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I finally finished my Yu Yu Hakusho rewatch:

- Yikes, the sexism. It's pretty bad. Yuusuke groping Keiko and flipping her skirt up in public early on is pretty awful.

- My other main takeaway is that everyone wants to kiss Yuusuke. Kurama definitely wants to kiss Yuusuke. Hiei maybe wants to roll around shirtless in the dirt with Yuusuke. Kuwabara wants to make sweet passionate bro love to Yuusuke and pretend he's still straight afterward. Everyone in the last arc all ooh he gets my blood fired up. Yeah, I'll bet.

Anyway, I don't actually ship anything, but I do think Kuwabara's crush on Yukina is pretty cute.

The first time I watched I didn't get why Kurama/Hiei was popular at all, and this time I saw it a little, but I still think they're only mildly shippy, but Kurama is definitely shippier with Yuusuke, and probably even more shippy with Kuwabara than with Hiei.

- LMAO, Kurama getting mistaken for Kuwabara's girlfriend.

- That Hong Kong action cinema influence is so obvious.

- So much of this is that Japanese anxiety about juvenile delinquents that was all over stuff in the 90s and early 00s and that you don't really see in new series. Also, anime just doesn't look like this anymore, so it's not really a surprise it's not as popular as it used to be.

I do think the Dark Tournament doesn't actually get interesting until the semi-finals and there's a lot of dull bits I hadn't remembered. That's probably why newer viewers are underwhelmed by what is always hyped up as the ~best tournament arc ever~. It's okay. Kurama v Karasu is still pretty good, and there's a bunch of great stuff at the end.

- Kurama is still my favourite, just like the first time I watched, but I would say Botan is my second fave now.

shadowkat

Meme stolen from coffeeandink - who actually told us all to steal it, so it doesn't count.

Take five books off your bookshelf.

[with the exception of the first, they are all TBR, with the hopes I'll get around to reading them.]

Book #1 -- first sentence: "Rain drenched the city, cold and relentless."

Book #2 -- last sentence on page fifty: "Unlike my horses, a Spider would never get cold or hot or tired."

[unexpected challenge do I pick the last sentence or the last complete one? I picked the last complete one.]

Book #3 -- second sentence on page one hundred: "People say that after this event, the rich man's family slipped into a decline, and in the end, went entirely to ruin."

(Unexpected challenge: do I pick the second sentence or the second complete sentence? - weirdly I had the same unexpected challenge as coffeeandink.)

Book #4 -- next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty: "Within an hour, his strength had so depleted that he could no longer handle the weight in his pack, although he refused to let us remove anything, forcing us to fish out the heaviest items, such as his water bottles and his cameras, when he wasn't looking."

Book #5 -- final sentence of the book: The local sheriff met us in the street and eyed us suspiciously.
"Runaways?" he asked.
"We are," I said.
"Any of you named Nigger Jim?"
I pointed to each of us. "sadie, Lizzie, Morris, Buck."
"And who are you?"
"I am James."
"James what?"
"Just James."

(Yes, I am treating one paragraph of dialog as a single sentence for the purposes of the meme. Fight me!)

Make the five sentences into a paragraph:
Rain drenched the city, cold and relentless. Unlike my horses, a Spider would never get cold or hot or tired. People say that after this event, the rich man's family slipped into a decline, and in the end, went entirely to ruin. Within an hour, his strength had so depleted that he could no longer handle the weight in his pack, although he refused to let us remove anything, forcing us to fish out the heaviest items, such as his water bottles and his cameras, when he wasn't looking." The local sheriff met us in the street and eyed us suspiciously.
"Runaways?" he asked.
"We are," I said.
"Any of you named Nigger Jim?"
I pointed to each of us. "sadie, Lizzie, Morris, Buck."
"And who are you?"
"I am James."
"James what?"
"Just James."

I promise it wouldn't make any more sense if I chose another option for step 5.

Book #1: This Kingdom Will Not Me by Illona Andrews
Book #2: Antidote by Karen Russell
Book #3: Strange Tales from Japan - 99 Chilling Stories of Yokai, Ghosts, Demons and the Supernatural - collected and retold by Keisuke Nishimoto, Translated by William Scott Wilson.
Book #4: A Walk in the Park: the true story of a spectacular misadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarku
Book #5:James by Percival Everett

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Discover 25 great quotes from the Middle Ages, featuring medieval writers, rulers, philosophers, and thinkers from across the medieval world.

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Today's ADVENTURE: It was Spring Cleanup Day in my town. I got rid of a dead tv and a printer that always hated me. This involved going to a place I'd never been so that was fraught with fraughtness. But now I know where the city dump is and where the garbage trucks go at night to sleep. Check that off the list.

They check your ID to ensure you're from this town and not some charlatan sneak from Sweet Home or Tangent trying to unload refuse on US.

In my dvd watching, I finished Community and decided to give the dvds to the library. Only have about half the series. I don't like Chevy Chase and I can't stand his character. I just made a face every time he came on screen and really, I only enjoyed one episode on the rewatch. I'm about to start Deadwood but the show is intense and I have to be able to handle it.

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There are so many posts I want to write, but this one is easy and also about books, so! I think everyone should do it so I can spy on your bookshelves.

Take five books off your bookshelf.

(I pulled everything from my physical TBR bookcase, in hopes that it will encourage me to read it.)

Book #1 -- first sentence: "Anyone can write about a large city--large cities are open to everyone--but small cities can only be portrayed by people who love them."

(Already ambiguities: I skipped the preface because this line is better.)

Book #2 -- last sentence on page fifty: "However, I haven't yet read V.W.'s book."

Book #3 -- second sentence on page one hundred: "What amazing childishness these old people were content to live in!"

(Unexpected challenge: do I pick the second sentence or the second complete sentence?)

Book #4 -- next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty: "'I know.' Verna dropped the packages. A hard, harsh sob pressed at her throat. 'I hate him.' "

(Yes, I am treating one paragraph of dialog plus action as a single sentence for the purposes of the meme. Fight me!)

Book #5 -- final sentence of the book: "Eunice picked up her bag and guitar and closed the door to the storm."

Make the five sentences into a paragraph:

Anyone can write about a large city--large cities are open to everyone--but small cities can only be portrayed by people who love them. However, I haven't yet read V.W.'s book. What amazing childishness these old people were content to live in! 'I know.' Verna dropped the packages. A hard, harsh sob pressed at her throat. 'I hate him.' Eunice picked up her bag and guitar and closed the door to the storm.

I promise it wouldn't make any more sense if I chose another option for step 5.

Book #1: Friendly City by Sofia Samatar
Book #2: The Diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner, ed. Claire Harman
Book #3: Ready or Not by Mary Stolz
Book #4: The Room Opposite and Other Stories by F.M. Mayor
Book #5: Mojo Hand: An Orphic Tale by J.J. Phillips

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When I arrived at the hospital the other day they handed me this--

They called my number a few minutes later. Now serving number 310!! I felt like I was at a Jewish bakery in Brooklyn picking up an order of gravlax and a loaf of marble rye.

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Peonies

by Jim Harrison

The peonies, too heavy with their beauty,

slump to the ground. I had hoped

they would live forever but ever so slowly

day by day they’re becoming the soil of their birth

with a faint tang of deliquescence around them.

Next June they’ll somehow remember to come alive again,

a little trick we have or have not learned.

(via Read a Little Poetry FB page--many thanks!)

(they also have a website, do take a look: readalittlepoetry.com/)

dhampyresa

I recently bought (the French version of) this Tarot deck because it is extremely pretty and shiny. I know how to play Tarot -- been ages, though -- but never done any divination. Does anyone have spreads that they like?

thewayne

Ah, capitalism at its finest!

49,000 California residents of the area get their power from California-based Liberty Utilities, who get their power from Nevada-based NV Energy, and come May 2027, NV is going to start sending its power to data centers because it can make more money.

Lake Tahoe is an Alpine lake that is divided by the California/Nevada border, most of it on the California side. It looks to me like most of the residents are on the western/California side.

California regulators can't do much because it's a Nevada utility. Nevada won't do much of anything because it's California residents that have the problem and thus is not their ~~voters/tax-payers~~responsibility.

From the article, emphasis mine: "However, NV Energy representatives pushed back on the idea that data centers are the main culprit behind the decision to stop supplying energy to the Lake Tahoe community, telling Fortune that it was part of a long-term transition predating the AI boom. After NV Energy initially sold its California assets to Liberty in 2009, it struck a series of temporary agreements to keep providing power to Lake Tahoe until Liberty could secure another energy supplier.

Now, for whatever reason, NV Energy has decided it cannot keep extending such agreements. That leaves Liberty scrambling to find a new energy supplier as it plans to offer a replacement contract for any bidders capable of meeting California’s renewable energy requirements." *cough* more money from data centers *cough*

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/energy-supplier-abandons-lake-tahoe-residents-to-serve-data-centers/

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Reading: I thought Sarah Rees Brennan's All Hail Chaos was a very satisfying followup to Long Live Evil, which is always a relief. One more to go! (The third book's title has been announced as Kill Your Darlings; I don't think a release date has been set yet?)

Someday I'll learn to properly make note of whether an ebook is a novella. Fonda Lee's Untethered Sky? A novella. Hopefully I got it on sale, given novella pricing in general, but I did really enjoy it.

Current read: To Ride a Rising Storm (Moniquill Blackgoose), just a few chapters in.

I also read The Vegetable Gardener's Bible (10th anniversary/2nd edition) up to the point where it starts going vegetable by vegetable, and then only read about the ones we're planting. (And I skipped the chapter on compost, because it's about making compost, and WOW do we not have space for that, even if we had the inclination.)

Watching: Another episode or two each of Justice in the Dark and Witch Hat Atelier.

Growing:

scruloose got the planter assembled last weekend (IIRC) and we put a fair amount of soil in at the time (enough to keep it solidly in place, basically), but today we finally got out and finished filling it with the veggie-friendly soil and compost and actually planted the various lettuce and spinach seeds, leaving room for (we hope) a basil plant and a cabbage to go in.

scruloose also got the frame for the planter's covers assembled and installed (the mesh cover is in place now).

We still haven't decided the ultimate fate of the disappointing Bloomerang lilac, but while we were out there

scruloose gave it an aggressive pruning back so that it isn't taking up such a large proportion of our very limited space.

I just checked out the window, and as of 3:10 PM, the shade line is riiiiight at the edge of the planter and about to start creeping over it. (Any tomatoes we buy and the other type of cabbage will be going in pots on the other side of it, so hopefully will get at least a bit more sunlight each day.) I don't know yet what time that space starts getting direct sunlight in the morning.

ETA: By 3:40 PM, the planter is completely shaded, and the shade line is hitting the edge of the pot we had the Tiny Tim tomato in last year.

Current Mood: okay

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summersgate

Cottage Lawn. I had a prompt this morning to draw one of your favorite places as a child would and this came out. Though this actually wouldn't have been the way I would have drawn it when I was a child. Maybe tomorrow I'll give that a try with stick figure style drawing. I'm back to reading the book, "Sketch by Sketch" again to get prompts. I like the idea of drawing my emotions and thoughts and not having to worry about things looking real.

We're having Sunday dinner again this week. I've been wanting to try making baked vegan eggrolls from scratch. It's a new experience so I've been doing internet research. Hopefully they will turn out better than just edible. I'm always searching for good but not too difficult vegan dinner ideas for Sunday dinner. I should call it Vegan Sunday Dinner. It's harder than you think to make a whole balanced vegan meal that meat eaters would feel satisfied with. Making a balanced vegan meal is not hard. It's the satisfying the meat eater that is difficult. Dave refuses to eat anything with "fake" meat in it. But he will eat combinations of beans and grains and other things like that that make a full protein. I'm going to make a beans and rice casserole to go with the eggrolls tomorrow.

A busy morning: OA, shopping at GE but now I need to get busy with some cleaning. Sweeping and Vacuuming.

vvalkyri

I find it really frustrating that asking a 19yo for definitive when will you be here (as we pretty much lose any alone in the house) before he's actually here is apparently verboten. Let alone any sort of hey maybe spend some time at your mom's house.

twistedchick

The Confederacy is back, hiding under the name of Republican, but showing its true white-sheet color in its removal of voting rights from millions of Americans who happen to be Black. It's time to organize.

bill_schubert

I used ChatGPT backed up by Claude to help me set up a personal system of investment that appears to be pretty successful. In reality anyone could have done it since the primary advantage is investing $900 every month into a variety of ETFs. It damn near has to e successful no matter what but having an AI work through the process and then taking that to another AI to say what do you think was a good exercise.

Today I heard about a new financial arm of ChatGPT that would allow it to connect directly to banks and investment companies to aggregate and analyse and inform. I thought that would be useful so I asked ChatGPT about it.

The response basically said that it was being set up for investment companies to use (as opposed to individuals) which makes sense. But the last couple of lines were genuinely AI humor.

The old Wall Street saying still applies: “Trust, but verify.” Except now the junior analyst never sleeps and occasionally invents revenue streams out of thin air.

maju

I've got the house all to myself for the next three hours or so. (Actually since about 10 am.) Violet and her father are at a scout camp. They left yesterday evening and won't be back until Sunday afternoon. My daughter and the other two girls have gone out to have lunch with a friend of hers who lives an hour or so away (closer to New York city), and will also be doing quite a few errands while they're out. My daughter was planning a nice quiet day at home with two fifths of the family at scout camp, but her friend called and asked her to lunch and she decided that while she was over that way should get some errands done. I'm enjoying the quiet now, but my morning was moderately busy.

I managed to sleep well last night - until maybe 4:15 am, when I was woken by the smoke alarm chirping intermittently. After lying there for a few minutes I realised I wasn't going to get any more sleep so I reluctantly got up to see if I could silence the chirping. I eventually worked out that I could pull out the battery tray, and this worked to stop the noise. However, I had woken up with a bad headache and didn't feel like doing anything much until it seemed like a reasonable time to go upstairs for breakfast a couple of hours later. All was quiet upstairs with my insomniac son in law away, so I didn't want to wake anyone up unnecessarily.

After breakfast I started putting together some egg/vegetable muffins for future lunches, but didn't do the eggs because I knew Aria would be extremely disappointed if I didn't let her do that part. When she got up I was happy to let her break and whisk all 18 eggs. As she was about to start she declared that she really wanted to make an "omelette" (many eggs whisked and baked in a casserole dish) for her father but that she wouldn't be able to if we used the eggs for my muffins, but her mother and I assured her that there plenty of eggs in the fridge (as her father had bought two dozen the day before), so she was happy to know that she would be able to make the omelette tomorrow in addition to the muffins today.

When the muffins were done I walked over to Stop&Shop (About 3.4 km/2 miles round trip) to buy some more cold medications, but now I think the cold is on the way out and maybe I won't need to use them. Because of my headache and lingering cold symptoms I didn't feel like getting any longer or more strenuous exercise than that, even though early this morning it would have been perfect for a run.

By this time it was almost lunch time. I started a load of washing before lunch and after lunch hung it up around my room to dry. I wish I had an outside drying place because today would be absolutely perfect for drying washing outside. I wonder how my daughter would feel about me stringing up some drying lines between a couple of the oak trees in their back yard? I wonder if the neighbours would complain, since our back yard is visible from the houses on both sides of us.

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A Parade of Horribles

4/5. Dungeon Crawler book, do not start here, it will be incomprehensible. I had a good time in the midst of an awful week, here are some random thoughts:
• It’s fun to read a book where you suspect the author wrote a specific scene for the audiobook. They got the rights to “Take on Me,” and that’s all I’ll say about that. For those who don’t know, these audiobooks are extremely good, but Audible exclusive, bleh.
• Big lore dump. Did that clear anything up, really? I mean, no, but points for trying.
• I’m not positive he meant to do this, but at least one character gestures at the sex worker / NPC comparison I have been thinking about since early on. I.e. people considered disposable nonpersons by narratives.
• This book ran on rails for the first part in a way we haven’t seen for a while. I wasn’t sure I liked that, but he found ways to make it narratively interesting, and ultimately there’s a good in-universe explanation for it.
• Interesting game-breaking here. I was speculating that he would need to do something like that in this specific book before I even opened it and yeah, right on the money.
• The cat is still the MVP, obviously.

Content notes: Gore, general grossness, the AI being a rebirthing pervert and a million other kinds of perverts.

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Drabble inspired by a conversation with

kitarella_imagines about Tarrant's leather tunic which was a recycled Avon outfit:

Blake's 7, Avon/Tarrant, rated G, 100 words

Vila narrows his eyes at Tarrant’s leather tunic. “Where have I seen those clothes before?”

Dayna frowns and turns to Tarrant. “We took them from a corpse on Heliotrix, didn’t we?”

Tarrant nods absent-mindedly.

Vila looks between him and Avon. “I could’ve sworn…”

“Have you taken a liking to leather as well?” Avon asks. “Perhaps we can find something for you.” His eyes flicker to Tarrant. “I think Tarrant suits this one best.”

Tarrant’s smile is furtive, but Vila catches it.

“As opposed to?” Vila asks.

Avon walks up to him, his hand heavy on Vila’s shoulder. “The corpse, Vila.”

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