"For your charcuterie board party, plan on about one ounce of cheese per person" my GUY have you ever MET CHEESE BEFORE, I would NEVER limit my friends to ONE SINGLE OUNCE OF CHEESE.

It's that time of year! We're talking about the Best Romance Novels of 2025. We've chosen ten books that we love and that cover a range of historical, contemporary and paranormal, featuring romance with werewolves and cowboys, vaudeville actresses and vikings, Dukes and the actual Devil.

grandchildren of finwë go on a cousin walk at thanksgiving, 1 disappeared, 2 wounded, 1 additional dog acquired

Certified Canadians have returned with pt 2: the player lifecycle which includes a very extended bit where i try to fit Shakespeare's ages of man around hockey team cycles www.tumblr.com/phneltwrites...

me @ new PCP: show me the secret new patient paperwork so I can fill it out in advance instead of at 7am the morning of the appointment PCP website and arcane portal: No. 😇

I’m going to try doing this in December! Might be fics, might be household items, might be knitting notions, might be a poem.

Vorkosiverse fic is finally here! roots grown in the dark 🌿 13k, canon divergence 🌿 soulmark au & casefic 🌿 Ekaterin pov bc I love her 🌿 guest appearances from Nicky, Uncle Vorthys, Elli Quinn, and Duv Galeni archiveofourown.org/works/73929151

The arc of history is a foot-long, but it bends towards justice.

BREAKING: Sean Dunn acquitted of throwing sandwich at CBP/ICE agent. The charges didn't pass mustard.

A beautiful story about a beautiful man in an occupied neighborhood in my occupied city. We are all worse off for this loss, and I am so grateful to local independent journalists for calling attention to it.

so in my head I did our centerpieces for our wedding (this Saturday) over the summer (currently finishing them now… they are cheaper than flowers but at what cost to my sanity…)

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

there are many petty evils in the world but chief amongst them is getting all the way to the grocery store and realizing you left the list at home 🙃

“if you make anyone feel defended, or aware that they’re not alone, if you make space for hope, if you engage in acts of solidarity instead of stewing in the rancor and alienation that’s killing us—that matters, and it will always matter.” Just a brilliant, essential article. Read it and breathe.

LRP: a wonderful read, and especially this part, which really spoke to me

I have exactly 8 working hours until I go on leave for two and a half weeks. I cannot remember the last time I had this much consecutive time off of work. Maybe 2019, I took a 10-day vacation? I’m getting married so it’s not exactly going to be entirely restful but. omg i need it.

Everyone says I look like mom, and they’re not wrong — same eyes and cheekbones, and we’re both short af. But real ones know I have an uncanny resemblance to my dad’s oldest sister. Same hair, same body movement, etc. Put our respective 5th grade photos side by side and they’re identical.

i am not into tsitp *at all* and have had very little context for all the posts about it on my social media feeds but every time i see ‘conrad fisher’ for some unknown reason my brain is coming up with ‘conrad ricamora’ and i gather that is. Not Correct.

Another theme in Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring that I feel like we aren’t talking about enough is the importance of hiding from your weird relatives when they come over. #booksky #lotr #hobbits #fellowshipofthering

Hello pen friends, can anyone tell me if/how well archival pens such as the Sakura Micron can write on pearlescent or glossy paper? Any recs?

nothing is funnier to me than when you’re on the author’s note of Chapter 1 of a long fic and they’re like, “so excited to share this, think it’s gonna be about 30,000 words!” and then you’re at the top of the next chapter and it’s a 45-chapter WIP, 250k wordcount and growing

HNNNGH!!!! brb blocking my work calendar so I can read this in peace and delight

for anyone else thinking oh shit, it's october, when is yuletide starting? 1) noms are over 2) but signups are open and will run through October 24 3) with the deadline at 9 PM *UTC TIME* which is probably not the same in your time zone

I mean I’m not making it first past the post with this and I accept that, but I love za’atar with veggie cream cheese, lox, capers, and a fried egg

Nothing reminds me that I run hot more than waiting at the bus stop: It’s the first proper cool day, 50F/10C, everybody is dressed in fall clothes, sweatshirts, sweaters, jackets, boots and I’m here in sandal slip-ons and a short sleeved knit cotton blouse with no jacket

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

chocolate week let’s gooooo

desperately wishing for locked bsky so I can share side-splittingly funny messages I’ve received from family members re: wedding business alas

“there’s artificial intelligence, and there’s *actual* intelligence” 🛎️ 🛎️ 🛎️

ao3 is back early baybeeeee happy friday to meeee

Regurgitron pretending to be in marketing: Why won't you reply to meeee, it's been more than a day! 😭 Actual person in publishing: Thanks for your email last April and sorry for the delay in responding...

not me bemoaning the upcoming Friday 9/26 ao3 planned outage as though I don’t have a full day of work and a dangerously teetering pile of physical books waiting for me

Get your copy. bookshop.org/a/5779/97808...

The Parent Trap (1998)

#gbbo we stan a short king also hot take but monkey bread should not be savory

pizza cat caught in the act

cassette tapes of Patrick O’Brien’s Aubreyad CDs of Jimmy Buffet’s Banana Wind (or really any album), The Boss, or The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem

PBS Passport only requires you to donate $60 a year to your local PBS station! One amazing thing they have on there is shows from their Great Performances series, which currently includes pro-filmed versions of major recent plays, operas, ballets, etc.

me, singing along to “Moon River,” except i’ve got mid-autumn festival on my mind so it’s “Moon Rabbit”

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

"This entitlement seems to stem from the odd status of 'the child' who is regarded as not quite a person but as a potential person, perhaps — one who might not be able to speak, or speak clearly enough."

Just did a makeup class to learn how some techniques for my wedding and honestly? Fantastic. Video tutorials are fine, and hats off to everyone who taught themselves from the internet and magazines articles, but it was SO nice to be able to ask specific questions as we went along.

making my Thanksgiving plans now…

There is something so soothing about a football game on the tv, volume low, dozing on the sofa while wifecée meal preps in the kitchen. (it’s also crucial that I don’t care about football At All)

We are here and we aren’t going down without a fight!

so proud of my city! #FreeDC #51st

Here is the aforesaid entire blog post so we can never do this again.

Ok I’ve got to come up with a processional song for my upcoming wedding and I cannot seem to find anything that suits, so I am soliciting suggestions, *wrong answers only*!

Oooo yes let’s do this, ask away