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Some really good photos my partner got of Cal looking adorable and chilling out on the decorative leaf above the mushroom house. Now that we know everyone’s a female I’ll admit I’m kinda wanting to get a male @jemsjumpers.bsky.social has some really handsome and cute males!
April 24, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Speaking of the personal library my partner and I have we are at 1,345 books according to BookBuddy app (but it does count some series as only 1 book if they came as a box set with the same ISBN) this is between Children’s-Adult books, Manga, Graphic Novels. Not the Comic Books. #homelibrary
April 21, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Working on shelving the personal library (sticking to shelving only the Novels and Manga/Graphic Novels) books that are part of a series are getting packed away for now. (Not enough shelves)…. can I have a book fairy please… I’d be happy with just 1 new book that’s part of a series or manga a month
April 21, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Just finished reading Gender Queer and loved it! (Started and finished it today) Currently also reading The House in the Cerulean Sea. Recently finished The Woods All Black, which the ending took me a bit by surprise. This puts me at 12 read books this year (manga, fanfic, books). Woot!
April 12, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Monday mood 😐
April 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Finished A Discovery of Witches and Half Bad, would say that’s not bad progress. Need to get Shadow of Night to continue the All Souls series but I have Half Wild on hand so woot. So I’m at 9 finished books this year (10 if you count the fanfic) and it’s just the start of April.
April 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Close ups of Agatha (earlier post from the other day is of Cal) on my feed, haven’t managed to get any of Cham (Chamomile) yet but Cham looks a lot like Agatha. Agatha is our oldest jumper, we’ve had quite a few molts. @jemsjumpers.bsky.social
April 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Some closes up of Cal (Calamity) who doesn’t seem super fond of being held and much preferred to be on the big leaf 😅 @jemsjumpers.bsky.social
April 6, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Our protest was small because of the rain, but they’re doing it again on Thursday. I spoke briefly about racist and bigoted book banning in school libraries.
April 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Finished The Duke and I, while getting occasionally distracted by a BL K-Drama my partner is watching & being the good future hubby and asking questions (since I just started noticing 2/3rds of the way into the series). I’ve got a little over 4 weeks of leave left, gotta make a huge dent in the TBR!
April 3, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Okay so I haven’t made much progress reading wise or watching anime… past two days have really wiped me out… tomorrow though I’m hoping to make a lot of progress by actually waking up early and then lots of reading. Especially since I keep getting more books from the library.
April 1, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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We are BACK - in this picture I think Garcia is hopefully looking to the sky in anticipation of the company that this show is on bringing back their diversity, equity, and inclusion commitments that got taken away because a president made a mandate. Some mandates are dumb but DEI is smart forever.
March 31, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Oh, just remembered, there's an e-promo of All Systems Red, it should be 1.99 on most US retailers, today (March 30) only. www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
All Systems Red ebook by Martha Wells - Rakuten Kobo
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March 30, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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They call jumping spiders the cats of the spider world
March 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Progress today… finished Food Wars season 1, and so far made it to page 197 of The Duke and I, haven’t made any additional progress on A Discovery of Witches (pg 116) or my other current reads (Stalking Jack The Ripper, The Forbidden, The Screaming Staircase, and a HP Fan Fic) 😅 maybe tomorrow
March 30, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Redecorated Cham (“Cam”) and Cal’s enclosures. Hopefully they like them 😅 my post-op surgery brain said they needed a redecoration cause they looked bored. Cal very much said “I’m gonna fight this brush” and Cham was like… “uhh no” before they went into temp containers for the redecoration.
March 30, 2025 at 12:56 AM
On a non book related post, I managed to snap a photo of Burrow our Cyriopagopus albostriatus who recently molted. I’m the one with arachnophobia so I still get massive chill bumps whenever I see Burrow out, but I at least don’t have the urge to run away anymore. (I still prefer our jumpers!)
March 29, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Is 132 pages of the first Bridgeton book (The Duke and I) during ads and breaks while watching Food Wars (anime) count as decent progress today? I wonder if I can finish the book by tomorrow evening (but I also need to work on Discovery of Witches) and want to finish the first season of Food Wars
March 29, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Surgery was Monday and even though I’m suppose to be resting and healing over the next 6 weeks I felt like a short trip to the used book store today was 100% needed… 😅 did I use up a majority of our store credit… yes but we walked out with like 23 books which I feel like is helping the healing
March 29, 2025 at 4:47 AM
I 100% did read a 3 volume manga series today. Was it mature audience only… yes (look I may be almost 30 but I have the mind of a teenage boy at times). Was it a mind fuck (am I allowed to curse here?) for dipping my toes back into manga… 1000% will my partner love it, yes and that’s what matters
March 23, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Just got back from the library and the used book store. Full bag of books from the library and a bag of books from the used book store. Do I feel like I’ve achieved something today… yes, yes I do!

Do I still wish I had a fairy book giver… also yes… just send me books to hoard… I’m only at 1,300ish
March 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Finished The Last Flight and Artificial Condition! Replaced them with A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness (borrowed from the library). Next 6 weeks I’m going to have a lot of free time, so let’s see how many books I can read while healing.
March 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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The anti-trans bathroom bill now is taking testimony! Will be heard next week!
March 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Did I binge watch the entire Lockwood&Co. tv show… yes! Why did they cancel it!? >.< it’s fine now I have all 5 books to read (thanks to the library!) did I also binge watch Half Bad as well… yes! Did they also cancel it after one season… also yes but I have a hold on the trilogy at the library.
March 15, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Am I currently reading 6 books (plus a fanfic that hasn’t been named) yes… do I keep bouncing between them all… yes… is it because I keep going from not reading and my mood changing… also yes… but hey 6 weeks bed rest in a little over a week should get me caught up!
March 15, 2025 at 11:19 PM