sing out, louise

bread for all, and roses too. often thinking about 18th-century england

[glintglimmergleam]

imagine bridgerton if eloise had a gun

[augutsy-deactivated20141216]

isn’t it funny how people say ‘grilled cheese’ instead of ‘grilled cheese sandwich’? you could be talking about an actual piece of grilled che

i stopped typing because i realized that this is the single most worthless post ever conceived 

[mihai-florescu]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Except, critically, at bedtime.

[findersfeeders]

Ravings and urges get miscoded over time. Let’s say you’re thirsty, and you live in a strawberry field. Strawberries contain some water and a bunch of sugar so, over time, you may start to crave strawberries when you are thirsty because you get a reward and some relief in shorter time from the need starting than the trek to the stream. This can happen for every need: sleep, food, whatever.

Trevor Noah has a great tip, that when he craves ice cream at night he breaks it down into parts: I want something cold, I want something sweet. He drinks a glass of cold water then waits to see if he still has the ice cream craving. Usually he doesn’t.

So listening to your body isn’t “follow every urge” but “decompose the urge to discover the underlying need.”

If you always feel like getting cozy in bed you may be: cold, dehydrated, and/or malnourished (maybe a need for high calories that are bioaccessible…not processed).

If you do not feel tired at bedtime you may: need to eat dinner earlier because your body is still digesting, need to exercise or go outside more during the day, get the fuck off your screen for an hour so your brain can enter sleep mode.

Hope this helps someone.

P.S. notice i said nothing about neurodivergence. Not that it’s not a likelihood but the over-pathologization of behaviors prevents us from taking simple actions to improve our wellbeing. Also, these tips are pretty accessible and applicable to most brain variations.

[brightlotusmoon]

[noosferik]

[duplizity]

ok well maybe her little finger is really cozy and honestly there are worse places to be wrapped around. did you ever think about that

[pmamtraveller]

By clay artist Naoto Wada

[glintglimmergleam]

Also I wish I liked Dorothy Sayers. I tried, friends, I really did. In theory her books are everything I want from Interwar English genre mysteries but in practice every time she mentions Jews, even when she might be trying to comment on antisemitism, I get too sad.

Plus I find Peter Wimsey annoying.

[glintglimmergleam]

also yes I am having a murder mystery summer bc I'm working on my Inspector Lewis fic. Not taking formal notes on plots or themes or anything, just enjoying how other people do it. Especially the genre heavyweights like Hammett.

[glintglimmergleam]

Also with the sheer amount of Scotch they drink per hour in The Thin Man it's incredible someone dies of murder when they should have all died of alcohol poisoning.

[glintglimmergleam]

Chapter 11:

My side felt a lot better when Nora called me at noon the next day. "My nice policeman wants to see you," she said. "How do you feel?"

"Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober."

Ha fucking ha, but frankly I don't think he's joking.

[glintglimmergleam]

Also with the sheer amount of Scotch they drink per hour in The Thin Man it's incredible someone dies of murder when they should have all died of alcohol poisoning.

[glintglimmergleam]

was planning to do some writing tonight but got caught up reading The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett instead. He really is the GOAT: style for days. Only halfway through and I don't care who did the murder when the vibes are fun.

I like this better than The Maltese Falcon, obviously bc the female characters are more interesting. It's less grimdark noir and more whodoneit shenanigans with sarcasm and liquor.

[queer-scots-geordie-dyke]

The Archbishop of Canterbury is secretly messaging people on tumblr. Seems totally legit 🤔🤣

[glintglimmergleam]

one thing I do not want to do is sort my vacation photos

[jelloapocalypse]

Someone asked me a while ago if I still had a photo of the worst sink I had ever seen while apartment hunting in Los Angeles. I assumed I deleted it so I didn't answer the ask and now it's gone, but as it turns out, yes, I do still have a photo of it.

[rederiswrites]

There really really ought to be a book about how the staple crops of different civilizations shape and influence those civilizations, and I really want to read it.

[alexseanchai]

Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky and A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage (three are alcohol, three have caffeine) are not quite that, but may still be of interest?

[rederiswrites]

I read Salt back in the day and it's so so good, second the rec. I have heard of 6 Glasses and not read it but I am sure I would probably love it. Gotta see if the library has it. Thank you!

[pandorasquillandquotes]

Gonna throw Empire of Cotton by Sven Beckert in the ring here! You'll never see the modern world the same way again.

[vaspider]

A Short History Of The World According To Sheep by Sally Coulthard blew my mind. So many things are tied to wool and sheep and weaving and so many words and phrases are tied to wool, people have no idea.

Example words which come from textiles/weaving, if not specifically wool (go look them up!): subtle, shoddy, tabby, Brazil, rocket, twit, warped, going batty, on tenterhooks, text...

[foxofninetales]

I'll throw in a rec for Pickled, Potted, and Canned by Sue Shephard - a very interesting look at food preservation and how the availability of different types of food preservation shaped cultures and cuisines.

[electronsprotonscroutons]

Sweetness and Power is this but for the topic of sugar

[magneticdeclination]

The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past might also be up your alley. It's about "forgotten" foods and staples. They talk about different types of wheat, sauces, veggies, etc and a little about the cultures from whence they come

[doctornerdington]

Also: Much Depends on Dinner by Margaret Visser. One of my favourite books.

[bitchwhoyoukiddin]

DO I HAVE A SERIES FOR YOU. University of California Press has a gift for you and it is a 80+ book series on food studies. There are even some that are open access (legally free), but the rest are in libraries.

I also highly recommend Frostbite by Nicola Twilley. It’s about the impact refrigeration has had/is having on food preservation and culture, globally. It was one of my favorite books of this last year.

[calystarose]

Also, The Rice Theory of Culture https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1172&context=orpc By Thomas Talhelm

[karis-the-fangirl]

Consider the Fork isn’t about food itself exactly but all about cooking technology and how it changed how and what we eat

[glintglimmergleam]

The Met Gala’s Costume Drama

The exhibits accompanying the Met Gala used to break audience records. But now the museum’s playbook seems stuck in time.

essential reading for Met Gala watchers. this part especially damning:

But over at the Costume Institute, West European luxury designers remain at the center of Bolton’s curatorial focus. The museum celebrated its 2019 “Camp” exhibition by hosting a voguing battle on the front steps, but the exhibit inside largely ignored 20th-century queer subcultures. Historically, the Costume Institute has also prioritized aesthetic themes, about craftsmanship and visual influences, over topics highlighting fashion’s social or political implications. A Galliano exhibition now could have raised uncomfortable questions about who gets to be forgiven in fashion, and who decides [...]

In a 2020 Times article examining major fashion museum collections in the U.S. and Europe, Bolton pointed to the limitations of the collection he inherited. He didn’t mention that three years earlier, the Costume Institute oversaw an effort to rid its collection of 2,500 pieces of ethnographic and folk fashion. After some curators found out and complained, according to sources with knowledge of the project, about 700 pieces were “saved” and absorbed by other departments, including the Asian, Islamic, and American wings. A rep for the Met said the deaccessioning was conducted “after close collaboration with colleagues across the museum and external consultants, and in keeping with rigorous guidelines.”

further proof that as I've said for years, the value of the Costume Institute is in the Gala's red carpet spectacle, not its collection. their lens on fashion is exactly the narrow-minded myopia that rich white gay cis men in the industry always take: elitist, racist, lauding the dangerously thin, and fundamentally boring.

If you want real fashion analysis and thought-provoking curation over flashy names meant to sell tickets en masse, go to the Museum at FIT. Tickets to the Met are $30 if you're not a NY resident. Visiting the FIT museum is always free.

[glintglimmergleam]

just another reminder that Andrew Bolton has always been a piece of shit!!

[glintglimmergleam]

btw if you were wondering if I think badly of Zendaya (and her stylist Law Roach) for having a contract with Galliano right now: yes, yes I do.