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.

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

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• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from ReaderWriterVille.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• A little affect vs effect refresher.
• Listen to parts 1-5 of Seanan McGuire’s new book Middlegame.
• “The Tao of Sir Terry: Pratchett vs logic“.
• “Words invented to name emotions we all feel , but don’t yet have a name for“. (via Book Riot)
• The Chilliad: Hour Five.
• Explaining fanfic writing using food.
• Great quote about fanfiction.
• Some typographic humor from the past.

Think, Make, Do, Learn

• Where the quote “Well-behaved women seldom make history” actually came from.
• BOOM. And BOOM.
• The Handmaid’s Tale creeps ever nearer…
• “Americans lead the developed world in climate change denial“. :facepalm:
• “If AirPods are anything, they’re future fossils of capitalism.“
• The International Space Station and cooperation.
• “Looking for info about bottled water quality? Good luck.“
• Don’t call robocallers back.
• Beware those canisters of PAM spray.
• “How to teach your kid that they don’t have to be perfect at everything“.
• Learn a little about Vitamin B-12 deficiency.

Cookity

• Using black cocoa powder.
• Angel food cake that supposedly come out perfect every time.
• Strawberry cake.

Gluten Free

• Parmesan crackers.
• Morning glory muffins.

Artsy Crafty

• “Ok. This is what I’ve learned about cross stitching.“
• Linkity from knittyBlog.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Some thoughts about liminal spaces.
• Atmospheric driving through rain in Wisconsin.
• Great photo of the human habitrails in Minneapolis (aka skyways).
• If Captain America (Steve Rogers) was related to Fred Rogers…
• Linkity from Bookwyrmknits.

Cool or Wha…?

• The new color-changing cup from Starbucks.
• The concept seems good, but the name: ClusterDuck from IBM.

Wha…?

• Marketing water like beer.
• CapriSun, AriZona green tea, and Fiji bottled water swimsuits.
• “Imagine getting pulled over by this tablet on a stick“.

LOL

• That’s an important clarification.

Teh Cute

• Baby Klipspringer! Baby sand cats! Zebra and baby! Dusky pademelon and baby!

Reading Update
Dreams of Shreds and Tatters by Amanda Downum. I am not really sure why I finished this – I certainly didn’t care for any of the characters and never engaged with the plot.

And I reread books 7-10 of Seanan McGuire’s October Daye series…

“…zzzzzzzzz…” -Mayhem

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• New releases: Tor.com (genre-benders, fantasy, scifi, yasff), Smart Bitches (romance)
• Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from ReaderWriterVille.
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• “Reading fatigue: Remembering every minute doesn’t need to be productive”.
• Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London series is being adapted for television.
• “Samuel Delaney on his legacy, creativity” and more.
• Quotes for spring.
• “For the young who want to” – a poem by Marge Piercy.
• “Some useful new words for readers”.

Do, Learn, Make, Think

• “A Chilean mining company lays claim to Minnesota’s water“.
• What “the Stanley Cup would look like if the NHL never removed any rings”.
• On women being the “civilizing force”.
• RIP, Chewbacca.
• “Narwhal genome reveals another way that narwhals are weird”.
• Oklahoma tornado via drone.
• “The terrible truth about Alexa”.
• Do you need another measles vaccination?
• Indonesia is in the process of moving its capital.
• “‘Gluten-free’ restaurant dishes sometimes aren’t”.

Cookity

• 11 easy Japanese recipes.
• 10 easy meatless meals.
• Chickpea pot pie.
• Skillet chicken with rhubarb.
• 15-minute coconut curry shrimp.
• “Best healthy chocolate chip cookies”.
• Banana bread chocolate chunk cookies.
• Cinnamon roll apple pie cupcakes.
• Strawberry crumble bars.

Gluten Free

• Classic birthday cake.
• Flourless pecan cake.
• Strawberry chocolate chip muffins.
• Master crumble recipe.
• “One” ingredient chocolate mousse.

Artsy Crafty

• Amusing knitwear from 1986.
• Daisy Yellow on the wonders of washi tape.
• Linkity from knittyBlog.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Napping black cat.
• Minneapolis puddles (this is from before all the snow melted).
• In which the seven deadly sins are interpreted as billionaires of various types.
• “If pregnancy is God’s will then so is impotence”. BOOM.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Drugs to “boost social skills in people with autism”?!
• Inflatable shower curtain for use with a bathtub.

Wha…?

• Terrifying Easter lamb cakes.
• “An Airbnb in Idaho offers…the chance to sleep inside a [replica] potato”.
• It’s good they had crash test dummies, I guess?! 😮
• “The pet rock of the future is a $75 wireless meditation pebble“.

LOL

• Calvin’s dad loved to mess with Calvin SO MUCH.

Teh Cute

• Baby river otters! Porcupettes!

Reading Update
“Through This House” (October Daye 4.5) in Home Improvement: Undead Edition, about Toby and crew going through Goldengreen for the first time.
In Sea-Salt Tears (October Daye 5.1) by Seanan McGuire. Free. Good short about the Luidaeg in 1972.
No Sooner Met (October Daye 6.2) by Seanan McGuire. Toby and Tybalt’s first date.
Rat-Catcher (October Daye 7.1) by Seanan McGuire. Free. How Tybalt became a King of Cats.
Forbid the Sea (October Daye 7.2) by Seanan McGuire. Free. Tybalt, 10 years into his reign.
Heaps of Pearl (October Daye 8.1) by Seanan McGuire. Free. How Patrick met the Duchess-in-Waiting of Saltmist.
The Fixed Stars (October Daye 8.5) by Seanan McGuire. Free. Before the Luidwaeg was the Luidwaeg.
And I reread the first six October Daye novels again during the week…
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad by Austin Kleon. What the title says. 🙂

“What part of ‘back off!’ do you not understand, Mom?” -Chaos

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• How to wear masquerade masks if you wear glasses.
• Theology fail there, Sally Brown.
• Queer Eye takes on Professor Flitwick.
• “Things to do while you’re being an introvert“.

Reading Update
Fathomless (#2) by Anne M Pillsworth. Very good continuation of this young adult trilogy as the kids head to Arkham to get some training for their magic and, of course, things get creepy and dangerous.
Chimes at Midnight, The Winter Long, A Red-Rose Chain, Full of Briars, Once Broken Faith, The Brightest Fell, and Night and Silence (October Daye 7-12) by Seanan McGuire. Obviously I’m really enjoying this series, since I burned through it in just a couple of weeks and now I want to reread the whole thing again immediately. But I was really, really anxious whilst reading the 11th and 12th book.
Poems for the End of the World: Endings and beginnings 2015-2017 by Sage Liskey. What is there really to say about poetry? You like it or you don’t – I liked this small collection.

*thlurrrrp* -Mayhem

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• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from ReaderWriterVille.
• Linkity from Bookwyrm Knits.
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• “Why Archive of Our Own’s surprise Hugo nomination is such a big deal“.
• “All of us are out here endlessly buying new notebooks“.
• The 2019 Pulitzer Prize winners.
• “Susan Pevensie…is the apostate heroine of every girl that was religiously indoctrinated against her will…“
• The difference between magical realism and horror.
• You kick some food underneath furniture/an appliance and someone thanks you for it…
• Which members of the Fellowship of the Ring would have driver’s licenses in a modern AU?

Do, Learn, Make, Think

• The NASA twins study.
• “The ableist, racist, classist underpinnings of ‘laziness’“.
• “Using the Eisenhower Decision Matrix“.
• “Some percentage of you who are reading this tweet are #ActuallyAutistic and aren’t aware of it“.
• I don’t think I see enough boats to be aware of this.
• “Sometimes opposing sides are NOT equal, and we shouldn’t treat them as if they were.“
• The Hubble Telescope is 29.
• Go change your Instagram passwords and maybe enable two-factor authentication while you’re at it.

Cookity

• 11 Korean recipes for beginners.
• 12 hearty salads.
• Easy rhubarb pie.

Gluten Free

• Hamburger and sandwich buns.
• Four-ingredient peanut butter brownies.
• Five-ingredient flourless chocolate cloud cake.
• Homemade Larabars.

Artsy Crafty

• Linkity from knittyBlog.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• April gothic moods.
• SO TRUE. And then hitting 70F again on the 8th day…
• Boom!
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• “A galactic receiving station opens in Grand Marais“.
• Extraordinarily fancy sauna.

Wha…?

• Jalapeno M&Ms.
• Bob Ross cereal.
• Bread-shaped pillow.
• “Pepsi mercifully spare humanity from its space billboards – for now“.

LOL

• Preventing carpal tunnel.
• Might be too true to be funny, really.
• Selfie-taking cat.
• “What good herding dogs!“
• Kittens and a disco ball.
• Yarn with sparkles!
• Recipes around the world.
• Rules-lawyering.

Teh Cute

• Infinite black kitties! Takin and baby!

Reading Update
Wyrd Sisters (Discworld #6) by Terry Pratchett. Pretty good introduction to Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg – I suspect if I were more familiar with Shakespeare’s plays, I would’ve gotten a lot more out of this one.
Hazard and Spark (West Hell Magic 1-2) by Devon Monk. Good series about a world where those with supernatural abilities aren’t allowed to play in the NHL, so they play in paranormal-only league. The first two books are about two brothers, a wizard and a werewolf, who are getting their start in the league.
Chaos Choreography, Magic for Nothing, and Tricks for Free (InCryptid 5-7) by Seanan McGuire. Chaos Choreography: Once again, Verity’s part of a ballroom dancing reality tv show and things are, of course, complicated by her family’s work protecting supernatural beings. Magic for Nothing and Tricks for Free: Verity’s younger sister Antimony is sent to England to infiltrate the Covenant and things get complicated.
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life by Twyla Tharp. I just lost interest in it halfway through and have no interest in continuing.
Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Chris Riddell. Excellent small collection of inspirational essays and illustrations – I’ve already purchased a copy for a birthday gift…
1000 Artist Journal Pages: Personal Pages and Inspirations by Dawn DeVries Sokol. Exactly what the title says! 🙂

“My trust, you haz betrayed it, Mom.” -Mayhem

*sigh* -Chaos

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