Keeper of the Really Smart Words
@bookishnea.bsky.social
Jane Austen, Murderbot, Good Omens, Doctor Who, Sherlock Holmes fan. Occasionally a stoic philosopher, often a writer, currently a quilter and tombstone tourist. Warning followers about variable signal to noise since LiveJournal.
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.
#31daysofgraves Day 1: Flower. This unique half carved, half metal one blooms in Druid Ridge Cemetery, Pikesville Maryland.
Teaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day.
This is a dish called Snow Eggs. It’s one of the many dishes which James Hemings, the enslaved chef of Thomas Jefferson, brought back to the US after leaning to cook in France. Thank you @colonialwmsburg for hosting me. youtu.be/BZa0Mg55pCk?...
James Hemings - Jefferson's Forgotten Chef
YouTube video by Tasting History with Max Miller
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BOO(ks)!! 👻 We’ve been brewing up a special event with our neighbors at Rock Creek Cemetery this fall. Join us for ghost stories at the cemetery on Wed., October 14, featuring local authors! Kids stories are from 6-7 PM, followed by adult ghost stories from 7-8:30 PM. We hope to scare you there!
#Cemtember A forgotten and abandoned graveyard by the side of the road. No sign, no church, no flowers, no tending.
About to get thrown out of here for obvious reasons
I have more beautiful flowers to use for the 31 Days of Graves prompt, but none more fitting for the #cemtember contemplation of mortality. All things end, including memorials.
Quilt guild held a silent auction and I got *aggressive* about bringing home the laundry basket with 30 pounds of scraps.
TAKE MY MONEY! #murderbot
Paul Cornell@paulcornell.bsky.social · last wk.My company @cosmiclighthouse.co.uk is putting out a Murderbot graphic novel, All Systems Red, with a new @marthawells.com Mb short story too! @ericaschultz42.bsky.social @garyerskine.bsky.social @stillwintercraft.bsky.social @simonbowland.bsky.social ! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cos...
my colleagues and I were all sharing photos of ourselves in the 80’s and then someone had the AUDACITY
I have the full run of the Shawn Cassidy/Parker Stevenson Hardy Boys, which have gone from “too old for me” to “too young for me” to “they could be your kids.”
Monty nose@montypup.net · last wk.Aging out of fictional crushes is so funny. I had the biggest crush on Yakko Warner when I was like 13/14, even having him as my iPod background, but now I just look at him and think "wow you need to be in school, where are your parents??"
Don’t give up on your dreams. If you wish to disappear into a mysterious fog and wander the moors as a frazzled and maniacal creature that folks whisper about in the dark, I know you can do it. I believe in you.
IKEA is releasing a Pallas Cat plush, and they have nailed the expression…
#Cemtember Mount Olivet, Washington DC. Moving away from long shot landscapes to “I’m proud of this photo but it doesn’t match a 31 Days of Graves prompt.”
At the end of the day, don’t we all just want to read books, drink tea, and eat pastries in a humble seaside cottage during a raging storm?
Your daily affirmation: Be kind to the person staring back at you in the mirror. Things are also hard in the mirror universe and they're doing the best they can.
#Cemtember Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown Maryland. For all the weeping willows depicted on gravestones, this is the only one I’ve actually seen growing in a graveyard. (Nearly kept this shot for the 31 Days of Graves “tree” prompt.)
Amazing how many towns there are like that in horror…
The Midnight Society@midnightpals.bsky.social · last wk.Wan: it's a town that consists entirely of multiple derelict victorian theaters and also one very overgrown graveyard Wan: the only existing business in town is the mortician Wan: luckily, people are constantly dying in spectacularly grisly ways so business is booming!
“You’re 45, so it’s time to get a colonoscopy.” Cold. Impersonal. Uninspiring. “Two score and five autumns have cooled your brow, so we must search your corn-maze for haunts.” Mysterious. Fun. Seasonal.
