Mayhem turned sweet 16 on May 27th!

• New releases: Tor.com (horror/genre benders, fantasy, YA SFF, scifi), Smart Bitches (romance, more romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches. And more!
• Linkity from BookWyrm Knits.
• Very cool ficlet.
• Ficlet about a ghost.
• An interesting take on Cinderella.
• BOOM.
• Learn about tenrecs.
• I’d never seen a Bulwer’s pheasant before.
• “Gasoline is the new Yankee Candle of possible accidental covid indicators“.
• Rainbow dragon quilt.
• A dragon who hoards mint.
• What if unicorns were the size of cats?
• This refurbished Airstream is quite lovely.
• This one’s only 6 or 7 blocks away from me.
• A couple dedicated to living like it’s the 1930s.
• Why indeed.
• This one has in indoor golf course of sorts.
• Everything looks odd when taken to extremes.
• Salt Lake City condo that comes with everything. D’oh.
• Budget castle in Utah.
• Most castleish house?
• It’s definitely unforgettable, I’ll give it that.
• I love the ones where everything seems to normal and then, in the last few pictures, things get kinda weird.
• Although this one’s just weird from the get-go.
• For when having your horses in the stable is just too far away.
• Treadmill stairs… how do you go down without maiming yourself?!
• Spiral staircase kit. No railing included.
• No railing except at the bottom?
• No railing. Not ever surprised anymore.
• Those look annoying and dangerous.
• Huh.
• NO.
• WHY.
• Rainbow glasses.
• Iconic.
• So you’ll definitely be able to see when the heat takes them out, I guess.
• Where was this idea when we were getting all of those aol cds in the mail?
• “Save gas every mile!“
• Kill weeds with a flamethrower. What could go wrong...
• Kraft macaroni and cheese gummies.
• Cheese-scented nail polish.
• What will be the fate of the Atom Smasher?
• This would be absolutely disgusting if you had cats.
• Build an Iron Throne for your cats out of cardboard.
• I groaned, so you have to suffer through this pun, too.
• Based on that famous photo of Vincent Prices clutching an armload of cats.
• “Destroy false idols“.

Polly has a lot to tell me!

Mayhem looking out the window.

I got a Dyson fan/air purifier recently and the siblings found it puzzling.

You can almost see the question marks floating around Harry’s head!

• New releases: AAR (romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Tsundoku.
• On the implications of Bilbo having been declared dead and then alive again.
• Tips for trapping a swarm of humans on your spaceship.
• “Electric sparkle runes“.
• “Sometimes baby owls sleep lying down“.
• Baby foxes! (Thanks, Cheryl!)
• Very cool public sculpture.
• RIP, Ray Liotta – he was so good in Something Wild.
• Fresh strawberry oatmeal cookies. Although I’d make them with dark chocolate chips…
• Clock tower penthouse.
• Unusual tiny house.
• Castle-like house… built from embalming fluid bottles.
• Nope to living in an old missile silo.
• Please just let my eyes rest somewhere.
• It’s all very bland until the last picture, which is WTF.
• If you gain weight, you’ll never be able to take a shower again.
• This is just a bit odd.
• Huh.
• Creepy.
• Oddly narrow.
• Another odd one.
• Why a pool under the bed?
• Dragon stairs!
• Dangerous stairs.
• The storage steps seem awfully tall.
• These storage steps are unpredictable, but that’s fine – the loft looks useless anyway.
• Disorienting stairs.
• I’m way too clumsy for these stairs.
• Canned vegetable salads? Nope.
• Flame, avocado, harvest.
• YIKES.
• Mr Wrangler Sportswear, 1972.
• Creepy pedicure.
• :snortlaugh:

Mayhem in the midst of shaking her ears off of her head, apparently.

Harry sees a BIRD!

Polly is so stressed…

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• “How ‘Dracula Daily’ brought a classic back to life”. (I’m following along with this!)
• Bookmark FAIL.
• Mostly cute dragon comic.
• Dubya’s finally being honest.
• Monkeypox?! For real? UGH.
• Lowland streaked tenrec.
• The lesser auk.
• “David Gerrold called it.”
• The truth about plastic.
• Amazing driftwood statues.
• The Crisco Mansion.
• “Surreal estate“.
• I did not expect a houseboat to be this fancy.
• Some people got a little crazier than others during the original 2020 lockdown.
• I wonder if the tile in the last photo would make me motion sick?
• No ceiling vacuuming for me, thanks.
• But you’d have to live in Muncie, Indiana.
• “Smurf roof“.
• The kitchen seems a bad place to be disoriented.
• …But Sharpie will wear off all of those surfaces.
• “Go gay with fabulous Fablon“.
• “Gray hair cost her her job!“
• Surprise indeed. But not a good one.
• The early days of commercial air travel were something else.
• Why??
• “X-Radium cooking utensils“.
• I wouldn’t be bragging about discovering consumerism.
• Tweter.
• “Pepsi-roni“.
• Scary stairs.
• And more.
• And MORE.
• Some scarring may occur with use.
• WTF.
• Stairs or ladder?
• Definitely a ladder.
• Nice comics about swords.
• Medusa as you’ve never seen her!

Polly has been enjoying watching BIRDS out the windows.

Harry also enjoys looking out the windows at BIRDS.

But nobody’s letting spring get in the way of napping.

• New releases: Tor.com (SF, fantasy, YA SFF), Smart Bitches (romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• “The bookish life of LeVar Burton“.
• “Who was Ida B. Wells?“
• Some interesting archaic English words.
• Fandoms as boats.
• “Tell me, Inspector, have you ever had dealings with an amateur detective? The real thing, I mean. The genuine Carrion Crow.“
• What would fanfic authors’ notes look like in a fantasy universe?
• “If you are using an online period tracker or tracking your cycles through your phone, get off it and delete your data . Now.” Here’s why.
• Here we go again. 🙁
• Learn more about wolverines.
• And more about the Chicxulub Impactor.
• Celestial ceilings.
• Daniel Radcliffe as Weird Al Yankovic.
• Wait, what were toothbrush bristles made of before nylon?! (EWWW – boar bristles.)
• FLASHBACK.
• Also a flashback.
• Flashback for those who watched the original Battlestar Galactica.
• Apple was stylin’ in 1982. Not.
• “Swing and miss, Ken“.
• Buy your very own third eye.
• But wait until after you look at this retina burner.
• WTF.
• I’m starting to feel grateful for every normal set of stairs I climb.
• I mean…
• Are railings too much to ask for?!
• Yikes.
• Oh my.
• I hate the contrasting painted ceilings and the red room (“Red Rum”).
• Interesting, but maybe too much of a daycare vibe colorwise?
• That first photo misled me to the amount of orange I could expect.
• Just here for the rainbow stairs.
• Another castle.
• No, thank you, I do not want a basement cave.
• Here’s the creepy basement mentioned in the above.
• This gets progressively weirder as you scroll.
• Round houses are just so odd. Here’s another.
• Treet.
• NO.
• Moth-shaped smoke alarms.
• What if Clippy was an angel?
• “Bad map projection: Madagascar”. (Hover cursor/long-press for caption.)
• Radioactive bananas.

Mayhem drowsing in a rare bit of sunshine.

Polly loves her some sparkleballs!

Harry looking very winsome.

Lot going on in this one. Harry looking much less winsome (perhaps even sinister), with Polly sticking out her tongue in the background.

• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• “I have been hired to clean The Wizard Tower.“
• The very short story of an unusual coat of arms.
• I’m familiar with cat cafes, but not cat bookstores.
• On cat-human communication.
• “Why haven’t we found aliens?“
• For science!
• Some weird birds.
• A new video from my favorite band, Shearwater – the NPR writer is obviously a fan!
• “Overly dramatic air monitor“.
• Fun!
• An intensely cat-focused house.
• Interesting, but not a treehouse.
• Dramatic house is dramatic.
• Fireplace nope.
• Home staging nope.
• Home staging absolutely nope.
• Another bathroom nope.
• “At least you’ll fall artistically“.
• YIKES.
• My knees are also feeling a little weak.
• Too much.
• Bat Cave home cinema.
• Very retro indeed.
• If you really like Friends…
• Castle in the Bronx.
• Sorry, I didn’t make it past the ceiling that looks like writing snakes.
• “Converted magistrate’s court, police station, and sergeant’s house“.
• “Follow the yellow brick road…“
• “Unsettling ceramics”.
• Unsettling Snow White.
• The bar was pretty low in 1982.
• DIY vampire kit.
• No.
• :blink blink:
• “The oiliest oil“.
• After mask mandates end…

“What?!” -Polly

Harry focused on me, Mayhem focused on an imaginary bug, probably.

• New releases: Tor.com (horror and genre benders)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Miniature libraries.
• Ficlet about a changeling child.
• Brief insight into LotR.
• A LotR fitness challenge.
• Learn about remora.
• Funny short story about Chris Hadfield calling his wife from the ISS.
• Intergenerational translation.
• A celebration of spring.
• This would make me smile if I saw it in my neighborhood.
• Mostly zucchini, but a few grapes and one bonus melon.
• 1977 – impressive!
• Like snowshoes, but way more awkward.
• There are some bits I kind of like, but mostly it’s just Too Much.
• This is kind of fun, but it sure doesn’t look like it’s an actual treehouse.
• I’m not convinced.
• I don’t even know where to start with this one.
• Or this one.
• This one, either.
• Another.
• This one’s unintentionally terrifying.
• :horrified face:
• This would be a Very Bad Idea now.
• :facepalm:
• I never realized that Spam had so much competition back in the day. Another.
• O_O
• NO.
• EWWW.
• What the heck is the collection off the right edge of the 2nd photo?!!!
• Nowhere for the eye to rest, among other things.
• This Looks SO Dangerous.
• These do look unsafe for the clumsy or unwary.
• Skull carpet.

Mayhem looking very action-packed!

Poor sleepy Harry…

One of Polly’s attempts to sit like a people.

• New releases: Tor.com (sf, fantasy), Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (mysteries/thrillers/true crime)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from BookWyrm Knits.
• A ficlet: “The Seven Daughters of the Cailleach Foraoise”.
• A Sarah’s Scribbles card game? Ordered!
• An amazing dance routine from 1943.
• I didn’t realize this wasn’t CGI.
• Ok, that’s a cool idea for a home office in a small space.
• Dragon coffee table.
• Very Large kitties.
• Very Fancy dress.
• *blink blink*
• NO.
• NO.
• Picture yourself tripping and falling through that egg slicer those strings. 😮
• I like the purple, but not the monkeys.
• Too. Many. LEDs.
• Too. Much. Red.
• Too. Much. Black.
• The bathroom tile looks cool, but also too much.
• Just say no to carpeted bathrooms.
• Well, I was certainly surprised, and not just by the price.
• All I can think of is how the heck do you dust the damn beams?!
• The cat was my favorite part.
• But why on the wall?!
• “Small car”.
• Groovy sweaters for men.
• If I had to suffer through that pun, YOU have to suffer through that pun.
• It’s Flameless!
• Dunkin’ Donuts makeup.
• Rubik’s cube that changes colors as it moves.
• Good.

Mayhem focused on something, looking very action-packed!

Snuggling siblings!