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Today's Adventure is that I, after an unintentional 13-hour power nap,

Got woken up at 6AM by a phone call from a friend stranded in Montana because of the heat wave and almost no cell service because of their crap provider.

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Ok.

I somehow summon a week's worth of spoons and in less than 30 minutes and 5 phone calls, get them

A hotel

An appointment with a mechanic from 2 states away

A perscription refilled from 2 states away

and A Pizza

Go me.

But then it's 8AM and there are unscheduled live humans at the door and while EVERGENCY MODE is still on, I have already blown through a ton of spoons, and also probably shouldn't meet whoever it is wearing just a pair of bootyshorts that say "CRYPTID" in Gothic Font on my ass.

So I greet them in those shorts and a T-shirt that I manage to put on both inside out and backwards

#nailedit

It is, Fortunately, not the mormons.

it is, Unfortunately, two UPS guys trying to deliver my other in-house friend's new phone except the new guy doesn't know how to operate the "sign for package" device, and the old guy that's supposed to be mentoring him is like, 92, deaf as a post, and doesn't actually know how to operate the device either.

by the way

it is already

over 100 out

it takes almost 30 minutes to sign for the phone

when i get back inside, i discover that apparently the Corgi has learned how to open his kennel from the inside because he is now out of the kennel and waiting for me to come in.

he also has cat litter all over his face because while he was waiting for me he also learned how to open the baby gate to the cat's room and help himself to a cat shit breakfast.

He'll be fine

He's a cattle dog, they're legally required to have at least 1 really disgusting snack they love.

but

more to the point

i have no idea at what point he learned to open his kennel from the inside

has he been staying there out of politeness this whole time??

And

I got other shit to do today.

namely.

I'm seeing a realator

The Devils most pathetic yet effective demons

I get a reminder text that I have an appointment with her

at least

I think that's what it is because what she sends me is: "🏡⏰12:00 ❔"

With the time typed in the middle like that.

She is, according to her profile, at least 80.

so I reply "😎👍"

and then she sends me a string of GODDAMN POST-MODERN EMOJI HEIROGLYPHICS THAT TAKE UP MY ENTIRE SCREEN.

She's on an iPhone so half of them don't even translate across platforms

It takes me half an hour and three different software programs and goddamn wingdings to translate, but she has sent me the address and rules about masking and not wearing shoes inside.

in emoji

instead of like

literally any other format

I am

FASCINATED

and simply must meet the woman so if I don't come back to update I got stolen by the fairies but I'm taking the Corgi with me as protection so I'll see y'all later.

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Also a useful shot for cosplayers!

Lucius Spriggs being Iconic™ | part II

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This is so sweet I just can’t even.

he fancy

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Apparently the artist will have these stickers fir sale online in a couole of weeks…

talk it through as a crew :)

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OFMD as Golden Girls Quotes

Round-Up Post 2 / ?

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Bite-sized pirate show for one and all!

Yesterday I reblogged a link someone posted for a place where you could go to see the pirates if you currently can't see the pirates for whatever reason. Even though that exists and is a Good Thing, I have gone ahead and built my own little pirate cove for pirates to pirate. All 10 eps come to 1.5Gb.

I made them very small on purpose: quick download and minimal storage space necessary to keep all of the episodes. I don't know if they'll look great on a 72" flat screen, but I *do* know that you can grab them here right this minute. You can download or you can watch right in your browser.

I strongly encourage sharing and reblogging this post far and wide.

Spread the addiction gospel liturgy cult joy far and wide! Get 'em while they're hot!

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An official biography of Terry is coming! :) (release date 29 September 2022). Ngk.

Transworld Publishers are thrilled to announce the publication of Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes, the official biography of Sir Terry Pratchett, written by Rob Wilkins, his former assistant, friend and now head of the author’s literary estate.

At the time of his death in 2015, Terry was working on his finest story yet – his own.

At the age of six, Terry was told by his headteacher that he would never amount to anything. He spent the rest of his life proving that teacher wrong. Terry lived a life full of achievements, becoming one of the UK’s bestselling writers, winning The Carnegie Medal and being awarded a knighthood for services to literature.

Following his untimely death from Alzheimer’s disease, the mantle of completing Terry Pratchett’s memoir was passed to Rob.

Having known and worked alongside Terry as his personal assistant and business manager for over two decades, Rob is in the unique position of being able to offer both a personal and professional insight into the beloved writer’s public and private lives, as well as highlighting the origins and evolution of Terry’s extraordinarily successful creations.

Drawing on his own extensive memories, as well as those of Terry’s family, close friends, fans and the colleagues who worked with him over the years, Rob recounts Terry’s story - from his early childhood to the literary phenomenon that his Discworld series became. It also chronicles Terry’s later years, his championing of environmental and humanitarian causes, and how he met and coped with the challenges that ‘The Embuggerance’ of Alzheimer’s brought with it.

Rob Wilkins says: ‘Living a life alongside one of the world’s greatest authors, then reliving every moment for his biography, has been an incredible journey. Terry was one of the most talented, complex, intellectually stimulating people I’ve ever had the privilege of meeting - a true genius. The responsibility of documenting his life when I lived so much of it with him has been such an emotive experience. A Life with Footnotes is a book that I hope would have made Terry proud.’

Transworld managing director Larry Finlay says: ‘A Life with Footnotes captures the genius that was Terry Pratchett, with warmth, poignancy, and great good humour - and with no small amount of love. It’s an intimate, engaging and revealing portrait of one of the UK’s most loved and most missed authors, that only Rob Wilkins could have written. It is a masterclass in great biographical writing.’

Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes will be published by Doubleday on 29 September 2022.

Standard Edition

discworld.com -  £25.00, Exclusively Signed, Dedicated if Required, and Embossed

amazon.co.uk - £25.00

There are also special editions! :)

Deluxe Signed Exclusive Edition

Signed by the author.

Quarter-bound hardback with a luxurious cloth spine and a debossed foil silhouette of Terry Pratchett.

An unseen transcript of a Terry Pratchett talk from 1991 exclusive to Waterstones.

A section of never-before-seen photos from the estate archive and Pratchett’s personal collection.

Bespoke endpapers designed exclusively for Waterstones and a luxe ribbon marker.

Waterstones -  £40.00

Signed Exclusive Collector’s Edition

A beautiful and fully cloth-bound design in pistachio green, signed, stamped and hand-numbered by the author.

A collectable never-before-seen self-portrait print sketched by Terry Pratchett himself, shared for the first-time from his personal archive. Produced as an extra-leaf loose inside the book. Only available in the Waterstones Collector’s edition.

An unseen transcript of a Terry Pratchett talk from 1991 exclusive to Waterstones.

A section of never-before-seen photos from the estate archive and Pratchett’s personal collection.

Bespoke endpapers designed exclusively for Waterstones and a luxe ribbon marker.

Sealed for protection.

Waterstones - £80.00

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Do you know how hard it is to live with a cat that has the intelligence level of literally like a 3 year old but the pure chaos of a high ranking demon?

He’s learned to open the lazy Susan and won’t stop clawing open the flour and rolling in it like a little chinchilla

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This bit is pure Morecombe and Wise. #goodomens

David Tennant and Michael Sheen won the Best Comedy Partnership I Talk Telly award for Staged! :) WAHOO!

(notice the turtleneck and Crowley’s new watch, I wonder what it is :))

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There is a raffle for charity where the price is the Occult Edition of the Illustrated Good Omens, signed by David, Michael, Neil and more. In the raffle there is 1000 tickets, one per £20.00, one of them will win. The winner pays for the postage and any additional insurance costs or recorded delivery costs. The chance to win is 1 but 1000 but the signatures look cool.

If you want to buy the normal Occult Edition (without signatures, £95), Paul Kidby in his newsletter this week wrote that there are only 14 left :):

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Clearly, I need to watch Leverage.

You know, thinking about it, I imagine the Leverage crew are pretty philanthropic. Parker might have had to be introduced to the concept (”You just give them money and they go away with it? How does that work?”) but probably once she got her head around it she’d be into it. 

What gets me is how god damned frustrating it would be to work somewhere that one of the Leverage crew supports. Nate would be okay, he’d just make small monthly gifts to ten million different organizations so that nobody thinks he’s worth very much (he doesn’t own his home and he gives such small amounts monthly that Development writes him off as an earnest but low-capacity donor who should get a thank-you card around the holidays). It’s probably a bigger inconvenience to him because he’s on every nonprofit mailing list known to man. He has so many address labels, guys. (I don’t want to be Nate but I am Nate. I have so many address labels.)

Sophie I imagine has an extravagant alias for every charity she supports; she gives outrageous amounts and in return demands only attention and adulation, tickets to all the galas, and to be in at least one photo in every annual report. We have a donor like this – she’s genuinely invested in our work, gives generously of her time and money, is never rude or demanding, but if she’s in the room all eyes must be on her at all times. I actually really like her but constant exposure could get…tiring. 

Eliot just sends enormous, anonymous checks once a year through a shell company or DAF, which while not unusual would be irritating in that they can’t ever reach out to thank him and/or steward him into a larger gift appealing to his interests. They can’t even send him dumb swag! He deserves a charity-branded bottle opener and keychain flashlight! (He has stolen all of Nate’s, but they don’t know that.) Still, they’ve probably got a fun nickname for him; I have a few people in my research files who are simply named after characters from Greek mythology because that’s all the data I have or am allowed to store. 

For a long time Hardison just dumped money into the bank accounts of his charities of choice, seamlessly, invisibly – it just APPEARED in the account, and he was cool with that until he checked back after a few years and found none of his money was being used because they couldn’t figure out where it was coming from and were worried it was a clerical error despite the bank assuring them otherwise. Now he still dumps money into the accounts but he entertains himself building an elaborate digital paper trail so that the accounting all works. Have you ever watched a Gift Processing office try to balance a nonprofit’s books? Sometimes they cry! Don’t be mean to them, Hardison. 

Parker, bless her heart, just leaves bags of money on the doorsteps of random employees with notes directing how, in general terms, it should be spent. If she’s particularly pleased with the climbability of their home, she leaves a donut for them, too. Generally if she mentions she’s done this to the crew, Eliot calls up the charity to assure them that the large bag of cash was a legitimate donation and is not some kind of money-laundering scam. (That was ONE TIME Eliot, and the IRS didn’t even NOTICE.) This happened to me once. A tiny old lady in a Cubs jacket showed up to our office with a backpack full of money and it was a very intense morning. 

Anyway, what I’m saying is that every year, across the span of roughly two weeks, Hardison’s Nana’s church gets their regular $25 check from that nice Mr. Ford, a visit from the very devout but slightly weird Madam Sofia who wants a private choir recital, an enormous check from a bank in the Bahamas with no name attached, a large direct deposit from a heretofore-undiscovered bond the church invested in a decade ago, and a large bag of cash with a dozen donuts on it and a note reading THANK YOU FOR THE NEW ROOF IT WAS VERY SLIPPERY AND FUN. PLEASE BUY STUFFED ANIMALS FOR CHILDREN WHO NEED STUFFED ANIMALS. 

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I think I’ve found the fursuit head I want to build. No, I’ve never made one before. Slating this on my to-do list for late 2022, I think…

Fennec!Crowley - Thank you @neil-gaiman for the delightful mental image!!

I might line&colour this later, or not. Happy enough with it to post as-is! 🦊👿

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I’m dead. The fandom has finally killed me.

Cant believe they got 5 Fennec Foxes to play Crowley, theyre legendary!

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London’s Hidden Tunnels Revealed In Amazing Cutaways 

The layout of London can only be fully understood if we examine it in three dimensions. Tim Dunn takes a look at some of the capital’s greatest cutaway diagrams.

Our city is a fascinating, infuriating, terrifying, beautiful place. As curious Londonists we attempt to make sense of it and the way it works so that we can better assert our own place within it. It is often said that London is an infrastructural palimpsest: layer upon layer of networks and systems. But that really isn’t the case. London, like any urban form is a complex, woven fabric of infrastructure — each system maddeningly intertwined with others.

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Totally Unscientific Survey!

Please think of your fave not-for-profit SF/F-ish or gaming convention type of event. Furthermore, please envision how, in a perfect world, they would make use of social media. Now, tell me what you see. Bonus points if you can name preferred platforms and why.

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Augh!

Mobile app on Android is freakin' hosed and has been for months. Search won't work. Can't reshare stuff. WTF?

And yes, I checked for updates. My version is current. Useless, but current.

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For sale in the UK by a friend of mine, who I’d trust with my *cats* (never mind my life). Half of the sales price will be donated to Autistica, a charity which is run by and supports people with autism.