Brooks Benjamin

a poster that says stop bans on honest education Alt: a poster that says stop bans on honest education

I’m teaching a banned books lesson next week for the first time since I became a librarian because

1) I’m at that point in my career where I’m finding which hills I’m ready to die on and

2) we have way too many amazing books that I want to show off for it!

The right half of my tattoo (Pooh Bear and Max from Where the Wild Things Are sitting by Lady Amalthea from The Last Unicorn.

The left half of my tattoo with Lady Amalthea and Frog and Toad.

Same me but now with more ink!

But I always wake up and realize that’s never happened and I love being surrounded by books and sharing stories with students so why would I change that?

Every summer around this time I have a nightmare where the school has moved the library to some room I’ve never seen and I have to quickly reorganize EVERYTHING but the kids show up and they’re all loud and mean and no matter what I do nothing helps so I wind up questioning my career choices.

Congrats!!!

Vanilla wafers with red and white icing decorated to look like used band-aids. Gross, I know.

A picture of a very fun board game called Ransom Notes.

Blood bags filled with unicorn, vampire, and werewolf blood. Don’t worry, the blood was fake. The alcohol in them was very real though.

Hotdogs and salsas and various foods to get us through the night.

Fourth of July? Nah, we went all in on Summerween this year.
#summerween

Book covers of ten middle grade books being published from July to September 2025. Books featured include Defanged, Ride or Die, Grin, Aarzu All Around, Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave, Bubblegum Shoes: The Case of the Contraband Closet, The Haunting of Bellington Cottage, Zed Moonstein Makes A Friend, This Way To Happy and Millie of the Manor

🌟 Pop! Goes The Reader's 42 Most-Anticipated Middle Grade Books: July-September 2025 🌟
popgoesthereader.com/42-most-anti... #BookSky #MGLit #KidLit

A bit of yard overgrown with deadly amounts of poison ivy that I must have wronged in another life because it wouldn’t stop trying to pull me underground.

The same bit of yard void of poison ivy (good riddance) with some red mulch covering the ground.

I’m attempting to turn this into a cat-friendly sanctuary for our ferals.

This is the before and after (so far).

When I say I had a brush with death trying to get rid of all that poison ivy, I mean it. It’s trying to kill me y’all.

I can’t help but hear Meryl Streep’s voice any time Donut speaks in the Dungeon Crawler Carl books. @mattdinniman.bsky.social, thank you for such a fun series!

Yep! I don’t want to know how many times I’ve used the “Whoa, swallowed a bug” excuse.

Kind of like how I feel beyond humiliated when I choke on my own spit. I’m just sitting there and suddenly my life flashes before my eyes because apparently I forgot how sitting there not dying works.

Seems like we need a word for him too. ECHO: Elon can’t hold out? ECUP: Elon crumbles under pressure? Or maybe we can stick to TACO: tweeting and copping out.

I just realized the manuscript I’m working on right now would do very well with a map.

WHICH MEANS I GET TO MAKE A MAP FOR MY STORY!!!!

Which also means I’ll be obsessing over that for the next several weeks. Good times, good times.

#writesky #writingcommunity #author #scifi

Wild question, but is there anyone out there who is fluent enough in Russian who could help me out with some phrases (mainly some not-so-nice ones) for a manuscript?

#writingcommunity #writing #author #authors #writinghelp #russian

Yes!! I’m so excited for you and for Uwe and for Triada US and for the world when your book comes out!

Human noses on cats y’all.
#cat #cats #art #artist #artcommunity #catparents #sketchbook

Ok this sounds rad

A pen sketch of Player 456 from Squid Game. The left side of his face is his picture from season one: innocent, naive, and smiling. The right side of his face is his picture from season 2: hardened, wise, and prepared.

I feel like we’re all Season 2 Player 456 going into 2025.
#squidgame #squidgame2 #art

Picture of a page from We Used to Live Here. It says: “REPLY 4: USER: Navidson_27” Navidson is the surname of the family who lived in the creepy house in House of Leaves.

Started reading We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer and immediately picked up on the House of Leaves vibes only to be validated by this fun Easter egg a bit later on:

The only thing more dangerous than a rich egomaniac in charge is a stupid rich egomaniac in charge and I fear we've got about a baker's dozen of them at this point.

The alt text is 🤌🏽

Oh that looks fun!

a colored pencil on paper and collaged with photoshop drawing of about 15 martin shorts in santa hats with the snl logo

hello, is anyone from saturday night live on here?

and would you like to see a fan-drawn commercial bumper with many drawings of Mr Martin Short in santa hats??

a cartoon character is laughing with his mouth open in front of a fire . ALT: a cartoon character is laughing with his mouth open in front of a fire .

Everyone should fear my dishwasher game.

Right?!

Depression:

Do you have it? Or are you just a Pisces?

A question I ask myself on the daily 😂

I and my dishes thank you very much.

A picture looking down at the bottom rack of our dishwasher where my dishes are all gorgeously lined up and all the space is used and it just looks so neat even though they’re all dirty.

Felt cute, might delete later.