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hubris and the laundry rack

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Spin this wheel first and then this wheel second to generate the title of a YA fantasy novel!

(If the second wheel lands on an option ending with a plus sign, spin it again)

Share what you got!

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time review, business insider review

The first color photographs of the United States in 1888!

“Here is probably the first color photographs of the United States, created by the Detroit Photographic Company between 1888 and 1924! The photographs taken with a photolithographic process, 20 years before the invention of the autochrome, and coming from the Collection Mark Walter, allowed people to discover for the first time images of the “new world”. Taschen has just published a collection of these pictures entitled “An American Odyssey“, created by Marc Walter and Sabine Arqué. Some fascinating images! “  (Ufunk)

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Hey don't cry, okay? We just found Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna, a species thought to be extinct for the past 60 years.

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This is the most devastatingly accurate birding meme I've ever seen, bar none

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sunset on the winter solstice, waikanae beach

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arrested for impersonating grains of rice (NO possibility of parole)

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Red and gold today. More arranging of small things that I've made.

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Not extant or lost but a secret third thing (misfiled by the archive)

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most basic treatments for sickness involve some form of salt water (drinking electrolytes, gargling with warm salt water, epsom salt baths) as a way of microdosing going to the seaside

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Seasonal Affective Disorder is just emotional scurvy, all my core wounds are reopening and they won't be fixed until the big lemon in the sky comes back

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more than 20 years and thousands of media later and I have still never felt so seen, as the younger sister of an older sister, as I did reading high wizardry by diane duane.

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the close third person being a distinguishing feature, as it limits it to the central figure - one for whom the strictures of protocol and hothouse setting most apply. nirvana in fire from the perspective of consort jing.

genre-wise the goblin emperor really has a lot more in common with palace dramas than your standard adventure fantasy. I am putting it in a box with nirvana in fire and shaking the box.

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some advice: if the next step seems too big, it's not the next step

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people are always slandering historians for saying reasonable things like "some things that seem romantic to us were platonic in the context of the times", when there's so many evil historians you actually have to look out for. number 1 : the closet royalist