Luke Elliot Arnold | Stumbling Over Chaos

Oh, hello there! Hope everyone continues to be pandemic fine, at the very least?! I am now fully vaccinated and the two weeks have passed. I’ve been “celebrating” by having a few long-delayed routine medical appointments… And I got my hair cut! It was past my shoulder blades – now it skims my shoulders.

New releases: Tor.com (YA SFF, horror/genre benders, SF, fantasy), Smart Bitches (romance), Gizmodo (SFF), AAR (romance)
Linkity from Smart Bitches. And more. And more. And more.
Linkity from BookWyrm Knits.
“Dragon journals and bookmarks for book wyrms to add to their hoards“.
“Consider: A fantasy series where the court wizard is treated and portrayed just like an IT guy“.
“Marriage Proposals 102, featuring Mr Darcy“.
“If going anywhere with small children was a magical fantasy novel“.
“Why do I have to wait SO LONG for library ebooks?”
If there were daemons in Discworld.
“Being vaccinated does NOT mean (bookish edition)“.
Shopping in an actual bookstore now.
“The bookshop cat and the pandemic“.
“There is no after“.
“I’m feeling symptoms of ‘cave syndrome.’ Aren’t you?“
A brief history of the school backpack.
Some fancy bees.
On house cats and meowing.
The ugliest orchid.
Some ugly birds.
What football stadiums look like from above.
Neil deGrasse Tyson vs the Steam-umm twitter account.
Parkway Theater drone video.
LEGO Space Shuttle Discovery.
Giant LEGO R2-D2.
Fandom embroidery projects.
Knit yourself a crown.
THIS. And THIS.
Blueberry cookies.
“How to cope with the garden gnome shortage“…
Saturn Devouring His Son… made from balloons… CANNOT BE UNSEEN.
Tiny novelty hands.
Platypus dragon.
March 2020. After the Pandemic. Hover cursor/long-press for captions.
“Vaccine side effect, or have you just been alive for 40 years?“
When 10% of California’s condor population decides to live on your deck.
Menard’s, strangely surreal at times.
The strange intersection of knitting and earbuds.

Reading Update
Not everything, but some of what I’ve been reading…
Across the Green Fields (Wayward Children #6) by Seanan McGuire. Not related to the school at all, but still good. I just wish these had a bit more closure.
The Secret Chapter and The Dark Archive (The Invisible Library 6-7) by Genevieve Cogman. Pretty solid in 6 and then WTF at the ending of 7.
The Last Smile in Sunder City and Dead Man in a Ditch (The Fetch Phillips Archives 1-2) by Luke Elliot Arnold. Good but tragic – these are mysteries set in a world which has lost its magic, which really messed up creatures that relied on magic to live, such as vampires, unicorns, etc.