My wish for all of you at the end of the year. Skipping linkity next week, so I’ll see you all in 2023!

• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Learn more about Agatha Christie.
• Some good LotR meta.
• “Life During Interesting Times” – a zine that made me think.
• Illustrated good news from 2022.
• Dramatic cats!
• The Barbie trailer gets the Kubrick estate’s approval. A comparison of the Barbie trailer and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
• Make Lego-esque waffles.
• A most unusual art installation.
• 😮
• FANCY.
• Too much white. The pink bathroom is actually a relief.
• The opposite of the above.
• As is this.
• Quirky.
• I haven’t seen a kitchen like this before.
• Made from a fancy trailer.
• Talk about cookie cutter houses.
• Has its own sacrificial slab.
• This guy is REALLY into motorsports.
• Higgeldypiggeldy house.
• You enter through the window.
• “With special shelving for the mountain goats“.
• WTH.
• “You don’t need to measure, just eyeball it…“
• This is in a hotel, apparently.
• Falling through the glass would be very bad.
• Another wheelchair ramp fail.
• And a slide fail.
• That extrovert is sucking out all of the introvert’s energy!

Harry pestering Mayhem, to her great annoyance.

Polly and Harry on my lap.

What the heck, Polly?! Are you ok?! (She seems fine after her apparent existential crisis.)

Harry scent-marking the window frame.

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• I don’t think I realized that Owl and Rabbit were REAL and everyone else was a stuffed animal in the Hundred-Acre Woods.
• “Merry Christmas, Tolkien Fandom“.
• More humans are weird. And even more!
• Hansel and Gretel with a twist.
• A scissor wizard and a paper wizard…
• Why we still wear masks.
• Free COVID tests are available for an apparently limited time in the US.
• “Gingerbread house but your mom’s an architect“.
• “11 easy WFH lunches you can make between meetings“.
• No-bake triple chocolate mousse cake.
• Mississippi mud pie.
• Some thoughts about fake fireplaces.
• Dominoesque.
• Dragon!
• Rustic with turret in Minnesota.
• Castle house!
• If you’d like to own a Coliseum…
• Not my style, but lovely.
• So’s this.
• Has a cantina basement.
• Has a full-on club basement.
• Flying saucer house.
• Lofted… bathtub?
• Why would you embed a piano in a wall?
• Clutch that railing tightly.
• Just yikes.
• Well, that’s bizarre.
• Just some dark bath humor.
• “Shrimper Santa and his flying albino alligators“.

Polly sitting like a people…

Deep thoughts with Harry.

• New releases: Tor.com (horror & genre-benders, YA SFF, scifi, fantasy)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from BookWyrm Knits.
• “Everything counts as reading“.
• “You could spend a night in Hobbiton“.
• A short film about an Amazon delivery drone having an existential crisis.
• xkcd’s What If? on comet ice.
• “Could You Really Not Just Put This in an Email?“.
• Make an Xmas tree with a cave inside.
• Learn about the mata mata turtle.
• Bald eagle completely failing to catch a crab.
• Megafauna skulls.
• Trying to decide if my KitchenAid mixer needs a unicorn horn, or if the purple racing stripes it has are enough.
• That is indeed a lot of crochet.
• “Wellness brand INTIMINA releases uterus-shaped cereal that turns your milk red“.
• Blueberry & Syrup Mini Pancake cereal from IHOP.
• Buttered rum eggnog cake.
• Lazy chicken pot pie made from a can of soup and frozen packaged pastry dough.
• Pop-Tarts “Gingerbread Lodge”.
• The Gingerbread House Estate.
• Nice floating house.
• Over-the-top Minnesota mansion.
• It has that Victorian feel of not being able to move without knocking things over.
• Has a hot pink and green kitchen.
• Also very colorful.
• “A most unique home“.
• Just say no to urinals in the kitchen.
• I have a question about the “emergency toilet”.
• Remember the bone stairs? Here’s the whole bone house.
• If you’re looking for your brutalist dream home…
• Not the place to stay if you sleepwalk.
• You’ll only forget to wear your shoes once on these stairs.
• I would definitely injure myself on that bridge.

Polly is so chatty and excited!

Harry napping on the cat tree.

Harry and Mayhem on my lap. Harry desperately wants Mayhem to lick his head.

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), AAR (romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches. And more!
• If you’d like to get a daily dose of The Christmas Carol in December…
• A ficlet about a stone that “corrupts all who wield it”.
• Another twist on the “humans are aliens” thing.
• Archive.org has lots of sci fi, horror, and adventure pulps available.
• The Eiffel Tower is the tallest LEGO set ever.
• Dragon…fountain?
• On how great Bandcamp is.
• Liveblog of watching Good Night, Oppy.
• Some tidbits about gharials.
• Green bean casserole sparkling water?!
• Puking cat gravy boat.
• “Fiberglass Animal Shapes and Trademarks” graveyard.
• VERY memorable weather report.
• Brown butter cinnamon bun sandwich cookies.
• From Minnesota: Nice Craftsman, Very Large Tudor, stone mansion, “modern rustic treehouse feel”.
• Nice.
• Very elegant.
• Hmm, stairs or slide, stairs or slide…
• Retro.
• So many details!
• Mushroom house.
• Desert dome home.
• Converted bottling company.
• This one looks like it’ll be a climate change victim in the not-too-distant future.
• If you’re tired of grey/beige homes…
• Another, but the inside doesn’t live up to the outside.
• The basement, wtf.
• Another mysterious basement.
• Offices for everyone!
• But what about the drop from that door?!
• Huh.
• 😮
• D’oh.
• Two sets of dubious stairs in one location.
• Were these installed upside down?
• No railing and not enough space to open the door.
• Maybe don’t go with the lowest bidder for stairs.
• Eep.
• Nope.

Everyone looks THRILLED, don’t they?!

Polly looking down at Harry.

Polly LEAPING over Harry as he stares out the window.