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[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 46: Early Modernish and Earlier

These Questions are the result of suggestions from the previous iteration.

This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct earlier time grouping. Basically, I'd already moved on to human history, but I'd periodically get a pre-homin suggestion, hence the occasional random item waaay out of it's time period, rather than reopen the category.

In some cases a culture lasted a really long time and I grouped them by whether it was likely the later or earlier grouping made the most sense with the information I had. (Invention ofs tend to fall in an earlier grouping if it's still open. Ones that imply height of or just before something tend to get grouped later, but not always. Sometimes I'll split two different things from the same culture into different polls because they involve separate research goals or the like).

Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration. All cultures and time periods welcome.

[human-timelord]

The urge to move to a rural small town in the pacific northwest to sit on the edge of a cliff with my feet dangling down watching the sun set over the water reflecting orangey pink light is so strong rn

[famewolf]

the rain is heavy today and it's growing increasingly darker out despite being noon

[mowgliproductions]

Ancient Mysteries of Palau: Unveiling 3,500-Year-Old Monoliths with Indi...

[ltwilliammowett]

Fishing net glass floats

These beautiful glass balls that many collect today have been around since about 1841, an invention that originated in Norway where old glass and or old bottles were blown into these balls or oval floats to hold fishermen's nets on the surface. However, from the early 20th century, Norway was replaced by Japan as the main producer, where old sake bottles were reused, which is why we are more likely to find these than european models today.

Japanese glass floats

The production process initially required much more skill than one would expect. After blowing, the floats were removed from the blowpipe and sealed with a button of molten glass before being placed in a cooling oven. While the floats were still hot and soft, markings were often stamped on or near the sealing button to brand the floats.

Garnblåser or glass floats

In a later manufacturing method, wooden moulds were used to speed up the float-making process. The glass bottles were blown into a mould to make it easier to achieve a uniform size and shape. The seams on the outside of the floats are a result of this process. This makes it easy to distinguish whether it is a hand-blown float or a float that has been blown into a mould.

Old fishing nets with glass floats hanging at a boathouse wall in Norway.

Most floats are in shades of green because this is the colour of glass from recycled bottles. However, clear, amber, aquamarine, amethyst, blue and other colours have also been produced. The most prized and rare colour is red or cranberry. The production of these colours was expensive as gold was used to produce the colour. Other brilliant colours such as emerald green, cobalt blue, violet, yellow and orange were mainly produced in the 1920s and 30s. Most of the coloured cars available for purchase today are replicas. Originals are difficult to find today. In the past, they were often found on the beaches because they had become detached from the nets and then washed ashore.

Sources below

Glass Ball, A comprehensive Guide for Oriental Glass Fishing Floats found on Pacific Beaches by Walt Pich

Beachcombing for Japanese Glass Floats by Amos L. Wood

[writing-with-sophia]

Poison list (2)

Hello, it's me again! After some feedback on my previous potion list post, I decided to research a little more about potions and come up with this post. I hope everyone will like it!

1. Poison Ivy

I think anyone who has watched Batman will know the female supervillain Poison Ivy. I thought it was a name she came up with until I found the Poison Ivy plant online, lol.

Eastern poison ivy is typically a hairy, ropelike vine with three shiny green leaves budding from one small stem. The leaves may be red in the fall.

Western poison ivy is typically a low shrub with three leaves. In the East, Midwest, and South, it grows as a vine.

It may have yellow or green flowers and white to green-yellow or amber berries.

It has an oily sap in its leaves called urushiol. This causes an allergic reaction that can make your skin red, swollen, and itchy.

2. Poison Oak

It is typically, a shrub with leaves of three, like poison ivy. The sun-facing side of the leaf has tiny hairs on it and is a darker shade of green than the ground-facing side. 

Pacific poison oak may be vine-like.

Though it grows all over the country, it’s more common in the West.

It could be hours or days before your skin reacts to the plant sap (urushiol). And your rash may eventually turn bumpy and form blisters that ooze.

3. White Snakeroot

A North American herb with flat-topped clusters of small white flowers and contains a toxic alcohol known as trematol.

Generally found in woods and along streams. It is not often found on open prairies because it does not do well in full sunlight. The plant will grow 1 to 3 feet in height and will have thin smooth leaves with toothed margins.

The poisonous effects in livestock usually result from direct consumption of the white snakeroot plants. In humans, poisoning can be caused by consumption of dairy products from cows that have eaten white snakeroot.

4. Rosary Pea

Also called jequirity beans, these piously-named seeds contain abrin, an extremely deadly ribosome-inhibiting protein.

Rosary peas are native to tropical areas and are often used in jewelry and prayer rosaries. While the seeds are not poisonous if intact, seeds that are scratched, broken, or chewed can be lethal.

It only takes 3 micrograms of abrin to kill an adult, less than the amount of poison in one seed. It is said that numerous jewelry makers have been made ill or died after accidentally pricking their fingers while working with the seeds.

Abrin in rosary pea prevents protein synthesis within cells and can cause organ failure within four days.

5. Foxglove

Its bell-shaped flowers are often bright purple but can be white, yellow, or pink. It blooms in the spring. It also has a fruit with lots of seeds, which kids sometimes eat.

 All parts of the flower are poisonous and can slow or disrupt your heart.

In fact, digitalis (a heart medicine) is derived from this plant. When formulated into a medication with a controlled dosage, digitalis is valuable in treating heart failure. It helps a weakened heart pump harder.

People who eat any part of the plant or make tea from the leaves are, in essence, taking an unregulated dose of heart medicine. This can cause the heart rate to slow down or become irregular. Both can be dangerous and life threatening.

6. Mistletoe

This plant lives off of other trees and shrubs, which makes it a parasite. Its stems are thick and easy to break, with lots of branches. The leaves are often thick and stay green all year. Its little yellowish flowers don’t have petals. The small, white berries have one seed and contain a sticky, poisonous pulp.

The berries can give you diarrhea and slow or stop your heart.

All parts of American mistletoe contain a toxic protein called phoratoxin, while European mistletoe contains viscotoxins, which prevent new cells from forming.

7. Oleander

Oleander (Nerium oleander) is a common ornamental evergreen shrub.

All parts of the oleander plant are deadly and contain lethal cardiac glycosides known as oleandrin and neriine.

If eaten, oleander can cause vomiting, diarrhea, erratic pulse, seizures, coma, and death, and contact with the leaves and sap is known to be a skin irritant to some people.

The plant is very bitter.

That's all!

[alphynix]

Aureia rerehua was a toothed whale that lived during the late Oligocene and early Miocene, around 23-22 million years ago, in shallow coastal waters covering most of what is now Aotearoa New Zealand.

It was closely related to the waipatiids – a group traditionally classified as platanistoids (the South Asian river dolphin lineage), but more recently proposed as instead representing a separate earlier branch of the toothed whale evolutionary tree.

About 2m long (~6'6"), Aureia had distinctive tusk-like teeth that splayed outwards from its snout, interlocking when its mouth was closed. Along with a flexible neck and its fairly delicately-built skull and jaws, this suggests it was specialized for catching small prey in a "fish trap" of teeth, a unique feeding strategy for a toothed whale.

Along with different feeding specializations in other close relatives like Nihohae, Aureia shows us how multiple species of these ancient Aotearoan cetaceans were able to coexist in the same place and time by diversifying into different novel ecological niches.

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References:

Bianucci, Giovanni, et al. "Extensive diversity and disparity of the Early Miocene platanistoids (Cetacea, Odontoceti) in the southeastern Pacific (Chilcatay Formation, Peru)." Life 10.3 (2020): 27. https://doi.org/10.3390/life10030027

Coste, Ambre, R. Ewan Fordyce, and Carolina Loch. "A new dolphin with tusk-like teeth from the late Oligocene of New Zealand indicates evolution of novel feeding strategies." Proceedings of the Royal Society B 290.2000 (2023): 20230873. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.0873

de Lazaro, Enrico. "Oligocene-Period Dolphin Had Unique Feeding Method." Sci News, 05 Apr. 2024, https://www.sci.news/paleontology/aureia-rerehua-12827.html

Meekin, Shane, R. Ewan Fordyce, and Amber Coste. "Aureia rerehua, a new platanistoid dolphin from the Oligocene of New Zealand with a unique feeding method." Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand (2024): 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2024.2314505

[1800titz]

SPANKO!HARRY x NEIGHBOR PART 1 — NOW UP ON PATREON

The one where Y/N and Harry are neighbors in an apartment complex, he's got a bunny called Snuggles, he makes softcore porn spanking people (it's a REALLY LOUD HOBBY), and Y/N has definitely called the police for a domestic disturbance next door. 

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“Frankly, I think it’s wrong to put your hands on a woman.” 

Harry’s face doesn’t immediately crease. It’s a slow progression (he blinks, then again, and a thunderbolt of white-hot shock clouds his features and shapes them bewildered). He ducks his chin. Sounds almost furtive— 

(Which is worse).

“Sorry?” 

“Sorry,” Y/N snips, “It’s absolutely disgusting to put your hands on a woman.” 

The flinty prehnite in his sockets wanders, left to right (a discomfited side sweep, probably at her volume— he should feel ashamed!). He steps in. There’s seedlings of a storm in his gaze.

(The pacific eye of a hurricane before it migrates and the tempest swallows her whole).

Harry tells her, even, and low, and careful, ”I don’t put my hands on anybody that doesn’t consent to it first.” 

Her face crinkles. 

“I think— maybe there’s been a misunderstanding—“

“I’m not misunderstanding,” Y/N maintains— the piece of her mind he’d beckoned for with open palms outstretched floods in vitriolic disdain, “I’ve heard a woman yelling no, and stop, and please from your apartment— I have ears, you know, and— and it’s gross that men like you think that it’s okay—“

He blinks, stunned, swallows, and then says, in a tone that’s soft-spoken and (impressively) imperturbable, “You’re the one that called in for a domestic disturbance?”

“Any sane woman would call the police when she heard another woman being abused.”

“Abused—“

She blusters, scorn in the molten lavascape of her gaze, “Yes! Abused! And— and— honestly—“

He rearranges, shifting the fleecy animal onto the bolster of one forearm, and culls his phone, brows pinched—

“—I don’t know what form of assault would be worse, but when someone says no, it means no!”

There’s epinephrine spuming, and the byproduct of venting the pent discontent— floodgates shattered—

“Excuse me,” she snaps, stifling when his thumb scrolls, “I’m talking to you. And also, while we’re at it, you’re unbearably loud, and an unmannerly neighbor—“

Harry turns the phone. She’s nearly tempted to tell him to piss off with… whatever this is, but her eyes roam, vexation worn in the kink of her eyebrows, and then—

An almost archaic website, like a kitsch relic— repository archives of a porn blog from the early 2000s. Spankinggram. A profile; Rings&Paddles. The squared avatar bifurcates the garishly burnt amber logo of the site’s logo. Her eyes sweep over the vista; a man, sitting, thighs splayed, palm curled over a …hairbrush.

The image sunders at the neck. It’s a faceless silhouette, but the miscellany of sketches cascading across a forearm and the distinctly chunky medley of rings are… enough—

“I do, like, a… softcore porn-type thing,” Harry admits, and the chiaroscuro of his sudden embarrassment to her venom makes her chest tight. She feels sort of sick. 

He tacks on, like he needs to, “Consensually. No one is being abused.”

[music-in-my-veins14]

I know it's not enough to say I'm wrong You know that I will miss you now you're gone I know it's not your life to see this through Just know that in my heart, it beats for you

[hbowardaily]

It calms me down. Packing it, cleaning it...I always have something to do.

[formlines]

Echoes of Tranquility

Amber Spindel

from the website “This piece captures the serene beauty of the Pacific Northwest through the elegant form of a Great Blue Heron, a symbol of quiet strength and grace. Inspired by the beautiful details this art form is known for, the fluid, rounded design evokes the effortless motion of the heron as it glides through the sky or stands poised at the water’s edge.

The warm, calming hues of the sunset serve as a backdrop to the heron’s quiet power, symbolizing the harmony between nature’s stillness and its constant motion. By weaving traditional design elements of the Pacific Northwest into a modern, abstract composition, this piece pays homage to the region’s rich cultural heritage.

This artwork reflects the quiet moments of the natural world, where beauty and strength blend seamlessly with tranquility. It invites the viewer to pause and find peace in the graceful lines and soft colors, much like watching a Great Blue Heron move across the sky at dusk.”

-Amber Spindel

[prettyoddfever]

12/5/06 morning show

On December 5th P!ATD had to be at the San Jose Improv before 6am for a free Live 105 morning show performance. Anyone could show up to be in the audience and Switchfoot also performed. A lot of the fans who were there said that the whole band didn't seem to be morning people, but Brendon’s voice sounded especially bad & like he just woke up. This appearance was in Pacific time after the band had spent a couple weeks in the midwest & east coast... so I bet waking up before sunrise felt extra early too. I was just impressed that they were functioning tbh. They also played a big show in San Jose later that night.

The band performed acoustic versions of both IWSNT & Lying Is The Most Fun. I think it's hilarious how Brendon crosses himself at 02:17 in IWSNT... like he knows that his exhausted voice is not going to do it lol:

They also did a Q&A:

random things I loved from this:

Spencer cut his own hair the day before & it looked fine!

JWalk shared that he & Brendon sang their way through the Aladdin soundtrack together the first time they met.

Spencer joined in!! sometimes he sat & watched acoustic sets or didn’t even show up.

the never-ending spinal tap references haha

Bden’s wearing the scarf that a fan in the book club knit for him (it was originally for Jon but he had taken Ryan’s so they all kind of switched).

Jon Walker smelled like Christmas…. and then fangirls went and bought Bath & Body Work’s supply of “sensual amber” lol

[jayofolympus-writes]

A conversation with @tumbleweedtech led to some silliness.

Nik brings some whisky to a celebration

Makarov was dead, and they were finally able to celebrate. Soap was recovered enough to join them, and that made the celebratory mood all the brighter.

"I have brought whisky for us to share!" Nik crowed as he burst into the room, grinning widely as he uncorked the bottle without ceremony and grabbed the nearest glass to begin pouring.

It wasn't until Gaz and Soap each had a glass in hand that Price was able to catch a glimpse of the label and nearly choked on his own spit.

"Fuckin' 'ell Nik!" he coughed. "That's a bloody Macallan! Those go for fuckin' thousands!"

Nik grinned unrepentantly, continuing to pour them each a nip of the whisky that, at minimum, cost more than a month of Price's wages. It looked like a good fucking bottle too, and Price was willing to bet it was one of the ones that went for tens of thousands in an auction filled with people who never intended to open any of the bottles they bought.

"Where the fuck did you get yer hands on a Macallan?" Soap demanded, suddenly regarding the glass in his hand far more carefully. "An' the more important follow up question: can ye get me one?"

Nik chuckled warmly, handing Price a the final glass. "My friend, if we do not finish this bottle, you may have it to keep," he offered Soap, grinning widely. "Unfortunately, I do not think I can replicate the circumstances that led me to this particular whisky."

Price narrowed his eyes. "Sweeney?" he accused, getting only a casual shrug in return.

Ghost just shook his head, stripping off his mask. "Not like it matters now."

Price had to admit that, if it had been Sweeney that Nik had gotten the bottle from, then it wasn't as though Sweeney could enjoy it now, given he was almost certainly currently in many tiny pieces somewhere in the Pacific. Or possibly the Atlantic. He hadn't asked too many questions.

"Here is to victory!" Nik crowed, raising his glass. "Your hard work has paid off, and Makarov has faced justice."

"Cheers!" Gaz and Ghost called, raising their own glasses.

"Sláinte!" Soap echoed, grinning widely.

"Cheers," Price said, tapping his glass against Nik's.

They each took a drink, and for a moment everything was silent as they savoured it. It was, of course, Soap who broke the silence.

"Well, that was... fine," he commented, swirling the amber liquid in his glass. "It's awright. Nae the worst I've had."

Nik's response was to simply give a deep belly laugh and drain his glass. Price suppressed a shudder at such casual disregard for such an expensive whisky, but he couldn't deny that it didn't taste any better or worse than any other single malt he'd ever tasted.

Gaz and Ghost were both nodding too, and Price couldn't have argued even if he wanted to when Gaz suggested heading to the pub instead of finishing the bottle. As it turned out, getting shit faced was just as easy and fun with shit beer and cheap spirits as it was with thousand pound whisky.

[mowgliproductions]

Surviving on Rainwater: The Hidden Island's Astonishing Secret