I love museums and history. ★ bed-tethered disabled! AuDHD, POTS, MCAS, and ME/CFS. ★🧑🦽★ I miss traveling and being in nature and sewing. location: Jacksonville, Florida (agender ace ey/em/eir)
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the maps for Three Vassar Girls At Home suggest it's going to be some rough reading ahead, and also i had to extend my loan on it, so I'm trying to prioritize reading Inventing the Renaissance right now. i still have like 400 pages to go 🙃 i feel like I'm reading slow, but it's jam-packed reading!
i don't remember Brunelleschi being the perpetrator, but I do remember "Manetto the Fat" as the guy's name. I was suspicious it was some legend with very shaky veracity that Champney was told as true, but no! it really did happen! amazing. also what the fuck brunelleschi, the guy was your friend?
omg so in Inventing the Renaissance ch 31, about Manetto Amantinj, Ada Palmer starts telling the story of the prank Brunelleschi did to him, and i had an awful feeling of déjà vu ??? like, I knew I'd read the story recently, but where??? anyway, it came to me: Champney's Witch Winnie in Venice.
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Tomato Keepers pt. 2 🍅 A sticker design I made for The Washi Station's 2026 RISO calendar pre-order bonus set. You can get this sticker if you pick up the calendar before Sep 4!
Natania Barron is a huge Arthurian nerd (complimentary) and her Queens of Fate trilogy is a retelling focusing on 3 of the women. (Anna Pendragon, Hwyfar, and Morgan le Fay)
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www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets... this was pretty neat for me, though it's probably not exactly what you're looking for lol
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No, I totally get it! Several months ago I saw an example of the standard questions but for The Odyssey or something similarly old/classic, and it really was like how do you answer these??? it felt like they were written for a certain kind of book/book consumption.
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uh, as you might have noticed by the time of the clock, i did not manage to get to sleep before 6am. i actually got MORE awake as it grew later 😭 I'm kind of hoping i can hold on until the cleaner gets here, then doze on the couch while she's working.
From the Archive: A Study of Knitting Sheaths – from North Yorkshire (1000 words) www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/a-...
ALSO it was a great explanation for me of why certain aspects of Protestantism were so revolutionary, and which no one had ever talked about in front of me before. Not in a historical sense, anyway. Loads of talk about the flattening of hierarchy in modern American churches, esp. non-denom ones
maybe it's a little bit of syncretism, too, idk I'm not a historian of religion. but it's a great explanation, and also about patronage, hierarchy, and the justice system of medieval Europe. It's a good chapter to sample if you weren't raised Catholic and praying to saints seems bizarre, lol.
chapter 23 of Inventing the Renaissance explains the whole Catholic "praying to Mary and the saints" thing (asking for intercession) in a way that was very "well, duh, of course" for Catholic schoolkid me, but also a revelation of "🤯 so THAT'S where it comes from, not syncretism!"
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and the religious epiphany stuff is growing more common/explicit in the stories. Barbara's was just a small part of the first book, but the last one had a girl wanting to be a socialite for Jesus, and this one it was the entire last chapter about how you're never entirely alone because God.
oh and there was a character described as "of Jewish appearance" with a big nose who works in a pawn shop? he resets jewelry. he was built up to be a villain but turned out to be not remotely villainous (except he asked the Col to play cards after he swore he'd stop gambling) i dunno what to think
my cleaner is supposed to be here in the morning, so i really hope I'm not up until 6am yet again. i did finish Three Vassar Girls on the Rhine just now, but I'm still too tired to pull up the pages i marked for commentary. I'm several books behind on it now :( there was a weird postscript chapter
I'm really glad that the occipital neuralgia knocked it off by 5am last night (about halfway through the documentary, actually) but now my arms and legs ache like anything. thanks for nothing, body! (i don't doubt tonight's pain is because i tried washing up. didn't even descend past my neck.)
i love these autumn colors so much!
i mean, the no official doctrine is in the music, too. The authoritarianism is a bonus to coming up with your own thing, of course. But I don't think it's new or unique, just part of the general rise in it in the wake of more equality/equity and various global crises.
I've been seeing that discussed in a lot of places lately. The rise of non-denominational churches where the pastor goes by gut feelings, not having studied the history of the Bible or any theology. Rev Segou talks about it in this article I read yesterday, and points out it's the same in the music
it's all tied into that thing they're doing lately about how having empathy is a slippery slope to engaging in sin. 🙄 it's like "if i agree that kid was right to correct their parent, because the parent was clearly wrong about the color of the white house, then I'm encouraging disobedience to god!"
that's the future i was promised
Having adhd and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis is so frustrating bc u make tea and let it cool and then forget about it, and now ur stuck drinking lukewarm ass tea cuz you can’t get up again 😭😭 HATE
tbh I have used this since LiveJournal days in like 2010. i never really stop to think what people interpret it as, I'm so used to it. (and i love it. i think edamameshiba is a pretty good representation of how i want to be seen)
oh, found it! second in this compilation. the baby says, basically, "ne~~ shitteru? (hey, did you know?) ignorance is bliss" the gag is that the beandogs pop up with inconvenient facts lol youtu.be/TMGsy9ACdM0
mine is a Mameshiba, btw. i need to find the ad it's from so i can upscale it. but here's another from that year
Has anyone ever used scribd.com to download quilt patterns? Trying to figure put if it’s safe or will come with viruses #Quilting
it's like toddlers putting alphabet blocks together to spell CAT or ABC because they see those patterns a lot, but no clue that CAT or ABC or 123 etc have semantic meaning. It's just patterns.
but seriously, if the AI people can't even figure out how to get it to interpret math questions as math and put it into a calculator. the damn things are moving the text around like clusters of blocks that may or may not go together, without knowing the blocks' colors and patterns have meaning.
tbh I don't always like the fashion sense of Tilly & the Buttons, but I learned *so much* from following their blog and reading the pattern instructions. They put a lot of effort into grading their patterns for more inclusive sizing about 2019, too. plus the memorable name, it's easy to rec them 😊
Yup! And the books for beginners about fitting patterns or drafting adjustments (and the blogs!) are numerous. The Tilly & the Buttons brand in London has great beginner instructions, for example, with modular patterns in a wide range of sizes, which you can then apply the skills to other things.
this is where i sidle in and hold up the flag for my preferred book site, which is 20 years old and still going (with a big update to the app expected in the next month) Those questions on storygraph always make me think of booktok and high school reading?? idk. not what i like to read 😅
Yeah, if you're experienced and know how shapes go together + typical fabrics (which the cover image can help with), it's really great. Without that experiential knowledge, though, I would pick up a book about drafting and what goes where. Unfortunately, not helpful if you need something quick.
kind of hoped i could cook today (mac'n'cheese), but i needed badly to scrub my face and ears, so i washed my hair first. and then after that my legs were like 'lol what are bones 🤪' so that's not happening. would be nice if it could, though. i really want the comfort food rn.
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I finished writing my book, yall!! 🥳 out next summer, so I can take a moment to rest 😮💨
that might actually have been 3 hours. i have no idea.
love when the 10 hour sleep is followed up by a 2 hour nap, almost immediately 🫠
For Labor Day, one like, one US labor law fact.
love to have a 10 hour sleep, 6am to 4pm. (inconvenient as heck is what i mean) at least it's a holiday so the daytime stuff i needed to do couldn't be done.
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For #LaborDay I’d like to share this photo of picture day at the knitting mill. Thought to be Pennsylvania, about 1905
mm-hmm. by the Ann Cooper Hewitt case, the eugenics has changed from "fit to pass on her genes" to "fit to be a parent". quote from an interview describing the shift: forget about heredity, these people will be unable to care for their children, so best to not let them have any.
which tbh is kind of making me want to find the Kallikak Family to understand what was expected by "adult morals". obv by 1918 it meant (very decidedly) upper-middle class WASP knowledge and beliefs, but what was on those original tests given to the institution's inmates.
I hadn't noticed before, or not in the same way as i noticed tonight, the way they explain "mental age" and how it came about, without really highlighting how messed up it is. They move very swiftly to speaking about "moron" being invented for "morally inferior" - not having developed "adult morals"
can't sleep, so I'm watching this again. the people on the NTC streets "didn't know, or care, that Grant's ancestors signed the Declaration of Independence, and this offended him" the "don't you know who I am?? why are we not about me?!" racists/bigots are nothing new, alas.
augh, so much hate for the prohibitionists and fear-mongers.
I didn't know that! I just know it can be excruciating, and mainly it's better than migraine because at least I'm not suffering nausea and auras, too.
That is extremely unfair for you. I'm sorry.
but related: i noticed my occipital neuralgia was active about an hour ago and took some naproxen, which usually helps reduce whatever is irritating the nerve. but it was too late, the dang pain just got worse. stabby-stabby in my eyeball. I'm trying to hope that it's a short attack, at least.
noooooo, it's not fair, why bodies, why are you like this?!?!
Yes! I'm very hopeful, and about the gene thing they did that shows the clusters that look promising for further research. There's a POTScast episode I just read that posits POTS and MCAS are the same thing, which was wild to follow the logic. but they and EDS and ME do keep showing up together....
grumbling because listen i took the aleve when i noticed the pain in my eyebrow! my occipital neuralgia had no business creeping into my eye BUT IT DID ANYWAY 😭😭😭
it's not fair that once the hurt gets to a certain point, the drugs aren't as effective. like hey, body, we no longer need the symphonic chorus of pain! but the chorus is already too loud to hear. :(
no kidding. 😭 just hoping we get confined research for new treatments + teaching people about it so they can start treatments sooner/not be stuck in mystery chronic illness land for decades (POTS and MCAS both, and ME/CFS in my case)
ooh, and it's used to treat ADHD? interesting! i need to pull up the paper about mast cell reactivity and bp meds, and get it to my cardiologist. I've been putting it off because I'm already a complex patient and don't want to seem like a crank. 😅
it's so weird, right?!?! but it's also relatively easy to switch, if you have a cooperative prescribing doc, unlike how every blood pressure med except one is a mast cell trigger, so good luck sorting that out. (clonidine is the one)
yep. that's how it came up with my allergist. skin test was negative, but i was definitely wheezing after eating peanuts. "if it's not a regular allergy, could it be that mast cell activation thing?" he said it could be, but either way, avoid peanuts from now on lol I've since confirmed it's MCAS.
Excellent!!! The albuterol thing is so weird and unexpected, it's like why would you even think that?! and it's such a common med, I figure it's worth trying, alongside what @jblainefoster.bsky.social mentioned. (and low-histamine diet, if it seems foods are triggering it. no leftovers, for ex.)
ah, good point about some allergists being weird about it. You gotta be really careful and probe whether they even think it's a thing before asking if it could be relevant. (such a pain)
Definitely mention it when you see the allergist. Are you using albuterol regularly? Because if so, switching to levalbuterol may help some if your mast cells are too reactive. (something about the molecule shapes, regular albuterol triggers the mast cells further)
tbh I wouldn't be surprised, based on what you've described and some of what you've said about your food intolerances. It's massively underdiagnosed and most doctors know nothing about it. Usually it's weird allergyish reactions, but they don't respond to the usual remedies/mystery trigger.
are they suspecting MCAS? because if so 🙏💖 it's an awful thing to be dealing with, but at least there's a lot of support out there, and getting on mast cell stabilizers might help a lot.
Oh god, TIL, I guess I'll never get anything there
one of the things i don't like so much about My Favorite Wife after seeing Too Many Husbands is that it's a foregone conclusion that Irene and Cary will get back together, and the second wife is kind of a nothing?? in TMH, Jean adores them both and can't decide which to remain married to. 💖
It's so good!! There's only 3 people involved, instead of 4, and Fred and Mel argue about who's the proper husband who gets to live with Jean, so she decides they can both stay but they have to sleep in different rooms, leading to some great farce humor ends in a 3way marriage!
i wish they'd show Too Many Husbands as often as they show My Favorite Wife, though. :( Jean Arthur and Fred MacMurray!! (and Melville Douglas, but I know people don't love him as much as i do)
which i guess i could be giving and unselfish and just post it for y'all lol the magic of modern social media! (remember when we had to have tinypic and similar to host our photos?)
J. W. Champney's illustrations really are a big appeal for this series. i haven't even shown y'all the full page landscapes and architectural drawings, except that one of the bridge, which is beautiful but has nothing on the detail of the "entrance to Heidelberg Castle" I'm looking at right now
@cronhill.bsky.social I really love this illustration by J. W. Champney, and thought you'd appreciate a ping to see it, since you liked the one of the girl on the hill.
This drawing of two Heidelberg students from Three Vassar Girls on the Rhine is really excellent. They look like modern students, other than their clothes, don't they? 20-year-old young men are the same century after century...
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I don't know if it's the ME/CFS, covid pandemic, just yknow everything going on, or my recent reading habits, but I've grown to appreciate what religion offers a lot more in the last year or so, even if i have no interest in involving myself in it.
Olivia is bang on about Rev. Segou. His quotes are towards the middle and had me going "heck yes", especially when he talks about the lack of lamentation in contemporary Christian music - and likewise in the "send praises up and blessings come down" ideologies.
One: Wario Kazooman Savage is a city treasure Two: Rev. Segou is the real deal Three: THIS is the journalism we’re starving for
oh my god that parenthetical. that's some excellent funny-and-it's-true writing/structure.
So, acquiring more robust protection via “hybrid immunity” isn’t a benefit of being infected after all…
We really need more media stations saying, explicitly, he wants to kill all vaccines, and it's not to save lives, or help people, it's because he thinks that this will kill acceptable numbers of people of the types he thinks should die. Hint at the last part, but SAY the first part on camera!
i put the oil and honey into a ziploc bag, then dump the carrots in to squish around and get fully coated. i think i did 1/2tsp and 2Tbsp? maybe 1T. for about a dozen baby carrots. i feel like it doesn't need too much, you just want to accentuate the natural sweetness.
I made honey roasted carrots! Much better than the garlic ones the other day. Just a little bit of olive oil, a lot more honey than that, and some dill sprinkled on top. 375° for an hour. it's my tried-and-true combo, though i do 400° for thicker carrots than these.
i am incapable of spelling honey correctly on the first try, dammit Winnie the pooh!
i might try doing huney-roasted carrots now that I've got the jar open, but i don't want to have to clean up the inevitable sticky honey mess when it drips everywhere
i had a nap but i might need another one. i just want this PEM crash to clear up before i have to toss the asparagus in the fridge. don't make me waste it, fatigue 😭
It always amuses me that Jane Eyre would be more likely to wear the high-waisted Joséphine dresses than the mid-century crinoline/hoopskirt ones she's so often portrayed with, just as the Dashwood and Bennett sisters would be more likely to wear hoops and chemise dresses.
it's the stuff about the regiment/military, mainly! I don't know about her other books, but those two were written in the 1790s, too, then revised for publication. One of the things I noticed in my Early Eng Novels courses was how novels were almost always set in the past, even if it's recent past
Sense & Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice were both written before 1811, though not published until then! tbh they're both set in the 1790s, which is something that often bugs me about all the adaptations that have the costumes from the publishing date, not the actual setting in the novels.
this is one of my favorite movies of all time, if you get to catch it streaming
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I only use my google speaker for music while cooking 😅 but yeah, I've got my sitting room lamp on a remote, so i can turn it on from bed and not be going to/from the kitchen in the dark, and it's wonderful. my kitchen lights have a remote, too, so i can switch them on before i get there. so nice!!!
yeah, part of my checklist when i got the ikea one was something smaller that would sit next to my pillow easily. I have a bigger bin, too, without dividers that sometimes gets too messy/lost and i was like "no, too big!!!" (but it was great when i spilled an orange soda in it!)
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