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I have very conflicting feelings about Halloween since I got a dog. I love the aesthetic of it, the general spooky vs spoopy vibes, and all the various Halloween stuff. At the same time I would burn it all down if it meant nobody would set off a bunch of fireworks and terrify my poor dog.

Sorry, not sorry!

Mind you, he might be terrified of fireworks but he loves trick or treaters. He just sat up at the gate and wagged his tail at them. It actually took his wee mind off the fireworks!

Anyhow!

I’m doing a revamp of my website. Don’t go look yet. It’s half done and covered in tarps! But I’ll give you guys first nod when it’s up and running.

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Pupdate of the Week

I didn’t actually get many pics taken this week between feeling mildly hungover with jetlag still and the general ‘will someone set off a firework whenever we’re out’ anxiety.

So throwbacks!

Look how little she was! While two dogs are DEFINITELY enough for me, that little flappy floppy paw makes me go ‘ooooohhhh’.

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Her and Jax having a trot!

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I always adore the Small Robots, and this one is particularly easy to find!

Shout-Out of the Week

Billy “Brains” Brennan has achieved rock stardom in not just one, but two chart-topping bands, but events from his past have him convinced he’s living on borrowed time. Brains and his brothers-in-Hush are ready to take the last cross-country Warped Tour by storm...until the actions of two drunk dudes with bad attitudes set off a chain of events that leave him incapacitated...and face-to-face with a handsome stranger who inexplicably feels like home—and not the home Brains fled at sixteen.

Chief Petty Officer Paul McNally has spent his 25-year career as a Navy Corpsman responding to emergencies and caring for wounded soldiers. When fate has him in the right place to provide aid to a fallen rock star, it sends his life spiraling on a trajectory he never planned for. Instead of concentrating on his impending retirement and a second career, he’s now playing nursemaid to a fascinating younger man…and falling in love—a fact he can’t seem to figure out how to explain to his adult son.

A health scare, band drama, and pain from both their pasts threaten to end Brains and Paul’s fledgling relationship. Fate brought them together. It will take trust, honesty, and hope to keep them together.

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I would 100% be Keegan in this situation…although no-one would want me to sing!

Covers of the Week

I would not even try to design these covers. I get it, they look good. However, doing something grainy/murky like this makes it wild easy to go too far and your cover ends up flat and muddy to read.

These ones are a…clean grey, despite the ‘noise’ and the pops of red are just the rest amount of vivid. They also really capture a specific era of psychic/stalker/creepy monster suspense movies for me.

Like look at Watcher with Keanu Reeves:

Or Cracker with the late, great Robbie Coltrane:

I love the ‘Humans are Space Orcs’ threads from Tumblr, so this delighted me. (There’s a whole Stabby the Roomba Rear Admiral storyline.)

Also working at the South Pole sounds TERRIBLE. I have heard that there have been slap fights in research stations like this one over people spoiling books and stuff. So Roomba wars are probably a good way to get the energy out.

Roombas at the End of the WorldRobotic romance, ransoms, and raccoon suits at the South Pole