Category Archives: Suggestion Saturday

Here is this week’s list of comic strips, poems, short stories, and other links from my favourite corners of the web.

Unlegendary Heroes. My grandfather is infamous in our family for his do-it-yourself approach to medical care. For example, he once stitched up a large cut on one of his children’s heads. It apparently healed well, too. He’s done all sorts of other small medical procedures on himself that most people would leave to a doctor or nurse. What are the unlegendary heroes in your life known for?

Funny Things at the Dentist via Polychromantium. Oh, how I wish we could know the rest of this story.

Extreme Frugality Allowed Me to Retire at 32 – and Regain Control of My Life. I’m in awe of what this writer has accomplished so early in life.

Will the Internet Change Our Spellings? via ajseftonauthor. I’d argue that it already has. What do you all think?

Excuses and Explanations. There’s a huge difference between the two, and I liked the way this blogger divided them.

Lost Children via LizanneLloyd. This blogger has such a creative take on what might have happened to the children in these old photographs.

From Object-Oriented:

I’m staring at the skew on the third floor of an incredibly beautiful eighteenth-century building when I burst into tears again. The floor isn’t a floor anymore–it’s slid sideways, I can see the place where the load-bearing beams have snapped inside the structure.

Here is this week’s list of comic strips and other links from my favourite corners of the web. All but one of these links is related to St. Patrick’s Day in some way. That exception suits this time of year for other reasons which will soon be clear to you.

Five Minutes in Spring. This is both funny and true.

Irish Soda Bread via TRH_Cook. This sounds delicious.

St. Patrick’s Day! I really like the idea of using candy to make art like this. I’ll be sharing more links from this site in the future.

St. Patrick’s Day “green”-ery. It’s going to be nice when the world is green and lush again.

Irish Slang via ‪irishslang‬. This whole site is worth checking out. I especially liked finding out what the greeting “Hows Yer Onions Sur” and the food reference “Afters” meant.

Growing Up with Leprechauns! via SusieLindau‬. What a fun way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.

Here is this week’s list of blog posts, short stories, articles, and other links from my favourite corners of the web.

Does Marriage Equal the Death of Friendships? via theotherblair. What do you all think? How do you spend time with your friends whose relationship status isn’t the same as yours?

The Sick Referral via Marykenyablog.This was a very interesting post.

From Hiding Vulnerabilities and Imperfections via ‪MStenDeut‬:

Social media spreads the idea that everyone else has the “perfect life.” The people are all as beautiful as their vegan meals on Instagram. Nobody is telling the whole story, laying out details of how they slept half the day, missed work, and cheated on their diet by eating a half-gallon of their favorite vanilla ice cream. Everyone around you seems perfect and successful and flawless. But you know you are far from flawless.

Blacks Were Enslaved Well into the 1960s. This isn’t a joke or a click-bait headline. It really happened.

People Don’t Actually Know Themselves Very Well. I’m sharing this with you with the caveat that I don’t agree with everything this author says. From what I’ve observed in the world, self-awareness is a highly variable trait. I’ve known people who are painfully aware of every one of their weak spots and others who have almost no self-awareness at all. It’s also something that varies from one day to the next in most folks.

Spider the Artist. This is the best science fiction short story I’ve read so far this year.

The Art of Avoiding Hugs. Be sure to watch the video embedded in this post. It had some very creative methods for avoiding hugs if you don’t want one.

Here is this week’s list of comic strips and other links from my favourite corners of the web.

Antihistamine. Spring is right around the corner. This comic strip is a funny reminder of what those of us with seasonal allergies are about to begin experiencing.

Why I Left Facebook via ‪LizaDunkel‬. More and more people I know are abandoning their Facebook accounts. I wonder how much longer that site will last?

When Do You Identify as an American? via ‪dehaggerty‬. I’ve noticed that I’ve begun to call myself Canadian far more often than I call myself an American even though I’m a citizen of both countries. Canada feels more like home to me than the U.S. ever did.

‘Strong’ Black Woman? ‘Smart’ Asian Man? The Downside To Positive Stereotypes. This was some very good food for thought.

Remap Are Changing Lives with Innovative Design via RemapUK. What a cool way to help people living with disabilities become more independent.

Minecraft as a Fantasy Story. My post from a few days ago is getting some attention elsewhere online. It’s always cool when that happens.

How to Make Friends as an Adult – and Why It’s Important. Yeah, I need to start doing this. Do you?

From Winning Arguments Doesn’t Make You Right:

As an veteran winner of arguments, lemme tell you why the man is right. Because I had a shameful habit of debating with lovers about what was “fair” in our relationships.

I won every argument. Rationally. Coldly. Cleanly.

They all left me because I was a dick.

Here is this week’s list of comic strips, articles, blog posts, and other links from my favourite corners of the web.

Sea-Faring Homo Erectus May Have Used Language Up To 1.9 Million Years Ago. I asked this question on Twitter a few days ago, but I’ll ask my followers here as well. Does anyone know of any fictional stories about Homo Erectus that show them speaking and using boats? If not, maybe I should be the one to write one? It would take a lot of research first, though!

Kenyan Commute via ‪Marykenyablog. Oh, this was too funny.

Emotions Through Art via ShilpaGupte1. Isn’t it interesting to read about the thought processes artists go through as they’re making art? I could talk about this stuff all day.

What The Walking Dead Taught Me About Writing via ‪DeidBastards‬. I stopped watching The Walking Dead after the end of season five for other reasons, but this post gave some excellent reasons for why this blogger decided to quit watching it, too.

Sky Studies. Oh, how I miss sitting or lying somewhere and looking up at the clouds. I hope I’ll get a chance to do this again once the weather warms up and spring arrives.

‘Black Panther’ is Marvel’s First Genuine Masterpiece. If you haven’t seen this movie yet, go watch it and then go read this article about what a great film it was.

Here is this week’s list of poems and other links from my favourite corners of the web.

4 Ways Roger the Alien Taught Me to be Bi Better. I haven’t seen every episode of American Dad, but Roger was the most entertaining character on that show.

No matter how long your reflection time might happen to last, just read. Read anything. It’s by far one of the easiest things you can do to boost your intelligence and stay on top of your game.

Here is this week’s list of blog posts, comic strips, short stories, and other links from my favourite corners of the web.

10 Sure-Fire Ways to Cope with Cabin Fever via ‪ShallRef‬. #9 is my favourite.

Feeling Sick and Snotty? I shared something similar from this site about a month ago. This is another funny reminder of how to behave if you catch a cold this winter.

Is Bugs Bunny Bisexual? While I do remember some of these scenes, I now want to rewatch them again with a fresh perspective.

Why Women’s Procreation Choices Are None of Your Business via ‪thebeasley‬. Two weeks from now I’ll be sharing another thought-provoking post from this blogger’s site. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy her detailed explanation of why it’s never okay to scold someone for having  0, 1, 10, or any other number of children.

Seven Science Fiction and Supernatural Books by Early Ontario Writers (Free Downloads). I haven’t read any of these books yet, but they sure sound interesting.

Blanket Sea via BlanketSea. If you’re living with a chronic illness, disability, or mental illness, this link is for you. Blanket Sea is a brand new literary magazine for people with these conditions that I learned about several days ago on Twitter. I’ll be keeping an eye on what they come up with, and I hope you will as well.

From Origin Story:

The last of the fairies worked in a charnel house, taking apart the beasts that came dead under her hands. In her youth, she had been the last and least of three; now she was the only living one, and even fairies must earn their keep.

At night, when the knacker men went home, she made creatures out of meat and bone and scraps of skin. It was an act of creation to balance out the destruction in her days.

From The Fall via ‪ChrisCoombs88‬:

Last week I fell out of a friend’s front door as I left an excellent afternoon of food, board games and socially acceptable levels of lunacy.

Here is this week’s list of comic strips, blog posts, etiquette guides, and other links from my favourite corners of the web.

ASMR: Did You Feel That Sound? via RavenHeart81. If you haven’t heard of ASMR yet, this is a well-rounded introduction to it.

Cold. I adore this. It was the inspiration for the photo in today’s post.

Unwritten Rules of Public Transit Etiquette Written Down. This was one of the funniest things I’ve read in ages. The best part is, it was written about Toronto’s GO train!

7 Things I’m Doing to Be Mindful via nabanita21. Number six on this list was my favourite one.

The Legend of the Stone Snowman. The title gives away many details of what this comic strip is about. The final panel is quite funny, though.

The Psychology of Hunger. If you haven’t heard of The Minnesota Starvation Experiment, this article gives a nice overview of it. I can’t imagine volunteering for an experiment like this, but they did provide critical information about how starvation damages the body and why it’s so important to gradually reintroduce proper amounts of food to someone who has lived this way for a long time.

From A Love Letter to My Female Ancestors via ‪jmichaelantonio‬:

While bravery, fortitude, courage, and integrity are words usually reserved for males throughout history, I use them now to describe you. You are all true heroines to me, not in the comic book or superheroine sense, but in a far better way —in the human sense, with all of your beautiful scars and flaws.

Here is this week’s list of comic strips, poems, and other links from my favourite corners of the web.

Five Good Ideas Science Fiction Teaches Us to Fear via mythcreants. I hope you enjoyed Five Bad Ideas that Science Fiction Teaches Us to Love last week. As promised, here is the follow-up to that post.

Duct Tape 101 via LenieHokansson. A certain sibling of mine is a whiz at anything related to fixing up his house. He’s constantly coming up with weekend projects to make his home even nicer than it already is. I know he reads this blog, and I wonder how many of these tricks he’s tried.

How Mr. Spock Helped a Bi Kid Learn How to Fit In. I loved this story.

Treebound. Maybe this is what really happened to the Ents long after the events of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. At any rate, I prefer it to what happened in the canon.

The Strange Case of the Dented Forehead via ‪StuartRWest‬. I really want a follow-up post to this one that explains whether Stuart really has a dented forehead and, if so, where it came from.

From The Stick Is an Unsung Hero of Human Evolution:

Sticks are probably where the story of craft begins—the point at which our very distant ancestors progressed from animalistic existences to lives materially enhanced by the objects around them.