Here's the real horror: SEVERAL of my coworkers were born after 1999 😭

Next in the series: historical American Girl book set in 1999

I'm sure I'm missing some of the Hugo noms because of the formatting issues

Renayyy!!

Wow, I'm in a category with giants. 😳 Congrats to all of us.

This nomination belongs to all of us, y'all. 🥰

Murder by Memory! Cinder House! The River has Roots!

The Incandescent and The Raven Scholar!

A photo of a book, The Haunting of Bellington Cottage by Laura Parnum. The tagline for the book reads: "It was the perfect winter getaway...until the ghost showed up."

My next read

It is just not tenable for academia or for society as a whole for every professor at a state school in a red state to leave and finds a position in a blue state and every would-be state school student in a red state to leave and attend college in a blue state (with the out of state tuition!) instead

I feel like a lot of the "lol the hypocrisy" takes on this are missing the point that the aim isn't really ever to "retvrn to the classics", it's to destroy the university by making it untenable for professors to do their work in these conditions so they leave and that is unfortunately succeeding 🫤

The highlight of this week's meal plan has definitely been a spring confetti salad from Edible Perspective, which sadly is now defunct. Other recipes: celery root veloute, herb roasted chicken thighs, zhoug, shawarma spiced chicken thighs.

Beloved!!!

Almost done with my reread of The Spellcoats!

Icymi!

A white cat with orange spots sitting up straight and looking partially away from the camera.

Sitting for his portrait

If companies collect all of this data on us, surely they can figure out that I would like to opt out of anything Mother's Day related for the rest of forever

I'm already getting Mother's Day ads and, truly, genuinely, I would like to kick someone or something

A large spirea bush with many white flowers.

Two lily of the valley plants blooming in a shady garden.

A red and yellow columbine flower.

A row of multi-colored pansies blooming.

Friday flowers: spirea, lily of the valley & columbine have joined the chat; pansies are still going strong

The particular pleasures of rereading At the moment, I’m rereading three books. Two of these–The Queen of Attolia and The Goblin Emperor–I’ve already reread multiple times (QoA so much that I’m beginning t…

I revisited this old post I wrote about rereading and yeah! I still stand by it! bysinginglight.wordpress.com/2016/04/11/t...

I made a cup of tea and I think it may have fixed me, at least temporarily.

A cutaway map of a palace/temple.

A map of a cozy fantasy town.

A map of a contemporary small town.

A map of a fantasy world.

Happy #PortfolioDay! My name is Sarah, and I'm an illustrator specializing in maps. I work primarily with authors and publishers, and my maps span contemporary small towns to fantasy worlds.

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a little stack of advance copies of my book, Possession Island

look what i have GOT !!!! this maximalist gothic TREAT is available for PREORDER it has got LESBIAN VAMPIRES in it and also a number of BAD DECISIONS as well as many SEMICOLONS because that's how we ROLL bookshop.org/p/books/poss...

KidLitFaves: Robin Stevens Author photo from website Biography Robin Stevens was born in California and grew up in Oxford, England, across the road from the house where Alice in...

This month's #KidLitFaves features Robin Stevens, author of the Wells & Wong series! buttondown.com/singinglight...

Photo of a cat lying on the ground on his back, wrapped around a bedpost. He's just hanging out.

In happier news, Bear loves to chill in the weirdest possible ways

There are so, so many justified critiques of Catholicism but "Popes shouldn't talk about theology because I want to bomb people without feeling bad about it" isn't one of them.

Note: this is very different from people who sincerely love a faith but struggle with authoritarian structures. I'm specifically talking about the people who join Catholicism & Orthodoxy because they think it's more pure and righteous and manly than other versions of Christianity.

Anyway, it's depressing to me how often I've seen this play out on the small stage. People who want the trappings of traditionalism until it means they might actually have to accept someone else's authority over them.

Especially if you are joining a global religion with major cultural differences from the one you grew up in!! (ie, hierarchal structures, a different understanding of Christianity & salvation)