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Differences of opinions pushed to the side and objective goggles snapped on, we can see most characters hold some kind of appeal. That's the point of design/casting! Luckily, we've distilled the science of magnetism into four distinct categories: cute, sexy, beautiful, or cool. Time to figure out where your beloved muse falls!
How to play.
- Reply with your character
- Others will categorize them as cute, sexy, beautiful, or cool.
- Of course, some restrictions may apply. There's always a troll in the crowd - ugly may just slip into the conversation. Or unique, or 'face only a mother could love.' We know.
How to play.
- Reply with your character
- Others will categorize them as cute, sexy, beautiful, or cool.
- Of course, some restrictions may apply. There's always a troll in the crowd - ugly may just slip into the conversation. Or unique, or 'face only a mother could love.' We know.
smutty pics
Nov. 22nd, 2025 07:40 amthesearesocks posting in bakerstreet
smut π picture prompts
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Soulmates
Nov. 22nd, 2025 09:25 ambuckynats posting in bakerstreet
soulmate meme ;
βΈ post your character β
βΈ you're now in a universe where destined soul mates exist! β
βΈ rng for the type of au and for the ~situation~ β
βΈ tag around ♥ β
type of au;
1. tats, your character has a tattoo of the first words the love of their life will say to them
2. familiars, your character has an animal tattoo representing their soul mate on them
3. glow, the first time your character sees their soul mate, their chests glow!
4. world in color, life is literally black and white, until you see your soul mate for the first time
5. choose your own, i'm definitely missing a milly because i'm lazy, pick your own
situation;
1. first meeting, you've never met this person before.
2. childhood mates, you've always known this person -- but on one particular birthday, everything changes.
3. together, you've been in a relationship for awhile now! happily wed or not, you decide.
4. not together, you've known you're soul mates for a long time, and yet have avoided a relationship.
5. choose your own, self explanatory c:
Pan-Fried Onion Dip
Nov. 22nd, 2025 08:06 amnverland posting in creative_cooks
Pan-Fried Onion Dip
Total Time: 1 hr 10 min Prep: 10 min Inactive: 30 min Cook: 30 min Yield: 2 cups
Ingredients
2 large yellow onions
4 tablespoons unsalted butter
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1/4 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
4 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 cup good mayonnaise
Directions
Cut the onions in half and then slice them into 1/8-inch thick half-rounds. (You will have about 3 cups of onions.) Heat the butter and oil in a large sautΓ© pan over medium heat. Add the onions, cayenne, salt, and pepper and sautΓ© for 10 minutes. Reduce the heat to medium-low and cook, stirring occasionally, for 20 more minutes until the onions are browned and caramelized. Allow the onions to cool.
Place the cream cheese, sour cream and mayonnaise in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment and beat until smooth. Add the onions and mix well. Taste for seasonings. Serve at room temperature.
Picture Diary 109
Nov. 22nd, 2025 01:03 pmpoliphiloPicture Diary 109
1. Have a strawberry
2. The party faithful
3. Sunset
4. Two Women
5. Satori
6. The President is leaving office
1. Have a strawberry
2. The party faithful
3. Sunset
4. Two Women
5. Satori
6. The President is leaving office
2025 Writing Log, Part 46
Nov. 22nd, 2025 06:36 amrynling( Read more... )
Oh man. Itβs been a week. I need a vacation.
Iβm having a time of it, but I hope good things happen to everyone reading this. β
Oh man. Itβs been a week. I need a vacation.
Iβm having a time of it, but I hope good things happen to everyone reading this. β
Holding Things Together
Nov. 22nd, 2025 08:25 ampoliphilo The larger and livelier a group becomes the more likely it is that trouble will arise and cliques will form. We get around 15-25 people attending worship at our Meeting House on a Sunday and around 10 on a Thursday. People drop in, people drop out. I make it my business to know the names and a little of the background of everyone who shows up but sometimes memory fails. We're at a level where unity becomes hard to maintain- and I'm aware of hairline cracks that could become fissures.
At area level- where Quakers from Meetings spread across half of Sussex from Seaford to Rye try to find common ground- there is undisguised disharmony. Ailz is at a get together this afternoon which will be dealing with the bugger-up that occured last Sunday. She says our visit to Bunhill Fields has helped her put things in perspective. When you're walking across the unmarked graves of nearly 100 people who died for their faith in the ghastly prisons of 17th century London the dissension and hurt we're experiencing seems not so very important.....
At area level- where Quakers from Meetings spread across half of Sussex from Seaford to Rye try to find common ground- there is undisguised disharmony. Ailz is at a get together this afternoon which will be dealing with the bugger-up that occured last Sunday. She says our visit to Bunhill Fields has helped her put things in perspective. When you're walking across the unmarked graves of nearly 100 people who died for their faith in the ghastly prisons of 17th century London the dissension and hurt we're experiencing seems not so very important.....
Theory of value.
Nov. 22nd, 2025 02:16 pmalisxBusiness is, at its core, selling you something worth two dollars for four dollars because you think it’s on sale from six dollars.
When the freakin’ accidentally (?) discovers Marxism.
Horny Confessions
Nov. 21st, 2025 09:05 pmeddiestrangerthings posting in bakerstreet
β Comment with your character/prefs.
β Other characters are forced to admit their horny, dirty thoughts and confessions about yours. No matter the situation, no matter the relationship, no matter how long they've known each other.
β Be sexy. Be stupid.
β Other characters are forced to admit their horny, dirty thoughts and confessions about yours. No matter the situation, no matter the relationship, no matter how long they've known each other.
β Be sexy. Be stupid.
Sharing Feast
Nov. 21st, 2025 06:41 pmtheradicalchildThe Feast of Sharing last night was okay, and while there was a line to get in it moved quickly.
I sat at a table I had to share with other strangers.
Everyone stood and said the US Pledge of Allegiance. I don't say it since I consider pledging allegiance to a flag symbolic of a country that did evil shit throughout its history and whose founding principles I disagree with ("all men are created equal' and "merciless Indian Savages") to be idolatry (and that's a big no-no in Christianity. I'm more of a civic nationalist than anything else. We said the Texas Pledge of Allegiance afterward and I have no issue with it since it separates honoring the Texas flag and pledging allegiance to Texas.
They had a choir that was really painful to listen to, and I couldn't eat all of my food since I'm more sensitive to taste than I used to before.
As I was leaving a guy named Abhiram Garapati handed me a flyer and he's running for Congress, and I assume John Carter, who's one of the oldest members of Congress in his 80s, may be retiring. I agree with priorities so I'll likely vote for him in the primaries. I likely will be voting for another U.S. Senate candidate other than John Cornyn since he's pretty much equivocated on being MAGA in terms of past words and supporting much of the stuff Biden did. His two main challengers are Ken Paxton, who has a kickass record as attorney general but recently divorced so I think that may be used against him, and Congressman Wesley Hunt, whom I may likely vote for.
I brought one of my cigars and went to the town saloon afterwards to smoke it and have a Sprite Zero before heading home.
I'm not reading any more books until I finish Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Bible which I am reading along with my King James Bible. I had purchased The Gender Trap by Carla Curtis from Gays Against Groomers (since it's unavailable in digital form) and will read it eventually.
My sleep was meh as usual as I'm still impatient as fuck when sleeping, and my bladder issues don't help. I ordered a cheap sleep apnea nose thing from Amazon that I hope may help and am waiting on a bladder clip from Temu I hope helps as well. I think prostate issues could be at fault so I may see my primary care doctor.
The Catholic church usually has a food pantry giveaway on Fridays but I drove out and found they were closed. There is another one at Refuge Ministries in town that I've been to before so I'll go to bed early so I can get out early and hopefully avoid the large traffic if possible. I did go shopping for some stuff afterwards.
The church in walking distance of my home had a Thanksgiving meal though it wasn't very appetizing, but I still ate my fill.
I got two $100 payments for my clinical trial in Phoenix, and I found I will be getting another $255, so yay.
Mind's pretty much a blank today.
I sat at a table I had to share with other strangers.
Everyone stood and said the US Pledge of Allegiance. I don't say it since I consider pledging allegiance to a flag symbolic of a country that did evil shit throughout its history and whose founding principles I disagree with ("all men are created equal' and "merciless Indian Savages") to be idolatry (and that's a big no-no in Christianity. I'm more of a civic nationalist than anything else. We said the Texas Pledge of Allegiance afterward and I have no issue with it since it separates honoring the Texas flag and pledging allegiance to Texas.
They had a choir that was really painful to listen to, and I couldn't eat all of my food since I'm more sensitive to taste than I used to before.
As I was leaving a guy named Abhiram Garapati handed me a flyer and he's running for Congress, and I assume John Carter, who's one of the oldest members of Congress in his 80s, may be retiring. I agree with priorities so I'll likely vote for him in the primaries. I likely will be voting for another U.S. Senate candidate other than John Cornyn since he's pretty much equivocated on being MAGA in terms of past words and supporting much of the stuff Biden did. His two main challengers are Ken Paxton, who has a kickass record as attorney general but recently divorced so I think that may be used against him, and Congressman Wesley Hunt, whom I may likely vote for.
I brought one of my cigars and went to the town saloon afterwards to smoke it and have a Sprite Zero before heading home.
I'm not reading any more books until I finish Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Bible which I am reading along with my King James Bible. I had purchased The Gender Trap by Carla Curtis from Gays Against Groomers (since it's unavailable in digital form) and will read it eventually.
My sleep was meh as usual as I'm still impatient as fuck when sleeping, and my bladder issues don't help. I ordered a cheap sleep apnea nose thing from Amazon that I hope may help and am waiting on a bladder clip from Temu I hope helps as well. I think prostate issues could be at fault so I may see my primary care doctor.
The Catholic church usually has a food pantry giveaway on Fridays but I drove out and found they were closed. There is another one at Refuge Ministries in town that I've been to before so I'll go to bed early so I can get out early and hopefully avoid the large traffic if possible. I did go shopping for some stuff afterwards.
The church in walking distance of my home had a Thanksgiving meal though it wasn't very appetizing, but I still ate my fill.
I got two $100 payments for my clinical trial in Phoenix, and I found I will be getting another $255, so yay.
Mind's pretty much a blank today.
greet a new morning together
Nov. 21st, 2025 06:27 pmanonconda posting in bakerstreet
βββββββββββββββββ a meme
β COMMENT WITH YOUR CHARACTER'S NAME, FANDOM, AND PREFERENCE.
β PICK A CHARACTER YOU WANT TO TAG AND HIT UP RNG (01-10), OR CHOOSE A SCENE OF YOUR OWN.
β PLAY NICE; NO WANK, FLAMES, OR GENERAL HUMBUGGERY.
( keep in mind that sexual scenarios are the basis of this meme! please enter with caution )
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Film Review - Oliver & Company
Nov. 21st, 2025 05:39 pmtheradicalchild
Why Should I Worry?
I may have heard about Disney's Oliver & Company, based on Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, when advertised during the 1990s during the company's VHS releases of its old animated films but never really watched it in full until recently.Oliver is a tabby cat kitten befriended by a Jack Russell named Dodger (voiced by Billy Joel), who becomes his mentor and ultimately leads him to a barge with his fellow canine friends, including Tito the Chihuahua (voiced by Cheech Marin). Their owner, a thief named Fagin (voiced by the late Dom DeLuise), is indebted to a loan shark named Sykes (voiced by Robert Loggia) and has three days to pay his debt or else.
As Fagin attempts to pawn some of his stolen goods, he has a run-in with the Foxworth family, whose child, Jenny, fears her parents won't be home for her eighth birthday, and she adopts Oliver to the chagrin of her poodle Georgette (voiced by Bette Midler). Fagin kidnaps Oliver back for ransom then about-faces and wants to give him back, only for unexpected events to occur culminating in the rest of the film's events.
While it does obviously deviate from Dickens' work, I found Oliver & Company one of Disney's more underrated films given its endearing characters, storyline, the star-studded voice cast, pretty animation, and nice musical numbers, and would easily recommend it.
The Good
- Pretty animation.
- Great soundtrack and musical numbers.
- Cute animal cast.
- Star-studded voice cast.
The Bad
- Obviously deviates from the source material.
Googling Yourself Is Strange
Nov. 21st, 2025 04:38 pmozma914Yeah, I Google myself ... what's your point? And I found out things I, the Googled, um, Google-ee, never knew.
Okay, so, Haunted Noble County is available in the Netherlands. No, seriously:
https://www.bruna.nl/engelse-boeken/haunted-noble-county-indiana-9781467156066
You can read it to yourself, if you can read it. Which I can't.
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| If one of you can't afford the book, go Dutch. |
I haven't gotten around to contacting local libraries about getting copies of our newer books (I know, my fault), but somebody has. Somebody, specifically, in the Plainfield-Guilford Twp Public Library in Plainfield, where Haunted Noble County, Indiana, Images of America: Albion and Noble County, and Smoky Days and Sleepless Nights are shelved in new local history & genealogy. Or so I'm told. It turns out all of our books are evergreens, or more specifically available through the Evergreen library system:
I found our 21Alive TV interview on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdh8YfU6JiU
Which makes us a YouTube sensation? No? But we're there, anyway.
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| "Missed it by THAT much." |
Our publisher posted about us on Twitter ... I mean X ... nah, it's Twitter:
https://x.com/HistoryBoooks/status/1957025429329514775
Which, I guess there's really no reason for me to know.
This is also how I discovered I'm now a top 10 Amazon author. Well, sort of: I did make it to number 8, but it was in a subcategory. But the good news is, I can just leave out that small detail.
None of this really bothers me--they're just fun surprises. It reminds me of when I did an interview at the WAWK studio in Kendallville, and right after we stopped at the nearby Walgreens to discover Images of America: Albion and Noble County on a book display. I knew the publisher was going to try to get the word out: I just didn't know when or where.
The Netherlands thing was a shock, though.
It’s really not hard to find us, even without Google:
· Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B0058CL6OO
· Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/"Mark R Hunter"
· Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4898846.Mark_R_Hunter
· Blog: https://markrhunter.blogspot.com/
· Website: http://www.markrhunter.com/
· Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ozma914/
· Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarkRHunter914
· Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markrhunter/
· Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarkRHunter
· Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@MarkRHunter
· Substack: https://substack.com/@markrhunter
· Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/ozma914
· Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/ozma914
· Audible: https://www.audible.com/search?searchAuthor=Mark+R.+Hunter&ref_pageloadid=4C1TS2KZGoOjloaJ&pf
Remember: Other than sales, an author’s favorite things are reviews and library reads.
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The demographic future
Nov. 21st, 2025 04:26 pmrebeccmeisterThe most recent issue of the journal Science has an "expert voices" article on The demographic future that we do not know about. It is paywalled, but if population demography is a topic that interests you it may be worth figuring out a method to access it.
The main thesis of the article deals with how a narrative about "the demographic transition" has been the major narrative about population demographics for much of the 20th century, but about how now, that narrative isn't so relevant anymore (we're largely past the point of a demographic transition on a global scale) and new thinking is needed about what could happen to human populations in the future.
If you aren't acquainted with it, the "demographic transition" refers to a change in population-level demographics that seems to occur whenever human populations get better access to education and other aspects of modern life (healthcare, etc): there tends to be a shift from high mortality and high fertility, to low mortality and low fertility. That has indeed played out across many human populations across the globe; so the question now is, now what? What will happen next?
The article notes there's a general consensus that the human population will likely peak in the second half of this century, and then decline. People quibble over the details, but not over the idea that human population growth will become limited.
This is kind of a big deal. Historically, there have been hysterics over the consequences of exponential human population growth. And think for a moment about the era of China's one-child policy.
But what will happen under an alternate scenario, and how will it happen? We're seeing some extent of population contraction in the northeastern U.S. right now, and it's hard to know what to make of it all.
The main thesis of the article deals with how a narrative about "the demographic transition" has been the major narrative about population demographics for much of the 20th century, but about how now, that narrative isn't so relevant anymore (we're largely past the point of a demographic transition on a global scale) and new thinking is needed about what could happen to human populations in the future.
If you aren't acquainted with it, the "demographic transition" refers to a change in population-level demographics that seems to occur whenever human populations get better access to education and other aspects of modern life (healthcare, etc): there tends to be a shift from high mortality and high fertility, to low mortality and low fertility. That has indeed played out across many human populations across the globe; so the question now is, now what? What will happen next?
The article notes there's a general consensus that the human population will likely peak in the second half of this century, and then decline. People quibble over the details, but not over the idea that human population growth will become limited.
This is kind of a big deal. Historically, there have been hysterics over the consequences of exponential human population growth. And think for a moment about the era of China's one-child policy.
But what will happen under an alternate scenario, and how will it happen? We're seeing some extent of population contraction in the northeastern U.S. right now, and it's hard to know what to make of it all.
The Friday Five, 11/21/2025
Nov. 21st, 2025 02:35 pmtheradicalchildFrom thefridayfive:
1. What's your favourite TV network?
I don't watch regular network television anymore just streaming, and I guess Disney+.
2. If you could create your own channel, what would it be?
One dedicated solely to shows featuring anthropomorphic furry characters.
3. What TV show did you watch as a child, that you wish they would bring back?
I don't know, nostalgia is a seductive liar.
4. What show have you always hated, and wonder why they ever made such a dumb show?
I used to watch The Simpsons but lost interest due to the whole child abuse and school violence things, which have largely been the stories of my life (though said "violence" was far more verbal and psychological in my case). I generally don't like shows that constantly reference current events, which makes them age really badly in reruns, and their longevity as a result seems really artificial.
5. What TV show's seasons would you buy on DVD?
None of them.
thefridayfive:1. What's your favourite TV network?
I don't watch regular network television anymore just streaming, and I guess Disney+.
2. If you could create your own channel, what would it be?
One dedicated solely to shows featuring anthropomorphic furry characters.
3. What TV show did you watch as a child, that you wish they would bring back?
I don't know, nostalgia is a seductive liar.
4. What show have you always hated, and wonder why they ever made such a dumb show?
I used to watch The Simpsons but lost interest due to the whole child abuse and school violence things, which have largely been the stories of my life (though said "violence" was far more verbal and psychological in my case). I generally don't like shows that constantly reference current events, which makes them age really badly in reruns, and their longevity as a result seems really artificial.
5. What TV show's seasons would you buy on DVD?
None of them.
