Comments That Make Your Day

Some nice comments on my 750 worder, Cheating the Gods. I particularly appreciate this one from Explorer72211:
Well done! Euripides quality!

I looked Euripides up, and this is what Wikipedia told me:
Euripides is identified with theatrical innovations that have profoundly influenced drama down to modern times, especially in the representation of traditional, mythical heroes as ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. This new approach led him to pioneer developments that later writers adapted to comedy, some of which are characteristic of romance. He also became "the most tragic of poets",[nb 1] focusing on the inner lives and motives of his characters in a way previously unknown.[7][8] He was "the creator of ... that cage which is the theatre of Shakespeare's Othello, Racine's Phèdre, of Ibsen and Strindberg," in which "imprisoned men and women destroy each other by the intensity of their loves and hates".[9] But he was also the literary ancestor of comic dramatists as diverse as Menander and George Bernard Shaw.[10]....

...Euripides was distinguished by a series of philosophical and artistic positions that he seems to profess, as well as by the great attention he placed on the concept of freedom, which he articulated in various ways throughout his works.[36] In general, he was interested in the "issues related to the constitutive polarities of Athenian ideology",[37][38] that is to say, the oppositions between women and men, slaves and free people, foreigners and Greeks, among others.[38] In this regard, the playwright presented slavery, the foundation of Athenian society, as a product of force and therefore fundamentally unjust.[39][40] He also sought to place the audience "inside his characters by deep sympathy".[41] The playwright was engaged in a "constant search for truth and realism", which drove him to treat women or marital subjects with interest.[42] In this context, Euripides developed detailed female characters with real personalities.[43][44][45] This phenomenon is so prevalent that women make up almost all of his characters who think and philosophize.[44][45]

Now clearly my 750 Word story story is not Euripides quality, but the heroes (Odysseus and Penelope) are portrayed as ordinary Americans dealing with a plot of the Gods against them, and I actually did try hard to give Penelope the agency in the tale rather than Odysseus. So I will absolutely take this, and thank you @Explorer72211 for teaching me something about Greek playwrights!
 
My latest story "Going Down Together" is in Loving Wives, and it's about a wife who finds her husband has been cheating. Thinking her whole life has been ruined by the neighbors all finding out and avoiding her, she gets her revenge. She cuckolds her husband and blackmails him by threatening to reveal to his friends she cuckolded him! The husband conceded to her demand, wanting her to keep her fling a secret to protect his own macho image.

One comment shows how little the reader actually thinks about it, and merely reacted emotionally to the story:
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by Anonymous user 23 hours ago

Nope a whole bunch of messed up people. Two wrongs never make a right and obviously Allen is now a hen pecked wimp husband. The wife knows she has all the power she knows she can fuck around as much as she wants and get away with it, wimp pathetic Allen will do anything his wife wants and let her do anything she wants with anyone she wants.
With wives and friends like this who needs enemies.
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The reader doesn't understand that her power grew when SHE realized that what other people think about her is unimportant. Even calling her a slut or whore means nothing to her. Her husband gave up his own power to her by ignorantly protecting his macho image. As long as he reacts to the name-calling "wimp" or "cuckold", he's powerless.
 
Honestly, some questions just answer themselves.
I know! I could have said I needed the genetic characteristics that go towards making a redhead for the plot, but that's only partly true. :nana:

Oh, and Shelby - your avatar's hair is my idea of perfection. :giggle:
 
I know! I could have said I needed the genetic characteristics that go towards making a redhead for the plot, but that's only partly true. :nana:

Oh, and Shelby - your avatar's hair is my idea of perfection. :giggle:
Thanks. I’m kind of partial to it, too. That and the tits, and oh, yeah, the faerie wings. 🥰
 
The first day's comments are in on Alistaire's latest adventure, and the numbers continue, beyond all else, to make my day.

@Actingup did me the solid of comparing me to David Brin.
Actingup1 day ago
I was reminded of a great scene in an old, excellent and sometimes hilarious book, "The Uplift War" by David Brin, where the hero (a chimpanzee) responds to this line of attack from a crowd in a more direct way. He has just climbed a huge obstacle course to get to a girl chimp and get out of a bad situation.



"But then, out of the babble below, someone shouted up at him. ‘Whassamatta? Can’t ya’ get it up?’ About half of the crowd laughed uproariously. There were follow-up jeers and whistles, especially from the front rows....

...Fiben couldn’t pass up a good straight line. He stepped to the edge of the plateau and glanced back at Sylvie. He dropped his pants. The jeers stopped abruptly, then the brief silence was broken by whistles and wild applause. Cretins, Fiben thought. But he did grin and wave before rebuttoning his fly."



Thanks as always!
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My favorite genres of comments are the ones where people either remark approvingly that I went in a direction they had not expected or speculate (rightly or wrongly) about where I am going. Got several of those. @Wrexscar also included this compliment with his speculations, the forecasting ability of which I will not comment upon:
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Counterintuitively I'm expecting Tish to eventually come out of this tale well.

Obviously she has to grow out of being a bitch but you do character growth well, mixed in with all the smut.

Anyway I look forward to the next chapter.

Finally, this comment, though a criticism, also made my day. Another commenter took issue with this objection, but I enjoyed seeing it. Alistaire at the very least tred close to the line in that scene. He is still learning to use his power for more than simple, mutual gratification, and those who learn to use power for the first time often have problems.
RandyPandaabout 14 hours ago
That wasn't Alistair's finest moment. I mean the boasting. Looking forward to the next instalment
 
My favorite genres of comments are the ones where people either remark approvingly that I went in a direction they had not expected or speculate (rightly or wrongly) about where I am going. Got several of those. @Wrexscar also included this compliment with his speculations, the forecasting ability of which I will not comment upon:
The first comment on my latest story is right down this alley:

"Can't wait for you & the boss go to the convention. Will you be telling us how your rooms were side by side? Can we hear how you seduce your married boss & seed her like you're trying to breed her? Your boss is younger than you isn't she? Younger, married, fertile & in heat. In need for your seed so she can breed,,,,,, with you. Send her back to her husband filled with her stud's offering growing in her womb. Mmmm. Just the first of many offerings. 5☆"

I hadn't even expected to make it a series, but maybe...


Then there's this one from A Shared Adventure. Maybe my favorite comment so far on any story:

"My wife found this, shared it with me, and we both enjoyed it tremendously. It went at breathtaking speed, included all the scenes/tropes we need in a good cuckold story, and the text/photo interactions between them, when she was out on her dates, was excellent.

Your story took a surprising turn after she returned from her date with Stan, and it was admirable how the husband took control. He reclaimed her sexually, emotionally, and territorially. His wife respected him for doing that!

My wife ‘dates’ and I enjoy grooming/dressing her and arousing her just before she leaves to see another man. I usually withhold sex from her for a week before hand, and ‘edge’ her with my tongue for 20 minutes before she goes out the door." (excerpt from his full comment)


The fact that my story struck an actual couple in the same sort of relationship so positively is really gratifying. I mean, wow. Just so validating.
 
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Presumably they mean if I write enough of the story, and it's not a veiled threat. "Nice story you have here, squire. Would be a shame if you didn't survive long enough to publish it..."
Now THAT is worth a story in itself.... Make sure Dinsdale's team are wielding presidential sharpies, and then both sides of the ditch will be able to relate to it.
 
A Complete Shame You Are Only Writing Lesbian stuff now, you HAD such a delicate touch for explaining Heterosexual Romance, Seduction, Feelings of Love and the Intimacy of Sex, whether with a non family male or an incestual male member.

Too bad you're batting on the opposite "team" only now.

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"Freaking amazing story! I had to read it twice to make sure I understood what was happening."


"Nice. Difficult to pack that much sorrow into 750 words. Well done. The stillness of the lake and the coolness of the air was a nice metaphor in hindsight."


"Thank you for putting this sad tragedy out there. I guess the beauty of the 750 Word format is that it lets us fill in so many details of our own. We don't know what they looked like, what sex the sibling is, what they did for a living... anything. But you've captured the core of the relationship and the pain."


"Technically, I loved the story, especially the total shift of the ending. What's interesting is that there's nothing specifically sibling based (I almost wrote brother/sister, but realized you never said the narrator was male: nice touch there) apart from the explicit mention."
 
Left on my latest story, "Murky Water":

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I'm sure that the intentional plot twists lost several readers, so it's rewarding to know that some of them appreciated the nuances and speed bumps in the tale.
 
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