Just Finished Reading A Zeetha-focused AU That Was Simultaneously One Of The Best Fics I've Read In Ages,

Lyrical Ballad, in Saratoga Springs, NY is one of my favorite used bookstores in the world.

Twitter thread by Melissa Caruso about a labyrinthine magical bookstore in Syracuse, NY. Link to the first tweet in the thread; most pictures have image descriptions! Now here are the screenshots of that thread:

And then a hero of the labyrinthine magical bookstores of the world put all the bookstores that people listed in the replies on a map! (Google Maps link)

Thinking about experimenting with knitting using different size needles in one project.

Something like casting on to the recommended size needle, and using a two- or three-sizes larger needle for the other direction.

Has anybody tried something like this?

I've also considered stargazing and archery.

planning to start birdwatching soon cause all of my hobbies go like this

and I need a hobby that goes like this

to try and fix my back ya know?

The thing is, it DOES work... sometimes. But the older you are the less often it will work.

Like, when you're in your teens, absolutely you can fix a screwed up sleep schedule with this sort of hard reset. It'll work 95% of the time, and will still help at least a little bit in the remaining 5% of cases.

In your 20s it will solve the problem about 80% of the time, help 15%, and make things worse 5%.

In your thirties the ratio becomes 50/25/25%

In your forties there's still a chance the hard reset will work, but the odds don't favor it. Something like 29% chance of solving, 19% chance of helping, 50% chance of making things worse, and a 2% chance of triggering a major crisis.

I haven't gotten to my fifties yet, but I can see the pattern.

Currently doing an Insomniac's Gambit. For those of you who don't know, this is when you mess up your sleep schedule badly enough that you attempt to fix it by skipping an entire night of sleep then going to bed at a reasonable hour the next day. Crucially, it does not work

If you don't have a person handy to do this to, try going to YouTube and searching for "[your favorite piece of media] reaction".

It's really easy to find folks reacting to music, and there are also some folks who do reaction videos for movies, games and shows.

You can never experience watching your favourite show for the first time again, but you CAN convince someone else to watch your favourite show and vicariously enjoy all their raw reactions to seeing it for the first time, which is honestly nearly as good.

I walked past some lilac bushes on my way to lunch today and the smell brought me so much joy. I almost forget, from one spring to the next, how much I love it.

I'm thinking about getting some lilac scented stuff, but it needs to be as realistic as possible.

Anyone have any recommendations?

This man is an actual wizard doing actual magic.

staples?! he made a basket with staples?!

I've decided that I'm going to actively avoid political content here on Tumblr. I'll use it as my "the world sucks and is stressful" escapism place.

Facebook, NPR, and face-to-face give me plenty of info about what's going on in the world. I don't need Tumblr memes too.

One thing that I think Facebook and YouTube do better than Tumblr is giving people the ability to opt out of specific ads.

Especially being able to tell them that the reason you don't want to see that ad is because it's not relevant to you.

I don't mind a reasonable number of ads in exchange for a free service, but the ones here on Tumblr are so horrifically misaimed and there's no way to tell them that.

I'm going to start calling Agatha's little clanks her clinks