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Summary:
Two young men, caught in their families expectations, meet by chance on a beach in Malta. It was just supposed to be a day of fun, but soon both Joe and Nicky realise, they are in too deep.
Are they making a mistake, or is chance just another word for destiny?
The silences between conversations, the gentle voices in libraries and bookstores. The food you eat in silence at 3 am. The moments right before falling asleep after a long day. Getting your room back after sharing with guests, the intimacy of the quite side of the world is where we truly belong at the end of the day.
I was fifteen, when my mum discovered that I am posting short stories online instead of studying. I saw fear in her eyes as if writing was a profecy coming true. She told me that I should stop. I have always thought she did not understand me. I did not expect her to. Now, I suppose she knew what I was the minute she read my words. My mind was always full of words coming from emotions I was bottling. Writing was like a morning run and a lullaby before a nighttime sleep. Anyway, I stopped writing altogether. It felt like a betrayal, a forbidden exercise. I was ashamed and looking for another way to let myself go. It nearly destroyed me. Thus, I am in pieces now but it could have been much worse. God, I should have stood up to her. Look her in the eyes and tell her what I am. Let me write because this is the only thing holding me together. I don’t know much about anything else beside telling people what they feel. This is how I began disguising myself as someone I have never been. This the true illness corrupting my body and mind. My mum gave me a mission. To kill a writer in me. I am holding a knife but it is too late now. The writer’s face is so familiar, almost my own.
The essence of my soul resides
Within journals scattered on my childhood floor,
Gathering dust, forgotten.
All I once was, all I ever felt,
Every emotion penned within pages
That never see the light of day.
What was once paramount,
Now relegated to forgotten corners of my mind,
Lost amid the passage of time.
GUMROAD IS BANNING NSFW CONTENT IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS
I haven't seen anyone talk about this yet, so I might as well.
They've updated their content policy to comply with payment processor Stripe and Paypal's censorhip. They gave 24 hours. On March 16th 2024, Gumroad TOS will no longer allows sales of any written or drawn nsfw content.
This is going to hurt for so many creators. Giving that little time leaves people's source of income wildly unstable, especially with such a huge overhaul of what content is allowed.
I hate this. I hate what censorship is turning the internet into. I hate that nsfw content creators keeo getting pushed to the fringes, that they need to digitally migrate so often, because nowhere can be trusted to allow their art for long.
I don't know what to do next, there isn't some sort of "here's what you can do to help!" People just deserve to know.
I pointed this out in a Discord server I'm in and thought Id share here:
Bob Iger announced that Disney is going to absorb Hulu, and Hulu will no longer exist next year. All shows will move to the Disney+ app.
Disney also announced they were going to remove shows and movies periodically from their streaming services.
I believe both of these moves are because of the Writers Strike.
Disney knows its going to lose the strike. There is too much public support. Specifically, the WGA is going to win writers getting more residuals from streaming.
So if Disney takes shows off of streaming, they dont have to pay the writers the residuals.
They are going to use excuses like "not enough funding for the server capacity" or "not enough views to warrent keeping the show". These are BULLSHIT. Its all greed. Its only GREED.
Pay attention to what happens in the following weeks.