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probablyasocialecologist · 2 months ago

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The first thing you’ll notice — perhaps helped by a translation app, as tourists and monolingual English speakers are not among Familjny’s usual clientele — is that the food is outrageously cheap. Once you’ve worked out what dishes you want, you queue up to a little niche. You ask here for what you want, and you’ll be given a bit of paper. You take this to a larger niche, from which you can see the kitchen, and you give it to a uniformed staff member, who would usually be middle-aged or older. They will dollop the particular parts of your meal onto your plate. Then you sit down, and you eat it, and when you’ve finished, you put the plate and your cutlery onto a rack — there is nothing so servile as waiting staff. There are some drawbacks to this system, to be sure. I have only once or twice been in a milk bar that had a toilet, and because at lunchtime especially there are always a lot of people queueing, you are not encouraged to linger. You eat, and then you go home or back to work — but you’ll have been able to have a decent three-course meal of soup, a main course, and a slice of cake for the equivalent of, at the very most, £5, in a country where the cost of living is almost comparable to Britain’s.

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In Poland, the milk bar idea has been dated by some to the late nineteenth century, when the bulk of Poland, including Warsaw, was under Tsarist Russian occupation. Milk bars would offer locally produced food to benefit Polish farmers, and there would be no alcohol to cloud the minds of Polish workers, and also, importantly, little meat, which would make the food both cheaper and healthier. But nearly every milk bar in Poland was opened between 1945 and 1989, becoming the local example of a subgenre of cheap communal eating facilities built and encouraged by state socialist governments; what distinguishes it today is the fact that it still endures, for reasons which are complicated and surprising. Communal eating was regarded as being of crucial importance by Bolshevik thinkers from the start. Partly, this was a consequence of their pioneering feminism. Both for Lenin and for explicitly liberationist thinkers like Alexandra Kollontai, one of the central tasks of the revolutionary government that seized power in October 1917 was to free working-class women from ‘kitchen slavery’, as exemplified in the St Petersburg’s textile industry, which saw women work in factories all day and then go home and cook (and clean) for their menfolk. Early plans were highly ambitious, and they were integrated with avant-garde architecture and urban design; a few remnants of this programme survive in the larger cities of Russia, and Ukraine in particular. When researching a book on Soviet architecture in the 2010s, I went looking for a few of these, and the results were often sad to behold. In St Petersburg — then Leningrad — at the end of the 1920s, a team of architects, some of whom had worked with Vladimir Tatlin on his famous unbuilt twisting tower in tribute to the Third International, were charged with designing communal kitchens in the factory districts of the city. All three of them survive, but they have been turned into dodgy nightclubs, cheap malls, or worse: the finest of the group, a fabulous, dynamic, futuristic building, in the Narvskaya Zastava district, had been subdivided into little units by, among others, McDonalds. In Moscow meanwhile, enormous Constructivist bakeries were built around the city. One of the largest of them, Bakery Plant No. 5, was turned into a museum of Constructivism in 2022; the year, that is, of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a vainglorious nationalist slaughter that would have horrified the socialist modernists behind these buildings. In the 1920s, housing was sometimes built in such a way as to encourage its inhabitants to eat collectively. In Moscow’s experimental Narkomfin Communal House, duplex apartments were connected by a walkway to a restaurant, a library, a nursery, and a gym, with a roof garden on top; inside the flats, kitchens were either tiny or, in the ‘fully collectivised’ apartments, absent entirely, with the assumption that you could always eat in, or take your food from, the communal restaurant. For its Constructivist architect Moisei Ginzburg, this would liberate women residents entirely from the assumption — unavoidable in the early twentieth century — that they would be cooking the dinner. But in the Stalin era, Soviet food culture became much more hierarchical. These dreams of vast avant-garde dining halls serviced by streamlined, automated processes and administered by happy class-conscious workers were replaced with, at the top, a series of luxury restaurants for the nomenklatura; at the bottom, factory canteens; and, in between, the stolovaya — a network of public dining halls across the country, expanded especially in the more egalitarian Khrushchev era, during which period modernist glass box cafes also appeared in the larger urban centres, as a return to the 1920s dreams of automated communal luxury.

17 February 2025

#state socialism #poland #milk bar #food

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sequel2heaven · 11 hours ago

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Tofu is thousands of years old but it's the coolest most high modernist food ever. Literally just a block of Food. It's like something people would eat in an Isaac Asimov story but it's real.

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thesilliestrovingalive · 27 days ago

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Updated: March 21, 2024

Headcanons/fun facts for the Iron Eclipse cast vol. 4

What aesthetic of clothing do the Iron Eclipse cast members typically wear when they're not working?

Marco: A mix of dark academia and vintage (with lots of reds)

Tarma: A mix of bōsōzoku, adventurecore, and greaser (with lots of yellows)

Eri: A mix of cyber grunge and Yanki teamer (with lots of greens)

Fio: A mix of coquette academia, cottagecore, and old money

Trevor: A mix of hacker, streetwear, and techwear (with lots of blues)

Nadia: A mix of coquette, sweet lolita, and art hoe

Ralf: A mix of Ivy League, Cool Britannia, urbancore, and scrapper

Clark: A mix of athleisure, tropical, brocore, and rugged gentleman

Tequila: A mix of urban gentleman, eclectic grandpa, coffinwood, and military

Gimlet: A mix of downtown boy, punk, and chav

Red Eye: A mix of minimalist and downtown girl (as Ruoxi), a mix of chinoiserie and Chinese detached elegance (as Shufen), and a mix of tomato girl summer and jojifuku (as Liddy)

General Morden: A mix of Dark Gatsby, vacation dadcore, and peacock revolution

Allen O’Neil: A mix of bombardier and jock

Doctor Amadeus: A mix of retro, preppy, and bohemian

Ptolemaios and Wysteria: They prefer to wear the clothing they have available

Rootmars, Invader King, Pupipi, Avatar of Evil, Sol Dae Rokker, Pocke, and Celaphios: They don’t wear clothing

Walter: A mix of hypebeast, contemporary hipster, and thrift store chic

Tyra: A mix of Y2K, Afropunk, basic girl, and boho-chic (with lots of pinks)

Hyakutaro: A mix of corporate and Salon Kei

Allen Jr.: A mix of rustic and Racaille

Sophia: A mix of bookstore girl, gamine, and athlete

Margaret: A mix of bloomcore, office siren, and dark nymphet

Rumi: A mix of scoutcore and yume kawaii

Madoka: A mix of campcore and bubblegum coquette

Leona: A mix of cargopunk, VSCO girl, and nu-goth

Heidern: A mix of light academia and paramilitary

Alisa Stewart: A mix of gorpcore and Gopnik (with lots of whites)

Nathalie Neo: A mix of girl crush, grunge, and baddie

Roberto Nicola: A mix of SK8 and Boy Next Door

President Marx: A mix of new money and chic modernist (with lots of browns)

Midori: A mix of tinkercore, stargirl, and scene kid (with lots of greys and cyans)

Nayutaro: A mix of realistic dreamy and Salon Kei

Issenmantaro: A mix of takenokozoku and Salon Kei

Nanahyakumantaro: A mix of karasu zoku and Salon Kei

Happyakumantaro: A mix of surf crush and Salon Kei

Abul Abbas: A mix of traditional Arabic men's clothing and desertwave (with lots of bright colours)

Hilde Garn: A mix of 50s Suburbia, modern military, and traditional Ukrainian men's clothing

Macba: A mix of tacticool and crustpunk

Wired: A mix of Beatnik, comfycore, and trad goth

Oghma: A mix of writer academia and metrosexual

Zoilo: A mix of jejemon and glowwave

Anastasia: A mix of Hellenic and Mori Kei

Dilovar: A mix of normcore, vaperwave, and Dresiarz (with lots of purples)

Sagan: A mix of glam girl, male Yuppie, nymphet, and biker

Logan: A mix of Jersey Shore, 90s cool, and modern preppy

Torquil: A mix of fieldcore and rollerwave

Guilherme: A mix of alternative and soft grunge

Ferdinand: A mix of Waldorf and cabincore

Mikuláš: A mix of paramilitary and urban gentleman

Gyeong-Hui: A mix of thrift store chic, scene kid, art hoe, and morute

Thandolwethu: A mix of Xhosa women’s clothing and boho-chic

Harvie: A mix of 90s cool, hippie, and athlete

Amilcare: A mix of normcore and chic modernist

Ekaterini: A mix of light academia and Y2K

Souma: A mix of techwear, cargopunk, and hypebeast

Juozapas: A mix of gorpcore and Lithuanian folk clothing

Priyanka: A mix of traditional Bengali clothing, tomato girl summer, and bloomcore

Yohanes: A mix of corporate, chinoiserie, and grunge

Zdravko: A mix of urbancore and rugged gentleman

Dezső: A mix of rustic and preppy

Which characters have unique food-related quirks?

Marco: He takes his share of food only once and rarely goes for seconds unless he's starving.

Tarma: He takes large bites of his food and tends to down his drinks in just one or two gulps.

Eri: She frequently experiences loud belches or sudden sneezes shortly after finishing meals or consuming alcoholic beverages.

Fio: She always eats lentils on New Year's Day, believing they bring good luck and prosperity because they resemble coins. On the other hand, she avoids eating chicken on New Year's Day, as she thinks it's a symbol of bad luck. This is because chickens have a habit of scratching themselves backwards, which she views as a metaphor for moving backwards in life.

Trevor: He only starts eating at the table after observing others begin their meal.

Nadia: She often discusses her favourite food recipes, shares tips for achieving the perfect diet, and offers insights into what she's currently eating.

Ralf: Due to his belly being inflamed and bloody, he waits to eat until he's hungry to minimise the risk of vomiting or experiencing diarrhea shortly after.

Clark: When it comes to a handful of foods with layers, including burgers and wafer cookies, he separates the layers and eats each component individually.

Tequila: He whispers a quiet Catholic prayer before meals, expressing gratitude to God for the food he's about to enjoy.

Gimlet: He murmurs a brief Protestant prayer, asking God to bless his meal and pardon his tendency to make a mess.

Red Eye: As Ruoxi, she refuses to consume liquids without a solid accompaniment (e.g. crackers with soup); otherwise, she’ll regurgitate it and subsequently avoid eating it for several months. As Shufen, she quietly mumbles Buddhist mantras for 30 seconds before devouring her meals. Additionally, she eats her food in order from least favourite to most favourite, although she occasionally reverses this order.. As Liddy, she refuses to eat anything that’s been touched by someone else, fearing she might get germs and become sick.

General Morden: He opts for nutritious and homemade foods when in public, but privately indulges in junk food.

Doctor Amadeus: She prefers to drink all her beverages from wine glasses and avoids eating meat that has even a hint of pink inside, even if it's fully cooked.

Ptolemaios: He always finishes everything on his plate, even when he's full, because he hates the idea of wasting food.

Rootmars, Invader King, Pupipi, Avatar of Evil, Sol Dae Rokker, and Pocke: They have no food-related quirks worth noting

Walter: When he's finished eating and becomes absorbed in thought at the table, he often unintentionally taps his fork and knife together lightly.

Tyra: She usually waits until she's finished eating a meal before drinking a beverage unless she gets the hiccups or isn't enjoying her food.

Hyakutaro: Depending on what's on his plate, he eats his food from the least flavorful to the most flavorful.

Allen Jr.: He avoids meats with excessive chewy fat, finding it disgusting and believing it ruins the overall palatability of a meal.

Rumi: She always saves the bread for last because it fills her up very easily.

Madoka: She eats herring roe after each menstruation, believing it promotes fertility. During the winter solstice, she eats mandarins for good luck. However, she avoids peeling them in a spiral, believing this brings bad luck as it resembles a snake shedding its skin.

Sophia: She generally avoids using condiments, except for select foods like tacos and burgers.

Margaret: She lightly taps the food on her plate before eating to make sure it's not crispy and dry.

Leona: She prefers her alcoholic drinks lukewarm, finding icy cold temperatures unpleasant and difficult to swallow.

Heidern: He likes to separate his food by colour and ensure that everything is divided into equal portions.

Alisa Stewart: She'll eat foods that are near their expiration date but still safe to consume, even if it doesn't smell or taste quite right.

Nathalie Neo: She’ll have breakfast for dinner if she missed the meal earlier in the day or if she has a strong craving for it.

Roberto Nicola: He can't look at raw meat because it reminds him of the many instances he witnessed mutilated corpses and spilled gore on the battlefield.

President Marx: He uses utensils for every meal because he prefers to keep his hands and fingers clean.

Midori: She likes to dip her fries and bland chips into ice cream or milkshakes because of the sweet and salty combination.

Nayutaro: He always needs garlic in his dinners, but if it's not already included, he'll add a bit of garlic powder himself.

Issenmantaro: He has a preference for only eating foods that can be easily picked up with chopsticks or a spoon.

Nanahyakumantaro: He enjoys eating one noodle at a time and avoids eating microwavable foods, unless he particularly likes them.

Happyakumantaro: He always drinks his beverages through funky straws and enjoys adding tropical fruits to his cocktails.

Abul Abbas: He takes small sips of his beverage to savour its taste and avoid drinking it all before or during a meal.

Hilde Garn: He can't handle anything wrong with raw food, such as large brown spots on bananas or mushy blueberries.

Macba: He only eats and drinks when he's feeling extremely cheerful and optimistic or immensely stressed and needing a distraction.

Wired: He has a habit of mentally counting each bite of food he takes, finding it helps keep his mind sharp and focused, especially when he's not distracted by conversation or television.

Oghma: He often conducts a little taste test of his food to ensure it tastes good, is cooked just right, and doesn't have any unusual flavours.

Zoilo: He prefers to eat in dimly lit spaces, accompanied by sombre and chill music.

Anastasia: She prefers to keep different food groups separate, but will combine them if she thinks they'll complement each other well.

Wysteria: She eats her food one small piece at a time to fully enjoy its flavour and typically uses her hands, but switches to utensils for liquid foods.

Dilovar: He eats his meals in private because eating in front of people makes him feel uncomfortable, and he also dislikes listening to others chew their food. There are rare instances where he's willing to eat his meals with others and fully dismiss the chewing sounds they make, especially when he's in a really good mood.

Sagan: She always spices up foods she thinks look bland or unappetizing with spicy sauces like gochujang and chili garlic.

Logan: He eats his food from Z to A and he prefers to read a book while enjoying a dessert and an icy cold beverage.

Celaphios: He tends to swallow his food quickly and will only savor and chew slowly if he particularly enjoys the flavor.

Torquil: He has a habit of licking the lids of containers that hold specific foods, such as cream cheese, ice cream, and yogurt.

Guilherme: He avoids sharing utensils and eating crustaceans, believing they bring horrible luck, and doesn't want to inflict that on himself or others.

Ferdinand: He avoids eating snacks after lunch because he doesn’t want to spoil his appetite for dinner.

What is the main gross habit of the Iron Eclipse cast?

Marco: Smelling dirty clothes to see if they’re still reusable

Tarma: Nose picking

Eri: Loudly belching in public without excusing herself

Fio: Nail biting

Trevor: Picking at acne

Nadia: Picking at her teeth when around other people

Tequila: Using the same towel for a couple of weeks without cleaning it

Ralf: Occasionally not showering after a mission

Clark: Coughing or sneezing without covering his mouth

Gimlet: Smelling his armpits to see if he’s in dire need of deodorant

Red Eye: Not disposing of trash properly (as Ruoxi), ignoring mould (as Shufen), and using the same dishcloth for multiple tasks (as Liddy)

General Morden, Doctor Amadeus, Ptolemaios, Rootmars, Invader King, Pupipi, Sophia, Leona, Avatar of Evil, Sol Dae Rokker, President Marx, Nanahyakumantaro, Midori, Macba, Wired, Pocke, Mikuláš, Thandolwethu, Amilcare, Juozapas, Priyanka, and Dezső: They have no gross habits worth noting

Allen O’Neil: Not washing his hands after he’s done using the bathroom

Walter: Peeing in the shower

Tyra: Putting makeup on her face with brushes that haven’t been cleaned in a long while

Allen Jr.: Eating messy food while driving

Margaret: Leaving food overnight

Rumi: Picking at the dead skin buildup on her feet

Heidern: Spitting in public

Alisa Stewart: Not shaving her armpits

Nathalie Neo: Speaking with her mouth full

Nayutaro: Not flossing his teeth regularly

Issenmantaro: Occasionally wearing dirty socks

Happyakumantaro: Not cleaning up after a meal

Abul Abbas: Using strong perfumes in public

Hilde Garn: Sucking on pens and pencils

Oghma: Eating food that has fallen on the floor

Zoilo: Not trimming his fingernails and toenails regularly

Anastasia: Picking at split ends of hair strands

Wysteria: Eating her dandruff

Dilovar: Eating expired food

Sagan: Playing with her pubic hair

Logan: Smelling worn underwear

Celaphios: Not washing his hands after handling raw meat

Torquil: Not dusting regularly

Guilherme: Picking at scabs

Ferdinand: Peeling the dry skin from his lips

Gyeong-Hui: Wiping her sweat on her clothes

Harvie: Not brushing his teeth regularly

Ekaterini: Fidgeting with greasy or dirty hair

Souma: Forgetting to flush the toilet after he's done

Yohanes: Leaving his hair in the shower

Zdravko: Not replacing stained food containers

How does the Iron Eclipse cast like their coffee?

Marco: Black with a pinch of cinnamon and caramel creamer

Tarma: Iced mocha

Eri: With three tablespoons of vanilla creamer, one pack of sugar, and a splash of vodka

Fio: Frappuccino with whipped cream and chocolate syrup

Trevor, Ralf, Allen O’Neil, Walter, Tyra, Roberto Nicola, Issenmantaro, Wired, Wysteria, Celaphios, Torquil, Gyeong-Hui, Thandolwethu, and Dezső: They don’t like coffee

Nadia: Latte with hazelnut creamer

Clark: Americano with a pinch of cocoa powder

Tequila: With a pinch of cardamom, two tablespoons of milk, and a splash of tequila sunrise

Gimlet: With four tablespoons of milk, a teaspoon of cocoa powder, and a splash of French gimlet

Red Eye: Black with two packs of sugar (as Ruoxi), iced latte with two teaspoons of pumpkin spice and a pinch of nutmeg (as Shufen), and frappuccino with strawberry syrup and a pack of sugar (as Liddy)

General Morden: Latte macchiato with whipped cream, caramel syrup, and a stick of cinnamon, and a teaspoon of Scotch whisky

Doctor Amadeus: Café viennois

Ptolemaios, Rootmars, Invader King, Pupipi, Leona, Nathalie Neo, Avatar of Evil, Sol Dae Rokker, Midori, Nayutaro, Pocke, Guilherme, Harvie, Juozapas, and Yohanes: They have never tasted coffee before

Hyakutaro: Banana soy frappe

Allen Jr.: Flat white

Sophia: Latte with soy milk and coconut creamer

Margaret: Espresso with cinnamon creamer and a pinch of sugar

Rumi: Grilled marshmallow latte

Madoka: Hot buttered apple coffee

Heidern: Frisian Pharisees coffee

Alisa Stewart: Long black with almond creamer

President Marx: Black with a teaspoon of nutmeg

Nanahyakumantaro: Black sesame soy latte

Happyakumantaro: Fruity coffee

Abul Abbas: Gahwa

Hilde Garn: Ristretto with whipped cream and a splash of kvass

Macba: Cappuccino with powdered cinnamon

Oghma: Crema rich espresso with almond milk and two packs of sugar

Zoilo: Cortado

Anastasia: Freddo mocha with a teaspoon of honey

Dilovar: Coconut milk latte with a splash of kaoliang liquor

Sagan: Kaisermelange

Logan: Espresso mazagran with a slice of lemon, a pinch of mint, and a splash of cognac

Ferdinand: Wiener Melange

Mikuláš: Turkish coffee

Amilcare: Marocchino

Ekaterini: Cappuccino freddo

Souma: Matcha tea latte with warm milk

Priyanka: Indian filter coffee

Zdravko: Caffè mocha

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expatesque · 2 months ago

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Monthly Recap - Jan

Read

War and Peace, which I'm like 1/3 of the way through. I'm going to visit my grandparents so should get some good reading done next month, although I might choose some warm weather reads for laying by the pool.

Watched

Dial M for Murder, a really good, not scary Hitchcock ft Grace Kelly and a clever twist.

A lot of Star Trek, we're in deep Star Trek here.

Singles Inferno, Korean dating show on Netflix that's super interesting from a cultural differences perspective (also I'm obsessed with the like viewers panel within the show, shout out to short hair lady, she cracks me up).

The Brutalist. Whew, it was a lot.

The Great Big Tiny Design Challenge on Channel 4, a competition show about decorating a dollhouse that I think was custom made for me in a lab.

Did

Attended: Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake, got a last minute return ticket for this and I am so happy I got to see it. Definitely my favorite piece of dance I've ever seen, just so stunning and interesting and sexy and perfect. Also saw The Importance of Being Earnest at the National, very entertaining, great costumes, but not a must see for me.

Played a lot of tennis, partly because Russian took a while to start back up so I had time to attend the Tuesday lessons. But also partly because I'm now in like 4 different tennis WhatsApp groups and played a lot through that!

Had two different dinners that I've been putting off, one with the first of my ex's friends, which was so so good to do. The other was with a new friend that I'm working on making a good friend and this was our first solo hang. I really like her, glad I asked her.

Goals and monthly poll under the cut.

Last Month’s Goals

Played a lot of tennis, especially as my Russian classes took a few weeks to start up again in the new year.

Goals under the cut.

🟧Use all class pass classes: Half tick on this one, didn't end up using that many passes but that was mainly because I was playing so much tennis. Still, it's important to balance tennis with other types of workouts so will aim to do better this month.

☑️Read a book: Giving myself a tick here despite not finishing because I read a normal book's worth of War and Peace (some 450 pages).

☑️New Recipes x2: Accidentally knocked this one out of the park this month, largely because I was delivered an entire Gusto box by mistake. Honestly, was not very impressed with their recipes - I think they were fine and convenient for people who can't cook but as someone who cooks a lot, they weren't always very efficient and could have packed in more flavor in places. Outside of the box, I made kimchi jiggae, chicken pho, and Konjac noodles with peanut sauce and tofu, none of which were great. Been weird about food this month, struggling to think of things I want to eat.

☑️Go to a new museum: The Estorick Collection, a small museum in Islington that features Italian modernist art from approx the 1910s-1970s. Really interesting collection and museum. We happened to go when a tour was on and I highly recommend that; it's an eclectic collection without a lot of big, recognizable names (outside of some excellent Modiglianis) so having the context of a tour is very helpful. It felt like a higher level art history course and was a good reminder that the dominant narrative around the story of art is a massive oversimplification.

☑️Go to an Exhibition: Hew Locke, What Have We Here? at the British Museum. So, so excellent, cannot recommend enough. Locke is an artist whose work interrogates imperialism and colonialism, and this exhibition presents his works alongside objects in the collection. He also provides his witty, personal commentary on the objects chosen on yellow signs that pepper the exhibition. A truly innovative, thought provoking, and beautiful exhibition. This is really one of things museuks with massive, diverse collections like the BM can do better than anywhere else. Go if you can. Also went on a Young Patron's tour of the Medieval and Renaissance galleries at the V&A that was spectacular - the curators were hilarious and the lights going out 10% of the way through added an indescribable je ne sais quo.

☑️Go to a show: check, see above.

🟧Crochet: Better this month, can still improve.

❌Write More: More than last month, still bad.

🟧Lay morning foundation: I've got a good set of things I do in the morning, the issue is starting them at a reasonable time. Room to improve.

☑️Budget: Barely, so ready to be employed again.

❌Memorize a poem: RIP, no. Swear next month.

🟧Russian flashcards: Could still be better, but improvement.

❌Screen time: Latest android update really did my phone in, for almost the whole month I couldn't track screen time which was definitely a bad thing. Tracking is back now, gotta be more on this.

🟧Job prep: Meh, need to do some more, especially now that things are actually moving.

☑️World of Interiors: Read the Dec issue, fun and cool as always. This is a good thing to keep on the list.

☑️ Nutrition: This wasn't explicitly on my list but over the course of the month I started to shift what I eat to be more protein oriented and I've really been liking that. I feel fuller for longer, so planning to keep at it.

Next Month’s

Carrying Over

Use all class pass passes

Four new recipes

Read a book (/War and Peace progress)

Visit a new musuem

Go to an exhibition

Go to a show (nothing scheduled yet)

Crochet

Job stuff

Write more

Morning foundation

Budget

Russian flashcards

Screentime

World of Interiors

New

Send a postcard to Taylor (Bermuda friend, going to try to do this at least monthly this year)

#monthly recap #about s

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darkwingphoenix · 6 months ago

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@loominggaia Memes! Hot and Fresh!

Amber and Kitsu at the store, buying their female relatives pads:

(Wait, do sirene have periods? I assume gorgons and cecaelia don't, but what about sirene or other species?)

Everyone when me, @loominggaia or @niittinaatti post memes, lore, fanfics, or animations:

Demons when they need money for an apartment and also food

Skylie in a random village in Evangeline

Columbina and Sandrone in a nutshell (Sandrone's a yandere dedicated to Capitano and will harm/kill ladies who try to get with him, Columbina's just fucking insane sometimes)

Skylie to her parents

Me to everyone who passes by my AU:

Skylie and Janella Vokz on Vibing With Vokz, just vibing (Janella is having Skylie do the wrong answers)

Skylie's gnomish spec ops arriving to Marduk Hill, transmuting the Modernist Army into animals before controlling them to just dance, led by Gnome King Mimsical The Whimsical:

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Champion to Skylie

Qara to Saraia, then Skylie shutting down and destroying the Zareenite flying fortress

Industrialists Be Like:

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Skylie once she gets really good at her complex-as-shit summon-beasties-use-tendrils-swordsmanship martial style

Skylie packing her mega-storage shoulder bag (She puts in her entire cosplay repertoire, with like 30 different basic outfits to embellish for cosplay, like 300 fully functional weapons, including like 69 guns, hundreds of unique swords she commissioned by that dworfen divine of smiths after she proved she'd only use her weapons for cosplay and self-defense, hundreds of hats and shoes, enough food to feed her and Rook for 10 months, her personal copy of her Genshin Impact novel series, like 20 Visions to hand out to unsuspecting fools, 20 crates of condoms big enough to fit a family of dworfs inside, 20 hilichurls, 10 koholasaurs and a vishap, a rig of tepetlisaurs, a gang of yumkasaurs, 5 golden rings, a stable of horses, 20 months of birth control, a tent, and a partridge in a pear tree)

Skylie and Oberon fighting over Skylie's phone (Those things are manufactured to be able to break a concrete floor if they get dropped and survive a nuclear explosion)

Saraia, Skylie and Darshaan making monsters (Darshaan and Mankind's Disgrace are the same dumbass for this evaluation)

Skylie accidentally making a song when a Zareenite venue forced her to go out way too early for her concerts (She was spending too long on her cosplay, which the venue thought was stupid)(She's having a LOT of anxiety the entire time)

Roshava, more often than most

A Zareenite manager's expectations of their employees

Everyone when Sai and Justinia are in the Evangeline Palace:

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Skylie, Cyana, Angeline, Amber, Maui, Citrine and Rook at the Evangeline Palace for dinner (Cobalt invited them)(Amber was made to work in the kitchens by accident)(Cyana bluffed)

The Reformists and Knights of Favonius in Evangeline before Cobalt sided with them (Someone asked is Sai had dat ass)

Skylie and Darshaan sharing one brain cell

Amber as an infant eating fudge rounds

Random divines meeting Skylie at the DivineCon Skylie made

Skylie for no reason

Sai seducing Cobalt in their bedroom

Skylie meeting (And adopting) a 2 year old human girl who turns out to be a divine locked at 2 years old (First scene and the food scene are within a few hours of each other, the dancing scene is 30 years later, the fire is a century after, and the last 2 scenes are after 1,000 years, and she's still a toddler)(Her name is Mualani)

Skylie's adopted divine kids, the House of the Hearth, often

#the ole meme bakery #best meme bakery this side noalen #looming gaia #Youtube

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blurban-form · 6 months ago

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Blocks Minisode

A lot going on in this short! Bluey and Bingo create an interesting week for Nana and Bob by her agreeing to leave their block city in place.

At the start, Mum and the kids just rush out but Bluey asks just before they leave if the block city can stay up, and this seems to be something that’s happened before and Nana quickly says it’s ok. Bluey and Bingo like leaving their sprawling cities up for long periods (understandable)

It would have been easier for Nana to snap a digital photo on her phone, take it all down, and then recreate it just before Bluey and Bingo returned! But then it wouldn’t be funny!

City planning

Everything falls down because all the buildings are joined with ribbons? Not sure why they were, either just decorations or maybe pretend walkways? Good for connectivity but it makes the city fragile in the event of natural disasters like Bob!

The transport system is Brio trains rather than toy cars everywhere. Good city planning.

The city Bluey and Bingo build is all towers spread out, very Le Corbusier modernist planning, maybe inspired by the Gold Cost where Nana and Bob live?

Weather

Never heard the term “synoptic charts” with regard to TV weather forecasts, but yeah, that’s a term for the future outlook, what the weather is going to be. Do they say this in Australia?

Even though Bob thinks it’s a sun in the forecast, the next day is pouring rain! LOL.

Other stuff

This episode is detail heavy!

Nana and Bob have a Dyson vacuum.

They have one of those lady-with-balloons ornaments that was at the garage sale.

A lot of art and photos of the family throughout the apartment!

They have Jamie Oliver’s 5 Ingredients recipe book, @beeclops posted this already: https://www.tumblr.com/beeclops/763390417473519616, meaning like the Wiggles, there’s a dog-equivalent of Jamie Oliver in the Bluey universe.

The jar with a logo must be something. Not sure if it’s this one, but likely? Rosella is an Australian food company.

Like I say, a lot in a short episode! Good stuff.

#Bluey city planning #Bluey apartment life #Bluey

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cooking-pol-martin · 2 months ago

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Green Bean Time Machine

There's this literary concept of a madeleine, which is a metaphor for something that causes you to be mentally transported back to a moment in time. It can be a taste, a smell, a sound which provokes an involuntary memory. The concept comes from Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu (or In Search of Lost Time)*. The main character takes a bite of a madeleine dipped in tea -- a madeleine is a small cookie -- which overwhelms him with memories of his childhood, the recounting of which fills seven volumes and became a Modernist classic.

There's something of a visual joke about this at the end of the movie Ratatouille -- yes, I mean the cooking rat cartoon -- when the antagonist-critic takes a bite of the titular dish and you see a series of flashbacks of his childhood. (Arguably, the way our cooking rat links experience to memory is one of the theses of that movie, such as it is.) Smell and taste can be deeply, personally evocative, bound as they are to cultural identities individual, familial, and societal.

Which is why I say with some horror that Pol Martin's "Fresh Green Beans with Sour Cream Sauce" transported me back to the 1970s, an involuntary reverie of a particularly turgid period in American cooking. I didn't even know I had those memories.

Before I get into the way-back machine and start working through my generational trauma, I should probably detail the cooking process. First off, Pol had me get out a big pot, fill that bad boy with water, and then boil the ever living fuck out of a pound of green beans. It wasn't as horrific as the boiled leeks, which. I then was to make a roux and pour in reserved water from cooking the green beans, which resulted in a thin, unpleasantly gray gruel. The sauce was finished with not enough sour cream to ungruelify it. Serve over the beans, etc.

So I served this nonsense up, and the family set to eating. My first bite and I started to feel things: the almost overdone-ness of the vegetables married to a dairy-based sauce with virtually no seasoning transported me back to a place I can barely articulate. This dish isn't something my mom would ever make -- she could actually cook, even in the 70s -- but I have the phantasmagorical sense of church potlucks and luncheons after funerals of relatives I can't even remember. It was firmly disquieting.

My youngest kid, a senior in high school, piped up: "Can you take constructive criticism?" You bet your ass, kid. I'm already way ahead of you.

Meanwhile, sitting next me at the table, my husband was grubbing. "This is just great!" he cried. What the actual fuck.

After a fair amount of crosstalk, arguing, and shuddering from yours truly, the family decided that the longer you were alive during the 1970s, the more likely you were to enjoy this Pol Martin green bean abomination. My memories of that decade were created when I was largely prelinguistic, and feel broken and dark, unformed. My husband has a couple years on me, apparently long enough that unpleasantly gray gruel transported him to a place that made sense.

There's a reason my folks largely checked out of popular culture during that period -- beyond the way that having small children ruins your cultural engagement -- and that's because the 1970s sucked. I can see how my dad shakes his head when he talks about the 70s: the American people felt betrayed by Watergate, and the hard-fought successes of the Civil Rights movements bled out, literally, into a dozen political assassinations, domestic massacres like Kent State and the fucking horror shows of the Vietnam war and the illegal and immoral bombing of Cambodia. The first political event I remember was Carter being voted out of office in 1980, God rest his soul. The relationship with the current cultural moment feels grimly parallel.

Phew.

I didn't mean to get so serious in this here blog where I lightheartedly cook some nonsense recipes from a French Canadian chef, but here we are. Food culture is culture, and I suppose it's inevitable that one of these recipes would act as madeleine for memories that have whatever the inverse of nostalgia is.

*I know that reading seven volumes of a 100 year old French novel isn't on anyone's to-do list, but I'm telling you: that shit is some massively entertaining grandiloquent bitchiness.

#pol martin #stunt cooking #pol martin's supreme cuisine #green beans #madeleine #Marcel Proust

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voluptuarian · 4 days ago

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Fascism and communism's joint fixation on an idealized future of enforced poverty is so alienating and bizarre to me. Fascism's vision is, of course, a performance of military discipline, where the perfect society all live in as close to the barracks life as possible, with cot beds and Spartan black broth, a routine only deviated from for performances of family-based ethnic national authenticity™️ where a little color and softness may be acceptable (especially from the women, whose major purpose is to be good national mothers, but whose secondary role is to be eternally decorative). Meanwhile the communist vision fetishizes lower class poverty, especially the Modernist-rooted aesthetics of urban labor and spiritless, defanged imitations of city people's understanding of rural life, each version devoted to working as much, and owning as little, as possible. (Like fascism, unnecessary decoration, color, food consumption etc is allowed occasionally in performances of Authentic Rural Spirit or as a group reward for accomplishing some feat of Great Team Labor.) Unlike fascism, this poverty isn't outright military but a mixing of idealized futures and pasts where the True Communist owns one spoon, one bowl, and sleeps the sleep of the righteous in his state-assigned bunk before heading out for a day of enriching labor, and needs nothing more. Like, maybe drawing a limit to individual wealth or societal "excess" is a practical idea, but why is the bar so low? Like an ideal future for me is that everybody has more than enough to be safe, stable, and secure, may work in some role that benefits the function of society but not out of sheer necessity to keep the wolf from the door, and still have time to seek education, reinforce their relationships, and do enriching activities when desired. The kind of world where I can have a bed canopy and a patio and maybe even a pool if I want and not have to justify them as "necessary expenditures," have the time to make art or study or attend religious rituals, and there's no issue of "privilege" or inequality because everybody else has access to the same stuff. (And maybe if you decide you just have to have a big screen tv or a fast car, you take on extra work to get them-- covering other people's holidays maybe.) The ideal future to me is not one where we all starve together, or pull a Kim and Kanye and eat gruel in our colorless houses pretending to be poor for the aesthetic. Like the old classic dream for technology was attaining resource security and labor saving devices that allowed everybody to live in comfort and stability and not have to exist only as a workforce-- I still like that idea. I dont want to have to choose between a society that lives by cosplaying hoplites, actually living like helots, or just ok-ing unfettered billionaires sucking the blood from from us when there are in-between of those paths that are infinitely superior and vastly preferable. The popular commitment to this either-or viewpoint is deeply frustrating.

Edit: like you're really choosing between being uncomfortable all the time and disliking it but that makes you Stoic and Sexy and Rational and Authentic or being used as nothing but a workforce (exploited by the state, this time, not a company or monarch so now its ok) and having to Pretend that isn't miserable or risk being found out as not one of the Elect. These options both fucking suck. Acting like one or other of them is The Only Solution to the problems of unchecked capitalism sucks.

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