Lindsay (she/her)

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www.topazliterary.com Editor and writer, conscious language advocate, library assistant, cat valet, bookworm. 🌈📚

A gif of actor Hudson Williams saying "Fuck AI. Fuck it so hard."
A tabby cat is burrowed into a laundry basket of clean bedsheets looking slightly worried. Behind her another tabby cat is approaching with a gleam of violence in her eyes.
Extreme close up of a tabby cat's face as she stares into the camera with big green eyes.
A still image from the TV series Dickinson that shows Zosia Mamet as Louisa May Alcott and Hailee Steinfeld as Emily Dickinson jogging across an open field with their skirts hitched up in their hands. It is winter and there are patches on snow on the ground. The caption says "In the time it takes to raise ONE baby, you can write FOUR or FIVE novels, and you can SELL those novels."
A tabby cat looms above you from the top of a cupboard, looking down on all seriousness.
Merriam Webster's website with the title "Your 2026 Word." My word is "melancholic."
Two cats intensely watching the neighbour cat out the window. The neighbour cat has the audacity to sit in a comfy loaf in THEIR backyard.
A tabby cat is draped over a round plush cat bed with her head and legs hanging over the sides and her face planted into the floor.
Two tabby cats perch on a wooden dining table among books, papers, and plants. They are both looking directly at the camera with expressions that might be described as inscrutable, guilty, or defiant.
A bad tabby cat sits in high alert on top of a fireplace mantle among plants and paintings.
A grey and black tabby cat looks composedly at the camera from atop a bed. She is fully snuggled under a cream knitted throw that is tucked right up to her neck.
A tabby cat is stretched out on a couch in golden light. She is asleep. Her back legs are resting against a cushion with a screen print of a tuxedo cat in a bright pink tutu dancing with abandon.
A comic titled "Humpty Dumpty had a great fall." There are four pictures in a grid, showing Humpty Dumpty, an egg with a face, and stick arms and legs, enjoying autumn activities. He is jumping in a pile of leaves, hiding in a pumpkin patch, going for a walk, and sitting on a wall as leaves drift down around him.
Book cover for Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
A silvery grey and black tabby cat makes biscuits on a fuzzy blanket while having the sleepiest face.
A golden brown and black tabby is loafing on the top perch of her cat tree, gazing into the distance with pensive green eyes. (Not pictured: her usual activities, which are running, destroying things, stealing food, and farting.)
A wicker stool with a cream blanket draped over it sits in front of a patio screen door. The bottom half of a grey tabby cat is sticking out from underneath it, flattened to the hardwood floor with legs splayed in opposite directions, disturbingly similar to a spatchcocked chicken.
A screenshot from General Hospital circa mid- to late-1990s, showing the characters of Robin Scorpio and Stone Cates leaning against one another and looking pensive.
A golden brown and black tabby cat is sleeping snugly on a pale blue blanket on top of a desk. There are two houseplants behind her and a large window overlooking a garden.
A post by @myke_olsen that says "By your 40s you should have: - two or three good friends (they 800+ miles away) - a chronic illness, maybe - a pet's ashes - a weird collection"
Two grey tabby cats sitting side by side in little cushioned window beds, looking outside into a springtime garden backyard.
The cover of North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher. It shows a bright blue sky with white cumulous clouds above a green landscape of hills, mountains, and a valley. There are white structures amid the landscape—a circular building on a mountainside, domes in the valley, a fence or rail traversing across the ground, and a narrow white tower looming up into the sky with thin coils winding around it. A small figure stands in the foreground wearing a cape and possibly a long braid, looking out over the vista. White birds are in the sky.
A long-haired soft grey and peach cat is cuddled up in a woman's lap with all four feet, as well as her face, pressed into the woman's stomach.
A very bad tabby cat is crouching in a cupboard filled with very breakable cups and classes, looking guilty.
Goldie, a skinny brown and black tabby with a white chin and a tipped left ear, is sitting on a mantle next to some books looking upwards with pensive green eyes.
A tabby cat sound asleep on a turquoise paisley blanket with her tongue sticking out an absurd amount.
A brown and black tabby cat sits on a marble countertop looking at you. An extremely basic image editor has been used to badly draw a scribbled pair of black sunglasses onto her face. Success! This cat looks like a total badass, rather than the goofball that she is.
Cover of the self-tilted album Tiffany, from 1987. The singer has long windblown red hair with spiky bangs and is looking wistfully at the camera with her hand up by her cheek.
A brown and black tabby cat is fully stretched out on a pale blanket with her back legs turned towards you and her shoulders twisted away from you. Her wee striped arms are hovering aloft in the air, and yet, somehow, she is fast asleep with a serene look on her face. Her belly is spotted like a tiny leopard. It should be noted that only moments ago she was tearing around the joint like a demon.
An image of a dry block of ramen noodles crumbling apart against a cream background. The text reads "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: WE'RE EXPECTING."
Screenshot from Star Trek. The caption reads "People: How have you been coping with everything going on in the world? Me: (blank space)." Spock looks with concern at Kirk, who is looking down with a "what are you gonna do" expression. There is a tabby cat badly photoshopped onto Spock's shoulder and a white floofy cat badly photoshopped into Kirk's arms.
A brown and black tabby cat is stretched out on her back with her arms up in the air and her spotted belly showing. She is fast asleep on her favourite pale beige blanket.
Book cover for Asunder by Kerstin Hall. It shows a young woman with chin-length light brown hair in profile, looking pensive. Gold light with sun spots drift around her, the colour concentrated in the top left corner and fading to white in all directions. Within her pale arms, shoulders, and torso are ghostly hands clasping each other.
The words CLICK RETCH REFUTE
A porcini mushroom with a fat brown stem and a rosy brown cap is growing somewhat sideways out of an enchanting bed of star-shaped bright green moss against a backdrop of a forest.
A grey and black tabby cat is lying on a cream sofa staring intently at her own paw, which has snagged the tassels of a grey blanket.
A school picture of a little girl with long dark hair and bangs. Her arms are crossed defiantly and her mouth is pursed as she looks at the camera with a supremely unimpressed expression.
A tabby cat peels white wallpaper off a wall while simultaneously spitting a hunk of wallpaper out of her mouth. The wall has been generally shredded and has many claw marks and strips of dangling paper. The cat looks entirely unrepentant.
Two tabby cats sleep peacefully in a sunbeam.
Book cover for The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett. The background is dark navy blue and there is an ornate square gold border with a small silhouetted figure in each corner. The centre depicts a tipped over goblet with a plant, complete with roots, spilling upwards out of it. The book title bisects the plant in a horizontal gold scroll.
A deep blue background with a border of lighter blue snowflakes. Text reads "AdventURE Calendar: 4 December: dark forests." Beneath the text are two snow-covered pine trees.
A dark blue background with a border of snowflakes in lighter blues. Text reads "AdventURE Calendar: 3 December: Ghost Stories." There is a little ghost wearing a Santa hat next to a snowman.
Text that says AdventURE Calendar: 2 December: Enemies to Lovers. The image is deep navy blue with large lacy snowflakes in paler shades of blue around the borders. At the bottom is an illustration of two crossed wooden swords.
The cover for the book Women's Hotel by Daniel Lavery. It features a charmingly retro illustration of a 10-storey hotel facade in palest pink against a scarlet background with sunshine yellow borders. Numerous miniature windows in steady rows give glimpses of life within--laundry hanging, curtains billowing--in aqua, red, and yellow accents and black shadows. The overall feeling is one of quirky, slightly shabby whimsy.
The book cover for The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar. It fetaures a whitish background with gorgeously detailed artwork of three large spiky flowers in muted red, spice orange, and mauve on green-leafed stems woven through with a watery squiggling line going diagonally across the image.
Two tabby cats are sprawled luxuriously on a wicker table in a sunny window. The one on the left, named Sylvie, is looking sleepily at the camera while her paws dangle off the side. The one on the right, named Goldie, is sound asleep with her head on Sylvie's back and one arm tucked somewhat audaciously between Sylvie's tail and her back leg, right in the bum region. Nevertheless, a perfect scene of comfort and bliss.
A golden brown and black tabby cat is passed out on a turquoise paisley blanket with her head upside down and her tiny adorable paws in the air.
A brown wicker chair in front of a window with a grey and black tabby cat's back legs and butt fully dangling out the side as said tabby cat sleeps the sleep of the just.
A brown and black spotted tabby sits next to a person on a couch with her head in a potato chip bag.
A pretty tabby cat is perched on a windowsill looking up with curiosity.
The cover of And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed. Black ink drawings of tall buildings line each side; there is a bridge at the bottom and a long-haired figure that looks like it is floating or walking on top of water towards a church or temple. The colours look like a sunset or sunrise—purples, pinks, turquoise, and a hint of yellow. There is a glowing turquoise fish swimming toward you under the bridge.
Linocut of Ishmael lying on the coffin lifebuoy amidst the waves with a seahawk above him. For inexplicable reasons, Ishmael is totally naked and he has his arm flung over his face in a melodramatic fashion.
Quote from Moby Dick: "...the pensive air was transparently pure and soft, with a woman's look, and the robust and man-like sea heaved with long, strong, lingering swells, as Samson's chest in his sleep."
The Big Lebowski gif: The dude, Walter, and Donny sitting in the bowling alley. The caption reads: "Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man."
The book "A Nail, A Rose" by Madeleine Bourdouxhe sits propped up against a pink ceramic plant pot with a lime green plant in it, the sun in its leaves. The book is dark khaki green with a pink border and a pink circle in the centre. Inside the circle is a defiant looking woman with a hand on her hip, a head scarf, and a cigarette in her hand.
Screenshot of a tweet from 2020 by @BlaisinSquad that reads: "imagine you were a whale and you were breaking up with your whale girlfriend and humans recorded your conversation and put it on spotify to fall asleep to, that would be so fucked up"
Quote from Moby Dick: "And Stubb, fish-like, with sparkling scales, leaped up in that same golden light: — 'I am Stubb, and Stubb has his history; but here Stubb takes oaths that he has always been jolly!'"
Text from Moby Dick: "Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head."
Book cover for High Times in the Low Parliament by Kelly Robson. A black background with the title in white caps. In and around the title is a brightly coloured deconstructed landscape, with flowers, mushrooms, fairies, swirls, leaves, a judge's mallet, and a castle at the top.
Screenshot from Brokeback Mountain of Ennis embracing Jack with the caption "I wish I knew how to quit you." Ennis is labeled "ME" and Jack is labeled "MOBY DICK."