Probably no linkity next week, as I won’t have any time to put it together.

Bookity

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance) and Tor.com (genre benders)
• Linkity from ReaderWriterVille.
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• So who wrote what bits in Good Omens?
• “The Good Omens miniseries is a love story and I will never recover from it“.
• Neil Gaiman 1, troll 0.
• “When childhood books should not be revisited“.
• An intriguing twist on the soulmate AU.
• Whoops! Child promised to two different witches.
• Book-related nail art.

Think, Make, Learn, Do

• The Queering the Map Project.
• RIP, Alan Turing.
• The US has hit 1000 cases of measles this year… and counting.
• Imagine that…

Cookity

• Quick peanutty noodle salads.
• Summer salads.
• 12 easy slow-cooker recipes.
• Broccoli cheddar egg muffins.
• Chocolate tres leches cake.
• Peanut butter cup and pretzel oatmeal cookies. (via The Kitchn)

Gluten Free

• Zucchini verde vegan enchiladas.
• Yeast-free dinner rolls.
• Lemon poppy seed muffins.

Artsy Crafty

• Linkity from knittyBlog.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• BOOM.
• A very inland sea photo of Lake Superior.
• The end of an era – the last Mayday parade hosted by In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• The Great Garden Gnome Massacre.

Wha…?

• The tweeter’s notebook.
• Xbox body wash.
• “Straight Pride” parade to be held in Boston.
• Scary red pepper.

LOL

• “Conjure a sword.“
• Possible outcomes if a centaur and a mermaid were to have a child…

Reading Update
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman. I’ve been seeing so much about Good Omens on tumblr that I decided it was time for a reread. Delightful.
Anywhere, Anytime Art: Crayon: A Colorful Guide to Drawing with Crayon for Artists on the Go by Monika Forsberg. Cute, but without much actual content.
The Journal Junkies Workshop: Visual Ammunition for the Art Addict by Eric M Scott & David R Modler. Good introduction to visual journaling and how to get started. Wish I’d found this one when I was getting started – it has some techniques that would’ve been nice to have learned earlier.
Down Among the Sticks and Bones and Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children 2-3) by Seanan McGuire. Good continuation of this series about children who’ve found doors into other worlds but are sent back to this one.
Snuff (Discworld #39) by Terry Pratchett. In which Sam Vimes goes on a vacation to his wife’s family’s summer home and shenanigans ensue.
Under Wraps (Underworld Detection Agency #1) by Hannah Jayne. Not the greatest – the characters didn’t seem consistent to me and it had a not-quite-a-cliffhanger-but-you-can-see-the-cliff-in-the-vicinity ending… but I’m still reading the next one, so!

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“Sheesh! Back off, Mom!” -Mayhem

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! 🙂 Just a warning – kind of a crazy lot of art this week – I’m running out my tumblr queue while at the same time simultaneously posting from insta to tumblr, so it’s a bit of a double whammy until the queue is empty (only 31 days to go!).

• FURniture clutter.
• “You only fail…“
• Blue and green spirals.
• Inspire. Dream.
• More spirals.
• Carpet alone.
• Neil Gaiman, Art Matters.
• Spirals on a very bright background.
• One-staple collage.
• Do words.
• Sunny days.
• Wolf caffeinated.
• Brush pen practice.
• Purple and pink spirals.
• Escher self.
• Copper three crown diamonds.
• Hole in the heart.
• Vineyard colors, nautilus, dusk.
• Scattershot, volume 2.
• Packaging and stickers.

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*in the sun zone* -Mayhem

Bookity

• New releases: Tor.com (YA SFF, scifi, fantasy)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from ReaderWriterVille.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• Nonasuch has an interesting theory about Night Watch by Terry Pratchett. On May 25th. SPOILER WARNINGS FOR BOTH LINKS.
• Some daily journaling prompts for June.
• A few ways to make more time for reading.
• “In praise of used books“.
• 15 Shel Silverstein quotes.
• Literature-themed adult color books.

Think, Do, Make, Learn

• Listen to a podcast on the history of Pachyderm Studio.
• “10 things Einstein got right“.
• Opossums are important!
• Pride Month merch that actually helps LGBTQ causes.
• “Email like a boss“.
• How many steps do you really need to take each day?
• On climate change and flooding in the US.
• What dryer sheets do to your clothes.

Cookity

• Grilled ceasar salad.
• Easy vegan lasagna.
• 9 rice bowl recipes.
• 10 slow cooker chicken recipes.
• No-bake peanut butter pie.

Gluten Free

• Spring pizza.
• Pasta.
• No-bake brownies.

Artsy Crafty

• Linkity from knittyBlog.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Linkity from kmkat.

Wha…?

• “The US Energy Department has rebranded natural gas as ‘freedom gas’ and I, for one, have questions“.
• Giant holiday ornament leads to a bomb scare.

LOL

• “Wisely, they got out of there…“
• XKeyboardCD. Swimming. Mulder and Scully. Hover cursor/long-press for captions.

Teh Cute

• Zebra and baby! Baby beaver! Bison and baby!

Reading Update
Hogfather (Discworld #20) by Terry Pratchett. Death fills in for the Hogfather…
Labyrinth, Downpour, Seawitch, Possession, and Revenant (Greywalker 5-9) by Kat Richardson. Good continuation of this urban fantasy series about a Seattle PI who can walk in the paranormal layer of reality known as the Grey.
Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children #1) by Seanan McGuire. Strange and beautiful tale of a school for children who’ve gone through portals to other worlds, returned, and been stuck here.

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“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Chaos & Mayhem

(This is from before Chaos’ stay at the vet – now he has a big shaved spot on the back of his neck!)

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday!

• Library facts.
• Valiant nurture.
• Experimenting with alcohol inks.
• Experiments, not failures.
• Packaging.
• Very timely, what with it being Mayhem’s birthday!
• Fun takes.

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It’s hard to believe that my baby is 13 years old, isn’t it?! Flashing back to when I got her in September of 2006…

She was so tiny compared to Chaos! (Especially because he was a few pounds overweight at the time.)

Bookity

• New releases: AAR (romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches. More.
• Linkity from ReaderWriterVille. More.
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• Browser extension that checks to see if your library has a book you’re looking considering buying online. Here’s where you can find both the Firefox and Chrome versions.
• 8 reading recommendations with canon asexual representation.
• “How fan fiction influenced my reading“.
• The fashion history of Clint Barton/Hawkeye. (I… had only seen the Fraction/Aja iteration. I am, as they say, shook.)
• Good Omens in 35,000 dominoes. (And Neil Gaiman’s reaction.)
• Harry Potter characters as Troubled Birds.

Make, Think, Learn, Do

• Bill Nye, then and now. (And the extended gif set version of the last gif.)
• The sand sculpture that summarizes the state of the US.
• The FDA wants to reduce food waste by changing how companies use expiration dates on their products.
• Is this the new goal of TV and movies?
• I’m a sucker for bags that convert between shoulder bags and backpacks – I have this bag, and it’s pretty great.
• Asthma effects of segregation in California.
• A Times Square billboard started on fire.
• Vintage public domain cat photos.
• Who was Tomoe Gozen?

Cookity

• Guide to stir frying.
• Pad thai with pork and shrimp.
• Broccoli quesadillas.
• Zucchini pesto pasta with mushrooms.
• Easy rhubarb crisp.

Gluten Free

• Cream cheese buttermilk biscuits.

Artsy Crafty

• It’s almost time for ICAD (Index-Card-A-Day) 2019! Some warm-up activities.
• 15 free patterns for handmade books.
• Linkity from knittyBlog.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Obviously I need to go to Bell Museum!
• What if an EMT was a necromancer but didn’t realize?
• “A sentient AI falls in love with a minimum wage retail worker…“
• Entirely for the tiny “ta-da”.
• Best animal adoption video or best animal adoption video?
• QWERTY keyboard art.
• Branching art.
• Astronomical sphere ring.
• Four Avengers’ stars in an Avengers-themed escape room.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Removable wallpaper based on books and comics.

Wha…?

• This is in this section not because of what it is (genius), but because it’s necessary.

LOL

• Some of the Twin Cities metro area cities as characters from The Breakfast Club.
• “Sweater of the Panther“.

Teh Cute

• Baby penguins! Baby red wolves! Okapi and baby! And more baby red wolves! Baby clouded leopards!

Reading Update
Greywalker, Poltergeist, Underground, and Vanished (Greywalker 1-4) by Kat Richardson. Good urban fantasy series about a private investigator who, after being clinically dead for two minutes, finds herself drawn into the Grey – a world alongside ours, but filled with magic and the paranormal. The writing is very “noir” (choppy, declarative sentences in first person POV), which took me a while to settle into.
Things Are What You Make of Them: Life Advice for Creatives by Adam J Kurtz. What it says on the tin. Very short.
International (Monster Hunter #1) by Larry Correia. B-movie monster hunting gun p0rn.
Feet of Clay (Discworld #19), Jingo (Discworld #21), The Fifth Elephant (Discworld #24), Night Watch (Discworld #29), and Thud! (Discworld #34) by Terry Pratchett. I love Sam Vines and the Night Watch.
Reaper Man (Discworld #11) and Soul Music (Death #16) by Terry Pratchett. In the first, Death gets fired and has an existential crisis. In the second, Death doesn’t get fired and has an existential crisis.

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“If it stops raining, will there be MORE birds??” -Mayhem