I've put a lot of thought into what I'd like to offer as a way to pay back the community I've been a part of for several years. I'm going to go over the details. Please feel free to PM me if you have questions I don't cover and I'll add them to the FAQ.
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I hate First Person Shooters. Have I ever mentioned that? Imagine giving a horse a rifle, except the rifle weighs three hundred pounds, and the horse is trying to hold it in its mouth, and has no way to pull the trigger, so it just stumbles around drunkenly under the heavy weight. You think you're picturing some insane, brought on by too much ice cream before bed scenario but what you're actually imaging is me trying to play any game of said genre. I'm quite terrible.

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Moving is a chore. Carrying 50,000 pounds of books up three flights of stairs tested even my stamina and endurance not to chuck the whole lot in the nearby (and at ground level) dumpster. I think it's time to invest in some sort of e-reader, so I've begun re-reading my library to see what goes and what stays.

Currently Reading:
Lois McMaster Bujold: The Sharing Knife

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Zevran Arainai from Dragon Age: Origins. He's an amazing character and there's no one I'd rather have as a BFF (and more...)

Runner-up would be Red VIII from Final Fantasy VII.

The Fine Print
What can I say? I've finally reached critical mass with my Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab oils. I've tried (nearly) every leather scent the lab makes (give or take 500 or so others) or has made and have narrowed down my DISOs to a mere handful. However, in the process of doing so, I've amassed quite a collection.

What I'd prefer to do is swap what I don't love for something I do - to parlay what I have into what I want.

DISO: De Sade, Geburah, Loviatar, The Traveller, Rivet.Goth, Lord Ruthven, The High Priest not to be Described, Morven the Strong Man, Kunoichi
*I will almost always be able to find room in my budget to purchase bottles of these DISO blends and am usually willing to swap/buy even an imp's worth. The exception is De Sade; I will take anything I can get - halves, even testers - as he is my signature scent.

Have a Stash but will take more: Le Pére Fouettard 2008 only, C. Auguste Dupin, Brom Bones, Enkhespalos, Phyllocrania Paradoxa v3, Thunder and Blazes, CBBOB1, Dead Man's Hand, Dead Man's Hand v8, Clockwork Couture: Male, Quincey Morris, Prosperity of a Country, SN: Burning Book, The Red Rider, The Rat Speakers, Shrunken Heads, One to Tie, Two to Win, A Blade of Grass, SN: Wild Dandelion, A Low Candle-Lit Room, Hatta, The Visionary, Nowhere in Particular, The Heinous Hedge Maze, Sky City (Before), The Manuscript, Outlaw, Stonehenge at Dusk
*Is it possible to have too much of a good thing?

Bottles: Sacrifice, Casanova, Olisbos 2010 only, Unexpected Golf Hazard, Strength, Love Hooch (TAL), Eloquentia IV (TAL), India Ink, NVPR4, Adam, Ian, Black Cherry Love Oil (TAL), Formula 312 (TAL), Love Attraction (TAL [maybe]), Pile of Fallen Leaves, Hans Trapp
*I would prefer bottles of these, but you're welcome to try me with imps. No halves or sniffies, please.

Samples: A Murder of Crows, Poe, All Hallows' Apple, Absinthe, Ace of Pentacles, Ameles Potamos, Anteros, APDAY3, A Brilliant and Ruby Colored Fluid, Blacker than the Raven Wings of Midnight, Badger (2008), Banned in Boston, Bensiabel, Bloodlust, BTSB, Byron v13, Bocal de Sang, Caliban, Calico Jack, Captain Cully, Cheshire Cat, Calocyclas, Corazon, Cthulhu, Daylillies at the Bottom of the Stairs, Daddy, Debauchery, Deep in Earth, Dr. Henry Jekyll, Elf, Ebisu Making Love As Two Octopuses Look On, Fairy Wine, Fearful Pleasure, Fenris Wolf, Fighter, Fulvous Snow, Galvanic Goggles, Halloween 1914, Herbert West, Hunter, HR1, HR2, ICD23, Iago, Karmê (Κάρμη), SN: King Mandarin, Kyoto, Krampus 2013 only, Krampus Chains, LUES11, Les Anges Déchus, LUMF2, Liadain and Curithir, Lightning, Madrid, Mage, Mischievous Spirit, MML2, Mary Read, Mattie Silks, Nosferatu, Noisome Clockwork Tin Locomotive, NVF02, Old Demons of the First Class, Olokun, Paduan Killer Swarm, Planting Moon, PPN134, Psychodynamic Discharge, Quicksilver Phoenix, Rogue, Rocking-Horse-Fly, SN: Siberian Musk, Satan Talks to Sin and Death, Satyr, Scherezade, Sea of Glass, Singing Moon 2012, Summoning Stone Play Structure, Salma, SGR4, Seeds of the Pomegranate, Leaves of the Poppy, Tattie Bogle, Tarasque, The Buggre Alle This Bible, The Book, The Ghost Children, Tempest, Traipsing through the Crop Circles, Time's Infliction of Eternity, The Host of the Air, The Night-Raven, The Ninth Cage, The Raven, The Schoolhouse, The Ta-Ta (leather heavy), The Arabian Dance (leather heavy), The Sea Foams Blood, The Bow and Crown of Conquest, The Deserted Village, Tympanidium, The Witch's Garden, The Deep Ones, TP'ed Trees, Trachhelophorus Giraffe v3, Vicomte de Valmont, Villain, Verdant Decay, Whippoorwill, Wilde, Witch-Cursed Castle, Whitechapel, Y'ha-nthlei, Yule Buddies
*I would prefer imps of these. Some I only need testers of and others I might consider a bottle (The Red Rider... possibly a couple of others) but usually I'm just looking for imps because the scents haven't really graduated or grabbed me enough to motivate a D/ISO (or I've already got bottles that aren't getting enough love). Too, I'd like lab imps that don't look like they've gone through the wash or fallen in the dirt and been trod on (Madrid imps, I'm looking mostly at you). Please note that I'd really prefer to do imps for imps for these, rather than bottles for imps, but it doesn't hurt to ask.

Trading Post: Lair of Nefarious Misdeeds, Dungeon original, Boothill, Candlelight, Le Cafe du Rat-Mort, Wererat-Infested Sewer, Lich's Laboratory, Unspeakably Evil Temple, Crow Moon 2007 3X crew neck, Raven Moon 2009 shirts, Crow Moon 2013 shirts, Goblin Sack, Footworn Steps Leading Into a Dank, Suffocating Crypt, Black Pomegranate and Blackcurrant
*Some of these I know only come in squirts, which is quite alright. Also, I'm relatively open to room sprays I haven't tried; you're welcome to check with me and ask what I've sampled. Lair of Nefarious Misdeeds, Dungeon and Boothill are love, and probably fall into my DISO category.

Loved Notes: Leather. Followed by grass, dandelions, red musk, lavender, dirt, fougeres, aquatics and anise/licorice (how did that sneak in there?) - but mostly leather.

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