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?! 😉

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

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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. 😀

*primly ignoring me* -Mayhem

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Yes, once again, it was monthly server update night for work during my linkity time, so!

Bookity

• New releases: Tor.com (genre benders, ya sff, scifi, fantasy) and AAR (romance)
• “We can be heroes: How the nerds are reinventing pop culture“.
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
• Which dystopian novel are we in?
• “The cannon of literature“.

Think, Learn, Do, Make

• How to melt the Statue of Liberty. (This one could go into multiple categories, really.)
• How climate change could be beaten by 2050.

Cookity

• 50 no-bake desserts.

Artsy Crafty

• Linkity from knittyBlog.

Wha…?

• Pumpkin Spice Spam.

LOL

• Imagined vs real adulthood.
• So true!
• #BadStockPhotosOfMyJob.
• Bad pun warning.
• Another pun (on a sign).

Reading Update

• Good Omens fanfic!!!

“What’s happening?!?” -Mayhem

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Bookity

• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• “Everyone who contributed to fanfiction site ‘Archive of Our Own’ is now a Hugo Award winner“. My sole work on AO3 is a playlist, but hey! 🙂 An action shot of the AO3 Hugo.
• The complete list of Hugo Award winners.
• If you enjoyed the dogfather AU, part two (the black dog) is now complete!
• “Emmy contender: How Good Omens designed 6000 years of costumes for Aziraphale and Crowley“.
• Good Omens and representation. Why the romance in Good Omens resonates so.

Do, Think, Learn, Make

• Tips for using inclusive language and pronouns.
• “Instragram chief debunks copyright apocalypse hoax“.
• Is “Bohemian Rhapsody” the most successful meme? (I’m sure I’ve posted this before, but it remains awesome.)

Cookity

• 40 copycat recipes.
• Sloppy strawberry pie.
• Easy ice cream sandwich cake.
• Chocolate zucchini muffins. (via the Kitchn)

Gluten Free

• Pizza rolls.

Artsy Crafty

• “Knitting for anxiety and pain“.
• Linkity from knittyBlog.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Amazing 75,000 piece LEGO model of Deep Space Nine. (via tinsnip)
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Floating bridge.
• 132 kitchen gadgets. (via tinsnip)

Wha…?

• “It’s like someone messed up building a house on the Sims.“
• Fried chicken phone case.
• “Man caught playing Pokemon Go on eight phones in his car“.

LOL

• What fashion companies try to sell to men and women vs what men and women want.
• “I’ve No More …. To Give” by Thomas Benjamin Wild, Esq. NSFW for work – language.
• Reviewing earth. Hover cursor/long-press for caption.

Teh Cute

• Black kitten eating dry food!

Reading Update
Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor, Still not exactly sure what happened, but it was strangely compelling anyway.

“feedmefeedmefeedmefeedmefeedmefeedmefeedme” -Chaos (who has a very one-track mind…)

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Bookity

• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from ReaderWriterVille.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
• Lots of books were added to the public domain recently.
• 12 Toni Morrison quotes.
• Some good tips from an editor.
• “Uncanny Magazine doesn’t exist without fan fiction“.
• What to do if an uninvited novelist is hiding in your house.
• The life of bookstore staff.
• “How to read at the expense of virtually everything else“.
• Illuminated capitals from early editions of Good Omens.
• BOOM.

Think, Do, Make, Learn

• Heirloom apple reviews from Chuck Wendig.
• “How to eat less plastic“.
• Don’t pick NULL as your vanity plate…
• “How to destroy a metal credit card at home“.

Cookity

• 60+ recipes for chicken breasts.
• Ranch chicken quinoa salad. (via the Kitchn)
• Zucchini and green pepper relish.

Gluten Free

• Paleo chocolate cake.
• Flourless chocolate chip peanut butter cookies.

Artsy Crafty

• Make a wee accordion book.
• Linkity from knittyBlog.

Cool

• Excellent mural.
• Yeah, nothing says Upper Midwest like giant fiberglass figures and “some kinda days” (local festivals of some sort).
• A meme I did on tumblr.

Wha…?

• “That one time Patrick Rothfuss, Chuck Tingle, John Scalzi, and Neil Gaiman created The Wise Man’s Butt“.

LOL

• Moose be chillin’.
• “To protect the floor“…
• “Australia, do you take constructive criticism on your wildlife?“
• August gothic.

Teh Cute

• Baby leopards!

Reading Update
The Nice and Accurate Good Omens TV Companion: Your guide to Armageddon and the series based on the bestselling novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman by Matt Whyman. Wonderful resource for fans of the show! (Yes, yes, I read mostly Good Omens fanfic this past week as well…)

*slow squinty kitty love blinks* -Mayhem

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