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Reading Update
Making Comics by Lynda Barry. There’s definitely some overlap with Syllabus, but Making Comics has many, many more exercises for, you guessed it, making comics.
*nodding off* -Chaos
Art Journaling Monday!
Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! I’ve included some of my recent favorites below. You can catch up on everything on my Tumblr, if you’d like. 🙂
- Geometric handish thing.
- Minimalist collage.
- VERY LARGE rainbow geometric doodle.
- “Art Is”.
- Another geometric doodle.
- Darkness truly.
- “Nothing is everything”.
- Brayer cleanup rainbow.
- Don’t postpone joy.
- “The bigger picture”.
- You are not alone.
- Rainbow truth.
- Strength courage truth.
*sleeping with her eyes not quite closed* -Mayhem
Linkity braces for the start of DST
Bookity
- New releases: Smart Bitches (romance)
- Tor.com will be offering the short story collection Nevertheless, She Persisted to download for free starting March 8 (International Women’s Day).
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- Linkity from the Pen Addict.
- “Books and the brain”.
- “It just struck me how Pterry gets progressively angrier and less subtle about it throughout the series [Discworld]”.
- On horror for kids – a comic.
- “All things green and glorious”.
- “A dragon, a princess, and a sacrifice”.
Think, Do, Learn, Make
- The low-down on hand sanitizers and the challenge of making your own effective version. (One brand of vodka has been warning people against using it in homemade hand sanitizer.)
- The low-down on disinfectants and wipes.
- Consumer Reports COVID-19 FAQ.
- “Dear news media: Stop using pictures of Asians in your stories about white people getting [COVID-19]”.
- Digging into the “38% of Americans won’t buy or drink Corona beer because of the #Coronavirus” claim – a look at misinformation.
- “Fear is never stupid”.
- When you start to suspect your neurodiversity includes adhd…
- The autism spectrum – perception vs reality.
- Very smart parrots.
- How to improve your memory.
Cookity
- 10 vegan slow cooker recipes.
- 28 recipes using hard-boiled eggs.
- 5 easy banana bread recipes.
- Strawberry lemon blondies.
Gluten Free
Artsy Crafty
Cool
Cool or Wha…?
- “The cat in the ventilation shaft” – a comic.
- What a town looks like encased in ice. This had to be kind of scary.
Wha…?
LOL
Teh Cute
Reading Update
Color Lab for Mixed Media Artists: 52 Exercises Exploring Color Concepts through Paint, Collage, Paper, and More by Deborah Forman. Lots of interesting exercises in this, some of which I’ll actually even try at some point. But with just two pages devoted to each exercise, many of the more complicated ones felt incomplete.
stART Journaling: An Art Journaling Workbook by Kristy Conlin (ed). This is just excerpts from some of North Light’s other books about art journaling plus lots of blank pages to journal on.
“You. Are. Too. Close. Mom. What if you sneeze on me??!” -Chaos
Art Journaling Monday!
Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! I’ve included some of my recent favorites below. You can catch up on everything on my Tumblr, if you’d like.
- Geometric.
- Many Good Omens stickers!
- For Get Messy Collage Club, with penguins.
- Drunk snek. Drunk angel. Yes, they are facing each other across the spiral binding of this journal!
- “Just say hello”.
- Leaving spaces.
- Bright view.
- Another completed art journal!
- Rainbow brayer cleanup page.
- 10 moments that changed me.
- Whimsical means.
- “Gimme some truth”.
- Quotes about truth.
“I don’t understand what you mean by ‘Too many staring cats!’, Mom. There’s just me.” -Chaos
Server updating means whirlwind linkity
- New releases: Tor.com (fantasy, sf, ya sff, genre-benders) and AAR (romance)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches. And cover snark.
- 10 standalone fantasy novels for when “series fatigue” hits.
- Cat!Crowley and Cat!Aziraphale on cat!nip.
- GF chocolate chunk banana cake.
- Wintry northern Minnesota.
- A cake that would fit in well in northern Minnesota.
- The Journal of Recreational Linguistics.
- A Field Guide to Roadside Wildflowers at Full Speed.
- A town underground.
- Goodbye, Katherine Johnson.
- Texas gothic.
- “You can now draw perfect circles on Etch-A-Sketch”.
- BOOM.
- The Toronto Maple Leafs lost to a 42-year old Zamboni driver emergency goaltender who works for their minor league team. Steve Dangle had a few thoughts about that, lol.
- If you use or are considering using GoodRx, you probably want to read about their information sharing.
- “GIF” peanut butter.
- “Cakes” made from noodles.
- Sliced mayonnaise.
- “Cats are basically pet monsters”.
- A very crabby black kitten. Cheetah and babies!
Reading Update
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. Very good fantastical tale set in the late 19th and early 20th century – there are multiple, seemingly disconnected nonlinear story threads that slowly spiral together in quite unexpected (to me, at least!) ways.
“Ignoring you until you put that camera away, Mom!!!” -Mayhem
Art Journaling Monday!
Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! I’ve included some of my recent favorites below. You can catch up on everything on my Tumblr, if you’d like. 🙂
- Diver.
- Handle with care.
- Herd immunity.
- Overdrive enough.
- Let there be light.
- Rainbow northwestern Europe.
- Share observer.
- Geometric doodle.
- Avoiding nothing.
- “The House of Belonging“.
- Rainbow scribble doodle.
- “Creep“.
- Maps as symbols.
- Book!Crowley and Book!Aziraphale.
- Breathe in. Breathe out.
- Shines everyone.
- The danger of to-do lists.
- Different fish.
- Ghostly golden Good Omens.
“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Chaos
Loop de loop de linkity
Bookity
- New releases: Smart Bitches (romance)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- Linkity from the Pen Addict.
- Quotes from Toni Morrison.
- “Neil Gaiman on notebooks and fountain pens“.
- Amusing bit from a letter between JRR Tolkien and WH Auden on the writing process.
- Celestial Harmonies, a Good Omens zine.
- What the Good Omens fandom is like.
- Read “Staying Behind”, a new short story by Ken Liu.
- Bookish cross stitch and embroidery.
- What if Mustrum Ridcully and Esmeralda Weatherwax were married?
- “‘Fandom Trumps Hate’ lets you bid on fanworks to support truly excellent causes”.
Learn, Do, Make, Think
- Um, what did they think would happen when the EU started negotiating trade agreements with the UK? A bit more detail.
- Behind the scenes of the original Star Wars movies.
- BOOM.
- “Which songs are definitely not about what people think they’re about?“
- Flashback to what people thought of YouTube at its beginning.
Cookity
- 57 winter soups.
- 10 quick, easy lunch recipes.
- 10 easy spaghetti squash recipes.
- Vegetarian pot pie.
- Easy rice pudding.
- Easy strawberry Eton mess.
- GF grasshopper brownies.
Artsy Crafty
Cool
Cool or Wha…?
Wha…?
- Most accursed cat bed ever?
- McDonald’s candles.
- “KidKraft playset connects with Alexa for baby’s first self-surveillance“.
- “The Boy Scouts just declared bankruptcy to avoid sex abuse lawsuits“.
LOL
- BOOM.
- Some Calvin & Hobbes.
- Candy hearts written by a neural net.
- It’s tough being an imaginary friend.
- How to improve Picard.
- Pretty much.
Reading Update
Good Omens fanfic, falalalalalala!
Skeptical panther princess has a skeptical. Also, her eyelash game is on point.
Art Journaling Monday!
Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! I’ve included some of my recent favorites below. You can catch up on everything on my Tumblr, if you’d like. 🙂
- Waiting for green…
- Rainbow Scorpius??
- Lions.
- Rainbow Down in Africa/Southern Africa.
- “Your vibe attracts your tribe”.
- Writeover journaling with green.
- Writerover journaling with purple and silver.
- “…our sense of slight woundedness…”
- Rainbow scribble doodle.
- Big A** Altered Atlas.
- You belong.
- Very Large rainbow scribble doodle.
- Catch their eye.
“MOOOOOOMMMMMMM! It’s two hours until my dinner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FEED ME!!!!!!” -Chaos (they have food out all the time….)
Linkity from the land of snow and cold
Bookity
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
- Linkity from the Pen Addict.
- What if a Slytherin had been chosen to compete in the Triwizard Tournament?
- Good Meowmens. (The cat Crowley is Very Similar to the cat Chaotic…) The fall of the cat Crowley. And more. The breeds that the cat Aziraphale and the cat Crowley are based on.
- Pondering the full name of Aziraphale’s bookshop.
- Photos of and quotes from Sir Terry Pratchett.
- Tshirts for writers or editors.
Do, Think, Make, Learn
- YIKES.
- Behind the scenes at a bowling alley.
- Beyond the stereotype of left brain and right brain.
- Nutrition labels in the US are going to change again.
Cookity
- 10 “hearty and wholesome” vegetarian dinners.
- Easy chocolate lava cakes.
- Instant Pot death by chocolate cheesecake.
- Instant pot fudgy chocolate brownies.
- Dark chocolate ganache brownies.
- Baked Alaska.
Gluten Free
Artsy Crafty
- Download free coloring books and sheets from libraries and museums around the world. (via Book Riot)
Cool
- Watch Oscar-winning animated short Hair Love online.
- Perfect quote and picture.
- Very organized rocks.
- “My favorite part about that family is the former President [Obama] is somehow the dunce of the group.”
- Moon over Minneapolis from across a frozen lake.
Cool or Wha…?
Wha…?
- DIY rotary cellphone.
- Kentucky Fried Chicken Crocs.
- “Red Lobster offers heart-shaped boxes filled with cheddar bay biscuits for Valentine’s Day”.
- Vertical movies.
- “Saturn Devouring His Son yoga mat”. Read the name of the featured artwork and THINK before you click…
LOL
Reading Update
Ex Libris: Stories of Libraries, Librarians, and Lore edited by Paula Guran. Excellent collection of short stories that’s exactly what it says on the tin. I can’t remember the last time I enjoyed an anthology this much. I did skip one story due to it having a serial killer sort of vibe, which is not my thing. And there’s one story with a librarian I suspect is based on or an homage to the angel Aziraphale from Good Omens, which pleased me greatly.
“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Mayhem
Art Journaling Monday!
Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! I’ve included some of my recent favorites below. You can catch up on everything on my Tumblr, if you’d like.
- Rainbow scribble doodle.
- Trees.
- “What motivates us is a subversive agenda…. What would we have them do?”
- Rainbow scribble doodle over southeastern Asia.
- True belonging.
- Journaling mind.
- “It’s a small world, after all…”
- And yet another rainbow scribble doodle!
- BELONG.
- “Timely reminders”.
“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Chaos