Jess Rose

@jesslynnrose

Tired but doting computer auntie.

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Jess Rose@jesslynnrose· 2d

It's not even 4pm but I'm ready to tempt fate and call today a great day: 🦴 got to see a cool imaging lab with cool bones and teeth in it 📖 the historical naval-cannibalism book I preordered show up 🏺 zero breakages bisque firing my most recent weird pottery

A copy of Capitan’s Dinner, by Adam Cohen

A small unglazed pottery bowl with white-painted clay human teeth running around the rim of the bowl. It’s terrible now and will likely become even more horrific once glazed and refined.

Jess Rose@jesslynnrose· 14d

Brought home some pottery to work on at home and there will be no points awarded for guessing what happened next.

A small pink hairless cat, sitting on a kitchen counter with his head hung contritely. Next to him there’s a cylindrical pottery vase, smashed into several large pieces. The vase seems like it has a row of moulded white teeth around the rim.

Jess Rose@jesslynnrose· 26d

At #EMFCamp and always so excited to catch up with old friends, chat to new people or to just listen raptly while folks tell me about the wonderful, weird, creative things that you’re excited about! I look like this, these days ⬇️

A photo of a white lady in a straw sun hat and black jacket in a festival field. She looks tired but she’ll be ok.

Jess Rose@jesslynnrose· 29d

Just wanted to show you how horrible my cat’s weird little hands are.

A grey and white sphinx cat, stretched across the top of a sofa with one paw outstretched towards the camera. His paw is upsettingly similar in form to a human hand. While viewing it, it’s impossible not to reflect that all cat paws are like this under their fur.

Jess Rose@jesslynnrose· Jul 7

A buddy of mine was in N. Macedonia and brought me back a used erotic short story collection from the 80s. Machine translation and my stubbornness are revealing this to be the least sexy book I have ever encountered. It’s a marvel.

A Cyrillic-titled book with a classical oil painting of a scene with bare breasted women on the cover.

Jess Rose@jesslynnrose· Jun 18

I don’t have definitive evidence but it seems that one of my cats* has helpfully wrenched the down arrow off my keyboard and yote it into the aether. *almost definitely Blink

A tiny pink hairless kitten wrapped in a big bundle of black fleece. His face and a singly outstretched hand emerge from the cloth, facing the viewer. The pose makes him look a bit like a little, scheming dragon, shrouded by darkness.

Jess Rose@jesslynnrose· Jun 13

Apologies in advance to everyone on my gift list this year.

Two work in progress pottery vessels, a taller mug and shorter dish, both rimmed with moulded human teeth.

Jess Rose@jesslynnrose· Jun 9

Battersea Children’s Zoo has rare breed baby piglets right now and you can book to give them snacks and pet them. Or, as I opted to, steal their little piggy noses.

A woman in a blue jacket bending over a tiny ginger piglet with black spots She’s lightly pulling on his nose and he excitedly chews on her hand. Behind her another similarly colored piglet chews on her trousers while he awaits his own nose less fate.

Jess Rose@jesslynnrose· May 30

Repeating “don’t be weird today” to myself on my walk to pottery class like a mantra and winding up with this.

Jess Rose@jesslynnrose· May 29

It's been hot enough that we've set up a portable aircon unit to keep up (and the cats) cool in our heat-unfriendly British home. ...so of course the cats are taking turns huddling against the hot air outflow tube like lizards on hot rocks...

A small pink hairless cat huddled protectively over a white plastic tube that's been run behind the cushions of a couch. His face mirrors illustrations of dragons hovering over their hoards.

Jess Rose@jesslynnrose· May 28

Thank you Blink. A little hot water bottle of a cat tucking himself under my arm is 100% what I wanted in this weather.

A tiny, unless pink hatless cat sleeping with his face wedged I to the armpit of a tired woman’s torso. His face is hidden under her arm, but his posture communicates an innocent repose that only a monster could remove him from.

Jess Rose@jesslynnrose· May 22

I am not religious but I am begging every higher power to either give me better self control or to send fewer temptations. Otherwise, eventually, I am absolutely going to get a cool facial scar trying to kiss him between the ears.

A soft little fox, lying in a relaxed pose quite near the camera. He's laying with his paws lightly splayed out as he faces the photographer. His eyes are lightly closed. He's sleek and pretty and has a fluffy, pettable tail. His body language and energy is that of a loyal but lightly aloof dog.

Jess Rose@jesslynnrose· May 18

I have been spending too much time with people who know me well and love me despite this. This has left me entirely unprepared for the volume and tone of teeth questions I was going to face in pottery class.

A human hand, holding a moulded bit of grey pottery clay that's been formed to look like human teeth with a little gum/jaw-like ledge beneath them.

Jess Rose@jesslynnrose· May 15

Bought a slide whistle and my cat son has some feedback.

A grey and white hairless cat, standing on a blue rug. He has one arm and paw drawn up in a gesture that communicates contempt surprisingly well, considering he’s a a cat.

Jess Rose@jesslynnrose· May 4

Spent this weekend at the Ely Eel Festival which had less eels than I would have expected.

An eel festival cupcake with a little blue fondant “Ely Eel Festival” stamped fondant label with grey eel frosted across it.

Jess Rose@jesslynnrose· Apr 27

At least a week. Maybe more. More, if I can kiss him between the ears.

A peaceful looking fox, stretched out in the sun amidst large leaves.

Jess Rose@jesslynnrose· Apr 25

Please may I pet the outside puppy, I love him so much.

An urban fox, cheerfully scratching his flank with a back paw as he grins at the camera.

Jess Rose@jesslynnrose· Apr 20

I won't be taking any questions on this, but I have never wanted to place an object in my mouth more than this 10th century inkwell. www.tumblr.com/memor...

A small, square grey and silver inkwell made of a banded agate stone with an inscription on the face in perso-arabic script. Does it look like candy? No. Does it look tasty? No. Then why do you want to put it in your mouth? The post says no questions will be taken on this point.

Jess Rose@jesslynnrose· Apr 17

Is there any legal reason I can’t touch a fox in England? There’s not a law against it or they don’t all secretly belong to the queen or something?

A very soft urban fox, sleeping peacefully. This photo was taken at a very close distance. The fox looks almost indescribably soft and pettable.

Jess Rose@jesslynnrose· Apr 14

Pupdate: I love him so much, I bet I could pet him. Surely nothing bad would happen. I bet I could kiss him right between the ears. I should bring him inside to live in my house. I should give him my wallet.

A soft little fox, lying calm in a cute little bundle in a some light foliage, very near to the photographer. The fox looks very soft. So soft. Any reasonable person would want to pet this fox.

Jess Rose@jesslynnrose· Apr 13

I am a mature and sensible person but an urban fox has taken up residence in the courtyard of our flats and every day I have to catch and stop myself from patting the free range puppy.

A photo showing a low lying bush, with a soft little fox face poking partially out of a break in the lower left hand side of the foliage. She looks real pettable.

Jess Rose@jesslynnrose· Apr 8

Found this "unusual 19th century lamp...of a supple gentleman" at an online auction and gosh, it sure is as described. www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...

A carved wooden figure of a man hanging from brass shackles around his ankles. His legs are extended above his head and he's looking with an openmouthed expression of...surprise(?) at the wick hole located between his buttocks. Extending out beyond the wick hole is a paddlelike tail, because why not.

Jess Rose@jesslynnrose· Mar 29

I’m at the free hair store now, how many did you need?

A wooden box, mounted on a wall with a grid of small cardboard boxes stacked inside. Different couloirs of bundled hair peek out from the open front of the rectangular boxes. A sign above the box reads “Free Hair” and a sign below the box explaining that the hair is good for compost.

Jess Rose@jesslynnrose· Mar 27

Please help me try and find the most haunted item in this auction. My first suggestion: this lifelike clown helium balloon cover that *definitely* does not come to life to hunt down young lovers to an 80s slasher soundtrack www.the-saleroom.com...

A fiberglass clown stood against a white wall, with a helium tank next to it. The clown has dead eyes of a 30s black and white cartoon character and a tube (for filling balloons? for consuming human blood?) protruding from his too-wide red grin. He's wearing a tattered smocklike outfit that seems to have been made of discarded circus tent material. He has flappy little glove hands at his sides.

Jess Rose@jesslynnrose· Mar 27

Guess who got into the recycling bin?

A little pink hairless cat with his head stuck through a bit of cardboard with a hole in it.

A blurry photo, which might be the same cat leaping away from the recycling bag with the cardboard bag around his neck.

Jess Rose@jesslynnrose· Mar 12

I'm back from Italy and am so excited to report discovering "Tex", a limitlessly unhinged Western comic that ran 1948-67 ✅ Absolutely wild character name choices ✅ Cowboys but also magic? Sure. ✅ Bigfoot ✅ Hey wtf why are there Pinkertons in this en.wikipedia.org/wik...

A photo of a cover of Tex, with yellow text in the top left reading "Sasquatch". A cowboy in a yellow shirt rides a horse in the foreground, gun drawn. On a cliff behind him and taking up the upper right hand part of the cover, Bigfoot looms in front of a full moon. The sky seems weirdly bright blue for the moon to be out.

Jess Rose@jesslynnrose· Feb 27

Last of my Istanbul cat posts. Please enjoy this improvised rain shelter for cats which someone in Sultanahmet made from a loveseat, cardboard, plastic sheeting, an umbrella and love.

Two cats sitting on a loveseat outside, with a clear plastic bubble of a rain shield around them.

A close up of the cats in the rain shelter. They peer back at the camera, dry and smug.

A side view of the car rain shelter, showing the back is open to allow cats to hop in and out. A tabby cat looks over her shoulder at the photographer.

Jess Rose@jesslynnrose· Feb 24

Choose your fighter. (It’s a cuddlefight)

A pretty tabby cat sitting dignified against a backdrop of flowers.

A tiny orange and white kitten asleep in someone’s lap

A calico cat rolling around to have her tummy petted.

A long haired cat sitting and looking at the camera with a half smile.

Jess Rose@jesslynnrose· Feb 22

Coin operated vending machines dispensing kibble for streetcats are my favourite shared infrastructure discovery this week.

A bright red vending machine touting that it will take coins from any currency to dispense food for Istanbul’s beloved street cats.

The same machine but a close up shot showing the kibble is dispensed into a large shared bowl for cats.

Jess Rose@jesslynnrose· Feb 21

Please, Mr Polyester is my father! Just call me Tuna.