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This scientist is laughing at whoever insisted that it’s calorie in = calorie out to you. Dude, you have no damn idea how complicated your metabolism is. It’s so amazing we’ve barely scratched the surface of how it all works, never mind the genes to control it all. But sure calories in = calories out. Cling to that…

He celebrated in the time honored tradition of if a man does it (has a private email) it’s okay, but if a woman does it “burn her at the stake!” I think that’s in the constitution bible.

Maybe it’s the ghost of a bear who’s trying to get at the tasty honey hidden inside. It’d pissed that there’s only stupid homework in the one locker it can open so kicks the sign in rage.

I’ve realized something. Whenever men get into a huff, stomp their feet, and scream Not All Men they’ve done the same shit others are accused of. They’ve harassed or attacked women, and they hate the idea that anyone might call them on it. They’d rather keep living in a world where men get a free pass for anything. So…

I feel bad for people that really do think “Don’t judge a book by its cover” because that’s a lot of what readers judge by. And also how to get marketing. You have to have a good cover or places will flat out turn you down.

I probably should have mentioned before that they’re for sale here.

I probably should have mentioned they’re for sale here, but I’m willing to do a few on commission cheaper if I have the time. It’s a lot of fun to make them.

I’ve been making off the rack book covers for anyone to use and for some of them I wish the book already existed, especially the dragon in coffee one.

I do a lot better with cool colors I’ve found, but I’ve done a couple more fallish ones over the years.

Thanks! Trees on acrylic is what I can handle, so I went back to my wheelhouse.

For my birthday my husband got me a hobby box that every month sends you stuff to try out new hobbies and a few instructions. This month’s was watercolor. I do acrylic painting but never really tried watercolor outside of grade school. There were my first two attempts.

It’s something Neil Gaiman started awhile ago, basically where you give kids books for halloween instead of treats. We get way too many for that to be feasible, but a lot of other people attempt it. Lots of schools and libraries will have small stands featuring their favorite scary stories and the like.

I finished the posters I made for All Hallows Read this year. It became a thing I started 7 years ago because I love halloween and books. Now, every year I dust off my old photoshop to make free ones for librarians and teachers.

And the cover was copied from someone else’s painting. Because of course it was.

Someone loves this thing so much she stood at the top of the stairs and glared until I put it back on her. Now she’s sleeping beside me on the couch. Gonna be a long slog to Halloween I see.

We never planned to wind up with a closet full of dog clothes. The first sweater was this ugly lime green thing left over from christmas. Put it on her as a laugh, but when I went to take it off she’d doge and weave so I couldn’t. Now there are tons. She’s hard on them being a lab and all, but loves the damn things.

The dog clothing sizing is so awful. My dog is pretty tiny for a lab, but she runs from a L to a XXL. Sometimes big dogs want to wear comfy sweaters too, stupid clothing industry.

They are such goofballs. We got one of the high energy ones. I wish they made dog cartoons because without fail every weekend morning she is raring to go when the sun dawns.

She’s weird and loves wearing clothes. Can’t wait for summer to go away so she can go back to wearing her comfy sweaters all the time.