On retrospect, choosing @tkingfisher.com Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking as reading material while stuck in the ER and not allowed to eat anything for 36 hrs was not the best decision

Googling how best to preserve gallstones outside a body, scrolling through results, thinking the surgeon who thought I was weird for wanting to keep mine has no freaking idea…

One out of 12 rams is uninterested in females. Deemed “non-procreative" by farmers, they're typically sent to slaughter. German farmer Michael Stücke rescues the gay rams. His company Rainbow Wool, sells fabulous wool products from his flock of gay sheep. rainbow-wool.com

*takes a peek at the state of the world after having been in hospital for several days getting gallbladder yeeted* … *mentally shuts door and goes back to slightly loopy from pain meds relaxing haze*

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM PORTLAND it’s gonna be a good one bitches I can already feel it make art, punch Nazis, read romance novels, drink water, throw out the clothes you hate wearing, smash the patriarchy, say “I love you”

Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

On the first night of winter, St. Nautilus flies through the air, pelting good children with candy and dousing the naughty ones in ink.

2. Rowan AKA mountain ash tree. Most wild trees I see have red berries, but in the old cem and parks here, there's also some with orange, yellow, and even white berries. #ArtAdventCalendar #SciArt

Truth Coming Out Of Her Well To Shame Mankind - 2025.

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

The shop is back & the sale is on! ✨ 15% off shopwide with "CROWN15" this whole weekend! EVERYTHING! Get some delightful buggy treats and support a tiny artist, win-win! shop.mothmonar.ch 🐛 [#sciart #bsnm #shopsmall #insectart]

Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now

8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.

@whimsymachine.bsky.social Hi! I was trying to contact you using your website's contact form, but I kept getting an error saying "invalid form" when I hit send Anyway, I was wondering if you knew when or if the physical books of Spell: the RPG would be restocked, please?

Fibonacci has decreed that Yuletide season has begun (Normally I’m a staunch no Xmas til after Thanksgiving girl, but who am I to argue with that face?)

(throwing open my window) you there, boy, what day is this?

Today marks the UK release* of @tkingfisher.com's latest book Snake-Eater, which (depending on how you define it) is her 50th book of fiction! In honor of this milestone I wanted to do a little retrospective of her 50 books

Out for an evening walk and I just saw a coyote! First one I’ve seen in this neighborhood since moving here a year ago, so cool! Which made me wonder: @tkingfisher.com, how hard was it not to have Coyote show up in the climax in Snake-Eater?

@tkingfisher.com Gaaaahhh, Ursula! How could you do that to Merv?! I thought named animals were safe! ...you better not do anything to Copper

@tkingfisher.com Reading Snake-Eater (and loving it so far) but now I want to know if you ever got that Talavera toilet you said you wanted for the new place, or if you're just living vicariously thought Selena for now?

@tkingfisher.com I know authors aren't always the best source on this, but do you know what the release date for Snake-Eater actually is? I've seen both Nov 11 and Dec 1 (a monday?) listed in different places (and occasionally both in the same place (thanks goodreads))

Happy #Halloween! Blessed Samhain! Who wants to see this year’s Jack-o-lanterns?

I think my favorite thing about "every city reveals its inner character" era of ice protests is that people keep saying portland is weird or cute or nice or silly when one of the most common chants at the ice building is people looking up at feds on the roof and yelling "jump! jump! jump!" in unison

“What kind of cake do you want for your birthday?” I ask the hubby. “An apple pie,” he answers Me: … Ok, let’s learn how to bake an apple pie, why not?

Catching up on the #wtfolklore podcast (a few episodes behind (thanks podcast app)), and a wild @tkingfisher.com appears! Why didn't anyone tell me my fav author was gonna guest on my fav ongoing podcast?! wtfolklore.simplecast.com/episodes/epi...

It’s not fair that my 2 fav authors, @tkingfisher.com and @seananmcguire.bsky.social, both have a new book out on the same day; which one am I supposed to read first??

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

This is a very very close second, though

It was close, but really big frog full of prizes and value and quite a lot of hatred will I think always be my number 1

Tried to go to a panel on Oregon ghost stories at #RCCC, and the panelists never showed - they ghosted us!

this person on fb marketplace was like finally…it’s time

Fucking Jeremy: A story in three parts

Now that I finally finished it and gave it to Ursula at RCCC, I can post the painting I did based off this photo! (Please excuse the very sad background, painting cactus spines in watercolor is beyond me)

Spoilers for Hemlock & Silver! Because my brain is Like That, even when I love something (like this book) I always notice when there are bits left loose, and wanna talk about them with someone, so since no one else I know irl has read this yet I'll yell into the void (ie post on bluesky)

Reading @tkingfisher.com's Hemlock & Silver, and so many thoughts! The cover with accurate poisonous plants (hemlock and belladonna and oleander and foxglove! Also berries, a fern, & some sort of conifer(?), and I can't quite make out the flower behind the M) fills my plant-nerd heart with joy

And people say you don’t learn anything from books nowadays: just discovered thanks to @tkingfisher.com’s newest, Hemlock & Silver, that another name for Jimsonweed/Devil’s Trumpet/Datura is Thorn Apple - I knew I recognized the flowers in the endpapers!

Is anybody I’m moots with on here also at Worldcon this week?

@tkingfisher.com why must it be your horror novels that you use your gift of prophecy on? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Slightly diminish a band: Prince and the Subcommittee that Hands Out Pamphlets

@tkingfisher.com Have you seen this yet? www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Not so much these days, but we used to do a double feature of Bad Santa and Slingblade every Xmas - the holidays just aren't the holidays without Billy Bob Thornton

My kitty Pandrosion's new fav game is to take her stuffed ostrich toy and drop it near me, maybe even push it towards me a bit, then grab it back in her mouth and growl if I look like I'm going to touch it. The very essence of the "no take, only throw" meme

@tkingfisher.com If you’re ever in Walla Walla you need to go to this crazy hole-in-the-wall museum I found out about today Is surrealist/dada sculptures rather than taxidermy, but gave me strong Hollow Places vibes

We are posting this placard at all of our offices and asking our union contract farms to post as well. We encourage our friends to put up similar placards at their business as immigration agents do not have the right to go on private property without permission.

Not a bad title, as all things go

“I’m going to go cut that one blackberry vine that’s across the path,” I said. “It will be one quick cut, don’t need to get gloves or sunscreen,” I said.

I know this is likely a long shot, but is anyone in the greater #portland metro area looking to adopt, or know anyone who is looking to adopt, a #cat or #kittens?

@tkingfisher.com All this talk of genre reminded me of a question I had recently: is there a reason you've published your more recent middle grade stuff (Illuminations, Wizard's Guide, etc) as T Kingfisher rather than Ursula Vernon?

@tkingfisher.com bit of a random question: if Pastor Drom were to wear a hat, what sort of hat would she favor? I'm kinda thinking of wearing my Drom cosplay to a Renn Faire next month but it'll likely be sunny and I want head protection Also have you ever done any art of the Madonna of Leaves?