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in a way john watson is a fantasy (what if you had this brilliant enigmatic friend and what if he liked you in particular and what if he offered you the excitement of youth and adventures and a way out of boring society life and all without having to actually give up your status as a gentleman so you could have the best of both worlds) and in a way sherlock holmes is a fantasy (what if someone never got tired of you despite your various strange habits and mood swings and instead of simply tolerating you they genuinely liked you and what if you didnāt have to live alone forever and what if you never had to give up doing the things you love) and of course thereās the most fantastical part of it all (what if you could afford london housing prices)
Well, famously they can't actually afford London housing, that's the whole reason they met.
This sick bleach shirt I made. Something to showcase my undying love for prehistoric cave art.
Some of the bleach burned thru the shirt bc this was my first time bleaching anything ever, but it kinda adds to it.
The best part about turning 30 was, legitimately, unlocking the ability to use this image
There was an envelope lying inside the door. It contained press cuttings. One referred to her as Miss Vines and said she had taken her degree at Cambridge; a second compared her work unfavorably with that of an American thriller-writer; a third was a belated review of her last book, which gave away the plot; a fourth attributed somebody else's thriller to her and stated that she "adopted a sporting out- look on life" (whatever that might mean).

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Dowager Duchess of Denver my beloved
"what if the talkative scatterbrained old lady trope were actually highly intelligent and usually knew exactly what she was talking about and how to use the way people perceived her to take them off guard"
Valancy Jane Stirling should be grateful that her story is set in [redacted] and not in the 2020s. Can you imagine how insufferable the Stirling clan would be on Facebook?
OH MY GOD
you are so right about Olive. RIP olive you were born too soon to be an #influencer. (EXCEPT i wonder if her being very pretty and sought after in the context of a small town would mean she didn't quite hack it--big fish in a small pond kinda thing. Which means she might actually be an "#influencer" with like 2000 followers, half of whom are paid accounts.)
As for the fake uncle benjamin thing, I'd just screenshot you my own MAGA uncle's profile except we've mutually blocked each other.
Uncle Benjamin on facebook:
CHAPTER 13 THOUGHTS š©µš
[I'm again on track oh yeah!!]
The Blue Castle Book Club: Chapter 13
"I remember Grandfather Wansbarra. He was one of the few human beings I have knownāalmost the only one."
Lately, I have spent quite a lot of time thinking about what knowing someone really means. I haven't come to any concrete conclusions yet, I'm afraid ā but I am very glad that Valancy has had someone in her life that she feels like she has known, nevertheless, even if he has long since passed away.
Grandfather Wansbarra seems to have been something of an eccentric, in a fun but also, perhaps, somewhat annoying way. So far, we've learned that he chose Valancy's name, that he claimed to be the reincarnation of his great-great-grandfather, and that apparently, he didn't have too much time for social niceties ("He talked all his life exactly as Valancy did today.")
All this makes me wonder how on earth he managed to father and raise someone like Mrs. Frederick. Perhaps that was Amelia's quiet form of rebellion, becoming someone completely unlike her father? And like someone said, she has likely had to put in a lot of effort to be accepted into the Stirling clan despite her family background, so whatever small peculiarities she might've inherited from her father must've been ironed out in the process.
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Sidenote: I keep thinking of starlings whenever I read or write the name Stirling. That's too nice an association for this bunch, really. Starlings are such beautiful birds.
(photo by TheOther Kev on Pexels)
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"āFun!ā Mrs. Frederick uttered the word as if Valancy had said she was going to have a little tuberculosis."
This made me laugh.
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Anyway, this is a fun little chapter, but with such a dark undertone. This family is losing it so completely over their former punching bag saying no to them for a change that one of them is literally suggesting locking her up. No wonder Valancy used to be so afraid of them, really ā it's a very sinister mindset on display here.
Blue Castle Book Club chapter 13
So Uncle Benjamin's way of dealing with "pig-headed people" is to, what, demand once and give up? Not that I think they should have dragged Valancy to see the doctor, but it is extremely amusing to see all her relatives just completely crumble in the face of being told no.
(This is, of course, the glaring weakness of these kinds of social contracts. Norms and standards are extremely powerful forces, and they absolutely serve to keep people from behaving in certain ways or to encourage desired behaviors in people who might not otherwise be so inclined. In a perfect world, we would use this type of implied social norm to get people to be kind to others and not litter and generally not take advantage of each other. In the imperfect world that we, and Maud, actually live in, we see those social norms be used to push people down and keep them silent. However, the second someone realizes that the only consequence to violating a social norm is a social consequence, they are free to flout them as much as they please. If you don't care about social consequences, then nothing is binding you to the norms of your society save your own conscience. Empowering and wonderful if the norms you're flouting are about letting the men in your family push you around, much less wonderful if the norms are, like, not being racist. This has become a complete tangent, but it's something I think about a lot.)

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I realize maybe I should tell y'all about my thesis!
As you may have guessed, I haven't finished it yet, BUT
If the whole idea of writing a thesis is learning things along the way, I think I can give myself for satisfied with how things have gone so far (I still would have liked to have done it faster, and to be done with it, and not have Damocles' sword hanging over my head...).
So, chapter 1 was about setting up the relationship between narrativity and practical reason, so as to give grounding to the relevance of literature and stories for Ethics. In the process I learned:
A good chunk of the literature on ethics and literature deals mainly with the relationship between author and reader/audience, for which Gadamer's theory of hermeneutics is of key importance.
The turn to ethics is funnily disputed in an academic way, where literature academics insist it is a turn in philosophy towards literature, and philosophers insist it is the other way around.
MacIntyre's grounding of narrativity in an Aristotelian theory of action is HUGELY indebted to G.E.M. Anscombe's Intention.
I was able to insert Alejandro Vigo's interpretation of narrativity in Aristotle through the understanding of human rationality as distinctly possessing the capacity to project itself into the future, which would be the basis of conceiving life as a projective story, and the moral self as a narrative self.
I just think it's neat to support the same idea both from the standpoint of intentions and of ends, specially if ends are tied to a quality that is specific to human rationality (and this because of some more complicated things about how MacIntyre is trying, in After Virtue, to replace a biological telos with a sociological telos. But that would be too long to explain).
Chapter 2 ended up being the Jane Austen chapter. The highlights here were:
Some personal confusion because MacIntyre's set up of his interest in Austen and what he actually ends up describing as relevant later on not matching much. However I think I was able to argue with reasonable solidity how her novels could illustrate MacIntyre's notion of a practice and its relationship with institutions.
By far the most interesting part, however, was connecting the dots between MacIntyre and some feminist readings of Austen, in the sense that S. Morgan ties the fixedness and naivetƩ verging on stupidity of the Richardsonian heroine (and similar ones) to the idea that character in such novels is tied to sexual definition, whereas in Austen character is not defined sexually. And MacIntyre, on his side, is trying to explain why Austen is 'restoring a teleological orientation' to the virtues, and so he brings up the Humean notion of virtue as such habits as are agreeable or useful. In a Humean scheme chastity can only make sense for its utility, mainly, ensuring the legitimacy of heirs. There where in an Aristotelian sense chastity would be a part of temperance, the rational ordering of appetites and tendencies towards pleasure, governed by prudence and influenced by experience, in a Humean vision it's really about the unquestionable virginity of a woman. The Austenian vision of the heroine is dynamic, the Richardsonian vision of the heroine is static. The dots, you see, the dots!!! (btw, very useful, Austen's absolute roast of a Richardsonian obsession in Sanditon!)
Chapter 3: I'm still working on chapter 3. It's been a calvary to write through, because there are so many things I need to connect, pick up, wrap up here...
The most interesting discovery here was finding an obscure source where a feminist writer challenges MacIntyre about the inclusion of women in the scheme of After Virtue. It is HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS how you can easily read or structure Dependent Rational Animals around her criticism. Both, Susan Moller Okin and him, who does rise up to the challenge and does it very interestingly, are a delight, to me.
In that frame I also managed to finally understand the interest in After Virtue by care ethicists and other feminists who were searching in the 80s for alternatives to systems of ethics (utilitarianism and deontology) which they felt were skewed towards autonomy, independence and rights to the exclusion of vulnerability, dependence, mutual aid, compassion and forgiveness. This also prompted a connection I only barely implied (there would be so much to talk!) with 70s marxist feminists pushing for the reintroduction of men in the domestic sphere and in childrearing to reduce the violence of the capitalistic public space. Very interesting in terms of MacIntyre's marxist background and that Patsy Stoneman mentions these authors in her Eilizabeth Gaskell.
I also in that vein realized how important work as self-realization and community-building activity is for MacIntyre. His concept of practice allows for the inclusion of artisans in the fulfilled life, something that would be very alien to Aristotle. And this ALSO connects with the Marxist notion of alienation and the way industrialization caused a ton of alienation; so MacIntyre's reading of the breakdown of the language of ethics and morality coincides historically with the very beginnings of merncantilism and therefore of capitalism beginning the process of dissolution of productive, meaningful labor within practices. Also very interesting how MacIntyre through the years unites both this sense and the idea, through St. Benedict, of work as prayer and almsgiving. Which leaves me pondering about how so much of the doctrinal disputes surrounding things like the environment really hinges on whether you read the story of Genesis as God placing Adam in the garden to take care of it, or as a commandment to subject and dominate the Earth.
Another thing is realizing that understanding mercy as a moral virtue and not just a feeling is much more justified by MacIntyre than I remembered/realized before.
There's a couple more things, but my eyes are closing off with sleepy, so... that's all for now
āWe must be guided by developments,ā said Uncle Benjamin. āIt isāāsolemnlyāāeasier to scramble eggs than unscramble them. Of courseāif she becomes violentāāā
funniest moment in the book idc
CHAPTER 12 THOUGHTS š©µšæ
The attack she had when she thankfully reached the shelter of her own room was the worst yet. It was really very bad. She might die in one of those spells. It would be dreadful to die in such pain. Perhapsāperhaps this was death. Valancy felt pitifully alone.
The pain left her and she lay on her bed, spent, exhausted, in a cold perspiration. Oh, that had been horrible! She could not endure many more attacks like that. One didnāt mind dying if death could be instant and painless. But to be hurt so in dying!
To laugh at her clan as she had always wanted to laugh was all the satisfaction she could get out of life now. But she thought it was rather pitiful that it should be so. Might she not pity herself a little when nobody else did?
āI wish,ā she said whimsically, āthat I may haveĀ oneĀ little dust-pile before I die.ā
That's all what I have to say about this chapter.
Adore Agatha Christie's commitment to the complete airing out of dirty laundry of everyone for truly no reason. Yeah you didn't murder that guy but you DID have an affair we are going to tell everyone about it btw.
In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly donāt get it. I call it the Pascal Method.
Taylor Swift does this
no she doesnāt
You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.
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Was driving with my grandmother and in broken English she says āno eyes⦠no nose⦠no face. Donāt trust.ā To which I looked around wildly in search of this omen of ill portend.
Cybertruck. It was a cybertruck.
āBecause the truth is, tech doesnāt have an image problem. It doesnāt have a message problem. It has an intention problem. Whatās wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasnāt successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. Whatās wrong is that heās trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product thatās designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isnāt that you havenāt told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.ā
ā The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech