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A sad notice: As many of you may already know, Comicality has been fighting an illness that took him away from us repeatedly for the last year or so. That illness as it turns out was a failing liver. On Tuesday, April 16, 2024 Comicality lost his battle and quietly passed away with family near by; taking a piece of all of our hearts with him. He leaves many of us with the amazing work that he has shared throughout the decades that he has been “COMICALITY” to us and much like that work, I know my heart along with many others, is now forever incomplete. We will continue maintaining the Voy forums but will need to ask for forgiveness as we figure out how to do that agin. It's been a very long time for me at least. - Jeff
Thank You all for helping us give Comicality's mom a hand with the unexpected final expenses that she no longer had help with. It made a huge impact and was very much appreciated by her! The campaign is now closed at her request. You can view the campaign here: https://gofund.me/7dadd629
So I was considering what Comicality story to add to my rotation. I have a few stories from other authors I'm currently reading but have had Comsie be a steady part of that lineup for as long as I can remember. Now I keep one of his in the rotation to re-read and now that I am nearing the end of "My Only Escape", I was scrolling through the seemingly never-ending list of titles on the mirror site and stopped cold when I hit "Waiting Outside The lines" and it made me think of all the times he and I would talk about past crushes, who we thought was cute now, of those which were crushes and which were total love for their work... or both. LOL! But looking at the banner he made, I remembered specific stories he shared about crushes on each which he used to bring a very believable character by the name of Evan Elliott into the picture.
It has me thinking of how many celebrities that i've had absolute crushes on in the past and what my understanding of my feelings for each were at the time. They all hold a special place in my heart for different reasons but, all stand out uniquely for the same reasons as well. Each with a unique story, the depth of the reasons all vary. I thought it would be cool to share one, two, or a few with the people who encouraged Comicality to write, resulting in my inspiration for this Comsie Q&A!
So of all the celebrity crushes you may have had, which one (or ones) stand out for you?
To all our Los Angeles Shackers.. hope you are all well,safe. -- Dom, 13:22:41 01/13/25 Mon
It's been quite heart breaking seeing one of the cities I have come to lome sucumb to such devistation.
I just hope any of our L.A. Shackers are ok and that they haven't lost homes or worse loved ones.
We in the UK are thinking of you!
Kayo Martin gives us much-needed Holiday Cheer -- Page Scrawler, 00:54:58 12/27/24 Fri
Hahaha! This kid from the "Gen Alpha" viral video is so chaotic! Santa must've really been scratching his head over this one, LOL!
Yup, it's that time of year again. Time to look at the entire sum of our life and decide what parts of it we want to change. It's the same thing every year, isn't it? Maybe you want to lose some weight, maybe you want to get more exercise, maybe give up a bad habit or even pick up a new bad habit... Every year we all bring some form of resolution to the table and way too often, in a month or so we learn how many of them are already off the table. The last person that asked me what my New Year's Resolution was going to be just got a blank stare as a response because, I just hadn't put any thought into it.
Honestly, I think it's healthy to consider things in life that we want to improve about ourselves, provided it's realistic. "I want to try to be less short tempered at work." Is a good one. "I want to stop eating so much junk food." is another that if followed through on would be an accomplishment. But aim too high and you are almost guaranteeing that you won't be able to accomplish it. "I want to invent a best selling gadget that will make me a millionaire instantly." Yeah, plan to pretend you never said that one by February.
So how about you? Do you have a resolution you want to try to stick to? Do you think that it's realistic and have confidence that you are going to make it stick or did you phone it in this year? If you have one that you want to keep, what's your plan to make it happen? You never know, maybe your plan is similar to someone else's and maybe you both can team up and help each other. It's possible. So is the New Year, how are you making a New You? Or, is the old you your best you in your eyes? (That makes sense, right? LOL!)
Santa Came Early!!! (Okay, stop snickering :P)
Just like when I was a kid, I couldn't wait to start opening presents so, you get to as well! This one is from us to you!
A young LGBTQ+ teen coming of age story for a new generation... -- bwctwriter, 23:41:11 12/05/24 Thu
So, I recently "came across" the movie Young Hearts ;-)....
It's a Belgian/Netherlands production that should be appearing in the usual places soon.
The story unfolds as a pair of friends, Elias and Alexander, find unexpected love in their developing friendship...
I honestly don't know how to explain just how this movie touched my heart. It is mildly dependent on dialogue, but much more heavily saturated with just... Unfiltered emotion. The interactions between the two leads, Lou Goossens and Marius De Saeger, as young teens wrestling with their feelings for each other is truly captivating. I don't often "feel" the emotions of a movie's characters as strongly as I did here. Again, probably because their eyes did a lot of the talking.
There's very little "camp" in the movie; it's much more nuanced than, say, my generation's queer youth movie, Beautiful Thing. There's not a lot of external conflict to their developing relationship either. Which makes sense, given how today's world, particularly in Europe, views queer love.
Just a lot of inner turmoil as the two boys make peace with their feelings towards each other, and take the brave step forward to see what might become of their "leap of faith" in trusting that they've placed their fragile hearts in each other's tender hands.
I can't say that I've ever seen such a nuanced portrayal of young queer love than in Young Hearts. If you're looking for a movie like that, I highly recommend it.
Whenever most of us are asked what we would like for Christmas (or whatever holiday or event you celebrate when gifts are exchanged), we typically choose the realistic items. Clothing, electronics, a vacation, something fun... Things that are not so selfish or just realistic. Sometimes, there are things that we may have in mind that we want but, it wouldn't be realistic to ask for. So the question this month:
"What I 'REALLY' Want For Christmas"
Let it be something selfish, or outlandish, maybe embarrassing, or maybe just something impossible. There's nothing wrong with having hopes or wants but, why keep it to yourself. I know I personally have plenty of things I'd love to ask for but then, where will I get all of my new socks from? Hehehe! What do you have on 'YOUR' list?
I want to post a final update to thank everyone for their kindness and for being a bit of a lifeline for someone who meant an awful lot to someone who meant an awful lot to us all. I miss Comicality worse than I ever could have expected and after decades of him always being out there and being Comicality, I don't think I could have ever anticipated how to handle saying goodbye to him; it still feels like that next post or email could come from him tomorrow, which is still hard to accept. Helping his mother at this time both gave me the opportunity to get to know someone in his life that he kind of sheltered from his online community and persona, for reasons that only he could explain, as well as show her how loved his son really was by so many. With each dispersement from this campaign, I got to witness first hand just how floored she was at how many people were affected positively by her son. But with the most recent dispersement, she feels that more would be too much. This is the text I received:
"Hi Jeffrey, A quick note to let you know that I received the check yesterday. Thank all of you for your kindness. You guys have done more than enough, if any other funds come in, please give it to one of the other members of your writers’ guild. Since there is so much bad weather happening, I am sure some of the other members can use a helping hand. This would make me happy. I look forward to hearing from at your convenience. Take care and be safe, and again, thank you very much."
So today I am disabling the campaigns ability to receive donations. For Comicality I want to thank each and every one of you for for making this positive impact in the life of the person who meant so much to him and for standing united with me as a "Shacker" which would have made him so proud. For him, I'll attempt to relay a hug and a thank you to each, and of course, one final "Seezya."
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