i don't do bad sauce passes
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JBB: An Artblog!
Love Begins
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
Origami Around
$LAYYYTER
taylor price
#extradirty
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One Nice Bug Per Day
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DEAR READER
Jules of Nature
cherry valley forever
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2025 books read:
Annihilation (Jeff VanderMeer)
Stiff (Mary Roach)
Realm of the elderlings (Robin Hobb)
Lessons in Chemistry (Bonnie Garmus)
White Fang (Jack London)
If you could see the sun (Ann Liang)
On Tyranny
The serviceberry
Apothecary diaries 1-4
Fuzz
Ancillary Justice
Galatea
The secret history
Uh oh speed round: MXTX & Tyrants fish
Starting an Animorphs book club :)))))))
Marjane Satrapi, author of the excellent Persepolis, has died at age 56. Friends said she “died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life”.
This is incredibly sad. Persepolis and Persepolis II are available on archive.org. These books were foundations for me.
Any sci-fi media: the spaceship is a character
Me: OMG THE SPACESHIP IS A CHARACTER
god this is dumb (original)
EDIT: hey guys please reblog this version source has been updated!
There really really ought to be a book about how the staple crops of different civilizations shape and influence those civilizations, and I really want to read it.
Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky and A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage (three are alcohol, three have caffeine) are not quite that, but may still be of interest?
I read Salt back in the day and it's so so good, second the rec. I have heard of 6 Glasses and not read it but I am sure I would probably love it. Gotta see if the library has it. Thank you!
Gonna throw Empire of Cotton by Sven Beckert in the ring here! You'll never see the modern world the same way again.
A Short History Of The World According To Sheep by Sally Coulthard blew my mind. So many things are tied to wool and sheep and weaving and so many words and phrases are tied to wool, people have no idea.
Example words which come from textiles/weaving, if not specifically wool (go look them up!): subtle, shoddy, tabby, Brazil, rocket, twit, warped, going batty, on tenterhooks, text...
I'll throw in a rec for Pickled, Potted, and Canned by Sue Shephard - a very interesting look at food preservation and how the availability of different types of food preservation shaped cultures and cuisines.
Sweetness and Power is this but for the topic of sugar
The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past might also be up your alley. It's about "forgotten" foods and staples. They talk about different types of wheat, sauces, veggies, etc and a little about the cultures from whence they come
Also: Much Depends on Dinner by Margaret Visser. One of my favourite books.
DO I HAVE A SERIES FOR YOU. University of California Press has a gift for you and it is a 80+ book series on food studies. There are even some that are open access (legally free), but the rest are in libraries.
I also highly recommend Frostbite by Nicola Twilley. It’s about the impact refrigeration has had/is having on food preservation and culture, globally. It was one of my favorite books of this last year.
Also, The Rice Theory of Culture https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1172&context=orpc By Thomas Talhelm
Can't believe no one's mentioned Consider the Fork yet, which is about how environment/resources shape our ways of eating, which shapes both our culture and our concepts of politeness. So interesting, really recommend!
Seven Flowers and How They Shaped Our World by Jennifer Potter
It isn't so much about edible plants as it is about decorative ones, but I think it fits the theme of this growing list enough for me to add it.
Seven Flowers and
How They Shaped Our World by
Jennifer Potter
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Why so many wolf attacks in fantasy. Where are the Boars. The immortal and humongous Boar
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (2021) // Jonny Sun (2014)
saw someone say grace had dogs on his cardigan bc of laika the space dog, patron saint of one way trips, because he was never supposed to make it back to earth, oh I'm sick
Imagine saying this to the Robin Hobb who published her first book while financially struggling as a waitress and post lady with 4 children to take care of alone because her husband was an offshore fisherman in Alaska
wish i could have been a fly on the wall for THAT conversation! not because i wanted to hear it or anything but because i'd be a lil buuuuug
Cassie Animorphs really spoiled me for all future pacifist characters. Like, I didn't love her when I read the series as a kid, but as I've gotten older, I really appreciate that she's the moral center of the group, the one who's always trying to find non-lethal solutions, AND she regularly kills her enemies(and their human shields). Because she understands that if violence is going to happen, then keeping HER hands clean doesn't stop the violence. That sometimes, the only way to keep an attacker from hurting others is to attack them yourself.
And so she does the right thing. Always. And sometimes the right thing involves violence. And she regrets it, but if she's the only one who can save lives and that requires killing, she will. And she'll go right back to arguing that they should be looking for a path to peace while standing in the pool of blood.
Compared to how some series will have a pacifist character who relies on their friends to do all the violence while condemning them for it, or a series will find a loophole/change the rules to allow the pacifist to not kill when it would otherwise be 100% necessary, it was a nice practical situation to have Cassie dedicated to peace while being willing to kill to achieve it.
fitzchivalry:
chade @ baby fitz:
lord golden:
tom badgerlock:
assassin’s quest road trip:
chivalry @ burrich:
regal farseer:
burrich:
fitzchivalry (again):
kettricken:
if i lived in the six duchies there would be a chivalry farseer poster in my bedroom and during his scandal i would be replying to every #bastard post on the twitter trending page with tears in my eyes like "OKAY BUT KING BOUNTY FATHERED A BASTARD AND NO ONE SEEMED TO CARE??" and after the abdication i would post getty images of chivalry every year on his birthday with the caption "we miss you chiv, i can't believe withywoods got so lucky!!! ❤️" and when he fell off his horse i would post a memorial essay on a multi-slide black screen instagram story and refuse to emerge from my room for three business days
this is going to have me on my hands and knees dry heaving
what the FUCK man.
