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Finally.

A meme for today. A meme for everyday.
#ThisAmericanLife

This post has next-to-nothing to do with books but...I found this scythe while antiquing today & couldn‘t resist channeling my inner #Buffy. Where‘s my #ScoobyGang at?

Just discovered these #buffythevampireslayer pin-ups by Emma Munger & I‘m *dying.* I‘ve always been an Angel girl, but the Giles poses are THE BEST! I think I might need the “Research Beckons” print. I bet I‘m not the only one...

1. Buffy. Duh. ⚰️
2. Christmas with fam, meet-ups with old friends (high school & college), IRL book club, seeing some live music (on NYE), trying to finish up 4 books. 😱
3. More a format than a genre but: audiobooks, please! 🙏🏻
4. Sleeping. Any time before 7am is ungodly.
5. A friend of ours makes jewelry (thistlethistle on Instagram). My husband‘s getting me one of these moonstone & mugwort beauties. 🖤

#humpdaypost

UNLITERARY CONTENT ALERT:

I got a new tattoo today! I‘m too excited not to share. 🖤

#cauldrontattoo #womenaremagic #btvs #willowrosenberg

Edit: My tattoo artist posted a *much* better photo that wasn‘t taken from a super-awkward angle. 👌🏻🖤🔮✨

I maaaaayyy have just made a tattoo appointment (for two weeks from now) to get a witchy, body-positive tattoo (with a subtle nod to my favorite witch, Willow Rosenberg).

#WitchPleaseSwap

If you have Instagram & you want to check out my soon-to-be tattoo artist‘s work, it‘s at amanda_black_heart. 🖤

I bought this lotion (inspired by Willow Rosenberg) from an online shop & I can‘t decide if it smells weird but good... or if it actually just smells like adult diapers. 🤷‍♀️

1. The Raven Cycle (Stiefvater); The Magicians (Grossman); Fairyland (Valente); The Diviners (Bray)
2. Buffy the Vampire Slayer; King of the Hill
3. No sports for me!
4. On Fridays, food trucks congregate by my house. I had a bratwurst with maple bacon jam & rosemary Dijon mustard. Paired with a red ale.
5. I have a father, a stepfather, a father-in-law, & a step-father-in-law. Of the 4, exactly ONE of them likes to read (thrillers).

#friyayintro

More shopping delights!

Can some long-lost relative mysteriously leave me an inheritance already? 😂

I want “The Giles”, aka “English Tea + Demonology”, in corpse cream 💀 (lotion):

Black tea + butter cookies + rosewood bookshelves + musk + incense. 🖤

Just had a personalized troubleshooting session with a few kind souls from LibraryThing to assess why my app still isn‘t working. They used words like “internap”, “inside our cage”, & “deep six” when discussing possibilities.

I‘m pretty sure it‘s Moloch the Corrupter. That‘s the only logical explanation.

Cross your fingers for my imminent, happy return (so I can stop eating up my cellphone data)! 🤞🏻

“If the Litsyapocalypse comes, beep me.”

📚Children‘s Library Assistant
📖 Reading; Nature walks; Scrabble
🐰 Moxie Crimefighter, my rabbit-daughter; Kate the Elephant, my neighbor (who lives at the zoo down the street).
🍃 green/blue/gray
🔥 Wasabi peas; PB pretzels 🥜🥨
☕️ Coffee
🍎 The fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good & evil (so... pomegranates?) Also: peonies, fiddlehead ferns, tiger lilies, sea holly thistle... & artichokes. Because yum.
🌊 Summer
⚰️ Buffy

#LitsyLoveList

This is what I‘m all about:
http://theatln.tc/2hROPsC

I once wrote a Critical Theory paper about Buffy & Lacan, & I used a quote from Buffy as the basis for my application essay to grad school.

I love the quote, “critic Emily Nussbaum has lamented that Buffy doesn‘t look the way “worthy” television should look, which has made it difficult for her to convince friends & peers of its quality.” Isn‘t that the exact struggle of every woman? 🌸✊🏻⚰️

The window display in my reading room looks on-point today, in the moody light the rain is casting.

Angel & gloom go together like "chicken and... another chicken, or... two chickens, or... something. You know what I'm saying!" ??⚰️??

I just saw an ad for these ridiculously overpriced "giant pocket shirts" & my first thought was, "I could stash a book in there." I chose this design to share with you because it reminds me of Sunnydale High colors, obvi. #razorbackpride

We saved the world, I say we party.

#savetheworld #anditsaugust @RealLifeReading

A thought provoking book that takes a deeper look into the characters and nature of the Buffyverse. My favorite, so far, of the Popular Culture and Philosophy books. It leaves you with a strong desire to rewatch the series. Great for BtVS fans.

Fun and thought provoking!!!

HAPPY BUFFYVERSARY! #buffyslays20 #grrargh #BtVS #shesavedtheworldalot

Brought Buffy with me to the #womensmarch. #myvoicematters #slaythepatriarchy #dontgiveupheart #fictionalrolemodel #strongfemalecharactersmatter

It's a great day when you come home to find books in the mail from a friend.