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@parrishsrubberplant

ya’ll were really gonna let me live my life in ignorance thinking mr. rogers was straight???

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Bengal Cat on merino/pima cotton. It’s a lovely mix of black, brown, reddish caramel, ginger, gold, and champagne. Because the cotton does not take up the dye it remains white and creates a wonderful visual effect reminiscent of fur. The texture is velvety and yearns to be stroked. Mothyandthesquid.com

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View of the peristyle, from the tablinum (office), of the House of the Silver Wedding, Pompeii. Photograph courtesy of Luigi Coppola.

This house belonged to a politician named Lucius Albucius Celsus, who was in the electoral campaign at the time of the volcanic eruption His skeleton was found inside the house along with those of his family, his bones revealed that he was around 30 years old.   

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My mother recently passed away after a long period of fighting several chronic issues. She was 84. I lived with her as caregiver while also running my bookstore.

That took rather a toll on finances because I often needed to close unexpectedly on short notice to care for her. Plus her final expenses. Everything will be fine in six months once estate is settled but right now, OOF, that is a cash crunch on me. It's basically drained all my savings so if one more thing goes wrong, keeping store running becomes difficult.

I've run this store for 23 years, come February 1st. While I carry all types of books, my specialty is queer books. That Pride flag flies year round!

So I could use some support right now and as all The Everything is happening.

Come visit me in person! I'm at 81 Greenwood Ave. (route 302) in Bethel, CT. 11-6PM Tuesday through Friday. 10-5PM Saturdays (exvept Sat. feb. 8th 2025) I'm also within walking distance of the NYC Metro-North train station, Danbury line. There's two other bookstores within walking distance, so you can spend a whole day looking at books!

If you're not local, but have friends in the Southwestern Connecticut or New York/Connecticut border area, please let them know I exist!

If you want to recommend me to a friend or family member in area that doesn't use Tumblr I also have a Facebook account and an Instagram. I also send out a weekly email with some featured books, events going on in the Bethel & Danbury area, and a featured adoptable pet. See a sample email and signup.

If you're not local, I have my inventory online and you can get lots of weird, out of print queer books from small presses. Order some books!

If you need audiobooks, I also have a Libro.fm account. I get a small commission when you get your audiobook downloads or subscriptions through the link. If you're doing a new subscription, you get two additional books through the affiliate link.

I also am on Bookshop.org if you want to buy new books that I don't have. If you go through the link, OR set me as your "local" store, when you buy new books I get a little commission.

I run the book club for Pride here and you can see the upcoming picks on either the front page of the store or on the Bookshop.org page with the club picks. We alternate fiction and nonfiction each month and do a hybrid model where you can either come to in person on 3rd Saturday of month OR do a text only chat on that 3rd Friday & Saturday via Bethel Pride's discord. For text chat, just hop in and post in bookclub whenever your schedule allows! and respond to other folks.

I also host a monthly plant swap with Pride here on the second Saturday. EXCEPT THIS FEBRUARY 8th. I am away at a conference for running Pride events! I am off working on the gay agenda! So plant swap resumes in MARCH.

For plant swap, you can bring plants or take plants. You can drop off without taking more home and pickup without having brought any. It's indoor plants only til May, and then its time to get wild with outdoor pals.

And I really appreciate reblogs! you never know where your followers live and this may make them shriek like a pterodactyl because they never realized how close by a queer bookstore was to them! ROADTRIP TIME.

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my grandma sent me a picture of my dog with his new xmas present and i need a fucking inhaler LOOK AT HIM

oh to feel a fraction of the unbridled joy he is experiencing

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Lymond Chronicles Exchange Proposal/Interest Gauge (ScotSwap)

Hi Lymond people!

If you were around a few years ago you may remember a fan fiction and art exchange called ScotSwap which was run by Rey (user reynier/gawain-in-green.)

It last ran in 2020 because Rey left Tumblr that year, but we’re still in touch and they have offered to help me run it, and I think I’m (tentatively, if there’s enough interest) going to try that this year!

However, I want to check who is interested and figure out when is a good time for people to participate!

To do this people are matched to exchange works based on a short sign-up form with a couple of prompts (and any DNWs) which can be submitted via Google form. Exchange gifts would be posted to an AO3 collection (and here).

SO.

1. If you are interested COMMENT or REBLOG with something along the lines of “I’m interested” in the tags!

2. What time of year works best for you?

Please signal boost this even if you’re not interested in participating!

Contact me:

@ stripedroseandsketchpads on tumblr

stripedroseandsketchpads on Dreamwidth

scotswap@gmail.com

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New year, new semester, new installment of the mutual pining campus novel fic.

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important question how do you flirt with a Dutch girl

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obsessed with dorothy deciding that she wanted to deceive readers about the true nature of her main guy again in her second series of books but being like, this time instead of 'everyone thinks he's diabolically scheming and mercenary but really he is good and trying his best to help' i'll just... reverse that

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Lymond smiled, and leaning back in his chair, placed his ringed hands together, master of himself, unpleasantly, once more.

Checkmate, Dorothy Dunnett

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This line is right up there with “He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony.” (Rafael Sabatini, the opening lines of Scaramouche) in my personal ledger of impossibly perfect character descriptions.

Please tell me there’s somebody else inside the center of the Venn diagram of Sabatini fans and Dunnett diehards?

Lymond's behaviour, as always, went to the limits of polite usage and then hurtled off into space.

Dorothy Dunnett, Queen's Play

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Man, I gotta reread House of Niccolo sooner rather than later.

sitting in my overnutrition lecture grinning like a fool from ear to ear because some fictional guy from the 15th century just diverted all his cargo to Kerasous and the Genoese cargo to Bursa, ruining Pagano Doria's trading endeavours and saving theirs from oncoming war. and he did all that while looking cunty as fuck and dispelling rumours of his violent death. amen.

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The woman was the bloody fucking master of the perfect unexpected adverb.

“Unpleasantly”!!!!!!

Lymond smiled, and leaning back in his chair, placed his ringed hands together, master of himself, unpleasantly, once more.

Checkmate, Dorothy Dunnett

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Halfway through Niccolò Rising:

- too many names

- Katelina van Boselen is great

- the avalanche was crazy

- WINE BARREL MURDER?

- Dorothy Dunnett what's your deal with bastards

- Dorothy Dunnett what's your deal with head injuries

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…now I feel a powerful need to reread these books (once I finish my Lymond reread!) and yell into the void about them.

Since his departure from Bruges, Nicholas had elected to dress only in black, the most expensive dye in the world. And not only himself, but his page, his groom, his cook and his menservants had been put into black livery, and the select company of his men at arms wore black hats and black sleeves. Jannekin Bonkle, related to half the merchant colony of Bruges and Edinburgh, had organised it. It was, in its way, a gesture of unutterable flamboyance. Julius loved it.

- The Unicorn Hunt, ch3

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It was a miracle, and it partook of the first property of miracles. It should never have been performed.

Checkmate, Dorothy Dunnett

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But what good are words when all someone in distress really needs is a warm hand, or a shoulder to rest on?

— Pico Iyer, Aflame: Learning from Silence (Riverhead Books, January 14, 2025)