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Nope, Never have I ever ridden a stud (male horse variety, though I am open to try the other definition )

For folks wondering, if there was ever such a story. Sadly a discontinued story inspired this request. I was reading up until January 2024. The Dragon without a System by Mike Sythias I hope the author continues this interesting fantasy series It's hard to find good gay male characters and fantasy world-building like this. It's one or the other usually. Even on GA, most writers don't go in this direction for fantasy, which is quite a shame. It's a story that I think some fans of gay fantasy might enjoy as well.

https://www.businessinsider.com/time-travel-possible-changing-past-isnt-physics-says-2020-9#:~:text=A 2020 study offered a,you couldn't change history. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/aba4bc I mentioned this weeks ago in my story about time travel, using the principle known as the Novikov's self-consistency principle, but I thought it might be a good idea to discuss and explore this topic with other writers and readers. For my story, I wanted to use a realistic concept around time travel being possible, but results from history cannot be changed. This kind of concept is based on the nature that the universe as a system recalibrates itself around results. You cannot exist without the results matching the causes. If the theory and math hold true, the underlying idea around "Free Will" is kind of moot, except for minor variations. It opens up a lot of deeper questions around natural law, the limitations on chaotic elements, and human philosophies that invest heavily on absolute free will. Does that mean destiny and fate are real? Are we just a Thanos snap of a finger away from "inevitability"? It's an interesting thing to consider for human beings.

And then there's "Baby Reindeer"....Oh boy, Netflix has a complicated miniseries with a realistic damaged bisexual guy. It's not clear cut and pure as a lot of modern LGBT fiction try to be, but it's probably the dark reality that a lot of people avoid describing. At the heart of the miniseries, it's a failure of actualization and acceptance. These are two things that haunt people with histories of abuse. In the series, it led Donny down a cycle of victimization. He couldn't accept the shame of being raped by a guy he idolized, perhaps loved, but he was too ashamed to admit it. He needed the attention of a dangerous woman, who threatened him and alienated him from others. Maybe, there's a bit of self-loathing embedded in his need to keep "Martha" around to hurt him. He couldn't accept the love of a trans person who he genuinely had reciprocal feelings. In the end, his life is sad and there are no easy answers to the problems a lot of LGBT people face with that kind of background. I wouldn't recommend the series for anyone not in the right mental state or trying to find closure if they've suffered from sexual abuse. You won't find any answers here just a reflection of a person drowning in life. That's my thoughts on Netflix's latest hit series that has drawn over a million viewers.

Now you know how the side characters met up before 1558 and the various historical threads I am pulling together. I find the historical Antonio of Portugal to be quite interesting, born of a Jewish mother from lower nobility (merchants who converted to Catholicism nominally and bought their title) and a royal prince, grew up in a Catholic Monastic order, became a warrior monk (sort of), supposed had several dozen affairs and bastard children (He would make Casanova blush), and even claiming the Portuguese throne at least for a month in our history. Same interest goes with Tokugawa Ieyasu, the third unifier of Japan and the originator, who grew up in the household of his enemies. He was kidnapped in a Japanese tradition to turn him into a vassal of Imagawa clan under Imagawa Yoshimoto. I added the additional aspect of his captors selling him off as a slave as Japanese people during this period were sold into slavery to Portuguese and Spaniards, who had arrived in Asia and claimed several ports like Goa and Manila. Either rising Oda Nobunaga or his ambitious peasant-born commander Toyotomi Hideoyoshi, the other two hegemons of Japan, with knowledge of the future would want a potential rival removed.

I remember my first time interacting with GFD, Gone from Daylight, I was still figuring myself out at the time as a gay teen. Comsie was a bright spot in a dark world. Later as an amateur writer, I learned he spread his knowledge about writing, experiences, and hope without filters or conventions across various platforms and groups. RIP @Comicality You will be missed and hopefully you are enjoying the paradise of eternal bliss.

Over the next years, Queen Regent Jean of Navarre managed to maintain a positive relationship with all the major nations bordering Navarre by courting Spanish nobility and promising concessions to French nobles. The Church received enormous rewards from extraterritorial rights, which was why their priest acted with impunity. However, beneath the surface, she wanted freedom and independence for her people away from the predators surrounding her kingdom. While she did not know at first that I was

It was not the only time that I intervened in the affairs of Navarre or disrupted the affairs of the Habsburg Empire and their lapdog priests from New Rome. The quotas that I obtained from the Bishop caused only a slight stir, the priest and his guards went missing on the road without witnesses except for the basque boy and the elderly tanner, who did not know my true identity or purpose. Sadly, Habsburg and church agents did enter the area and sought out locals and the appearance of the boy liv

A paperboy exhibit should be created in a museum somewhere, next to a typewriter and a VHS player.

Well, I'm heading out to the Alaskan Tundra in a few days and hope to do some side-reading with some modern low-fantasy based on a system. For those unaware of the subgenre or the genre: The genre of Low Fantasy is based on our normal modern world with a twist of fantasy elements like magic creatures, races, abilities, and so on. Harry Potter for instance is an example of low fantasy (Low does not mean its quality is lesser than High fantasy, it's just a matter of world crafting) Now, the subgenre of low fantasy that I am looking for is "System", where the main character is assigned or obtains a job from the ordinary Warrior to the tragically shunned Necromancer, then they need to develop skills with a level system similar to an RPG video game. The main characters and others in this fantasy setting are assigned classes based on their abilities, levels, and achievements. Here's one class ranking: F-Class : Lowest level, baseline human E-Class: Weakest use of job specialty or item, slightly better than most humans when describing people D-Class: Adequate use of job specialty or item, better than most humans when describing people C-Class: Decent use of job specialty or item, Incomparable to human ability B-Class: Proficient use of job specialty or item, better than most associated with job or "rankers" in the area A-Class: Master use of job specialty or item, One of the best in the associated job or "rankers" in the area S-Class: Transcendant use of job specialty or item, Peak of associated Job, stands above almost everyone else Now, the SS, SSS, and EX classes are usually used to describe main characters or beings transcending the power of Gods, essentially the main character's endgame in most of these stories is going to become a being beyond transcendent, sometimes as a result of their journey and other times to face off against foes at this level to tear down an unfair or unjust world created by God or Gods (Basically in these stories, it's the living answer to Nietzsche's impossible nihilist question, supreme transcendence). Any suggestions with a gay main character?

The remaining decade was a time for progress, development, and growth. On our way back to England, Robert, Francis, and I took a few weeks to enjoy the hospitality of the nascent Dutch Republic in Bruges. I’ve heard a lot of interesting rumors about the Netherlands in my era, including wild libertine sex. During the medieval period, the prosperous region of Flanders was a pragmatic cosmopolitan area with a lot of prostitution, brothels, and sexual freedom that did not exist in many areas of Euro

Chapter 29 As I noted I'll be on vacation for a bit, I'll leave a few short stories just so folks get some more info on side characters and stories. As for this chapter, it's an interesting culmination of effects. In the 16th century, the forces of the Calvinism Protestants and Counter-Reformation Catholics were very powerful movements that warped society and enforced a lot draconian moral rules. Places like the Netherlands, which traditionally were far more liberal and cosmopolitan due to their location as major trade hub were radically altered by internal conflicts. However, in my timeline, the Protestant lost the Civil War in the Holy Roman Empire/Germany and Switzerland where Calvinism had its roots was conquered by New Rome/Catholic Church forces. In the vacuum, new movements and ideologies are taking the place of traditional Protestant factions. The main theme in this chapter is "how can you defeat tradition", whether it's religion, entitled rights, or views. Eli was never a fan of Christianity, or any religion for that matter, based on his past life and would probably champion the fall of organized religion in favor of individual freedom. At the heart of it, Eli desires a society that isn't bound by tradition. However, to achieve this goal, Eli needs to create a new kind of thought process, known as "Noncomformist" ideology. This little known philosophy was at the heart of the scientific and industrial revolutions in the 18th and 19th, when mankind stopped being held back by tradition and strived towards progress. In particular, one of scions of this philosophy created Charles Darwins' theory of evolution, a concept that threatens the very existence of creationism and in fact theological traditions across the world. If Eli wants to break the power of Habsburg Empire and New Rome, such a philosophy has to become a major school of thought. Feel free to take a look the historical "nonconformist" philosophy and its rejections of traditional Christian orthodoxy, it's an interesting history lesson. However, before Eli can do anything, there are major issues based around traditional power systems such as the English nobility. While they may not side with Habsbuirg Empire or Catholic Church, their ideology is based on a different kind of "tradition", one based on the supremacy of ownership. It's another important fact in history that English nobility had far more power and wealth than most monarchs due to how things worked. An entitled elitist group of individuals, who acquired everything due to an ancestor's ability, exploits their positions and prevents a lot of things. One of the things that England developed from this concept of land ownership is slavery. The entitled landowner and the servile farmer/laborer were well-entrenched concepts. Thomas Radclyffe is the foil in my story to the kind of English nobleman that served Elizabeth I, someone who is by nature a self-interested noble with desires of personal wealth above all. In our history, he was also infamous for his campaigning Ireland. In my story, he's a greedy war criminal with a scheming nature. Despite being such a morally and ethically questionable person, Elizabeth I relied on him to put down rebellions. However, Eli could not accept this kind of quid pro quo for the needs to break the power of his enemies over ideology. As for the solution, a series of rigged carnival games entices players to give up more money than the prize. The games play off the pride of individuals. It's a quintessential truth human beings cannot accept losing and will sacrifice a lot to win a pyrrhic victory, especially if they feel victory should have been easily obtained. As for birthdays, I have introduced my version of William Shakespeare, or should I call him Will Tudor-Walsingham as he's the son of Eli and Francis after an experiment in "double stuffing". We also have both Mary Queen of Scots' son James VI of Scotland and Eli's Omega son Jamie Tudor of England, Jamie's lover being called George at the end of the chapter is George Villiers, also known as Duke of Buckingham, the historical boyfriend/partner of King James. This week's law of power is the 21st law, "Play a sucker to catch a sucker, seem dumber than your mark", it can be seen in how Eli manipulated Earl Thomas Radclyffe to give up a fortune and his own lands in order to win something that ultimately would bankrupt him. Eli appeared to give in and placate the Earl with 20,000 gold coins, then offered to double that and showed favor by slapping Eddie, who was like a son to Eli after so many years. In order to fool the Earl and the other landowners, Eli acted like a fool and showed he feared Earl of Sussex to the point of giving up a lot to win his favor. In the end, the Earl and all the others lost everything to Eli. Notes: 1. Yes, Flanders, where the Netherlands are now, had a history as very lively place in the middle ages to late medieval era, when it was a major trade hub. Sexual freedom was higher there than in many other regions. I was inspired by this fact and modern Dutch culture to create a society that would be similar to their modern counterpart. 2. As for Novikov's self-consistency principle, it's a time travel concept that argues you can't change the past even if you go back in time. Instead, your actions will help create the event in question due to your actions. When applied to "real" probability, the concept is used to explain away why certain outcomes appear fixed no matter what factors. In my universe, I'm using a variant of this concept: History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme, meaning you can maintain historical events and outcomes by creating alternative routes to reach that outcome. That is how Mary Tudor and Charles V lived passed their dates of death. It's an important world building rule for how time travel mechanics work in my universe. There are of course things that violate self-consistency issues that also exist in my story from prior chapters.