In my stories I try to explore the way negative emotions, especially the feeling of humiliation, can become erotically charged. It’s made me see the limitations of a genre that has defined expectations about the emotional tone of a story and how a story can lose its status as erotica through the emphasis of some experiences over others, even when sexual experience is the primary content of the story.
Vaccine distribution has been uncoordinated and fairly incompetent in many, maybe most, places. It’s hard to believe there wasn’t a better plan put together over the last year since the arrival of vaccines was so foreseeable.
I’ve seen writers of first person stories use “I” in almost every sentence and it doesn’t come across as overdone. I think the context must be important, and the content of the story told. When there’s enough else going on, the focus of the story may not be on the first person narrator at all but on the events or circumstances being recounted.
Third person narration can just as easily fall into repetitive constructions.
I’ve tried the piano off and on for ages and never seem to make any progress.
I read Fooled By Randomness, most of it anyway, and on the basis of that decided not to read his Black Swan. His writing seemed self-absorbed and unfocused and I didn’t have the patience to indulge the rambling.
Probably the Lord of the Rings movies, especially the second one - The Two Towers.
I would like to see it even though his humor sometimes makes me cringe.
I have several fountain pens but don’t use them often. I get frustrated with the maintenance, the ink drying up, nibs needing cleaning. I don’t use them often enough to keep them flowing. I do love that they require so little pressure to make a mark and can be used with a relaxed grip.
Allowing private individuals to have tigers as pets is not a good substitute for protecting their numbers in the wild. I think it’s a good idea to prohibit private ownership, but also to take steps to preserve wildlife habitats for them, and to protect them against poachers and illegal hunting in the wild.
Reflections In a Golden Eye (1967). Brian Keith cuckolds Marlon Brando who has the hots for a younger man who rides horses naked through the woods near his house. And Brando takes a beating from Elizabeth Taylor for disrespecting her horse.
I liked the music in Suspiria (2018).
Yes, please recommend some good ones, here on Lush or elsewhere. Thanks
I like it both ways.
Will you be glad when Christmas is over this year?
Toast with peanut butter, some eggs and cheese. I never skip breakfast. And coffee, too.
I donate to several environmental and wildlife organizations.
Rainforest
Ketchup or Mustard?
I read at every chance. I wish I had more time for reading. I used to read every single night in bed before falling asleep. Now with my new girlfriend I do other things in bed before falling asleep.
I don’t see how it could be banned except by restricting internet access within the school. And for most US schools, i.e. all public ones, that would create a free speech problem. Apart from that very significant legal issue, if porn doesn’t actually cause the problems it’s accused of then there’s not much reason to ban it.
Recycling, participate in clean-up and pick-up events for my area, voting for candidates concerned about the environment, writing to legislators about some environmental legislation, oppose land development when there’s a movement to do so in my area
Relationships can develop in really different directions so I think it depends on the people involved to define what one is without sex.
The comments really are a type of personal, and helpful, interaction between reader and writer, the scores are less so because they are not identified with any particular reader, unless I’m overlooking something. The scores are made anonymously. Comments are really helpful in providing feedback because they give the reader a chance to explain why they liked or didn’t like something about the story. With a simple numerical score alone you won’t know why it was given, so it isn’t really helpful at all in providing feedback to a writer.
I’ve never had a massage I didn’t like.