1. Vaccines do not cause autism 2. Tylenol does not cause autism 3. Autistic people are actually pretty swell So many more thoughts but too angry/frustrated by this bullshit to pull it together. Sending a hug to all my neurodivergent friends and family. Love those freaky wonderful brains of yours.

I never saw an action of such shame

you cannot sit motionless in the heart of these perils

A lot of Tylenol consumed at the U.N. today

What I'm wearing to the Rapture.

"And the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep, and autumn was awakened." — Raquel Franco

At the end of the day, don't we all just want to go on bookstore crawls, bakery crawls, library crawls, and museum crawls?

Toad sipped his tea. “Frog,” he asked, “are you making this up?” “Maybe yes and maybe no,” said Frog.

From the makers of I can’t believe it’s not butter comes I don’t think these are medical professionals and I’m pretty sure this isn’t real life

Let your friends know

Cats have made their own plans...

Let me know if you are expecting to get raptured so I can feed your cats.

Happy Autumn Equinox! It's the first day of autumn, when day and night will be roughly equal length. Days will get shorter, nights will get longer, and all coffee will be pumpkin spiced. Farewell summer, hello spooky season... 🍂🎃 #autumnequinox #halloween

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

[it thunders and lightens] "What stir is this? what tumult's in the heavens?" Henry 6 Pt1 1.4 #ShakespeareSunday

I would have peace and quietness, but the fool will not. TC 2.1 #ShakespeareSunday

" ... a tailor call'd me in his shop and show'd me silks that he had bought for me." ~ The Comedy of Errors (A4,S3). #ShakespeareSunday #AreYouBeingServed

#ShakespeareSunday "Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the moon; Whilst the heavy ploughman snores, All with weary task fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl screeching loud ..." Now the wasted brands do glow, A Midsummer Night's Dream 🎨Keli Clark

Old Woman, Old Woman, May I have your broom? And perhaps your night-black kitty Who could be my groom? For I’m off with the north wind To learn how to fly On a broomstick stallion That will gallop through the sky. -M Jackson

When Summer's swirl of dust and heat Makes you long for cooling showers, For slanting sun-light, so replete With all the gorgeousness of flowers; You wish for a sweet and pelting rain, And in your thought, intensely yearn, For Autumn's coming, once again When the leaves begin to turn... ~ERichards

Deep night, dark night, the silent of the night Henry VI Part II I, 4 #ShakespeareSunday

Let me play the lion too: I will roar, that I will do any man's heart good to hear me; I will roar, that I will make the duke say 'Let him roar again, let him roar again.' A Midsummer Night's Dream I, 2 #ShakespeareSunday

'Resting Fox' by UK printmaker Sarah Bays #WomensArt

"That truth should be silent I had almost forgot." Antony and Cleopatra A2 S2 #ShakespeareSunday #DoctorWho

Language unmannerly, yea, such which breaks the sides of loyalty, and almost appears in loud rebellion. – Henry VIII A1,S2 #ShakespeareSunday 🎭 Theme: Loud & Quiet

Night and silence - Who is here? A Midsummer Night's Dream Act II Scene 2 #ShakespeareSunday #LoudAndQuiet #DoctorWho #TheSilence

Me and my Bluesky bubble

“such bursts of horrid thunder,  Such groans of roaring wind and rain” - King Lear (Act 3, Scene 2) #ShakespeareSunday @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

"...it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing." Macbeth Act 5, Scene 5 #ShakespeareSunday Theme: Loud & Quiet

"Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much." Much Ado About Nothing Act 2, Scene 1 #ShakespeareSunday Theme: Loud & Quiet

An hour of quiet. H 5.1 #ShakespeareSunday Art by Chris Dunn

Game night 🎨 Maanvin

Support your local haunted bookstore

The days may not be so bright and balmy—yet the quiet and melancholy that linger around them is fraught with glory. Over everything connected with autumn there lingers some golden spell—some unseen influence that penetrates the soul with its mysterious power. ~Northern Advocate

Goodnight. ‘Jellicle Cats have moonlit eyes. They’re quiet enough in the morning hours, They’re quiet enough in the afternoon, Reserving their terpsichorean powers To dance by the light of the Jellicle Moon.’ ~ T.S. Eliot, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. 🖼 Jahn Henne

spooky autumn

‘Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante, Had a bad cold, nevertheless Is known to be the wisest woman in Europe, With a wicked pack of cards.’ ~ The Waste Land, T S Eliot for #BookWormSat

Summer is fading. Chilly mornings. Shadows growing longer. I feel the kiss of Autumn in the cool swirling winds. s.b. I’m so ready for autumn. 🍂

Books are TV for smart people

“Am I on time?” “That's a very big question.” #DoctorWho

‘While the storm was erupting, she stayed, staring at it, watching the shafts of lightning, like someone who could see serious things, far away in the future in these sudden flashes of light.’ ~ Emile Zola, L'Assommoir. #BookWormSat

it’s nosferatu but with muppets: thread

"Your chances of survival are about one in a thousand. So here's what you do. You forget the thousand, and you concentrate on the one." -DoctorWho

"By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer." ~ Helen Hunt Jackson

‘Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.’ 📚Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary 🖼️ Vincent van Gogh, Plate with Cutlery and a Kettle #BookWormSat #Naturalism

‘And after you have read this story of great misfortunes, you with no doubt dine well, blaming the author for your own insensitivity, accusing him of wild exaggeration and flights of fancy. But rest assured […] All is true.’ 📚 Balzac, Père Goriot 🖼️ Corot, Woman Reading #BookWormSat #Naturalism

'Now and then comes an hour when the silence is all but absolute, and listening to it one slips out of time. Such a silence is not a mere negation of sound. It is like a new element, and the world is suspended there, and I in it.' Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain #BookWormSat 🎨 Jane MacNeill

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land #BookWormSat

‘When the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay, And the May month flaps its glad green leaves like wings, Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk, will the neighbours say, ‘He was a man who used to notice such things?’ Afterwards Thomas Hardy 1917 #BookWormSat 💙📚