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been realllyyy slowly read the illiad and you know im legally forced to draw at least one Athena in my life. athena free me from uni HELL PLS PLSSSS
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I know myself well enough to know I would not be very good at fanbiding and that would mainly frustrate me, so while I love fan binding and admire those who do it, I've never dabbled.
I have never regretted that decision more than I did waking up from the dream I recently had, where I excitedly bought a rare copy of the novel that Goncharov (1973) was based on, opened it up, and found that it was a hollowed out "book safe" for keeping valuables in.
@copperbadge were you looking for the Goncharov novel ?
I tracked down a copy of this invaluable classic and somehow got my hands on a near pristine copy secondhand from the 4th printing. It’s lost the dustjacket, alas, but that means I got it for like £5 and not the £4200 a first edition printing in fine condition goes for.
(Who’s the author? *looks at smudge on spine* uhhhh Mkkhill Montanann)
It looks right at home in my bookcase 🥰
Under the cut: a look inside at what the book holds:
OMG HAHAHA AMAZING! What a find! Truly a vintage treasure. I am dying, it looks fantastic.
The heavily worn tunic of the Bernuthsfeld Man, patched out of 45 single pieces of cloth, 20 different fabrics in 9 different weaving patterns. 680–775 CE, Lower Saxony, Germany.
Baking hubris pt. 2!
Lavender cake with lavender cream cheese frosting and buttercream, filled with lemon cream and a blackberry jam(?).
I bought a giant bag of lavender to make cookies for Easter so I put it in everything. It got ground with the sugar and infused in the milk for the sponge, ground with the powdered sugar for the buttercream, and I even made lavender water which ended up in the blackberry filling and marzipan decorations.
I took a cake decorating class for my birthday last year, and this year I decided I wanted to make a sun & moon cake after realizing it’s just a circle cut out of a regular round cake. I did a practice cake with a box mix a few weeks in advance, then I ended up remaking the sponge like 3 times because I felt like it kept coming out too dense—even cut, stacked, and crumb coated a different recipe (lemon cake with store bought raspberry jam, the cake was too dense and the jam too sweet imo) before deciding to redo the original recipe a final time with cake flour.
I tried really hard to manage my time and still ended up finishing less than 2 hours from the start of the party 🤣 and with a ton of extra buttercream because I was indecisive about color and had wanted to do more piping on the sides. But I really like how it turned out with throwing all the stars on there instead! I do wish I had tinted the white slightly so it wasn’t so stark.
Went mad with power and made TWO cakes for my birthday, because I couldn’t decide on a flavor combo and also I have friends with dietary restrictions.
This one is gluten free chocolate orange cake with orange buttercream, filled with chocolate orange ganache and marmalade.
I bought candied orange slices and dipped them in chocolate to make phases of the moon, and the little sun is made of marzipan!
The vegan ‘buttercream’ actually ended up being my favorite both to pipe and flavor-wise.
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given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that
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no-dopamine baddies approaching every single list of tasks like "which of these things will cause the most amount of personal suffering to me if left undone"
guess who just read yet another list of "tools to combat decision paralysis" that was mostly reward-based and got mad
hey this is really insightful. do you have any advice about identifying the linchpin task? i mean obviously "think about it really hard" might be all there is to it. basically i think this concept is good and would welcome more commentary from you, if you have more to add
the trouble is that Thinking (or at least applying the Talking Brain to the task) is counterproductive here, because that's the voice going "we need to clean the kitchen, why aren't we cleaning the kitchen??" and in these circumstances, giving that sector of the mind more oversight won't help.
it is necessary instead to sit down and kinda try and quiet that voice, and then start with considering my physical needs, kinda mentally run through the maslow's pyramid from bottom to top as if I'm dealing with a little kid throwing a tantrum. like, did we sleep last night? have we had lunch? am I lonely? should I call my aunt? do I want to finish the book I've been reading? do I want to boil chicken bones today? what's bothering me? I'll then try out a couple of things that seem likely and while they may not be The Thing it's useful to build momentum anyways.
but like, if I give it space, the answer will float upwards into view and it's usually something I've been putting off for a long-ass time.
and it'll sound So Stupid to the Talking Mind, who has important tasks that it's trying to get done, but we're going to tell that voice that the kitchen will wait while we take down the Christmas tree, fold the laundry that's been in the basket for a week, sketch the idea, call my aunt, whatever it is, and inevitably the Linchpin Task will take about half an hour, and once it's done I can feel the weight lifted off my shoulders.
Linchpin Tasks are sometimes that it's time to deal with The Emotions At The Bottom Of The Pile, which is when a pile of stuff builds up to cover whatever is at the bottom being emotionally fraught. (letters, the shirt I wore the day my grandpa died, y'know, The Emotions)
I've gotten better at identifying when those piles are starting to accrete and dealing with them before they get bad, but like, you gotta be able to identify the pile of stuff your eyeballs keep slipping off because it feels too emotionally difficult to deal with right now, and like, learning to ignore the part of the mind that wants to assign task priority levels is a counter-intuitive way to get things done.
I hope this makes sense. basically, when it comes to doing stuff, do the thing that's most emotionally fraught first, especially if you can come up with a bunch of excuses to not do it.
image description: tags reading #I tend to go for "which of these tasks is the secret task my subconscious has decided is the linchpin of my productivity" #sometimes that task is not something that's actually urgent in a normal sense but if I don't do it first I will put myself in waiting mode #and like I don't want to be waiting on myself to do a thing that I'm specifically not doing because it's not important
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