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Ok, is that from the Lawry's? That would explain so much.

No, it’s from a “clubby lounge” that I’m forgetting the name of further north, up on Rush where all the weird bar lounges are. If Lawry’s had a couch like that I probably would have had lunch there more often....

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I had a moment of "Sam wrote Jesus Seahorse MPreg? Huh. Guess I'm reading Jesus Seahorse MPreg now..."

The responses to my response to the Seahorse Mpreg ask really are priceless. I’ve been cackling since it posted. 

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banesidhe replied to your post “They sold the house and the dog didn’t die”

Wait didnt they build that house on that Beautiful piece of land??

kitkat203posts replied to your post “They sold the house and the dog didn’t die”

Did they sell the house they just built, or from before?

Oh sorry! They are still living in their beautiful house on their land. They have been trying to sell their old house in Austin for about a solid year, and it was becoming somewhat urgent for financial reasons, but it’s all good now. 

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darael replied to your post “ravenreyamidala replied to your post: Is This...”

Sam, you've had the flu for the last 38 years. Only explanation.

I mean....it honestly wouldn’t shock me.

arukou-arukou replied to your post “ravenreyamidala replied to your post: Is This...”

Sam, sometimes I am just generally concerned for your existence as a human being.

Yeah, it’s for sure a significant concern in my life as well :D

auressea replied to your photo “So today was the first time I saw the bathroom I’m about to buy in...”

huh. that looks like a PROJECT! it sounds as if you're set on tile- but In case your aren't aware of the option: I had my surround re-done with counter-top laminate. They cut it to size out of a single piece. NO seams. They steam bend in into shape. It cleans SO easy! There are many many choices of surface patterns and colours. I LOVE it.

Oooh, what an intriguing option! I mean I’m not dead-set on tile, it just seems like the nicest and best value-add, but I’ll look into that. (On the other hand it doesn’t sound like a self-installation deal, while I’m hoping to be able to retile myself.) 

sandrayln replied to your photo “So today was the first time I saw the bathroom I’m about to buy in...”

Ah, adventures in tiling. The people who owned this house before us tiled *around* the toilets. Which is... not the way you do that. At all. Our replacement toilet is politely perched on the ring of the old toilet until we decide to retile...

Yikes. It seems people are very afraid of cutting tile. Admittedly I was like “Can I cut tile myself?” but tile cutters are cheaper than I imagined, so I’m gonna go with “yes I can”. 

rommalb replied to your photo “So today was the first time I saw the bathroom I’m about to buy in...”

You can also have the tub reglazed if you want to change the color on that.

I probably will eventually, but honestly I don’t mind the tub, it seems like it’s in pretty good condition. 

timberwolfoz replied to your photo “So today was the first time I saw the bathroom I’m about to buy in...”

We had tiles about that colour in our first place. So unless design trends were different in the US (quite possible) they might be from the late 60's. (Also as a side note, the tiling was shoddy and a wall of them fell on me while I was showering. Ouch!)

Well, the building was rehabbed over from industrial to residential about fifteen years ago, but I would be willing to bet when the rehab was happening the interior guys were like “Hey....we know where to get some cheap tile....”

kitkat203posts replied to your photo “So today was the first time I saw the bathroom I’m about to buy in...”

Re: the tile around the hardware- My mom was a realtor who once sold a house where the owner painted the living room just around the furniture, not behind it. Buyers were not impressed.

I know that probably this was like “painted around bookshelves” but I’m just picturing someone carefully edging around a sofa pushed up against a wall and like...god that seems like MORE work....

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kitkat203posts replied to your photo “I have never baked a thing in my life. Not one thing. Tonight’s Movie...”

Eggs separate easier cold, so you are actually not doing bad there!

They did, in fact, separate very easily! So... learned one thing?

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Would you be so kind as to recomend a couple well written m/m novels? The few I've read were not exactly good quality writing, and it kept jolting me out of the story. Ps, you don't know me, but I've followed you for many years. I know you're having a rough time. Keep fighting! You are important! 💖

YOU ARE SO SWEET! Oh man, thank you so much! <3

I think KJ Charles is the peak of m/m perfection, to be quite honest. Her books are historical, frequently supernatural, and feature a diverse range of characters - including non-binary and gender fluid characters, characters of colour, and autistic characters, which is awesome. Her writing is gorgeous, plotty and hot, and she’s an awesome person to listen to. I have the utmost respect for her. 

I started with Think of England, which has an excellent dynamic for fans of the Captive Prince series (C. S. Pacat, if you haven’t read that, although please be WARNED for serious consent issues). I also adore Charles’ Magpie Lord series, which involves the enforcement of legislation around magic in England, and also bumming XD, but I would wholeheartedly and without reservation recommend everything she has written. 

I also recommend Cat Sebastian, who writes lovely relationship evolution. Her trilogy is rather less cohesive than KJ Charles’ (holy hell, the amount of plotting that must have gone into that) but they do give me the warm fuzzies something awful. My favourite is the Lawrence Brown Affair, which involves an incredibly socially awkward and likely autistic beast of a man living in a crumbling mansion, and the beautifully neat conman who fails miserably at pulling one over on him. 

Another author I really enjoy in a very different way is Jordan L. Hawk. Again with the supernatural m/m romance, these are very much romps - fun as hell to read, episodic, full of interesting ideas, fluffy as anything. The relationship dynamics are generally less complex, the writing can occasionally be a little too syrupy for my tastes, but still full of delightful WAFF. The Hex series is good for getting together and first times, and Whyborne and Griffin are good for more world-building, relationship evolution and interesting development of ideas. 

If you’re after something more contemporary, Waiting for the Flood by Alexis Hall is utterly delightful and made me cry because I thoroughly over-identified with the main character who keeps getting in his own way and waiting Just Too Long to act on things. Utterly, utterly lovely, all of the feels. 

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Where does one get a bubble wrap mug?

@ninjaomelet ‘s society6 page. https://society6.com/omelet should take you there. Specifically https://society6.com/product/bubble-wrap-alt-version_mug#s6-3768591p30a27v200 I think that’s the one I bought. It’s all on sale rn too.