Blog Without a Title

I used to have much more written here.

[winawinadajcie]

[sloth-with-a-knife]

One of my favorite things about Terry Pratchett's books is their unique relationship with used bookstores. Particularly because they are difficult to find, for three reasons. The first reason is that they aren't there. Books in used bookstores were once owned by other people, people who decided to let that book go in the hopes that it will find someone new who will love it. It's very difficult to let go of a Terry Pratchett book. The second reason is that, if they make it into a store, they never stay there very long. They're usually purchased less than a few days after their arrival.

The third reason is my favorite: if they made it to the bookstore, and remained unnoticed, it's because the spine is worn. It's been read and loved so much it's almost unrecognizable from the spine. I've never found a used Terry Pratchett book without a cracked spine, and I love it. Cracked spines, stained pages, worn covers, these are the physical signs of love that we leave on our favorite books, and every Terry Pratchett book I've found in a used bookstore has been loved, dearly.

[psikonauti]

Lisa Wright (British, b. 1965)

Beneath the Strangeness of it, 2020

Oil on canvas

[whoznoah]

The agony of thinking you’re finished doing the dishes only to turn around and to your horror: the pot.

[javert]

I do think when you're making a video like "here's how xyz author wrote so much! try their writing routine!" you should be legally required to mention if the author in question regularly did unfathomable amounts of cocaine

[browniefox]

Getting a weird little hobby is actually so important bc it opens your eyes up to the world. You start crocheting or knitting, and now you see scarves and sweaters differently. You try identifying plants, now you’re seeing opposite and alternate leaf pattern. Bird watching? Every chirp draws attention and interest.

Get into weird little hobbies.

[decadadedecadencia]

Tiles, Gustav Klimt

[simena]

Adolf von Becker - The cat on the pillow

[pilferingapples]

Gautier got All Messed Up on soda at the 1867 Exposition , how was an Actual Adult this much of a kid constantly 

[small-fairy-child]

If you have a cat please reblog this with its name please and thank you

[winawinadajcie]

Tagged by @atheoryofmind but then I didn’t log in for like a month:

Suggestion: tag 9 people you wish to know better

Favorite color: Blue (but certain greens are very close).

Currently reading: Just finished The Embattled Self: French Soldiers’ Testimony of the Great War by Leonard V. Smith earlier today; currently listening to an audiobook of Excalibur by Bernard Cornwell, and reading a paperback of Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen by Lois McMaster Bujold. I am about to attempt to read all of Mastering Cheese by Max McCalman before it has to go back to the library TOMORROW which... is sure a choice on my part.

Last Song: “In Your Pockets,” Johnny Flynn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dgtj0Fvw0I 

Last Series: The audiobooks of the Bernard Cornwell Arthur novels, though I’m still listening to the last of them. Before that, it’s been a while since I read a full series--it might be the Lois McMaster Bujold Chalion/World of the Five Gods books? 

Last Movie: The Secret Garden (1993), which I saw for the first time recently even though I had the VHS as a kid (child me had decided it would be Boring).

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: Savory, though sweet is also nice. My spice tolerance is not good.

Currently working on: I bought a little one-sketch-each-day notebook thing on clearance and I’ve been trying to keep up with that. I’ve also been trying to do linocuts? And decided to try to learn to read French for real after like... twenty years, because I was definitely around 10 when I first said I was going to do that because I liked Dumas.

I am not tagging nine people simply because I do not think I know nine usernames anymore...

[antiqueanimals]

The Bookshelf for Boys and Girls, volume 7. Published in 1963.

[effemimaniac]

"sorry that probably doesn't make much sense" <- for perfectly intelligible & logical statements relevant to the present conversation

"you get what I mean." <- for unparsable non sequiturs

[robin-teddybear]

“as you do” <- for incredibly eccentric and even impossible actions

[diver-up]

i romanticize mundane things ab life too much i was watching a lecture for my animal behavior class and the prof mentioned that songbirds migrate at night guided in direction by the stars and i had to take a moment and pause the vid like oh songbirds look at the stars......

[arborealgargoyle]

I think you are doing life the correct way my friend you only learn songbirds look at stars once after all

[exitwound]

interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume?

me: mhm so that’s called a lacuna. it refers to when manuscripts have missing parts, lost to time. for example, the epic of gilgamesh has

[odonianpoet]

Raspberries. John Lewis Childs, Inc., (1921)

[briosca-sa-speir]

na bachlóga

the buds