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OK, so I am new to the whole controversy, only just heard about it from BookofBaitNate, and I don’t think you did anything wrong. Initially I thought you wrote some kind of pornographic story but the caption was actually very sweet and provocative about gay men and their relationships with their parents. Maybe that was what made people angry or the fact that it was good and you wrote erotica… some people are just trolls. anyway, it got you a new follower, me. best, Bryan

OK, so I am new to the whole controversy, only just heard about it from BookofBaitNate, and I don’t think you did anything wrong. Initially I thought you wrote some kind of pornographic story but the caption was actually very sweet and provocative about gay men and their relationships with their parents. Maybe that was what made people angry or the fact that it was good and you wrote erotica… some people are just trolls. anyway, it got you a new follower, me. best, Bryan

bookofbaitnate:

allbecauseoftheboys:

Hey there dear. I bet this whole controversy confuses the fuck out of my new followers. A lot of the haters thought I did it for attention, that I was trying to be the boys in the picture, that I was using the plight of gay people for mad followers, etc. Of course, none of this is true, but since these people don’t know me, it’s understandable they’d jump to these conclusions. I should have seen it coming, anyway. People who saw that post checked my Tumblr out expecting to see sweet gay mush and instead got chastity pictures, so I think I freaked them out a wee bit…

Anyway, Nate is one of my bestie followers, so any friend of his is a friend of mine. Thanks for follow!

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We still need to find out who removed the “text is fictional” from the post, but I doubt that’ll ever happen. Anyway, keep on truckin’ and enjoy what you do- and remember, you get hate on a site full of haters, it means you’ve hit the big time. 🙂

You know what really baffles me? There was only a short period of time when that post went up without a disclaimer, like way in the beginning. Once it started to get a lot of likes, I quickly tacked it on. But this was like, November 2013. The second round of viral insanity happened in April 2014. I’m like 99% sure that screenshot didn’t show up until April. So either someone was just sitting on the screenshot for like four months or they edited it the disclaimer out. And in the screenshot, you can see someone reblogged me – damamgedinvestigator was it? – but I checked that person’s Tumblr and it’s deleted it! Nancy Drew needs to get on this.

How did you get into writing? Are you a top/dom or bottom/sub?

How did you get into writing? Are you a top/dom or bottom/sub?

Did I publish this or not? I can’t remember… it’s fucking long though, sorry.

I’ve been writing since I was a child, mostly stupid little stories and poetry. We had something in school called Young Authors Day where we gotta write little books and I always rocked at that. I’ve always loved to read and reading inspires writing.

I got into writing about cock through mIRC. I used to hang out in various yaoi scanlation groups in high school (god, the shame, the shame!), and befriended some people in those circles. One girl, D, said she and some friends used to do original content roleplaying and invited me to check out them playing. Well, turns out D’s friend, I think her name was Maya, was into some real heavy stuff – like hardcore pain BDSM and cruel characters – and it freaked me the fuck out. However, one of the other girls in the group, J, was kind of disgusted by it too and we paired off.

J and I roleplayed for five years, we created our own little fantasy world with huge families and storylines. It was very thorough. Well, J slowly began to get more manic and more manipulative. She had some negative situations in her home life and liked to put herself in shit situations for the pity and attention. Eventually, she became too toxic. I tried to help, but eventually I had to sever ties and say good-bye to her and my characters.

I tried to find other RP partners but none really compared to J’s caliber of writing. Gurl knew her shit. I RP’ed with a long term friend of mine, M, for a short while, but M got swallowed alive by various video game fandoms and essentially stopped wanting to RP with literally overnight. However, she introduced me to Tumblr. M also sent me her old Kindle when gifted with a new one, and it came with some pdfs of gay fiction.

Up until that point, I never really thought of writing for serious because I’d never finished anything I’d written. Writing novels is a huge undertaking. However, these stories for the Kindle were often short, simple, and most actually had decent plot with some appropriate sex folded right in. I read them and thought, “Hey I could do this!” (and then I’d read shit by like Erastes and be like, “I will never write again cause I will never be this good.”)

I decided to try my hand at writing on Tumblr to scratch the itch. Professional writers all advocate writing once a day and Tumblr has helped me to do that. Also, I’ve interned at a magazine, got published on a travel website, and wrote live reports for an industry music magazine. I really don’t wanna do those things for a job though. I wanna write erotica and romance.

And why? I don’t know. It’s satisfying. To answer your other question – I’m actually neither a sub or a dom. I have a very very low sex drive and have a severe aversion to being touched. Part of the reason why I write is because it’s fantasy. If I could be a top or bottom, I’d be both. I’d be a flaming gay man and a giant cock slut for sure. Like, Brian Kinney and Emmett Honeycutt in one. I swear to god.

Stuff

Stuff

I mentioned last week that I was gonna respond to all my inbox replies today, but I’m gonna push it to Tuesday. Too much shit to do today. Lalala.

Also, just another reminder: I’m gonna be gone Thursday – Sunday for Stagecoach this weekend, and then my festival days are over for April~

Mended anthology presale is up!

Mended anthology presale is up!

We have a date! My second publication, Orion’s New Leash on Life, goes on sale in e-book formats on June 1st, 2014! It will be one of 30 stories in Dreamspinner Press’s Daily Dose anthology, Mended. Essentially, when you purchase this anthology, you will get one story a day in the theme of healing for the entire month of June. You’re never too old for bed time stories, boys and girls.

For the rest of April, you can pre-order the entire package of 30 stories in Mended for $39.99 (which is $1.33 a story). In May that will go up to $49.99, and then in June for $64.99. If you click that link to the pre-order page, you can read summaries of all 30 stories to make sure it’s up your alley. So far, it looks like Orion’s is the only BDSM flavored story there! I’m so nervous since I went on a limb and did a pup fetish piece.

My story has gone through three rounds of merciless editing, but I got this feedback from the editors today: “What an interesting story! The characters are well done and very dimensional. Good job!” Wish I could put that on the fridge.

If you’re on a budget, Orion’s New Leash on Life will also be sold as an individual e-book featuring the adorably sexy gayboykink on the cover. However, the landing page for that is not available yet.

Thank you all for reading!

Weekend scheduling

Weekend scheduling

Just a reminder in case you forgot – I am working Coachella-ella-ella again this weekend and will be gone Thursday night through Monday. I still have PMs to answer and will do a giant answer session on Monday.

I have queued some posts. I hope you all enjoy them.

PS – We broke 3,000 followers, so thank you!

Fuck ’em

Fuck ’em

In the past when I’ve asked for reader output, you guys have mostly been quiet. You guys like your privacy, I’ll tell ya hwat. However, when I asked for your feedback this time about how I run this blog, I got a huge response! Lots of replies and an inbox fuller than a chaste boy’s balls.

Just, wow. So many lurkers too came out to say something. I cannot tell you how much this all means to me. This has been an incredibly frustrating experience. It’s so crazy to me that most of you supported me. Just damn. Thank you.

What I write isn’t for everyone, and time spent trying to convince or convert people who find it weird or gross is wasted time. I can’t help who sees my blog, but hey if they don’t like it they can leave. I’ve reblogged pictures from real people before – chastepup and gayboykink for example – and they need to know that their photos are on a blog that isn’t attracting negative attention to them or their lifestyles. Responding and reblogging the haters is doing just that, so I’m going to ignore them.

Yes, I made a mistake posting something that could be misinterpreted it. Yes, it was stupid. Yes, I notified everyone I could and put up disclaimers. Yes, I apologized a million times. Yes, I’ve sent take down requests to posts on Facebook and Reddit. And I’m done. I’ve done enough. I’m moving on. As Art Alexakis of Everclear once sang, “They can’t hurt you unless you let them.”

There are two groups of people that matter here: my readers, and the people in the photos I caption. The first group has spoken, and I’ve heard nothing negative out of the second group of people so far. Even ElyEl has forgiven me, and apparently they attracted some new readers in the process.

So um, yeah fuck all the haters, just fuck ‘em, in a Brian Kinney sort of way. I’m going to continue writing. Dicks on your dash resume today.

Hi you two. I’m the one who originally wrote the caption of you guys and your cat. I am so so so so so sorry this has happened. The original picture I reblogged did not list your Tumblr as a source. It was only later that I went back and found you as the source – it took me nearly an hour going through Google Image searches. That said – I was naiive and didn’t add a disclaimer. I should have, then I later went back and did. That person who screenshotted it removed the disclaimer. I am so sorry!!

Hi you two. I’m the one who originally wrote the caption of you guys and your cat. I am so so so so so sorry this has happened. The original picture I reblogged did not list your Tumblr as a source. It was only later that I went back and found you as the source – it took me nearly an hour going through Google Image searches. That said – I was naiive and didn’t add a disclaimer. I should have, then I later went back and did. That person who screenshotted it removed the disclaimer. I am so sorry!!

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Hi! Its cool! We just wanted to share the real story with everyone. We are not mad or anything like that, you can keep using our photos adding the source. We know you meant well 🙂 sorry about the insults that people are saying to you, we didnt see that comming, it was an honest mistake.

ElyEl

And ElYEl has spoken! These two are so sweet and forgiving, I owe them a big hug of thanks.