Hokus pokus may your krill be plenty and scales shiny

calling payment processing companies is so much worse than calling reps bc I can't deliberately call outside of office hours to just leave a message

give a water bottle to someone whose whole demeanor is Rude And Overwhelmed. laugh with a young parent about how weird cats are. print out directions to the location of the local AA meeting. help someone on the phone place a hold on a popular thriller I've never heard of. I love libraries !!!!!

I know I use this space to be a curmudgeon slash asshole (when I use it at all) but I genuinely & unironically love to help an 85 year old use a scanner. I love to help a child find a book, I love to commiserate with someone whose politics I 100% do not align with about how TV isn't the same anymore

got a job in a library and life is full of joy & worth living etc etc again

the cat off the street that we were pretty sure must be spayed has very belatedly gone into heat ... I've never had an intact cat before. it feels like watching teenagers grind on a dance floor :|

I love you paper wasps

white oval nest with papier mache texture

Loved seeing this wasp's nest with the beautiful artistry of it plus incorporating the fern.

every once in a while I have to go scrounge up a few episodes of qi so I can listen to sandi toksvig say darling

recurring motif in my dreams currently is ocean .... beachcombing, diving, waves crashing against cliffs. mostly trinkets washed up on the beach

dragon or eel type creature sitting on a tree

the dragon/eel, resting his wings

dammit I missed the sale on in stars and time

the covers of the 15 or so books I read this month. honestly it's hard to identify them in the image, please ask if you want a list

the broken one this month is the city & the city by china miéville (which i very much enjoyed). lots of good books this month

shinx pokemon (it's like a little blue dog with huge mouse ears and little cat fangs and tuxedo pants)

this is me btw

a testament to nayler's writing of the violence of this character's situation I think. but difficult to read

ouaghe. the mountain in the sea is reading a lot like the outlaw ocean right now

sichuan peppercorn <33

Keep scrolling, there's nothing fishy going on here

anyway not bad for $4. I've never read kingsolver before

.... im on dry beans and rice, find it on the side of the road, books from the public library budget. but I still love a good indie bookstore

three books: Working with the Wool: how to weave a Navajo rug, National Audobon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers (Eastern Region), High Tide in Tuscon (essays) by Barbara Kingsolver, a set of pick up sticks, and some packets of gluten free tamari

✨️ indie bookstore day haul ✨️

can you believe I paid $16 for a grilled cheese yesterday. I'm so hungry

someone should hand me a candy bar or maybe a hot dog

is there a polite therapy talk way to say "I'm mostly just venting but I WILL take advice but only if the advice isn't horseshit and the worst advice I've ever heard in my life because if I have to respond to that as if it's helpful on top of everything else I'll lose my mind"? asking for a friend.

truly n genuinely do not understand the hype around policing labels .... aren't yall bored? go try making your own granola or sm there's better ways to spend time

someone with a house should let me live in their loft or garden shed that also has at least a half kitchen for free. I will walk your dog and organize all your books and weed your garden

would also recommend a supplementary viewing of john carpenter's the thing 1982

pairs nicely with dark archives by megan rosenbloom which has highly overlapping themes and despite being nonfiction history about books bound in human leather is much more upbeat