playing the wrong notes at the right time

[cuties-in-codices]

marginalia birds

from the llangattock hours, illuminated by willem vrelant, the master of the llangattock hours, the master of the llangattock epiphany, and other flemish artists in bruges, 1450s

source: Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig IX 7

[canwriteitbetterthanueverfeltit]

Pretend all ingredients are at your finger tips - if someone asked you to please cook a potato dish for a gathering RIGHT NOW what are you automatically gonna be cooking

[opal-bee]

Scalloped Hashbrowns! I've been making this for about 30 years and it's always a big hit everywhere I take it. Great breakfast casserole. I don't follow a written-down recipe anymore, but here's a general idea of what goes into it:

1 bag diced frozen hashbrowns (you can speed up cooking time if you defrost them a bit in the microwave first). You could probably also use shredded but I haven't tested this

1 big can cream of mushroom soup

1 cup sour cream (I prefer Mexican sour cream)

1/2 cup milk

2 cups shredded cheese of your preference (I use sharp cheddar)

1/2 cup shredded or finely diced white or yellow onion, you could probably also throw in diced peppers if you're inclined. I've skipped the onions many times and it doesn't substantially alter the taste

salt and pepper to taste (I use garlic salt)

Optional: diced/cubed ham or cooked crumbled sausage

Mix all this in a big bowl then put into an (at least) 10x13 baking dish and spread it out evenly. I don't always do this but you can cut thin pats of butter and place them here and there on top; it melts and give it a nice finish. Bake at 375-400F for about an hour. I have a gas oven and it's finicky so you might need to keep an eye on it when it's getting close and adjust. Depending on how brown the edges are getting I'll sometimes scrape the sides and mix it a few times as it's cooking, but you don't have to.

It's a really rich dish but people ask for the recipe nearly every time I serve it.

[marwyn]

are there any published essays on asoiaf you would recommend?

“Beyond the Pale? Craster and the Pathological Reproduction of Houses in Westeros” by D. Marcel DeCoste, in Mastering the Game of Thrones: Essays on George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire (eds. Jes Bettis and Susan Johnston)

“High and Mighty Queens of Westeros” by Kavita Mudan Finn, “Setting up Westeros: The Medievalesque World of Game of Thrones” by Gillian Polack, “Barbarian Colonizers and Postcolonialism in Westeros and Britain” by Shiloh Carroll in Game of Thrones versus History: Written in Blood (ed. Brian A. Pavlac)

“Power and Feminism in Westeros” by Caroline Spector, “Back to the Egg: The Prequels to A Song of Ice and Fire” by Gary Westfahl, “An Unreliable World: History and Timekeeping in Westeros” by Adam Whitehead in Beyond the Wall: Exploring George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire (ed. James Lowder)

Additionally, here are some essays and books that aren’t about the series specifically but which I’ve found applicable to it:

“Olalla’s Legacy: Twentieth-Century Vampire Fiction and Genetic Previvorship” by Sara Wasson (on gothic horror deriving from one’s own genetics)

Gothic Incest: Gender, Sexuality and Transgression by Jenny DiPlacidi

“Doubling and Incest in the Mabinogi” by Andrew Welsh

The English Romance in Time: Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare by Helen Cooper

“When a Knight meets a Dragon Maiden: Human Identity and the Monstrous Animal Other” by Lydia Zeldenrust, “Angela Carter’s ‘Unicorn’ and the Illusion of Empowerment Through Objectification” by Janey Tracey, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power by Jude Ellison S. Doyle (Dany studies)

“The Armour of an Alienating Identity” by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and the members of Interscripta, “Britomart’s Armor in Spenser’s ‘Faerie Queene’: Reopening Cultural Matters of Gender and Figuration” by Judith H. Anderson, “Maiden Warriors and Other Sons” by Carol J. Clover, “Menaced Masculinity and Imperiled Virginity in the Morte Darthur” and “Malory’s Multiple Virgins” by Kathleen Coyne Kelly, Studies in the Fairy Mythology of Arthurian Romance by Lucy Allen Paton (Jaime and Brienne studies)

“Isn’t It Romantic? Angela Carter’s Bloody Revision of the Romantic Aesthetic in ‘The Erl-King’” by Harriet Kramer Linkin (Sansa studies)

“Regardless of Sex: Men, Women, and Power in Early Northern Europe” by Carol J. Clover (Ironborn studies)

[colonel-lilith]

I am a woman in that I am bad luck to have aboard a sailing vessel

[colonel-lilith]

my gender is sailors turning away and muttering darkly when I come on deck

[colonel-lilith]

I am a woman in that I am bad luck to have aboard a sailing vessel

[jennaflare]

So Disco Elysium is the only game you've ever really liked

I get it! It's a phenomenal game with superb art and writing, and its themes are consistent and deeply explored. It sets a high bar for video games. But there are other really, really fantastic games out there. This is a list that is 100% my own taste of things that aren't necessarily similar, other than the fact that they're really fucking good. (A lot of these are on sale for the Steam Summer Sale until July 11 2024!)

In Stars and Time

In Stars and Time is a time loop game where you play as Siffrin, the rogue of a party at the end of their quest to save the day by defeating the King, who is freezing everybody in time! But something is wrong: every time you die, you loop back to the day before you fight the King. You're the only one who remembers the loops, so it's up to you to figure out why it's happening, and how to break out.

In Stars and Time is a heart-wrenching dive into mental health, friendship, and love. It's about feeling alone, and how awful it is when the people who love you don't notice (and how awful it is when they do). It's about falling deeper and deeper into your worst self and your worst tendencies, and how to come back from it.

The creator also did one of my favorite Disco Elysium comics ever, which is only tangentially relevant but worth mentioning.

Roadwarden

In Roadwarden, you play as the titular Roadwarden for an undeveloped and "wild" part of the kingdom. Monsters roam the forests and roads, and it's your job to keep people safe. On paper, anyway. Your real mission is to find out what is of value in the area, and how to take it from its people. How well you perform this task is up to you. It's an oldschool text-based RPG, and I take a lot of notes by hand when I play.

Roadwarden explores exploitation and industrialization by making you look in the face of your potential victims. You can only learn what your bosses want you to report on by getting close to the residents, after all. There are mysteries to be solved, secrets to be gathered, and hearts to win.

The Longing

The Longing is an adventure-idle game where you play as the solitary servant of a sleeping king. Your task is to wait for him, for four hundred days. Time in the game passes in realtime (for the most part). There are caves to explore, books to be read, and drawings to make.

The Longing is about loneliness and depression. It's about whether or not you decide to stay in that hole, and if you do, what you do with yourself while you're there. Maybe you'll wander. Maybe you'll stare at a wall. Maybe you'll just sleep until it's all over.

Papers, Please

Papers, Please casts you as a newly hired customs officer in a country that is rapidly tightening its borders as its fascist government tightens its fist. This game is stressful. Sometimes you intend to help out the revolutionaries when they asked, but then you got so stressed out trying to make your quota so you can feed your family and pay your bills that you didn't notice the name of the person they were hoping to contact while going through their papers. Sometimes someone puts a bomb in front of you and expects you to defuse it. Sometimes someone suggests you steal people's passports so you can get your family out, and with the horror you see daily, the idea tempts you more than you'd like.

Papers, Please is all about hard choices and testing your moral fortitude. Everything you do has consequences. Being a good person in this game is hardly ever rewarded, but not in a way that feels overly cynical. Papers, Please asks you what kind of person you want to be and what you're willing to sacrifice to get there.

The Return of the Obra Dinn

From the creator of Papers, Please, The Return of the Obra Dinn is a game where you play as an insurance investigator for the East India Trading Company. The ship the Obra Dinn has just floated back into port, its entire crew missing or dead. It's your job to figure out what happened aboard the vessel. For insurance reasons.

I don't know how to go into the themes of this too deeply without giving away too much, but the mechanics of the game itself make the game worth playing. You have a magic stopwatch that allows you to go back to the moment of a person's death, allowing you to try and figure out who (or what) killed them, and how. And the soundtrack is extremely good.

Outer Wilds

In Outer Wilds you play as an unnamed alien, and it's your first day going to space! Your planet's space program is pretty new still, so there's still lots to explore and discover on the planets within your system. There are ancient ruins from a mysterious race that once lived in your system, long before your species began to record history. Why were they here? Where did they go? How are they connected to the weird thing that keeps happening to you?

The fun of Outer Wilds is in the discovery and answering your own questions. The game never tells you where to go, and it never outright tells you anything. There are clues scattered through the system, and it's up to you to put them together and figure out your next steps. It's about the way that life always goes on, no matter what, even when it seems like the end of everything, forever. I'd recommend NOT reading anything else about this game. Just go play it. Seriously, the less you know, the more fun this is.

If on a Winter's Night, Four Travelers

In If on a Winter's Night, Four Travelers, you explore the circumstances of the deaths of four individuals.

This is a short one that took me about two and a half hours to play. If for no other reason, play it for the stunning pixel art. The game explores sexism, racism, and homophobia in the Victorian era and leans heavily into horror themes. Best of all: it's completely free!

Pentiment

Pentiment takes you to the 16th century, where you take the role of Andreas Maler, a journeyman artist working on his masterwork in the scriptorium of an abbey. When someone is murdered, Andreas takes responsibility for finding the culprit.

The game is set over 20~ years and you get to watch how Andreas' actions affect the village in various ways (who's alive the next time you come by, have people gotten married and had children...). It's an exploration of how the past affects the future, and what parts of that past we choose to keep or discard. It has beautiful art, and fans of both Disco and Pentiment often compare them.

Other games you might wanna check out

Night in the Woods, Dredge, Oxenfree, A House of Many Doors, Inscryption, Slay the Princess, Citizen Sleeper, Chants of Sennar, Loop Hero, The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood, The Pale Beyond, Where the Water Tastes Like Wine, Elsinore, Her Story, Before Your Eyes, Pathologic (not delved into above because the venn diagram of Pathologic fans and Disco fans is basically a circle)

[bunjywunjy]

I made Hungarian mushroom soup and it's a little too delicious to be real

[bunjywunjy]

BUNJY RECIPE BOOK- HUNGARIAN MUSHROOM SOUP

Ingredients:

4 tbsp butter

1 large white onion, diced

16 oz white mushrooms, sliced into half-slices or diced

3 tbsp flour (gluten-free okay)

1 1/2 tbsp paprika

3 cups veggie or chicken stock

3 tbsp soy sauce

1 cup 2% milk (yes, it has to be 2%)

1/2 cup sour cream (results not guaranteed for lite version)

1 1/2 tbsp lemon juice

1 tbsp chopped fresh dill, slightly less for dried dill

1/4 cup chopped parsley

salt and pepper

okay! so take a large saucepan and heat over medium low, and melt the butter in it. add the mushrooms and turn the heat up a notch or so and cover, stirring occasionally until the mushrooms give up their liquid. once the pot gets soupy, add the onion and put the lid back on until the mushrooms are brown and the onion is fully cooked through. once this is achieved, remove the lid and cook off most (not all!) of the liquid. at this point, add the flour and paprika TOGETHER, and mix! this will get gluey and start sticking all over the place- that's fine. cook while stirring for a few minutes, enough for the paprika to gain aroma and the flour to darken. next, add the stock and soy sauce, and stir to work all of the clumps of flour off the bottom of the pan and into the liquid. once the soup is smooth, add the milk and bring to a light boil. once the pot boils, lower to the heat to a simmer and ignore for 10 minutes. once the time is up, REMOVE THE PAN FROM THE HEAT and allow to cool slightly. once the pan is no longer scorching hot, add the sour cream and dill, and stir it in. lastly, add the lemon juice and parsley, plus salt and pepper to taste, and stir again to make it all a smooth lovely soup. serve immediately.

[sitpwgs]

just wanted to post about the books unbanned initiative — it allows teens/college students to get library cards in the following cities:

brooklyn public library (ages 13-21) — email [email protected] to get your free card

seattle public library (ages 13-26) — sign up here

boston public library (ages 13-26) — sign up here

la county library (ages 13-18; california only) — sign up here

san diego public library (ages 12 -26) — sign up here

brooklyn public library, seattle public library, boston public library and la county library all use libby, whereas the san diego public library uses cloud library.

there's also the queer liberation library, which is a free digital library you can sign up for here. anyone with a US mailing address can apply for this one, and there's no age limit!

[queerliblib]

hell yeah 🌈 📚

[nobrashfestivity]

William Morris, Wallpaper Designs, 1870′s

[shanastoryteller]

is there anyone out there with a nyt cooking subscription

will they send me the chamomile tea cake with strawberry icing recipe

[alexseanchai]

This buttery, chamomile tea-scented loaf is a sweet pop symphony, the Abba of cakes. A pot of flowery, just-brewed chamomile isn’t required for drinking with slices of this tender loaf but is strongly recommended. In life and in food, you always need balance: A sip or two of the grassy, herbal tea between bites of this cake counters the sweetness, as do freeze-dried strawberries, which lend tartness and a naturally pink hue to the lemony glaze. This everyday loaf will keep on the counter for 3 to 4 days; be sure the cut side is always well wrapped.

Ingredients Yield: One 9-inch loaf ½ cup/115 grams unsalted butter 2 tablespoons/6 grams chamomile tea (from 4 to 6 tea bags), crushed fine if coarse 1 cup/240 milliliters whole milk Nonstick cooking spray 1 cup/200 grams granulated sugar ½ teaspoon coarse kosher salt 2 large eggs 1 large lemon 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 1½ cups/192 grams all-purpose flour 1 cup/124 grams confectioners’ sugar ½ cup/8 grams freeze-dried strawberries

Preparation Step 1 In a small saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat. Add 1 tablespoon chamomile to a large mixing bowl. Pour the hot melted butter over the chamomile and stir. Set aside to steep and cool completely, about 1 hour. Step 2 Use the same saucepan (without washing it out) to bring the milk to a simmer over medium-high heat, keeping watch so it doesn’t boil over. Remove from the heat, and stir the remaining 1 tablespoon chamomile into the hot milk. Set aside to steep and cool completely, about 1 hour. Step 3 Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9-by-5-inch loaf pan with the nonstick cooking spray and line with parchment paper so the long sides of the pan have a couple of inches of overhang to make lifting the finished cake out easier. Step 4 Add the sugar and salt to the bowl with the butter, and whisk until smooth and thick, about 1 minute. Add the eggs, 1 at a time, vigorously whisking to combine after each addition. Zest the lemon into the bowl; add the baking powder and vanilla, and whisk until incorporated. Add the flour and stream in the milk mixture while whisking continuously until no streaks of flour remain. Step 5 Transfer the batter to the prepared pan and bake until a skewer or cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean (a few crumbs are OK, but you should see no wet batter), 40 to 45 minutes. Cool in the pan on a rack for 30 minutes. Step 6 While the cake cools, make the icing: Into a medium bowl, squeeze 2 tablespoons juice from the zested lemon, then add the confectioners’ sugar. Place the dehydrated strawberries in a fine-mesh sieve set over the bowl and, using your fingers, crush the brittle berries and press the red-pink powder through the sieve and into the sugar. (The more you do this, the redder your icing will be.) Whisk until smooth. Step 7 If needed, run a knife along the edges of the cake to release it from the pan. Holding the 2 sides of overhanging parchment, lift the cake out and place it on a plate, cake stand or cutting board. Discard the parchment. Pour the icing over the cake, using a spoon to push the icing to the edges of the cake to encourage the icing to drip down the sides dramatically. Cool the cake completely and let the icing set.

[sp-eedysp-special]

We out here torrenting recipes now? Reblog

[colonel-lilith]

need to learn how to make AMVs just to fufill my vision of a black sails video set to The Mountain Goats Corsican Mastiff Stride

[colonel-lilith]

literally

should you succeed and breach the coast/you tell your friends you've seen a ghost/you tell them all "There's nothing here worth dying for"

[colonel-lilith]

feel like those guys that used chicken guts to prophecy had some good ideas

[colonel-lilith]

need to learn how to make AMVs just to fufill my vision of a black sails video set to The Mountain Goats Corsican Mastiff Stride

[milfsisyphus]

is anyone else on this hill or is it just me and sisyphus and kate bush?

[le-sansnom]

[william-shakespeare-official]

Here's THE masterpost of free and full adaptations, by which I mean that it's a post made by the master.

Anthony and Cleopatra: here's the BBC version

As you like it: you'll find here an outdoor stage adaptation and here the BBC version

Coriolanus: Here's a college play, here's the 1984 telefilm, here's the 2014 one with tom hiddleston

Hamlet: The Kenneth Branagh 1996 Hamlet is here, the 1964 russian version is here and the 1964 american version is here. THe 1964 Broadway production is here, the 1948 Laurence Olivier one is here. And the 1980 version is here. Here are part 1 and 2 of the 1990 BBC adaptation. Have the 2018 Almeida version here.

Henry IV: part 1 and part 2 of the BBC 1989 version. And here's part 1 of a corwall school version.

Henry V: Laurence Olivier (who would have guessed) 1944 version. The 1989 Branagh version here. The BBC version is here.

Julius Caesar: here's the 1979 BBC adaptation, here the 1970 John Gielgud one.

King Lear: Laurence Olivier once again plays in here. And Gregory Kozintsev, who was I think in charge of the russian hamlet, has a king lear here. The 1975 BBC version is here. The Royal Shakespeare Compagny's 2008 version is here. The 1974 version with James Earl Jones is here.

Macbeth: here's the 1961 one with Sean Connery. Here's the 1971 by Roman Polanski, with spanish subtitles. Here's the 1948 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljZrf_0_CcQ">here. The 1988 BBC onee with portugese subtitles and here the 2001 one). The 1969 radio one with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench is here and the 1966 BBC version is here. The Royal Shakespeare Compagny's 2008 version is here.

Measure for Measure: BBC version here.

The Merchant of Venice: here's a stage version, here's the 1980 movie, here the 1973 Lawrence Olivier movie, here's the 2004 movie.

The Merry Wives of Windsor: the Royal Shakespeare Compagny gives you this movie.

A Midsummer Night's Dream: have this sponsored by the City of Columbia, and here the BBC version.

Much Ado About Nothing: Here is the kenneth branagh version and here the Tennant and Tate 2011 version. Here's the 1984 version.

Othello: A Massachussets Performance here, the 2001 movie her is the Orson Wells movie with portuguese subtitles theree, and a fifteen minutes long lego adaptation here. THen if you want more good ole reliable you've got the BBC version here and there.

Richard II: here is the BBC version

Richard III: here's the 1955 one with Laurence Olivier, and here's the 1995 one with Ian McKellen. (the 1995 one is in english subtitled in spanish. the 1955 one has no subtitles and might have ads since it's on youtube)

Romeo and Juliet: here's the 1988 BBC version.

The Taming of the Shrew: the 1988 BBC version here, the 1929 version here, some Ontario stuff here and here is the 1967 one with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.

The Tempest: the 1979 one is here, the 2010 is here. Here is the 1988 one.

Timon of Athens: here is the 1981 movie with Jonathan Pryce,

Troilus and Cressida can be found here

Titus Andronicus: the 1999 movie with Anthony Hopkins here

Twelfth night: here for the BBC, herefor the 1970 version with Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright and Ralph Richardson.

The Winter's Tale: the BBC version is here

Please do contribute if you find more. This is far from exhaustive.

(also look up the original post from time to time for more plays)

[littlecityghost]

Oh, I have additions!

A Misdummer Night Dream: Here’s the 2013 globe production (the one with The Kiss, you know it)

Romeo and Juliet: Here’s the one that was going to be a stage show and then lockdown happened so they filmed it! Stars Josh O’Connor and Jessie Buckley

[dogdayafternoon1975]

Richard II, Royal Shakespeare Company feat. David Tennant

[lilliesandpucks]

tell me you won’t blind me

[diegoandgael]

Diego Luna and Stellan Skarsgård in Andor.