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oh this is a life saver

So these are both “Aw Fuck I’m outta real food” meals BUT ALSO: if you’re learning how to cook, these are great “baby steps” meals to learn how to cook basics into something enjoyable without “wasting” anything expensive. Though I maintain that even cooking screw-ups are valuable in terms of lessons learned.

Also they’re great for when you get absorbed in something and you realize your blood sugar is dropping and you need to make something Quick.

petermorwood

Making basic storecupboard or fridge ingredients less basic and more nutritious.

neil-gaiman

This is wonderful.

vanajinn

Time Ladies

[ID: two digital drawings of Romana I and Romana II. The first depicts Romana I against a black backdrop lying down in a white dress with a feathered hood. She is gazing at the viewer with a look of superiority. Her white dress is flowing and iridescent. The second depicts Romana II from the shoulders-up, illuminated from the left by the light. She is dressed in a schoolgirl outfit with a dress over a white shirt and a red tie. Her hand is adjusting a straw hat and she is smiling with a knowing look. Both drawings are rendered with pencil, acrylic, and chalk-like brushes. end ID]

cheryl-williams

THE HAUNTING 1963 || dir. ROBERT WISE

mouseshouses

Little coven

anakinnaberrie

#hocus pocus #hocus pocus 2

gffa

“Until Our Last Breath” | Christophe Vacher

alicequinn

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)

alicequinn

Emma Peel’s Influence on Comic Book Costumes

John Byren’s Jean Grey in Emma’s Queen of Sin Costume

David Aja’s Kate Bishop in an Emma Peeler

Darwyn Cooke’s Catwoman in Emma’s Leather Catsuit

#My gal #The Avengers

alicequinn

THE AVENGERS (23 December 1965) Steed Hangs Up His Stocking. Emma Asks for More.

#My one and only christmas special #The Avengers

sourceblog

Ready or Not | 2019

thewuzzy

what-even-is-thiss

I keep hate-reading plague literature from the medieval era, but as depressed as it makes me there is always one historical tidbit that makes me feel a little bittersweet and I like to revisit it. That’s the story of the village of Eyam.

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Eyam today is a teeny tiny town of less than a thousand people. It has barely grown since 1665 when its population was around 800.

Where the story starts with Eyam is that in August 1665 the village tailor and his assistant discovered that a bolt of cloth that they had bought from London was infested with rat fleas. A few days later on September 7th the tailor’s assistant George Viccars died from plague.

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Back then people didn’t fully understand how disease spread, but they knew in a basic sense that it did spread and that the spread had something to do with the movement of people.

So two religios leaders in the town, Thomas Stanley and William Mompesson, got together and came up with a plan. They would put the entire village of Eyam under quarantine. And they did. For over a year nobody went in and nobody went out.

They put up signs on the edge of town as warning and left money in vinegar filled basins that people from out of town would leave food and supplies by.

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Over the 14 months that Eyam was in quarantine 260 out of the 800 residents died of plague. The death toll was high, the cost was great.

However, they did successfully prevent the disease from spreading to the nearby town of Sheffield, even then a much bigger town, and likely saved the lives of thousands of people in the north of England through their sacrifice.

So I really like this story, because it’s a sad story, because it’s also a beautiful story. Instead of fleeing everyone in this one place agreed that they would stay, and they saved thousands of people. They stayed just to save others and I guess it’s one of those good stories about how people have always been people, for better or worse.

auroranibley

It gets better.

Here’s the thing. One third of the residents of Eyam died during their quarantine, but the Black Plague was known to have a NINETY PERCENT death rate. As high as the toll was, it wasn’t as high as it should have been. And a few hundred years later, some historians and doctors got to wondering why.

Fortunately, Eyam is one of those wonderful places that really hasn’t changed much in hundreds of years. Researchers, going to visit, found that many of the current residents were direct descendants of the plague survivors from the 1600s. By doing genetic testing, they learned that a high number of Eyam residents carried a gene that made them immune to the plague. And still do.

And it gets even better than that, because the gene that blocks the Black Plague? Also turns out to block AIDS, and was instrumental in helping to find effective medication for people who have HIV and AIDS in the 21st century.

Here is a lovely, well-produced documentary about Eyam and its disease resistance. It’s a little under an hour. Trigger warning for general disease and epidemic-type stuff, but also, maybe it will help you have some hope in these alarmly uncertain times.