I emerge from the void with a book. This is "All-Consuming" by ratbones, a Guardian zombie apocalypse au, typeset by @helle-bored, and it was an excuse to get a little bit experimental in design and technique.

Happy birthday Xi Ping!!!! If this gift seems instead like torture, blame pipi for the horrors she put him through. I will never recover. #TaiSui #太岁 #priest

Happy birthday Xi Ping! He has come to celebrate his birthday at the maid cafe 🥳 Surprise sticker inclusion for all attendees and orders. Thank you @mimicha.bsky.social for the art! #pipicafe26 #priest太岁

5yo is working on perfecting his "GLaDOS and also the turrets from Portal" voice and he's very good at it

gradation, ch2 art for my fanfiction ^_~ #mdzs

A look at how I made Force of Will for MTG Strixhaven Mystical Archives ✨

My babygirl Zhuoming 🥰 #太岁 #taisui

unexpected side effect of reading mo du: getting a josh groban song stuck in my head in the year 2026

wen ning showcasing his strength! 💪😘 #mdzs #WeiWuxian #LanWangji #wangningxian

My first A3 format painting :) The first one that worked out. It is much harder to work on larger formats. #art #bskyart #painting #watercolor #SciArt #mountains #mist

(I just noticed a shift towards stop-suggesting-books in the discourse and we can't, we have to remind the adults who buy books that there are other books kids in their lives can and should be reading)

Metro Boston #BookSky!!! Next week is April, which means next week the Metro Boston Indie Bookstore Crawl returns! We're up to 25 stores & passports will be available for pick up some time next week. Start planning your route now!

I spend enough time in bookmaking spaces that I keep thinking "Ugh yes, fuck that brand of printers especially." before forgetting that it can refer to other things.

My daughter recently enjoyed "The Last Hope School for Magical Delinquents" if anyone happens to be looking for a middle grade magic school book right now.

The thing about having kids is they will introduce their own memes into decade-old games for instance there is a thing you can do with portals that they're calling "6-7-ing"

I'm reading Mo Du now! Not sure I'll manage much of a liveblog but I suspect I'll post the occasional reaction

It's "Butterfly Effect," the one where Jin Ling changes history for the better, and has to live with the result archiveofourown.org/works/163715...

A belated huge thank you for recommending this series! We're on book 3 now and all the kids love them, 7yo especially. He is dressed up as Marnie today for "dress as your favorite book character" day at school

Latest bookbinding project: the fan translation of Mo Du by priest, using a typeset made by @rainisfallingdown.bsky.social

For those not familiar this isn't cute. Massachusetts officials only do this when they're extremely distressed.

if the drop shadow is doing this your book is haunted

ヨナリリ🪷

J has been wanting to try making homemade bagels for a while (after getting pretty good at pretzels) and today was the day! Delicious.

I bound a copy of "How Dare You" for an exchange a few months ago and in honor of the drama coming out I pulled my own copy out of wip hell to finish it! The cover has a nested cutout design to go with the idea of transmigrating into a transmigration novel

Lingyuan be like: this is fine. #lie_huo_jiao_chou #lhjc #sheng_lingyuan

こっちでもスウォンハピバ！！ 最終回後の雪解けをイメージ　穏やかに過ごしていってほしい🥹お部屋の窓、八角形なんだー！って思いながら描いた

Drama!Shen Wei is so funny because he's got the professor aesthetic down, the costuming, the set dressing, everything says 100% Here Is An Academic and wait hold on he's an *engineering* professor?

Me: after Wayside School, do you want to read another funny book or an adventure book? 7yo: adventure! Me: about people, or about animals? 7yo: animals! CUTE animals! Me: great! I know of a book about some mice and squirrels-- 7yo: THOSE AREN'T CUTE!

Writers and publishers might want to know that there is a big gap in the shape of middle grade hard science fiction. My 8 year old is reading Andy Weir to get his fix.

Our 3d printer has introduced 9yo to a new hobby: painting minis.

Really happy with how this drawing turned out ! Li Yu from The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fish 🐠 #DTBPF

Can anyone point me towards a tool for making text-based choose your own adventure stories?

💜💜 #mdzs #jiangcheng #fanart

"Record of the Missing Sect Master" is doing some *fun* things with the intersection of amnesia and identity porn.

The book was amazing! I'm hoping the drama does it justice

I've been reading the Wayside School books out loud to all three kids and they're all enjoying them! I lucked into this; in the past when I tried to pick a book to read aloud to all 3 they never stuck, but I was reading the first one to the youngest and the others decided they wanted to listen too.

3d printing is NOT going to be my new hobby, I tell myself while teaching myself to build a shape in OpenSCAD because the version I tried to make in tinkercad didn't go through with accurate measurements

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you: Hi, I'm postpartum hemorrhage

A final (?) update: pecan crescents, formerly the least appealing of the family's traditional christmas cookies, have suddenly become the favorite because they look like packing peanuts.

What the kids wanted to do with packing peanuts: form an assembly line wherein they crush them flat, then roll them as thin as they can, then pass them through the hole in a play-money coin to make sure they're small enough. The product of this factory is called "noodles of justice."

"Packing peanuts!" --things you really don't want to hear your five year old joyfully exclaim when you're on the opposite end of the house.

Three comments in the past two days from different users on my mdzs fics from 2018, is there some sort of event happening?

Best thing about rainy days: I get to use my wangxian umbrella!

I am so proud of them. the kids did it. they made a new stupid number to say. they may now take their place in history.

My biggest accomplishment of the day: acquired Pokemon booster packs for stocking stuffers! (after many sold out attempts at other stores). Shoutout to Omar's World of Comics in Lexington!

Seeking recs: beginner cross stitch patterns (individual patterns or books) for a 9yo who likes cats, dragons, fantasy. I don't cross stitch and the market seems flooded with AI, so I'd appreciate if someone could point me to designers or publishers you've been happy with!

I think it's more than a little fair for trans folks in the book community to be wary of readers who still love HP in 2025 and/or read HP-inspired romantasy novels.

I've seen people joke that Priest made Tai Sui gen so she wouldn't have to write BL with a "bad" ending but I'm actually convinced that along with xianxia tropes, Tai Sui is knowingly responding to romance tropes too.