#Indiana hobby farm

[spidertalia]

Tell me whatever you want about Missouri! :)

ooh okay ! he is actually the most recent state to be designed so good timing dfghj

his human name is louis twain- after st louis and of course, that good ol' mark twain. he stands at 5'9 or 176 cm, and has dirty blond hair and hazel eyes.

he's the younger brother of illinois and indiana, and older brother of iowa. he's physically 21 and is in the older half of the states.

his main hobbies are farming, baseball and floating (going down a river in an inner tube). he likes ragtime music, frog gigging, blues music, hosting bonfires, budweiser beer, BBQ, pizza, deep fried ravioli, dinner rolls, caving and playing cornhole.

he's generally laid back, friendly, polite, hospitable, generous, relaxed, cheerful, sociable and talkative. however, he is the type of person to start a long conversation with a total stranger and even invite them to dinner. he's insanely friendly and has an easy time making friends. however, he doesn't like making a fuss out of anything and dislikes drama in general. he's used to crazy weather and, like wisconsin, is very weak to spices and spicy food. outside of english and his native languages, he speaks spanish, french and german fluently.

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[dollycas]

Cozy Wednesday featuring Four Leaf Cleaver (A Country Store Mystery) by Maddie Day #Review / #Giveaway @maddiedayauthor @KensingtonBooks

Welcome to Cozy Wednesday!  I am delighted to share my thoughts about Four Leaf Cleaver today!

Four Leaf Cleaver (A Country Store Mystery) Cozy Mystery 11th in Series Setting - Indiana Kensington Cozies (January 24, 2023) Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 149673565X ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1496735652 Kindle ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B17HL15D

The eleventh installment in Maddie Day’s deliciously popular Country Store cozy mysteries . . . It’s Saint Patrick’s Day in South Lick, Indiana, but a holiday cooking competition at Robbie Jordan’s country store and restaurant Pans ’N Pancakes is put on the back burner when a killer strikes. There’s no mistaking Saint Patrick’s Day at Pans ’N Pancakes. Robbie may only be Irish by marriage to Abe O’Neill, but the shelves of vintage cookware in her southern Indiana store are draped with glittery shamrocks and Kelly-green garlands and her restaurant is serving shepherd’s pie and Guinness Beer brownies. The big event, however, is a televised cooking competition to be filmed on-site. Unfortunately, someone’s luck has run out. Before the cameras start rolling, tough-as-nails producer Tara O’Hara Moore is found upstairs in her B&B room, bludgeoned apparently by the heavy hilt of a cleaver left by her side. Now, not only does Robbie have a store full of festive decorations, she’s got a store full of suspects . . . Includes Recipes for You to Try! Dollycas's Thoughts Robbie Jordan is feeling pretty lucky. She has married her favorite Irishman Abe O'Neill and gets along very well with his teenage son, Sean. Her Pans ’N Pancakes Country Store and Restaurant is all decked out for the holidays and serving Irish fare. Plus her place has been chosen to host a St. Patty's Day themed cooking competition. The production staff and the show's host arrive to get things ready to start filming the next day. The sponsor stops by to drop off the ingredient every dish must contain. A contestant even comes in to get the lay of the land. Robbie is excited and hopes the event will go off without a hitch and bring some publicity to her restaurant and store. Sadly, as people start to arrive to tape the show, host Tara O’Hara Moore is missing. She is not answering calls or texts. She had booked a room at the B&B upstairs so Robbie goes to check on her guest. She finds Ms. O'Hara Moore dead and a huge cleaver on the floor. The woman has clearly been hit several times probably by the cleaver. Robbie is thankful the killer didn't use the cleaver as intended but is very upset that she was killed and in one of her rooms no less. It is always fun to drop in for a visit with Robbie and the gang in South Lick, Indiana. Pans ’N Pancakes is the place to be to catch up with town gossip and old friends. All of Ms. Day's characters are well-developed and continue to evolve in each new story. Many of Robbie's friends are expecting and she and Abe are trying to add their own little bundle to the family. Sean is a wonderful stepson, learning to drive and even helping Robbie with a little internet sleuthing. I love the way these relationships are growing. Danna is having some romance issues and Turner is busy helping his family make maple syrup on their farm after he ends his day at the store but both are perfect employees, they support each other and Robbie and come up with some great ideas for specials. Buck and Oscar work together to catch the killer and both are happy when Robbie adds her two cents. Oscar has some fun news of his own. We are introduced to several new characters in the show's production staff, contestants, and sponsor. A couple of other people drop in at Pans ’N Pancakes too.  They are all cleaver-ly created and many are suspects. One has an interesting hobby and a family dilemma. Most are hiding something or full of blarney. One of them just has to be guilty. The mystery the author puts forth was pretty complicated and between Robbie and the professionals they were getting close. Then Robbie found herself in a pickle and I was kicking myself because I had gone in a different and very wrong direction in my personal investigation instead of going with my gut. I do enjoy the way Ms. Day entangles her subplots and the murder mystery and this time that must have gotten me a bit distracted. LOL Being set in a restaurant food is always on the table and tickling my taste buds. I was thrilled to see the recipe for Phil's Stout and Cheese Biscuits. I have copied it down and handed it off to my personal chef, also known as my husband. I hope he is able to whip some up soon. Four Leaf Cleaver was filled with the family and friends moments I love all twisted up with a complex mystery that was truly entertaining. The conclusion of the story put into print what we all knew and made me even more excited than I usually am for the next book in this series and I am always excited when Maddie Day has something in the works. Thank you, Maddie, for another Perfect Escape. Until next time . . .

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Maddie Day is a talented amateur chef and holds a PhD in linguistics from Indiana University. An Agatha Award-winning author, she is a member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America. She lives with her beau and an energetic kitten north of Boston As Edith Maxwell, she writes the Local Foods Mysteries (Kensington Publishing) and the Quaker Midwife Mysteries (Midnight Ink), as well as writes award-winning short crime fiction. You can find all Maddie’s/Edith’s identities at www.edithmaxwell.com. She blogs every weekday with the other Wicked Cozy Authors at wickedcozyauthors.com. Look for her as Edith M. Maxwell and Maddie Day on Facebook and @edithmaxwell and @maddiedayauthor on Twitter.

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Erika Ruth Lane

FC: Indiana Evans

Fic Title: TBD

Nickname(s): Rikki, Pogue Princess, Riri

Sexuality: Demi

Pronouns: She/her

Career: HS student, Waitress

Birthday: February 4, 2003

Height: 5'5

Hair color: Blonde

Eye color: Blue

Place of Birth: Wilmington, NC

Hobbies: Volleyball, dancing, fishing

Likes: Surfing, swimming, sunsets, photography, boats, French fries, bikes, sea turtles, fishing, bonfires

Dislikes: Entitled people, country clubs, the Kook Academy, dresses, being called Erika, hurricanes, Luke Maybank, sunburn, jellyfish, bologna

Favorite Bands: Alanis Morissette, Billie Eilish, Maroon 5

Physical Quirks/Scars: Near sighted (wears contacts), j shaped birthmark below her right ear

Family: Trout Lane (father), Valerie Lane (mother), Izzy Lane (sister -3 years)

Honorary family: John B. Routledge, Kie Carrera, Pope Heyward

Friends: John B, Pope, Kie, Sarah Cameron, Scarlet

Love interest: JJ Maybank

Optimistic or pessimistic: Optimistic

Introvert or extrovert: Introvert

Extracurriculars: Yearbook, Volleyball team (Center), Waitress at The Wreck

Favorite Animal: Seahorse

Favorite color: Lavender

Favorite book: Animal Farm

Favorite food: Shrimp scampi

Favorite movie/ tv show: (m): Captain America: The Winter Soldier

(s): Orange is the New Black

Background: Mom was a Kook. Dad was a Pogue. Can I make it any more obvious? The richest girl on Figure Eight fell for the biggest disaster on the Cut. They bought a house right on the line between the two and swore they would give their kids everything they needed to succeed in life. Unfortunately, their oldest, Erika, had no desire to be a Kook. Rather than attend etiquette lessons at the club, she'd rather spend her days roaming the Cut, which is how eight-year-old John B. Routledge ended up hitting her with his bike. From then on, they were thick as thieves. Erika, now Rikki, became the ideal Pogue Princess. Whether she's surfing with a huge swell with John B and Pope, dancing at a Boneyard kegger with Kie, or smoking on the HMS Pogue with JJ, you can guarantee Rikki Lane is having a good time. When her best friend uncovers a mystery that turns their world on its head, suddenly Rikki is forced to play the peacekeeper between the Pogue life she chose and the Kook life she ran from. Hopefully, this princess can take the pressure.

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[maryellencarter]

Writerly ephemera meme, also from @thisbluespirit .

"Find five bits of yourself that you gave to your fiction (memories and places and phrases and things into our stories), post and tag five or more writers to share as well."

Hm. I think the tricky part with this would be figuring out what's actually posted. Maybe rather than trying to quote specific stories, I might try it this way:

My Wes characterization is very solidly grounded in canon -- I spent a year and change playing him in a D&D campaign, and between my detail-oriented memory and the quick-access requirements of D&D turn order, I'll have moments during writing where I'll know first that something just *feels* wrong for Wes and find the canon support surfacing for it afterwards. (There was a point, this one's not published yet, but @camshaft22 's Hobbie was trying to leave a room last for character reasons, and I was like "Nope, when there's a threat behind them, Wes is the last one out". Couldn't have pointed you to the reasons I knew that right away, but they were there. We did eventually come up with an arrangement that worked for both characters.)

Um, as I was saying. Despite all that -- there are definitely also points where I've given Wes a lot of myself. (1) I tend to write him as more or less autistic, for one thing. Canon!Wes can be argued to be ADHD, though even a lot of that is fanon (he's not the fidgety one in the Wraiths for example, that's Shalla), but autism is probably a harder sell. But he's my emotional support character and I can do what I want. XD

(1.1) I'm not even counting the ways his PTSD matches mine. That's just canon, and a large part of *why* he's my emotional support character.

(1.2) I'm also not counting writing him as more or less aromantic, because you can really solidly defend that from canon. Which, of all the fictionary characters I've ever run into (excluding the ones written by out aros as explicit aro rep), is a thing I can only say about Wes Janson and Sherlock Holmes. I still really don't know what to do with that information.

(2) I was going somewhere with that. Taanab, I think is where. All we really know about Taanab is that it's an agriworld, and that one reference book claims it has a 46-hour day. I choose to ignore the 46-hour day, because circadian rhythms are not that easily fucked with, as I know to my detriment. However, I put a lot of my Indiana farmland childhood into Taanab when I have occasion to write about it. Again, not a lot's published yet, not least because I've never decided whether to give Wes a heaping helping of my childhood trauma or the childhood I wish I'd had instead, but there's a pretty consistent setting where Wes and Hobbie retire to a farm on Taanab that Wes happens to have inherited from somebody, and that farm is usually based on two or three friends' farms I used to know. Haven't been back in coming on a decade, but *taps head*.

(3) I can kiiiind of defend this one from canon, but I usually give Wes a memory like mine, too. It's just easier. We're not quite on par with Winter, but I mean, he can give Wedge a rundown on Ejector Darpen some thirteen to fifteen years after the last time he ever saw the guy. Now we do know Darpen was with the Aces long enough to remember him too, but Wes Janson is what you might call memorable. Anyway, point is, we don't know for sure, but the way I headcanon it, if you asked him about anyone else he spent a similar length of time around, Wes could give you just as good a briefing. Doesn't necessarily follow their careers, because that just gets fucking depressing when you're talking Rebels, but say he happened to run into one of the nurses from the Yavin sickbay, he could totally be like "hey Hobbs, look who it is!" and so forth. (I do not give him my prosopagnosia.)

(4) Something I haven't given him but I *could*, if I really wanted to dick with him: I used to be a really damn good marksman. Soccer, volleyball, you name it, if I had enough practice I could place a shot anywhere I wanted. Then for some reason, I've literally never found out why, my dominant eye switched. I used to be left-eyed, now I'm right-eyed. And that three-inch difference is enough that I now *suck* at every sport that requires aiming. Granted I haven't had much chance to try to relearn, but the attempts I have made have been fairly disastrous.

(Free plotbunny if anyone wants it, that one. I'm not really in a mood to write angst, especially something like that which would have to be either magically cured or a really long haul of being off duty and unable to fly or shoot.)

(5) There's no actual canon for this before SoA, but I like to give Wes a little bit of my crappy knees and back when I can get away with it. Misery loves company. XD

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Casey Affleck Gets Philosophical About Life, Time & The Whole Damn Thing

“Time,” reflects Casey Affleck, “is something I have been thinking about lately. It is ironic how the older you get, the better you are at being patient. With less time left, people become better at waiting. But this year, I feel much older and a lot less patient. I guess you’ve got to accept that time is never wasted? That doing is no different than not doing? That you can’t kill time no matter what you do, and that no matter what you do you can’t prevent the opposite from happening either? I don’t know. It’s a double-edged sword.”

It’s a Wednesday afternoon in early January, and Affleck and I are doing the Zoom thing, ostensibly to discuss his two new movies, the recently released indie Our Friend and the upcoming 19th-century period drama The World to Come. Yet our virtual tête-à-tête has become far more interesting, jumping wildly from his love of trains and travel to weightier topics like family, the future and the search for something more, something meaningful.

“I like the idea that time is an illusion. That past, present and future are all happening at once. I like it even though I can’t totally get my head around it. But either way, the me in the mirror gets older every day.”

Like most of us, he’s not only had plenty of time on his hands in recent months, housebound in L.A., but he’s tried to use his downtime wisely. “I tried to use this year of quarantine constructively,” the 45-year-old Oscar winner says. “I tried to see it as a winter season for shutting down and restoring something inside, but I just couldn’t. I’m not that evolved, I guess. I didn’t take up a new hobby or learn an instrument or get better at ‘self-care.’ If anything, I let my better habits and routines fall off. It was all I could do to keep my head above water and help buoy my friends and children when I could.”

As a guy with two teenagers at home — Indiana, 16, and Atticus, 13 — it hasn’t been easy, but he’s doing his best. He tried taking his sons on their annual camping road trip over the summer, but it was short-lived. Instead, he’s been focusing on making a happy home. “My kids don’t get to see their friends a lot, so I’m doing a lot more stuff with them, coming up with activities for the three of us, which they mostly hate, and I mostly let drop. And then I try again with the same outcome 90 percent of the time.”

While trying to create innovative plans to sustain his boys, he came up with one he thought might do some good, too. In June, he launched Stories from Tomorrow, a social-media initiative focused on creative writing by kids.

“At the beginning of all this last March, the first thing that occurred to me was that the quarantine would have a big impact on young people’s emotional well-being — the disruption they’re going to feel is really going to affect their mental health more than anyone else,” he says. “When I would sit down to write creatively, I felt better. But I couldn’t get my sons to journal or do creative writing much. I didn’t want to twist their arms about it. So I was like, ‘I’ll make a social media platform that inspires young people to write creatively, because it is such a good way of working out difficult feelings. And the way I will do that is have well-known people read the kids’ writing publicly.’ I knew that hearing your own writing read was exciting. I thought it would be really inspiring, that creative writing would be a great outlet for kids stuck at home.”

He enlisted some of the biggest names in Hollywood, including Robert Redford, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Jon Hamm, Matthew Broderick, Kyle Chandler and Danny Glover, as well as two current costars, Vanessa Kirby and Jason Segel, and arranged for donations made through the program to go to children’s hunger nonprofit Feeding America and Room to Read, which supports female education. He reached out to schools in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Haiti, hoping to create a global community.

Affleck was excited to make progress, to have done some good, but the initiative didn’t take off as planned. “In the end, an Instagram account for creative writing by tweens just couldn’t possibly compete with the quintillion bytes of daily data generated online. I don’t know. But I tried! And anyway, since then lots of other organizations started doing basically the same thing, and they are more organized than I am, and they have done a better job. So be it.”

Yet, adults have been disrupted, too, including Affleck himself, who is aware that, relatively speaking, he has gotten through mostly unscathed. “Am I happy? I mean, I’m relatively okay. It’s been a hard time to find balance and to keep it. I would say it’s been a hard time in my life, but I know that it’s been harder for other folks. So far we haven’t lost anyone, and we haven’t lost our house. And I rediscovered that when you’re feeling bad, there’s nothing better to do than to try to help other people. Being of service not only helps others but is a great way of getting outside of yourself. Also — and I really believe this — I think this time will be remembered as one when our country made leaps and bounds in the right direction; we are changing and growing and it’s uncomfortable, but we will be much, much better. I wish I could see the next couple hundred years. It’s going to be amazing.”

At the end of the day, it’s family that’s keeping him going. “Having my kids around and being able to spend so much time with them has been amazing. It is the brightest silver lining in all of this. They are what gives me the most joy. They are funny and smart and interesting and interested. They are just the best company ever,” he says. “Anytime I try to parent out some ‘teaching moment,’ I find they are two steps ahead. They help me make sense of stuff just as much I help them, if not more. I don’t have any answers, but batting the questions around, back and forth, is a good way of coping.”

CALEB CASEY MCGUIRE AFFLECK-BOLDT feels he is luckier than most. Although he and many of his peers have gone jobless for a full year, he spent 2019 working hard. He had not one but three films done and dusted prior to the start of the pandemic; the last one wrapped a week before mandatory quarantine. Two of these have back-to-back release dates: the tearjerker indie Our Friend came out in January, and sweeping period drama The World to Come will be released February 12. Thriller Every Breath You Take is slated for later this year. “I am so, so, so glad I spent 2019 working that much. It is what kept us afloat all through 2020,” he says.

The films themselves are radically different, but there are a few common threads. In both of his winter releases, Affleck plays a man who has lost a family member and whose marriage is in shambles. In both, he is a man in pain.

In the LGBTQ masterpiece The World to Come, which revolves around the love that blossoms between two married women on the mid-19th-century American frontier, his character, Dyer, says very little but manages to convey a wealth of emotion with his eyes alone. He may seem stoic, but he is suffering.

“The World to Come is a story about a couple who have lost a baby. They’re dealing with the grief in totally different ways and having a very hard time coming together again,” he explains. “My character wants to heal that by having another, but his wife [played by Katherine Waterson] is coping in a different way. She is severing all emotional attachment to him because it triggers more and more grief. She [only] seems to come alive when she is with their neighbor, a woman on the next farm [played by Vanessa Kirby]. He wants his wife happy, but he also would like her to love him. To me, this is the story of how couples can have their relationship shattered by a sudden loss. And it’s definitely a beautiful story about two women who feel that they have to hide their love and find the courage to love each other anyway.”

Affleck likes layers. He himself has many, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that he’s drawn to roles written as fully formed characters, not caricatures. With Dyer, that’s abundantly clear. “Crisis is fun to play, [and Dyer] is in an interesting crisis,” he says. “I think he’s a really good person — a really decent, solid, loving person — which is what I loved so much about playing him and what I love so much about the writing. It’s more interesting when there’s no bad guy, just a conflict of circumstances and feelings that get so complicated that it drives two people apart.”

In Our Friend, a different set of circumstances drives the leads apart. Affleck and Dakota Johnson take on the true story of Matthew and Nicole Teague, whose imperfect marriage was strained by his long absences and her affair, neither of which seem at all important when she’s diagnosed with terminal cancer.

“To me, Our Friend is really a story about how petty grievances between people can divide them and then be forgotten when a gigantic tragedy is dropped in their laps. [Matthew] was wronged, it’s true — his wife cheated on him. On the other hand, he wronged her in a bunch of ways; [they] were just more passive and not quite so salacious. He wasn’t around. Matt got to be a dad and he got to travel the world as a journalist. He left her to take care of the kids. She wanted to have a life too, she had dreams of her own — she wanted to be a singer, she wanted to work — but she didn’t get to do that. She just got to be a mom. She was left holding the bag, and it wasn’t fair.”

He spent a fair amount of time immersing himself in the journalist’s life while filming in Fairhope, Ala., in 2019. (The film’s title is taken from Teague’s award-winning Esquire essay, “The Friend: Love Is Not a Big Enough Word.” The friend in question — played by Jason Segel — is a man who puts his life on hold to help the family during their darkest days.) But he did not become Matt Teague, which is an important distinction. “[Director] Gabriella Cowperthwaite asked that we not portray the personality traits of the real people. No accents, no mannerisms. [But] I did steal his style, because I had never seen someone nail the dad look any better than Matt. I say that with affection.”

As for the dreams Nicole gave up for her family, Affleck says, “If you were to ask Matt, I’m sure he would acknowledge that he was neglecting his role. He was neglecting her dreams, and that is a part of marriage, supporting what the other person wants. Like all relationships, it was complicated.”

Like life itself, really. This is why he can identify with both sides. He understands Nicole’s pain about the deference of her dreams as well as Matt’s desire to escape through travel — especially now, when Affleck himself has been completely grounded. Since the age of 17 he’s taken 20 cross-country road trips. His love of driving is secondary only to his enthusiasm for trains: Amtrak is his jam. He even fantasizes about owning his own train car one day.

Immersing himself in each location — whether it’s the sleepy Alabama town of Fairhope or the more exotic locale of Romania, which served as a stand-in for the East Coast of the U.S. in The World to Come — is actually one of the most desirable parts of the acting life, he says. “One of the things I love about working as an actor is that you go to some brand-new place and the community invites you in in a way that they don’t usually if you’re a tourist,” he confides. “You get to see what it’s like to really be there and imagine yourself living there.”

And he has — over the past ten years he’s spent so much time in cities including his hometown of Boston; Vancouver, British Columbia, the location of Light of My Life; Atlanta, where he shot the 2016 action flick Triple 9; Argentina, where he made Gerry; Dallas, for A Ghost Story; Calgary, Alberta, where much of the epic western The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford was filmed; Our Friend’s Fairhope set; Cincinnati, for The Old Man and the Gun; and Braddock, Pa., where he filmed the 2013 drama Out of the Furnace. “I have loved moving in and settling down and living a character’s life and then moving on. But I feel most at home in places that are struggling to get by. It reminds me of the neighborhood I grew up in. I feel lighter in those places, more relaxed. I feel like myself. I fit in.”

For him, the where is almost as important as the who — immersing himself in the place is imperative to understanding his character. This is part of what makes him such an accomplished actor — he and most of the parts he plays merge. I draw a crappy analogy about how the characters are like a coat, which he very obligingly works with. “You have to build the coat from all of the scraps and pieces of yourself; all these characters are made up of little pieces of me,” he says, noting, “Obviously, sometimes they can’t be. Sometimes I have no connection whatsoever, and those are the jobs I look back on and I either feel nothing for, or worse. But sometimes you have to take the job that is available, like most people in the world. You know? I don’t think my dad wanted to be a janitor. But he did it.”

He’s won an Oscar, a BAFTA, a Critics’ Choice Award, a Golden Globe and an Independent Spirit Award, among others, and appeared in films that run the gamut from box-office juggernauts like the Ocean’s 11 franchise and Tower Heist to indie darlings like brother Ben’s directorial debut Gone Baby Gone and Manchester by the Sea. He has even written and directed, most recently 2019’s Light of My Life, a bizarrely prescient movie about raising children in a pandemic. At this point in his career, he should have his pick of parts. “Not really,” he says. “There are a lot of people out there who have done good work, who are driven, and who have something to share. I have never been someone studios embraced as a ‘movie star,’ never knighted. I have always had to fight for the parts I have gotten. And you know what? That’s fine. Let me fight. It’s how I cut my teeth, and it is how I will keep them sharp. You can’t ask for more than a chance to be in the ring. Also, movies and TV aren’t all I care about. Sometimes I think, ‘Well, jeez, I have to work, and there are two jobs available to me, and the one that isn’t as good is the one that is close to home and I can see the kids, so I guess I am doing that.’ I love movies and really try hard to make them good. I really bust my ass every day when I get the chance to make one. I care more about my family than any movie. It’s not [always] the job I love, but this is the reality of my life. But maybe life will be long enough for a few more chapters.

The forward momentum of his future is an interesting topic. At the moment, he isn’t so much planning for the future as he is exploring it, because Affleck is not someone who likes to live with regret.

“I guess [at the end of the day], regret should be reframed as a reminder to be different,” he observes. And so, with this in mind, he embarked on a personal journey several years ago and decided to go back to college (at the Simon Fraser University in British Columbia). He had completed two years at Columbia University, but he never graduated — his film career kept getting in the way.

“I went back to school because I hadn’t finished, and I wanted to think about new things in a way that school can help you do,” he says. “I couldn’t go in person, so I found a strong online school and got started. You know, I’m 45, and I just thought, ’This is halftime. This is where you hit the locker room and think about how you want the rest of the game to go.’ You know what I mean? Like, ‘Okay, we went out, we played our best, we didn’t know what the other team was going to be like, we made some mistakes, we are in the game, so let’s adjust like this.’ Also, I’m not sure I want to be an actor forever. I had made a small pivot from acting into directing, and into producing more. And I like to direct movies. The most satisfying creative experience I’ve had in a long time was being a director. But ultimately it wasn’t quite enough. So I wanted to go study some of the things I was interested in. I wanted to do more with my life.”

Although he needed general credits to graduate, he found an unexpected passion for juvenile justice along the way, with a particular focus on alternative accountability programs. “I don’t know where this will lead me, or why I am so interested in it, but finding and implementing better systems for addressing harm and conflict among kids, adults too, but mostly young people, is something I care about. And the work that I have done so far has been fascinating and deeply rewarding.”

When I ask if this stems from his own experiences as a troubled kid growing up in Cambridge, Mass., with Christine, a single mom — his parents divorced when he was 9; his father, Timothy, an alcoholic tradesman, checked into a rehab facility in Indio, Calif., when Affleck was just 14 — he muses thoughtfully, “I love my parents and think they both did the very best they could and cared a lot. Period. Did I get into some trouble as a teenager? I got into some trouble when I was a kid, and I struggled a lot through high school with depression and substances, yes. Much of it I didn’t even know wasn’t normal. I don’t know if I was ‘troubled.’ Either way, as an adult, I’ve come to see that, regardless of how I compare to anyone else, I want less conflict in my life. That might be part of the reason why I’ve been so interested in learning about better ways of resolving conflicts, both with children and with grown-ups. It isn’t something they teach in school for some reason. Man, there is a lot they don’t teach you in school, huh? A lot you’ve got to learn on your own.”

And on this journey, mistakes will be made. That’s par for the course, and Affleck is no exception. “I have made so many mistakes, but life is the time for mistakes. I do believe people should hold themselves accountable and repair harm they have caused. That is important to me, and I try hard to do that whenever it is called for: apologize for mistakes and repair them,” he admits.

This is when our conversation, as such conversations are wont to do, comes full circle. Before we say goodbye, Affleck remarks, “You know, I heard Bono talking on Howard Stern’s show, and he said something about Frank Sinatra that was interesting. He said that he heard two versions of Frank singing ‘My Way.’ One version was recorded when Frank was young, and the other version was recorded when Frank was old. Each had the exact same words, same arrangement, same everything. But when Frank was young the line ‘I did it my way’ sounded proud, and when Frank was old it sounded humble. Whatever else time does to a person, I think it also does that.”

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Five Top 4's

I was asked by a friend to share some of my favorite media, so this post is a list of my personal favorite Books, Video Games, Board Games, Movies, and etc. Perhaps this will give you some insight into my creative tendencies, or perhaps it will just be a good opportunity for you to comment and agree/disagree/discuss with me!

Originally this was going to be a top 5 list, but I found myself with 4 obvious answers, and struggling to name a fifth in each category. So I just made it top 4—if it didn’t come to mind immediately, then it doesn’t really deserve that recognition, after all. Without further ado, here goes!

Top 4 Books

Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures - I love all of Walter Moers’ books, and if you haven’t read this author’s work before, you’re really missing out. The Zamonia series builds a wonderland-like world where whimsical species live in harmony with one another.

Good to Great - My favorite business manual. Good to Great showcases what specific elements of leadership, discipline, focus, and culture contribute to success. It’s something I’ve worked tirelessly to replicate in the offices of Level 99 Games.

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius - One of the most influential philosophy books for me, the Meditations is a classic that instructs the reader in a calm, measured approach to life and its challenges. Much of the book deals with overcoming fear and the internal challenges that are formative to us all in growing up.

Blazing Aces: A Fistful of Family Card Games - Perhaps the best game-related book I own. Reiner Knizia turns a standard deck of playing cards on its head and uses it to play 15 stunningly original games, all based around the evaluation of Poker hands. If you want to see a real master of the game design genre at work, this is the book to get.

Top 4 Board Games

Libertalia - This game is an incredible feat of design, and it combines the simultaneous selection of games like BattleCON and Exceed with a clean resolution system and mechanics that make it appropriate for up to 6 players. The style of the game is excellent, and the mechanics lead to interesting, loaded choices every single turn. This is one game I always want to show my friends, and its something that I would recommend to players of any skill level.

Magical Athlete - Magical Athlete is not at all what we would define as a “modern” game. However, I never fail to have fun with friends when I pull this out and bring it to the table. I keep a copy in the office to remind myself that it’s important not to get too caught up on high-concept mechanics and high-budget art—all this is merely in service to fun, which can be achieved just as easily with simple mechanics and whimsical gameplay.

Dominion - Dominion is one of the most influential board games on my own personal style, and is the game that, to me, signals the temporal and stylistic break between the classic hobby games and modern ones. The incredible amount of modular content generated by shifting setups inspired the many variables present in games like BattleCON and Exceed.

Unlock Adventures - Evocative and interesting without being overwrought, Space Cowboy’s Unlock Adventure series is just the right size for a game you can only play once. I’ve got the whole collection, and eagerly watch for any new ones that drop. I love playing these with my wife and with friends, and they take only a few minutes to teach with the built-in tutorial.

Top 4 Music Artists

Scooter - Spotify tells me that Scooter is my most-listened-to artist of 2019, and a few past years to. I really enjoy the personality and character of these tracks—a Scooter album is always a bit more than an ordinary techno/trance album. 

Masterplan - Classic Power Metal. I enjoy their work just a little bit better than Symphony X, Jag Panzer, and Helloween. The characters presented in the songs are a bit more interesting, and songs have a kind of progression of story that you don’t see in a lot of other outfits.

Avantasia - I’m a huge fan of Tobias Sammet’s Edguy, which is more of a traditional Power Metal outfit. Avantasia’s tunes are more orchestral and fall squarely into the Fantasy Metal genre. I love the long epics such as “Raven Child” and “The Scarecrow.”

Electric Six - Electric Six is somewhere between comedy and irony. I enjoy the catchy lyrics and tunes, with some tracks being quite nuanced, others being pure nonsense, and some simply self-aware schlock peddled for laughs.

Top 4 Video Games

Legend of Mana - A game that I’ve idolized since I first played it nearly two decades ago. There’s so much happening in this game, and so many different systems—magic, crafting, golem making, farming, music—that all feel like they fit seamlessly into the universe. On top of that, I love the world with its fantastic races. Far more than a typical “fantasy world” with a bunch of human-like peoples, Legend of Mana presents a wonderland of mythological creatures, animated objects, and talking animals as its cast.

Crono Trigger - While many games have come after it, Crono Trigger still holds a special place. It takes an incredible feat of writing to make such a well-interlaced and cohesive series of parallel worlds. I still hum the tunes from its soundtrack to this day, and the game’s most memorable moments have inspired hundreds of later games. I also enjoyed Crono Cross. I don’t care what you think.

Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky - I’ve played a large number of the games in the Atelier series. I love the aesthetics of it, and I really enjoy the puzzle of making items. I’m one of those people who plays an MMO just for the gathering and crafting systems. If you’re anything like me, you’ll likely enjoy this series. Escha & Logy has a great balance of combat and crafting, and is an excellent entry point to the series.

Danganronpa - Say what you like about it, this dark, closed-room mystery series defines the visual novel genre for me. Danganronpa’s cast and situations are wild, but it really draws you in. It has a great pacing and character development that will make you love or hate every member of the cast individually, and the mysteries always take a surprising turn.

Top 4 Movies

The Lighthouse - My favorite film of 2019. Masterful film work and character acting make this CGI-free Black & White picture a modern masterpiece of suspenseful storytelling. The Lighthouse establishes Robert Eggers as the true modern successor to Hitchcock.

Wild Tales - It’s impossible to sum up this movie in just a short paragraph, so go watch it instead. This is a vignette film about revenge and human emotion, and the lengths we will go to settle the score against perceived injustice. It’s also just fun.

The Rocketeer - Between a beautiful soundtrack, high adventure in the early age of aviation, and memorable villains, there’s a lot to love in this classic. Even more than Indiana Jones, I consider this to be the quintessential pulp-action film.

Tampopo - A classic Japanese film that remains interesting time and again. Like Wild Tales, this is a vignette film consisting of several interlaced stories about our relationship with food and with each other, all tied together by a central thread.

Anyway, there’s my list! If you have checked out any of my favorites, or if you check them out due to reading about them on this list, please leave a comment and let me know! I’m curious to hear your opinions as well!

About the Author

D. Brad Talton Jr. is the President of Level 99 Games, as well as the designer of BattleCON, Millennium Blades, Pixel Tactics, Exceed, and many more games. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with his wife Lynda and daughter Kathryn. 

[brucespringsteen]

I, James Byron Dean, was born February 8, 1931, Marion, Indiana. My parents, Winton Dean and Mildred Dean, formerly Mildred Wilson, and myself existed in the state of Indiana until I was six years of age.

Dad’s work with the government caused a change, so Dad as a dental mechanic was transferred to California. There we lived, until the fourth year. Mom became ill and passed out of my life at the age of nine. I never knew the reason for Mom’s death; in fact, it still preys on my mind.

I had always lived such a talented life. I studied violin, played in concerts, tap-danced on theatre stages, but most of all, I like art, to mold and create things with my hands.

I came back to Indiana to live with my uncle. I lost the dancing and violin, but not the art. I think my life will be devoted to art and dramatics. And there are so many different fields of art it would be hard to foul-up, and if I did, there are so many different things to do–farm, sports, science, geology, coaching, teaching music. I got it, and I know if I better myself that there will be no match. A fellow must have confidence...

When living in California my young eyes experienced many things. It was also my luck to make three visiting trips to Indiana, going and coming a different route each time. I have been in almost every state west of Indiana. I remember all.

My hobby, or what I do in my spare time, is motorcycle. I know a lot about them mechanically, and I love to ride. I have been in a few races and have done well. I own a small cycle myself. When I’m not doing that, I’m usually engaged in athletics, the heartbeat of every American boy. As one strives to make a goal in a game, there should be a goal in this crazy world for all of us. I hope I know where mine is, anyway. I’m after it.

I don’t mind telling you, Mr. Dubois–this is the hardest subject to write about considering the information one knows of himself, I ever attempted.

“My Case Study” to Roland Dubois,

Fairmount High School Principal, 1948

#james dean #prophetic #e

[madrut16]

Tell us about your BB MC 😋

Thanks for the ask! You have no idea how much I wanted someone to ask about her (she's my favorite canon version and with all of my add ons). For those who don't know, my Bloodbound MC is Isabel Martinez.

How tall are they?

I'm going off of my face claim, Eiza González (I know everyone uses her for Priya but I really love her for Isabel and this MC face) who is 5'8". It definitely helps when she wants to look intimidating, esp when she wears high heels.

How do they tend to dress?

Her style is very classy chic with light and pastel colors and some neutrals as well.

Do they like how they look?

As a child she used to be very insecure about her height because she's always been taller than a lot of the girls but she eventually learned to embrace it and use it as a strength. Also she has some left over general insecurities from when she was with Derek (her horrible ex) who put her down a lot and made her feel super unconfident about herself including her appearance. But over the past year since leaving him she's worked really hard to regain that confidence and now she's really starting to love herself and realize her worth.

Are they an only child or do they have siblings?

Isabel has one actual sibling, Gabriel who's three years younger than she is and is at culinary school in Texas. She is also related to my TRR MC Delilah who is three years older. They're biologically cousins on her dad's side but consider each other sisters because Delilah's parents died after getting hit by a drunk driver when she was 10 and Isabel's parents assumed custody. So, Delilah is really attached to all of them but is really close with Isabel who helped her out the most in dealing with the deaths of her parents.

Are they a morning person or a night owl?

Isabel is a night owl for sure. It's a good thing she loves coffee because she needs it after waking up. This allowed her to adjust to Adrian's schedule and become somewhat nocturnal without much difficulty.

Are they a cat person or a dog person?

Both! She honestly can't pick one or the other. Because she grew up on a farm, she had two dogs, two indoor cats, three barn cats, a horse, and a bunch of livestock animals. It was practically a zoo. When she saves enough money and gets a big enough place, she wants to adopt one of each because she misses having them around now that she's in New York.

Got any favorite foods?

She's a major foodie in general so she enjoys most types but she especially likes southern and Mexican food because they're from a side of her family and she's grown up with it. She really enjoys anything fried, seafood, and garlic which is an obvious problem sometimes with Adrian. She's definitely had to cut back on how much she consumes. But, it also becomes her way of punishment whenever she's mad at him and she'll just eat so much garlic so that he can't get super close to her until whatever she's peeved about is resolved.

How about favorite drinks?

For the alcoholic kind she likes a lot of different things but her favorites are wine (every type depending on what she's eating and mood) and whiskey for when she wants something stronger. Her non-alcoholic favorites are Coca-Cola and super sweet lemonade.

What are their favorite movies/tv shows?

For movies she tends to like historical ones (history nerd), good adaptations of books, musicals, and certain action flicks. Her faves include the Night at the Museum series, To Kill a Mockingbird, Indiana Jones, the Post, and The Darkest Hour. She is kind of a movie buff but isn't obsessed.

For tv shows her favorites include a lot of vampire/supernatural ones such as Shadowhunters, Vampire Diaries, Supernatural and Grimm. She also loves a couple crime and procedural shows like Criminal Minds and Sherlock.

Do they have any hidden talents?

She does have some. She used to do Track and Field in high school and she also competed in dance and she still has a lot of moves from it. She can also sing pretty well which is why she loves kareoke so much. She also can play the piano pretty decently since she took lessons from elementary school all the way through to 12th grade (something Adrian finds out in an upcoming fic).

Do they believe in love at first sight?

While she's pretty optimistic and idealistic with her head in the clouds, she doesn't necessarily believe this. She can know that someone is her type and can develop crushes and feelings at first sight but that true love takes at least some time. It comes pretty quickly for her but not as soon as she meets someone. She needs to get to know someone first.

Who is their love interest?

Adrian if you couldn't tell by the times I've mentioned him above. Because she's such a history lover and intellectual she was immediately drawn to his love for that as well. She also believes that despite what Gaius has said about him and his actions at the club, etc that while he does have a layer of darkness that he can overcome it and that deep down he's ultimately a good person.

She also has a lot of platonic love for the others and she's becoming super close to all of them.

What are they afraid of?

She isn't really afraid of many things, especially after everything with Derek and becoming involved with the vampires. She's discovered a new, courageous side of her and has done things she never thought she would. But, she is afraid of failure and letting people down which is a lingering side affect of being with Derek that she'll probably always have with her. It's part of what makes her such a workaholic and perfectionist.

What are their guilty pleasures?

Again, the garlic can kind of count for this because she feels bad when she eats a lot of it around her vampire friends (unless she's mad). Also, sour candy especially sour gummy worms bc they're really unhealthy but she's addicted to them.

What was their dream job as a kid? Is it still their dream?

At first in elementary and middle school her dream job was President of the US and/or politician bc even then she was a low-key feminist and wanted to break glass ceilings. Then, in high school is when she first wanted to a career in business and to become a CEO or top executive. She loved the idea of getting to brainstorm and help run a company and make it better.

Have they ever broken a bone?

Quite a few times. As a kid she was pretty reckless and adventurous which led to injury prone hobbies. She's broken each arm and her nose twice, as well as her collarbone and leg once. And she's sprained her ankle and received a lot of bruises, cuts and black eyes.

Seriously, she found herself in the ER so many times, her parents still hang it over her head.

Have they ever broken the law?

The actual law, only for minor offenses like speeding tickets and one underage party where she found herself detained until her parents could come get her. In school, she had a huge phase when she was younger where she would get into fights to defend Gabe who got teased a lot or when boys said she couldn't do something bc she was a girl.

Even after she grew out of it by the time high school rolled around she wouldn't hesitate to intervene and verbally tell them off when he first came out and some students would call him horrible things. She scared them so much that eventually she went with Gabe everywhere and they didn't dare touch him.

Three random facts:

She's been managing things since high school when she ran a Taco stand with her brother Gabe where she took care of the logistics and sales while he made the food and it was really successful. Looking back it's still one of her favorite memories from her childhood.

She really loves reading classic literature especially Shakespeare. Her favorite works of his include Macbeth, Julius Caesar, and Richard III.

She also has a huge musical theatre obsession after going to watch all of the ones Gabe and Delilah were in. Her favorite thing to do since moving to New York is going to see the shows on Broadway. She tries to save up so that she can attend at least two each year.

Sorry this is so long and I accidentally posted this unfinished early. This basically became an essay about Isabel (and Adrian somewhat) so, hopefully you're still reading!

If anyone wants to ask about another MC, if I have enough brainstormed about them I'll be happy to answer it too. 😘❤️

#playchoices #choices stories you play #bloodbound #adrian x mc #adrian raines #adrian x isabel

[dramallamadingdang]

Do you actually own llamas or is that a sims joke? if true I would like to see the llamas in question!

I do actually have a small herd of llamas! And one of alpacas, too. They preceded my Sims-playing by about...oh...15 years, though. *laugh* It's just a funny coincidence.

I own and live on a mini-ranch in Colorado. I grew up on a dairy farm in Indiana that my parents owned, so I always knew that I wanted to have a farm with livestock when I grew up. I chose llamas/alpacas because I love their goofy faces. It's mostly a hobby farm, but we breed/sell llamas as pets and as pack/guard animals, and we sell raw alpaca fiber to people and small companies that spin it into yarn and stuff. We also have horses and chickens and are thinking about maybe getting some goats this year. Maybe one day we’ll complete the camelid collection and get a camel or two. ;)

Anyway, there are a few pics here and there on this Tumblr, though I don't remember what I tagged them as, and I'm too lazy to look for links to the posts. :) I try to keep this place mostly about Sims, so I don't generally post such pics. When spring comes, I'm planning to post some pics of the new babies for the year, since I know one other person wants to see them. So give me until mid-May. :) Oh, and my avatar on MTS is one of our studs, so there's that.

#replies #non sims #Anonymous

[indiana-sims]

Michelle “Elle” Zeigler: The Bachelorette

Dog Lover, Romantic, Bookworm

((Why not start out the new year with a new gameplay!))

Does her last name sound familiar? It should because our Michelle’s twin sister, Olive, auditioned for a chance at Ask’s heart ( @boeui‘s bachelorette challenge! ). Elle is a quiet, shy and sweet woman. She loves animals, just like her sister. She adopted a German Shepard named Bruce when her home in Newcrest got broken into, she also moved back in with her sister on their late aunt’s farm to help her feel more safe. She was a lawyer, but now helps out at her sister’s vet clinic and sells produce. Elle’s main hope for her future lover is that he will make her feel safe. Can your sim do that? If you think so fill out the application below and submit a sim! The winner can get Elle, Bruce and a build from me!

Rules, super quick before you click on the Keep Reading!

*Sim must be male!

*Supernatural sims ARE allowed! Just nothing too crazy!

*Go crazy with CC! I’m a hoarder lol

*You can do only the everyday wear or you can do all outfits just please be sure to tell me on your application!

*Multiple applications ARE allowed!!

***ONLY 6 SIMS WILL BE CHOSEN!!**

*feel free to reblog! the more apps I can read through the cooler it’ll be! Just be sure to tag me @indiana-sims or tag it with ellebcapp!

1. Introduce yourself, tell us your name, age and what you do for a living. Where do you live? Do you rent/own? Do you have roommates? Do you have pets?

2. Give us a dating history. Have you ever been in love? If no, why not, and if yes, tell us your love story! Or tell us a funny first date story!

3. Describe your ultimate fantasy date! Where would you go, what activity would you do, what would be on the menu for dinner, etc.

4. Tell us about your family - are you close? Do you have siblings?

5. If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go? Tell us any funny or unusual travel stories you've experienced!

6. What would your hometown date be like? Where would we go and whom would we meet?

7. Do you have any special talents? If there is a hobby or activity you like, tell us or show us.

8.  What is the ONE thing you wouldn’t want your fellow candidates to find out about you? 

#ellebc #sims 4 #sims 4 bachelorette challenge #I"M GONNA STICK TO IT THIS TIME!!!! I JUST MIGHT BE LATE WITH POSTS!! #pls reblog #ts4 #michelle zeigler

[sleazygoing]

ok but here’s some stuff about vernon kennedy’s oldest kid Indiana, who is a dipshit;

indiana miller. 25ish but baby-faced. cis male. prom-night baby. he’s 5′7′’ and has that scrawny build that got him bullied at school but also means his metabolism is fine with living off cap’n crunch and marijuana. he’s got his mom’s brown eyes and his dad’s nose back before the coke. he won’t wear anything that isn’t black and slightly too small. also he calls everything ‘gay’… despite having three queer parents.

he lives in cali with his 2 moms. they used to own a dope farm but now they’re in a nice suburban house with a kiln in the yard and make $500+ avant garde pottery. their dipshit son indiana dwells in the garage in a veritable bachelor cave featuring a beat-up couch, lame posters duct-taped to the walls, and a traffic cone bong that WILL make you vomit off of one hit.

he’s the bass guitarist and (extremely poor) lyricist for a very bad punk band. incredibly, they still haven’t settled on a definitive name yet because they’re too busy fighting. they briefly had a nu metal phase. they also briefly had a folk punk phase. it’s a fucking shitshow really. they’re very…. noisy. they’re perpetually having a musical identity crisis. despite being together since high school and having some pretty dope equipment sponsored by the bank of dad, they have yet to even finish their first album. the creative process largely involves arguing at great length about irrelevant shit like which teenage mutant ninja turtle is coolest. they’ve written iconic songs such as ‘God Is Pissing In My Eyes’ and ‘Banned From Dollar General: The Reckoning’. apparently they ‘transcend sound’. they’ll never make it any further than lame house shows. in the future, the band will piss itself out and indiana and the drummer will go on to start a bad amateur radio show with a small but pretty dedicated following. vernon is gonna be so hyped. i mean he already is, but, his son, on the fucking radio? fuck yeah.

personality-wise, indiana has next to nothing in common with his old man beyond a tendency to make not the best life choices. he’s pretty introverted and kind of an edgelord really. total smart-ass. class clown at school. perpetual slacker-offer. and did somebody say fragile masculinity? he’s working on it but he’s immature and has trouble talking to chicks he likes. he’s never had a girlfriend and might not, ever. he has no ambition at all. he smokes enough weed that performing basic tasks is quite a lot of effort. he thinks he’s stickin it to the man by refusing to get a real job ever since he got fired from hot topic for being too stoned.

his parents raised him with some pretty lax discipline and shit and uh… it kinda shows. as a kid he tended to do lame rebellious shit for attention and then got mad when it didn’t get a reaction. one time in high school he got a nose ring to be edgy and then threatened to run away from home because his parents were like ‘aw cool that’s dope’ instead of grounding him for it. he infamously got suspended from school one time for wearing a shirt that says ‘fuck’ on it. he recently got his first (legit) tattoo and it’s a wizard ripping a bong.

his hobbies and interests include smoking 10 blunts a day, stealing road signs/shopping carts/anything else lying around that might inconvenience someone, d&d, graffiti, the dumb conspiracy theories, watching TV for a minimum of 6 hours a day, and generally being a nuisance. fortunately his anxiety disorder prevents him from committing any major crimes but he did get arrested and spent the night in the drunk tank once. they let him go because he cried and it’s technically not a crime to attempt to make a crop circle.

him and his dad don’t exactly see eye-to-eye sometimes. vernon skipped town before indiana was even born because he was stealing motel TVs and definitely not prepared to be a father, came back into his life with some regularity and a shitton of money from slinging coke, and then got locked up for nine years as soon as kiddo got used to it. indiana wouldn’t even call his dad ‘dad’ until fairly recently. they’re working on it. vernon makes his cameo appearances around the holidays. he’s kinda gone from ‘disappointing dad’ to ‘embarrassing dad’, and he can live with that. they talk on the phone with some regularity now, usually late at night and about total bullshit. vernon is very proud of him.

#; FACT. #im gonna make one of these for vernon's other kids too at some point but uh #here have some incoherent shit #B)

[justslowdown]

your sheep are so cute oh my goodness!!!!!! please feel free to use this ask as an opportunity to spout some things you like about your sheep or about keeping sheep or literally what ever you would like to say about sheep. i will appreciate all of it.

I normally feel bad rambling so ty for this! And yes they are The Cutest can you even fathom what it’ll be like when next year’s lambs start arriving I.. wow

Personally I think everyone even somewhat interested should look into owning some if they own/rent more than an acre! I feel they’re a great species to start hobby farming with, because (based on my experience with my unique breeds) all you really need is a small shelter and some pasture or hay. The fencing doesn’t need to be intensive. And many breeds don’t require much medical intervention (some need a ton tho) which is good for a beginner. Dairy goats on the other hand……

So I guess the first step in picking a species and then breed of livestock is to get your priorities organized, talk to people who own different types, read up on everything til you have a broad range of opinions to learn from

I got my first sheep two years ago after doing this, my first large livestock species. I miss the goats a lot, but think I’ll focus primarily in landrace type sheep from now on. So much lower stress and lower maintenance. Bonus: mine never test fences. Some goats make it their life mission.

Sheep (like goats) are a species that has been selectively bred in so many directions that you really gotta know what your goals are with them and what work you’re willing/able to put in, before picking breeds/types. 

Personally, I don’t want to dock tails, to castrate to prevent aggression, to have to assist with many lambings, trim hooves and crutch (shave booties) and run fecals/deworm often, or to have to feed a lot of grain to keep weight on them. Because I’m not doing all of these things very often, friendliness/not being flighty and wary are not traits I care about. So probably no 4H friendly sheep for me. Just not a priority.

 DO want some usable, interestingly colored wool so pure hair or commercial white wool breeds aren’t a good fit. They also have to be hardy in both 95 humid summer and 0 plus windchill winter because fuck Indiana. 

I like cool horns and a wild look. Just do. I also want breeds that will eat anything, not just grass, and do well on unsupplemented (beside mineral) pasture rotation for most of the year. I want a good growth rate in case I end up producing more rams than I can sell and need to start thinking about meat. Again easy lambing is a TOP priority for sure! Some breeds are incredibly fertile but when large twins and triplets are involved there’s much higher risk.

I didn’t know all this when I started looking. But when I found Soay for sale 2 yrs ago, I fell into the rabbithole of landracey, semi-feral sheep that haven’t been super selectively bred by humans. “Wild flock management” is something I’m really interested in, and what all the breeders I have bought from do. So far I’ve gotten Soay, Shetland, a Jacob/Barbado ram, and Jacob ewes. As you can tell I have the same fondness for crossbreeding with my livestock as I do dogs. Love me some genetic diversity.

 If the humans in a breeds’ history catch their sheep to trim hooves and crutch often, then their lines will eventually end up with quick-growing, gnarly hooves and overly wooly maggot-collecting back ends. If they want a ram who will service a flock of 500 they’re going to breed the biggest, most testosterone-fueled ragey hump machines they can, lmao. There’s just no selective pressure for anything besides fertility and high wool or meat production. But if natural selection was a big part of a breed and lines’ history then they’ll end up adapting differently.

Now, if I wanted to train up herding dogs, there’s no way I’d start with the breeds I have. Mine are either confrontational with dogs, or scatter in a dozen directions while leaping five feet in the air, lmao. Whereas some breeds (again ones managed this way in history) get into a suggestible flock hivemind.

So anyways I adore my sheep! They’re calming to watch, beautiful and wild, and keep my pastures down without trampling them. I adore sheep in general but there are breeds I’d never own. And besides the breed you pick, I also think buying (or in my case often trading! love farm folks) from herds that have the same management style you want is important.