I could use good vibes and crossed fingers over the next couple of weeks while I wait to hear about an opportunity, if people have good vibes and crossed fingers to spare!

Saturday night adventure: attempt #1 at One Large Soft Pretzel from @ryeisenberg.bsky.social's Small-Batch Breads. Pretty sure I overproofed the dough, and it stuck to the parchment paper, but neither thing made it less delicious!

Finished WICKHILLS this weekend and you should all read it. It's smart, it's clever, and feels both familiar & novel! Note: if you get a shingles vaccine prior to reading you may have fever dreams that you are in the vigilante spy group trying to save the city. It will get *weird* (complimentary)

Premee Mohamed@premeemohamed.com · 2w ago

AND ALSO I had a book come out THIS VERY TUESDAY! How can that be?! Would love to see folks picking up WICKHILLS -- a ? magical Cold War fantaspionage in a magical city ? I don't know -- but, you know, without blowing your cover. Cover illo by the amazing Tom Roberts! 🤩

Finished Premee Mohamed's new novel, Wickhills, over the weekend. It was fantastic! Go pick it up and start reading immediately. I've started Penelope's Bones by historian Emily Hauser, on the women of the Bronze Age. And I'm really looking forward to starting Oyinkan Braithwaite's Cursed Daughters

Doctora Malka Older@older.bsky.social · 2w ago

just finished rereads of the Clocktaur War & Swordheart as preliminary to reading Daggerbound (DO NOT! SAY A WORD TO ME ABOUT THAT BOOK YET) & I'm reading Inventing the Renaissance which is AMAZING, so good, also did not keep me from having to spell out renn- renaissance 2x, WHAT ARE YOU READING???

You KNOW this guy enjoys a niche ingredient read.

My jar of mustard was so spicy it made my eyes water and sent me on an obsessive quest to find out why

The mustard was the same brand I buy every time, Maille Dijon Originale, but it was much, much stronger than usual.

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Gymnastics is such an injury-inducing sport that you learn tons of random anatomy at a very young age. I think I was 9 or 10 the year I saw both a coach and a teammate tear ACLs (and one a PCL in addition) landing wrong on trampolines. Unrelated to OP but this is why trampoline parks give me chills

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 2w ago

how many of you knew an ACL existed before your fav player popped theirs, be honest

Please never stop sharing your cat pictures if you are a cat picture-sharer here. They're the best things on this website

Reading Wickhills, my first from @premeemohamed.com. There's a lot to love (street lights fly!), but my favorite thing are the chapter openers. They're brilliant & well-crafted. Drop right into new places or with new people, give us just enough to orient & trust us to come along w/o over-explaining

There's nothing even remotely dessert-shaped in my home. How the hell did I get here

I used to organize by color, which looked fantastic when I had a shelf running around the top of 3 walls of my bedroom. In my current apartment, I have 2 bookshelves of books I've read, organized by genre or theme, & one of books I haven't read yet, with a theme per each shelf. Also, piles on tables

Immigrant Punk@porcupunk.eurosky.social · 2mo ago

Enough of the horrors and doom scrolling. Let's talk about something fun. How do you arrange your books?

A thread of some books and authors for young people I have loved in the last decade, for various ages (please add your own!):

It's a reading weekend this holiday weekend. My copy of @tkingfisher.com's Daggerbound came in this week, but before I dive in to that, I have finished Clockwork Boys and am starting The Wonder Engine. I'm not sure I've ever encountered creatures in books that I love as much as the gnoles!

Tell me something that brought you joy this week. Any old thing will do. Small joys are as good as big ones—sometimes even better.

Folks who have gotten the Shingrix shingles vaccine, did the first one knock you down afterward? Side effects beyond arm pain and fatigue? For how many days?

I suddenly understand why so many people were talking about the dangers of the rolling library shelves a few weeks ago 👀

Eating an empanada for breakfast makes me wish I learned how to make pasties before I moved away from Michigan. Handheld meal encased in dough is a superior meal

Cooking goals today: - zucchini pasta bake that feels like a cheat for lasagna - green goddess dressing from Big Vegan Flavor - Farro cooked in orange juice with garlic oil and herbs, also from Big Vegan Flavor. I have plans to make the pomegranate-glazed tofu later in the week to add to this

Some days trying to chat with strangers falls flat. But today: learned why the empanada guy hasn't been at the market. Met a young woman new to my area who's from a place near my hometown & exchanged numbers. And got great info on where to take a nice walk from a staff person in my building!

What hobbies are we embarking on as fall approaches? I will be baking bread (not sourdough, do not try to convince me) and gathering up my courage to start sewing. Hopefully, the hobby will be the actual sewing, but may end up being the "gathering courage" part

Made my first loaf of bread this morning! Perfect? No! Delicious? Yes! I feel very accomplished for how little effort that actually took Recipe: Overnight no-knead crusty bread from @ryeisenberg.bsky.social's Small-Batch Breads

Welp. Thought I found very specific editions of an author's books while trying to avoid the current covers I find...uninspiring. Purchased them from two separate eBay sellers. They arrived today, and both are random terrible covers, not the editions I love that are pictured in the product listings 😤

Got home from vacation to find my pre-order of @ryeisenberg.bsky.social's Small-Batch Breads had arrived! It's going to be a Bread Fall. I don't know what to make first, but I'm already so appreciative of how clear Rebecca's explanations are for a new bread maker!

if you're a knitter who can't/doesn't do wool, there are some pretty decent wool-free sock yarns currently hella on sale at www.simplysockyarn.com/sale-yarns/?...

The humidity is 83% and the dew point is 76°. What the heck

I'm one of the people who has an absolutely miserable time with the prep, but I've also had more colonoscopies by 30 than most people will have in a lifetime. Even with the bad time I have with the prep, I'll tell anyone, every time to get the colonoscopy

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The prep isn't as bad as it used to be -- pills, not the drink -- and you'll have one, uh, busy evening and then you go in and get the greatest nap of your life and then eat a glorious meal. Get yourself checked out.

Friends. I'm not a big film person, but want to know more about what is going on in contemporary movie culture. Are there directors you think of as making films about women (and taking them seriously) as a focus? Greta Gerwig is the person who comes to mind, but there have to be more

The produce at my farmer's market is excellent and I buy as much there as I can before going to the chain grocery store. But what makes going to the farmer's market in DC in summer and getting hot and sweaty just by existing is the empanadas. Have also now learned there's a tamale & taco stall 👀

Hadestown proshot was such a great experience! More proshots please, and I really hope there will be a dvd available for this in addition to streaming. There are only two things I didn't love, and the rest is all praise from me

Film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: No Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Angelica Huston in Ever After: Catch a Chicken

Alt: The Stepmother in Ever After: A Cinderella Story dismissively waving her hand and saying "Go...catch a chicken!" The quote is also laid over top the gif

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Ennie@anyuse.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: No Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli. (I can’t believe there was a gif of this)

I'm rereading a book I first read in 2019 as a very locked down manuscript (so no saved copy). I remember really liking it, but apparently I remember absolutely nothing that happened bc I'm going "no way!" & "what?!" as it unfolds. Highly recommend reading something for the 1st time a 2nd time