Morose Barnacle

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Aspiring author who likes books, history, and nerd stuff. I've a goal to visit all the public art around Salt Lake City. I likely commit too many brain cells toward anti-squirrel schemes directed at the squirrels marauding my tomatoes every summer.

The home screen for WildTangent's Fate featuring the logo, the start menu, and your character and pet rendered in low poly style that change appearance throughout the game as you equip different weapons and armor.
The box art to the US version of the PC game "Serf City" featuring a very demented-looking serf and a castle and the big bad guy in the background.
Box art of original Nintendo game "Crystalis" featuring a dude in a red tunic with sword and shield fighting a werewolf-looking thing and a giant eyeball-spider thing. The actual game did not look anything like this.
glamor shot of bee on yellow flowerhead
An annoying sticker reminding the user to remove all stickers half torn because it was stuck on with the worst option of adhesive available.
A yellow sticker reminding the user in 5 languages to remove stickers before use, and it's stupid hard to remove.
Batman drives a Ford Focus.
Big black widow at foot of grimy brick stairwell.
An aerial view of a faint baseball diamond in Erzurum, Turkiye.
Screenshot of map of Bonneville Fire: 565 acres and super close to University of Utah hospital property and Red Butte Gardens.
Utah Symphony just prior to their performance of Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Groceries: boxed pasta roni, canned refried beans, nectarines, broccoli, carrots, romaine, ground beef, cookies, butter, lotion, and a covid test (don't need that last one, but it was on deep discount and doesn't expire until Thanksgiving).
A sliced strawberry.
A 2-pound bag of broccoli marked down to $2.70 from $6.
Cover for Katherine Center's Hello Stranger.
backlit pothos leaves
Cover of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches.
The wrapper of a ream of paper: "Copy Paper: Bold Fearless Bright"
"The truth is you can't really see the house from the road. Just the iron teeth of the front gate and the long red lick of the drive, maybe a glimpse of limestone walls crosshatched by honeysuckle and greenbriers. Even the historical plaque out front is half-swallowed by ivy, the letters so slurred with moss and neglect that only the title is still legible: STARLING HOUSE."
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Movie poster for The Sheep Detectives.
Cover of Ashley Poston's The Dead Romantics.
Pretty red flowers.
A pretty yellow rose.
Chihuly, Olympic Tower, 2001. (Abravanel Hall, Salt Lake City)
Lime green traffic cone with the word "STICKY" printed on its side sitting on the grass in a park. The cone is covered in tar.
Orange wall of straight rows of 404 mounted fossilized skulls of dire wolves.
A large black spider with green mandibles on a succulent leaf.
An orange poppy in a flowerbed of purple and yellow flowers.
Droopy sad plant in a pot.
Book cover of Caitlin Rozakis's DREADFUL (2024).
Just a regular-sized carrot with quarter for scale.
The cover of the latest printing of MC Beaton's Death of a Gossip: A Hamish Macbeth Murder Mystery (1985).
Sunset over the Oquirrh Mountains (pretty sure that's what they are) and the City Creek Mall with its Christmas decorations.
404 error page for the Salt Lake City Catholic diocese featuring a drawing of St. Anthony and captioned: "404 Not Found. Dear St. Anthony please come around. This page is lost and cannot be found."
A giant ball ornament about 4 feet tall covered in red and white candy with a ginger bread and candy train and trees circling its equator.
Salt Lake City Temple mostly covered in scaffolding with a crane next to it beneath a blue sky and fluffy white clouds.
Image of next year's National Park Pass: a blue and white card with a classic portrait of George Washington photoshopped next to Trump.
A wooden duck in glasses sitting in a windowsill.
An inset bronze of a woman holding a branch of laurels and a sword and shield hiding behind her at her feet.
A sun-dappled switchback leading down into Memory Grove Park with the skyline of Salt Lake City in the background.
Orange leaves and branches against a blue sky.
An underpass mural of a black outline drawing of a pensive-looking toddler with bright color blocking of yellow, red, green, blue, and white. Detail from "Salt Palace Subway."
An underpass with murals and mosaics of a fireman and sego lily flowers.
A pink rose.
A small umbrella plant that's not dying but actually putting out new leaves.
Protest sign that reads "Baldies Against Stephen Miller" and just visible in frame is the top of a bald head.
"Hate never made our country great"
"Human rights belong to everyone" "Love"
A picture of Sailor Moon flipping the bird. "F*ck ICE All my homies hate ICE"
T-shirt with a Statue of Liberty covering her eyes. "Are we great yet? Cause I just feel embarrassed"
"I pledge allegiance to no kings no tyrants no dictators no fascists no ra(p)ist no ra(c)ist Keep America free"
"No kings!! Since 1776"
"Never again means not today"
"No kings" "No kings"
"Surrounded by people who paid attention in history class"
Image of upside down US flag. "Hate never made us great"
"We the People"
Picture of the founding fathers. "No kings rally 1776" Arrows pointing down and all around. "No kings rally 2025"
"Stop truth decay"