Status Updates From Thistlefoot

Enjoyable read and yet I can ‘wait’ to read. Have to force myself to read it

The book drops you into folklore logic without and 🥚 full of bullets doesn’t make logic. Baba Yaga’s magic is not foreshadowed or rationalized — it’s meant to feel strange, abrupt, and unsettling.

Pause for some stories from Thistlefoot (the house). Baba Yaga finds her home (Thistlefoot ) by spitting on a 🫘 and following where it rolls. Baba Yaga has two daughters she crafted from teeth

“Thistle foot. Mom said ‘People in our family, we are born with thistle in our feet. It’s why we’re always traveling. Because if we stood still, the vessel would prick us.’”

Poor Tom, the taxi driver. And what was in that blue a frosted glass bottle that was engraved with a two headed eagle from the Russian passenger

Rare yes, but it happened. There was that viral video of a Burger King in Ohio that grew a fat gawking eyeball after a breaking. During wild fire season in California buildings grew gills to filter air. It’s surreal to be so close to one mutation.

“Kill the lantern 🏮, Raise the ghost 👻 “
Instead of ‘break a leg’ I like it