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On today’s “Author is Overthinking Of Ingwe’s Cuivienen World Building Connudrums” – copper smithing scenes are hard to write when trying to describe the very first methods – and having to decide that you really can’t justify the use of the Lost Wax method because that needs beeswax and if there shouldn’t be any flowers for any bees (yes, have fudged and handwaved that canon fact but bees are too blatant) so does animal fats or something else work as an alternative… thank you British documentaries for showing prehistoric gold jewelry and methods so I can fake some good details.

Kentucky Derby was good this year. Had completely forgot it was today, so missed all the other races, barely turned on tv in time for the actual race.

Afterwards, being bored and curious, looked up a few clips of Quarter Horse Racing. It’s sort of bizarre to watch, because they are only racing for 400 yds in a straight shot, so there’s no point to jockeying to the inside rail. Also, while yes, the modern Quarter Horses varying breed type and all that, they are still noticeably high and round in the rear compared to the Thoroughbreds I just watched in the Derby. And I’m sad to say that it did take a full second instead of the fraction of a second for my brain to make that connection in what lines I was seeing: “Oh yeah, these are Horse Whippets. Yep, exactly that curved rear.” Which, when you are raised your whole life with whippets, even without wanting to, you learn what a sprinting animal’s top-line should look like. And then a greyhound’s straighter angles look ever so slightly wrong to you for the rest of your life.

allieinarden:

I recently referred to Patrick McHale and Alex Hirsch as “the Tolkien and Lewis of supernatural rural demon sibling animated Americana,” and it wasn’t until afterward that I realized how appropriate this connection actually is, when you consider that Gravity Falls is a show aimed at kids with unexpectedly serious overtones about Good and Evil and centers around a couple of siblings whose parents temporarily send them to live with an enigmatic elderly man hiding portals to another world in his house…

…as opposed to Over the Garden Wall, which is more journey-focused and serious in tone and gives us more evil trees and extended stops at taverns to sing gratuitous musical numbers per square inch than its central character (a conflicted Elijah Wood) is properly equipped to deal with. 

@crocordile

It’s late, have to get up early for work tomorrow, but I’ve started the sleeves for this shirt and I have so many doll shirts I’ve put off making because I hate and fear sleeves but I finished the fiddly lace trimed collar and I want to get at least one sleeve puff done

That funny feeling when you see a tumblr post (you know, that mix of accurate and wildly inaccurate facts) about the American Revolutionary War, and you want to chip in, but History was only your minor and it’s been years – but the American Colonial/Revolutionary War was the period you paid the most attention to/can actually spout facts about (I’m lucky when I remember what year the American Civil War started and I know more about WWI than WWII)- and not like this reblog chain needs more half-remembered factiods