#simon caldwell

[volatile95]

An idea belongs to my wife; I love you, @marshalllir, my Goddess 💕

Любимая жена всеми силами тянет меня прочь из социальной самоизоляции, помогая преодолевать страх постинга картиночек. Спасибо, счастье мое @marshalllir. Люблю бесконечно

[happygirl2oo2]

#Lola Carmichael counting her old pets when she's scared, season 1 ep 7

[downthetubes]

Chimp Chim-inee! A new 2000AD for thee! And one with plenty of new Thrills from Tharg, too!

[goodbooksandgoodwine]

You Need To Read These 4 Diverse YA Books

One thing about me is that I am going to shout a lot about OwnVoices and Diverse books. I love that we are in a time where these books and stories are finally getting published and told. These four books — All The Fighting Parts, The Gilded Ones, Everyone Wants To Know, and Eternally Yours cover a multitude of genres. There is something for every taste in books. I urge you to pick up one of these…

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🖤 Black History Month ❤️

💛 Queer Books by Black Authors 💚

[ List Under the Cut ]

🖤 Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender ❤️ Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta 💛 Warrior of the Wind by Suyi Davies Okungbowa 💚 I'm a Wild Seed by Sharon Lee De La Cruz 🖤 Real Life by Brandon Taylor ❤️ Ruthless Pamela Jean by Carol Denise Mitchell 💛 The Unbroken by C.L. Clark 💚 Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova 🖤 Skin Deep Magic by Craig Laurance Gidney ❤️ The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi 💛 That Could Be Enough by Alyssa Cole 💚Work for It by Talia Hibbert

🖤 All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson ❤️ The Deep by Rivers Solomon 💛 How to Be Remy Cameron by Julian Winters 💚 Running With Lions by Julian Winters 🖤 Right Where I Left You by Julian Winters ❤️ This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story by Kacen Callender 💛 The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum 💚 This Is What It Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow 🖤 Son of the Storm by Suyi Davies Okungbowa ❤️ Black Boy Joy by Kwame Mbalia 💛 Legendborn by Tracy Deonn 💚 The Wicker King by K. Ancrum

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🖤 The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta ❤️ Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee 💛 A Phoenix First Must Burn (edited) by Patrice Caldwell 💚 Rise to the Sun by Leah Johnson 🖤 Things We Couldn't Say by Jay Coles ❤️ Black Boy Out of Time by Hari Ziyad 💛 Darling by K. Ancrum 💚 The Secrets of Eden by Brandon Goode 🖤 Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé ❤️ Off the Record by Camryn Garrett 💛 Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers 💚 Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

🖤 How to Dispatch a Human by Stephanie Andrea Allen ❤️ Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans 💛 The Essential June Jordan (edited) by Jan Heller Levi and Christoph Keller 💚 A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark 🖤 A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney ❤️ Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo 💛 Dread Nation by Justina Ireland 💚 Punch Me Up to the Gods by Brian Broome 🖤 Masquerade by Anne Shade ❤️ One of the Good Ones by Maika Moulite & Maritza Moulite 💛 Soulstar by C.L. Polk 💚 100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell

🖤 Hurricane Child by Kacen Callender ❤️ Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby 💛 Coffee Will Make You Black by April Sinclair 💚 The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi 🖤 If It Makes You Happy by Claire Kann ❤️ Sweethand by N.G. Peltier 💛 This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron 💚 Better Off Red by Rebekah Weatherspoon 🖤 Friday I’m in Love by Camryn Garrett ❤️ Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez 💛 Memorial by Bryan Washington 💚 Patsy by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn

🖤 Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon ❤️ How to Find a Princess by Alyssa Cole 💛 Yesterday is History by Kosoko Jackosn 💚 Mouths of Rain (edited) by Briona Simone Jones 🖤 Dead Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia ❤️ Love's Divine by Ava Freeman 💛 The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr 💚 Odd One Out by Nic Stone 🖤 Symbiosis by Nicky Drayden ❤️ Thanks a Lot, Universe by Chad Lucas 💛 The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons 💚 Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

🖤 Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert ❤️ My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson 💛 Pleasure and Spice by Fiona Zedde 💚 No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull 🖤 The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus ❤️ Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor 💛 The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin 💚 Peaces by Helen Oyeyem 🖤 The Beauty That Remains by Ashley Woodfolk ❤️ Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh 💛 Bingo Love by Tee Franklin, Jenn St-Onge, Joy San 💚 The Heart Does Not Bend by Makeda Silvera

🖤 King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender ❤️ By Any Means Necessary by Candice Montgomery 💛 Busy Ain't the Half of It by Frederick Smith & Chaz Lamar Cruz 💚 Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo 🖤 Sin Against the Race by Gar McVey-Russell ❤️ Trumpet by Jackie Kay 💛 Remembrance by Rita Woods 💚 Daughters of Nri by Reni K. Amayo 🖤 You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour ❤️ The Summer of Everything by Julian Winters 💛 Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi 💚 Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyem

[dr-futbol-blog]

Critical Mass, Pt. 11

In the coda we find Sheppard joining Weir in her office and while it has not happened lately, them having a moment at the end of an episode is not unprecedented. Weir looks morose, clearly affected by the decisions she had been forced to make and she appears to be doing a repetitive movement going through the chain links of a pocket watch with a pen or some other pointy thing to centre her thoughts, to calm herself down. We do not know whose watch this is or how she had come to possess it but the alternative sources are her father or grandfather, a mentor figure, or Simon. Clearly, the watch holds some importance to her and it is obvious she is doing this motion to alleviate her feelings of guilt.

Sheppard: Did you see Zelenka? Weir: No.

Sheppard saunters into her office, stopping by the open doorway. He seems to be in a really good mood and starts off by asking her whether she got the chance to see Zelenka, and this is clearly connected to the previous scene. Sheppard and Mckay are both in a good mood and both seemed delighted by having seen the state in which Zelenka had returned from the planet of the children, both seeming more than a little gleeful with what is really rather unprofessional behaviour from them towards their colleague but is, at the end of the day, harmless fun because they both do appreciate Zelenka, they are not school bullies making his life a living hell on the regular even if currently Zelenka might be feeling like this is the case.

Point is, Sheppard's mood here is clearly connected to McKay's mood, their similar response to Zelenka suggests that they had shared in this joy together and Sheppard was coming here straight from having been with McKay, or at the very least that they are once again of one mind and thinking the same exact thing at the same time. What ever the case, we might note that Sheppard's mood here is not caused or connected to Weir, and it is unlikely that his sole order of business in coming to her office had been to inform her about Zelenka and tell her to check him out. No, this is coincidental to why he had sought Weir out and he starts mirthfully with Zelenka because that happened to be topmost on his mind when he walked in.

It is because Sheppard is in such a good mood unrelated to her that it may be difficult to discern his actual motivation for coming to see her. While he is much more practiced in using enhanced interrogation and making tough calls, Sheppard does not exactly feel good about what they had to do either. While his chosen method for dealing with things like that is repression and he would gladly never speak of it again, he realizes that he has to do some damage control with her. For one, she got to see a side of him that he does not like sharing with people he cares about and he has a deep-seeded fear that if people can see the real him, if they knew who he really was, they would walk away from him and abandon him just like everyone always does. Although McKay seems to accept him warts and all (and he does not want to push that to find out how true it really is), he has come to consider the whole of the permanent staff on Atlantis as his family and he does not want her to turn away from him in disgust having witnessed him do that. And although Weir blames herself and it is true that the final authority was hers, Sheppard knows full well that she would never have even thought of it as an option if it had not been for him (and Ronon). As far as he is concerned, it is not on her, it is all on him -- and to save McKay and the city, he would do it all over again. That is why he had come. And that is why he comes in with a joke, trying to lighten her mood. Lightening the mood is how he copes. It is not, however, the way Weir copes.

Sheppard: You should take a quick look before he washes his face. The kids did a real number on him! Weir: I asked Doctor Beckett to give everyone on the base a full examination. If Colonel Caldwell could have a Goa'uld in him, any of us could.

Although Sheppard's intention is not to cheer Weir up as such, he is being purposefully charming here, he is using his charming persona because he needs to make sure that they are good, that recent events have not damaged their working relationship. Sheppard's capacity to bend Weir to side with his calls when he needs her to is important to him insomuch as it may one day make the difference when he needs to save McKay, or when he needs her protection against the brass for his extracurricular activities. But although Sheppard may genuinely be happy after having witnessed Zelenka's predicament together with McKay and having just survived quite the ordeal, some of what he is approaching her with here is also an act, at the very least the faux-innocent way he describes what had befallen Zelenka. He sits down on her table (although make note of the fact that he does, as ever, keep his dick turned away from her), trying to put her at ease and show her that he is relaxed, that everything is back to normal, that there is nothing to worry about anymore. But he does not actually look at her as he describes what he had witnessed, seeming to be lost in the memory of that. Their moods are clearly incongruent and Weir does not even respond to him, merely launching into a sitrep about what she had ordered Beckett to do.

Sheppard: It's not a pleasant thought. Weir: No. No, it isn't. I crossed a line, John, with Kavanagh. Sheppard: You did what you had to do.

As soon as he notices that Weir is feeling somber, Sheppard's mood shifts, alerting us to the fact that his mirth was only on the surface level and that he is far from unaffected by the events of the past few days himself. The readiness, conviction and swiftness with which he convinces Weir that she had been in the right, that it had been the right thing to do, that they had no choice, is not him trying to convince just her of this but also himself. These are the kind of lies he has been telling himself his whole life, they come to him as easy as breathing. It had further been a harrowing experience to him because the military is meant to provide a structure that facilitates making tough decisions and where the responsibility is always up the chain, there is always someone else above you whose job it is to make sure that you make the right decision. And not only is he the military commander of this expedition, he had been forced to pull a gun on a superior officer. That is not the kind of thing that his training prepared him for. Sheppard does not know how to deal with that. He does not have answers to give her. His sole comfort is that he and McKay had worked together to keep each other and their home safe, and managing to keep McKay safe made it all worth the trouble to him. He is beginning to realize that he would do so much worse to keep him safe, and he does not even feel bad about it.

Kavanagh is a very dislikeable character and the actor does a good job of portraying the kind of person people love to hate. However, even though the audience is meant to find him dislikeable and to side with our protagonists against him, it once more does not mean that he is wrong. In Letters from Pegasus (S01E17), Kavanagh recorded a message to be sent to the SGC criticizing the leadership of the expedition, particularly Weir. We learn in this episode that he had left the expedition after contact with Earth was re-established, and his reasons had been "because working conditions became intolerable for me here. I have no friends here, my work is not respected." Although his main conflict was with Weir, it seems as though McKay had also contributed to his poor working conditions, and we learn that his second tour on Atlantis had only lasted for three weeks, which seems to coincide with the amount of time McKay may have been taking his emotions for Sheppard's dealings with ascended women out on the people working under him.

Kavanagh may well have inadvertently wound up paying for something that he had no part in because, as by his own admission, McKay can be a petty man sometimes. In this episode, we watched him unload on both Zelenka and Cadman but it seems as though Kavanagh had also been on the receiving end of his sour mood before making the choice to leave. So, he had reasons for leaving that had nothing to do with Weir. However, it does not mean that he is wrong about Weir and given that he does not like her, he is able to see her with much more clarity than people who like and respect her ever could. As he is being interrogated, they have the following exchange:

Weir: Given the circumstances, can you not see how such behaviour might arouse suspicion? Kavanagh: Your suspicion, sure. Seeing as how you never cared for me, nor valued the talents I brought to this expedition. Weir: My personal feelings towards you, no matter what they may be, have nothing to do with this. Kavanagh: Oh, please! Everything you do is motivated by personal feelings. You're driven by emotion, not reason. It's why I've always felt you're not capable of doing this job. You don't have the-- strength to be leading the fight against the wraith. Weir: If I remember correctly, you were the one who wanted to -- what was it? -- run and hide? Kavanagh: And at the time, I was right. If the Daedalus hadn't arrived at the eleventh hour, this city and everyone in it would have been wiped out because of your recklessness. There no need for the Trust to blow it up when Doctor Weir's at the helm!

He is being harsh but he is not wrong. Weir tries to not let her emotions compromise her command to the point of coming across cold and unfeeling but just like Sheppard, she cannot not feel. And neither of them, for their own reasons, seem to understand that feelings can also be a source of great strength when tempered with reason and repressing and suppressing emotions has a tendency to only make them stronger, to affect their decisions in ways that they might not do if they allowed themselves the freedom to feel like a normal person. Although Kavanagh was very much going to say that Weir does not have the balls to lead the fight against the wraith, Weir and Sheppard are very much alike in this. The difference is that Sheppard eschews authority and hence avoids taking responsibility, forcing Weir to actually have to shoulder the burden of leadership alone.

Sheppard: The good news was, he wasn't hurt. Weir: Here we are, gloating about the in-fighting among the wraith. How are we any different?

Weir hits Sheppard with an ethical dilemma that he does not seem to have an answer for, both of them having to sit with this uncomfortable feeling. Sheppard glances at the piece of artwork on Weir's desk, a wooden ring consisting of four interlinked figures holding hands symbolizing both the SGA-1 but also Weir, Sheppard, McKay and Beckett, the senior staff of the expedition. There might be a reference here to the Frederik Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth novella Critical Mass (1962) where four characters coming together have bearing on the resolution of the story. Especially relevant as regards this scene is the character of the President who is having to make some tough decisions, coming to the realization that he alone must bear the weight of the responsibility for making decisions that affect everyone because the buck stops at his desk. The title in the book is explained as two characters being drawn together (akin to atomic particles): Walter Chase, a young concrete engineer and Arturo Denzer, an incompetent food editor whose collision together is what created the critical mass for social change. In this episode, it is obviously the men who brushed their fingers together that are coming to collision.

Sheppard turns his face away from her, unable to really disagree with her sentiment. We saw Sheppard and McKay exchange those short but intense bursts of energy between them in this episode and even though they are mostly good, they are not precisely fighting, there is still some resentment clearly bubbling under the surface that they have not been able to deal with. McKay is feeling hurt and Sheppard does not know how to make it better. And clearly pretending that everything was back to normal was not working, not really. The episode begun with McKay telling Sheppard that he needed him but although he was headed his way, it seems as though Sheppard has not been able to meet him where he is yet.

All the while the rest of the episode was happening, Teyla and Beckett had a side quest involving Charrin, an elderly woman that was close to Teyla and who decided to die with her heart condition rather than to let Beckett artificially prolong her life. Now, because the episode seems to be Weir-centric and she is paralleled with Teyla, it might be that Teyla letting her go has echoes of what had happened between Weir and Simon all those months ago. Especially as Teyla tells her: "You are all I have left. My family -- my mother, my father -- they are all gone. If you leave me, I will truly be alone" we may get insight into how Weir, who is not very expressive with her emotions and likes to keep her emotions close to her chest may have been feeling. Note that both Charrin and Simon questioned the skills of the women to cook. We should also note the fact that in The Intruder (S02E02) Weir and Sheppard were paralleled, Weir and Simon were narrative mirrors for Sheppard and McKay, so it is possible not only Weir but also Sheppard could have been harbouring feelings similar to Teyla recently. But although for Teyla and Weir the lesson they need to learn is that they have a community and a family on Atlantis, for Sheppard the lesson seems to be more that in order to get what he needs, he needs to let go. And for him, this lesson is still in the future (and, in fact, we run out of show before he can get back what he does eventually learn to let go, more of which later).

Charrin dies and the Athosians arrange a "Ring ceremony" to send her off, and we hear Teyla sing a funeral dirge that seems to foreshadow things to come on the show (and, in fact, another way to interpret their interactions is as symbolic of the shows themselves, SG-1 as Charrin and SGA as Teyla, where they probably had been unsure the original show would get renewed for a 10th season at this time and were preparing to wrap it up regardless):

Beyond the night, a rising sun Beyond the night, the battle's won The battle's won. Fear and shame now in the past Pain and sorrow gone at last Gone at last. Circle renewed, peace will be found Beyond the night on sacred ground. River flows, led by the wind First new breath, our journey begins Our journey begins.

The song seems to foreshadow the ending of the narrative taking place by the Golden Gate bridge (in ancient mythologies, the sun was believed to travel between Gates of the East in the morning and Gates of the West in the evening so a sunrise on the West Coast is symbolic of both death and rebirth; also the Golden Gate at the Versailles has the sun emblazoned on it). The show started with the city taking off from Earth toward Pegasus and we were always going to close the circle with Atlantis returning to Earth (and Sheppard returning to San Francisco from where he started his journey, for reasons that were never explained to the audience; although note that he is not by the Golden Gate but possibly the Carquinez Bridge at Vallejo). And that, the show coming to an end, would only have been the beginning of their journey. And the battle that both Sheppard and McKay had to overcome was never just against the wraith, it was also internal: fear for one and shame for the other. Also symbolically McKay is the river, the conduit to power that Sheppard directs. The intention seems to have been to wrap it all up in a neat bow eventually.

The term "critical mass," while technically a reference to the a mass of fissile material that self-sustains a fission chain reaction (that as such seems to have very little to do with the episode as there is no actual bomb and zero point energy does not work that way; the resultant explosion was not going to come from the ZPM reaching critical mass because zero point energy is derived from the quantum vacuum state of matter and the Ancient "battery" not being able to contain the building charge can be described as reaching critical "mass" only in a very abstract sense), was bandied a lot in connection with influencing the attitudes of the general public to be more positive toward the idea of marriage equality in the early aughts.

DADT was repealed in 2011 but the 2008 Presidential election is widely seen as the moment when critical mass for the change was reached, when public opinion had been swayed widely enough that they could begin working on actually overturning it, and let us make note of the fact that many of the legal challenges that actually went into ending the policy had been raised in the Air Force specifically (cf. Witt v. Department of the Air Force). I cannot overstate what a critical juncture this was for swaying public opinion, and how impossible it would have been for them to do this outside of the subtext. Co-operating with the Air Force, they could literally not have maintexted it however much they might have wanted to, so to get the kind of confirmations of the subtext as we got was really rather bold of them. But this was also why, although there was at least one gay officer on the main show (a Major later promoted to Lt. Colonel, as it were), they decided to play with this thematic using the spin-off show. It was never just one person that was doing it, it was clearly a communal effort and it was done for a purpose.

What is really interesting is that this episode seems to reference multiple past episodes, not merely of the first season but also the second. The intention may also have been to indicate reaching a critical mass in establishing the show as its own individual entity, capable of standing on its own two feet even if the mothership was taken out of commission. The following is a brief list of references to past episodes in this one, some more overt than others:

Rising: Teyla as the leader of her people Hide and Seek: Teyla as the leader of her people, McKay's Hail Mary pass, naqadah generators Thirty-Eight Minutes: Beginning of Weir's trouble with Kavanagh Suspicion: Weir and Sheppard conflict over authority, Athosian hoodoo Childhood's End: Zelenka on the planet of the children, Carter is name-checked Poisoning the Well: Beckett and the Hippocratic Oath, torturing prisoner Underground: Debating morality and warcrimes in the meeting room Home: Contact with SGC, only not; McKay disabling the DHD The Storm: Athosian hoodoo, grounding stations, evacuation The Eye: McKay and the shield/cloak, McKay's Hail Mary pass, naqadah generators The Defiant One: planet with crashed hive mentioned Hot Zone: Weir and Sheppard conflict over authority Sanctuary: Teyla is in a light blue dress like Chaya, seeming to play the part of a priestess in the ceremony Before I Sleep: Although they do not live together at this time, Sheppard and McKay are on their way toward the quarters they had discovered here The Brotherhood: McKay and the ZPM Letters from Pegasus: Kavanagh's problem with Weir continued, contact with SGC, Carter is name-checked The Gift: Kavanagh, Charrin The Siege: 15 hour flight to LaGrange point satellite mentioned, McKay and the ZPM, Hermiod The Intruder: Weir and Simon's relationship, why Weir is feeling lonely, Hermiod Runner: Caldwell's issues with Sheppard, Ronon throwing down Duet: Cadman Condemned: Wraith cruisers Trinity: Caldwell's issues with Sheppard Instinct: Beckett and the Hippocratic oath Conversion: McKay and Sheppard meet up where we saw Sheppard climbing the wall, Weir and Caldwell conflict Aurora: Wraith cruiser, Weir and Sheppard hanging by McKay's work station, distress beacon, Atlantis jurisdiction v. the Daedalus The Lost Boys: the wraith becoming territorial The Hive: The wraith fighting each other Epiphany: Cadman is name-checked

Out of these, Kavanagh and Cadman seem to be used as specific references to episodes, and both Zelenka's mission on the planet of the children and Sheppard's mention of the planet 15 hours away by puddlejumper are also explicit references to past episodes. Some of these are a stretch but there was definitely a sense that intentional callbacks were made here. I am sure I've also missed some so if you can think of any, please let me know and I'll update the list. In any case, I think this is the "critical mass" intended by the title, the show having created enough of its own mythos to have its own distinct identity by this time. It is a swan song for the original show while now ready to begin its own journey.

[jomiddlemarch]

✨ weekend wip exposure club ✨

rules: post 7 sentences/a snippet of an unfinished work.

thank you @aloveforjaneausten for tagging me!

Tagging @asteraceae-blue @nervousladytraveler @goodwithcheese @ladamedusoif @trulybetty @aquitainequeen

Before Gilbert nearly died of typhoid, Anne rarely spoke to him directly about her early childhood. She hardly spoke of it at all to anyone, though perhaps Diana knew more than it seemed; Anne would have sworn her to secrecy in a ceremony held in the woods behind old Simon Caldwell’s place that Diana had let slip Anne referred to the Silver Palladium because there was a preponderance of birches. Diana didn’t know enough to tell Anne Palladium meant a statue and wasn’t another word for palace and Gilbert hadn’t wanted to risk a second encounter with Anne’s slate, so no one corrected her. She would have lifted that pointed chin and aimed her nose heavenward in proud disregard and she wasn’t hurting anyone anyway. She would have made Diana do something she called plighting troth, perhaps involving braiding together some flowers and grasses or burying some very white stones together at the base of the tallest, slimmest birch, and then might have admitted to the littlest, mildest fact of what it had been like for her before she came to Green Gables. He suspected she actually hadn’t meant to tell him anything. After the crisis, when they’d all decided he would live even though he himself wasn’t convinced of it, Anne had come to visit nearly every day and sat with him for an hour, even when he couldn’t keep his eyes open. 

[deliciouskeys]

I don’t understand why so many of you are so obsessed with mpreg. And it’s never a C-section either, as if a baby would fit through the hip bones of a guy. Wish some of you would read a biology textbook.

Lol, Anon, I’m so glad your biological objection to mpreg is not the absence of a female reproductive system nor the presence of a male endocrine system that would actually make pregnancy difficult even with a transplanted uterus. No, you’re worried about the relatively minute skeletal sexual dimorphism of the human pelvis. It’s true that it’s been a while since I read a biology “textbook”, but you can read more up to date research here: Pelvic Inlet Shape Is Not as Dimorphic as Previously Suggested

Tl;dr: there are 4 pelvic forms, defined based on specific measurements back in the 19th century by racist, sexist anthropologists, who said only ‘abnormal’ women have an android pelvis. Surprise, surprise, it turns out their “android vs gynecoid” dichotomy is pretty much a misnomer. Most people have a ‘male pelvis’, and to add insult to injury, more men than women have a ‘female pelvis’ 😂

In addition to these differences, others claim that the inlet shape is generally android in males and gynecoid in females (Caldwell et al., 1934; Abitbol, 1996; Burden and Simons, 2004; Drake et al., 2005). However, the results of this study refute this claim because the android form was the most common shape for both males and females. In addition, the perceived typical female shape was actually more common among the males in this study. These results question the validity of defining a typical inlet shape for males and females.

Anyway, hope that helps you enjoy mpreg for its stark realism according to leading edge science.

[rowan-blood]

Book Recommendations

Kellen Graves

Prince of the Sorrows (Rowan Blood, #1) Lord of Silver Ashes (Rowan Blood, #2) Herald of the Witch’s Mark (Rowan Blood #3) The Fox and the Dryad

K.J. Charles

The Smuggler and the Warlord (A Charm of Magpies, #0.5) The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies, #1) Interlude with Tattoos (A Charm of Magpies, #1.5) A Case of Possession (A Charm of Magpies, #2) A Case of Spirits (A Charm of Magpies, #2.5 Flight of Magpies (A Charm of Magpies, #3) Feast of Stephen (A Charm of Magpies, #3.5) Five For Heaven (A Charm of Magpies, #3.6) Jackdaw (A Charm of Magpies, #4) Rag and Bone (A Charm of Magpies, #5) A Queer Trade (A Charm of Magpies, #5.5) The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal Butterflies (The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal, #2) Remnant: A Caldwell & Feximal/Whyborne & Griffin Mystery (The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal, #3; Whyborne & Griffin, #3.5) Proper English (England World, #1) Think of England (England World, #2) Song for a Viking (England World, #2.1) A Fashionable Indulgence (Society of Gentlemen, #1) A Seditious Affair (Society of Gentlemen, #2) A Gentleman’s Position (Society of Gentlemen, #3) Wanted, A Gentleman An Unseen Attraction (Sins of the Cities, #1) An Unnatural Vice (Sins of the Cities, #2) An Unsuitable Heir (Sins of the Cities, #3) Spectred Isle (Green Men, #1) The Henchmen of Zenda Unfit to Print Band Sinister The Rat-Catcher’s Daughter (Lilywhite Boys, #0.5) Any Old Diamonds (Lilywhite Boys, #1) Gilded Cage (Lilywhite Boys, #2) Masters in This Hall (Lilywhite Boys, #3) Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1) The Sugared Game (The Will Darling Adventures, #2) Subtle Blood (The Will Darling Adventures, #3) The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (The Doomsday Books, #1) A Nobleman’s Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel (The Doomsday Books, #2) A Thief in the Night

A.J. Demas

One Night in Boukos Something Human Sword Dance (Sword Dance, #1) Saffron Alley (Sword Dance, #2) Strong Wine (Sword Dance, #3) Honey and Pepper (When in Pheme, #1)

C.S. Pacat

Captive Prince (Captive Prince, #1) Captive Prince: Volume Two (Captive Prince, #2) Kings Rising (Captive Prince, #3) Dark Rise (Dark Rise, #1) Dark Heir (Dark Rise, #2)

Joanna Chambers

Provoked (Enlightenment, #1) Beguiled (Enlightenment, #2) Enlightened (Enlightenment, #3) Unnatural (Enlightenment, #4) Restored (Enlightenment, #5) Gentleman Wolf (Capital Wolves Duet, #1) Master Wolf (Capital Wolves Duet, #2)

Tamara Allen

Downtime Whistling in the Dark The Only Gold If It Ain’t Love The Road to Silver Plume (Secret Service #1) Playing the Ace (Secret Service #2) Invitation to the Dance

Harper Fox

Brothers of the Wild North Sea Once Upon a Haunted Moor (Tyack & Frayne #1) Tinsel Fish (Tyack & Frayne #2) Don’t Let Go (Tyack & Frayne #3) Kitto (Tyack & Frayne #4) Guardians of the Haunted Moor (Tyack & Frayne #5) Third Solstice (Tyack & Frayne #6) Preacher, Prophet, Beast (Tyack & Frayne #7) Out

Sebastian Nothwell

Mr Warren’s Profession (Aubrey & Lindsey, #1) Throw His Heart Over (Aubrey & Lindsey, #2) Hold Fast Oak King Holly King

Lydia Gastrell

One Indulgence (Indulgence #1) One Glimpse (Indulgence, #2)

Hale Ginn

Lord of the White Hell, Book 1 (Lord of the White Hell, #1) Lord of the White Hell, Book 2 (Lord of the White Hell, #2)

Adella J. Harris

The Marquess of Gorsewall Manor (After the Swan’s Nest, #1) The Earl of Klesamor Hall (After the Swan’s Nest, #2)

Cat Sebastian

The Soldier’s Scoundrel (The Turners, #1) The Lawrence Browne Affair (The Turners, #2) The Ruin of a Rake (The Turners, #3) It Takes Two to Tumble (Seducing the Sedgwicks, #1) A Gentleman Never Keeps Score (Seducing the Sedgwicks, #2) Two Rogues Make a Right (Seducing the Sedgwicks, #3)

Lily Morton

The Mysterious and Amazing Blue Billings (Black and Blue #1) The Quiet House (Black and Blue #2) Something Wicked (Black and Blue #3) Merry Measure The Cuckoo's Call

Freya Marske

A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding #1) A Restless Truth (The Last Binding #2)

Other Authors

The Devil Lancer by Astrid Amara The Reluctant Berserker by Alex Beecroft The Scottish Boy by Alex de Campi Catalina Blues by Marlo York The Rake, the Rogue and the Roué by Eric Alan Westfall The Gladiator’s Master by Fae Sutherland The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller When Skies Have Fallen by Debbie McGowan Nova Praetorian by N.R. Walker The Reanimator's Heart (The Reanimator Mysteries #1) by Kara Jorgensen One Night in Hartswood by Emma Denny

(last update 2024/06/14)

I would appreciate your recommendations if you enjoy one or more books from this list.

[dndhistory]

477. Morris Simon - Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Adventure Gamebook 9: The Sorcerer's Crown (1986)

With a cool Clyde Caldwell cover, this is the second volume in a trilogy of gamebooks, the Kingdom of Sorcery trilogy, which started off with Sceptre of Power, earlier in 1986. This book follows on directly from the previous one, so much so that you can't really read this as a standalone gamebook, but part of a larger tale.

Although the story is interesting, and the fact that it is part of a larger story allows it to be a bit more detailed than other books in the series that need to fit a full story in just one volume, there are problems here which are common to other not so great gamebooks. 

First and foremost among these problems is the railroadiness of the story, not only do you have to play the adventure in a certain predetermined path, but diverting from that path leads to instadeath more often than not. That illusion of choice can be a bit annoying if you are expecting a more sandboxy adventure, but it makes up for it with interesting characters and plot. 

[incrediblyfastfilms]

INVASION of the BODY SNATCHERS (1978) written by W.D. Richter (from the novel by Jack Finney) produced by Robert Solo directed by Philip Kaufman starring Donald Sutherland Brooke Adams Leonard Nimoy Jeff Goldblum Veronica Cartwright Art Hindle cinematography by Michael Chapman edited by Douglas Stewart music by Danny Zeitlin

JAWS (1975) written by Carl Gottlieb (from the novel by Peter Benchley) produced by Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown directed by Steven Spielberg starring Roy Scheider Robert Shaw Richard Dreyfus Lorraine Gary Murray Hamilton Carl Gottlieb cinematography by Bill Butler edited by Verna Fields music by John Williams

E r a s e r h e a d (1977) written, directed and produced by David Lynch starring Jack Nance Charlotte Stewart Allen Joseph Jeanne Bates Judith Roberts Laurel Near Jack Fisk cinematography by Frederick Elmes Herbert Caldwell edited by David Lynch sound design by Lynch w/ Alan Splet special effects by Lynch w/ Frederick Elmes

P s y c h o (1960) written by Joseph Stefano (from the novel by Robert Bloch) directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock starring Anthony Perkins Vera Miles John Gavin Janet Leigh Martin Balsam Simon Oakland cinematography by John L. Russell edited by George Tomasini music by Bernard Hermann

A L I E N (1979) written by Dan O'Bannon (story by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Sushett) directed by Ridley Scott produced by Gordon Carroll David Giler Walter Hill starring Tom Skerritt Sigourney Weaver Veronica Cartwright John Hurt Harry Dean Stanton Yaphet Kotto Ian Holm cinematography by Derek Vanlint edited by Terry Rawlings music by Jerry Goldsmith

John Carpenter's The THING (1982) written by Bill Lancaster (from the novella "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell) directed by John Carpenter produced by David Foster Lawrence Turman Wilbur Stark starring Kurt Russell A. Wilford Briley T.K. Carter David Clennon Keith David Richard Dysart Charles Hallahan Peter Maloney Richard Masur Donald Moffat Joel Polis Thomas Waites cinematography by Dean Cundey edited by Todd Ramsay music by Ennio Morricone

The Exorcist (1973) written by William Peter Blatty (from his novel) directed by William Friedkin produced by William Peter Blatty Noel Marshall David Salven starring Ellen Burstyn Max Von Sydow Jason Miller Lee J. Cobb Jack MacGowran Kitty Winn Mercedes McCambridge Linda Blair cinematography by Owen Roizman edited by Norman Gay Evan Lottman music by Jack Nitzche "Tubular Bells" by Mike Oldfield

R e p u l s i o n (1965) written by Roman Polanski Garard Brach screenplay adaptation by David Stone directed by Roman Polanski produced by Gene Gutowski starring Catherine Deneuve Ian Hendry John Fraser Peter Wymark Yvonne Furneaux cinematography by Gilbert Taylor edited by Alastair McIntyre music by Chico Hamilton

THE SHINING (1980) written by Diane Johnson Stanley Kubrick (from the novel by Stephen King) directed by Stanley Kubrick produced by Stanley Kubrick w/ Jan Harlan starring Jack Nicholson Shelley Duvall Danny Lloyd Scatman Crothers Barry Nelson Philip Stone Joe Turkel cinematography by John Alcott edited by Ray Lovejoy music by Wendy Carlos Rachel Elkind

Night of the Living Dead (1968) written by John Russo George A. Romero directed by George A. Romero produced by Karl Hardman Russell Streiner starring Duane Jones Judith O'Dea Karl Hardman Marilyn Eastman Keith Wayne Kyra Schon Judith Ridley cinematography by George A. Romero (uncr.) edited by George A. Romero (uncr.) Hugh Daly

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) written by James V. Hart (from the novel by Bram Stoker) directed by Francis Ford Coppola produced by Francis Ford Coppola Charles Mulvehill Fred Fuchs Michael Apted Robert O'Conner starring Gary Oldman Winona Ryder Anthony Hopkins Keanu Reeves Cary Elwes Richard E. Grant Billy Campbell Sadie Frost Monica Belluci Tom Waits cinematography by Michael Ballhaus edited by Anne Goursaud Glen Scantlebury Nicholas C. Smith music by Wojciech Kilar

TWIN PEAKS fire walk with me (1992) written by David Lynch Robert Engels (from the television series created by David Lynch and Mark Frost) directed by David Lynch produced by David Lynch Mark Frost Gregg Fienberg Johanna Ray John Wentworth starring Sheryl Lee Ray Wise Moira Kelly Grace Zabriskie Chris Isaak Kiefer Sutherland David Lynch Miguel Ferrer Harry Dean Stanton David Bowie Michael J. Anderson Frank Silva Al Strobel Jurgen Prochnow Dana Ashbrook James Marshall Frances Bay Catherine E. Coulson Kimberly Ann Cole Walter Olkewicz Lenny Von Dohlen Madchen Amick Peggy Lipton Julee Cruise Kyle Machlachlan cinematography by Ron Garcia edited by Mary Sweeney music by Angelo Badalamenti

Let the Right One In (2008) written by John Ajvide Lyndqvist (from his novel) directed by Tomas Alfredson produced by Frida Asp starring Kare Hedbrant Lina Leandersson Per Ragnar Henrik Dahl Ika Nord cinematography by Hoyte Van Hoytema edited by Tomas Alfredson Dino Jonsater music by Johan Soderqvist

W A R of the W O R L D S (2005) written by Josh Friedman David Koepp directed by Steven Spielberg produced by Kathleen Kennedy Damian Collier Paula Wagner Colin Wilson starring Tom Cruise Tim Robbins Dakota Fanning Miranda Otto Justin Chatwin Amy Ryan cinematography by Janusz Kaminski edited by Michael Kahn music by John Williams

Hannibal (2001) written by Steve Zaillian David Mamet directed by Ridley Scott produced by Martha De Laurentiis Dino De Laurentiis Ridley Scott starring Anthony Hopkins Julianne Moore Ray Liotta Gary Oldman Frankie Faison Giancarlo Giannini Francesca Neri Zeljko Ivanek Hazelle Goodman cinematography by John Mathieson editing by Pietro Scalia music by Hans Zimmer

The Hunger (1983) written by Ivan Davis Michael Thomas (from the novel by Whitley Strieber) directed by Tony Scott produced by Richard Shepherd starring Catherine Deneuve Susan Sarandon David Bowie Cliff De Young cinematography by Stephen Goldblatt edited by Pamela Power music by Michel Rubini Denny Jaeger

DON'T LOOK NOW (1973) written by Allan Scott Chris Bryant (based on the novella by Daphne Du Maurier) directed by Nicholas Roeg produced by Peter Katz starring Donald Sutherland Julie Christie Hilary Mason Clelia Matania Renato Scarpa cinematography by Anthony Richmond editing by Graeme Clifford music by Pino Donnagio

Prisoners (2013) written by Aaron Guzikowski directed by Denis Villeneuve produced by Broderick Johnson Kira Davis Andrew A. Kosove Adam Kolbrenner starring Jake Gylenhaal Hugh Jackman Maria Bello Viola Davis Melissa Leo Terrence Howard Paul Dano cinematography by Roger Deakins edited by Joel Cox Gary Roach music by Johann Johannsson

The Company of Wolves (1984) written by Neil Jordan Angela Carter (from the short story in Angela Carter's book "The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories") directed by Neil Jordan produced by Chris Brown Stephen Woolley starring Sarah Patterson David Warner Angela Lansbury Micha Bergese Stephen Rea cinematography by Bryan Loftus edited by Rodney Holland music by George Fenton

A Quiet Place (2018) written by Bryan Woods Scott Beck John Krasinski directed by John Krasinski produced by Michael Bay Andrew Form Brad Fuller starring Emily Blunt John Krasinski Millicent Simmonds Noah Jupe Cade Woodward cinematography by Charlotte Bruus Christensen edited by Christopher Tellefsen music by Marco Beltrami

W O R L D W A R Z (2013) written by Matthew Michael Carnahan Drew Goddard & Damon Lindelof (from the novel novel by Max Brooks) directed by Marc Forster produced by Brad Pitt Dede Gardner Jeremy Kleiner Ian Bryce starring Brad Pitt Mireille Enos Daniella Kertesz James Badge Dale Peter Capaldi Pierfrancesco Favino Ludi Boeken Matthew Fox Fana Mokoena David Morse cinematography by Ben Seresin edited by Roger Barton Matt Chesse music by Marco Beltrami

LOST H i g h w a y (1997) written by David Lynch Barry Gifford directed by David Lynch produced by Mary Sweeney Tom Sternberg Deepak Nayar starring Bill Pullman Patricia Arquette Balthazar Getty Natasha Gregson Wagner Robert Loggia Robert Blake Michael Massee Jack Nance Henry Rollins Gary Busey cinematography by Peter Deming edited by Mary Sweeney music by Angelo Badalamenti

N e a r D a r k (1987) written by Kathryn Bigelow Eric Red directed by Kathryn Bigelow produced by Edward S. Feldman Steven-Charles Jaffe Charles Meeker starring Adrian Pasdar Jenny Wright Lance Henriksen Bill Paxton Jenette Goldstein Tim Thomerson cinematography by Adam Greenberg edited by Howard Smith music by Tangerine Dream

S e c o n d s (1966) written by Lewis John Carlino (from the novel by David Ely) directed by John Frankenheimer produced by John Frankenheimer Edward Lewis starring Rock Hudson Salome Jens John Randolph Will Geer Jeff Corey Murray Hamilton Frances Reid cinemtography by Tak Fujimoto edited by David Newhouse Ferris Webster music by Jerry Goldsmith

Nosferatu The Vampyre (1979) written by Werner Herzog w/ Tom Shachtman Martje Grohmann directed by Werner Herzog produced by Walter Saxer Werner Herzog Michael Gruskoff starring Klaus Kinski Isabelle Adjani Bruno Ganz Roland Topor Walter Landengast Martje Grohmann cinematography by Jorg Schmidt-Reitwein edited by Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus music by Florian Fricke Popol Vuh

30 DAYS of NIGHT (2007) written by Steve Niles Stuart Beattie Brian Nelson (from the graphic novel by Steve Niles Ben Templesmith) directed by David Slade produced by Sam Raimi Robert Tapert starring Josh Hartnett Melissa George Danny Huston Ben Foster Mark Boone Jr. Amber Sainsbury Megan Franich Manu Bennett cinematography by Jo Willems edited by Art Jones music by Brian Reitzell

f r e a k s (1932) written by Willis Goldbleck Leon Gordon (from the short story "Spurs" by Tod Robbins) directed and produced by Tod Browning starring Wallace Ford Leila Hyams Olga Baclanova Roscoe Ates cinematography by Merritt B. Gerstad edited by Basil Wrangell

the M i s t (2007) written and directed by Frank Darabont (from the novella by Stephen King) produced by Frank Darabont Martin Shefer Liz Glotzer starring Thomas Jane Laurie Holden Marcia Gay Hardin Andre Braugher Toby Jones William Sadler Frances Sternhagen Jeffrey DeMunn cinematography by Rohn Schmidt edited by Hunter M. Via music by Mark Isham

Invasion of the BODY SNATCHERS (1956) written by Daniel Mainwaring (from the novel by Jack Finney) directed by Don Siegel produced by Walter Wanger starring Kevin McCarthy Dana Wynter Larry Gates King Donovan Carolyn Jones Jean Willes Ralph Dumke cinematography by Ellsworth Fredericks edited by Robert S. Eisen music by Carmen Dragon

[arobinwithoutbatman]

Statistical Personality Test

Take the quiz from the perspective of your character then select 5-10 results that best resonate

((Personally, I just grabbed the top 10 and threw in a couple of funny honorable mentions))

1:Jonah Byrde (Ozark): 86%

2:Simon Tam (Firefly + Serenity): 84%

3:Wesley Crusher (Star Trek: The Next Generation): 84%

4:Leo Fitz (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.): 84%

5:The Doctor (Star Trek: Voyager): 84%

6:Julian Bashir (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine): 83%

7:Bruce Banner (Marvel Cinematic Universe): 82%

8:Elsie Hughes (Westworld): 82%

9:Kenny Stowton (Killing Eve): 82%

10:Linus Caldwell (Ocean's 11): 82%

Funny Honorable Mentions:

12: Bruce Wayne (Gotham) 82%

15: Ender Wiggin (Ender's Game) 81%

17: Lucius Fox (Gotham) 81%

19: Neo (The Matrix) 80%

21: Dr Shaun Murphy (The Good Doctor) 80% (Not actually funny, I actually find it mildly insulting to both Tim and me)

22: Q (Tomorrow Never Dies) 80%

24: Klaus Baudelaire (A Series Of Unfortunate Events) 80%

25: Lucius Fox (The Dark Knight) 79%

29: Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation) 79%

35: Dr Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds) 79%

Stole From: @dramatisperscnae

Tagged By: @the-mocking-robin

Tagging: You. Yes you.

[goalhofer]

2024 olympics Australia roster

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Boxing

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Breakdancing

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Canoeing

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Climbing

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Cycling

Simon Clarke (Melbourne)

Michael Matthews (Canberra)

Luke Plapp (Melbourne)

Logan Martin (Logan)

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Matthew Glaetzer (Adelaide)

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Diving

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Equestrian

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Field Hockey

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Sailing

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Surfing

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Swimming

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Elijah Winninghton (Gold Coast)

Isaac Cooper (Bundaberg)

Bradley Woodward (Kanwal)

Se-Bom Lee (Sydney)

Samuel Williamson (Melbourne)

Zaac Stubblety-Cook (Brisbane)

Matthew Temple (Melbourne)

Brendon Smith (Wollongong)

Jack Cartwright (Biloela)

Zac Incerti (Mt. Lawley)

Flynn Southam (Murdoch)

Kyle Lee (Perth)

Nicholas Sloman (Brisbane)

Raphaelle Gauthier (Montreal, Quebec)

Margo Joseph-Kuo (Northcote)

Putu Kusmawan (Werribee)

Zoe Poulis (Southport)

Milena Waldmann (Gold Coast)

Carolyn Buckle (Sydney)

Kiera Gazzard (Randwick)

Georgia Courage-Gardiner (Gold Coast)

Jamie Perkins (Melbourne)

Moesha Johnson (Tweed Heads)

Iona Anderson (Perth)

Jaclyn Barclay (Canberra)

Jenna Strauch (Bendigo)

Ella Ramsay (Ipswich)

Alexandria Perkins (Caloundra West)

Abbey Connor (Sydney)

Jenna Forrester (Sandton)

Olivia Wunsch (Sydney)

Meg Harris (Brisbane)

Shayna Jack (Brisbane)

Mollie O'Callaghan (Logan)

Ariarne Titmus (Brisbane)

Lani Pallister (Sydney)

Kaylee McKeown (Redcliffe)

Emma McKoen (Wollongong)

Elizabeth Dekkers (Brisbane)

Bronte Campbell (Brisbane)

Brianna Throssell (Perth)

Chelsea Gubecka (Nambour)

Table tennis

Hwan Bae (Sydney)

Finn Luu (Yarraville)

Nicholas Lum (Melbourne)

Min Jee (Seoul, South Korea)

Michelle Bromley (Blacktown)

Melissa Tapper (Melbourne)

Taekwondo

Bailey Lewis (Werribee)

Leon Sejranovic (Melbourne)

Stacey Hymer (Melbourne)

Tennis

Alex De Minaur (Alicante, Spain)

Alexei Popyrin (Sydney)

Rinky Hijikata (Sydney)

Matthew Ebden (Perth)

John Peers (Melbourne)

Alja Tomljanović (Boca Raton, Florida)

Olivia Gadecki (Gold Coast)

Ellen Perez (Melbourne)

Daria Saville (Melbourne)

Triathlon

Luke Willian (Brisbane)

Matthew Hauser (Maryborough)

Sophie Linn (Adelaide)

Natalie Van Coevorden (Campbelltown)

Volleyball

Zachery Schubert (Marion)

Izac Carracher (Sydney)

Mark Nicolaidis (Brisbane)

Thomas Hodges (Melbourne)

Taliqua Clancy (Brisbane)

Mariafe Artacho-Del Solar (Sydney)

Water polo

Lachlan Edwards (Melbourne)

Nic Porter (Peregian Springs)

Marcus Berehulak (Brisbane)

John Hedges (Perth)

Luke Pavillard (Perth)

Angus Lambie (Cronulla)

Charlie Negus (Sydney)

Chaz Poot (Cronulla)

Jacob Merčep (Dubrovnik, Croatia)

Matthew Byrnes (Sydney)

Miloš Maksimović (Novi Sad, Serbia)

Nathan Power (Newcastle)

Blake Edwards (Melbourne)

Tilly Kearns (Sydney)

Alice Williams (Brisbane)

Sienna Hearn (Allambie Heights)

Sienna Green (Mosman)

Genevieve Longman (Perth)

Danijela Jackovich (Cronulla)

Charlize Andrews (Brisbane)

Zoe Arancini (Perth)

Keesja Gofers (Sydney)

Abby Andrews (Brisbane)

Elle Armit (Townsville)

Bronte Halligan (Sydney)

Gabi Palm (Brisbane)

Weightlifting

Kyle Bruce (Blacktown)

Jacqueline Nichele (Rosemeadow)

Eileen Cikamatana (Rosebud)

Wrestling

Georgii Okorokov (Yakutsk, Russia)

Jayden Lawrence (Camden)

[downthetubes]

New Year, New 2000AD – New Thrills!

2025 is here, and 2000AD is primed and ready to keep your Thrill-Power up during the cold winter months. Here's what's on the way from Rebellion, including this week's 2000AD – Prog 2414

[lustfulheart]

INDIE SMUT RP (PLOT CENTRIC) - YOU MUST BE (PREFERABLY) 21+ TO ENTER PLEASE AND THANKS AND (AS OF 7/23/2023) I HAVE SWITCHED TO BETA EDITOR ONLY.

Welcome everyone to my page! I am a mostly mutuals only blog, but if you see an open in the tags you’re more than welcome to answer it even if we don’t follow each other! Some of the best partners are found that way, but just know I might be selective at times when it comes to muse and such. PLEASE DON’T PESTER ME IF I DO NOT FOLLOW YOU BACK. YOU MAY ANSWER AN OPEN IF YOU SEE ONE, BUT IF I DON’T REPLY PLEASE DO NOT TRY TO GUILT ME. I HAVE THE RIGHT TO DO AS I PLEASE ON THIS BLOG, THE SAME AS YOU DO.

I play both female and male characters (there is an obvious lean towards females) and while I’m not here to say you have to double up with one of my girls to get my guys, just know those threads might come a bit slower at times. I don’t try to drop threads without at least making some sort of PSA post about it though, so keep an eye out for them if I don't come directly to you with it!

When it comes to pairings, all of my men are straight and a majority of my ladies are bisexual! Leading the bulk of my threads to lean either towards m/f or f/f, but at the time of updating this (7/23/2023) I will not be including m/m content on my blog in a sexual sense. I have nothing against it, but I will not write it I am sorry 🖤 When writing a starter though, I will always include the preferences at the top so there is no confusion. 

All standard rules apply here, don't be a dick and we should get along fine. Discord is more likely to be given out to people whom I have plotted with a little bit at least on here already, I just have to know it’s not gonna flop and go nowhere within a day or two. That, and it is now the place where all of my kinkier plots go to be written as to spare the dash as much as possible.

LINKS:

Muses | Banned FC's | Starters | Wanted Opposites | General Plot Wishlist

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Below the cut is my mobile friendly muse list! It will be updated as I continue to expand the roster.

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IF A “⩥” APPEARS NEXT TO THEIR NAME IT MEANS THE MUSE IS ONLY AVALIABLE UPON REQUEST / DEPENDANT UPON THE PLOT AT HAND! (I just simply do not wish to get rid of them entirely, but they are going to be a lower activity muse by default)

LADIES:

Jenny Boyd - Cassie Dunbrow

Ana De Armas - Elena Ortega   “⩥”

Dove Cameron - Bella Grover

Madelyn Cline - Sydney "Syd" Limpkin

Dianna Agron - Violet Monroe   “⩥”

Madelaine Petsch - Kat Hendricks

Grace Van Dien -  Zoey White

Kathryn Newton - Twyla Allen

Zoe Colletti - Liddy Caldwell

Sadie Sink - Kirby Lewis

Holland Roden - Ginny Wallace

Gemma Chan - Mei Lin   “⩥”

Natalia Dyer - Tori Van Dickson   “⩥”

Camila Mendes - Izabel Torres

Ellie Bamber - Madison Penn

Sydney Sweeney - Charlie Kramer

Kaitlyn Dever - Hayley Sumpter   “⩥”

Amy Adams - Lauren Moore

Anne Hathaway - Andrea Fernway

Sarah Rafferty - Monroe Danes

GENTS:

Tyler Hoechlin - Parker Hornsby   “⩥”

Bradley Cooper - Ash Winger

Robbie Amell - Klaus Weber   “⩥”

Idris Elba - Simon Huntsman

Matthew Noszka - Jaxon Krol

Pedro Pascal - Mateo Soto   “⩥”

Dacre Montgomery - Ryker Collymore

Chris Pine - Ethan Sharp

Jason Momoa - Levi Madden “⩥”

Grey Sallow - Ryan Gosling

[survibers]

Apollo: A Playlist

Against The Wind - Bob Seger // Deja Vu (I’ve Been Here Before) - Teena Marie // Everyday People - Sly & The Family Stone // I’ve Got Dreams To Remember - Otis Redding // ‘Cause I Love You - Lenny Williams // Float On - The Floaters // Me and Mrs. Jones - Billy Paul // Close The Door - Teddy Pendergraass // If You Think You’re Lonely Now - Bobby Womack // Shining Star - The Manhattans // Georgy Porgy - TOTO // Tango In The Night - Fleetwood Mac // You’re Only Lonely - JD Souther // What You Won’t Do For Love - Bobby Caldwell // You Belong To Me - Carly Simone // Fire and Rain - James Taylor // All Out of Love - Air Supply // Crazy Love - Van Morrison // When A Man Loves A Woman - Percy Sledge // Misty Blue - Dorothy Moore 

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”― James Baldwin

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