Author Archives: adventurerliberated

Today, my boy-chest turns 18 months old — or maybe I should say, or would rather say, 18 months young!  Part of my celebration for it included going swimming at the local outdoor pool and letting my whole body, wearing only short, tight Speedo-like trunks, bask in the sunshine and revel in the water.  IContinue reading “18 months!”

Last Wednesday, I spent most of the day with a dear friend whom I had met in California during the pandemic. They were here for several days to visit their partner’s family and made time to spend a day with me. It was one of those “gems” although it started out with me bursting intoContinue reading

In the second half of the first book of The Extraordinaries by TJ Klune, when Nick & his best friend Seth are still grappling with their own “beyond-platonic” feelings for each other, there’s a very touching moment when Nick cannot help himself and blurts out to Seth, “You make my heart so full I thinkContinue reading ““You make my heart so full…””

Another thing that I could feel, I could hear in the moment of clear semi-awakeness last night was the words “gay boy, gay boy — but what type of ‘gay boy’?”  These two words keep coming back to me when I think of myself on my own and even when I describe myself to friendsContinue reading “Gay boy/guy: what type?”

[Trigger warning: death of parent, loss grief.]  [Spoiler alert: some details about the book “Heat Wave” by TJ Klune.] Last night I had one of the sweetest moments in a dream ever.  In the past couple of evenings, the parts I’ve been reading in the book “Heat Wave” (the third book in The Extraordinaries trilogyContinue reading “The sweetest dream”

What forms our consciousness? What gives us our sense of “self”?  This question has always fascinated me, as it has thousands of people. Since fully realizing and wholly coming to live my non-binary trans identity, though, this question has acquired a deeper meaning, maybe more complicated and/or simply more personal.  As I stepped out ofContinue reading “I recognize this guy”

[Trigger warning: grief, loss, death of parent.] Sometime between tonight and tomorrow (I’m not exactly sure because of the 8-hour time difference) it’s going to be the one-year anniversary of my father’s death.  I don’t really know how I feel about it.  It seems so distant, almost unreal, belonging to another life. All of lastContinue reading “Different shades of grief — or lack thereof”

[Spoiler alert: details about the stories & characters in TJ Klune’s books “The Extraordinaries” & “Flash Fire”] I’m devouring the book “Flash Fire”, TJ Klune’s sequel to “The Extraordinaries”.  Once again, like with the first book, I cannot put it down because of living vicariously through the story, identifying very strongly — maybe too closelyContinue reading ““Tell me lies, Tell me sweet little lies””

I feel like I’m a mix between a teenage boy trying to figure out his queer-related conundrums and an adult going through an existential mid-life crisis. A combination that I wouldn’t recommend to anyone!  As I’ve mentioned before, I feel like I’m going through puberty all over, a queer teenage boy trying to figure thingsContinue reading “Queer teenage boy trying to figure things out”

My favorite book as a teenager was “Extraterrestre alla pari” by Bianca Pitzorno.  I don’t even know how it turned up in our house… Maybe my parents found it or traded it in at some local library thinking it was a science-fiction book, from the title, and that I would thus enjoy it because ofContinue reading ““Extraterrestre alla pari””