Brooke @hangyodon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026seeing all the goal notifs for the Sharks game I have no way of watching 120
Brooke @hangyodon.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I was looking for books in native Spanish that weren’t actual picture books or like, Borges/Allende/García Márquez… you know, something more at my current level that’s still sufficiently challenging. I think I found a YA novel that will suit my needs 330
Brooke @hangyodon.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I'm in the Spanish flashcard making mines and using whatever stock photos/clipart I like best for each card. This is what I found for "dejar atrás" (to leave behind) 2101
Brooke @hangyodon.bsky.social · 04/08/2026obsessed with this post I saw on the Liga MX subreddit the other day 0154
Brooke @hangyodon.bsky.social · 26/07/2026We saw the baby black and white colobus monkey at the zoo today 🥹 here's an official pic of it from the zoo's blog 0120
Brooke @hangyodon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026we got these cheap thermometers that go in the freezer and fridge and show their temps on this little magnet, it’s been super helpful for power outages! it lets us know exactly how cold it is and gives you that peace of mind. And you can always temporarily move important fridge stuff to the freezer 110
Brooke @hangyodon.bsky.social · 21/07/2026LRP I think I saw that same species (or similar) on a hike a couple weeks ago 😮 080
Brooke @hangyodon.bsky.social · 28/06/2026LRP it looks so fake but apparently they really do look like that 020
Brooke @hangyodon.bsky.social · 21/06/2026LRP I just finished In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex and I was reminded of this part 010
Brooke @hangyodon.bsky.social · 11/06/2026From the wikipedia article for botulism. You can't make this kind of stuff up 140
Brooke @hangyodon.bsky.social · 08/06/2026amazing little free library find this weekend. It's from 1984 and the authors were themselves a gay couple. They mention interviewing couples who had been together for decades and I'm fascinated to read about that 0110
Brooke @hangyodon.bsky.social · 27/04/2026If I can skate on shredded ice with dozens of these things zooming around me then I can do anything 1140
Brooke @hangyodon.bsky.social · 03/03/2026On the same used bookstore trip, I got this copy of Jane Eyre for $2. It has this note inside 0112
Brooke @hangyodon.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Husband bought a Spanish translation of Charlotte's Web and I want to cry looking at these cute illustrations. I haven't seen these since I was a kid 3151
Brooke @hangyodon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Can someone explain why this was also in my package lmao 280
Brooke @hangyodon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Actually everything is okay now because he just arrived 👍 2110
Brooke @hangyodon.bsky.social · 27/01/2026I don't have the old post anymore, but I took this screenshot one year ago today 1121
Brooke @hangyodon.bsky.social · 16/01/2026The English Kuriboh cards usually use the word "detonate"! It's normally only used when talking about bombs and mines. But it's also a more formal word than "explode" or "blow up". In your comic, you wrote "blew up like mines", which to me is the way Jounouchi would say it! 😊 110
Brooke @hangyodon.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Not finished reading yet but oh man, this book. Intense, stressful, made me cry just now. I’m enjoying my time with it a lot so far 250
Brooke @hangyodon.bsky.social · 23/12/2025I'm always delighted by how plump mergansers are when you can actually see their bodies 2222
Brooke @hangyodon.bsky.social · 22/12/2025Crate and Barrel was selling these nice plates for Year of the Snake and we got a few of them in January. I don't like the upcoming Year of the Horse design as much, but I'll probably get some since my husband is a snake and I'm a horse 1100
Brooke @hangyodon.bsky.social · 10/12/2025can't get over how handsome Fredric March was in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, goddamn 180
Brooke @hangyodon.bsky.social · 09/12/2025After his stress meter fills up, Dr. Jekyll will transform into Mr. Hyde. 260
Brooke @hangyodon.bsky.social · 09/12/2025I wanted one of these so fucking badly when I was a kid 280
Brooke @hangyodon.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Last night we watched The Shop Around the Corner (1940) and I really liked this art from the movie poster 0133
![Nickerson was the after oarsman on Chase's boat, placing him just forward of the first mate at the steering oar. Chase was the only man in the boat who could actually see the whale up ahead. While each mate or captain had his own style, they all coaxed and cajoled their crews with words that evoked the savagery, excitement, and the almost erotic bloodlust associated with pursuing one of the largest mammals on the planet. Adding to the tension was the need to remain as quiet as possible so as not to alarm or "gally" the whale. William Comstock recorded the whispered words of a Nantucket mate:
Do for heaven's sake spring. The boat don't move. You're all asleep; see, see! There she lies; skote, skote! I love you, my dear fellows, yes, yes, I do; I'll do anything for you, I'll give you my heart's blood to drink; only take me up to this whale only this time, for this once, pull. Oh, St. Peter, St. Jerome, St. Stephen, St. James, St. John, the devil on two sticks; carry me up; O, let me tickle him, let me feel of his ribs. There, there, go on; O, O, O, most on, most on. Stand up, Starbuck [the harpooner]. Don't hold your iron that way; put one hand over the end of the pole. Now, now, look out. Dart, dart.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rokdabbh4n2kycu7j5w6s5jz/bafkreiekb22hqv5g7ytgabqpa3rshek2opjk2cpd3eekujhzlj7uxwxvmi)
![excerpt from the Wikipedia article for the NES game Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde:
Gameplay and premise
In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll is on the way to his forthcoming wedding to Miss Millicent. The game's ending depends on which character, Jekyll or Hyde, reaches the church first.
As Dr. Jekyll walks to the church with his cane in hand, several townspeople, animals, and other obstacles obstruct his path, causing him to become angry. After his stress meter fills up, Dr. Jekyll will transform into Mr. Hyde. The gameplay then moves to a demonic world, where Hyde will fire out a "psycho wave" at various monsters. As Mr. Hyde kills these monsters, his anger abates and he eventually transforms back into Dr. Jekyll.
[screenshot captioned "Gameplay in Dr. Jekyll mode, walking through town"]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rokdabbh4n2kycu7j5w6s5jz/bafkreiaxidghqalkycb62pcwy6dn6p4odn5xxbfjp57xedp64zkqtqceqm)
![The nineteenth-century naturalist John Burroughs, an essayist in the Thoreauvian tradition, spoke eloquently of the bald eagle's range. He wrote, "[The] continent is his home. I never look upon one without emotion; I follow him with my eye as long as I can. I think of Canada, of the Great Lakes, of the Rocky Mountains, of the wild and sounding sea-coast. The waters are his, and the woods and the inaccessible cliffs. He pierces behind the veil of the storm, and his joy is height and depth and vast spaces."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rokdabbh4n2kycu7j5w6s5jz/bafkreibr3nylfocrzl3lewcyuvkwceco5mll3wbwsnmplwrpixeqmowe5q)
