#sept 12

[silver-ace-of-spades]

Made Jimi a toy lol

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[toon-romantic]

(September 12th, 1981) The Smurfs aired on TV, this very day! 📺 S1:E1 - The Astrosmurf

[msbarrows]

Blanked on updating for a few days, not because of gaming for once but because we've had several annoyingly hot days in a row and I was too busy mentally swearing about how warm it still was at night to remember to post anything. Not HOT hot, but hot enough that doing anything (and especially cooking) pushes you over the line from 'barely tolerable' to 'dripping with sweat' (high 20C range basically). I am missing the single digit temps we had last weekend. Can I have that frost warning back? Pretty please??

Sept 12 - Pretty warm day, did some gaming and some crochet.

For supper I hauled the leftovers of a beef roast out of the freezer, and pressure cooked it with garden tomatoes and carrots. Turned leftover mashed potatoes from last night into potato pancakes with corn in them, to have the beef and sauce over. Using the pressure cooker didn't heat up the kitchen too much but the pancakes were not the best choice in that vein.

Sept 13 - Also a warm day. Baked a loaf of anadama bread.

Decided to go with something simple for supper and hauled the last tub of chili out of the freezer to serve with rice and a salad. Time to plan on making a new vat of chili in a week or so.

Sept 14 - An even warmer day. A lot of the day was spent lying in front of a fan crocheting because that was sedentary enough for me not to feel overheated. Also prepped a couple racks of pork ribs in two different marinades for future meals.

I made tuna fish salad and had a sandwich for supper because the will to cook was 100% Not There plus I had that loaf of nice fresh bread on hand.

Sept 15 - Yup, another day that was okay in the morning and stupidly hot by midafternoon. For supper I grilled a couple of lamb chops (seasoned with salt, pepper, and garlic), cooked barley in lamb stock with chopped onions for the starch, and did a side of steamed mixed veg. All stuff that I could mostly stay out of the kitchen while it cooked.

[mistfunk]

Mistigram: in 8-bit programming, the "oddly specific" number 256 is an important one, and if you go looking for it you will find it everywhere in this realm. AdeptApril of Storm BBS observes the significance of this number for programmers today, the 256th day of the year, in this nominal #ANSIart screen.

[cagreen-3]

Revisiting Blogging

Years ago, I belonged to a group of artists that encouraged blogging as a way to share our work, ideas, experiments, and techniques, so I tried it. I enjoyed the diary-like quality of blogging and the community engagement that sometimes occurred, but I never invested enough time following others' blogs and other social media posts, so I never got much of a following. Although I did post about art and my creative endeavors, I also posted more about my family life and the realities of being a working mom & how to balance it all. I eventually gave it up, as I would rather spend time with my family than blogging about my family, and I would rather be creating art than blogging about creating art.

One of my artists friends once quoted somebody as saying "if you don't exist online, you don't exist at all." While this may be true of a business or other organization, I'm not sure it can be applied to individuals. Maybe delving into the blogging world again will open my eyes to whatever benefits it has to offer. I'm looking forward to exploring new social media platforms with my fellow students!

[diyorgans]

sorry cant hang out today im reading my old journal entries. yah its gonna take a while, probably all day.

[theriverbeyond]

yeah

[thisischeri]

Mac OS X v10.0, 2001

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[atopvisenyashill]

i was thinking more about characters Performing Gender, but not necessarily Transgressing Gender. I wound up focusing on Ned and Sansa bc I feel like I understand them the most but-

Sansa as a hostage is imo the most obvious (bc it’s so well done) moment of someone clearly Performing Gender but not being transgressive in that performance. Which isn’t to say it’s not a complicated performance; it’s a fine line Sansa walks between weaponizing her gender to protect herself without seeming too fake. She’s trying to placate the Lannisters by playing the perfect, dedicated, air headed betrothed because it’s the only defense she has - if she outwardly rebels, she will be punished in a likely violent and/or sexual way (which isn’t even conjecture - when she says “or maybe he’ll give me yours” Joffrey has her struck with an armored hand). She’s not quite successful in being convincing but that’s because it’s a rather extreme situation; despite no one believing her, she does make herself seem meek and stupid enough that no one suspects she’s plotting to escape with Dontos until she’s well away from KL. The fact that she even has Dontos to confide in is because of Sansa’s relationship with gender! When she saves him, she covers her rebellious slip by playing up Joffrey’s intelligence & his role as King; she reaches for “tools” of her gender AND of ~proper manhood~ to save a life and herself from another beating. Her retreats into the godswood and silence are very much Sansa attempting to recharge from these draining interactions, the same way a knight would need to stop and eat and rest after a fight. She is fighting, constantly, by forcing herself to stay within the narrow confines of a specific type of gender performance as a way of shielding herself from harm.

Ned yelling at Cat is another big one, and I’ve seen the scene referred to as Ned using his patriarchal power to scare Cat, which is a great description. It feels like a Performance because Ned is putting on this terrifying Lord Stark mask in an attempt to get Catelyn to stop asking about Jon (and Lyanna). This is not how he usually acts with those he loves! When Ned is with His People, he is welcoming of questions, curiosity, emotion, even transgressive thought (to a point! the idea that Ned is a feminist because he lets Arya learn to fight is Not accurate but you can’t deny he allows significantly more flexibility wrt gender expression than most of the fathers we meet in this series. the bar is in hell tho). Yet when Cat asks him about Jon’s mother, Ned scares her so well she stops asking & still remembers the moment bitterly over a decade later. And if that snippet we see through Bran’s eyes of Ned praying that Cat will forgive him does come after she asks (like it’s suspected), it’s clear not only that this is a performance he’s putting on & weaponizing against Cat, it’s one he does not like using as a weapon against someone he is close to. After using the power his gender gives him to cause harm, he retreats to the godswood and silence to pray and rest, much like Sansa. A spiritual cleanse, the way a soldier may pray after battle, to reset and reconnect Being A Proper Man to Being A Kind Man.

I think there’s something interesting in that two of the characters most widely defined by how well they adhere to Westerosi gender norms both dislike feeling like they had to weaponize their gender. They are exhausted by the performance, because it’s a performance. This isn’t Sansa getting excited over tourneys, or Ned teaching his sons to fight; it’s toxic masculinity, it’s structural misogyny. It’s something they’re good at, excel at, and connected to something they enjoy but when it’s paired with violence, whether done by Ned or done to Sansa, it crosses over in their minds from an innate part of themselves (The Gender) to a performance necessary due to survival (The Gender Role). And that after these performances, both retreat to nature & god as a way of resting and cleansing from the experience.

[hephaestn]

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Aviator Laura Ingalls (not the author!), walks away from her plane at Floyd Bennett Field after beating the west-east transcontinental flight mark for woman fliers on September 12, 1935. Ingalls flew from Los Angeles in the official time of 13 hours, 34 minutes and 5 seconds, compared to Amelia Earhart's previous record of 17 Hours, seven minutes and 30 seconds.

Photo: Anthony Camerano for the AP

[msbarrows]

Sept 12 - rainy day. We skipped doing any sorting today too. For supper I roasted some chicken thigh quarters, and served them with boiled potatoes (tossed with butter, seasoned salt, and smoked paprika) and steamed green beans.

[remembersunflowers]

Jonathan when he quotes hamlet: fully aware of the horror he is in, writing down everything to keep himself sane, and that night he is faced with vampire ladies threatening to drain kiss him

Lucy when she quotes hamlet: aware only of a dreadful exhaustion, afraid to sleep, writing down reassurances that the people around her are trying to help, and at night there is that sound of wings flapping against the window

[dystini]

Sept 12, 2024 Indycar Silly Season Update

Credit to Cassie on Twitter

[soiiguessthiisiisathiing]

NESSCASWEEK2024

Day 4 / Sep.12 : Beach Day

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Wanted to do some traditional art for one of the prompts! Man, do I love my boys (I also couldn’t help but include some friends!!)

My favorite NessCas is the type where they are just so whipped for one another haha.

[bilolli]

Good intetions for 2024: draw more backgrounds hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh