I usually read The Quiet Little Woman: A Christmas Story by Lousia May Alcott every year on Christmas Eve or around it. It's 3 short stories. It's a nice spot to read on the couch by the tree. Merry Christmas to all who celebrates! 🎄 #BookSky

#SolsticeBlessings #WinterSolstice #WhenBeastsSpoke

Happy Winter Solstice, one and all - and welcome back, Light ✨ And thank you @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social for allowing me to share your magical Winter Fox and Solstice Blessings painting! #wintersolstice

After reading Nutcracker and Mouse King (original Nutcracker story), I just want to know how drunk E.T.A. Hoffman was while writing it? His themes were ultimately portrayed well (like adults not believing children), I just wanna know what he was on. #BookSky #Nutcracker

Why does physical therapy equipment always have to do with Greek mythology? Like Triton is a cushioned table that can be pushed up and down to sit. Proteus is this fancy technological equipment thing. What does PT equipment have anything to do with the sea and gods? #greekmythology

Christmas tree (partially decorated for now) & donut & The Iliad (keeping the tradition that everytime I buy a used book, Amazon sends me the oldest edition possible) 🎄🍩📖 My goal for next year is to finish The Iliad (which I have barely started). #BookSky #Iliad #Homer

What's your favorite song based on mythology? I said, "Bleed me dry, take the fear from my veins Infuse them with poison, arm me with pain Let every touch turn man to swine So not even the gods can take what is mine" #greekmythology #music

So I've been reading the original Nutcracker story...and so far the introduction analysis is more interesting than the actual story. The writing style annoys me. #BookSky

I've read Sea of Monster multiple times over the last 18 years. I've been reading the direct source material of the myths this year. I never picked up on this. I thought Eris was a random person. She's the goddess of strife, and works in customer services. 😂 #BookSky #percyjackson #mythology

"Elmo Saves Christmas" and it turns out to be narrated by... Maya Angelou???

Does anyone else just stop reading a book for a day or two because the character is about to or is doing something stupid? Like why are they doing that? I'm annoyed by those dumb choices. How am I supposed to sit through reading that? 😂 #BookSky 💙📚

Reread 39/56 chapters from my project I haven't worked on in 3 years. I'm shocked I'm this far because it was really daunting. I hate rereading my own writing and put it off for so long. So I'm kinda proud. Goal is to write a whole chapter by the end of November. #WriterSky #writing #nanowrimo

There's Christmas commercials and I'm still accidentally writing the date with 8 instead of 11.

I was looking around on Pluto Channels. I started at Bar Rescue, then CSI NY, and somehow ended up in some documentary about the building of Parthenon on a program called Megapolis: The Ancient World Revealed... when your ADHD hyperfixations are like oil and water #ADHD #hyperfixation

He was just staying like that...which I mean, I probably look exactly like this when I zone out. #CatSky #blackcat #void #Gremlinaday

I have modified my nanowrimo I have a lot to catch up on my own writing. 50,000 words when I haven't written a whole chapter for over a year is just setting up myself for failure. So the goal is to write a full chapter which is around 4,000 words. That still counts, right? #nanowrimo #writersky

Love: Circe by Madeline Miller Hate: The Call of the Wild by Jack London Want: The Witch of Colchis by Rosie Hewlett #booksky

Officially at the halfway mark of re-reading my fic so I can finish it after four years. I'm surprised I got this far because I didn't want to read my own writing for at least 2 years. Not 50,000 words but the goal in November is to finish re-reading and get out a full chapter out. #writersky

me: i’m just gonna write one cute little scene also me 4 hours later: trauma, yearning, and a full emotional breakdown on page 37 #amwriting #authorlife #lgbtqbooks #writingcommunity

In my freshman year of college we read Sappho's fragments/poems. I bought it used. I haven't looked at it in over 10 years but I'm 99% sure I was not the artist from these doodles. I like how I just didn't erase them. The writing is definitely mine though. #ancientgreekliterature #sappho #BookSky

I've read a fair few Greek myths in different retellings (Percy Jackson's Greek God's, Mythos, Bulfinch, Edith Hamilton) but I think I like James Baldwin' Old Greek Stories my favorite. Probably because he wrote them as "simply as stories". (It's in public domain and free) #BookSky #greekmythology

I need to scale back because I'm doing that thing when I get overwhelmed and just do nothing. I need to reread the 44 chapters left of my fic. I haven't written a whole chapter in like 3 years. So maybe the goal in November is to just get out a real chapter (~4,000 words) #writersky #writing

So preptober without the official nanowrimo but there's Nano 2.0 and ProWritingAid doing it, and there's other. Finally re-reading my 56 chapters fic since almost 4 years because I got hit by a car. I'm making a summary of each chapter. #writing #nanowrimo #fanfiction #preptober

Library haul. There's a row of books that you can buy for a $1, so I got Ulysses for a dollar. (The Golem's Eye, Bartimaeus #2 is also in the picture off to the side. Not from the library) #BookSky #libraryhaul

If anyone is going to a No Kings protest, DO NOT REGISTER ONLINE. That's not how protest works and don't willingly give your information online. You don't know who is looking. I think a lot of people are new to protesting but it is weird to register a protest. Don't do it. #nokings

The 24/7 Halloween costume wants treats (always) #CatSky #blackcat #gremlinaday

Drug commercials are like this will cure your problem but only after your teeth turn blue, then fall out, and your head is transformed into a minotaur, and maybe you can get that reversed if you go through a labyrinth with a spool of string and find your way out, but buy my product

I knew one day I'd have to watch Powerful men burn the world down I just didn't expect them to be such losers I have never seen submission Embodied half so well As in the feeble competition Between men with souls to sell #parispaloma #music

Are any organizations holding some sort of nanowrimo this year? Please share them if so. (How the hell are we already in October?) #writersky #nanowrimo #writing #fanfiction

31 day children's/young adult book challenge! Choose 31 books, one per day, no particular order, that you've read. #booksky #bookchallenge 31/31 This was supposed to be for August but better late than never

31 day children's/young adult book challenge! Choose 31 books, one per day, no particular order, that you've read. #booksky #bookchallenge 30/31

Me trying to practice my Spanish by watching Hell's Kitchen in Spanish but they talk too fast and most of the time everyone is screaming so I can't pick out the words 😂

Gremmie looks like I made him read through the comment sections about Tylenol. Or me after reading the news. #CatSky #blackcat #void #gremlinaday

31 day children's/young adult book challenge! Choose 31 books, one per day, no particular order, that you've read. #booksky #bookchallenge 29/31

31 day children's/young adult book challenge! Choose 31 books, one per day, no particular order, that you've read. #booksky #bookchallenge I don't know if that's really kid's book but I have the penguin classics for children edition so? 28/31

31 day children's/young adult book challenge! Choose 31 books, one per day, no particular order, that you've read. #booksky #bookchallenge 27/31

I want to read all of them. I've started all of them. (Electra and Other Plays were started in July and then I took a break on it. So only 3 recently.) I also want to watch Hell's Kitchen. I don't understand why I like it so much. This is like the perpetual ADHD problem. #BookSky #ADHD

I thought Jimmy Kimmel was a lot older lmao

Palestinian-Jordanian singer Llunr is a must listen 🍉 (lyrics on screen) "Wake up, we just lost another family Wake up, 'cause we need the world to see No love, they won't ever understand us Too bad, we're just bodies on a screen" youtu.be/-5mMUtVNbNE?... #music #Gaza #freepalestine #genocide

I'm disappointed I'll never see a film version of this scene. "Your trousers! Sit back down! Where are your trousers?" He sat back in his seat. The view to my left improved markedly."I took my ones off, didn't I? You told me not to put the new ones on.'" #BookSky #YA #fantasy #bartimaeus

A 21 year old Black Man was founding hanging from a tree in MS and local law enforcement doesn’t seem to give a shit. Does the name Emmitt still ring any bells? Black people DO NOT hang themselves from trees, even if they have suicidal ideation. We know the trauma that causes other Black people

31 day children's/young adult book challenge! Choose 31 books, one per day, no particular order, that you've read. #booksky #bookchallenge 26/31

31 day children's/young adult book challenge! Choose 31 books, one per day, no particular order, that you've read. #booksky #bookchallenge 25/31

September 13, the Ides of September, was also the Feast of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, when Roman officials had a ceremonial meal with statues of Jupiter, Minerva and Juno dressed in fancy robes and seated on couches. So take your favorite statue out to lunch today!

I'm pretty sure what's contributing to my headache is how often I've raised my eyebrows in the last 48 hours. Every single take or new information, I'm just automatically raising my eyebrows. I need to stop.

31 day children's/young adult book challenge! Choose 31 books, one per day, no particular order, that you've read. #booksky #bookchallenge 24/31

Don't act like the discussion of who is worthy of mourning, who deserves to live and die is a new concept for society. Almost every Greek tragedy is literally that discussion. This has been a debate in almost every society for thousands of years. Don't clutch your pearls like this is a new problem.

Philadelphia is no longer the poorest big city in the United States. But there’s not much to celebrate in handing off that crown. The city now has the second-greatest poverty rate among the 10 most populous U.S. cities.

What is political violence? Is it when politicians dispatch troops/tanks to our cities? Is it when masked ICE agents, assault, kidnap/disappear people to concentration camps? Is it when school children/others are shot? Or only when political figures are shot?