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Addendum: is the "motivation for coming to LushStories" in the subject a deliberate pun/double entendre?
I'm going to throw in a nod for a lot of Stuart Gordon's movies. Guy took Lovecraft, and converted it body horror.
Re-Animator really brought new meaning to the term (NOPE NOT GOING THERE REDACTED) and then From Beyond (HAHAHAHA REDACTING AGAIN.)
Though those are more shown for horror, whereas the two I mentioned previously (BTK and Tampopo) are more for, frankly I don't know.
Edit: That "redaction" is me. Common sense in use before I posted this once.
By and large, are you more likely to follow an author or click on their work if you have an idea of what to expect, or if it's going to be a complete surprise.
I ask this because I don't like being predictable, when it comes to my prose fiction. I would prefer it if people were completely unsure of what they were going to get from my work than know what to expect.
That said, I wholeheartedly see the appeal in being a predictable author, as it comes with some guarantees. Just wanted others thoughts in this.
I once walked in on my girlfriend masturbating. I interrupted the proceedings to ask if she wanted a sandwich since I was going to a nearby deli. I got a death glare before being told a number 6 no mayo. By the time I came back with the sandwiches she was finished, but still annoyed that I interrupted.
When you have to wear the noose, or tie if you prefer, what kind of knot do you use. Personally, I like the eldredge, because if you have to wear a noose, you might as well go hard.
Windsor, half, four-in-hand, prince albert? What do you use, and do you notice the knot on others?
Also, that's eldredge, a 15 step knot, not to be confused with an eldritch knot, which uses non-euclidean geometries, the very sight of which can render a person irrevocably insane.
I think it's any of the times Goro Hanada is sniffing boiled rice to get hard in Branded To Kill, or the scene in Tampopo that features a raw egg and a live shellfish.
They are weird.
Also nobody mention Team America, too easy a target.
My excersie is mostly utilitarian, getting from place to place, mostly by bicycle. I find it, not necessarily pleasurable, but having a certain meditative quality. I enjoy the meditations, I suppose.
For about 3 weeks, I had low blood pressure. Low blood pressure inhibited blood flowing to my genetals, therefore no matter how aroused I was, maintaining an erection for longer than 2~ minutes or so was virtually impossible. After a miserable three weeks, trying to figure out what the hell was going on (inability to maintain an erection not my primary concern, more the lightheartedness, pressure in my eyes, blurry vision et cetera) I find out I have low blood pressure, get told to just eat some salty food. I drink a can of chicken broth, a half day later, I'm fully functional and capable.
Sex was as vanilla as it gets, but after 3 weeks of impotency and being quite miserable, release felt fantastic.
Alaskan Husky and rye whiskey.
German shepherd and wheat beer.
English Coonhound and IPA
Not accents exactly, but if somebody remembers when to use who vs whom, and when to use less vs fewer, it's certainly a turn on.
The We Are Shanghai 2019 anthology, current track (quickly tabs over) Murder Scene by Hogchoker, and wow that's a strange name.
For an anthology titled "We Are Shanghai" there are a shockingly large amount of songs with English titles, English lyrics and English band names.
Shout out to Do The Drumpf by Round Eye, the track that made me discover the album.
Removed the embedded video for being slightly horrifying.
Powdered ginger in the coffee, cleans sinuses and gives and immediate pep from the sharpness of the ginger before the caffeine kicks in.
Jackets with pockets on the inside for sneaking food, but that's not particularly strange.
I started watching Kirlian Frequency, and it's amazing.
I tried watching The Boys, but sheer irony/hypocrisy of the largest company in the world run by the richest man in the world producing a television program based on source material that is aggressively anti-corporation was too much for me.
It was one of the best decisions of my life.
If they count, Marx Brothers and Tokyo Drifter.
They probably don't count do they?
Blue is the Warmest Color, though I prefer the source material, also Mullholland Drive.
I also have a soft spot for the Eurotrash/Sexploitation films of the 70s, but those are more responding to the letter of the question than the spirit.
Alternatively, look up the artwork of Margaret Brundage and you'll get a decent sense of what I mean.
I have no idea how to title this post. Basically, I've got a WIP that is done in the style of and paying tribute to the classic pulp stories of the 1930s up through the 1960s. Magazines like Weird Tales, Saucy Adventures, creators like H.P. Lovecraft, and Robert E. Howard, and novels like Spring Fire. I love this stuff, a lot has aged like a dead skunk in desert, and it's trash, but I love it, and a lot a LOT has softcore sex. I want to pay a tribute to this, bring the soft-core stuff to the explicit. There's just one problem, and it's kind of a big one.
These books/stories can be really uncomfortable to read with modern sensibilities; and I don't mean the kind of perpetually offended college crazies we see pop up, I mean the kind that makes things Mark Twain and Joseph Conrad look like 12 Years a Slave or Birth of A Nation.
Additionally, a typical story might go like this: Introduce protagonist + love interest --> Love interest kidnapped, most likely partially or entirely disrobed for cartoonishly over-the-top villains --> love interest gets rescued --> softcore romance --> happy ending?
So my question is this: To any familiar with the work, how does one pay tribute to the fun adventures and romance (when it isn't horrifying) without falling into the pitfalls of, just read anything from Seabury Quinn and you'll get a sense of it. Or is this project completely stillborn?
Coffee sounds good to me, but that's in part because the way British (based on your profile) and Americans drink tea is different, and I'm not one to try to navigate that kind of mine-field.
"God help me I do love it so" from Patton
"Chemistry" from Sheena (mostly because it was one of the worst and most uncomfortable to watch scenes in the history of cinema)
And finally,
"Did he fire six shots or only five" from Dirty Harry
Just started Too Old To Die Young, not quite sure what to make of it.
Rocky and Bullwinkle, X-Men the Animated Series and Animaniacs were probably my top three.