Quoin???

[kellydeer.livejournal.com]

At the risk of sounding completely ignorant...can someone please tell me what the hell a 'Quoin' is???

I've been around this fandom for quite a while & have never figured it out & never bothered to ask anyone. I did look up the term & found the following definition (via the Mirriam-Webster dictionary):

1: a solid exterior angle (as of a building) b: one of the members (as a block) forming a quoin and usually differentiated from the adjoining walls by material, texture, color, size, or projection


2: the keystone or a voussoir of an arch


3: a wooden or expandable metal block used by printers to lock up a form within a chase

Somehow I'm guessing none of these are what the term means in the QAF fandom. From what I can gather, it is (for lack of a better term) a male whore house. If so, I was just wondering how the term came to be used as such when I've found no definition even closely resembling that.

If this should not be posted here, please advise. Thanks!


UPDATE: No one really knows how the word Quoin became associated with a male brothel, but thanks to its_french, this is the closest definition for the word:

Here's what Urban Dictionary has to say about it:
To unceremoniously bend someone over and take them from behind.

Looking for author, ARIEL

[lindsay22la.livejournal.com]

I just re-read a story I’d saved last year, “How We Began (and How We Will End)” by Ariel.  I’d forgotten how very, very much I enjoyed this story.  I decided to find other work by Ariel, so I went to the original story link at Queer Eyes.  But I received a message that said “Access denied. This story has not been validated by the administrators of this site”.  Huh?  The story was there a year ago!  And she’s no longer listed as an author there.  I found an Ariel on LJ (journal opened in 2000, but no posts, no memories – nada), so it may not be her.  Found one story by an author named Ariel on ATP, but it was a Qaf-UK story.  And I checked the tags page - zip.

So… does anyone know if Ariel wrote more than this one story?  Perhaps under another name?  Does anyone have any of her work – if it exists - saved?



UPDATE:  Ariel writes as blacksatinrose.  Lots of wonderful stories here: 

http://blacksatinrose.livejournal.com/217732.html#cutid1

(Thanks to alicesprings and its_french for the help!)

Brian likes seeing when hope fades away in Justin's eyes

[bogar22.livejournal.com]

 Hi!

A long time ago I read two great stories, but now I can't find them.

1) In the beginning Brian likes seeing when hope fades away in Justin's eyes. Hi likes hurt Justin, and make a habit of it. But than something happens, and Brian realizes that he loves Justin, and want to make him happy. He makes nice things for/with Justin, but Justin can't believe him. But the end, of course, they will be happy together.

2) It's after Ethan. Justin and Brian meet in front of Babylon, and Justin is begging Brian to take him back. Brian agrees on one condition that Justin will do everything what Brian tells him. From that moment Brian makes Justin suffer for his mistakes.

delvalmom found it!
Mesa's No Regrets http://www.queereyes.net/noregrets_01.html

I'm sorry, I can't remember more. And I'm sorry for the mistakes, my English is horrible :(

Thanks!