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Hi Neil!

Our librarian fraternity is suddenly split on whether or not you actually exist. Any comment on the matter?

I'm with the side that thinks I don't.

I have a long way to go with knitting before I get to functional clothing, but as someone who doesn’t fit into probably any if not most of the patterns out there, how do I like… do it myself?

“This holiday is yours, where we all share with you the hope that this day brings us closer to freedom and to harmony and to peace. No matter how different we appear, we're all the same in our struggle against the powers of evil and darkness. I hope that this day will always be a day of joy, in which we can reconfirm our dedication and our courage. And more than anything else, our love for one another. This is the promise of the Tree of Life.”

Like Bardcore is a thing and nobody was going to tell me about it?

Cuddly black knitted cat. Present for a friend who loves Kiki delivery service.

Batman: The Animated Series - Paper Cut-Out Portraits and Profiles

Poison Ivy

The brilliant botanist, Pamela Isley, waged a war of eco-terrorism as the villainess known as Poison Ivy.  Isley had concocted all manner of plant strains, offering her a bevy of different phytotoxins that enabled her to control the will of others.  She additionally developed rapidly growing plants that could become animated and obeyed her mental commands.  

As Poison Ivy, she sought to punish all whom she deemed as culpable for environmental crimes.  Following her unsuccessful foray to take down those she held responsible for the raising of wetlands for the construction of a penitentiary, Ivy escaped and hatched a new scheme wherein she posed as ‘Dr. Daphne Demeter’ the director of high-end resort called The Eternal Youth Spa.  Ivy offered free invitations to the spa to various business magnates each of whom she saw as guilty of crimes against nature.  She planned on using her powers to transform them into plant-like creatures whom she could then control.  

Wayne Enterprises had been involved in a deal that would involve clear cutting swashes of the Amazon Rain Forest.  Although Bruce Wayne had vetoed this operation, Wayne himself was nonetheless offered an invitation to the spa.  He gifted the invite to Alfred who went to the spa alongside his date, Maggie Page.  After Alfred and Maggie disappeared, Batman investigated The Eternal Youth Spa and ultimately defeated Ivy and rescued Alfred and the others.  

Ivy was remanded to Arkham Asylum.  She would escape on multiple occasions to continue her fight to punish mankind for crimes against the environment.  One caper saw her joining forces with fellow villainess, Harley Quinn.  Although the two did not share much in common, Harley and Ivy became incredibly close and would have many adventures together.  Indeed Harley may be the one human being Ivy truly loves and cares for.

Actress Diane Pershing provided the voice for Poison Ivy, first appearing in the ninth episode of the first season of Batman: The Animated Series, ‘Pretty Poison.’

Superhero plush appreciation post

Hey Crocheters, You Asked For It, The Purrmaid Amigurumi Pattern For YOU Is Here: 👉 https://buff.ly/37Weg64

I for one welcome our new strygine overlord. :)

Backstory: This gentleman escaped from Central Park Zoo in March after his enclosure there was vandalized, and there was a lot of concern over whether or not he could/would survive out of captivity. Unconcerned by this, Flaco settled himself in a particular area of Central Park and spent all the spring, summer, and most of the fall eating large numbers of rats, and genially allowing himself to be photographed by an ever-growing cadre of bird paparazzi.

Then a few weeks ago, possibly irked by repeated mobbing by assorted hawks and corvids, Flaco took off from his normal haunts and went on a brief tour of apartment-building courtyards on the Lower East Side. Now he's on the Upper West Side, within sight of Central Park (so food's no problem, should he feel like heading back that way to hunt), and shouting for everybody to hear that he owns the place. The image above shows him on the water tower of an apartment building at 86th and CPW.

If you look back through the Manhattan Bird Alert and Above 96th Twitter feeds, you'll see many splendid pictures of him. He's a handsome lad, and it's good to see him thriving.

What's in his future? Hard to tell. (Though some people on Twitter are suggesting he should run for mayor.) He may head upstate at some point. But he may decide he's quite happy to be a Manhattanite. As a fellow one, I wish him very well. :)

Too Early to Start

By Carl Mücke

Astonishing X-Men #7

in the job minisode Aziraphale mentions that Gabriel witnesses the first human birth in the garden of Eden, but didn't eve get kicked out of the garden while she was still pregnant?

Yup.

That wasn't the birth he was referring to. The one Gabriel saw had ribs in it.

there’s something endlessly hilarious to me about the phrase “hotly debated” in an academic context. like i just picture a bunch of nerds at podiums & one’s like “of course there was a paleolithic bear cult in Northern Eurasia” and another one just looks him in the eye and says “i’l kill you in real life, kevin”