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Grace: Sit down, Iām gonna torture you now.
Simon, smirking: Kinky.
Grace: I think you're sweet and beautiful.
Simon: Whatā?
Grace: You deserve to be cared for.
Simon: Stop, nowā
Grace: Your feelings are valid and deserve to be heard.
Simon, panicking: I need a safe word!!!!
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Starving in space but at least Rocky is there.
AU where the child versions of Bloodymary teleport into their opposites storiesā¦
And then likeā¦somewhere rocky is taking care of one crying infant and one very rickety old manā¦
Emet-Selch could have so easily be just another Dead Wife Guy, but they made the extremely good decision to make what heās mourning not a person but a civilization. The easier and more obvious route would have been to, say, have his moment of keen nostalgia and homesickness be brought on by seeing some reminder of Dead Wife: instead, it comes from seeing a bunch of people work together on a municipal project. This is a weary, bitter man who could be moved by a well-organized chore wheel, and I love that for him.
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I do think Rocky usually beats Grace because heās just better at chess than Grace. However. Consider that this is a funny one-off option.
Eridian kindergartners may be strong and VERY enthusiastic but they don't have that much stamina
and oh nooooo Rocky in a ball. Rocky can not help at aaaaaall ~~~~
previous instances of adventures of babysitter Grace [first comic] [second comic]
leave me suggestions and there might be a 4th installment in this series ;)
i think this shots are way deeper than intended.
the way both stratt and grace stops at some point as the tied of people just keeps going, how he stops, he's not looking at her but he is facing her direction
how she stops and waits for him, how she keeps turning back to keep an eye on him and just waits for him to come back to her side
plus
the way he keeps giving looks in her direction as he speaks with yao
the main purpose of this scene is to state grace would never want to be in space for the shock that comes later when stratt has to send him to work best, also is to state that rocky is that someone grace was brave for
but the subtext is so interesting, the way it focus on both grace and stratt in a sea of people, they stop for a second being just them, still apart, but only them. like suggesting that even among the chaos, they are still standing together
Day 5: Invocation | Sacrifice
Holy fuck
This works best if you keep windows closed.
Another design is using 2 20x25x1 filters, taping them to the sides of the box fan and then to each other so they sort of make a triangle, then cutting cardboard to make a top and bottom to the triangle.
This was discovered as a more effective design during the 2020 US west coast fires.
https://tombuildsstuff.blogspot.com/2013/06/better-box-fan-air-purifier.html
A better more efficient and odor eliminating homemade air purifier than just taping a 20x20x1 filter to a box fan. Sometimes you need to
If you live on the west coast of the United States, fire season is coming and this is vital.
Weāve been using one, and theyāre great. Might try to make the double filter version this year.
theyve been doing a bunch of studies on this during the pandemic and this design is best! 4 filters and a shroud to optimize flow rate.
Corsi-Rosenthal Cube
https://encycla.com/Corsi-Rosenthal_Cube
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OP: Why couldnāt traditional Chinese Yinpiaoé¶ē„Ø/silver drafts be forged if they were merely slips of paper? (cr大ęå®éļ¼ęøč¶)
Traditional Chinese yinpiao/silver drafts were paper vouchers issued by private banks starting from the Song Dynasty(960ā1279). People could exchange these slips for physical silver at bank branches across the country.
Silver drafts were made in multiple copies with matching serrated seal edges. One copy went to the customer and others stayed at the bank. All edges had to fit perfectly together to withdraw silver. The unique split edge marks were almost impossible to copy.
This mechanism is known as qifengéŖē¼ (split-joint seal) in China. It first originated in the Western Zhou Dynasty (1046ā771 BC). The Rites of Zhou records that contracts were written on bamboo or wooden slips in duplicate. Notches and marks were carved in the middle before splitting the slips, with each party keeping one half. The two halves would be matched by their notches for verification.
During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods (770ā221 BC), this idea evolved into hufučē¬¦/tiger tally tokens. A military tally was split into two pieces with identical inscriptions carved along the split edge. Troops could only be deployed if the patterns and characters on both halves perfectly aligned, serving as a metal version of the split-joint anti-counterfeiting system.
The technology matured in the Tang Dynasty (618ā907). Government documents and private contracts commonly used split-joint seals stamped across the dividing line. The Chinese character "hetongåå" (contract) was written across the middle before the paper was torn apart, so the complete characters would only appear when the two halves were put together. This split-coupon system was later adopted for Song Dynasty (960ā1279) jiaozi paper money and yinpiao/silver drafts of the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368ā1912).
Official Song dynasty paper money (Jiaoziäŗ¤å) was abolished in 1107. Private silver drafts issued by Qing-era piaohaoē„Øč” (ancient exchange banks) vanished completely in 1951, hit hard by modern banks and currency reforms. Nowadays silver drafts no longer circulate as currency. Their collectible value depends on their rarity and physical condition.
Split-joint seals (éŖē¼ē« qifengzhang)are still widely used on important paper documents in modern China, an anti-tampering technique passed down from ancient times. They are applied across the edge of multi-page contracts, bidding documents and official archives. If any page is removed or replaced, the broken seal pattern can prove the file has been altered.
OMG I got so excited about this because they used a really similar (though far less refined) version of this for contracts in the European medieval period!
First they were called "chirographs", but later the word "indenture" (in its earliest meaning as just a legal document of any kind between two people) came to be used, originating from the practice of a contract being written twice on a single piece of parchment and then cut in half with serrated edges (as in dent, "teeth" -> indents -> indenture) in order for each party to take one half, so they could later piece them together and verify that there had been no forgery -- same as the Chinese silver drafts!
(Charter of the ClerecĆa de Ledesma, 1252, showing the serrated indents at the top -- presumably they are cutting rather than tearing because they're using parchment, which I expect is much harder to tear than wood-pulp paper like the Chinese were using)
Delights me when human beings find similar ways to solve the same problem at two different ends of the world. <3
giving simon wormhole-opening powers so grace can send an instant probe once they're on erid and inflict more psychic damage on the og petrova task force
js the concept of a PHM videolog that starts out with grace and rocky happily going abt their business that then jumpcuts to ryland alone at a desk covered in blood girl im dead
Saw a post about Stratt and Grace getting married so he couldnāt testify against her in court and I believe the interaction goes something like as follows:
āGrace, I need your signature.ā
Grace looked up from his work in his closet of an office. Stratt closed the door behind her.
āAn autograph? Iām flattered.ā
She pushed the work off his already disheveled desk and set a single paper on top. It kind of looked like his degree, it kind of looked like-
āA marriage license? Well, now Iām really flattered.āļæ¼
āFor legal reasons. Just sign.ā Stratt muttered.
āAre you serious?ā
Of course she was serious. She only was serious. But she seemedā¦uncomfortable? The feeling looked strange on her. Eyes dart between the paper and him. Arms crossed over her chest as if hugging herself. It was definitely a new look. They were in new territory.
āIām not the marrying type.ā said Grace. āAnd I think I forgot to propose.ā
Stratt breathed in deeply. Steeling herself.
āGrace,ā Her hands were fidgeting with the cuff of her sleeve. āWhat Iām doing here is illegal. Iāve broken alot of rules to give the crew a chance to save us. But once the mission beginsā¦the world order will need to go back to how it was.ā
Grace listened intently trying to make eye contact with her glassy gaze. He hadnāt thought to much about the legality of it all. After all, that was her job.
āI will be put on trial. I will be found guilty. I will serve the rest of my life behind bars. That is my cost.ā Stratt continued, āYou, the team, will all be fine. But-ā
She pushed the license closer to Grace.
āSpouses donāt testify in court.ā
Finally she looked at him. She wasnāt telling him to sign. If that was the case she probably wouldāve just forged his signature. Hell, she probably has a whole team just for that purpose. She was asking him.
His choice. Just between the two of them.
āWe donāt have to sleep together, right?ā
Her eyes went big. āGod Grace! No! Just sign the damn paper!ā she huffed.
He smiled. And put his name under hers.
Husband and wife.
Well, more like āMost powerful person in the worldā and āSome guy she kept around.ā But still. Till death do they part.
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Invention of bread is weird bc itās like some Neolithic ppl were like āhey you know that tall grass thing thatās sorta edible but not really how about we take it and grind it into a very very fine powder which is extra backbreaking right now bc the wheel wonāt be invented for awhile and then we mix it with water and heat it up and you know what letās also toss some mold in there just to see what happensā
there are a number of distinct steps though, each of which can be observed in isolation.Ā āgrind tough seeds to make them edibleā is practiced with other foods besides grains (like acorns). the natural next step after that is to add water, which gives you porridge: a common ancient roman meal was puls,Ā very similar to modern cream of wheat. once you have that you also have a simple dough, and baking it to preserve it is a logical experiment (as is baking some you forgot about and left out for a few days, just so you donāt waste it... voila, leavened bread)
there could have been, and probably was (though iām not an archaeologist) a substantial time between each of these innovations. itās not too hard to imagine people being chill withĀ āgrind seeds for soup, select plants for bigger seedsā for a good while
Do you ever wonder how many amazing things are fated to go forever uninvented because each step necessary to invent them is a completely unintuitive thing to do?
Okay, that's not how bread was invented. I wrote a potted history, I could try to dig that out if anyone is interested?
Please do
I'm putting this on my bread blog, because of course I am. Also tagging @appendingfic who I think expressed interest.
Tens of thousands of years ago people foraged and hunted for their food and ate whatever they could. Among their forage were wild cereals, which included the ancestors of modern cultivated wheat, barley and others.
People like sweet things. Grains are starchy, but if sprouted they start converting those starches to sugars, so people would've left grains in water to sprout. These sprouts are also easier to digest, thus more nutritious, which bestowed an invisible advantage on those sprouting their grains.
If grains are left in water too long, however, they begin to ferment. Alcohol is produced. People like alcohol.
In ancient Mesopotamia the fermented grains were experimented with, resulting in an early form of beer. The process of making that beer was quite complicated and involved a combination of sprouted and mashed grains.
People wanted beer all year round, but early beers did not have long shelf lives and the grain could only be harvested at certain times. So the ancient Mesopotamians invented a way of storing the ingredients for beer.
It was made of the grain mash, honey, dates and spices that were fermented to make beer. For storage, prior to fermentation, the mixture was baked dry, cut into smaller pieces and baked again to remove all water. This produced bapir, a product very much like biscotti, which could be stored for later rehydration and fermentation. Sometimes it was eaten instead.
I've made bapir, and I've eaten it. It is brittle but delicious. It's also a form of unleavened bread.
Bread was invented as a way to store the ingredients for beer, which was most likely a development from a chance discovery. Leavened bread (that is, with bubbles) may well have been discovered when a mixture like that for bapir was accidentally allowed to ferment before baking. Yeast is responsible for both alcohol production and leavening.
There's a lot more to it, in terms of the cultivation of grains and the development of milling, than I've written here. It's been a process of millennia to go from chewing sprouts to eating soft white bread like that pictured. But every step along the way was small and simple.
I never would have guessed that beer pre-existed bread. I've always just assumed that beer was an accidental discovery by breadmakers.
Nope, beer came first. Mead is also very old.
Thanks, ancient humans!
Australian First Nations people developed their own bread making culture independent of the beer-base route. As far as I'm aware, pre colonial Australia had little to nothing by way of fermented drinks at all, so the likelihood of beer being part of the evolution of native breads is unlikely. Their breads, made from native grasses, are both leavened and unleavened. There's also different bread making practices using different grains, dependent on location - Australia is big and Indigenous culture over here is no more a monolith than it is anywhere else. Kamilaroi bread is different to Yuin bread, for example.
The colonization of Australia actively suppressed Indigenous knowledge, and creating an image of the idle wandering tribes was required to justify taking Aboriginal lands. This means a lot of the archeology of how First Nations people developed their breads has not just been lost but deliberately suppressed. The idea that they were settled enough to have ovens, let alone a bread-making tradition, is only now really being examined. I wouldn't be surprised if the grains-porridge-bread route was true for Aussie breads, though.
We also have to take into consideration how much fuck-around-and-find-out experimentation first-nations peoples did in order to make some foods edible at all. There would have been a lot of trial and error with Moreton Bay 'Blackbean' Chestnuts for example, where they had to figure out a way to soak all the toxins out of them to make them safe to eat. It would be easy to imagine them harvesting a bumper crop of kangaroo grass seeds or some other grain and going 'lets mess with this and see what we get'. Plus, they performed controlled burning to manage bushland, there's a high chance they ate roasted food straight from the ash of a burn-off and went 'oh we could be onto something with this one'.
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in the Egyptian wing of the museum and my boyfriend is like "what are all the time periods of ancient Egypt" and I'm like predynastic, early dynastic, old kingdom which is when the pyramids were built, first intermediate, middle kingdom, second intermediate, new kingdom which includes amarna period and yugioh, third intermediate, and then all the late period stuff and macedonian and roman eras. and he's like run that by me one more time
Plant Talk - Part 1
In which I take "Simon became the Last Tree", tree-mutated Simon, cult Eden, eldritch blood hivemind voices, and Bloodymary and blend them all together into my fucking insane "Simon can communicate with plants and he's not sure how he feels about it" AU
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