"Don't Speak Latin in Front of the Books"

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A black poster with a hand drawn picture of a cat. The sign says "Fascist Get Scratches." The cat also has a little speech bubble that says "No war! Eat the rich."
Fan art cover for Dungeon Crawler Carl. Carl, a man in red heart boxers, a leather vest, and spiked knee pads, sits in the center of the cover. Donut, a Persian cat in sunglasses and a tiara, is curled around Carl's neck. Mongo, a pink and blue bird-like dinosaur, sits at Carl's feet.
A stack of books. From bottom to top: Lumber Janes Parents Day, George Takei's They Called Us Enemy, Chuck Tingle's Trans Wizard Harriet Porber and the Bad Boy Parasaurolophus, Lee Ostertag's The Witch Boy, Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, Aiden Thomas' Cemetery Boys, Becky Chambers, A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, Akeaeke Emezi's Pet, Malinda Lo's Last Night at the Telegraph Club, TJ Klune's Under the Whispering Door, George M Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue, and Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth.
Two panes of a comic. In the first, Jimmy Olson steals a giant wheel. In the second, a reporter is seen saying "...obile has, I repeat, lost its wheel "
Cover of the book Don't Trust Fish
An orange cat curled most of the way into a ball, but with his back legs stretched out so he looks like a shrimp.
A chonky orange and white cat loafed in front of a chonky entirely orange cat.
A very craggy beach rock full of little holes for critters to hide in.
A Gnome in a red hat is holding a blue electric guitar. He has a rainbow suitcase on one side and an open clarinet case on the other. Two books of video game sheet music are propped up inside the clarinet case. There is also a goodbye letter in front of the gnome.
A Gnome in a red hat standing in a moss green gift wrapping bag with just his upper body sticking out. He has a matching velvet ribbon tied around his hat. In front of him is a collection of Yu-Gi-Oh! manga.
A Gnome in a red hat standing in front of the LEGO Dungeons and Dragons set. He is holding the displacer beast from the LEGO set in his right hand. Next to him a copy of Dungeon People is standing in front of a copy of Tower Dungeon. If you've followed all the pictures in our Gnome With a Tome journey, you are probably starting to notice that we have WAY TOO MANY LEGOs in our house.
A Gnome in a red hat hiding behind a fort made of toilet paper rolls. The first volume of Dungeon Toilet sits on the second level of the toilet paper fort.
A Gnome in a red hat stands in front of a LEGO city full of strategically placed Godzilla action figures. One has a hat. Two appear to be pigmy hippo Moo Deng breathing fire. To the left of the gnome is a copy of the first volume of FULL METAL ALCHEMIST.
A Gnome in a red hat stands behind a LEGO crow. There is a plush crow to his right. In front of the crows is a copy of the book SIX OF CROWS.
A Gnome in a red hat sitting on a brown plaid chair. In front of him is a retro box set of Animorphs. He is surrounded by stuffed animals, including an octopus, an Ewok, another octopus, a loth cat, a moth, a dragon, a chick, another dragon, a monkey, a piggy, a binturong, and a third dragon.
A Gnome in a red hat holding the first volume of Frieren. He's standing on top of a Dungeon Master's Guide, surrounded by about 10 different sets of dice.
A Gnome in a red hat holding markers, standing next to a box of markers and a tiny rainbow suitcase. There are 3 books stacked in front of him. The top book is a "how to" guide to drawing kawaii kitties.
Very young Jack Black and Giovanni Ribisi drinking beer, playing burnout teens in season 3 of X Files.
Screenshot of a skeet that says "I remember once having lunch with a vegan friend and they went on at length about how I needed to order vegan as well and then shamed me for even considering meat. We are not friends anymore." 29 Nov 2025 at 09:06
lacey @byelacey.bsky.social @byelacey your halloween costume is "sexy" + the last thing you google searched this year i'll be going as "sexy bus schedule" 9:55 AM • 2018-10-21 from Earth
A 4 panel comic. In the first panel a person says "let's be productive!" In the second panel a cartoon brain says "no." In the third panel the person says "oh, a day of relaxing it is!" In the last panel the brain says "NO RELAXING! ONLY GUILT!"
A line drawing of a crow, sitting dejectedly on the ground, screaming into the sky. A word bubble over his head says "Faaaaaaaaaaaaack."
screenshot of my go fund me donation
In the upper left corner an orange cat looks indignant while a very fluffy grey cat looks innocently at the camera in the lower right corner.
The cover of two time Hugo award finalist Chuck Tingle's book, My Handsome Mountain Bike is a Doctor and He Pounds My Butt. It features a buff, shirtless Asian man and a bicycle with a man's face on the front of the handlebars.
On the left, many Spider Men point at a single Spider Man on the right, who points back at them. The many Spider Men are captioned "students barely keeping it together this semester" and the single Spider Man is captioned "professor barely keeping it together this semester."
Kurt Cobain in a blue, white, and pink floral dress on the cover of a magazine.
Video. The ocean shifts in the background. In the foreground is an outcrop where a seagull has built her nest. She turns around and around and shakes her butt as she tries to get comfortable on her nest.
Video of a small, brown ground squirrel eating a green pod. After about 15 seconds he drops the pod and does a big, dramatic stretch.
On the left, two fluffy brown baby seagulls cuddle up to each other and do a bit of cleaning. Their mother is on the right. The sea is in the background.
Three ground squirrels eating grass. The one in the middle is a bit larger and rounder. I think she is the mother of the two smaller squirrels.
Two small fluffy baby seagulls foraging on a cliff overlooking the ocean.
A small, fluffy baby seagull is cuddling up to its mom and screaming its little head off, wanting to be fed. The video pans down to reveal a second baby seagull a bit farther down the slope. The ocean is in the background.
A demented...hamster? Rabbit? Chinchilla? type thing in a black hat standing in front of a Quiznos singing "we love the subs!!"
Chrisjen Avasarala from The Expanse, wearing a layered red and orange dress with gold accents and a red fur-lined hood.
Ally Sheedy, "the badket case" from The Breakfast Club
The three companions of the first Dr. Who.
Screenshot of the sexual identity generator, which has identified my sexual identity as "f***** doom prophet. "
Rex Manning mugs for the camera. He is surrounded by the words: "Say no more, mon amore" and "Happy Rex Manning Day!"
Screenshot from the stocks Reddit. The post is titled "suicide hotline" and the body of the post lists the contact information for various suicide hotlines.
Logo for the "Our Opinions Are Correct" podcast. A green reptile looms over two speech bubbles containing the title of the podcast and a red spaceship flies in on the bottom.
A cloudy day at the beach. Waves roll in softly, looking like lace. Clouds are stacked on the horizon. The glow of sunset just barely touches the bottom edge of the clouds.
A tower of books. From bottom to top: The Night Mother, Onyx Storm, Somewhere Beyond the Sea, A Snake Falls to Earth, The Naturalist Society, The Sapling Cage, Paladin's Grace. A bookmark from Mysterious Galaxy, featuring a purple dragon, sits in front of the book tower.
A line drawing of a single crow sitting on the ground, legs and wings sprawled, beak up, screaming into the void. He has a speech bubble above him that says "FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!"
Cover of LumberJanes: Beware the Kitten Holy. Five girls in front of a log cabin. From left to right: Ripley is doing a little dance with her hands in the air, April is writing in a book, Jo stands stoically looking at the viewer, Molly sits on the cabin's stairs, Mal stands behind Molly with her arms crossed looking badass.
What was supposed to be an identity chart for Malú from The First Rule of Punk, but my students turned into a showcase for their drawings of Domo. One Domo is eating a pizza. Another has a little juice box. There's a Batman Domo and a Super Man Domo. The last one is either exploding, or is surrounded by his enormous afro.
Background: a fluffy calico cat. Foreground: a Tweet reading "me, lightly touching miette with the side of my foot: miette move out of the way please so I don't trip on you. Miette, her eyes enormous: you KICK miette? You kick her body like the football? Oh! Oh! Jail for mother! Jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!!"
A grey cat with exceptionally long white whiskers sniffing a Starbucks holiday style cup. The cup has red, white, green, and pink circles in it.
A copy of Chuck Tingle's book Camp Damascus stands in front of an orange cat, who is looking up at the camera.
Multicolored rocks, wet from the surf.
Long dry grass with oval pods at the end waves in the wind in front of a backdrop of wetlands at sunset.
Close up of the face of a very fluffy grey and white cat. She is sleeping with her tongue out and just a bit of fang showing.
A big fluffy black bee with iridescent wings next to a big fluffy yellow bee with iridescent wings. They are very cute.
Two carpenter bees. One is black and fuzzy with iridescent wings and his friend is yellow and fuzzy with iridescent wings. They live in a tiki on my front porch.
A very cute orange cat, lying on his side in front of the TV with his head resting against a small figurine of The Mummy eating popcorn. He welcomes you to Bluesky.
Lydia from the Beetlejuice cartoon, holding a cute spider, with the caption "The entire month of September is Halloween Eve."
Very cute orange cat angrily cuddling his tail.