Rowan

@dalzell

Library worker, crafter, here for whatever brings my tiny animal heart some joy. They/them

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Rowan @dalzell· 28d

Kelvingrove Park, sunny, 71F. Birds galore. Glasgow rules.

A magpie in a tree with a sunny blue sky behind. @ kjcharles I guess?

Rowan @dalzell· Jul 12

Cosplayers are built different man, this line PLUS makeup and a costume and wig and whatall?? You'd have to pay me so much lol

An absolute sea of people covering the entirety of the Royal Mile towards the Castle. They're all here for Critical Role

Rowan @dalzell· Jul 6

Dang, OPI, glad I only left this on for a day! @goblinparty.bsky.social any tips?

Rowan @dalzell· Jul 6

Ha, we hung on to this thinking we'd wouldn't be back for years and years, and we fly on Friday!

Rowan @dalzell· Jul 6

This was me

A cockeyed view of an orange cat nestled in front of my legs on a black blanket with skulls

Rowan @dalzell· Jun 26

Fun!

Results of an online quiz comparing me to Zohran Mamdani

Rowan @dalzell· Jun 23

We're in a really terrible drought in NC and I've never been so happy to see rain in my life.

Rowan @dalzell· Jun 21

I am having a terrible day, please have my favorite joke and a picture of my sweet orange baby Q: Why did the cactus cross the road? A: It was stuck to the chicken.

An orange cat on a grey bed in front of a window

Rowan @dalzell· Jun 19

Something about trees, please

Rowan @dalzell· Jun 18

I've been sick with a bad cold all week. Upside: I finished one Art Downside: every muscle in my torso hurts from coughing/sneezing

A small cross stitch of Starry Night by van Gogh on white aida cloth.

Rowan @dalzell· Jun 13

We're ready

Rowan @dalzell· Jun 10

Jesus, now there's a helicopter circling overhead, the writers need to take a xanax, this is too much!

Rowan @dalzell· Jun 9

Newsflash: Scottish-American is essentially American, Scottish

Rowan @dalzell· May 21

I'm starting Goodbye to Berlin for the first time, and it has an introduction by Alan Cumming. I'm usually pretty detached from my feelings, but this certainly made me feel.

A page of text, the relevant bit is "I can't imagine what it must have been like to have been there to feel the turn in the public conscience, to actually see the beginning of the violence and the acceptance of Nazism as a mainstream political alternative and finally a national edict."

Rowan @dalzell· May 15

Chris met with a friend today who's been living in Japan for several years. He gave us these candies that are fascinating. Apparently made with honey, clear as glass, and just barely sweet. I can only describe the flavor as 'slightly warm'.

A jelly candy being held between a thumb and finger. There's a slight white powder coating on the outside of the candy, but the inside is perfectly clear.

Rowan @dalzell· May 12

What's the biggest low stakes regret in your life, I'll go first: It's not playing with the rough green snake when I had the chance. I've never seen it again and it would have been so fucking cool

A white hand holding a bitty noodle of a rough green snake, whose mouth is open in indignation

Rowan @dalzell· May 12

No, *you're* too excited to go back to Scotland

A black shopping basket containing two kinds of caramel wafers and an irn bru

Rowan @dalzell· May 8

I get simply the Most use out of this @theonion.com headline. It's become shorthand in my house: "Babe, I dipshitted again!" Brought to you by the Blue Jays game.

An image of a baseball game with the headline "Total dipshit fans think pop-up fly ball going to be home run" from the Onion

Rowan @dalzell· May 3

I am officially old because I'm reading this graphic novel version of Anne of Green Gables and I think Matthew Cuthbert is really cute in a hipster kind of way

A panel from Anne of Green Gables adapted by Mariah Marsden, showing Matthew Cuthbert in a yellow jumper, with long hair and a beard in like a sandy grey-blonde color

Rowan @dalzell· Apr 28

Without downloading anything new, where are you mentally?

Sumo wrestler Asakoryu flexing hard, he is jacked and gorgeous

Rowan @dalzell· Apr 27

Introduce yourself as a TV character

Rowan @dalzell· Apr 20

Also I learned a new plant today that I can't stop laughing about. Meet little brown jugs, y'all.

A large dark green leaf, shaped like an arrowhead, with lighter green areas. The little brown jug of the name is probably beneath the leaf litter, but I didn't know to check yet

Rowan @dalzell· Apr 19

We went to the woods, and I spotted this guy like 30 ft from the parking lot. This is by far the best I've ever seen a wild owl, I couldn't believe it. We got to not-hear it fly away too! 🪶

A barred owl sitting on a branch in green woods. Its eyes look pure black

Rowan @dalzell· Apr 19

Rowan @dalzell· Apr 14

I went to my first baseball game! The Bulls won in extra innings, and I don't *think* I got sunburned!

A large sign of an angry bull above a wall. The text reads "hit bull win steak" and "hit grass win salad"

The flag of the city of Durham: red and gold vertical stripes and a blue field with 7 stars, which represent the Pleiades from the constellation Taurus

A baseball player in a grey uniform in the foreground. In the back, a person in a white ball cap is visible in the "window" of the scoreboard for the first inning. Durham is one the few ballparks that changes the score by hand

A Keith Haring ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes, which was a huge surprise to find on the way to the baseball game

Rowan @dalzell· Apr 8

It really made me have a lot of feelings about Haydee, too. Like, the original version of her story lands very differently from grandson-of-an-enslaved-woman Dumas, than it would from this guy.

Director Bille August, the Danish director of the 2024 Count of Monte Cristo, sitting on a stage

Rowan @dalzell· Apr 7

It's still cool today so we went for another walk in the woods. I learned that autumn olive smells incredible and loud, that there are baby persimmon trees right on the path, and what this stupid grass is called--I've been wondering since I was a kid!

A few stalks of straw-colored, feathery grass in a field

Rowan @dalzell· Apr 7

I really was impressed by how the artist used straight pieces of wood and created the illusion of softness and curves. Based on the number of people enjoying them, it's maybe the best public art I've seen.

The backside of the see no evil troll, which looks like it has a round butt with differentiated cheeks.

Rowan @dalzell· Apr 7

Today I spent hours hiking around the woods looking for sculptures of trolls. The weather was cool enough even for me. The world's great, y'know?

"Daddy Bird Eye", a massive wooden sculpture of a troll seated with a staff across his lap. One knee is pulled up in front of him. The newer wood of his head makes him look golden.

A white man in a blue T-shirt making a funny face and covering his ears. Behind him is a wooden troll sculpture about 12 feet tall, covering his eyes.

A baby troll sculpture holding what looks like an insanely long radish, but is actually the end of his mother's tail. The tail sculpture winds all through the woods, leading you to her.

Mother Strong Tail, a wooden troll sculpture, lying on her side. Her tail and arms are supporting her head and she has one eye slightly open.

Rowan @dalzell· Apr 6

I am taking shport outside. Kids keep running down these hills and going faster than they can actually run and laughing madly as they go out of control