ditchdigger.

Saw someone say, “Stop hoarding books, we don’t need paper books anyway” and I can’t express how misguided this is. Online libraries disappear, digital books can be altered, and with Big Tech seeking to destroy history and literacy, print media has never been more essential.

less than 24hrs to go ✨

(it’s always just for fun or research for writing purposes, but sometimes i think he forgets how many handbooks on witchcraft/magic i do actually own)

my husband, every time i buy something the least bit witchy: “uhhh, anything you need to tell me, or are you just having fun?”

god, the fathers you put on this earth are rage-baiting their children again

the house is decorated for spooky season, so why not start this? 🕯️🥀🐍🍎💫

C’mon brain worm, your time to shine!

People are reading AI-generated synopses of books and then claiming they read 100 books in a week. This is how the abolition of books began in Fahrenheit 451: classics were condensed into five-minute summaries for those too busy to do the reading. Later came the burnings.

A bunny has set a simple, cartoonish trap: THe box propped up with a stick. Inside the box as bait is a little matcha strawberry cake. A second bunny, very gullible, eyes the cake with curiousity, while the trap-setting bunny lies in wait.

Daily bunny no.3031 falling for the oldest trick in the book

the daughter, reading out loud the name of the puzzle i’m working on: “The World of King… Arthur?”
me: “do you know who King Arthur is?”
daughter: “no?”
me: “sit down; we’ve got a movie to watch.”

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.

If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

I DID IT!!! I READ EVERY SINGLE BANNED BOOK I PLANNED TO READ THIS YEAR, plus a few extra. 🙂‍↕️📚✨

you’re laughing? the leopards have resorted to cannibalism and you’re LAUGHING?

words like “horrible” and “unfair” feel wildly inadequate for what this actually is; i’m so sorry, Spooks. :(

I, for one, am tired of [gestures broadly]. I have grown weary of [points in all directions simultaneously].

spring <3

being a medieval peasant was hard, but at least they didn’t have the news getting beamed into their skulls every hour of the day. if the Archbishop of Canterbury freezes to death while crossing the Alps, that’s for the king to worry about in six months.

“didn’t you just get books from Blackwell’s?” god forbid a girl needs more penguin classics from the UK 🙄

snow white is a cautionary tale about eating a red delicious

I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold

truthfully? yes, and no; sometimes you get left behind as people move on with their lives. sometimes they make the choice to stick around for you. the hard bit is that you’ll never know which it’ll be until it happens.

but, in some ways, it’s been easier to bear in my 30s than it was in my 20s.

A male Orange Tip butterfly posing nicely on my white Narcissus Thalia today.
#UKWildlife
#Butterflies
#UKButterflies

A radical skeleton telling you "Just start. You don't need permission. Art, craft, 2nd book, cake, writing, that show, any new skill, making friends. If it sucks, ask for help. The time will pass anyway"

11hrs into ac. shadows; time to spam my friends with random screenshots.

X post from the account "Polling USA" (@USA_Polling ) with a blue checkmark, timestamped 1 day ago. The post reads: "You’re telling me the code talkers that helped to defeat the nazis got removed from military websites BY nazis?" The post includes a reply from the account "Axios" (@axios ), also timestamped 1 day ago, with a yellow badge. The reply reads: "Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order trib.al/90XSYLB."

Yes. That is in fact what just happened.

i love ghosts! i love folklore!! i love books!!! i especially love books about ghosts + folklore!!!! ahhhh!!!!!

current favorite corner of the living room; books + music, what more do you need except more of both? 🦢✨

and then there’s today, another two years on, and there isn’t a single one of them i miss anymore. it’s just crazy to me how you can just pick up and move on from people who once meant everything to you.

watched a video from two years ago that i had posted on instagram about the start of the pandemic three years before and how, back then, there were people i was talking to multiple times a week that i couldn’t get a text back from anymore. and how i didn’t really know what to do with that.

on that same note, i’d never heard of the Penguin Orange Collection until recently and, though it remains my least favorite color, these covers were simply too good to pass on; 🐧🍊💫