There's a sweet flashfictn piece by Charl Paysr on Flashfictn Onle that highlights somethg awome about LGBT wrg today. It serv a read and a shout out. "A Lumberjack's Gui to Dryad Spottg" is probably about 1000 words, but tells a pretty big story about two gay lumberjacks that go beyond where I thought…
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“A Lumberjack’s Gui to Dryad Spottg” is probably about 1000 words, but tells a pretty big story about two gay lumberjacks that go beyond where I thought the story would go. Our hero, a pair of gay lumberjacks who are subtle, but not that subtle, the mp about their relatnship, are prented as good lumberjacks: they get there early, they chop down tre.
Even though the story tablish that the dryads have a hunger for human blood, and that they n be dangero and attack, the gay lumberjacks are savg the dryads– exchange for the dryads helpg the uple hi safety the future. I also enjoy the shout out to the diversy the LGBT muny—that the ma characters are “bears” (read: big beard hairy gay men).
I also like where this story didn’t go: The other lumberjacks uld have “found them out” and hurt them and this would have been a predictable “hurt the gays” story—but the men’s reactns are plex: they both sire the eedom of the gay men to form a relatnship, and also have an imprsn that there is a fluidy to sexualy and the man you are mp is not the man you are back the “real world.
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The gay men are not some gay paradise–they are an allowed limbo that is cumbent upon tac ignorance and acceptance–a short-lived wdow of opportuny. In the last paragraph, jt as you’ve cid the men will e the dryads to fund their pe om this tricky life of mascule nformy, they form a unn wh the dryads by rcug them, and, at least the proposn one of the gay lumberjacks offers, replantg them a “safe space” wh the lumberjacks their new home. Before "don't ask, don't tell" was officially repealed for gay, lbian, and bisexual ary personnel 2011, a photo of a male Mare drag uld have land him hot water.