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Saw a firefighter with the MOST Firefighter Mustache I have ever seen in person and you know, if I ever do a third Montgomery Firefighters story, Tiny needs one of those. He can grow it on a dare or something.
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Hottie Scotty and Mr. Porter by R. Cooper
Read time: 1 Days Rating: 4/5 Stars
The Quote: “where are they finding these men?” “I have no idea. Whatever the nosy straight lady version of Grindr is” — Cole and Scott
Hottie Scotty and Mr. Porter is the story of thirty-year-old Scott "Scotty" Yun and forty-two-year-old Henry “Cole” Porter in Montgomery, CA. It is fairly simple and tropey, which leads to some predictability. But it's not about the destination as much as it is the journey. I will say the ending is perfect. Firefighter and EMT Scotty is a human and flawed character. He often sees himself as simply a body, something that those around him don't help with. Because they don't notice how he sees himself or don't realise the issue with it. Scotty uses his good humour and natural charisma to shield his hurt, there is unsurprisingly trauma in play here. His human attitude gives him a slightly flawed narration to a degree. I'm happy we got to meet Angie, Scotty's sister. She is such a positive female character. I just wish we got to see Scotty with his niece and nephew, Cole too because they love him.
Being a small town there aren't many gay men in Montgomery, one of Scotty's previous hook-ups is Cole. Librarian Cole is older than Scotty and quite happy with his life as it is despite the death of his husband, the one who wanted to move to Montgomery in the first place. He is happy with his books, his library, and his baking, the last thing he really wants is a committed lover. Cole is an on-point librarian, the tbr piles, a passion for reading and a fierce defence of the role of libraries in modern society. I appreciate the addition of baking to the mix it just makes him appear so comfortable and contrasts delightfully with his bedroom attitude. He also owns a cat (because we do love a tbh fairly accurate stereotype) and Honey is cute af. She is a freaking mercenary though, smart but a mercenary. Kathy The b***h gets what she deserves, I read book 2 is this series first I liked having the context for what this woman did to warn our wrath. And earn she did, no spoilers as to what she does.
I'm going to add quotes as per usual. But there are so, so many quotes here.
Scott shrugged, more awkwardly this time. “Among other things. Friends. We’re still friends. Although, I wouldn’t say we were, like, lovers or anything. More like roommates with occasional benefits. And if we went out anywhere, I was more of a purse.” “Purse?” Cole’s eyebrow were doing that up and down thing again, interested but unhappy. He had the line between his eyes, too. Scott took his time straightening the strap of his bag where it dug into his elbow. “There to look good on his arm.” He thought of Kathy’s book and the men on the cover, but didn’t turn to glance at it. “Purse,” Cole said again, almost in disbelief. “In my day, we said eye candy.” — I have never heard Purse for this term. Somehow it feels even more derogatory than eye candy or arm candy which is a term I've heard used. This is an example of Scott's comfort with his physical appearance and the impact it has on others but the hurt it has caused him. (Scott, Cole and Kathy)
He blamed Kathy and her friends for this, and so many of his problems. Shortly after that night at the mayor’s house, they had outed him, and while he hadn’t been hiding anything, it still should have been his choice who to tell and when to tell it. — B***h outing is never okay. And like this? Even worse. Feels like it was revenge. Ugh, there are so many reasons to dislike this woman. As is the point.
“Eric wasn’t much of a reader either. Except for airport mysteries.” Cole made a tiny, exasperated noise, then shook his head. “They drove him crazy, but I think he liked to pick them apart, like a reverse puzzle. His work was stressful. Falling into stories took more effort for him. Or maybe he felt enough in his daily life that he didn’t need the catharsis of a good book.” (Cole) & Scott imagined they had fought a little because Cole liked books so much and Eric hadn’t, but a good kind of fight, playful. Something to keep the smile in Cole’s voice at the memory. “Despite what people think of computer nerds, he was very good with feelings—and puzzles.” — These are such are perfect veiled complements. Running or working out is Scott's version of reading, his version of Eric's puzzles. They are Scott's way of processing and relaxing. We all have them they are just all individual. (Cole)
“What should we toast to?” Scott had to ask something, and that was better than everything else he could have said. “It’s been a while since I’ve done shots.” Cole considered his glass, then Scott. “Do we need a reason?” “Oh, yeah.” Scott nodded. “Otherwise you just have a drinking problem.” —(Scott and Cole)
“I’ll see what my wife has to say about that.” Tiny let him lean. “She’d probably be into it. You city folks….” “You sound pretty into it,” — I really wish we'd met Tiny's wife, Rhonda. There are lines in this and in the second book that me really like her. There are also moments that make me think Tiny is really not as straight as he would like people to believe. He sorta feels like at least bi-curious. (Tiny and Scott)
“She does this. I think she knows when I’ll be by.” He stepped over the ditch into Cole’s yard and stared directly at Cole’s stubborn cat. “Honey, you have to come down if you want me to pet you. I’m not going up there.” — Honey. You are a weird cat and I like you. Bacio (Jimmy's dog) was just as cute but in a different situation. (Scott)
Honey and Bacio made me wonder about the contrasting tropes for the books. Cole and Scotty (Hottie Scotty and Mr. Porter) are an opposites attract couple. Javier and Jimmy (For Better or Worse) are grump/sunshine and friends to lovers as is only right with a demi in play. What I will say is that this book is much more overtly sexual though no less heartfelt and longing than its sequel.
I really regret not reading this before I read For Better or Worse which is Javier and Jimmy's story. They do stand alone but Scotty and Cole's story explains why Kathy and the knitting circle are so awful. We meet parts of the Fire Family and see just how far they are willing to go for their own. That scene in the bar is a whole other level of wtf straight people?? Though Scotty was right that was definitely Javi behind him. I kinda wish that moment appeared in For Better or Worse it would have been torture for Jimmy to watch. The frustration, the jealousy, the want and all to Javi's obliviousness. Because in his words in For Better or Worse “I don’t really notice things like this. Everything looks like friendly teasing if you don’t know what sexual tension is. I get confused.”
#hottie scotty and mr porter#r. cooper#book review#ktreviews#read 2022#novella#spoilers on goodreads#booklr
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A to Z Book Rec Tag
Thank you to the lovely @that-quirky-girl for tagging me, she recognises the book weakness in me. These books are all linked on goodreads, where I have an account, linked HERE.
# - #Junkie and #Rev by Cambria Hebert
A - Adorkable by Sarra Manning
Adulthood is a Myth by Sarah Andersen
Adulting 101 by Lisa Henry
Alan Partridge: Nomad by Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan)
The Alex Crow by Andrew Smith
All the Single Ladies by Jane Costello
And Call me in the Morning by Willa Okati
Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
Austenland by Shannon Hale
B - The Backup Boyfriend by River Jaymes
Beauty by Robin McKinley
The Best Corpse for the Job by Charlie Cochrane
Between Ghosts by Garrett Leigh
Big Mouth, Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol Oates
Blame it on the Mistletoe by Eli Easton
Blood Magic by Tessa Gratton
Bone Gap by Laura Ruby
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
Breakfast at Tiffanys by Truman Capote
Breathe by Sloane Parker
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Bridesmaids by Jane Costello
Brighton Rock by Graham Green
C - Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
Carry the Ocean by Heidi Cullinan
The Catastrophic History of You and Me by Jessica Rothenburg
Caught! by JL Merrow
Chain Reaction by Simone Elkeles
Chance to be King by Sue Brown
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Christmasaurus by Tom Fletcher
The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Clear Water by Amy Lane
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Cold War by Keira Andrews
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
Collide by Riley Hart
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Corkscrewed by MJ O’Shea
Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
Crossroads by Riley Hart
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Crush by Richard Siken
D - The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black
Dash & Lily’s book of Dares by Rachel Cohn
Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney
Devoted by Sierra Riley
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy
E - Eclipsed by Dominic Holland
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Emma - Jane Austen
Epic Fail - Claire LaZebnik
The Epic Love Story of Doug and Stephen by Valerie Z Lewis
Every Move he Makes by Barbara Elsborg
Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature by Robin Brande
F - Fairest by Gail Carson Levine
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by JK Rowling
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Filthy Little Secret by Devon McCormack
Fish Out Of Water by Amy Lane
Fish Stick Fridays by Rhys Ford
Flash Burnout by LK Madigan
Flawless by Lara Chapman
Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
From What I Remember by Stacy Kramer
The Future of Us by Jay Asher
G - Gangsta Rap by Benjamin Zephaniah :
Girl on the Run by Jane Costello
Glass Tidings by Amy Jo Cousins
Goodbye Days by Jeff Zentner
Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
H - Harry Potter by JK Rowling
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Haunting Violet by Alyxandra Harvey
The Heart of Texas by RJ Scott
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Helping Hand by Jay Northcote
A Hero at the End of the World by Erin Claiborne
Him by Sarina Bowen
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
Holly Lane by Toni Blake
Hostile Ground by LA Witt
Hot Head by Damon Suede
Hottie Scotty and Mr Porter by R Cooper
How to Repair a Mechanical Heart by JC Lillis
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
A Hunted Man by Jaime Reese
Hunting Lila by Sarah Alderson
Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
I - I Love the 80s by Megan Crane
If Only in My Dreams by Keira Andrews
Illegal Contact by Santino Hassell
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Inseparable by Chris Scully
An Inspector Calls by JB Priestley
J - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
K - A Kiss in Time by Alex Flinn
Know Not Why by Hannah Johnson
L - Law of Attraction by Jay Northcote
Leaving Paradise by Simone Elkeles
Liam Davis & The Raven by Anyta Sunday
Light from the Dark by Mercy Celeste
Lima Oscar Victor Echo and the Truth about Everything by Suki Fleet
The Little Book of Vegan Poems by Benjamin Zephaniah
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
M - Mark Cooper versus America by Lisa Henry
Mark of Cain by Kate Sherwood
Me and Mr Darcy by Alexandra Potter
Merry Christmas Mr Miggles by Eli Easton
Midwinter Night’s Dream by Eli Easton
More than This by Patrick Ness
Motel. Pool. by Kim Fielding
Mrs Warren’s Profession by Bernard George Shaw
My Love Lies Bleeding by Alyxandra Harvey
My Single Friend by Jane Costello
N - The Nearly-weds by Jane Costello
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
North of Beautiful by Justina Chen
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
The Nothingness of Ben by Brad Boney
Noticed Me Yet? by Anyta Sunday
Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
Off Base by Annabeth Albert
Open Tackle by LC Chase
Out of the Blue by Sophie Cameron
P - Passing Through by Jay Northcote
Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Peter Pan by JM Barrie
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Pressure Head by JL Merrow
Pride and Modern Prejudice by AJ Michaels
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Private Eye by SE Culpepper
Promised Land by Adam Reynolds
Promises by Marie Sexton
Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry
Q - The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
R - Rattlesnake by Kim Fielding
Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella
The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness
Rock Solid by Riley Hart
Roughing the Passer by Alison Hendricks
S - The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Shiny by Amy Lane
Shrinking Violet by Danielle Joseph
Shut your Face, Anthony Pace by Claire Davis
Silent by Sara Alva
Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
Skellig by David Almond
Skin Deep by Laura Jarratt
Slam! by JL Merrow
The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman
Sock it to me, Santa! by Madison Parker
Someday by Sierra Riley
Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake
Spencer Cohen by NR Walker
Splintered by SJD Peterson
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Starter for Ten by David Nicholls
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
Stay With Me by SE Harmon
Strong Side by Alison Hendricks
Sugar Creek by Toni Blake
Superhero by Eli Easton
T - The Tales of Beedle the Bard by JK Rowling
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab
The Time of Our Lives by Jane Costello
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Tonight by Karen Stivali
Turkey in the Snow by Amy Lane
The Two Gentlemen of Altona by Lisa Henry
U - Unwrapping Hank by Eli Easton
Uprooted by Naomi Novik
V - The Vintners Luck by Elizabeth Knox
W - Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
The Walls of Troy by LA Witt
The Waste Land and Other Poems by TS Eliot
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
We were Feminists Once by Andi Zeisler
A Weekend With Mr Darcy by Victoria Connelly
Where he ends and I Begin by C Cardeno
Where the Lovelight Gleams by Kiera Andrews
Whiskey Business by Avon Gale
The Wish List by Jane Costello
Wonder by RJ Palacio
X - X-It by Jane George
Y - Y: The Last Man by Brian K Vaughan
You Against Me by Jenny Downham
Z - Zero at the Bone by Jane Seville
#Its longgggggggggggggg dudes#Amber I am sorry it took so long I couldn't narrow down so#this is the thing I made
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Hottie Scotty and Mr. Porter By R. Cooper #LGBTQ
Hottie Scotty and Mr. Porter By R. Cooper #LGBTQ
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Impressions
Always feel like I’m meeting someone really special and interesting when I read R Cooper characters. I wish that I could explain the magic of behavioral economics the way R Cooper preaches on emotions and relationships. The smallest change of facial detail to convey the deepest emotion makes for an enjoyable read.
I’ve not read all of this author’s work. But each dip…
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The Montgomery Firefighters are now available as a collection in paperback.
Two m/m romance stories centered around the firehouse of the tiny town of Montgomery In Hottie Scotty and Mr. Porter, brawny fireman Scott has been secretly pining after outspoken librarian Cole for months when some of their town’s nosier residents decide to throw every professional gay man in a thirty-mile radius Cole’s way. Their list of candidates doesn’t include Scott, and Scott’s insecurities prevent him from stepping forward—even when it seems as though Cole is asking him to. In For Better or Worse, Javier gave up on dating with such determination that it's taken him years to notice how deeply he's fallen for his best friend, Jimmy. Now he isn't sure what, if anything, he should do about it, since Jimmy is haunted by a past he won't talk about. Javier wants Jimmy, but first, he wants Jimmy to be happy. With the help of some of his fellow firefighters, he might get his wish.
Both stories are still available as individual ebooks. But if you are interested in the paperback, for the rest of this month (May 2023), the royalties from the paperback will be tallied up and then donated to PFLAG, a LGBTQ+ support and advocacy organization.
Montgomery Firefighters in Love
(Content tags should be available in each ebook story sample with the copyright info)
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Small town crossover fic idea: Hottie Scotty goes to Wolf's Paw and breaks all their little werewolf hearts because he is such being bait
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Also in the Smashwords End of Year Sale
for 75% off
The Devotion of Delflenor
Izzy and the Right Answer
The Tales of Two Seers
And
Nothing More Certain
Hottie Scotty and Mr Porter
Jericho Candelario's Gay Debut
are all 99 cents!
(Technically, so is Delflenor, but I thought the 75% off sounded more impressive)
My free/reader sets the price stories are also still up, as always. And I might make Taji on sale too, if anyone is interested.
The Smashwords End of the Year Sale lasts until the end of the year, obv.
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For Better or Worse by R. Cooper
Read time: 2 Days Rating: 5/5 Stars
The Quote: “I’m somewhere between bisexual and very, very picky.” — Javier Ramierez (aka the best extreme over simplification of a bi-demi I've ever read.)
I look up the ace tag occasionally just to see what people are reading. Fairly recently I found For Better or Worse and book written with aspec thems write by R.Cooper. R.Cooper writes and interesting style what I have read of their has been short but well paced and working within their limits, knowing the limits of the genre and the format. I have enjoyed hem. As such when I saw this I know it had to read it. I did make what may or may not have been a mistake when I decided to read it though, I decided to read For Better or Worse without reading Scott and Cole's story Hottie Scotty & Mr Porter first. While you can theoretically read them separately, there is enough groundwork included in this one to make it understandable but I think it would make just a little more sense with the background from the previous story. Scotty (as he is always refed to in this) makes an appearance in this book, in a critical point, he is important to a choice made by Javier. and Tiny (the station Chief). Scotty being a more mainline sexuality paved the way for the acceptance of the others. Or that is a least what it feels like. Let's be honest gay is easier to accept for most people than ace., even for most readers, if you aren't ace it can be difficult I think to get your head around.
Okay, now we're past that. R.Cooper writes their demisexual in a non-traditional way. He has accepted his ace-ness, he knows that. This is not coming of age, not in the least we are past that, Javi is past that. By the time the book starts Javier he is aware of and mostly comfortable with is demi identity, using it interchangably with other terms like grey and queer. This is a book that misses most of the label searching and identification. That's not the game here. The game here is friends to lovers with a queer twist. This is about knowing how to get what you want and balancing the risk vs reward, finding the courage to getgo and get it. But Javier still has moments of why am I like this, what if I wasn't. It's a brutally realistic feel. There is a moment when he chooses to weaponize his sexuality, at least the bi aspect of it. One to test the town's 'accepting' attitude by raising the pride over the fire station and the other is the trigger for the endgame, Javier kisses the (supposedly straight) fire chief Tiny.
The perspective character is Javier 'Javi' Ramirez our lovely demi. the first line kinda sets it up for him "Javier was in love. The realization echoed through his mind like church bells. Javier was in love with a passion he had never expected to feel and it took his breath away.". He is in love, in love with his neighbour and best friend, Jimmy. And this is that moment of realisaion.
This is single perspective narration so there are some surprises for the reader. We don't ever find out how old Javi is (which I appreciate as a writing choice). Javi as the narrator is less likely to think about his own age. The closest thing we get to his age is in comparison to Jimmy, Jimmy is several years younger than him. Some things that Javi didn't know that serve to build his character. We simply walk into Javier's life with little to no story. All the backstory we get is given as needed. Interestingly Cooper has chosen to limit settings to the firehouse, their houses and once or twice Javi just thinking during his walk home. Those limited settings provide an intimacy and a realness to it, especially for a homebody like Javier. On the writing style. I really didn't like the lack of marker on the section breaks. It was just annoying, especially with decent time jumps between sections
Jimmy is a good Italian Catholic boy, still speaks Italian and falls back into it occasionally. Jimmy is a lot to process he's got those qualities that are clearly admirable but a darkness and a past. Jimmy has an ex-wife, married at nineteen (divorced at twenty-one) to his best friend a good Catholic girl who found herself pregnant out of wedlock. We never met her, never learn her name and I'm okay with that, under what I refer to as the Liliana principle* I adore her anyway. Jimmy does not like labels, does not use labels and is an angry man. He has no tolerance for homophobia. I do quite like him. It is hard not to like anyone who shows that love to their dog, her name is Bacio. Everything he does that may frustrate a reader is seen through the flawed perception of Javier. A reader will likely perceive (as Peyo does) Jimmy's affection for Javi.
Javier understands his uncle's Spanglish but doesn't speak it. That Spanglish is actually kinda funny Peyo likes to speak Spanish to confuse Jimmy, to make him think he doesn't speak English. He's only doing it for Javi's good he is more than aware of Javi and Jimmy's feelings for each other and is just trying to push them together as only he can. I like the use of Spanish and Italian, it really works. For Jimmy it is a sign of exasperation (and other emotions), for Peyo it's just his first language and he likes messing with people. Okay, he likes messing with Jimmy (and Javi stays out of it).
Have a selection quotes.
“I’ll cook you dinner. Let me feed you. We’ll take the dog for a walk in the sunset. Pfft. Un par de dumbasses. Every night when he’s in your kitchen, you don’t want him to leave. He doesn’t want to leave. El perro no quiere que se vaya. Every night you are over there, I wake up to find you aquí, en un sueño, staring. Tu es gay.” — (Uncle Peyo) I really like Uncle Peyo. He's a meddler, him and Tiny. Translation: A couple of dumbasses.Every night when he’s in your kitchen, you don’t want him to leave. He doesn’t want to leave.The dog doesn't want him to go. Every night you are over there, I wake up to find you here, in a dream, staring. You are gay.
“I hope they say I’m secretly dating you.” Javier surprised himself again with a joke. Tiny shook his head. “No one would believe that,” he insisted. “I’m hopeless in the kitchen.” Which was true since Tiny’s turn to cook almost always involved cans of salsa or chili poured into mac and cheese. Javier was about to comment when Tiny grinned. He startled the shit out of Javier by adding, “And you, Ramirez, don’t want anyone in your kitchen unless they know what they’re doing in there.” — (Javier and Tiny) Okay so all I could think when I read this was Tiny you perceptive f**ker. But also fair point.
The sky was somewhere between gray and blue, and the flag was bright. Vivid. Flaming, he thought, with too much energy, before forcing himself to calm. Loud, he decided. Present, which was better but not enough. Then, beautiful. — (Javier) This is Javi as he sees the Pride flag flying outside the firehouse for the first time. 🏳🌈 I just this it is a beautiful line. I know I've had a moment like this seeing it fly in unusual places.
“I’m Marilyn Monroe now?” Javier wondered first. “You’d think I’d be Salma Hayek at least.” — (Javier) Don't knock Marilyn like that. She's an icon. An adopted queer icon (but only because she never claimed the term). I would like to direct you to a tumblr thread started by the-bright-path which discusses Ms Monroe.
“God, what a relief it might be not to have those feelings lighting you up from the inside all the time. But maybe it’s torture too, in a different way. If I didn’t feel this, what else would I have?” — (Jimmy) This is such a brilliant piece of perceptive writing. It is brilliant to see an acknowledgement that the lack of sexual attraction brings with it a whole lot of other issues.
“Do aces have a flag?” he wondered, teasing or serious, it was impossible to tell. “Is it gray? Tell me it’s not gray.” “It has some gray,” Javier admitted, although he found the ace colors striking. — (Jimmy and Javier) I really like the Ace flag and others in its family among others demi and aro too.
*Liliana principle is named after Liliana from the Chronicles of Nick series, Caleb's deceased human wife. She was a highly influential character in the life of her husband until they parted ways. But we never meet her. Her influence is so great that without her the series essentially wouldn't exist. As such she is near-universally beloved by fans. There is a whole range of primarily female characters who fit this mould that I've stumbled across since.
God this review is so messy.
#ace representation#for better or for worse#r. cooper#book review#ktreviews#spoilers on goodreads#read 2022#booklr
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A friend recommended one of your novellas to me a few weeks ago and Scotty and Mr. Porter have lived rent-free in my head ever since. Small town romance is not my usual thing, and I'd never read an explicitly lgbt romance before but. Yeah. I've reread it three times, I can already tell it's going to be one of my comfort books. They really burrowed into my heart. Thank you.
Someone once told me that Green Tea and Pink Apples was their first gay romance. Now this, and I feel like a gay romance deflowerer.
Which is weird to type and also to say.
Anyway, that said, there are lots of lgbt romances out there, in all kinds of subgenres (that I wish publishing platforms would recognize the way they recognize them for het romances but that's another issue).
I haven't read that one in a WHILE and I was considering having an audiobook done for it but like... money. But I do like that one. Partly because it's a spite!book (I started it out of spite) but also because it's a small town but not... a *real* small town. People are, for the most part, a bit kinder in Montgomery.
Which reminds me, I named the town Montgomery because I wanted the story to have an L.M.Montgomery vibe, specifically a sort of... there's a short story I forget the title of, but an older about to be a spinster woman is unexpectedly courted by a younger man, and everyone assumes it's for her money, and she doesn't want to believe it but then he hears a bunch of rumors that she is only going out with him to laugh at him and how unsuitable he is etc and he breaks up with her. And they both mope until the guy realizes that his scheming bitch mother didn't want her son 'embarrassing himself' with an older women and told a bunch of lies. Anyway, he runs back to her and apologizes and they are happy the end. Which has nothing really to do with Hottie Scotty and Cole except the general vibe of oh we were sort of together and the feelings were real and one of us freaked out and wronged the other one and it's time to do some groveling.
Which is always nice.
But I think also... I love Cole being like "well yes I hurt Scott, but that was personal and my own issues. Everyone else hurting him is just an asshole and must be punished." And he sees nothing weird about this for months. Also that he calls Scott Scott, because that is probably how Scott introduced himself and Cole is not a firehouse bro.
There is a commentfic type short I did years later that I really ought to stick on to the original as bonus material or something, in which we get Scotty losing a little of his "perfect" body and worrying Cole won't like him, when Scotty getting all plump and soft off Cole's cooking and baking is like... catnip to Cole.
(In the game I play with all my characters, being or not, Dragon/Not Dragon, Cole is quite obviously the Dragon.)
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I glanced through the cookie book again and no sugar-free options, but a few less sweet options that might be okay with a sugar substitute.
The trouble with Cole is that he would make a Kitchen Sink cookie and chocolate chip and brownie bar.... but he would also make delicate Earl Grey cookies or chocolate rolled in pistachios or Florentines.
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Someone commented on an old commentfic of Scott and Cole (actually on two of them) and aw, Scott and Cole.
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Is Hottie Scotty and Mr. Porter your response to the straight women who read gay male romance but don't try to understand the community irl? Sorry if I phrased that badly. I think you mentioned something similar once about some readers wanting more heteronormative-type(?) relationships. I just wanted to ask because I also think about this in regards to Japanese yaoi (not bara I think) manga and who it's written for.
Hottie Scotty and Mr. Porter is a response to a specific group of specific (straight) women who read (and write) gay romance. Or I should say, m/m romance, which is a distinct thing from gay or queer romance. Some of the things Kathy says were things some of these women actually said.
I don’t... people read things for different reasons. I read some yaoi back in the day. I read weird slash in the early internet days. I think I was attracted to the subject matter for maybe reasons of titillation but also for personal reasons that I didn’t think about or examine then. Like, regular het romances were not emotionally compelling for me for some reason hmm hmmm what could that reason be??? etc... So I try not to judge people for reading what they read, in that sense. Even the trash het romances. Like, growing up, our house was full of terrible 80s and 90s Harlequins and other romance novels where in A LOT of them, the man and woman have some affair or one night of passion (her first! her only! etc) and he leaves and she discovers she is pregnant and doesn’t tell him etc etc etc and then eventually he comes back and discovers and grovels and takes care of her and the baby/child. etc etc etc. Why did we have those in our house? Imagine my mother back in the day getting knocked up and being left on her own and reading this trash as like. wish fulfillment. Or whatever.
My point being (she did stop reading those eventually.) people sometimes like nonsense for particular reasons. (They may or may not have examined those reasons yet. )
I do, however, judge people who think like, watching “lesbian” porn gives them the right to objectify and be gross to actual wlw, or teen girls embarrassing/traumatizing teen boys who might be gay or questioning because they think it’s “cute” or entertainment. Or adult women who make a living writing romances between two men and then treat real life mlm with disdain.
Small side point: Romances... are not real life. The nature of romances is that they are always a little bit fantasy. (The orgasms, for one example.) M/m romances have... a lot of rules/tropes that I didn’t realize when I started trying to write it (I immediately failed, btw. My first m/m romance was Let There Be Light. So.... idk what I thought the genre was, but I was Not It. lol) And a lot authors have debated the ins and outs and rights and wrongs of how m/m does gay relationships. I am not here to discuss that right now (But the statement that m/m romance does not generally feature much of the queer community is... pretty correct from what I’ve read of it. That it is also mostly written for straight women might also be true, but I have no stats to back that up. I am not sure anyone does).
I am just reiterating that anyone, much less outsiders to a community, writing books featuring members of that community, should be fucking respectful of the real life members of that community. And these women were not.
So I showed them as the shallow, racist, bigoted, limited imagination villains that they are.
Cuz fuck ‘em.
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graupelfromtheskies said: 5 years later with the firefighters (Scotty and Cole or Javier and Jimmy or someone else, it’s all good)
“SO YOU DON’T WANT TO MARRY HIM?” Tiny boomed, using a voice way too loud for the tiny alcove of the historic church they were standing in.
Scott shot him a flustered look of annoyance at his volume. “I didn’t say that!” he hissed. The other groomsmen were staring at them. “I said Cole doesn’t want to get married again! He doesn’t want to marry me.”
“Sorry to interrupt,” Cole pronounced icily from the entrance. “But when did I ever say that?”
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fire relief fundraiser!
As you may or may not know, I live in an area that recently experienced several huge, devastating wildfires. To help with the recovery for those who lost their homes or lost their jobs, starting tonight and through this weekend, my profits from the sales on Smashwords of my two stories of the Montgomery firefighters will be donated to The North Bay Fire Relief Fund as well as the Redwood Empire Food Bank.
If you know anyone looking for a gentle short story about romantically troubled firefighters in a small California town, see if they want to check out Hottie Scotty and Mr. Porter or For Better or Worse by R. Cooper at Smashwords.com
(Why this weekend? It's my birthday weekend! Happy Birthday to me!)
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Hottie Scotty and Mr. Porter
contemporary m/m romance novella
(No magic?! From me?! Shocking. But it has cookies!)
To help out his sister, Scott moved to the small town of Montgomery, where there isn’t much to do and no one for him to date. Well, there’s one other openly gay man in town—Henry ‘Cole’ Porter, a widower who runs the school library, but after one drunken night together, Cole has kept his distance. Scott is used to that. He spends a lot of time working out, and from the slow way he talks and the frat house atmosphere at the fire station where he works, it’s easy to assume he’s stupid. Most people are happy to admire his body and assume that’s all he wants from them, and deep down, Scott is too afraid to try asking for more. Which is why Scott has been secretly pining after Cole for months when some of the town’s nosier residents decide Cole has been single long enough. They have a plan to throw every professional gay man in a thirty-mile radius Cole’s way, whether he likes it or not. Their list of candidates doesn’t include Scott, and Scott’s insecurities prevent him from stepping forward—even when it seems as though Cole is asking him to. Cole is everything Scott isn’t; highly educated, stylish, with refined tastes. He’s also stubborn and sarcastic, and not nearly as smart about the workings of his own heart as people might think. It might take a lot of the wrong men for him to realize the right one has been in front of him all along.
On sale this week at Smashwords for 99 cents!
This is the last sale post I'm gonna do for the week, though I have a few more things up. I also have free stories up on Smashwords *all the time* so feel free to check those out too. :)
#r. cooper#sale#hottie scotty and mr. porter#turns out i never did a proper post for it anyway so here
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uugghhhh blurbs are the worst
To the other firefighters in Montgomery, Javier is a quietly heroic figure with a reputation for staying calm and doing what needs to be done. To the small town gossips, he’s some kind of mysterious ladies’ man, despite how he hasn’t dated anyone in years. Truth is, Javier’s demisexual—it takes him a while to feel desire for someone, and most people don’t want to wait for that to happen. Tired of being hurt, he gave up on dating. He gave up with such determination that two years into spending nearly every free evening making dinners with his best friend, Jimmy, he’s only just realized that he’s in love with him.
Jimmy is noise where Javier is silent. He expresses his thoughts and feelings about every subject imaginable—except the reason he moved thousands of miles away from his family to start a new life in Montgomery. He spends his nights with Javier, cooking and jointly taking care of his rescue dog. If he’s noticed that he and Javier have been all but dating each other for the past two years, he hasn’t said, and Javier isn’t going to risk upsetting him by asking.
That is, until the very public romance between their fellow firefighter, Scotty and school librarian, Cole, leads Jimmy to reveal more about his past. Suddenly, Javier has hope. If he has to change the minds of the entire town in order to woo his best friend, then so be it. He’s not someone to let a little fear get in his way, especially when it means a chance to make their date nights real.
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