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yikes! I'm glad she's healing okay! dog park incidents are the worst 😞

ooo coconut stout sounds excellent

The bottom part doesn't visually go with the rest so I stopped at "Happiness is Lickin'"

Indeed.

I guess I haven't played many farming sims outside of Stardew.. so I'm going with Dinkum. 🦘

hopefully you've brought with you enough media to make time flow faster. you got this!

A pile of yellow books on a black tabletop with piles of other different colored books in the background. Yellow books featured include Butter by Asako Yuzuki, Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Julia and the Shark by Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Ten Low by Stark Holborn, A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett, The Devil By Name by Keith Rosson, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman, Authority by Jeff VanderMeer, Coyote Doggirl by Lisa Hanawalt, and The Tea Dragon Society, The Tea Dragon Festival, and The Tea Dragon Tapestry by K. O'Neill.

Of course to reach the Emerald City one must follow the yellow brick road: here lies a heap of yellow books I'm looking forward to reading in the near future plus a few I've already really enjoyed!

eight books placed on a table, all of which meet the prompt criteria to various degrees, most of which also satisfy one of the two bonus prompts (lgbtqia2+ author or characters, themes of isolation). titles: All That's Left in the World by Erik J. Brown, Strange Pictures by Uketsu, Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin, Swordheart by T. Kingfisher, Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel, King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender, Awake in the Floating City by Susanna Kwan, and Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc.

I've pulled out some options for the first leg of the Amazing Readathon: a book with green on the cover is my ticket to to the Emerald City!

But now to just pick one.. 🤔

The cover for Emily Tesh's newly released fantasy novel, The Incandescent. The cover has a dark background and a gleaming golden line drawing of a phoenix in the foreground.

The Incandescent is one of those rare works of fiction that I'm certain I will want to revisit in the future—maybe at a time when I need to find a new path or contemplate my place in the world at large, or when I simply need a reminder that not all children are devil's spawn.

Releasing today! 🪶

Ladies and gentlemen, in celebration of 10 years of Rusty Lake, we proudly present… 🥁 The Mr. Rabbit Magic Show! 🪄🎩 OUT NOW for Free on mobile and PC! ✨

Hat tricks, sleight of hand, and a few unexpected reveals you don’t want to miss. 🥳

Get ready for a music charity stream!
This year I've cooked together an entire Eurovision show!

I'll dress up as 11 artists and perform original songs and you can vote on the best performance through donations towards @safeinourworld.org ❤

I will make an entire album of the winning act! 🔥

wow this looks so comfy 😍

Part of the invitation to subscribe to the Broken Binding sci-fi subscription box which details the new edition of Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. A mockup appears for the dust jacket which depicts someone holding and looking at a scrap of fabric, a green pastoral landscape appears in the background. The reverse of the dust jacket depicts the same scene but now the cover is mostly dark blacks and purples, the land in the background is desolate and bleak but the image of the person in the foreground with the scrap of fabric remains the same. The final mockup is of the jacketless book which reveals a gold foil design with an hour glass as it's focal point. The fore-edge design of the book echoes the foiled bare cover with a stained glass motif. Below the book the endpaper artwork is revealed showing the mix of future and outdated technologies: a broken down wagon is being studied by a group of scientists huddled around computers and a group of investigators shine flashlights on an ancient murder scene.

It took over two months to receive my Broken Binding Sci-Fi Sub invite—which is NOTHING compared to the Fantasy Sub, that one can take years!

I've been craving more sci-fi lately so this came at the perfect time, PLUS Doomsday Book by Connie Willis was already sitting in my virtual to be read pile

The list of categories in odd's SinceTimer app: "05 / new & ultra sensitive (24)," "06 / sensitive creatures (17)," "08 / cacti & friends (26)," "10 / syngonium city (20)," "11+ / philos live here (22)." The first number represents the maximum ideal number of days a plant can go without water, a title for the group follows, and the number trailing in parentheses represents the number of plants in that category.

This prioritization-based-on-#-days-past-watering-day strat might have actually *increased* the # of plants being neglected since I ended up only watering the most desperate.. Oops

Now we try grouping by how often each plant requires water. Having to water ~20 plants max at a time seems reasonable!

oh dang I've always dreamed of encountering a find like this at a thrift store!

okay.. I can't even imagine an earl grey IPA but that would be an immediate buy for me! I tried a matcha IPA once and it was surprisingly nice.

screenshot from SinceTimer app showing category names of "00 / watering day (42)," "05 / thirsty (27)," "10 / dire! (13)," "15 / ☠️ (19)," and "not as thirsty plants (5)"

Watering has gotten to the point that I categorize each plant based on how many days past due for water they are.. (5, 10, 15+, etc.) These poor guys have been dealing with my bullshit for MONTHS 🥲

Excited to announce that our new game, The Electrifying Incident, launches in April!

In this monster mini-expedition, you'll explore the facility, avoid live electricity & repair a malfunctioning reactor.

Check out the demo & wishlist on steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3352300

I've been waiting for this day since I purchased the Cook Server Forever soundtrack on Bandcamp in 2023. Opening Menu Remix would have *easily* been the song I listened to the most that year. Let's see if it happens in 2025 instead! 🥳

Oh, hell yes! Those IKEA drawers are high on my to-purchase list for my future craft supply organization project.

Prepare yourself for the music to live in your brain rent free for the rest of your life.

In 2025 I'm aiming to:
• play a greater number of *substantial* games than I have the past few years,
• find more games that bring me JOY, and
• keep a gaming journal to serve both as a space for me to reflect more on what I've played and as a place to hold memories of notable gaming experiences!

Woo! Good luck with meeting your goal!

I think my count would be close to yours if I wasn't tracking the children's picture books I've read this year.

She Who Drowned the Sun is on my neverending list of books I'd like to read but now that I know it's a duology (instead of a series or something) 👀

#5 The Daughter Who Loved a Skeleton (Nigeria),
#6 The Princess Who Ruled the Sea (Inuit), and
#7 The Husband Who Cheated Death (Egypt) all boiled down to the same important message:

love stinks, yeah, yeah

...unless you want to marry a skeleton, then you're probably good.

My 2024 Spotify Wrapped card. It has a yellow background with black text and a blue and purple gradient at the top. StreamKitty's profile picture is at the top followed by a list of my top artists and top songs. My top artists were: 1. StreamKitty, 2. leon chang, 3. A Shell In The Pit, 4. Moon Hooch, and 5. Disasterpeace. My top Songs were: 1. the backrooms by StreamKitty, 2. Ghost on the Road by A Shell I'm The Pit, 3. Sky Mall by Vulfpeck, 4. Super Blinding Lights Would by Pete Frogs, and 5. Memory by Sidewalks and Skeletons.

Coming in at a whopping 1:37 minutes in length, I just KNEW the backrooms was going to take the cake. It's a good song but it surely wasn't the one I spent the most time with..

That could only be @ashellinthepit.bsky.social's Ghost on the Road from the Pacific Drive soundtrack 😍

#spotifywrapped

The Boy Who Tricked a Troll, starts off with a banger intro:

"In a village next to the deepest forest, where the trees scraped the sky and their roots strangled the earth, everyone knew you should be home before dark."

And leave it to Norway to tie everything up with an absolutely METAL ending 🤘

#3: The House That Was Filled With Ghosts comes from Japanese folklore and is the *nicest* story yet! Not to mention it contains some of the most fun illustrations so far: I want human hand candle holders lining my own hallway! ::stamps foot::

Chapter Two and hailing from Ireland: The Souls Trapped Under the Ocean. I loved this story! But more importantly it reminded me that the author of this collection modernized the stories told within, making them more diverse and inclusive. Hell yeah!

I was planning on individually rating each short story in this collection but due to the minuscule page count of each I've decided to share some highlights instead!

The first chapter contains the titular Korean tale, The Sister Who Ate Her Brothers. It certainly sets the tone of what's to come!

Showing off the cover of the short story collection, "The Sister Who Ate Her Brothers and Other Gruesome Tales," by Jen Campbell. The cover has a dark fox-like creature with empty white eyes around the title and trees and brambles around the border.

Displaying the table of contents for Jen Campbell's "The Sister Who Ate Her Brothers and Other Gruesome Tales." Each item lists the name, page number, and the country whose folklore inspired the tale.

prompt / title contains the term for a family relationship

hard mode / trees appear on the cover

Let me introduce the most *family relationship* book out there: a short story collection where nearly half the titles meet the h.m. requirement 👏 PLUS folklore from around the world!

#2025oddlotbingo

DAY ONE IS FINALLY UPON US

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