Bookity

• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• Linkity from The Pen Addict.

Do, Make, Think, Learn

• Just say no to a remake of The Princess Bride. (Altho if it was diversified and genderswapped…)
• Behind the Nokia ringtone.
• It’s terrifying and exhausting being locked in the car.
• Some signs of ADHD.
• Some ways females with ADHD present, compared to males.
• Merriam-Webster officially added “they” to the dictionary as a nonbinary pronoun.
• Use index cards to capture new ideas.

Cookity

• 12 veggie recipes.
• Grilled corn enchiladas. (via The Kitchn)
• 15-minute shrimp and veggie stirfry.

Gluten Free

• Quick cast iron pizza.
• Rocky Road chocolate cookies.
• Apple slab pie.

Artsy Crafty

• Nothing to do this weekend? Perhaps you could knit yourself a Shetland lace fence.
• Or teach yourself the strawberry stitch, which looks like it might be one of the most fussy things ever.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Clever art.
• Good Omens cross stitch pattern.
• Movie references in “Science Fiction Double Feature”, aka The Rocky Horror Picture Show theme.
• The cat who loved camellias.
• “The moon asked the sun, ‘What do you know of love?’“
• Anticompetency on Good Omens.
• Doodle review of Good Omens Episode 6.
• “Things I’m glad the Good Omens TV show gave us“.
• Things the Good Omens fandom has decided are true.
• I put together a Good Omens playlist on YouTube, although my preferred version of the last song is only on SoundCloud.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Smash Mouth’s “All Star” done in the style of an English madrigal… by sight-reading music teachers.

Wha…?

• Sexy Mister Rogers Halloween costume.
• 10 new pumpkin spice snacks.

LOL

• The most black cat thing ever.

Teh Cute

• Baby lions! Baby red pandas!

Reading Update
American Gods Tenth Anniversary Edition by Neil Gaiman. I wonder how many times I’ll have to read this to completely grok what’s going on? Maybe that’s not even possible. ANYWAY. There’s a short story about Shadow in Fragile Things, too.

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“Hey Mom Hey Mom Hey Mom Hey Mom…” -Chaos

Look at how white his whiskers and paws are getting!

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. 🙂

• Together in London.
• Definitions of habit.
• The Blitz.
• Habit scribble.
• Lighthouse.
• Rainbow scribble habit.
• Dots and dashes.
• Light proud.
• Kintsugi.
• Translucent.

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“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Mayhem

Bookity

• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
• On Lynda Barry. (via Largehearted Boy)
• “Breaking down the New York Times ‘ essay on politics and fan culture“.
• How to pick your first book from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series. (Don’t start with Book #1, The Colour of Magic. Just don’t.)
• BBC America has cast Sam Vimes for their Terry Pratchett series The Watch.
• “Quietly angry at people who are loudly angry at Neil Gaiman…“
• More on the differences between the Good Omens book and show.
• 25 quotes from Georgette Heyer.
• “5 poems for these days of uncertainty“.
• What writers are doing as they walk around the city.

Do, Think, Make, Learn

• What if the government treated men the way women are treated?
• Some deep thoughts on parenting and specifically on parenting a nonbinary child. (via tinsnip)
• “I am the parent of a nonbinary child.” (via tinsnip)
• Types of self care.
• “World Suicide Prevention Day: I will probably always be sick, but that doesn’t mean I’m broken“.
• How NOT to land an orbital rocket booster, by SpaceX. (via tinsnip)
• How to eat sushi.
• “Why xkcd creator Randall Munroe wrote the world’s most extreme ‘how to’ book“.

Cookity

• Sausage and cheese breakfast egg muffins. (via the Kitchn)
• Tips and a recipe for making edible cookie dough.
• Chai pumpkin cake with maple browned butter frosting. (via skybound2)
• Three-ingredient oatmeal cookies.
• S’mores biscuits. (via skybound2)

Gluten Free

• Chocolate chip cookie bars.
• Jam-filled donut muffins.

Cool

• Listen to changes being made to Wikipedia. (via oldrecordplayer)
• King Arthur statue at Tintagel.
• On baby dragons.
• On changelings.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Wha…?

• “Please enjoy this soothing footage of a migrating herd of wild air mattresses“.

LOL

• Minnesota’s 12 seasons.
• Inspector Penguin, inspectin’!
• “WE LIVE IN AN OLIGOPOLIC KLEPTOPLUTOCRACY AND NOBODY SEEMS TO CARE“.
• September gothic.

Teh Cute

• Bison and baby! Cranes and babies!

Reading Update

• Look! Over there! Is that Good Omens fanfic I spy?! 😉

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“How many chucks COULD a woodchuck chuck?!” -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. 🙂

• Angels dining at the Ritz.
• Rainbow scribble doodle + quote.
• Scribbly.
• “‘I’m lost,’ I said…“
• Night.
• Music.
• The CAUTION journal.
• Ugly.
• Washi3.
• Hidden words.
• Tell my own story. (You’ll have to click on the photos to see them in their entirety. Thanks, tumblr – not.)
• Pencil.
• Completed Season of Documenting journal.

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“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Chaos

Contest

• Blodeuedd’s giving away a copy of Death Takes a Holiday at Pemberley by Kelly Miller. Looks like it closes on September 9 or 10, depending on where you live.

Bookity

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), io9 (sff)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• On depression and reading hurt/comfort fic.
• “How audiobooks improve my mental health and my reading life.
• Gorgeous library.
• Lovely leather book covers.
• A fairy tale told backwards.
• There’s going to be an Earthsea tv show.
• “Standard book club brawl“.
• “The oompa loompas are a Greek chorus“.
• “My friend said ‘Aziraphale’ sounded like the name of an antidepressant so obviously I had to spend all morning making this fake commercial“.
• David Tennant at DragonCon.

Do, Learn, Think, Make

• What happens if you leave a cup of water on the sidewalk?
• “The commuting principle that shaped urban history“.
• D’oh. Pet vaccination rates are dropping (in the UK, at least).
• Some free online courses starting this month.
• “Manage climate change anxiety with these Cold War coping techniques“.
• How to pack a suitcase efficiently. Perhaps have tissues nearby…

Cookity

• Chicken and cabbage stirfry. (via the Kitchn)
• Balsamic strawberry chicken salad. (via the Kitchn)
• 5-minute brownie in a mug.
• Caramel gingerbread cake. (via gilajames)

Gluten Free

• Bran muffins.

Artsy Crafty

• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• It’s funnier if you read from the bottom up.
• Space shuttle posters.

Cool or Wha…?

• “What it’s like to fly with a service horse on an airplane“.

Wha…?

• “What is the best and least creepy way to show that we care about diversity“? FAIL.
• Ok, canned peas are NOT that color.
• Carnivorous howling mouse.
• Vantablack car.

LOL

• On basenjis.
• Learn how to talk Minnesotan.
• “How to measure things like a Canadian.”
• The most extreme way to take a selfie.
• I am not exactly sure what’s going on here. Thanks, kmkat!

Reading Update

• Guess. 😀

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*primly ignoring me* -Mayhem