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Posted by ALLi Editorial

In this episode of the Self-Publishing with ALLi Member Q&A podcast, hosts Michael La Ronn and Sacha Black discuss creative strategies for getting books into independent bookstores, including sending signed copies, bookmarks, and promotional materials to stores that stock your books.

The post Building Bookstore Relationships Through Goodwill: Member Q&A with Michael La Ronn and Sacha Black appeared first on The Self-Publishing Advice Center.

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Posted by benebell

The Six Syllable Mantra (Om Mani Padme Hum 唵嘛呢叭咪吽) is the foundational entry point for Asian folk magic traditions. We’ll be covering both the doctrinal Buddhist foundations and the practical applications. This is a two-part intensive, Doctrine and Ritual, on the Sacred Six Syllable Mantra. Video 1 covers doctrine. The subsequent Video 2 is for …

Continue reading Om Mani Padme Hum in Asian Magical Traditions

A kiss would fix us

Mar. 9th, 2026 08:07 pm
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kissing. that's it, that's the meme.

ONE: comment with your character and preferences.
TWO: you're kissing.
THREE: reply to others.
FOUR: no, seriously, they're kissing.
FIVE: whether there's backstory behind it, whether this has been building-building-BUILDING up or you've just met or you've been cursed by the universal, non-season specific hanging festive object of your choice and you can't escape until you smooch OR you literally just tripped into somebody's lips, if doesn't matter. btw it doesn't have to be on the mouth. live your best creative life.
SIX: it's a thing. it's happening. so you probably better let the people in the back know if you want assumed CR, gentle kisses on the forehead only, if you prefer gen/platonic kisses for the kids, crack threads, frenching, one-sided or misunderstood intentions and mistaken identities, whatevs.
SEVEN: kissin'. kiss kiss fall in love motherf-

Sex Pollen

Mar. 9th, 2026 09:47 am
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The Sex Pollen Meme




This is a highly sexual and somewhat dangerous meme! Many if not all options are potentially triggering. Please use your best judgment before participating.

Options — POSSIBLE TRIGGERY SUBJECT MATTER. USE OWN DISCRETION. )

Marriage

Mar. 9th, 2026 09:04 am
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marriage meme
originally from here
rules
• Leave a comment with your character's name and fandom in the subject header.
• When replying to a thread, RNG for a number between 1 and 8. The number you get corresponds to the list below.
• Go from there! Whatever happens, well, happens.

the list
01] traditional wedding |
It's like a dream come true! Everything is perfect and follows everything that it should... or does it?
02]
arranged marriage | ... Well. You do not have a say in this because your parents told you to be with this person! Enjoy?
03]
eloping | Forget about the bouquets and people! All that matters is that you are with the one you love at the end of the day.
04] shotgun wedding |
Congratulations, one of you is... pregnant...?
05] before the war | You don't know if they'll make it back home alive, but still you want to be with them 'til death do you part.
06] honeymoon night | After a long day, it's just the two of you... and no one else matters.
07] years later | Time to fast-forward! How's the relationship? Are there kids involved? Are you still together at all?
08] other | Is there something that I forgot that you wanted that I forgot to include? This is the option for that!

Sinner

Mar. 8th, 2026 04:33 pm
[personal profile] morphs posting in [community profile] bakerstreet
The (possibly AU) Sibling Incest Meme


Incest is, despite its taboo nature in most societies, actually a pretty popular convention in both romantic fiction and works of a more erotic bent, in everything from period or fantasy pieces to series taking place in places like modern day Japan. Still, the most common configuration in these fictions are the pairing of siblings. Perhaps this is because of the usual lack of age difference and power dynamic that exists in child/adult relative pairings, though this is not always the case. Because of this, a sexual or romantic relationship between siblings can almost seem, well, romantic in the right light. Of course, more often than not, there's a dark side under the veneer of forbidden love.

This meme is for those who would like to play out that, either the darkness or the light - or both.

HOW TO PLAY
-Comment with your character and preferences. Be sure to mention any hard lines you have.
-Comment around to others. PLEASE NOTE THAT IN ORDER TO FACILITATE CROSS-CANON TAGGING, THIS MEME WILL BE CONSIDERED AN AU FAIR GAME ZONE. Feel free to comment in with characters who do not canonically have siblings or comment to people from other fandoms.
-Be respectful of others.
PROMPTS
TRIGGER WARNING )

2cute2function

Mar. 8th, 2026 02:18 pm
[personal profile] eddiestrangerthings posting in [community profile] bakerstreet


CUTENESS RATING
on a scale from 1-10, how cute is your character?

ask the experts. they'll give you a number based on scrutinous standards of vetted cute-science!


DIrty dialogue

Mar. 8th, 2026 07:29 am
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Dirtiest Dialogue


no blank comments. leave a sexy, dirty starter that's the most IC for your character.
→ of course, sexy talk varies, and this is IC, so your mileage may also vary also!
→ earn your tags, baby.

Obsessed

Mar. 8th, 2026 07:28 am
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Love and lust are all very well and good, but this meme is for when that white-hot desire tips into something darker, an all-consuming fire that licks at your every thought, that clenches around your every breath. It may be one-sided or it may be reciprocal, you may be the object or the subject or both simultaneously, but at least one of you is obsessed.

You can think of nothing but them. Your world, your heart, your very existence revolves around them.


Read more... )

sunday texting

Mar. 8th, 2026 12:02 am
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texting meme

You’ve got your TFLN, you’ve got your sexting, now here’s the meme for all those gen texts, phone calls, voicemails, pictures of your cats, and whatever else your little heart can come up with, because who doesn't like a little old-fashioned friendly texting. (Or enemy texting, if that's more your bag.)

instructions: What it says on the tin! Leave a comment with your character, include preferences, a start, absolutely nothing or whatever you want. Run around and reply to others. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Weekly meme round-up: Mar 1 - 7

Mar. 7th, 2026 11:13 pm
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Quick links
Rules || Mod posts || Past round ups || Problems/Concerns ( Alternative )

Mod contact also available at [community profile] bakerstreetmods. Meme posters can tag their own posts. Additional tags can be requested.

For different versions of memes, ie shipping, smut, or gen please space them out by a week (7 days), or more.
To clarify the two week rule: repost dates are counted as fourteen days after the day a meme is posted. The posted day is not counted as part of the two weeks. ie. reposts will generally go up on the same day of the week.
Just a reminder: when linking to a meme hosted off bakerstreet to include the name of the comm explictly in the text of the meme somewhere please.


Please consider using a cut for long posts and sensitive topics.
(Quick how to here)

Comments, corrections, questions, etc welcome. Check the problem thread for meme takedowns/deletions.

When linking off-comm, please remember to state the linked comm's name somewhere in the post.


Timezone check (See the time HERE)


For 2026, the third sundays of the months are:
mar 15, apr 19, may 17, jun 21, jul 19, aug 16, sept 20, oct 18, nov 15, dec 20

TFLN posting time - for the upcoming week (mar 13, 2026) please post the meme in the morning timeslot, comm time.

sunday )

monday )

tuesday )

wednesday )

thursday )

friday )

saturday )

Corrupt

Mar. 7th, 2026 06:22 pm
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Corrupted



There may be a part of all of us that is both drawn towards perfection and slightly unnerved by it. A straight line of items is appealing, yet we could feel more at ease if one thing was to the side just so. If things are already ruined, we don't have to worry about doing it ourselves. But, still, there exists at the core of a good deal of us some kind of primal urge that is very simple: destroy what's perfect. Make it flawed, like us.

This meme takes this dark and fairly insignificant desire and twists it to new extremes, combining it with that other age old dichotomy of virgin/whore. Characters will want to corrupt another character, whether the latter is innocent or stoic and put together. They want to see them turned depraved, into a slut --- yet only addicted and loyal to them.

One concept that is different than other memes, however, is that the character doing the corrupting does not have to be flat out mustache twirling evil. Anyone can want to be the corrupter, from the sweetest to the most rotten, because there are tons of varying interpretations of why they'd want to do it: as a kink, perhaps a mutual one with their lover, just to see if this so-called "perfect" person really is, out of genuine adoration, or even hoping. Of course, they could also just want to watch the world burn...and be mustache twirling evil.

RULES
under here )

Soulmates

Mar. 7th, 2026 06:15 pm
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ULTIMATE SOULMATE AU
● hit 'em with the character, canon name, and preferences.
● others will hit you up with a result from the ultra-deluxe, top-of-the-line soulmate AU prompt generator bible (seriously, there's like 186 individual prompts in there, check that out; there's also gen options for platonic soulmates).
● op, that's your prompt. cry. laugh. feel all your feels.
● Curtain's up, break a leg.
● alternatively, if you want to make it a reverse prompt meme, just put the results you get in your top level! that works.

I want to watch

Mar. 7th, 2026 05:37 pm
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Mutual Masturbation;


Far be it from there being anything wrong with a little self-love, yet the one-handed tango might be even better if it's turned into a dance for two. Who cares that, technically, this is a contradiction? Be that as it may, whether there's willingness to reach out and touch fate each other or this is a strictly hands-off experience and communication can only be verbal for moral, personal, or technical purposes (hey, there are a lot of folks with powers that mean no touching out there), the two of you are indulging in some mutual masturbation. Over the phone, in person, silently, with lots of dirty talk, go nuts!

This totally doesn't count as sex, right?

  • You know what to do.
  • Do it.

smut picture prompts

Mar. 7th, 2026 02:57 pm
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smut 💋 picture prompts
top level & reply to others. be inspired!

link 'em:

embed 'em:

shrink 'em:
〚 ⟶rpsmutgifs. 〛
lackinprivacy.⟵ 〛
〚 ⟶nsfw gif dump. 〛


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praise meme
- comment with your character.
- anyone's free to reply with something positive. a cute nickname, affirmations, encouraging words, love confessions, kind sentiments for strangers, whatever.
- (if you really wanna spice it up, i guess you could drop the cheat code of what your character would like to hear in the top level!)




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Posted by Chas S. Clifton

Two leading scholars of contemporary Paganism will be live on Zoom this weekend: Robin Douglas has a book in press with the Equinox series on Pagan studies: The Pagan Revival A Documentary History of Modern Paganism, 1700-1950.

Sasha Chaitow is also widely published, including in The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies. Lately she has focused on is an independent scholar of Greek cultural history whose work focuses on ancient, Byzantine, and modern traditions. She is the author of Son of Prometheus, a new study of Horapollon’s Hieroglyphica, and forthcoming studies of Byzantine demonology and of living Greek magic.

You can find earlier podcasts in the Coming to the Center series on Cherry Hill’s YouTube channel. This Sunday’s podcast should turn up there later. There is even one of me (looking sleepy out on the front porch) from 2024 and running on about contemporary Paganism.

MDZS, the Brindlewood Version

Mar. 7th, 2026 11:28 am
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I'm writing a Brindlewood Bay adventure based on MDZS/The Untamed.

Or rather, based on one small detail of MDZS/The Untamed, using a modern-AU setting: Investigating the death of Lan Furen. (Adventure title: Lost in the Clouds. Complexity 7. Would be 6, but the death is 30-ish years old, so they're working with some difficulty.)

Brindlewood Bay has a different approach: Instead of "GM decides on the details of the murder and sets a bunch of clues that the players have to find and figure out," the GM sets the location, a list of suspects, a list of clues - and the players then come up with their own idea of who did what. Then they roll. If they roll high enough, they were correct and have solved the murder. (If they roll almost high enough, they were correct but now there is a complication - the murderer is getting away, or attacks them, or someone is in danger because of what they've revealed, etc.)

I don't have to decide what happened to Lan Furen to have it as the base of a murder mystery here. I just have to figure out who might've been involved, invent some clues, and throw them at the players.

It's been more difficult than I thought. )

Intimate

Mar. 7th, 2026 10:18 am
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The Intimacy Meme

Intimacy is NOT necessarily about sexual contact. Intimacy is all about two people forming a connection and bond between them. That involves becoming best friends, trusting each other, knowing each other, understanding each other. Intimacy is grown and developed, it can't be rushed.

RULES
  • Comment with your character. Be sure to include preferences (ie, f/f for shipping, OTA for gen, etc)
  • Tag others!

PROMPTS
prompts under here )
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Posted by Dan Holloway

A short while ago, I reported on Audible's new immersion reading initiative. Subsequent to that, Publishing Perspectives had an expansion on the subject that makes it worthy of a revisit. You will recall that Audible now allows people who own e-books and audiobooks of the same title to read and listen at the same time, with features such as highlighting the text of the word currently being narrated.

The post News Summary: Audible Reports Strong Retention with Immersion Reading; Authors Guild Expands Human Authored Certification appeared first on The Self-Publishing Advice Center.

Bubble bubble text and trouble

Mar. 7th, 2026 09:13 am
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flirty text starters


how to play
- top level with your prefs + etc.
- another character texts yours with one of the below starters (or one of their own!)
Read more... )

March Archive Offer

Mar. 7th, 2026 11:17 am
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Posted by The Dark Mountain Project

In this collection we continue to hold open a space for stories that speak to the reality of being human in these strange times, for art and writing that helps us mourn for all that is being lost, to listen to the quiet voices of particular places.

That might answer the book’s core questions: How can we live? What can be saved? What beauty and life might yet grow from the fallen trunk of this civilisation?

In these pages, you will hear of how rivers can be helped to run again and hearts helped to heal; landscapes rewilded and broken bowls mended. You can witness the regenerative power in an abused piece of ex-industrial ground and the resilience of the human spirit in times of flood, war or sickness; testimonies from Iraqi marshes, Munich parks, Canadian forests and Japanese dormitories; and tales of rebellious communities, revivifying storms and rejuvenated pigs. You can follow the peregrinations of ancient peoples as they sought refuge and revelation, and to take an astronomical perspective on our small world’s happenings.

Restoration has its roots in humbleness, in the ability to attend to the reality of these times; so that we might see opportunity within the crises that are unfolding; to tend the much-abused garden of our world back towards health and wholeness, alert to the realisation that what we had dismissed as weeds were actually the first shoots of new growth.

You can order your copy of this limited edition here

Into the Forest by Sarah Misselbrook
Adam and Eve in the Iraq Marshes by Meridel Rubenstein

 

The post March Archive Offer appeared first on Dark Mountain.

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It was a mistake for Thaddeus to trust Titus, but for Anne whether or not she should was a much more complicated question. Walking away wasn't an option, even if she did have the time, after what happened before.
 
 
 
 


 
 
 
 


 
 
 
 


 
 

Interrogation

Mar. 6th, 2026 07:08 pm
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the shippy & smutty questions meme: consoldiated


It's a question meme about love and relationships (and sex). Self-explanatory, right?

Rules:

Comment with your character. If your character is underage, not sexually active, or you are simply uninterested in smut or uncomfortable with those questions, feel free to opt out! Respect preferences.
Tag other characters with questions from the list you want them to answer.
 
Answer your own questions!
That's it.
Ship questions )

SMUT QUESTIONS )




smutty dares

Mar. 6th, 2026 06:24 pm
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THE SMUTTY ANON DARE MEME




♉ You know the drill. Post your characters, any preferences on gender, age, and anything else relevant. A kink list is highly recommend.

♍ Look for others to anonymously dare to perform a kink and tell them who to perform it with! This can be as general or specific as you please!

♓ Play those puppies out, and make sure to do your own dares!

♒ Keep in mind that no one is obligated to carry out any kink requests or play out any threads! If someone says no or doesn't reply, please respect their wishes!

by the narrative?

Mar. 6th, 2026 09:00 am
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Doomed
Isn’t something all the sweeter, the more tantalizing and painful, when we know it’s never meant to last?

Love is the same. Its beauty is because it’s finite by human nature, not despite that.

We can never last. We can never love each other in the exact same way as we did yesterday. Yesterday is gone.

We can’t hold it in our arms again. Soon, all we’ll have of that time is memory.

Let’s make our bonds worth remembering.

how to play
  • For those of us who crave playing out the end of a relationship, no matter how bad or bloody.
  • Give comments.
  • Get comments.


prompts
One half (or both) of the pairing:
tw for violence, death, sickness, war, kidnapping, etc. )
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Posted by Dan Holloway

On this episode of the Self-Publishing with ALLi podcast, Dan Holloway previews the upcoming London Book Fair and highlights the launch of ALLi’s new Indie Author Bookstore, a showcase for books by ALLi members. He also reports on plans for Barnes & Noble and Waterstones to return to public markets, Spotify’s introduction of audiobook charts to boost discovery, the continuing decline of mass market paperbacks, and new data showing podcasts overtaking talk radio in the United States.

The post News Podcast: ALLi Launches Indie Author Bookstore; Barnes & Noble and Waterstones Prepare Stock Market Return appeared first on The Self-Publishing Advice Center.

Please won't you be my...

Mar. 6th, 2026 06:13 am
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Neighbors Meme



You're just going about your day and you hear a knock at the door.

  1. Anybody can be neighbors here!

  2. Post with your character, canon and any necessary prefs or info

  3. Pick a prompt! Top Level starters encouraged but not required! Alternately, what's your character doing before being interrupted and answering the door? Specify if you're okay with assumed CR (A neighbor you already know!) or not (A neighbor you've just met!)

  4. Players who comment are neighbors dropping in for...some reason or another! Are they expected or not? Need a cup of sugar? Just there to be annoying?

  5. Thread away!



”prompts” )

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