#hardness

[vikikollerova]

Hard as a stone, IX/24

[aetherictree]

Thinking about the difference between becoming hard and becoming tough. Toughness is not incompatible with retaining softness.

And because I need an example, I'm going to talk about Arcane. Vi is tough, not hard. Vander likewise, that's probably where she got it from. Silco is hard -- he misunderstood softness and weakness and (mostly, not entirely) purged it from himself, and tried to teach Jinx to do the same. Ambessa is hard; she was fortunately unsuccessful at getting Mel to be the same, Mel is tough. However once she got her claws into Caitlyn Caitlyn started down that route (but did not complete it). I suspect Cassandra was tough.

And because I love my 2024 (Little Witch Academia) and 2023 (Willow (2022)) obsessions also...

Croix vs Diana. They parallel each other -- Croix chose to be hard, and failed to help Chariot; Diana kept her softness and chose toughness, and succeeded in helping Akko.

Kit at the end of the series has to make the choice, to be hard or to be tough. When she starts the series she has the two confused in her mind (though I suspect Madmartigan was very much on the tough side, not hard -- if anything its her mother thats harder). With Elora's encouragement, she chooses toughness.

[gothicseverance]

We have found in the castle mother — mother as nurturer, as sexual being, as body, as harboring a secret, as an indifferent hardness.

—Gothic Possibilities

[wiirocku]

2 Timothy 2:3 (KJV) - Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

[ilmtest]

Four Signs

Mālik b. Dīnār reported that al-Ḥasan (al-Baṣrī) said: حدثني أبو إسحاق الرياحي، أخبرنا جعفر بن سليمان، قال: سمعت مالك بن دينار يحدث، عن الحسن قال: Four signs of misery: أربع من أعلام الشقاء: a hard heart (unreceptive to the truth), قسوة القلب، dry eyes (not shedding tears out of fear of Allah, sins, and Hellfire), وجمود العين، long hopes (false hopes), وطول الأمل، wa ʿl-hirs (ie: and greed, excessive desire) for al-dunyā (ie: the worldly life). والحرص على الدنيا. Ibn Abī ʾl-Dunyā, Ḏam al-Dunyā 1/27 #36 ابن أبي الدنيا، ذم الدنيا ١/٢٧ #٣٦ https://shamela.ws/book/21546/38 @ilmtest [https://t.me/ilmtest]

[materiallugy]

Age hardening process - Materiallugy

Age hardening, also known as precipitation hardening, is a heat treatment process used to increase the strength and hardness materials, part

What is age hardening?

Age hardening, also known as precipitation hardening, is a heat treatment process used to increase the strength and hardness materials, particularly metals and alloys. This process increases the yield strength of the material, making it harder and more durable. 

This process is particularly effective for materials that contain alloying elements capable of forming finely dispersed secondary phase particles. 

[giewskia]

2023, me