Liz B.

Friend autistic woman likes but wasn’t expecting to see might as well be Slenderman An autistic woman who unexpectedly bumped into a good friend while out is reportedly unsure of why she's reacted like she's encountered a terrifying creature coming at her with outstretched limbs. Bet...

“With Ben, it’s nothing personal. I just hadn’t anticipated having an interaction with him at that precise moment and in that context. So basically, I had to no choice but to run like I was fleeing from a humanoid monster with tentacle-like arms.”

cis women! do the thing!

Completed my bucket list today and managed not to look (quite) as terrified as I felt in the process - success ✅

Been reading a little mythology and it seems like one of the main cross-cultural themes is, “do not, under any circumstances, get on a boat.”

YouTube video by Doctor Who Online DWO - Doctor Who Cast & Crew '500 Miles'

Watched the BAFTAs purely for David Tennant and enjoyed every minute but the man shouldn’t be allowed to sing The Proclaimers because it makes me think of this video: youtu.be/FPKgPB80jNA then this one: www.tiktok.com/@davidtennan...
Then I cry.
Might watch Conclave now, I dunno.

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Day 20

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This was fun!

The cover of Queers, monologues curated by Mark Gatiss

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Day 19

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Not to brag but it’s signed 😊

spotify wrapped feels less summary statistics and more capturing periods of psychosis listening to a particular string of songs on repeat

Absolutely tell me about it 🤣

Nothing like Spotify Wrapped to make you question your own memory of the year. What is a Mcbling Strut Pop August? Why did I listen to music for 14 straight hours on March 2nd? I only know three Billie Eilish songs and I don’t like one of them, how’s she my fifth artist? Who tf am I?

Cover of Penguin’s translation of Ovid’s Heroides

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Day 18

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Make of this what you will

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Day 17

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List of terms for book lovers around the world. Bookworm - English, Reading Horse - Danish, Library Rat - Spanish, Chapter Maggot - Finnish, Ink Drinker - French, Page Mage - Croatian.

Which one’s your favourite? Think mine is Page Mage 😂

Goal of the protagonist in:
French novel: "to fall in love"
British novel: "to get married"
Russian novel: "to become a great man"
American novel: "to kill that fuckin' whale, man. I want that GOD DAMN whale to die. FUCK, I hate whales so much!!"

You have to take your shoes off when you visit my nan’s house - because she lives in a bouncy castle.

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Day 16

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 15

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A pair of daffynitions every day until I run out, number 34…

Hermit = a woman’s oven glove

Pungent = a man that enjoys wordplay

I think so. It reads so much like a good story that you forget it’s ancient Greek!

Cover of Emily Wilson’s translation of Homer’s Odyssey

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 14

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Yes, to suspire is to utter a deep sigh. It’s all about breath, as are ‘inspire’ (to breathe life into an idea/person), ‘expire’ (breathe out), ‘perspire’ (to breathe through), ‘conspire’ (to breathe together), and ‘spirit’, because the ancients believed the spirit was breathed into the body.

The cover of No Matter the Wreckage Poems by Sarah Kay

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Day 13

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Wow. Here is one to brighten up your morning. The first images of the restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral. Breathtaking. In just five years France did it

Myths & Legends Encyclopaedia

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Day 12

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I. JUST. WANT. THE. RECIPE. I. DON'T. WANT. FOUR. PAGES. OF. STORY. ABOUT. HOW. THIS. WAS. YOUR. AUNT. LINDA'S. FAVORITE. DISH. ON. WINTER. ESCAPES. TO. THE. MOUNTAINS.

Etymology of the day: before a tapering piece of hanging ice was called an ‘icicle’ it was an ‘ickle’. In the Middle Ages people decided to add ‘ice’ for extra oomph and (tautologically) called it an ‘ice ickle’, until the two words eventually blended together.