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Linkity still has whiplash from the weather change this week (72F one day, 30F and snowing the next)

November 13, 2020 Chris 5 Comments

New releases: Tor (sf, fantasy, YA sff)
Linkity from Smart Bitches.
Linkity from the Pen Addict.
“Science confirms: Watching nostalgic stuff is good for mental health“.
“Things I learned about USA from staring at maps for 2 days bc of USA elections“. (That weird bump on the top of Minnesota that bothered the op so much is the Northwest Angle.)
Yes, this is exactly what driving in snow is like.
What songs got popular after the election was called Saturday?
“Intersectionality and decentering: You can’t have one without the other!“
“Dear white people, I need to matter beyond a thank you“.
Gorgeous, but NO.
Cardamon creme brulee pie.
Overexcited kittens are overexcited.
xkcd on electoral precedent. Hover cursor/long-press for caption.
It IS shocking, isn’t it?
Speaking of shocking…
“Smart” heels.
Standing keyboard.

Reading Update
Whole lotta Good Omens fics – it was a stressful week!

“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Mayhem

Art Journaling Monday!

November 9, 2020 Chris 2 Comments

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! Iâ€™ve included some of my recent favorites below.

Focus RSD.
We have to own the story and rewrite the ending.
I can’t really blame him.
TROLL!
Circles.
At the Globe.
“Tear Aside These Dreadful Skins“.
Common Same.
“Get your ducks in a row.“
Completed Good Omens art journal #2!
Terry Pratchett on book space.
Spreads for the Get Messy “The Inner Heroine” class I’m taking. (There are four links in the previous sentence.)

“HELP ME.” -Chaos

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Linkity is no more caught up or less frazzled than last week

November 6, 2020 Chris 3 Comments

Reading Update
The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed To Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brene Brown. It was good, but I kept getting tripped up by her insistence on faith being nonnegotiable. I adore her podcast, tho!

*side-eyeing* -Chaos

*drowsing* -Mayhem

Art Journaling Monday!

November 2, 2020 Chris 2 Comments

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! Iâ€™ve included some of my recent favorites below.

Well, I guess it looks like an RSD virus, but that’s not what I was thinking!
Ineffable Leonardos.
MONSTER!
“Alone at last!“
Ineffable Space Bats!
Found poem with collage.
“Soup is good food.“
Another found poem.
Strictly Ballroom.
“Once in a blue moon“.
Artist.
“Doubt thou the stars are fire…“
“Epically small moments“.

“Why you gotta be this way, Mom?!??” -Chaos

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Falling back with linkity

October 30, 2020 Chris 4 Comments

New releases: AAR (romance)
Linkity from Smart Bitches. And cover snark from Smart Bitches.
Listen to a free horror story.
Murderbot animation.
Bookshelf nooks.
Oh, you should definitely read this lovely little short story.
I would love to read the novel-length version of this premise!
Halloween posters from NASA.
“What would you take to the moon?“
I guess 102 years doesn’t really change the pandemic experience, does it? NOT AT ALL.
“Healthcare isn’t an opinion.“
“Pandemic depression is about to collide with seasonal depression. Make a plan, experts say.“
Thank you. This is a good reminder.
I’m in.
Pheasant coucals are very cool looking birds.
“Researchers finally figured out how octopuses taste [things] with their arms”.
“Fluid dynamics in all its glory.“
What is asexuality?
COVID-19 fight scene.
LOL!
xkcd on falling back. Hover cursor/long-press for caption.
So true!
BUSTED. That’s, um, kinda what linkity is at this point. 😀
Untitled goose Halloween.
Over 50 one-pot meals.
Pumpkin oatmeal chocolate chip muffins.
80 easy desserts.
Disney, WHY? SO CREEPY.
Mark Hamill for Biden. The Avengers for Joe Biden.
45 commits v0ter fraud.
BOOM. And BOOM.

Reading Update
The Color of Law: The Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein. Be prepared to be horrified and enraged.
The Library of the Unwritten (Hell’s Library #1) by AJ Hackwith. Good enough to suck me in, even though I never shook the comparisons to another series or two.

Flashback photo of Mayhem from 2015!

*INTENSITY INTENSIFIES*

Art Journaling Monday!

October 26, 2020 Chris 2 Comments

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! Iâ€™ve included some of my recent favorites below.

Fight like an artist.
“Angels or Devils“.
Young RBG.
Cat Tree.
“Unpopular opinion…“
“You can do damn near anything while crying…“
“The work of antiracism is…“
BOOM.
What we are all dealing with.
Owl.

*SLURRRRRRRRRRRRP* -Chaos

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Linkity’s hopeful next week will be less crazy

October 23, 2020 Chris 3 Comments

Keep your fingers crossed on that! 😀

Reading Update
1919 by Eve L Ewing. An exploration of the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 (part of the “Red Summer” in the US) via haunting poetry.
Electric Arches by Eve L Ewing. Some more haunting poetry from Ewing.
Other Worlds Than These edited by John Joseph Adams. Pretty good collection of parallel world and portal stories that started out a lot stronger than it finished.

“Neener, neener, neener!” -Chaos

Art Journaling Monday!

October 19, 2020 Chris 2 Comments

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! Iâ€™ve included some of my recent favorites below.

“black heart“
Creative Hands.
Only one planet earth.
Another rainbow hand. And a geometric rainbow thing.
Cognitive dissonance.
Couch. (I think it’s probably Neil Gaiman, not Terry Pratchett.)
“Don’t.“
“Let’s go to work.“
“Not everyone…“
YES.
Despair.

“WHAT are you doing, Mom???!” -Chaos

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And another round of whirlwind linkity!

October 16, 2020 Chris 3 Comments

New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Tor.com (horror/genre-benders)

Linkity from Smart Bitches. And from the Pen Addict.

“Notes from Isolation: A Soundtrack for Now“.

Scientists, 90s and today.

“…simultaneously adorable and dystopian.”

A wonderful last contact story.

Variations of Fawkes the Phoenix.

Neanderthals were plying.

Lord of the Rings game, but you play as the ring (not a real game, alas).

“2020 summed up in book titles”.

Well, it’s the reason I have black cats, so!

“Theory: Nobody who writes a physics textbook gives any fucks”.

Pumpkin tres leches cake.

The xkcd dialect quiz. Hover cursor/long-press for caption.

And xkcd’s ultimate all-in-one printer. Again with the hovering and such.

“Thanksgiving-flavored” candy corn… And $49 pink pineapples. And desk tents. Least usable keyboard ever? Disturbing blazer is disturbing.

Reading Update
Camouflage: The Hidden Lives of Autistic Women by Sarah Bargiela & Sophie Standing. Cute short comic that combines some stats and some personal stories.
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo. This was very good – I liked how she split topics into chapters (for easy reference later), and she covered some things I hadn’t seen covered in my previous reading.
Ballistic Kiss (Sandman Slim #11) by Richard Kadrey. A solid addition to the series. Was Stark more socially awkward in this than usual?!

“Shake my paw?” -Chaos

Art Journaling Monday!

October 12, 2020 Chris 2 Comments

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! Iâ€™ve included some of my recent favorites below. Plus a bonus selfie.

“Bet you blink before I do!” -Chaos

Art journaling, reading, knitting, and cat parenting. It's a wild life.