November Night by Adelaide Crapsey

Nov. 15th, 2025 10:39 pm
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Listen…
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the trees
And fall.


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Today's Adventures

Nov. 15th, 2025 06:00 pm
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Today we visited two events, the Otto Center Bazaar and a craft market at Cross County Mall.

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Alas, dryer

Nov. 15th, 2025 02:37 pm
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The washer saga ended a little while ago, with a brand repair tech who corrected something simple. Thursday night (the start of Friday wash day) the dryer gave up.

Since the dryer had been leaving unsightly rust streaks on all the lights, I have not been subtle in my campaign for a new one.

Delivery is scheduled for today, of a dryer with a steam cycle but without wifi.
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Title: clark x alicia - run away to mars
Fandom: Smallville
Music: Run Away to Mars - TALK
Duration: 3:20

DW | Tumblr | AO3

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[Prompt #468: Endless] In conclusion

Nov. 15th, 2025 08:29 pm
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Title: In conclusion
Fandom: Raven Cycle
Rating: G
Notes: Triple drabble

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Birdfeeding

Nov. 15th, 2025 12:11 pm
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Today is partly sunny and quite warm. It's already up to 75°F.

I fed the birds. I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches, plus a male cardinal.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 11/15/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 11/15/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 11/15/25 -- I did more work around the patio.





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Nov. 15th, 2025 10:48 am
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I am extremely belated in actually posting about Taiwan Travelogue -- I know that I read it before June, because in June was when I was talking about it with [personal profile] recognito and he said 'oh I think it's an Utena riff' and I was like ?? ?!?! !!!! aj;dlkfjs;l of course it's an Utena riff. ([personal profile] recognito's post about it here.)

Which is of course a very unfair way to begin this post because it's many other things besides an Utena riff- primarily of course a story about colonization and power relations, as told through gender and appetite. Taiwan Travelogue is a book that presents itself as a translation from the Japanese into Taiwanese -- which I of course then read translated into English, another layering into the text -- of a Japanese writer's journal of her time in Taiwan, 1938-9. She's there to promote her book, not to promote the project of Japanese Imperial Expansion, of which she certainly does not really approve! and which she is not going to propagandize, except in the ways that she can't help but propagandize it! and she wants to experience the real Taiwan, most notably Real Taiwanese Food. Aoyama's major passion in life is eating, she is a tall young woman with a huge appetite, and the tour guide experiences that have been prepared for her are not sufficient to her desires.

Enter Ong: Aoyama's new entry point into Taiwan, a quiet young woman from a mysterious background who, unlike her other assigned translator, is willing to not only take Aoyama off the beaten path to Unapproved Culinary Experiences but also to provide additional culinary experiences at home in her lodgings. Whatever Aoyama hears about, she wants to eat. One way or another, Ong makes it happen. Ong, it turns out, is the only person Aoyama's ever met who can eat as much as Aoyama can; Aoyama feels a deep connection to her, is desperate for some sense of genuine reciprocal emotion, but no matter what she tries, moving from their employer/employee dynamic into something genuine seems impossible. From Aoyama's point of view, she's always reaching out, and Ong is always slipping away, putting up a barrier. As Ong sees it -- well, whatever she's trying to tell Aoyama, Aoyama does not understand.

The metaphor of colonialism as played out through the inherent power imbalances of a failed romance is not a new theme and plays out more or less as expected here, though it's relevant that this is a book about A Lesbian: one of the things that the text wants to explore I think is how being, in your own mind, in the position of an underdog and an outsider makes it harder for you to see the ways and situations in which you are neither of those things. But really what I found most striking about the book is not the central relationship at all, but the food. The book has a lot of dishes in it, and every dish has a context and a history: the ingredients come from somewhere, the way it's made has a certain history to it, the way it's made in one location differs from the way it's made in a different location, and Ong always takes care to explain why. The portrait of the impact that colonization by Japan has had on Taiwan is largely drawn through detailed descriptions of changing recipes. The book made me very aware of how hungry I am for material culture in my fiction! ... and also it just made me normal hungry.

Spooks (MI5) - Never Ending Questions

Nov. 15th, 2025 03:53 pm
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Title: Never Ending Questions
Fandom: Spooks (MI5)
Rating: G

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Brown Girl in the Ring

4/5. A story of family and crime and survival in a sort of post apocalypse Toronto, all flavored with afro-caribbean mythology.

Of course I’d heard about this book for years and years before reading it. What I heard: great writing, rich own voices fantasy, just plain good. Correct, correct, and correct. But I spent most of this book occupied by its exploration of intergenerational trauma. Four generations, from an infant to an old matriarch, and how they fail their children and how they don’t and how useless men are. This book lets it all be terribly messy and textured and real, in that way where mothers are incredibly sympathetic and deeply unsympathetic at the same time. That’s good stuff.

I am worried about the quality of the audiobook narration on other books of hers, though, which I hear lean even more heavily into the dialect.

Content notes: Violence, torture, possession, organ harvesting.

Philosophical Questions: Censorship

Nov. 15th, 2025 12:52 am
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People have expressed interest in deep topics, so this list focuses on philosophical questions.

Is some degree of censorship necessary?

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Title: 'Bathed in Flames'
Fandom: The Legend of Zelda (Spoilers for 'Skyward Sword')
Rating: PG (Warnings for vaguely disturbing concepts)
Notes: Crossposted to [community profile] drabble_zone and [community profile] anythingdrabble

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Neil Robertson meeting

Nov. 15th, 2025 04:07 am
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So, I'm in Leicester for the Champion Of Champions.

...and Mark is in the semifinal, playing Neil Robertson later today for a place in the final.

This story is from Thursday night, though.


I genuinely had the wildest, most amazing moment with Neil on Thursday night. We had a storm and heavy rainfall in Leicester, so I decided to get a taxi back to the hotel. That took a while to arrive, so the security people let me wait inside at the arena. Meaning I was one of the last to leave.

So, Neil comes out from the players' area, having beaten John Higgins earlier in the evening. And he goes right over to me and gives me a kind of hug (not a full on hug, but something kinda like a hug?), and asks if I wanted a photo. His exact words? "Come on, let's make Rob jealous."

(For info: Rob is a guy who comes to a lot of tournaments. He's a massive Neil fan. And I was with him once when I met Neil in Cheltenham six weeks back, meaning he knows that we know each other - I'm absolutely stunned that he'd remember that, though!)

So, we take the pic - which comes out great, btw - and I tell Neil (with a little laugh) that he scares me ahead of the semifinal when he plays this well. I also congratulated him on the win vs John, of course.

And... he tells me to just enjoy the semifinal, to have fun watching. He's completely calm about it, and I feel like he's basically saying between the lines that neither he nor Mark are stressing about it, so I shouldn't, either.

Just: what a moment! Not something I'd ever thought I'd experience!

Politics

Nov. 14th, 2025 09:31 pm
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Why I Am Resigning from the Heritage Foundation (Guest-Post by Adam Mossoff)

[DB: This is a guest post from my Scalia Law colleague Professor Adam Mossoff, reprinting his letter to Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts resigning his position as a visiting fellow at the Foundation. As Adam says, this is a time for choosing on the political right: you either abandon conservatism and stand with Tucker Carlson and nihilism, collectivism, Nazism, and Jew hatred, or you stick up for (conserve, if you will) the American traditions of individual rights, religious and ethnic pluralism, and the rule of law.]


An interesting feature of modern politics is how often it highlights where people draw the line, that they are comfortable or tolerant of A-Y but not Z.

Communities

Nov. 14th, 2025 07:41 pm
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Want to build a deeper, richer community? Learning how to handle conflict is key, the Gottmans say

As Julie told Good Good Good, in the decades they have spent doing this work they have observed time and time again: “Conflict can really lead to greater understanding between people.”

The trick is approaching conflict with a goal to understand; not to conquer.

“Speak in such a way that you don't sabotage yourself getting listened to,” Julie said. “That means avoiding criticism, contempt, defensiveness, totally shutting down, or stonewalling.”


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This is such a weird framing

Nov. 14th, 2025 04:25 pm
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"Along the journey she discovers that her and her family were never actually slaves at all but the original royal family and the original slaves usurped the throne and took over due to constantly being oppressed and treated unfairly."

I really want to ask this person if they understand how the concepts of "slavery" and "royalty" work. This girl was definitely a slave because she was enslaved, you can be a slave and also be from a royal family since both these concepts are societal concepts, the word "usurp" suggests that this revolution was invalid and bad, and by the way, if she was born as part of the royal family she's probably lucky she wasn't killed, except that then the book would've been very short and grim, with no happy ending. Well, no happy ending for her, all the happy endings for the people who killed her family and secured their freedom.

(Somebody suggested this may be The Claidi Journals, which is what I was thinking.)

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