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bibliophage.bsky.social
Devourer of Words
@bibliophage.bsky.social
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X-Men, library, and maths fan
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A dark muddy grey cat being held in the crook of someone's arm. Her body language is calm and she's looking slightly above the camera A fluffy grey cat sitting on a soft blue cushion in front of a window. The sun highlights her tousled hair magestically A reddish grey cat laying on a bed. She's stretching her forepaws out straight ahead as far as they will go and squeezing her eyes shut A fluffy grey and brown cat on a leash harness outside. She's standing in leaves and looking with excitement off into the distance off-camera. Her body language is relaxed but her tail is straight up because she's exploring
December 2, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Preview of my latest crafting project - I made more progress on my crocheted spiderweb dress for Halloween, and finally got to actually wear it for the night!
An off-white crocheted lattice of "spider-webbing", meant to be two sleeves of a dress, pinned down to a flat piece of cardboard on the floor
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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A muffin tin with several different soups in each muffin cup. The person holding the tin is using a spoon to scoop soup out.
May 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Socks! I finished my first pair and am now working the next pattern from The Sock Knitting Bible, toe up on circular needles. I decided to jump ahead and do two-at-a-time, hopefully it helps me stay consistent across the pair.

This one will be for me.
A partially-completed knit sock, stretched over a hand to show progress. The sock toe is covering the fingers and the knitting stops a little past the halfway point down the palm - the thumb is fully covered. The toe of the sock is grey and the main body is a full purple. The stitches are tiny and very precise. The sock is being knit on a nylon circular needle, with another sock next to it on the same loop, so the loop is folded out of the way with half a sock in the corner of the picture. In the background of the photo is a basket full of more sock yarn, imposing in the staggering amount of work that it represents
March 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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I forgot to post about this back when I read it, but here's the blurb I gave my comic book club:

Features a bi, sexy redhead with a giant sword, from comic books!

There's some spicy scenes and Gail's writing really propels you forward, this feels like an old swords-and-sorcery novel in a good way.
Photo of Gail Simone's book Red Sonja, on a coffee table next to a brown iced drink. The book's cover features a big sword and it has stickers from the library. Text from screenshot: Gail Simone (X-Men, Deadpool, and Secret Six comic writer of much acclaim) wrote her first novel Obv it features a bi, sexy redhead with a giant sword who is from comic books There's some spicy scenes and Gail's writing really propels you forward, this feels like an old swords-and-sorcery novel in a good way. CW sex, death, body horror, childhood trauma, sexism, and more
March 1, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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More sock knitting progress - I'm about halfway done with the heel and I like how thick and soft it feels.

Also spending my downtime leaving voicemails for my senators - use 5calls.org and call yours too, please.
A white hand is holding half a sock on knitting needles. The back flap of the sock is longer and has some knobbly bits sticking out because of the heel stitch. Below the needles are the completed leg and ribbed cuff of the sock. The sock is striped in orange, pink, yellow, purple, and other colors. The project is resting on an open book, open to the pattern for this sock.
January 31, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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I'm exhausted but I spent the better part of the last two weeks learning to knit socks. So even if everything else sucks, maybe I can keep a few feet warm.
Half of a sock, still on the knitting needles. The cuff is ribbed tightly and the yarn changes colors at random intervals, so there are many stripes of various heights, mostly in the red-orange-yellow family. The sock is held on my fingers to demonstrate size, my four fingers barely fit inside it from the open bottom.
January 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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if you see this, quote with a bridge from your gallery

This amazing foot (and bike) bridge in Austria
A large, curving foot bridge over a small river. It has a suspension cable at an angle in the center of the curve. In the distance you can see a few people on the bridge, and some brightly painted buildings on the other side of the river.
January 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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I picked up my new comics and also found some discount scratch & ding graphic novels - I am SO excited for this issue of The Power Fantasy and the store clerk checking me out said this issue of @fellhound.bsky.social's S.I.R. is really great, we might have talked the other clerk into trying it!
2 comic book issues on the floor - S.I.R. #4 has an intense red background and it looks like the character in the foreground is overwhelmed by emotion; and The Power Fantasy #4 has a character sitting morosely on a chair, wearing a long iridescent cape that looks like big wings 2 graphic novels on the floor - Nimona and Animorphs #1
November 24, 2024 at 10:14 PM
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Quote post with a picture of yourself and show these newbies who they're dealing with
Photo of a comic book scene from Alpha Flight, in the foreground Vindicator is facing away from the viewer in her civilian clothes and she is FLEXING her glutes, I guess because of the horrifying possessed Box robot in the background
November 14, 2024 at 4:24 AM
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My comic shop haul today was a set of # 1's from 3 of my favorite creators - @gailsimone.bsky.social, @kierongillen.bsky.social, and @fellhound.bsky.social (and all the rest of their creative teams) knocked it out of the park this month and I can't wait to see what's next!
3 comics spread on a surface: S.I.R. #1 by Fell Hound The Power Fantasy #1 by Kieron Gillen The Uncanny X-Men #1 by Gail Simone
August 19, 2024 at 3:17 AM
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@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social did you see this DC Pride variant comic book cover?

I wasn't sure which cover I was going to order, but I think this one is a must-get for me now
An illustration of DC superheroes lounging on the beach in swimwear. In the foreground Poison Ivy is laying down in the shade of a tree, reading a paperback book titled EXTINCTION that's styled to look like the Annihilation paperback edition.
April 4, 2024 at 2:26 AM