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.

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

*unimpressed* -Chaos

And here are the socks, unobscured.

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From Thursday, May 11, through Thursday, June 1, I will be taking a bookbinding class that’s required for my Book Arts Certificate (and which is always offered on Thursday evenings for some reason). Since Thursday evenings are my time for putting linkity together, I have a dilemma. A month without linkity seems a little extreme, doesn’t it?! How would y’all feel about maybe two Saturday linkities during that time?

Contest(s)

• Bookwyrm Knits is running a contest through the end of the month and the prize includes fountain pens, some ink samples, a self-inking Spiraldex stamp, and a blank journal. Make sure you read the details – comment early, comment often. 🙂 Closes 8 am PDT, April 30.

Bookity

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Tor.com (genre-benders, scifi) and Gizmodo (scifi and fantasy)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Extended version of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.
• The 2017 Hugo Award finalists.
• “When meditation doesn’t work, try journaling to stay sane“. Yes. Do try it! 🙂 It has been immensely helpful for me.
• “10 everyday phrases that come from printing“.
• “Scientists create a wheel of old book smells“.
• High school vocabulary test.

Think, Learn, Do, Make

• Hostile micronation warning!
• On scientists naming things.
• States of matter.
• How do centaurs eat?
• “The mystery behind Minnesota’s Devil’s Kettle waterfall has finally been solved“.
• Maybe another piece of the complicated puzzle that is celiac disease.
• “Court rules Civil Rights Act of 1964 also protects employees from sexual orientation discrimination“.
• I am unsurprised that we are stressed by climate change.
• But hey, Minnesota is the least-stressed state. 🙂
• April’s unusual holidays.
• Explore historic London with a combination of Google maps and old photos.
• Infographic of the most expensive ways to cross the US.

Cookity

• Chopped chickpea salad.
• Weeknight vegetable stirfry.
• Cheesy vegetable melts.
• Feta salsa.
• No-bake sheet pan yogurt lemon tart.

Gluten Free

• Pasta frittata with goat cheese.

Artsy Crafty

• Make your very own Wonder Woman plush uterus.
• 3D printed knitting.
• Knitting linkity from knittyBlog.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Truly spring must be on its way to the Twin Cities…
• LEGO Nye’s Polonaise! (That’s not going to mean much to you if you don’t live in the Twin Cities.)
• LEGO version of Guardians of the Galaxy 2 trailer.
• Scifi short about an astronaut.
• A little more from Elsewhere University…
• Dinosaur mugs.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• 2001: A Space Odyssey swag.
• Upcoming X-Files book for kids.

Wha…?

• tRUMP on SNL.
• Cap’n Crunch infused beer.
• “Scientists want to use color-changing rainbow poop to diagnose your bowel problems“. (“Ma’am, you’re either dying or you’ve eaten a luridly colored Oreo recently – we just can’t tell.”)
• “You can now rent a Texas home that looks like a cowboy boot“.
• Cadbury Creme Egg pizza.
• Spaghetti doughnuts.

LOL

• Tiny Godzilla!
• For scale.
• In which we are all Ivanka tRUMP’s neighbor.
• Basketball autocorrects.
• Security advice. (Hover cursor/long-press for additional text.)

Teh Cute

• The owl and the pussycat (no pea green boat in sight)! Cheetah and babies! Baby penguin! Kittens! Baby kea! Baby lion!

Reading Update
White Corridor (Bryant & May #5) by Christopher Fowler. I gave it a couple of chapters, but it wasn’t working for me at all. It felt different from the other books in the series somehow. DNF.
Battle Street Bolero (Bone Street Rumba #3) by Daniel Jose Older. Very satisfying conclusion to this trilogy.
Improbable Libraries: A Visual Journey to the World’s Most Unusual Libraries by Alex Johnson. Very cool look at the many, many different ways that libraries reach people and people reach libraries around the world.

“What socks?” -Mayhem

Oh, these socks? 😉 These were for my SIL’s birthday… her March 2016 birthday. I finished them the day before her March 2017 birthday. Yay?!

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Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! 🙂

• Hope.
• No one’s careful…
• Let America be America again.
• Rainbow critter!
• I am the Bill of Rights. Revolution intact.
• Very bright write over.
• Eye exam.

10 journal prompts to get you thinking about politics… if you can stand to do so.

The really funny thing about these socks I “finished” a few days ago? I discovered them when I was looking for something else… and they only needed two ends woven in to be done. Of course, I do remember moaning and bitching about the skein of yarn I used for them, which I firmly believe should’ve been sold as seconds due to the truly alarming number of ends in it. I’d planned to knit these matchy matchy, but by the time I started the second sock, I knew that wasn’t going to work (too many knots) so I knit it from the opposite end of the skein.

“What are these things on the floor?! They seem somehow familiar, maybe from a long, long time ago.” -Mayhem

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Congrats to Dianna, who won Chyna Doll (Horizons #4) by Mickie B Ashling! Chyna Doll is being released today by Dreamspinner Press.

Random bonus picture from my weekend. I call it “Pinata Aftermath” – only five minutes earlier, this monkey had a body:

I’m still puzzled why a yarn designer looked at this colorway (blue/green/brown/black) and decided it needed hints of pink (not visible in the photo), plus sparkles. Yes, all of the little light-colored flecks are sparkles. Link to Ravelry project page.

“My goodness! MORE socks?! What is going on around here?!” -Mayhem

“Mmmmm… sparkly socks…” -Mayhem

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Congrats to Val, who won Secrets and Charms (Secrets #2) by Lou Harper!

Since I totally don’t feel like writing a Misadventure, I’m declaring a Misadventure amnesty day. Here, have a cute picture of a cat and a sock instead (click picture to embiggen):

“I love you, sock.” -Mayhem

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