No linkity next week, as I will be listening to Hilary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton speak locally during my linkity making time.

Bookity

• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• “The bad faith attacks on Archive of Our Own have to end“. A history of fandom purges highlights how important ao3 is.
• “A history of deckle edges”.
• Listen to David Tennant read vampire stories to help you get in that Halloween mood.
• Georgia Tennant announced the birth of their fifth child in a fine Good Omens meme style.
• Story planning cheatsheet for you Preptober folks.
• VE Schwab on writing.
• Some fictional librarians. (via Book Riot)
• “The messy, beautiful worldbuilding of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe“.
• Have I previously linked to this version of Cinderella?

Do, Think, Learn, Make

• Flashback!
• Think twice before asking a neural net to pick your Halloween costume.
• If you want to read about terribly deadly sea creatures…
• The history of the ampersand. (Thanks, Nicole!)
• “Meet California’s nerds of neon“.
• “How untreated ADHD causes and traps you in depression“.
• “Use Kurt Vonnegut’s happiness trick“.

Cookity

• “Reddit users share their best weird, cheap meals“.
• 50+ pumpkin recipes.
• 25 butternut squash recipes.
• 5-ingredient chicken chili.
• Tomato rice with crispy cheddar.
• Pumpkin dump cake.

Gluten Free

• Pumpkin breakfast muffins.

Artsy Crafty

• A common newbie knitting mistake………
• Crafting on the ISS.

Cool

• LEGO dinosaur fossils.
• Replica Parthenon made from banned books.
• To remember if you’re having a rough day.

Cool or Wha…?

• Deliberately inconvenient objects.
• Synch “your car’s windshield wipers to the beat of your music”.

Wha…?

• Toasted coaster.
• Children’s films using HP Lovecraft.
• When your basement becomes a lake of blood, as they do.
• Watch “creatures of the deep…feeding on a whale carcass”.

Teh Cute

• Duckling slide!

Reading Update

• SO MUCH Good Omens fanfic.

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In shocking news, I completed my SIL’s 2017 birthday socks!

*unimpressed* -Chaos

And here are the socks, unobscured.

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! I’ve included some of my recent favorites below. You can catch up on everything on my Tumblr, if you’d like. 🙂

• “It was good to be human.“
• Wings.
• Age breathing.
• Subtitle.
• Breath emotions.
• True story.
• Rainbow scribble doodle with hand.
• Don’t fall for it.
• Grey.
• Marble.
• “We live in an occupied country.“
• Hands panic.
• Ampersand.

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“Hee hee! Mom will never find me!” -Mayhem

Bookity

• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• “On reading, walking, and seasonal depression”.
• “Imagining other worlds in Diana Wynne Jones’ Witch Week“.
• “Introducing the Great C.S. Lewis Reread“.
• The Annotated Pratchett File is still online and contain annotations for the Discworld books, Good Omens, and more. Go download a copy, just in case! (via hollow-head)
• Is everything just fanfiction?
• Book covers reimagined.
• “Questionnaire”, a poem from Wendell Berry.
• 36 quotes from Annie Dillard.

Think, Make, Do, Learn

• Yeah, we’re real excited about tRUMP’s visit.
• Brilliant and simple hotel room hack.
• As someone who loves, magenta, WTF. The google search for “is magenta real”, because I, too, had doubts.
• Oh. Well. That’s going to take some mental recalibration.
• I hope all of you know about two-factor authentication and are using it everywhere you can.
• How cookie cutters are made.
• “Astronomers just found 20 new moons around Saturn“. SURPRISE!
• On the sleep data provided by smartwatches and other devices.

Cookity

• Easy Jiffy corn casserole.
• Instant Pot buffalo chicken.
• Crispy tofu.
• “30 basic marinade recipes for every protein (including tofu)“.
• Cinnamon-sugar shortbread.

Gluten Free

• Bread pudding.

Artsy Crafty

• Make solar system jewelry.
• Crochet a Kraken.
• Cross stitch Untitled Goose.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• “Opening into Wings” – a comic.
• Two types of cats…
• “Bam! Free bees!”
• My lockscreen, home screen, and last played song at the time of the post.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Wha…?

• “Chernobyl’s infamous Reactor 4 control room is now open to tourists“.

LOL

• Allegra has concerns.
• Oh, snap, California!
• Horrible goose traps people in TARDIS.
• Dragon threat responses.

Reading Update
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions by Neil Gaiman. More horroresque than I’m really fond of.

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*glaring glarefully* -Chaos

“Yeah! What the big kitty’s doing!!” -Mayhem

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! I’ve included some of my recent favorites below. You can catch up on everything on my Tumblr, if you’d like. 🙂

• Rewind.
• Sometimes people become habits.
• London for two.
• Parachute.
• Cupcake.
• Redefine.
• Type.
• Seed.
• To the world.
• For #IneffableHusbandsInktober.
• Volcanoes closer.
• Fins.

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“…zzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Chaos

Bookity

• New releases: Gizmodo (sff)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• Good quote from Neil Gaiman’s Newbery acceptance speech.
• Neil Gaiman on Ursula K LeGuin.
• Learn some more about Chuck Tingle.
• “Vacay” has been added to the dictionary.
• Some thoughts on tattoos and piercing in the Harry Potter ‘verse.

Think, Learn, Do, Make

• Some of the women who’ve shaped geek/nerd culture.
• “If you want to say thank you, don’t say sorry“.
• The sound of the sun.
• “How to quiet your mind“.
• Learn a small new skill to improve your self-image.
• Cheerios flavors, ranked.
• Robert De Niro dropping f-bombs about tRUMP on live TV.
• Best wildlife photos of 2019.
• Best astronomy photos of 2019.
• “Why wasabi heat feels different from chili pepper heat“.

Cookity

• 16 fall salads.
• 28 quick dinners for one.
• Pumpkin bundt cake shaped like a pumpkin.
• Instant Pot creme brulee.

Cool

• Black hole safety tips.
• Solar system art. (via themoonmothwrites)
• Embroidered solar system.
• Some coffee shops from the past (Minneapolis).
• October gothic.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Fanfic for Untitled Goose Game. (Well, then – there are also fics for it on AO3.)
• A musical from Microsoft interns.

Wha…?

• Halloween dachshund skeleton. (I checked and yes, this is a real thing.)
• “Bishop worried that college will make women smarter than their husbands“.

LOL

• Don’t mess with MoonPie.
• Life quest.

Teh Cute

• Baby red pandas.

Reading Update
Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman. My favorite of this collection was the American Gods short story about Shadow in the UK.

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“Happy birthday to MEEEEEEEEEE!” -Chaos

And now he’s 16 years old. Ack! (Please don’t try to count his teeth – I can’t remember how many he had pulled…)