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It sounds like your life is certainly not boring at the moment, @Pengu.

@NyghtOwl, hey, at least you've had relations and you have a boyfriend! So people find you attractive...I'm the one that nobody checks out or has ever found attractive.

In any case, the new book I'm reading is The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle, which is about the struggle for gay rights from the 50s to today. Even though there are still issues to overcome, when you think about it it's amazing how quickly gay rights have been accepted by society at large.

Not even a lifetime ago, just being reported to the authorities for homosexual behaviour (which was a crime) probably meant the end of your life as you knew it. You were almost certainly rounded up, interrogated to get the names of anyone you'd fooled around with (who were likewise rounded up), and thrown in jail if you were lucky...if you weren't, you were sent to a psychiatric hospital to be 'cured', which often meant electroshock therapy and forced hormone treatments, and occasionally also included lobotomies. In any case, if you were anybody professionally, you also probably lost your job, and good luck finding another decent job, since any background check would show you were convicted of homosexuality (and at this time services popped up specifically to investigate whether a potential hire might be a homosexual).

In short, your life was ruined, and it didn't matter what other merits you had as a person or what good you'd done in your role...at that point you were just a "homosexual", and depending on the person that meant you were a criminal, mentally ill, and/or a sinful pervert.

I presume the later chapters will be more positive.

I'd never considered it before starting the book out of curiosity, but it's a shame that this isn't taught more prominently...in school you're taught world history and the history of your country, and at least in America there's a black history month and a women's history month, but I don't think I've ever heard a mention of LGBTQ history. And this stuff is important...if you're part of the LGBTQ community, this is our history, and it's especially worthy of study to know the struggles of the people that came before us. After all, it's because of their struggles and their suffering that we have the rights and the status that we can take for granted today.

My last Grandparent died.

I'm sorry for your loss, @North. You doing ok?

In an interesting coincidence, my parents called me 10 minutes after North's message to let me know that my grandmother was in the hospital on life support, and that she probably isn't going to make it.

She was my last living relative from the states. We wernt really close but....she was it. I hope you will be ok Pengu.

Hello  Crush has encouraged me to get out of my shell a bit more and speak with the people. All in all, do the whole human thing.

Oh boy, I kind of picked a crappy time to enter the conversation by the looks of it.

Sorry to hear about your grandmother North, and Pengu I send good thoughts your way for what little that's worth.

So to say what's on my mind... hmm... I've been feeling pretty good lately, after quite a long and unhappy dry spell in writing I got back on the horse a bit and started writing down the history of Eclenia, which thus far has been well received here. Thank you very much to those of you who read it by the way.

I'll admit something about me is I'm a bit of a single-minded person, by that I mean I typically focus on one topic and keep my thoughts around it. Which I'll admit could make me boring to talk to in the long run.  
But hey since you're all new to me, for the most part, I should provide a good partner in conversation for a while at least 


So again, just saying hi, and making an attempt to interact with more people.  Hope you all are having a good day so far, and if not I hope it gets better.

Hey @Fortis_Scriptor! It's good to hear from you.

I have to admit, I usually dwell in the general discussion, government, and tech areas, so we haven't had a chance to talk much. How are you enjoying the region so far?

Very much so thank you.  I look forward to interacting more with everybody.

Things are really bad rn v.v

So my grandfather wound up in the hospital (again), this time with acid reflux. And only a week or so ago he said he had shingles.
Then my little cousin got diagnosed with academic autism, and my uncle is despairing over it. They're rlly poor and in Chicago, so the school system is total crap and God knows if they'll be able to afford doctor visits and getting her into behavioral therapy, since she doesn't respond well to other kids.
Then my friend's older fuck buddy/sugar daddy randomly added me on facebook, and she started questioning me about it and idk it was just rlly awkward.
And then I got trapped in Chicago for a whole day and when I was there my salt levels suddenly dipped and I nearly passed out in the middle of the street.

That's really rough Lumen, my sympathies fam....



I realized today that there is only three and a half days left of my junior year and then I'm a senior... That's real trippy. I also saw this MSI giveaway and I really want to enter but it ends before I turn eighteen and it's nearly eleven here and I doubt my mom would enter for me. Oy vej... Oy vej....

That giveaway if one of you wants to enter: http://event.msicomputer.com/ryzen5gaming/

So today, after browsing through task manager I found that my laptop has 7.9gb of ram. A welcome surprise until I opened it to find only a 4gb card. I then proceeded to run upstairs and snag the extra card out of my old laptop and plugged it into this one. After some fiddling this laptop nowhas 8gb of ram. Now Task Manager says it has 9.5gb. Weird.

I also can't log back into the minecraft account of my friend to continue work on the server. Shucks.

So that potential relationship thing ended before it really began.  Long story short, there was basically too much drama to where I just took myself out of the equation.

Oh well, I'm probably just not meant for anything outside of a mongamous relationship.  Not that I'm complaining, since I'm perfectly cool keeping it to one person.

Now it's just finding/running into that one person that seems to be the challenge.

But until you find that one person, you can always have fun sexy times with others.

I also can't log back into the minecraft account of my friend to continue work on the server. Shucks.

Wait, so what happened? Did your friend change the password and refuse to continue sharing it or what?