Trashcankharla

Shipper trash. I love Bioware, Dragon Age. Bellarke. Skyrim. Harry Potter. Star Wars. LOTR. Hamiltrash. Fanfic in general. Honestly I'm just here to appreciate you all (32 yrs)

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I recently discovered laundry stripping and y’all, no matter how much of a crock of shit you think fast fashion is, you’re underestimating.

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OKAY SO. You know how we talk about how one way fast fashion has made itself “necessary” is that the clothing looks like shit and feels horrible after just a few washes?

Let. Me. Tell. You. Something.

Laundry stripping is a process where you load your laundry into a tub or bin (I’ve been using my bathtub) with warm water, half a cup of borax, half a cup of washing soda, and half a cup of laundry soap (not detergent, SOAP, there’s a chemical difference). Leave it there for at least eight hours. I’ve been going for 12-24.

What you will come back to is a tub full of nearly-opaque black-gray-brown water that absolutely REEKS. This is normal. You are looking at (and smelling) hard water buildup, body sweat and oils that were embedded in the fabric, dead skin, and just regular grime.

Wring out your clothes. Throw them in the washer. (I like to do a spin-only cycle before going any further, because I have one of those washers that determines by weight how much water any given load needs.) Wash as usual.

You will notice I didn’t suggest any further pretreatment, and that’s because 1) you don’t want to layer too many chemicals on top of each other but also 2) you may not even need it.

When your clothes come out, check each one as it goes into the dryer, and if anything else s still stained, set it aside to run again with a regular pretreatment. One of the sweaters I did this with apparently did need a second treatment…to deal with what appears to have possibly been a hot chocolate stain that was previously invisible due to “well, it’s old” dinginess. I was planning to throw this sweater out. It looks almost new now. I need to wash it one more time for the probably-a-hot-chocolate stain, and then it needs to have the hem weighted to block it and bring it back to evenness, but dude. I wear my clothes to rags and I thought this thing was unfixable. “I need to reshape it” is nothing.

Remove clothes from dryer when done. Fucking MARVEL at the colors and how good the fabric feels. Give them a smell. Get righteously and royally angry that you can rejuvenate this stuff so easily, with a process that does take awhile but is 90% hands-off, but we’ve been trained to believe it’s all got to be binned once a year because discoloration and gross fabric is “normal wear and tear” and can’t be fixed.

It’s utterly unreal! I just pulled a seven-year-old work undershirt out of the dryer and this thing looks NEW!! It FEELS almost new!!! One of the shirts I hung up from the last load is older than some of the people on this site and it went from “I keep this to wear on laundry day, for sentimental reasons” to “I could actually wear this out of the house, it looks old but respectable”! The pajama bottoms I’m wearing were from Goodwill and they have BRIGHT YELLOW in them! I thought it was goldenrod!!

I do not know how often you’re supposed to do this (doing it every time can strip the dye out of your clothes, not to mention it’s way too much work to do every time), but once or twice per season seems respectable. I don’t wear white, so I can’t test the “it will make whites look almost-new as well” claim, but I’ve seen a lot of people on the cleaning subreddit attest that it works.

Just remember: WASHING soda. Not baking soda. I tried baking soda and a little bit happened, but not a lot.

Go forth. Rejuvenate your clothing. Strip your laundry.

[ankewehner]

I have a question about the "set it aside to run again with a regular pretreatment" bit: What is your regular pretreatment?

[prismatic-bell]

For grease: Dawn dish soap and a toothbrush. For blood: soak in peroxide, rinse, apply more peroxide. For ink: alcohol. Rubbing alcohol is best, vodka is an acceptable substitute. Do not use colored liquor like tequila or whiskey. Aerosol hairspray will work in a pinch. For red wine or grape juice: white wine. For "what the fuck is that, anyway?" stains: OxyClean Max Force Gel Stick. For "oh shit, there was a red shirt in with my whites" stains: I'm very sorry. Try bleach? Spot-apply all of these. In other words don't just toss your period panties into a sink full of peroxide, pour some peroxide over the crotch. Apply alcohol with a cotton facial pad or, failing that, a washcloth or kleenex. Let it sit for five to fifteen minutes, then throw it in the wash. Try to use cold water; hot water will set stains.

[leebrontide]

So my regular laundry detergent is a home made mix of grated Fels Naptha bar (about 1/6th a bar per gallon), 1/3rd a cup of WASHING soda, and 1/3rd cup of baking soda. I toss all that in a bit under a gallon of water for a gallon of detergent.

And sometimes I load the washer, including the detergent, and then open the lid. The laundry automatically stops itself, and I just let it sit overnight. This is great for stains (I have a 5 year old) and for clothes longevity.

It's also fragrance free (so great for many allergies), CHEAP, and Eco-friendly.

We never have to ditch clothes for being dingy.

[abandoned-as-mustard]

So what if we don't have dawn dish soap or borax?

[phantomrose96]

When you meet Edward Elric he gives off the impression that he's the short-tempered hot-headed "violence is the answer to all life's questions" kind of protagonist, and it's in fact incredible character craft that he's actually the character who ends the series with a negative-3 kill count.

[phantomrose96]

people killed: 0

direct orders of "you really really need to kill this guy" ignored: 1

ongoing murders being committed by Ed's own friends/colleagues that Ed got in the way of to specifically stop that murder from happening: 2

[phantomrose96]

God's worst soldier Edward Elric. Showed up as the youngest member of the Amestrian army, took millions of dollars from them, never followed a single order, helped dismantle their fascist regime, left with a lower kill count than he arrived with, then fucked off to go be a house-husband. Character of all time.

[bolshoiromanova]

Is anyone else seeing this or is it just me??

[kira-7]

This is a spot from an italian estate agency (we are governed by the right-wing party)

The woman says "Ridiculous..."

If you want to spread it elsewhere, here's the official link

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[Video Description: An ad with piano music over it all, showing an elderly woman in her home, knitting, when two younger men walk by her window, which catches her attention. She stares out her window at them as they kiss each other while walking, the old lady staring in disbelief. Cut to the old woman approaching a residence with a broom in hand, staring up at the second floor window where a small rainbow Pride flag is hanging. The old woman stares up at it and mutters "Ridiculo", before getting up on a ladder with her broom to remove the flag. Focus on the flag fluttering to the ground as church bells chime. The scene then cuts to the couple from before, approaching their home with grocery bags in hand before one stops and stares at the second floor, stopping his partner who then drops the groceries as he too stares up. It's then revealed that the small pride flag had been replaced with a gigantic, hand-knit pride flag. It then cuts back to the old woman's home, where a tin of rainbow-colored yarn sits on her table. The hands of the old woman are holding and fondly touching an old black and white photo of two young smiling women, leaning against each other. Cut to the old woman's face as she stares out with a look of happy pride on her face. At the end of the video, the name "Idealista" appears on screen, followed by "buon pride" along with a rainbow. End VD.]

[spaceofentropy]

One correction:

The old lady is not in her home. She is at work. She's meant to be what in Italian is called "la portinaia", aka a cross between a doorwoman and cleaner of a residential building. She's in her small "office" space, at the entrance of the building, from where she can survey the coming and goings of the inhabitants. It's a job that has mostly disappeared, but is culturally very clear to us as having the connotation of "potentially gossipy, one-million-percent judgmental woman who sees everything that goes on in the apartment complex, knows everyone and their secrets, and has Strong Opinions™️".

In this case, thankfully, the Strong Opinion™️ is that those two men are ridiculous with their teeny tiny flag for ants.

[notoriousmasc]

i'm really shocked that no one mentions it on this site of all places but azune nayar is genuinely one of the most autistic characters ive ever witnessed in my god damn life. the way he makes a point to present as little interiority as possible, his obsession with notation lists and organization, and absolutely 100% most of all his radical swapping between a face of competence and stoicism vs "immature" emotional breakdowns so severe they almost read as age regression. like brother

[rebelsofshield]

The animated shows do an amazing job at turning Maul into an emotional and understandably traumatized character without ever excusing his actions or offering him a real path at redemption. He’s an awful person who murders and tortures innocents and neither The Clone Wars or Rebels pause and ask us to feel like what he’s doing is any way justified, but they also don’t shy away from the fact that he’s a character that has a very deep and complicated emotional history. It makes Maul a character that’s pretty much unlike anything else in the franchise. Typically, in Star Wars, if a villain shows a modicum of emotion or pathos outside a lust for power or greed, it means that they are in some way redemption bound. Maul isn’t like that. He hurts and hurts others and ends life as a rage fueled man that has been exploited and broken his entire life. We pity him in his final moments but we do not forgive him.

[klikkat]

Still one of the best summaries of Maul I’ve ever seen. “We pity him in his final moments but we do not forgive him” is a damn line.

[teaboot]

Why so many wolf attacks in fantasy. Where are the Boars. The immortal and humongous Boar

[redstonedust]

i feel like whenever people discuss hatsune mikus age its always either "hatsune miku is literally 16 you cant treat her like an adult" or "hatsune miku is a piece of software with no thoughts or feelings you can do whatever" but never the imo more interesting "hatsune miku is a marketing mascot designed to be a virtual idol, what does it say about the idol industry that the people involved considered 16 to be the perfect age to assign her. why do so many vtubers played by adult women have 16 on their profile. why are so many idol anime about highschoolers. can we talk about the contexts and implications please please please please-"

[redstonedust]

and this isnt a "japan bad lol" thing theres so many characters out there who are functionally treated as adults but designated to be in their late teens. i think the oldest (official) disney princess is like. 21. its a feature of how society at large treats 16-25 as the only viable window of attractiveness yknow. the dicaprio problem. its everywhere once you look for it unfortunately and even characters i love are not exempt from reflecting the bias.

[mareastrorum]

Some thoughts from earlier this week:

[artassdumpr]

Reminding the people who matters the most… Javik, obviously. Happy pride folks!

[captainofthetidesbreath]

the Veil being nonexistent in the Obrimus Manor Undercroft, so you're in both the living realm and the underworld at the same time, maybe suggests how it's possible to get to the Sea of Lachris in the Tenebral Reaches from Houndsport by sailing into the Bay of Gaerhithai, where the Sea of Imlay meets the Wastes: the Veil is similarly nonexistent there as well, allowing someone to be in both realms at the same time in the same way as the Undercroft, and you can probably move entirely into the Sea of Lachris at specific places. this would also explain why there's those distress calls from ships that cannot be found, apparently ghost ships, because the underworld is present there.

[masterqwertster]

Tyranny's code switching is interesting, especially when compared to her sisters, and I haven't seen a lot of talk about it.

Like, we really got a good look at it this last episode (29) with Tyranny with Wicander and Bolaire vs Tyranny with Yanessa. As well as how the sisters present themselves in bringing in Kattigan.

A lot of what we've seen of Tyranny so far has been her casual "I'm here to have fun and see new things" presentation. It's a presentation that is largely open to showing Tyranny's feelings, sharing her thoughts, and acting on impulses.

And why wouldn't this be what we mainly see? Most of the time, the only one around who can punish her harshly (aka return her to the Pit) is Wicander, and he's so lenient. Look at how much pushing it takes to get him to push back. His most likely response to her crossing a line is yelling (which Tyranny finds hot) or gentle corrections (which is more common). Everyone else? They might think it's weird, but they brush it off as her being a demon, maybe give her a little course correction if she oversteps.

And Tyranny is getting to explore the world, have some fun. And some not so fun times where she gets to vent her upset too. It's all a very open showing of feelings.

Then there's those moments of lock in, where Tyranny switches to professional demon mode. The presentation where you can believe that she's here to spread her father's dominion and work with great powers to take over the world.

This is what we see when Tyranny reports in to Yanessa after her and Wick's disappearing act, what we saw when she tricked the Mercanaud twins out of snipping Teor's shadow. It's a projections of competence and professionalism, a "Yes, your radiance, it shall be done" vs "Yeah, I can totally do that."

And it's not that Tyranny is any less competent when she's valley girling it up, we've seen her poking Wick and advising him while in casual mode, but that she brings it into focus when she goes professional.

And it's interesting that we haven't really seen that code switch from Tyranny's sisters.

Like, they can lock in while wearing disguises. There was no big give away to Kattigan or the Seekers when they encountered the sisters in disguise that these were goofy (scary) demons. But when Enmity, Agony, and Cruelty are in their true forms, they don't ever really go professional like Tyranny does.

I almost wonder if it has to do with the archtypes they embody. Or rather that the sisters maybe know and are committed to fully embodying theirs while Tyranny is still figuring hers out. After all, we don't know how much longer they've (maybe) been on Aramán than Tyranny.

Assuming their names match the archetype, at least in part, there's subtler versions of enmity, agony, and cruelty, some professionalism to be found. The right time and place to let loose vs button is up, the nice disposition hiding the knives. But tyranny? It can get a lot further if it looks professional, dependable, on the outside than being a kid in a candy shop, high on the power.

I dunno. I just think it's interesting we've seen Tyranny code switch from impulsive and a little goofy to buttoned up professional while her sisters really haven't, despite Brennan having demons take their cue from Whitney's choices in playing Tyranny.

[pixel-croww]

Thinking about how crazy it must be to be Demodus

Like imagine

You're 20 ish, you get Yoinked by what's essentially a crime syndicate, you're not gonna make it outta this

And then your fucking English professor, a guy who gives you money when you do busking and is kinda your sponsor, a military man and William Shakespeare (who's brother was just executed) come and rescue you

How wild would that be

[platonicsource]

platonic shuffle ➛ dialogue sense8 (2015—2018) | s02e01

[snizabelle]

[fortis-non-feroxx]

here again, thinking about the parallels of occtis tachonis and demodus blix. both students of the pentevral, overachievers, without a family outside of the school. both caught up in the politics of something much bigger than them, and suffering as a result. both in life-or-death scenarios. but the differences are stark. demodus got saved. occtis didn't. demodus got whisked out of the dark, out of the hands of the tachonis, but occtis watched his own heart stop beating. and the way they're treated, too--most notably by murray, who knew both of them as students. maybe it's because she is more empathetic toward demodus as an underprivileged kid (the face of the cause she champions, you could say) as opposed to occtis, one of the nobles she's afraid will 'take over' the pentevral. maybe it's because demodus was friendlier, his magic fun and palatable, as opposed to occtis' introverted necromancy. maybe it's because demodus' rescue happened after occtis, and she's just trying to make sure she never has to hold the dead body of a student again. whatever the reason, murray is emphatic about treating demodus as a kid. that's a child, even. that's a student, her student, and she has to take care of him. sorry you didn't get a real graduation, kid. i know a safe place. we'll take care of you. but occtis didn't get a graduation, either. his final exam was his funeral. and he doesn't get a safe place. he's not a kid any more. he isn't even human.

[fairycosmos]

good morning to the beaten and the damned only

[beansfrombeans]