• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (YA, best out this week, space operas, queer/two-spirit indigenous fiction)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• “None of these books are obscene.“
• AOL is ending its dial-up service after 34 (!!!!) years.
• Experience being in a bag of cornflakes.
• Oreo Reese’s cookies apparently taste different than the peanut butter-filled Oreos. Who knew?
• Easy gluten-free strawberry cake.
• Romeo and Juliet as you’ve never seen it before.
• Dragon building!
• Just looks like a good place to live.
• Nice little condo.
• Lovely converted fortress on its own island.
• I hope no one “renovates” it.
• An MCM in the woods.
• Unique MCM formerly owned by Burt Reynolds and Loni Anderson.
• Little thatched cottage.
• Fascinating former Masonic lodge.
• Very colorful condo with a wtf coffee table.
• “Globby“.
• Floating house with death stairs.
• Must absolutely adore turquoise.
• OMG, the kitchen.
• Castle-esque with a massively disappointing interior.
• Disappointing sort of cartoon-themed former Airbnb.
• Penguins going down stairs.
• They’d be better off rebuilding them.
• It IS dumb.
• Why.
• That living room is NOT big enough for that hot mess of stairs.
• More people installing stairs should ask themselves if they could honestly make it down those stairs in the middle of the night in the dark to use the bathroom.
• Nope.

Pretty Polly.

Focused Harry is focused.

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance, queer romance), Book Riot (YA, graphic novels, nonfiction, historical fiction, best out this month, queer, romance, SFF, mystery/thriller), Gizmodo (SFF/horror), Reactor (fantasy, scifi)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from BookWyrm Knits.
• Virtually visit the Roddenberry Archive.
• Some airplane humor from xkcd – make sure you long-press/hover your cursor for the caption!
• Looks like a tiny castle outside but not so much inside. That said, I love the rooftop deck and the general coziness.
• Pretty nice church conversion.
• A manor built in 1331 and added on to in th 15th century.
• Condo above the St Louis City Museum.
• Frank Lloyd Wright inspired.
• Very tiny home.
• Baroque with a professional recording studio.
• The arcade looks like a lot of fun! But the thought of trying to clean that rocky shower…
• I do not like the kitchen tile.
• All sorts of interesting details, but it needs a lot of work.
• What a strange compound.
• This has some moments of over the top design.
• Weird one in Salt Lake City.
• Hard to decide which I hate more – the murder bathroom or how the master bedroom is painted (I mistyped that as “badroom” the first time…).
• The stairs in the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
• These don’t look fun.
• Ok, there’s some distortion elongating everything, but it’s terrible anyway.
• Watch out for those top steps.
• Huh.
• Give me boring, safe stairs any day.

The Hooligans turned five years old on August 5th!

Harry might have some anxiety about it. 😉

Polly just does not believe it. 😉

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (YA, best out this week, best out last week, more YA, YA comics/nonfiction)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches. And more!
• A comic about teachers saving the planet.
• Live in a former Carnegie library.
• Amazing quilts.
• Another reason to use Duck Duck Go instead of Google as your default search engine – you can choose to not include AI images in your results.
• This is beyond concerning.
• BOOM.
• “GET HIM STEPHEN“.
• Good to remember in these trying times.
• S’mores icebox cake.
• Maximum cozy.
• Lovely converted electric substation.
• Fun Victorian – I especially love the “cloud room”.
• Eggo themed. Not a typo.
• Ice cream themed.
• You MUST see the decor.
• Unique MCM with loud carpet and terrifying stairs.
• Large parts look like an operating suite.
• This one’s just too much.
• Includes a 60,000 square feet (5,574 square meters) cavern bunker.
• I don’t trust any of it.
• I have to believe there’s a less dangerous way to implement this concept.
• Absolutely not.
• “Make stairs, not art“.

Serious Harry is serious.

Silly Polly is much less serious!

‘Tis true, this is the last linkity of July, as I have a class during my linkity creating time for the next two weeks.  (I’ll be learning about Risograph printing.)

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance, queer romance), Book Riot (YA, manga, best out this week), Reactor (YA SFF/horror)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from BookWyrm Knits.
• Read a free Murderbot story after the season finale.
• …I have questions.
• Good news related to trans folk.
• On boots.
• Barbie Yaga Dream Hut.
• Cats are indeed very unergonomic.
• Lovely house with turrets.
• An exceptional Craftsman.
• Very nice MCM. I wish they’d updated the bathrooms with warmer colors to blend with the wood better.
• A pair of cute cottages.
• Cool converted schoolhouse.
• Parts are unusual, parts are bland.
• Converted water tower.
• Interesting late MCM. Where the heck is the toilet in the master bath??
• Why is there a driving range in the living room?
• Has an 83-foot tall climbing wall.
• Oddly shaped with issues.
• So much nope.
• No way.
• Dubious.
• Umm.
• I don’t think so.

Harry, deeply asleep.

Chatty upside-down Polly.

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Gizmodo (scifi/fantasy/horror), Book Riot (queer [disability pride], queer, romance, YA, mystery/thrillers, historical fiction, nonfiction, comics/graphic novels, scifi/fantasy), Reactor (scifi, fantasy)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• “Why oppressive fictional societies suppress reading – and how they mirror our current culture“.
• Ficlet.
• Oh hey, turns out there’s no such thing as male or female brains.
• Oh, good.
• “Superior it’s said never gives up its dead…“
• On the physics of catsup and toothpaste.
• No-bake s’mores bars.
• Love this!
• Cool church conversion.
• What a lovely historic townhouse. Except for that tub enclosure. Lol!
• Cute boat house. It does look like an awful lot of the wood (especially the floors) needs to be refinished.
• Tiny house. That bathroom sink!
• I like this style, although that green is a bit much.
• Nice, but my favorite thing is that coffee table.
• The carpet is terrain.
• The most orange bathroom possible.
• I’m not sure if I’ve ever hated ceilings as much as I hate these ceilings.
• The Mushroom House.
• Kind of a weird one.
• The stairs to the second bedroom – yikes.
• Your balance must be impeccable at all times.
• I guess at least it’s not a kitchen counter.
• Mysteries in stair construction.
• Here’s what it looks like when you descend glass stairs.

Harry, having a bit of an existential crisis.

Polly looking up, up, and away through the window.

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (YA comics/nonfiction, best out this week, queer historical fiction, YA)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• A very heartfelt post about reading LotR for the first time.
• Comic about libraries.
• Haunting ficlet.
• There will be The X-Files and Wallace & Gromit LEGO sets!
• Horchata inspired Oreos.

• Very cozy.
• Barbie house, but guaranteed to get hit by hurricanes and such.
• Parts of it are castle-esque.
• The lighting is terrible and it’s hard to tell what the house looks like beyond all the art, but other than that!
• The wallpaper in the half bath is very meta.
• The little round blue sink in the kitchen bothers me.
• Monastery vibes.
• Perfect if you want to live someplace ornate.
• A very unusual property.
• I wish they hadn’t painted the kitchen cabinets.
• Hack job remodel of this poor late MCM.
• Really hope they sealed their Scrabble tile bathroom floor.
• Who needs a complete railing anyway?!

Harry keeping an eye on SOMETHING.

Polly grooming her leg, as one does.

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (best out this week, YA)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Ficlet about Zeus and Hera’s marriage counselor.
• Characteristics of pseudoscience.
• Sue his tRUMP.
• Have I already posted about The Land of the Lost reboot?
• There will be a Godzilla LEGO set.
• Parts of the interior are quite castle-esque.
• Stone house with a turret.
• Hobbit Hollow.
• Fascinating photos from the owner.
• Fancy.
• Way too much gold.
• MCM with potential.
• Trippy.
• Live right behind an iconic sign.
• Unusual property…
• A very cramped bathroom.
• Wow, that many cables and cords cannot be safe.
• D’oh.
• Maybe it’s an art installation and not stairs?

Polly telling me about the birds outside.

Harry yawning.

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance, queer romance), Book Riot (YA queer, YA, best out this week, horror, steampunk)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from BookWyrm Knits.
• “No Kings, Yas Queens” free printable pdf/png, since the “No Kings” rallies are happening during Pride month.
• Cool barn conversion, although I do not like the catwalk at all.
• Pretty fun one in Seattle.
• Cute.
• This is a new one for me: Streamline Moderne.
• Interesting house built against a big rock formation.
• Very pink AirBnB.
• You could buy your own island in Lake Huron, complete with lighthouse.
• Medieval inspired loft condo.
• If you’ve been meaning to open an artists’ colony…
• Huh. Guess it’s supposed to be a cabin? FYI, Ely is almost in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
• Black house in the desert.
• Egyptian themed with a very distracting ceiling and a secondary Mickey Mouse theme.
• Sort of strange one in Utah. The bathroom remains mostly mysterious.
• Very weird inside and includes sculpted carpet death stairs.
• It is indeed odd.
• Erm, nest of breasts house.
• Over the top.
• No square footage only vibes.
• Do not like.
• Nope.

Polly says Happy Pride!

Little crime man contemplating his little crimes in his “Crime Scene – Do Not Cross” collar.

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (YA, mysteries/thrillers, historical fiction, nonfiction, comics/graphic novels, SFF, LGBTQIA+, genre benders, mysteries/thrillers/true crime, romance), Reactor (fantasy, SF, genre benders, YA SFF), Gizmodo (SFF/horror)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Ficlet.
• It DOES sound familiar…
• Universal afterthought heel calculator.
• “How to like everything more“.
• Cute little comic about dragons.
• Check your local air quality.
• I love it.
• Kinda cool MCM.
• You get a lot for the money.
• I would need to remove the “for display only” books so I would have room for my own.
• Funky trailer in Sweden.
• Huge amount of work for whoever buys this odd property.
• It’s going to be so expensive to paint over all the black.
• Is it me or do the bedrooms seem very narrow? So much so that the beds are facing the way they are because I don’t think they’d fit the other way.
• Ummmmm…
• That counter is unfortunately in the male pee zone.
• Obstacle course.
• Hmmm.

Harry looking out the window.

Polly :thlurrrp:

Apologies – I’m behind on responding to comments (again!). I will get there!

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (YA, best out this week)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Minnesota now has an official state fossil.
• You go, Harvard!
• Oh goody.
• Black cat wallpaper.
• Art that can’t be unseen.
• Very colorful, except where it isn’t.
• Dramatically decorated interior.
• Converted gas station.
• The house is boring but the labyrinth is awesome.
• Has a secret speakeasy.
• I hope there’s a better way to get to the tower suite than that ladder.
• Confusing late MCM.
• Late MCM looks interesting from the outside, but it was gutted inside.
• You can barely tell this is an MCM inside except for the rec room. Not sure what’s going on with the ceilings.
• This is a weird one, starting with the “hand”rails on the stairs.
• Stupidly shaped shower.
• Shelves are not stairs.
• These look really annoying.
• Nope.

Polly and Harry napping together, ignoring the perfectly good kitty bed on the left.

Polly washing her face.

Harry “winking”.