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can you curry anything else or is it just favor
So "currying" a furry animal means grooming or brushing it with a currycomb, which in turn comes from the Old French correier meaning "to prepare [something]", because you prepare a horse for riding by brushing it; it's most commonly applied to horses but you can get e.g. currycombs for dogs.
If I understand correctly, medieval French folk tales considered chestnut-colored horses to be deceitful and tricky; the Old French word for a chestnut or dun horse was fauvel, and so the Old French expression correier fauvel, literally "to brush the chestnut horse", meant lying or being hypocritical for personal gain. This turned into "curry favel" in 15th-century English, and then mutated into "curry favor" over the next few centuries as people forgot about the horse.
So "currying favor" is really "brushing the Horse of Lies", and the reason you can't curry goodwill, or love, or hatred, or even disfavor is that we didn't have Horses for those.
And it follows that we can gain the ability to curry other things by assigning them to Horses.
#google is backing you up on this (via @oldguardians)
I realize, looking back on this post, that regular readers of my blog may have thought I made this up. Making up a ridiculous etymology is certainly the sort of thing I might do; in fact I've been meaning to start a sideblog dedicated solely to sufficiently accurate etymologies, and have a notebook with dozens of them jotted down, I just haven't had the time to do anything with them.
But I want to stress that this is not one of those cases. This is, to the best of my knowledge, the very real etymology of the phrase "curry favor".
The Old French fauve or falve referred to the light-brown color that's sometimes called "fallow" in modern English, but since it also sounded similar to faux, meaning "false", it was also associated with deceit and trickery ; the idiom estriller Fauvel literally meant "to groom the fallow one" but idiomatically meant "to lie or trick people".
Then in the 1300s we get the French poem Roman de Fauvel, a satirical poem about a fauve horse, whose name is derived both from the color and from the fact that FAVVEL is an acronym of Flaterie, Avarice, Vilanie, Varieté, Envie, Lascheté (Flattery, Greed, Vileness, Fickleness, Envy, and Cowardice) - all the different vices that this horse embodies.
Fauvel (purportedly modeled after Enguerrand de Marigny [source], an advisor to King Philip IV) is a sinful, conniving, and very rich horse who has various religious and secular leaders fawning over him and brushing him; it was well-known enough that "grooming Fauvel" came to mean "sucking up to someone powerful" more than just "being evil", and when it was translated into English the grooming was translated as currying, which specifically is grooming a horse with a curry comb [wiktionary]. From this we got the Middle English expression "currying Fauvel", which then mutated via folk etymology (in the "reinterpretation of unfamiliar words as more familiar ones" sense, not the "people are wrong about etymology" sense) into "currying favor".
Curry favor in:
Wiktionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/curry_favor
Merriam-Webster: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/curry%20favor
Etymonline: https://www.etymonline.com/word/curry
sucks that i can’t be a noir detective. they’re saying i can be a neo-noir detective but it’s not the same.
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I’m not a real person!!!!!!!!!!! Three trinkets in a trench coat.
ideal living situation is what i call the 'sitcom special' : having all your closest friends live in the same apartment building or neighborhood where you each have your own space but can wander in and out of eachothers homes at will, seemingly always welcome and never at bad times. and also all of you only have jobs when its important to the plot.
ID: [a screenshot of a news headline that says "sentenced to 12 years in a mental health facility"] end ID
I know this kind of language is common practice and I also know that it's common for a judge to rule that someone should go to a "mental health facility". but I also just need to remind everyone that it is not a coincidence that these institutions are treated in much the same way as prisons. people are incarcerated in mental health facilities, and that is not some kind of easy way out for people who don't "deserve" to be in prison. they are, in many ways, equivalent institutions. in fact, being confined to these institutions is permission to be classified as Mad, and therefore permission to act as though you have no understanding of what is in your own best interests. this kind of carceral mental health "care" is not a solution to prison abolition. never let anyone tell you otherwise
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I like the way Muir adds important information to the tail end of sentences that changes the entire concept of them.
Harrowhark is keeping her parents in power of the Ninth House by pretending they're alive and taking all kinds of religious vows to avoid talking and eating. At first glance, they look fine because Harrowhark did some forbidden magic to preserve their faces. She messed up the spell though, so don't look at the rest of their bodies.
Oh, by the way, she was 10 years old when she did all that.
This is pretty much her favorite literary technique:
I think the defining characteristic of my favorite type of horror is a realization of the uncanny: the slow lifting of a mirror up to your face so you can see the crack. I love it when horror stains backward through an entire text. As a horror reader, I’m always tightening up protectively to guess and to guard against that moment, and I want horror to have been sitting in my blind spot the whole time.
—from her Clarkesworld interview
While she used final plot twists very well in The Magician's Apprentice or The Deepwater Bride (here's a guide to her writing outside of TLT), in TLT she is doing something deeper: we begin with Gideon wanting to be a soldier, and given the limited scope of the first book, we accept her framework and run with it. But she always meant to slowly peel back the layers towards Alecto (what became Nona) and have us experience the shock of leaving Niner nobles and God's polycule for normal people in the colonies and experience in our bones the way necro society were always the bad guys (as a system, not necessarily on an individual level—I am very very curious about the fate of the “House formerly known as the Sixth”). The Unwanted Guest also gave us pieces of context that changed everything looking back. Alecto will presumably deconstruct the initial appearances even more.
Defamiliarization or ostranenie (Russian: остранение, IPA: [ɐstrɐˈnʲenʲɪjə]) is the artistic technique of presenting to audiences common things in an unfamiliar or strange way so they could gain new perspectives and see the world differently.
The Wikipedia article on defamiliarization and its links to the Uncanny is very interesting, and frankly the subject is vital if you want to analyze works of fiction. Learning about the Russian formalist definition of metaphor when I was in college rewired my brain.
I could probably write an actual decent post about this but ME/CFS is kicking my ass so.

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TIL the reason you don’t find much Lyme’s Disease in California is not because we don’t have Ticks, or Lyme Disease Vectors; but rather: because the Western Fence Lizard (if you live anywhere in California this is your regular Garden Variety Lizard) has adapted a passive immune response that makes their blood lethal to Lyme Disease Bacteria. Any Tick that feeds on one gets its gut cleansed of Lyme Disease as a side effect.
Fucking neat.
There is a new vaccine going into Phase 3 trials from Valneva and Pfizer as well as a monoclonal antibody-based prophylactic treatment being researched at UMass!
"the only cure for this weird disease is the special lizard blood" is a Star Trek TOS plot that escaped into the real world
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