El botin de mi visita no planeada a La Puerta de Tannhauser ayer! El Capote fue un super regalo sorpresa de mi amiga. Puro cotilleo literario!💖🤪

I just learnt that what I thought was "are,are" in Japanese(which I mentally translated like the Spanish "ayayay") is actually spelled "yare yare". Anime learning ......

a group of anime characters including a boy with red hair holding a notebook

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Now taking pre-orders for THE GREEN BOOK 24. This issue: Charles Maturin, Maria Edgeworth, William Allingham, Katharine Tynan, Ethel Voynich, Filson Young, Shaw Desmond, Dorothy Macardle, Martin Waddell, and thoughts on The Outcasts by @murphgothic.bsky.socialswanriverpress.ie/green-book-i...

The Green Book 24 | Swan River Press

This title is estimated to ship in late October. Publication and shipping updates. In Issue 23 of The Green Book we featured a sketch of Charles Maturin (1782-1824) penned by James Clarence Mangan, or...

I've started watching Agatha All Along and now the Road Song is my earworm.

a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the woman is wearing a disney+ logo

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I've unearthed these two in preparation for the @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social Southern Reach event in November. Disturbingly,my matching copy of Shriek succumbed to a mold incident. I must find it again,I love that typewriter cover!

I renewed my passport today and I look better and younger in this picture than in the one from 10 years ago. I have to give all the props to the Marilyn Monroe lipstick I wore, Ruby Tuesday. Red is magic!

a woman wearing a beret and white gloves looks at the camera

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I think I was the token lady artist for the illustrations. I should check and see if I was the only one. Proud of my piece, though. It was the first scratchboard where I used color inks on a large scale.

"The history of Hungary attests that Madame Brady, the vampiress of Szeged, who passed also for an oupire, was cockerel, soldier, lawyer and serpent" (Paul Feval) Imagine the horror, a vampiress with the power of turning into a LAWYER🤣

"Each vampire is a collective, represented by one principal form, but possessing other accessory forms of indeterminate number.The famous Vampire of Gran, who terrorized both sides of the Danube around the town of Ofen in the 14th century, was man,woman,child, crow,horse and pike" (Paul Feval)