Both my kids are really creative. K1 invented the „Strawberryfant“ and we both had to draw him. This is my take 😁 Alcohol marker, acrylic marker and coloured pencil. The eye is felt-tipped pen.

Both my kids are really creative. K1 invented the „Strawberryfant“ and we both had to draw him. This is my take 😁 Alcohol marker, acrylic marker and coloured pencil. The eye is felt-tipped pen.

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Alrght everybody, get your Tin Can Telephones out. We need your help! We reach new people by word of mouth. Send all your educator friends this pic! Teachers, librarians, scout troop leaders, etc! We offer our program for free, so we need help getting the word out without advertising $$.

I kept meaning to post last year‘s book list - here it is! This year‘s is twice as look - I have my reading mojo back!

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I honestly don't think everyone talks enough about how amazing it was when the world came together to fix the hole in the ozone layer, so I wrote this: everythingisamazing.substack.com/p/lets-all-r... It's a good reminder of what we're capable of.

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BTW the fun fact is that the Templar‘s charter exists in Latin and French and the Latin one says „do NOT under any circumstances accept excommunicated knights“ and the French charter says „Excommunicated knights? Yes, please.“

In "Island Getaway" by @soniafocke.bsky.social, Able Seaman Pol has a lot of problems - getting the cats fed, watered, and reporting for duty, and keeping tree roots from destroying the wiring, to name a few. Talking octopuses, though? That was new. www.khoreomag.com/fiction/isla...

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CAT ALERT! As a sort of trial run for eventually self-publishing full-length novels, I have put a short story out in the world! Freya‘s cats are bored and decide to visit Versailles. But when a new friend is harmed, their revenge is terrible… With a historical note! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FRPTMV3...

CAT ALERT! As a sort of trial run for eventually self-publishing full-length novels, I have put a short story out in the world! Freya‘s cats are bored and decide to visit Versailles. But when a new friend is harmed, their revenge is terrible… With a historical note! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FRPTMV3...

BTW the fun fact is that the Templar‘s charter exists in Latin and French and the Latin one says „do NOT under any circumstances accept excommunicated knights“ and the French charter says „Excommunicated knights? Yes, please.“

Me, eager to tell SO a fun fact about the Templars, but having to wait because he‘s in a plot-heavy part if his video game:

This is meeeeeee!!! Read read eead read read!

Hello #GoodOmens fans - my Little Free Library had the (hetero) French equivalent! Sept jours pour une éternité (7 days for an eternity) by Marc Lévy. God & Satan have made a bet: 7 days to see if good or evil wins on earth. But what happens when their agents, Zofia & Lucas, fall for each other?

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Me: can you kids give me a few minutes please? Kids: okay! Kids: proceed to follow me and get snitty when I repeat my request. Kids: but we are! Me: can you give me few minutes AND STAY AWAY please? Kids: insulted.

#currentlyreading Non-Fiction: Georges Bordonove, La vie quotidienne des Templiers au XIIIe siècle Fiction: Paper: Marc Lévy, Sept jours pour une éternité Audio: Casey Blair, Tea Set and Match

I was a theatre brat (opera). I‘d err backstage while Dad was in rehearsals. The costume & makeup crew were amazing, but Suzie the wig-maker was something else. She would let me and the other rats style old, overused wigs. I was in my 20s before I realised why her voice was so deep. Thank you Suzie.

If you are in the Edmonton area Fiasco is still missing - please check garages and sheds and engines! Let's get him home, please share x

I made a poncho thing (and lost my head, apparently - no clue why the picture is cropped like this, but if you tap the picture, I perform a magic trick and get my head back.)

Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September

I have a story in this month's Lightspeed: "On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting." It will go up on the website on Sep 18: www.lightspeedmagazine.com

LAST CALL FOR 2025 TEA ADVENT CALENDARS PREORDERS! At midnight PST, we'll close preorders for this year's super fun rockin delicious tea advent calendar! www.fridaytea.com/products/tea...

This farmer has a little mini-museum on their still-active farm with all sorts of old farming machines, but was delighted me the most was this find from the stone of a barn wall/foundation. AMMONITES!!!!

Ooo, my story „Water to a Goose“ in GigaNotoSaurus (July 2025) got a review! And a first gender-assignment to the protagonist 😁 Tell me, what gender do YOU assign to Amenau in your head when you read it? www.tarvolon.com/2025/07/23/t...

Ooo, my story „Water to a Goose“ in GigaNotoSaurus (July 2025) got a review! And a first gender-assignment to the protagonist 😁 Tell me, what gender do YOU assign to Amenau in your head when you read it? www.tarvolon.com/2025/07/23/t...

A Danube ferry with cable! Just a little ferry to cross the river - no major road in sight.

Christian snowflakes: Heavy Metal is eViL. Metallica: throws beach balls into the crowd at concerts so adults can bounce them back and forth.

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

I saw a job posting for a heritage project focused on Romany history. I wasn't sure how visible it would be so wanted to share so that the job gets seen by the people whose history it is focusing on. Give it a share, perhaps? museum-services-jobs.le.ac.uk/job/learning...

@doctornerdlove.com this seems like something up your alley - a neat way to feed the need for novelty without having to open up a relationship if that’s not your vibe!

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My husband is a blacksmith and weight lifter. The amount of women who think it’s okay to touch his biceps or even pecs? If it’s not ok for men to do it to you, it’s not ok for you to do to men.

What a wonderful recommendation! 🌌✨ I love the idea of finding connection in unexpected places. Can't wait to check it out! #SFF #BookLovers 📚💕

For all you lovelies at #seattleworldcon who have some downtime between panels or events, why not read a nice #SFF story about two very different shipwrecked spacefarers who find comfort in each other? It’s based on an Ancient Egyptian fairy tale! giganotosaurus.org/2025/07/01/w...

@maryrobinettekowal.com I saw this darling at the Deutsches Museum in Munich yesterday and couldn‘t help but wonder if the simulators for the Lady Astronaut pilots resembled this one!

For all you lovelies at #seattleworldcon who have some downtime between panels or events, why not read a nice #SFF story about two very different shipwrecked spacefarers who find comfort in each other? It’s based on an Ancient Egyptian fairy tale! giganotosaurus.org/2025/07/01/w...

Okay this is a very late question, but does anyone have an air filter or corsi-Rosenthol box I could borrow for a #seattleworldcon party in the Sheraton tonight? (Friday) #worldcon

@maryrobinettekowal.com I saw this darling at the Deutsches Museum in Munich yesterday and couldn‘t help but wonder if the simulators for the Lady Astronaut pilots resembled this one!

"The dog understands: 'Take it!' It does not understand: 'Put it down!'" True 3,900 years ago when a young Mesopotamian scribe copied the proverb onto a round school tablet; still true today! #cuneiform #Mesopotamia #dogs Tablet: BM U.17207.77, CDLI P346305; sculpture: Louvre AO 4349, CDLI P386356

Have a video of a baby Coot (a black ducklike waterfowl with a short white beak with a white spot on it) and its parent bobbing along in the water along the shore of a lake. Sound on for some adorable peeping!

Reminder that the submissions for our Fall Issue have been opened! THEME: Inventive horror and fantasy stories that retell or otherwise use mythology and folklore from South Asia and other neighboring regions. SUBMISSION Link: tasavvur.moksha.io/publication/... 🔮- #SouthAsian #SpeculativeFiction

Have a video of a baby Coot (a black ducklike waterfowl with a short white beak with a white spot on it) and its parent bobbing along in the water along the shore of a lake. Sound on for some adorable peeping!

#currentlyreading Fiction paper: Ernest Cline, Ready Player Two Fiction Audio: Casey Blair, Tea Set and Match Nonfiction: @restingdinoface.bsky.social A Short History of the Dinosaurs