Jiheishousha (自閉症者)

Just a gray-asexual demi-biromantic autistic GNC cis girl. She/her, my gender is best described as 'soft butch'. AO3: RavenSurana Ko-fi: RavenSurana I have hEDS and POTS, so my wheelchair is my new best friend. Other fun brain stuff: general and social anxiety disorders, dermatillomania, pica, PTSD, SPD, minor OCD (especially touch symmetry). Current obsessions: Mass Effect, Dragon Age. Basically I'm selling my soul to Bioware. (And then my QPP made me watch The Dragon Prince and my foster sister made me watch Arcane and now I'll never stop crying about fictional lesbians.) I'm highly skilled at forgetting to tag things, so if you need something tagged, let me know. Not spoiler-free, but I try to tag them. I use way too many semicolons.

[battlefem-deactivated20170404]

you wanna see some badass shit from the early 20th century?? The Lumière brothers created the first full color photograph… in fucking 1903! So these dudes dyed potatoes (in red, blue, and green), mashed them down into just pure fuckin’ starch, and used these dyed potato starches as filters to block out/let in certain wavelengths of light. They coated one side of a glass plate with the starches and sensitized the other side with a mixture of gelatin and light sensitive materials (silver nitrate) and loaded these plates in their cameras.. This is a really simple explanation of the process and I may have missed some things A few of my favorite autochrome photos:

[itsoldjohn]

that last one is literally a LOOK

[cassiocantdrink]

yes!

but lets not forget sergei prokudin-gorskiy, who developed a similar process in 1902, published in 1903 and then toured russia to take hundreds of color photographs:

AND the guy developed color slide processing as well. as a person fairly familiar with modern b/w processing at home, but never EVER stepping into color (negatives or slides) territory, i’d say, BAMF to the highest degree. 

[petermorwood]

Here are a few more Prokudin-Gorskiy / Gorskii shots, and a reminder once again that these aren’t recently colourised BW images but original colour photos taken about 120 years ago. Many colourised pics don’t look this good. Some modern colour pics don’t look this good (as I know all too well. “Delete image Y/N? Y!”)

This is Leo Tolstoy, author of “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina”.

Alim Khan, Emir of Bukhara…

…and his Minister of the Interior.

A Type B-15 steam locomotive…

Another of those peasant girls with guest-gifts of berries…

The Church of St John the Baptist at Staraya Ladoga…

…and a Sergei Prokudin-Gorskiy self-portrait.

Unlike some current selfies ;-> he’s not dominating the image, so here’s a closer shot.

Nice hat…

[xiaq]

One of the best things about being a writer is thinking of something small you can add to your work that’s just. Devastating. Like you’re sitting there going. Oh. That would be diabolical. People would get really riled up about that. Exquisite. Let’s do it.

[wheelie-sick]

link

[tevinter-fugitive]

The article from NASA about the Gallaudet 11:

How 11 Deaf Men Helped Shape NASA's Human Spaceflight Program - NASA

Before NASA could send humans to space, the agency needed to better understand the effects of prolonged weightlessness on the human body. So

[alukaforyou]

my contribution to 🌈 pride month 🌈 ft. the swing scene from my fave period drama, painter of the wind (2008) 

twit🎨LetsGoPastel insta🌙163cmclub

[sunanthrope]

"But what if people will pretend to need this accessibility option so they can be lazy! People who don't need it will use it!!" I don't actually care

I dont care if 9/10 of the people who use the wheelchair ramp arent actually in wheelchairs. As long as the 1 person who needs it has access to it.

I dont care if 9/10 people who use the automatic push button on the library door can actually push the door open themselves. As long as the 1 person who the door is too heavy for gets to use it.

I dont care if 9/10 people who buy the can tab opener, or the little guitar clamp that holds the chords for you, or the hand grip that helps you hold chop sticks, don't need any of it and just get it to "be lazy". As long as the one disabled person who needs it gets access to it.

I do not care. Oh my GOD I do not care. As long as there's a disabled person on this planet who the accessibility device will benefit, the accessibility device is necessary.

Also, if you're so worried about people being "lazy" by using accessibility devices, MORE worried than you are about disabled (visibly or not) people not having access to them, you have unchecked ableism you need to work through.

[systlin]

In horrid biphobic news, I just got my gorgeous beautiful wonderful book on fabric dyeing with fungi in the middle of fucking February, when all outside is a frozen waste with nary a living plant or mushroom to be seen.

Woe is me. I want to go root around in the woods after mushrooms like a bog witch and see if I can find the ones that make wool go pretty colors.

[systlin]

SIGHING WISTFULLY OUT THE WINDOW AT THE FROZEN GROUND

[iamemeraldfox]

All those colors are possible with mushrooms?! How permanent does the book say they are? Do you need any chemicals to set them properly?

I'm looking at that color palette in awe

[systlin]

Yes!!! All these colors are from mushrooms! She specifically only includes those with good wash and light fastness in this book. All use mordants to fix the dyes, or mostly anyway. Iron, alum, copper, or tin.

The book is BRILLIANT and also covers making the pigments into lake pigments with alum, and then using them with gum arabic to make watercolor paints. I'm not a painter so that's of less interest to me than the dyes, but for other folks it might be very helpful.

[systlin]

WAIT YOU SPECIFICALLY GET BACK HERE THIS IS SO FASCINATING I NEED MORE

[wingkink]

btw it's so fucking stupid you can be anxious physically in your body even after you've decided mentally you don't care. I'm supposed to be in charge here

[limerencs]

[jiheishousha]

Item: The Stunned Silence Rarity: ✶ Rare

What video game plot twist genuinely got you?

Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.

I *would* claim it was when that idiot egg man dumped me because he was one of my gods, but I didn't romance him until my SECOND PLAYTHROUGH. I thought it would be FUN. I thought I would just get LORE. So I guess the real plot twist was that I ACTUALLY FELL FOR THE JERK.

[jiheishousha]

Item: The Wishlist Rarity: ⏶ Common

How many video games are in your backlog right now?

Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.

...I don't know if we've invented numbers that large yet.

[jiheishousha]

Item: The Scream Rarity: ⏶ Common

What is the scariest game you've ever played?

Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.

Fatal Frame II. Not because it's a particularly terrifying game, but because I'm a wimp and I've never played another horror game.

[jiheishousha]

Item: A Bug Rarity: ⏶ Common

What's your favorite creature from any video game world?

Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.

Dragon Age. The nug. Like a naked mole rat on steroids. The perfect creature.

[jiheishousha]

So uhhhh have you ever hit the character limit on an Ao3 comment?? turns out I am EFFUSIVE on Sudafed

[jiheishousha]

tfw your favorite author hands you something utterly soul-destroying and then skips merrily away, secure in the knowledge that they've consumed your entire week. like hello yes I had PLANS that didn't involve just SCREAMING ABOUT THE CHARACTER but 🤷‍♀️ I guess plans change. see you next Friday.

[pitrsattabhaadmeinjaa]

This. This is the online friend experience.

[sabitchhh]

everyone is trying to take your oxford comma away from you. don't give them that satisfaction, reward, or pleasure.

[jiheishousha]

My beautiful, glorious, magnificent, about-to-turn-73 mother, watching two people kiss in a movie: "Ugh. Heterosexuals."