Tempest Bonds 🦄

Rarely here anymore, but try to check in every couple days. Can usually be found on tumblr @/tempest-in-spooky-earrings.

I read one, once, that forced me to keep count of the increasingly bad euphemisms. 47: none of them sexy, most of them food-related.

Found and followed!

I followed back!

Always sucks finding out one of your managers is homophobic af, but it's also good info to have, so I guess that balances out? I don't know. I kind of liked this one, so I'm disappointed.

New merch idea: vampire koalas for Halloween! Little capes and fangs, maybe even holding jack-o-lanterns!

Very happy for you.

Off the top of my head, I can think of one book I've read that had the top safeword.

Yeah, mine was a few hundred, after insurance. So definitely take that and don't ask questions.

I fell asleep at a concert, once, in stadium seating. I think I still have a photo taken by a friend. 22yo me did not care at all. I was sitting between two friends I trusted. The bass was making the seats vibrate very soothingly.

#122 You Have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar (2018), read August 28, 3.5/5.0⭐ #123 In Praise of Wasting Time by Alan Lightman (2018), read August 29, 3.5/5.0⭐

#119 Kingdom of Needle and Bone by Mira Grant (2018), read August 27, 5.0/5.0⭐ #120 Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong (2022), read August 27, 5.0/5.0⭐ #121 Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter (2015), read August 28, 5.0/5.0⭐

#116 Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree (2022), read August 21, 5.0/5.0⭐ #117 A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa (2020), read August 23-24, 3.5/5.0⭐ #118 In the Shadow of Spindrift House by Mira Grant (2019), read August 26-27, 4.5/5.0⭐

#113 A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall (2022), read August 16-17, 4.5/5.0⭐ #114 Too Bright To See by Kyle Lukoff (2021), read August 17-18, 4.0/5.0⭐ #115 The People's Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski (2019), read August 19-20, 4.0/5.0⭐

#110 My Real Children by Jo Walton (2014), read August 5-6, 5.0/5.0⭐ #111 Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki (2021), read August 6-7, 4.0/5.0⭐ #112 Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (2020), read August 11-13, 4.5/5.0⭐

#107 Strange Beasts of China by Yan Ge (2006), translated to English by Jeremy Tiang (2021), read August 1-2, 4.0/5.0⭐ #108 Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden (2021), read August 2-3, 5.0/5.0⭐ #109 Creatures of Passage by Morowa Yejidé (2021), read august 3-5, 4.5/5.0⭐

I followed back!

But it just feels so much less combative than twitter. Sometimes all I want from social media is fanart, and to talk about books and comics and tabletop games, and not have to know who the new main character of twitter is, every three hours.

I am, once again, sleep deprived, climbing up a ladder to get a cat off a roof. Different cat and different roof, but same ladder and same wobbliness, so some things don't change.