#business sphere

[plaguedpriest]

more core designs :]

[gandalf-the-bean]

help out a small business!!

website below

hi there everyone! my sibling sells beautiful crystals and carvings, as well as original paintings on and using crystals!

tiktok has been shadow banning a lot of small businesses lately, and they are unfortunately one of the ones affected. it is unfairly hurting their business, as they follow the platform’s rules. please reblog to help promote them

they’re very passionate about what they do, and their website just went live! go check them out, and if you can, please support them!

and go follow them on tiktok as well and turn on notifications for it so that you can see when they’re live

monday evenings at 8pm est. they ship to the us and canada. they’re considering expanding to other platforms, and i will add them in the notes when they do

[creecher-feecher-shop]

I've been putting some stuff up on my Etsy (plus making some more sticker designs ;) ) but I was wondering... Would anyone be interested in Flatland stickers???

Bonus flatland sketches because idk where else to post them :

[trashogram]

Vivienne making Alastor ace because "He only cares about himself" like woman do you even know what ace actually is ffs I think we aaaaall know people that are not ace at all, that can be either straight or gay or bi and are selfish as hell and only care about themselves. What the eff is she even talking about

That’s bigotry for you.

Viv is a good example of someone that makes a fashion statement out of social consciousness.

She’ll make bank off of people that think just including characters with varying sexual identities means an IP is a gold-star standard but do you think she actually understands what she’s putting out or even thinks about trying to?

Nope.

[bulldog-butch]

the hilarious thing about people who are super anti trans men lesbians is that they consider themselves the arbiters of when someone has become too much of a man to consider themselves a lesbian. like please get over yourself. you can actually just trust people to make that decision for themselves jfc

[collegeboysam]

i'm not immune to playing favorites so if someone hates armand i cannot agree with anything they say, even the takes that have nothing to do with armand at all i cannot support simply because i know deep in their hearts there is hate for my scheming cancelled wife when they type anything

[mydemonsdrivealimo]

watching game changer and wow. i need jensen and bryce (perhaps gamer au so it's somewhat more relevant) on a show like this. man who is embarrassed to be alive vs man who does not know what embarrassment is. think ab it

[m1lkt00th]

full of hatred and malice for something (a bad interpretation) then i remember i can do whatever i want forever (enjoy it within my own bubble)

[lawfulgoodsir]

the screw tourniquet, the HICKEY knife, and 19th-century women in trades

I'll be adding to this post as I find more details.

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The same maker's mark decorates several recovered Franklin Expedition artifacts - including this tourniquet clamp recovered by Schwatka's 1879 expedition near Victory Point. (In this Petit-type model, a band would be threaded through the slots; the "screw" could turn, tightening the band around a limb, to stop circulation.)

("A Petit's-type wooden tourniquet screw clamp", Royal Museums Greenwich)

During the 2019 season, Parks Canada archaeologists observed another tourniquet clamp in the hold of the Erebus.

(I was slightly intoxicated when I first came across this image and thought it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen.)

("This Petit-type tourniquet was documented during remotely-operated vehicle exploration of the main hold, below the lower deck. It almost certainly fell into the hold from above." - Parks Canada)

Because the artifact hasn't been recovered, I don't know the maker - I'd love to have a different angle on this photograph to see whether there are differences between the Schwatka tourniquet and the one currently in situ on the ship. (The thread seems longer on this one & I'm having difficulty visualizing the upper platform.) If this one also contains a Millikin maker's mark, that might indicate that expedition surgeons purchased multiples from the same company. If it's a different maker, that's exciting too - it could mean new leads on business records that might link certain surgeons to certain companies.

Astute observers and fans of the show may notice that another key artifact bears the same mark - the HICKEY knife introduced through John Rae's 1854 expedition. ("MILLIKIN 301 STRAND LONDON" is stamped on the blade.)

("Knife", Royal Museums Greenwich. Several other knives associated with the Franklin expedition are also labeled with Millikin's mark; they have been conveniently grouped in the museums' online database.)

So who was supplying these tools?

In most of the interpretive texts accompanying these artifacts, the authors identify John Millikin, surgeon's-instrument-maker, as the manufacturer. According to Dr. Brian Stevenson's biography entry, Millikin operated a business at 301 Strand from 1815 to 1833.

(William Battersby made a claim in 2009 based on this info that the HICKEY knife was a repurposed surgical blade - I disagree, as Millikin also advertised himself as a cutler at several points in his career. I'm intrigued by the fact that there are multiple different types of instrument sourced from the same manufacturer, though. I'm currently scouring the internet for more information on who was doing the buying.)

Dr. Stevenson's biography also reveals a potentially fascinating detail: that John Millikin died in 1833, leaving his business to his wife Martha. "...that my said Trustees shall permit my said Wife she remaining my Widow to carry on my Trade or Business of a Surgical Instrument Maker and to use and employ for that purpose such parts of my personal Estate and Effects as shall be then used or employed as capital therein..."

(John Millikin's will, sourced by Dr. Stevenson through ancestry.com. Highlights mine.)

Stevenson notes that Martha would move the business to 161 Strand "between 1844 and 1847" and would ultimately still operate it under her husband's name until her death around 1854. Obviously, things can be obtained secondhand - but if these artifact instruments were purchased new in that 1833-1844 window, there might be a chance that these naval officers interacted at 301 Strand not with John but with Martha Millikin, surgeon's-instrument-maker.

The world of nineteenth-century trades in London is a large one, and something in which I have absolutely no expertise, but I'm always curious as to the involvement of women in medical- and surgical-related businesses. At any rate, I think it might add yet another layer of complexity to the Franklin artifacts. :)

[khattikeri]

So Kyo Kaneko graduated on February 16. On February 21, his past life account hinted at a vtuber(?) redebut in March. [twitter link]

I know everyone is hyperscrutinizing every little thing that Nijisanji EN vtubers do now, but I think it's equal parts painful and amusing how of the seven members who've left the company, six of them pretty much immediately redebuted under new names.

Like.

Yugo -> Unnamed / U-san Zaion -> Sayu Sincronisity Nina -> MataraKan (Vshojo) Mysta -> K9Kuro (Vshojo) Selen -> Dokibird

Pomu hasn't since she's now a student in higher education, but even she makes twitter spaces to zatsu chat [link 1] [link 2] or sing karaoke on her personal account, which was originally to support her idol oshis.

Always amazed how a company can hire people who clearly enjoy streaming and can captivate large audiences, and then utterly fail at retaining them.

[owlafterhours]

burning tides

[carcarrot]

i should also tell you that one time at work when takeout pizza was brought in for family meal lunch that it was absolutely awful. i work in manhattan

[infinitystation]

Gillion is Charlie Slimecicle’s character on Just Roll With It Riptide! :D (mochi is a JRWI mutual of mine :3)

THE ARMOR IS SO COOL. love the little squid/octo buddy on his shoulder

[starweed]

okay, so

the battle of yavin was 1,000 years after the ruusan reformation. 22 BBY (before battle of yavin), the start of the clone wars, is 978 ARR (after ruusan reformation). 0 BBY is 7977 CRC (coruscant reckoning calendar)

in 968 ARR (32 BBY, 7945 CRC) the clones are commissioned by jedi master sifo-dyas, who’s later murdered by count dooku.

10 years later at the start of the clone wars (978 ARR, 22 BBY, 7955 CRC) obi-wan kenobi is elected to the jedi high council, anakin skywalker is knighted and assigned ahsoka tano as a padawan (at nineteen!!!!!!! he’s like barely five years older than her, genuinely wtaf). obi-wan is now a high general, putting him in charge of the third systems army, the seventh sky corps, and the 212th attack battalion more specifically. this is also likely when cody gets promoted to marshal commander.

the war ends for years later, 981 ARR 19 BBY 7958 CRC. order 66 is executed, anakin skywalker falls to the dark side and massacres the jedi temple of coruscant, padme amidala gives birth to twins fathered by anakin skywalker, leia is entrusted to bail organa while luke is sent to live with anakin’s step-brother on tatooine, obi-wan kenobi and the rest of the remaining jedi order go into hiding.

19 years later, 1000 ARR 0 BBY 7977 CRC, the original series happens, yippee.

[hugheses]

You think Briss would date a teacher?

why would you ask me, a jack hughes archival blog, this

[fangirlinglikeabus]

[..]a garden,—once stocked with such hard plants and flowers as could best brook the soil and climate, and such trees and shrubs as could best endure the gardener’s torturing shears, and most readily assume the shapes he chose to give them,—now, having been left so many years untilled and untrimmed, abandoned to the weeds and the grass, to the frost and the wind, the rain and the drought, it presented a very singular appearance indeed. The close green walls of privet, that had bordered the principal walk, were two-thirds withered away, and the rest grown beyond all reasonable bounds; the old boxwood swan, that sat beside the scraper, had lost its neck and half its body: the castellated towers of laurel in the middle of the garden, the gigantic warrior that stood on one side of the gateway, and the lion that guarded the other, were sprouted into such fantastic shapes as resembled nothing either in heaven or earth, or in the waters under the earth; but, to my young imagination, they presented all of them a goblinish appearance, that harmonised well with the ghostly legions and dark traditions our old nurse had told us respecting the haunted hall and its departed occupants.

so i did a fair bit of reading on garden symbolism for an essay i wrote on the yellow wallpaper last year, and - with the caveat that this was about colonial america, not england - one of the things that did firmly crop up was the garden as a site of patriarchal control. and just looking at the word torturing i wonder how exactly we're meant to read an overrun garden in this context. like on the one hand it was stocked with hard plants, appropriate to the climate, and on the other it also contained soft plants that would submit to and be shaped easily by a man's guiding hand. i'm certain there's a deliberate tension there. also relevant, i think, is the way the name of the house seems to reflect this unruly garden: wildfell. anyway, there's a decent amount of really fascinating stuff going on with nature in this novel which imo shows that anne bronte did have a clear capital-r-romantic influence even if she's usually shunted into a different category from her sisters, and i think it's worth paying attention to.

this is incidentally what stevie davies has to say on it in her notes:

the topiary details add a unique twist to the theme of recidivism played out both by Wildfell Hall and Wuthering Heights (see S. Davies, Emily Brontë (Harvester Wheatsheaf, etc., 1988), pp.130-54). Nature, 'tortured' to an art which represents nature (the boxwood swan, the lion) is in process of reverting to nature. However, swan and lion belong with laurel towers and fabricated warrior as armorial tributes to dynasty - a dynasty which has died out, subverted by nature. For Emily Brontë's mystery, Anne Brontë substitutes grotesquerie, in a chaotic vision in which human aspirations are in process of recrudescence, paralleling the disintegration in the ethical sphere of the novel: but the author fails to develop these implications.