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Assault With A Kitchen Weapon
Former Member commented on Laura S. Fox's story chapter in Assault With A Kitchen Weapon
Historically, babies were surrounded by parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings, and cousins who all took care of them. The current US societal norm of two parents attempting to raise children without everyday familial support is a historic anomaly. Even in the US, some subcultures have closer family ties with relatives taking care of the babies every day. Older siblings often take care of their youngest siblings, acting as pseudo-parents because their bio-parents are distracted with other tasks. Babies just soak up the love and attention. -
Has anyone else noticed that Mr Gray carefully avoided commenting on this post? It’s not as though I were pondering the possibility of Rhett being asexual or Transgender. Or that he’s likely to be going all ‘Harris’ on us in a few chapters. Rhett and Dan don’t have a brother who disappeared under mysterious circumstances… ;–)
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My lethargy would go away if I feasted my eyes on that knight as well – especially the shock of reddish-gold hair! ;–)
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And a rare indeterminate or less-than-happy ending. ;–) I had to take a detour to look up ‘gambeson.’ Oxford didn’t have a definition in Dictionary.app, but Wikipedia did. So I got a lesson in armor as well as fashion. ;–)
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Assault With A Kitchen Weapon
Former Member commented on Laura S. Fox's story chapter in Assault With A Kitchen Weapon
Some of us thought she was Jay’s mother… ;–) -
Not even their own wives? ;–)
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Some of my straight female friends would be okay with it if they could be there to witness the coupling… ;–)
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I think I was in shock through most of it. There are still many aspects of my experiences that I can’t remember. And I had an overwhelming goal to stay sheltered that kept me focused on making sure I knew which shelter I’d be staying at next when my inevitable time limit expired where I was staying. I’m glad I’ve been out of homelessness and sheltered for just about seven years now. I’m safe unless they tighten requirements and I lose my benefits.
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Assault With A Kitchen Weapon
Former Member commented on Laura S. Fox's story chapter in Assault With A Kitchen Weapon
Will Jett, Carina, and April Theo Theapril be coparenting Jay together? ;–) -
Assault With A Kitchen Weapon
Former Member commented on Laura S. Fox's story chapter in Assault With A Kitchen Weapon
I think it’s more a confirmation that April is Theo because she already wonders. ;–) -
Rhett is very lucky to have met Georgette when she’s pregnant when her natural exuberance and bluntness are attenuated (‘attenuate’ is my rediscovered new word). He would definitely have fled her normal personality! ;–) How soon before Georgette and Natalie try to match Rhett up with one of their single friends? He seems like quite a catch for the right person. Someone more sociable than he is, but not a social butterfly who needs to constantly be out there partying. Someone who is comfortable in quiet settings and empathic enough to be able to read Rhett the way Grant has. ;–)
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Wow! My generalized social anxiety is very mild compared with Rhett’s. I can sense his near-panic at just the thought of being surrounded by a bunch of people he’s not familiar with. I used to make other people go with me to new places – that was the only way I managed to go to Berkeley’s Gay community center the first couple times. Most of the time when I’m in a crowd where I only know a few people, I hang around near the edge observing. Having been homeless ‘broke’ me and forced me into new situations among people very different from those I was accustomed to growing up in the suburbs. I still don’t like new situations, but I’m better at handling them than I used to be. Just not quite at a ‘normal’ level. ;–)
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Look what I found when I followed @Mikiesboy’s advice and went looking in windows… I’m still trying to forget what I saw happening with the hard cider! [shudder!] ;–)
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Chapter 7 - Flowering At Last
Former Member commented on Ivor Slipper's story chapter in Chapter 7 - Flowering At Last
I’ve never watched Georgy Girl, but I have fond memories of my older brother’s best friend (from when we lived in Hawaii) singing the theme song with a (Hawaiian) Pidgin* accent accompanied by his acoustic guitar. Tom Courtenay The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Billy Liar (also featured Leonard Rossiter [The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin] and Mona Washbourne [Brideshead Revisited’s Nanny Hawkins] * Hawaiian Pidgin is officially an English-based Creole language. Note: he was accurately singing the lyrics in Standard American English, but pronounced them with an accent. Singing disguises or attenuates accents, but doesn’t completely eliminate them. -
Loved the tough English cockney talk - Little Billy is a rascle but so lovable and Chris is sure a big brother type and so level headed. Stories of mistreated boys finding someone to take care of them are so sweet. It'll be good to find out what happens.
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Chapter 7 - Flowering At Last
Former Member commented on Ivor Slipper's story chapter in Chapter 7 - Flowering At Last
The gift of company, companionship, and love among all three of them is made more permanent by George leaving the house to the boys. In many ways it still feels uneven with George giving more than he receives. But George feels as though the boys brought light back into his life after not only his son going missing in the ocean, but later his wife passing away. -
Amy was like, "Put a lid on that shit! You know that he's Karen's boy, first and foremost. She called dibbs months ago." Enjoyed this, the pace and the dialogue, very entertaining. Thanks, v
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If her friends see her accepting her Gay son and his partner, she’ll look modern and open-minded to them. ;–)
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I wondered if you had a ghostwriter working for you! That explains your remarkable output. So who really wrote this story? ;–) Or does ‘Wayne’ have multiple personalities? That would explain a few things (especially Harris!). Did ‘Sybil’ write Guarded? ;–)
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Homeward Bound: Part Three
Former Member commented on R. Eric's story chapter in Homeward Bound: Part Three
Now you need to add it to your movie reference! ;–) -
Homeward Bound: Part Three
Former Member commented on R. Eric's story chapter in Homeward Bound: Part Three
I realize that you don’t have the ability to distinguish misspellings, but trust me when I say that Santa Claus does not have an ‘E’ at the end. The word ‘clause,’ on the other hand does, but they don’t have anything to do with each other other than the pun in the title of the movie. Now there is a connection between the so-called saint Nicholas (who was a Greek bishop from what is now Turkey) and Santa Claus: the Dutch form of ‘saint’ Nicholas is Sinterklaas which we corrupted into Santa Claus. The US Santa Claus also incorporates elements drawn from the English Father Christmas tale. -
Homeward Bound: Part Three
Former Member commented on R. Eric's story chapter in Homeward Bound: Part Three
Of the Hollywood synod of the church? I know you really love your holiday movies, but The Santa Clause isn’t a classic. Not even remotely. ;–) -
There are apparently some very powerful pheromones floating around that house that converted at least one formerly-confirmed heterosexual. If a certain someone isn't careful, he'll fit right in with the Nifty crowd! Of course, he'd need to randomly misspell half of the words and use the wrong homonyms and near-homonyms about 90% of the time. That should be an interesting axperument for our favorite editor from Norwegia. ;–)
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I was taught that you should place your knees against their knees. When you lift him up, you’re taking advantage of his bones to leverage him up. That lessens the weight that you’re required to lift. I’m sorry. I don’t know how to fold any of those. I bought a book filled with just origami dinosaurs so I could fold them for my somewhat-less-than-appreciative nephew. More than a decade later, I gave the book to his cousin (my younger nephew who was more interested in origami than his cousins or younger sister).
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Why do I get the feeling that Sandra insists that everyone pronounce her name, ‘Sauhn druh.’ ;–)
