Work continues to be crazy. I am so behind on blogs and GoodReads and life in general. Hi! :waving:

Bookity

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Gizmodo (fantasy & scifi), Tor.com (scifi, fantasy), Fiction Vixen (romance), AAR (romance), and Dear Author (romance)
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• Writerly linkity from Becky Black.
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
• 23 Antarctican slang terms.
• “You have been transported to the location in the last book you read. Where are you?” I came out pretty well in that one: Newford and the desert near Tucson, Arizona.
• Video game set in Walden Woods.

Think, Do, Make, Learn

• On “smol”.
• Short film about the evolution of the universe.
• Who knew you could play games right in your browser?
• Do you know which is the least-visited national park in the continental US?
• “How aluminum changed the world“.
• Timelapse of a 1223 pound pumpkin growing.
• Crows and tool use.

Cookity

• Butternut squash with sriracha and coconut.
• Rainbow veggie noodle salad.
• 23 hearty vegetarian dinners.
• Caprese chicken.
• Caprese grilled cheese.
• 10 summer breakfast casseroles.
• Upside-down tomato corn cake.
• Easiest ice cream cake.
• Dulce de leche chocolate cupcakes. (via smoke-and-oakum)

Gluten Free

• Banana muffins.
• Granola bars.

Artsy Crafty

• The difference between the primary color wheel for paint and for digital.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• It’s cool, but it is definitely not the sort of mural I’d expect to see in a Radisson.
• Good to remember about autism.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Next level foam art or photoshopped?!
• R2-D2 bento box. (via The Mary Sue)
• Cassette-shaped table.
• Pop-up mosquito cage.
• “Watch classic Soviet sci-fi films for free online“.

Wha…?

• Shoecar.
• A brigadier penguin?
• Print your own Stargate.
• Inflatable cockroach for lounging on in the pool.
• Sunscreen that smells like fried chicken.
• “An axe-throwing range is coming to Chicago“.
• Axe handle made of gummi bears.
• $3000 box of colored pencils. (It’s a brand that uses cedar for the wood of the pencils, which means I will never, ever, ever try any of their pencils – even the more reasonably priced ones. :wheezing asthmatic sounds:)

LOL

• So very Chaos…
• People share the birds they’d most like to see.
• Autocorrect and religion.
• NASA and computers. (Hover your cursor/long-press for additional text.)
• Linear regression. (Hover your cursor/long-press for additional text.)

Teh Cute

• Baby puffin! Tiger and babies! Baby tree kangaroo! Panda and babies! Black kitten!

Reading Update
Moonlight and Vines by Charles de Lint. Upon rereading, I liked this third collection of Newford stories more than the second (The Ivory and the Horn).
Forests of the Heart by Charles de Lint. This Newford book was a solid read, but not one of my favorites.
The Onion Girl by Charles de Lint. Not my favorite Newford book – it’s a hard read. I really wanted some magical healing, dammit.

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“Why are you taking a picture of my foot, Mom??!” -Chaos

Check out that proto-thumb dewclaw there, eh? He doesn’t have extra toes or anything – just large and weirdly dexterous dewclaws. I don’t think May can even move her dewclaws, besides flexing the actual claw…