileen Glass, who wrote the Pykh series with alien cat boys and a human omega. Sadly she abandoned the series) Anyway, here's another one: Sandworms are spicier without human water

Cat boys like rough dog boys

It does make sense and I am glad Governor Healey updated the almost quarter-century-old guidelines. As for promiscuity, personally, I have had about 11 lovers in my life. Looking back, I don't define myself as being particularly judgy, but a quickie in the bathroom or a quick romp in a car doesn't do it for me. Again, it's a matter of your personal sexuality, not merely sexual orientation. Took me a long time to understand the difference, some people are inherently sexual and some find sexuality lower on their emotional needs. Having realized I am demi as well as being gay sort of made me understand a few things about the false concepts that permeate the ideas of sexuality. There is attraction and there are emotional needs that affect what sex and interpersonal relationship entails. The old stereotype of gay and bi men being promiscuous and open to advances was how the world saw a version of us when sexual needs were repressed and encounters were fleeting. However, beyond the encounter phase, we're still human and have needs beyond pleasure and orgasms. Some people never want or never can get beyond the encounter stage of a relationship due to various issues. I am probably on the other side of the spectrum of promiscuity, but I hope my views and experiences can help.

Flight of the Navigator I love that movie as a kid, not to mention Paul Reuben, aka Pee Wee Herman, was the voice of Max, the AI. Interesting that the computerized voice of the ship morphed into Paul Reuben's voice after copying David's memories. When it comes to the queer connections, I think there are fewer degrees than Kevin Bacon.

Wow, candy makes him phone home

Elliot Taylor: My life changed when I was ten years old, but no one remembers what happened. I made a friend, who became something more than human words can describe. I could feel his pain, he could feel my sadness. At times, it felt like we were one being with one spirit. He opened my mind and eyes to the beauty of everything around us and helped me feel less alone despite the bullying I endured. Before I met him, I started having feelings of physical attraction, mostly for a certain girl

Elliot and David both had their lives changed by encounters with Extraterrestrial life as children. While most have seen or heard of their tales, it is not the end of their strange adventures. Their stories continue as they traverse the realms of possibilities beyond imagination.

I review stories that interest me on GA or for new writers that need the extra incentive to keep going, like myself. However, most of my reviews on GA storeies are short. For published writing like novels and book series, I follow a synopsis and review format that I used to use in my book reaction reports for High School. I find that too be the genuine way of writing a thorough review of a book. Yes, there will be spoilers and there are pointed critiques in there.

When I write, I create worlds and characters bigger than myself, but at times, they are representative parts of me. They hold all my fears, my hopes, and my dreams of what reality could be. Last year, I was riding high after finding a new job that was more fulfilling, finishing my goal of reading 100 gay stories from across all genres (Haven't written all the reviews, but you can get a hint of my varied reading), and being in better health than I have been in decades with new corneas. Then, something happened, I stopped writing, stopped dreaming. People might have noticed, I have fallen off. I don't know what exactly caused it to happen: was it a change of focus, the need for new goals, or the fact that someone used my stories from GA and represented it as their own on Youtube? Maybe it was a bit of everything and I've been trying to find that spark again to write, share what I've read, and dream. There aren't that many people that write reviews on GA like I did when I first started, very few people in our community offer reviews and ratings on published work. To me, sharing my opinions and reading interests is offering a door for others to open and explore. In terms of storytelling, I prefer to experiment and take the roads less traveled, but familiar to those that know the destination. I don't know what story I can tell right now, what story can re-ignite my spark for writing, but I do want to find it again. If there's any muses out there, please show me where I must go.

I haven't forgotten, just been pre-occupied.