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Most of the stuff I work on at my alterations job is suits, but today I did a prom dress for the daughter of an acquaintance, and everyone else at the prom is going to be soooooo jealous of the 40 cm deep pockets I added.

#pockets #hurrah for you #and #hurrah for her #I hope she has a great time putting things in them and showing them off

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Since my serotonin is in the midst of a deadly duel with pollen. That and possibly a little procrastination.

#moby dick #stop necking and look for whales! #this is why everyone thinks you're a terrible lookout ishmael #if this voyage takes three years it'll be entirely your fault #for NOT LOOKING FOR WHALES

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Jeeves

#jeeves art #jeeves and wooster

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more embroidered fish fossils

#fiber art #embroidery #fossils

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Tagged by @chiropteracupola for (assuming I have interpreted the assignment correctly) seven sentences from my WIP, thank you!

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One lovely spring day, not quite a year after Holmes' departure, I came home for my midday meal to a cottage that seemed oppressively still. I first attributed it to Holmes' absence, for time had done little to lessen that ache. Without him, the cottage seemed lifeless, never mind that had Holmes been in residence on such a day as this, he would have likely not been in the cottage at all, but down in his apiary. But there was a difference between a cottage at rest, awaiting its occupants' return, and a cottage abandoned. I was contemplating the value such an observation might have in, perhaps, a gothic novel (and the possible amusement that might be afforded in writing one), when it occurred to me that the stillness of the cottage was not solely in my imagination: it was unusually quiet. Even in Holmes' absence, the cottage tended to subtly hum with the thirty-thousand lives of his observation hive, but even though I strained my ears, I could not hear it.

Putting down my knife and fork, I went to investigate.

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Tagging @educatedinyellow, @sanspatronymic, @oldshrewsburyian, @cedarboots, @verecunda, @phoenixfalls, and anyone else who wishes to play!

#langstroth on bees #it is ten years to the month since I began it #and in the hopes of finishing it this year #I am actively working on it again #wish me luck! #wip meme

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Babies drop their pacifier and look at you like “ah lads” as if remembering what they had to do to survive the Battle of Culloden

#I feel bad tagging something both #laugh rule #and #battle of culloden #but this is what I've come to I guess

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"I remember you: you're Saira. You got expelled for selling school furniture." "Verily, it is I."

#we are lady parts #saira

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WILLIAM BUSH | I BET ON LOSING DOGS

The quality is so bad but I needed to get this out of my system because mitski 🤝 william bush

#william bush #hotspur husbands #hornblower vid #hurrah! #I'm so very pleased to see this in the tag!

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He’s red and he’s white and he’s green and he’s grey / My bonny young dragon, come hither away...

Keith Windham and Nuntius, out of Luzula's stunning Flight of the Heron/Temeraire crossover fic 'The Flight of Dragons.'

#temeraire #heron art #oh beautiful!

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Is that a trebuchet in your pants or are you just happy to siege me

#laugh rule #trebuchet

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BLACK SAILS, VII

#black sails #I love them #I love them I do

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"Don't use Libby because it costs libraries too much, pirate instead" is such a weird, anti-patron, anti-author take that somehow manages to also be anti-library, in my professional librarian-ass opinion.

It's well documented that pirating books negatively affects authors directly* in a way that pirating movies or TV shows doesn't affect actors or writers, so I will likely always be anti-book piracy unless there's absolutely, positively no other option (i.e. the book simply doesn't exist outside of online archives at all, or in a particular language).

Also, yeah, Libby and Hoopla licenses are really expensive, but libraries buy them SO THAT PATRONS CAN USE THEM. If you're gonna be pissed at anybody about this shitty state of affairs, be pissed at publishing companies and continue to use Libby or Hoopla at your library so we can continue to justify having it to our funding bodies.

One of the best ways to support your library having services you like is to USE THOSE SERVICES. Yes, even if they are expensive.

*Yes, this is a blog post, but it's a blog post filled with links to news articles. If you can click one link, you can click another.

#libraries

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my beautiful laundrette (1985) stephen frears

#my beautiful laundrette

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Something I really loved in Dungeon Meshi is the amount of research put into the monster biology with parallels to real-world biology, and i have to point this out in regards to the kraken.

Of course, many people consider squid to be delicious (I am one of them), but not all squids are the same. In the dungeon, it turned out, that of all the monsters they could find to eat, the kraken, theorized to be one of the tastier monsters out there, turned out to taste...absolutely awful.

As it turns out, giant squids in real life, well...

So there you have it. Kraken really DOES taste awful. Well-researched!

#dungeon meshi #kraken #giant squid #cephalopods

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i want 60 thousand votes by next thursday

#poll #ao3 #I love sample bias

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Dorothy Sayers in 1932: "Church clocks and bodies in belfries are rather overdone lately."

Dorothy Sayers in 1934: lol jk I have a new special interest so strap in

#dorothy l sayers #wimseyverse #the nine tailors #laugh rule

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It's time for Fossil Friday! Meet Cryptocleidus oxoniensis, a short-necked plesiosaur. Plesiosaurs were large marine reptiles that lived from the late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous. The plesiosaurs had extensive modifications to the shoulder and pelvic girdles: these elements form large, flat sheets of bone, presumably for the attachment of swimming muscles. Cryptocleidus' trunk was very rigid and short, and the short tail could only function as a rudder, leaving the limbs as its main organ of propulsion.

Photos: © AMNH

Image 1: Cryptocleidus on display in the Museum.

Image 2: Photographic negative of the fossilized remains of Cryptocleidus, circa 1910.

#plesiosaur #my beloveds!