Cassandra

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Everything is exhausting, but I’m still trying! Librocubicularist GenXer who digs nature and fancies a fine fabric. Still covid conscious in New England. She/her Watch ‘Our Flag Means Death’ 🏴‍☠️💖 if u haven’t

A 18th century syphilitic French dandy in white with red accents, a background character from hit show Our Flag Means Death which you should watch if you haven’t!
Actor Sam Neil stands in front of a waterfall and river in a blue plaid outdoor jacket, wool beanie, and knife at his waist in a still from Hunt for the Wilderpeople by Taika Waititi
The cast of the tv series Hacks pose for a picture before a Q&A
Mouse swimming in white toilet bowl is about to get assistance via the fireplace shovel
Statista graph of flu deaths in the us indicating only 6300 people died in 2021-22 vs the numbers for the other years (43k, 38k, 51k, 23k, 38k, 53k, 28k, 26k, the 6k for 2021-2, 21k and 28k)
Alexander Skarsgard in a tux with thigh high black leather boots on the red carpet at Cannes
Book cover for Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This. The background is a sky? Blue with dark clouds at the bottom then golden across the center and dusky purple at the top. A rainbow arcs across the center and the title is centered inside a giant mirrored ring meant (I believe) to depict The Portal.
A dessert plate with a round little cheesecake on a bright red smear of raspberry and current coulis with some fresh berries, crust crumble and a mint leaf to the side of the cake.
A view of grey clouds leading down to a reddish orange sunset at the horizon in the middle of the photos, with waves and then a little sand across the the bottom. A dark rock jetty reaches toward the sunset but falls short.
Screenshot of Prime video page for Dog Day Afternoon whose description reads “a man takes hostages at a bank in Brooklyn. Unfortunately I do not have enough information to summarize further within the provided guidelines
A grey tabby stares intently at a toy dangling on the left edge of the screen with a solo red sparkly ball above three smaller red and pink sparkly balls.
Cover of Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. A close up of a toy bird head, with the title and author’s name inscribed over it on curved lines
A bright gold background with the title YELLOWFACE in all caps in a bold slim sans serif font. Beneath is the author’s name R. F. Kuang in a thin black courier type font. Two eyes look off to the side near the top
Screenshot of a Libby audiobook of Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West, showing that I am 64% done and on chapter 8 The dark background has a lighter orange pink glow from the bottom. The title is handwritten in light blue marker or highlighter with the Ts of exit and west much larger than the e or w. The author’s name is the opposite with the m and h larger shrinking as they cross the page so that they balance out the m h and H but also the large T’s above them.
Cover art for Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji. Author’s name and the title are in all caps in a whiteish font The background is grey and red and pink swooshes cover the top but single to a point in the center at the bottom.
A colorful interpretation of the solar system with the title Orbital a novel and author Samantha Harvey written in thin white all caps sans serif font.
Cover art for Min Jin Lee’s sweeping historical novel Pachinko. Against a medium muted teal background a female figure in white hanbok stands and in her skirt we see a tiny mother with two boys stand on a path looking out over a scene of islands/mountains and water.
The cover of Amor Towles’ book ‘A Gentleman in Moscow’ is a black and white photo of a man facing away from the camera. He wears a suit and a hat, and is framed in giant windows that open down the center to allow him to peer down into the street below. The title is emblazoned across the image in red all caps sans serif font with the author’s name in white
An up close view of my dinner last night. Creamy dressing slathered on romaine, shredded carrot, chick peas, red onion and celery. Near the top of the pic is a blob of seasoned lentils and a half of an orange sweet potato in its skin.
A close up shot of some ice crystals at the edge of a swiftly running river. The jumble of long thin crystals is reminiscent of potato pancakes
Book cover for Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. The letters a reminiscently early computer fontish and are colored as a group with a rainbow gradient in a medium to light saturation. I the background is the Great Wave of Kanagawa wood block print by Katsushika.
Screenshot of the most popular items borrowed in the Library of Things in a small town public library. Pressure washer, stand up paddle board, carpet cleaner, giant jenga and stud finder topped the list this year.
The very bright puce book cover for Lessons in Chemistry. In the center is the head of a woman, yellow hair held in a bun by a yellow no. 2 pencil in her black cat eye glasses are the reflections of scientific glassware like test tubes, flasks and beakers etched out of a darker blue by a light teal, giving cyanotype vibes. Her lips and eyelids are done up in scarlet red, and she looks off to her right. Author’s name Bonnie Garmus is written in the same blue as the background of the reflection in her sunglasses.
This is a screenshot of a post earlier today on the MW Bluesky account that says ‘Take a screenshot of this gif and whichever world you land on is YOUR word for 2025. Then a white square with the word mythical in black courier type font.
A close up of a bowl of pot pie soup with little diced veggies and two small puff pastry croutons at the top of the bowl.
A grey tabby kitten sits atop a dark soapstone counter at the sink. Windows are a bit bleached out on the left behind her, and dark cabinets and a blurry toaster oven behind her to the right. She has a wary expression on her face.
A dark soapstone counter in the background, while a black cast iron skillet dominates the foreground. Pulled away from the edges is a round bready bit of savory goodness. A 1/2 inch thick chick pea flour pancake topped with browned onions, olives and rosemary
A bonfire with the sticks in a teepee formation and a white hot core glowing in the night, some trees in the distance silhouetted against the indigo sky
Chartreuse yarn being knit up ⬆️ bro fingerless gloves two at a time on clear plastic circular needles with silver tips. The project is sitting on my dark velvet jeans with the black with white polka dot zippered bag I store it in when not knitting. A gorgeous warm fire blazes in the woodstove in the background.
A chocolate brown rails to trails flat path cuts through the middle of a lightly snow-dusted scene of ledge and conifers on the left and a slight hill with a downed branch and a cluster of deciduous trees on the distance on either side of the trail. ❄️
Screenshot of black background with white numbers indicating that my team racked up a whopping, league record high of 231.16 points vs my poor opponent’s meager 85.74 (105.95 projected after two more of their guys play tonight. I am 99% likely to win but I admit I’m more interested in the bubble universe where I don’t. What on earth happened there??
Cover art for Matt Haig’s novel ‘the Midnight Library’. Dark blue background, yellow text for the title in all caps in the middle. And little sets of doors rounded at the edges resembling plane windows with views of different aspects of some mountain, some clouds, some a whale or car passing between the sets of doors
Screenshot of Apple’s stock snapshot of Warner brothers discovery with a very steep decline since 2022 despite a massive spike during the pandemic and relative stability at four times the current worth for years before that.
Shiny and sticky, sweet and spicy and red like the flag warning my husband away from high spice levels, small bite size pieces of torn baked tofu and steamed broccoli coated in a garlicky gingery gochujang sauce (with Nama shoyu, maple syrup, toasted sesame oil, mirin, rice wine vinegar and water)
A foamy marshmallowy cup of hot cocoa in a dark rimmed mug with a blurry burgundy couch then a dark table full of blurry crafters in the background.
Yin and yang of the cat world, Thor is a big blonde fluffy quiet sweetie cat and Loki, sleeker black and white Tuxedo with big round eyes lives up to his name, wreaking havoc in Thor’s peace
Sleeping grey tabby kitty in maroon office chair
My cozy sitch with hefty tome Big Vegan Favor in the foreground and my breakfast oatmeal topped with a red syrup with chopped strawberries in a white bowl with a raised dotted rim of half inch below the lip of the bowl, and a turquoise flat bottom mug with a black octopus. All rest on a green chenille ottoman in front of a blazing woodstove. Weird little 2 by 4 snowman from a family holiday craft project flank the stove.
Two thick slices of toasted banana bread slathered with vegan butter and resting on a white scalloped 6-inch plate with scalloped edges
A Risk game board on a green chenille ottoman. Red cubes dominate. They are on everything but the purple Australian continent and six green areas in Asia. A fire roars in the woodstove in the background. Along with the holiday craft we made at thanksgiving - short lengths of 2x4 board are painted and dressed as snowmen with scraps of cloth making hats and scarves.
Mis en place for the project. A wooden tabletop laid out with a scale, black silicone tray for 6 large ice cubes, two blocks of beeswax, a small brown bottle with a dropper containing jojoba oil, a small white bowl with gold leaf design containing pine resin pastilles, a double boiler already coated in wax from my last project. A white mug of tea with bees and hexagons in various browns, yellows and oranges and a yellow inside. And various piles of fabric in different color ways. A red check, turquoise checkerboard with red buttons, black with white flower and yellow bees, yellow with little bees and their trails despite all over, black with Halloween google eyes and a vintage looking ticking with red fliers in lines down it surrounded by a greenish yellow bar on each side. Reminded me of my grandmother’s apron.
Picture of a stainless steel double boiler with black handles, and melting blocks of beeswax sit next to a pile of pine resin pastilles that as they melt glimmer like gold coins.
White plate with a sprig of white, rust and blue flowers down one side holds a generous portion of a very attractive beige coconut rice (used veggie broth and tamari to season so, yeah, beige) and a more robustly ruddy brown tangle of baked torn tofu bits with roasted cauliflower and one lone roasted broccoli (I ate so much ‘testing’ I felt guilty taking any more) in a sauce made with gochujang, miso, tamari, broth, garlic, ginger and more than the hint I’d wanted of maple syrup. And corn starch to thicken.
Two mason jars surrounded by wool cozies with needle felted designs. The one on the left is a green sweater sleeve with a ribbed neck and a big tree with little red and white amanita mushrooms and a stream at the bottom. The one on the right is hot pink with an atom meets virus looking thing with white arms that end in circles.
A dark background with a tea light shining through random dots in the back ground and dots made to form a big star in the center. Just froze water in cans from the recycling bin then put them in bags of rice and went to town banging dots where called for by the design.
A very full bowl of soup, tomato based bean and veggie with little pasta stars that have holes in the middle and generous potato chunks sticking up because the bowl is shallow.
Close up of tomato based brothy soup. You can see the top rings of the little cups of masa dough at the surface.
Adorable grey tabby kitten spilling over the hands that hold her
Clear circular needles on which is a couple of inches of chartreuse fingerling alpaca yarn knitting up into the fingerless gloves pattern. On a Schitt’s Creek blanket with a dozing Edgar Allen Poe curled and blurry in the background.
Squares and rectangles of printed cotton fabric in a variety of patterns (including teal background squares with red buttons, a red and white diamond pattern, black background with white flowers and yellow bees, and yellow fabric with bees and little trails behind them.
Black cutting mat in the background with squares (and one circle) of lime green fabric with darker green vibes and red berries on it. One outlier rectangle of white fabric covered with colorful insects.
Sleep mask in a black fabric with floral embroidery and a red silk strap and background
Promo poster for HBO’s pirate workplace comedy Our Flag Means Death
Green knitted scarf with a different pattern every six inches. Chevron, rib, spiral, basket weave, lace, and cable (not pictured)
Picture of a magenta-reddish fabric with gold flowers painted on sleep mask on my outstretched hand. Somehow I managed to catch my feet and slippers too so enjoy
Box of lime green baby socks
Shot my my stovetop pot of lime green dye simmering away with doughy blobs of baby socks bound with rubber bands. Looks like grinch stew?
I took this picture to send to my son before I devoured it so it’s not very artsy but here’s my bowl of gochujang tofu with broccoli, avocado, rice
Sloppy bowl of borlotti beans with spiral pasta
Toad , of Arnold Lobel’s famous Frog and Toad duo, is pouring liquid on his head. Captioned in black across the image is the line “Let’s take things slow today, I still feel sleepy.” said Toad.