#port stephens

[allylovesyaxx]

beach vibes w/ my beach baby ❤️‍🔥🥰🌏☀️

@bigballsacksammy

[boricuacherry-blog]

Sun Wei

No one was ever charged for the crime.

[poo-face-mcgoo]

We drove for six hours to take Nellie to the beach - Nellie saw the beach and she said “oh…hell…NO” 😆

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Robert Dawson thought the country inland from Port Stephens (NSW)

truly beautiful: it was thinly studded with single trees, as if planted for ornament . . . It is impossible therefore to pass through such a country . . . without being perpetually reminded of a gentleman's park and grounds . . . The first idea is that of an inhabited and improved country, combined with the pleasurable associations of a civilized society.²

2. Nov 1826. Robert Dawson, The Present State of Australia, Alburgh, UK, [1830] 1987, pp. 108-9.

"Country: Future Fire, Future Farming" - Bill Gammage and Bruce Pascoe

[yetanothersaint]

Pindimar Lake House in Port Stephens by Casey Brown Architecture

The plan is a cluster of 7 pavilions raised on a platform to avoid flooding and centred on an open court. The pavilions nestle under the existing tree canopy with a large two way fireplace anchoring the central court. Conceived as a cluster of sheds or tents, the simple mono pitched roofs minimise their presence while letting in sun and breezes between the buildings. The pavilions collect and store their own water in 4 large above-ground tanks, two of which are kept for fire fighting. Waste is treated on site with an Envirocycle system. The two-sided central fireplace made from off form concrete heats both the main living pavilion and the central court. Cooling is achieved by sliding walls, opening louvres and electric ceiling fans.

[rajlakshmihb]

Sand boarding at Nelson Bay| Port Stephens | Australia

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[newwavesylviaplath]

derry, maine (technically)

[tjalexandernyc]

My next book is out today!

Second Chances in New Port Stephen is...the book I think I'm the proudest of so far. If you are queer or gay or trans or questioning or an elder millennial or Floridian or a single dad or a washed up comedian or a fan of manatees--this one's for you.

You can order it here.

[les-portes-du-sud]

Lire et écrire sont deux points de résistance à l’absolutisme du monde. »

Christian Bobin

« L’acte d’écrire peut ouvrir tant de portes, comme si un stylo n’était pas vraiment une plume, mais une étrange variété de passe-partout. »

Stephen King

« La lecture est l’apothéose de l’écriture. »

Alberto Manguel

[eldrytchcryptid]

(Spoilers Ahead)

I wrote this review on Goodreads too but like every trans dude of like adult age needs to read this damn book-

A trans man, as a romance protagonist in an actual adult novel.

Have you ever loved the words on the page of a book so much you wanted to rip them from the spine and stuff the paper into your mouth and digest them?

I think I might sleep with this book under my pillow for the next year just to absorb it into my bloodstream through osmosis.

When I tell you I have been waiting years for trans men to be properly represented in romance (or just ANY adult media at all), this book decided to grab me by the throat and force tear after tear from my eyes until I was sobbing and hollering with laughter, slamming the book down on my bed to the point where I may actually get charged with abuse.

There were points in this book where I thought I needed to check my brain for cameras - I can't speak for every trans man of course, but having the ftm experience so seamlessly written from an actually confident trans man in his identity with the same inability to realise people actually want to be around him, and the same kind of trans dick jokes and mourning over childhood - at certain point, especially when they redid the photos I started crying only to realise that Eli was crying to like "Ye bro I'd be crying too in that scenario damn."

I have truly, truly never felt so represented in a book - and I was starting to give up hope that I would ever see a trans man in an adult book who was PROPERLY written that I-

I can only thank @tjalexandernyc for writing this and hope that this is the start of trans men beginning to come into their own to being represented as something other than in teen media.

Transness aside, the book is beautifully written with amazing humour and heartwarming scenes that ripped me into thin little ribbons.

And the only qualm I had is that Eli didn't dick Nick down. I need a novella of just them exploring each other. Please. The sex scenes were just exquisite and hilarious.

I'm also gonna put some of my favourite bits here cause I have to.

[furiouspatience]

[kastillia]

[johannestevans]

Jack aubrey is so funny

"When under stress, jack either wanted to fight, or to fuck"

And maturin has made it clear he will NOT fight with him

[lgbtqreads]

New Releases: December 2023

Caught in a Bad Fauxmance by Elle Gonzalez Rose (5th) Devin Báez is prepared for a relaxing winter break after his rough, first semester of art school. Sure, his family’s old Florida lake cabin is falling apart, and everything in it reminds him of his late mom. And yes, the Baezes’ next-door neighbors, the Seo-Cookes, are still petty, but things could be worse. That is, until Devin runs into the…

[transbookoftheday]

Second Chances in New Port Stephen by TJ Alexander

Eli Ward hasn’t been back to his suffocating hometown of New Port Stephen, Florida, in ages. Post-transition and sober, he’s a completely different person from the one who left years ago. But when a scandal threatens his career as a TV writer and comedian, he has no choice but to return home for the holidays. He can only hope he’ll survive his boisterous, loving, but often misguided family and hide the fact that his dream of comedy success has become a nightmare.

Just when he thinks this trip couldn’t get any worse, Eli bumps into his high school ex, Nick Wu, who’s somehow hotter than ever. Divorced and in his forties, Nick’s world revolves around his father, his daughter, and his job. But even a busy life can’t keep him from being intrigued by the reappearance of Eli.

Against the backdrop of one weird Floridian Christmas, the two must decide whether to leave the past in the past…or move on together.