Friday Flashback: Not-So-Average Joes

For this week’s gallivant through the glorious grist of our gentlemanly gests, I’ve collected an assortment of stories featuring guys named Joe, the archetypical generic masculine name—despite the fact that we have the name Guy. Maybe that’s too on the nose. It does raise the question, though: how did Joe end up being the generic moniker for a nonspecific dude? Also: Guy derives from the ancient Latin name Gaius, and the Latin word for “guy” was something else—vir for maleness (whence virtue and virility), or homo in reference to a mortal man possessed of reason and morality. So did the Romans talk about someone being an “average Gaius”? Food for thought.

The next update is tomorrow, 31 July. In the meantime, have fun exploring the archives, and thanks for visiting.

Posted: 30 July 2021

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Weekly Update: 24 July 2021

Another diverse crop of contributions this week, hopefully with something you’ll like. My contribution this week is a continuation of the Patreon-commissioned “Resolutions”, with Ray discovering more and more ramifications of the changes he’s induced in his sexy boss Danny and, inadvertently, himself.

As I noted on Twitter, I found out recently that on some browsers the stories were only showing the first page when you went to print or save to PDF. I tried various means of massaging the code to get around this, but I couldn’t find a good solution. In the end what I did instead was create an additional, bare-bones version of the story page for printing and PDFing, with no Bootstrap or anything else but basic HTML and simple styles. To load this page, click on Print/PDF in the bank of buttons just under the tag routers. One other small change: I added an “Update History” section at the bottom of the story page with links to Updates and Flashbacks that story has appeared on, in case you are curious about the stages of a story being posted, or you’re looking for what else was posted or surfaced along with that story. Note that this only goes back to the Spring 2016 site migration. It’s not that I don’t have records of when each story and chapter was posted going all the way back to the beginning, but there are no news posts to link to from before that particular transition.

This week’s Friday Flashback celebrated seven-foot-tall guys, so check that out if you missed it. Humble and sincere thanks to all of my awesome Patreonites—and if you want to support the site or my writing that’s a good way to do it. The next update is a week hence, on 31 July. In the meantime, thanks for visiting and enjoy the site.

Posted: 24 July 2021

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Friday Flashback: Seven Footers

For this week’s climb through the clutter of our collective clandestine closet I’ve selected ten stories about guys whose heights hover a head higher than most humble humans. If you’re into taller guys, there’s something about that next rung past the norm that’s truly compelling. Eight feet, nine feet, ten feet—gay and macro erotica still group guys that tall under “plausible size difference”, but your seven-foot fantasy guy might actually be just around the next corner, ready to show you his long, lanky frame or his furry-chested lumberjack brawn right there in the Walmart hardware aisle or a few seats further back on the bus to your daydreams. (For those of you reading this who are seven feet tell, feel free to chuckle, but you know it’s true…)

Next update is tomorrow, 24 July. In the meantime, have fun exploring the archives, and thanks for visiting the site.

Posted: 23 July 2021

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Weekly Update: 17 July

A big bag of smut again this weekMy story, a new Patreon commission, involves an expedition to a secret island where all kinds of changes will take place, and it was a lot of fun to set up. I hope you like it, and the rest of this week’s stuff too. Don’t forget to comment and upvote the stories you like so the authors hear back on what works.

The Friday Flashback this week involved stories about characters who go clubbing and the strange things that happen when they do, so go ahead and check that out if you missed it. The next update is a week hence, 24 July; in the meantime, thanks for visiting and enjoy the site.

Posted: 17 July 2021

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Friday Flashback: Gone Clubbin’

For this week’s finagling of formerly featured folderol I’ve collected ten stories that have gone clubbing for the night. Expect shirtless torsos, a bit of glitter, dirty grinding, and lots of hard bodies in all senses of the term.

Next update is tomorrow, 17 July. In the meantime, thanks for visiting, and enjoy the site.

Posted: 16 July 2021

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Weekly Update: 10 July 2021

Big update this week, with lots of different kinds of stories from our contributors—including what I’m told is the final chapter of the awesome “Hulkster and Hoppy” saga, in this phase at least. I didn’t get as far as I’d hoped with my own offering this week, thanks to four days of landlord-mandated construction work in my apartment, but I’m planning on coming back to “An Air of Detachment” as soon as I can.

No major site renos this week, though I did update the Metabods history page to reflect recent changes. This week’s Friday Flashback was built around stories featuring guys with getting a boost to their libidos, so check that out of you missed it.

The next update is a week hence, on 17 July. In the meantime, thanks for visiting, and enjoy the site.

Posted: 10 July 2021

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Friday Flashback: Super Libido

For this week’s slink through the site’s sexy stacks of salacious stories, I’ve collected ten tales that feature increased or induced mega-libido, because sometimes a lack of control over that drive that demands carnal pleasure is exactly what you crave the most. This Flashback, by the way, is the result of another new and useful tag, Increased Libido, proposed via the tag suggestion page. Candidates for this and the other new tags mentioned in the previous update are appreciated.

The next update is tomorrow, 10 July. In the meantime, have fun exploring the archives, and thanks for stopping by.

Posted: 9 July 2021

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Friday Flashback: July 2018

For this week’s rove through the riveting and resplendent reveries of relatively recent eroticists, I’ve collected ten stories from July of 2018. Not that long ago, but something seems to be wrong with the cultural passage of time lately. It’s hard to identify with an era in which the royal family included Meghan Markle and the Supreme Court didn’t include Brett Kavanaugh, though at least the dissonance adds nostalgia to archived stories from the long-ago not-so-long-ago.

I’m on vacation for the Fourth of July weekend, so the next update is 10 July. In the meantime, have fun exploring the archives, and thanks for visiting the site!

Posted: 2 July 2021

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Weekly Update: 26 June 2021

Two stories from me this week: a recrudescence of “The Elevator Ride” and new installments of the Patreon-commissioned “One Hot Summer”. With this installment, “One Hot Summer” breaks its tie with “Love/Shift” to become, indisputably, the longest story I’ve written for the site at 76k words. There’s a bit of Pride theme here and there in this week’s submitted stories, but mainly this is just a big, honking wagonload of new contributions compared to the usual size of my weekly updates, with a lot of variety and all kinds of sexystuff. I hope you find something you enjoy—and if you do make sure to upvote and comment to let our beautiful contributors know what’s striking a chord with the visitors to the site.

Tag-related site upgrades. In the last week or so I’ve instituted four big changes related to story tags.
  (a) First, I reestablished the ability to suggest tags that you feel might be missing on any particular story. To avail yourself of this feature, look for the “Suggest Tags” button under the header info at the top of the story. I’ll review suggestions periodically and implement any of the ones I agree with.
  (b) Second, I’ve started consistently sorting the tags across the site according to the groupings they appear in on the tag tree page, and I’ve also color-coded these groupings differently on the story pages so you can see at a glance the tags that are closely related (muscle, extras, means of change, supernatural, etc.). To me, on stories that had a lot of tags the tag routers were starting to blur together in a big pile of pine-colored buttons, and the color-coding I think helps alleviate that and thereby make the tag routers more useful advisories to coming content and aids in finding stories with elements you want to see more of.
  (c) I finally fixed the tag and author routers so that when you are stepping through them using the “previous story” or “next story” buttons and get to the terminal points of the story list for that tag or author alphabetically, instead of there being no button the “previous” and “next” buttons now wrap around to the other end of the story list.
  (d) I’ve added a few new tags, namely: CockfuckingTongue GrowthVoice DeepeningAppDjin/Jinn/GenieGay PrideX-Ray VisionPrehensile CockSet in the FutureAncient EraMedieval Era19th CenturyEarly/Mid 20th Century; and Set during the Pandemic. I populated these as I went along based on archive search results and my own spotty memory of relevant stories, but the ones set in the past in particular are tough to find by keyword search. If you know of or happen across any stories rightfully belonging to one of these new tags, please drop me a line or use the Suggest Tags feature on that story’s page to advise me of the missing tag, and I’ll be immensely grateful.

The Friday Flashback this week was also Pride-themed, collecting a batch of stories already in the archives that involve or touch on it, so check that out if you haven’t already done so. I’ll be taking the weekend of the Fourth off from Metabods, so the next update will be two weeks hence, on 10 July. In the meantime, thanks for visiting and enjoy the site.

Posted: 26 June 2021

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Friday Flashback: With Pride

For this week’s sojourn through the site’s collective subconscious, I’ve collected a set of stories that touch on Pride and related phenomena like Pride parades and rainbow flags. I’ll grant you that some of these involve Pride being integral to the story, while others are brief, tangential mentions or metaphors. Sometimes Pride itself is like that: we can be caught up in it some years, and other times we’re just happy to know it exists in the background. (Did I just invoke a schmalzy real-world analogy to paper over the unevenness of my Friday Flashback Pride collection? You bet!) Anyway, as a proud gay man I extend my honest gratitude to the folks who fought back at Stonewall and everywhere else, and I wish you all a happy and proud LGBTQ+ness or Proud Ally-ness.

The next update is tomorrow, 26 June. In the meantime, have fun exploring the archives, and thanks for visiting.

Posted: 25 June 2021

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