Bookish
- RIP, Toni Morrison.
- New releases: Tor.com (genre benders)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- Linkity from ReaderWriterville.
- Linkity from the Pen Addict.
- “‘Your interpretation is valid’ is not a cop-out“.
- On who’s the moral center of Good Omens.
- How Good Omens handles emotional trauma, “particularly as it relates to toxic relationships, and childhood emotional and psychological abuse”.
- A thread that started with Seanan McGuire begging people not to send her headcanons (after someone sent her a headcanon).
- The tomb of Jules Verne.
- On the book Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury.
- “Poem vending machines raise money, awareness for writers in Minnesota prisons“. (via matresist)
- Famous poems rewritten as limericks.
Think, Do, Learn, Make
- How did you celebrate International Cat Day yesterday?
- Download Earth.
- David Attenborough vs a bird of paradise.
- “It’s the guns, stupid!“
- Cookie Monster could be your Waze voice.
Cookity
- Slow cooker peanut butter chocolate cake.
- Dark chocolate brownies.
- Zucchini snacking cake with chocolate cream cheese frosting.
Gluten Free
Artsy Crafty
- Knit Aziraphale. (via skybound2)
- Knit Crowley. (via skybound2)
- Make a tiny accordion book.
- Linkity from knittyBlog.
Cool
Wha…?
LOL
- “How do you pronounce gyrfalcon?“
- Regional gothic.
- The truth about cat brains.
- How cats play.
- “It has pockets.“
- Expiration date high score. Hover cursor/long-press for caption
Teh Cute
Reading Update
Amidst all the Good Omens fanfic, I did finish my table-reading book!
The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St Clair. Filled with 75 fascinating short anecdotes about a wide array of colors, from heliotrope to mummy.
“MINE.” -Mayhem
I did not realise about the headcanon thing
A recent post from blodeuedd..Audio: Thornbound by Stephanie Burgis
Pocketses! Yes!
I haven’t read Dandelion Wine or anything by Toni Morrison yet. From the sound of it, this is something I need to remedy.
I saw a similar tweet thread from Seanan McGuire to the “your interpretation is valid” link, and I do appreciate when authors acknowledge that. It’s something that I think needs to be addressed more when we’re in school. Yes, the author might have a specific meaning in mind, but that doesn’t mean it’s how we’re going to read it.
Interesting thread about the headcannon thing. It’s not something I would do (partly out of respect, partly because I don’t want people doing it to me) but we joke about the same thing when it comes to Disneyland. Someone suggests an “armchair imagineering” idea, and then the immediate response is, “now Disney will never do that”.
Poem vending machines sound absolutely fascinating.
Scritches to Miss May!
A recent post from Nicole..August 2019 Read-a-Thin