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darcysmissb@darcysmissb· 4d

Sometimes one needs a lady detective on an interstellar ship solving mysteries = thanks @oliviawaite.com for such welcome escape with Dorothy Gentleman! +100 for audiobook💗

Illustrated cover of Olivia Waite's NOBODY'S BABY shows a stylized cozy 'living room' on board a spaceship with green chairs, palm plants, massive portal windows filled with stars and 3 figures carefully bent over a sleeping infant beneath red blanket

darcysmissb@darcysmissb· 5d

Friday quick grocery run pause for hello-there cactus bowl

Grey terra cotta with vertical white geometic 50's-70's design, itty cactus landscape includes clutch of 5 various Lady fingers (of course they all have name: George, Will, Agatha, Zev, Pete) 2 crown (glorious chonker and submerged bud) overseen by two parental units entirely unrelated, George Sr (squat formerly represesed but finding themselves via long spikes) and Maeve, queen, not of this world and certainly not native cactus, but mmm to be so simply fierce

darcysmissb@darcysmissb· 8d

Salad work around: cabbage + deep storage tinned sardines, kalamata, feta, hard boiled, onion, homemade dill/dijon vinaigrette

LOoking down on white bowl decorated with drawings of smiling hedgehogs carrying apples / balancing them on their head, holding green cabbbage, cuke, feta, red onion, kalamata olive & hard boiled egg slices and a glorious fat silver sardine from deep tinned fish storage (low these terrible warm ocean times)

darcysmissb@darcysmissb· 9d

glaukes (γλαῦκες, owls) Owl of Athena 479 BC tetradrachm silver plated token

Big eyed owl, side wing, with nubbley textured body
Itty replica coin token

Flip side of itty replica coin token shows cameo style portrait of Athena, heavy outlined eyes, greek headband and styled hair

darcysmissb@darcysmissb· 11d

❣️loved HILD❣️ Just started MENEWOOD @nicolaz.bsky.social

Cover of nicola griffith MENEWOOD
illustration shows red headed woman against purpleblue ground wearing cloak pinned closed by enamled and jeweled cross, holding staff, surrounded by images of crows, horses, shield bearing horseman, a red banner with butcherbird, pale banner with boar

darcysmissb@darcysmissb· 11d

Looking up city street / sidewalk all grey angles and utility sigils spraypaint, centered on fat signal pole visually stacked against blue /neon orange painted signal box with floating blue orange cubes, dark greenish blue wedge of building on right, line of orange utilty cones on street

darcysmissb@darcysmissb· 15d

"A refusal to sneer at anything that generated a sense of the sublime, awe and terror." Woof, thankyou so much @hookland.bsky.social

Page of HOOKLAND FRAGMENTS VOL 1 with backgorund postcard fragment man in red smoking jacket and Lady in white dress, black cape, 1914

darcysmissb@darcysmissb· 16d

Exploring @marthawells.com rich / deep back catalog with the Fall of Ile-Rien: THE WIZARD HUNTERS ❣️ Wonderful cast & hold-my-breath action. So so glad there's more Tremaine / dishy Syprians to enjoy thankyou!

p332 Marth Wells

"Tremaine shoved through the confusion to Florian, kneeling to untie her hands. "What kept you?" the girl said blearily.
"It was the traffic in Vienne," Tremaine told her, working the knots free. "It was terrible."

darcysmissb@darcysmissb· 18d

Very near criminal charity shop score when looking for creamer: gilded porcelain, 1919 $3

Art Deco gilded white porcelain creamer, pleasingly hard angled spout and handle, poppy like motif in gold band around edge / handle

darcysmissb@darcysmissb· 18d

Today's cup arrived yesterday and already a fav: shape of rim when sipping who knew. Rosyln bone china 1940's

White bone china teacup and saucer, hand painted pale purple, blue and yellow simple brush abstract flowers, green stripes around base, gold trim

darcysmissb@darcysmissb· 25d

Today's tea

Pale green tea cup and saucer with riot of hand painted yellow centered white daisies
Roslyn bone china, England

darcysmissb@darcysmissb· 26d

Loved! by a cook that knows what comforts💗

Rustic sourdough batard 4 cheese grilled cheese half, browned crunchy light gooey. Frack me

darcysmissb@darcysmissb· 26d

Oh @hookland.bsky.social Friday treasure arrives right on time

Looking down on black book cover HOOKLAND FRAGMENTS, VOLUME ONE by David Southwell
White linoprint-like image of standing bear looking up against nightsky, tossing / spinning bones amd stars and skulls human and horse = magic

darcysmissb@darcysmissb· 27d

$16 10inch fancy grocery fern 2 yrs later

Massive lush green fern takes over kitchen porch, min 48 inches diameter

darcysmissb@darcysmissb· 27d

"The secret to leadership is not to be a particularly intelligent person. It is to surround oneself with those far smarter than oneself and try not to kill them.' -Lord Mokshi, Annals of the Legion' - @kameronhurley.com THE STARS ARE LEGION 3+hrs to go and all in on this ride with Zan & jade!

Looking down on audiobook image of Kameron Hurley's THE STARS ARE LEGION, shows the crest of an orangey planet and ships

darcysmissb@darcysmissb· 27d

"Years were real and legislated expressly by nature, but months were just stories we told ourselves to give our lives structure." - @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social HELP THE WITCH Loosely woven yet knit with strength, these stories. Helen stays with me as does Catherine. Wonderful. Thankyou

Cover of Tom Cox book HELP THE WITCH, black & white image implies linoprint image of windswept sky with treelike figure / figurelike tree, arms reaching many branched tothe heavens

darcysmissb@darcysmissb· 29d

"I can autotype but it's not worth it.It's not natural.You have to concentrate,remember to format and punctuate..editing's a bitch! It's all conscious,very purposeful.The end product reads like a robot wrote it.Your body has to be involved if you want any feeling in your words." KBSpangler, 2013

darcysmissb@darcysmissb· Jul 19

Hly crp this was fracking awesome!! Moved fast & so satisfying = Thankyou @kbspangler.com for Penguin & Santino and everyone. So glad there's more!!

Cover of K.B.Spanger's book DIGITAL DIVIDE, image looking at Washington monument backlit by sun as seen through silhouetted arch

darcysmissb@darcysmissb· Jul 18

Saturday tea and fleurs

White tea cup & saucer washy blue and palest green blooms, pale orangey brown stems, black tea brewed dark amber
Roslyn bone china
Pattern: Picta

Glass bulb vase with tiny bouquet big white daisies, red carnation, palest pink rise, purple blooms, sprig of green leaves

darcysmissb@darcysmissb· Jul 17

Project planning

Lined journal page with scratchy pencil stack of squiggles, dashes, messy stars, circles on left and colored pencil 'swatches' on right (tomato red, orange, hot pink, cerulean blue, greeny mustard, cream, charcoal with speck of blue, orangey red blue mix, blue & purple mix)

darcysmissb@darcysmissb· Jul 14

Bluesky / Booksky Looking fwd @hookland.bsky.social and @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Wo0t!

Screenshot of book order from Blackwell's = HOOKLAND FRAGMENTS VOLUME ONE (David Southwell) and EVERYTHING WILL SWALLOW YOU (Tom Cox)

darcysmissb@darcysmissb· Jul 11

Saturday cup Rosyln bone china 1937-43ish Pattern: Sweet Pea

White teacup and saucer ringer with delicate pattern of washy green blooms and pale brown nubbly branches
Rosyln bone china 1937-43ish
Pattern: Sweet Pea

darcysmissb@darcysmissb· Jul 11

When they know what i like: late arrival home on Friday can only mean noodling at the shop: I-beam shenannigans / swoon

Stack of teeny shiny i-beam samples (A992, a modern form of structural steel) thick and thin, on wood tabletop, with itty orange sake cup and silver Sapporo can

darcysmissb@darcysmissb· Jul 11

Gddmn @chuckwendig.bsky.social another amzing [grim,bloody] satisfying banger with BLACK RIVER ORCHARD! Excellent oh-we're-a-team-now crew and wonderful readers. And I don't do horror except now i do? (WANDERERS, STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS) Fak! What a ride

Phone shows end credit audiobook Chuck Wendig BLACK RIVER ORCHARD, orangey brown black background cover sbows a single black spindley sapling in body of water with black horizon line and murky orange sky

darcysmissb@darcysmissb· Jul 10

Look what landed safely today = pair of gorgeous Moon + itty earth eclipse Artemis2 cups = aaaaaaiiieee Thankyou for these (birthday!) beauties @amyraehill.bsky.social

Two starscape black vessel shape cups with big moon eclipse teeny blue earth above, as seen from Artmeis2 mission

darcysmissb@darcysmissb· Jul 9

Hamachi, as the gds intended

Green plastic plate with four gorgeous slabs of hamachi sashimi
Tenroku, Jtown, SF

darcysmissb@darcysmissb· Jul 8

Times continue making Lynch's World's Angriest Dog

David Lynch WORLD'S ANGRIEST DOG 1990: Quad layout / black and white comic, repeated image in each of four panels; shark like arrow of a dog in bare fenced yard next to house, chain pulled taught growling grrrrr text balloon.
Intro side panel reads:
The dog who is so angry he cannot move.
He cannot eat.
He cannot sleep.
He can just barely growl.
... Bound so tightly with tension and anger, he approaches the state of rigor mortis.

Text balloon from window of house reads:
It must be clear even to the non-mathmatician that things in this world just don't add up to beans.
Fourth panel night black, crsecent moon, wedge of light from window, eyes of dog and grrrrrrr lit

darcysmissb@darcysmissb· Jul 4

IYKYK

Red Carvel icecream cake box with plastic see-thru window shows small round white icecream cake, blue edges and red ribbon script HAPPY BIRTHDAY, as well as two random numbered candles that mean nothing

darcysmissb@darcysmissb· Jul 3

Pre-bday party stack!

Stack of 8 plastic plates (green,green,orange,green,purpurple,purple, green, yellow) on sushi counter

darcysmissb@darcysmissb· Jun 29

Murder back in town