Got my COVID booster on Wednesday and am having the same reaction as I did to the second shot – I’m tired and a little sore and we’ll see how much linkity we end up with this week, eh? (Spoiler: Apparently a lot of linkity!)

• New releases: Tor.com (YA SFF, sci fi, fantasy), Smart Bitches (romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from BookWyrm Knits.
• Finally a definitive answer as to whether Neil Gaiman has any social media or not. 😉
• This book is on my keepers shelf.
• More out there adaptations of Shakespeare plays.
• “What to read when you are worn out on world saving”.
• “The strange posthumous journey of Dorothy Parker’s ashes”.
• A kinder take on pumpkin spice.
• “Most of us have no idea how horrific dying from COVID really is”.
• Some cursed facts about seal nails.
• Try not to think about the moon.
• The crane and the zookeeper.
• I mean, I like that movie, but I can’t blame them for protesting.
• “The colors of the 1970’s”. (Brick red is conspicuously absent.)
• One bowl pumpkin banana chocolate chip muffins.
• “Han is the dog”. (Maybe a repeat? It blurs.)
• Back before you could purchase Halloween costumes…
• Creepiest high heels ever?
• Just say no to stag beetle backpacks. Please.
• In which the world is much agog at the US having pop-up Halloween stores.
• LEGO Titanic.
• This is 100% for BookWyrm Knits to admire the dragon cakes.
• As is this cute dragon comic! And another.
• LOL!
• It took me a minute…

Harry upside down cake!

Polly upside down cake – such a little weirdo!

• New releases: Gizmodo (SFF), AAR (romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Literary references in Calvin & Hobbes.
• Minotaur Reading.
• “Celebrating the librarians of SFF“.
• “US Senate Finance Committee presses publishers on library ebook contracts“.
• “[Y]ou have invited strangers into your home, [H]elen [P]evensie, mother of four. “
• Google Maps now has a wildfire layer.
• 23 US species declared extinct.
• I think I’ve always known them as “volunteer paths”.
• An interesting look at how relationships work.
• “How snobbery helped take the spice out of European cooking“.
• Pad thai salad.
• Peanut butter bread.
• Salted caramel apple pie.
• Spoonbread.
• Made from one sheet of paper…
• Meme flashback!
• Just when you thought it was safe to go paddling again…
• Disturbing art doesn’t seem like it should be as disturbing as it is.
• Precious Moments chapel.
• It would break that person’s brain. I mean, it broke our brains and we lived through it, right?!

Please enjoy this photo of my next door neighbor being menaced by a wild turkey tom as four wild turkey hens look on.

The cuteness – it burns!!!

Harry taking a selfie?!

• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• “If libraries were run like used car dealerships“.
• “The world’s most expensive bookshelves you definitely can’t afford“.
• Carl Sagan was very prescient.
• Learn more about eels.
• And learn more about flying lizards.
• Pumpkin banana bread.
• Soft lemon cookies.
• Buttered popcorn sugar cookies.
• Jigsaw puzzle art.
• Horrible goose!
• “Disgusting recipes from the glory days of Jell-O“.
• Responses to NASA’s rovers on social media. Hover cursor/long-press for caption.
• “Star Trek captains as Troubled Bird memes“.

Handsome Harry is handsome, is he not?!

Polly is not always so clear on what being a cat actually is…

Polly sitting on my back…

Harry and Mayhem asleep on the cat tree.

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Tor (horror/genre-benders)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Jane Austen knew.
• “Tolkein’s economy of language“.
• On annotations found in a used book.
• Cursed fact about flying insects.
• On cuteness.
• On jigsaw puzzles and quality of life.
• I hadn’t heard of the Feline Grimace Scale before.
• The real life version of Major Major Major Major.
• Expanded version of the peaceful co-existence in Home Depot, Lowe’s, and more post.
• “Baba Yaga’s house suddenly makes more sense.”
• Things found on the bottom of an Amsterdam river.
• “Geometry Homework by Lin Yung Cheng“.
• Endangered species origami.

Derpity derp, Polly!

Sinister disapproving Harry.

Harry and Polly hanging out on a hammock.

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches. Plus some cover snark.
• Read more about voter suppression. (I highly recommend the ones by Carol Anderson.)
• On the importance of earnestness in the LoTR films.
• “Neil Gaiman’s 11 geekiest cameo appearances“.
• Book stands! Love them.
• Learn about pelicans.
• “Subreddit that collects COVID-19 deniers who then suffer the worst“.
• :FACEPALM:
• Make mug omelets.
• Loaded veggie taco salad (vegetarian).
• Wait for the very last frame. :ROFL:
• Crop art will never not be weird to me.
• Flamin’ Hot Mountain Dew.
• A cursed image: jite.

Polly sitting like a people, as she does.

Long Harry is long (and rounded, d’oh!).

Polly blep.

Harry looking out the window with intensity.

We don’t really need to break the drought with one or two epic storm events here…

• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Learn more about the Brontës.
• BOOM.
• “The most translated books from every country in the world“.
• “30 years later, suspect confesses to murder of Lois Duncan’s daughter“.
• “What if social media existed on the Discworld?“
• Sequel to “Welcome to Evil Mart”.
• An exhibit about book art and the climate crisis.
• Learn about the colugo.
• Take a panoramic video tour of Mars.
• “The difference between the twitter and tumblr experience is…“
• “The black plague disappeared without a vaccine, just saying…” :facepalm:
• Taco lasagna.
• Triple chocolate pancakes.
• Cool dragons guarding a bank.
• The glass cover makes it. (Although, to be fair, this was designed for dealing with computer cords, not cats, but hey.)
• “Working with textiles is a trap…“
• :snortlaugh:

Cute Polly is cute!

Snuggling siblings.

Mayhem plus some slightly mismatched bookends.

• New releases:  Smart Bitches (romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• “This video has a brilliant summary of the ‘Terry Pratchett vs Transphobic Twitter Randoms” debacle“.
• “Terry Pratchett was never here for your transphobic nonsense“.
• The Last Human (in a Crowded Galaxy).
• “July 2021 was hottest month in recorded history“.
• “How to fight climate despair”.
• “Self care tips from tumblr“.
• I had never even heard of Doggerland.
• “Why are there so many salmonella recalls?“
• Linkity from kmkat.
• What if Geordi and Data were hanging out…
• Gotta confess that I thought the same thing the artist did until I watched the video.
• I mean, I know what they were trying to do with the headline and all…
• Funny COVID vaccine ads.
• :snortlaugh:

Mayhem making sure we remember she’s still very cute. And that her superpower is looking tragic.

Harry and Polly about to have an epic play fight in the kitty hammock.

Harry’s blep completely ruins an otherwise majestic pose.

Polly sitting up on my lap like a people.

• New releases: Tor.com (horror/genre-benders)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• “10 life lessons from science fiction and fantasy“.
• Another amusing LotR post from tumblr.
• A brief insight into “humans as space orcs”.
• The SparkNotes twitter account is a delight.
• Ursula K Le Guin from Why Are Americans Afraid of Dragons?
• “Fictional homes reimagined as Polly Pockets.“
• Additional cursed waters.
• “The lackluster writing of Star Trek: Voyager helped pave the way for the Obama presidency.“
• Some trivia from Labyrinth.
• Playmobil has a new Star Trek playset.
• This is what realizing you’re agender later in life feels like.
• Birthday cake sprinkle crinkle cookies.
• Claymation scenes from The Matrix, Alien, and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
• Animated knitted sheep!
• “Knitting the fandom“.
• Happy duckling.
• Teacup dragons.

Classy Polly is classy!

Harry wants me to do something and taking his picture is NOT IT.

Mayhem giving me the kitty eyes o’ love.

• New releases: Tor.com (YA SFF, SF, fantasy), Smart Bitches (romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkty from BookWyrm Knits.
• Terry Pratchett would not have been a transphobe.
• “10 common English idioms and their weird historical origins“.
• “Why it’s good to be bad at things you enjoy, according to Kurt Vonnegut“.
• A librarian joke.
• “The Three Lanterns”, a New Fairy Tale.
• Just say no to supporting Hobby Lobby.
• Definitely “visually discomfiting”.
• Some cursed facts about Brassica oleracea and the cultivars thereof.
• A cursed fact about hummingbirds.
• Learn a little about bandicoots.
• Happy belated 60th birthday, President Obama!
• GF no bake peanut butter bars.
• Big tumblr mood.
• A meatball-scented candle from IKEA?!
• Star Wars Tamagotchi.

Happy first birthday, Polly and Harry!

First Harry stomped across Mayhem to get to his perch. Now his tail is Infringing On Her Space and She Is Displeased.

It’s hard to believe, but Polly is even sweeter than she looks! If you are a people, she will love you!