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Simone Heller @herlizardness.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

It will Or maybe the headaches are due to the small print, who knows?

Cover of John Brunner‘s Stand on
Zanzibar, Morgenwelt in German, a paperback with a cover in a surreal style.

Simone Heller @herlizardness.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

If you'd like to support seals, this awesome hospital, and me, and get an adorable sticker for your good deed, maybe consider participating - you would be the fish in their bucket (see rescue seal Scarlett for reference for how hungry they are) and make me very happy <3

A young harbor seal looking up at the camera hopefully while on the ground, all her whiskers out)

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Simone Heller @herlizardness.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

3 books I translated this year that almost made me lose my mind (for different reasons - one was a lot to learn, one I jumped on last minute, and one … we don’t talk about Bruno). My two fav translations of 2025 are not out yet :(

Cover of the German version of the “Ultimate Star Wars Book” in movie poster style yellows and oranges, with a dozen characters arranged on it.

Cover of the German version of a Warhammer miniature Encyclopedia, dark and crowded, with multiple miniatures arranged on it.

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Simone Heller @herlizardness.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I made a thing. Not my usual thing, but using similar skills - gathering information, structuring it, thinking up a good way to present it. Enter: The Seal Signal @sealsignal.bsky.social - a global guide to seal rescue and conservation.

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Simone Heller @herlizardness.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

ofc 2025 is also the year to say goodbye to Murder by Death (pic from their box set). But there is one last album and one last tour at least. Another smidgen of spooky gothic-western indie, you know you want it!

Front cover of the box set with Murder by Death albums, styled like a weathered tombstone. It says “Murder by Death. 2000-2025”.

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Simone Heller @herlizardness.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

New translation just dropped, and I had a blast with this one. Survival from the point of view of a Dragonkin, need I say more? Very funny (with a few compromises to fit lengthy German words) and pretty. (Available in English as „How Not to Get Eaten by Owlbears“ by @amely.bsky.social )

Stack of three books titled „Wie man sich nicht vom Eulenbär fressen lässt. Der Faerun-Survival-Guide“. Black Cover with golden foil text and an adult brown Owlbear jumping at the viewer.

Double page spread from the book. The topic is „Niewinterwald“ and there are „how to“ sections, descriptions and multiple illustrations printed on a parchment-like background with more sketches to create a journal vibe.

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Simone Heller @herlizardness.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

It could also have been this, and I hope this knowledge makes you feel like you dodged a fishbowl

Ad for a toilet seat with a goldfish in an owl on the lid and a cut-out of the same goldfish on the seat. Goldfish has exaggerated lips and red-eyed stare.

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Simone Heller @herlizardness.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Love the spots! My fav is glittery.

A longish silvery grey rock with a few glittery bits on a black mat

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Simone Heller @herlizardness.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

This year has seen me unexpectedly evacuated from my home for 10 days (river flood), I lost so much time to pain, and I feel I accomplished nothing. But I got to meet Moe. He's a harbor seal at a science facility, and I participated in his training. Very good boy, 15/10 - my favorite memory of 2024!

Photo of a woman in a black wetsuit standing in an enclosed seawater space, and a seal swimming in the front, looking back. The seal’s front flipper and claws are clearly visible.

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Simone Heller @herlizardness.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Nice surprise at movie night with „Mars Express“, a French animated cyberpunkish noir sf movie. Owes a lot to its predecessors, but finds its own stride, with an interesting story and amazing attention to detail.

Movie poster of „Mars Express“: dark background with a city at night, and a colourful spread of characters in the middle, mostly in action poses.

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Simone Heller @herlizardness.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

When you learn a language, it's absolutely vital to dive deep into your special interests and treat yourself with unreasonable words along with useful vocabulary. Anyway, here are me new Japanese stickers.

Two educational Kamio sticker sheets, the left one featuring typical food items in a convenience store, the right one a variety of sea slugs. There are short descriptions for each sticker.

Two educational Kamio sticker sheets, the left one featuring typical items in a supermarket, the right one depictions of long-tailed tits. There are short descriptions for each sticker.

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Simone Heller @herlizardness.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

I think today I met the only person who’s happy about the current trash can situation in the house.

A tabby cat resting on top of one in row of black garbage bins

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Simone Heller @herlizardness.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

These are going to the little free library bit by bit. Anybody wants to snatch something? Europe only; I don't want to deal with customs declarations or huge shipping fees; otherwise happy to send them out!

A bunch of comics, most in English, some in German. If you’re interested, I’ll post the titles.

A bunch of comics, most in English, some in German. I’ll post the titles if you’re interested.

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Simone Heller @herlizardness.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Re-reading Carl Sagan’s "The Demon-Haunted World" over the last few months has been gut-wrenching. How could you have been so right, Carl, without knowing how bad it would get? These lines about tampering with what we know to be true hit particularly hard ...

Highlighted quote from The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan: “Almost always, this is done to improve the hold that the powerful have on power, or to serve the narcissism or megalomania or paranoia of national leaders. It throws a monkey wrench into the error-correcting machinery. It works to erase public memory of profound political mistakes, and thus to guarantee their eventual repetition.
In our time, with total fabrication of realistic stills, motion pictures, and videotapes technologically within reach, with television in every home, and with critical thinking in decline, restructuring societal memories even …”

“… without much attention from the secret police seems possible.
What I'm imagining here is not that each of us has a budget of memories implanted in special therapeutic sessions by state-appointed psychiatrists, but rather that small numbers of people will have so much control over news stories, history books, and deeply affecting images as to work major changes in collective attitudes.”

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Simone Heller @herlizardness.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

Some people simply know what a client really wants. (A complimentary shroom sticker with their cardigan - thx Tough Luv Clothing!)

Sticker with a Fly Agaric with eyes and a small moth on black fabric.

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Simone Heller @herlizardness.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

Friendly neighbourhood service (says “vandalism keeps your rent low”)

Red door on an old shack with color rivulets and scrawls and some writing.

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Simone Heller @herlizardness.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

The shroom content is very limited this year so far, but mosses and ferns are doing their best.

Small fern growing between mosses on a stone

Stone basin with low water and mossy rocks

A stream strewn with mossy stones, and huge coltsfoots on the sides.

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Simone Heller @herlizardness.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Advertise your account with just one image.

Big monitor lizard looking out through a cut hole in something like a trash bin. (Image text: me advertising my stuff)

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Simone Heller @herlizardness.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

Here we go again: full metal drip Slightly frustrating to have to get another round so soon, and my energy obviously going —_—_—_ for the foreseeable future. On the plus side: I’ll be a bouncing ball of action in no time now!

My arm while getting a muddy looking intravenous drip of iron.

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Simone Heller @herlizardness.bsky.social · 11/09/2023

I went to see the Hummingbird Hawkmoths yesterday (I know where to find them when I need them). Highly recommended, very good for the soul! Photo by Jerzy Strzelecki (found on Wikipedia) - mine are too blurry but you NEED to see their eyes.

A very good photo of a hummingbird hawkmoth in flight to feed at a flower by Jerzy Strzelecki. Shows the proboscis and the little tail they’re named after in German.

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Simone Heller @herlizardness.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

Will I dine in tentacled company every day from now on? Highly probable.

Long plate with a screenprinted octopus.

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Simone Heller @herlizardness.bsky.social · 02/09/2023

The name Gesäuse is a collective noun based on sausen (rush) for all the fast mountain streams in the national park. (4/3 …. eh, have a mountain photo anyway!)

View across a reservoir to Mount Buchstein (and its reflection on the water) on a very sunny day with a white cloud above the summit.

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Simone Heller @herlizardness.bsky.social · 02/09/2023

I was hiking in Styria last week, and instead of a mountain photo, here’s an example of local lingo: 1. ... it rhymes. 2. First letter X is not common in German (mostly loanwords). In Southern/Austrian German it's spoken (rarely written) for words with prefix ge- +s in Standard German. (1/3)

Street art: a stencil with a mountain silhouette. The letters read: “Xeis is nice”

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Simone Heller @herlizardness.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

Worked through the last holiday season on this, and now it's here: Die Legende von Drizzt 🇩🇪 Everything Forgotten Realms with pretty art and tons of (translation) research. (I also have two additional copies and no room, any takers?)

Open spread from “Die Legende von Drizzt”, featuring the pictured entry for Jarlaxle Baenre.

Cover of „Die Legende von Drizzt” with Drizzt in a Dynamic Pose, scimitars out

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