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"Mystery interwined in a pioneering supernatural world. It can easily make a fantastic bestseller."
Recent reader's words

"As I reach the edge of the opening, my blood pressure is rising. Never have I seen something like this before."
Marquise Gertain, THE HIDDEN FACE by M. I. Verras

#bookclub

When you've been writing so much dialogue in your manuscript that you almost put quotation marks around your words when texting a friend. 🙃
#booksky

A well fed tabby cat sulking in a large armchair. #CatsOfBluesky

The vacuuming lady left. Without leaving any treats.

Potty-mouthed parrot arrives at shelter; 400 people apply to adopt him “Do you want me to kick your [expletive]?” the parrot named Pepper asked a volunteer at the Niagara Falls, N.Y., shelter.

After a potty-mouthed parrot named Pepper was surrendered to an animal shelter in Niagara Falls, N.Y., more than 400 people applied to adopt him.

“Do you want me to kick your [expletive]?” the parrot named Pepper asked a volunteer at the shelter.

peanut, ginger tabby cat, lying on a pastel rainbow duvet with his head hanging by the side pf the bed, looking besides me and upsidedown to the angle in which i took the photo, he's very cute and adorable

life's hard, have a peanut pic ☀️

Photo of my fluffy white cat Francie sound asleep, curled up in my lap on top of my left forearm.

Feeling pretty grateful our ancestors gave these things a pest control contract 10,000 years ago.

Manhattan throwback
#NYC #travel

Black and white photo taken from inside a city tunnel, looking out at a brick building. Light is coming from outside the tunnel, creating dramatic shadows coming from a shorthaired tabby cat that is approaching the camera in the lower right corner of the composition.

“Cat walking under archway, Marshalsea Barracks, Dublin”. 1969. catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls0...

A cat, mostly white with some tabby stripes, sleeping on his back in an unmade bed. #CatsOfBluesky

Summer sleep ins

Right said. Every novel has its own personality and its own background. No comparisons.

"The 'proper stuff of fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon; no perception comes amiss."
— Virginia Woolf

An illustration of a little girl petting a cat

The friend. #illustration #kidlitart #kidlit

Mom says I’m the bestest cutest littlest guy… est

Bourgeois swells in top hats, fur-trimmed coats and dinner suits - I'm guessing the 19th century equivalent of members of the Bullingdon Club - emerge, looking the worse for wear, from an open doorway. Hanging from their arms are ladies festooned in richly decorated frills and furbelows. There is rubbish and a discarded bouquet of flowers in the gutter. A bunch of plainly-clad proles on their way to work have stopped to make way for the toffs. Or maybe they're just looking at them in disgust.

À l'aube (1875) aka At Dawn, the best known painting by Charles Hermans (1839-1924) who "denied that his intention was to engage in social criticism and argued that he chose the subject because of its artistic possibilities." If you say so, Charles. #LesBelges

On another SM platform, I found handwritten notebook drafts of someone's WIP under my book post. So far, I may have seen other book posts under mine, but I never expected to find WIP notes and drafts. That's quite brave. 😅

chocolate dip and lemon stick sign, ocean city, maryland, 1985

chocolate dip and lemon stick sign, ocean city, maryland, 1985

Melancholy

Melancholy, 1883 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/13059

Safety and protection for all. Those who cause injury to people and misery to families have no empathy, do not seem to want to acquire it, and therefore have no place in a free society.

timeline cleanse

✦ Sheepstrength ✦

IPC unveils largest Refugee Paralympic Team ever for Paris 2024 | UNHCR Eight athletes and one guide runner will compete at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games as part of the largest-ever Refugee Paralympic Team.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) announced the 8 athletes and 1 guide runner who will compete as part of the largest-ever Refugee Paralympic Team (RPT).

Representing more than 120 million forcibly displaced people worldwide, they are based in 6 countries and will compete across six 1/

Update! The sniffening has begun.

King Arthur's ghost?

Fabled Sword From Medieval French Folklore Disappears | Smithsonian Known as the "French Excalibur," the blade is said to have hung from a rock face in the village of Rocamadour for 1,300 years

"Many other questions remain unanswered, such as how the thief managed to retrieve the sword, which was dangling more than 30 feet from the ground near a historic sanctuary." www.smithsonianmag.c...

Two more reading skeletons sent out. One in the comfort of their home surrounded by their favourite books, the other in the great swirly outdoors.

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#art #skeleton #library #bookshelf

So satisfactorily fluffy!🐱🐈‍⬛

Guinness the black cat sits upright in a kitchen chair, utterly trained and focused on his human’s dinner, which is off camera.

HAVE YOU EVER WANTED SOMETHING SO BADLY THAT, DURING THAT ETERNAL MOMENT OF DESIRING, THE REST OF THE UNIVERSE CEASES TO EXIST?

Stone stairs at Temperance River State Park

Time to start the workweek. It will be an uphill climb to be sure. #photography

Grainy black and white photo of a handsome shorthaired tabby cat sitting up on top of a pillar for a portrait in an indoor studio setting. Text at the bottom of the page identifies the cat as Toby.

Toby! From Alexander and Some Other Cats by Sarah J. Eddy, 1929. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/156451#...