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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Bloody thou art; bloody will be thy end. Shame serves thy life and doth thy death attend." Richard III Act 4, Scene 4 #ShakespeareSunday Theme: Richard III

Photo of an archaeological excavation of a human skeleton which was later confirmed through DNA testing to be the remains of King Richard III. His skeleton was found underneath a parking lot in Leicester, England in 2012.

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"God was palpably present in the country, and the devil had gone with the world to town." -Far From the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy #BookWormSat

Poster for an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's "Far From the Madding Crowd" by the Conn Artists Theatre Company in Wales, adapted by Nick Young and Ross Muir. The artwork features the silhouette of a woman wearing a long, flowing dress. The background is rugged countryside with a large, leafless tree in the upper right corner.

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Share someone who looks stylish posing with or next to a car.

Hugh Fraser as Captain Hastings from "Agatha Christie's Poirot". In the top photo he is standing next to a classic car wearing a leather coat and gloves, a scarf, and a flat cap. In the bottom photo he is sitting behind the wheel of a classic car wearing a tweed suit and leather gloves.

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"O, I am stabb'd with laughter!" Love's Labour's Lost Act 5, Scene 2 #ShakespeareSunday Theme: The Comedies

Captain Jean-Luc Picard, played by Patrick Stewart, laughing after being stabbed through the heart in "Tapestry," S06E15 of Star Trek: TNG.

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“Owl,” said Rabbit shortly, “you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is any thinking to be done in this Forest—and when I say thinking I mean thinking—you and I must do it.” -The House at Pooh Corner A.A. Milne #BookWormSat #InternationalRabbitDay

Illustration by Ernest Howard Shepard from "The House at Pooh Corner." Rabbit walks through the Hundred Acre Wood on a nice spring day.

Illustration by Ernest Howard Shepard from "The House at Pooh Corner." Rabbit can be seen standing in the doorway talking to Owl.

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"And summer’s lease hath all too short a date." Sonnet 18 #ShakespeareSunday Theme: Autumn

Comic panel by Canadian cartoonist and animator Graham Annable. Two children playing with a lawn sprinkler notice that a witch holding a broom is peeking around the corner of the house. It is captioned "They could see that Autumn was just around the corner."

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"...an autumn 'twas That grew the more by reaping." Antony and Cleopatra Act 5, Scene 2 #ShakespeareSunday Theme: Autumn

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested..." -‘Of Studies’ from The Essays Sir Francis Bacon #BookWormSat

This cover features the "Portrait of Francis Bacon," an oil painting attributed to Flemish painter Paulus van Somer (or his studio as several copies were made in his style), superimposed onto a background of a path through bare trees.

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest. Give me a nice deadly phial to play with and I’m happy." #AgathaChristie quote from her interview with Nigel Dennis, published in the May 14, 1956 issue of LIFE magazine. Happy birthday to the Queen of Crime! 🔎

Miss Marple birthday card designed by Laura Crow. Miss Marple can be seen knitting through a magnifying glass. The card is captioned "A birthday has been detected."

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"I pray you, bear me hence From forth the noise and rumour of the field, Where I may think the remnant of my thoughts In peace..." King John Act 5, Scene 4 #ShakespeareSunday Theme: Loud & Quiet

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"Urban enclave of lawns and water, Lacquered ducks and young men sculling, Children who never had seen the country Believing it this while those who had once Known real country ignore the void Their present imposes, their past exposes." -Excerpt from "The Park" Louis MacNeice #BookWormSat

Picture of Gapstow Bridge in Central Park, Manhattan. Numerous ducks can be seen in the foreground floating on the water and tall buildings can be seen in the background. Picture by Vicki Jauron, Babylon And Beyond Photography/Getty Images.

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"Thus comes the English with full power upon us, And more than carefully it us concerns To answer royally in our defences." Henry V Act 2, Scene 4 #ShakespeareSunday Theme: France

Split screenshot from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" showing two scenes. The top half shows King Arthur and his knights looking up and is captioned "What are you then?" The bottom half shows a French soldier looking down and taunting the group below. It is captioned "I'm French. Why do you think I have this outrageous accent, you silly king?"

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"Show me how the impossible can be possible!” “It is a good phrase that,” said Poirot. “The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.” -Murder on the Orient Express #AgathaChristie #BookWormSat #ReadABookDay

Playbill art for a production of "Murder on the Orient Express" at the Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre in Missouri, adapted for the stage by Ken Ludwig. This artwork features a steam locomotive going through a mountainous area. Ominous blood red smoke coming from the stack forms the shape of a skull.

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"You taught me language, and my profit on 't Is I know how to curse." The Tempest Act 1, Scene 2 #ShakespeareSunday Theme: Education

Curse words

(n.) The easiest words to memorize when you're learning a new language.

Definition from Hip Dictionary.

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The baby bat Screamed out in fright, "Turn on the dark, I'm afraid of the light." -Batty Shel Silverstein #BookWormSat #InternationalBatNight

Line drawing of a baby bat by author and artist Shel Silverstein for his poem titled "Batty" from "A Light in the Attic" (1981).

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"I am not bound to please thee with my answers.” The Merchant of Venice Act 4, Scene 1 #ShakespeareSunday Theme free

"Blooming Clover," 1897 oil painting by Dutch artist Jacobus van Looij. It depicts a close-up view of a field of white and purple clover flowers. The text "I refuse to lose my whimsy" has been overlaid on the image.

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"Ophelia, madness suits you well, as the ocean sounds in an empty shell, as the moon shines brightest in a starless sky, as suns supernova before they die …" -Ophelia Michael R. Burch #BookWormSat

"Ophelia," 1851–1852 oil painting by British artist John Everett Millais. It depicts the tragic drowning of Ophelia from Shakespeare's "Hamlet."

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

According to local legend, Givins Castle in Chicago was built from bricks shipped over from a dismantled castle in Ireland. People have claimed they've interacted with a young woman who speaks with an Irish brogue and walks up the hill toward the front door before promptly vanishing. #SpookySunday

A picture of a castle in the autumn with bare trees and orange leaves on the ground. The Givins Castle in the Beverly neighborhood of Chicago was built by Robert C. Givins between 1886 and 1887. It is a three story Irish medieval style castle built from limestone. Numerous ghost stories are associated with the building, including the ghost of a young lady thought to be Robert Givins's Irish fiancée, who died before she could move to America. Voices can be heard in empty corridors and lights can be seen moving around in the upper windows when no one is inside the building. The castle currently serves as the home of the Beverly Unitarian Church.

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"I like this place. And willingly could waste my time in it." As You Like It Act 2, Scene 4 #ShakespeareSunday Theme: Summer Holidays

Stock image of an untidy stack of books on a table with an open book and glasses placed on it nearby. A blurry image of a beach and a cloudy blue sky can be seen in the background.

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

"Highest of all, where white peaks glanced, Where glist’ning streamers waved and danced, The wanderer’s eye could barely view The summer heaven’s delicious blue; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream." -The Lady of the Lake Sir Walter Scott #BookWormSat

This cover illustration, titled "The Lady of the Lake," was painted by artist Lancelot Speed. In the foreground, Nimue has emerged from the lake to grant Excalibur to King Arthur. Two figures on horseback are behind her on the rocky shore, and a mist-shrouded castle can be seen in the background.

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Show me your pet and who they’re named after

Arya, my fluffy brown striped cat with green eyes, reclining on a pillow.

Arya Stark (played by Maisie Williams) holding her sword, Needle. She was given the nickname "Arya Underfoot" when she lived in Winterfell, which is also what I call my cat sometimes because she's always underfoot.

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

"Macbeth in the Witches' Cave," watercolor painting by Johann Heinrich Ramberg. It illustrates Act 4, Scene 1 of "Macbeth" when he encounters the three witches. One witch stirs a cauldron, another points to a spectral figure of a child, while the third gathers wood to feed the fire. #SpookySunday

"Macbeth in the Witches' Cave," watercolor painting by Johann Heinrich Ramberg (1829), illustrating Act 4, Scene 1 of "Macbeth." One witch stirs a cauldron while pondering the appearance of Macbeth, another points to a spectral figure of a bloody child and a head wearing a helmet, while the third is helped with gathering wood to feed the fire. Various demonic creatures can be seen surrounding the witches. Macbeth stands to the left in ornate armor.

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

"Sweet Moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams; I thank thee, Moon, for shining now so bright; For, by thy gracious, golden, glittering gleams, I trust to take of truest Thisby sight." A Midsummer Night’s Dream Act 5, Scene 1 #ShakespeareSunday Theme: Sun & Moon

Shutterstock digital artwork created by Yankittaphak Phoyalo featuring a mirrored image of day and night, with a warm-toned sky and sun above and a cool-toned lake and moon below.

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself." -The Cat Inside William S. Burroughs #BookWormSat #Caturday #InternationalCatDay

"Siesta" by Italian painter Orazio Orazi, featuring a woman sleeping on a bed with a seal point siamese cat sleeping on top of her.

"Man Sleeping with a Tuxedo Cat" by artist Belinda Del Pesco, featuring a man sleeping in bed with a black and white tuxedo cat resting beside him.

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet." Romeo and Juliet Act 2, Scene 2 #ShakespeareSunday Theme: Summer of Love

Image showing the developmental sequence of a red rose from a closed bud to a blooming flower.

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

"The illusions of the child only differed from those of the man in that they were more picturesque; belief in fairies and belief in the Stock Exchange as bestowers of happiness were equally vain, but the latter form of faith was ugly as well as inept." -The Hill of Dreams Arthur Machen #BookwormSat

Frontispiece for "The Hill of Dreams," illustrated by Sidney Herbert Sime, depicting the protagonist, Lucian (a rector's son), kneeling before his muse, Annie (a farmer's daughter). They are illuminated by a shaft of light in a wooded area, looking into each other's eyes with his hands clasped behind her knees and her hand on his head.

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

"I have done a thousand dreadful things As willingly as one would kill a fly, And nothing grieves me heartily indeed But that I cannot do ten thousand more." Titus Andronicus Act 5, Scene 1 #ShakespeareSunday Theme: Greek & Roman Plays

Small orange kitten wearing a lion costume outdoors, looking fierce. Its mouth is open making it look like it is roaring.

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

"Like madness is the glory of this life." Timon of Athens Act 1, Scene 2 #ShakespeareSunday Theme: Greek & Roman Plays

"WHAT IS THIS MADNESS" - design by Fox Shiver (artist Justyna Dorsz) depicting the head of a black cat with wide eyes on a white background.

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

"When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own? Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely. Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time." -Kitchen Banana Yoshimoto #BookWormSat

Cover for the novel "Kitchen" by Banana Yoshimoto, featuring the illustration of a table set for a Japanese dinner in the evening. A full moon and part of a tree can be seen through the window.

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The spirit of Amelia Earhart is said to haunt Hangar Number One at the Purdue University Airport in West Lafayette, IN. Unusual sights and sounds have been reported by visitors and personnel. She was a visiting faculty advisor at Purdue, which helped fund her final, ill-fated flight. #PhantomsFriday

My birthday twin Amelia Earhart (both of us born on July 24th).

A slender woman with short hair wearing pants, an aviation jacket, and a scarf has been seen lingering in the shadows at the airport.

In this 1928 portrait she is wearing a white flight outfit and helmet with aviator goggles. Photo source: Seaver Center for Western History Research.

Amelia Earhart, Purdue University president Edward C. Elliott, and airport manager Captain Lawrence Aretz at the Purdue University Airport in West Lafayette, Indiana, 1936. Photo source: Purdue University Libraries, Archives, and Special Collections.

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

"Oft expectation fails and most oft there Where most it promises, and oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits." All's Well That Ends Well Act 2, Scene 1 #ShakespeareSunday Theme: Hope & Disappointment

"Hope in a Prison of Despair" - oil painting by Evelyn De Morgan (1887). It depicts Hope as a young person holding a lamp, entering and lighting a dungeon where a woman in the corner is bowed down in despair near a barred window and broken chains.

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

"Good humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society." -Sketches and Travels in London William Makepeace Thackeray #BookWormSat

Illustration titled "Falling foul of the skirts" by William Makepeace Thackeray, published in "Thackerayana: Notes and Anecdotes" (1875). It depicts a gentleman in a long coat and top hat tripping over a woman's skirts. He loses his glasses while ripping off the bottom of her skirts. The woman is holding an umbrella and is looking back at him in dismay.

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

"Who was the blundering idiot who said that 'fine words butter no parsnips?' Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce." -Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray #BookWormSat

Gift edition cover of "Vanity Fair" from Bookishly featuring a blue archway and pink curtains framing a marionette of a woman on stage, surrounded by flowers.

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

On July 4, 2026 a blanket of heavy fog rolled into Wrigley Field from Lake Michigan during the Chicago Cubs vs. St. Louis Cardinals game. The fog obscured the whole stadium and got so bad that players told the umpires they couldn't see the ball, resulting in a 15-minute weather delay. #WyrdWednesday

Wrigley Field covered by dense fog. Picture by Brian Sandalow for the Chicago Sun-Times.

Screenshot from the Cubs vs. Cardinals game. The fog is so thick the players can barely be seen.

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

"Nor tripped neither, you base football player?" King Lear Act 1, Scene 4 #ShakespeareSunday Theme: Sports

Screenshot from "The IT Crowd" showing Moss's unenthusiastic play-by-play commentary on a football game:

"Hooray. He's kicked the ball. Now the ball's over there. That man has it now. That's an interesting development. Maybe he'll kick the ball. He has indeed and apparently that deserves a round of applause."

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

“It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet fever.” -The Winter of Our Discontent John Steinbeck #BookWormSat

Portrait of John Steinbeck by artist Valerie Suter, painted in a whimsical style and titled "John Steinbeck among chrysanthemums." The author is wearing a tan and brown outfit with white chrysanthemums in the background.

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

"She was cutting down the old year’s chrysanthemum stalks with a pair of short and powerful scissors....her work with the scissors was over-eager, over-powerful. The chrysanthemum stems seemed too small and easy for her energy." -The Chrysanthemums John Steinbeck #BookWormSat

Flower market print by Dash Decors featuring Chicago's official flower, the chrysanthemum. In this image vibrant yellow chrysanthemum blooms can be seen on a beige background.

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

"The game's afoot: Follow your spirit, and upon this charge Cry ‘God for Harry, England, and Saint George!’" Henry V Act 3, Scene 1 #ShakespeareSunday #ForTheLoveOfShakespeare Theme: The Hollow Crown Plays

Screenshot from "The Hollow Crown" featuring Tom Hiddleston as King Henry V. In this pic he is wearing armor and is surrounded by people.

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead!" Henry V Act 3, Scene 1 #ShakespeareSunday #ForTheLoveOfShakespeare Theme: The Hollow Crown Plays

Screenshot from "The Hollow Crown" featuring Tom Hiddleston as King Henry V. In this pic he is holding a shield and the national flag of England.

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

"But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad." "How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here." -Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll #BookWormSat

Colorized version of Sir John Tenniel's 1865 illustration from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (also known as "Alice in Wonderland"). The image depicts a young girl wearing a blue and yellow dress looking up at a large striped brown cat perched in a tree. The cat is looking down at her and grinning. It is captioned "Alice meets the Cheshire Cat."

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

"To bear my lady’s train, lest the base earth Should from her vesture chance to steal a kiss And, of so great a favour growing proud, Disdain to root the summer-swelling flower And make rough winter everlastingly." The Two Gentlemen of Verona Act 2, Scene 4 #ShakespeareSunday Theme free

Artwork titled "Loin Du Tumulte" created by photographer Maxime Simoncelli. It features a woman with long hair wearing a white dress wandering in an ethereal forest landscape.

Another image from the collection by photographer Maxime Simoncelli. This also features a woman with long hair wearing a white dress but her head has been cropped from the pic. She is holding a bouquet of white flowers.

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer." -The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald #BookWormSat

Cover for the Penguin Modern Classics edition of "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, featuring a vintage photo of a young couple relaxing in a garden together. A woman in a long, flowy white dress is reclining on a lounge chair. A man can be seen sitting close to her, with drinks and cigarettes on a small table beside them.

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

“[Aside] Too hot, too hot!” -The Winter’s Tale (A1, S2) #Shakespeare #Poirot #heatwave

Top pic: "How I think I look during a heat wave." Poirot looking dapper in a cream colored suit and hat, with an immaculate mustache.
Bottom pic: "How I actually look." Poirot looking hot, sweaty, and miserable. His mustache and hair have definitely seen better days.

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

"I am thy father's spirit, Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night And for the day confin'd to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purg'd away." Hamlet Act 1, Scene 5 #ShakespeareSunday Theme: Fathers

1881 engraving titled "Hamlet in the Presence of His Father's Ghost." The original illustration was created by Sir John Gilbert and was engraved by the Dalziel Brothers. Hamlet is shown kneeling before the ghost of his father under a cloudy moonlit sky.

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

"Nor elves, nor fays, nor magic charm, Have pow'r, or will, to work us harm; For those who dare the truth to tell, Fays, elves, and fairies, wish them well." -The Knapsack Maria Edgeworth #BookWormSat

1903 edition of "Tales from Maria Edgeworth" published by Wells Gardner, Darton, & Co. The cover is dark red and features a gold embossed illustration by Hugh Thomson, depicting a boy in a tree tossing apples down to a girl who is holding her apron out to catch them.

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