Brenna Bychowski

@brennab.bsky.social

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Books (and maps), cross stitching, DnD, Legos, horror, booze. Special collections cataloger with hobbies 📚🗺️🪡🎲👻🍷

1558 map of Belgium and northern France with beautiful details, including elaborate place names and adorable trees
A panel from a comic depicting a cranky looking Little Lulu saying, “Fuck this shit!”
A small copper printing plate for a round map of the world held next to the original map it reproduces
A bottle of wine, a plastic cup, and a hardcover copy of The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling on a train seat tray table
A Lego Brick Headz figure of Eeyore looking quite despondent
A kindle showing the cover of Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries next to standing copies of two books with the spines forward: Mexican Gothic (a tall hardcover with white text on a green and pink background) and Kristin Lavrandsdatter (a fat trade paperback Penguin edition with the titles bracketed between two orange decorations on a black background)
Jellyfish made of felted wool, with a pink body, pink snd white tentacles, and slightly crazy eyes
A hand holding a round metal pendant with the word Fuck on it in all caps
Map of the United States as it was in 1816; it shows the states and territories of the time, which were east and slightly west of the Mississippi River
A cranky looking walking bird with the caption “Going on a stupid walk did my stupid mental health”
A Lego set of plum blossom branches in a pot sits on a shelf above a desk
Chart from Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Cartographic) showing a range of map scales indicating which are larger and which are smaller and indicating the specificity of coordinates called for at different scales
Four paper clipped printouts of articles and book chapters and a blue bound book lying on a desk
Television showing the final score of the USA versus Italy women’s water polo match. Italy 3, USA 10
Screenshot of the end of the women’s water polo match between USA and Spain, with the score USA 12, Spain 13
Screen shot of a water polo match between France and Italy’s women. France leading 8-7
Picture of the end of the USA versus Italy men’s water polo match showing the score, Italy 12, USA 8
A screen showing a sample catalog note saying “Back jacket includes blurbs by N.K. Jemison, John Scalzi, T. Kingfisher, Ryan North, and others” followed by their names structured according to cataloging rules.
A can of polar seltzer being held on the arm of a couch. The can is orange at the top and bottom and had the Polar logo in the middle
Completely unrolled map laid out across four tables and just spilling onto a fifth. The map is partially colored in blue and red.
The cover of Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. The title is surrounded by a brightly colored design with animals and plants
The book Thornhedge, with a cover featuring a white thorn with a drop of red blood dripping from it, next to a glass of red wine
Three generations of Game Boys. The original version is on the left; it’s light grey and bulky. In the middle is the Color. I’d much smaller, with a translucent purple body. On the right is the Advance SP. It’s black and folded open, with a wider screen than the first two.
Small painted figurine of a woman in a red and pink cloak and red and pink fantasy adventure coloring looking down to the side and drawing a bow. She is posed in the middle of a wooden box with black and gold polyhedral dice on either side
Three tables pushed together with a flat wall map lying on them and an open laptop next to it. The map is multicolored and printed on yellow paper with illustrations of buildings along either side and wooden pieces at the top and bottom
Screencap from the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild that says “Destroy Ganon: complete”
A set of seven clear polyhedral dice. The numbers are in gold, and the dice have bits of book with text inside them
Mixture of hand-press and machine-press books in a variety of budding styles on a wooden bookshelf
Black purse with a decoration of two white skulls with a silver sword between them. The one on the left has a crossed out roman numeral nine on the forehead and the outline of aviator glasses instead of eyes. The one on the right has no lower jaw, and a not crossed out roman numeral nine.