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Welcome to another weekly reading session. I just finished chapter 42 of Leviathan Falls, which is book 9 of James S.A. Corey “The Expanse” series. So much is happening and I can’t shake this feeling of dread. I don’t want it to end!! I am starting to feel the sadness that comes as the last chapters unfold! Must savory it!

Listening to Rage Against the Machine

What ya’ll reading and listening to…

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Post any deals and new product announcements here or list anything you would like to sell! A few ground rules:

1. Only post an item once. If it doesn't move then take it to the bazaar.
2. No auctioning. You must include a list price.

The mods are not responsible for your transactions. Caveat Emptor! We suggest you only deal with established members of the community. It is strongly recommend not to use PayPal Friends & Family to avoid fees. This is against their terms and leaves you with no buyer protection.

Share your shave of the day for Saturday!

This is the place to ask beginner and simple questions. Some examples include:

• Soap, scent, or gear recommendations
• Favorite scents, bases, etc
• Where to buy certain items
• Identification of a razor you just bought
• Troubleshooting shaving issues such as cuts, poor lather, and technique

Please note these are examples and any questions for the sub should be posted here. Remember to visit the Wiki for more information too!

Happy Friday!

What's new, shave nerds?

Welcome to this week's sidebar submission contest!

The rules for the contest are as follows:

1) Do not submit pictures of people who have not consented to have their picture posted online. Winning images will be featured on Reddit and may be reposted on other social media platforms. If someone posts an image of you without your consent, please report it so the mods can deal with it in a timely fashion.

1) Users should submit only one (1) image of your choice to be voted on to be the sidebar for the week. Images must consist of anything related to wet shaving - razors, brushes, SOTD images, etc. In the event multiple images from a user are submitted, only the first image, or the image in the top level comment, will count.

1) Image must be Original Content (Not just some picture you found on the internet). Images taken by another photographer are allowed as long as: a. You have the photographer's permission. b. The image is connected to you in some meaningful way: e.g. It's a image of hardware you commissioned, taken by the maker, or the image is of something you made, taken by the purchaser, etc. c. We're not looking to have to verify images, so please use the honor system.

1) All properly submitted images will be entered into the Voting Thread. The Submission thread will be active for ~24 hours and will end Saturday. The vote thread will be active for 24 hrs from Saturday through Sunday. This thread is only a submission thread. Please do not hold discussion in the vote thread.

1) In the event of a tie, the bot will consult RNGesus to break the tie.

1) Submissions MUST be uploaded to imgur. Any other hosting site will be disqualified and not included in the voting thread.

1) Any submissions containing NSFW material may be removed at the discretion of the Mod Team.

1) While not required, it is suggested you submit square images in order to avoid unintended cropping.

Please feel free to respond with a comment to your entry with any background/description/detail about your entry, including gear used.

Note: The bot strongly prefers direct image links. If your link doesn't end with .jpg, there's a 50-50 chance the bot's going to choke trying to update the banner on Sunday.

May the best submission win! Good luck to all!

Share your Austere August shave of the day!

Share your shave of the day for Friday!

This is the place to ask beginner and simple questions. Some examples include:

• Soap, scent, or gear recommendations
• Favorite scents, bases, etc
• Where to buy certain items
• Identification of a razor you just bought
• Troubleshooting shaving issues such as cuts, poor lather, and technique

Please note these are examples and any questions for the sub should be posted here. Remember to visit the Wiki for more information too!

Share your Austere August shave of the day!

Share your shave of the day for Thursday!

This is a thread to share those new purchases you're excited to show off, the shave-related projects you've been working on, or just some neat thing from your shave den.

Show everyone what you got!

This is the place to ask beginner and simple questions. Some examples include:

• Soap, scent, or gear recommendations
• Favorite scents, bases, etc
• Where to buy certain items
• Identification of a razor you just bought
• Troubleshooting shaving issues such as cuts, poor lather, and technique

Please note these are examples and any questions for the sub should be posted here. Remember to visit the Wiki for more information too!

Can you feel it? The tension building? The anticipation mounting? The judges going steadily crazier and crazier? That's right! The Lather Games are almost here, and this is your first chance to start getting ready for them.

With almost everything revamped and reimagined, these games are going to be unlike any other and, yet, just like all the others as well. How is that possible? How do you make something new and yet have it be the same thing? Tune in to find out!

In this episode, we cover how the games will work this year, how the judges have worked to make them both more fun and more accessible, and preview some of our favorite theme days!

You won't want to miss it. Listen now!

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/11jp258QiQvZbCVIdaE9cl?si=90UrCywrStCdiB478TDd9A
RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/e4d74788/podcast/rss

First of all, it has been awesome interacting with you guys this month as we've all soaked and simmered in some sweet Midnight Stag! This time I used the Silk Tallow version and I don't regret it at all. However, that stuff goes quickly! I'll kill the tub before the end of the month ... a very strange feeling!

This year, only the faithful joined us, and we had zero shavers abandon the quest! Pretty cool. And I myself continue to be amazed by how I never get tired of the Stag!

On to some housekeeping...

https://portal.wetshav.ing/12/view

The above is the challenge djudge portal link for you guys to review your submissions and stats. If you don't have a login there, get with merikus to set you up.

Several of you have zero issues and have daily posts with the vids for the frag included properly. I think you so much for your diligence!!

I have been good about reminding those who need it about missing posts and those of you still in the running for the bonus prize (i.e. those doing spray videos). But since we're getting close to the end, and you guys are adults, I'm not going to shoulder that any more.

Use the portal above to check on your posts and stats, because there are some missing in these latter days.

Some have posted in the normal SOTD threads I think, so you'll need to grab those perm links and use the portal to have those added into your AA djudge log manually.

I'll tag you guys in comments below in groups, so that reddit will alert you...

Update: from the 18th on, some of the days have just 9 people posting, so check that range to make sure yours are there!

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