#is it gay or horseplay?

[leggalese]

When I was taking requests I was actually surprised by how many people suggested Wright more often than Miles but that might be because I outed myself as a Nick stan and people just went with it.

Miles will never hear the end of it.

[hallohartje]

Films by Marco Berger

-Hawaii (2013) -Taekwondo (2016) -The Blonde One / Un Rubio (2019) -Horseplay / Los Agitadores (2022)

[vshouse]

Minors and Ageless blogs will be blocked!!

Don't see you? Check Pt. 1.

[gdn7-dollopole]

I still believe that BBC Merlin using “horseplay”, that according to every dictionary existent means, “rough play in which people push and hit at each other as a joke, or behave in a silly way”, as a metaphor for gay sex, must be one of the funniest things ever happening on a tv show.

I mean, the horseplay scene in question features Arthur fisting his hand in a leather glove that makes a squeaky sound, while Merlin watches him, amused.

So, yeah, horseplay, mhmh.

[regulusrules]

Ranking the best 10 Merlin episodes + a fic rec based on each one:

(absolutely not based on how gay they were) ((no order for the eps; they're all chef's kiss)) (((last two fics have a hold on me that levels the show itself; worth scrolling for)))

1. The Poisoned Chalice

Look. There is something just absolutely entrancing about introducing this episode in the first five of the entire show. Like, this hands-on was the sole reason everyone fell for those two idiots. It beautifully captured how the saving each other thing is reciprocal, because the first three episodes you just have to watch Merlin run around saving Arthur, never the reverse. Producing it early on in the show was the decision that, in my opinion, held everyone in their chokehold for eternity.

Fic rec: you are my favorite mistake (it can only be fate) by @multifandom-jess.

2. The Death Song of Uther Pendragon

I could go on and on for how this episode singlehandedly carried s5 on its shoulder. Like, okay I unfortunately love s5 with all my fucking heart, but this episode was perfect. Ghosts? Check. Banter? Check. POETRY?? Check check. A slap to Uther's face? Oh how beautifully checked.

It's so easy to recall how Arthur truly loved his father, but in this episode, the turmoil you see in his eyes from the actions of his father and how he resorts to saving the ones he loves (Merlin) over his father, is just too beautiful to be overlooked. Ever since Arthur became king, we see him struggle from his father's legacy. But in this episode, he begins to detach both consciously and subconsciously from him. Whether it's in his decision to save the old sorceress in the beginning, or to shun Uther's ghost, both the literal and the figurative, from his life any longer. This was one of the episodes that captured the true essence of King Arthur.

+1: the innuendos of this episode were 🤌. They knew what they were doing, you can't convince me otherwise. (are you threatening me with a spoon? / I'm teaching him some poetry.. he can't get enough of it! / what was that? h-horseplay. why don't I show you?)

Fic rec: My heart is readily yours by @regulusrules. (absolutely love how after all this introspection, i decided to throw it all away and made uther stab merlin in the fucking heart instead. but still it was my honourable attempt to shit on the finale and give them the happy ending everyone deserved).

3. The Sword in the Stone pt. 2

OKAY. This episode! Aside from how badass Merlin was in both pt.1&2, but here, especially in the part where us audience were impatiently waiting for the revival of the sword in the stone, there could've been nothing more perfect. Just like their adaptation of the round table scene, this was perfect in its own way for how different it was. They didn't make it so that people will finally find a king; they made it so that the people believe in their king. And more than that, for Arthur to believe in himself. With the estrangement and losing his crown, the writers gave him the best way to re-establish his inner glory. And Merlin being this guide; what more perfect culmination to their relationship?

You have to believe, Arthur.

Iconic.

Fic rec: Couldn't choose between Only Friend by @captain-ozone, and Fathom Me Out by @supercalvin. Brilliance ahead in both of them, I tell you.

4. The Eye of the Phoenix

Magic. Gwaine. Quests. Need I say more to explain that this was the show's holy trinity?

Fic rec: From Past to Present by flowersheep. (Prince Merlin. Archer Merlin. Perfection my friends).

5. A Servant of Two Masters

Look look; if there's an honourary wall of opinions for all the people who've watched Merlin, I DARE you to find just one who disliked this episode. Like, the series was so full of BS sometimes, but this episode was above all. The level of brilliance in this episode; showing Dark!Merlin, who's at the same time hilariously funny, and seeing him BAMF his way with Morgana, even when he's chained and tortured.. oh dear holy Lord. His "do me a favour, could you? let Arthur know." was able to steal all breath from my lungs the first time I saw it (and until now).

And don't get me started on the Protective!Arthur we got. Caring for Merlin, screaming for him when the rocks fell between them, silencing Agravaine immediately when he told him he's sorry for losing such a loyal servant because bullshit if he doesn't reign down hell before he loses Merlin. And ofc, Courage and Strength on their way to find Magic, which just filled my heart with an 'aaahhh!' moment, because we didn't get enough Gwaine-Arthur-Merlin shenanigans. And at last, the Hug™. Fucking screamed let me tell you.

It is an episode that truly showed everything; from comic elements to fluff and angst and everything. The only thing it lacked was, as always, giving Arthur the space to know. Because ffs what would they have lost if they made Arthur understand that Merlin's under Morgana's control? It wouldn't have exposed shit. It would've just been a plus to us to see Arthur caring for Merlin even more. They tried so hard that it completely backfired sometimes.

Fic rec: Still I Surface in Morning Light by @queerofthedagger. (I swear to you, anything written by this author, I readily throw whatever in hand to read it).

6. The Dragon's Call

Let thy gif caption speak.

No but really, that first episode was the stuff of legends. I could list down tens of tropes they did in just that episode alone. Honestly, no "family" show I've ever seen had started this powerfully. Just the music alone, the beauty of beginnings, not the CGI, was truly so gripping. Also bonus points for just Colin Morgan's sass abilities. None can compare.

Fic rec: This Time Around... series (incomplete) by Oneiric (lkdaswani). (this is a time travel AU, but the way the writer rewrote this episode was one of the best deviations I've read for an episode I already find near faultless).

7. The Sins of the Father

I might be subjecting myself to true wrath with my upcoming statement, but here we go:

S2 sucked.

From the beginning of the season, Arthur's shift in characterization from the honourable lovable prat of s1 to a letting Merlin act as a horse stool got me going wtf? It was like they deliberately ruined everything in their relationship and started out fresh just to force the Arthurian narrative of Arwen. And it's fine by me, truly, even if I'll never ship them, but they could've developed Arthur's character SO MUCH in that season beyond comic relief and romantic rendezvous.

Anyway so that I don't stray so much from the topic; this episode was, by fair comparison, the best in the entire season. By now it's pretty obvious that I gravitate towards all the episodes that give Arthur a semblance of agency. Him going against Uther and his maniac murderous agenda was the start of actually seeing King Arthur in front of us. Also, him listening to Merlin when he was on the verge of committing patricide was one of the things that gave me hope in how there's still hope in them. Even if they ruined it with making Merlin lie to Arthur, but the writers practically ruined every good episode with this.

+1: Morgause's intro was badass.

Fic rec: The Sins of the Father (and how to right them) by @cupcakezys. (what we deserved. to see arthur with agency, with an ability to decide for his future without being lied and deceived to).

8. Diamond of the Fucking Day

No matter how much I hate this episode, I can't, in good conscience, deny its hold on my heart. As I wrote before, there could've been no better magic reveal than this. And for all of my bitterness over their decision to kill Arthur, I sanely admit how it was a decision that insured the immortality of this fandom. It's been ten years since that episode aired, and I bet my ass off that it will still feel the same even after countless more decades.

Fic rec: literally the entirety of the fandom's fix-it fics. We all started from there, didn't we? Choosing only one would be so undervaluing to all the brilliance I've seen. However, my tags filter for it usually include: fix-it, angst with a happy ending, court sorcerer merlin, shitting on bbc writers 101, canon era, not canon compliant, everybody lives especially king arthur you mfs.

Update: I subconsciously took all these tags and wrote them in a fic

9. The Wicked Day

Throw me from the highest tower there is because every time I remember this scene, I just want to fade into the light. The sheer level of love and understanding shimmering between those two. Sometimes I marvel at the choice of bringing Colin and Bradley together, because no two could have achieved such chemistry, platonic or not, as those two did. This whole episode of showing Arthur's grief, and Merlin's desperation to heal it, was truly unforgettable. I try not to linger on its ending, Arthur denouncing magic for the millionth of time, but other than that it was a gem served to us on a silver platter.

Also seeing Uther finally die was a plus.

Fic rec: As much as I'd love to recommend my own fic for this, but honestly, whenever I get the chance, I will always take it to scream and wail about one of my absolute favourite fics of all time, which really isn't given ANY of the goddamn credit or attention or kudos it deserves. Beauty in the Ashes of Our Lives by Fulgance. I swear to you, you will never read something as beautifully heartbreaking as this. This fic resides in my mind rent-free. Basically any work by Fulgance is amazing, but this fic— oh God, my heart cannot take it sometimes.

10. Arthur's Bane pt. 1

Fuck, that episode was a masterpiece. You know, if it was all in my hands, I would've magic revealed at this particular episode. It was just.. the perfect opportunity. King Arthur in his glory, beginning of the season, enough time for Arthur to fully understand the depth of what Merlin did for him. Also, the range Arthur was given starting from here; God it's what we deserved. I always blame the writers for being inconsistent with his characterization (s2 and all), but they beautifully crafted it in the end, and it was their perfect chance to even explore the whole extent if only they made the magic reveal earlier.

Fic rec: Our broken pieces by @aramblingjay. Okay so this fic rec isn't necessarily linked at all to the episode, but I can't, in good conscience, recommend fics and not include it. Technically context wise it fits s5, for in it you see Arthur in his grandeur as king. This shall be my only exception because it's the only fic that was able to make me cry. Truly, I never shed tears, but in this, my heart stuttered. The fact that it is so unnoticed makes my blood boil because of how much praise it deserves. I can never recommend it enough.

To conclude, BBC Merlin has a powerful hold on everyone because of the fact that they knew how to eternalise it. It is significantly unique in its interpretation of legendary figures. I think I watched nearly all adaptations of King Arthur throughout the years, but even with how great some really are, to me none compare with this sword-swishing, banter-driven, CGI-messing, emotionally-killing 2008 show.

Honorary mentions:

| The Labyrinth of Gedref | Gwaine | Le Morte D'Arthur | Lancelot | The Coming of Arthur | The Moment of Truth | The Hunter's Heart | His Father's Son | The Darkest Hour |

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[humaninanimateinsanity]

Trophy Horseplay R U GAY???? BE TRUTHFULL. DO YOU LIKE BALLS???

“Uh obviously not.”

[astrronomemes]

TEXT POST STARTERS IV

a collection of quotes and quips from popular internet posts. change & alter as needed.

“Once I get taken out back and shot, I’ll be fine.”

“Some of you were never sold to One Direction to pay off your mom’s debt, and it shows.”

“He has that sadness in his eyes that you only see in Eastern European gay porn.”

“I understand why deer run in front of cars.”

“I think the elephant really ties the room together.”

“If they stop typing when they see you’re typing, they’re a bottom.”

“I guess when I say ‘pet peeve’, I mean ‘intense rage trigger’.”

“I’m under a lot of the same conditions that made Squidward so mean.”

“Are they bowling to earn soup, or bowling on behalf of soup?”

“Putting a hot frying pan into a sink running with cold water makes me feel like a blacksmith.”

“How long will you guys leave out a glass of water in your house and still drink it? It’s not like it goes bad, but after a while, it’s weird, right?”

“Why do they call it ‘horseplay’? I’ve never seen horses play. They’re always just standing there like they saw someone get shot.”

“God gave his toughest battle (a mild headache) to his strongest soldier (me) and I must suffer in silence. I’ve told five people.”

[inchidentally]

can't explain what it does to my head that Lando and Oscar are Two Dudes and they like each other and make each other smile and laugh all the time and have little 'them' specific things and are super complimentary about each other professionally and both signed up to be teammates together for at least 3 more years and their dynamic is that Oscar likes to watch Lando and Lando likes to make Oscar laugh and they both fall into helpless giggles over things together and Lando likes being Impossible and Incorrigible bc Oscar finds it cute hilarious and he gives in to what he wants almost all the time bc that's what they do

but they don't shove each other around? they don't do the usual horseplay that guys esp love doing with Lando? no wrestling? no easy brotherly and boyish leaning against each other or slinging an arm over each other while they talk? they don't play gay for a joke or do the kind of touching and groping that makes everyone laugh? in fact there's barely any touching at all and it isn't Oscar bc plenty of F2 and F3 content of him being fine doing that with other guys and it sure isn't Lando who has zero physical boundaries if he likes someone even a lil bit akfajsflas

and like absolutely it's just a tiny quirk of how they are I'm sure but I'm so used to being around guys and physical space comfort literally always follows being cool with each other and esp the F1 guys lose all boundaries once they're even a lil friendly with someone even George gets in on it and he's not a super physically demonstrative person

and idk idk both of these boys just staring and smiling at each other across that tiny divide and treating touching each other like it needs to be gentle or barely there and Lando had to think about it before giving a simple butt tap to Oscar and Oscar had to think about it thrice before putting a sticker on Lando mannnnn it grabs out of nowhere me sometimes and won't let go !!!

[frank-o-meter]

What was up with all the gay horseplay between Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis? Their routines and movies always included kissing and touch that today would brand them as gay. But in that era (40s/50s) that topic was unspoken. Lewis was also known to be a homophobe later, regularly spouting that someone was a faggot.

[zappedbyzabka]

it doesn't count as gay if johnny let the cobras fuck him because they're just helping him like a good friend would

They’re literally just helping their bro out what’s gay about that

Fellas, how is it gay to notice the jiggle of your homie’s ass when he walks and envy his motorcycle for getting straddled by him and think about the way his red jacket makes his lips look like rose petals when you’re falling asleep and get a chub from the crack of his voice and some good ole fashioned horseplay with him and get jealous when the new kid in town looks at him???

One more question, how is it gay to put your dick in that same homie and gaze into his eyes then watch your other homies do the same to him when you’re done?!?

[bengiyo]

I Told Sunset About You Rewatch Ep 3 Stray Thoughts

It's time for the tension episode. This is where things come to a head. Let's just go.

This boy really liked Oh-aew so much that it rewired his sense of smell. It's really incredible how much Billkin was willing to be unattractive in this show. This team understood that to be truly beautiful, there needs to be a little ugly.

I'm really glad they took time for us to see Teh thank Hoon for the plane ticket.

I forgot we started with Oh-aew in the tub. The girlies were not ready.

Of course Teh is up at 4 am for Oh, but he wouldn't get up for Tarn. That poor girl. Look at Tuty in the background watching this gay shit go down.

Teh asking Tarn to go off with his friends while they all watch silently from behind the screen is still one of the best scenes in the e fire show. Will also never get over PP making Billkin cry for accidentally hitting him too hard during the horseplay.

See, even Tarn knows that Teh is making exceptions for Oh he wouldn't make for her.

They just love letting Billkin play Teh being awkward. The cut to Oh falling behind Bas? Incredible. Bas always knew what was going on and was so powerless to do anything about it.

Teh is actively flirting and confusing everyone!

"I'll be with Bas, then," but looks directly at Teh? Both of these boys need to stop using Tarn and Bas as a way to one-up each other.

This going back and forth between them, Oh-aew? Heart wrenching.

Truly, how much money have PP and Billkin made from Lays because of this scene on the deck?

Poor Bas. Puts his heart out there and gets crushed. Oh knew what agreeing to that New Year's date would mean. At least be has enough class to let Bad down.

This couch scene is great because it almost feels like it could be from a multi-cam sitcom.

Hammock scene my beloved. Oh-aew is so brave. He breaks the subtext of all of their interactions and pushes Teh directly. Lets him know as they're literally on top of each other that Teh is the source of his confusion about Bas. He asks Teh the question in a way that doesn't let him deny it. Teh knows it's coming and pretends like he doesn't. "I think you know. You really don't? But I think you do. Or you really don't? But I do think you know?" Teh can't help but ask, "Since when?" And can only answer "I don't know." And admit his desire for closeness when Oh leans forward and pushes.

And now Skyline. It's out in the open now. They may not have moved much, but everything shifted.

Oh, Tarn. I need you and Bas to get a scene like Lennier and Vir in Babylon 5 where they commiserate about Delenn and Londo.

Oh shit Teh is wearing the shirt. It's about to go down.

I get it, Teh. Oh-aew is just so alluring. This man is on the floor inhaling the paper. Mess of his face. He is so gone.

Skyline really is undefeated. The amount of control Oh exerts over Teh with just his presence is just so incredible to watch even still three years later.

"Why do you have to think so hard about it? Forget about it. Do whatever you feel like. There's no need for an answer, if there's no answer." This is what I'm saying!! We get so caught up in the warring over labels. They're just tools to help us think about ourselves. Oh knows intrinsically that these two are drawn to each other and it's stronger than what he's ever felt for Bas. That feeling is what matters. He offers Teh the time and patience of "secret" to let him figure it out. You can see Teh instantly relax at that and try to fall back into the flirtatious studying they've been doing.

Man, what is it about Teh? If Teh tells him he can't quit, Oh always finds a way to dig deeper.

Jesus, Skyline remains undefeated.

"As promised." It gets me every time.

I tell ya. It's always queer boys and their moms.

I don't know what went wrong with the original translation scene or the final scene from this episode when they were in post, but what we got was so good from the reshoots that I legit never want to see the discarded takes.

I still can't believe they filmed this while surrounded by tourists. The translation scene is still my favorite confession in BL. Oh knew what was happening. He knows Teh is flirting through these Chinese lessons. It's absolutely incredible. It's just so much. Teh connected the series that helped him find his purpose to his feelings for Oh. Just omg.

That's right, Tuty! Regulate!! You can smell the sexual energy! Don't let nothing gay happen on your watch!!!

Notice that the leg touching begins as soon as Tuty leaves? She lost focus and now look at us.

Oh is so careful, he mentions being tired from walking before touching Teh's leg. He's giving Teh another way to ease in by framing it as normal help. But the score knows. Oh's hand on the inside of his thigh knows.

Oh's shirt literally says sunset, and Teh is wearing the branded shirt. They wanted us to know how this was really the climactic moment of the show. That's where his head is still at.

JFC Teh pushing Oh's face to say he's not ready for that. Look. I need to pause for this one. So many of my young encounters did not begin with or ever involve kissing. It's just too much. We can rub each other's legs and grope all night, but there's something about kissing when you're in the closet that makes it too much. Oh made it clear it's what he wanted, Teh couldn't give it to him, but they can still touch.

"What if there are two male protagonists?" I was holding my breath at this point in 2020.

It's the way Teh can't stop moving as he pulls Oh onto his chest. He just can't stop touching. The breathing gets heavy. We know where this is going. And then he stops at Oh's chest and the spell is broken.

The hot, bothered, and devastated look on Oh's face is the most impressive single expression I've seen in all of BL.

The silence at the end is deafening, and then we go into PP singing Skyline? I remember this week breaking us.

What an incredible episode. All of the games. All of the rituals. All of the safety valves. All of the blinders. All of it just to have Teh bail in the moment because he faced the physical reality that Oh wasn't a woman. He once again made Oh think he wasn't enough after pouring it on thick all episode. Goddamn.

[hallohartje]

“In the heat of the summer, Andy leaves the city to spend some time at a luxury villa with his best friends. As they party and goof around, their initial consensual horseplay reveals that they each have different personal boundaries.”

- LOS AGITADORES by Marco Berger

[natjennie]

i actually think showing mash to the captain would be soooo funny like he'd blow a gasket at all the impropriety, the lack of military decorum, the absolute goofishness. hawkeye would make a silly little gay side comment as he does and cap would go stock still and clear his throat and whip his head around to see if anyone else heard it. and everyone else would just be like. politely laughing at whatever. and cap is desperately clawing at his uniform. hawkeye and trapper get up to some horseplay and pretend to be a couple or w/e and cap is gripping his swagger stick so hard he snaps it in half.

[otterwdc]

Mr. Stephens, or JJ, lived a couple streets over from us when I was growing up. He was single; Dad (he’s actually my stepdad) said JJ divorced a long time ago and the two of them hung out a lot. They worked together at the plant and seemed to really get along, with lots of horseplay and dirty jokes and banter. He was around so much I even started calling him Uncle JJ.

By the time I got to be a high school senior, Mr. Stephens insisted I drop the “Uncle” and just call him JJ. I was glad to oblige, and the three of us – Dad, JJ, and me – started going to ball games and working around the yard and doing stuff together on weekends, calling ourselves the Three Suburban Musketeers. We had a lot of fun. I liked hanging out with them and didn’t much mind the fact that I didn’t have friends like them my own age at school.

When I turned 18, Dad and JJ made a big deal about my birthday and took me out for burgers at the local dive bar. Amidst all the good-natured ribbing about my being an adult now, they managed to share a couple of beers with me on the sly when Woody, the bartender, wasn’t looking and I got a good buzz on. On the way home, JJ insisted we stop at the liquor store and get some bourbon – “We gotta put some hair on your chest, boy!” – and I found myself wondering if it would work. Yep, I was pretty buzzed.

Mom was asleep in front of the TV when we got back to the house so we decided to hang out at JJ’s for a while. I went to take a quick piss while JJ and Dad chatted quietly in the kitchen. By the time I got back Dad had a look on his face that I hadn’t seen before and said that he had decided to stay put. “Go hang out with JJ,” Dad said. “He’s got my permission to introduce you to the wonders of bourbon now that you’re all grown up!” he added with a wink. There was an awkward hug at the door – something Dad didn’t do very often – and we took off.

It took several minutes to walk over to JJ’s, but as soon as we got there he opened the bourbon, put on some music, and we sat around the den in the basement getting trashed and shooting the shit. Since Dad wasn’t around, I thought it was cool that JJ knew it was OK to ask about more personal stuff, stuff that I never felt comfortable talking to Dad about. I did likewise with JJ. The beer and the bourbon had loosened both our tongues and our conversation covered a lot of ground – including chest hair, and my lack thereof!

After a while the talk tapered off and JJ said he needed to get ready for bed. I started to get up and head home, but he told me to sit tight instead. “You’re a little too drunk to walk home on your own,” he said, “and I’m too drunk to drive you over. Let me go take a quick shower and clear my head out a bit and then I’ll take you home.”

I had nodded off on the sofa when he came back down maybe 15 minutes later. He walked into the den wearing gym shorts and an untied plaid flannel bathrobe, and it occurred to my thoroughly buzzed brain that JJ was going to have to put something else on if he was going to drive me home. I also noticed JJ’s pretty substantial cock banging around – and JJ noticed me notice it. Busted. It was clear something other than driving me home was on JJ’s mind. My cock started getting stirred up and all at once it occurred to me what was going on. And what Dad’s weird hug had been about.

JJ sat down on the arm of the lounge chair right by the sofa and his clean but still musky smell filled the room. “Listen,” JJ said. “Your Dad and I have known each other a long time, we’re good buddies, and we talk a lot – and more and more about you these days. We noticed a while back that you didn’t seem much interested in dating, and that you were pretty much a loner. Am I right?”

My mouth went dry and cakey. All I could do was nod.

“Your Dad and I have a pretty special friendship. He knows I’m gay, and he wanted me to talk to you privately, just one-on-one, and see if you were holding anything back that you wanted to talk about.”

I started to object, but words wouldn’t come. It seemed all I could do was stare at his hairy chest and sputter, “But, but…”

JJ continued. “Look, when I was your age I was fucking girls and catting around all the time. But there came a point when I had to face the fact that it wasn’t working for me and that I wanted something different. Something my wife just couldn’t give me. You know what I’m talking about?”

I just nodded.

JJ slowly stood up, opened his robe a little further, hooked his fingers in the waistband of his gym shorts, pushed them down and stepped out of them. He stood there for a minute with just the robe on, with a very hard, very big cock front and center. He never took his eyes off me and didn’t move a muscle. He was giving me permission to stare at his cock and his body, so I took it. Then I looked up and met his gaze. And melted a little.

My own very hard cock tenting my chinos gave me away before I could say anything. JJ quietly sat next to me on the sofa, wrapped his arms around me, and told me everything was going to be OK. And that I was safe with him. As it turned out I couldn’t have dreamed of a better first time out.

JJ was gentle and affectionate at first, giving me a chance to lean into what was going to happen and take things at my own pace. After kissing for what seemed like forever – starting  softly but fairly quickly turning into something much more aggressive -- JJ had me stand in front of him while he slowly stripped me naked. He moaned a little when he saw my hard cock (“Damn, boy, you’ve been hiding this all this time?”) which he then proceeded to work over with his tongue and his goatee, deep throating me time and again until I spewed my first load with another man – and JJ swallowed it all. Watching this man nurse on my cock and balls was knee-buckling.

Over the next couple of hours JJ taught me how to suck a big cock like his and swallow come, and he introduced me to the pleasures of having my ass eaten and chowing down on his own fine furry hole. I had no idea the area between your balls and asshole had a name all its own, much less the toe-curling erotic energy it held.

Seems I was a natural at all of it. As the night wore on, JJ lavished attention on my chest (turns out he likes smooth men!) and I learned that there was a four-lane highway between my nipples and my cock. I didn’t think my cock could get any harder, but I soon learned that the harder he worked on my nips the harder my cock seemed to get.

I found that I liked fucking JJ as much as I liked getting fucked by him. Watching this big, butch hairy man ride my cock, begging for more of it and swearing like a sailor, blew my mind. When JJ folded me over the back of the sofa to eat and then ride my ass with that fat, long cock of his, I thought I was going to pass out from the pure joy and release. Once again he started off gently, but then I pleaded with him to fuck me as hard as he wanted. He didn’t disappoint.

We stopped a couple times to regroup and relax and catch our breaths and have another bourbon or two, but before long we'd be back at it again. It was all pretty overwhelming, but throughout JJ made sure that I felt OK and was into whatever we did. He also made sure that my first night as a gay man was a truly memorable hours-long sexual wallow. What a coach he was.

Over breakfast the next morning – after a wonderful half hour of 69ing in bed while the sun came up -- I felt sort of shy around him and a little sheepish about everything we had done. JJ reassured me that it was all good, and told me that I was welcome to come back anytime, or that I could decide it was a one-and-done learning experience and move on – no harm, no foul -- but that nothing would change with the Three Suburban Musketeers. I blushed when he said it was one of the greatest nights of sex he had ever had.

He also said it was my choice whether I told Dad or not, but he winked when he said that and grinned a little. It suddenly struck me that maybe Dad and JJ had been going at it all these years. I decided then and there I wanted to watch them do it. I knew they’d enjoy having me as an audience and I knew I’d enjoy seeing JJ and Dad going at each other. Seems the Three Suburban Musketeers had a whole lot of new things to do together!

[nysocboy]

Skyler Gisondo Hunk-Fest

Skyler Gisondo grew up in California. He was home schooled for several years to give him free time for acting; then he attended Milken Community School, a Jewish high school, graduating in 2014. On the way, he found some hunky friends who enjoyed homoerotic horseplay. Some have remained part of his crew to this day.

His roommates; what happens in the apartment, stays in the apartment.

At Joshua Tree. Skyler is the one pretending to be a top.

High school musicians:

Surfing in Costa Rica:

His friend Ben in Israel:

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BFI Flare: Horseplay

A group of straight Argentinean men hang out in a beautiful home with barely any clothes on, while playing pranks on each other and sending compromising pictures to various WhatsApp groups.

The supposedly decades long bond between these characters is totally unsketched outside of their apparent need to test each others' sexual boundaries. The film therefore functions only as a homosexual fantasy of what straight male bonding looks like, while purporting to levy the critique that – shock! – there may be a homophobic streak latent within their homoerotic horseplay.

That this is the most simplistic possible thought on the subject does not stop the film taking two hours to make its point. And that the Gay Viewers' arousal at this implicitly homophobic milieu is the sole source of the films libidinal quality – and marketable appeal – goes lamentably unaddressed.

The mens' interactions are well observed in places, but the film is largely dull and dishonest, and aims to horn up its audience into looking past the redundancy of its content.