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Title: The gift of the apple thief
Fandom: Original
Length: 300
Rating: Gen
For: 2025 Spook Me prompt: https://public.fotki.com/trillingstar/spook-me/spook-me-2025/raven-11.html
Notes: I attempted to copy the cadence of Robert Frost's "Ghost House."
Summary: A would-be apple thief answers riddles and sets a captive scene free.

how sweeter the apples which are robbed!
towards cider boughs, a baseball is lobbed.
it strikes the pane of the next-door church.
it makes the heart of the would-be thief lurch,
thinking of what the ball broke when it bobbed

the Boy knows truant balls must be claimed
or as vandal he’s as good as named
so though the House of God is closed,
he finds a way in, unashamed, unopposed,
under the General’s war camp, framed

how silent is the General’s gaze!
the Boy, ignoring glass splinters a-glaze,
fixes eyes on tracks left by the ball
which down, down to the root-cellar crawl,
down, down, go boyish patter and graze

big black bird greets uninvited guest
with a look and a wink and a test:
‘young man, why do you go to bed each night?’
‘because the bed won’t come to me, all right?’
the raven smiles and puffs out its chest.

then, a skull with a strange hole in its head
asks aloud, reading as it’s read:
‘why don’t snakes know how much they weigh?’
‘’cause they all lose their scales one day!’
in toothless grin, gaunt no-lips spread.

the raven returns, held in its beak,
a dangling key, commences to speak:
‘a young man casts a calendar high. why?’
‘he wanted to see the days fly by!’
the bird squawks. The key drops. The bones squeak.

into the skull’s hole goes the key
revolving with fine finality
the ball rolls home. the Boy turns to go
above, cracks bring the General low
the war camp falls, setting something free

inside the glass, ‘twas the belief,
had lived another scene, in relief,
of Sunday school, not of war, of books,
and from that day, each boy and girl looks
with pride at the gift of the apple thief.

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2025-10-26 20:09
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Posted by /u/Itchy-Inspector-4502

Does anyone know if iptorrents might have made for tv movies like stand against fear 1996, it was him or us 1995. If so i will do a donation

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Posted by Rebekah Harding

plane seats (l) man shares flight surprise (c) flight (r)

No one wants their space invaded in an already cramped airplane seat. So, fellow passengers praise one man’s hilarious response to a woman putting her hand on his headrest.

In a video with over 21.3 million views, TikToker Desingerica (@dragomirdespic_design) shows an older woman sitting behind him, gripping the top of his airplane seat. He glances up at her hand.

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There's research that if you leave people in a room with an electro-shock shock device long enough to get bored they will deliberately shock themselves.

In other news I took Sophia's phone away from the kids while they were in the bath and now they're repeatedly pouring cold water over themselves while shrieking like baboons.
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I feel like I'm moving into zombie mode right now. Hopefully that will help me fall asleep on time??

I had a lovely weekend, though. The Augustinian no-longer-youths were as delightful as ever, we had some interesting talks, it felt like the time absolutely zoomed past while at the same time not all that much happened... and it's just never long enough. We talked in the end-of-gathering session about how nice it would be if there were more of these, maybe in different places, and then all of us who had any involvement in planning this one were like "but who is going to do it" because even with half-a-dozen people working on what is deliberately a very low-key event, it was pretty exhausting. But it WOULD be nice.

One of the parishioners who came along this year is someone I've known for probably thirty-five years, whose kids were very much in my peer group in the parish, and it was really good to catch up with her; she has thirteen grandchildren now! Although she did have six children, five of whom have children, so that's not quite as unreasonable as it sounds. I haven't seen most of them since probably the mid-nineties, so it's a bit disconcerting to find that they're married with three children, but that is how it goes.

Now I'm at Mum's; I've set up my work station (where I am currently typing this while she blocks crochet squares on the other half of Dad's table) and unpacked my belongings and generally done my best to make ready for the week. We have also come to a detente where I have agreed to spend more time chatting with her if she turns the TV off, or at least mutes it while I'm in there. I 100% cannot filter out "ambient" TV (a cause of suffering to me in waiting rooms!) because my attention gets yanked to it, over and over. I think it's probably because I don't watch much of it, so I haven't learned to ignore it, but either way it's very off-putting. I have run away now, though; there is only so much socialising I can handle in a day, and between the Augustinians this morning and multiple hours chatting with her already, I am pretty much tapped out.
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Posted by /u/HeartsPlayer721

I'm interested in more movies about people from the past somehow ending up in present time. But when I search for it, I just get lists of movies that involve any tyoe of time travel. I don't want people from present time traveling back in time or forward into the future, or people from the future traveling to today... I'm looking for the amusement of characters from the past being fascinated or surprised about basic modern technology and lifestyles.

Think Hocus Pocus and the witches being surprised by the fire sprinkler systems, a paved road, or a car.

Others I can think of that I've seen: Blast From The Past, Bill & Ted's,

But throw more recommendations at me! I don't mind cheesy TV movies as well.

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Sweetbreads (200 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Original Male Character(s)
Additional Tags: Cooking Lessons, Organs, Ficlet
Series: Part 13 of Spook Me Ficathon
Summary: An excerpt from a cooking show on how to prepare sweetbreads.

We Could Die Like This (4743 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: World Wrestling Entertainment
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Charlotte/Becky Lynch | Rebecca Knox, Becky Lynch | Rebecca Knox/Seth Rollins | Tyler Black, Sasha Banks/Becky Lynch | Rebecca Knox, Finn Balor | Prince Devitt/Becky Lynch | Rebecca Knox, Becky Lynch | Rebecca Knox & Lyra Valkyria, Bayley | Davina Rose/Seth Rollins | Tyler Black, Sasha Banks & Bayley | Davina Rose
Characters: Becky Lynch | Rebecca Knox, Finn Balor | Prince Devitt, Lyra Valkyria, Bayley | Davina Rose, Sasha Banks, Seth Rollins | Tyler Black, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Time Travel, Inspired by Final Destination (Movies), Inspired by Irish Mythology, Little Black Dress, Surreal, Tokyo (City), Car Accidents, Homophobic Language, Japanese Mythology & Folklore, WWE Clash in Paris, Accidental Death, Hotels, Reality TV, Electrocution, WWE SummerSlam 2018, Podcast, WWE Wrestlepalooza, Airports
Series: Part 14 of Spook Me Ficathon
Summary: Becky Lynch is living her best life when a raven suddenly appears.
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As seen all around these parts, the AO3 alphabet meme:

Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for [starting] a fic title? One fic per line, 'A' and 'The' do not count for 'a' and 't'. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.

A - Another Gravity (Firefly, Mal/Zoe)
B - The Boys of Summer (Hot Corner Rag) (SPN, Sam & Dean)
C - Courtship Rituals of the World's Most Awkward Superheroes (Avengers/Amazing Spider-Man, Steve/Peter)
D - the dream of flight persists (Star Wars/Firefly, Anakin/Kaylee)
E - Eight the Hard Way (Ocean's 8, Amita/Daphne)
F - The Forces Ranged Within Us and Against Us (SPN, Sam/Dean)
G - Girl, You're Like a Weird Vacation (Blue Beetle, Brenda/Paco)
H - The Hubbert Peak (Dark Angel, Max/Alec)
I - The Injurious Internet Meme Incursion (The Middleman, Wendy, MM, & Ida)
J - Joy has he whom she embraces (Amelia Peabody, Peabody/Emerson)
K - Katie, Bar the Door (DCU, Jason, ensemble)
L - A Little Less Conversation, a Little More Action (Ocean's 11, Danny/Rusty)
M - Mother Is the Name for God (Star Wars, Leia & Padme)
N - No Exit (Star Wars; Darth Vader/Ahsoka)
O - Only where love and need are one (L'Engleverse, Adam/Joshua)
P - Paint a thank-you on my palm (Six of Crows, Inej, ensemble)
Q - Quality (LotR, Faramir)
R - Retail Therapy (DCU, Cass, ensemble)
S - Stuck in the Middle with You (Star Wars, Anakin, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka)
T - There's Still Time to Change the Road You're On (Star Wars, Anakin, Luke, Leia)
U - Until the Sea Shall Free Them (The Iliad, Achilles/Patroclus)
V - Visiting Hours (DCU, Alfred & Jason)
W - with our way lit only by stars (Earthsea, Ged/Tenar)
X - Xue Bai, Xue Hong (Firefly, Mal/River/Simon)
Y - you and your high top sneakers and your sailor tattoos (Avengers, Steve/Darcy)
Z - The Zombie Love Bug Concatenation (SPN/The Middleman, Dean/Wendy)

26/26, out of 950 stories on AO3. I ignored the ones that start with parentheticals and numbers. I also went mostly on vibes, so it's not a real overview of my stuff, but it is one title for every letter of the alphabet.

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Culinary

2025-10-26 18:51
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I thought last week's bread was holding out pretty well until it suddenly sprouted mould - however there was still some cornbread left + rolls.

Having been out for lunch on Friday I was not feeling like anything much for supper but made partner a Spanish omelette with red bell pepper and had some fruit myself.

Saturday breakfast rolls: basic buttermilk, strong white flour, turned out v nice.

Today's lunch: Crispy Baked Sesame Tofu - not sure whether there should not have been some actual sesame seeds somewhere in the mix? also thought maybe I was a bit cautious with the amount of tamari in the sauce - and didn't think this turned out particularly crispy....; served with sticky rice with lime leaves, baked San Marzano tomatoes and mangetout peas stirfried with star anise.

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Archive.org has The Wretched of the Earth/Damnés de la terre (1961) available here. It is a work on colonialism, revolution, and racialization.

It was also written by a man with a name that is, for me, intensely unfortunate.

The foreword is titled "Framing Fanon."

As [personal profile] hannah points out, "It's pronounced 'Fa-NOH.'"

I'm so sorry, Frantz Fanon. You were there first, having a perfectly cromulent name, and then those fans came and made your name a word to be feared for reasons having nothing to do with colonialism.

I'm going to see how far I get with it, and if I have issues, there is an audiobook of an analysis of it available via NYPL that I will take out and dig into.

-- possibly after Yuletide, because racialized colonialism is gonna be fucked whether or not I get my assignment in on time.
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Not only is 4.50 from Paddington (1957) one of my favourite Christie’s, it’s also the one I have re-read the most, and it also has one of my favourites among her characters.



On the train to see Miss Marple, her friend Mrs. McGillicuddy observes a man strangling a woman on a train that is temporarily beside her own. She and Miss Marple report the crime, but as no body is found, the police dismiss it all as a dream. Miss Marple, of course, thinks otherwise. She figures out that the body must have been thrown out of the train on the Crackenthorpe estate, and manages to get help from her friend Lucy Eylesbarrow, who gets a job at Rutherford Hall as a housekeeper.The Crackenthorpe family is a fine collection of Agatha Christie tropes. The elderly family father who keeps a thigh rein on his money. The spinster caretaker, the bohemian artist, the successful businessman, with a wife from a noble but poor family, and lastly the never-do-well son. There is also the daughter who died young, but her husband, the war hero, is around. Another son died in the war, and the dead daughter has a teenage son who sometimes visits. To complete the picture there is also the family doctor who seems very interested in the spinster daughter. Lucy manages to find the dead body secreted away in a barn, and then she and Miss Marple need to find out who she was, and also which one of the many men having access to the estate who is the murderer. Needless to say Miss Marple figures it all out, through there a couple of more murders before that happens.


It’s a pretty solid Christie mystery, but a large reason why I love this book is because of Lucy Eylesbarrow. She’s an attractive woman in her early 30s who, despite being a highly gifted academic, decides to have a career as a short time housekeeper. She’s very good at her job, and is therefore in high demand and is very expensive. I love that Christie, though Lucy, points out that taking care of a home is actually a job that requires a number of talents and hard labour. Whenever I feel household chores are just a drudge, I always feel more motivated after re-reading 4.50 from Paddington, because Lucy thinks doing chores are fun. Lucy also proves to be an excellent detective, and she and Miss Marple make a very good team. I’ve always felt it’s a pity Lucy never returns, she would have made a good returning character.


Mild spoilers below the cut.

Read more... )

Overall I think Christie does a good job with the characters in this book. Yes, they are a selection of her stock characters, but they still have distinct personalities. Like Emma, the spinster daughter, who isn’t at all down trodden, and clearly has her own life and interests, even if she lives a life as her father’s caretaker. Mrs. McGillicuddy, who we only see at the beginning and the end of the book, is still a real human being, and I think it’s a testament to Christie’s skill as a writer that even if Mrs. McGillicuddy is so briefly described, you are still left with a real person. Someone who isn’t very imaginative, who may not be very generous with money, but who still has a large family who loves her, and close friends who look forward to seeing her.

I’ve seen two adaptations of this book. One from 1987 with Joan Hickson. She was a marvellous Miss Marple, but this particular adaptation is one of the weakest in her Marple series. I don’t mind that there are some cuts and changes in the cast, but several of the characters have significant changes to their characters, and none for the better. I’m especially annoyed with how Lucy is portrayed. On the other hand the one from 2004, part of the Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple, is one of the better episodes from that series, even if I don’t think Geraldine McEwan is the best Miss Marple. There are some changes in this adaptation as well, for example Inspector Craddock is made into a relative to Miss Marple.Not that I mind, especially as he is played by the ever charming John Hannah.

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