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Dec. 27th, 2015 05:34 pmI have been... the word 'busy' does not seem appropriate, but I have been occupied, the last few days. I was talking about my Christmas 'tradition' with some Christian friends and struggling to explain it.
"The tradition is not having a tradition of doing anything," I said. "I mean, usually we do the normal thing of Chinese food and watching a movie, but that's not actually a tradition. It's a way of spending time."
"Aha," my friend said. "But if you couldn't do it one year, you'd miss it!"
"Uh... No, I wouldn't. I'm pretty sure I have skipped it some years and not cared."
So, as I often do, I went up to Boston to spend Jewmas with some Jewish friends. We did in fact eat Chinese food and watched a movie (the abysmal Samurai Cop), but mostly we just lazed around my friend's apartment not doing much of anything. Several hours with me reading a book while my friends knit. Occasionally we talked to each other. It was nice, but it was not a tradition.
Today I'm back home. New Year's is actually a thing I observe, so I converted a 5lb bag of potatos into latkes and baked a couple of challahs for the big get together next weekend. The kitchen smells amazing right now.
Yuletide happened. An amazing thing happened: I got fic for "The Influence of Immanuel Kant on Evidentiary Approaches in Eighteenth Century Bulgaria"! But wait, I hear you say, that's not actually a fandom! I know! And yet somehow there is fic for it! And it is delightfully executed. My author started with the premise "Okay, obviously this is ridiculous, but what if a Kantian scholar decided to seriously research this question? And what if that research were itself a metaphor for Justice's Roberts's argument with the academy?" It is brilliantly done. I encourage everyone to read it and shower it with the praise is justly deserves.
Correspondence on a letter found in the Kant Archiv, with potential insight into Kant’s influence on evidentiary approaches in 18th Century Bulgaria (1310 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Influence of Immanuel Kant on Evidentiary Approaches in 18th Century Bulgaria (Journal Article)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Immanuel Kant, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Philosophy, Letters, Emails, Law, Fictional Journal Articles, 18th Century
Summary:
"The tradition is not having a tradition of doing anything," I said. "I mean, usually we do the normal thing of Chinese food and watching a movie, but that's not actually a tradition. It's a way of spending time."
"Aha," my friend said. "But if you couldn't do it one year, you'd miss it!"
"Uh... No, I wouldn't. I'm pretty sure I have skipped it some years and not cared."
So, as I often do, I went up to Boston to spend Jewmas with some Jewish friends. We did in fact eat Chinese food and watched a movie (the abysmal Samurai Cop), but mostly we just lazed around my friend's apartment not doing much of anything. Several hours with me reading a book while my friends knit. Occasionally we talked to each other. It was nice, but it was not a tradition.
Today I'm back home. New Year's is actually a thing I observe, so I converted a 5lb bag of potatos into latkes and baked a couple of challahs for the big get together next weekend. The kitchen smells amazing right now.
Yuletide happened. An amazing thing happened: I got fic for "The Influence of Immanuel Kant on Evidentiary Approaches in Eighteenth Century Bulgaria"! But wait, I hear you say, that's not actually a fandom! I know! And yet somehow there is fic for it! And it is delightfully executed. My author started with the premise "Okay, obviously this is ridiculous, but what if a Kantian scholar decided to seriously research this question? And what if that research were itself a metaphor for Justice's Roberts's argument with the academy?" It is brilliantly done. I encourage everyone to read it and shower it with the praise is justly deserves.
Correspondence on a letter found in the Kant Archiv, with potential insight into Kant’s influence on evidentiary approaches in 18th Century Bulgaria (1310 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Influence of Immanuel Kant on Evidentiary Approaches in 18th Century Bulgaria (Journal Article)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Immanuel Kant, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Philosophy, Letters, Emails, Law, Fictional Journal Articles, 18th Century
Summary:
A well meaning Kant scholar hears about interest in The Influence of Immanuel Kant on Evidentiary Approaches in 18th Century Bulgaria and goes digging in the Archives