#ranchers comeback when

[grassiestars]

when im in a stupid silly competition and these are my opponents

[ahllohehn]

HERMITS AND THE OLYMPIANS MASTERPOST (07/31/2024)

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Hermits and The Olympians/Emperors of Olympus is a Hermitcraft/Empires SMP based Percy Jackson AU based off my art and headcanons!

(Please do not use the tags for other PJO AUs as I use them to specifically label what's based off mine.)

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Seperated by art/doodles, headcanons/discussion, fanfics:

# 1 MUMBO PORTRAIT # 2 GRIAN, PEARL, SCAR & MUMBO ART # 3 HaTO FAN CREATION GUIDELINES # 4 GEM, CLEO, DOC PORTRAITS # 5 ETHO & BDUBS THANK YOU CARD # 6 STRESSMONSTER THANK YOU CARD # 7 CAMP EMPIRES FIRST APPEARANCE; BAD BOYS DOODLE # 8 OUTDATED CAMPERS GODLY PARENT SUMMARY # 9 CHIBI MUMBO THANK YOU CARD # 10 GRIAN CLOSE UP # 10.5 WATCHERS CAMEO??? # 11 BDUBS & SCAR; DEMETER CABIN'S HONORARY CAMPER # 12 RENDOG PORTRAIT # 13 MUMSCARIAN / RE: AU SHIPS # 14 IS THERE A CANON PLOT? Answer: I stick with what is canon to me, but I do not force others to follow so. As I am too lazy to do an actual plot. # 15 CHIBI STRESS & MUMBO # 16 BDUBS..? # 17 ETHO PORTRAIT / 1ST AU FICLET # 18 I JUST THINK THEATER KID ARES KID REN IS FUNNY # 19 JOEL AND LIZZIE; SOULMATES IN EVERY UNIVERSE # 20 ORACLE GEM...? # 21 oh snappers! (LOW QUALITY ETHO DOODLE) # 22 AT THIS POINT, DIONYSUS, ARES, AND APOLLO SHOULD FIGHT TO THE DEATH TO SEE WHO GETS CUSTODY OF REN # 23 SKIZZ & IMPULSE PORTRAITS / HEADCANONS # 24 ZEDAPH PORTRAIT

# 25 Camp Oracle’s Journal; Hermits and The Olympians # 26 GRIAN - THE DEATHLY ACTIVITIES MANAGER # 27 ISKALL & TANGO PORTRAITS # 28 KERALIS & XISUMA'S PERSONALLY MADE CAMP PIN # 29 I REALLY LIKE MAKING FUN OF REN /AFFE # 30 I ALSO REALLY LIKE INCLUDING MARTYN INTO THE MIX /AFFE

# 31 TREEBARK ARE MY BOYFAILURES # 32 RENDERED CAMP LOGOS (PNGS IN DISCORD SERVER) # 33 SHELBY & SCOTT PORTRAITS # 34 ETHUBS MY BELOVEDS :) # 35 INTRODUCING: GIGGS # 36 RE: CAMP EMPIRES AND CAMP HERMITCRAFT DOUBLES # 37 LET OLD MEN BOND LIKE OLD MEN (ETHO & TANGO) # 38 OFFICIAL HaTO DISCORD SERVER ANNOUNCEMENT # 39 MYTHICALSAUSAGE PORTRAIT # 40 XISUMA PORTRAIT # 41 HaTO FIRST COMIC SHITPOST # 42 FALSE, KERALIS, & BEEF PORTRAITS # 43 WELS & HYPNO PORTRAITS # 44 MUMSCARIAN FIRST MEETING DOODLE # 45 WHY IS WELS AN ATHENA KID? # 46 HOW IS GEM THE ORACLE # 47 HaTO SECOND COMIC SHITPOST (PRIDE MONTH) # 48 DESERT DUO ANIMATIC; INSPIRED BY BEAN'S TRAITOR SCAR FIC

# 49 MARTYN PORTRAIT / HEADCANONS # 50 IF SCAR WERE TO BE APHRODITE'S.... # 51 REN VS JARS # 52 LIZZIE PORTRAIT # 53 HaTO SCAR & GEM EMOTES # 54 HaTO CHIBIS BOUQUET DOODLE # 55 GRIAN AND HIS SON # 56 KATHERINE ELIZABETH PORTRAIT # 57 MUMSCARIAN MATCHING ICONS FOR PRIDE # 58 HOW ARE YEAR ROUNDERS GETTING EDUCATION? # 59 SHINY DUO MATCHING ICONS # 60 AROACE PEARL (PRIDE MONTH) # 61 BISEXUAL CLEO (PRIDE MONTH) # 62 CAMP CUDDLE SESSIONS # 63 TREEBARK COMEBACK # 64 When Does a Man Become a Monster?; Hermits and The Olympians

# 65 BOAT BOYS MATCHING ICONS # 66 WHAT DOIN'? CAMP HERMITCRAFT EDITION # 67 "I'M A CHILD OF DIVORCE" GESTURES TO ETHUBS # 68 MORE ETHUBS HEADCANONS CUS IM GAY AND SO ARE THEY # 69 DO NOT ANGER THE NON-ZOMBIE WOMAN, MR. ETHO # 70 NATURE WIVES # 71 I COMPLAIN ABOUT THE HEPHAESTUS CABIN'S ABILITIES # 72 TREEBARK MATCHING ICONS # 73 OLI PORTRAIT & HEADCANONS # 74 IT'S NOT ME IF THERE'S NO ETHUBS # 75 WELCOME TO HERMITCRAFT: GRIAN TEXT ADVENTURE # 76 GEM'S ORACLE CAVE TOUR

#77 THE BOYS (+ GEM) GO SHOPPING FOR SUITS #78 PEARL CHARACTER CARD #79 Camper Files; Hermits and The Olympians #80 STRESS PORTRAIT #81 CUBFAN PORTRAIT #82 FWHIP PORTRAIT

#83 PIXLRIFFS PORTRAIT #84 RANCHERS #85 WHY DO I HAVE SO MUCH TREEBARK IN MY INBOX? #86 IDK HOW SAD I'M SUPPOSED TO MAKE SCOTT #87 LONG TIME, NO NATURE WIVES? #88 AREN'T WE ALL A LITTLE SILLY FOR GRIAN SOMETIMES? #89 I HOPE YOU ALL KNOW I JUST BE SAYING ANYTHING ATP

# SECOND MASTERPOST LINK

OTHER HaTO Related Links:

HaTO Roleplay Blogs Masterpost by gem-the-oracle HaTO Archive of Our Own Series HaTO Discord Server

[trafficblrpolyamshipbracket]

Welcome to TPSB!

Hello everyone! I have not seen a ship bracket dedicated to polyam ships, especially for ships in the Traffic Life Series / Empires / Hermitcraft sphere (and occasionally other adjacent smps) so I am creating one. Obviously, this is characters not creators and this is for fun/entertainment, so please keep this lighthearted! Now, may the most beloved polyam ship win!

Current Blog Activity: TPSB V3 Finales has ended! Vote and create propaganda to help your polyam ship of choice win the TPSB V3 Finale!

The V1, V2, and V3 Brackets are concluded, but I will still reblog old ship propaganda and etc. Feel free to make celebratory art of the winner and tag me! I will reblog with the TPSB propaganda tag! I don't mind promoting people for the creations they've worked on :p

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#tpsb info

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INFO

Polls are set to one week and I'll post the next wave of polls soon after it ends.

If you tag this account with propaganda, I will reblog it. If it is nsfw propaganda, I will tag it with the #NSFW tag for minors/people who don't want to see it to filter out if they so choose. If it is not quite NSFW, but rather suggestive, I’ll take it #cw suggestive. Haven't run into this yet, but this is in place just in case.

Feel free to put propaganda in the ask box once the shipping starts and I will clear the queue as often as I can! I will also reblog literally anything people comment that aren't hidden in tags or whatever else, so keep that in mind.

No ship bashing/shaming please! I would like everyone to vote for a ship and not against a ship, for it's more fun that way. Not every ship is everyone’s cup of tea, but that just means you stay away from ships you don’t like. As long as it’s safe and legal, ship and let ship :D

I accept ship nominations as first come first serve, no matter how rare or bizarre it may seem to you. If you want to make sure your favorite polyam ship hits the bracket, throw it in the ask box :D

If there is a ship name attached to it, it is usually because the person who nominated the ship used that ship name. Not all ships have ship names that I know of/that I was given so they may be “wrong” or whatever else. Feel free to leave a reply or throw it in my ask box for me to add a ship name if one has it.

Once we get to the end, if all runs well and people enjoy this, there is a chance to run another bracket with a new set of submissions. New ships can be added and old ships who lost can make a comeback.

The bracket is created at random. There is only intervention in round one if the ships pitted against each other are the same plus/minus a person or if the ships feel too unevenly weighted. If so, I dragged one ship and threw it up or down and left it where it landed if that was better than before. I am human, though, and will miss stuff/make mistakes, so don't be upset if something isn't quite how you want it. This will place popular ships against each other, but I can always run another bracket after this one to give your favorite polyam ship another chance against other ships :D

Winning ships do not get run again. They claim their spot in the Winners list and then get to rest to allow other ships to have a chance to shine :D

This account is run by @deityoftherain who uses they/fae/star pronouns. As one may expect, be as wonky and fun with your headcanons and such when doing propaganda :D

CURRENT BRACKET

WINNERS

V1: Mumbo/Scar/Grian aka Mumscarian

V2: Scott/Jimmy/Tango aka Flower Ranchers

V3: Impulse/Tango/Skizz aka Poly Arizona Dads

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from the LA Times:

The Trump administration ruined what should have been a good spring in the Klamath River basin.

By abruptly laying off federal personnel and freezing payments for already authorized programs and projects, the administration replaced a budding sense of hopefulness in the basin with fear and uncertainty, and tore at fragile bonds years in the making among upper basin ranchers and farmers, federal, state and local governments, nonprofits and Native tribes. In a region where conflict over water has simmered for the last quarter-century, trust was already fragile. Now it is smashed to smithereens.

Through the 21st century the Klamath has lurched from crisis to crisis, usually related to the extended drought that has hovered over the basin most of that time. What distinguishes the current debacle is that it has no relation to natural phenomena. It’s entirely man-made — and entirely unnecessary.

Out of disregard for the needs of ordinary Americans and an apparent desire to eviscerate whatever was championed by his predecessor, Joe Biden, Trump has allowed Elon Musk to take a blunt hatchet to federal expenditures. The result in the Klamath — where voters overwhelmingly chose Trump in 2024 — is that many people feel fearful and betrayed.

Early last October, the world’s largest dam removal project, entailing the dismantling of four obsolescent Klamath River hydroelectric dams that had blocked salmon from the upper basin since 1918, was completed. More than 6,000 salmon — a number that far exceeded biologists’ predictions — swam upstream past the demolished dams over the next two months. Lower basin tribes, whose cultures and diets revolve around salmon, celebrated.

In conjunction with dam removal, tribes and government agencies launched programs to restore the environmentally ravaged river after a century of misguided federal water management. In the upper basin, where drought-induced water scarcity had led to scant allocations to farmers and ranchers, farmers got support from federal programs that promoted increased water efficiency and improved the river system’s dreadful water quality.

Many of the efforts were funded by the Biden administration’s 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Typically, an environmental nonprofit or a local government body applied for funding to carry out, say, a wetlands restoration contract or upgrades to farmers’ irrigation equipment. When the work was completed, its federal backer was alerted, the funds were released, and the contractors paid and farmers reimbursed.

In a matter of days, Trump and Musk broke the system. Now the nonprofit or agency isn’t able to collect promised funds, and contractors and landowners are left with debts for labor or purchases they’ve paid for, in amounts up to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Some nonprofits are laying off workers and are wondering whether they will survive. Federal agencies’ staffs have been reduced, and some agencies may be forced to move out of the basin entirely.

[cleverhottubmiracle]

Cowboy style has officially taken over our cities. Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show (and Timmy’s recent Bob Dylan turn) has confirmed that bootcut jeans are poised for a grand comeback, yeehaw-ready boots are clomping down the halls of our offices, and perhaps most of all, Western shirts are currently the informed-guy’s first choice when he wants to dress things up a touch—sorry, Oxford-cloth button downs.If you’re new to the style, welcome—there’s so much to like about it. Those detailed shoulder panels? Besides looking pretty, they’re reinforcing the shirt’s yoke, so it won’t wear down as easily. The best Western shirts also have fancy details like pearl snap buttons (that don’t come off as easily as regular buttons), and handy chest pockets that, while once used for cowboy essentials, can now neatly fit your own essentials. Say, airpods and chapstick?As for how to shop for the style, I’m glad to report that while there’s a very satisfying, broad range out on the market, I’ve herded the very best back here for your browsing pleasure. From heritage makers like Wrangler and Levi’s to fashion-forward brands like Our Legacy and prepsters like Sid Mashburn, many of our best and brightest designers are currently stocking a Western. The 15 below will help you harness (heh) your inner rancher all season long.The Best Western Shirts, According to GQLooking for Something Specific?AccordionItemContainerButtonBest Western Shirt Overall: Wrangler Men’s Denim Collection Snap ShirtWranglerDenim Collection Snap ShirtWrangler has long made shirts for actual cowboys, who love the brand because its quality remains high even as its prices stay relatively low. This makes it a great pick for your first Western shirt, or your fifteenth. It has all of the requisite details you’d expect from a western-styled piece, from snappy buttons to contrast stitching across the yoke, but the addition of a subtly branded pocket logo takes this otherwise simple ranch-ready shirt into style swerve territory. And hey, once you know you love it, you can then stock up on the other washes, from light faded blue all the way up to black.Best Upgrade Western Shirt: Flint and Tinder Bone Button Western ShirtFlint and TinderBone Button Western ShirtIf you’re not shopping for the true baseline option, but still want something that is more or less the definition of the style, this slightly elevated version is likely the one for you. Slight refinements throughout the design—burnt cow bone snaps, reinforced stitching—take the shirt from purely being about hardwearing function and pitch it in a slightly more dressed up spot. (The Flint and Tinder cotton is a little softer than most, too.) No wonder it’s also got hundreds of five-star reviews from happy Huckberry shoppers.Best Dressier Western Shirt: Sid Mashburn Cotton Chambray Western ShirtSid MashburnCotton Chambray Western ShirtChambray is a much lighter weight of cotton, so lends itself a bit more to dressing up and layering. This style from Sid Mashburn—a scientist when it comes to marrying rugged with refined—takes elements of a dress shirt, such as a cutaway collar, and combines it with tried and true western details. Shiny pearl snap buttons give it a nice jolt of elegance, and there’s even an elongated hem at the back to keep it properly tucked.Best Off-White Western Shirt: Levi’s Barstow Western Denim ShirtLevi'sBarstow Western Denim ShirtAlong with Wrangler, Levi’s are very much the other big name in cowboy outfitting. The Barstow shirt is the brand’s staple western style, and while it indeed comes in blue, it was so popular that it now also conveniently comes in a range of colours outside the expected range. We’re particularly partial to this off white, bone colorway that'll easily slide into your wardrobe as a true neutral (and tone down the whole Canadian tuxedo thing, if it feels too much to you.)Best Investment Western Shirt: RRL Denim Buffalo Western WorkshirtRRLDenim Buffalo Western WorkshirtRalph Lauren’s ranch life-inspired arm, RRL, is known for having even higher quality than the Polo line, and in most cases the regular Ralph Lauren line also. The idea of the collection was that it would be full of pieces Ralph could wear on his Colorado ranch, and given that it’s all designed for the boss, no compromises are ever made. This shirt is no different: Pocket stitch details and a subtly unique top button are just some of the hints that tell everyone that this isn’t your standard western shirt, this is a RRL western shirt. (And for what it’s worth, Huckberry currently has so many more.)Best Fashion-Guy Western Shirt: Our Legacy Gray Frontier Denim ShirtOur LegacyGray Frontier Denim ShirtFreaky tweakers of classic clothing, Our Legacy has lent its Swedish punk sensibilities to an American classic with their Frontier Shirt. Oversized and made from denim that has a washed out, uneven tone (in the best way possible), this is a softened Western shirt that still has all the confidence of the urban cowboy that you are.More Western Shirts We LoveRRL Allen Checked Cotton Flannel Western ShirtRRLAllen Checked Cotton Flannel Western ShirtAnother RRL number, this time in a handsome flannel pattern with an even-more-distinctive pocket design. J.Crew Secret Wash Cotton Poplin Western ShirtJ.CrewSecret Wash Cotton Poplin Western ShirtEven J.Crew is in on the action, to great effect. Lightweight poplin? Check. Gingham check? …check. Tecovas Denim Pearl Snap Shirt

[norajworld]

Cowboy style has officially taken over our cities. Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show (and Timmy’s recent Bob Dylan turn) has confirmed that bootcut jeans are poised for a grand comeback, yeehaw-ready boots are clomping down the halls of our offices, and perhaps most of all, Western shirts are currently the informed-guy’s first choice when he wants to dress things up a touch—sorry, Oxford-cloth button downs.If you’re new to the style, welcome—there’s so much to like about it. Those detailed shoulder panels? Besides looking pretty, they’re reinforcing the shirt’s yoke, so it won’t wear down as easily. The best Western shirts also have fancy details like pearl snap buttons (that don’t come off as easily as regular buttons), and handy chest pockets that, while once used for cowboy essentials, can now neatly fit your own essentials. Say, airpods and chapstick?As for how to shop for the style, I’m glad to report that while there’s a very satisfying, broad range out on the market, I’ve herded the very best back here for your browsing pleasure. From heritage makers like Wrangler and Levi’s to fashion-forward brands like Our Legacy and prepsters like Sid Mashburn, many of our best and brightest designers are currently stocking a Western. The 15 below will help you harness (heh) your inner rancher all season long.The Best Western Shirts, According to GQLooking for Something Specific?AccordionItemContainerButtonBest Western Shirt Overall: Wrangler Men’s Denim Collection Snap ShirtWranglerDenim Collection Snap ShirtWrangler has long made shirts for actual cowboys, who love the brand because its quality remains high even as its prices stay relatively low. This makes it a great pick for your first Western shirt, or your fifteenth. It has all of the requisite details you’d expect from a western-styled piece, from snappy buttons to contrast stitching across the yoke, but the addition of a subtly branded pocket logo takes this otherwise simple ranch-ready shirt into style swerve territory. And hey, once you know you love it, you can then stock up on the other washes, from light faded blue all the way up to black.Best Upgrade Western Shirt: Flint and Tinder Bone Button Western ShirtFlint and TinderBone Button Western ShirtIf you’re not shopping for the true baseline option, but still want something that is more or less the definition of the style, this slightly elevated version is likely the one for you. Slight refinements throughout the design—burnt cow bone snaps, reinforced stitching—take the shirt from purely being about hardwearing function and pitch it in a slightly more dressed up spot. (The Flint and Tinder cotton is a little softer than most, too.) No wonder it’s also got hundreds of five-star reviews from happy Huckberry shoppers.Best Dressier Western Shirt: Sid Mashburn Cotton Chambray Western ShirtSid MashburnCotton Chambray Western ShirtChambray is a much lighter weight of cotton, so lends itself a bit more to dressing up and layering. This style from Sid Mashburn—a scientist when it comes to marrying rugged with refined—takes elements of a dress shirt, such as a cutaway collar, and combines it with tried and true western details. Shiny pearl snap buttons give it a nice jolt of elegance, and there’s even an elongated hem at the back to keep it properly tucked.Best Off-White Western Shirt: Levi’s Barstow Western Denim ShirtLevi'sBarstow Western Denim ShirtAlong with Wrangler, Levi’s are very much the other big name in cowboy outfitting. The Barstow shirt is the brand’s staple western style, and while it indeed comes in blue, it was so popular that it now also conveniently comes in a range of colours outside the expected range. We’re particularly partial to this off white, bone colorway that'll easily slide into your wardrobe as a true neutral (and tone down the whole Canadian tuxedo thing, if it feels too much to you.)Best Investment Western Shirt: RRL Denim Buffalo Western WorkshirtRRLDenim Buffalo Western WorkshirtRalph Lauren’s ranch life-inspired arm, RRL, is known for having even higher quality than the Polo line, and in most cases the regular Ralph Lauren line also. The idea of the collection was that it would be full of pieces Ralph could wear on his Colorado ranch, and given that it’s all designed for the boss, no compromises are ever made. This shirt is no different: Pocket stitch details and a subtly unique top button are just some of the hints that tell everyone that this isn’t your standard western shirt, this is a RRL western shirt. (And for what it’s worth, Huckberry currently has so many more.)Best Fashion-Guy Western Shirt: Our Legacy Gray Frontier Denim ShirtOur LegacyGray Frontier Denim ShirtFreaky tweakers of classic clothing, Our Legacy has lent its Swedish punk sensibilities to an American classic with their Frontier Shirt. Oversized and made from denim that has a washed out, uneven tone (in the best way possible), this is a softened Western shirt that still has all the confidence of the urban cowboy that you are.More Western Shirts We LoveRRL Allen Checked Cotton Flannel Western ShirtRRLAllen Checked Cotton Flannel Western ShirtAnother RRL number, this time in a handsome flannel pattern with an even-more-distinctive pocket design. J.Crew Secret Wash Cotton Poplin Western ShirtJ.CrewSecret Wash Cotton Poplin Western ShirtEven J.Crew is in on the action, to great effect. Lightweight poplin? Check. Gingham check? …check. Tecovas Denim Pearl Snap Shirt

[chilimili212]

Cowboy style has officially taken over our cities. Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show (and Timmy’s recent Bob Dylan turn) has confirmed that bootcut jeans are poised for a grand comeback, yeehaw-ready boots are clomping down the halls of our offices, and perhaps most of all, Western shirts are currently the informed-guy’s first choice when he wants to dress things up a touch—sorry, Oxford-cloth button downs.If you’re new to the style, welcome—there’s so much to like about it. Those detailed shoulder panels? Besides looking pretty, they’re reinforcing the shirt’s yoke, so it won’t wear down as easily. The best Western shirts also have fancy details like pearl snap buttons (that don’t come off as easily as regular buttons), and handy chest pockets that, while once used for cowboy essentials, can now neatly fit your own essentials. Say, airpods and chapstick?As for how to shop for the style, I’m glad to report that while there’s a very satisfying, broad range out on the market, I’ve herded the very best back here for your browsing pleasure. From heritage makers like Wrangler and Levi’s to fashion-forward brands like Our Legacy and prepsters like Sid Mashburn, many of our best and brightest designers are currently stocking a Western. The 15 below will help you harness (heh) your inner rancher all season long.The Best Western Shirts, According to GQLooking for Something Specific?AccordionItemContainerButtonBest Western Shirt Overall: Wrangler Men’s Denim Collection Snap ShirtWranglerDenim Collection Snap ShirtWrangler has long made shirts for actual cowboys, who love the brand because its quality remains high even as its prices stay relatively low. This makes it a great pick for your first Western shirt, or your fifteenth. It has all of the requisite details you’d expect from a western-styled piece, from snappy buttons to contrast stitching across the yoke, but the addition of a subtly branded pocket logo takes this otherwise simple ranch-ready shirt into style swerve territory. And hey, once you know you love it, you can then stock up on the other washes, from light faded blue all the way up to black.Best Upgrade Western Shirt: Flint and Tinder Bone Button Western ShirtFlint and TinderBone Button Western ShirtIf you’re not shopping for the true baseline option, but still want something that is more or less the definition of the style, this slightly elevated version is likely the one for you. Slight refinements throughout the design—burnt cow bone snaps, reinforced stitching—take the shirt from purely being about hardwearing function and pitch it in a slightly more dressed up spot. (The Flint and Tinder cotton is a little softer than most, too.) No wonder it’s also got hundreds of five-star reviews from happy Huckberry shoppers.Best Dressier Western Shirt: Sid Mashburn Cotton Chambray Western ShirtSid MashburnCotton Chambray Western ShirtChambray is a much lighter weight of cotton, so lends itself a bit more to dressing up and layering. This style from Sid Mashburn—a scientist when it comes to marrying rugged with refined—takes elements of a dress shirt, such as a cutaway collar, and combines it with tried and true western details. Shiny pearl snap buttons give it a nice jolt of elegance, and there’s even an elongated hem at the back to keep it properly tucked.Best Off-White Western Shirt: Levi’s Barstow Western Denim ShirtLevi'sBarstow Western Denim ShirtAlong with Wrangler, Levi’s are very much the other big name in cowboy outfitting. The Barstow shirt is the brand’s staple western style, and while it indeed comes in blue, it was so popular that it now also conveniently comes in a range of colours outside the expected range. We’re particularly partial to this off white, bone colorway that'll easily slide into your wardrobe as a true neutral (and tone down the whole Canadian tuxedo thing, if it feels too much to you.)Best Investment Western Shirt: RRL Denim Buffalo Western WorkshirtRRLDenim Buffalo Western WorkshirtRalph Lauren’s ranch life-inspired arm, RRL, is known for having even higher quality than the Polo line, and in most cases the regular Ralph Lauren line also. The idea of the collection was that it would be full of pieces Ralph could wear on his Colorado ranch, and given that it’s all designed for the boss, no compromises are ever made. This shirt is no different: Pocket stitch details and a subtly unique top button are just some of the hints that tell everyone that this isn’t your standard western shirt, this is a RRL western shirt. (And for what it’s worth, Huckberry currently has so many more.)Best Fashion-Guy Western Shirt: Our Legacy Gray Frontier Denim ShirtOur LegacyGray Frontier Denim ShirtFreaky tweakers of classic clothing, Our Legacy has lent its Swedish punk sensibilities to an American classic with their Frontier Shirt. Oversized and made from denim that has a washed out, uneven tone (in the best way possible), this is a softened Western shirt that still has all the confidence of the urban cowboy that you are.More Western Shirts We LoveRRL Allen Checked Cotton Flannel Western ShirtRRLAllen Checked Cotton Flannel Western ShirtAnother RRL number, this time in a handsome flannel pattern with an even-more-distinctive pocket design. J.Crew Secret Wash Cotton Poplin Western ShirtJ.CrewSecret Wash Cotton Poplin Western ShirtEven J.Crew is in on the action, to great effect. Lightweight poplin? Check. Gingham check? …check. Tecovas Denim Pearl Snap Shirt

[innocent-diamond-2090110]

Rating Dreamcatcher's "JUSTICE" Stage Outfits (Siyeon on hiatus)

As the heading says, Siyeon has been on hiatus since DC dropped their 10th mini-album "VirtuouS" on July 10, & the girls' goodbye stage was July 20 with Music Core. Two major reasons for their short promo period are SIyeon's hiatus (meaning the other girls become more fatigued) & the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympics (meaning most major shows will be canceled). Since the girls couldn't earn any wins during this short period, I decided to offer my input on their stage outfits! Thankfully, SIyeon was able to record these two performances (1theK + it's Live) with the others before going on hiatus. Her vocals (HIGH NOTES) are no joke!

Full tracklist is here on YouTube!

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M! Countdown 2024-07-11 (generalized black & white theme)

JiU: Our lovely leader looks great! I would've straightened the bottom edge of her halter top (instead of the diamond-shaped cut right now). The black slit skirt accessory should be optional, IMO.

SuA: I think she's worn this outfit several times for other comeback stages as well as in other event appearances. It's definitely comfortable since SuA's the main dancer.

Handong: Everything looked great except for her sweater (especially since she had the hood on). It looked a bit weird when combined with her inner crop top & black shorts.

Yoohyeon: I ABSOLUTELY LOVE her little black dress with long black gloves & black boots. Her half ponytail is on point too!

Dami: She looks like a gangster that you should never mess with (referring to the whole virtuous/justice theme).

Gahyun: I ABSOLUTELY LOVE her long black hair with straight bangs & monochrome school-girl-esque dress outfit. Gahyun looks like she came straight out of some anime/manga!

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Music Bank 2024-07-12 (hippie theme???)

JiU: This rancher-themed outfit looks cute on her! (that's all I can think of)

SuA: OMG her hair is in a bun! I like the coloring of her one-piece dress & how the layered skirt portion is very flowy (very much suits her as the main dancer).

Handong: Her half-tied hair, choker collar, & tank top are all so gorgeous! But what are those pants...?

Yoohyeon: Sorry, but I'm not a fan of the untied permed hair & the layers of fur on the shin portion of her pants...

Dami: Some give the stylist a rise/bonus for assigning that sparkly black vest to Dami! But why do the pants make me think of pajamas/sleepwear???

Gahyun: This is her first "JUSTICE" stage with blonde hair! Gahyun's outfit makes her look cute too! Although I wish it was a one-piece dress instead of a separate top + skirt…

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Music Core 2024-07-13 (office-esque black & white theme)

JiU: This is the famous stage where JiU wears a translucent white shirt with a black tie & only the top 2-3 buttons attached (black crop top underneath), which means you can see her torso when she dances vigorously. All that plus her black shorts, black shoes, & stockings are just… I'M DEAD.

SuA: Everything is white except part of the crop top… or is that a sports bra? Anyway, today is SuA's turn to be the virtuous gangster of justice!

Handong: This is the first ENTIRE stage outfit that I like! (again, I would've preferred a one-piece over a separate tank top + skirt) Handong's permed periwinkle hair looks great too!

Yoohyeon: EXCUSE ME?! Wavy ginger hair with bangs?! Black-rimmed glasses?! Basically all black?! I'M DEAD AGAIN.

Dami: I'm not saying that her outfit is totally bad, but I can't help but laugh when I see shorter pants (they end at her shins) with her multi-layered cropped shirt.

Gahyun: Good lord… White long-sleeve blouse + short black pencil skirt + STRAIGHT BLACK HAIR WITH BANGS = MY 3RD DEATH OF THE DAY

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Inkigayo 2024-07-14 (generalized brown/white/black theme)

JiU: Everything is white today except for brown boots & black rosary. That long trench coat looks AMAZING. Thankfully it didn't impede her dancing!

SuA: Looking great in general! Things that stood out were the black fringe on her top, double black belts, & also the slit skirt design.

Handong: This is my favorite outfit by far! I love how the long brown skirt separates at her left thigh to show the black layer underneath. AND DO YOU SEE THAT BUTTERFLY BELT?!

Yoohyeon: I like the multi-layer design of her long-sleeved crop top (including the straps across her torso), but the pants looked kind of messy.

Dami: Today is her turn to be a rancher! That long-sleeve shirt with all the black designs makes Dami look like she has several tattoos (pretty cool).

Gahyun: Her outfit today is rather simple compared to others (just a tank top & a skirt), but I love the red/pink highlights underneath her blonde hair.

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Show Champion 2024-07-17 (another office-esque black/gray/white theme)

JiU: Sleeveless white collared shirt?! Long black pencil skirt with right slit?! Half-tied hair with glasses?! TOO EARLY FOR ME TO DIE (AGAIN).

SuA: I love her flowy gray skirt! My only suggestion is to make her gray sleeveless top a bit longer, because the edge of her off-white blouse looks a bit messy.

Handong: I love her high ponytail & bespectacled look! Her gray outfit looks nice too!

Yoohyeon: Something about her ginger hair today makes her aura completely new & different from the previous stages… Anyway, everything looks great… Maybe make the slit on her tank top a bit shorter?

Dami: I like this outfit way better than the one from Music Core 2024-07-13. Give the stylist a raise/bonus for the upgrade!

Gahyun: LONG BLACK HAIR WITH BANGS AGAIN! My only suggestion is to make her black crop top longer so that the white top can be longer (right now, the white part looks really weird).

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M! Countdown 2024-07-18 (school-esque black & white theme)

JiU: This is the famous stage in which (according to the comments) JiU just absolutely couldn't keep her outer shirt (jacket) on her shoulders XD. I love the flowy black skirt way too much…

SuA: I'm just a bit confused about the purpose of the black fabric across her chest (shirt is white & pants are black). I think SuA would've looked great anyway without it.

Handong: School uniform jacket?! Sports bra underneath?! Flowy black skirt?! Handong is your all-rounder head prefect & girls' sports captain here! (I have no idea what I just said)

Yoohyeon: Never knew I needed to see Yoohyeon with ginger braids & GLASSES again. She looks like a cheerleader!

Dami: Is this her first stage wearing any kind of skirt?! AMAZING! Now it's Dami's turn to look like a schoolgirl… also one that could be the gang leader (forgive me for saying this).

Gahyun: Her hair looks more silver or periwinkle now (sorry bad lighting). Either way, her golf outfit is cute too!

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Music Bank 2024-07-19 (another generalized gray theme)

JiU: Nothing could go wrong with a gray two-piece outfit! She looks pretty comfortable.

SuA: I'm not hating on SuA or the backup dancers, but SuA's outfit (not bad BTW) almost looks like a gray version of the backup dancers' outfits… Maybe should've added some arm/hand accessories?

Handong: That oversized black leather jacket actually looks good on her! Today's super straight periwinkle hair makes Handong look even more like an ice princess.

Yoohyeon: OMG the stylist who clipped that black bow into her hair deserves bubble tea for life! I ABSOLUTELY LOVE this little gray dress look… But the stockings look really odd. I would've assigned plain ones that have no designs.

Dami: Back to pants again but THAT PONYTAIL changes everything! Look at Dami showing off her oversized gray blazer like she doesn't care!

Gahyun: Speaking of her golf outfit from the day before… Today's outfit looks like another very casual golf outfit & makes her look cute again! That necklace & her wavy hair (too many colors to identify) look great too!

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Music Core 2024-07-20 (another generalized black & white theme)

JiU: That asymmetric top is just out of this world. I'm speechless.

SuA: Looking great in general with that half-tied hair & gray multi-layer skirt!

Handong: Permed twintails look great today! Her outfit is a bit plain but otherwise looks comfortable.

Yoohyeon: Braided buns?! The stylists went all out for the goodbye stage! The top looks great, but the skirt looked a bit weird with only a small patch of blue against black (like it's missing something).

Dami: That single-sleeved jacket with long fabric trails is also just out of this world. Speechless again.

Gahyun: I get what the stylists were trying to achieve with the see-through lace tank top, but I would've added sparkles &/or other shiny objects to make the front design stand out more. Black on black is difficult to see from certain angles.

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Thanks again for reading my research report! Please wish all the girls a healthy rest & recovery!

[autumngremlin]

My Desired Realities

I will try to update this when I can...

Waiting Rooms

Study WR

DR Therapy

Reading Corner

Untitled WR (I literally have no idea what to call this one bc it's solely to get my bearings in between realities when needed)

Desired Realities

I'm rarely gonna talk about some of these... starred are done

Rise of the Guardians*

Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom*

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity*

Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Splatoon

Boba Bakery Shop Owner

Youtuber*

Howl's Moving Castle*

Better CR*

DND-Fantasy*

Minecraft*

Slime Rancher

Domestic Life (Building a home with s/o)*

Steven Universe

Animal Crossing

Pokemon Sword/Shield

Sky: Children of the Light*

Persona 5 (College AU)

Barely started/MASSIVE WIP

HTTYD (havent started)

IF (havent started)

Linked Universe (havent started)

Cult of the Lamb: Witch Coven AU

Reality Swap DR/Alice in Wonderland

Florist DR

Online Shop

Witchy shop

Royalty DR

Spice DR (do not send asks about this DR as it will be considered NSFW)

Modern Fantasy

Basically ditched/havent worked on in a while

Spiderman: Across the Spiderverse

Demon Slayer (might make a comeback?)

Tinkerbell (might make a comeback?)

Hogwarts Legacy (might make a comeback?)

Disney Dreamlight Valley

[1962dude420-blog]

Today we remember the passing of John Avery Lomax I who died January 26, 1948 in Greenville, Mississippi

John Avery Lomax I was an American teacher, a pioneering musicologist, and a folklorist who did much for the preservation of American folk music. He was the father of Alan Lomax (also a distinguished collector of folk music) and Bess Lomax Hawes.

The Lomax family originally came from England with William Lomax, who settled in Rockingham County in what was then "the colony of North Carolina." John Lomax was born in Goodman in Holmes County in central Mississippi, to James Avery Lomax and the former Susan Frances Cooper. In December 1869, the Lomax family traveled by ox cart from Mississippi to Texas. John Lomax grew up in central Texas, just north of Meridian in rural Bosque County. His father raised horses and cattle and grew cotton and corn on the 183 acres (0.74 km2) of bottomland that he had purchased near the Bosque River. He was exposed to cowboy songs as a child. At around nine he befriended Nat Blythe, a former slave hired as a farmhand by James Lomax. The friendship, he wrote later, "perhaps gave my life its bent." Lomax, whose own schooling was sporadic because of the heavy farmwork he was forced to do, taught Blythe to read and write, and Blythe taught Lomax songs including "Big Yam Potatoes on a Sandy Land" and dance steps such as "Juba". When Blythe was 21 years old, he took his savings and left. Lomax never saw him again and heard rumors that he had been murdered. For years afterward, he always looked for Nat when he traveled around the South

Through a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies, Lomax was able to set out in June 1933 on the first recording expedition under the Library's auspices, with Alan Lomax (then eighteen years old) in tow. As now, a disproportionate percentage of African American males were held as prisoners. Robert Winslow Gordon, Lomax's predecessor at the Library of Congress, had written (in an article in the New York Times, c. 1926) that, "Nearly every type of song is to be found in our prisons and penitentiaries" Folklorists Howard Odum and Guy Johnson also had observed that, "If one wishes to obtain anything like an accurate picture of the workaday Negro he will surely find his best setting in the chain gang, prison, or in the situation of the ever-fleeing fugitive." But what these folklorists had merely recommended John and Alan Lomax were able to put into practice. In their successful grant application they wrote, following Odum, Johnson and Gordon's hint, that prisoners, "Thrown on their own resources for entertainment ... still sing, especially the long-term prisoners who have been confined for years and who have not yet been influenced by jazz and the radio, the distinctive old-time Negro melodies." They toured Texas prison farms recording work songs, reels, ballads, and blues from prisoners such as James "Iron Head" Baker, Mose "Clear Rock" Platt, and Lightnin' Washington. By no means were all of those whom the Lomaxes recorded imprisoned, however: in other communities, they recorded K.C. Gallaway and Henry Truvillion.

In July 1933, they acquired a state-of-the-art, 315 pounds (143 kg) phonograph uncoated-aluminum disk recorder. Installing it in the trunk of his Ford sedan, Lomax soon used it to record, at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, a twelve-string guitar player by the name of Huddie Ledbetter, better known as "Lead Belly," whom they considered one of their most significant finds. During the next year and a half, father and son continued to make disc recordings of musicians throughout the South.

John A. Lomax's contribution to the documentation of American folk traditions extended beyond the Library of Congress Music Division through his involvement with two agencies of the Works Progress Administration. In 1936, he was assigned to serve as an advisor on folklore collecting for both the Historical Records Survey and the Federal Writers' Project. Lomax's biographer, Nolan Porterfield, notes that the outlines of the famed WPA State Guides resulting from this work resemble Lomax and Benedict's earlier Book of Texas.

Upon Lomax's departure this work was continued by Benjamin A. Botkin, who succeeded Lomax as the Project's folklore editor in 1938, and at the Library in 1939, resulting in the invaluable compendium of authentic slave narratives: Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery, edited by B. A. Botkin (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945).

John A. Lomax served as president of the Texas Folklore Society for the years 1940–41, and 1941–42. In 1947 his autobiography Adventures of a Ballad Hunter (New York: Macmillan) was published and was awarded the Carr P. Collins prize as the best book of the year by the Texas Institute of Letters. The book was immediately optioned to be made into a Hollywood movie starring Bing Crosby as Lomax and Josh White as Lead Belly, but the project was never realized.

In 1932, Lomax met his friend, Henry Zweifel, a rancher and businessman then from Cleburne in Johnson County, while both were volunteers for Orville Bullington's Republican gubernatorial race against the Democrat Miriam Ferguson. Lomax's old enemy, James Ferguson, was virtually running his wife's comeback attempt at the governorship.

Lomax died of a stroke at the age of eighty in January 1948. On June 15 of that year, Lead Belly gave a concert at the University of Texas, performing children's songs such as "Skip to My Lou" and spirituals (performed with his wife Martha) that he had first sung years before for the late collector.

In 2010, John A. Lomax was inducted into the Western Music Hall of Fame for his contributions to the field of cowboy music.

[silent-era-of-cinema]

Barbara La Marr (born Reatha Dale Watson; July 28, 1896 – January 30, 1926) was an American film actress and screenwriter who appeared in twenty-seven films during her career between 1920 and 1926. La Marr was also noted by the media for her beauty, dubbed as the "Girl Who Is Too Beautiful," as well as her tumultuous personal life.

Born in Yakima, Washington, La Marr spent her early life in the Pacific Northwest before relocating with her family to California when she was a teenager. After performing in vaudeville and working as a dancer in New York City, she moved to Los Angeles with her second husband and became a screenwriter for Fox Film Corporation, writing several successful films for the company. La Marr was finally "discovered" by Douglas Fairbanks, who gave her a prominent role in The Nut (1921), then cast her as Milady de Winter in his production of The Three Musketeers (1921). After two further career-boosting films with director Rex Ingram (The Prisoner of Zenda and Trifling Women, both with Ramon Novarro), La Marr signed with Arthur H. Sawyer to make several films for various studios, including The Hero (1923), Souls for Sale (1923), and The Shooting of Dan McGrew (1924), the first and last of which she co-wrote.

During her career, La Marr became known as the pre-eminent vamp of the 1920s; she partied and drank heavily, once remarking to the press that she only slept two hours a night. In 1924, La Marr's health began to falter after a series of crash diets for comeback roles further affected her lifestyle, leading to her death from pulmonary tuberculosis and nephritis at age 29. She was posthumously honored on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to the film industry.

Barbara La Marr was born in 1896 as Reatha Dale Watson to William and Rosana "Rose" Watson in Yakima, Washington (La Marr later claimed she was born in Richmond, Virginia). Her father was an editor for a newspaper and her mother, a native of Corvallis, Oregon, already had one son, Henry, and a daughter, Violet, from a previous marriage. La Marr's parents had wed some time during 1884, and had a son, William Watson, Jr., born in June 1886, ten years before she was born. Through her mother, La Marr was of German and English descent.

In the 1920s, the elder Watson became a vaudeville comedian under the stage name of Billy Devore. The Watsons lived in various locations in Washington and Oregon during La Marr's formative years. By 1900, she was living with her parents in Portland, Oregon, with her brother William, her half-sister Violet Ross, and Violet's husband Arvel Ross. As a child, La Marr also performed as a dancer in vaudeville, and made her acting debut as Little Eva in a Tacoma stage production of Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1904.

By 1910, La Marr was living in Fresno, California, with her parents. Some time after 1911, the family moved to Los Angeles, and La Marr worked at a department store. La Marr also appeared in burlesque shows. In January 1913, her half-sister, now going by the name of Violet Ake, took her 16-year-old sister on a three-day automobile excursion with a man named C.C. Boxley. They drove up to Santa Barbara, but after a few days, La Marr felt that they were not going to let her return home. Ake and Boxley finally let La Marr return to Los Angeles after they realized that warrants were issued for their arrests, accusing them of kidnapping. This episode was published in several newspapers, and La Marr even testified against her sister, but the case eventually was dropped. La Marr's name appeared frequently in newspaper headlines during the next few years. In November 1914, she came back to California from Arizona and announced that she was the newly widowed wife of a rancher named Jack Lytell and that they were supposedly married in Mexico. She also stated that she loathed the name Reatha and preferred to be called by the childhood nickname "Beth."

After marrying and moving in with her third husband, vaudevillian Ben Deely, La Marr, who at one time had aspirations of being a poet, found employment writing screenplays at Fox Film Corporation using the name Folly Lyell. She wrote numerous scenarios for studio shorts at Fox and United Artists, many of which she based on her life, earning over US$10,000 during her tenure at the studios. She was credited as writer Barbara La Marr Deely on the films The Mother of His Children, The Rose of Nome, Flame of Youth, The Little Grey Mouse, and The Land of Jazz (all released in 1920).

La Marr continued to write short screenplays for the studio and supported herself by dancing in various cities across the country, including New York City, Chicago, New Orleans, and at the 1915 World's Fair in San Francisco. La Marr's dance partners included Rudolph Valentino and Clifton Webb, and her dance routines attracted the attention of publisher William Randolph Hearst, who featured her and a dance partner in a series of articles published in the San Francisco Examiner around 1914.

While working in the writers' building at United Artists, La Marr was approached by Mary Pickford, who reportedly embraced her and said, "My dear, you are too beautiful to be behind a camera. Your vibrant magnetism should be shared by film audiences." La Marr's association with filmmakers led to her returning to Los Angeles and making her film debut in 1920 in Harriet and the Piper. Though a supporting part, the film garnered her attention from audiences. La Marr made the successful transition from writer to actress with her supporting role in The Nut (1921), playing a femme fatale. Later the same year, she was hired by Douglas Fairbanks to play the substantial part of Milady de Winter in The Three Musketeers.

Over the next several years, La Marr acted frequently in films, and became known to the public as "The Girl Who Is Too Beautiful", after Adela Rogers St. Johns, a Hearst newspaper feature writer, saw a judge sending her home during a police beat in Los Angeles because she was "too beautiful and young to be on her own in the big city." This publicity did much to promote her career. Among La Marr's films are The Prisoner of Zenda and Trifling Women, both 1922 releases directed by Rex Ingram. Although her film career flourished, she embraced the fast-paced Hollywood nightlife, remarking in an interview that she slept no more than two hours a night.

In 1923, La Marr appeared in the comedy The Brass Bottle, portraying the role of the Queen, and Poor Men's Wives. She had a supporting part in the Fred Niblo-directed comedy Strangers of the Night, and was noted in a New York Times review for her "capable" performance. She starred in the lead role, with Bert Lytell and Lionel Barrymore, in The Eternal City (1923), which featured a cameo appearance by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.

In 1924, during the filming of Thy Name Is Woman, production supervisor Irving Thalberg made regular visits to the set to ensure that La Marr's alcoholism was not interfering with the shoot. The same year, La Marr's first starring, above-the-title role came in the drama Sandra, from First National Pictures, which she filmed in New York City in August 1924. La Marr had served as a co-writer on the film, which focused on a woman suffering from a split-personality disorder Upon release, the film received dismally negative reviews.

La Marr's final screenplay, titled My Husband's Wives, was produced by Fox in 1924, arriving in theaters shortly after the release of Sandra, and before the production of what proved to be her final three films: The Heart of a Siren (a mixed reception), The White Monkey (a critical failure), and The Girl from Montmartre (a critical success, albeit posthumously released). While shooting The Girl from Montmartre in early October 1925, La Marr collapsed on set and went into a coma as the studio wrapped production without her with use of a double in long shots.

Although the tally is usually given as five, La Marr officially was married only four times. No documentation exists to prove the existence of her alleged first husband, Jack Lytelle, whom she claimed to have met while visiting friends in Yuma, Arizona in 1914. According to La Marr, Lytelle became enamored with her as he saw her one day riding in an automobile while he was on horseback. The couple allegedly married the day after they met, but Lytelle, it was claimed, died of pneumonia only three weeks into the marriage, leaving only a surname for Mrs. Lytelle to inherit.

La Marr's first official documented marriage on June 2, 1914, was to a Max Lawrence, who later turned out to be a former soldier of fortune named Lawrence Converse. He already was married with children when he married La Marr under a false name, and was arrested for bigamy the following day. Converse died of a blood clot in his brain three days later on June 5.

On October 13, 1916, La Marr married Philip Ainsworth, a noted dancer. Although the son of well-off parents, Ainsworth eventually was incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison for passing bad checks, and the couple divorced in 1917. She married for a fourth time to Ben Deely, also a dancer, in 1918. Deely, who was over twice her age, was an alcoholic and a gambling addict, which led to the couple's separation in April 1921. Before the divorce from Deely was finalized, La Marr married actor Jack Dougherty in May 1923. Despite separating a year later, they remained legally married until her death.

Some years after La Marr's death, she was revealed to have given birth to a son, Marvin Carville La Marr, on July 29, 1922. The name of the boy's father has never been released. During her final illness, La Marr entrusted the care of her son to her close friend, actress ZaSu Pitts, and Pitts' husband, film executive Tom Gallery. After La Marr's death, the child was legally adopted by Pitts and Gallery, and was renamed Don Gallery. Don Gallery died in 2014.

La Marr partied long hours and got very little sleep during the latter part of her career, often pairing this behavior with drinking during especially low points; she once told an interviewer: "I cheat nature. I never sleep more than two hours a day. I have better things to do."[8] In addition to her drinking and lack of sleep, during the last two years of her life La Marr went on several extreme crash diets to lose weight.[8] La Marr was rumored to have at one time ingested a tapeworm head in a pill to help her lose weight.

By late 1925, La Marr's health had deteriorated significantly due to pulmonary tuberculosis. While filming her final feature, The Girl from Montmartre, La Marr collapsed on the set and lapsed into a coma. In mid-December, she was diagnosed with nephritis, an inflammation of the kidneys, as a complication of her already tubercular state. La Marr was bedridden through Christmas, and by late December, she reportedly weighed less than 80 pounds (36 kg).

Some historians and writers have claimed that La Marr was addicted to morphine and heroin, which she had been prescribed after injuring her ankle and which may have contributed to her health problems. In Sherri Snyder's 2017 biography of La Marr, the writer states that these claims were untrue and erroneously reported. A frequently recirculated rumor was that La Marr was arrested for morphine possession in Los Angeles; however, Snyder states that this claim was mistakenly attributed to La Marr, when it had in fact been actress Alma Rubens who had been arrested in January 1931, five years after La Marr's death. Ben Finney, a close friend of La Marr, contested the claims of drug use, stating: "It is inconceivable that during our close friendship I would not have known if she were a junkie," adding, "She did well enough with booze."

On January 30, 1926, La Marr died of complications associated with tuberculosis and nephritis at her parents' home in Altadena, California, at the age of 29. Her friend, film director Paul Bern, was with her when she died. La Marr's son later speculated that Bern may have been his biological father, though this eventually was disproved; Bern died in a mysterious shooting six years later.

La Marr's funeral at the Walter C. Blue Undertaking Chapel in Los Angeles attracted over 3,000 fans, and five women reportedly fainted in the crowd and had to be removed by police to safety. After her removal from the church during the funeral procession, hundreds of fans flooded the chapel hoping to obtain flowers from the decorative arrangements. She was interred in a crypt at Hollywood Cathedral Mausoleum, in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, La Marr has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1621 Vine Street.

Producer Louis B. Mayer, a longtime admirer of La Marr, named actress Hedy Lamarr after her. She is also referred to in the popular 1932 Flanagan and Allen song "Underneath the Arches" during a break in which Ches Allen reads the headlines from a 1926 newspaper. Children's author Edward Eager set an episode of his 1954 book Half Magic at a showing of La Marr's Sandra and includes ironic descriptions of the movie.

[antoinesylvia]

My Homelab/Office 2020 - DFW Quarantine Edition

Moved into our first home almost a year ago (October 2019), I picked out a room that had 2 closets for my media/game/office area. Since the room isn't massive, I decided to build a desk into closet #1 to save on space. Here 1 of 2 shelves was ripped off, the back area was repainted gray. A piece of card board was hung to represent my 49 inch monitor and this setup also gave an idea how high I needed the desk. 

On my top shelf this was the initial drop for all my Cat6 cabling in the house, I did 5 more runs after this (WAN is dropped here as well).

I measured the closet and then went to Home Depot to grab a countertop. Based on the dimensions, it needed to be cut into an object shape you would see on Tetris. 

Getting to work, cutting the countertop.

My father-in-law helped me cut it to size in the driveway and then we framed the closet, added in kitchen cabinets to the bottom (used for storage and to hide a UPS). We ran electrical sockets inside the closet. I bought and painted 2 kitchen cabinets which I use for storage under my desk as well.

The holes allowed me to run cables under my desk much easier, I learned many of these techniques on Battlestations subreddit and Setup Wars on Youtube. My daughter was a good helper when it came to finding studs.

Some of my cousins are networking engineers, they advised me to go with Unifi devices. Here I mounted my Unifi 16 port switch, my Unifi Security Gateway (I'll try out pfSense sometime down the line), and my HD Homerun (big antenna is in the attic). I have Cat6 drops in each room in the house, so everything runs here. On my USG, I have both a LAN #2 and a LAN #1 line running to the 2nd closet in this room (server room). This shot is before the cable management. 

Cable management completed in closet #1. Added an access point and connected 3 old Raspberry Pi devices I had laying around (1 for PiHole - Adblocker, 1 for Unbound - Recursive DNS server, and 1 for Privoxy - Non Caching web proxy). 

Rats nest of wires under my desk. I mounted an amplifier, optical DVD ROM drive, a USB hub that takes input from up to 4 computers (allows me to switch between servers in closet #2 with my USB mic, camera, keyboard, headset always functioning), and a small pull out drawer. 

Cable management complete, night shot with with Nanoleaf wall lights. Unifi controller is mounted under the bookshelf, allows me to keep tabs on the network. I have a tablet on each side of the door frame (apps run on there that monitor my self hosted web services). I drilled a 3 inch hole on my desk to fit a grommet wireless phone charger. All my smart lights are either running on a schedule or turn on/off via an Alexa command. All of our smart devices across the house and outside, run on its on VLAN for segmentation purposes. 

Quick shot with desk light off. I'm thinking in the future of doing a build that will mount to the wall (where "game over" is shown). 

Wooting One keyboard with custom keycaps and Swiftpoint Z mouse, plus Stream Deck (I'm going to make a gaming comeback one day!). 

Good wallpapers are hard to find with this resolution so pieced together my own. 

Speakers and books at inside corner of desk. 

Speakers and books at inside corner of desk. 

Closet #2, first look (this is in the same room but off to the other side). Ran a few CAT6 cables from closet #1, into the attic and dropped here (one on LAN #1, the other on LAN #2 for USG). Had to add electrical sockets as well. 

I have owned a ton of Thinkpads since my IBM days, I figured I could test hooking them all up and having them all specialize in different functions (yes, I have a Proxmox box but it's a decommissioned HP Microserver on the top shelf which is getting repurposed with TrueNAS_core). If you're wondering what OSes run on these laptops: Windows 10, Ubuntu, CentOS, AntiX. All of these units are hardwired into my managed Netgear 10gigabit switch (only my servers on the floor have 10 gigabit NICs useful to pass data between the two). Power strip is also mounted on the right side, next to another tablet used for monitoring. These laptop screens are usually turned off.

Computing inventory in image:

Lenovo Yoga Y500, Lenovo Thinkpad T420, Lenovo Thinkpad T430s, Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga 12, Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga 14, Lenovo Thinkpad W541 (used to self host my webservices), Lenovo S10-3T, and HP Microserver N54L 

Left side of closet #2 

**moved these Pis and unmanaged switch to outside part of closet** 

Since I have a bunch of Raspberry Pi 3s, I decided recently to get started with Kubernetes clusters (my time is limited but hoping to have everything going by the holidays 2020) via Rancher, headless. The next image will show the rest of the Pis but in total:

9x Raspberry Pi 3  and 2x Raspberry Pi 4 

2nd shot with cable management. The idea is to get K3s going, there's Blinkt installed on each Pi, lights will indicate how many pods per node. The Pis are hardwired into a switch which is on LAN #2 (USG). I might also try out Docker Swarm simultaneously on my x86/x64 laptops. Here's my compose generic template (have to re-do the configs at a later data) but gives you an idea of the type of web services I am looking to run: https://gist.github.com/antoinesylvia/3af241cbfa1179ed7806d2cc1c67bd31

20 percent of my web services today run on Docker, the other 80 percent are native installs on Linux and or Windows. Looking to get that up to 90 percent by the summer of 2021.

Basic flow to call web services:

User <--> my.domain (Cloudflare 1st level) <--> (NGINX on-prem, using Auth_Request module with 2FA to unlock backend services) <--> App <-->  DB.

If you ever need ideas for what apps to self-host: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted 

Homelabs get hot, so I had the HVAC folks to come out and install an exhaust in the ceiling and dampers in the attic. 

I built my servers in the garage this past winter/spring, a little each night when my daughter allowed me to. The SLI build is actually for Parsec (think of it as a self hosted Stadia but authentication servers are still controlled by a 3rd party), I had the GPUs for years and never really used them until now.

Completed image of my 2 recent builds and old build from 2011.

Retroplex (left machine) - Intel 6850 i7 (6 core, 12 thread), GTX 1080, and 96GB DDR4 RAM. Powers the gaming experience.

Metroplex (middle machine) - AMD Threadripper 1950x (16 core, 32 thread), p2000 GPU, 128GB DDR4 RAM.

HQ 2011 (right machine) - AMD Bulldozer 8150 (8 cores), generic GPU (just so it can boot), 32GB DDR3 RAM. 

I've been working and labbing so much, I haven't even connected my projector or installed a TV since moving in here 11 months ago. I'm also looking to get some VR going, headset and sensors are connected to my gaming server in closet #2. Anyhow, you see all my PS4 and retro consoles I had growing up such as Atari 2600, NES, Sega Genesis/32X, PS1, Dreamcast, PS2, PS3 and Game Gear. The joysticks are for emulation projects, I use a Front End called AttractMode and script out my own themes (building out a digital history gaming museum).

My longest CAT6 drop, from closet #1 to the opposite side of the room. Had to get in a very tight space in my attic to make this happen, I'm 6'8" for context. This allows me to connect this cord to my Unifi Flex Mini, so I can hardware my consoles (PS4, PS5 soon)

Homelab area includes a space for my daughter. She loves pressing power buttons on my servers on the floor, so I had to install decoy buttons and move the real buttons to the backside. 

Next project, a bartop with a Raspberry Pi (Retropie project) which will be housed in an iCade shell, swapping out all the buttons. Always have tech projects going on. Small steps each day with limited time.

[rjzimmerman]

ACCOMPANIED BY SCAVENGING RAVENS, A GRIZZLY BEAR IN GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FEEDS ON A BISON. | PHOTO BY CHARLIE HAMILTON JAMES/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC COLLECTION

Excerpt from this story from Sierra Club:

Over the past 30 years, grizzly bears have made a heartening comeback in the 22-million-acre Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Once numbering over 50,000 and ranging from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, grizzlies were listed as an endangered species in 1975, when only 136 remained in Yellowstone. That protection allowed the bears' population in the Yellowstone area to rebound to over 700 today.

Because of that growth—and, possibly, the diminished availability of whitebark pine nuts and cutthroat trout, two of the bears' foundational foodstuffs—grizzlies are now radiating out from Yellowstone into areas they haven't inhabited for generations. In the Upper Green River watershed, the snow-mantled Wind River and Gros Ventre Ranges rise above a fertile valley of aspen grasslands and willow-hemmed creeks. But in addition to some of America's finest wildlife habitat, the Upper Green also has 170,643 acres of public grazing lands, where bears that repeatedly kill cattle are "removed from the population." In October 2019, after 20 years of debate and countless delays, Bridger-Teton National Forest granted a 10-year extension of grazing permits with no additional measures taken to protect bears.

A burgeoning grizzly population combined with an abundant, nearly defenseless food source makes the Upper Green the largest grizzly killing field in America. Each year, the number of conflicts with bears increases by 9 percent, a trend government biologists predict will continue. The US Fish and Wildlife Service has repeatedly increased the allowed "take," or killing, of grizzlies on Upper Green allotments. The previous limit was 11 bears over a three-year period, but new regulations announced last fall allow for 72 grizzlies to be killed over 10 years.

"It's so egregious, we could not believe it," says Bonnie Rice, the Sierra Club's Greater Yellowstone senior campaign representative. "This is a threatened species. These are public lands. And they're not requiring any conflict-prevention measures. They're just increasing the incidental take."

Rice has been promoting grizzly-friendly rules for grazers since 2014. But Bridger-Teton officials have resisted implementing requirements—even when proposed by their own biologists—that ranchers in the field carry bear spray and dispose of livestock carcasses, which grizzlies can smell from over 10 miles away. Other potential solutions include using guard dogs, installing electric fencing, bunching livestock together at night, and not grazing vulnerable calves in grizzly habitat.

On March 31, 2020, the Sierra Club joined with the Center for Biological Diversity in a lawsuit to force Bridger-Teton to implement bear-protection measures; a separate lawsuit by the Western Watersheds Project seeks to end grazing there until it does. Jonathan Ratner, the project's Wyoming director, points out that Bridger-Teton's own forest plan dictates that grazing allotments be managed for the benefit of wildlife and habitat. "The idea that we are killing endangered species to protect someone's private profit is absurd," he says.

[spn-meanttobe]

Spn Meant To Be Masterlist - 2016

Here is the roundup from the last spn_meanttobe challenge! The entries were wonderful and stay tuned for details regrading a brand new challenge coming this way soon!

RPS

Title: Butterfly in a Glass case Author: all_the_damned Pairing: Jared/Jensen Rating: NC-17 Word Count: 5K+ Warnings: dollification, spanking, rimming, indentured servitude, prostitution, BDSM, dubious consent/non-con, hurt/comfort, mental atrophy, body modification, control collars Prompt: "Captured": Lifelong best friends James Laird and Lola Caraway are reunited when Lola moves to LA after college. Lola is starting her new life, new job, and a new romance with a successful lawyer--a relationship which forces James to question the nature of his feelings for Lola.James has always been a master at pleasuring women, so it was an easy transition to play a Master on-screen in a series of BDSM videos which have brought him fame and the promise of a lucrative career. The films have also brought him the attention of hardcore producer Eva Satana, who wants James to be a ruthless Dominant -for real- in her brutal and extreme BDSM scenes.James soon finds himself caught in a contract he cannot break and compelled by threats to the woman who's stood by him through everything.Summary: When you’re a doll, there’s not much to do other than dream. Jared can barely remember a time when he wasn’t a doll. On the best and worst days, he gets to be with Jensen. Link to fic: Ao3 (Must be logged in to read) Title: Can a Girl Ever Have Too Many Cowboys? Artist: beelikej Pairing: Danneel/Jeff/Jensen/Jared Rating: PG-13 Medium: Photoshop Warnings: Polymory Prompt: 33. The Trouble With Texas CowboysNo sooner does pint-sized spitfire Jill Cleary set foot on Fiddle Creek Ranch than she finds herself in the middle of a hundred-year-old feud. Quaid Brennan and Tyrell Gallagher are both tall, handsome, and rich...and both are courting Jill to within an inch of her life. She's doing her best to give these feuding ranchers equal time-too bad it's dark-eyed Sawyer O'Donnell who makes her blood boil and her hormones hum.Link to art: LiveJournal Title: Home of the present Author: crimsonepitaph Pairing: Jared/Jensen Rating: R Word Count: 32K Warnings: language, mentions of depression Prompt: A man in need of a comeback…A woman in need of love. Off the court, tennis star Jason Cartwright's playboy image is taking a public beating. On the court, he's down forty-love. A comeback is in order, but the makeover he needs is in the hands of the woman he loved and left fifteen years ago. While single-mom, Izzy Connors, sees people for who they really are through the lens of her camera, even without it, she knows Jason isn't the star he appears to be. All she sees is his wasted talent and playboy lifestyle. Will the click of her camera shatter his world as well as his heart? Summary: Jared Padalecki is a failing tennis legend striving for a comeback. Jensen Ackles is the unwitting photographer co-opted in the makeover project, a biography meant to change the game. Single dad, definitely not a fan of Padalecki's, and a cynical human being in general, Jensen takes the job out of necessity, and gears for a year long charade. But what happens when Jensen discovers more than he signed up for - not just about Padalecki, but about himself?Link to fic: on Ao3 Title: Jensen's Choice Author: zara_zee Artist: amberdreams Pairing: Jared/Jensen Rating: NC-17 Word Count: 44K Warnings: Kidnapping, violence, torture, minor character deaths, dubious consent*, rough sex, light kink (bondage, spanking, edging/orgasm delay,cock cage, slight D/s), crime, discussions of child abuse, smoking, drug use, addict in recovery, bad language and homophobic insults.*For the purposes of a dark romance, I’ll say dubious consent, however it should be noted that in the beginning, Jared has all the power and Jensen’s consent is definitely coerced. In the real world, I would classify that as rape. On the whole many unhealthy attitudes to consent are conveyed here.Prompt: An ex-pool hustler must fight her attraction to a sinful, sexy biker when she's kidnapped by the Dragons MC and sold to the club's Vice-President. Summary: Seven years ago talented pool hustler Jensen Ackles fled LA for his home state of Texas—with a price on his head and HellSpawn MC on his tail. Now, Jensen’s past has finally caught up with him. His debt has been bought out by the Vice-President of HellSpawn, Jared Padalecki, who expects Jensen to satisfy his dark sexual appetites. But even worse than life as the VP’s beck-and-call boy is the very real possibility that Jensen just might be falling for the sinfully sexy biker. Link to fic: on LiveJournal Link to art: on LiveJournal Title: Pranking the Padalecki Author: whiskygalore Pairing: Jared/Jensen Rating: NC-17 Word Count: 9K Warnings: younger Jensen, older Jared, spanking, bad language, schmoop with a happy ending Prompt: The Brat Next Door Tessa Randall has loved playing practical jokes on her brother's best friend, Trace Samuels, for as long as she can remember. But when she pushes him too far one day, she finds herself getting her long-overdue comeuppance over his lap. When Trace follows this treatment with a kiss, Tessa's confused emotions take an unexpected twist. Has she been menacing the boy next door her whole life, just to get closer to him? Has it been her motive all along to simply get his attention? And if so, where does she go now that she unquestionably has it? Summary: Jensen Ackles has loved pranking his brother’s best friend, Jared Padalecki, for almost as long as he can remember. But when he pushes Jared too far one day and finds himself on the wrong end of a spanking, Jensen lets slip a secret that might change things forever.Link to fic: on Ao3 Title: Up Against Your Will Author: amypond45 Pairing: Jared/Jensen, past Jared/Genevieve, past Jensen/others Rating: NC-17 Word Count: 17K Warnings: reference to past rape/abuse (not graphic or specific) Prompt: Blind Wolf: Julia has never been on a date in her life. She's a curvy girl with no money, no education, and no way out of the town she works in as a library assistant... until Damien shows up. He's just like the prince charming Julia always imagined would sweep her off of her feet. There are just a few things standing in the way of true happiness: he's blind, he's dating someone, and he's WAY out of her league. Oh, and he's a werewolf. Damien lost his eyes two years ago in a wolf battle. Ever since then, the straggler pack of disabled wolves he leads has been searching for a place to call home. One house seems like the perfect choice, but Damien realizes too late that the person who lives there is the girl he met at the library. The human girl. Damien is torn between loyalty to his pack and raw lusting desire for the girl who haunts his dreams day and night. She's a human. How could she be his true mate? Summary: Jensen wasn’t planning to rent out the apartment in his basement. But when a tall, handsome stranger offers him a deal he can’t refuse, Jensen puts aside his natural shyness and lets Jared move into his home. Now Jensen’s having intense dreams, hearing strange sounds in the night, and one day he sees a wolf in his backyard. Can Jensen regain his carefully ordered life (and his sanity) before it completely unravels? Or will he give in to his passion for the beautiful blind man with all the wildness in his heart? Link to fic: on Ao3 Title: Dead men do tell tales Author: siriala Pairing: Jared/Jensen Rating: NC-17 Word Count: 18K Warnings: mildly creepy and supernatural stuff surrounding death (which is not made into a major issue in this fic), shady but friendly Chad, voyeurism, judgmental and mean people Prompt: Her Ladyship's CompanionIn the Scottish countryside of Selkirk, Lady Isabella Stirling resides at Bowhill Park, serving penance for a sin that nearly ruined her family. For five years she has been condemned to a loveless marriage and confined to the estate where she does little more than tend her rose garden. With her husband absent for months at a time and few visitors, Bella lives a lonely existence, denying the passions that burn within her very soul.Then her cousin comes for a visit and makes an outrageous suggestion: what Bella needs is a lover. A hired lover. Despite her need, Bella says no. But soon Mr. Gideon Rosedale arrives-and he is at her service for two weeks. Indulging in what she intends to be a harmless flirtation, Bella is overcome by Gideon's intoxicating presence. And when she at last permits him to satisfy her desires, she discovers she's done the unthinkable-she's fallen in love.Summary: Jared has been alone most of his life. Good thing dead people can't be picky when he talks to them. Link to fic: on Ao3 Title: The Roommate Author: ashtraythief Artist: beelikej Pairing: Jared/Jensen Rating: NC-17 for fic, PG-13 for art Word Count: 12.6K Warnings: ummm… there’s porn? And description of unhygienic storage of clothes? Unhealthy amounts of cereal consumption? Idk, this is just really schmoopy and floofy. Prompt: One Night With Her RoommateEver since her former roommates deserted her, Meg has had to share an apartment with a lazy, obnoxious ass. He won’t pick up after himself, and he refuses to get a good job. Plus, he doesn’t always wear enough clothes—which is really a problem, because he’s hot. Maybe he’s occasionally funny. And every now and then he can be sweet. But mostly he’s just annoying. It doesn’t matter how much he’s starting to flirt with her—Meg is going to resist. She’s way too smart to fall for a guy who never takes anything seriously. But then everything changes in only one night.Summary: When Jared moves in with Jensen, Jensen’s life is turned upside down. Jared is a terrible roommate; messy, loud and entirely obnoxious. Unfortunately, he’s also pretty hot and even kinda nice when his socks aren’t clogging up the sink. Not that Jensen would ever do anything about that, because Jared is straight and a giant slob. Or so Jensen thinks. Link to fic: on Ao3 Link to art: on LiveJournal Title: My Wicked Pirate Artist: kinkajou Pairing: Jared/Jensen Rating: G Warnings: none Prompt: Azure-eyed Alanis was by far the most exquisite treasure ever claimed by the black pirate known as the Viper, but his motives went deeper than his silken promise to ravish the feisty Yorkshire heiress. Commanding the waters of the Caribbean was his means to an end: reclaiming his birthright—and his blood debt against those who had betrayed him.Then he gave her nights of wicked pleasure...Comfortably betrothed to a nobleman, Alanis never imagined the heady emotions involved in the true games of seduction—games this blackguard seemed to thoroughly enjoy playing with her. Swept up into an adventure that soon revealed a gentleman and kindred spirit beneath the ruthless veneer of a privateer, Alanis began to soften towards her enigmatic captor, as her pride and her heart fell under his erotic spell.Link to art: on Ao3 Title: After All This Time Author: safiyabat Artist: vilabelle Pairing: Jared/Jensen, Gen/Danneel, Jared/Stephen, J2DG Rating: NC-17 Word Count: 7K Warnings: Internalized homophobia, het sex, Chad Prompt: Kinky Neighbors: The Mitchells and the Harts have been next door neighbors and friends for the past year. They have loads in common; double incomes, professional careers, no kids...and a kinky streak. Now they're about to become very good friends...with kinky benefits. The sex between them all is hot, naughty, and unbearably exciting. It isn't merely swapping partners and moving to another room; it's true foursome sex, same room, same bed, all four involved. For Drew and Cat Mitchell and Logan and Alexis Hart, it's about barreling through boundaries none of them have ever crossed before, doing kinky things they've only fantasized about. But when they begin to exchange not just sex but emotional connection, the problems start; a little jealousy, feeling left out, wanting more from the wrong partner. Can two couples really share everything without losing it all? Summary: Jensen's a pretty happy guy. He's happily married to his hometown sweetheart, Danneel, and he's got a thriving law practice in Austin. He lives next door to his lifelong best friend, Jared, who is married to his and Danneel's girlfriend, Gen. When Danneel and Gen suggest bringing Jared into the bedroom, though, things get weird. Jensen thought Jared had gotten over his schoolboy crush on Jensen, but it turns out that Jared isn't the only one with lingering feelings.Link to fic: on LiveJournal Link to art: on LiveJournal Title: The Lost Author: phoenix1966 Artist: amberdreams Pairing: Jared/Jensen Rating: NC-17 Word Count: 93K Warnings: swearing, murder (off-screen), violence, m/m, top!Jensen, bottom!Jared, bottom!Misha (offscreen) Prompt: Al King is a rock singer and selfish stud extraordinaire. His brother and manager, Paul King, gets Al whatever he wants and boy does he want a lot. Dallas is a former hooker gone beauty queen/actress. Everyone wants a piece of her and she plays hardball like the best of them. What happens when the plane they are on crashes in the middle of the Amazon jungle? Summary: Big screen star Jensen Ackles was on his way to Brazil to continue filming his latest project. He was glad to lose himself in the role and bury the pain of his broken heart by slipping on a stranger’s skin. Because of his manager’s twisted attempt to help, he found himself on a private jet with a high-class rent boy. Before he could figure out what to do with that, a bolt of lightning sent them tumbling into the rainforest. Link to fic: on Ao3 Link to art: on LiveJournal Title: The Other Wesson Author: firesign10 Artist: milly_gal Pairing: Jared/Jensen Rating: NC-17 Word Count: 8K Warnings: none Prompt: Beth Bradley has a problem. Everyone is expecting her successful music executive boyfriend, Charlie, to be her date for her best friend’s wedding. There’s one hitch: Charlie doesn’t exist. Unless she can think of something fast, she’s headed for the most humiliating weekend of her life. Alex Tanner has a problem. The former Navy SEAL's search for a double agent lands him at the Kensington Hotel, and he needs a cover to finish the job. When the sexy maid of honor blackmails him into pretending to be her lover, he thinks he's been handed the solution. Except Beth has a way of stumbling into trouble, and when the man Alex is hunting starts targeting Beth, Alex has to decide between solving the mystery or protecting the woman who has stolen his heart. Summary: Jensen Ackles has a problem. Everyone is expecting his successful accountant boyfriend, Sam Wesson, to be his date for his best friend’s wedding. And Jensen is the wedding planner! There’s one hitch: Sam doesn’t exist. Unless he can think of something fast, Jensen is headed for the biggest humiliation of his life. Jared Padalecki has a problem. The government agent's search for a possible sex trafficking ring lands him at the Isla Grande Resort on the Gulf of Mexico, and he needs a cover to finish the job. When he meets the sexy wedding planner while planting a bug in his room, Jensen blackmails him into pretending to be his boyfriend. Jared doesn't mind--he thinks he's been handed the ideal cover. Except Jensen stumbles into trouble, and Jared has to decide if this resort romance is just play-acting—or the real thing! Link to fic: on Ao3 (art embedded in fic) Title: These Violent Delights Author: dimpled_sammy Pairing: Jared/Jensen Rating: NC-17 Word Count: 82K Warnings: Violence, gangsters, minor character death Prompt: Romancing the Mob Boss. Trina Hathaway is a waitress in a Las Vegas strip joint who spends a romantic evening with a good looking hunk she met at the club. Hoping to see him again, but not disappointed when she doesn’t, she goes on with her life. But a week later, when she interviews for a job at the renowned PaLargio Hotel and Casino on the Vegas Strip, and discovers that the owner of the hotel is the man she had slept with, a man who very much wishes to rekindle what they had captured that passionate night, her entire life spirals into a new and dramatic world where family ties and ever-increasing violence ropes them in. Summary: Jared Padalecki has only ever wanted to get out of Sin City. Trapped by extenuating circumstances, he works as a waiter in a Las Vegas strip joint, doing what he can to get by, including spending a romantic evening with a handsome stranger who wanders into the club one night. Hoping to see the stranger again, but not disappointed when he doesn’t, Jared moves on with his life. A month later, Jared interviews for a job as a financial consultant at one of the largest and newly made over Hotels on the Vegas strip. Jared gets the job, only to discover that his new boss is the same man he slept with: Jensen Ackles, the enigmatic and ice cold business man. Jensen Ackles, the city's biggest mob boss. Torn between his longing to get out of the city and his yearning to be closer to Jensen, Jared finds himself being sucked into a new and dangerous world where loyalty is everything, passion exists on a knife-edge, and the ever-increasing violence makes it impossible to escape. Link to fic: on Ao3 Title: Heartstrings Author: madebyme_x Artist: quickreaver Pairing: Jared/Jensen Rating: PG-13 Word Count: 7.5K Warnings: Language and references to drug and alcohol abuse Prompt: Heartstrings. As Julia prepares to settle in for another typical 12-hour shift in the ER, she's ready to handle anything...That's before Slade Hale rolls into her life...on a stretcher surrounded by 15 doctors and nurses. To her he's just another patient, and a cocky asshole Rock Star with an ego. Or at least that's what she thinks. When she's assigned to be his personal nurse, Julia suddenly feels out of her comfort zone. Slade is the most beautiful man she's ever seen in person and even in his vulnerable condition he seethes of raw sex appeal. When he starts to wake up, that's when the real trouble begins...Julia desperately attempts to fight his charm and wit, to stay professional, to keep the upper hand. Summary: Washed-up rock star Jared is rushed to hospital, and it's up to uptight nurse Jensen to fix more than broken bones. But what is it that they say? Opposites attract, or something like that... Link to fic: on LiveJournal Link to art: on LiveJournal

Supernatural

Title: Behind Glass Author: museaway Pairing: Dean/Castiel Rating: Teen Word Count: 21.3K Warnings: Temporary Character Death Prompt: Life as he has known it is over for Adan when his mother tells him she has bought a mansion in an exclusive community high in the redwood mountains. There are no other young people living there except one, a girl named Chrystal who has never been outside the community before or known anyone her own age. But Adan can only admire Chrystal from afar, she is beautiful and he is covered in scars. Summary: Castiel has spent his life secluded in the woods. At his father’s warning, he’s never left the property. He has no memory of his mother, and his father doesn’t come above twice a year with supplies now that Castiel is grown. But when he befriends a boy named Sam who trespasses on his land, and Sam's older brother, whose face and arm were maimed in an accident, he begins to doubt everything his father has told him. Link to fic: on Ao3 Title: The Trouble with Benny Author: angelus2hot Pairing: Dean/Benny Rating: PG-13 Word Count: 2K Warnings: none Prompt: Can a girl ever have too many cowboys?No sooner does pint-sized spitfire Jill Cleary set foot on Fiddle Creek Ranch than she finds herself in the middle of a hundred-year-old feud. Quaid Brennan and Tyrell Gallagher are both tall, handsome, and rich...and both are courting Jill to within an inch of her life. She's doing her best to give these feuding ranchers equal time-too bad it's dark-eyed Sawyer O'Donnell who makes her blood boil and her hormones hum.Summary: It took awhile for Sam to realize even though Dean could have almost anyone he wanted, his brother only wanted Benny. But when he did he and Garth devised a plan to get Dean to finally go after what he wanted. Link to fic: on Ao3 Title: Happenstance Author: stonenumberone Pairing: Sam/Dean Rating: NC-17 Word Count: 18K Warnings: Pre-series AU, underage sex, underage drinking, complete lack of listening to the concept of Stranger Danger, swearing and just a little bit of angst and sibling incest. Prompt: Colin Hartman can now add college to his list of failures. On the coast-to-coast trek home from California, Colin stops at a gas station in the Nevada desert, and can’t help noticing the guy in tight jeans looking like he just stepped off a catwalk. When he realizes Catwalk is stranded, Colin offers a ride. Riley only intended to take a short ride in Colin’s Jeep to the Grand Canyon. But one detour leads to another until they finally find themselves tumbling into bed together. However there are shadows in Riley’s eyes that hide a troubled past. And when those shadows threaten to bury the man whom Colin has fallen in love with, he vows to get Riley the help he needs. For once in his life, quitting isn’t an option… Summary: Dean’s never been really good at that whole “accomplishment” thing. Drifting is the one thing he really knows how to do, and a trip after his latest failure—college—with just him, his car, and the wide open road is exactly what he needs. Running into a boy with legs longer than the California coastline was definitely not on the agenda, but hey, it’s not like Dean has anywhere else to be. When the trip becomes more of a series of detours, Dean finds himself more and more drawn to the young Sam, who seems to be carrying more baggage than Dean originally thought. A secret revealed threatens to shatter everything they’ve built together in this short time; will they make it through or crash and burn like every other thing Dean has ever touched? Link to fic: on Ao3 Title: Sunrise Cove Obsession Author: smalltrolven Pairing: Sam/Dean Rating: NC-17 Word Count: 9K Warnings: Beyond Awful!John Winchester Prompt: Naomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods. In freeing the girl trapped in the root cellar, Naomi revealed the horrible extent of her father’s crimes and made him infamous. No matter how close she gets to happiness, she can’t outrun the sins of Thomas David Bowes. Now a successful photographer living under the name Naomi Carson, she has found a place that calls to her, a rambling old house in need of repair, thousands of miles away from everything she’s ever known. Naomi wants to embrace the solitude, but the kindly residents of Sunrise Cove keep forcing her to open up—especially the determined Xander Keaton. Naomi can feel her defenses failing, and knows that the connection her new life offers is something she’s always secretly craved. But the sins of her father can become an obsession, and, as she’s learned time and again, her past is never more than a nightmare away. Summary: When the boys are forcibly separated at twelve and eight by a father gone mad their lives take very different turns. When they are then reunited fifteen years later, they don’t recognize each other. Dean’s promise to stay away from Sam even though unwittingly broken brings a danger back that may kill them both. Link to fic: on Ao3 Title: Indelible Author: dare_darcy Pairing: Dean/Sam Rating: M Word Count: 25K Warnings: Light BDSM Prompt: Leni Brewster should have been disappointed when her twin sister had to bail on holding her hand during her first tattoo, but going to her appointment solo means time alone with the sexy-as-hell tattoo artist who falls into the Do Not Touch category. Only Jamie Rodriguez isn't as off-limits as Leni thinks. Privately single for months, Jamie finds himself more than looking forward to having the hot little librarian in his chair. And when she accidentally reveals a naughty secret about herself, he can't get his hands on her fast enough-he has to know what else she's hiding under that buttoned-up exterior. What he discovers sets his blood to boiling, igniting a burning determination to test every single one of the boundaries, both personal and physical, that she's set for herself. Summary: Dean Singer is a tattoo artist, single and unhappily so. Sam Winchester is the sexy librarian who has been feeding his secret book habit. When Sam walks into Dean's shop, will Sam break through Dean's walls and see the man beneath? (Summary to be fixed when I'm not sleep deprived.) Link to fic: on Ao3

[undeadcourier]

Do you think there would be certain (Brahmin, etc) mutations that could/would get bred for by ranchers? Do you think at some point there'll be enough fauna population to selectively breed? Also, could ghoulified farm animals be a factor of ranching as well?

brahmin canonically produce milk that's rad-cleansing and i'm assuming that's a post-war mutation, so i'd say yes, if there were beneficial mutations like that, i'd expect ranchers would try to breed for them

and that kind of answers your next question. i mean, farmers/ranchers are always going to selectively breed when they can, their goal is to produce healthy offspring with specific characteristics (good temperament, meat/wool/milk yields, etc.) even in small populations.

as far as population rebounds, it would depend on how heavily irradiated a specific area is, but after two hundred years i think you could expect the flora/fauna to make an impressive comeback, even if they're a little mutated

ghoulified stock would be tricky. they should all be infertile, right? but brahmin and bighorners at least seem somewhat ghoulified and they're obviously capable of breeding, so i'm not really sure where that line is in canon. i could see ghoulified animals being favored for specific tasks, though - ghoul retrievers that can scrounge around in heavily irradiated areas and bring stuff back to their masters, for instance. and i think they’d be popular pets for human ghouls!

[shitmoviesonshitwifi]

Rodeo and Juliet

Here is my play by play reaction to this movie. 

1. So there is a girl named Juliet and she is moving to her grandfather’s ranch with her mom after his death. 

2. She is pissed that she has to move, but then she meets this horse, Rodeo, apparently she had riding lessons in NYC but can’t saddle a horse.

3. Seriously, she just like throws it in the air with the strength of a 9 month old infant.

4. She makes friends with Nan, like who the fuck names their kid Nan? Anyway, she is the only black person in the whole town so far. 

5. Nan takes her to a barn dance and introduces her little brother, so two black people so far. (this movie does not seem to accurately represent the beautiful diversity of our nation)

6. Some mean girls approach Nan and Juliet. They claim that Juliet’s outfit looks like, “a clearance rack at Chicos”. 

7. Juliet is wearing like a black leather jacket and black jeans and black heels, I mean they aren’t Prada but the outfit isn’t bad.

8. Anyway, Juliet comes back with “I’ll let Lana del Rey know you said that next time I’m backstage at one of her concerts like last weekend” and, “Oh my mom’s friend Calvin designed this outfit, Calvin Klein.”

9. Super cringey so far and way too detailed for a comeback.

10. Some country boy approaches Juliet and she dips out of the way for another cowboy and pretends he is her date, this movie is so cliche so obviously they fall for each other. Not actually sure what his name is.

11. Meanwhile, Mom is at judge’s office looking for a will or statement entitling her to the ranch meanwhile some Billy Ray knock off comes in saying he has paper that entitles him to half of the ranch. Judge said it was never official.

12. We find out his name is Hugh and he was the grandpa’s right hand man.

13. A lot has happened and I cannot really follow but I guess the mom is now employed at the Judge’s office and is helping look for a will.

14. Juliet’s mom says to stay away from Loverboy since he is Hugh’s nephew and therefore the enemy. 

15. Oh and btw Mom tells Juliet they have to sell the horse.

16. Juliet throws a fit and then learns of a barrel racing competition and thinks that if she and Rodeo win that she can’t sell him or the ranch.

17. Loverboy offers to teach her and says that she knows he’ll do anything for her, so their relationship is going hella fast, like it has only been 2 days.

18. Since Juliet is supposed to stay away from them she convinces her mom to let her ride Rodeo at Nan’s ranch

19. I suspect she’ll be riding Loverboy too, if ya catch my drift ;)

20. Training montage and searching for document montage begins.

21. Hugh and Loverboy have the same haircut and hat, little freaky.

22. Loverboy has a really pointy chin

23. Also horse is pretty little/scrawny for being a barrel racing horse

24. I have been informed by Ari (roommate) that Loverboy’s name is Monty.

25. So Juliet has been practicing for like 2 days and she’s already a god at the game

26. Definitely a hallmark movie due to the nature and quick, hard to follow plot and lack of diversity.

27. Wait! There are two more black people, a receptionist at the county clerks office and a dude in line. Ari: “still no asian people!”

28. Everyone drives really big, really shiny trucks

29. So some random dude with a weird beard shows up while mom is sweeping the driveway. 

30. His name is bill Atterbury and he is looking for the grandpa, mom says he is not here and fails to mention that he is dead. 

31. Okay now she mentions it all dramatic like. 

32. Anyway, homeboy wants to buy the horse. 

33. Oh and apparently mom is trying to get him to buy the land too. 

34. This convo is going down like the opening to a cheesy 80′s porno (at least I am assuming so)

35. Ooh she invited him in for some lemonade..... and probably some sex too.

36. JK it is just really cheesy to invite a stranger in for lemonade.

37. The low visual quality and cheesy movie tropes make me honestly question if this is a hallmark movie or a bad 80′s porn.

38. Juliet is wearing some black off the shoulder shirt with big white lettering that says NYC with neon paint splatters.

39. It looks like it was purchased anywhere but NY, probably the juniors section of a SEARS department store.

40. Her hair keeps changing colors from dark brown to auburn, now she has a blonde streak in it.

41. Okay mom is now explaining her childhood in this small town. 

42. Her mom died when she was 10 and her dad attached to her really hard, which seems normal since she is his only family left. 

43. She was once in love with Hugh, engaged even, she liked the idea of being a rancher’s wife. 

44. Then she fell in love with writing and ran off to New York, her dad and Hugh obviously did not approve. 

45. Whatever she had with Hugh ended when she left and then she met Juliet’s dad and so on. 

46. She admits that she really loved Hugh. Something tells me she still does and that they may get together again.

47. This entire movie I thought that Juliet took WRITING lessons in NYC but she was taking RIDING lessons in NYC, and apparently her grandpa paid for them.

48. This explains why she is so good at barrel racing, doesn’t explain why she can’t put a saddle on a horse. 

49. Another off the shoulder top, what is up with this chick?!

50. Nan is always wearing a Canadian tuxedo ( Denim Jeans, Denim shirt, and Denim jacket)

51. Nan and Juliet are having girl talk and Nan is teasing Juliet for having a crush on Monty but like she’s already been on a date with him and kissed him so this shouldn’t really be a shock for Nan.

52. Monty takes Juliet to a tree grove on their horses and claims he has never taken anyone there before. 

53. They kiss on horseback, as if this movie weren’t cliche enough

54. Why is Juliet always whispering in the horse’s ear like it understands english, it doesn’t.

55. WTF Nan is eating out of a feed bag with her hands, I don’t think it’s feed but that is still weird.

56. Mom shows up while everyone is practicing and Monty hides in the worst hiding spot imaginable, I expect nothing less from this movie.

57. Apparently it’s Christmas time??!?!?!?!

58. Nan pulls the whole flattery trope with the Mom to distract her and of course it works because this movie is cliche AF

59. Hugh drops off a wreath for someone.

60. Ohhh is it the mom, I wonder if he still has feels for her.

61. Ari : “It’s for Juliet” me: ewww gross.

62. Okay mom appears outside wearing some sort of hoodie/jean jacket that 2011 Justin Bieber would wear.

63. I was right. Hugh says some BS about how he always hoped she would come back.

64. Now he tries to convince her that the grandpa always wanted them to share the ranch.

65. Now they are calling each other out on their issues.

66. Alright back to Juliet and Rodeo, just brushing.

67. Mom has decorated a small office tree that doesn’t light up on top.

68. Oh mom has found a will saying that Mom and Hugh have to split the land. Something tells me she won’t mind as much.

69. Wait, mom finds out about Juliet and Monty and now she says she has to withdrawal from the competition because she lied. daughter says she lied too, about her past in this town.

70. Uh oh mom is selling the horse to Hugh.

71. obviously this isn’t the end of Juliet’s racing career.

72. Oh shoot Hugh is ranting about how the ranch and horse should go to someone who loves it as much as the grandpa did. 

73. Mom spills the beans about the will.

74. Now they feel guilty for dragging the kids in when really they were just confused about themselves but really it isn’t that hard because they found the document so move on already.

75. Whoa, Hugh confesses that he went to NYC to find the mom when he heard she was getting married. 

76. Cue the “ I never stopped loving you cliche”

77. They both talk about memories rushing back and all that jazz.

78. Of course, Hugh tips his hat back and they start making out. 

79. EW! If they get married that would make Monty and Juliet Step-cousins that make-out.

80. Okay so it is competition day and mom and Hugh show up. 

81. I don’t know why she is competing anymore because mom is probably not going to sell Rodeo and the ranch now that she and Hugh are together.

82. Monty and Juliet apologize for sneaking around but mom supports the relationship which is gross if they end up being step-cousins.

83. Wait, apparently the current champion is back when they thought she wasn’t competing.

84. Juliet rocks the first round. Cue competition montage. The announcer has a wicked mustache and then Juliet progresses to the finals. This horse is wildin’ and going fast now.

85. Nan is walking away and some slow-mo scene makes me think something bad is about to happen.

86. OMG! OMG! WAIT! I just noticed Monty is Hugh’s nephew, Monty-Hugh. Like Montague and then Juliet! Just like the Montague and Capulet family rivalry in Verona. I CAN’T BELIEVE I DIDN’T NOTICE THIS SOONER!!!

87. I forget that the mom is a writer, she apparently knows what to write about now. Ari: “so she’s going to write about a fucking horse girl?!?”

88. She sets the record. Wait! she doesn’t win. she loses by .2 seconds against the resident champion. 

89. I mean she still is keeping the horse and they do not need money for the ranch anymore since Hugh and mom are a thing, so nothing is at stake anymore. 

90. Okay so Bill Atterbury from earlier comes up and offers Juliet and Rodeo $4000 and wants them to ride pro and wants Monty as a pro circuit trainer. 

91. “ Y’all have a Merry Christmas”

92. All of a sudden it cuts to the ranch house where the mom is typing her paper in some bouji heels while Hugh attempts to light a fire.

93. The Judge has randomly shows up and asks if they have come to an agreement about the ranch.

94. They tell him they have, an agreement to be husband and wife.

95. I CALLED IT!!! 

96. This relationship escalated really fast over the course of like 3 days

97. Monty and Juliet are back at the grove, which isn’t really a grove because there are only like 2 scrawny trees, but they just call it a grove.

98. Ewwww they are step-cousins now.

99. Now they are racing their horses at sunset. 

100. Ari thinks the movie will fade out..... oh! oh! she is exactly right!

Overall, pretty odd movie. It was definitely a Hallmark movie. It was very hard to follow and a lot happened really fast. I’m still not sure if the central plot was the land dispute, horse racing, or forbidden love. The commentary that Ari and I provided was highly entertaining though.