La Retraite de Hugues de Payens, by Georges Mathieu, 1958 (rotated), 📸 by @tiltoncreative

Blue Currents, by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, 2025, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

I am just saying that it you are forced to divert multiple flights because of weather and you have to schedule multiple extra flights to get those people home, maybe schedule them for a realistic departure time at the beginning so people can make better decisions about sleeping at the airport.

Fuck cancer.

Post a banger that isn’t in English youtu.be/A8yiGq_CWh0?...

This squad number feels like real sicko shit and I could not be prouder. @stadio.football @ryanhunn.bsky.social @okwonga.bsky.social

I have just encountered the word "misgenred" (eg for when a book is promoted as a romcom even though it's about stalking or historical genocide) and I will be adopting that forthwith.

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It’s felt weird to do this while the world is on fire and while dealing with personal grief, but I need to do something normal so here is my thread for the 25/26 #SnowInLoveBingo!

The schedule of an American fan of European soccer is so exquisitely civilized. When they call it "the beautiful game" they're talking about how compatible it is with a late brunch

Assumption of the Virgin, by Guido Reno, 1598-99, 📸 by Jose Manuel Alvarez Rey

There's one foolproof way to gauge whether someone is a millennial or a zoomer: Ask them how they learned the difference between Iceland and Greenland. If the answer is from D2: The Mighty Ducks, you're talking to a millennial. Otherwise, zoomer.

A random thought I had on my way to work: why did the grocery store in my small midwestern city have a lobster tank when I was growing up?

gary bettman, watching season 2 of heated rivalry and getting to the commissioner character

People say Real Madrid doesn't make sense. They're wrong. Real Madrid makes sense if you understand it as a Florentino Perez-Carlo Ancelotti rom com. They were made for each other. Fate just keeps pulling them apart.

Overdrive (and its loser app Libby) exist bc of tax dollars they receive overcharging libraries for digital books. most of us do not have the option to stop using Libby but we should make it clear their policies about AI are bullshit and we are not stupid.

Reasons to be grateful for no library fines: you don’t know when you will be called upon to travel several states away to be care for your mother while she is on home hospice!

Every recipient of the FIFA Peace Prize has invaded and kidnapped the president of a country. Really makes you think.

I have to say, the infusion complete noise is one of the worst parts of being with someone in a hospital as a chemo survivor.

A Ring of Endless Light

Some end of year book graphics I generated for instagram! First up, 12 favorite romances I read in 2025, images are in order by date I read them.

Arsenal 4 - Aston Villa 1

Knowing what day it is during the holidays is tough enough but when your mom is on day ten of a hospitalization and if/when she is released it will be to hospice, it is extra hard.

I didn't expect my latest read to turn into a rant about tropes and the current state of #Romancelandia marketing, and yet here we are. I'm choosing to embrace by Cranky Old Lady era. wendythesuperlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/12/a-tr... #RomBkBlog

Honestly, this is why the whole concept of “fossils” in workplace romance bothers me. I think they’ve show has done a great job with limited hockey scenes, but I think it has also allowed people to not fully get how central hockey is to these characters entire EXISTENCES.

It’s really a thing to be at the same phase of life of so many of the authors you are reading, because woof, I have felt SEEN in so many of the books that are about pre-grieving your parents this year.

Free idea to grocery stores: rather than continuously accusing your shopper of shoplifting with your checkout cameras, you could hire more people!!!

Did the cookie baking thing today!

Nothing says Midwest like setting up a table in the garage with cooling racks for holiday baking.

I would like anyone who claims men aren’t emotional to look at Jamie Carragher’s reaction to Mo Salah’s comments over the past four days.

Thread for #BeatTheBacklist bingo board!!

You have got to be fucking kidding me.

That’s my raccoon man!!! 🦝🦝

Fifa are supposed to serve the voters, the national associations, not the other way around. How many will speak up about how the World Cup has been used to make highly politicised points, and push specific agendas?

In fact it's only the ninth time that White, Saka and Martin Odegaard have been on the pitch together. Hate to see families separated like that.

Ben White, I have missed you doing that!!!!

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

Oh, and if you want an American Thanksgiving themed read, may I recommend A Midnight Feast? It's in KU or only $0.99 Amazon.com: A Midnight Feast (Fly Me to the Moon, Book Four) eBook : Barry, Emma, Turner, Genevieve: Kindle Store share.google/XdJHoxK2lNy9...

ALWAYS LOVED SPORTS. NEVER SAID ANYTHING BAD. WRITE THAT DOWN.

LITTLE RACCOON MAN SCORES

I feel so good about the Trossard shirt I finally let myself buy.

That these people want cancer to win is maybe the thing I most can’t understand. Fuck them and fuck cancer.

I have been working on this bingo board all year and I am finally close enough to done to start posting! #RomBkBingo

Possibly my fishing hero microtrope origin story!!!

If you had strong feelings about Qatar hosting the World Cup, now’s your time to shine when it comes to critiquing FIFA and Infantino’s latest coddling of authoritarianism.

This is written about songs but so easily could also be about how romance novels should work.

I love that little raccoon man so much.

This is beautiful.

I'm thrilled to announce the pilot episode for a new sports history podcast called Replay Booth. The pilot, "Wilbur Huckle for President," is live now. If you liked Slow Burn and/or One Year and/or Hang Up and Listen, you'll love this www.replaybooth.show/p/replay-boo...