• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Tor.com (horror/genre-benders, YA SFF, scifi, fantasy)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• A ficlet about working in an eerie museum.
• LotR and redemption.
• “and when you realize everyone on this post has sat down and seriously thought of fighting the Fellowship“.
• Some deep thoughts from a comic.
• Fold an origami butterfly.
• A discussion on replicator food in Star Trek.
• Someone dressed up as Miette for Halloween!
• Pizza casserole.
• Strawberry swirl cheesecake cake.
• Chocolate-swirled divinity candy.
• “Summer Grill”, a felted film.
• “Giant Skeletons“.
• A movie review from the future…
• Surely one of the most disturbing stock photos ever. Cannot be unseen.
• Grub bag.
• Creepily shaped town remains creepy.
• Zombie food.
• Maybe it’s a repeat, but -” Prancer, the 13-pound gremlin Chihuahua…”
• Oh, tumblr.
• Ha!
• Alas.

“Wha…?” -Polly

Mayhem looking, as someone commented on Insta, “not just tragic, but French levels of tragic.”

Intent Harry is intent!

• New releases: AAR (romance), Gizmodo (SFF)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• I can’t even come up with a sentence about this ficlet, but it’s good.
• Here’s another one.
• And a pumpkin-themed comic.
• And the “world’s strangest meet-cute”.
• What’s the most metal sea organism?
• WHEW.
• Vincent Price was far cooler than I ever realized.
• Fountains.
• Murals that incorporate surrounding foliage.
• I know I’ve used this one before, but it’s still cool – knitters and a neural network.
• Knitted glass.
• Mushroom and cheese stuffed mini pumpkins.
• Sourdough cider doughnuts.
• Apple cider doughnut blondies.
• Turtle candy.
• Espresso martini.
• Behold!
• Googly angel sweatshirt?
• Candy corn bratwurst.
• Albino raccoon.
• How to make any Zoom meeting 100% more surreal.
• “Leaving instructions for the catsitter“.
• Context is everything.

The cute! It burns!!!!!!

Harry does not approve of your shenanigans.

Intense Polly is intense.

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• “The Lord of the Rings and The Princess Bride are basically the same genre of literature approached from opposite directions…”
• Fandom ships as… ships.
• The Death of Rats! (It’s a Discworld thing…)
• Writing not going well? Turn your manuscript into a dress and a sword.
• Then read this bit of advice.
• How you accidentally became the most powerful person in the world.
• A comic about burnout.
• UC or ER? (Urgent Care or Emergency Room)
• Oh snap!
• Christchurch, New Zealand, has laid off its official city wizard.
• Sultan the Pit Pony.
• Coffee cake cookies.
• Beware!
• Check that Halloween candy – you never know what might be inside…
• “Bloody cauliflower brain“.
• LEGO has a new Home Alone set.
• Pop-Tarts flavored frozen waffles.
• The Fisher Price toy telephone is now a smartphone accessory.
• Hot buttered tomato juice…
• Cat Matrix!

Harry, please don’t sit on your sister…

Mayhem and Harry napping.

Side-eye from Polly? Or kitty eyes o’ love?

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.