#685, Bashō

Dec. 15th, 2025 10:44 am
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with lightning
one is not enlightened
how valuable
     -1690

Translation by Jane Reichhold.

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Oh Maya you are so indignant! 

Unlikely to post long-form, usually trails off at the end of sentences, forever filling in unknown dialogue with jibbers and jabbers, trying to watch Revolutionary Girl Utena and Black Lagoon in the gaps of my Long March through the winter, can't stop my browser from eagerly slobbering up all of my laptop's RAM, always writing "that one thing". Likes long hair and shiny eyes.

Could be writing from somewhere interesting, like high up in the sky or in the Lincoln Memorial. Probably just at my desk. My girlfriend likes the sciences of the environment and leafy greens and the logics of life. One of my favorite books is Les Guérillères. 

I dreamed that Foucault appeared in my bedroom and asked if I believed in God. Then Sua from Alien Stage descended from the heavens and I knew immediately what my answer was. 

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We have these envelopes I use to half-assedly organize coupons. After our local Kroger analogue recently remodeled, I had to rename some of the envelopes because they dissolved the "natural" section—where I did most of my dairy-free, gluten-free shopping—and moved those products around the store.

So now the "deli & meat" envelope has "dairy & non-dairy" added to it, which amuses me every time I get it out because "dairy & non-dairy" encompasses everything in the universe.

Slippery Creatures, by K.J. Charles

Dec. 10th, 2025 09:45 am
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Will Darling's inherited his uncle's used bookshop and also a secret that everyone in London is trying to beat out of him. After Lord Arthur "Kim" Secretan—handsome, charming, rich—rescues him from one of these numerous thugs, Will accepts his help in searching the bookshop for whatever it was his uncle was hiding. Sex, intrigue, and hats (it's the 1920s) ensue.

I don't know, gang, I just didn't vibe with these two, and the many sex scenes kind of demand that you do. I would have preferred a higher story to horny ratio; as it is, it's pretty much 1:1. But, personal tastes aside, it's not a bad book, and other readers have found it delightful, so don't let me scare you off.

Contains: explicit m/m sex, including some terms so deeply unsexy I can only assume they're historically accurate; violence; references to WWI, trench warfare, infectious disease, and biological weapons.
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Photograph of the aurora borealis taken in Norway, text: Amnesty, at Fancake. The northern lights are a bright green scribble that stretches over the horizon, along a snowy mountain ridge, and up into the starry night sky.
At the end of another long year, [community profile] fancake's theme for December is, as always, amnesty. This month you can make recs for any previous theme—from any year—as long as it hasn't already been recced for that theme.

I posted a rec for [personal profile] thefourthvine's sexy and fun We Better Make a Start, an everybody lives/nobody dies Stranger Things fic with Steve & Robin friendship and Steve/Eddie makeouts.

If you have any questions about this theme, or the comm, come talk to me!
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An Australian epistolary YA novel of extreme tweeness where the format may almost forgive some of the hysteria, as much of the book takes the form of final exams written for a gothic literature course, but I found it childish, not only ridiculous in the way of teenagers, which felt true enough, but even the adults were being juvenile, and the way the privileged teen drama was played for comedy and took precedence over the actual problems of at risk youth irritated me. It does include some surprisingly stylish teen poetry, though.

Contains: references to child harm and sexual abuse; homelessness; underage drinking; suicide attempt; dementia.
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