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December 17, 2014
Christmas Music – Dec 16, 2014 – Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas #toriamos #love
My favorite version of this song ever. Shocking, I know.
December 16, 2014
A Post of Love for LolaWaldorf – My FAVORITE FanVidder EVER #florence+themachine #sherlock #glee #borgias #supernatural
I’m a fangirl. Anyone who has known me long must know this fact about me. I love my favorite media quite violently. As it turns out, I’m also a fangirl of fellow fangirls. LolaWaldorf makes my all-time favorite fanvideos because:
a) They are never common.
b) They are always intelligent and are saying something much bigger than just the surface.
c) They are surprising, beautifully edited, and always, always, always hers. You can detect a Lola vid just by her vidding style alone.
d) They take me out of the words in my head and just fill me with feeling. I can’t even really talk about the vids. They just stand entirely on their own.
My top five favorite vids of hers.
1) Glee: Kurt – My love’s too big for you my love.
2) This multifandom piece of brilliance that makes me just flail. Incorporating pieces of other fanvids made to the same song, it’s Florence as the fangirl/boy being devastated by media.
3) Borgias: I walked because you walked
4) Supernatural: Vesuvius – My ALL-TIME favorite video. No one but Lola would’ve made something this brilliant.
5) Sherlock: Rococo – They seem wild but they are so deep.
Gay Men And The Eating Disorders Nobody Is Talking About
Research information.
Originally posted on Thought Catalog:
Did you know it’s a faux pas for a gay man to eat appetizers at cocktail receptions? That it’s acceptable to laugh at the fat-ass who decides to eat a slice of cake by himself rather than share with a friend at a birthday celebration? That if you can’t fit into the tightest of tank-tops without spilling over that you’ve opened yourself to social criticism from your peers?
While many will disagree with these generalizations, a visit to any gay bar, club, or gayborhood will allow you to come across countless men who have suffered judgment for breaking the above social rules. Sure, there are the 12 tribes of Grindr and men who love each of them, but common convention in the gay world is that you can never be too fit and that your body fat percentage could always do with some trimming down.
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Christmas Music – Dec 16, 2014 – The Nightmare Before Kate Bush #fanvideo #christmas
So it seems fitting to put up the next Christmas song with a fanvideo since I’m doing a post later today about my favorite fanvidder.
December 15, 2014
Two Marines risk everything for love in WWII gay romance SEMPER FI #gay #1Click
“The idea for this gay romance came about when my dad lent me a book on the Guadalcanal Campaign, and I started wondering about the Marines who fought there. Were any of them gay? What were their lives like after the war? Did they find happiness even after the horrors of battle?”
find out and read more via Two Marines risk everything for love in WWII gay romance SEMPER FI.
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Christmas Music – December 15, 2014 – Such Was My Need On A Chronic Christmas Eve #sineadoconor #music
One of those songs that’s probably only a Christmas song to me. I have a few like that. Like Cohen’s “Famous Blue Raincoat” and EBTG’s “Come On Home”.
Oh I wanna make something
So lovely for you
‘Cus I promised that’s what I’d do for you
With the bible I stole
I know you forgave my soul
Because such was my need on a chronic Christmas Eve
And I think we’re agreed that it should have been free
And you sang to me
They dress the wounds of my poor people
As though they’re nothing
Saying “peace, peace”
When there’s no peace
ETA: Apparently, I am not the only one who sees this as a Christmas song. “Christmas can serve as a hollow, ironic and painful reminder for many that beyond the season, the give and take of our society has often not served them with the justice of enough.
In this vein I love the song ‘Something Beautiful’ by Sinead O’Connor picking up the themes of Jeremiah at Christmas. Talk about one cantankerous prophet quoting another!”
December 14, 2014
Christmas Music – Dec 14, 2014 – This Is How I See You #music
This is one of the most heartbreaking and beautiful winter songs ever.
December 13, 2014
“I loved Smoky Mountain Dreams & highly recommend it.” — Joyfully Jay #gay #mmromance
“There is just such a quiet beauty here in this slowly building relationship filled with such warmth and love. These guys are so great individually and in need of so much love and companionship, it is so rewarding seeing them find happiness together. Not to mention they are crazy hot together OMG, the scene with the pearls! Trust me. So this one just made me want to curl up by the fire and enjoy. Perfect for a cold winter’s day. I loved Smoky Mountain Dreams and highly recommend it.”
via Review: Smoky Mountain Dreams by Leta Blake — Joyfully Jay.
Sometimes holding on means letting go
Christopher Ryder and Jesse Birch are two men hanging on to the past. While Christopher has let go of his failure as a country singer in Nashville, he’s still trying to please his narrow-minded, non-accepting family. His beloved Gran loves him the way he is, but Christopher feels painfully invisible to everyone else. He’s happy enough performing at the Smoky Mountain Dreams theme park in Tennessee, but even when Christopher is center stage he aches for someone to see the real him.
There’s more than meets the eye when it comes to bisexual Jesse. He’s raising two kids and fighting with family after a tragic accident took his children’s mother. There’s no room in his life for dating, his kids are his priority, and he doesn’t want more than an occasional hook-up. He sure as hell doesn’t want to fall hard for his favorite local singer, but when Christopher walks into his jewelry studio, Jesse hears a new song in his heart.
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December 12, 2014
Playlist for Smoky Mountain Dreams | 3 Chicks After Dark | Bonus Material #spotify #music
“Over the years, I’ve discovered that a major key to reaching the varying levels of emotional intensity I hope to reach in a novel is to have a really strong soundtrack to listen to as I write. This was no different for Smoky Mountain Dreams.The following Spotify list has the eight most important songs I listened to when writing Smoky Mountain Dreams.”
Head on over to listen to the playlist if’n ya are curious!
Guest Post: Leta Blake for Smoky Mountain Dreams | 3 Chicks After Dark.
Sometimes holding on means letting go
Christopher Ryder and Jesse Birch are two men hanging on to the past. While Christopher has let go of his failure as a country singer in Nashville, he’s still trying to please his narrow-minded, non-accepting family. His beloved Gran loves him the way he is, but Christopher feels painfully invisible to everyone else. He’s happy enough performing at the Smoky Mountain Dreams theme park in Tennessee, but even when Christopher is center stage he aches for someone to see the real him.
There’s more than meets the eye when it comes to bisexual Jesse. He’s raising two kids and fighting with family after a tragic accident took his children’s mother. There’s no room in his life for dating, his kids are his priority, and he doesn’t want more than an occasional hook-up. He sure as hell doesn’t want to fall hard for his favorite local singer, but when Christopher walks into his jewelry studio, Jesse hears a new song in his heart.
