Happy holidays! Have nice things.: seanan

Happy holidays! Have nice things.

It's the holiday season, and nice things are vital to our continued equilibrium. Equilibrium is nice! And so I present you with some nice things, to maintain this blessed state.

First of all, The Toby Wallpapers and Icons page has been updated over on my website. You can now download some basic wallpapers and icons for Late Eclipses, as well as wallpapers and icons for Nebelbann (the German edition of A Local Habitation). Plus there's a fantastic new wallpaper/icon set for An Artificial Night, showing dear Katie, all toned in beautiful blues and whites.

Second of all, the cover for Late Eclipses has been nominated as one of the Beautiful Book Covers of 2011. While I'd love it if you'd go and vote for me, this counts as a nice thing because some of these covers are truly gorgeous, and I hadn't seen the majority of them before. I'm really excited about the books coming out in 2011! It's going to be a banner year for reading.

Third of all, because I am me and I truly do regard this as "a nice thing," here is a list of really cute animals that will seriously fuck you up if given the opportunity to do so. Hooray! Some of these animals are really cute. And all of them are really included to make you wish that you'd never been born. I tend to regard this as awesome.

Happy Wednesday!

keristor

December 22 2010, 17:59:20 UTC 6 years ago

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So it's official -- kittehz maekz u madd!!! Thanks for that little list *g*...

seanan_mcguire

December 23 2010, 15:58:49 UTC 6 years ago

Very welcome. :)

aliciaaudrey

December 22 2010, 18:13:15 UTC 6 years ago

Wooo, irukandji!!!!!

December 23 2010, 15:59:01 UTC 6 years ago

They're amazing. I want some to pour on my enemies.

6 years ago

allisona

December 22 2010, 18:15:53 UTC 6 years ago

Number one on that animal list was hilarious :).

December 23 2010, 15:59:08 UTC 6 years ago

Agreed.

anghara

December 22 2010, 19:04:12 UTC 6 years ago

I've long been saying that Australia appears to be the world's repository of things that can kill you ded faster than you can blink...

December 23 2010, 15:59:21 UTC 6 years ago

There's a reason one of my tags is "Australia makes you die."

markbernstein

December 22 2010, 19:25:56 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you! The Winterfluch wallpaper on my laptop disappeared last week, replaced by a generic Windows image, after I hooked up to an external projector to do a presentation. So now I have nice new Nebelbann wallpaper.

December 23 2010, 15:59:28 UTC 6 years ago

Hooray!

mac_arthur_park

December 22 2010, 21:47:53 UTC 6 years ago

Curses! I have to change my wallpaper now.

Of course, I'm sure my spousebeast will be thrilled, since my current wallpaper is a picture of a slightly tipsy me hugging Voltaire at Dragon con in 2009. *sigh* I guess it is time. :)

December 23 2010, 15:59:37 UTC 6 years ago

I live to serve.

yellowblackhaze

December 22 2010, 21:54:10 UTC 6 years ago

And they never even got to our wonderful assortment of highly venomous snakes and spiders.

December 23 2010, 15:59:45 UTC 6 years ago

I know! It's tragic.

trektone

December 22 2010, 22:33:54 UTC 6 years ago

Loved the animal list!

December 23 2010, 15:59:52 UTC 6 years ago

As did I. :)

emmasee100

December 22 2010, 22:39:19 UTC 6 years ago

I'm so glad they included the cone fish. People think I'm joking when I mention that one.

At work, there is a lot of sheds. Red back spiders love sheds. I make a point of showing non-Aussies the spiders. "See that? Yeah, it's bad news. Take a good look. Leave it alone."

December 23 2010, 16:00:18 UTC 6 years ago

I do a cone snail impression at the breakfast table on occasion. My friends are very tolerant.

I am coming to your place of work the next time I'm in Australia.

ironed_orchid

December 22 2010, 23:49:37 UTC 6 years ago

Those animals are the cutest.

When my dad was doing a SCUBA course, I used to have nightmares about cone snails, blue ringed octopus, and stone fish. I was about 9.

December 23 2010, 16:00:30 UTC 6 years ago

I think that's a reasonable response, really...

muddlewait

December 23 2010, 00:57:19 UTC 6 years ago

Thanks for the list.

I have an irrational fear of very small furry animals, which my wife finds hilarious. I'm convinced my end will involve a mouse or gerbil or the like scuttling into my bed at night and chewing open my jugular vein in my sleep.

December 23 2010, 16:00:38 UTC 6 years ago

Very welcome.

tezmillertm

December 23 2010, 06:23:45 UTC 6 years ago

I am so calling my non-existent band "Flamboyant Cuttlefish" :-)

December 23 2010, 16:00:47 UTC 6 years ago

It's a great name for a band!

admnaismith

December 23 2010, 18:53:53 UTC 6 years ago

For your delight and your readers' instruction: How to keep your holidays safer from zombies:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hMr6Hnyg4Q

December 27 2010, 16:18:58 UTC 6 years ago

Neat!

vettecat

December 24 2010, 16:42:46 UTC 6 years ago

I have a problem with kittens/toxoplasmosis being #1. Particularly because the chance of any indoor cat having it is miniscule - it's a soil parasite. If you have indoor cats you're more likely to get it from gardening without gloves. (I had to deal with this question a lot while pregnant...)

December 27 2010, 16:19:13 UTC 6 years ago

Yeah, it's a bit of an overstated threat.

digitaleopard

December 28 2010, 06:13:03 UTC 6 years ago

Shouldn't "An annoyed Senan McGuire" be on this list somewhere? Maybe not near the top - I'm going to vote for the ultra-scary Blue-Ringed Octopi being #1 - but in the top ten somewhere. Cause of death, heart failure as people realize she's really serious about what she would like to have.

I don't wanna hear any nonsense about not being cute either. You don't terrify until you open your mouth and discussions about quasi-trained Velociraptors fall out.

December 29 2010, 20:52:57 UTC 6 years ago

I really, really want a pandemic in a can...

Also, hee.

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