Since linkity-making time happens to be on my birthday, this will be brief. And next week, linkity-making time is on American Thanksgiving, so no linkity at all then. Take care and see you in a few weeks!

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Tor.com (YA SFF)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• “What do you think Sauron’s opinion of Elrond was?“
• On bald eagle nests.
• A concert pianist takes on “Bohemian Rhapsody”.
• “Timelapse of acorn growth into a small oak in 6 months“.
• Clippy on an ugly holiday sweater.
• Theater shenanigans.
• “Reasons to NOT want a pet dragon“.
• “There’s no punchline here.“
• The Washington State DNR on the Twitter debacle.
• Grimy flashback house.
• Huh.
• No one will ever notice…
• These stairs will kill you, but not in the way you might expect.
• Terrifying fire escape.

Looks like Harry’s waiting for the remote and a beer…

Polly and her very soft tummy.

Sleeping Mayhem curl.

• New releases: Tor.com (horror/genre benders, fantasy, scifi), Book Riot (mystery/thriller/true crime)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from BookWyrm Knits.
• Gifts for readers and literary home office gifts.
• Some thoughts on living in Gotham.
• On the art of Frank Frazetta, with particular emphasis on LotR.
• “What Tumblr is like, from someone who never left“.
• Sunita on the Twitter mess and switching to Mastodon.
• A poem: “Voting as Fire Extinguisher”.
• Sweet elephant behaviors.
• Knit a “breasted dodecahedron”. (NSFW, probably)
• Double-knit some cat-themed scarves.
• Low-Cost Cosplay Guy.
• Flamingo art.
• Very cool dragon sculpture.
• And a cute little dragon comic.
• Easy mini-pumpkin pies.
• Pumpkin streusel muffins. (via The Kitchn)
• Copycat oatmeal fudge bars. (via The Kitchn)
• Lovely house in Berkeley.
• I guess you’d get a lot of exercise living in this one.
• Floating home with an underwater level.
• Wisconsin “hobbit mansion”.
• You could live in a former Coca-Cola distribution center.
• I think the remodeling theme must’ve been BRIGHT and INEXPLICABLE.
• The decorating theme here must’ve been PRETENTIOUS and CONFUSING.
• I love the little tower.
• Sort of a sad little castle house.
• Much nicer little castle house.
• Minnesota fixer-upper.
• I guess I really don’t like green cabinets.
• Why would you build a spiral staircase as part of the kitchen island?!
• Irregularity is not a desired feature for stairs.
• Huh.
• WHY.
• Ewww – candy corn grilled cheese.

Polly would like her chin scratched more, please!

Lights on, nobody home in Pollyland!

Harry very focused on sharpening his claws on the scratcher.

• New releases: AAR (romance), Smart Bitches (romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• An excellent list of some of the very best ficlets on tumblr.
• And here’s a comic for the god of Arepo ficlet.
• “Indie bookstores you can shop at from anywhere” (includes my neighborhood shop Magers & Quinn).
• xkcd/What If? on star ownership.
• Musk ox cam.
• Wolves!
• Consumer Reports on the best hot chocolate.
• Excellent rant about the “s’mores” on The Great British Bake-Off.
• And then I learned that Minnesota is one of the four states that includes supernatural activity in real estate disclosures.
• I wouldn’t have guessed these dragon benches (and more) were carved with chainsaws.
• A fairy-tale cottage.
• A 1000-year old castle.
• A much newer “castle” in Arizona.
• Definitely very curved.
• Converted water tower.
• Genius train station design.
• I believe the pink bathroom is exactly what the bathroom in my condo used to look like (based on the pink showing through the tub paint).
• I might’ve painted the second kitchen before listing, because it’s a bit of a shock after all the black and white.
• Nice, but I still think outdoor pools in the desert are just wrong.
• Apparently this house was used for Stranger Things.
• Rustic and mid-century modern don’t seem like they should co-exist in the same house.
• I didn’t realize there was stone wallpaper.
• Partially finished eco home.
• Dinosaur park-themed home.
• That’s too many windows. Put some back.
• Very 80s-themed.
• Three kitchens is too many kitchens.
• YIKES.
• Very bad carpet choice for stairs.
• Optical illusions are never a good choice for stairs.
• Kind of clever, but also…
• Bone-themed stairs.
• They must really hate railings.
• Hot chocolate-scented sweater from Swiss Miss.
• Pillow from Jet-Puffed Marshmallows.
• 😮

A rare appearance by the Lady Miss Princess Mayhem!

Harry looking very dapper in his Halloween bow tie.

Serious Polly is a serious cat loaf indeed.