image via The Online Bicycle Museum
There was vitabellosi's first cousin 3X removed
... It’s remarkable how many woodchucks he killed. Was he eating them? vitabellosi has commented on a rather wonderful artifact — a 19th century diary belonging to their family and the stories just touched on here are pretty amazing! Posted on clavdivs' FPP, Kicking it with Napoleon, about Youtube channel "Life in the 1800s."
image from inside the Manor at Hemingford Grey, via inigo.com
Brian Sibley has put online his dramatisation of the 1951 novel The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy Boston. Thanks, paduasoy, this looks fascinating!
Screenshot from Stewart Hickman video
Come for the McMansion-enabling truss connector plates, stay for the malt liquor, beer cans, and blunts.
Peter Waddell, Tiber Creek: The Bathers, oil on canvas, via The White House Historical Association, whitehousehistory.org
Down down we went past the gym, past the print shop, down below the law library where there was a quiet study room that was hardly ever used ... a rather amazing little story from The 10th Regiment of Foot in HumanComplex's very interesting post on Ghost Rivers. This feels like the beginning of a Rivers of London-esque cozy supernatural mystery!
Photo by Bart Everson, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/editor/)
Today is a very good day to dig into a few fantasy stories about strangers joining forces to save each other, so come check out brainwane’s latest links to several awesome stories!
Photo by Daniel Wehner, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/daniel-wehner/
You want a story? Maybe two? Brainwane has you covered! First up is two new short stories by Kelly Robson and Marissa Lingen. If that’s not enough, there’s a third story from a very interesting writing prompt. Enjoy!
Hubble Monitors Supernova In Nearby Galaxy M82 from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Mefites are expressing joy that their seeking-tendrils have encountered the short science fiction story "Hello! Hello! Hello!" by Fiona Jones ... plus general vibrating gratitude at brainwane for her sharing of awesome stories!
Sometimes metaphors really are a thing of beauty. Not often in internet parley, but sometimes. Baby_Balrog on barns, and Canada and stuff in the East Coast Is Sinking thread.
All done by Kit4na (cc by)
Literaryhero posted a story about plumbing and people, and a man called Fran by John Jeremiah Sullivan, and it's a great plunge into life, the loo, and everything.
Pancake Crescent Moon with Earthshine by Dawn Sunrise (cc by-nc-nd)
What would be the logistics of making pancakes on the moon? freethefeet needs to know.
shaggy by Lynncam26
What happens when you encounter a posse of insane clowns in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of the night? Sometimes they help you change a tire. outgrown_hobnail shares a story.
Dave Matthews: You may have opinions. You may have *strong* opinions. You may have prejudices or fond memories. But only Floydd has the Dave Matthews Toe.
It's like the only one of my stupid schemes that I rolled a 20 on. outgrown_hobnail shares their secret for a surefire thesis defense strategy.
Drawing of a Butterfly - Dibujo de una Mariposa by Marcos Telias (cc by-nc-nd)
Larva Pupa Imago by Eric Schwitzgebel is a short story about love, personhood, and transformation. It's also about erotica for uplifted butterflies.
detail of painting by Jan Davidsz de Heem, Vase with Flowers, circa 1670
A touching reminder that sometimes people are really grand, actually.
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