I despise with the heat of a thousand suns the way I have to be suspicious of all art I see now while I investigate it's authenticity, because this couldn't be more diametrically opposed to the state of mind one should be in while taking in all art.
I've been referencing this essay by @mollytempleton.com a lot lately in conversations about reading fantasy and other literature. Templeton's piece includes a discussion of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's useful ideas about 'paranoid' and 'reparative' approaches to reading. reactormag.com/on-learning-...
I'm ⬆️, and my grandmother, uncle, brother, child, and niece are represented in this list... 🤣
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to die.
Lovely footage of the first bear born in Aragon in more than 50 years, shortly after emerging from hibernation. Part of the slow recovery of brown bears in the Pyrenees. Via Aragón TV.
An old time-y illustration of a Pansies.
Today is Octidi the 28th of Germinal in the year 234.
Germinal is the month of sprouting.
Today we celebrate pansies. #JacobinDay
More information on pansies
This is one of those "something you wish people knew about your industry" posts:
If the library book you want is checked out, PUT A HOLD ON IT!
People are so reluctant to do this, but librarians actively want you to. It gives us valuable data and keeps the collection moving.
was once New Amsterdam.
This person should check if their local library does personalized recommendations (often from a form on the website) where they can give all their requirements.
Sometimes having been raised by a combo of engineers (if you don't want to be corrected, don't make mistakes) and artists (critique is always valid) renders me less than tactful in feedback situations...
Unsurprising, I love this series
It's the annual Ask a Manager salary survey! Every year, vastly fewer men fill this out than women. Men, please share your salary info (anonymously) so we have concrete salary comparisons to inform pay negotiations and fight the pay gap
I have never wanted more in my life to just go completely off grid then I do today.
The novel
It destroyed its cage
Yes
YES
The novel is out
Published today:
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Cover of the children's book No, David by David Shannon
Mine smell amazing, but not like lemons. Like neroli.
I gather the SF&F subgenre formerly referred to as'blokes in cloaks' is now to be known as 'mantasy', and may be considered the counterpart to 'guy fi'. You may now go on with your day.
Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended
The Subtle Art of Folding Space comes out April 7th. Preorder now! From today to Thursday @barnesandnoble.com members get 25% off with the code PREORDER25
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Me, too
I haven't seen The Bride yet (want to!) but I completely resonate with the points of this thread.
"Beach vibes," I murmur to myself while doing my hair, as another March blizzard blows past outside...
I didn't move anything before taking that pic, lol
A 3D printed Oscar statuette sitting on my work shelf
I won my Oscar pool at work and last year's winner presented me with a 3D printed statuette in an impromptu ceremony. Not gonna lie - it felt amazing to pretend to win an academy award. 🤣
No, I am not worried about 'declining' birth rates, I accept them as post-modern birth rates, the birth rates that naturally happen once the conditions are set that children can be expected to survive to adulthood reliably and that women are allowed to be educated and become full citizens.
More products added to the FDA's warning about poisonous oleander in supplements containing Brazil seeds (or nuts) and tejocote root. The agency discovered the problem in September but has not been able to fix it due to the refusal of sellers to recall the products or inability to contact them.
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
move slow and repair things
Does coffee not have such a huge colonial footprint as tea, or have I just not heard about it?
