#sim: chris miller

[a-fundie-bunch]

From the Willow Creek Church website

In Memory of Chris and Jennifer Miller

We at Willow Creek Church are sad to announce that Chris and Jennifer Miller, two members of our local community, have both gone home to be with The Watcher.

Mr. and Mrs. Miller passed away at home this morning, leaving behind a daughter and a newborn grandson.

May The Watcher forgive their earthly sins and rest their souls.

[lea-heartscxiv]

Chris : Patito, you look divine in this outfit.

Chris : Let's train!

Patito does what she does best drooling all over everything! 🦆

☆ English ☆

"Uncle" Chris is coming up with a gift for Patito (Patry) today! Looking through websites, he found @stargazer-sims website, and has bought Patito this cute “Baby Athletics” Set. And all for FREE!

After dressing her up, Chris started training her for baby races!

☆ Español ☆

¡"Tito" Chris hoy viene con un regalo para Patito! Mirando por páginas webs, encontró la página de @stargazer-sims, y le ha comprado a Patito este lindo outfit deportivo "Baby Athletics" Set. Y todo GRATIS!

Después de vestirla, ¡la empezó a entrenar para las carreras de bebé!

[theirsecretlives-leavan]

International Women's Day with our main womans and babies of The Great Deities of Northeast

From here we want to support all women who are fighting in this all days fights so that their voices are heard and they can always decide what they want to do with their lives, without anyone oppressing them. For a society of equality for all genders. From @lea-heartscxiv and @van-yangyin to all of you. Este d��a no es un día de felicitaciones sino un día de luchas, un día para reivindicar por la igualdad en todo el mundo. 🌍

Small story below the cut line ↓

Lali: Okay, ladies, are you ready for the photo? The photographer already is. Rania: Well, I'm already on the floor very comfortable, hehe. Hana: After THE photo, will we do more? Chris: Patito is located and neutralized, right? kisses Patito: Photo with kisses~! Ann: Lali, there were rumors the other day that someone very clever hacked the Evans' private network to perfection. You wouldn't happen to know who were you? 😏 Lali: I could have done better than that. But what can you do…Ladies, say cheese!

Patito: Finished? Come on…? Chris: When the photo's finished we'll all go eat flan, what do you think? Patito: Flan! Lali: Done!

Lali: Patito, shall we all eat flan on the way to la Mani⁽*¹⁾? Patito: With chocolate? Chris: How cute! Lali: With chocolate! Ann: Ladies, we have to catch the train in 20 minutes, shall we go? Chris: Yes, I have the tickets. Let's head to the station, Hana and Rania are already waiting for us at the door. ⁽*¹⁾la Mani: Spanish abbreviation for Manifestation.

~💜💜💜~

By the way if you want to know more about them, stay tuned because they're part of story The Great Deities of the Northeast and as we said before are part of the main cast. You'll be able to read the story in chapters both here in sims version and in comic probably from Webtoon/Tapas (we' a're still deciding this part). They all have a story to tell and will be heard.

[enkisstories]

A little later, in an apartment near Spice Market, that’s nameplate read “Miller”:

Damian: HELP! Alien invasion!

Susan: "No need to be afraid, Dames! It's just your daddy. Maybe if he'd take off the helmet... So you scored the promotion?"

Chris: "Well, entry level armed security guard still means scanning tickets and smiling at visitors: Welcome to CyberLife, Ma'm! Don't touch anything! Only now with a bulky armor and a service pistol."

Susan: "Still! I can see how your new position makes you happy!"

[justalittlesolarpunk]

I’ve teased it. You’ve waited. I’ve procrastinated. You’ve probably forgotten all about it.

But now, finally, I’m here with my solarpunk resources masterpost!

YouTube Channels:

Andrewism

The Solarpunk Scene

Solarpunk Life

Solarpunk Station

Our Changing Climate

Podcasts:

The Joy Report

How To Save A Planet

Demand Utopia

Solarpunk Presents

Outrage and Optimisim

From What If To What Next

Solarpunk Now

Idealistically

The Extinction Rebellion Podcast

The Landworkers' Radio

Wilder

What Could Possibly Go Right?

Frontiers of Commoning

The War on Cars

The Rewild Podcast

Solacene

Imagining Tomorrow

Books (Fiction):

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness The Dispossessed The Word for World is Forest

Becky Chambers: A Psalm for the Wild-Built A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

Phoebe Wagner: When We Hold Each Other Up

Phoebe Wagner, Bronte Christopher Wieland: Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation

Brenda J. Pierson: Wings of Renewal: A Solarpunk Dragon Anthology

Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro: Solarpunk: Ecological and Fantastical Stories in a Sustainable World

Justine Norton-Kertson: Bioluminescent: A Lunarpunk Anthology

Sim Kern: The Free People’s Village

Ruthanna Emrys: A Half-Built Garden

Sarina Ulibarri: Glass & Gardens

Books (Non-fiction):

Murray Bookchin: The Ecology of Freedom

George Monbiot: Feral

Miles Olson: Unlearn, Rewild

Mark Shepard: Restoration Agriculture

Kristin Ohlson: The Soil Will Save Us

Rowan Hooper: How To Spend A Trillion Dollars

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing: The Mushroom At The End of The World

Kimberly Nicholas: Under The Sky We Make

Robin Wall Kimmerer: Braiding Sweetgrass

David Miller: Solved

Ayana Johnson, Katharine Wilkinson: All We Can Save

Jonathan Safran Foer: We Are The Weather

Colin Tudge: Six Steps Back To The Land

Edward Wilson: Half-Earth

Natalie Fee: How To Save The World For Free

Kaden Hogan: Humans of Climate Change

Rebecca Huntley: How To Talk About Climate Change In A Way That Makes A Difference

Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac: The Future We Choose

Jonathon Porritt: Hope In Hell

Paul Hawken: Regeneration

Mark Maslin: How To Save Our Planet

Katherine Hayhoe: Saving Us

Jimmy Dunson: Building Power While The Lights Are Out

Paul Raekstad, Sofa Saio Gradin: Prefigurative Politics

Andreas Malm: How To Blow Up A Pipeline

Phoebe Wagner, Bronte Christopher Wieland: Almanac For The Anthropocene

Chris Turner: How To Be A Climate Optimist

William MacAskill: What We Owe To The Future

Mikaela Loach: It's Not That Radical

Miles Richardson: Reconnection

David Harvey: Spaces of Hope Rebel Cities

Eric Holthaus: The Future Earth

Zahra Biabani: Climate Optimism

David Ehrenfeld: Becoming Good Ancestors

Stephen Gliessman: Agroecology

Chris Carlsson: Nowtopia

Jon Alexander: Citizens

Leah Thomas: The Intersectional Environmentalist

Greta Thunberg: The Climate Book

Jen Bendell, Rupert Read: Deep Adaptation

Seth Godin: The Carbon Almanac

Jane Goodall: The Book of Hope

Vandana Shiva: Agroecology and Regenerative Agriculture

Amitav Ghosh: The Great Derangement

Minouche Shafik: What We Owe To Each Other

Dieter Helm: Net Zero

Chris Goodall: What We Need To Do Now

Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Stephanie Foote: The Cambridge Companion To The Environmental Humanities

Bella Lack: The Children of The Anthropocene

Hannah Ritchie: Not The End of The World

Chris Turner: How To Be A Climate Optimist

Kim Stanley Robinson: Ministry For The Future

Fiona Mathews, Tim Kendall: Black Ops & Beaver Bombing

Jeff Goodell: The Water Will Come

Lynne Jones: Sorry For The Inconvenience But This Is An Emergency

Helen Crist: Abundant Earth

Sam Bentley: Good News, Planet Earth!

Timothy Beal: When Time Is Short

Andrew Boyd: I Want A Better Catastrophe

Kristen R. Ghodsee: Everyday Utopia

Elizabeth Cripps: What Climate Justice Means & Why We Should Care

Kylie Flanagan: Climate Resilience

Chris Johnstone, Joanna Macy: Active Hope

Mark Engler: This is an Uprising

Anne Therese Gennari: The Climate Optimist Handbook

Magazines:

Solarpunk Magazine

Positive News

Resurgence & Ecologist

Ethical Consumer

Films (Fiction):

How To Blow Up A Pipeline

The End We Start From

Woman At War

Black Panther

Star Trek

Tomorrowland

Films (Documentary):

2040: How We Can Save The Planet

The People vs Big Oil

Wild Isles

The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind

Generation Green New Deal

Planet Earth III

Video Games:

Terra Nil

Animal Crossing

Gilded Shadows

Anno 2070

Stardew Valley

RPGs:

Solarpunk Futures

Perfect Storm

Advocacy Groups:

A22 Network

Extinction Rebellion

Greenpeace

Friends of The Earth

Green New Deal Rising

Apps:

Ethy

Sojo

BackMarket

Depop

Vinted

Olio

Buy Nothing

Too Good To Go

Websites:

European Co-housing

UK Co-housing

US Co-housing

Brought By Bike (connects you with zero-carbon delivery goods)

ClimateBase (find a sustainable career)

Environmentjob (ditto)

Businesses (🤢):

Ethical Superstore

Hodmedods

Fairtransport/Sail Cargo Alliance

Let me know if you think there’s anything I’ve missed!

[lgbtpopcult]

October 2024 wlw entertainment rundown

TV

Lucky My Love, First episode drops October 28th on YouTube

Everything Now, Netflix, October 5

The Fall of the House of Usher, October 12, 2023

Movies

Tripped Up, October 20,

Books, Games, Music etc.

In A World Of Our Own: Chasing Dreams And Love

Sophia Miller, an openly lesbian supermodel, enjoys her solitary life in the bustling heart of New York City. But when her gay millionaire best friend, Chris Anderson, requests her to play his pretend girlfriend for a family gathering in Texas, she can't refuse. After all, Chris is on the brink of becoming the CEO of the billion-dollar Anderson Corp.

Enter Alissa Anderson, the Oxford and Cambridge-educated, closeted lesbian daughter of the conservative and formidable Henry Anderson. With the CEO position at Anderson Corp now up for grabs, Alissa finds herself in a fierce rivalry with her own brother. Ascending to the top of the family business and shattering traditional gender roles has always been her ultimate dream. However, her well-laid plans begin to unravel when she encounters her brother's "girlfriend" at a pivotal family gathering on their Texas ranch.

When Sophia and Alissa's worlds collide at the Anderson estate, everything is on the line: the coveted CEO position, concealed sexual identities, a sham relationship, and a burgeoning real one that threatens to bloom amidst the chaos.

“Sushi for Empress Setsuko” is a cozy and comedic point & click adventure game and yuri dating sim set in a fantastical Japan-inspired land. Follow Mizumi Nagashima as she travels around the Empire, seeing gorgeous views, catching delicious fish, and charming beautiful women.

RELEASE DATE:

3 Oct, 2023

Iris Kelly Doesn't Date

A fake relationship after a horrible one-night stand is anything but an act in this witty and heartfelt new romantic comedy by Ashley Herring Blake.

Everyone around Iris Kelly is in love. Her best friends are all coupled up, her siblings have partners that are perfect for them, and her parents are still blissfully married. And she’s happy for all of them, truly. Iris doesn’t want any of that—dating, love, romance. She’ll stick to her commitment-free hookups, thanks very much, except no one in her life will just let her be. Everyone wants to see her settled down, but she holds firmly to her no dating rule. There’s only one problem—Iris is a romance author facing an imminent deadline for her second book, and she’s completely out of ideas.

Perfectly happy to ignore her problems as per usual, Iris goes to a bar in Portland and meets a sexy stranger, Stefania, and a night of dancing and making out turns into the worst one-night stand Iris has had in her life. To get her mind off everything, Iris tries out for the lead role in a local play, a queer retelling of Much Ado About Nothing, but comes face-to-face with Stefania, whose real name turns out to be Stevie. Desperate to save face in front of her friends, Stevie asks Iris to play along as her girlfriend. Iris is shocked, but when she realizes the arrangement might provide her with some much-needed romantic content for her book, she agrees. As the two women play the part of a happy couple, lines start to blur, and they’re left wondering who will make the real first move....

Moonlight in Garland is a cozy open-ended life-sim video game that sees you making a new life in the bustling metropolis of Garland. Find an apartment and make it perfectly yours, befriend your neighbours, grow your urban garden, solve community problems and experience all the weirdly wonderful stuff that city living offers.

Of course, city life isn’t all farmers markets and fancy coffee. Will you step in to stop the heritage building from being torn down and preserve a piece of history? Look after the neighbourhood so more residents stick around? Figure out which jerk is stealing packages from the mail room? Be swept up in a whirlwind romance along the way?

[sir-silly]

my faves

Below are all my favorite medias, as well as my favorite characters from them in parentheses ().

My favorite movies are The Chronicles of Narnia (Lucy, Edmund, Peter), Pirates of the Caribbean (Will, Elizabeth, Jack), Winnie the Pooh Heffalump movie (Kanga, Piglet, Pooh, Roo, Lumpy), Tangled (basically all of them), Mulan (Mulan, Mushu, Cricket), and The Darkest Minds (basically all of them).

My favorite shows are The Walking Dead (Daryl, Beth, Connie, Carl, Judith, Aaron, Rosita, Siddiq), Fear the Walking Dead (Alicia, Daniel), The 100 (Clarke, Lexa, Bellamy, Murphy, Raven, Miller), Grey’s Anatomy (Mark, Lexie, Jo, Callie, Maggie), Station 19 (Jack, Ben, Vic, Dean), NCIS (basically all of them), and The Last of Us (basically all of them).

My favorite video games are The Sims, The Walking Dead Game (Clem, Lee, Luke, Louis, Mitch, Carley, Doug, Katjaa, Gabe, Ruby, Aasim), Until Dawn (Sam, Mike, Matt, Chris, Josh, Beth), Minecraft, Planet Zoo, Papers Please (Jorji Costava), and Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage (Kanade, Saki, Tsukasa, Shizuku, Kohane).

My favorite books (which I don’t remember all my fav characters from, but I’ll do my best) are the Edge of Collapse series (basically all of them) by Kyla Stone, The Darkest Minds series (basically all of them) by Alexandra Bracken, Kindred Spirits (basically all of them) by Rainbow Rowell, Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight, The Hunger Games series (Peeta, Joanne, Finnick) by Suzanne Collins, Cold River by William Judson, Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell, Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin, The Darkness After series by Scott B. Williams, Fangirl (basically all of them) by Rainbow Rowell, Girl Underwater (basically all of them) by Claire Kells, Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, Calendar Papers by Cynthia Voigt, If I Stay series by Gayle Forman, Look Again (basically all of them) by Lisa Scottoline, One by One (basically all of them) by Ruth Ware, To a Young Jazz Musician by Wynton Marsalis with Selwyn Seyfu Hinds, The Fault in Our Stars (basically all of them) by John Green, The Map of Salt and Stars (basically all of them) by Zeyn Joukhadar, The Orphan’s Tale (basically all of them) by Pam Jenoff, Trapped (basically all of them) by Michael Northrop, Two by Two by Nicholas Sparks, Winterdance (basically all of them) by Gary Paulsen, When (basically all of them) by Victoria Laurie, and The 100 series (Bellamy) by Kass Morgan.

My favorite YouTubers are Markiplier, Crankgameplays, Lordminion777, Muyskerm, Jacksepticeye, CallMeKevin, AmazingPhil, and Daniel Howell.

My favorite ships are Will and Elizabeth (Pirates of the Caribbean). Rapunzel and Eugene (Tangled). Daryl and Beth, Daryl and Connie, Carl and Enid, Aaron and Jesus, Rosita and Siddiq, Rosita and Eugene (TWD). Clarke and Lexa, Clarke and Bellamy (The 100). Tony and Ziva (NCIS). Jackson and April, Jo and Alex, Mark and Lexie, Teddy and Henry, Callie and Arizona (Grey’s Anatomy). Vic and Dean (Station 19). Clementine and Louis, Mitch and James, Lee and Carley (TWDG). Sam and Mike, Sam and Beth, Matt and Jess (Until Dawn). Hannah and Liam, Reynoso and Perez (Edge of Collapse). Ruby and Liam (The Darkest Minds). Katniss and Peeta (The Hunger Games).

[with-a-martyr-complex]

With A Martyr Complex: Reading List 2022

Adapted from the annual list from @balioc​, a list of books (primarily audiobooks) consumed this year. This list excludes several podcasts, but includes dramatizations and college lecture series from The Great Courses, which I consume like a disgusting fiend.

Introduction to the Qur'an by Martyn Oliver with Tahera Ahmad (for Quranic recitation)

Conquistadors by Michael Wood

ROAR: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life by Stacy Sims and Selene Yeager

The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman

War, Peace, and Power: Diplomatic History of Europe 1500-2000 by Vegas Gabriel Liulevicius

This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Coup de Grâce: A Novel by Marguerite Yourcenar (Translated by Grace Fick)

Sun and Steel by Yukio Mishima (Stanford Press Translation)

Classical Mythology by Elizabeth Vandiver

Metamorphoses by Ovid (Translated by Frank Justus Miller)

Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power (A method for getting what you want by getting off on what you don't) by Carolyn Elliott

Fascism: A Warning by Madeline Albright

The Enlightenment Invention of the Modern Self by Leo Damrosch

Greek Tragedy by Elizabeth Vandiver

Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiaticall and Civil by Thomas Hobbes

War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges

Natural Law and Human Nature by Father Joseph Koterski

Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming by Jonathan Shay (Foreward by John McCain and Max Cleland)

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (Translated by Clarence Brown)

Treason by Orson Scott Card (Originally published as A Planet Called Treason)

The Modern Political Tradition: Hobbes to Habermas by Lawrence Cahoon

Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault (Translated by Alan Sheridan)

Harrow The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

History of Sexuality: Volume I by Michel Foucault (Unidentified Translator)

Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault (Translated by Richard Howard)

Lent: A Novel of Many Returns by Jo Walton

Living the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon by Suzanne M. Desan

The Stranger by Albert Camus (Translated by Matthew Ward)

10 Women Who Ruled The Renaissance by Joyce Salisbury

A Brief History of the Samurai by Jonathan Clements

Because Internet: Understanding The New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima

The Republic by Plato (Translated by Benjamin Jowett)

Nona The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Davos Man: How The Billionaires Devoured The World by Peter S. Goodman

The Birth of The Modern Mind: The Intellectual History of the 17th and 18th Centuries by Alan Charles Kors

(Spooky) Litigation: The Practice of Supernatural Law (Volume 1) by Jeffrey A. Rapkin

Emperors of Rome by Garrett G. Fagan

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

Francis of Assisi by Ronald B. Herzman and William R. Cook

Impact Winter by Travis Beacham

Popes and The Papacy: A History by Thomas X. Noble

Misery by Stephen King

The Benedict Option by Rod Dreher

The Aeneid by Virgil (Translated by John Dryden)

The Aeneid of Virgil by Elizabeth Vandiver

The Industrial Revolution by Patrick N. Allitt

[Redacted] by [Redacted]

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (Translated by Duke Classics)

America and the World: A Diplomatic History by Mark A. Stoler

The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester

Hagakure by Yamamoto Tsunetomo (Translated by William Scott Wilson)

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

Voltaire and The Triumph of The Enlightenment by Alan Charles Kors

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Translated by Constance Garnett)

Incomplete books: Jacques the Fatalist, The Just City, On Killing

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Great Courses consumed: 17

Non-Great Courses Nonfiction consumed: 16

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Works consumed by women: 17

Works consumed by men: 37

Works consumed by men and women: 2

Works that can plausibly be considered of real relevance to foreign policy (including appropriate histories): 10

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With A Martyr Complex’s Choice Award, fiction division: It’s a tie between Lent and Coup de Grace, I just couldn’t decide between the two. Feel free to mock me for my indecision.

>>>> Honorable mention: The Stars My Destination, Misery

With A Martyr Complex’s Choice Award, nonfiction division: The Guns of August

>>>> Honorable mention: Living the French Revolution and The Age of Napoleon, Greek Tragedy, Conquistadors, The Aeneid of Virgil

>>>> Great Courses Division: The Birth of the Modern Mind: The Intellectual History of the 17th and 18th Centuries

The Annual “An Essential Work of Surpassing Beauty that Isn’t Fair to Compare To Everything Else” Award: We

>>>> Honorable mention: Crime and Punishment (This may have suffered from me reading while quarantining, I could easily have swapped it with We under other circumstances)

>>>> Nonfiction Division: Leviathan

>>>>>>>>Honorable Mention: Discipline and Punish

The “Reading This Book Will Give You Great Insight Into The Way I See The World” Award: War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

>>>> Honorable mention: The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea, Leviathan

The “This is Kooky Made Up Nonsense But Still Worth Checking Out” Award: Existential Kink

The “Reading This has Allowed Me To Stop Caring About Its Author Too Much” Award: The Benedict Option

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This marks the first year where I’ve reached my goal of at least 1 book per week for the year, and I’m reasonably proud of that. I’m especially proud that I didn’t overload the list with short works to reach that goal and was able to tackle some difficult or long works while maintaining a solid pace. I did find myself reading fewer literary works than I tend to prefer, and my nonfiction that wasn’t lectures was lower than I’d generally like (however much I do love lectures). 

Goals for next year: more foreign policy reading, more literary fiction, write something of my own.

[itsjuliak5]

✨💖 Comfort Videos 💖✨

(aka videos I watch when I need a serotonin boost)

1) Melting Every Candle from Bath & Body Works Together by Safiya Nygaard

2) First Time Watching Every *Twilight* Movie (Reactions) by Pretty Much It

3) That’s Cringe: Girl Defined by Cody Ko and Noel Miller. Honestly every That’s Cringe video is amazing.

4) Ice Cube, Kevin Hart, And Conan Help A Student Driver by Team Coco aka Conan O’Brien

5) Making Custom Nail Polish feat. Simply Nailogical by Safiya Nygaard and Simply Nailogical

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There are more videos below, but you’re not allowed to have more than 5 videos and I didn’t want to ruin the aesthetic🤣

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6) The Strangest Story On The Internet (w/ Drew Gooden) by Danny Gonzalez

https://youtu.be/hllf45NK-KA

7) Prank Calling Random Numbers We Dialed by Chris Klemens and Andrew Lowe

https://youtu.be/RsU8fQ9VAas

8) Buzzfeed Unsolved ~ Literally anything by them honestly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2KKUcxAdjc&list=PLD8iUdp33PqSmH4NjDm6lk1YiNUhLCxj4

9) Watching Aquamarine (My Favorite Preteen Movie) by Maddison Bush

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlfy_Yd8e6o

10) Spinning a Wheel to Decide My Sims Build by lilsimsie ~ Honestly all of Kayla’s build videos are super fun to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv5yMuW3ZKM&t=774s 

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Bonus! (kinda) I found a channel called, Auralescent. It’s an ASMR channel and the guy who uploads on it, Matt, has a variety of content for everyone from NSFW stuff to SFW stuff. It’s honestly pretty great, and I’m usually not into ASMR, but I thought I’d bring it up.

Here’s a funny video about him as an introduction of sorts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cekDAdOoufg 

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* A lot of Simply Nailogical, Safiya Nygaard, lilsimsie, and “That’s Cringe” videos could be on here, but I chose those specific ones because I find myself going back to those videos the most. *

[a-fundie-bunch]

"So, Mr. Miller... I wanted to ask you... do I have your permission to, um... court Madison?"

"Ya hear that, Jen? He wants to court our Maddie!"

"Aww, such a gentleman!"

"Look, son, I know this is how it's done 'round here. But in our family, you don't gotta do it like that."

"Um... what do you mean, sir?"

"Don't ask me, kiddo. Go ask Maddie!"

"Not that she'll say no, of course. You're all she talks about!"

"Mrs. Miller...!!"

"Um... hey, Maddie. Do you, uh... think we could start courting...? Like... properly...?"

"Oh! You mean, like... dating?"

"Uh... yeah."

"You know, Ash... I don't think there's anything I'd like more."

[lea-heartscxiv]

☆English☆

Chris this morning was out in the yard with Patito sporting his beautiful chokers that he bought from @van-yangyin' s website , this one in two styles thick and thin. And it's all FREE!!!

☆Español☆

Chris esta mañana ha salido al patio con Patito luciendo sus hermosas gargantillas que se compró en la web de @van-yangyin, esta en dos estilo ancha y estrecha. Y todo es GRATIS!!!

Reacción de Patito al veer la gargantilla en el cuello de Chris

Piensa: Qué es eso?

Piensa: Es un collar!

Chris y Patito jugando

[newtie-patootie-bootie]

When you can’t meet your celeb crush in real life so you start a family with them in The Sims 4™️

[enkisstories]

Susan asked the “Future Cube” about her romantic prospects, then shook it.  Doing so, she noticed that it was really a gift box and that something inside had just come loose.

Chris: “They’re looking very bleak. There’s that guy who will chase off every other suitor with a gun, if needed! Susan Haywood, would it be imagineable for you to make room in your life for this man? Even if he has forgotten his actual speech?”

Susan: “Especially if he has forgotten that speech of his. You’re f*ing boring when you try to be your best self. Also dangerous.”

Chris: “Danger...?”

Susan: “Uh-huh, no kidding. Promise me, Chris Miller, if your orders ever conflict with what your heart tells you is the right thing to do - or not to do - to throw the orders to the wind!”

Chris: “P... promise!”

Susan: “Well, I say this was a Future Cube, after all!”

Susan: “For what else would you call a box that contained the token of our future together?”

Chris: *smiles*

[angelinafay]

now spinning, july 21

"Superstar" - Beach House, Once Twice Melody Youtube | Spotify | Apple Music

"Fruit" - Oliver Sim, Fruit Youtube | Spotify | Apple Music

"Human Shape" - Mindchatter, DREAM SOUP Youtube | Spotify | Apple Music

"Woods" - Mac Miller, Circles Youtube | Spotify | Apple Music

"Bad Taste Blues, Pt III" - Ball Park Music, Ball Park Music Spotify | Apple Music

"Selfish Soul" - Sudan Archives, Selfish Soul Youtube | Spotify | Apple Music

"dio" - boylife, Bearface, gelato Youtube | Spotify

"Shed Head" - Deaton Chris Anthony, Shed Head Youtube | Spotify | Apple Music

"Beyond the Reef" - Moon Mullins, 10 Miles to Tilden Spotify | Apple Music

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Fourth Row Robert Chase, Caging Borders and Carceral States: Incarcerations, Immigration Detentions, and Resistance Joshua Page, Michelle Phelps, and Philip Russell Goodman, Breaking the Pendulum: The Long Struggle Over Criminal Justice Thai Jones, More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives and New York's Year of Anarchy Regina Kunzel, Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality Ian Miller, A History of Force Feeding: Hunger Strikes, Prisons and Medical Ethics, 1909–1974 Alexander Berkman, Opening the gates: The Rise of the Prisoner's Movement Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, States of Delinquency: Race and Science in the Making of California's Juvenile Justice System Markus Dubber, The Dual Penal State: The Crisis of Criminal Law in Comparative-Historical Perspective Julilly Kohler-Hausmann, Getting Tough: Welfare and Imprisonment in 1970s America Michel Margairaz, Danielle Tartakowsky ed. 1968, entre libération et libéralisation

Fifth Row Rudi Mathee, Persia in Crisis: Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan Franca Iacovetta & Wendy Mitchinson, On the Case: Explorations in Social History Walter Zinoman, The Colonial Bastille: A History of Imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862-1940* Sarah Haley, No mercy here: gender, punishment, and the making of Jim Crow modernity Sara M. Benson, The Prison of Democracy: Race, Leavenworth, and the Culture of Law Bryan D. Palmer and Gaétan Héroux, Toronto's Poor: A Rebellious History Archambault Prison Theatre Group, No Big Deal! Jen Manion, Liberty's Prisoners: Carceral Culture in Early America Anne Guérin, Prisonniers en révolte: Quotidien carcéral, mutineries et politique pénitentiaire en France (1970-1980) Larry Wolff, Venice and the Slavs: The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment

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Originally published in Melody Maker in late 1974 (exact date unknown). Full article text below the read more.

The MERLIN File

EVOLUTION: Merlin's manager, Derek Chick, and Allan Love decided in May 1973 to form a new London-based group that would incorporate three basic essentials: musicianship, image and stage presentation. After extensive auditions and rehearsals the band was gigging by July under the name Madrigal, which was changed in February 1974 to Merlin.

PERSONNEL CHANGES: Jacob Magmusson (keyboards) left in October 1973 and Paul Taylor (bass) in September 1974.

ORIGIN OF NAME: Scully Wagon-Lit's idea in the van going to a gig.

FIRST PUBLIC APPEARANCE: Zero 6, Southend, 17/July/1973.

FIRST BROADCAST: BBC Radio One David Hamilton Show and Radio Luxembourg Power Play consecutively in March 1974.

FIRST TELEVISION: Scottish TV's Showcase in November 1973.

MANAGEMENT: Derek Chick, Chic's Own Music and Management Ltd, 246/248 Great Portland Street, London W1 (01-381 6192/3).

AGENT: Barry Collings Agency Ltd, 15 Claremont Road, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex (0702-47343/43464).

RECORDING COMPANY: CBS Records Ltd, 28-30 Theobalds Road, London WC1 (01-242 9000).

RECORD PRODUCER: Roger Greenaway.

MUSIC PUBLISHING COMPANY: Shapiro, Bernstein and Co Ltd, 246/248 Great Portland Street, London W1 (01-387 6192) and Grenyoco Music Ltd, 108 Park Street, London W1 (01-493 6439).

FAN CLUB: Ling, 17 Gladstone Park Gardens, Cricklewood, London NW2.

BRITISH TOURS: 47 dates 1/March-28/April/1974 Top Rank ballrooms, clubs and colleges. Solo tour.

AMERICAN TOURS: None.

TRANSPORT: Ford DO607 3-ton truck for the equipment and Audi 100 for the group.

STAGE MANAGERS: Iain Ward (Sound Engineer), Chris Taylor (Lighting Engineer), "Speedy" (Stage Roadie), "Crystal" (Assistant Lighting Engineer).

SINGLES: "(Let Me) Put My Spell On You" c/w "Just ANother Fish On My Hook (CBS, 1/March/1974), "Alright" c/w "Pictures In My Mind" (CBS, 28/June/1974), "Wild Cat" c/w "Half A Man" (CBS, 1/Nov/1974).

ALBUMS: "Merlin" (CBS, 25/Oct/1974).

P.A.: 1400-watt JBL system comprising Kelsey 16-channel stereo custom mixer, 4 x DC3000 Crown amps, 4 x bass bins with 2 x 15 inch JBL speakers in each, 2 x mid range JBL horns, 2 x high-frequency JBL boxes with lens horns, two bullets. Microphones are 8 Sure Unidyne III 545, 2 AKG 190C, one AKG D12, 4 Calrec condensers, 4 Sims Watts condensers, 3 Sure Unisphere B. Binson Echorec and Mavis 3-way active stereo crossover with stage boxes, cables, etc. Lighting comprises 6 x 100 watt Strand Floods on stage, 30 x 200 watt Strand Floods on stage scaffolding, 3 x Strand 1,000-watt follow spots and stands, 2 x Strobes and a Strand dimmer board.

ALAN LOVE: Vocalist

BORN: Hampsted, North West London. 13/Dec./1952.

EDUCATED: Challoner School, Finchley, North London.

MUSICAL TRAINING: None.

MUSICAL CAREER: Has been professional for seven years, playing in Opal Butterfly from 1967 to 1969 with Simon King (Hawkwing) and Tom Doherty (Sting). Referendum from 1969 to 1973 and Madrigal/Merlin from 1973.

OTHER OCCUPATIONS: None.

MUSICAL INFLUENCES: Mick Jagger, Joe Cocker, Little Richard.

COMPOSITIONS: "Half A Man," "Space Raider" and co-wrote with Gary Hardwick "Getting Involved" all recorded by Merlin.

FAVOURITE SINGLES: "Something In The Air" (Thunderclap Newman), "McArthur Park" (Richard Harris).

FAVOURITE ALBUMS: "Tapestry" (Carol King), "Court Of The Crimson King" (King Crimson), "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" (Simon and Garfunkel).

FAVOURITE MUSICIANS: Paul McCartney, Steve Howe, Tom Doherty.

FAVOURITE SONGWRITERS: Lennon and McCartney, Cat Stevens, Carol King.

FAVOURITE SINGERS: Joe Cocker, Neil Diamond.

RESIDENCE: Bachelor flat in Wandsworth, South West London.

INSTRUMENTS: None.

GARY ALICE STRANGE: Bass, vocals and guitar.

BORN: Hampsted, London. 26/Oct./1952.

EDUCATED: Whitefield School, Barnet.

MUSICAL TRAINING: Three classical guitar lessons and then self taught.

MUSICAL CAREER: Various semi-pro bands and wrote first song aged 16 featured on ATV programme "Come Here Often." Former band with Dave Martin called March Hare and recorded LP for MAM. Group then changed to newly-formed Kinks Production Company, but after few months of touring with Kinks and recording, split up. Joined Merlin.

OTHER OCCUPATIONS: Director of La Starza Palace Studio.

MUSICAL INFLUENCES: Beatles, Stones, Free, Average White Band.

COMPOSITIONS: "Gipsy Rose Lee" and "Lay Me Down" for March Hare both issued as singles by MAM.

FAVOURITE SINGLES: "I Am A Walrus" (Beatles), "Need Your Love So Bad" (Fleetwood Mac), "Little Bit Of Love" (Free), "Amoureuse" (Kiki Dee).

FAVOURITE ALBUMS: "Elf" (Elf), "Sgt Pepper" (Beatles), "Talking Book" (Stevie Wonder).

FAVOURITE MUSICIANS: Andy Fraser, David Martin, Peter Green, Liberace.

FAVOURITE SONGWRITERS: Lennon and McCartney, Holland, Dozier and Holland, Lional Bart and Paul Simon.

FAVOURITE SINGERS: Paul Rodgers, Elvis Presley, Tina Turner, Rod Stewart.

RESIDENCE: Single and lives in Hampstead, North West London.

INSTRUMENTS: Fender Precision Bass with thin maple neck. Hagstrom six-string guitar with pick-up. Kemble baby grand piano. Rotosound Roundwound strings. Orange 120-watt amp with 2 x 15 inch reflex cabinets.

JAMIE MOSES: Lead guitar and vocals.

BORN: Ipswich, Suffolk, 30/Aug/1955.

EDUCATED: Schools in America and Japan. Shirley High School and Redhill Technical College in Surrey.

MUSICAL TRAINING: Self-taught.

MUSICAL CAREER: Given first guitar when ten, formed first band at 11. Formed the Inferno, 1969-71, in Japan, doing gigs, radio, TV. Came to England in 1971, worked with semi-pro bands and at a music shop in Croydon. Formed Angel with Scully 1972 and recorded LP of original material. Joined Madrigal July 1973.

MUSICAL INFLUENCES: Jimmy Page, Paul Kossoff, Beatles.

COMPOSITIONS: "Just Another Fish On My Hook", "Gypsy", and "He Thinks About You All The Time" all recorded by Merlin. Co-wrote "Angel" LP with Scully.

FAVOURITE SINGLES: "Livin' For The City" (Stevie Wonder), "Can't Get Enough" (Bad Company), "Joybringer" (Manfred Mann's Earthband).

FAVOURITE ALBUMS: "Foxtrot" by Genesis.

FAVOURITE MUSICIANS: Genesis, Steve Howe, Free, Scully Wagon-Lits.

FAVOURITE SONGWRITERS: Paul McCartney, Genesis, Stevie Wonder.

FAVOURITE SINGERS: Paul Rodgers, Peter Gabriel, Mario Lanza and David Coverdale.

RESIDENCE: Is single and lives with his parents at Sanderstead, Surrey.

INSTRUMENTS: White Les Paul Deluxe (1973) and black Les Paul Custom (1974), both with Rotosound ultra-light strings and Gibson plectrums. EKO 6-string acoustic guitar with La Bella strings. Hiwatt 100-watt amp fitted with half power switch for distortion and sustain at almost any volume. Two 2 x 15 Fender Dual Showman JBL Cabinets. A cheap Japanese fuzz box with a three-tone fuzz switch.

SCULLY WAGON-LITS: Keyboards, guitar and vocals.

BORN: Balham, South West London, 20/Dec./1953.

EDUCATED: Henry Cavendish (Balham), Bec School (Tooting) and Archbishop Tennison (South Croydon).

MUSICAL TRAINING: Guitar lessons at night school for one year aged eight, cello at school for three years and double bass for two months, but is self-taught on keyboards.

MUSICAL CAREER: Played guitar in band in Balham (1964-65), joined Angel with Jamie (1972-1973) as semi-pros and recorded an album. Turned pro June 1973 with Big Wheel in South France. Joined Madrigal October 1973.

OTHER OCCUPATIONS: Organ salesman at Western Music and Selmer.

MUSICAL INFLUENCES: Harry Stoneham, Miller Anderson, Keith Emerson, Christian Vander.

COMPOSITIONS: "Marina," "Takin' Part," "Pictures In My Mind," etc.

FAVOURITE SINGLES: "Rock Man" (Elton John), "Space Oddity" (David Bowie).

FAVOURITE ALBUMS: "Tarkis" (ELP), "Fire And Water" (Free), "Dark Side Of The Moon (Pink Floyd).

FAVOURITE MUSICIANS: Keith Emerson, Tony Banks, Steve Howe.

FAVOURITE SONGWRITERS: Paul McCartney.

FAVOURITE SINGERS: Paul Rodgers, Stevie Wonder, Peter Gabriel, Greg Lake

RESIDENCE: Single and lives in Surrey.

INSTRUMENTS: Hamond RT3 with additional height plynth and customised guts driven through Hiwatt amps and put out through one Leslie 145 and two RSE 1 x 15 inch JBL bins and three custom-made Werlin Bat rotating horn units. Muri-Moog (modified) through Hiwatt 100-watt amp with JBL Showman Cabinet. Hagspiel grand piano, with scaffolding, miked through PA. Black Gibson SB Les Paul Junior (1960) plugged into Moog.

DAVID WIGHTWICK: Drums and vocals.

BORN: Dunstable, Bedfordshire, 25/August/1950.

EDUCATED: Priory Secondary School, Dunstable.

MUSICAL TRAINING: Self-taught.

MUSICAL CAREER: Former member of Madrigal from 1967 to 1973. The band split and was reformed with new members and retitled Merlin.

OTHER OCCUPATIONS: Varied from soldier to postman.

MUSICAL INFLUENCES: Beatles, The Move, Genesis.

COMPOSITIONS: None.

FAVOURITE SINGLES: "Say You Don't Mind" (Colin Blunstone), "Motet Overture" (Abors), "Eleanor Rigby" (Beatles)

FAVOURITE ALBUMS: "Dark Side Of The Moon (Pink Floyd), "Erismore" (Colin Blunstone), "Tubular Bells" (Mike Oldfield), "Moving Waves" (Focus).

FAVOURITE MUSICIANS: Carl Palmer, Jon Bonham, Simon Kirke.

FAVOURITE SONGWRITERS: Lennon and McCartney, Colin Blunstone, Genesis.

FAVOURITE SINGERS: Ian Billan, Colin Blunstone, Karen Carpenter.

RESIDENCE: Flat in London.

INSTRUMENTS: Hayman see-through drumkit comprising 1 x 22 inch bass drum, 1 x 12 inch and 1 x 13 inch mounted tom-toms, 1 x 16 inch and 1 x 18 inch floor tom toms, 1 x 14 inch snare drum, Ludwig/Paiste 22 inch cymbal, 1 x 22 inch and 1 x 20 inch Zildjian ride cymbals, 1 x 18 inch Zildjian crash cymbal, 1 x 14 inch Zildjian hi-hat, Ludwig and Hayman accessories and Premier C and Selmer sticks.