Bookity

• New releases: Tor.com (scifi, fantasy, YA sff, genre benders) and AAR (romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• Fascinating short bit about Diana Wynne Jones by someone on tumblr, then commented on by Neil Gaiman.
• Neil Gaiman did a reddit AMA.

Learn, Think, Make, Do

• Mattel has released a gender-neutral doll.
• “A birdwatcher’s review of untitled goose game“.
• Keep your fingers crossed…
• “Cats really do bond with their humans, study finds“. Well, DUH.
• Ok, that’s a good point about the spelling game Hangman.

Cookity

• 5 Instant Pot chicken stews.
• Instant Pot cauliflower curry. (via The Kitchn)
• Rice pilaf with crispy cauliflower and cashews.
• Four-ingredient apple cake.

Gluten Free

• Pumpkin slab pie.
• Flourless almond butter brownies. (via The Kitchn)

Artsy Crafty

• The images in the new They Might Be Giants’ video were made by a fiber artist! (via tinsnip)
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Did you know that one of the Good Omens promo posters contains a sort of hidden skull?

Wha…?

• “…Rep Devin Nunes is also suing a fictional cow on Twitter“.
• “tRUMP “thinks the Nobel Prize system is rigged because Obama has one and he doesn’t”.
• “Walrus sinks Russian naval boat during Arctic expedition“.

LOL

• Fake Pop Tart flavors.
• “All fun and games until the Roomba summons a demon.”
• “The major awards ranked by how good they would be as murder weapons“.

Teh Cute

• Baby snow leopards! Giant panda and babies! Baby red pandas!

Reading Update

• Good Omens fanfic, yes! Including one that was 275,000 words.

“OF COURSE I won’t bite you if you pet my tummy!” -Chaos

Bookity

• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
• On Lynda Barry. (via Largehearted Boy)
• “Breaking down the New York Times ‘ essay on politics and fan culture“.
• How to pick your first book from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series. (Don’t start with Book #1, The Colour of Magic. Just don’t.)
• BBC America has cast Sam Vimes for their Terry Pratchett series The Watch.
• “Quietly angry at people who are loudly angry at Neil Gaiman…“
• More on the differences between the Good Omens book and show.
• 25 quotes from Georgette Heyer.
• “5 poems for these days of uncertainty“.
• What writers are doing as they walk around the city.

Do, Think, Make, Learn

• What if the government treated men the way women are treated?
• Some deep thoughts on parenting and specifically on parenting a nonbinary child. (via tinsnip)
• “I am the parent of a nonbinary child.” (via tinsnip)
• Types of self care.
• “World Suicide Prevention Day: I will probably always be sick, but that doesn’t mean I’m broken“.
• How NOT to land an orbital rocket booster, by SpaceX. (via tinsnip)
• How to eat sushi.
• “Why xkcd creator Randall Munroe wrote the world’s most extreme ‘how to’ book“.

Cookity

• Sausage and cheese breakfast egg muffins. (via the Kitchn)
• Tips and a recipe for making edible cookie dough.
• Chai pumpkin cake with maple browned butter frosting. (via skybound2)
• Three-ingredient oatmeal cookies.
• S’mores biscuits. (via skybound2)

Gluten Free

• Chocolate chip cookie bars.
• Jam-filled donut muffins.

Cool

• Listen to changes being made to Wikipedia. (via oldrecordplayer)
• King Arthur statue at Tintagel.
• On baby dragons.
• On changelings.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Wha…?

• “Please enjoy this soothing footage of a migrating herd of wild air mattresses“.

LOL

• Minnesota’s 12 seasons.
• Inspector Penguin, inspectin’!
• “WE LIVE IN AN OLIGOPOLIC KLEPTOPLUTOCRACY AND NOBODY SEEMS TO CARE“.
• September gothic.

Teh Cute

• Bison and baby! Cranes and babies!

Reading Update

• Look! Over there! Is that Good Omens fanfic I spy?! 😉

“How many chucks COULD a woodchuck chuck?!” -Mayhem

Contest

• Blodeuedd’s giving away a copy of Death Takes a Holiday at Pemberley by Kelly Miller. Looks like it closes on September 9 or 10, depending on where you live.

Bookity

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), io9 (sff)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• On depression and reading hurt/comfort fic.
• “How audiobooks improve my mental health and my reading life.
• Gorgeous library.
• Lovely leather book covers.
• A fairy tale told backwards.
• There’s going to be an Earthsea tv show.
• “Standard book club brawl“.
• “The oompa loompas are a Greek chorus“.
• “My friend said ‘Aziraphale’ sounded like the name of an antidepressant so obviously I had to spend all morning making this fake commercial“.
• David Tennant at DragonCon.

Do, Learn, Think, Make

• What happens if you leave a cup of water on the sidewalk?
• “The commuting principle that shaped urban history“.
• D’oh. Pet vaccination rates are dropping (in the UK, at least).
• Some free online courses starting this month.
• “Manage climate change anxiety with these Cold War coping techniques“.
• How to pack a suitcase efficiently. Perhaps have tissues nearby…

Cookity

• Chicken and cabbage stirfry. (via the Kitchn)
• Balsamic strawberry chicken salad. (via the Kitchn)
• 5-minute brownie in a mug.
• Caramel gingerbread cake. (via gilajames)

Gluten Free

• Bran muffins.

Artsy Crafty

• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• It’s funnier if you read from the bottom up.
• Space shuttle posters.

Cool or Wha…?

• “What it’s like to fly with a service horse on an airplane“.

Wha…?

• “What is the best and least creepy way to show that we care about diversity“? FAIL.
• Ok, canned peas are NOT that color.
• Carnivorous howling mouse.
• Vantablack car.

LOL

• On basenjis.
• Learn how to talk Minnesotan.
• “How to measure things like a Canadian.”
• The most extreme way to take a selfie.
• I am not exactly sure what’s going on here. Thanks, kmkat!

Reading Update

• Guess. 😀

*primly ignoring me* -Mayhem