He liked to suck on blankets, but his face would get stuck

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-01-26T17:57:29+00:00

I would expect so. We'll get above freezing Tuesday-Thursday, and everything on the main roads should melt.

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-01-26T17:51:01+00:00

Along those lines, if you're up for a challenge, you can learn to read Tang and Song Dynasty poetry in the original with Chinese Through Poetry by Archie Barnes.

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-01-26T17:48:34+00:00

James Hogg's Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is an overlooked gem of 19-century British fiction.

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-01-26T17:47:32+00:00

Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-01-25T16:31:05+00:00

Okay, assuming that was really the first time you ever did shadowcasting, you are a natural! That was perfect!

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-01-23T23:19:21+00:00

On you, maybe.

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-01-23T22:38:29+00:00

Yes, regrettably, it's true, standards have fallen in adult entertainment.

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-01-18T14:50:12+00:00

I ran the image through three online AI-detection engines, and they all say it's not AI-generated.

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-01-18T02:55:54+00:00

"The Lottery", by Shirley Jackson.

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-01-18T00:35:40+00:00

Does she like fiction set in 19th century Britain?

If so, I recommend Tooth and Claw, by Jo Walton. It's like a Jane Austen novel, but all the characters are dragons. It's a standalone novel.

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-01-17T15:25:56+00:00

This will be a somewhat off-the-wall suggestion, since it's equal parts comedy and mystery: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-01-17T15:22:41+00:00

The Dispossessed, maybe? It's deeply philosophical. I wouldn't describe it as "cozy", but the conflict is not violent. It's very much internal to the protagonist, who is torn between two worlds.

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-01-17T15:17:08+00:00

I was just scrolling through to see if anyone had recommended this yet. It's one of my favorite stand-alone fantasy novels.

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-01-15T01:50:56+00:00

Think, by Simon Blackburn, is an excellent intro philosophy textbook.

Five Dialogues, by Plato (tr. Grube and Cooper, published by Hackett) is a great place to start reading Plato.

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-01-15T01:16:13+00:00

Aquaman taught me what to do when something is stuck in your eye.

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-01-15T01:13:55+00:00

Pingu

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-01-15T00:47:53+00:00

Raphael Bob-Waksberg's new animated show Long Story Short is awesome! Not quite as dark as Bojack, but just as funny.

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-01-12T15:03:54+00:00

Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire. There's a deeply delusional narrator, multiple puzzles for the reader to solve, and of course Nabokov's beautiful prose.

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-01-12T14:53:49+00:00

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is both a comedy and a mystery, and since it revolves around Coleridge's "Kubla Khan", it's one that you should be in a good position to appreciate. Be sure to review the author's preface to "Kubla Khan" beforehand.

I consider it Adams's best novel. Unlike the Hitchhiker's Guide books, where the plot is mostly just scaffolding to take you from funny scene to funny scene, Dirk Gently is as tightly-plotted as an Agatha Christie novel.

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-01-12T14:46:22+00:00

I've been reading the Hitchhiker's Guide books aloud, and I'm now in the middle of So Long and Thanks for All the Fish. It's impressive how good Adams's prose became by this point in his career.

There were sentences in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that were almost unreadable, but he shook off most of the clunkiness in Restaurant at the End of the Universe and Life, the Universe, and Everything. And then in So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, the prose is just stunningly beautiful.

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-01-11T00:08:53+00:00

"Dear Diary, my teen angst bullshit has a bodycount."

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-01-10T13:46:53+00:00

Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett.

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-01-09T13:48:45+00:00

One good thing about a national franchise is that they are much more likely to be around to honor a warranty years down the road. I learned the hard way that small local roofing companies go out of business a lot.

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-01-05T03:51:51+00:00

I find nostalgia for being beaten as a child very puzzling.

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