- New releases: Smart Bitches (romance, queer romance), Book Riot (historical fiction, YA, graphic novels, best out this month, SFF, romance, mystery/thrillers, YA SFF/horror, horror), Gizmodo (SFF/horror)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- Linkity from BookWyrm Knits.
- About Thriftbooks.
- “The deep humanity of Project Hail Mary“ (contains spoilers).
- “In space, no one can hear how lonely you are” (contains spoilers for Project Hail Mary).
- Funny, not-really-spoilery micro review of the Project Hail Mary movie.
- LOL.
- Colorful Edinburgh townhouse.
- Nice MCM.
- Cantilevered cabin.
- Restored Craftsman.
- Round. With rocks.
- That’s a lot of property for the price.
- Art gallery and family compound in Sante Fe.
- The most awkward bank, converted.
- Crazy Tokyo condo.
- Toilet and kitchen need better separation.
- D’oh.
- Is the rope supposed to be the railing?
- Do not trust.
- Mostly what I noticed is that their renovation has stairs without a railing.
- Stairs that will only hurt if you’re afraid of clowns.
- You should not need rock climbing gear in your home.
- I don’t trust these for multiple reasons.
- That company should not be allowed to make stairs.
Category Archives: Randonymity
Last linkity of April
- New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (YA, best out this week)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- Saturday, April 25, is Independent Bookstore Day in the US.
- May 1 is a general strike in the US.
- Thoughts on dragon eggs.
- Very nice MCM.
- Gorgeous houseboat but yikes on the price.
- Cooler than I would have guessed.
- Converted Italian abbey.
- Have a vintage saloon in your living room.
- The Hard Luck Mine Castle.
- A late MCM that’s fallen on hard times.
- Condo in a converted newspaper building. Can’t you just feel your skin sticking to that couch??
- Eclectic decor. Also, this location seems as if it must be on the river’s floodplain.
- TBH, this is about what I would expect from a Montana castle house.
- Odd, with some taxidermy.
- Former funeral home is a mess.
- It’s a cave, once you look at the non-AI pics.
- Stupid design decisions for the loss.
- Beyond the obvious issues with the upper landing, I have my doubts about how the stairs are supported.
- Needs railings.
- I guess railings are insufficiently aesthetic.
- Hmm.
Lackadaisical linkity
- New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (best out this week)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- Sew a dragon stuffie.
- Lemon blueberry bars.
- Cute little schoolhouse conversion.
- “Mid-century California style” in Scotland.
- Must like green, in part because of the large slide/chute inside.
- Fully furnished bed and breakfast in Red Wing, Minnesota.
- Interesting church conversion.
- Pretty cool house, although I don’t like the bridge or the stairs without a railing.
- Cute beach house but the last picture in the series is on the edge of NSFW.
- Huge converted warehouse? 1900 industrial building?
- Castle house with a double-wide trailer as its base.
- It’s very ugly.
- That poor Tudor.
- Lol.
- WTF coffee table. NSFW.
- Hmm.
- Absolutely not.
- Nope.
- Needs more railings.
Linkity is shocked tomorrow is March
- New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (best out this week, YA)
- “Taking the ‘shoulds’ out of reading“.
- Chocolate is about to get more expensive.
- Look out of random windows around the world.
- Knit a chain mail helmet and cowl (coif).
- I hope he’s right.
- Converted ice house.
- Mostly just included due to its unusual shape.
- This one’s shaped like a large boat/ark.
- Must really like orange.
- How odd.
- You could own a partially collapsed castle in need of renovation!
- Do not trust.
- No.
- Definitely form over function.
No linkity next week because I’ll be at a graduation instead
- New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (best out this week, BIPOC, LGTBQ+)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- Ficlet.
- “The Matrix: Hope , fear, and radical liberation“.
- Oof.
- The joy! I smiled the whole way through.
- Brownie cookies.
- Fun MCM.
- Cool MCM, but it has a few issues.
- I kind of love the kitchen cabinets in this MCM.
- I like the interior. It also comes with a shared cemetery…
- Fascinating look at a realtor trick to make a bright, colorful home not look either.
- If you like to keep your cars close to you…
- And here’s where I learned that wooden tubs exist.
- A glass house. No stone throwing allowed, probably.
- I would absolutely come to disaster with the closets by the living room. And wtf is up with building an addition to enclose another house?
I was trying to take pictures of a bag. Of course I had “helpers”.
Linkity is in like a lamb
- New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (best out this week, SFF)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- Mini books and mini book kits you can order.
- Minnesota has a bill to ban book bans in the works.
- Apparently William Gibson’s Neuromancer is going to be a TV series.
- “The difference between WordPress and WordPress.com” – good to know if you have concerns about Automattic’s plan to sell users’ data to AI companies. Tumblr’s also included and I have already opted out.
- “this is your gentle reminder to stop fighting against your adhd and instead structure your life around it“.
- Cat language.
- Nice condo in a former MCM desert motel.
- Sweet little cottage.
- Nice condo in a converted school.
- Cute train depot conversion.
- Also cute, but has some weirdness.
- I kinda like the pink and orange in the kitchen.
- Quaint cottage.
- I like the very last picture of it squatting ominously in the neighborhood.
- Lots of murals.
- Hmm. It’s weird and looks like a small earthquake away from no longer being on the hillside.
- Partially converted church with too many beds in the main living space.
- Must like water features.
- Not a fan of the kitchen in particular.
- You could own a dilapidated frontier town attraction.
- Too much stuff!!
- A villain’s lair.
- Absolute kitchen fail.
- Ouch. My shins would be bleeding all the time.
- I guess you grip that pipe for the black stairs.
- I don’t like stairs right by dishes like that.
- Slippery when wet.
- Flimsy.
- The molding doesn’t make it less terrible.
- Eeeep!
This goofball has conjunctivitis in one of his eyes and is getting eye ointment twice a day, so he’s kind of a mess right now.
Polly, slightly annoyed that I am taking her picture instead of petting her.
Linkity in the time of April showers
- New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (best books out this week, the best books out last week, nonfiction)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- Some alternatives to the Book Depository, which is going away in a week.
- What if an NYC apartment block got transported into a fantasy realm?
- Sad ficlet.
- Charming microstory.
- Behind the scenes of The Fifth Element.
- Well, now that you mention it…
- Square-wheeled bicycle.
- Just a shift in perspective.
- What “the exception that proves the rule” actually means.
- Alpacas vs llamas.
- The story of Murphy, a bald eagle who was incubating a rock.
- Junkyard dragon.
- A joke.
- Carrot cheesecake bars.
- Strawberry lemon blondies.
- Spam and tater tot casserole/hotdish.
- April Fool’s Barbie house.
- A stately manor house.
- Very castle-esque.
- Castle on the outside, not so much on the inside.
- This looks like a movie set.
- Lovely historical condo.
- Another lovely one.
- Nice houseboat.
- I love the wallpaper in the second bathroom.
- Over-the-top, but not in a bad way.
- The kitchen exhaust system is wild.
- Skull house.
- Plain on the outside, not so much on the inside.
- I bet you’ll figure out why it hasn’t sold…
- Mysterious basement.
- Has its own strip club.
- So many little oddities.
- That’s a lot of money for a hot mess.
- Umm…
- But where are those “stairs” actually going?
- Huh.
- Yikes.
- Yikes again.
- Those shelves aren’t very wide toward the top.
- Relic stairs.
- I don’t think anyone will survive long enough to use the permanent stairs.
- Oh dear.
No linkity, but a sort of holiday card
No linkity, but a memorable Chaos picture instead!
Art Journaling Monday!
Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! I’ve included some of my recent favorites below. You can catch up on everything on my Tumblr, if you’d like.
- Rainbow scribble doodle.
- “…through the eyes of no one else.“
- Too late.
- Fancy letters. Green.
- Ruling pen rainbow scribble doodle.
- “Words unravel…“
- Walking in London.
- Beauty.
- Fanciful. Pool lounge chair.
- More thinking.
“I really don’t wanna get up.” -Mayhem


















