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New (to me) TV:

Only Murders in the Building 5x06
High Potential 2x03
English Teacher 2x02 & 2x03
Abbott Elementary 5x01

Movies:

Honey Don't (2025)

QOTD: On historiography

Oct. 5th, 2025 12:22 pm
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Today's quote of the day is actually three quotes, all on the practice of writing history, come from Bruce W. Dearstyne's "The Progressive President and the AHA: Theodore Roosevelt and the Historical Discipline," published in the September 2025 issue of Perspectives on History from the American Historical Association.

The first two are from early 20th century historian Allan Nevins[^1] (1890-1971):

"The world at large will sooner forgive lack of scientific solidity than lack of literary charm. The great preservative in history, as in all else, is style." — from his 1938 book *The Gateway to History

"With the demise of the romantic, unscientific, and eloquent school of writers, our history ceased to be literature." — from his 1959 AHA presidential address

Dearstyne shows that these issues are still relevant by following these quotes with a quote from contemporary historian Jacqueline Jones:

By making stories about the past available to all sorts of publics, scholars seek to counter mythmaking and contribute to a broader educational enterprise — one that is essential to the future of history and, indeed, democracy itself." — from her 2021 AHA presidential address

While I agree with these quotes as to the necessity of making history entertaining so that people will want to read it, I don't think that this has to come at the cost of accuracy. If fact, I think it must not come at the cost of accuracy. If only Jones had deleted the words "stories about" when writing this sentence — thus making it clear that accuracy is required when writing history — then I could agree with it wholeheartedly.

[^1] I found it interesting to note that Nevins had only an MA in history, the same as me, and yet he was able to become president of the AHA in 1959, whereas today an MA in history is (in my experience) basically useless.

Fall, leaves, fall by Emily Brontë

Oct. 4th, 2025 03:33 pm
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Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;
Lengthen night and shorten day;
Every leaf speaks bliss to me
Fluttering from the autumn tree.
I shall smile when wreaths of snow
Blossom where the rose should grow;
I shall sing when night’s decay
Ushers in a drearier day.


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There's a Dunkin Donuts by my house

Oct. 2nd, 2025 09:32 am
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And every once in a while I end up there during the morning rush, which I try to avoid, and find somebody else bitching about how they "always" mess up their order and "always" take forever.

This is true, by the way - or, maybe not literally always true, but frequently true - but all the same, every time I hear the incessant whining I want to turn around and say "You knew what it was like when you placed your order!"

It's not like they're the only place to get coffee and a breakfast sandwich that's not your own home. There are three corner stores, every once of which will be happy, or at least willing, to make your standing order every day or week or however often you like. There's McDonald's right there, there's Wendy's right there, there's a Dunkin Donuts on the boat and another one just down Bay a bit, if you drive. Or, as I said, you can go home and make your own coffee for faster and cheaper, but you didn't do that, so you can't really complain that you're getting exactly what you obviously expected!

(It is my lack of whining, I think, that always gets me out of there a smidge faster. Should they be more efficient? Should they make fewer mistakes? Should I be able to order a muffin without fear that it'll be a bit raw in the middle? Yes to all three, and I've stopped ordering muffins! But they're close and I don't have to cook it myself, and I imagine that's why everybody else is there, so whatever.)

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"Inspiration is merely the reward for working every day."

— Charles Baudelaire (in Curiosites Esthetiques [1868])

Certainly not the first or only person to say some variation on this, but I think it's an aesthetically pleasing statement of the concept.

Kitchen tools.

Oct. 3rd, 2025 10:48 pm
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About the only "life hack" of any sort I can reasonably advise: save those liquid medicine measuring cups. They're amazing for cooking and baking. A total of 3 teaspoons of this and that? Easily tossed in. A tablespoon of a liquid? Measure it out and then set the little cup down onto a flat surface. They're astonishingly handy to the point I'm routinely pleased at them.

There may well be a nicely polished, stainless steel version of these little cups at a restaurant supply store somewhere, or well-crafted ceramic equivalents, but neither of those also give me the rewarding feeling of having found a new use for an old object.
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Honestly, my worst thoughts about what was going to happen in that meeting of the generals were both so much more terrible and so much less terrible than what actually went on.

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foster parents' "personal views"

Oct. 2nd, 2025 02:22 pm
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Posting this by request, as she wrote it:

The Boston Globe is soliciting opinions on whether or not foster parents's views on children being queer or trans should be taken into account.

MSN link

Basically, we have to explain not only that water is wet but that if foster parents are allowed to dunk a trans kid into the tank of their transphobia the kid can drown in there. The Globe's editorial board termed this a matter of "personal views" and of DCF demanding foster parents be "perfect", which is glaringly disingenuous but needs to be spelled out to hopefully influence public opinion.

The Globe's address is community@boston.com.

Books read, October 2025

Oct. 1st, 2025 09:37 pm
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  • 1 October
    • Flying Witch, vol. 13 (Chihiro Ishizuka)
  • 2 October
    • Library Wars: Love & War, vol. 5 (Kiiro Yumi)
  • 5 October
    • Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma, vol. 17 (Yuto Tsukuda)
  • 6 October
    • Friend of the Devil: My Wild Ride with Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead (Len Dell'Amico)

Happy Fall

Oct. 1st, 2025 12:40 pm
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Welcome to the Fall Festival. [personal profile] spiralicious and I will be your guest hosts for the month.

We personally love all things fall and Halloween, [personal profile] spiralicious and I realize that not everyone has fandoms or original universes that support that. We have tried to come up with a few lists that could fit into almost any verse, even if Halloween is not your cup of tea.

You can use these prompts on their own or pair them with the regular Fall Fest themed prompts. The sky is the limit! Thank you so much for playing with us all of these years. We appreciate all of you.

Feel free to use any prompt; however, they speak to you. We have them separated just to make the list a bit more manageable.

For example, if you use a movie or music prompt, feel free to just work off the title, or you can remix the movie. It's up to you.

A fill can be anything. We mean ANYTHING you can think of. Some examples include fics, poetry, vids, podfics, handicrafts, art, icons, wallpapers, memes, movie/book/tv/music/fic recs, movies/book/tv episode/music reviews, playlists, tea party menus, amigurumi, baked goods/candy, collages, playlists, your favorite characters’ lists to the Great Pumpkin, Subeta HAs, song parodies, Halloween carols, nail art, manips, your favorite character's Halloween costumes, make-up tutorials, how each of your friends will die in a Horror movie, etc. You get the idea. Your fill can be whatever you dream up. We look forward to seeing what you make us add to the list next year.

As usual, there will be banners at the end of the month. The wonderfully helpful [personal profile] kiramaru7 makes ours this month, we have to find a new way to host them, so they may be late, but we will have them. Any idea about hosting/sharing banners, please let us know.

This is a Fall Festival themed month, so why not share some of your favorites and rec yours or someone else's work?

Anything goes this month. The only limit is your imagination.

There is a public card at the bottom of this post, or feel free to make your own card using your own prompts or any of the lists that speak to you at the bingo card maker here.

Feel free to mix and match the premade Fandom tables.
We look forward to seeing what everyone does with the theme.

Note from Spiralicious:
We've decided to keep the fandom mini lists; each based on a particular fandom and with Halloween in mind. Unfortunately, at this time we were not able to add new ones. There are also many fandoms we did not include in the original set because they already have great prompt lists out there. If you know of one of these, please feel free to link in the comments below.

As always, you can add your own prompts to your cards and mix & match as you like, and if you grab a fandom list, you are not restricted to creating for that fandom.

Happy creating!


Vex and Spiralicious


The Original Drawlloween 2024 created by briansoria.com (We are not affiliated, we just thought they were good prompts.)




CAMPY


CREATURES



DRESS UP COSTUMES


GENERIC


HORROR


Movies


PAGAN


RULES FOR LIVING THROUGH A HORROR MOVIE


OCTOBER HAPPENINGS!!

Monthly


WEEKLY CELEBRATIONS



October 2024 Daily Holidays, Special and Wacky Days:
(from timeanddate.com)


FANDOM Tables under the cut
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Evil Clown Wrong Accessory Unicorns Dragons Sweater Weather
It Started With a Group of Teenagers Trick-or-Treat! Too High Heels 11 Take Your Teddy Bear to Work Day -Second Wednesday of month TV Specials
The Call is Coming From Inside the House Corpse Bride WILD CARD Night of the Living Dead I Got The Instructions off eHow/Pinterest
Trolls It has Four (or More) Sequels Reaper Bonfire Fairies
Honoring the Dead Shapeshifter 6 Mad Hatter Day Go ahead and slap the screaming hysterical girl because she will be the one to distract everyone when there really is danger. I Can See the Strings



Public Card:

TV Specials The monster is never real Donate Food Dumb Supper The Monster is a Stuffed Animal
Trolls Scream Queen National Pizza Month The Monster’s Zipper is Showing An Inanimate Object Suddenly Came to Life
Giant Anything Bad Wig FREE SPACE Unicorns Bed Sheet Costume
Bonfire Stepford Wives Destroy it with fire Sleepy Hollow Shapeshifter
Trick-or-Treat! National Popcorn Popping Month Sweater Weather Bobbing for Apples Pumpkin Spice EVERYTHING!



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