Reciprocity.

This week's Resolution Recipe: Thai chicken coconut soup.
bonacorsi found and made this. But we're married and California is a community property state, so I'm asserting co-ownership.
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What I'm reading: Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora (again)

My contribution to the OEDILF: for "black art".

The devil produces a spark
Of power for spells in the dark.
Black arts are espoused
By people like Faust
Who bargain their souls for a lark.

According to the OED, the first documented usage of "black art" is in Marlowe's Faust.