Hey @louiestowell.bsky.social ! We were at the Jorvik Centre yesterday & just look at Loki taking over. 🥰

I’m catching up on journaling today & I am so in love with this medieval washi tape set.

We’re watching the Dave Eggers Nosferatu. And it is bleeding gothicness everywhere. 🥰

Our delivery of the 40th anniversary edition of LEGEND by David Gemmell turned up yesterday. And it is just gorgeous. Look at it.

Today’s art pages: (also, it’s hot)

Ok. How scary is Hereditary? Like. On a scale of Haunting of Hill House or Mother being medium to the Exorcist or Deliver Us From Evil being more moreness. Asking for a friend who’s considering watching it solo.

Hello friends!! Fountain pen p0wrn. You’re welcome! 🥰 Just look at that iridescent nib! So very sexy.

Hey book peeps! We're looking for non-fiction book recs for primary school children featuring role models from the British South Asian, British East Asian, and British Southeast Asian communities. We want children to see themselves reflected in the books they read! Any suggestions? #KidsBooksUK

D1553 Symplegades.

Fell off the top bunk and broke my arm. 🤷🏼‍♀️ I was about 8.

New bookish tshirt!!

@sachacoward.bsky.social I know you’re on hols but thought you’d love to know we’ve chosen your book to be our next read at our dedicated & diverse lgbtq+ bookclub! www.instagram.com/p/DJ1pgcXMLF...

Fountain pen cleaning day.

New journal. This red is delicious. 🥰

What a superb story! 🥰

Went to Florence. Saw some stuff.

Top tip: don’t wrench your back & pinch a nerve ahead of a book festival you’re running. 🥺

I’ve spent the day thinning out the bookcases. I’m here to tell you I’ve moved around 150 books to the downstairs to give away to friends (they’re coming round tonight) and then to donate left-overs to our local charity shop - and I am unable to see ANY difference on the shelves. I feel unwell.

I’m the kind of sick where I was all: is this areally REALLY bad hayfever or is it a bad head-cold? It’s a headcold. It feels like I’ve been in a collision with a herd of rampaging buffalo. Pity me.

Hello, mateys! I’m after books set in Florence, Siena & Tuscany, please. Fiction only as I already have a lovely book on Brunelleschi’s Dome. Many thanks! Also not Under A Tuscan Sun because read it a billionty years ago.

Hopefully these will turn into that.

Just created a new third level monk to replace my sadly unalived character from last session. He’s ridiculously strong as a character. I’m already a little smitten with him.

So, last night during the DnD campaign my lovely elf ranger was mortally wounded. We’re gaming with complete noobs and their reaction to my character dying was so pure? I felt so bad for them. There was trembling chins and wibbles. Bless their innocence.

I’ve read a dark gothic fanfic on AO3 about my favourite cdrama & light novel, Guardian (by Priest) and honestly I sincerely hope the ff author realises how amazing they are.

Have successfully navigated Ikea at 9 this morning. No candles were bought. 💪 I do however have a new billy bookcase & storage boxes. Let the craft room rejuvenation continue. 💃💃

We were quiet in the shop just before my lunch break so I read the opening lines from Emily Wilson’s Iliad translation out loud, orator style like a nerd. Both my colleague & were all hibby-shivery afterwards. 🤓 It’s just SO DAMN good.

Customer just came in asking me what I think about getting Ai to write a ya book for him?! Initially I thought he was kidding. He was in before & we talked about writing. But then he went to explain how he needed Ai to give him ideas that he can then further refine…by using Ai. I got palpitations.

Hi chaps! Any recs for Florence - places to eat / visit. Obvs the Uffizi is a given. TYIA.

Woman comes in: do you have any books on Korea? Me: sure & proceed to show her all the books we have (fiction, non-fic including folklore). Her: no, that’s not what I want. Then she spends 20 mins taking photos of books before buggering off without buying anything. My smile a pained rictus.

The craft room tidying is going a pace. I just tried to move & nearly cried because my back hurts so much. 💪

I’m tidying my craft area and it is genuinely wild to me how much utter rubbish I’ve held onto over the six years we’ve been in the new flat. I’m about to tackle my 200 journals. 🫠 Pray for my sanity.

It is time! AC: Mirage 🥰

Have treated myself to AC: Mirage. 🥷One of my decisions for 2025 is to game more. I even bought gaming journaling ephemera. 😂 Oh, that reminds me. New gaming headphones too. 🎧

Getting ready for the last DND game of 2024. I’ve made a huge pot of lush butternut & sweet potato soup and we’ve got 3!!! French baguettes. Yum. It should feed six of us as we head into Goblin Territory 💪🧝‍♂️🏹⚔️ and try to not get unalived.

My book treasures I got for Christmas. I’m already around 60 pages into EMPEROR OF THE SEAS and I’m obsessed. Netflix really shanked us. We could’ve had Marco Polo returning to Venice in his 40’s leading a flotilla of Mongol ships laden with treasure. Anyway. My obsession continues.

We watched RED ONE earlier today & thoroughly enjoyed it. Mostly because Santa & Cal addressed the reindeer (huge dire sized reindeer oh my god) as ‘ladies’ which is ACCURATE. So it immediately stole my heart. Also Krampus was so sexy? Monsterlovers will be swooning. (It’s me, I’m a monster lover).

I’m DELIGHTED that I’ve tracked down the French 2024 movie of The Count of Monte Cristo. It’s one of my fave Dumas novels. Ugh. Maybe I need a new edition…

Oh! Happy Krampusnacht, friends!

I really struggled with reading Slow Horses. I just couldn’t get into it although I know it’s 100% my jam. So, I’m going to listen to it on audio instead.

Yarnbombing!! But my small town is also looking very pretty. ⬇️

When I do my weekly ironing I put on a show to watch. TRACKER on Disney+ is my go-to each new season. The mc is likeable & the storylines aren’t very convoluted. My fave thing? His brother in the show is played by Jensen Ackles and I love it because there are these tiny SPN references.

Oh god. I have genuinely become one of those people. I just got new stationery delivered from Miso Paper. And yes, it’s exciting but I just lifted the box up to throw it out & hesitated BECAUSE ITS A GOOD BOX. 👀

I…accidentally bought two books today. 🤦‍♀️ I’ve also just noticed they’re both shiny. 😍

Here follows a photo dump of books I have either bought / received over the past month from reps / publishers. I want to read all of them, basically.

If you see this, post a photo of a beach from your camera roll.

Next year, Murder Squad will be 25 years old. To celebrate this friendship, we’re running a short story competition. There will be prizes and the chance to join us at our birthday party. Details here: murdersquad.co.uk Please spread the word.

Started this today. It has vampires?! 🤷🏼‍♀️

Behind the times. But, watched the first (stupidly long) episode of Yellowstone and I did not expect animal murder within the first ten seconds. Dear lorde, it was unpleasant. The rest of the episode was not nice. Compulsive, but not nice. Do we continue? Am undecided.

@tltrent.bsky.social oh hi it’s me

This is such a fantastic interview! Ugh. The problem with DH’s books is that I feel that I should be in the city the story takes place in. Looks like I am booking a holiday to Venice. I don’t make the rules. 🤷🏼‍♀️