Sandstone

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Programmer and SFF reader. Sega fan. Asexual and otherwise queer. She/her. 📚

A smiley face balloon looks down from the grocery store rafters onto the candy aisle
This volume is a notable improvement over Blackmantle, with a less convoluted plot, faster pacing and more passages rich in lyric prose and Celtic folklore. It also doesn't demand that one swallow the portrayal of the late rocker Jim Morrison (the Celtic-rites husband of the author) as a bard of almost godlike gifts, cruelly done to death by treachery.
Gouda mac and cheese bites
Exterior of the Nudo House restaurant in Delmar Loop which has been converted to a Sonic cafe with decals in the windows
Small three-ring binder with purse and zipper pouch sewing patterns in plastic sleeves
About this book 448 pages 13-14 hours to read 169k total words
Small batik zipper pouch with shades of orange, blue, pink, and purple and a navy bottom
Topstitching on both sides near the zipper of the batik pouch!
Batik section of pouch with zipper attached, now with topstitching near the zipper
Batik patchwork pouch, outside half attached to a zipper at the top
Unbaked garlic knots ready to go
Trimmed zipper with navy fabric sewn on the ends sits atop assembled batik sides ready to show together
Stack of batik bag sides with a 1" square cut out of each bottom corner
Two sides of a batik zipper pouch with pink, yellow, purple, and blue vertical strips of patchwork, quilted "in the ditch" between each column with navy blue thread
Two sides of a zipper pouch in progress, half batik patchwork and half solid navy blue- the bottom side is quilted vertically between columns of patchwork
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Batik patchwork in shades of blue, pink, purple, and orange attached to solid navy blue accent
The three volumes of William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy (in reverse order right to left), for some inexplicable reason Mona Lisa Overdrive is several pixels taller than the other two in the Kobo app library listing
The tail of a black and white cat is curled around and resting atop the stitch selection knob on a sewing machine
Two rectangles of batik patchwork in shades of blue, pink, purple, and orange
Rectangle of batik patchwork in shades of purple, pink, blue, and orange, now the same width (but not height!) as the lining cut before
Shrewsbury '6-7 Event' erupts into 8 fights; police seize butcher knife from 12-year-old
Rectangular piece of patchwork in shades of blue, purple, pink, and orange batik
Two long, narrow strips of batik patchwork in shades of blue, purple, orange, and pink
Gawyn could hear his father speak words that he'd never forgotten. Whatever else one thought of Taringail Damodred, this bit of advice rang true. "There are two groups of people you should never trust," the man had been saying to Galad as they passed. "The first are pretty women. The second are Aes Sedai. Light help you, son, if you ever have to face someone who is both." Light help you, son.
A strip of patchwork in shades of purple, orange, blue, and pink batik fabric atop a wool pressing mat, small embroidery scissors for scale
Small cheese Chicago style deep dish pizza, a thick crust with chunky tomato sauce
Quilting Cotton Neck Pillow A long, floppy tube of yellow polka dot fabric with "AHHHH" appliquéd on it in black block capital letters
Publishers Marketplace Deal Report Category: Fiction: Romantasy NOVAE By Kaiju Imprint: Inklore Jennifer Xu and Kate Rhodes aka Kaiju's NOVAE, in which an ageless necromancer meets a bedazzling astronomer, and romance sparks like a nascent star; but when the astronomer falls victim to a vengeful sorcerer's blood-drenched plot, the couple must defy death itself to keep their love ablaze, to Rebecca Taylor at Inklore, with Sara Miller editing, at auction, in a three-book deal, for publication in summer 2028, by Ammi-Joan Paquette at Aevitas Creative Management (world English). Rights: decronin@penguinrandomhouse.com Deal report is accompanied by illustrations of the main characters of Novae and an excited chibi drawing of the authorial team
kenklippenstein.com The question on Washington's mind now is: Why can't Maine just nominate an asexual, Harvard-educated McKinsey consultant as candidate rather than some tatted up, ex- Marine riff-raff like Platner?
Tidy rectangle of stacked pieces of navy blue fabric and smaller batiks from before sitting on a wool pressing mat
Pattern for Sweet Jane's Willow Pouch, an upright zipper pouch with patchwork atop a cutting mat with sewing ruler, next to the pattern two stacks of small rectangular pink batik pieces held together with clips
Screenshot from bookselling sim Tiny Bookshop of a customer's positive response to a book recommendation: "Yay, aww, cute! Watership Down!"
Cover of The Gathering Storm with Randomized appearing to be in an old timey Renaissance shirt and denim jeans with a very tiny fist raised to the sky
Bright blue railway car with the name The Train of Thought painted on the side, subtitled Education Rail Car
Left to right, a selection of white fountain pens with cool whites on the left, marbled black and white in the middle, and warmer rights on the right: Platinum 3776 Century Chenonceau White TWSBI Eco White TWSBI Eco Carrara Marble Tailored Pen Company Ichor (EndlessPens Special Edition) Conklin 1898 Golden Abalone (Atlas Stationers Special Edition) TWSBI Eco Crème Sailor 1911S Ivory Sailor Pro Gear Slim Meigetsu (Autumn Moon)
Square-ish blue and purple batik zipper pouch
Zipper pouch in progress with the batik outside up, zipper down the middle
Batik zipper pouch in progress and flowery design on Brother sewing machine, both in the same colors of light blue and purple
Small, crusty round loaf of bread
Kobo promotional page for a romantasy sale, Audiobooks subsection The sound of enchantment: These bestselling Romantasy audiobooks will transport you to magical realms with every listen Two books with heroines and animals by J. Bree are listed, but the first book in the listing is The Wrong Quarterback, a "dark" contemporary romance by C.R. Jane
Crowd scene, one NPC is filming using a camera-looking gadget on his shoulder
A blue ceramic bowl, a small purple lidded jar, and a gray mug
@xavier031212.bsky.social I will restate this every day. We need to excise MAGAts from the rest of the US populace and the rest of the world. The only people who should suffer from their chaos should be themselves. Let them form their own broken countries from counties they exist as a majority and let those counties secede. 11:17 PM • Apr 29, 2026
Melinda here 4 the defea... @melin4u.bsky.social Can we fukin just let them secede? They are doing it anyway with Jim Crow Supreme Court and Trump loving KKK Republicans who are running and ruining this country and the constitution. They are going to try and keep power this November no matter what it takes. 9:50 AM • Apr 29, 2026
Possibly inauthentic post Pugh Khee @pughkhee.bsky.social LET THEM SECEDE: Louisiana Texas Florida 8:29 PM • Apr 29, 2026
Rectangular woven mat with a pastel rainbow pick up stripe pattern against a blue-violet background
Thin crust Imo's St. Louis style pizza with strips of bacon and onions
Weather radar for Missouri, a ring of storms surrounds Columbia and Jefferson City
Loaf of white bread with a swirl of orange cheddar through it, two slices are cut to show the spiral inside
Weaving in progress on a rigid heddle loom: a pale green stripe pattern floats above a purple base
Squarish zipper pouch made out of a blue and green abstract dotted quilting cotton with a small button pocket made out of solid blue material on the front
Screenshot of Final Fantasy X HD Remaster: Wakka's tent in Besaid where an NPC is embedded head-first in the floor in the middle of the tent
Cover of the PSX game Board Game Top Shop with three illustrations of cute characters against the background of a pixel art shopping center
Small square woven sample of purple and yellow/green weaving
Small scraps of handwoven cloth in shades of blue, black, red, and brown
A chart of different woven twill patterns organized by threading and lifting patterns
Cover of Designing Woven Fabrics by Janet Phillips, with the background showing colorful handwoven fabric in various twill designs
WGSL De-Stash Bash 2026 Saturday April 11 Open to the Guild 9 - 10 AM Open to the public 10AM - Noon Free Admission First Congregational Church of Webster Groves 10 W. Lockwood Ave (corner of Elm & Lockwood) Yarn, fiber, books, magazines Equipment, looms, spinning wheels Bargains galore! Cash and Checks Only
Sega Genesis box art of Awesome Possum™️ Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt: an anthropomorphic possum is riding a rhinoceros who is mowing down chainsaw wielding robots while an ominous bald man looms in the background