E. Catherine Tobler

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A stone dragon is illuminated by flooding sunlight.
Amy and Jonah from Superstore are making a pamphlet and picking fonts
Gatorade Zero, fruit punch, bottle, held in my pale hand
The Duke by Anna Cowan. A red throne sits in front of a huge blooming red rose.
Prince stands against a brown and purple wall, in a purple jacket, with a raspberry shirt. It looks like he's popping his collar as he watches you off-screen.
Nancy, dark-haired and chonky like me, is working out in her blue singlet, pushups and running in place, and she is ready for it, LFG.
It's Batman, you know the guy. He's swinging around the skyscrapers with...Wonder Woman's lasso??? A mystery.
Fleetwood Mac, Mirage on vinyl
Black envelopes in a denim Hello Kitty bag
Our 2026 mushroom skull coin with a bunch of black envelopes.
A look at the pink vinyl of this album, on the Rotel turntable
Buckingham and Nicks, the reissue of their debut album. Both are shown naked, in sepia.
Two red-tailed hawks sit in a winter-bare tree, high above a roofline, shot through a window screen. It is near sunset, and they are silhouetted against the pale sky.
Palm trees rise above you against a pre-sunrise sky of pale blue.
The cover of House, Body, Bird, is very MEATY. A small figure tries to escape from a house, but the house looks everywhere, in shades of scarlet and opal.
Donald Fagen's THE NIGHTFLY on 180g vinyl. Fagen sits in front of a turntable with a microphone and cigarette, looking delicious in black and white. He's Lester the Nightfly.
A stack of pancakes, drenched in maple syrup, scattered with pecans.
Ruby Rhod, stunning in Fifth Element, in a cat print, MEOW
Eddie Redmayne, stunning in Jupiter Ascending
A very tiny girl leans out of a window in a large, meaty house. Hues of emerald and ruby wash everything
A pair of red-tailed hawks in the very old winter-bare trees above my porch. The sky is gray.
A 3D printed sculpture in red that says "tomato through it."
A young girl in her PJs, with long brown hair, has a flower pot on her head as a hat, and is eating a piece of burnt toast.
Robert Palmer, Heavy Nova on vinyl
Little Queen by Heart
Rumours by Fleetwood Mac
Nancy does pushups and runs in place in her wrestling singlet.
On the novella cover, a lantern-lit woman sits with a pale dog, overlooking a gray-green mountain valley. The title text is in orange.
Tracy Chapman, debut album
A Rotel RP-2500, a closeup of the Rotel logo on the wood, reflection of my living room in the dust cover.
Four issues of The Deadlands, covers moody and bright.
A Long Game by Elizabeth McCracken sits on top of a 2026 planner. Both have blue covers.
Carrie Fisher, who passed 9 years ago. SOMEHOW. ALLEGEDLY.
A cabinet full of spices n such
Adam Ant looking hot as heck in his cape and tricorn hat, two muskets in hand; his vest buttons have busted open, he's wearing two belts. (youths: see also "Stand and Deliver" video)
my word cloud for the year, which has "fuck morning" on it, but also "book happy" which no. "deadlands" also features
A coyote stands in short autumn grass, pondering whatever it just got up from eating. The trees are leafless. The Rocky Mountains loom on the horizon, dark blue.
THE WIZ, Criterion editon, showing Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man, Lion, Glinda, the Wicked Witch, and the Wizard against the Emerald City.
A bright yellow box of DONE detergent, sprinkle it on anything, and you are done.
The December cover of Science Fiction World Magazine, showing a shadowed figure surrounded by weapons and tools of all sorts. Chinese text down the figure's center talks about Adrian Tchaikovsky's story.
Florence + the Machine's new album, Everybody Scream. Florence reclines in a chair, legs spread, petticoats pooling between pale thighs. She stares at you like a queen, red hair loose.
Orville Peck, garbed in silver or gold, who can tell, pants with chaps, and a vest, leaving his arms bare so you can see his tattoos. Black cowboy hat, trademark mask, he's yehawing and you just want to ride away with him.
The Everlasting by Alex E. Harrow. The book cover shows a sword reflecting a woman's face intertwined with countless colorful flowers
The Other Shore, by Rebecca Campbell from Stelliform Press. A matte black book cover with a skeletal rabbit diving into skeletal grass and mushrooms.
Audrey Hepburn sure is spinning in a chair!
A bowl of vanilla ice cream with rainbow sprinkles.
Afterlives 2024, in hues of purple and black and gold, goddess Nephthys looking out at you, by Jeszika Le Vye
Carrie Fisher sitting on a barstool with her knees pulled up to her chest, bare feet peeking out from her skirt.
A Philosophy of Thieves by Fran Wilde, showing Our Heroine leaping from a window, her tactical ballgown an unfurling black peony around her.
Issue 40 of The Deadlands, guest edited by Vajra Chandrasekera, cover art by Carly A-F, a golden maze of coins stretches toward a skull against a scarlet sky.
Lowly Worm driving his red delicious apple car, from Busytown by Richard Scarry.
A Philosophy of Thieves in hardcover, by Fran Wilde, alongside my ampersand coveted tea cup.
Loot from the Mummy movie party, including pins, bumper sticker, postcard, and golden wind up beetle.
A Star Wars poster drawn and signed by Drew Struzan
Pumpkin pecan bread in the shape of skulls on a cooling rack.
the cover of Summer in the House of the Departed, by Josh Rountree, showing an old Victorian house, kids on the porch steps, Polaroids falling from the sky.
A look at the purple glitter vinyl, shiny bug edition of The Life of a Showgirl, Taylor Swift.
The life of a showgirl in orange glitter vinyl on a turntable