out before 9 and back before 11 to achieve the Big Christmas Food shop and now we are resplendent with cheese and also two (2) different pizzas with pigs in blankets on

Merry Christmas to the two high vis clad lads sitting in their work van, blasting Wonderful Christmas time & passing a whole huge panettone back & forth, taking bites out of it as if it was a big burger

out of office on!! laptop closed!!! if anyone needs me until january no they don't!!!

it's the most wonderful time of the year (pret christmas toastie season)

watching jet lag be in the UK is a truly bizarro experience. don't be in places i know! don't say peterborough like that! don't be on trainlines I've been on!!!!!!! you live on the television not in the real world!!

it's that time of year where I'm in the trenches of the last week of work (lol also one of the busiest work weeks, obviously) and having just finished an actually good book, it is time to pick up a ✨️trash book✨️. If every other verb isn't "growled", I'm calling the coastguard.

*walking in a winter wonderland* ME: where's bluebird? BIRD: gone ME: w... who are you? *bird looks around shiftily* BIRD: I'm new bird

my very professional work from home outfit* and i are here for the last working week of the year *a giant gingerbread coloured oodie covered in smiling ghosts

duolingo is teaching me the important things

There is such a sense of relief and vindication when a genre expert dissects romance this way, I cannot even tell you.

hello it is my birthday! please use the day as a reason to: - think about victorians - really dwell on that blorbo h/c headcanon - be extra gay - ask me which KJ Charles book you should start with!

beeper vs christmas whimsy: part one million

last year, the s3 Wheel of Time teaser trailer ft. basically 100% moiraine with a bonus of moiraine/lanfear dropped during my birthday week. what have you got for me this year, media????

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

we're behind on critical role campaign 4 but i truly appreciate matt mercer's ability to create a Special Little Guy made apparently just for me

tapping the sign

why do cats have a magical ability to stand on your laptop and open a display or turn on a setting never before seen by man, beast, or god

cauliflower creature

FEAR ME i just did three successful embroidery french knots for the first time

GANDALF: Can you see anything? FRODO: There's nothing…Wait. There are markings. It's some form of Elvish. I can't read it. GANDALF: There are few who can. The language is that of Mordor, which I will not utter here. In the common tongue it says, "Light the lamp, not the rat."

happy anniversary to this glorious event

for reasons unknown to me, bluesky has decided that every time i open the app, instead of loading my feed, it will load @alixeharrow.bsky.social's profile, which will probably teach me how to be funnier online tbh!!! (also you should read her books xoxo gossip moog)

this is how you lose the dish war

I'm sure this giant mirror turning up in the latest @tkingfisher.com is totally fine actually. So it's a Snow White retelling and the mirror belonged to the queen? Just adds character! Totally fine to sleep in the same room as it probably!

happy new florence + the machine album day to all who celebrate!!

without saying your age, who was your first animated crush?

wholesome snack being right around my birthday always feels like a special present just for meee

OBSESSED with these!

how many times is too many times to watch charlie barley's stardew valley expanded playthrough series? asking for a friend

once again i wait normally in a chill manner for interview with the vampire/the vampire lestat news from a comic con. your message finds me being normal and also chill.

my calendar matches my current read (presumably minus the ghost horse but tbc; maybe that's the problem with the gothic manor)

my copy of the latest @kjcharleswriter.com arrived early so if anyone needs me this weekend, no you don't! i am very busy in a totally normal no-problems gothic manor with some totally normal no-problems gays.

do you want a holmes/watson style investigator-scribe victorian story but a) they're (more) canonically together and b) ghosts? yes, of course you do!!!!!

television is BACK, BAYBEE youtu.be/t7D0zqoYA1E?...

Be the Mothman you wish to see in the world

I loved Penny Dreadful because other "prestige" TV series would be centered around the drama of rich dudes and PD would be on its own like "Frankenstein's monster gets a crying monologue. Eva Green writhes around on a table during a séance. Dorian Gray and the Wolfman make out for a while."

September 30. October 1.

the first day of october is brought to you (me) by morrisons cold & flu tablets and the power of a seasonally appropriate addams family pen

canNOT believe this was six years ago. it feels like we've had this little frog-footed weirdo forever and also for like two minutes max. look at these tiny frog feet. froglet feet.

CONSTANTLY seconded!!! as ever, standing offer to rec someone a KJC book to get started with!!!

i just finished project hail mary and obviously immediately went to watch the trailer and was very confused when, unlike the mental image i had the whole way through the book, Stratt was not played by Margo Madison from For All Mankind

cometh the autumn, cometh my Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal reread. i say quite a few books must have been written for me but this one @kjcharleswriter.com genuinely might have pulled from my brain

feeling slightly cold today for the first time in a thousand years (before summer) sooo probably it's acceptable to start watching christmas movies

happy hades 2 day to everyone that celebrates!!! happy melinoe day! melinoday! (i stole this joke from my wife but she isn't on bluesky so she won't knooow)

things it IS helpful to send your trans/nonbinary friends rn: a funny animal video. a joke you saw about anything other than politics. twenty dollars. a coffee/meal/small, heartening gift. an invitation to talk that you really mean. an invitation to a gathering of chill people. twenty more dollars

scheduling in a preorder AS SOON AS one is available!! god i love bsg

Autumn is here ! 🍁🍂 #pokemon

I'm about halfway through and truly OBSESSED. Love a game that lets me live out my dark academia/goblin cataloguing tendencies! And there's a cat! And.. probably magical horrors don't even worry about it. Probably also don't touch stuff. Back to the cat!

just absolutely furious with @alixeharrow.bsky.social for being such a goddamn genius "the contradictory heart of what prose does, which is to waste the reader’s time as efficiently and sexily as possible...a reader gives you their time, and you tell them, word by word, how to spend it." y E s