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Heather Shipman
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Former library e-resources specialist, on extreme hiatus for ME/CFS/fibro. Still alive, though!
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Not mutually exclusive:
A screenshot of two skeets. In the first, noted Klingon philosopher Coach Gowran assures us that "Even in your darkest moments, I see your light, your worth. A true warrior does not give up, least of all on themselves." In the second skeet, zen master Effin Birds has drawn an American Robin (or somesuch red-breasted bird, what do I know) proclaiming that "THIS SHIT IS GETTING REAL OLD". Sing it, sisters.
October 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Resting murder face:
A black cat lies curled up on a rainbow blanket, looking almost entirely relaxed and content, except for her murderous gaze.
April 6, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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I'm learning to darn(?) and the cats are extremely excited about it. They're even willing to tolerate each other's presence on the chair with me so they can both hunt the yarn!

This is not convenient for my work, but entertaining nonetheless.
One black cat is lying on top of a white blanket, with her nose up in a hole that's being patched with brightly multicolored yarn. She is going to kill that yarn.
February 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Can confirm:
The duolingo owl, entirely purple and either ghostly or perhaps on fire (in which case I assume he will be ghostly soon). Duo is freaking out that it is almost midnight (it is only 10 PM) and you are going to lose your 1048-day streak. He will haunt you forever.
February 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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I'm crocheting a circular blanket, and Juniper's favorite thing is to sit on whatever I'm working on.

We have not yet perfected the cat taco, but we remain optimistic.
A black cat, haphazardly swaddled in a rainbow-patterned blanket, on the photographer's lap.
January 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Alas, poor Yorick! 😭
A small potted cactus, dead. The pot is shaped like a skull and the plant is, I repeat, quite dead.
January 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Seems like a good day to ponder upon pink elephants.

A day may come when I understand colors and shadows and blending, but it is not this day. Maybe tomorrow.
An unfinished painting of a very pink elephant. The very pink elephant is stomping purposefully towards its audience, or would be, anyway, if its artist had managed to give it the appropriate number of legs. Perhaps it is hopping on its single fat leg. Nonetheless, the very pink elephant is almost upon you. The painting rests on a desk beside paints and a half-empty wineglass. The wineglass rests perilously close to the jar of paintwater. The dirty paintbrush appears to be in the correct glass.
January 21, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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I love these jammy bars; they're simple enough I can bake a batch even during a flare (albeit slowly, doing it in stages based on avoiding any chemical reactions until the very end, and taking several long breaks).

#baking
A pan of jammy bars, with one piece missing, thus exposing a side view of the layers. They have a cookie base, a cherry jam filling in the middle, and the same cookie, except crumbled, on top.
November 21, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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By which I mean: all of them. Have a cat, instead:
A black cat lies in the author's lap, tucked in under an in-progress granny hexagon. The author is watching the Great British Bake-Off; the cat is watching something off to the right, which apparently is not worth leaving the blankets to kill.
May 31, 2024 at 4:20 PM
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I win today after all!
A tomato-spinache quiche, in a pie plate with as many digits of pi around the rim as fit on it.
May 29, 2024 at 9:21 PM
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A beautiful cat:
A black cat stands on her hind legs to peer out a window. Something interesting is out there.
May 5, 2024 at 4:41 AM