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Looking for book recommendations

I'm looking for some book recommendations. I'm leaning more towards the Paranormal Romance genre. Like Shifters (wolf, dragon, etc), the Fea, Vampires, etc.

I don't really want a series that spans over multiple books. A series with interconnected stand-alones is fine, though.

Also, I would rather some "spicey" scenes. Not like XXX-rated but a bit of spice is preferred.

Hoping this gets around & I get a bunch of good recommendations!

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Ok but...hear me out....Community Colleges are a thing! Don't know what you want to do and want to 'explore'? GO TO COMMUNITY COLLEGE! Want to learn new things for "creative pursuits"? GO TO COMMUNITY COLLEGE!

You can get an Associates Degree and\or if you like what you've been studying most credits will transfer to a 4 year school.

Let's break down the costs! At the Community College I work at, in county tuition is about $130 per credit plus fees (but our fees are low). For out of state students we're at about $333 per credit plus fees (we charge the same fees for in-county and out of state). So average total per credit for In-county is $212 and Out of State $415. That's without Financial Aid of any kind. With Financial Aid and Scholarships, you could be debt free! Now that is just at my Community College....other states can be structured differently and some are even greatly subsidized by the state so your costs may be even lower!

Is college worth it?

NO! But maybe :) depends on what you plan to do, I wouldn't spend 200000 dollars to 'explore' your interests - know what you're going in for, it's not time to fuck around!!! and make sure it's not some curriculum you can pursue on your own for cheap, or else you'll put yourself in DEBT fuck for nothing. Also don't go for creative pursuits, I love graphic design and music and 3d art and game development, and I can learn all of these things on my own.

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Don't forget in the very early 80's Party Lines were still a thing (not the "Party Lines" that were like 1-900 numbers. But Party lines where all the people on your block would share 1 phone line and you could pick up your phone in your house but hear the neighbor's conversation. They started to die out in the 70's\80's and were pretty much completely gone by the late 80's, but I remember my parents talking about it.

Have been thinking a lot lately about how, when a new technology emerges, people who were born after the shift have trouble picturing exactly what The Before was like (example, the fanfic writer who described the looping menu on a VHS tape), and even people who were there have a tendency to look back and go "Wow, that was... wild."

Today's topic: The landline. A lot of people still have them, but as it's not the only game in town, it's an entirely different thing now.

(Credit to @punk-de-l-escalier who I was talking to about this and made some contributions)

for most of the heyday of the landline, there was no caller ID of any kind. Then it was a premium service, and unless you had a phone with Caller ID capability-- and you didn't-- you had to buy a special box for it. (It was slightly smaller than a pack of cigarettes.)

Starting in the early nineties, there WAS a way to get the last number dialed, and if desired, call it back. It cost 50 cents. I shit you not, the way you did it was dialing "*69". There's no way that was an accident.

If you moved, unless it was in the same city-- and in larger cities, the same PART of the city-- you had to change phone numbers.

As populations grew, it was often necessary to take a whole bunch of people and say "Guess what? You have a new area code now."

The older the house, the fewer phone jacks it had. When I was a kid, the average middle-class house had a phone jack in the kitchen, and one in the master bedroom. Putting in a new phone jack was expensive... but setting up a splitter and running a long phone cord under the carpet, through the basement or attic, or just along the wall and into the next room was actually pretty cheap.

Even so, long phone cords were pretty much a thing on every phone that could be conveniently picked up and carried.

The first cordless phones were incredibly stupid. Ask the cop from my hometown who was talking to his girlfriend on a cordless phone about the illegal shit he was doing, and his wife could hear the whole thing through her radio.

For most of the heyday of the landline, there was no contact list. Every number was dialed manually. Starting in the mid-eighties, you could get a phone with speed dial buttons, but I cannot stress how much they sucked, because you had to label them with a goddamn pencil, you only had ten or twenty numbers, reprogramming them was a bitch, and every once in a while would lose all of the number in its memory.

All of the phone numbers in your city or metro area were delivered to you once a year in The Phone Book, which was divided between the White Pages (Alphabetic), the Yellow Pages (Businesses, by type, then alphabetic), and the Blue Pages (any government offices in your calling area (which we will get to in a moment)).

Listing in the white pages was automatic; to get an unlisted number cost extra.

Since people would grab the yellow pages, find the service they need, and start calling down the list, a lot of local business names where chosen because they started with "A", and "Aardvark" was a popular name.

Yes, a fair chunk of the numbers in it were disconnected or changed between the time it was printed and it got to your door, much less when you actually looked it up.

One phone line per family was the norm.

Lots and lots and LOTS of kids got in trouble because their parents eavesdropped on the conversation by picking up another phone connected to the same line.

A fair number of boys with similar voices to their father got in trouble because one of their friends didn't realize who they were talking to.

And of course, there were the times where you couldn't leave the house, because you were expecting an important phone call.

Or when you were in a hotel and had to pay a dollar per call. (I imagine those charges haven't gone away, but who pays them?)

Since you can't do secondary bullet points, I'll break a couple of these items out to their own lists, starting with Answering Machines.

these precursors to voicemail were a fucking nightmare.

The first generation of consumer answering machines didn't reach the market until the mid-eighties. They recorded both the outgoing message and the incoming calls onto audio cassettes.

due to linear nature of the audio cassette, the only way to save an incoming call was to physically remove the cassette and replace it with a new one.

they were prone to spectacular malfunction; if the power went out, rather than simply fail to turn back on, they would often rewind the cassette for the incoming messages to the beginning, because it no longer knew where the messages were, or how many there were.

Another way they could go wrong was to start playing the last incoming call as the outgoing message.

Most people, rather than trying to remember to turn it on each time they went out and turn it off when they got back, would just leave it on, particularly when they discovered that you could screen incoming calls with it.

Rather a lot of people got themselves in trouble because they either didn't get to the phone before the answering machine, or picked up when they heard who was calling, and forgot that the answering machine was going-- thus recording some or all of the phone call.

Eventually the implemented a feature where you could call your answering machine, enter a code, and retrieve your messages. The problem was that most people couldn't figure out how to change their default code, and those that did didn't know it reset anytime the power went out. A guy I went to college with would call his ex-girlfriend's machine-- and her current boyfriend's-- and erase all the messages. He finally got busted when she skipped class and heard the call come in.

And, of course, there's the nightmare that was long-distance.

Calls within your local calling area were free. (Well, part of the monthly charge.) This usually meant the city you lived in and its suburbs. Anything outside this calling area was an extra per-minute charge.

This charge varied by time of day and day of the week, which made things extra fun when your friend on the west coast waited until 9pm for the lower charges, but you were on the east coast and it was midnight.

Depending on your phone company, and your long distance plan, the way your long distance work varied wildly. Usually in-state was cheaper-- with zones within the state that varied by price, and out of state had its own zones.

Your long distance plan came in lots and lots of distracting packages, and was billed to your phone bill.

At one point, when I was living in North Carolina, a scammer set themselves up as a long distance company and notified the phone company that a shitload of people had switched to their service. They got caught fairly quickly, but I was annoyed because they were actually charging less than AT&T.

"Would you like to change your long distance plan" was the 80's and 90's equivalent of "We have important news about your car insurance."

Had a friend who lived at the edge of a suburb in Birmingham, and for her to call her friend two miles down the street was long-distance, because the boundary of the calling area was right between them.

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We need a "Spaceballs: The Prequel Years" movie. Who would be cast as what characters?

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240505‐Dongwan Youtube Update 🍊

Kim Dongwan - 나와 같다면 (If you're like me) | Original by Kim Janghoon

Description:

"It is said that the rain will start soon and will last for 3 days. I give this to Shinhwa Changjo, who may be feeling depressed somewhere~"

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tim drake’s snapchat is 90% him making bruce wayne do normal middle-class american things and filming the results. popular youtube compilations include the one where they’re at denny’s at two in the morning and tim keeps trying to get bruce to order a moon over my hammy just so he’ll have to say it, the one where they’re at disneyworld and bruce gets increasingly frazzled culminating in him actually physically picking up gaston for reasons no one can entirely recall, and everyone’s favorite series “bruce wayne doesn’t understand walmart”

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Continue✨ Keep going✨

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Enjoy turning 18/19/20/21 and feeling like it's a huge deal! I'll be honest, after 21 (when you are legally allowed to drink in the US) and when you start working full time and\or out of College....it's just year after year with no significant change. Everyone starts getting lumped into one age rage that can have people that are like in their late 20's all the way up to their 50's but everyone kinda just seems like the same age. Sure you try to celebrate "Big" birthdays like turning 30 or 40 or whatever, but really it's just another year. Then one day you end up in your 40's on Tumblr while at work because you have "decision overload" and really just need to zone out for a few minutes but then you decide to reblog a post and provide "sage" advice which is really just a "downer" for everyone who is reading it....but maybe some actually know and understand.

I'm turning nineteen on Saturday and I'm still terrified of becoming a true adult. I'm in college with my own apartment and my own car but I still feel like a child. Do you have any advice

well ur already eighteen. the secret to nineteen is that its exactly the same. Its actually an awesome age and i had a lot of fun. ur exactly the same no change at all

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So depressing....you WANT to try to help and donate to charities but it seems like most of them are just basically scams to fill the CEO pockets.

So proud of my mother for doing her own research after I sent her that meme. A sign she hung in her car window.

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이건 진짜 교우 ㅋㅋ

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Miss Congeniality (2000) dir. Donald Petrie

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shinhwa describing common junjin antics on kang hodong's naver show. sometimes you have to take drastic measures to make your members laugh.

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Thoughts that are mutual between cats and their people:

Yeah you're cute when you sleep but you didn't let me sleep either so I'm going to annoy you now because I'm bored. Hahah get poked, sleepy idiot.

How do you not comprehend this when I am literally staring at you. Like I understand that your brain can't understand things this nuanced but come on, how do you not get this.

I don't know if you know that what I am currently doing is an expression of affection, but that won't stop me. Knowing that I showed you that I love you is enough.

I heard a crinkly material and the sound of you chewing so I have to know what's in your mouth RIGHT FUCKING NOW.

I can't communicate with you and you can't communicate with me, so I'm just copying the tone of the sound you're making in hopes that you understand that I try.

You are doing activities beyond my comprehension, and I find this fascinating. I will never understand what the fuck you are trying to achieve here, but I am intrigued nonetheless.

Hey are you ok, you haven't done your weird thing in a while. Yeah I don't get why you do that but I know you do that when you're ok.

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Pin for survivors

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Why do humans have belly buttons but dogs/cats/bunnies/etc don't? We all have umbilical cords at birth but humans end up with belly buttons.

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You do!

I wrote a post or a reblog about how the Fantastic Adventures of Unico was such a fevered nightmare movie that should NEVER EVER been watched by a 5/6 year old but it was still my favorite movie! I still love it!

help an old man even out their boop counter maybe 👉👈

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Ahahhahahahahaa it looks like boob squished!

Need to boop for the badges or to reach your desired boop given indicator?

Feel free to send as much as pleases you, whether that be one or several thousand.