Having sex. Seriously, that was my fantasy through my teens and into my twenties. Came true at 24.

And once I began to accept and acknowledge my bi side and my fantasies about cocks, I did experiment with men a couple times but it was not great. Circumstances just did not lend themselves to a good time. So gay sex remains a fantasy.

White Room - Cream

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Brian Lumley

Oo, I don't meet too many Lumley fans outside of s-f/f heavy sites. He did some amazing horror and dark fantasy but also laid a few bad eggs. He also had a bad habit of flogging dead horses (i.e. some of his series went a few books too long). On the whole, though, a very good author who is sadly little known outside a niche literary community. His short story "Fruiting Bodies" will haunt me forever, if nothing else. And the Wamphyri started as an amazing revisionist take on vampires but see the line about dead horses. Another one I enjoyed was his Dreamlands series about Hero and Eldin, even if the feel was more Fritz Lieber than H. P. Lovecraft.

(/fanboi rant off)

We are actually leaving on a cruise on Easter weekend but that's a two week thing that just happens to start on a long weekend, not a "long weekend away". Though I guess you could consider it a 14 day long weekend. 😋

Are you looking forward to the FIFA World Cup?

Brunette. I tend to prefer darker hair for some reason. Though I do have one current crush who is a blonde.

Long or short hair?

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Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama.

Supposedly the project is in development with Denis Villeneuve set to direct.

I would love to see this TOO but it has a fundamental flaw for a movie. Not much real plot or character development. There will be manufactured drama by the screenwriter or elements brought in from the sequels. But the visuals would be absolutely awesome with a good artist in charge.

Also, this is not the first time (at one point David Fincher and Morgan Freeman were attached to a Rama project) and Villeneuve has a very full calendar that includes shooting the new Bond this fall (IIRC). So I want this movie but I will believe it when I see the first trailer.

As for movies I would like to see? William Hope Hodgson's The Night Land. It would need heavy editing and revisions (notably it is an Edwardian era novel with an attitude to women that is of its time) but the basic story of a quest to save a beloved through the dark deserts of a dying world could make for a great film in the right hands.

Whatever is earworming me at the time. Some songs do that more than others, usually ones where I actually know at least some of the words. "Elan" by Nightwish is a perpetual favourite.

Would you go on a talent showcase like your country's version of "Got Talent" or "The Voice"?

Nope. Most of the restaurants I know that would do that also have the staff sing to you and my introverted soul would die at that kind of attention.

HYE returned to your family home after living elsewhere for college or work?

Gojira

NHIE got someone pregnant through sex (my son was conceived using IVF).

Fried chicken. Not exactly healthy, esp. with the heavy potato wedges my favourite brand (Mary Brown's, a Canadian chain) serves but I have them for lunch maybe once a month.

Is there a food you really like but avoid for health or other reasons?

It kind of happened on an early night out with my wife. She was nominally there with someone else but was already interested in me (and vice versa).

HYE gone out with one person and ended up in bed with another?

Electric Callboy

Male, married, none beyond the official one at present (and not really even her).

FWB. More fun with someone I know. Now I just need to have one. 😕

Risky hookup in a public spot or go somewhere private before things get too intimate?

Apparently, dear Debbie is a bit of a lesbian dom. Or bad at grammar. Or both. 🤣

My wife is musing about new wheels for her vehicle, which is also the family roadtrip vehicle (compact SUV). It's a Honda, not even a decade old, and low mileage so easily has a few more years on it. Then again, it's ICE and we could replace it with a hybrid or PHEV in the same class so maybe it's getting near time.

So I am now getting women liking my profile at a prodigious rate. Probably 1 a day if you average it out. I suspect they are fishing for wild game and am refusing to bite. This morning's new arrival was a dom clearly fishing for clients when I looked at her profile. Not my kink. Still wondering how this works out. If you actually respond, does she then start advertising services to you over DMs or private chat or something like that?

You can never have too much Scorpions. The band is actually as old as I am. Rudolf Schenker, lead guitarist, founded them in 1965, with Klaus joining in 1969. Some members of the current lineup are younger than the band itself.

Good morning. Looking forward to hearing more about the kitties. Had a dusting of snow last night.

Since the Lion only had time to reheat the old stuff, I will fire up Bertha with some fresh Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee. For teas we have Yorkshire Gold and Russian Caravan.

And now one of the songs that introduced me, and a lot of my generation of North Americans, to the band. From Rock in Rio 1985.

Yeah, this one from four years later, 1976, is closer to the Scorpions as I first encountered them. Klaus now looks and sounds like Klaus.

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Every story starts with the same line like, "It was a dark and stormy night" or something to that effect and go from there.

We've done that as a challenge on StoriesSpace but never seen it as a comp. I could go for it. For this site, I think you would need something spicy. So use John's but make them sriracha peanuts. 😜

Wow, quiet in here, today. Guess it's ape's turn to liven things up.

gives place a quick cleaning

opens up the bar

makes dark roast coffee and a couple pots of random teas

And for the music? How about some early Scorpions? The band released this clip from German TV in 1972 on their YouTube channel yesterday. Klaus Meine with a beard freaks me out bit. It was gone by the time they hit it big in my neck of the woods in the eighties.

Me? Very much the former.

Do you like pickles on burgers, sandwiches, etc.?

No, but I wouldn't mind someday.

HYE been involved in a major news story (any level from community to global)?

Dragonforce

My exhibitionist streak says the former, my self-deprecating sense of propriety leans to the latter. I mean, who wants to see me naked?

You can become a supernatural being of your choice: Vampire or Werewolf?

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One person's oral or blowjob is another's cocksucking and someone else's fellatio, so picking one for a category name doesn't always help everyone find what they want.

That's why we librarians have authority control with see and see also references 😋. "Oral Sex" might be the authoritative term with "See" references pointing to it from "Fellatio", "Cock sucking", "Blowjob", "Giving head", "Cunnilingus", etc. Or you could make it hierarchical with all of those as subheadings under "Oral Sex" (so "Oral sex -- Blowjobs", etc.). Or you could just allow all of those and put "See also" references linking them into a kind of tag cloud, but that's potentially even more complicated.

But to have a system like that, you'd need to build it from the ground up at site launch and have some people familiar with it to properly maintain it. You'd need things coded so that if someone tagged their story "Cock sucking", it would get changed to "Oral Sex" or suggest better terms based on your controlled vocabulary.

Yeah, there's a reason why we librarians are just so fucking sexy.😎

I have had cocks in my mouth but never had them finish. Not sure if I am terrible at it or if I am just picking the wrong guys and circumstances.

No, I would have to like them to really enjoy the sex. Not necessarily be in love, just like them enough to be comfortable in, and enjoy, their company.

HYE joined a club, church, or other organized community just to get closer to someone?

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Though I have to confess I've never given just a handjob. I'm weak, what can I say? Too damn greedy.

Hmm. I need more experience with men, but I could see myself enjoying just giving hand in the right situation, esp. if it was mutual. Though I do enjoy a cock in my mouth the couple times I have done it so, yeah, maybe I would give into that rather than just doing a handjob to completion. Another experiment to try if I ever do get to live out my bi side more.😊

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There are a number of redundant, niche categories that could be culled, or at least streamlined. God knows why we thought 'historical' had to be its own category, like nothing turns me on more than reading about Ancient Rome. 🙄 Steam punk, horror, monster sex, mind control, supernatural, fantasy and sci-fi should really all be rolled into a single category. I think the reason we don't do it is a bunch of people who got an omnium badge would whine that we're diluting their accomplishment. But these categories really serve no purpose on the site, and just clutter things up, in my opinion.

Some would argue categories should be scrapped entirely in place of just tagging everything accurately. On some days, I might argue that. Or just a few very broad genre categories with tagging for everything else.

The fact is, the categories here (and SS isn't much better) are not a well-designed hierarchy like library subject headings. No one sat down and figured it all out. Instead, they've been tweaked and changed and added to over time due to demand and owners' whims to the point where they are almost just a more important tag. I mean, just the fact that you have some based on form (e.g. Micro, Flash, the two Poetry categories), some based on genre (like the Horror and S-F that you mention), and some based on erotic content (e.g. I.F., Voyeur, Watersports, etc.) is a sign of a messed-up subject classification system.

However, I don't think there's a will or really a need to mess with it. It is what it is. A fight over changing them isn't really a productive use of the site's time and I say that as someone who, if he was spinning up a writing site, would definitely do it differently than here or SS. I would probably have genre, form, and content as separate groups of tags and just forget about categories. Provide a tag cloud or similar for navigation purposes along with a well-designed search.