Great finish to an amazing story. Reminds me of the late night chats you and I would have where we'd create regression stories like this. (Of course I'd often end up babbling baby talk and back in diapers). Lost track of you after the Tumblr purge. So glad to see you sharing stories here!!

now who is next? the pub's owner turned into a daddy type ( the question is series, the owner part was a joke)

he looks like a daddy to me, so i would go for a daddy skinhead

This was equal parts hot and adorable, omg! Ethan is cute as *hell* as a protagonist, and his puppy dog enthusiasm is hilarious and endearing. Also, ugh, there should be more stories with oblivious controllers/hypnotists, you handled it just right and it turned out playful, entertaining, and *extremely hot*... cant wait to catch up on the other chapters some other day!

This was such a fun read! I feel like I need to divide my comments into "sexytimes" and "worldbuilding" because both were really well done and really distinct and hot... First off, this is such a fun and specific world! Without being given explicit exposition you convey the kind of... atmosphere of it and the mechanics in such an interesting way. It has this post-apocalyptic melancholy fantasy feel to it that I kind of *adore.* I'm also just a slut for any sort of magical mist so I was very into that lmao. And then the *sex,* ohhhh boy... the sex was really hot Dace what can I say... You described the intenseness and kind of intimacy of all the physical sensations so well, like, even just hearing a character's internal monologue on how something felt was a turn on without anything even *happening*. I really hope you end up continuing this story, or exploring this world further in a spin off! The world is fascinating and would be compelling even without the sexual bent, and I'm so excited to see where Jacob's mist-touched transformations go from here...

Apropos the "rogue university project" scenario, the BBC are currently running a story about a man who underwent a course of "gay conversion therapy" (electric shock based aversion therapy, by the sound of it) run by a "clinical psychologist" in the 1970s. The man is complaining of lingering harm from the process, and looking for an apology. The university is shrugging off as the researcher's "private project". [](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-55263392) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-55263392

I adored this in every way, and the only thing that I wish were different is that I wish it were a *novel.* Your use of language is beautiful, and your pacing excellent, as are pretty much all your writerly skills in this piece. The way you describe the fae creatures of the world you've created perfectly combines hot with unnerving, and realistic with fantastical. It was all *lovely,* all visual and whimsical and deeply arousing in such a fantastic way! I want to comment a bit on my favorite thing you do here, which is the way you use language, speech, words, and meter as both a literary and narrative tool. I know you didn't exactly *invent* the lore that, in the Faerie realm, words have more power or significance, but you execute it *brilliantly.* From the way different varieties of character speak differently to the magic-laced words that lure Chance into a spell, to the little bits of linguistic play, like "happen-Chance"... Possibly my favorite part of the whole thing is how the climax is essentially a battle of wit and a battle of words, turning the usual Fae trickery on its head as Fairchilde plays this kind of linguistic game with Robin. It was lovely!! Both entertaining and gripping, which is hard to do when you haven't *explicitly* set up the exact rules of what power words seem to have in this world. I may be off base with my reading there, but it's something which stood out to me and brought me a lot of joy as I read. I do wish we got to see more of how Chance behaved with Fairchilde afterwards, and what the lasting mark of the fair folk did to him in his everyday life, but you've built a rich enough world and characters that I feel well-equipped to imagine for myself. I could go on and on about this for a pretty long time, and comment on all the individual lines and pieces of worldbuilding which brought a smile to my face or a, uh, different kind of excitement to *other* notable parts of me (lol), but... suffice to say, I loved it.

Short and sweet. I'm always happy when other gay men learn to let go of their religiously imposed guilt, and embrace their god-given sexuality and express it more freely.

Aahhhh I remember this from nifty a couple years back, didn't realize it was a Dace original!! 😄

This from Wikipedia: Xavier comes from the name of the Jesuit missionary saint Francis Xavier, where Xavier stands for his birthplace of Javier (Xabier in Basque; Xavier in Old Spanish) in the Kingdom of Navarre. The toponym is itself the romanization of the Basque place-name (and surname) etxe berri, meaning 'castle', 'new house' or 'new home'.