“You bolt upright, heart racing, frantically looking around the shadowed room…
…Only to find Kieran sitting at the open window, one leg propped up as he gazes up at the slim silver crescent of the moon.”
I commissioned the amazing @pilitella for this scene from The Cursed Heart 😍 You captured it perfectly and I can’t thank you enough, sweet friend! I love it and you so much ❤️
Wisconsin native, Mary Jo Scandin, has many years of experience in surface design. Receiving an art degree from the University of Wisconsin at Superior, Mary Jo began her career as an art teacher, later devoting her time to creating and exhibiting her own fibre work.
Today I learned that the university of Coimbra in Portugal has
a great 18th-century library, the Biblioteca Joanina, that maintains a colony of bats to effectively control the population of paper-eating insects called
papirófagos.
These bats are less than an inch long. They roost during the day behind the bookcases and come out at night. There doesn’t seem to be any English word for
papirófago, a cursory search turns up no details about what sort of insect they are, and ngl I am slightly concerned about them as a phenomenon. But I think my overarching point here is clear:
This library keeps tiny bats that look after the books.
I’m here for tiny bats saving books.
Aaaahhh!!
What good and noble tiny flitters!!!! <3
My nayme is Batt And wen its nite On sylente wings I flye to fite
The lybrarie’s
My battlefielde
Papir’fagoes
Haffe to be killed
