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I’m sure they can come up with much better signal ‘flags’ than Allister’s soiled diapers/nappies and Seth’s sweaty socks! ;–)

Have they discovered telescopes yet (a variation of the microscopes they already have)? They could create a signal system, somewhat like sign language, but visible long distances. To alternate with Seth’s smelly socks? ;–)

Awwwww! I was looking forward to Jazz demonstrating his versatility with Caroline and Rob! A circle redacted is I guess what you call a 69 with three participants. I’d read that section even if a naked Caroline was included. ;–) Is a 96 what straight boys do when they sleep head-to-feet in the same bed while facing away from each other, but still (quietly) performing the usual manual business under the cover of darkness? ;–)

Sorry, @Timothy M.. I was going to save this picture for one of your stories or Topics, but I couldn’t resist! ;–) Picture of seven fledglings in a row, four of which have their beaks open and begging.

It just got a quick name change to Fifty Shades of Guarded for the digital download and DVD/BlueRay releases! But sales plummeted when a pirated copy that includes restored censored footage off the cutting room floor was leaked online. There appears to be a Mafia connection to the illegal release. ;–)

And they leave lots of nasty droppings in parks that they love. ;–) ‘No Corbin, don’t get naked with Paul and then split up to go check out the strange noises in the woods in the middle of the night with no flashlights or weapons after the fail-safe power mysteriously shut down in middle of the storm of the century just after you heard an urgent news report that a vicious gang of convicted sexually molesting, ax murdering cannibals has just escaped from the juvenile male prison camp next door after killing all the guards, one by one, using handmade hatchets (fashioned out of lunchroom trays in the prison workshop) while the youthful guards were distracted by semi-consensual sex with the barely legal inmates (“Don’t! Stop! Don’t! Stop! Don’t! Stop! Don’t stop!”) during the nightly orgy!’ It’s strange how lightning flashes periodically light up the windowless rooms where the orgy is taking place, giving you glimpses of the action, but not really revealing the goodies even though the movie is rated R. And no one questions why they don’t wake up Chad (who is right there, sleeping on the sofa) first, take Zampa with them (instead of locking her up), or any of the other massive plot-holes the size of Montana. ;–) I guess someone filmed a quick spoof knock-off of your story to make a fast buck off gullible teenaged movie viewers. Guarded? won an MTV award. And swept the Golden Raspberries! ;–)

It’s amazing what you can learn on Wikipedia. Apple makes it easy to look things up within Dictionary.app. The way I have it set up, definitions in the New Oxford American, Apple, or Oxford Dictionary of English show up first and the Wikipedia page under them. Of course, not all words/phrases/names are defined in every source, for example the Apple Dictionary primarily defines Apple-specific terms (including model names). ;–) One optional dictionary I can see is Dicionário de Português licenciado para Oxford University Press (Portuguese). And there are a couple thesauruses that I personally don’t find useful since I’m not a writer. It’s possible others might be available if you set up your Mac in a language other than US English the way I did. It’s also possible that Apple decided not to, or wasn’t able to, license a dictionary in additional languages (like Brazilian Portuguese). ;–)

For a change of pace, here’s a group who was recording hits in the Eighties! Frankie Goes to Hollywood's members were born between 1959 and 1964. Holly Johnson (lead singer) and Paul Rutherford (dancing) were the two Gay members while the remaining three were straight. Frankie Goes to Hollywood covers San Jose (The Way) [Dionne Warwick's Do You Know the Way to San Jose] Frankie Goes to Hollywood covers Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run I had a mixtape that began with this song and they’d play music before the store opened for the day. The intro conversation is relatively soft so they’d turn the volume up only to have the music blast out! So then they’d turn it down and we couldn’t really hear the rest of the tape. If they’d left it at the original volume everything would have been okay… ;–)

I think the most delicious irony would be for Heathcliff to allow Aidan to top him once and discover that he prefers Aidan topping him even more than he enjoys topping Aidan himself! He’s so full of himself that I think there are aspects of his own identity that he’s completely unaware of. Plus it’s hot seeing the smaller guy topping the massively muscular guy who thinks he’s an alpha male! ;–)

Are the whereabouts of Walter’s father a mystery? Is the family mortuary business something from his mother’s side of the family? ;–) One of the more interesting bits of trivia I learned when I stayed at the rescue mission (when I was homeless) was that the building was previously a mortuary. The now-old chapel was used for funerals, explaining the extra wide doorways. The driveway is a very small arc for the hearse to unload its cargo. The room now used as a shower room in the dorm was once the embalming room. It was a small funeral home with no cemetery attached.

Hi there, Randy! What adult thing do you still struggle with? I have too many (of my own) to list them all. ;–)

And no matter how hard you try, some idiot* (who has never posted any stories) complains that you haven’t written new chapters fast enough to suit them. ;–) * Gee, I wonder who that idiot might be? ;–P

Sure you were! ;–)

Obviously, it was the kitten! ;–)

Paintings can be ugly – sometimes intentionally, either in theme or the use of unattractive colors, color combinations, or proportions. Anonymity allows individuals to express hateful ideas or thoughts, then disappear back into oblivion. Anonymous complaints can chill discussion and conversation. But removal of privacy can be even worse. Seditious views, against an oppressive [agent or agency], can be an important means of change. Against a benevolent [agent or agency], it can be destabilizing and dangerous. All content in this post refer to theory and is not intended to refer to any specific situation or [agent or agency].

More music for spring The Beaux Arts Trio perform the finale from Haydn's Piano Trio in E flat, H.XV No.22

If you’re running for office, maybe you shouldn’t be masturbating in @MacGreg’s field! ;–)

It shocks me how much information people willingly expose without blinking. Much more information about me is readily available online as it is. Corporations have been gathering data legally, but totally without my consent for decades. I avoid much of it by boycotting Facebook with its smirky founder who thinks ‘Privacy is dead’ and does everything possible to trample on everyone’s rights. I do admit to shopping on Amazon and having gmail accounts (but otherwise avoid Google). I block trackers and ads in my browser. I also use a VPN.

“Hinny’ reminds me of Gulliver’s Travels, for some reason. ;–) I keep wondering why Geoff & Tony don’t hold hands or do any other PDAs, but then I remember self-censoring myself when I was dating and not in The Castro in the Nineties. I know that many, if not most, people wouldn’t really care. But the minority who think it’s their responsibility to scorn and mock (or worse) others who they disapprove of makes a Risk Averse person like me very wary. There are enough people who don’t like me just because of my skin color that adding the PDAs that expose my being Gay would only multiply the risk.

Hey, don’t be ashamed! You should always remember that most of the rest of us have written zero stories. That’s why some of us have zero stories in limbo right now. ;–)

If I thought this story might be 30-40 chapters long, or if this story was being written by a different author, I’d think that Richard has some unsavory connections (ie dirty cop). ;–)

Oh boy, the Grand Coalition/Triple Alliance is going to war! How will they fortify the Northern Palace? How well have Blethos and A’dore fortified their mountain passes and other strategic locations? Have any combination of the three armies run coordinated war-games and drills? Will they be hiring mercenaries? Drafting to build up their forces? ;–)

Says the man who currently has five on-going series and at least one ‘complete’ single-chapter story that reads like the first chapter of a new, unwritten series… ;–) But I love you both anyway! ;–)