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'.

What a great twist to a hypn/conversion story. now where is that amusements arcade and the horse racing game? once trained i can see the boys running other franchises of the amusements arcade in other towns

Oh no. My phone didn't pick anything up, or the function on here. Sorry!

i love a good mental regression/dumber story, but a little variety is always a good thing. and you definitely proved that you can change things up some without sacrificing quality! fun narrative, short and sweet, two thumbs up

@Van I agree with you, Kyle is super hot, he's my favorite Lantern by far. You'll be happy to know there's more on the way (far more), even some monster size chapters. I'll post the next chapter soon!

@New Guy in Town thanks, I'm glad you like it! I think I'll post the next chapter tomorrow, and then one each week.