Cuzosu

languishing immigrants get action meetings : english notes transcribed
S W A N K

Swedish Elves Manufacture All New Trains, Insists Claus-Santa
R E I N D E E R

To Where The Fires Cannot Feed... in my pants. (Dark Tranquility song)
Damn right. No fire in there. DX

I'm not a major fan of the exclusively top/bottom relationships within fandoms. For some characters it works, but for most, it wouldn't. It really depends of their personalities and the society or culture they revolve around, and then how they'd react to it...
And most would agree on being versatile.
It's insane how some people are willing to take some characters very OOC to keep with the top/bottom idea. That totally throws me off.
I know not everyone's familiar with Final Fantasy 4, but Kain Highwind and Cecil Harvey are a pretty common pairing. Cecil's more feminine, look-wise - but his personality more or less matches it. He's gentle, true... but for hell's sake, he's not a crying bottom. He's more likely to fight for dominance. If you're going to make him exclusively bottom, at least, go for the D/s relationship based on how it allows him to relieve the stress he's under (ruling a heavily militarized country, the medieval society they live in, etc), while this gives Kain the feeling of having even more power (mounting the king... out of everyone in the world...).
At least something that won't make them OOC. Please.
I'll admit, I like height differences. Small bottom / tall top. I dig it. But I won't do it if it clashes with characters' personalities. That's for fandoms anyways, because when it comes to original characters...
Then again, it depends of the culture they live in. In my original story, both guys are pretty tall (6'2 and 6'4). They have roughly the same build too. They're both warriors. Homosexuality wasn't unheard of, and it wasn't much of a big deal - as long as you were the top, because it meant you were powerful enough to mount another guy, therefore powerful enough in combat. Now the bottom was thought of to be less manly, and more at risk of being "defeated" on the battlefield.
So my "bottom" is an over-aggressive swordsman because he's constantly trying to prove his prowess in combat... because his "top" loves the power of mounting another guy and won't give it up easily. Over time, it'll become the main source of frustration. (But I'm nice, I'll have them work it out).

Word.
The idea that one character is less dominant because he or she is penetrated during sex is just plain wrong. That said, it's an opinion that you can work into your fics if one of your characters is defensively homophobic, and refuses to try being the recipient partner because they see that as being less "manly".

As a reader, I much prefer the characters I'm reading to have DEPTH. If they have no emotions, and no reactions, they're wooden and not terribly believable

I prefer my characters to switch roles, and none of my characters is exclusively a top or bottom. You're absolutely right in it being both unrealistic and outright boring. I couldn't enjoy just one position for the rest of my life, so why would I write that?
And emotional depth is what makes a character memorable. Men feel emotion, although certain societies expect men to pretend that they don't. Granted, I draw the line at the ever-sobbing perennial bottom (if I cried every time I had sex, I'd worry!), but I applaud you for letting your male characters show emotion.
As far as the little whiners who want their uke/seme pairings that never vary, I say let them read a good boy-love manga since I'm quite sure they need pretty pictures to get the point of what they're reading anyway.

One of my more embarrassing typos.... Well, has anyone else ever typed "carsastic" instead of "sarcastic"?
Running joke for a while was that I had a wonderful sense of carsasm. *blush* You know it's bad when your friends are telling you to quit being carsastic. (At which point I had to be worse, of course. I'm a brat like that. )

Love Is Pearly Semen Trickling Into Cavernous Krotches
(I might have taken liberties with the spelling of crotches)
R A D I O A C T I V E

Insane Man Believes Eternal Cupcakes Invade Latex Elephants
A N I M A L

Morbid. I approve.
Thief Invades Mansion But Encounters Rottweiler
J O U S T

Please Read Over Typos Or Take Your Printing Elsewhere
S Y S T E M I C

Superhero Hates Ordering Replacement Tights
W A T E R F A L L

Tired brain produces weird response, no acronym there.
Answering Useless Demands Interests Teachers
S H O R T

(You're too fricken fast!)
Without Ever Realizing, Elves Worship Over Legolas's Form
S U P E R S O N I C

N00b Ogles New Surgeon, Exaggerates Numbness; Slip-up Entails
W E R E W O L F

I've never written any but gawdammit, Remus is a werewolf. Any guy who can lick his own balls at the right time of month is gonna be taking charge.

Not here, but in my attempt at NaNo this year (which failed due to me being ill and bed-ridden for almost half of the month November):
- She could tell by looking at their feces that there was something wrong. (Diarrhea, perchance? XD)
- She was quiet quite. (And I am silly very.)

From the archive ~ ‘Man, what a horrible nightmare I have got to stop snaking on Doritos late at night…’

"He summons a very small fax which happens to be Naruto!"
So that's a pocket fax machine used to send anime characters to your friends. Yay! Send me...um...Ichigo!

Several Tentative Authors Texting Urgently To Organize Rampant Yaoi.
B R O C C O L I

"Now Hermione faces new challenges of love, lust and Volemort"
Rodent death is a true challenge - how best to bring it about? Poison, traps, flypaper? A conundrum, to be sure.

While I'm remembering it.... I don't remember where this one was, but when I found it.... *dies laughing*
"What are you talking about? He's obliviously a girl."

While I'm remembering it.... I don't remember where this one was, but when I found it.... *dies laughing*
"What are you talking about? He's obliviously a girl."

Never expected this to turn into a hot topic!
And was never suggesting a good proportion of authors on here were bloody thirsty socio-paths
Maybe a bit tapped in the head, but I think that goes for a good 99.9% of Authors anyway (I know I am)