Lisa Arbitrary - AttentionIsArbitrary M/M Blog’s Comments (group member since Sep 11, 2012)

Lisa Arbitrary - AttentionIsArbitrary M/M Blog’s comments from the Brandon Shire Fan Group group.

It won't be the same without you, Brandon, but the girls and I will probably get up to no good somehow.

Not me, but it looks like I'm going to make RainbowCon again :) San Diego is near my "other" backyard. Wish I could get there too.

We haven't heard a release date yet, but I'd guess towards the end of April g beginning of May??? Just a guess though.

Mad is a genius. It's right in our faces. There may possibly be four. I'm waiting for a confirm :)

OOOH, I may know what you mean, actually. But let me know for sure.

Were there? PM me :)

Yep, good call :)

It's cycles, I think. But don't you wonder why?

I've finished it, but still haven't written down all my thoughts. My kindle notes are a mess. I was a mess.

I might just go peek in and see who's reading it and talk it out with someone.

Thanks Brandon, I just had a swoon.

Steamy glasses are a must, just sayin'.

Also, it's really hard finding hot sexy nerd guys. A tumblr "sexy nerd" search turns up nearly exclusively women. Uh. No. Just. No.

So, in an effort to save everyone from further data mining (thanks OJ) disappointment you might want to check out these resources I found while...working on it. Not pics, but still fun:

Overly Suave IT Guy

Nerdy Computer Geek Pick-up Lines!

There are two :)

This guy, actor Ben Wishaw, is 34 in RL, happens to be gay and recently married. I feel like Sweeny is a bit older, just because of the experience these guys seem to have under their belts. Maybe I over think these things.

The question is, could this Sweeny bring ^^^ that Drake to his knees?

This was harder to come up with than I expected, but I think I've found my Sweeny.

Q (Ben Whishaw) via Skyfall

Cool. I'll mark it on my calendar :)

Oh, I stand corrected, Irish, you're flying through this. I'm trying to be very patient for you to get through 4. It's really hard to wait.

Binge reads are the best reads!

Upper hand switcheroo describes this perfectly. Heh, and you're only in Ep 1 :P

Powerful stuff there.

I'm loving this convo and the additional input. Thanks Brandon. I knew you had researched this, but didn't realize the different words that might be used was part of it. Makes sense.

Hunter arrogant? Say it isn't so.

Have you actually met anyone like him?

Ooh, checkin'out Caddy then. Glad you're here Caddy :D

MaddiBlue wrote: "some books written by men that are sweet n fluffy, and others by women that are pretty hard core"

Mmm, this isn't really what I'm addressing either. What I was specifically talking to was about the descriptive tone in the small details. Maybe it has absolutely nothing to do with author gender, but it's seemed that way.

Sure, I've read female authors who've blown my mind with grit, and male authors who can be so tender I'm brought to my knees, but there are times when living inside a specific body makes a difference in how you are able to express something. OH boy, I'm going to get myself in trouble here. I hate generalizations. Sorry.

Also maybe, it wasn't a gender thing, but instead a blind-perspective. Hunter wasn't disgusted my a foot smell that might have put another off. Instead he imagined it the way a wine connoisseur might describe a fine wine.

What I didn't drag over here from the other thread, Irish, is that this wasn't a discussion about quality. There's no right or wrong, just a discernible difference. I just want to make that really clear. This is not about better or worse. Or can or can't. :)

But yeah, there is something really different in the way Afflicted comes across. I hope I'll never know personally how a blind person experiences life, but I really felt like Brandon's writing did a great job at putting me inside Hunter's head. His research showed through.