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Auncle d'illuvian
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Maker of messes, mistakes, & a big, noisy, nonbinary fuss.
A witch always has a piece of string - Terry Pratchett
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need - Cicero
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 20/20
#BookSky 💙📚
The cover of "the original uncut" version of RObert Heinlein's Stranger In A Strange Land. On a blue background, a white man with dark hair (the protagonist, Michael Valentine Smith) sits in meditation at the bottom of a sun-dappled pool. A white woman with light hair has swum down to kiss him on the forehead. Underneath, in white block letters, is the title.
December 11, 2024 at 4:09 PM
illuviel.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 19/20
#BookSky 💙📚
Front cover of Etiquette, by Emily Post, first edition 1922. On a plain blue cover are stamped the title and author in elegant, gold block letters.
December 9, 2024 at 9:54 PM
illuviel.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 18/20
#BookSky 💙📚
Book cover of Seanan McGuire's Every Heart A Doorway. In a sun-dappled forest, a wooden door in a frame stands in the middle of a clearing. Overall, the book's title is in sans-serif, white, block letters and is half-in, half-out the open doorway. Underneath is the author's name in white serif font block all-caps, and under that, in smaller block letters, "New Yor Times Bestselling Author"
December 8, 2024 at 9:42 PM
illuviel.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 17/20
#BookSky 💙📚
Book cover of Flowers in the Attic by VC Andrews. On a black background, a closeup of a gabled attic window with red shutters, matching the red roof. In the window, a closeup picture of a very pale white young woman with pale hair.
December 8, 2024 at 4:01 AM
illuviel.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 16/20
#BookSky 💙📚
The cover of Terry Pratchett's Nation: a brown-skinned person with short brown hair, seen from the rear, looks at a the prow of a wrecked ship, seen through jungle foliage. Words accompany the image: (in all caps, in white) TERRY PRATCHETT; (in large red letters) Nation; (in smaller, white italics) When much is taken, something is returned.
December 5, 2024 at 5:40 PM
illuviel.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 15/20
#BookSky 💙📚
The cover of Larry Niven's Integral Trees; a long-limbed, medium toned pserson floats among branches against a cloudy sky. They are dressed in a green vest & capri-length trousers, standing in tree pose, holding a harpoon across their shoulders and grasping the line in their toes.
December 5, 2024 at 4:10 PM
illuviel.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 14/20
#BookSky 💙📚
December 5, 2024 at 4:04 PM
illuviel.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 13/20
#BookSky 💙📚
December 1, 2024 at 9:37 PM
illuviel.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 11/20
#BookSky 💙📚
The boxed set of The Magicians trilogy by Lev Grossman: The Magicians, The Magician King, and The Magician's Land
November 29, 2024 at 9:49 PM
illuviel.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 11/20
#BookSky 💙📚
Cover of The Marvelous Land of OZ, by L. Frank Baum. On a red cover, The Scarecrow, with crown and scepter, shakes hands with the Tin Man, who holds an axe. They each sit on a large emerald.
November 28, 2024 at 4:51 PM
illuviel.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 10/20
#BookSky 💙📚
The cover of Sybil Leek's Diary of a Witch: the private life of one of the world's most famous and colorful psychics. On a red book cover, A head shot black and white photograph of the author, over the author and title in decorative 1970's art nouveau lettering.
November 27, 2024 at 5:00 PM
illuviel.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 9/20
#BookSky 💙📚
The cover of James S.A. Corey's Leviathan Wakes. In deep space, a dutch angle shot of a space ship coming in to dock at a station. The author's name is in white block letters, the title in magenta ones.
November 27, 2024 at 4:56 PM
illuviel.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 8/20
#BookSky 💙📚
The cover of N.K. Jemisin's How Long 'Til Black Future Month? On a black photographic background is a Black girl with a frohawk. She in profile facing to the right. She is wearing a black furry collar and two short necklaces with chunky, white, felted beads, a helical piercing in her ear, and woven wicker spheres in the side of her hair.
November 25, 2024 at 7:45 PM
illuviel.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 7/20
#BookSky 💙📚
The cover of Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales: collectable classics, selected and unabridged. Within an oval, The little mermaid looks at a seagull, having come up from the waves, all within a gold acanthus type filigree border on a white background.
November 25, 2024 at 3:01 AM
illuviel.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 6/20
#BookSky 💙📚
The cover of Essential Tibetan Buddhism by Robert A.F. Thurman. A mandala of Buddhas, bodhisattvas, gods, and dakinis attend to a buddha. Overall is a tan square with a dark double border. Within is the title, a Tibetan symbol, OM, and the author's name.
November 24, 2024 at 12:15 AM
illuviel.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 5/20
#BookSky 💙📚
The cover of Changeling:the Dreaming by Mark Rhine-Hagen and other authors for White Wolf publishing, 1995. The cover looks like a stained glass window, showing a griffin grasping a sword in its talons standing over a clock face reading 13 o'clock. Surrounding this is a knotwork border. In the corners of the border are small symbols in circles.
November 22, 2024 at 10:56 PM
illuviel.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 4/20
#BookSky 💙📚
The cover of How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-inspired guide forthe chronically ill and their caregivers, by Toni Bernhard. The cover is red at the edges shading to gold at the center, whre is displayed a bright blue, photorealistic butterfly. The book's lettering surrounds this butterfly and is in white and purple.
November 21, 2024 at 6:23 PM
illuviel.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 3/20
#BookSky 💙📚
The cover of Andre Norton's Lavender-Green Magic. A white girl in Puritan clothing looks off to the right of the cover; She is wearing black and white clothing and her black cloak has a red lining. She is between a black cat with shining-beam eyes above her and a pink-and-yellow rose with thorny canes below her. Smoke or mist wafts behind her in waves.
November 20, 2024 at 2:39 PM
illuviel.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 2/20
#BookSky 💙📚
The cover of Scott Cunningham's Earth Power: Techniques of Natural Magic (Llewellyn, 1978). A blonde woman with medium complexion sits on rocks by the ocean, holding a shining stone or shell in her hand. She wears a long white dress and a dark, floral patterned, fringed shawl. Sunset reflects in the water. Her eyes are closed and she smiles as if enjoying the breeze blowing through her long hair.
November 20, 2024 at 2:35 PM
illuviel.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 1/20
#BookSky 💙📚
Book covers: The Many-Colored Land by Julian May partially obscures the covers of The Golden Torc and The Nonborn King, both also by Julian May. On the main book cover stand a group of six adventurers hiking toward a mountain. In the foreground are a bearded blond man with big muscles, dressed as a Viking with a horned helmet, and a white woman in a traditional, black and white nun's habit. She stands next to someone whose face is obscured by a pith helmet.
November 19, 2024 at 1:38 AM
illuviel.bsky.social
A small thing, but a new steno book when I already have a metric jillion other notebooks and pieces of (much better-quality!) paper than this, plus new paper flags (I needed them) and a couple of waterbrushes (one shown) from the Dollar-and-a-quarter store
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November 16, 2024 at 4:15 PM
illuviel.bsky.social
How it started vs how it's going:
#CatsOfBluesky #bskycats #kitten
Closeup of Filibuster as a six week old kitten. She is a small, fuzzy, dilute patched calico tabby cat draped over the back of a couch, which is covered by a multicolored, striped blanket. Closeup of Filibuster as a fifteen (?) week old kitten, draped across illuviel's lap. Filli is a dilute patched tabby calico. Lluvi is wearing a red, green and black plaid lungi and a leaf green top.
July 23, 2024 at 1:02 AM
illuviel.bsky.social
State of the small mammal, much larger than she used to be
Closeup of Filibuster, a dilute patched tabby calico cat, is cream, bluish gray, and peach. She is snoozing, stretched out across on illuviel 's lap, draped over their left thigh. Lluvi is wearing a red, black, green, and yellow lungi & a green top. Portions of each are visible.
July 22, 2024 at 6:49 PM