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  125. ​ Cat Psychology & Domestication: Are We Good Owners?

  126. ​ Why Cats Knock Stuff Over

  127. ​ Fuzz Testing

  128. ​ Why Cats Love Earwax

  129. ​ Catnip immunity and alternatives

  130. ​ World Catnip Surveys

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  132. ​ Catnip immunity and alternatives § Breeding Cats To Increase Frequency Of Catnip Response

  133. ​ Cats As Horror Movie Villains

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  135. ​ Interpreting ‘Suzanne Delage’ as Dracula

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  138. ​ Nor the Summers as Golden: Writing Multivolume Works

  139. ​ Loyal to the Group of 17’s Story—The Just Man

  140. ​ suzanne-delage#bram-stokers-dracula

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  141. ​ lorem-dropcap#gene-wolfe

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  153. 2023-10-12-gwern-midjourneyv5-mechanical-samples-1.jpg

  154. 2023-10-12-gwern-midjourneyv5-mechanical-samples-2.jpg

  155. 2023-10-12-gwern-midjourneyv5-circuit-samples.jpg

  156. 2023-10-12-gwern-midjourneyv5-robot-samples-1.jpg

  157. 2023-10-12-gwern-midjourneyv5-robot-samples-2.jpg

  158. 2023-10-12-gwern-midjourneyv5-robot-samples-3.jpg

  159. 2023-10-12-gwern-midjourneyv5-portraitcomicstyleroboticexpressionismblackandwhite.jpg

  160. ​ Lorem Ipsum: Christmas Mode

  161. ​ Lorem Ipsum: Halloween Mode

  162. 2023-10-16-gwern-midjourneyv5-christmas-glogo-light-final.jpg

  163. 2023-10-16-gwern-midjourneyv5-christmas-glogo-dark-final.jpg

  164. 2023-10-16-gwern-midjourneyv5-christmas-glogo-dark-1.jpg

  165. 2023-10-16-gwern-midjourneyv5-christmas-glogo-dark-2.jpg

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  167. 2023-10-16-gwern-midjourneyv5-christmas-glogo-light-2.jpg

  168. 2023-10-16-gwern-midjourneyv5-christmas-glogo-light-3.jpg

  169. 2023-10-15-gwern-midjourneyv5-halloween-glogo.jpg

  170. Midjourney personalization flaws

  171. https://docs.midjourney.com/docs/personalization

  172. Midjourneyv6 Personalized vs Default Samples

  173. Midjourney Style References

  174. --Chaos Hyperparameter

  175. --Weird Hyperparameter

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  177. 2024-10-31-gwern-midjourneyv6-christmasmoebiusdropcaps-chaosweirdscanfrom0to1500.jpg

  178. 2024-10-26-gwern-midjourneyv6-halloween-glogo-blackcat-samples.jpg

  179. 2024-10-28-gwern-midjourneyv6-halloween-glogo-spider-samples.jpg

  180. 2024-10-28-gwern-midjourneyv6-halloween-glogo-pumpkins-samples-1.png

  181. 2024-10-28-gwern-midjourneyv6-halloween-glogo-pumpkins-samples-2.jpg

  182. 2024-10-25-gwern-midjourneyv6-halloween-glogo-dracula-samples.jpg

  183. 2024-10-27-gwern-midjourneyv6-halloween-glogo-draculamansion-samples-1.png

  184. 2024-10-27-gwern-midjourneyv6-halloween-glogo-draculamansion-samples-2.png

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  186. ​ lorem-dropcap#cheshire

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  187. https://www.dafont.com/house-of-lime.d286

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  189. https://www.1001fonts.com/cheshire-initials-font.html

  190. ​ The Gift of the Amygdali

  191. Goudy Initialen

  192. ​ lorem-dropcap#goudy-initialen

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  193. https://www.myfonts.com/collections/ltc-goudy-initials-font-lanston-type-company

  194. https://parachutefonts.com/typeface/Goudy-Initials

  195. ​ Vectors 3.0: Even More Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays

  196. ​ Origins of Innovation: Bakewell & Breeding

  197. https://www.typografie.info/3/Schriften/fonts.html/deutsche-zierschrift-r250/

  198. ​ lorem-dropcap#deutsche-zierschrift

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  199. Fototagebuch

  200. https://moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/steffmann/index.htm

  201. ​ May 2021 News

  202. ​ My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s

  203. ​ The Impossibility of Knowledge of Retrocognitive Knowledge

  204. Kanzlei Initialen

  205. ​ lorem-dropcap#kanzlei

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  206. ​ Subscripts For Citations

  207. ​ Surprisingly Turing-Complete

  208. https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb12-1/tb31hara.pdf#page=8

  209. https://ctan.org/pkg/yinit

  210. ​ lorem-dropcap#yinit

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  211. ​ Dog Cloning For Special Forces: Breed All You Can Breed

  212. ​ The Kelly Coin-Flipping Game: Exact Solutions

  213. ​ CQK Is The First Unused TLA

  214. Drop-Caps Demo

  215. https://www.1001fonts.com/andrade-font.html#waterfall

  216. https://www.1001fonts.com/neue-zier-schrift-font.html

  217. Pauls Franck Initialen

  218. Art Nouveau Initialen

  219. Monarchia Dropcap

  220. https://www.1001fonts.com/unger-fraktur-zierbuchstaben-font.html#waterfall

  221. https://www.dafont.com/dearest.font

  222. CAT Altgotisch Font

  223. JGJ Drer Gothic Font

  224. https://www.thepensivepen.com/2015/08/durers-gothic.html

  225. ​ Lorem Ipsum

  226. ​ Sidenotes In Web Design

  227. ​ Rubrication Design Examples

  228. Typographer Caps Font

  229. Bonus Fonts Demo: Old Constructed Caps

  230. Neugotische Initialen Font

  231. Bodoni Classic Deco Caps Medium

  232. Caslon Font Family

  233. Thannhaeuser Zier Font

  234. Sail

  235. Cinzel Decorative

  236. Elsie Swash Caps

  237. Wikipedia Bibliography:

    1. Initial

    2. Free and open-source software

    3. Robert Jordan  :

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jordan

    4. The Wheel of Time

    5. Sans-serif

    6. Drop shadow  :

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_shadow

    7. Frederic Goudy  :

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Goudy

    8. FontForge  :

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FontForge

    9. TrueType

    10. Light-on-dark color scheme

    11. Adobe Inc

    12. Greeble

    13. Fiverr

    14. Dungeons & Dragons

    15. Flash (tattoo)  :

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_(tattoo)

    16. Tattoo artist  :

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tattoo_artist

    17. Bengal tiger

    18. Jaguar

    19. Paraná River  :

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paran%C3%A1_River

    20. Howdah  :

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howdah

    21. War elephant  :

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    22. Jorge Luis Borges

    23. Google Images

    24. Hero image  :

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_image

    25. Image segmentation

    26. SVG

    27. Transparency (graphic)  :

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparency_(graphic)

    28. GIF

    29. Retina display  :

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retina_display

    30. Reinforcement learning

    31. Potrace

    32. Gene Wolfe

    33. Executioner's sword  :

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    34. The Book of the New Sun

    35. Blackletter

    36. Blackletter § Textura  :

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    37. Rotunda (script)  :

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotunda_(script)

    38. Bastarda  :

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastarda

    39. Uncial script  :

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncial_script

    40. Insular script  :

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insular_script

    41. Carolingian minuscule  :

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolingian_minuscule

    42. Fraktur

    43. Vox-ATypI classification § Humanist  :

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox-ATypI_classification#Humanist

    44. Arts and Crafts movement  :

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts_and_Crafts_movement

    45. Cloister (typeface)  :

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloister_(typeface)

    46. Rudolf Koch  :

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Koch