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Finished Imperial Palace, v good, by 1930 Enoch Arnold had got into the groove of being able to maintain dramatic narrative drive without having to throw in millionaires and European royalty and sinister plots, but just the business of running a hotel and the interpersonal things going on.

Then took a break with Agatha Christie, Dumb Witness (Hercule Poirot, #17) (1937) - I slightly mark it down for having dreary old Hastings as narrator, but points for the murderer not being the Greek doctor.

Finished Grand Babylon Hotel, batshit to the last.

Discovered - since they are only on Kindle and although I occasionally get emails telling me about all the things that surely I will like to read available on Kindle, did they tell me about these, any more than the latest David Wishart? did they hell - that there are been two further DB Borton Cat Caliban mysteries and one more which published yesterday. So I can read these on the tablet and so far have read Ten Clues to Murder (2025) involving a suspect hit and run death of a member of a writers' group - the plot ahem ahem thickens.... Was a bit took aback by the gloves in the archives at the local history museum, but for all I know they still pursue this benighted practice.

Have also read, prep for next meeting of the reading group, Dorothy Richardson, Backwater (Pilgrimage, #2) (1916).

On the go

Recently posted on Project Gutenberg, three of Ann Bannon's classic works of lesbian pulp, so I downloaded these, and started I Am a Woman (1957) which is rather slow with a lot of brooding and yearning - our protag Laura has hardly met any women yet on moving to New York except her work colleagues and her room-mate so she is crushing on the latter, who is still bonking her ex-husband. But has now at least acquired a gay BF, even if he is mostly drunk.

Have just started DB Borton, Eleven Hours to Murder (2025).

Have also at least dipped into book for review and intro suggests person is not terribly well-acquainted with the field in general and the existing literature, because ahem ahem I actually have a chapter in big fat book which points out exactly those two contradictory strands - control vs individual liberation.

Up next

Well, I suspect the very recent Borton that arrived this week will be quite high priority!

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Posted by Molly White<a href="https://web3isgoinggreat.com/single/moonwell-exploit">https://web3isgoinggreat.com/single/moonwell-exploit</a><div> <img src="https://primary-cdn.web3isgoinggreat.com/entryImages/logos/resized/moonwell_300.webp" alt="Two white crescent shapes facing one another, followed by "Moonwell"" width="300px"></img> After an oracle misconfiguration, the Moonwell defi lending protocol accumulated $1.78 million in bad debt. When the protocol showed that cbETH was priced at just over a dollar, rather than its actual market price of around $2,200, bots and humans alike rushed to take advantage of the mispricing. The error cascaded into liquidations across the platform.This is the second time Moonwell has suffered a loss thanks to an oracle misconfiguration. In <a href="https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=moonwell-oracle-malfunction" target="_blank">November 2025</a>, the platform was left with almost $3.7 million in bad debt after a different asset was mispriced.Although the vulnerable pull requests were at least partially developed by an AI tool, the security auditor who initially attributed the vulnerability to Claude Opus 4.6 later softened his criticism, noting that even senior developers could have made the same mistake. He did, however, criticize the project for a lack of sufficiently rigorous testing that should have caught the issue. <ul> <li> <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/moonwell-exploit-cbeth-oracle-misprice-ai-commits-testing-audits"> "Moonwell hit by $1.78M exploit as AI vibe coding debate reaches DeFi" </a> , CoinTelegraph </li> <li> <a href="https://www.theblock.co/post/390302/defi-lending-protocol-moonwell-hit-with-1-8-million-bad-debt-after-oracle-misconfiguration"> DeFi lending protocol Moonwell hit with $1.8 million bad debt after oracle misconfiguration </a> , The Block </li> </ul> </div><a href="https://web3isgoinggreat.com/single/moonwell-exploit">https://web3isgoinggreat.com/single/moonwell-exploit</a>

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I'm putting together a presentation for school on the misogyny slop ecosystem, and how PR companies astroturf a hate campaign to defame and discredit (usually female) people their employer doesn't like. Here's some links I might include in that, some of which I've posted here before. Taken together, they're chilling.

Posted in roughly the order they came across my line of sight, which is largely chronological.

✨: Probably going to include in the project. (A lot of the later links are just recent stuff I haven't included yet, which may be of interest to those following the case.)

( Eight Links with quote decks. Includes references to Epstein, but no details. )

I'm still looking for something short that clearly lays out the way information is fed to influencers. It's a common misconception that whoever's running the smear will pay the influencers, and sometimes that's the case, but it's not usually how shilling works. The influencers take the exclusive information, publish it, potentially get their post boosted by the PR company's bots, and then the payment shows up in the ad revenue. (It's explained in "Who Trolled Amber?", but that's too long.)

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okay so Ernie Of Sesame Street is legalnamed Ernest Monster, without question, but what is Bert short for? Albert? Bertram? Hubert? Herbert? Robert?

I may spin out a quick Sesame Street Regency AU drabble... but I think it's gotta be Bertram.

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Ten book covers and text on the background of an Aromantic Pride Flag. The text Reads: 10 Aro Books for Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week. The books are: Not Your Backup by C.B. Lee; Dear Stupid Penpal by Rascal Hartley; Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace; Awakenings by Claudie Arseneault; Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao; The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee; If It Makes You Happy by Claire Kann; Devil Venerable Also Wants To Know by Cyan Wings; All Systems Red by Martha Wells; Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie.

Happy Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week! We’re stoked to be celebrating this awesome week for the fourth time with some great aro book recommendations! You can also find our previous rec lists here: 2023, 2024, 2025. The contributors to this list are: Mikki Madison, Rascal Hartley, Puck, JD Rivers, Tris Lawrence, Linnea Peterson, Nina Waters.

Not Your Backup by C.B. Lee

Emma Robledo has a few more responsibilities that the usual high school senior, but then again, she and her friends have left school to lead a fractured Resistance movement against a corrupt Heroes League of Heroes. Emma is the only member of a supercharged team without powers, she isnt always taken seriously. A natural leader, Emma is determined to win this battle, and when thats done, get back to school. As the Resistance moves to challenge the League, Emma realizes where her place is in this fight: at the front.

Dear Stupid Penpal by Rascal Hartley

Atticus “Finch” Davani does not want to be an astronaut. He hates space, he hates the ship, and he strongly dislikes his fellow crew members. He makes that painfully clear in his letters to Aku, his corporate-assigned penpal back on Earth.

Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace

Wasp’s job is simple. Hunt ghosts. And every year she has to fight to remain Archivist. Desperate and alone, she strikes a bargain with the ghost of a supersoldier. She will go with him on his underworld hunt for the long-long ghost of his partner and in exchange she will find out more about his pre-apocalyptic world than any Archivist before her. And there is much to know. After all, Archivists are marked from birth to do the holy work of a goddess. They’re chosen. They’re special. Or so they’ve been told for four hundred years.

Archivist Wasp fears she is not the chosen one, that she won’t survive the trip to the underworld, that the brutal life she has escaped might be better than where she is going. There is only one way to find out.

Awakenings by Claudie Arseneault

As the city’s eternal apprentice, Horace has never found a clan to belong to. E has joined Trenaze’s guards with hopes to finally earn eir place during eir trial day at the Great Market—that is, until the glowing shards haunting the world break through the city’s protective dome. Armed with a sword and too little training, Horace doubts in eir ability to defend the market-goers. But eir last stand is interrupted by a mysterious elven figure who can dissipate the shards with a single, strange sentence: your story is my story.

From the moment it is uttered, Horace knows the sentences holds true for em, too—and when the elf collapses in the middle of the market, e carries them to safety. After an afternoon of board games in their quiet, sharp-witted company, Horace is ready to follow this elf as they seek the forest that haunts their dreams, and answers to the confounding events at the Market. Their story is eir story, and e is willing to confront the dangers of the road to hear their laugh again and finally feel like e belongs.

Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao

Sophie Chi is in her first year at Wellesley College (despite her parents’ wishes that she attend a “real” university, rather than a liberal arts school) and has long accepted her aromantic and asexual identities. Despite knowing she’ll never fall in love, she enjoys running an Instagram account that offers relationship advice to students at Wellesley. No one except her roommate knows that she’s behind the incredibly popular “Dear Wendy” account.

When Joanna “Jo” Ephron―also a first-year student at Wellesley―created their “Sincerely Wanda” account, it wasn’t at all meant to be serious or take off like it does―not like Dear Wendy’s. But now they might have a rivalry of sorts with Dear Wendy? Oops. As if Jo’s not busy enough having existential crises over gender, the fact that she’ll never truly be loved or be enough, or her few friends finding The One and forgetting her!

While tensions are rising online, Sophie and Jo are getting closer in real life, bonding over their shared aroace identities. As their friendship develops and they work together to start a campus organization for other a-spec students, can their growing bond survive if they learn just who’s behind the Wendy and Wanda accounts?

The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee

A year after an accidentally whirlwind grand tour with her brother Monty, Felicity Montague has returned to England with two goals in mind–avoid the marriage proposal of a lovestruck suitor from Edinburgh and enroll in medical school. However, her intellect and passion will never be enough in the eyes of the administrators, who see men as the sole guardians of science.

But then a window of opportunity opens–a doctor she idolizes is marrying an old friend of hers in Germany. Felicity believes if she could meet this man he could change her future, but she has no money of her own to make the trip. Luckily, a mysterious young woman is willing to pay Felicity’s way, so long as she’s allowed to travel with Felicity disguised as her maid.

In spite of her suspicions, Felicity agrees, but once the girl’s true motives are revealed, Felicity becomes part of a perilous quest that leads them from the German countryside to the promenades of Zurich to secrets lurking beneath the Atlantic.

If It Makes You Happy by Claire Kann

Winnie is living her best fat girl life and is on her way to the best place on earth. No, not Disneyland–her Granny’s diner, Goldeen’s, in the small town of Misty Haven. While there, she works in her fabulous 50’s inspired uniform, twirling around the diner floor and earning an obscene amount of tips. With her family and ungirlfriend at her side, she has everything she needs for one last perfect summer before starting college in the fall.

…until she becomes Misty Haven’s Summer Queen in a highly anticipated matchmaking tradition that she wants absolutely nothing to do with.

Newly crowned, Winnie is forced to take center stage in photoshoots and a never-ending list of community royal engagements. Almost immediately, she discovers that she’s deathly afraid of it all: the spotlight, the obligations, and the way her Merry Haven Summer King, wears his heart, humor, and honesty on his sleeve.

Stripped of Goldeen’s protective bubble, to salvage her summer Winnie must conquer her fears, defy expectations, and be the best Winnie she knows she can be–regardless of what anyone else thinks of her.

Devil Venerable Also Wants To Know by Cyan Wings

In a Mary-Sue novel, the readers all liked the Devil Venerable, the second male lead who devoted himself whole-heartedly to the female lead. However the female lead only loved the male lead who abused her physically and mentally.

Readers: Why doesn’t the female lead like the Devil Venerable?!

Devil Venerable: This Venerable also wants to know. But what I really want to know is why I even like the female lead at all.

In order to understand why the female lead wasn’t attracted to him, the self-conscious Devil Venerable brutally interrogated the entire cast of characters from the novel.

Background characters: I have so many things I want to say but I don’t dare to say it to his face!

After obtaining the book, the Devil Venerable discovered that the book described the world he lived in. This book said that after he sacrificed himself for the female lead, the fourth male lead, his silent and loyal subordinate Yin Hanjiang, blackened and attempted to kill her as a sacrificial offering for his lord.

Devil Venerable Wenren E: Yin Hanjiang, this Venerable wants to know why you wanted to kill the female lead.

Yin Hanjiang was silent.

Wenren E: If you refuse to speak, this Venerable will cut out your tongue and drink it with alcohol!

Yin Hanjiang: …

Wenren E: What the hell are you blushing for?!

The Murderbot Diaries Series by Martha Wells

In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety.

But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern.

On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid — a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is.

But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it’s up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest.

Once, she was the Justice of Toren — a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy.

Now, an act of treachery has ripped it all away, leaving her with one fragile human body, unanswered questions, and a burning desire for vengeance.

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1. What are you currently reading?

Don't You Like Me vol. 1 by Lv Tian Yi: this is a kinda odd modern BL that started looking like it'd be fairly standard high school rivals to lovers "omg they are boarding school roommates" kinda stuff........ and then 25 pages in the mc's grandfather dies and passes on the ability to see ghosts. And the mc is phobic of ghosts. And the only way to not see the ghosts is to interact with someone with very high yang energy, such as... the rival roommate ml. And mc needs to touch the ml every five minutes to not see ghosts. Oh and the ghostsight also prevents him from just talking about why he needs to do this. So needless to say lines of consent are batshit in this, and it's kinda a mess (and it's very weird that a couple reviews are like "damn ml is a sexual predator wtf" as if mc didn't go from "ugh I hate that guy" it sleeping in his bed without permission in the space of like a day after getting these abilities. But obviously it's all ml's fault for not reading mc's mind or something idefk.) Anyway. Weird book. MC is pretty tsundere, I hope he gets that out of his system soon, lol. I'm a bit over halfway done with vol. 1 (of 2)
made a little progress on Daomu Biji. I'm traveling almost all week and didn't want to carry it with me, so that's meant not much reading, sigh.

2. What have you recently finished reading?

The World We Make by N. K. Jemisin: well. I finished it. That's something right? The pacing on this is just a disaster. I'm sorry to say that about such a powerful writer but oof, what a mess.
SHWD episode 2 by sono.N: maybe slightly better than vol. 1? Less dwelling on gender in the workplace, more about the relationship, but the mc has gone zero to 60 in their devotion to ml and I don't get why at all.
Kase-San and Cherry Blossoms (Kase-san and... vol. 5) by Hiromi Takashima: easily the best in the series imo.
Dandadan vol. 10 to 12 by Yukinobu Tatsu
Planeta by Ana Oncina: sci-fi GL. A mindfuck and a half. Very interesting book.
Sakamoto Days vol. 19 by Yuto Suzuki
Kaiju No. 8: B-Side vol. 2 by Naoya Matsumoto and Keiji Ando: interesting to get Narumi's backstory.
A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow vol. 5 by Makoto Hagino: probably the slowest pace volume yet in a stupidly slow-paced series. I'm this close to dropping it tbh.
My Adorable Betrothed by Dokueki: modern BL. The most PWP single-volume thing I have ever read. Not bad for that, I guess, but if I just want PWP I've got AO3 for that so whatever.

3. What will you read next?

Novels: I'll finish Don't You Like Me vol. 1 and 2

Physical Graphic novels (library and otherwise): I've been traveling 5 of 7 days since last Wednesday, so I wasn't able to read any library books, so idk, whatever I said last week is still true. For others... I'm visiting my mom rn, which always means a trip to Kinokuniya and some gifted money for me to spend there, so I grabbed my own copies of the first three books of Murderous Lewellyn's Candlelit Dinner so I'll reread those probably. And mom went with me and bought herself the first three volumes of Moriarty the Patriot so probably that too, if I can swing (re)reading them before I leave tomorrow afternoon.

Graphic novels on Libby: Firefly Wedding vol. 2 by Oreco Tachibana is due in 3 days; I'm gonna get through it but given unenthusiastic I'm feeling, I'll probably drop the series; That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime vol. 8 by Fuse is due in six days, so also that.

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Astute readers with excellent memory (or better than mine anyway XD) may remember when I lost my shit over Wind Breaker's volume 22 back in June. I basically immediately started writing this fic afterwards, which is just That Scene written from different point of views and every character individually losing it, just like I did... Lol. I'm a bit sick of trying to find an ending that is The Best Possible Ever so now that I have one that's probably good enough, let's go with it. Especially since that polyship doesn't have a ton of fic for it either, so it's nice to add one more either way.

On the plus side of going back to this story then dropping it again, the first chapters are decently edited already 😆

Acting on instinct | Wind Breaker | Sakura/Nirei/Suou/Kiryuu/Tsugeura | 800~ words (WIP, 1/5) | rated T

Summary: Something shifted for them all in that moment at Kiryuu's house. They all felt it. But Kiryuu was missing for it, so they can't do anything about it.

Not yet.

Read it on Dreamwidth or on AO3.

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Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

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These were sent to me in on Discord by Midnight. Thank you, Midnight!

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The most complete Library of music from the Ultima series by Origin Systems Inc. Compiled and arranged for the Roland Soundcanvas by Telavar

Think Labyrinth!

I love Mazes and Labyrinths! That includes creating them, solving them, sharing with other enthusiasts, and most everything else. This site is dedicated to Mazes and Labyrinths, and features interactive Maze software, information on the movie "Labyrinth", galleries of Mazes, pictures of life size Mazes and Labyrinths, and more. Labyrinthink! :-)

TRsRockin - We've Got Game

Hello!

Like many of you, trsrockin was a site that I spent many hours browsing in my youth. I eventually moved on to other things, and it was only later that I found out it had shut down back in 2011 after randomly remembering it one day many years later. There was a mirror up for a while, however that too has been offline for quite some time now. I'm well aware it's still technically accessible on archive.org, but frankly, that wasn't good enough for me. It can be quite slow, and acessing it can be somewhat cumbersome. I wanted something better-a way to access trsrockin as easily as we used to, simply by typing in the URL or searching for it on Google.

That's why I have decided to try and bring the old trsrockin back to it's former glory! After downloading a copy of the site from archive.org, I'll be hosting it on my own web server, preserving as much of the original content as possible. I don't plan on changing much beyond some general housekeeping, such as cleaning up broken links and removing outdated elements that no longer serve a purpose. The archive.org version is mostly complete, but there are a few missing assets--images, pages, or features that didn't make it through--that I'm currently tracking down. Once I've made some progress on that front, I'll likely post an update to share how things are going (read that as asking for help when I can't find everything :P).

Currently it lives at trsrockin.xyz, however my ultimate goal is to acquire the original domain name, trsrockin.com, so that the site can be accessed exactly how it was back in the day. That part of the process is still up in the air, as I've only just started looking into it.

That's all for now! I don't plan on making too many more updates in the future, but I wanted to put this out there for anyone who's stumbled across this site. If you were a fan of trsrockin back in the day, stay tuned--hopefully, I can give you back a little piece of the past!

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Pigeongram Binary Code Utility

This last one is mysterious...

And two of Midnight's own websites:

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Here are five pieces of popular culture and media commentary that I enjoyed in 2025.

1. Wizards vs. Lesbians (Podcast)

The best way that I can describe this show is that the podcasters, Isaac and Alexis, have identified a recurring cluster of tropes in science fiction/fantasy, relating to queer desire, patriarchy, and empire, and are exploring how those tropes manifest across different works – mostly literature, though they have discussed a movie or TV series here and there. Their approach to their subject matter seems largely to be “we know it when we see it,” but their discussions are usually thoughtful and enjoyably snarky, even if I don’t fully agree with their opinions.

2. Broken Watch (Blog Post)

Jude Doyle’s essay is primarily about Alan Moore’s Watchmen and its influence on superhero comics, but it’s also about the power – and the failures – of Dark And Gritty Takes on established genres. (Consequently, it talks a fair amount about sexual assault other types of violence.) In this essay and others, Doyle is really good at analyzing why he, and many of us, love and hate certain works of fiction, or find them compelling and infuriating and culturally foundational, at the same time.

3. The Problem With "The Year of Dramione" (Video Essay)

Princess Weekes posts reliably insightful YouTube video essays about pop culture and fandom, with a particular eye toward racial politics and speculative fiction. In this video, she discusses three popular Harry Potter fanfics that were re-worked into original fiction and released by major publishing houses in the same year. This “pull-to-publish” practice has fascinated me for a very long time, and Weekes does an admirable job of examining how those particular authors and their publishers handle (or fair to handle) the problematic origins of their work.

4. Queer As Folk Ran So Heated Rivalry Could Skate (Newsletter)

In this installment of the Fandom Exile newsletter, Monia Ali compares and contrasts Queer As Folk, which was adapted for American viewers in the early 2000s, with recent fandom darling Heated Rivalry. I never watched the former and am newly fannish about the latter, but I found myself nodding along at Ali’s discussion of how both shows fit into the modern queer media landscape and ongoing discourse about what counts as Good Representation, and how audience responses have and haven’t changed.

5. Untitled Tumblr post about Shadow Daddies, Kylo Rens and Dracos in Leather Pants

This post, by a blogger called goblins-riddles-or-frocks, is a sort of analytical neighbor to Princess Weekes’ video linked above. I don’t currently have much interest in the “romantasy” genre, in which all three of the relevant romantic archetypes are thriving, but I am interested in Fictional Boyfriends.

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I had a dream for the third time this week about watching the 1980s live-action Batman show with my sister so I figured it was worth a DW post :P

If you don't know the 1980s live-action Batman that I apparently watch in my dreams here's a quick overview:

It was a weekly one-hour show that ran for about three seasons. It predates the age of season-long arcs but it had more than the usual number of 2- and 3- part episodes and some character growth even.
It's clearly intentionally following up on the legacy of the 1960s show because it revels in the fundamental absurdity and plays for comedy, but it was also determined to not get pigeonholed as a kids' show - it has non-cartoon violence and solid emotional arcs.
For example instead of all the silly Bat-Gadgets, they had Wayne Enterprises (TM) machines. There's a running bit where Tim always makes sure he has access to a Wayne Enterprises (TM) Automatic Soup Dispenser (TM) and nobody can tell if he's just really into soup or if he's modding it to dispense other things.
Oh yeah, despite being called Batman, it's actually mostly about Tim and Dick. Bruce shows up in every episode for at least a few minutes but is rarely the focus. (Yes, I know the 1980s is early for comics!Tim - I assume the comics character was based on the show character? - and there's no Jay in this continuity, which lets it be a little more lighthearted about their relationships with Bruce.)
Tim became Robin after Dick "retired" and Bruce finally noticed how neglected the neighbor boy actually was. In the show he's mostly traveling around playing poor little rich boy and Robinning with a rotating guest cast of Teen Titans (nearly every episode is in a different city - they must have had a huge travel/sets budget.)
Dick is 100% a civilian these days he swears. He's technically in college but never appears to attend. He's always showing up to "hang out" with his little bro, or following Kory to a show, and then having to secretly superhero it up without a costume or name. The show is constantly teasing that this is the episode he'll finally become Nightwing and never follows up.
When Bruce shows up it's usually not as Bruce, or even Batman, but as his even more useless cousin "Kenneth Wayne", who only shows up in the tabloids when he's done something so ridiculous Bruce has to send Alfred to bail him out, and therefor has an excuse to be places Bruce can't possibly be. He has absolutely 0 natural authority over the boys, who treat him as an embarrassingly untrustworthy uncle, and enjoys the hell out of this.
Dick is dating Koriand'r, but they insist they're not girlfriend and boyfriend because "Tamaraneans don't have boys and girls, she's just my Kory and I'm her Dick". This is never explored beyond that at all. (Also Kory looks a lot less human and more like Ron Perlman's Beast* (except as a hot not-girl, of course.)
Tim spends every episode excited and/or worried about the main plot interfering with or facilitating a possible or planned date with a girl. The girls are never named or shown onscreen. Dick teases him about this.

The episode we watched last night involved Tim and Dick renting out an old mansion/party house in Philadelphia that was haunted by a very lazy demon shaped like a yellow cartoon rabbit, a very large monitor lizard who was wanted by the Mob, a bunch of people having to shelter overnight in a Victorian-themed cafe in the zoo, and every single character having to dress up as Matches Malone in the same bad wig at the same time. Also the Three Stooges guest-starred. I hope I get to watch more later, I don't think there's an official DVD release.

*did I only have this dream because I did that "name all the animals" game right before bed and was thinking about Golden Lion Tamarins??

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Have only just discovered that there is a new (came out in November) biography of Decca Mitford: Carla Kaplan, Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford.

Via a review in the latest Literary Review which is, alas, not fully online, sounds less than whelmed, and gives the impression that it may be a tad po-faced.

Yes, about Jessica Mitford, that great tease.

Can't find any other unpaywalled online reviews of any great credibility - there are some on GoodReads but they all sound to be from people who Nevererdofer previously.

So before I, that already have several of her own biographical works and essays, collections of letters etc upon my shelves, also the previous biography, spend moolah and time on this, I wonder if anyone has already read it and has opinions?

(Have just had thought that as far as I recall, Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd did on at least one occasion encounter Unity Mitford, while undercover in Germany: but not, I think, Decca &/or Esmond, anywhere in his exploits.)