More flowers! This time at the plant nursery. Some cool striped clematis, David Austin's "Tottering-By-Gently" and Rosa floribunda "Mind Games".

Cover reveal for my next m/m contemporary romcom, LOVE AND LAKE MONSTERS Featuring: 🧌 Cryptid hunters 😷 COVID conscious 🍂 Upstate vibes 🕰️ Age gap 🏳️‍⚧️ Older trans man Preorder, synopsis, & more at tjalexander.com#books7 Illustration by Liam Eisenberg. Art direction by James Iacobelli.

Went out to plant the day's haul after dinner, forgetting the PLAGUE OF GNATS that comes with cooler temperatures and longer shadows in that corner of the garden. I tried to be brave but they bit my face and went up my nose and now there's planting to be done tomorrow...!

Swedish commentary on UK politics: this constant ousting of PMs is starting to look like some kind of compulsive self harm behavior.

FYI: if you don't do alt text but also don't allow quotes there's literally no way for anyone to make your otherwise excellent fanart accessible. Hence: no sharing or I'd feel like a dick. (Should I @ the artist? Comments are likewise closed, and it's really sad to not be able to spread their art.)

My neighbor told me a cat keeps eating his british prime minister so I asked how many PMs he has and he said he just goes to the commons and gets a new PM afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding PMs to a cat and then his daughter started crying.

Lorenzo de Medici had a pet giraffe. Its name was Giraffe, because it was *the only* giraffe, the first giraffe in Europe since the days of Augustus. It was a gift to Lorenzo from the Sultan of Egypt, in thanks for some trade deals and diplomacy that helped the Sultan in his war against Venice. 3/?

We report: just before noon, though the shade is hard to find, it is not yet too hot to step outside. We cheer on the clouds a little, but try as they would, they would not be thick enough to block anything. Later on, the sun seems to come in through the keyhole and mail slot.

Hey did you know if you get newsletter from people like writers or artists or what and you want to say a thing you can just hit reply and tell them the thing? And then presumably you made a cool creative person happy? I think I will try doing that more often myself!

I love a good haterly essay

Thanks to some excellent vids by @ohvienna.bsky.social & @rhea314.bsky.social, Skuld and I had a blast watching The Fall Guy tonight! (Netflix's yanking it at the end of the month here.) Highly rec the vids both for fun and to see what the movie's like.

Went to a botanical garden's Rose Fest today, and had a fantastic time looking at all the gorgeous roses! Fascinated by how the old & wild roses sometimes looked more like my idea of a garden rose than the actual modern (i.e. post 1867) roses. Also interesting how the David Austin roses stick out!

We report: we find sleep to be a difficult affair with the heatwaves of late. We toss and turn, nonsensically wishing our pillows had more sides so we could find a cold surface to lay our head on. We dream of insomnia, and wake up to the sun already risen, once more.

5-1 then 1-5! I could never be a sports fan, I do NOT have the nerves needed to suffer those kind of emotions live and then in endless analysis in national media. 1-5 isn't something you can just replace with a better headcanon, or write a fix-it for. So yeah. Good luck, Swedish football fans!

QTP with a ship that's not from Star Wars or Star Trek.

Neighboring town got a thunderstorm. We got extreme humidity and a light sprinkle. Disappoint.

Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.

It's not solstice but it IS the official Midsummer's Eve day in Sweden, and we're having a long, sunny day that's a reasonable temperature for Nordic summer. Great for a little morning hike & dip (with surprise viper; all startled but fine). Wishing everyone a lovely Friday and Glad midsommar!

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you.

Finished my Mushishi rewatch, which is upsetting bc it means I don't have any more Mushishi to look forward to. One of my favorite anime ever, it's a gorgeous adaptation of Urushibara Yuki's manga. It's magical, haunting, beautiful and tragic. I wish there was more, but I'm also deeply satisfied.

Seeing the Peter Serafinowicz Harry Potter announcement just made me think, once again, about this excellent James Acaster bit from Off Menu.

Ohhhhhh this is gonna be brilliant! I loved "Inventing the Renaissance", and reading it at the same time as Skuld it was great fun to discuss everything we learned (informal Spousal History Club!). Now this comes out at the perfect time to also be road trip listening! Very excited!

A year ago today I miss going to the midnight sun, but I'm so glad we took an early holiday last year, and so just beat my flare. No holidays since, just sick leave really, but maybe I'll be properly recovered by the end of summer that we can go for the changing of the seasons...

Netflix's preview snippets are so weird. The description of a show will be like "Two bounty hunters - in love!" and the clip they show is some guy (one of the bounty hunters? unclear!) ordering a burger before the scene is cut off mid-sentence after literally nothing else has happened.

I did the calendar math, and for the past 12 months I have not managed to work full time for a single continuous four-week period. Hm. So. Yeah. That's actually been a pretty rough year, huh? #NayeHealth

Today is the tenth anniversary of Jo Cox's murder by a white supremacist on her way to a surgery in Birstall in her constituency whose ethnic diversity she praised in her maiden speech to the Commons. Her murderer shouted "Britain first" as he shot and stabbed her to death.

You can see a beautiful mountain called Rochers de Naye from my maternal home village in Switzerland. It ended up emblematic for my joyful childhood summers full of adventures and companionship, which I missed as much as the mountains when we had to go back to our very flat part of Sweden.

Oh no the evil coach arc in Racket Boys is so stressful! Adults bullying children is so upsetting. And then the side story involves suicidal ideation and just... Yeah, it's good and sweet and a passing kindness can build community and save lives but also OOOF I'm tired and it's a lot. #RBdrama

Tokyo Gradients

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Sir Ian McKellen.

Sick leave is over, and I'm back at work! I feel SO much better than I did even just last week, and enormously better than when I was def not fully recovered and went back to work in January. Term is over, so it's nice and chill, but it's still real weird to go from 0 to 100 like this! #NayeHealth

Many hours of digging, 10 big holes and 600 liters of rose soil later, our new roses are all settled on the slope that used to be covered in shrubbery! Here's a bud on the Skeda, and a little rose on the Stanwell Perpetual which smells exactly like my childhood memories of roses. #GardenPosting

Feel like everyone is a master speed watcher, always up to the latest fun thing - meanwhile I'm over here trying to keep up with my two weekly shows (less than two hours of new episodes) and finish a Kdrama we started a few weeks ago? I'm just. Perpetually behind on the fannish zeitgeist. 😅

The sun is a god, but it is indifferent to prayers and worship. One day, it will destroy all life on Earth, but until then, we could not exist without it. 👍

We report: on this coast, the wind rarely gets below the third class on the Beaufort scale, and today is no different. There is a high pressure system over this region, but a breeze will always find its way to the shore. Cirrus bloom in the sky all the while.

We're 10 eps in now and this continues to be the sweetest show! Such wonderful relationships - friends, parents and children, the local community. And it's one of the most authentically TEEN I've ever seen (even the badminton nerds are always on their phones), all the while being darlings. #RBdrama

Another rare and seemingly random fan art from me: the unromanceable Varric Tethras, pouting after getting smacked around a little by Cassandra in DA2 😅

It's happen! The purple Skeda us the tallest of this haul in the back - the second plant nursery we've gone to today. And we only came home with four extra plants... There are so many more we both wanted it was so hard to resist...! #GardenPosting

Check out the stunning cover for my fantasy novel THE LEAGUE OF LOST SOULS, designed by Katie Klimowicz! Out March 2027 with Tor in e, print and audio (reader tbc). Up for pre-order now!

Happy six weeks post surgery to me! I celebrated being cleared to exercise by hoeing, digging, repeatedly pushing a wheelbarrow full of clods of dirt uphill, and just because: going for my first lil jog in a year. It feels AMAZING to have energy and be mostly pain free! Pls keep it up? #NayeHealth

Fantastic wrap up on this article in the latest Wired about AI fact checking (spoiler, no worries). Name dropping the great @adapalmer.bsky.social? Spectacular.

It's the season of buds and blooms. The aquilegia that survived last year is thriving. I've got my first-ever dahlia bud! The Charles Darwin in the flowerbed has made its first bud, and the potted Alex Rose is going all out and had SEVEN at my latest count. Hopefully they'll survive! #GardenPosting

My Vidukon 2026 premiere vid for Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein.

Image description: gorgeous monochrome fanart of Mohawk walking down a staircase towards the viewer, his top half in shadows so dark only the gleam of his eyes shows, before the light reveals his cross dagger and chiseled abs.

I laughed so hard at this vid! Reese and Shaw being fucked up (reformed) professional murder buddies (I love them)

So it seems, in the end, that the blame lies with Square Enix’s U.S. division, which—believing that the Japanese cover art wouldn’t “appeal” to a Western audience, decided to modify it using AI rather than commissioning a new one or simply… keeping the Japanese version. 🤡

Since I just dropped it on Discord, here is a link to the Vienna Teng and Dessa vids spreadsheet, started by purplefringe and maintained by me: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Thanks to this controller I have made progress on #H2game AND my hand is much better. Most recent development: Melinoë has two boyfriends! Oh yeah and also I turned off God Mode and still managed to obtain that precious Entropy. 💪 About to set off to the Underworld, VERY curious about plot now...!

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