- Mood:
sleepy - Music:The National, "All The Wine"
I dreamed that I was at my home church. It was today, and there was some sort of singing thing going on, a rehersal, probably for Music Sunday tomorrow. (I'm missing Music Sunday. :( ) Emily was there (because she likes music? I don't know. It wouldn't be entirely improbable if we weren't both ~250 miles away), as was Maria, who was participating. I don't know how that came about. Maybe her grandma persuaded her over and she decided that joining in the singing was the only was to get over to me so that she could give me the down-low on everything that had been happening. (I haven't seen Maria in ages. I wonder if she did actually go to college last semester. She said she was going to . . . but then, she's always been good at talk.) After the singing was over, I was going to drive Emily home, and we walked out to mom's car, which was on the street my dad lives on (which is a mile or so from the church, but in the dream that portion of my dad's street happened to be right next to the church). Rita (Maria's grandmother) walked past, and I offered her a ride home, which she accepted, and gave me one of her hugs. (hmm . . . maybe we weren't actually at church, just with church people, because Rita lives right next to the church and wouldn't need a ride. Now that I think about it, the place we were to sing didn't really look like the church; I don't know what it looked like (and I'll point out that while I tend to agree with the "the church is the people" theology, I'm using church to refer to the building because it's clearer that way.)) Anyway, Emily was already in the front seat, which was on the side of the traffic (I think that it was a British car, actually; the steering wheel was on the wrong side), so I opened the door for Rita to get in the back.
And I was just going to ask Emily which house she was going to when I woke up.
Yesterday I had several dreams. Let's see if I can remember any of them.
There was the one about the mouse. For background, you should know that Morris has been having a mouse problem for a while now, and that traps have been laid. Friday evening, Emily and I came into the kitchen and discovered that the havaheart trap had been sprung, and there was a live mouse in it. Neither of us are stand-on-a-chair squeamish about mice, but picking up the trap and taking it somewhere suitable far away (particularly since neither of us really knew how to operate that sort of trap, or how far away was far enough) seemed to us to be a very big step. I knocked on the door of the girl whose name was on the trap, but she wasn't in. Neither was our HR. I left a note on her whiteboard, but I wasn't sure that either of them were here this weekend. Clearly this preyed on my mind a bit, because I dreamed that I was taking the mouse across the river and some suitable distance away. I ran into
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operafloozy, tigerlofu and daybreak_a and enlisted them as moral support. That's about all there was to this dream. For those of you who are concerned, at the point where I had decided that I really ought to do something about the mouse if no one else had done anything, I went downstairs and the trap had disappeared.
I feel like there were at least two other dreams that night, but I can't remember them.
It's raining today. Emily is going to an all-day shape note sing in Sunderland. While I wouldn't mind doing some singing today, the bus schedule to get over there is more than a bit ridiculous, and between that and the weather, I'm perfectly happy to stay inside today (although I suppose that if I'm going to the library, I'll have to go outside at some point. Hopefully it won't be raining quite so hard at that point.
I'm currently making creamed eggs, one of my mom's fancy breakfasts. Someone left me 11 eggs last weekend (and her oatmeal and recipe, by the way. Would she like those back at some point?).
- Location:Morris House kitchen
- Mood:
industrious - Music:Vivaldi. A flute concerto, I think.
- Mood:
good
The Skinny -- Original Slash and Femslash Newsletter
Volume 01, Issue 03 *
Articles and Essays
- dunmurderin makes a post on the differences between writing originalfic and fanfic here.
- gwailowrite discusses the harm of stereotypes in gay porn over here.
Beta Requests
rosesword83 needs a beta for a short story involving vampires, dragons, torture, King Arthur and NSFW-content.
Communites
- ah_gayfiction has announced the theme for its next challege.
- ah_gayfiction has posted the participating works in their androgyny challenge.
- lgbtq_recs ends its month of reccing, and makes a post about the comms future here.
Multi-Chaptered Fiction
+ 40 Dates and 40 Nights by dharmaserenity - (m/m; contemp; NSFW) - Chapter Eight
How many dates will it take former ugly duckling Jules to find that certain someone?
+ A Simple Kind of Life by 0rien - (m/m; romance) - Chapter Five
Yee Young-soo moves from metropolitan Seoul to the sleepy small town of Twin Rivers for no apparent reason, arousing Shane Hughes' curiosity. What caused Young-soo to leave his home country to start a new life in Australia?
+ A Year Off by adriennemg - (m/m; contemp; NSFW) - Chapter One
Adrian is taking a year off from college and working his first full time job. Working the adult life is especially boring since all of his friends are away at school. Adrian needs to find something or someone to keep himself busy.
+ Alex and the Archer by littlelovepoems - (m/m; adventure and possible fantasy) - Part Three - Part Four
Mark and Alex go spelunking in hopes of finding the entrance to another world.
+ Blood Rising by gregoria44 - (m/m; teen) - Part Ten
No summary available. As far as I can tell there are teens and domestic violence.
+ Cado in Tenebris by _calex_ - (m/m; fantasy; NSFW) - Chapter Seven
It's time for the Cerberii court to send Prince Breanáinn to one of the Demon Lords as per their agreement when the two courts joined four centuries ago. Of course, the young Prince isn't going by himself, taking with him soldiers from the United Army as a private guard, one of them being the fiery Hellhound Caellach ó Riagáin. With a mysterious hatred and familiarity with the Dark Court, Caellach’s sense of duty wars with his own personal nightmares and where he is concerned, nothing will ever be the same again...
+ Diary Of A Superhero by _profiterole_ - (m/m; superheroic and teen) - Chapter One
Life can get complicated when you have to juggle between going to high school, being a superhero and getting a boyfriend.
+ The Golden Bird by pierrot_dreams - (m/m; historical and slavery; NSFW) - Chapter Five (beg.) - Chaper Five (end) and Chapter Six
During the reign of a corrupt emperor, two old friends meet again one night in an upscale brothel. One is a pleasure-slave; the other, reluctant heir to the Emperor's chief advisor. They find themselves trapped in a dangerous game of power and politics that will test their allegiances to both the coming revolution and to each other.
+ The Hunt by eles_cave - (m/m; supernatural; NSFW) - Chapter Seven - Chapter Eight - Chapter Nine
River, a young hunter of supernatural beings, spends a heated night with a 'colleague', Andreji, an older, very attractive man. He hopes Andreji will accept his as an apprentice. Yet, a vampire hunt that River takes part in turns out to be a trap...
+ Kio’s Dance by me_ya_ri - (m/m with some f/f; slavery and fantasy; NSFW) - Part Fourteen - Part Fifteen - Part Sixteen
Set in an original world, a young man is betrayed by his brothers, sold into slavery, and must either escape to find his way home, or accept his new role in the world. The only thing he has to ground himself is the memories of his lover Kio and his skill at dancing.
+ Larkenia's Flaws by originalpuck - (m/m with some f/f; dark fantasy; NSFW) - Book IV, Installment Eighteen
Cyrne is a town on the brink of self-destruction, where humanity is Blessed, gender is immaterial and monsters linger behind every home. Preying on the weak, the larkenians slip from their wooden natures for a brief respite.
With more humans winding up dead each day, public officials have fostered a program to destroy the larkenians' habitat and drive them out. So far the success has been a double-edged sword; looking for a new home, the creatures have begun leaking into the human gene pool- resulting in a Flaw whose very existence is punishable by death.
+ My Name is Sam by libertas_atis - (m/m; scifi and slavery; NSFW) - Chapter Eleven
In a world where the oil is running out, where civil disorder had become a increasing problem, slavery has become endemic. In this brave new world one lost boy and one lonely man must find a way to live together.
+ Round Robin (this chapter) by tigerlofu - (m/m; slavery, magic and fantasy; NSFW) - Part Seven
A young man moves to a new town and finds himself sold into slavery due to circumstances beyond his control. The underworld that he enters in is far different from the normal, ordinary world that he grew up in, and he has to find his way in this new world, adrift from everything he’s ever known.
+ Someday Never Comes by kaydyy - (m/m; historical and slave; NSFW) - Chapter Six - Chapter Seven
Shyro's life, his suffering, his joy and his love - along with all those who sought to break him are but dust. Is it possible that the heart and courage of one slave in ancient Rome could have influenced history? This is his story. Set during the rule of Nero. (first century AD)
+ Summer Graves by originalpuck - (m/m; dark fantasy; NSFW) - Part Two, Chapter Seven
Catori No-Name is striking out on eir own for the first time since receiving Two-Spirit status from eir tribe. Following clues that only ey can hear, and a destiny that's written in the bones of the souls ey buries, Catori ends up embroiled in more intrigue and romance than ey'd ever intended -- and with more than one human pet.
+ Taming of the Tiger by sprite_fics - (m/m; slave and wuxia; NSFW) - Part Eight - Part Nine
A demon hunter receives a challenge to tame an unbreakable demon slave.
+ Texas III by morgan_cian - (m/m; BDSM, incest and hurt/comfort; NSFW) - Part Seven
The conclusion of the Texas verse, Paul's Epilogue
Recs and Reviews
- aerialsprite recs a kinky, original m/m artist named Heise.
- leebenoit recs a genderqueer fantasy author named Mary Gentle.
- magnetic_pole recs the young adult f/f novel Annie On My Mind, by Nancy Garden.
- morgan-cian recs a m/m slavefic story, The Willow Key.
Uniquely Pleasurable reviews:
- the m/m urban fantasy novel Soul Bonds, by Lynn Lorenz.
- the m/m fantasy novel Gold Warrior, by Claire London.
Short Stories
+ A Night at the Operetta by lemursexbot - (ref m/m; humor and slavery)
A young man anticipates an evening of dreadful musical theater and sees exactly what he expects. Part of a faux round-robin.
+ An Unusual Present by direafterglow - (m/m; teen; NSFW)
Regan submits to August’s birthday wishes and finds himself wearing clothes he’d much rather not be wearing, much less being bound to the bed in them. August takes full advantage of him how he is, and despite how Regan feels about his clothing he can’t help but give in to his lover’s teasing touches.
+ Fitting In by me_ya_ri - (m/m with mentions of m/f; fantasy and slavery; NSFW)
A (mostly) virginal young man goes on a trip to a new country where he’s forced to have sex with slaves for ritual purposes. Rather to his surprise, he finds he likes it.
+ The Fool by duskpeterson - (m/m; fantasy and slavery)
He'd abducted him, bedded him, and taught him every position he knew. So why wasn't the fool grateful?
+ Little Pills by direafterglow - (m/m; teen; NSFW)
Unconventional love story between two boys and their lives with drugs, alcohol, and finding love in strange places. I will warn that it doesn't end on a happy note, but nothing seems to end happily for these two, and that's how it's meant to be.
Misc.
- erastes posted about a market for short stories about gay men of African descent.
- historical male slash author erastes has been interviewed here.
- hpuckle has posted 32 m/m porn icons here. NSFW.
- lisa_thecat has compiled 15 artistic m/m photos from the net. Available here. NSFW.
- sprite_eyes has posted 30 text icons about adult content. NSFW.
- Help celebrate international day of femslash on July 19th!
- Summaries have been added to stories listed in The Skinny - when available- as per multiple requests.
Newsletter Key:
M/M: male slash
F/F: female slash
NSFW: not safe for work
BDSM: bondace and discipline, dominance and submission, sadism and masochism
* : since the newsletter switched hands
That's all for this issue. Comment if there are any broken links or errors.
Make sure to read the guidelines and comment here to suggest items for next Saturday's issue.
- Mood:
annoyed
So... Everyone is posting all these celebratory entries about the death of Jesse Helms and all of that. I would love to join in the festivities but then again I am one of those people who believes in not speaking ill of the dead, or at the very least not celebrating the end of a life which cannot itself be celebrated. I guess I believe a little too much in the notion that the spark of inspiration, the divine light, exists in every person. He may not have embraced that light and he certainly may not have used it to further illuminate the world in which we live, but that light is further snuffed for now with his death. So instead of writing whimsical little poems celebrating the end of a life (and really such things seem to me to be counter to an ethic of non-violence for some reason) here is my sincere hope that he gets it right and displays true light for all the world to see the next time around. May ignorance be dispelled as darkness before illumination.
Blessings be on the Dead that are;
Blessings be on the Dead that know.
We remember those unmet and yet not unloved.
May you return safely to that infinite short at nights ending,
And find peace in the dissolution of the pleroma.
- Hallows Prayer, Father Jordan Stratford
( And now, for the bad photography! )
- Location:The Wretched Antipodes
- Mood:
not so cold now, mate
My husband's great great aunt, "Aunt Erle," is the woman in the white hat. My guess is that this photo might be from around 1915, but I could be completely wrong. I really love her skirt, especially the straps that connect to the front panel. If anyone has a guess as to how to sew something like this skirt (or a closer guess as to the year), I'm all ears.
Click on the photo for a link to a larger version.
- 10:53 [utterz] www.utterz.com/u/utt/u-NTEwNjk2OQ Pancakes before tesfest: It's a kilt, not a dress! And a Domly IKEA apron. #
- 12:38 Driving thru northern NJ with tootlelulu an the way to TES Fest. #
- 13:49 I'm up against classes on rape play, spanking, and pick up scenes. Ain't nobody comin' to my class... #
- 19:20 [utterz] www.utterz.com/u/utt/u-NTEwNzE4Mg Proof that Ayem Willing...: ...had boobs on his head. And weird looking sausage. #
Without spoilers: it's exactly how I expected this series to end.
With spoilers:
( Read more... )
- Mood:
bored
- Mood:loquacious
- Music:Joni Mitchell, "Little Green"
(1) This brooch. I've been working on it for a little more than a week, and I think it's awesome. Unfortunately, an adhesive malfunction (and my ham-handed attempts to fix it) ended up ruining the patina on the brass in a few places. It's nothing one would think twice about if they saw the brooch on someone else, but if someone were to buy it and examine it closely, they'd probably be pissed.
Instead, I'm going to hang on to it (yay!) and probably use it in my costume if/when I attend Steam Powered. Right now I'm toying with the idea of getting all of my ducks in a row and attending as a vendor. I'm also thinking it might be a kick to make it a road trip with my dad, who I think has been nursing a secret ambition to get back into crafting hisowndarnself.
(2) These earrings. There's an identical pair on my Etsy site, but this particular pair bears the mark of a losing battle with a drill bit on the reverse side. More cake for me!
********
And now for the ones that did work out, and which are for sale. Come on, you knew you couldn't get away without an advert =)
Buy at Faraday Bags at Etsy.
 Tiny Little Gearrings |  More tiny little gearrings |
 Bobby pins with dragonflies and freshwater pearls |  An elephant hunter's monocle |
(1) This brooch. I've been working on it for a little more than a week, and I think it's awesome. Unfortunately, an adhesive malfunction (and my ham-handed attempts to fix it) ended up ruining the patina on the brass in a few places. It's nothing one would think twice about if they saw the brooch on someone else, but if someone were to buy it and examine it closely, they'd probably be pissed.
Instead, I'm going to hang on to it (yay!) and probably use it in my costume if/when I attend Steam Powered. Right now I'm toying with the idea of getting all of my ducks in a row and attending as a vendor. I'm also thinking it might be a kick to make it a road trip with my dad, who I think has been nursing a secret ambition to get back into crafting hisowndarnself.
(2) These earrings. There's an identical pair on my Etsy site, but this particular pair bears the mark of a losing battle with a drill bit on the reverse side. More cake for me!
********
And now for the ones that did work out, and which are for sale. Come on, you knew you couldn't get away without an advert =)
Buy at Faraday Bags at Etsy.
Tiny Little Gearrings | More tiny little gearrings |
Bobby pins with dragonflies and freshwater pearls | An elephant hunter's monocle |
I love the red dress in the last shot..
and a very very nice mens coat
http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-MENS-BLACK-VELV
Some one who is not me grab it up!
- Mood:
amused
- Mood: tired
- Music:hospital noises
- Mood:
tired - Music:husband snoring
- Mood:
high
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