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Why are ghost brides such a classic trope? Is it the Poe-esque juxtaposition of death with youth and beauty? Is it the fact that a woman clad in a white gown is already appropriately dressed for the afterlife, her diaphanous white veil ready-made for her shade in the most symbolically neat packaging of all ghosts? Is it because, though we have all been socially conditioned to desire it, we secretly fear marriage?

With her deep origins in fairy tales and folklore, and her many expressions in ghost stories and Gothic literature, the ghost bride is an archetypal figure that is deeply embedded in popular consciousness. She has existed for centuries in folklore as an apparition who warns the bride-
(or groom- ) to-be of the dangers that lie ahead, dangers of an excess of passion, or a lack of it, dangers of trusting your heart to someone you
maybe don’t fully know yet. There’s a narrative arc to a wedding that is tinged with fear, which we brush off as wedding-day jitters. The bride is the
radiant focal point of the day, and at the precise moment of the fatal kiss, as maiden morphs into wife-and-mother, her fate is sealed. I hope, for your sake, your husband is a benevolent overlord and not a murderous Bluebeard, dear lady.

Leeana Renee Heiber and Andrea Janes, America’s Most Gothic: Haunted History Stranger than Fiction

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sorry everyone we won’t be seeing any men today they’ve all been bricked into their enclosure
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The Gothic heroine is sometimes a figure of tragedy, yes, because she is often a victim of circumstance, but she is also a core pillar of storytelling. It is through her struggles that we try to understand our own agency in a broken world or our culpability in creating those circumstances in a society in which tragedy seems to be the only available outcome.

Leeana Renee Heiber and Andrea Janes, America’s Most Gothic: Haunted History Stranger than Fiction

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Liots of things to do, and places to see (there willl be a pic spam), but I did catch up on the two shows.

For All Mankind 5.06:

( Spoilers think Mars is theirs… )

The Testaments 1.05:

( Spoilers consider a Prom in Gilead to be incredibly creepy and aesthetic at hte same time… )

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The only thing that might help heal your broken heart after your senior cat crosses the rainbow bridge is a teeny weeny kitten who's looking for love.

As someone who has never actually lost a cat, the thought is absolutely terrifying. Our cats are seniors by now. We pretend that we don't see it on them, we live in denial on purpose, but we do see it. We see the changes, their pace slowing, their need for extra heat and comfort, their closeness to us increasing with time as well. Cats growing old is something that is not supposed to happen, in our minds. It's not allowed. It couldn't be.

But it happens. Cats get older the same way that we do, as much as we might hate that. Of course, just like the person in this story, once it happens to us, we don't know how we will recover. But maybe this person found the solution. A broken heart of a person who has lost a cat will never be mended fully, at least we don't think so. The hole would be too big to fill. But maybe a teeny weeny kitten who's looking for love might help fill it just a tiny bit.

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Another Monday is about to start on the right paw - with a bunch of pawsome cat tweets.

Here we are again, at the start of the most difficult day of the week. Getting out of bed is hard. The thought of going to work is daunting. The idea of leaving our cats behind for hours makes our hearts hurt. But we have to do it. Someone has to provide our spoiled, spoiled kitties with the goods that they require, and that means going to work. Still, another five minutes in bed have never hurt anyone, right? And if you spend those five minutes productively, scrolling through some pawsome cat memes, then that is even better.

And the memes that we have for you today are not your regular cat memes. Every single week, first thing on Monday morning, we bring you the best of the best that cat twitter has to offer. The most viral cat tweets in one single place for you to enjoy, without all the fodder that is usually surrounds them. Because starting Monday on the right paw is not actually that difficult if you know what you are looking for, and everything that you are looking for is right here.

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Posted by Blake Seidel

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Joke's on them, we'll sit through the whole timer and try to pet that floofy orange chonker.

We all know by now that social media is addictive. It's literally designed to keep you interested for as long as pawssible, pushing those buttons in your brain that flood your system with dopamine to keep you scrolling until you can't anymore. Everyone has varying degrees of screen-tolerance, though. Our husband, fur example, can scroll for hours on end without a second thought. We get overwhelmed after a few minutes and have to put our phones down, but we think that most people struggle to break away from the dreaded "doom scroll".

There are various ways to get yourself to stop, like setting timers beforehand or using various apps that promise to interrupt you after a certain amount of time. But we're going to be honest, none of them really work for us. After a few times, we just end up uninstalling them because our desire to scroll is too strong. Until now.

A Japanese developer ZOKUZOKU built a viral Google Chrome extension that sends a chonky orange cat onto your screen if you scroll through social media for too long. The cat comes with a timer for you to get up and take a break, because you can't do anything with that immovable cat on your screen.

If the goal was to get us to get up and go away, they shouldn't have made the cat so awwdorable. Now we just have another reason to stare at the screen…. but that doesn't mean we won't be downloading it.

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Posted by Ayala Sorotsky

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Move over, Florida Man, the Florida Feline is taking over the internet now.

We appreciate memes of all years and ages, and the Florida Man had a very successful run. It came about in the first half of the previous decade, describing the irrational, ridiculous, and downright maniacal actions of some men in Florida (and some women, of course). It makes sense that such hilarious stories would happen in Florida, the land where alligators in the backyard and Disney World live together happily ever after. It's crazy down there. But it's time to retire the Florida Man meme - just as all the American retirees go to Florida (see what we did there?). It's time for the Florida Feline to take its place.

We're not sure when this replacement happened, but it's making its way very clearly - with this one Florida Feline paving the way to many more funny cat adoption stories to come from the USA's land downunder. Just imagine the internet taken by storm with titles such as "Florida Feline Sneaks Into Grocery Bag, Ends Up Moving in With Shopper", or "Florida Feline Found 'Working' at Office for 3 Weeks Before HR Officially Hires (and Adopts) Him", and maybe "Florida Feline Climbs Into Suitcase, Accidentally Goes on Vacation and Finds Forever Home", and just one more "Florida Feline Joins Neighborhood BBQ Uninvited, Leaves With Full Belly and New Family".

We guess that the Cat Distribution System just works differently in hot and humid weather. Or perhaps it's the already kooky atmosphere of this state. Either way, it gives us cats who are willing to journey overseas just to get adopted, in a true Florida Man news title fashion. Honestly, we care about the bottom line of this cat having their forever home secured - but the way over there also matters.

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Posted by Laurent Shinar

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Sometimes the trash bag splits open the second you touch it, and today is one of those days. But as any good cat pawrent will tell you, spilled trash almost always be cleaned up by eager cattos. And so here they are in hilarious meme form.

Ok, we might have exaggerated a bit there about cats coming to eat trash, they are not dogs after all. Maybe a feral feline will feel comfortable going to eat fallen trash, but a fine house feline would not dare dirty their whiskers over a pile of trash. Regardless, these hilarious cattos have come into your life for one reason and one reason only, to support your stressed out soul and clean up the mess of morning madness that has piled up in there.

We know the feeling of landing in the office only to find that you have touched down just passed the gates of hades and have no way to get back. But these funny feline memes ought to cool the deep burn of Lucifer's backyard and help you get through the rest of your day without scratching someone like a sassy cat. So go forth and find your funnies amongst this collection of cat children.

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Posted by Laurent Shinar

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If you wondered what happened to the kitten who was rescued from its in-wall hiding spot, then strap in for a wild ride of feline frivolity.

It was a tense start to this story, having our feline protagonist stuck in a wall. But once he was freed from his wall captivity it gave his new pawrent time to try and rescue the rest of the kitten's family. A task that proved to be a fair bit more tricky than was initially anticipated which momentarily made our heroic hooman lose hope that he would ever manage to reunite this feline family. This led him to make an interesting decision in order to try and keep his wall kitten company.

For while the kitten's family would have made the best company, with them unavailable, this hooman went out and adopted a beautiful void to come and be this kitten's sibling. And much to our satisfaction the pair got on like a house on fire. Which gave our rescuer the time needed to slowly coax the rest of this kitten's family into the safety of captivity and onwards to foster homes that would love and care for them the way they deserved.

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first_doctor, for any Classic Doctor Who fans out there.

And also hosting a drabblethon over at

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My poem "Reap the Rules" is now online at Reckoning.

It is my first publication with the magazine; it appears as part of the special issue on war, conflict, and environmental justice. I was honored to have it chosen when I had submitted it for another call and it should not have become more relevant than when I wrote it last summer, after the first U.S. strikes on Iran. The Elamite cuneiform means a prayer to Pinikir, the oldest goddess I know in that region. The English title is a mondegreen from Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane's "Coins for the Eyes" (2022). I wanted it so much to be an artifact of that moment's anger. The need for curse tablets appears inexhaustible.

Current Music: Johnny Flynn & Robert Macfarlane, "Coins for the Eyes"

sonia

I'm still playing Exponentile and I want to drop in a note that I got up to 106,840 this time. A while ago I got up to 161,724, and I don't think I'll ever get past that again.

I'm getting better at stopping when I want rather than getting completely hijacked by it. For a while it made my right elbow hurt, which was an inducement to stop playing, or at least play less. Lately my left elbow has been hurting, but I think that has more to do with weight-lifting, or maybe leaning on the arm of my chair while I'm typing. I'm hoping it gets better without having to take a break from weight-lifting entirely.

torachan

1. It was really windy today! Also pretty sunny for most of the day, so I'm very glad we went to Disneyland yesterday rather than today. I'd much rather have an overcast day at the park.

2. Carla made hamburg for dinner tonight and it was very tasty. Plenty of leftovers, too.

3. Chloe yawn!

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A YA romantasy writer filed suit against another writer for copyright infringement, and as is always the case with these things, she padded her claims with delusionally spurious examples. The judge issued a 160-page ruling against the plaintiff where you can tell from the start how resentful they (or whatever clerk actually did the work) are to have been forced by duty to have read the works in question.

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There was recently a copyright infringement case in YA and I need everyone to know that the following sentence was in the legal decision:
“Hot, sexy, dangerous boys, central to virtually all young adult romance novels, cannot be copyrighted.”
“Regarding setting, the court held that both works taking place in Alaska high schools was not protectable because Alaska is a public place and setting a teen novel in a high school is a common genre convention.”
Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney | Loeb & Loeb LLP
I’ve read the entire decision (skimming over the purely legal precedent/definitions bit) and here are some of my favorite bits:
“indeed, it seems that the Pacific Northwest (Twilight) is a common locale for finding vampires and werewolves at a high school” oh my god