• New releases: Gizmodo (sff) and Smart Bitches (romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches. And the Smart Bitches Smart Device (for April Fool’s Day).
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• Remembering Beverly Cleary.
• A look inside the Tolkien Historical Society Conference…
• On understanding things.
• Cursed facts about alligators.
• He’s not wrong.
• The Shitpost Calligrapher takes on the Ever Given.
• More about how and why the Ever Given got stuck.
• “I like that the boat is stuck“. (Was stuck. Whatever!)
• Great video from the Suez Canal Authority.
• Comparing the Ever Given to the starship Enterprise.
• Another one of the boats that was waiting.
• On the end of a meme (specifically the Ever Given).
• Video about working with chocolate.
• Cursed advertisement from the 70s.
• Very creepy sculpture project.
• Mask Opinions and Immune Response from xkcd. Hover cursor/long-press for captions.

Reading Update

• The Dresden Files (1-17, including many of the stories in between the full numbers) by Jim Butcher. I hadn’t read anything in the series since 2009, so I started again from the first book. I’d forgotten how much I enjoyed this series!
• A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking and A Minor Mage by T Kingfisher.  Enjoyable YA fantasies about being more than you think you are and definitely more than you seem.
• Brimstone Bound, Infernal Enchantment, Midnight Smoke (Firebrand 1-3) by Helen Harper. Fluffy paranormal series about a newly minted London Detective Constable who ends up on the infamous “Supe Squad”.
• The Noose of a New Moon (Wolfbrand #1) by Helen Harper. This follows up on Devereau Webb, a character from Firebrand #3.

*blank* -Harry

“What do you want now, lady?!” -Polly

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“I know she secretly likes me!!!!!” -Harry

“Are those kittens STILL HERE?!” -Mayhem