#I'm having A Day

[glassshard]

Everything living beings make and do is couched in pain and death. Reality is fundamentally eels; squishes are the aberration, and they must by nature be callous and indifferent to the suffering that enables them; to the bones of the slaughtered that bear their bright joy. The most significant difference between the two poles may be the matter of passivity versus action.

The gelatin in film stock was made from the hide, bones, cartilage, ligaments, and connective tissue of calves (considered the very best), sheep (less desirable), and other animals who passed through the slaughterhouse. Six kilograms of bone went into a single kilogram of gelatin. Eventually, the demands of photographic industries generated so much need for animal byproducts that slaughterhouses became integrated into the photographic production chain. Controlling the supply chain became key to Kodak's success. In 1882, as Kodak began to grow as a company, widespread complaints of fogged and darkened plates stopped production. The crisis almost ruined Kodak financially and resulted in the company tightly monitoring the animal by-products used in gelatin. Decades later, a Kodak emulsion scientist discovered that cattle who consumed mustard seed metabolized a sulfuric substance, enhancing the light sensitivity of silver halides and enabling better film speeds. The poor-quality gelatin in 1882 was due to the lack of mustard seeds in the cows' diet. The head of research at Kodak, Dr. C. E. Kenneth Mees, concluded, "If cows didn't like mustard there wouldn't be any movies at all." By controlling the diet of cows who were used to make gelatin, Kodak ensured the quality of its film stock. As literary scholar Nicole Shukin reflects, there is a "transfer of life from animal body to technological media." The image comes alive through animal death, carried along by the work of ranchers, meatpackers, and Kodak production workers.

—Siobhan Angus, Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography

[chronicowboy]

i will just never be over eddie wearing the red harness that attaches to buck's line (?) during the lightning. like red string of fate asses. except when it's severed, eddie still chooses to follow buck right into the mouth of hell. because fate may have brought them together but it was their choice to stay with each other.

[theroundbartable]

Arthur: anyone else feeling the inevitability of time and destiny crushing down on them, or is it just me?

Merlin:... 🥺😭😒

Merlin: 😤🥹 it's just you

[tevallen]

ouchie x2

[rootspiral]

i love the HUG so much, actually much more than the kiss. It was an amazing and hot kiss and jac mentioned agatha feeling attraction and lust and love and of course it wasn't the same but agatha felt lust and attraction plenty of times i know she was trapped for three years but i can't imagine it hasn't been that long before that that she kissed someone but a vulnerable, loving and so needed hug like that? only with nicky and rio centuries ago imho

Oh we can assume that notorious sex fiend Agatha Harness has ~dabbled even as detective Agnes, you know, in-between catching one perp and the next she might have enjoyed the company of a lady or two or twenty.

(I'm truly sorry about this gif.)

(but for real tho women would totally throw themselves at scruffy Agnes. have you SEEN those gray socks?)

The beauty of Agathario is not only that they're so horny for each other - they're horny with feelings. Like that's not porn without plot, no sir, that's juicy emotional baggage porn, that's three centuries of yearning porn. That's fucking each other within an inch of your life and then crying about it porn. It's very special stuff.

[atdawn]

these hd episodes of merlin are so troublesome god arthur's eyes are really blue

[hawnks]

Family drama so complicated you gotta go back three generations to explain it.....

[the-creepy-creature]

i'm thinking of my eyes, i miss them... i'm never going to feel the way they form and shift under my skin, i'm never going to be able to process seeing everything within a forest at once. i can barely process what these two eyes, trapped in place, see :(

[a-driftamongopenstars]

nothing like noticing a typo in your post lol after posting.

[thewanderingace]

Ah the age old game of Am I Being Bitchy or Is Everyone Just Being an Asshole?

Or even better: Am I Being Bitchy or Is My Period Coming Soon?

[hightownquccn]

Figuring out terms of endearment for a character to use can be REALLY HARD. Especially if the character won't admit it. lol

*continues to fight Sharon who never wants to share anything*

It really depends on who the other person is but still. SHAR YOU ARE A HEADACHE. I LOVE YOU. GOD DAMN IT. lol

[nd-babblinggoblinfromthevoid]

Having a rough day and my husband brought me a little boat of chips that taste like mid-autumn smoke and I'm utterly delighted and feeling a bit better.

(I triggered a pots flareup cleaning my kids' rooms. Then stubbed a toe, splitting the nail, ow. Then my eldest's impulse won and he headbutted me right in the eye socket. I'm having a day.)

Ok really though these chips are phenomenal.

[plague-vulture]

I need facial piercings and a fucked up haircut and to get fucked and to be lit on fire and my spine ripped out of my body and a croissant and to explode and then maybe I'll be fine

[fayeandknight]

Does anyone have a recommendation for where I can get a custom car decal sticker? I'd love one of a Tervuren going over a jump that says Let's Go Bar Hopping. I had a corgi one but I don't remember where I bought it. And I'm... well I'm going to need some new ones.

[supernatural-jackles]

lol so all ur posting now is ur novel shit that no one cares about including ur friends? take a fucking hint

What you meant to say was: "You're posting things that make you happy. Good for you! Love that." right?

And you wonder why I don't post here anymore.

I'm well aware of what I'm posting and who supports it and who doesn't. I'm aware that this isn't my target audience anymore. And sure, maybe my friends don't care. The important thing to me is I know that a select few do and I support what I'm doing.

I'm sharing here because this is still my writing blog. I am still sharing teasers and tidbits of what I am writing because I'm proud of where I am heading, even if you aren't.

[fantastic-mr-corvid]

My current student mood is 'i made it halfway into the exam i can no longer be a dropout'

with a side of '8 hour exams over three days back to back to back is a cruel and unusual punishment'

And the intrusive thought of 'your not gonna get a grade high enough to change the qualification now so just take your pass and spare yourself another three hours'