Shala Howell

Oh dang, LOOK at how gorgeous this is!

Halloween voter 2025 sticker with a pigeon wearing a witches hat and holding a pumpkin lantern with bats and a witch in the background

New Yorkers vote today if you haven’t and you get this

I hope you are able to decompress a little today.

Wow. I’m glad he’s back.

Everyone seems to be having an alarming and expensive week in cats. Krista writes nice books tho and some are on sale right now, if you are so inclined.

MFA Boston returns works by 19th-century enslaved artist David Drake to his heirs The terms of the restitution of the two ceramic pots have been cast in the mould of Nazi war-loot agreements

A rare happy story: The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has restored its holdings of the works of the enslaved potter David Drake to his descendants, following the pattern of Holocaust art restitution, the first time a museum has restored a work produced by an enslaved person.

What I Need You To Understand, Notes from Chicago in Late October | dansinker.com

At the very least, Chicago isn't letting this go quietly.

We are fighting.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Resolves Ownership of Works by Enslaved Artist David Drake BOSTON (October 29, 2025)—The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has reached a historic agreement with the known descendants of David Drake (also k

“The [MFA] has reached a historic agreement with the known descendants of David Drake (also known as Dave the Potter) regarding two monumental stoneware vessels in the MFA’s collection that were made by the enslaved potter and poet…”

Kawase Hasui - Pier at Otaru
#ShinHanga #Woodblock #Print #JapaneseArt #Ukiyo-e

I’m curious about people who do research professionally but who don’t have PhDs and aren’t in academia. What do you do? Where do you work? How did you get into doing it?

Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody promoting Zohran

POV you’re still not married and your grandparents just found the nicest boy with a good job they want you to meet

this is the Pope

his entire thing is going around waving to crowds and looking happy

he is also such a White Sox fan that this is the maddest - and most human - I have ever a pope look

This is the true church schism

Watch the First Horror Film, George Méliès’ The Haunted Castle (1896) In literature, graphic descriptions of menace and dismemberment by monsters are as old as Beowulf and much, much older still, though it wasn’t until Horace Walpole’s 18th century novel The Castle of O...

Watch the First Horror Film, George Méliès’ The Haunted Castle (1896)

Sharing this again because an actual child read a book I wrote for children and wrote a whole review about it that is just so ridiculously charming that you should read it regardless of whether you have any interest in the book

Aunts of the Heart are people I am both fortunate enough to have and personally aspire to be.

YouTube video by CTV News Cold case: Edmonton police searching for remains of Ruth Clarke who has been missing since 1990

Since I have a lot of rural Alberta folks who follow me: the Edmonton police are looking for anyone with property with an old well north of Edmonton to contact them (more details in the video). It's for a cold case.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtRo...

Oh Krista, this breaks my heart.

We're in an emergency situation with an outcome that will have serious consequences for the farmworker community if Proposition 50 does not pass. Before you vote on Prop 50, take a look at who’s spending money to stop it.
#YesonProp50

A promo graphic and in the background is a young white woman with dark hair holding a camera. The text says Waverly Jones Mysteries still in print, available at Amazon. There are paperback book covers that show the same woman on each one against different backdrops like a beach and trees. There are also four versions of the same books in hardcover that are an homage to vintage Nancy Drew yellow spine books and look painted. Then there's a journal.

Waverly Jones 1-4 (and 5 will be there next year!) paperback and special edition hardcover + murder journal.

1: www.amazon.com/Killing-Beac...
2: www.amazon.com/Wild-Darknes...
3: www.amazon.com/Alone-Night-...
4: www.amazon.com/Silent-These...

Journal: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DY4W2H3F/

Yup. This year I am for the first time acknowledging that I also want and will definitely eat candy between now and Oct 31, so I bought a bag (or two) for the trick or treaters and a separate bag of my absolute favorite for me (in hopes it would help me not eat the candy for them). Time will tell.

Anyway, I know it’s really easy to feel helpless right now, but this is a really easy way to do something about that feeling. If you can donate your time, money, or food to your local food bank, you are going to be helping real people in a meaningful way.

+ canceling SNAP benefits Nov 1 so remember that when you’re voting Nov 4.
Think back to November 2, 2024 . Remember how you used to have a hospital nearby, food in your cupboard, a job to cover your bills, and didn’t live in fear that you/your neighbors were going to be kidnapped off the street.

A sail boat on a lake at dusk. A crescent moon in the sky, tall trees on the shore.

'Early Autumn in Itako' - Kawase Hasui, 1942.
#JapaneseArt

ESSENTIAL VIEWING

Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases

This is among the most corrupt things a president has ever suggested, and I hope the press treats it that way. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

I'm a massive fan of the Waverly Jones series. (you can get the ebooks from Skyla's website, or from Kobo)

bsky.app/profile/skyl...

Indie authors & publishers aren't paid immediately, so there's just 9 days left to where any books bought in 2025 will be paid out to them. So I thought I'd do a thread where people could find some books!

(authors, please read 🧵first lol)

(Inspired by @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social post)

My statement on the most recent credible death threat against me.