Category: Guide
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Where I Would Recommend Starting Star Trek as a Newbie
It depends on how much you enjoy and gel with older media. I grew up on The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, then went back and watched the original, as well as seeing the 2009 film went it came out. I personally think that one of those three is the best place to start…
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Johannes T. Evans Gift Guide
Interested in purchasing a book of mine for a loved one? Here’s a handy guide! You can purchase eBooks from me from: You can purchase paperbacks from me from: Remember, if you’re interested in purchasing eBooks for friends and loved ones, it’s very nearly the Smashwords End of Year Sale, and many of my eBooks…
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Looking For 🍑🍆💦: A Beginner’s Guide to Grindr for Trans Men
Repost from Medium, originally published November 2022, which is why I look so young and fresh-faced in the pictures, unlike today. Evidently I missed this one in my original porting over. Approaching Grindr (and cruising culture) as a trans man. As a trans man I’ve been using Grindr for years, and especially in the past year…
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Disabled Access For Your Events
A guide to providing robust accessibility options for your venue and/or your event, from a disabled man. If you manage a venue or if you run events, accessibility is a great thing to consider. Most venues just include a note about the level of wheelchair accessibility in a given venue, but wheelchair access is more…
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“I Haven’t Read a Book in Ten Years.”
I used to read stacks of books: I just can’t any more. How do I start again? It feels shameful. The conversation turns to books and reading. You’re itching to run away. You used to read voraciously as a child and teenager. You’d get through a stack of books a week. What the Hell happened? It…
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Ringing The Devil’s Doorbell: A Light-Hearted, Practical Guide
Let’s talk sex! Vulvar and vaginal stimulation for fun, pleasure, and profit. Originally published on Medium in November, 2021. Content note: this is a reference guide for the stimulation of the vulva and vagina. Throughout this piece there is in-depth discussion of sex and sexual practice, there are diagrams, and there are photographs of vulvas to…
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Using Epithets Effectively in One’s Writing
Putting alternatives for a character’s name to good use. Photo on picjumbo.com via Pexels. For the use of epithets, where you’re using something other than a name to refer to the character — the other man, the blond, her elder, the policeman, etc — it’s good to think about WHY you want that epithet. Why would you use an epithet instead…
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Addressing Common Arguments Against “Consuming Harmful Content”
Challenging purity culture in online spaces and their fears of “problematic media”. Constant and continuous arguments endure on social media about the dreaded and frightening spectre of problematic media — from television shows that supposedly “glorify” unhealthy relationships or “sexualise” and “excuse” abusive relationships; to erotica, adult books, and 18+ fanfiction that supposedly teach teenagers bad life…