Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! 🙂

• Doughnut.
• Gift sleeping.
• Season of Freedom journal.
• Celebrate.
• Crispy who.
• Blackout poetry.
• Get messy.
• Lines.
• Alone brain.
• Imprint.
• “And you’ll be bright.“
• Introduction.

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“Maybe there just aren’t any more birds.” -Mayhem

Bookity

• New releases: Tor (genre benders, scifi, fantasy, young adult sff)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from ReaderWriterville.
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• Linkity from Book Riot.
• An introduction to Emily Dickinson’s poetry.
• “The tao of Sir Terry: Pratchett and philosophy“.
• “Depression poems to get you through tough times (and understand those struggling)“.
• Good things to remember if you write or make any kind of art – it doesn’t have to be groundbreaking.
• “Why kids stop reading for fun by age 9 (and what to do about it)”.
• Lots of very good questions to think about if you’re writing a fantasy novel.
• In which Bill Weasley asks out Fleur Delacour.
• Catch up on the chilliad.
• “Modern fantasy creatures and people being exposed to new lifestyles and developing dreams and goals that don’t fit with their species or their culture in the slightest.“

Do, Make, Think, Learn

• Yes, same. Please think at least twice before getting involved in “the internet of things”.
• Italy and Iceland being hardcore about the unvaccinated.
• US regional distinctions.
• “How to clean books“.
• How the Iditarod is changing.
• “The moment The Matrix changed everything“.

Cookity

• Easy vegan sweet potato curry.
• Chocolate banana cake with salted peanut butter frosting.

Gluten Free

• Japanese milk bread.
• Almond flour sugar cookies.

Artsy Crafty

• “Your ultimate guide to cross stitch bookmark patterns“.
• Linkity from knittyBlog.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Thor and Mr Rogers hang out.
• “A hypothetical D&D party“.
• A Venn diagram of cryptids.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• “For one magical moment, Microsft Clippy rose from the dead“.

Wha…?

• Very unusual perfume names.

LOL

• Although the potholes really aren’t any laughing matter, but…
• “This is a Rosetta Stone for a single language.“
• Oh, snap!
• Oh, Icarus…
• Boom!
• “But why did the birds stop??!“
• Some historic fact checker humor. Hover cursor/long-press for caption.

Teh Cute

• UPS driver with dogs!

Reading Update
Rosemary and Rue (October Daye #1) by Seanan McGuire. Quite promising start to this series about a half Fae private investigator who’s involuntarily back into the investigation game after a 14 year…hiatus. (Apparently there’s an October Daye fanfic that Seanan McGuire has happily read.)
Hell Bent and Stone Cold (Broken Magic 1-2) by Devon Monk. Good spinoff pair of books about a formerly magic rich world nearly bereft of magic, except for a few people who are paired in Soul Complements.
Summoned (Redemption’s Heir #1) by Anne M. Pillsworth. Very creepy young adult book about a teen boy who responds to an impossible ad in an old book and falls into the Cthulhu Mythos. Be warned that this gets off to a rather slow and somewhat plodding start, but boy does it pick it up speed as it goes!

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“You’re definitely going to blink first.” -Mayhem

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! 🙂

• Simply everywhere.
• Endlessly.
• Looks like a map.
• Just a few lines…
• Speed journaling round robin.
• You who.
• 20-second marks.
• What why.
• Also looks like a map.
• Scribbling!
• Order compassion.
• Me three.
• SO saturated.

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“…zzzzzz…” -Chaos

*side-eyeing* -Mayhem

Bookity

• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from Notebook Stories.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• “The appeal of unread books, or why I don’t read the books I buy“.
• “Let’s call an ‘unauthorized’ Narnia novel what it is: fanfiction“.
• “On the cult of originality: What Byzantine literary culture can tell us about fanfiction“.
• Possible reasons Dumbledore hired Gilderoy Lockhart.
• The Little Mermaid sequel, rewritten.
• Jane Austen heroes, ranked.
• Bookish phobias.

Do, Think, Make, Learn

• Have you heard of “toxic positivity”?
• New Zealand bans assault rifles.
• Climate change visualization.
• “How to stay sharp in old age“.
• John Oliver interviews Monica Lewinsky.

Cookity

• Slow cooker Thai-style chicken tacos.
• Extremely easy chocolate peanut butter mousse.

Gluten Free

• “Graham” cracker crust.

Artsy Crafty

• Linkity from knittyBlog.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Puzzle art.
• Changing your perspective.
• “What if humans are the only species with teeth?“
• “You’re not like the girls in my village.“
• “Still on patrol“.
• “You can watch Mr Rogers’ Neighborhood episodes online“.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Fantasy birding.

Wha…?

• “Pigeons with tiny backpacks are gathering climate data now“.

LOL

• Some thoughts on bagpipes.
• Midwestern terms demystified!
• Some humor from the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
• Aliens on the human condition – now with more comics if you keep scrolling!
• Oh, that alarming/tantalizing bubble!
• Yeah, you get that with a little flooding…
• And the potholes are absolutely terrifying.
• Google trends maps. (Hover cursor/long-press for caption.)

Teh Cute

• Baby koala! Baby mountain lions!

Reading Update
Marked and Vacant (Mindspace Investigations 3-4) by Alex Hughes. Good continuation of this series about a telepath and recovering addict who consults for the police and, under duress, the Telepath’s Guild. Unfortunately, I screwed up and read book #4 before book #3, so I spent much of book #4 thinking my memory had gotten REALLY bad when things that turned out to have happened in book #3 were mentioned…
I Shall Wear Midnight (Tiffany Aching #4) by Terry Pratchett. Very good continuation of this series as teenage Tiffany works in the Chalk amid rising anti-witch sentiment.
Discount Armageddon (InCryptid #1) by Seanan McGuire. I liked it better upon rereading than I did when I read it four years ago!

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“What now?!” -Mayhem

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! 🙂

• More disconnected.
• Television.
• Coping mechanisms.
• Improvisation happiness.
• Disconnected again.
• Free to be(e).
• Disconnection notice.
• That space.
• Typewriter plan.
• Be kind.
• Mood marking.
• Saturated good.

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“Mondays, amirite?” -Mayhem