Quasi Hatrack

Bless the Maker and His frosting.

I haven't read that one yet.

hire working through a temp agency for villains. When she is injured by a superhero, her blog tracking the societal cost of heroes and their actions brings her to the attention of a major supervillain and her dream job.

It's a great satire of the genre that asks "What if Syndrome was right?"

after a week away I didn't care enough about either character enough to keep going so I dnf'ed it.

Instead, I'm reading Hench (Natalie Zina Walschots) on the recommendation of @winniethewoot.bsky.social.

Anna Tromedlov (I know... names in this book leave a bit to be desired) is a hench for ...

I finished Pagans on Thursday last week. I highly recommend it if you can find a copy although I thought the resolution was a little too mundane for my taste. Bigger forces were implied to be at play, but then went by the wayside.

I started back to The Buffalo Hunter Hunter but discovered that...

Which one?

Have you read Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky? Lots of lost civilizations.

I did about an hour ago.

CEO is gone.

Time to post some boobies on main.

What did you make the retaining wall from? It looks like core samples.

I took advantage of the recent warm spell that has melted off all the snow to sow some seeds in the cottage garden in hope of getting a jumpstart when real spring rolls around in a couple of months.

Bachelor Buttons, Calendula, Foxglove, Cleome, Honesty, Bronze Fennel, dwarf Zinnia all in place. 🌱

Trying to figure out a portmanteau of Cthulhu and Chihuly.

I'm lichen this insect.

Beavers on the timeline!

If they survive I'm going to have take some measures next winter.

The damn rabbits in the backyard have nearly devoured the dwarf mugo pine and the two cranberry verbena bushes in the backyard. Fingers crossed that any of them survive. 🤞🌱

They can't be any worse than our old robot overlords.

Please don't kick your sick child. 😜

It's really good!

Yeah, England was a shambles when William showed up. Edward the Confessor had just died a few months before with no clear heir and Harold hadn't had enough time to consolidate his power while also fighting off a nearly simultaneous invasion in the north from Norway.

That looks like an HR violation.

Inside of a Dog? It's too dark to read.

I'm 75% finished and highly recommend it. Be warned though, I had to order it from the UK. It doesn't seem to be available here.

job of fleshing out the political tensions around the talks and the cultural tensions between the groups. The lead Saxon investigator is assigned a tribal liaison to work with on the case. They don't exactly butt heads, but there are some serious differences in how they approach the job.

independent behind the wall and the Celtic tribal lands in the west. On the eve of the latest round of unification talks, one of the lead tribal negotiators is found ritualistically murdered and nailed to an ancient oak.

The world-building goes far beyond the divided island and Henry does a great

when Pagans (James Alistair Henry) showed up in the mail because everybody in the House of Hatrack wants to read it but I get first dibs. This is a modern alternate timeline in which the Norman Conquest never happened. Britain is divided into the Three Kingdoms with Norse-leaning Scotland fiercely

I had been reading The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones which is a Native American take on vampires. It's really good once you got used to the style. It's presented as the 1912 journal of an old white guy who served in the Civil War. He is, shall we say, verbose. I had to put it aside

Y'all, get ready for shenanigans and confusion in November, because voter suppression is coming hard for middle-class white folks. I'm Williamson County, I left to vote at 2pm and didn't get home till 7:15pm. This county is more diverse than when I moved here 20 years ago, but still very white. 1/9

Seems awfully big for a note. Maybe just a post-it?

What if they just do left leg day?