#2nd version doesn't have a texture over it

[hollowsart]

My favorite page from the newest Spider-Ham comic!

I'm never doing this again

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Here we have a kind of castle, Las Vegas, NV style. It was built in 2006, has 6bds, 7ba, and is priced at $10M.

I don't know exactly where this waterfall is, but it looks like it's in an entrance somewhere.

The sitting room lets in the desert sun and has 2 doors to the outside. It also has a bar and several flat screens on the wall.

There's also a mezzanine over the sitting room, and a curved, textured ceiling.

I think that I would rather sit in the library. I love the 2nd floor stacks.

There's also a nice home theater. I like when a home theater looks more like a smaller version of real theater.

I don't know why the photographer took a photo of this, but it looks like a magician's hat and table backstage.

Very personalized home office.

Meanwhile, outside it's time for a giant, glowing game of chess.

The narrow dining room seats 16, but seems kind of tight. There appears to be an open room above it.

This is such a huge, spread-out home, that you can really get lost. The large kitchen has white and natural wood cabinetry with solid black counters. Every room, no matter which it is, has art way up the walls to the 2nd story level.

The halls are narrow and appear to me as if you're sneaking around behind the scenes.

This lounge features a vintage barber chair and what looks like a bar.

This looks like either a snack table or a game table.

This 2nd kitchen is possibly part of the rec room.

You can walk along the top of the castle and yell things at approaching guests, just like Monty Python.

The large home is circular and includes 10.05 acres of Nevada dessert land.

There is a gate at the entrance to the property, plus what looks like a large gatehouse. Possibly a jail to detain trespassers? I can't understand why the fence doesn't go all the way around.

The house looks like it was built on a man-made mound and a long driveway leads up to it.

There's a gigantic parking area and I think that the white house is the main entrance.

Here you can better see the round curvature of the building.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1280-Scooter-St-Henderson-NV-89002/70055558_zpid/?

[sheepwavehdg]

HDG Story Recs: Sheepwaveiverse

so, fuck it, gonna do a writeup of all my own major fics. if they have a genderswapped version, that has its own link. this isn't actually even all of them, some of my oneshots are not on the list. mid length means under 50k words.

Sweet Poppy (F/f), (M/f edit) [Mid length, Completed] - yandere comedy erotica

Amelia is an independent human, who is dating Poppy, one of the aliens that conquered humanity and is known for taking pets. fortunately, Poppy doesn't want a human as a pet, and Amelia is definitely immune to mind control anyway. Its normal for your girlfriend to give you a necklace that doesn't come off, right? And being played with like a docile, empty doll is just a kink thing... As is the training and conditioning... Right? A comedy yandere erotica story with just a tiny bit of psychological horror.

Good Sensory (F/f), (M/f edit)  [Long, ongoing] - autism, asexuality, fluff romance, split human/affini pov

A fluffy autism-celebrating kink/romance story about learning to unmask and be loved as the person you actually are, rather than the one you think you're supposed to be. Sally Fable is easily overwhelmed. bad textures, bad sensations, all of it. she also has a lot of experience being made fun of for how passionate she can get. Marsha Lywick is an alien from beyond the stars who wants to break Sally's masking habits and turn her into the cutest little pet imaginable.

From Pawn To Princess (Pansexual) , (Sapphic Edit) [Long, ongoing] - dragon affini princessification

In the year 2551, Lynn Walsh is a thermal management engineer on a Terran Accord cargo hauler with a love of chess, a bad leg, and a less than perfect partner in the ship’s Captain. Gaelen Echeveria, Second Bloom, is a member of an invading race of imperialist aliens affini who takes after dragons, looking for a human pet to spoil rotten and make into his princess. When Lynn’s ship encounters the affini, the two are fated to meet.

Cat and Mouse (F/f) [Long, ongoing, but in an extended epilogue, the plot is complete] - Predprey, dollkink, plurality

Jenny, an extremely clever rebel, fights tooth and tail against her domestication by the Huntress affini Tamai, managing to outsmart the affini several times along the way. an examination of plurality, how hard it is to trust when you've been burned over and over, and the sapphic eroticism of being chased down in the woods. notably features pred/prey and CGL dollkink. Perhaps the sharpest story in the entire setting, do not go in expecting a story without conflict.

Sycanthe Lantana, First Bloom (F/f) [Mid length, Completed] - comedy, romance, affini pov

an extreme youngbloom with a lot of anxiety navigates her savior complex and her role in the affini compact, helped along by her beloved floret. a sweet romcom. This one is fairly lighthearted and sweet.

Sweet Tooth (F/f) [mid length, ongoing] - kidnap intox sweet tooth fixation noncon

Cowritten with PyxxieStyxx! Katherine Stanton has a very rigid, structured life. she likes her plain oatmeal every day, and reading in the park, even though her home assistant AI nags her to stop wearing grey all the time and mix things up. Sirata Saccharum, fifth bloom, thinks Katherine needs an intervening helping vine to inject a little sweetness into her life, and isn't terribly concerned that Katherine disagrees.

Master, Daddy, and Kitten (M/M/f) [mid length, ongoing] - sweet, poly ace kink, autistic catgirl

a collab with ashinbloom. Kitten is a draftee in a cosmic navy she hates. when two handsome alien plant husbands rescue her, she falls for thier charms very fast. a happy sweet triangle results. a soft, fluffy ace kinky pladdy love story about two adorkable plant husbands and thier pet who is a woman in a cat way.

Cutting Away (F/f, 2nd person) [oneshot] - horror-erotica, noncon, implantation

A horror-erotica story about implantation, set in the human domestication guide universe, exploring the actual process of the implant integration with a human brain.

Alder's Prize (M/f), Adelira's Prize(F/f) [Mid length, Completed] - Noncon, forcefem, scent kink

A forcefem story about a marine who thinks "he" is an alpha wolf gets adopted by an affini who intends to have the happiest little puppygirl slut as a trophy. cowritten with 4WheelSword.

Surrogate Bloom (pansexual) [Mid length, ongoing] - pregnancy kink, polyamory, independent life

a xenophilic hedonist independent human in her fifties, Hannah, is proposed with an idea: let her girlfriend Reiko and her alien boyfriend grow plant biotech inside her lower abdomen for kink reasons. shes super into it, but the journey involves unpacking a lot of why maternalism is something she thinks she can only ever pretend at.

A Taste of Class-Ω (F/f, 2nd person) [oneshot] - Class-O play, Affini Pov, romantic but also kinda scary

a reader(affini) x floret story where 'you' tease your pet with a simulated class-O experience.

Ache of Maculatum (M/f), Song of Picaria (F/f) [Long, Completed] - romance, transhumanism, trauma processing

one of the most brilliant physicists of the terran accord plants her feet in the ground and refuses to adapt to the Compact. This story is both a very horny transhumanist romance, and also a character study in internalized transmisogny, narcisism, and still deserving love no matter what.

The Captain's Toy (M/m) (M/f) (F/f) [oneshot] - imperialism, posthumanism, mind control kink

A standalone sequel oneshot to Aom/Sop, set 750 years later.

Hope for the Future (F/f, 2nd person) [oneshot] - Noncon, Affini Pov, horror-erotica

a second person Affini POV oneshot about meeting a terran "you" (the reader) just really can't stop thinking about, maybe to the point of obsession... A story as much about kink as it is about complicated feelings about art, parasociality, and being misinterpreted.

HDG, Past//Present//Future [Nonfiction Essay]

a nonfiction critical analysis of the Human Domestication Guide setting, community, and fandom as it exists and may change moving forward, from the perspective of an author who writes it.

Vex and Valda (M/f) (F/f edit) [Short, Completed....maybe?] - edgy noncon erotica

a short but very mean forcefem noncon story about a trillionare being taught the value of sharing.

Pencil (F/f) [oneshot] - comedy-erotica, hypnosis, object fixation

A very chill human pet and her extremely anxious owner engage in some silly hypnotic roleplaying with personality overlays and object fixation.

Your Alien Boyfriend Who Definitely Sees You As His Full Equal (M/f second person), (F/f second person edit) [oneshot] - erotica, sadomasochism, dubcon

A oneshot, written in second person about "your" alien partner that likes to play along with the notion you aren't already thier toy, adores how much of a doll you become in thier arms, and knows how much you like to be hurt- better than you do.

David, the Independent Terran (M/f, Male mc) [oneshot] - slice of life, just a guy, independent life, he fucks trans girls and is a cool dude

David is a cisgendered, heterosexual independent Terran living in the Affini compact. No, seriously. He actually is all of those things. His buddies, of course, are now all queer transfem human pets, and this is a story about what parts of thier dynamic have changed, and what parts have stayed the same.

A Wedding In Crimson (F/f second person) [oneshot] - wedding, romance, surgery

Implantation is very analogous to marriage to the affini. what if they were literally combined into a single ceremony? A oneshot, written in second person about "your" wedding to an affini surgeon.

Kristina_Rushko's Domestication Blog (F/f) [oneshot] - Noncon, Experimental formatting

An absolute Karen starts a blog to vent about how she's going to give the affini a piece of her mind when they arrive. things diverge from her expectations.

[missguomeiyun]

lunch @ JinYa Ramen

Hey guys!

Not me being almost 2 months late........ Sorry! I forgot about this meal until I was cleaning up my phone to prepare space for my trip :P

Back in Oct., Susan had her bday lunch here at Jinya Ramen. As a note to my future self/readers, there is currently just the one location in Edm & it is located just off-Jasper Ave. It occupies the former Hoang Long Vietnamese Cuisine Restaurant.

So Jinya is a franchise & I believe this is the 2nd one in Alberta (one in Calgary). They open at 1130 but when we arrived shortly before then, there was already a short line-up despite them being around for several months now.

The view when you 1st enter: the bar area.

Turning to the left, you'll get this view. The restaurant is very narrow; I remember writing the same thing when I wrote about Hoang Long lol it's a very loooooong space.

We got seated in the corner. There aren't many large tables. We got the half-bench & half chair joint-table arrangement as we were a group of 7.

My view.

Menu reading time.

Their drinks & some appetizers.

Okay so. .. lol several of my companions wanted to order drinks. They did not have alcohol at the time so that takes out the entire cocktail section. Out of their 4 mocktails, 1 wasn't available, & 2 contains watermelon. However, they did not have watermelon at the time bcos their staff was busy haha! Thus, only 1 drink from their ENTIRE drink page was order-able. Hilarious.... no?

Their 2nd page. I was a little surprised bcos knowing they were a ramen franchise, I thought their menu would mainly be ramen, or predominantly ramen. They had so much other stuff!

The back-side of menu.

Several of us ordered duplicate items so I'll just share what I ate, followed by unique items my friends ordered.

Left: the pressed salmon & right: the pressed shrimp sushi.

Christina each got one but then we swapped so we tried both versions. I liked the salmon one more bcos of the texture. The shrimp & rice sort of had similar texture. Flavour was lacking; really needed the soy sauce. What I disliked most was the fact that the salmon/shrimp on rice wasn't actually 'together'. The top & bottom were basically 2 separate pieces & the salmon/shrimp seemed like it was just slapped on top. If not good with chopsticks & you held the piece at an angle, they would fall apart & you'd likely get the salmon/shrimp piece on your plate or table. Or on the floor.

The original 2010 with fried onion & corn on the side.

Okay, pls don't tell me it's just me. .. but I find it ridiculous that a 19.50 ramen doesn't contain any corn O_o

Anyway, here is my assembled ramen. Shared the corn with others.

My fav part was the egg! The pork was okay. .. the broth of okayyyy... but very rich. As for the noodles, those were good. Chewy & al dente *thumbs up*

I normally finish noodle soups- everything including the broth but I was unable to for this one. I don't know. It's too much not in terms of amount but the creaminess/thickness of the broth. .. it's not my kind of thing. I don't particularly enjoy this kind of broth. I really don't like ramen that much TBH. I've never had spectacular ramen, nor bad ramen. They're all just alright; I feel indifferent. Like bubbletea, I don't recommend/suggest going but if others wanna go, I'll go haha you know what I mean?

Overall, I think the meal was okay; way over-priced for the amount of satisfaction I got out of it. PS: groups of 6 or more = auto-18% tip.

Here are the other items ordered by my friends:

Crispy rice with spicy tuna. & salad + deep-fried brussel sprouts. The salad & brussel sprouts were part of a combo.

Salmon poke. As per Diana, "you NEEEEED the gyoza dipping sauce." She also said there was an imbalance of salmon to rice ratio (too much rice).

Tonkotsu Black with chicken cha siu. Oooohh.. . so that's what chicken cha siu is O_O *no comment*

Talk to you in the next post~ Bye.