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Lilly @lillerina.bsky.social · 6d

I remember seeing @swistle.bsky.social talk about being sad she used good people names on pets and thinking that's OK I named my 23 pet rats bizarre names I would never give a human. But now I'm thinking about names (NO REASON 👀) and dang Sybil was great but I wish I saved her name.

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Lilly @lillerina.bsky.social · Aug 25

I recently started learning the Clàrsach (Celtic lever harp) and this morning my harp teacher noticed my hedgehog dungarees and asked if I like hedgehogs.

I was also wearing hedgehog socks and have a hedgehog tattoo, I am building a house out of hedgehogs I am not chill about them at all

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Lilly @lillerina.bsky.social · Aug 25

I feel like I waited for so long for #lessonsinmagicanddisaster and it's lived up to everything I hoped. It's surprising and challenging and beautiful and deeply, beautifully queer, and I love it and I think it's @charliejane.bsky.social 'S best book yet.

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · Sep 23

In English, if someone is dressed very fancily they could be described as being “dressed to the nines.” An equivalent phrase from the Walloon language is riletchî come on vea k' a deus meres. It means “licked like a baby cow with two mothers”

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Lilly @lillerina.bsky.social · Sep 22

You know when all your big projects are dragging? Did you know you're allowed to just stop and quickly cross stitch something for a fast win? It feels like cheating but it's good to get a finish sometimes.

Embroidery design reading "you are so loved" with a small flower

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Lilly @lillerina.bsky.social · Sep 22

We got a yoga ball and the rats are SO CONFUSED

Lilly @lillerina.bsky.social · Sep 22

Is it weird that the people I most want to follow here are the mom bloggers I met in Swistle's comment section like 17 years ago?

Lilly @lillerina.bsky.social · Aug 26

You can also buy very cute little lids to go on top of them, increasing their usefulness and adorability!

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Lilly @lillerina.bsky.social · Aug 26

@swistle.bsky.social I know it's too early to think about Calendars but I'm already planning to get this one and I'd hate for you to miss out www.davidmbird.com/store/2025-w...

2025 Wall Calendar - Coming Soon — David M Bird

The new calendar will be available on September 2nd. Hooray! The calendar measures 12 x 9.5 inches when closed, and 12x19 inches when open. Each month features a different photo with caption. There...

www.davidmbird.com

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · May 2

Audiobooks don't count as reading. Neither do e-books. Or printed books.

You haven't *really* read a book unless it was tattooed on the entrails of a one-eyed goat under the full moon during the winter solstice. While wearing a piece of rutabaga on your head.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · Dec 31

A three panel cartoon by Tina Mendel of a cat standing next to a 2023 and the final panel is the cat pushing the 2023 off a table.

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Lilly @lillerina.bsky.social · Nov 15

Among Scottish Gàidhlig speakers we are kind of mad that she looted our language without context and then doesn't know how to pronounce any of it and neither do the audiobook narrators. But! It's a fun, silly book, enjoy!

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Lilly @lillerina.bsky.social · Nov 12

The last two years I've had a sock yarn one which is great but I really don't need more yarn so I'm stuck for this year.

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Lilly @lillerina.bsky.social · Oct 31

This is a great naming story for when baby is older!

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Lilly @lillerina.bsky.social · Oct 28

My Tam Lin experience was Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones and therefore I think a bit less horny

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Lilly @lillerina.bsky.social · Oct 27

My wife doesn't care, and I do, so I get to organise our books. Fiction prose alphabetically by author's surname, non-fiction by subject, poetry, plays, religious texts grouped by type. Cookbooks are near the kitchen, craft books in the craft room. TBR piles in the bedroom.

Lilly @lillerina.bsky.social · Oct 27

Thanks! 3 of those just made it onto my to read list!

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Lilly @lillerina.bsky.social · Oct 21

Today I had the excellent experience of saying, hey, someone with my skills can do this, and have the person I was talking to say, "I've been looking for someone who can do that!" And now I have a new commission which is always nice.

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