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it goes moo! @wheresmycow.bsky.social · 1h

god I'd forgotten how much I love this entire album *queues it up* @bimfm.bsky.social

Pirate Nana🔪🏴‍☠️☠️🦄🐙 @amladydragonfly.bsky.social · 2h

The whole Graceland album is a masterpiece

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it goes moo! @wheresmycow.bsky.social · 13h

Happy birthday! 😁🎁🎆🎉

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Ross Tugade @rosselle.bsky.social · 23h

In the Philippines, we mostly call aunts “tita” and this includes even your parent’s friends. Anyway this is Filipina drag artist Tita Baby. She is your tita now.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 1d

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

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Ashley 🌿🏴‍☠️🌈 @latebutfree.bsky.social · 2d

Please admire this gorgeous commission @panodtortur.bsky.social did of one of my favorite scenes from @teadragonhoard.bsky.social's Warden Port! Fyi this epic and magical fic could be read any time, but it's particularly nice for spooky season: archiveofourown.org/works/604765...
(More below 😊)

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it goes moo! @wheresmycow.bsky.social · 2d

Cosign on Persuasion. I didn't include it because it kinda cut close to the bone for me, tbh.

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it goes moo! @wheresmycow.bsky.social · 2d

Oh that's right, my copies of Maurice and Orlando are still with you

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it goes moo! @wheresmycow.bsky.social · 2d

He got me too on Pratchett, Sayers, Peake

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it goes moo! @wheresmycow.bsky.social · 2d

ahem @paulcatiang.bsky.social 😁

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it goes moo! @wheresmycow.bsky.social · 2d

And finally, 10. #Gormenghast, by Mervyn Peake. The second book in the Gormenghast Trilogy, and imho its most consequential one. While young Titus Groan is a bit of a drip, you're here for the drama of Steerpike/Fuchsia. The climactic fight to the death in the floodwaters of Gormenghast? HELL YEAH

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it goes moo! @wheresmycow.bsky.social · 2d

9. Gaudy Night by #DorothyLSayers. A poison-pen mystery set in an Oxford's women's college, what really got me here is the portrait of Harriet Vane, Novelist, wrestling with the eternal struggle over writing for a living vs writing that pulls at the soul, and Peter Wimsey's cutting the Gordian Knot:

Screenshot of Chapter 15 of Gaudy Night:

‘You would have to abandon the jig-saw kind of story and write a book about human beings for a change.’

‘I’m afraid to try that, Peter. It might go too near the bone.’

‘It might be the wisest thing you could do.’

‘Write it out and get rid of it?’

‘Yes.’

‘I’ll think about that. It would hurt like hell.’

‘What would that matter, if it made a good book?’

She was taken aback, not by what he said, but by his saying it. She had never imagined that he regarded her work very seriously, and she had certainly not expected him to take this ruthless attitude about it. The protective male? He was being about as protective as a can-opener.

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it goes moo! @wheresmycow.bsky.social · 2d

So it's NOT the only Star Trek books I've kept over the years, haha
But they haven't been with me as long as Imzadi has

it goes moo! @wheresmycow.bsky.social · 2d

You realize I have that specific book--and its sequel--in the upstairs bookshelf, yes? 😆

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it goes moo! @wheresmycow.bsky.social · 2d

8. Lord of Light by #RogerZelazny. The opening lines: "His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam." A very Zelazny trick that only he could pull off--bringing sacred cows (and gods) to the level of man.

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it goes moo! @wheresmycow.bsky.social · 2d

7. #TheManualofDetection by Jedediah Berry. An unassuming clerk in a major detective agency must step into the shoes--and dreams--of the agency's greatest detective. Fittingly, it's set in a world that is slightly out of focus, not quite real, not quite Borges but a good attempt at it. Charming.

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it goes moo! @wheresmycow.bsky.social · 2d

6. #TheScarletPimpernel by Baroness Orczy. The Richmond chapter! *fans self* The confrontation on the terrace! Her tearful confession and his outward coldness but inner YEARNING! Kissing the flagstones as she walks away from him! As the kids here used to say, "laglag-panty" (a panty-dropper)

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it goes moo! @wheresmycow.bsky.social · 2d

4. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by #JohnLeCarre. I adore Cold War spy stories, and this is the undisputed masterpiece.

5. A Surfeit of Lampreys by #NgaioMarsh. It's the only Roderick Alleyn book I've reread countless times. It's basically a bottle episode with England's Most Charming Family.

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it goes moo! @wheresmycow.bsky.social · 2d

3. The Truth by Terry Pratchett. It was SO HARD to choose ONE #Discworld novel 😭It's the City Watch books I adore but I love this because A-M political corruption and intrigue would normally be a Watch thing but it's the nascent press that uncovers it and The Truth Makes Ye Fret

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it goes moo! @wheresmycow.bsky.social · 2d

2. A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold. Part of the #VorkosiganSaga (and Part 3 of the Miles in Love trilogy). Swashbuckling aristocrat/space admiral/Peter Dinklage personal fancast/spy is a complete moron when it comes to romance. And we haven't even gotten to the butterbugs shenanigans yet!

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it goes moo! @wheresmycow.bsky.social · 2d

This is my LESS-worn-out copy of Gormenghast; the other one no longer has a front OR a back cover. It's in worse shape that its prequel OR sequel!

Peter David ❤️this led me directly to Spider-Man 2099, believe it or not😆

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it goes moo! @wheresmycow.bsky.social · 2d

1. Imzadi by Peter David. I bought this brand new when I was a wee tween in the early 90s and it's the ONE #StarTrek book I've kept over the decades. AU shenanigans! Young love lost and found again! Charlie Brown, ancient Earth philosopher! Captain Data of the Enterprise-F!

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it goes moo! @wheresmycow.bsky.social · 2d

VERY difficult to choose only ONE book from those three here 😅

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it goes moo! @wheresmycow.bsky.social · 2d

@paolomanalo.bsky.social challenged me to a #10NovelsToGetToKnowMe on Discord. (I think I did this here before? This is probably a slightly different list now.)

My self-imposed rule: Book series don't count as one title; choose one you love best in the whole series.

Titles in the alt text.

Photo of 10 books piled atop the bed, arranged from the smallest (top) to the largest (bottom)

Top to bottom:

1. Imzadi by Peter David.
2. A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold.
3. The Truth by Terry Pratchett.
4. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carre.
5. A Surfeit of Lampreys by Ngaio Marsh.
6. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy.
7. The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry.
8. Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny.
9. Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers.
10. Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 3d

Designer: all right Mr. Del Toro here’s those Frankenstein’s monster designs, real sexy just like you asked for.
Del Toro: (nodding) this is exactly as sexy as I asked for.

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it goes moo! @wheresmycow.bsky.social · 3d

Two Facebook Memories entries that came up today that REALLY make me miss my mom so much

that mad old bat (❤️ & aff)

also, pre-pastry school #baking shenanigans

Screenshot of my Facebook post from 2018. Text reads:

I woke up at 5:30 am to the smell of burning...something
Set the land speed record for running downstairs to find my mom in the dining room declaring: "Today I learned that you can burn bread when you steam it."

/oh my god, Ma, not in the MICROWAVE
//have you forgotten the Bouncing Rubbery Cake Incident of 2013

Screenshot of my Facebook post from 2018. Text reads:

The Bouncing Rubbery Cake Incident of 2013
It was my sister [redacted]'s birthday and I wanted to bake her a cake. The cake was underdone and I wanted to put it back in the oven, but our oven at the time was a contrary bitch (a different one from our current contrary bitch) and I didn't want to have to yell at it again.

MOM: Why don't you put it in the microwave for a few minutes? It'll dry right up.
ME: Microwave? Are you sure?
MOM: Yes. Listen to me, I'm your mother.

Now that, right there? Was a RED FLAG.That phrase is an ill wind; it spells doom. (Also, in certain cases, wet poodle-esque tonsorial misfortune. A story for another time.) But what can I do, she's my mom.
So, I did it.
1 minute in the microwave and what came out was a rubbery cheese wheel that no knife could penetrate. It BOUNCED OFF THE FLOOR. Impregnable bouncy fortresses could've been built from this. No amount of shouting would've brought this rubbery Wall of Jericho down.
So much mockery from my siblings. When I rightly directed blame towards the real culprit:

MOM: Why did you listen to me?

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