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Historian, compulsive bookworm, owned by an old rescue dog, youngish old fart 🌻🇺🇦
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Today might be rough, so take this bird cooking tiny pastas.

I didn't come here to make friends. Unless you want to be my friend. In which case nothing would bring me greater joy

Ooo I like this idea

Just once I'd like to spend a day at the lake without seeing in the water the shimmer of a long-forgotten amulet that bestows upon me powers both mysterious and terrible

creator

And I thought I worked in a niche area of the historic environment...

I hired a band to follow me and play ambiance music so I can tell when an enemy enters my detectable range

Make sure that you regularly read to your birds, and teach them all about their heritage and history. It's a very important part of them growing up well rounded and worldly.

Bat, Literally Translated into English. Map by me

..not to brag..✨

Why does this echidna look like he’s about to drop the hottest jazz piano album OF THE YEAR

Being an introvert at work is someone asking “How was your weekend?” and now you’re inventing a fake farmer’s market trip because you can’t just say “I laid in bed and avoided people.”

THERAPIST: and what do we do when we get sad? ME: we buy another porch goose and knit them a sweater THERAPIST: what? ME: what?

I burn most of my calories by rolling my eyes.

waking up with a smile in plato's cave, rested and ready for another carefree day of looking at the whole world

One of my favourite hobbies is being exposed to fascinating new information without understanding or remembering any of it

Spring blossom in Chawton, Hampshire

phlebotomists should be required to quickly and accurately get the straw in 500 capri suns prior to drawing blood from a human

some shit is about to go down

I'm kind of low key upset my potatoes haven't made the news, even in an off-hand comment. I live for the day that a news caster says "and in a strange turn of events, many republican representatives have received potatoes with expletives on them" I've sent about a dozen now.

Things I wish for you: That you always feel safe and warm, and that someday you'll be gifted the deed to a crumbling seaside castle filled with chatty ghosts, indifferent cats, and secret libraries within libraries.

Thank goodness I have lots of nutmeg and cloves and cloth, the traditional store houses of wealth in the early modern era.

It was the Dunning of tymes. It was the Kruger of tymes.

I refer to growing up in the acid rain/ quicksand/impending nuclear conflict era as being "classically trained" in generalized anxiety

Please don’t keep me “informed” or “in the loop” I don’t want to know anything

Few things are more eye-opening than thinking it’s been a long week before promptly coming to the horrifying realization that it’s Tuesday.

getting a head start on the sunday scaries to avoid the crowds

I think I’m finally getting the hang of permanently going through a lot.

THERAPIST: and what do we do with those negative emotions when they get to be too much? ME: put them in my feelings wallet so l can buy books and cheese with them THERAPIST: what? ME: what?

Overstimulated and unsupervised: a memoir

A thread of interdimensional portals I've found on walks in the British countryside.

Therapy is expensive, but getting lost in the forest and becoming the thing that terrifies the townspeople is free.