On Kimbertide Day 4, I enjoyed an ice cream sandwich. For day 5, I’m playing Metroid: Zero Mission. 🎮

👱‍♀️I had a dream last night that Giles a) was real b) was still in his 40s and most importantly, c) owned a really beautiful indie bookstore. I wanted to hang out there a lot. It was in this really beautiful little city center shopping district area. Later in the dream, I discovered the whole district - the whole town, really - was embedded in a Disney resort. And I had to decide if I still loved it now that I knew it wasn’t actually indie.

Finished Stranger Things 4 and I love it so much and also will somebody just play D&D with Will already, yeesh. 📺

Editor Jordan Pavlin says historical fiction “has a unique ability to elicit deep compassion and empathy,” and I can’t help but wonder if that isn’t the precise reason the people leading the call for book bans want these books gone. 📚

🔖 Ben Werdmüller has a different but related, equally valuable, set of insights on what we should be thinking about this Independence Day. 🇺🇸

It’s a rough time for our democratic republic. Heather Cox Richardson reminds us what it’s supposed to be about. 🇺🇸

Kimbertide Day 3: Played a little of the new Capcom Fighting Collection 🎮

Today for Kimbertide, I made banana bread from a Simple Mills mix.

Finished reading: Borderland edited by Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold 📚

The beginnings of woodland goth. I love it, of course.

For Day 1 of Kimbertide, I celebrated with a special lunch: hardboiled eggs & sweet baby gherkin pickles. I didn’t know this when I made lunch but my mom just told me that when she was pregnant with me, her favorite meal was hardboiled eggs, dill pickles, and french fries.