- 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
Harry tummy! Type = Not Forbidden!
“I know she secretly likes me!!!!!” -Harry
“Are those kittens STILL HERE?!” -Mayhem