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Jedi M @jedibyknight.com · 01/10/2026

💙📚 Come join in a group read of a spooky season classic! We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Oct 13-23, reply to the quoted skeet to join

An image of the cover of We Have Always Lived in the Castle with arrows pointing to enticing details about it and why you should read it with us! Whole image is in black and white.

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Jedi M @jedibyknight.com · 01/10/2026

Several of us have read this before, so please don't post ahead and spoil potential reveals. We encourage commentary, congenial criticism, contextual info, and most importantly memes.

The schedule for reading We Have Always Lived in the Castle, progressing one chapter per day starting Oct 13, with a break on Oct 17 between ch 4 & 5.

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Jedi M @jedibyknight.com · 23/09/2026

Ok let me start by saying I love this book and will watch the hell out of this movie but... What is with the fake/not fake elements? Love Oxygen Vanadium(!?) Energy It's not even consistently made up? Also, don't wear your lab coat outside. Gross.

The promo image for The Love Hypothesis movie in Prime, featuring a woman in a labcoat on a bench on a college campus, with dark haired man; they are looking at each other and smiling. The word LOVE in the title is stylized like elements in the periodic table.

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Jedi M @jedibyknight.com · 05/09/2026

Nice night for some John Williams music with the Cleveland Orchestra 🎶

A crowd of people on blankets and lawn chairs outside the pavilion at Blossom Music Center. The screen proclaims it the summer home of the Cleveland Orchestra.

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Jedi M @jedibyknight.com · 04/09/2026

I did the dialect thing, and after I sat in my office saying "caught" out loud a ridiculous number of times, it told me Kansas. I have never been to Kansas, but perhaps FL + OH = KS? HOWEVER They came so close to pinpointing me within a scale of ✨️miles✨️ with this question though:

What do you call the area of grass between the sidewalk and the road?
"Other" is selected.

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Jedi M @jedibyknight.com · 03/09/2026

From Tom Reiss's ✨️amazing✨️ work: The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo #booksky

The cover of The Black Count by Tom Reiss featuring a black man on horseback with saber drawn, wearing a red/white/blue sash and an outfit of Napoleonic France.

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Jedi M @jedibyknight.com · 03/09/2026

Today in "emails you should not have sent:" 😂😂 [From Gen. Alex Dumas, father of the novelist, to Napoleon]

January 18, 1797 GENERAL, I have learned that the jack ass whose business it is to report to you upon the battle of the 27th [the 27 Nivôse, i.e., January 16] stated that I stayed in observation throughout that battle. I don’t wish any such observation on him, since he would have shit in his pants. Salute and Brotherhood! ALEX. DUMAS

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Jedi M @jedibyknight.com · 02/09/2026

I don't know if anyone has posted maps yet, but I like maps so here's the one from the 2014 Penguin Classics edition 🛶

A map showing Huck Finn's path downthe Mississippi River in his eponymous book, with locations of events in the book marked with numbers

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Jedi M @jedibyknight.com · 17/08/2026

Tom and Huck's gang in ch2 🛶

Guy is happy with "robbing and murdering" but not after adding "on Sunday"

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Jedi M @jedibyknight.com · 15/08/2026

I haven't read TS either, so here's a summary for anyone who needs a brief catch up (from the intro of my ed. of Huck Finn) 🛶

Huck Finn, the narrator and protagonist of Huckleberry Finn, made his first appearance in the sixth chapter of Tom Sawyer. There he is introduced as the “juvenile pariah” of Tom’s village, St. Petersburg. As the “son of the town drunkard,”

Huckleberry was cordially hated and dreaded by all the mothers of the town, because he was idle, and lawless, and vulgar and bad—and because all their children admired him so, and delighted in his forbidden society, and wished they dared to be like him. Tom was like the rest of the respectable boys, in that he envied Huckleberry his gaudy outcast condition, and was under strict orders not to play with him. So he played with him every time he got a chance.

Despite his quasi-outcast social condition, Huck develops into Tom’s closest friend and ally through the course of Tom Sawyer. Toward the conclusion of that novel, he performs an act of heroism rivaling Tom’s most courageous deeds. He thereby wins the respect of the villagers and appears to be on the threshold of respectability when the wealthy Widow Douglas takes him into her comfortable home. He is not, however, satisfied with his new condition, and that dissatisfaction carries over into Huckleberry Finn.

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Jedi M @jedibyknight.com · 10/08/2026

Also, this guy is absolutely prime for an MMC in a monsterfucker romance...

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Jedi M @jedibyknight.com · 09/08/2026

I think this is the extent of my knowledge of these characters, having never read any Twain that I can recall.

A poster of the 90s Disney movie Tom and Huck starring JTT and Brad Renfro.

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Jedi M @jedibyknight.com · 31/07/2026

Checking out reviews on Storygraph 👹 and ~*23%*~ of readers marked it DNF?! I think that's the highest I've seen?

A screenshot of ratings for Rakesfall on Storygraph, showing an average 3.56 star rating with 23% Did Not Finish

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Jedi M @jedibyknight.com · 27/07/2026

Ok here's my crazy flow chart, through ch27 👹 Click to see the whole thing. Thoughts??

A long bunch of text with some in red and lots of red arrows marking the time and space travel in Rakesfall

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Jedi M @jedibyknight.com · 22/07/2026

👹 with a bit of Murderbot thrown in, as a treat

Don Draper pitching "Part VI: The Lamb" by saying "WALL-E but make it a murder mystery"

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Jedi M @jedibyknight.com · 18/07/2026

👹 catching up on my memes today

Shaking hands meme with baryonic grandma and nonbaryonic grandma agreeing on Blowing up a dollhouse

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Jedi M @jedibyknight.com · 14/07/2026

I am still reading! Just too busy to post 👹 My immediate revelation on switching to print copy: some chapters have been published b4, which makes total sense! Each part, each life cycle, seems to have a slightly different vibe (tone, tense, etc) so it does feel a bit like a series of short stories

The copyright acknowledgement of Rakesfall, showing that several chapters were previously published in various short fiction journals from 2016-2021

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Jedi M @jedibyknight.com · 13/07/2026

Why yes, that's right, Chuck Tingle is empirically better than Moby-Dick. (Of course this is very silly but the point is that creating things does not have to be a competition and everyone is the best at being themselves and creating what they create ❤️❤️❤️)

Moby-Dick has a 3.57 rating on Goodreads

Moby Butt has a 3.63 rating on Goodreads

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Jedi M @jedibyknight.com · 13/07/2026

Had a blast seeing Chuck Tingle in Cleveland. For my 📖🐋 crew, how do you think Moby-Dick stacks up against this classic Tingler? (based on Goodreads ratings, a *totally scientific* way to compare) Also, shout out to the audience member who said Cleveland's motto is "We're not Detroit" 😂

A person with a pink bag on their head gives a presentation with the screen showing covers of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick and Chuck Tingle's Moby Butt.

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Jedi M @jedibyknight.com · 11/07/2026

Finally got a print copy on catch up day! 👹 I've been enjoying the audio but there are so many specific phrases I want to comment on and now I can go backand look them up 😂

A hard back copy of Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera, featuring a pink cover with yellow hibiscus flowers and an animal skull.

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Jedi M @jedibyknight.com · 07/07/2026

Ahhh I had these ones a few years back and have been searching ever since!

An orange bag of Lay's Kettle Cooked "Indian Tikka Masala" flavored potato chips.

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Jedi M @jedibyknight.com · 03/07/2026

The echinacea are blooming and that is one happy bee. #bloomscrolling

A purple coneflower with a shiny green bee with very yellow legs on the center

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Jedi M @jedibyknight.com · 23/06/2026

This is Juhani. (Yes the KOTOR character) For some reason we all call her Miss Miss about half the time. I also call her baby girl a lot.

A white cat with orange and black spots sits on a blanket that looks like a burrito. She has green eyes and a clipped left ear.

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Jedi M @jedibyknight.com · 18/06/2026

A first for us, where the author is not only still living but also on Bluesky 😂 📖

A screenshot from Bluesky notifications showing that Vajra Chandrasekera liked my post about our readalong of his book Rakesfall.

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Jedi M @jedibyknight.com · 14/06/2026

First blooms from our native garden this year, with a bonus pollinator! #bloomscrolling #Ohio

A patch of tall yellow flowers with leaf spikes

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Jedi M @jedibyknight.com · 12/06/2026

Ok the cover of my Kindle version is starting to make more sense. 🐾

A blue book cover with a illustration of a rope wrapped around a tree then descending into red brick well. A black cat sits in the tree, which has no leaves. The book is The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

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Jedi M @jedibyknight.com · 11/06/2026

Just as Jane Austen 🛁 knew that the real horror of life is unexpected visitors, it seems Murakami 🐾 knows that the real horror of life is unexpected phone calls. #introvertproblems

A tweet from fran (@galacticidiots): Jane Austen's works are timeless classics because she knew the real horrors in life are having to listen to men who think they're better than you and receiving unannounced visitors. 7/31/21

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Jedi M @jedibyknight.com · 04/06/2026

This is how I found out, after 40 years of life, that I am actually gay. Who knew? 🐾

A screenshot of text from Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle with this highlighted: “Somebody told me gays are lousy whistlers. Is that true?”

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Jedi M @jedibyknight.com · 02/06/2026

We are all just doing the best with what we have today.

A lima bean plant on a window sill, with its growing tendrils at the top wrapped around the string that controls the window blinds, for support.

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Jedi M @jedibyknight.com · 01/06/2026

I was looking for a digital edition that has the canceled chapters of Persuasion 🛁 and came upon this instead... Do I try it? 🫣

A book cover with a ship and the lower half of a woman's face. The title is "Persuasion: Wild and Wanton Edition" by Micah Persell and Jane Austen

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Jedi M @jedibyknight.com · 31/05/2026

I've got my comfy Austen pants on, ready to watch Persuasion! 🛁

Purple pants with a white heart pierced by a dagger "Agony Hope"

An anchor with "Anne" and the Laconia ship in the background

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Jedi M @jedibyknight.com · 29/05/2026

Had a lovely walk from my car into work this morning. The Cedar Waxwings have been hanging around again and I've been stalking them but can't get good pics lol #tenminmerlin #tenminutemerlin