#blended review

[melgillman]

I got a Bird & Blend tea advent calendar this year, and drew sketches to help remember which ones I liked!

[asexualbookbird]

Another Ohuhu vs Copic Post

I'm not the first to compare the two, and I won't be the last, but I have opinions and I love foisting them upon the void of the internet so here we are.

I have a mishmash of 16 copic grey tones and one pastel purple (BV11 Pale Violet), and the 96 Honolulu B Pastel set from Ohuhu, and even though I've only had these Ohuhus for a few hours, I can already tell you I have OPINIONS!

Let's get the obvious out of the way. The seventeen (17) copic markers I've acquired over the years cost more than the ninety six (96) set from Ohuhu. Lol. Lmao even. Everyone knows it, copics are Pricey and that's why everyones looking for an alternative. So yeah, I've been excited about ohuhu for a while! They're been a good competitor, even more so since they added brush tips and refillable markers! For real, while copics have been ridiculously priced, I've resigned myself to just buying a few here and there because it felt like a better investment in the long run. But now? I HAD TO KNOW! What are ohuhu markers like to USE?

Kind of nice, to be honest. They have next to NO smell, especially compared to the copics. Even my prismacolor markers are stinkier than the ohuhus. Love that. I'm not hotboxing myself out of my room every time I want to do a color. Amazing, no notes. Well, one note. I think the reason they aren't as stinky is because they aren't NEARLY as juicy as copics. Maybe it's the color set I got? I'd like to revisit this with a more bold color set to see, but the pastels feel almost Dry. So I wouldn't be surprised if the juiciness results in more stink. If that's the case, then yeah I'll go into the hot box.

The juiciness is probably also the reason ohuhu doesn't blend as easily. They still blend nicely, but the copics were SO smooth. Here's some blending I did with each set. The colors aren't compareable, because the copic colors I have go much darker than the ohuhu pastels, but the blending is the same.

Ignore the one on the top lol that's when I decided I needed More Colors and got the Ohuhus. The bottom cloud is the copics (the brights are prismacolor markers that are not part of this because they're about 20 years old at this point and not alcohol based anyway). It was my first attempt at blending, but it was easy to get a nice gradient! The hardest part was choosing colors and that's on me!

Here are ohuhu clouds! I noticed the paper had some texture so I did the little blob on the right to compare with the first cloud. It did blend a lot smoother on the smoother side of the paper, but I still had to use the darker copic marker to even the blend out. I don't mind that too much, to be honest, I think they work VERY well together! I did find myself needing to layer the ohuhus more, but I really do like the result.

THE NIBS! LETS TALK ABOUT THE NIBS! Copics big thing was always HEY WE HAVE REPLACEABLE NIBS! So when your nib inevitably gets Nasty, you don't have to buy an entire new marker. But now. Guess what ohuhu has done. REPLACEABLE. NIBS! Not only that, but most of the nibs are INTERCHANGEABLE! So if I decide I don't actually like that I got a brush/bullet combo and want the chisel, I can replace either with a chisel! HOW NEAT! I don't know if copic nibs are interchangeable, but they have always been replaceable.

Ohuhu has more different nibs and nib combos. They have brush/chisel, brush/bullet, chisel/bullet, something called a tri nib??/chisel, slim chisel/bullet, and wide tip. The tri tip is. So interesting to me. I'm not a chisel fan, if I want to cover a lot of space I can do that with a brush tip. But this tri chisel?? looks like you get more control over the line width. It's fascinating. I'd love to try it some day, but I don't think it fits the art I generally enjoy making. Like. I don't think I'd use it a lot. It's why I chose the Honolulu B, they have a brush and a bullet nib.

Copics have fewer choices, brush/chisel (sketch), brush/bullet (ciao), bullet/chisel (classic), and Wide. Biggest thing about these, though is that everything but the ciao are refillable. This is the other big draw to copics, especially considering ohuhu doesn't offer open stock. If your favorite color dries out, you'd have to buy a new set with that color in it. Ohuhu has started offering refills for some colors, and I can only hope that means they'll eventually offer refills for every color they offer. Both set of nibs are fine. Copics are a little more squishy, but I think that has to do with the juice once more. They aren't different enough to affect me in either direction.

Color choices are close enough, ohuhu honolulu series offers 363 colors, thier oahu has 320 colors, copic sketch offers 358 colors, all of which have refills. Ohuhu offers 50 colors on their website. Again, I really hope that since this is so new, it just means they'll offer more refill colors in the future. Still, a win for copics. I also love that copics allow you to buy empty BARRELS along with refills, which means you could theoretically make your own colors. Also, if you price it all out, in the long run, buying empty barrels and the ink refills and filling the markers yourself is cheaper than buying individual or sets of copic markers. I hate that. Lower your prices.

Overall, I like them both! Are copics better? Yeah, absolutely, I'm not denying that. But the price is SO outrageous and ohuhu is fighting for that affordability market. They're perfectly fine markers, and I WILL be buying some brighter more saturated colors. I will also be slowly (very slowly) buying copics too. They're so smooth, they really are the quality they're known for. If you want to try out alcohol markers and don't want a commitment, go for ohuhu. They have so many sets, and a wide price range, and still everything is so much more affordable than copics. It all comes down to that. If you want an investment and can drop a lot of money at once, then yeah absolutely go for copics. I am doing all I can not to say They're Worth It, because I hate that price I HATE IT! A single marker shouldn't be six dollars (and that's the Discount Price at Blicks). But I can't deny their quality. I'm going to continue doing what I'm doing, which is getting a large set of ohuhu and supplementing it with copics and hopefully one day copics will take over.

Did that help?

PS ohuhu caps clip on to the end of the barrel. Copics do not (unless you get the ciao).

[devilrose]

Lillie

[teainspoons]

Adagio Teas’ Brigadoon | Tea Review

[irenespring]

Tw child abuse

"As we all know, boys respond best to beatings and the withholding of food."

---Evelyn Sader, School for Good and Evil book 2, having apparently graduated the John House School of Parenting

[andoutofharm]

So Much (for) Stardust might be Infinity on High’s sister album, but it has been said multiple times that it contains elements of all their albums and all their eras. Mania is one of those albums and one of those eras and its influences are very strong and very present in Stardust. To say this album just sounds ‘like old fall out boy’ or that it sounds nothing like Mania says to me that you haven’t really listened to it and paid attention.

[daemon-in-my-head]

The ‘Judas Kiss’ statue inside the Lateran Palace in Rome.

It’s screaming durgetash. It’s screaming very loudly. Look it up. I can’t be the only one tormented by this.

[sweeneytoddblog]

So I’ve been reading a lot of reviews on the revival, and I almost feel like I can’t comment on anything until I actually see what they’re talking about. BUT

Consensus on Groban seems to be that although his voice is flawless as expected, he’s just not scary. Some reviewers seem to care about this more than others.

And I was thinking, I can’t actually recall any Sweeneys whom I’ve found scary? There have been Judge Turpins who have scared me and even some Mrs. Lovetts, but not really Sweeney...during Epiphany I’m typically just laughing at his melodramatic ass.

Anyone have a Sweeney who scared them?

[wine-porn]

Slung Slang

A strange bouquet flows off strongly on first pour. One I have not had the pleasure of smelling before. Pickle juice. Straight up like opening a bottle of Spanish olives. Within minutes, it was gone–the whole bottle: second pour showed nothing of it. Gone before I had the chance to decant. Strangest bottlefunk I have experienced. But nothing resides in the taste and subsequent pours show merely a…

[aeolianblues]

“Guitars! More guitars! I will not be honest with myself”

Kiwi Jr. are amongst the wittiest modern indie bands in Canada right now. Go check them out! This song is taken from their debut album Football Money, 2019, and is a short, sweet, punchy record that left us wanting so bad that their second album announcement was a genuine delight to me, as was the news that Subpop Records had signed them (if the name sounds familiar and you’re not sure why, it’s the indie label that signed a ton of 90s alternative bands in the wake of their most successful signing: Nirvana).

Now three albums in, Kiwi jr. are on the up: in only the last year, they’ve played well attended gigs across the European indie circuit, and opened in the states for some mammoths of indie music and their own heroes, Pavement, Dinosaur jr., and also other cool names like Guided By Voices and Sloan. Their most recent third album Chopper sees them lean into darker sounds, while keeping that distinctive Kiwi sound. Get on this band while they’re still small!

[spencereid]

One complaint that I have about TTPD is that it's too homogenized in sound, if that makes sense? Like, there's having a consistent sound for an album, and then there's 90% of the sounds musically sounding the same. Like, if I was held at gunpoint and the gunman played a random 30 seconds of just the music no lyrics & told me to identify it, I wouldn't be able to.

i understand completely!! that was one of my original criticisms when i first heard it. i still do think it suffers from that but now that ive heard it before im more able to parce it out. taylor seems to struggle a lot lately with new sounds, i remember a lot of 1989 vault criticism was that it sounded too much like midnights and. yeah. the first half of this album especially struggles with finding its own sound.

it doesn’t make it easier for her that all the songs are lower energy, the only exception being i can do it with a broken heart that really sets itself apart sonically and honestly i don’t like that song enough to be excited that THATS the hype song

[lawrencegarte]

i have not seen a single good review of wish fucking rip

[teainspoons]

Bird & Blend Tea Co.’ Moondrop Dreams | Tea Review

[thatstudyblrontea]

September 18, 2022 – Sencha with lemon

Had a lovely and peaceful afternoon session with a sencha and lemon blend. I was really eager to try the new tea tray my aunt bought for me recently, and I'm particularly happy with my new set up. Although it's not the traditional way to brew it, I wanted to experiment with shorter (<1') infusions – it turned out really good, with really nice and strong umami notes.

[bluepoodle7]

#Gordons #GordonsTripleWashedSpinach #Pampa #PampaBlendofSoybeanAndVirginOliveOil #GordonsTriplewashedSpinachWithPampaBlendofSoybeanAndVirginOliveOil #SpinachReview

I tried the Gordons Triple-Washed Spinach with Pampa Blend of Soybean and Virgin Olive Oil and it was pretty good.

The spinach tasted fresh and were soft these had a light oily taste that came from the Pampa oil blend.

The oil blend gave the spinach had a light salty taste.

This also had garlic in it but I didn't taste it.

I would eat this again.

Got at Gordons.

Part 2 has the rest of the images.

[popculturegenealogy]

Non-traditional family trees: the case of Futurama

The Farnsworth family tree that he shows to the crew members of Planet Express in "All the Presidents' Heads"

Some time ago, Mary Koeven wrote an interesting article about family history and adoption (if it is taking a long time to load, please read the archived copy), which she defines as "when a child is raised by someone other than their parents, whether or not their last name was changed or any official adoption process was carried out in the court system," with adoptive parents being either "grandparents, aunt and uncle, other family members, or complete strangers," sometimes referred to as "guardianship or fostering rather than adoption." She also went onto say the important part is establishing a timeline of the child's life, saying that "any information you find on relationships and family events should be recorded on your family tree." The article goes onto outline how to add "adoption info in your Ancestry.com tree," specifically focusing on the Harry Potter series as an example, although looking at how this works for Family Search would also be helpful. In this post, I aim to talk about family trees in Futurama, which I briefly mentioned in a post on one of my sister blogs.

Reprinted from my Genealogy in Popular Culture WordPress blog. Originally published on July 27, 2020.

After reading Koeven's post, I responded on Twitter, wondering whether the family tree in Futurama was "non-traditional," adding that "one of the protagonists is his own grandfather," referring to the Fry family. Koeven responded by remarking that "time travel would rewrite a lot of the fundamental rules of genealogy (death always comes after birth, etc.) and make research MUCH more difficult." Be that as it may, I still feel this article is one worth pursuing. Infosphere, the nerd's guide to the Futurama universe, has a very helpful family tree of the Fry family, which explains a lot:

Courtesy of Infosphere.

In episode 1 of season 4 (Roswell That Ends Well), Fry and the rest of the Planet Express crew inadvertently travel back in time to 1947. In the process, he kills his own grandfather, Enos, leading to all sorts of distortions:

Fry's time travel means that Yancy, Sr's paternal grandmother is Mrs. Fry, his wife and Fry's mother. And not only did Fry become his own grandfather, he made his father his own grandfather as well. An infinite loop results: Fry is his own grandfather, great-great-grandfather, great-great-great-great-grandfather and so on. This abnormality is the reason Fry lacks the Delta Brainwave.

This disrupts the fundamental rules of genealogy and would make research more difficult. Besides the crew of the Planet Express ship, who else knew that they traveled back to 1947? Those in 1947 cannot testify to anything except that "aliens came," although those "aliens" were people from the future. Later on, in the series, during the first Futurama direct-to-DVD film, Bender's Big Score, Fry again travels back in time, creating the time-paradox duplicate of Lars Fillmore. Again, if he is a duplicate, what is his real birth date then? We can say for certain what his death date is (Dec 31, 3007) but if he has the same birth date as Fry, then doesn't this create another distortion? Some have been bothered by these distortions, saying it throws other parts of the show into question, like the DNA scanner in episode one.

Fry's family, you would think, is the only one that has this phenomenon of distortion. The Waterfall and Turanga families are free of this distortion. But what about the Farnsworth family, which ties into the Fry family? After all, Prof. Farnsworth went back to 1775 and seemed to kill his ancestor, David Farnsworth. The only way the Prof. could still be alive is because "it's possible that although David Farnsworth was a relative of the Professor, he wasn't one of his direct ancestors" as the Infosphere claims. Still, this would create another distortion, as the crew members did "alter history when they travel[led] back in time to the American Revolution," without a doubt.

You could say that makes the episode, "All the President's Heads," even more relevant to genealogy than "Roswell That Goes Well" because Prof. Farnsworth is trying to spruce up "his family tree, eager to show anyone willing to listen - and plenty who aren't - all the amazing people he's descended from," as noted in an approving review by Alasdair Wilkins in Gizmodo. However, other reviews say that in Roswell That Goes Well, Fry "climbs his family tree." Hmm.

What are your thoughts on this? Are there any family trees from other shows you'd like to share?

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