Hot 13 Lists – Is it Thursday Yet?

[Rand]

This might be a great theme for someone - - - libraries ............ or is that not hot enough? To us readers it might be. These are pictures of the Kansas City Public Library, Missouri. The building was designed by Dimensional Innovations. Local residents selected the titles of the books that are displayed on the bookshelf. Actually, i found these to be fascinating pictures and did not know of any thread suitable for their inclusion. Hence, they are a theme idea for someone!

thanks,
Rand

 

[andrew thomas]

This photo is awsome. thanks Rand

 

[redfox70]

This might be a great theme for someone - - - libraries ............ or is that not hot enough? To us readers it might be. These are pictures of the Kansas City Public Library, Missouri. The building was designed by Dimensional Innovations. Local residents selected the titles of the books that are displayed on the bookshelf. Actually, i found these to be fascinating pictures and did not know of any thread suitable for their inclusion. Hence, they are a theme idea for someone!

That's a great looking building. Such a clever idea. There was an architecture thread in Hot Topics but it has been dormant for a while now. Your pictures would have fitted in well there

As for themes inspired by them, sexy librarians? Writers? Reading (again)? Sexy guys in front of great buildings?

 

[redfox70]

I remember that and if I remember correctly that was about the only picture that was actually sexy.

 

[ElmosToe]

That is a cool library there Rand.

I had some thoughts on theme ideas, seeing as how I beat Red and Rand to the punch. I wouldn't be opposed to seeing variations of some repeated themes. I'm curious to see what you two would come up with on the "trees" thing. Mine was originally meant to highlight the beautiful contrast of redheads against the color green. In searches I was liking the idea of "green trees" in general more, so included a few non-redheads and kept it more about nature's green.

 

[redfox70]

Elmo, I'm with you regarding doing variations on previous themes, in fact I did one last year involving fruit which I saw as a variation on a food one which our esteemed hostess had already done. I think there are others I would like to do and I'll try to do a trees theme one week as well

 

[redfox70]

My theme for this week is wet guys. Yes, I know there is a thread devoted entirely to that as well as a shower/bathtub one but my intention was for the water source to not be obvious. I may not have succeeded with all of my selections though. I had wanted to do guys in the rain but haven't been able to find enough pictures, although some of the ones I've chosen do seem to involve rain. All in all, and even if I do say so myself, I think the pictures are pretty hot. Enjoy

 

[redfox70]

 

[redfox70]

 

[EJMichaels]

I've been loving all the themes here but I'm definitely biased toward wet men. Nice touch having the water source absent.

My list of 13 isn't pics (hey, there’s no rule against that!), but I’ve included a few visuals anyway. Below is a selection of the 13 sex words most frequently appearing in my latest erotic story. To keep the list to 13, I’ve left out several that were used fewer than 4 times. I also didn’t include some of the words that aren’t inherently related to sex, even if I used them that way (e.g., table, 7 times). Word frequency counter: http://www.writewords.org.uk/word_count.asp They also count phrases.

Top 13 sex words in my recently-submitted manuscript

cock - 17 times
ass, asshole - 14 (12, 2)
fuck, fucked - 12 (7, 5)
lube, lubed - 6 (4, 2)
hard, harder - 3 times each
paddle - 6
wet - 3
stroke - 3
fingers - 3
dick - 3
balls - 3
throat - 2
thighs - 2

Some of the others used twice: sweaty, submissive, prostate, jerk, hung, horny, hole, and foreplay. I considered counting "hole" with "asshole", but I think of it differently. For myself, I’d put “sir” (15 times) on the sex list. Interestingly (at least to me) is that I used the two main character names (other than the narrator) almost equally as I’ve done in almost every story I’ve written. It’s not conscious, but I tend to do that, even with three main characters.

My regular photo source has mostly gifs now, so I haven’t been saving much. A few random stills:

 

[redfox70]

Nice touch having the water source absent.

Thanks

My list of 13 isn't pics (hey, there’s no rule against that!),

If I remember correctly my first few lists were of words/phrases only Anyway, you're the boss, you set the rules!

Below is a selection of the 13 sex words most frequently appearing in my latest erotic story...

cock - 17 times
ass, asshole - 14 (12, 2)

That's a lot of cocks and asses!

 

[Rand]

that's not rain - - - - - that's drool


great pictures - - - - quarter-close much too busy this week to get something arranged.

 

[ElmosToe]

Nice touch having the water source absent.

Not to mention just a hint of cock. Very tastefully done Red, excellent choices.

EJ, I was thinking, if you are ever short some words on a 5,000 word story, just throw a few cocks in there!

 

[ElmosToe]

In honor of the upcoming Earth Day 4/22/13.....

Rocks....on the rocks.

 

[Rand]

Elmoe,

Very nice sir - - - a fitting tribute to mother earth.

 

[redfox70]

that's not rain - - - - - that's drool

great pictures - - - - quarter-close much too busy this week to get something arranged.

Thanks You've also been very busy recently with that other list

Very tastefully done Red, excellent choices.

Thank you

EJ, I was thinking, if you are ever short some words on a 5,000 word story, just throw a few cocks in there!

I doubt if she is ever short on words but I think she does that anyway!

In honor of the upcoming Earth Day 4/22/13.....

Rocks....on the rocks.

Great post, gorgeous pictures

However, you're starting to freak me out! No word of a lie, I've got a bookmark which includes a number of similar pictures which I've been meaning to go through to create a similar theme to the one you've done! Have you hacked into my computer?! Were we separated at birth?!

 

[ElmosToe]

^ was thinking the same thing, since I suppose we are even now as you stole one of my future theme ideas with your set this week.

Starting to get scary...

 

[redfox70]

*plays theme from The Twilight Zone*



Well, I think you should still do the wet theme one week. I'd be interested to see what you come up with. What would be even scarier is if you came up with any of the pictures that I didn't post this week!

 

[EJMichaels]

^ Another long lost cousin, perhaps?

Thanks, everyone, for all the great pics. I don't have any for you now - my regular source is full of gifs that aren't worth the loading time, plus pages and pages of some Brazilian model. Hmm, maybe I should have saved a couple of him.

Anyway - for this week: Thirteen of my recent book acquisitions with LGBT themes. They're not all here yet, so no picture. I bought two tonight (#10 and 11) because they each have a story by Dominic Santi. One of those stories also appeared in a book I didn't buy because I had 7 of the stories in other books. I'll get it anyway, eventually, because having the Best Gay Erotica series without the 2013 edition wouldn't feel right (and then I'll have 8 stories duplicated).


Erotic fiction and memoir

1. Manhandled: Gripping Tales of Gay Erotic Fiction - edited by Austin Foxxe.
2. Best Gay Erotica 2012 - another in the annual series edited (usually) by Richard Labonte
3. Biker Boys: Gay Erotic Stories - edited by Christopher Pierce
4. Beautiful Boys: Gay Erotic Stories - edited by Richard Labonte
5. Where the Boys Are: Urban Gay Erotica - edited by Richard Labonte
6. Even Our Fantasies: a Compendium of Gay Erotica
7. The Penguin Book of International Gay Writing
8. The Palace of Varieties - by James Lear
9. From Boys to Men: Gay Men Write About Growing Up - by Robert Williams. I especially like this collection.
10. Wild Boys: Gay Erotic Fiction
11. Middle Men: Gay Erotic Threesomes
12. Fool for Love: New Gay Fiction

13. Assorted non-fiction (okay, I'm messing with the count here)

- Gender Outlaw: on Men, Women and the Rest of Us - by Kate Bornstein
- Sisters, Sexperts, Queers: Beyond the Lesbian Nation
- Men Are Pigs, But We Love Bacon: Not-So-Straight Answers From America's Most Outrageous Gay Sex Columnist - by Michael Alvear
- Life Outside-the Signorile Report on Gay Men: Sex, Drugs, Muscles, and the Passages of Life

 

[Rand]

Etymology
Apparently a variation on UMBrella + paraCHUTE; American in origin, it has become associated with British umbrellas, but has never been a Briticism.

April showers bring ....................