- New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (best out this week, LGBTQA)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- “How to undo YouTube’s terrible new layout“.
- What a weird ad.
- On the official portrait of Charles III – really quite a fascinating take.
- Participate in a study about covid by Johns Hopkins University.
- Wow, the technology to make this feasible does not yet exist.
- Notebook pages reinterpreted.
- Pretty nice castle house.
- Fun MCM.
- Lovely MCM, although I’m not a fan of open showers like that.
- Nice, except for all of the green cabinets – the color doesn’t fit at all.
- If you have a lot of money but no household goods, this could be your dream home.
- Sort of time capsule MCM that desperately needs refreshing.
- A house shaped like a boat.
- An earth shelter house.
- Why would they make the master bath like that??
- Sort of strange church conversion.
- You could live in a shipping container…
- Apply to live in “the world’s largest doomsday bunker community”.
- Ow.
- Also ow.
- No bare feet or heels.
- A lot of stair builders seem to expect eternal vigilance.
- The pattern on these invisible stairs will make you dizzy so you’re even more likely to fall down them.
- Chairs as stairs.
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In which linkity shares some completed socks
- New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (best out this week, LGBTQA)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- Here’s hoping the Minnesota book ban banning bill goes through smoothly!
- Middle school time loop ficlet.
- Ack!
- “Makes motoring merrier”.
- Well then.
- Those prices…
- Lego will release a Lord of the Rings Barad-dûr set.
- There will be special Star Wars edition Oreos.
- Vietnamese shredded chicken and cabbage salad.
- Dare I admit that I kind of like it?
- Lovely townhouse.
- A bank conversion I like!
- Pretty nice MCM with weird basement.
- Time capsule MCM – the blue bathroom! 😮
- This place has the bluest room ever.
- The Octabarn has potential.
- Round house with cement gorillas guarding the front door.
- Firehouse conversion but you absolutely can’t tell it was once a firehouse.
- I wouldn’t want to be that close to the river, personally.
- Converted train cars with a Western theme.
- This one’s pirate themed.
- Converted union hall, made surreal with an excess of grey.
- So much terrible carpet.
- Jail converted into a B&B. Just nope.
- Unconverted nail salon being sold as a residence.
- It’s grubby and needs work, but I especially have questions about putting the washer and dryer in the living room without at least enclosing them.
- Tub in living room mystery.
- OMG.
- You didn’t even try.
- Hmm.
- What could possibly go wrong?!
- Imagine carrying in groceries – one wrong step and…
- D’oh.
- Invisible stairs.
Some recently gifted birthday socks, featuring yarn by TallPineYarns on etsy. They’re not perfectly matchy-matchy (things got a little weird around the heel), but they’re pretty close.
In which linkity officially welcomes actual springlike weather
- New releases: Reactor (fantasy, YA SFF, sci fi, genre benders), Smart Bitches (romance, queer romance), Book Riot (nonfiction, queer, best out this week)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- Ficlet about a selkie.
- Home Depot now sells hidden bookcase doors.
- A “type knitter”.
- Agreed – this would be the perfect villain’s lair.
- Now THIS is a Barbie house!
- Has an extremely colorful exterior.
- Cute little houseboat.
- Have we already seen this castle house that actually looks like a castle?
- Interesting MCM.
- Funky purple MCM with a medieval tavern in the basement.
- Nice MCM although that loft looks dangerous.
- Parts of this MCM are fun, but not the mirrored dining room.
- MCM with too many blood-colored floors.
- I’m envious of how much storage this place has… but why did they photoshop a beach scene into the conversation pit?
- “Decorated to capacity” and comes with all of the decor.
- It’s hard to see the house underneath all the clutter.
- It’s definitely one of a kind.
- Puzzling studio apartment.
- Very strange.
- Absolutely not.
- Ouch.
- Also ouch.
- Hmm.
- They seem a little small.
- Has this person even seen stairs?
Linkity welcomes May
- New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (best out this week, SFF, graphic novels/comics, horror, mystery/thriller, romance), Gizmodo (SFF/horror)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- May the Fourth is Free Comic Book Day.
- “Y’all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1“.
- NASA’s best photos of 2023.
- Everyone always forgets Gen X.
- Needle felted leaf dragon.
- How to make Pop Tart milkshakes.
- Nice MCM in the Twin Cities area – I really like the colors of the kitchen.
- Interesting MCM, but I firmly believe bedrooms should have walls that go up to the ceiling.
- A dome home that’s not too bad, but definitely needs some more color.
- Ok castlesque house – I was not prepared for the wallpaper in the kid’s bedroom.
- Fascinating mixture of things they completely redid and things they left alone.
- This one includes an actual helicopter converted into a flight simulator.
- A truly terraced house.
- They REALLY liked tile.
- Converted gas station.
- Perfect if you love sports-themed bedrooms.
- The slide was certainly an audacious design choice.
- MCM with floors that look like wet blood.
- They didn’t even touch the dirty old bank carpet.
- Another poorly flipped bank.
- One hopes they can squeeze some blinds between the tub and the window.
- Weird.
- They look slippery, plus no railing.
- At least the carpet doesn’t have a confusing pattern?
- Whoops.
- No.
- Ouch.
Linkity wonders where the year is going
- New releases: Book Riot (best out this week), Smart Bitches (romance)
- LInkity from Smart Bitches.
- Ficlet.
- And another ficlet.
- One aspect of being part of an online community.
- Lego has lovely new space sets coming out.
- NASA’s best photos of the year – number ten is my favorite.
- “Cities scramble to find trees that will last the century“.
- Some Gen Z and Gen Alpha slang, decoded.
- For the book lovers.
- A lighthouse! But I think I prefer the ones that are on land.
- Bigger on the inside.
- Needs work but it’s cool.
- Very cute, very tiny.
- Very bright!
- Very colorful.
- Very strangely located.
- Very odd.
- Very unique – the choice of a garage office is fascinating.
- Unusual MCM.
- Cute, but the price – ouch.
- Interesting earth ship.
- Why all the windows in the walls?
- Not bad dome home with a weirdly located fireplace.
- The exterior is very castle. The interior… is not.
- Disappointing castlesque house with only one good room in the entire thing.
- Another major interior/exterior disconnect here.
- And another!
- I can’t believe this isn’t a converted store.
- Completely over-the-top.
- Over-the-top purple house in Plymouth, MN.
- There’s just so much stuff.
- Everything’s mirrors and zebras.
- This home is a time capsule.
- MCM that is definitely not a treehouse and needs work.
- Lots of rocks and a living room that could kill a person.
- It sure does look like a former crime scene.
- This is crazy.
- Ummmmmmmmmmmm…
- You might break a leg just looking at these.
- Huh.
- The more you look, the worse it gets.
- An excellent question.
- “Decor” is being kind.
- Really, I have more concerns about the appliance mortared into the wall than about the stairs.
The greening has begun and linkity is pleased
- New releases: Book Riot (best out this week, best out last week, comics/graphic novels), Smart Bitches (romance, queer romance)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches. Last week’s linkity from Smart Bitches.
- Linkity from BookWyrm Knits.
- “Nora Roberts going off“.
- Very good vaccine news.
- Amazing 3D graffiti art.
- Fascinating to see what they did so the place would sell.
- Lovely home on the Isle of Skye, although it does have some killer (blue) stairs.
- Nice MCM.
- I love this MCM spaceship house.
- This castlesque house works better than most.
- Partially underground MCM that’s a compound unto itself.
- This is a quirky one.
- Just a little strange.
- Must really like mosaics.
- House or human habitrail?
- Too many mannequins.
- Just a very creepy building.
- Unusual MCM that needs work and has a room I can only call “the brown room”.
- Dome mansion with the world’s ugliest gazebo.
- So-so castlesque house with the wine cellar by the front door.
- Castlesque house with two stables.
- Disappointing castlesque house, although it does have a lovely library.
- It’s something alright, but definitely not “Medieval Aesthetic”.
- Expensive and you really have to love turquoise.
- Well, at least it’s not all griege.
- It is indeed very extra.
- Ugly.
- What the what happened here?
- One I think we’ve seen before, but not with the picture of the balcony overlooking the bathroom.
- Big Cabela’s vibes.
- You didn’t even try.
- Yikes.
- Yikes again.
- Picturing knocking a hot beverage over on someone climbing the stairs.
- Eeek.
- Nope.
- How DO you use the dryer?
Linkity guesses it’s spring because WIND
- New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (best out this week, nonfiction, romance, SFF, mystery/thriller, horror), Reactor (scifi, fantasy), Gizmodo (SFF/horror)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- The 14 biggest LEGO sets.
- NOPE.
- Pickle jelly beans.
- Cute Craftsman.
- You could live in a funeral home decorated like the worst of the 60s/70s!
- Or your very own tiny shipping container!
- Nice sort-of MCM, but way overpriced.
- Another nice MCM, but the shag carpet has to go.
- Converted A-frame church.
- Oh look, a church conversion that’s not awkward.
- A small earth ship in Taos.
- So-so castle house.
- It has a mall/soulless office complex vibe.
- Too. Much. Stuff.
- This one’s mostly notable for the exceptionally terrible photos.
- Confusing.
- D’oh.
- It looks like an Escher.
- Railings! Needs railings!
Mayhem peering down into the space between the benches.
Polly sitting on my torso during my online Mat Pilates class.
Same Mat Pilates class, but I turned on macro, which distorted poor Polly’s ears.
Linkity is still longing for green growing things
- New releases: Book Riot (best out this week), Smart Bitches (romance)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- “Aragorn’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week.“
- “Cursive is making a comeback“.
- A comic about Chinese-American school segregation in 1885.
- So true.
- Humble knitting book bundle: 30 ebooks for $18 through (I believe) April 5.
- New limited-edition Oreo flavor: Churro.
- Pickle-flavored jelly beans.
- Dolly Parton’s peanut butter pie.
- An attractive MCM.
- Lovely one in the Twin Cities.
- Fairly nice dome home in Joshua Tree, California.
- Confusing and intriguing.
- Somewhat strange modern castle house.
- Surprisingly nice underground house.
- “Have you ever wished you could live in the ‘It’s a Small, Small World’ exhibit at Disney?”
- Tudor with a dungeon.
- Dramatic and somewhat confusing.
- Why the vinyl siding??
- If you love that mall vibe…
- Must be seen to be believed.
- Hot mess of a dome home.
- An MCM featuring some deadly stairs we’ve seen before.
- Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
- Does no one believe in railings anymore?
- Another one without railings.
- Aesthetics over sense.
- Seems like it would have been easier to make regular stairs.
- Ouch.
- Eeep.
Lumping it along with linkity
- New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (best out this week)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- “The high cost of ebooks has libraries struggling and seeking legal action“.
- Learn about Carnegie libraries.
- “New documentary on the untold story of black librarians“.
- Some crafty memes inspired by a fashion show unraveling.
- “Unpopular opinion but Joe Biden is literally everything Americans say they want in a president“.
- Five-ingredient lemon bars.
- Gluten-free strawberry muffins.
- I like the library.
- Lovely converted mill.
- Nice MCM.
- The pastel exterior won’t prepare you for the bright interior!
- Very colorful.
- Quirky.
- Nice dome home in Minneapolis, MN.
- Lovely Victorian in St Paul, MN.
- The house is mostly quite nice but the kitchen is dissonant.
- The singer from Third Eye Blind is selling his San Francisco home.
- Parts of this are cool, but nowhere near enough for the price.
- Very strange MCM.
- I don’t think I could live in a boob house like this.
- I have just learned I despise shiny ceilings that match the walls.
- Well then.
- Weirdness.
- You could own an ATV park.
- Crime scene house????
- Odd outside, very unfinished looking inside.
- What a microscopic toilet room – can there possibly be a sink? The “double bannister” is probably a mobility lift.
- Nooooooo.
- Hmm.
- Umm.
- Oh my.
- Yikes.
- I don’t like unpredictability in stairs.
Here we have Polly trying to make the best of what is obviously a too-small fabric basket…
Linkity would like you to know that the Ides of March is a tumblr holiday
- New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (best out this week, horror), Reactor (YA SFF/horror)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- Ooof. It me.
- How spongy is YOUR city?
- Peanut butter popcorn.
- “Rice Krispie” treats made with popcorn instead.
- I like this one.
- Cute round MCM.
- Fun MCM but the shag carpet has to go.
- MCM that’s mostly ok, but something about the interior colors just feels off to me.
- Oddly laid out MCM with an exceptionally cold feeling kitchen.
- That’s a lot of purple.
- The Barbie Dreamhouse Challenge house was redone after the challenge and put on the market. Some more on that house.
- The statue thing is weird.
- One in St Paul, Minnesota, that’s been interestingly renovated.
- Seems like a renovation fail.
- NOLA shotgun house that’s a reno disaster.
- Creepy basement is creepy.
- Very odd and angular.
- This one’s just weird and ugly.
- Has a spaceship in the living room.
- Who thought that kitchen was a good idea?
- There’s a lot going on here – I particularly hate the kitchen counters.
- WTF.
- Huh.
- Why?
- When faucets become a tripping hazard.
- D’oh.
- Absolutely not.
- So many opportunities for disaster.
Harry, trying to figure out what I’m doing, plus the second pair of socks I recently gifted.