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r3almellow · 6 years ago

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It Started With A Touch 2 Dabi X F!Reader

I was surprised that you liked the first part! I honestly was super nervous and wasn’t sure if it would be well received! I guess I was wrong! Sooooo I have here part 2 for you lovely people! Please enjoy and sorry for any typos!

P.s: This is an AU so the timeline is a bit different.

You sat at your desk chewing on the end of your pen absentmindedly. Your eyes were glued to your computer screen as you typed away on your keyboard. You had just finished with two back to back sessions with clients and began responding to the various emails before your next meeting.

You liked your job as an EFT or an emotionally focused therapist for families and heroes, but it was hard at times. You had to talk with families and heroes of all types who were dealing with things like PTSD and so much more. The stories that each person brought to you were mostly gut-wrenching. From the loss of a family member who was killed in the line of duty to a hero continuously reliving traumatic events in their life. Your boss told you, you’d get use to it, but being so in tuned with emotions the way that you were it was highly unlikely.

A small knock sounded from beyond your door before you saw an older man walk through it. “Hello, y/l/n!”

You looked up and smiled softly at your boss.

“Hello, sir! What can I do for you?” You asked.

The man made his way over to you and stopped just short of the chairs that were in front of your desk. “I just wanted to congratulate you on your progress here. You’ve been able to breakthrough to some of our patients that most have had a difficult time with for years!” He exclaimed.

You hated the word patients. You liked to see the people who come here as...well as people. Patients made it sound like there was something wrong with them when all they needed was someone to listen and place where they would not be judged.

Your smile widened trying to hide the slight irritation.

“I do what I can sir. I want people to leave here feeling like they have a new purpose.” You said with pride.

“That’s good to hear. I actually wanted to know if you would be interested in being our spokesperson for an upcoming ambassadors trip.”

You looked at him quizzically. “Ambassadors trip?”

He nods with enthusiasm. “Each year we send our best out to U.A. to speak with the future heroes about mental and physical health. After talking with some of the higher ups we feel that you would be a great fit.”

“M-me?!” It had only be a few months since your start here, so being chosen for something as big as this was something you wouldn’t have expected until you were there for at least a year.

“Oh, yes! Since you are an U.A. alum, we think the students would be able to relate and with your bilingual background you can also communicate with the foreign students as well.”

Bilingual was a bit of stretch. Sure your Japanese was way better than when you were younger, but having to do full on speeches in Japanese was a whole different story. You would need another person there to translate or at least help you not make a fool out of yourself.

Despite the nervous feeling in your gut you accepted the offer. These kids were in for a lot and needed to know that while there were many trials ahead they had a support system behind them every step of the way. Not many had the luxury of having their families or teachers in their corner, so this was the perfect chance to show that there are alternatives.

Your boss’ eyes lit up. “Great! I’ll get the paperwork together! We will send you and a few others out there next week.”

“Looking forward to it!” You leaned back in your chair with a smile once your boss left the room.

For the rest of the day you were grinning from ear to ear. Even as you made your way home the happiness you felt refused to go away.

You were going back to U.A. after five years. You wondered how much things have changed since then. Were all your old teachers still there?

You heard the Symbol of Peace himself, All Might, had begun teaching there. You’d have to find a discreet way of getting his autograph or risk losing your job over fangirling over such an icon. It would be a small price to pay if you wanted to brag about having a future family heirloom on your wall.

And what about the students? Where they going to like you? From your understanding the freshmen were a very interesting group this year especially the class of 1-A.

If you weren’t mistaken Todoroki Shouto was one of them. You remembered seeing him on TV during the Sports Festival. He was an extremely talented young man and clearly made a name for himself. Not really surprisign since he was the child of the number two hero Endeavor. Your growing smile quickly faded at the thought.

You saw Shouto only once when he was younger. It was just by chance you saw him with his older brother. There was only a quick introduction and a goodbye on Touya’s part. The child only looked at you with wonder as he followed closely behind his brother. Touya never really brought you around his family which you completely understood. You learned he had other siblings who he didn’t live with because of their “family dynamics.”

Touya...

It had been six years since you last saw him. There were rumors circling around that he died in a horrible accident involving fire, but something told you that if that was true it wouldn’t have been an accident. Another rumor was that he ran away from home. You couldn’t blame him, but he could have at least said something to you.

The last time you saw him was the night he revealed he had no intention of returning to school. You had voiced your concerns, but he simply waved you off. You remembered caressing his hair and watching him sleep against your lap. You weren’t sure when you had fallen asleep, but you woke up in the morning and found yourself in bed completely alone. You didn’t think much of it and figured you would see him again that night.

You didn’t realize how wrong you were.

Days had passed and you had yet to see Touya. You would visit the abandoned warehouse where he often spent his time, but there was still no sign of him. You even tried calling his phone which went straight to voicemail for a time and later went out of service by your 50th call.

You muscled up the courage to visit the Todoroki home only to be met with grim expressions, unanswered questions and a door slammed in your face. It was like you were the only one that cared to find out what happened to him.

Days turned into a year and by the time you were ready to go to college, you made the decision to travel back to the states where you spent your college years. There wasn’t a day that went by you didn’t think of him. You had to be honest and say he was part of the reason why you returned to Japan. There was something in your gut that told you there was a chance he might still be out there.

You found yourself at the warehouse where it all began. It seemed you were so lost in thought that your body decided to go on a little joyride. Except without the joy...

Against your better judgement you walked in. You were soon filled with sentimentality as you looked around. Not much changed about the place. It was still a rundown deathtrap that should have been torn down years ago.

With a hand you gently caressed the walls that had scorch marks on them. Some of them you remembered from Touya’s time here, but other marks were unfamiliar to you. You touched one of them and analyzed the black soot by rubbing it between the pad of your fingers.

“I was wondering when I’d see your pretty face here again.” A male voice calls out making you jump slightly. You quickly turn around to see a tall man a few feet away from you with an unreadable expression on his face.

“I thought this place was abandoned. I don’t think you’re supposed to be here.” You say effortlessly hiding the nervousness in your voice. It wasn’t your best response seeing as how you were kind of trespassing too.

He doesn’t answer but circles around you slowly, surveying what you assumed was your appearance. The anxiety in your stomach continued to bubble up with each passing second of silence.

“You haven’t changed a bit.” He finally said in a low tone.

He stops next to you facing the opposite direction, a smirk playing on his lips.

“Not a damn bit...” You followed where his gaze fell which was directly on your ass. Your cheeks immediately flared in anger as you take a few steps back from the man. While you were a bit unnerved by this encounter that didn’t stop you from sending him a death glare. “Excuse me?! Who the hell do you think you are?”

While you weren’t the best fighter there wasn’t a doubt in your mind you could get the upper hand if he decided to get handsy.

He straightened himself and frowned at you. “Don’t tell me you’ve forgotten about me already, sweetheart.”

Forgotten? You didn’t keep track of all your old classmates, but you would have remembered this guy. His long coat, casual clothing underneath and his most notable being feature was his skin had weirdly symmetrical burned patches in areas like arms, neck, and under his eyes certainly didn’t ring any bells. The staples that were holding his skin together where the next thing you noticed. Then there was his jet black hair and indifferent blue eyes.

He sighed as the aloof expression he had slipped into annoyance. “Do I really have to tell you?”

You were done trying to play these guessing games. Especially with someone who looked like they kill pretty young women for fun.

“Listen, Frankenstein, I don’t know who you are but I-” Suddenly his hand shot out and grabbed your wrist. You quickly recovered from the gesture and put your quirk to work. If this guy thought he could get away with touching you he had another thing coming.

You were ready to give this guy the worst pain of his life, but something was off. There was a sense of nostalgia that surged through you as you probed through his emotions. A feeling of sadness, anger and loneliness clouded your senses. It was almost suffocating. However, there was a distant feeling of warmth that felt welcoming, safe and...familiar.

Your mouth turned into the shape of an “O” then closed again.

There was no way that this could be...

You looked up at the man and stared into his striking blue eyes. You studied his face long and hard. Seconds passed and your eyes widened as the realization struck you.

“Missed me, gorgeous?”

No fucking way...

Welp...I think this just turned into a small fanfic. I don’t know whats happening, but I can’t stop typing! Anyways, hope you all enjoyed this part! Please let me know if you want the next part!

And before ya’ll correct me I know the difference between Frankenstein and Frankenstein’s monster! Please comment and tell me what you think!

#dabi x reader #dabi bnha #Dabi #bnha #mha #my hero academia #fanfic

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furtherintothewomb · 4 years ago

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CHAPTER IV. ON SCOURING AND DYEING WOOL.

On the action of alum and tartar upon wool—A pastil or woad vat for blue—To prepare the indigo mentioned in the preceding directions—Rules to judge of the state of the vat—Indications when a vat has had too much or too little lime—To work a vat which is in proper order—On the putrefaction of the woad vat—Methods of dyeing blues—To dye wool, with lac-dye, scarlet, or crimson—To dye worsted yarn a crimson—A preparation of archil to finish the crimson—On dyeing wool scarlet—To dye wool maroon—To dye wool yellow—To dye wool brown or of a fawn colour—To dye wool purple, &c.—To dye wool green—A chemic vat for green woollen—A chemic vat for blue woollen—To dye wool orange, gold colour, &c.—To dye wool black—another process for black without a blue ground—To dye wool grey—Mixture of black or grey with red and blue—On browns, fawns, greys, &c.—On the yellow of quercitron bark—On a full bright yellow from the same bark—Bancroft's murio-sulphate of tin—To dye wool buff—To dye wool peach—To set an Indigo vat for worsted, serge, &c.

Wool is usually scoured for being dyed with stale urine, the staler the better: it is used in the proportion of one {71}part to three parts of water, full as hot as the hands can bear when the wool is worked about in the fluid.—If the wool be in the fleece, what is called its natural yolk, and which is said to preserve the wool from the moth, is of a greasy nature, and is scoured out by the volatile alkali in the urine. If the wool be in the state of spun yarn it has gallipoli, or rape oil, in its thread, the spinner, or rather the comber, using it to render the wool more flexible, &c. It is absolutely necessary that wool, (as indeed every other material to be dyed) should be made very clean and white, if any brilliant or bright colour is to be imparted to it. For this reason it is that the wool is passed two, three, and in some instances even four times through fresh scouring liquors; in the last, and sometimes in that which precedes the last, soap is used in the proportion of from seven to fourteen pounds, and in some instances to twenty one pounds or more, to, a pack of two hundred and forty pounds of wool, according as it is fine or coarse: for superfine colours more than common is used. Worsted requires less than coarse yarn, having less grease and dirt in it.

It ought, however, to be known, that boiling wool for a long time in any alkaline liquors, or a liquor made of soap, tends greatly to the decomposition of the cloth; indeed long boiling in any strong alkaline ley converts wool into a kind of soap, and, hence, it is easy to see why such processes injure wool or cloths made with it.

The preceding observations apply to the alkalies in a caustic state, or in the state of carbonate, not when they are neutralized by powerful acids: for wool, when fit to receive the dyes, and if it is designed to be dyed {72}yellow, should boil two hours with one-twelfth or one-tenth of its weight, of sulphate of alum (common alum) observing proper precautions, and the use of a sufficient quantity of prepared weld plant boiled, &c.: or of quercitron bark, as will be shown in the processes of the different yellows. If it were yarn, and the threads cut in two, it would be found dyed throughout, and of a body and richness in proportion to the correct application of the various ingredients, and with due regard to time, weight, measure, &c.

In the process just mentioned, we may observe, that the quantity of alum and of the weld plant used will be found very considerable: from one twelfth to a fourth of alum, and, according to the French method, four or five times more weld than the quantity of the wool.

When a process of dyeing has been scientifically conducted, the wool will take so much of the alum that the bath will hardly taste of it; and afterwards take the colour of the dye bath out of it; so that the remaining liquor put into a glass will be nearly like water.

The action of alum and tartar upon wool.

From the experiments of Dr. Ure, (Notes to Berthollet, vol. ii. p. 323.) it appears that alum has the property of increasing the solubility of cream of tartar; that as, in using alum and tartar, the wool is impregnated with alum and a large quantity of tartaric acid, these two salts should never be employed together, except when the colour is susceptible of being heightened and rendered brighter by acids, as is the case with cochineal, madder, {73}and kermes. On the contrary, alum should never be employed for wools intended to be dyed with woad, or Brazil wood, the colour of which is easily destroyed or altered by acids.

To conclude these preliminary observations, wool has a strong and powerful affinity for all dyeing materials; and, therefore, the processes for dyeing wool are, in general, by no means so complicated as those for dyeing cotton, silk, &c.; although some colours, even to these, are readily, and without a complication of processes, imparted.

A pastil, or woad vat for

BLUE

Take, upon as small a scale as can conveniently be tried, a copper vessel, which will contain about twelve gallons, two thirds full of soft water, and one ounce of madder. Fix this small copper in a larger copper of water, so that the heat may be applied to keep the liquor in the smaller copper at a proper temperature; it will be then, in fact, a water bath.

Having kindled the fire in the afternoon, put in a good handful of bran and five pounds of woad; at five o'clock in the evening let it be well stirred and covered over, the liquor being about blood-warm; let the same heat be continued as nearly as possible, at least so as not to be lower than summer heat by the thermometer, nor higher than fever heat by the same instrument. The vat must again be well stirred at seven, at nine, at twelve at night, at two in the morning, and at four.

{74}Hellot, describing this process, observes, that "the woad then working, some air bubbles began to rise pretty large, but few in number, and of a very faint colour; it had then two ounces of lime added, and was stirred; this was four o'clock in the morning; at five a pattern was put in, and at six it was taken out and the vat stirred. This pattern had received some colour. At seven o'clock another pattern was put in, and at eight it was stirred again. The second pattern was tolerably bright. An ounce of prepared indigo, (see p. 75.) was then added; at nine o'clock another pattern was put in; at ten it was stirred again, taking the pattern out, and putting in an ounce of lime because it began to smell sweetish; at eleven another pattern; at twelve at noon it was stirred again. This process was continued till five o'clock in the evening; then were added three ounces of prepared indigo; at six another pattern was tried, and at seven it was stirred again; the last pattern came out of a very good green, and became a bright blue. One ounce of lime was added to sustain it till nine o'clock the next morning; patterns were put in from time to time: the last was very beautiful. The vat was then filled up with water and a small quantity of bran and stirred; after which patterns were tried every hour till five o'clock in the evening, when, being in a proper state, it was immediately worked. Some lime was then added to preserve it; it was stirred and left to another opportunity to reheat."

{75}

To prepare the indigo mentioned in the preceding directions.

Boil, in a gallon of water, for three quarters of an hour, two ounces of pot-ash, three quarters of an ounce of madder, and one ounce of bran; then let the whole settle for half an hour. After all is settled and taken out of the boiler, and put into another copper with four ounces of indigo finely powdered, the liquor should be kept stirred, and very hot, but not be boiled. At intervals some lixivium of lime should be put into it, and that being cold will keep the liquor from boiling, and render the pot-ash more active.

As soon as the indigo is dissolved and properly diluted, damp the fire and cover over the solution; after it is settled put in a pattern, which, when taken out, will turn blue on being exposed to the air; if it does not, more clear lixivium must be added. Of this solution of indigo such proportions are to be added to the woad vat as are directed in the preceding process.

Rules to judge of the state of the woad vat.

The vat is ready for working, and to dye blue, when the sediment at the bottom, on being taken out of the vat changes to a fine brown-green. When the froth which rises in great bubbles on the surface is of a fine Prussian-blue, and when the pattern which has been steeped an hour, comes out of a dark grass-green, and changes in the air to a blue; when the liquor is clear and reddish, and the drops which stick to the rake are {76}brown; when the sediment changes colour on being taken out of the liquor, and becomes brown on exposure to the open air: when the liquor is neither harsh nor greasy to the feel, and neither smells of lime nor of ley, the vat is known to be in a proper state for working.

Indications when a vat has had too much or too little lime.

These extremes ought to be carefully avoided. When the lime is deficient, or a pattern comes out of a dirty grey, and the sediment does not change its colour, there is scarcely any effervescence on the vat; the liquor smells only of lime, or of the lixivium of lime.

To remedy the deficiency of lime.

If the vat be not too far gone, after the addition of a little bran, madder, and some woad, then try the patterns from hour to hour; thus you will be enabled to judge.

A deficiency of lime is evident when there is no effervescence on the liquor; and when, by dashing about the surface of the liquor, it makes a hissing noise, and by the bursting of a number of small air bubbles, which as soon as they are formed break, and appear tarnished, and are not large, nor of a fine colour; the liquor too has an offensive smell, like rotten eggs; it is harsh and dry to the feel, and the sediment, as has been before observed, does not change colour when taken out of the liquor.

Sometimes such a condition of the vat is absolutely irremediable; but when not gone too far, sprinkle some {77}lime into the liquor, and stir it. If you can thus remedy the defect, and bring the liquor to smell of lime, and to feel soft, cover the vat, and let it stand. If, at the expiration of an hour and a half, the effervescence begin, you may put in a pattern; in an hour afterwards, it may be taken out, and regulate your process by the degree of green which the pattern has imbibed; but, in general, when vats are thus out of order, they are not so soon recovered.

To work a vat which is in proper order.

The vat being in a proper state, the cross suspended, and thirty ells of cloth ready, or scoured wool in proportion, designed for black, by dyeing it of a blue grey; and having passed and repassed the cloth through the liquor for a full half-hour, it is to be wound round the winch, and thrown off into the barrow, and aired by the listings to change the green to blue. After this, a second piece may be dyed by the same process.

Having made this overture, or first stirring, as it is also called, the vat must be stirred afresh, adding lime; but not so much as to destroy the proper smell and feel. If the vat be in a good state, on the first day, it may be stirred three or four times; but it must not be overworked, particularly on the second day.

Concerning the colours to be obtained to the best possible advantage from a fresh vat on the first day,—the first is for black, the next for royal blue, and the third a brown green. On the second day, violet, purple, and Turkey blues in the last stirring. On the third day, if the liquor be too much diminished, it must be filled up {78}with hot water. At the end of the week light blues may be done, and on Saturday night add rather more lime, to preserve the vat till Monday morning. On Monday morning add more indigo, and stir the paste; keep the vat liquor at a proper distance from the top. Cover it for two hours; then put in a pattern, and in an hour take it out; add lime according to the green shade of the pattern, and in an hour or two, if your vat has not suffered, you may begin working it afresh.

To keep the cloth, &c. from the sediment, there is always let down into the vat, before the work is begun, an iron circle, with cords fastened from the circumference to the centre.

On the putrefaction of the woad vat.

Whatever be the cause, most certain it is, that the woad vat, even when prepared in the most careful and scientific manner, is soon disposed, if not used, to go into the putrid fermentation; of this we may be satisfied, when it smells like rotten eggs, as stated above.

The loss of a woad vat to dyers is extremely serious, both from the quantity of woad, as well as of indigo, which it contains: these articles being always expensive. The woad vat being worked by heat directly applied from an open fire, (the old method of heating it,) was much more liable to be lost than if it remained cold, or was worked continually, as it usually now is in London; added to which, the more equable application of heat by steam, there is not now the danger which there was in cessation, at uncertain times, and in uncertain states of the vat, as to richness or poorness of woad or of indigo.

{79}But a dyer in the country, whose business is barely sufficient to keep a vat going, will find more difficulty in this respect. If, therefore, he does a small batch of work on Monday, but has not half worked down his vat, and has no prospect for two or three days of doing any more work, he may possibly try to keep it with lime for a day or two: he may do so, and in the issue, in some instances, too much lime is the consequence. We consider, however, that when the vat can be worked daily, and replenished as it is worked down, as is the case in London, with care and attention, there is no danger of the loss of a woad vat: in London, such an accident now seldom happens. The author is, notwithstanding, persuaded that all the art of man cannot always keep a vat from the state of having either too much or too little lime, when heated but seldom, under a short course of work: for when a vat is in order, it is like a ripe vegetable; you must gather it, or it passes the time of its perfection; it may even be rotten ripe. We say, therefore, WORK THE VAT: withdraw from it, upon your cloth, its colour, which, as soon as you expose it to the atmosphere, will combine with its oxygen,—the oxygen with the carbon of the indigo and the woad. If you play with it too long, the putrid fermentation will begin, and the vat will be spoiled. The smell of rotten eggs always proclaims the approach of the mischief.

No one, therefore, should attempt to have a woad vat or vats, unless he can keep them nearly always at work. When worked down in a moderate time, and replenished with lime, woad, indigo, &c., working out and replenishing in, there can be no danger. On the other hand, in {80}proportion as the vat is out of condition, although partially recovered, it must always be with more or less loss.

Methods of dyeing

BLUES

Whether the goods be cloth, or skeins of yarn, they must, in all cases, be first wetted out and wrung, and then put into the vat, worked in it, taken out and aired, that they may turn from green to blue; and, if necessary, they must be put in again.

There is no difficulty in dyeing dark blues, by repeated dippings; but if light blues be dyed in vats which are nearly exhausted, they will not be bright.

Blue vats, upon a large scale, are now mostly heated by steam; they are then, with little trouble, always in a state for working, without the necessity of re-heating. They are very convenient for light colours, even after they become very weak. In some instances, in order to dye light colours to the best advantage, it would be advisable to set a vat on purpose, which should be strong in woad and weak in indigo; because the colour would be given more slowly, and the light colour obtained from them with much more facility.

To dye wool with lac-dye,

SCARLET

and

CRIMSON

We have mentioned lac-lake and lac-dye in page 12. Lac-lake is of very uncertain quality, having many heterogeneous substances mixed with it. Lac-dye is very superior to lac-lake. Lac-dye is much used for dyeing woollen yarn scarlet and crimson, for carpets and hearthrugs. {81}It is used with a peculiar spirit, which may be purchased of the dry-salters. Some think that this colouring material is nearly equal to cochineal; the author has, however, never seen any thing dyed with it equal to the colour obtained from cochineal, although it affords, nevertheless, a good scarlet.

Lac-dye is used by being powdered and put into a stone pan, (the quantity must be in proportion to what is likely to be used), with a portion of the above-named lac-spirit sufficient to make it about as fluid as treacle; it must be stirred with a glass-rod or a tobacco-pipe. Some use alum and tartar as a preparation, and some not. After putting the mixture of lac-lake and spirit in the copper with a proper quantity of water, add the goods and work them at a boiling heat. For scarlet add quercitron bark, for crimson, archil.

Lac-dye may be, however, prepared for dyeing, by submitting it, in powder, in a leaden vessel, to the action of sulphuric acid, in the proportion of not more than one part to two of the dye; and after the lac-dye is dissolved, the acid may be neutralized by carbonate of soda. With suitable mordants to the cloth or yarn, the colour may be then applied. Other processes for the employment of this dye are also adopted, but we have no room to detail them. (See Ure's Notes on Berthollet.)

To dye worsted yarn a

CRIMSON

Proportion of wool, one pound; of alum, two ounces and a half; of white tartar in powder, one ounce and a half. Having the water properly cleared by bran, let the {82}alum and tartar be boiled in it; when it begins to boil, stir the mixture well, and put in the worsted, which boil in the liquor for two hours; then prepare a fresh liquor for the cochineal, one ounce of which, in powder, is to be used for every pound of wool; when it begins to boil, stir it well, put in the worsted, and boil it till the liquor in the vessel is free from colour, it having parted with the colouring matter of the cochineal, which should now all be upon the worsted. If a series of shades be required, less quantities of cochineal, alum, and tartar, must be used; the lightest shade is dyed first.

The preparation of archil to finish the

CRIMSON

Put as much archil as the goods may require, and according to the deepness or lightness of the shades of the crimson required, into a copper of water of a suitable size, and boil it, (the best canary archil will bear boiling); damp the fire, let the archil settle, and then have a fresh liquor for the goods to be put in, to receive a proportion of archil according to the pattern desired to be matched. Begin with the lightest and end with the deepest, reserving the remains of the archil liquor, if it be not all spent, for common compound colours of such shades as it will be advantageous to use it in. (See the next article.)

On dyeing wool

SCARLET

Scarlet owes its beauty to a solution of tin in muriatic acid. For this purpose some use muriate of ammonia, commonly called sal-ammoniac, others use common salt. {83}It is of little consequence whether common salt or sal-ammoniac be used: different preparations are employed by different persons. The author has found the following to answer every expectation.

Melt an ounce of grain tin in an iron ladle, till an oxide is formed on the surface; then pour it from a height or distance into cold water. Pour the water from it, and it is fit for use, being then called feathered tin. Put this tin into a glass vessel or stone jar, and add to it eight ounces of nitric acid, eight ounces of water, half an ounce of sal-ammoniac, and two drachms of nitrate of potash. This preparation is better if made some time before it is used; it is a compound of nitrate and muriate of tin.

Should any one prefer a pure muriate of tin, the method of making it will be found in the last chapter, in observations on crimson and scarlet upon silk.

Into a copper of cleared boiling water, the heat being reduced, and having the worsted wetted out ready; for every pound of which (dry) put two ounces of cream of tartar or white tartar in powder, and one drachm and a half of cochineal in powder. When the liquor is ready to boil, add two ounces and a half of the first-mentioned solution of tin, which immediately changes the colour; stir it well: as soon as the liquor boils put in the worsted, and boil it till the colour of the cochineal is taken up by it. The worsted must now be taken out, when it will be of a flesh-colour, the water in the copper having lost its colouring matter. To finish the worsted, another quantity of clean water is made warm, into which six drachms and a half of cochineal are to be put; just before it boils, two ounces of the same solution of tin are to be {84}poured in, the liquor undergoing a similar change as before. The worsted is again put in, and boiled till it has imbibed the colour; it is then taken out, wrung, and rinsed in clean water, when the scarlet is in perfection.

One ounce of cochineal to a pound of wool, will impart a colour sufficiently deep, if managed according to the method above described, no colour being left in the remaining liquor.

For many shades of scarlet it will be, however, necessary, and, in a fresh liquor, to add either a certain portion of turmeric or young fustic, to give the scarlet that fiery red which some scarlets have. If not in an entire fresh liquor, a part of the old liquor must be taken out before the yellow is added.

When it is wished to dye a regular series of scarlet shades in worsted, half the quantity or less, for some of the lightest, will be sufficient of the solution of tin, the tartar, the cochineal, &c. The worsted should be separated into divisions corresponding with the shades required; the lightest is of course to be done first: if any deficiency be in the shade, it may have another dip. This deficiency is easily perceived, and a very little practice will enable the operator to assort them perfectly.

It should be noted, that the vessel most proper to dye scarlet in ought to be made of block tin; such as are used by the scarlet dyers for the East India Company.

When woollen cloth is to be dyed scarlet, to every hundred pounds of cloth put six pounds of tartar and eighteen pounds of the solution of tin at first; the same quantity in the completion; and in each operation, six pounds and a quarter of cochineal.

{85}For the accommodation of those who would make small experiments, one ounce of cream of tartar, six ounces of solution of tin, and one ounce of cochineal, may be used for every pound of worsted or cloth, putting two-thirds of the solution of tin and the tartar, and a quarter of the cochineal, into the preparation, and the remainder to the completion.

Observe, that although we have given processes for dyeing woollen cloth crimson as well as scarlet, yet crimson may be obtained in another way: for alum, the salts in general with an earthy base, and the fixed and volatile alkalies, possess the property of changing the colour of scarlet into crimson, the natural colour of the cochineal. The cloth which is dyed scarlet has only to be boiled, therefore, for about an hour, in a solution, more or less charged with alum, according as a deeper or lighter crimson is wanted. When a piece of scarlet has any defects, it is set apart for crimson. Soap and potash will also produce crimson from scarlet, but not of so bright a colour as from alum. Hence also we learn the necessity, in, at any time, working scarlet cloth, to avoid boiling it with soap or pot-ash, &c. if we desire the scarlet to remain.

To dye wool

MAROON

The worsted or yarn must be boiled for an hour or two in one twelfth its weight of alum and the same quantity of white argol. It is best, when there is a large quantity of yarn, to do this on the preceding day: if your copper hold a pack of two hundred and forty pounds, it {86}will be cold enough to handle after remaining with the fire out during the night.

When the skeins, &c. are taken out and arranged upon poles or sticks, have a fresh water ready in the copper, into which put about thirty pounds of chipped peach-wood, and when it has boiled half an hour, pour in some water to cool it down, and add fifteen pounds of crop madder; work the yarn in this liquor rather under a boiling heat. When it is full enough, for some shades you must add archil. As the whole pack is dyed at four or five turnings in, some of the parcels may be varied in the hues instead of confining them all to one shade. The various turnings will take the greater part of the day to perform. When you choose to have as many shades as there are turnings in, you divide the drugs into different portions for different periods of the time, to be used according to the patterns required. The most economical method of using the drugs being to follow the patterns one after the other: practice will teach the operator to do this most advantageously.

More madder than peach-wood gives a lively red; more peach-wood than madder gives a bright maroon red, bordering on crimson, but more so without any madder; with the addition of archil it gives a crimson, but by no means to be compared with the crimson of cochineal. Urine with the archil renders a less quantity of archil necessary.

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To dye wool

YELLOW

The proportion of alum used by dyers in these processes varies from one-fourth down to one-twelfth, of tartar one-sixteenth is used, for every pound of cloth. Equal parts of alum and tartar are used for worsted and yarn, each of which (alum and tartar) is only from one-twelfth to one-tenth of the weight of the material to be dyed.

The shades of yellow are straw yellow, pale yellow, lemon yellow, and full yellow.

In order that the cloth should be properly impregnated with the mordants of alum and tartar, according to what is allotted to the shade, whether light or full, it should be boiled in the preparation at least one hour; two hours for a full yellow; then a fresh liquor is to be made to receive the weld, which must be previously boiled: for a full yellow four or five pounds of weld will be required to one pound of cloth or worsted; for the lighter shades less of course: but a sufficient quantity only of weld should be used, and this should be boiled and re-boiled, as it will keep but a very little time after boiling. If you have a gradation of shades you will save drugs and expense by dyeing the fullest shades first, and the lightest last; but by this method the lightest will not be so bright as if they were done first, and the liquor renewed with fresh boiled weld, and so on to the fullest shade. At last you must have for the goods a preparation weak or strong according to the light or full colour of which they are to be. The last dyeing, whether of cloth or yarn, will assuredly {88}take all the colour out of the liquor of any consequence.

While expense is not an object, it is best, not only for yellows, but for all other colours, to have the preparation and the dye proportioned to the shade, the colour done at once, and the remaining liquor thrown away; but as the price usually paid for dyeing will not enable the dyer so to do, he commonly dyes his shades in succession, as above, and with the utmost economy.

To dye wool

BROWN

, or of a

FAWN COLOUR

These shades are extremely various, and are dyed without any preparation with alder-bark, red sanders, sumach, galls, madder, &c. and under a boiling heat, although it is occasionally necessary to boil some of the ingredients together previous to the dyeing: for instance, red sanders will give its colour out best when boiled with galls, alder-bark, sumach, &c. Cam-wood, bar-wood, walnut rinds, roots, &c. are used in some of these shades, the varieties of which are almost infinite. Practice is required in this branch of dyeing equal to or beyond any other.

To dye wool

PURPLE

, &c.

Pass the goods through archil, next through the blue vat, with the usual precautions, then through hot water. For some shades they should be alumed, and then dyed with cochineal for the crimson part of the purple. Blue and crimson make purple, violet, &c. according to the patterns required.

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To dye wool

GREEN

The shades of this colour are very numerous, as yellow green, pale green, bright green, grass green, laurel green, olive green, sea green, parrot green, cabbage green, duck's-wing green, &c.

The goods must first have a blue ground from the woad vat, light or full according to the pattern, they are afterwards to be prepared with alum and tartar, weak or strong according to the lightness or fulness of the pattern, and are afterwards dyed in weld liquor. Many of the shades of green are more readily done by dyeing the wool first yellow with old fustic, with a preparation of alum and tartar, and using the chemic blue vat made with sulphuric acid and indigo. See page 47.

A chemic vat for

GREEN WOOLLEN

Prepare in the manner described for cotton (page 52.), eight ounces of indigo and four pounds of sulphuric acid. This preparation need not, however, be neutralized for wool as described for cotton. In some instances the preparation is to be for the yellow of fustic one-twelfth of alum, the same quantity of tartar, and in some cases one-twelfth of alum only.

A chemic vat for

BLUE WOOLLEN

This is to be made the same as for green; it need not be neutralized as for cotton. For blue, however, twelve ounces of indigo are necessary to four pounds of sulphuric {90}acid. In dyeing the heat must be much under boiling, or the using of a high heat would give the blue a green tinge. This blue colour is very bright, yet not fast, but no preparation is of any advantage to either its fastness or brightness. Some put alum and tartar, and some use one, and some the other, to prevent a green cast: if, however, the wool be fine, white, and worked much below the boiling point of heat, it will not turn green although neither be used.

To dye wool

ORANGE

GOLD COLOUR

, &c.

The processes of crimson, scarlet, and of yellow united produce the various shades of these colours, leaving archil out. See buff, peach, &c. on wool.

To dye wool

BLACK

Black includes a prodigious number of shades, beginning from the lightest grey or pearl colour to the most intense shade of black. On account of these shades it is classed by dyers among their chief or primitive colours[8]; for the greater number of browns, of whatsoever shade they be, are finished in the same dye as would dye white wool a grey more or less dark. This operation is called browning. The best superfine black should have a full ground of mazarine blue previously to being finished black.

{91}A great quantity of cloth and other articles have, however, no indigo ground, but a ground of logwood, or of logwood and alder-bark, or of logwood and old fustic, or of logwood, alder-bark, and old fustic, all boiled together, and sometimes they are boiled in a decoction of oak saw-dust.

Indigo for the ground is the richest drug, in carbon, that is or can be used; logwood is next to it: too much logwood, however, whether indigo be used with it or not, gives the black a foxy hue; alder-bark and old fustic modify this effect, and are used in small quantities for this purpose, because the dye from these, as well as that from oak saw-dust, will produce a soot or dead black.

A jet black is required full and rich, therefore old fustic and oak saw-dust are only used to modify the richness of the ground as it regards the blue, whether of indigo or of logwood; for logwood especially, without these, if overcome with sumach and sulphate of iron only, would be foxy, purplish, or have a reddish cast.

So many different grounds being used for blacks, and every dyer thinking his own the best, is the occasion of such a great variety of hues, even of black, being found in the market. It is, therefore, thought unnecessary to describe the various methods of dyeing black which are pursued by different dyers, and which would be, in fact, impossible. But the author has done what is of much greater importance to the student, who, after a little practice, let him have a pattern of black to dye, will know how to do it, let who may have dyed it.

Even a blue-ground is, according to some, dyed afterwards {92}in a decoction of logwood and galls, or logwood and sumach, and two pounds of verdigris for a hundred pounds of cloth. Thus, ten pounds of logwood and ten of galls, are to form the decoction, and are boiled previously for twelve hours. One third of it with the verdigris is used first, and then the cloth, after boiling in it for two hours, is aired; it is then passed through one third more of the decoction of logwood and galls, having previously had eight pounds of sulphate of iron dissolved in it, and the scum arising from the solution taken off. The goods are to be worked in this one hour at a boiling heat, then aired again by turning them about on a stone floor. The remainder of the decoction of logwood and galls is then added, with fifteen or twenty pounds of sumach; boil it some time, and then add five pounds of sulphate of iron; scum it, and let the liquor cool down, then put the goods in, and work them at a boiling heat an hour or two, taking them out once or twice, at least, in the time, to air and cool; they are then to be well washed, and passed through a decoction of weld liquor, to soften the black, which will be very fine. This process is chiefly from Hellot; but the quantity of sulphate of iron is more by three pounds than he directs.

When the cloth is blue, it is usually boiled two hours in a decoction of galls, then washed and aired, when sulphate of iron and logwood are added to the liquor, and the goods worked in it for two hours, and then washed.

The above have been the processes in practice for a century past in France, where the galls were not so dear as they now are in England: sumach is here, therefore, now most commonly used as a substitute for galls.

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Another process for

BLACK

without a blue ground.

To dye one hundred weight of cloth, take thirty pounds of chipped logwood, half a bushel of alder-bark, and six pounds of sumach, and boil them together in a proper quantity of water for half an hour; then cool the decoction down with cold water, enter the cloth, turning it on the winch; bring it to a boil, having the sumach in a bag; boil and keep the cloth turning for one hour and a half: this is the ground. Have now ready fourteen pounds of sulphate of iron dissolved in water, which is to be laded into the copper by one man, while another turns the cloth for an hour at a boiling heat; it is then to be taken out, cooled, and aired, returned to the copper, and boiled gently for two hours, and then cooled again.

While the cloth is cooling, six pounds of logwood, ten pounds of alder-bark, two pounds of argol, ten of soda, or common pot-ashes, and three pounds of sulphate of iron, are to be added to the liquor in the copper, and boiled one hour, when the goods must be turned and worked one hour; and, lastly, taken out and aired. This black is said to be of the hue of a raven's feather. This process is from Heigh.

The argol is professed to be put in to counteract the sulphuric acid of the sulphate of iron; the alkali is said to cause the logwood to retain its natural violet colour: and if too great a quantity of logwood be not used, the result would be as above stated. But the author presumes that such a black would not be at this time much esteemed. We object to the introduction of so much, {94}indeed of any alkali or argol, as the time employed in performing the process is wasted. Alkali is good, however, where a chemic green is to be dyed black.

Wool will take up whatever the copper contains necessary to dye black; but, for the beauty of the colour and the durability of the cloth, it is best to let it have most of its ground of vegetable colour before it has the sulphate of iron, which blackens that ground, with sumach instead of galls; and even in some instances, dyeing some goods without the sumach.

Were the author, however, to direct the dyeing of black cloth, such as should be of the best kind, he would have an indigo ground with logwood and alder-bark, without old fustic or oak saw-dust; and to finish the cloth he would use sumach, sulphate of iron, and a small quantity of verdigris. He would give it the blue ground first; then the logwood, alder-bark, and verdigris; and then finish it with sumach and sulphate of iron.

If the blue ground were omitted, he should dye the cloth twice, giving it more of logwood and alder-bark, but verdigris the same; and finish it with sumach and sulphate of iron. Nevertheless, when we dye to a pattern, the pattern must be our guide.

Different goods will require different quantities of drugs. Logwood should be about one-fourth of the weight of the goods; the sulphate of iron about one-fifth of the logwood; alder-bark, when used, about the same quantity as sulphate of iron; but for some yarns this bark is not used, nor is it necessary; and where fustic or oak saw-dust is used, there is the less necessity for using alder-bark. The sumach must be about the {95}same quantity as sulphate of iron. Remember that carbon is generally considered as that which makes the richness of a dye. That it is the iron in the sulphate of iron, combined with the tannin and gallic acid which are assumed to be in the sumach and logwood, that produces the blackness of the dye; but this theory is questionable. See below.

The way to ascertain when the quantities of drugs are most appropriate for producing the desired effect is as follows:—

First, ground with different quantities of drugs, from three to five or seven patterns, and use from one third to one fifth of sulphate of iron and sumach to the grounding; afterwards finish with the remainder of the sulphate of iron and sumach: the fuller the ground the richer will be the black, if the logwood be not in excess, and the quantities be used as thus stated.

We ought also to state here (from Berthollet, vol. ii. p. 4.) that commonly more simple processes than any of those above described are employed for black. Thus the blue cloth is simply turned through a bath of gallnuts, when it is boiled for two hours. It is next passed through a bath of logwood and sulphate of iron for two hours without boiling, after which it is washed and fulled.

A black may also be dyed without a blue ground with walnut rinds or the roots of the walnut tree; in this case the cloth receives a dun ground from the walnut husks or roots, and is afterwards made black in the manner above described, with logwood and sulphate of iron.

{96}The blacks, however, without the blue ground are only given in general to inferior cloths.

The colouring principle of logwood is called hematin; it is crystalline, of a rosy-white, and, viewed through a lens, very brilliant; its taste is slightly astringent, bitter and acrid; exposed to the action of fire in a retort it affords all the products of animal substances, and also a small quantity of ammonia, which proves that it contains nitrogen. It dissolves easily in boiling water; on adding some acid very gradually, it changes to yellow and then red. Potash and ammonia give the solution of hematin a purple red; if a great excess of these alkalies be added, the colour becomes violet-blue, then brown-red, and finally yellow-brown. In this state it is decomposed and cannot be recovered by any acids. Protoxide of lead, protoxide of tin, hydrate of tritoxide of iron, hydrate of copper, oxide of zinc and its hydrate, flowers of antimony and oxide of bismuth combine with hematin and give it a blue colour, with the loss of the violet shade. See notes to Ure's Berthollet, vol. ii. p. 420. See the explanation of protoxide, &c. under OXIDE in Chapter I.

The above facts concerning logwood may, by the ingenious dyer, be applied on many occasions with great success.

To dye wool

GREY

All greys, from the darkest to the lightest, are composed of black in varying proportions. They are of great use in dyeing, not only for their own colours, but {97}also when applied to other colours, which operation is called saddening or darkening.

Some greys have a woad ground of blue, then of logwood, sumach or sulphate of iron, of which decoctions of the three last, for expedition, should be in readiness when wanted. When a succession of light shades, in particular, is required, in some instances the chemic blue is used: when we treat of the mixture of black, or rather grey with red and blue, the utility of grey will be seen.

Mixture of

BLACK

GREY

with

RED

and

BLUE

These produce an infinite number of all shades of grey as sage grey, slate and lead colour, and others still darker.

BROWNS

FAWNS

OLIVES

, &c.

Browns and Fawns owe, in all probability, their colour to the iron which their dyes contain. Iron is so universally diffused throughout nature, that it, very likely, enters into the composition of many other colours; it exists in blood, in water, and in innumerable vegetable and animal substances, as well as in earths and many minerals. Hence we ought not to be surprised that blue, red, and fawn produce olives from the darkest to the lightest; as well as slate and lavender when the shade is very light.

Fawn and yellow produce the feuille-morte or dead-leaf.

Fawn and red produce cinnamon, tobacco, chestnut, &c.

{98}Fawn and black produce coffee, maroon, &c.

Blue, yellow, and black produce all the dark greens, even to black.

Blue, fawn, and black produce dark olives and greenish greys. Red, yellow, and fawn produce orange, gold colour, withered-leaf, carnation, burnt cinnamon and tobacco colours of all kinds.

Yellows, fawn, and black produce hair colour, nut-brown, &c.

This enumeration is meant only to give a general idea of the ingredients proper for the production of shades composed of several colours.

Where red forms a component part of the colour wanted, the goods must have a preparation of alum and argol, strong or weak, according to the fulness or weakness of the red which forms a part of the compound dye, such as the half or quarter of the quantity which is required for a full colour of red; the same as to yellow, and, in proportion, when red and yellow are joined.

On the

YELLOW

of the Quercitron or American bark.

The quercitron bark is said to yield from eight to ten times more colour than weld, and about four times more than old fustic; this was, however, Dr. Bancroft's account, who had a strong interest in this dyeing drug, as stated in the first chapter. He also asserts, that one pound of bark with muriate of tin, will dye forty pounds of woollen a bright golden yellow, which afterwards becomes a beautiful and durable scarlet, with a fourth part less cochineal than is usually employed on other occasions for such a colour. But Bancroft did not succeed in {99}doing away the old method of saving tartar and cochineal.

His fullest yellow upon cloth, the author has, however, often tried and found it rich and golden; the process is as follows:

Cloth one hundred pounds; bark in powder, and in a bag, ten pounds; muriate of tin, or murio-sulphate of tin, (for which see forward,) ten pounds. The bark in the bag must be first immersed in the proper sized vessel for six or eight minutes; then add the solution of tin and stir it well for two or three minutes, when the cloth must be put in, and kept in motion by two or three men working over the winch from end to end; then proceed to boil; and, in fifteen minutes boiling, the highest yellow is produced; a longer time would turn the yellow brown.

When a very bright yellow, approaching less to orange, is wanted, seven or eight pounds of solution of tin, five pounds of alum, and ten pounds of bark, will do for a hundred pounds of cloth. In this process, boil the bark first in a bag for a few minutes, then add the solution of tin and the alum, and the cloth afterwards, as before directed; less body requires less quantities of course.

For a full

BRIGHT YELLOW

delicately inclining to a greenish tinge.

Use eight pounds of quercitron bark, to six of muriate of tin, six pounds of alum, and four pounds of white tartar, for cloth as before. The alum and tartar render the yellow more delicate, and give it more of the lemon or greenish tinge; where this is wanted in the greatest perfection proceed as follows:

{100}Take ten pounds of bark, ten of muriate of tin, or murio-sulphate of tin, ten of alum, and ten of tartar. For cloth three or four times the quantity of the preceding processes may be taken, namely three or four hundred pounds.

In this process the bark must be boiled fifteen minutes in water only, and then the other ingredients be added and mixed in the liquor by stirring. The cloth is next to be put into it, the liquor being first cooled a little; it is then immediately to be turned briskly on the winch till the colour is sufficiently raised.

When a variety of shades are wanted, in working the bark, (contrary to the processes for many other colours) the higher shades should, in this colour, be dyed first, and the weaker afterwards. When about two-thirds of the quantity of the cloth have been dyed, it will be generally found that the liquor, by continuing to extract colouring matter from the bark, has acquired an over proportion, and wants a small quantity of muriate of tin, of alum, and of tartar, perhaps a pound of each, to enable the bark at last, as well as at first, to give the same delicate, pale and greenish tinge. A surer way, however, is to boil the bark in a small quantity of water, separately, for six or eight minutes; and then to add to it the solution of tin, alum, and tartar, and boil them with the bark together for fifteen minutes, and then damp the fire; then have the cloth in a proper sized vessel, supplied with boiling water, and the cloth moving on the winch; after it has gone a few turns round, and is thoroughly wetted out (which it should be before, and now again) lest any part should be dry, add the supplies of the yellow liquor above {101}described, by little and little as they may be wanted: in this way expectation is surpassed by the beauty produced.

Bancroft's murio-sulphate of tin

is made thus:—Take of muriatic acid, three pounds; of feathered tin, as described in the process of dyeing wool scarlet, fourteen ounces; to the tin add gradually the muriatic acid; afterwards, with due and great precaution, by degrees, in the course of a day or two, two pounds of sulphuric acid. Care must be taken that the vessel in which this operation is conducted, be of stone ware or of glass. These acids being mixed with the tin, should be left to saturate themselves with it, which they will do in time, without artificial heat; but the dissolution of the tin will be rapidly promoted by a sand heat. This murio-sulphuric solution of tin, thus made, will be perfectly transparent and colourless, and will probably remain so for years, without suffering any precipitation of the metal.

To dye wool

BUFF

This is done with the most economy after scarlet, and, in such case, requiring very little addition (in some cases none) of cochineal. The wool, having an alum preparation, it may be requisite to add some fresh prepared decoction of young fustic or weld. See the next article.

To dye wool

PEACH

This process is the same as the last; that is, after scarlet; but the wool is not to be alumed: in some cases, a little tartar and cochineal is added.

{102}Observe, that the cochineal and tartar being added, the previous preparation must be according to the fulness or faintness of the shade wanted, whether of buff, peach, or flesh, all of which require, essentially, the same process. By such means, a pattern of any shade, compounded of red and yellow, from scarlet to the weakest buff and flesh, may be produced.

To set an indigo vat for worsted, serge, &c.

The vat being five feet high, and two feet in diameter at top, you may use for it from two to six pounds of indigo, according as you set it light or full.

Boil two pounds of potash, two ounces of madder, and a handful of bran, in fifteen gallons of clear soft water, for half an hour.

The indigo must be powdered; after which it must be levigated in a peculiar circular cast-iron mill, having a contrivance for two large round stones, or cast iron balls, which are kept in a perpetual circular motion while the indigo is ground. Water it, and put it into the mill, and as the balls run round, the indigo in the water is reduced to a fine flowery paste. There are mills more convenient than these, but, perhaps, none more simple for a small concern.

When the indigo is thus prepared, boil it in the copper with the grounds of the madder and the potash, which fell to the bottom; it is all, then, to be put into the vat at the same time with the indigo; the whole is to be stirred, the vat covered, and heat applied to make it more than blood warm, and to keep it so. The vat {103}should be stirred twice, slightly, both the second and third day, the heat remaining the same; when a brassy scum, divided and interrupted in many places, begins to appear on the surface. On the fourth day, the heat being continued, the scum becomes more perfect and less broken, the froth which rises, upon stirring, is more blue, and the vat a deep green.

When it becomes green in this manner, it is an indication that it must be filled; to do which, boil half an ounce of madder, and one pound of potash, in five gallons of water; put in this liquor, and stir it; if it produce much froth, stir it again, and the next day it will be fit for working; which, however, will be sufficiently known by the quantity of froth, and by the brassy and scaly crust on the surface of the liquor, on blowing or stirring which, the liquor beneath is green, although the surface appears brown or blue.

When the vat has worked about forty or fifty pounds of serge or worsted, it may be necessary to replenish it with one pound of potash, half an ounce of madder, and a handful of bran; these being boiled a quarter of an hour, are added to the vat.

When this vat wants replenishing with indigo, which may be known by the liquor being no longer green, but brown, blue, or almost black, two-thirds of it must be put into a copper; when ready to boil, the scum on the top must be taken off by a sieve, after which it should be suffered to boil, with the addition of two handfuls of bran, a quarter of a pound of madder, and two pounds of potash; soon after it has boiled, it is to be put into the vat with one pound of indigo, prepared as before; the {104}vat being again stirred, and covered, the heat always remaining between blood and fever heat.

When an indigo vat has been several times re-heated, it should be emptied out entirely, and set anew, because the colour becomes dull. The preceding process is from Hellot.

[8] It is necessary that the student should not confound the terms primitive colours here with the prismatic or primary colours, for the discovery of which we are indebted to Sir Isaac Newton. See the Introductory Chapter.

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The bagel wasn’t half bad, one of the better Chicago options, but knowing I can get real New York bagels tomorrow just made me really want NY bagels while eating this subpar Chicago bagel (sorry kosher deli, I still love you). I got to school and dumped my stuff on the second floor, then went up to class. I ended up getting cold called on a case I hadn’t written out a case brief for because I read it in the car on the way back from Ohio. I had copied info from lexis about it so I did have info in front of me, but it was scattered and not super helpful. And obnoxiously the book only gave us a single page of the opinion, so there really wasn’t that much to tell, and I feel like that kinda made me look bad because like, I didn’t have much to say?? I mean, the entire premise of the case is this employer had an intelligence test requirement to get hired, and it was shown that the test disproportionately failed African Americans, and the question was whether it can be found to be discriminatory if it is facially neutral as a policy (the answer is yes). So I said that much, and I was able to keep up with his follow up questions pretty well, so I was overall pleased with how the interaction went, even if I was a tad ill-prepared. I just need to suck it up and write out case briefs for every case, especially being that this is legit the only class I’m still actually doing the reading for, lol. The rest of class was fine, after I went back to the PAD office, where friend-guy from the office was there. I attempted to do some of my secured transactions reading before class tonight, but fuck if I understood like anything they were actually saying. Eventually I went to Starbucks and got a pink drink and a piece of the iced lemon pound cake. Hung out for a bit then went up to class, where I will admit I was preoccupied for most of the time, but I did at least manage to get some notes written, though I don’t know if they actually make sense in context. oh well. we did another Legends power hour on twitter to try to get #RenewLegends trending, so I did a twenty tweet long list as to reasons why they should renew it, so that was sufficiently distracting and required a bit of thought, but I was pleased with it. Class ended at 8:30 when it’s supposed to, I headed home, it was quite cold but I made it back to my apartment just fine. It was about 9:35 at this point, and Designated Survivor had been airing since 9, so I turned that on and started from the beginning. Damn do I love this show. I was soooo not prepared for tonight to be the episode Kim Raver was guest starring in, and I sufficiently freaked out when her and Kiefer had interactions because !!! Jack and Audrey !! my babies !! before I knew what shipping was, I shipped them so hard !!! So to see them together all these years later (and we’re talking like at least 10 years at this point) it was pretty great. The plot was decent, perhaps not the most exciting but fine just as well. I liked the part about the president’s daughter (Penny- I just looked it up, I thought her name was Grace for some reason) which was just so freaking precious, with her standing up for kids getting bullied after having to deal with her mother’s death. I hope this is leading towards the president dealing with his grief in a better way. At the end of the episode I was up a bit longer so I turned on Jimmy Kimmel. I was filling out my ballot for the primary because I got it mailed to be cuz it was easier, and I was trying to at least do cursory research on the candidates, though it’s difficult to find much on most of the judicial candidates. I tried to at least find small bios though, and made sure I voted for all the DePaul alums running (there were several, which made me happy) and otherwise just voted for the women candidates, because lord knows we need more woman judges. After I finished up there I started packing for tomorrow, grabbed my duffel bag and started throwing stuff in it, clothes, a suit for the interview friday, and other necessities. I’m still feeling quite conflicted regarding the interview, I keep thinking like “what if they offer me the job on the spot?” which I know is probably unlikely to actually happen, but I honestly don’t know what I’d do if it happened, I feel like I would feel pressured to say yes because this has always been my first choice job, perhaps the only job I could actually get involving children, definitely would be the most fulfilling job that advances my career goals as much as possible, but like, does any of that matter if I’m miserable and lonely the whole time? I mean, I don’t know that that’s what’ll happen, I do have friends who live in the city that I could socialize with, but I just don’t know what’ll happen, and that freaks me out. Sigh. Alright, enough with that. After I started getting ready for bed, and after showering spent a while downloading Avalance fics off AO3 for the flight tomorrow, and definitely have way more than I could possibly read during a two hour plane ride, lol. I really don’t have anything I need to work on over break, which feels nice, but also kind of makes me anxious that there is something I should be working on but am not. *sigh* oh well. It’s legit 2 am now and I have to wake up in a little over 5 hours so I think I’ll be calling it a night here. Goodnight sweeties. Sleep well.

#daily journal #March 2018

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innuendostudios · 8 years ago

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Everything You Thought You Wanted: Thoughts on Thimbleweed Park

[no spoilers]

There are a lot of ways to think about adventure game puzzles. Here’s one I like: a good adventure game puzzle is one you enjoy being stumped on. This is not the only definition of a good puzzle, nor are good puzzles the only rubric of a good adventure game, but I’ve long been a fan of the puzzle that grinds in my head for the hours I’m not playing the game. I spend a day away from my desk and, always in the back of my mind, ponder things I will try when I get home. Kathy Rain had a puzzle like this; Resonance had almost no other type of puzzle; this was the driving experience of Braid (which is not an adventure game). It’s a hard needle to thread, the puzzle having to be challenging but not too frustrating, and if the solution isn’t satisfying then the challenge won’t feel worth it. But, done properly, these are the kinds of puzzles I don’t want to look up the solution to, because being stumped is fun. This kind of puzzle is, understandably, rare, as it contrasts with the more popular design of, say, Portal 2 or Twilight Princess (neither of which are adventure games), where a puzzle is an easy thing that makes you feel clever without requiring you to be clever. These puzzles can be enjoyable, too, but I end up appreciating the designer’s cleverness more than my own.

Not to be too harsh, but if a good adventure game puzzle is one you enjoy being stumped on, Thimbleweed Park has no good puzzles.

I’m sorry. I wanted to like this game, and it certainly begins well. It’s the product of Ron Gilbert himself going back to his roots, and being that Ron Gilbert’s roots include The Secret of Monkey Island, aka Probably The Most Formative Gaming Experience Of My Childhood, I am squarely on Gilbert’s side here. I don’t actively dislike the game, or think any of the puzzles are outright bad, but I didn’t have fun, and I’m not thrilled by its design philosophy.

Thimbleweed Park follows the footsteps of Gilbert’s own Maniac Mansion so closely I’d think it’s attempting to track and kill its predecessor. It uses the same big head/chunky pixel aesthetic, the multiplicity of playable characters, roughly the same screen resolution, the same drawer of verbs on the lower left and the same inventory-of-infinite-size on the lower right. It’s been souped up with a number of modern affordances, both graphical (scrolling that cheats on the pixel grid, a vastly deepened range of colors) and mechanical (fast travel options, more sensible methods of connecting verbs to game objects). Most work, a few don’t work as well as they should (the run button seems calibrated for a game that scrolls faster than this one), but, on the whole, it does what nostalgia trips should always do: feel like the past while also sweetening it.

I am not surprised that a number of classic adventure fans are already calling it a new benchmark of the genre.

Let’s step back a bit: For a lot of adventure diehards, the pinnacle of Classic Era design is Part II of LeChuck’s Revenge: Monkey Island 2. In Part I, you’re on an island with a number of locations, characters, and objectives, and when you’ve solved all the puzzles you can leave the island. Part II is the same, but on a much grander scale. You now have three full islands and there are four map pieces scattered among them - you will advance to Part III when you’ve collected all four. There are dozens of characters, dozens of locations, dozens of objectives; long, snaking puzzle chains that span multiple islands and even a dip to the bottom of the sea that will, at some point, you hope, end in a map piece. It’s huge. This is only Part II of IV, but, for most players, Part II will likely consume about 90% of your time with LeChuck’s Revenge. The intense nonlinearity of this segment is one of the reasons “linear” became a shorthand criticism of other adventure games by fans of the genre.

The lead designer of LeChuck’s Revenge was, not coincidentally, Ron Gilbert.

Thimbleweed Park is Part II of LeChuck’s Revenge blown up to feature length. I’ve known the solution to every puzzle in LeChuck’s Revenge since I was 9 years old, so it’s impossible for me to judge it dispassionately, but the sprawl of Thimbleweed Park is so overwhelming that it makes me question whether it ever worked in the first place. Like, is the nonlinearity of LeChuck’s Revenge only enjoyable when you already know all the solutions? Is a huge knot of intersecting puzzles actually fun to solve, or is it just fun to know?

All the ways that LeChuck’s Revenge frustrated me in 1992 came back to me with Thimbleweed Park, as well as all the reasons I never finished Maniac Mansion. There are five playable characters. Each character has their own To Do list, full of objectives. Each character has their own inventory, only some of which can be transferred to other characters. Some characters have unique relationships with NPCs and will get unique dialogue options with them. There are certain things only one character can do, and other things only one character can’t do (there is a puzzle at the radio tower where the only character who can solve the first half is the only character who can’t solve the second half and this puzzle may or may not be time-sensitive). Every character has a number of red herring inventory items that never serve any purpose.

You get what I’m saying? Everything that made Part II of LeChuck’s Revenge challenging is multiplied by five. Not to mention the game world is bigger - there was the point around four and a half hours in when I realized I still had not traversed the entire map. If the game I’m describing is Breath of the Wild, maybe that’s a good thing, but when it’s an adventure game where you have to keep every interactive object in every location in mind at all times and where the NPCs quickly exhaust all their dialogue options and there’s no combat or cooking or horse riding or fishing to faff around with, sheer size is no longer appealing.

In a game with well over 100 puzzles, I looked up solutions to 5 or 6. I’d say that’s not too bad. None of the solutions were horribly obtuse, but I didn’t regret looking up the answers, either. In about every case, my reaction was, “I would have tried that if I’d thought of it, but I wouldn’t have thought of it for hours.” This is simply because most solutions are no more or less plausible then about 30 other things you could try. With so many characters and so much inventory and so many objectives, there are just so many things you could try. And half the time I don’t know why I’m trying it. I can’t tell you how many puzzle chains I followed simply because I could tell they were puzzles and that the game wanted me to solve them. There was no hint that the payoff would be a random item that I’d been looking for in an unrelated puzzle chain (or, worse, an item whose purpose was still obscure to me), I was just doing it because I was clearly supposed to. So, yes, each solution I looked up, the relationship between that inventory item and that game object was immediately obvious, but the only way I would have thought of that connection on my own would be if I walked, methodically, though every location with every character until the association presented itself. There are simply too many objects and items to make all those associations in my head. The solutions aren’t finding a needle in a haystack, they’re finding a needle in a fucking Monet.

And what gets to me is how adventure fans seem to think this is smart design, that the player who goes from room to room with every character until the solution presents itself is more intelligent than the one who says “fuck it” and looks up the answer. I am not a gamer who equates wit with stubbornness. For me, looking up the solution is a matter of pattern recognition. I solved the majority of the puzzles without help and could determine that none was entertaining enough to spend more than a certain amount of time on. Being stumped was never enjoyable, so I took no pride in solving puzzles the hard way.

There are other weirdnesses. For one, the characters hardly ever talk to one another, so it doesn’t make sense how they all know what the others have learned; there is, in fact, no narrative reason why any but Ray and Reyes are working together. This is a thing in Gilbert’s Maniac Mansion and The Cave, and Tim Schafer’s Day of the Tentacle and Broken Age, so apparently LucasArts alums think this is one of those things players will just suspend their disbelief on, but no, I don’t think it is. Also, Gilbert’s flippant sense of humor made me chuckle audibly for the first hour or two, but it makes it hard to get invested in a story that keeps mocking the very idea of being invested in it. (And, boy, if you thought the ending of LeChuck’s Revenge thumbed its nose at anyone who gave a shit about the plot or characters, the ending of Thimbleweed Park will strike you as unbearably smug.)

So, yeah. Y’all, I don’t know. I tried. Maybe it’s that irony just doesn’t scope up to 15 hours, maybe it’s that adventure design can only sprawl so much, maybe it’s that a game centered in one major location for its entirety just feels too much like a Sierra game for my tastes. But I didn’t have fun with this. Make of that what you will.

#capsule review #thimbleweed park #Adventure Games

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thecineastes-blog · 8 years ago

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Grand Prix RPDR RuView: Reality Stars!: The Rusical (S06E05)

Break out your selfie stick and get ready to break the internet! For Grand Prix RPDR RuView, we’ll be giving you the overview of each episode, top moments of each episode, the shadiest moment of each episode, our favorite queen of the each episode, our least favorite queen of each episode, best looks on the runway, and our predictions for next week.

The queens re-enter the workroom to see Charlie Hides’s lipstick goodbye...which is quickly erased by Trinity. I miss when the queens would actually read aloud the departing words of their newly eliminated sister. But that seems to have gone the way of the dinosaur. Trinity does not seem to be the least bit sentimental and wants to focus on what’s ahead. The queens seem so bummed that Charlie did not put up a fight. Trinity is also quick to clarify that she had wished she had been put into the bottom two for her performance and not for her questionable leadership. (personally, I thought she was in the bottom two for both those reasons but I digress…)

While everyone does seem genuinely happy about Sasha and Shea’s win, Alexis wants to become the cream to everyone else’s milk this season and rise to the top; Nina seems like she’d pull a Nomi Malone on any of her fellow contestants if given the opportunity.

The next day RuPaul drops in on the queens, sans her usual cryptic video mail. However, it does seem like our prayers (as well as those letter writing campaigns and hunger strikes) have paid off, we actually get a mini-challenge! Judt in time to be considered an Easter miracle! And on top of the that the Pit Crew is here! This season they are sponsorless, but have two new members, Yadir and Jared!

The queens had to shoot fun selfie photos with the Pit Crew in their summer ensembles. The photos were really fun to watch and made me realize how much I missed the mini challenges. Alexis is chosen as the winner, and will spearhead the maxi challenge in Kardashian: the Musical! Since Alexis won she got to choose not only her role, but everyone else’s.

The show seems to have gotten so disjunctive this season (and actually since All Stars 2). Drag Race used to follow a very linear pattern, there was the She Mail/RuMail, the mini challege, the preperation/rehearsal on the main challenge, performing the main challenge, the runway, and finally the lip sync. There just needs to be more a more cohesion for the rest of the series, because it’s getting ridiculous.

Alexis chooses the role self-proclaimed momager™ Kris Jenner; the other casting goes as follows, Eureka as North West, Cynthia as Kim, Farrah as Kylie, Valentina as Kendall, Aja as Kourtney, Sasha as Lindsay Lohan, Trinity as Paris Hilton, Peppermint as Britney Spears, Shea as Blac Chyna, and Nina as Khloe. Nina, originally wanting the role of Blac Chyna is already complaining about not receiving and the rehearsals have yet to start!

Eureka, has had her ups and downs these past episodes. ESPECIALLY since she has to use crutches. She is being a real Pollyanna about the situation, which is refreshing. As the queens are listening to their music and trying to get their lyrics down, Nina keeps going on and on about how unfair it felt not getting the role she wanted. Nina is as salty as the Pacific ocean. If this were Dreamgirls, she’d be playing Effie White.

Peppermint said what everyone else was thinking, there are THREE Black actors to the ONE Black role, so two people are gonna end up being shafted! I’m actually surprised they did not have Brandy as a character in the musical, since Kim working for her led to her meeting, dating and making the sex tape with Ray J.

The choreography session, led by Todrick Hall was well...clunky. Apparently, it was an intensive two-day ordeal...and some people took it to more than others. Eureka is making glam happen, she is applying rhinestones on ballet slippers to make it that more glam!

Aja has experienced a true Hannukah miracle with thinking she got a slimmer nose. Eureka also ate some humble pie and asks for Sasha and Valentina’s forgiveness. They both open up about their eating disorders, and even Shea talks about her bulimia battle. RuPaul’s Best Group Therapy Race indeed!

For the musical, I thought they all gave a strong performance but I’m sad they did not perform Kim Kardashian Meets the Easter Bunny: an American Play (and yes that is a real play, available on Amazon).

Ru comes down the runway in a shimmery silver number (is this becoming her signature color?); I’m happy to see hair and makeup and back to normal. So Meghan Trainor is wearing a unicorn onesie. Did she not have a stylist or at least ONE gay friend to talk to her about this? It just looks like she got up out of bed and ran to the studio to film the episode.

For the musical, I thought they all gave a strong performance but I’m sad they did not perform Khloe Kardashian Meets the Easter Bunny: an American Play (and yes that is a real play, available on Amazon).

Runway Over-Ru:

Category is Faux Fur Fabulous! First up is Peppermint, wearing a whole lot of pink (are her signature colors Blush and Bashful?). The skirt was very reminiscent of her ‘Naughty Nightie’ look, although the skirt fit her much better. Her faux fur piece reminded me of cotton balls. All in all, I was not a fan.

Did Kimora leave behind her Princess Banana Lady costume? Because that's what Trinity was serving on the runway (minus the first world sob story about not wearing padding.) the added nose ring and accessories were kind of a cross between Coco Montrese’s ‘Ru-animal’ look and Season one and ‘All-Stars’ alum Shannel. Sasha Velour was serving Russian dressing realness in a Kozachok inspired look.

The faux fur pants and hat were spot on. Well, after a chilly night of clubbing…” was Alexis’ Look for this runway, although the “reveal” was disappointing. Had she gone with a crystal encrusted mini dress or hell even a nude illusion like a Central Park flasher would’ve been more satisfying than that dress from Forever 21.

Cynthia’s Faux fur look was a lot. It was a two in one, it was mesh, it was faux fur, it had long sleeves, she had on gloves, she had on thigh high boots. Too much. Next up is Nina Bo’nina Brown Mountbatten-Windsor in a great look reminiscent of Mary J. Blige. This look (almost) compensated for Nina’s attitude this episode.

Aja’s look could best be described as holographic Hoth stripper.Not my favorite. I did like the lavender hair and earmuffs, but wasn’t living for the rest of the ensemble. Looking like a telenovela villain in a snakeskin patterned gown, faux fur stole and wild kingdom jewels was Valentina. I liked the look, but wish it was more faux fur.

Two words: muppet jacket. That’s what I’d use to describe Farrah’s Faux fur piece. That in combination with the holo printed booty shorts, highlighter green color (Hello, Michelle Visage!), weird windchime foil necklace and Red s-wave wig-it was a confusing look. I prefer Farrah’s retro showgirl vibe from last episode, it definitely suits her better.

Shea’s neon vinyl faux fur monster look was IT. It reminded me of Naomi Small’s neon runway look-which I also love. Were the Misfits’s missing a member? Speaking of 1980s kids Glam Rock, Eureka looked like she was straight out of ‘Jem’ and I wasn’t mad about it. From the neon, faux fur, hair, leotard and face paint- it quite literally looked like something Pizzaz would wear (minus the crutches).

Farrah and Cynthia are placed at the bottom two, and effectively were polar opposites with their performances; Cynthia performance was high energy but it was clear she did not know the words. Farrah’s performance was lackluster and somewhat boring. But I was clutching my set of Easter Sunday pearls when Eureka was sent home!

In hindsight, it made perfect sense, but RuPaul (and her lawyers) would be remiss (and held responsible) if they did not give Eureka time to heal. Untucked was just really weird when Alexis got on her pedestal about feeling that she did not feel the other contestants tried to help her with her runway look? Ugh.

Jonny’s Favorite Moments:

Mamma Mia!: Alexis Michelle as Kris Jenner nothing short of epic! She was present on stage, even when she wasn’t the main feature, was amazing.

Peppermint Twist: There is nothing better than Peppermint’s commentary on what is going on. My favorite parts of any episode.

Jonny’s Favorite Shadiest Moments:

Tony! Toni! Toné!: Will we be seeing Kardashian: the Musical make it to the great white way….don’t hold your breathe.

The Last Unicorn: Unofficial Commandment for RPDR Judges that I think Meghan Trainor did not realize, DRESS TO IMPRESS!

It’s the Great Menorah, Charlie Brown: I was glad we were able to witness a Hanukkah miracle! Aja’s nose becoming smaller! L'Chaim!

Jonny’s Favorite Queen:

Eureka, she will definitely will be missed this season. There were times she was downright grating, and others where she was very sympathetic and endearing. This episode, where we saw her hobbling around on crutches and wheelchairs with an ACL tear and not being the least bit salty or bitter? Take notes everybody, this is the attitude to have!

Jonny’s Least Favorite Queen:

Nina’s sourpuss demeanor this ENTIRE episode was really disconcerting. Come on, she was cast as Khloé Kardashian and was acting like she had to play Brody Jenner! And since Khloé is such a fan of the show (and a former judge to boot) I just wish Nina would have put more effort to outshine her cast members. I can see why people have called her a Debbie Downer

Predictions:

It’s FINALLY Snatch Game; this maxi challenge separates the boys from the men (or something like that). Let the odds be ever in your favor darlings.

Anais’ Favorite Moments:

Crystal Crazy: Valentina’s love of crystals and how stoning “feeds her soul” in ‘Untucked’ was adorable.

Unbreakable: Although she wrecked her knee in the Cheerleading challenge, Eureka didn’t let it bring her or her attitude down. (Side note: FYI Ru-no cheerleading challenges ever again.)

Anais’ Favorite Shadiest Moments:

Basic Instinct: How exactly was it the other Queens’ faults that Alexis wore a basic dress on the runway? It’s a competition! They’re going to be cordial but they’re not going to dress you.

Unicorn Tears: Was Meghan Trainor’s stylist on vacation? Really, a unicorn onesie?

Anais’ Favorite Queen:

Eureka and Valentina. Eureka’s positive attitude about her injury and not letting it hinder her in the competition was great-and to be honest I wish she had spent more time being like that, than coming off as desperate for camera time. (Bring positive Eureka for Season 10!) Valentina giving Farrah a bit of tough love was just what the Doctor ordered.

Anais’ Least Favorite Queen:

Farrah Moan and Nina Bo’nina Brown Day-Lewis. Farrah’s whining and cry baby demeanor is getting a bit irritating. She needs to toughen up when receiving constructive criticism-the 5 G’s girl. (Good God Girl Get a Grip). Nina’s attitude was ultra-salty and she spent a majority of her time complaining about not being Blac China, as opposed to taking the role she was given and making the most of it. I understand Nina’s faced a lot of opposition in the ATL drag scene, but she really should be showing her haters that she’s H-E-R-E bitch and showing them that they can’t bring her down. It shouldn’t be a surprise to her that other contestants are questioning her desire to be in the competition.

Predictions:

Snatch Game! FINALLY. It’s really the time where we’ve hit mid season and it becomes survival of the fittest. Being safe isn’t enough anymore.

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scuttz · 8 years ago

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Against All Odds

Archie Andrews/Veronica Lodge

Rating: E for Everyone

Tags: Fluff, Friendship

Not exactly a romance fic, but not-not romance. If you know what I mean.

"If Veronica were to leave, it would prove to everyone that there was too much tension, sexual or otherwise, for the two of them to hang out alone without it crossing some kind of line. If Veronica and Archie could spend time together without it being weird, Veronica would know that she could be around Archie without hurting her best friend." ----

Or, Betty's mom didn't let her go, Kevin was babysitting, and Jughead couldn't be bothered to get out of bed.

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The two of them didn’t mean to end up, alone, together.

They really didn’t. Everything that lead up to Archie and Veronica being alone together was completely accidental. Veronica would never do that to Betty.

In fact, she even said so.

“Archie, I could never do this Betty. Not again. Sorry, but this is just too weird. I’m just going to go home.”

The only problem was that it was in fact, raining. Veronica’s jacket, while in correct fashion for this time of year, did not account for the unpredictable weather and lack of Ubers that came with living in a small town. Veronica had to decide between getting drenched on her way home or staying here, at Archie’s house, alone.

Neither option seemed too appealing to her.

“I wouldn’t either, but this isn’t us doing anything. You could just stay here. I know things are…a little weird right now, but there’s nothing wrong with us being friends, right? We can’t hurt Betty by just being friends. It would probably be good for us to get to know each other better so we can stop walking on eggshells around each other.” What Archie was saying, was of course very true.

If Veronica were to leave, it would prove to everyone that there was too much tension, sexual or otherwise, for the two of them to hang out alone without it crossing some kind of line. If Veronica and Archie could spend time together without it being weird, Veronica would know that she could be around Archie without hurting her best friend.

So in the interest of Betty Cooper, Veronica decided to stay. As she crossed the threshold into Archie’s house, she was already worried she had made the wrong decision.

“And, like, I promise I won’t try anything.” He said, completely serious.

“Fuck, Archie.” Said Veronica. “You just made it fucking weird again.”

——

It happened in the stupidest way possible; everybody was supposed to come over to Archie’s house. It was supposed to be a group hangout. Archie, Betty, Veronica, Jughead, and Kevin. The first one, actually, of them all spending time together. Jughead and Archie were finally friends again, and they had all been sitting together at lunch and breaks. Veronica was excited that she finally felt she had her own little group in Riverdale, something that had been lacking ever since she moved from New York.

The Saturday hangout however, fell apart faster than you could say “squad”.

Kevin was the first one out.

“I’m really sorry guys but I’ve got to babysit my siblings that night.” Kevin sighed the next day at lunch. “I forgot that the second Saturday of the month is my parent’s date night.”

“Your parents do date night every month?” Jughead asked. “Sounds exhausting.”

“Actually, that’s kind of adorable.” Veronica gushed.

“Still as in love as the day they got married.” Betty teased, as Kevin gagged across the table. Betty turned to Veronica. “Kevin’s parents are so cute. You’ll die when you meet them.”

“Well, that sucks Kev. I guess the four of us can just hang out then?” Archie’s question was met with four enthusiastic nods.

“Wouldn’t miss it for the world.” Betty smiled.

——

Apparently, the world was equivalent to Betty’s mom making sudden “family plans” as soon as she heard she was going over to Archie’s on Saturday. Kevin not being there, and him being the only one of Betty’s friends that Mrs. Cooper considered acceptable, meant that she saw no reason for Betty to be allowed to attend.

“I can’t believe her!” Betty shouted angrily on a group Skype call.

“The rest of us can.” Jughead said, in-between handfuls of potato chips.

“Can’t you just sneak out or something? Just this once?” Veronica begged, thinking about how awkward it will be for her to spend the day with two ex-best friends, one of which she’s barely spoken to and the other that she knows all too well.

“Veronica…have you met my mother?” Betty asked, pointedly. She was met by a quick chorus of agreements that Betty sneaking out would be the possible worst reason in the world.

“Well I guess it’s just down to three of us.” Archie said. “That okay?”

Veronica and Jughead nodded, while Kevin began talking the background about how it was never going to be fun with Betty anyways, because he couldn’t make it.

——

Jughead, of course, just didn’t show up.

“Where is he?” Veronica asked, for probably the 18th time in the past twenty minutes. She was digging into the bottom the barrel of a peanut butter jar, before giving up and putting it down on the ground for Vegas.

“He’s probably asleep. That’s where he usually is, anyways.” Archie was sifting through his kitchen cupboards for more snacks. He had been avoiding looking Veronica in the eyes, and it was slowly driving Veronica insane. It was like the boy didn’t know how friendship worked.

“You know, back in New York, if someone didn’t show up somewhere that they said they were going to be, we kicked them out of the group.” Veronica mentioned causally.

Archie’s head snapped up at that.

“Wait, really? That seems, like, a little bit harsh don’t you think?” Archie seemed a little bit judgemental when he spoke. Well, at least he was finally looking Veronica in the eyes.

“Yeah, it was kind of a bitchy thing to do, but it’s just what we did. We had a whole list of rules, and if you didn’t follow them, you were axed immediately. Blocked on every form of social media, and just never spoken to again. We were like our own high class version of the plastics.” Veronica smirked at her movie reference.

“Plastics? Like, as in Barbie dolls?” Archie asked.

“No, like as in Mean Girls? The movie?” Veronica raised her voice accidentally at the shock of Archie not knowing the joy of such a beloved cult film.

“Oh, yeah, never seen it. People sure do love to quote it, though.” Archie dismissed the topic.

“What do you mean you’ve never seen Mean Girls?” Veronica exploded.

“Well, I don’t know, isn’t it kinda like, for girls? Like a chick flick?” Archie said.

“What? Just because it’s a female-lead movie, only girls can enjoy it?” Veronica said.

“Well, no-“ Archie started to defend himself, but Veronica threw her hand up to shut him up.

“I wasn’t finished, Archibald. Do you like SNL?” Archie nodded, unsure whether he was allowed to speak. Veronica was please that he quickly figured out that he was not. “Well, Mean Girls was written by Tina Fey, one of SNL’s most successful alumni, not to mention someone who has been paving the road for women in comedy for decades, all while being hilarious. Will Ferrel and Adam Sandler, two other successful SNL alums, don’t get treated this way and I would argue that most of their movies don’t match the comedic genius that is seen in the writing and production of Mean Girls. It is, ball means a movie, that boasts a hilarious female lead cast, with beautifully done comedy that shouldn’t be ignored just because the cover is pink and it stars a teenage girl.” Veronica tried her best not to pant after how worked up she had gotten over her speech.

Archie just stared. He looked a little bit afraid.

Veronica sighed.

“Where’s your TV?” Veronica asked.

“The living room, just right over there.” Archie pointed out the door frame.

“Okay. We’re going to watch Mean Girls.” Veronica waltzed into Archie’s living room, and began messing with his remote to try to find the on-demand option.

——

“Oh my god!” Archie exclaimed.

Veronica groaned.

“What now? Do you have any more insightful thoughts about the movie? Because I think I really needed it pointed out that Cady has trouble being in high school because she’s never been in high school.” As it turns out, Archie is a little bit slow when it comes to movies.

“No, Regina just got hit by a bus! Is she dead? I hope she’s dead. She was a bitch. Oh wait, never mind, she’s not dead.”

Veronica snorted.

“It would be so cool if she was dead.”

At that, Veronica couldn’t help but to burst out laughing.

——

“Okay, you were right, that movie was actually pretty good.” Archie said, in defeat.

“Do you promise to never again judge a movie by a young female lead?” Veronica asked.

“No. If a movie casts like, Meghan Fox as their lead I’m still probably going to judge them a little bit.” Archie said.

“She really can’t act, can she?”

“She really can’t.”

That sat in silence for a short minute.

“Hey, Archie?” Veronica asked, hesitantly.

“Yeah?”

“Are things always going to be weird between us?”

“Were things weird today?”

Veronica thought about that for a second. When Veronica first walked in this house, it felt as if she was walking on egg shells. But right now? She felt okay. Being with Archie, alone, felt okay.

“Well we just watched an entire movie sitting an appropriate amount of distance away from each other on the couch. Not too close, but not awkwardly far. I didn’t once think about trying to move closer. That seems normal.” Veronica reasoned.

“I didn’t think about doing anything either. I was too focused taking in the genius comedy of Mean Girls.” Veronica laughed. Archie shrugged. “That seems like what should be normal.”

“Have you ever had a normal friendship with a girl?”

“I don’t know anymore. There’s always been Betty, but like, I don’t know what to think of that anymore. She’s been my friend forever, and she’s like my sister. I think. I don’t know. If we were watching a movie, I might have my arm around her or something. It didn’t mean anything to me, but I think it might have meant a lot to her. All along. How long as she liked me?” Archie asked.

“I’ve been here for a month, Archie.” Veronica said.

“Right.” Archie paused. “But if you had to guess-“

“If I had to guess I would tell you that that girl has been in love with you since the moment she laid eyes on you, Archie Andrews.” Veronica said. “And I would also guess that you were blind to it all along because you loved her so much.”

“That’s probably all correct, then.” Archie trailed off.

“It’s not your fault, Archie. Just, maybe don’t touch her anymore unless you have the intention to date her.” Veronica said.

“I wish I did.” Archie said.

“I hate this.” He said.

“I love her.” He said.

“I love her too, Archie, and that’s why you better not touch me either.” Veronica said.

“I won’t.”

“And I promise I won’t touch you.” Archie nodded.

They sat in silence for a bit.

“Have you ever had a normal friendship with a guy” Archie asked.

“Not ones that aren’t gay.” Veronica said. “I went to an all girls school back in New York. Boys being anywhere meant it was an occasion, I guess. It wasn’t really until I moved here that I’ve realized that boys can be friends in the exact same way girls can. Even ones I’m attracted to.”

“Really?” Archie asked.

Veronica smiled at Archie. When she first walked into Pop Tate’s and saw him for the first time, she will admit that she just saw him as, well, a cute boy. It’s something that had happened to her a million times before. Veronica Lodge came, saw, and conquered. At least when it came to the opposite sex. She had a feeling that Archie was special from the first time she saw him. But maybe it wasn’t because they were going to date or hook up or fall in love. It might very well be because Archie was the first boy to show Veronica that boys are just like girls, in most ways anyways. All it took was a Lindsey Lohan movie to realize it.

“Really.”

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Jenelle Evans‘ husband David Eason has confirmed that he killed her dog, Nugget.

Eason, who received significant backlash and criticism for his decision to shoot and kill the animal this past spring, opened up to PeopleTV’s People Now about what led to the fatal incident.

“It was a situation where my daughter, her health, her safety was in danger,” Eason explained, referencing 2-year-old daughter Ensley Jolie.

“This was something that nobody wants to ever have to do. The dog was aggressive. Yes, she might not be huge or whatever, but you know when a dog bites a child on the face more than one time, then it should never be around the child again,” said Eason, 31. “If you give the dog up for adoption, one day it’s going to be around children again.”

He continued: “If you call the authorities at that point, the law says the dog has to be euthanized. I’m not going to pay anyone to euthanize my dog when I could do it myself.”

“I mean, I loved that dog,” Eason said, fighting back tears. “I still think about her every day. It’s really hard for me. A lot of people put me down for it, they hate me for it, but like I said it was not something I wanted to do.”

Teen Mom 2 alum Evans, 27, shared she had hoped the incident wouldn’t have gotten out to the public as it was a “private family issue that happened within our household.”

“We didn’t want it getting out in the news at all,” Evans said.

The reality star shared that on the day it happened, she told a friend of hers, who then told her 5-year-old son Kaiser’s father, Nathan Griffith.

“ called the cops and said, ‘Check on my son.’ TMZ got a hold of that 911 call and that’s how it got brought up in the news,” Evans said.

Evans went on to defend Eason, crediting his decision to kill Nugget to his “country lifestyle.”

“David has grown up in the country lifestyle — he hunts, he fishes. The way he was raised is really different than a lot of other places. We understand that people ares scared of the whole gun thing, they just don’t understand it from David’s perspective,” Evans said.

“His father taught him, ‘Don’t let any animal hurt you’ … and he just thought what he was doing was best,” said Evans.

RELATED: Jenelle Evans Slams Cops for Claiming She Fabricated Dead Dog Story as PR Stunt: ‘I Feel Attacked’

Evans shared that Eason is now extremely remorseful, explaining, “He does realize that what he did was wrong. And he does realize that he shouldn’t have done it. And he said, ‘I’m sorry, I didn’t realize how bad it was going to hurt everyone.’ ”

When asked if he thinks it would have been better to place Nugget into a new home, Eason said, “no.”

“I don’t think the dog should have been re-homed, no. Regardless of what I did, the dog would have been euthanized. … The law says if you don’t euthanize a dog that bites somebody, within a reasonable amount of time, you are held liable for neglect,” he said.

While Evans is standing by her husband, she said that “instead of conversating with me before it happened, he just did it.”

“He didn’t realize how big that was going to be if it did get out. He also isn’t used to social media or being on TV or anything like that. I’ve been around it since 2009. I know my actions from the past have made me learn not to do those mistakes again. David is learning from everything that is happening.”

Since Nugget’s death, Eason and Evans have taken steps to heal as a family.

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Nugget… I’m crying everyday. I love you so much and I’m so sorry. I’m speechless. You were my side kick and knew the moment I felt bad and would cuddle with me. You still had a lot to learn and a lot to grow from your lessons. Everyday I wake up you’re not here, when I come home you’re not here, when I go to bed… you’re not here. You’re gone forever and there’s no coming back. #Heartbroken #Distraught

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“I have , and we went to co-parenting counseling sessions — it’s kind of like a marriage session in one. And he’s also taken anger management classes; he took six classes, completed the whole course. So I mean, he did do things to try to better himself. We’ve been working out really well ever since. We got over it,” Evans said.

“Actually, my pitbull Jax, he actually killed one of our pigs recently. So instead of David saying, ‘Well let me euthanize the dog, let’s just give the dog away.’ So we gave the dog away instead … So he’s even taken the initiative to correct his actions and not repeat the same mistakes he’s made before,” she explained.

On April 30, Eason, posted a video of the dog becoming aggressive toward Ensley as she tried to hug him. He also shared a photo showing a scratch mark on the toddler’s face.

“I don’t give a damn what animal bites my baby on the face… whether it be your dog or mine, a dog is a dog and I don’t put up with that s— at all,” he wrote. “I’m all about protecting my family, it is my life’s mission. Some people are worth killing or dying for and my family means that much to me. You can hate me all you want but this isn’t the first time the dog bit Ensley aggressively. The only person that can judge whether or not a animal is a danger to MY CHILD is ME.”

RELATED: Jenelle Evans and Husband David Eason Get Two New Dogs After Controversy Over Other Pet’s Death

On May 1, Evans mourned Nugget’s death.

“Nugget… I’m crying everyday. I love you so much and I’m so sorry. I’m speechless,” she wrote alongside a selfie of herself and the dog. “You were my sidekick and knew the moment I felt bad and would cuddle with me. You still had a lot to learn and a lot to grow from your lessons. Everyday I wake up you’re not here, when I come home you’re not here, when I go to bed… you’re not here. You’re gone forever and there’s no coming back.”

It was revealed in July that Eason would not be facing animal cruelty charges for shooting and killing Nugget.

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The Many Haunted Places in California

Ghosts & the Supernatural – Deanna Jaxine Stinson and I, have been involved with the paranormal, since the time we were children. Deanna has explored many places in California and so have I. Below are a list of haunted places in California, that either Deanna and I, did a lookie loo or stopped by to do a semi-investigation. We either did this together or did this separately. Special Note: If it wasn’t for Brad Steiger and his many books, I would not be the person that I am today. Thank you Brad. Now let’s look at the list:

Rockville Cemetery – 4219 Suisun Valley Road, Fairfield, CA: Date: 6/9/2018 – Time: 1500 Hours. Present: Deanna Jaxine Stinson, me and one more investigator that does not want his name disclosed. Deanna being a sensitive, picked up on an Asian woman ghost walking around by a tree. We looked in the area that Deanna pointed out and discovered a gravesite that read Wendy Strickland and then some Chinese writing. Wendy’s last name must be a married surname. Deanna picked up on a little boy ghost wearing a long adult type of shirt that hung past his waist. I captured an EVP of a boy saying “here”. The voice that said “here” was talking during the time I was talking. Deanna even saw a ghostly squirrel. We captured a Class A EVP that says either: “keep it” or “the Keeper”. We captured another EVP that says to me: “shut up man”. We may have witnessed a ghostly head peering from behind a building. Below are the videos and pictures from this investigation, listen to some of the EVPs and you can be the judge.

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Port Costa is a town on the Carquenez Straights by Crockett, Rodeo. The road that is legend/myth is Port Costa Road off Highway 4 in Contra Costa County / On this road people have heard blood curdling screams, horses galloping, people arguing. They have also seen shadowy figures moving along the landscape.

The Falkirk Mansion – San Rafael. The bushy haired boy ghost is seen walking around the garden area. Legendary Ghost: Bushy Haired Boy Ghost.

Wright’s Station – Wrights, CA – An old gray haired man is seen walking around and he has asked a few people for some extra pocket change. When a tourist is about to give him some money, he vanishes. Ghost Identified: The Old Man Beggar.

Dutch Flat Hotel – Dutch Flat, CA – Coat Tail Man is sometimes seen. A male ghost with black jacket and coat tails. Legendary Ghost: Coat Tail Man.

Jeffrey Hotel – Coulterville – Creature with red eyes is sometimes seen crawling on the rooftop of the hotel. Legendary Ghost: Red Eyed Roof Crawler.

Mormon Emigrant Trail Road – Old Iron Mountain Road . Ghostly settlers are seen walking the trail. Legendary Ghosts: Old Iron Mountain Phantoms.

Town of Locke – I sent a scouting party to this location and we got some unusual orb activity. There are many stories in the town of Locke , like the Bok Bok Man (a ghost that makes tapping sounds during certain hours of the night). Legendary Ghost: Bok Bok Man. Legend has it that in the 1800s, an old Chinese man with a lantern would walk around the town of Locke, waking people up to go to work, he would hit a iron bowl with a stick, he was known as the Bok Bok Man. People to this very day, still hear the sounds of bonging on an iron bowl in the early morning hours.

Town of Buena Vista – This whole town is haunted. Lady in a long pink dress is sometimes seen in and around Buena Vista . Legendary Ghost: Lady in Pink.

Folsom Powerhouse – I personally investigated this nightclub. Captured some intelligent moving orbs. Daniel Sanchez says that one time at 4am, he was walking past the place and saw partying people come out of this establishment and as he watched, they just disappeared. Ghosts Identified: Folsom Powerhouse Ghostly Party Goers. www.powerhousepub.com

Potter School – Sonoma County – This is where Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds movie was filmed at and Potter School is reputed to be haunted. The laughter of school children is sometimes heard in the late evening hours. Legendary Ghosts: Laughing School Children.

Ralston Hall Mansion – Notre Dame de Namur University. Ghostly black Doberman pincher has been seen. Legendary Ghost: The Doberman.

Pinky’s Bar and Grill: Nancy Bradley and Gold Rush Ghosts investigated this haunted location. Nancy wrote about it and her story starts off like this: “The weather could not have been more frightful, terrible, unaccommodating and spooky, the night of December 1, 2008 as we approached our destination, Pinky’s Bar and Grill. Located at the Verona Village Resort on the beautiful Sacramento River a few miles north of Sacramento , California , we had been told the place had stories to tell. Nestled directly on the water in a little hamlet called Nicolas, it should not have been a chore to get there from our Gold Rush Ghosts Paranormal Headquarters in Placerville , about 30 miles away in the heart of the Gold Rush Country. But this day was different.” When I investigated Pinky’s Bar and Grill, one of my investigators saw a wet fisherman. As they watched the wet fisherman, he simply vanished. Ghost Identified: The Wet Fisherman. A local confirmed that there is indeed a ghost of a fisherman that haunts this area.

Murphy’s Hotel in Murphy’s CA (gold country): Very haunted hotel. A woman wearing a green dress has been seen roaming the halls. When I investigated Murphy’s Hotel, I captured 3 EVPs, one EVP was a Class A and the EVP said: “Why don’t you get!!” Ghost Identified: The Green Dress Woman.

Nevada City – Many locations are haunted in Nevada City . The ghostly fireman is sometimes seen. When he appears he acts like he is looking at the rooftops of buildings. Legendary Ghost: The Fireman Ghost.

Crockett – many locations of this town are haunted. A ghostly white horse is sometimes seen galloping through the main street of Crockett. Legendary Ghost: The White Horse of Crockett.

Michigan Bluff – Chinese immigrant workers in the 1800s fell off a cliff and are said to haunt a certain hillside at Michigan Bluff. Legendary Ghosts: Chinese Immigrant Workers.

Opera House – Montague: Ghost of woman opera singer is sometimes seen on stage. Legendary Ghost: Opera Singer Ghost.

Joseph Grant Park, on Alum Rock 6 miles from the summit/Lick observatory on Mt. Hamilton . Haunted by hippie girl that was murdered there. Legendary Ghost: Joseph Grant Park Hippie Girl.

Alameda Insane Asylum – Extreme haunting activity. A ghost hunting group called The Determined Paranormal Hunters claim that they saw 3 men in white robes yelling and screaming and as they watched these 3 men, they walked right into the wall and vanished. When I was at this location, I captured an EVP of screaming noises. Ghosts Identified: The Screaming Trio.

Keddie Resort – Plumas County – Brutal murders took place in Cabin #28. Extreme haunting activity. I captured an EVP of a woman screaming.

Andleberry Estate & Sanatorium – 2604 Clovis Avenue , Clovis , CA 93613 . Extreme haunting activity. A ghostly nurse is said to walk the hallways and peer into various rooms, she has a stern look on her face. Ghost Identified: Andleberry Nurse.

Columbia Hotel in Columbia : Old time cowboy gambler seen at hotel, dropping cards to the floor. The cards will dissipate when they touch the floor. Legendary Ghost: The Cowboy Gambler.

A Fan Writes: “I was reading your HPI web page and some of your investigations, and I am curious to know if you’ve ever investigated the Vineyard House on Cold Springs Rd in Coloma , CA . I was employed as a security patrol officer in the mid-90’s and the vacant (at that time) Vineyard House was on my route. I experienced many strange goings-on both inside and outside while patrolling the grounds there. The Coloma Pioneer cemetery is directly across Cold Springs Rd from the house and has been documented to be very haunted, was even investigated by the psychic Sylvia Brown some years back. The whole area, according to the owners of the market down the road from the Vineyard House, has more than its fair share of hauntings. Might be good practice for you to check out some of them.”

MORE HAUNTINGS: Gilroy / Highway 152 (Blood Alley) There have been numerous sightings of a woman searching for her child, hearing the sound of a stage coach and the snorting and breathing of horses, and a rumor that a woman was killed by a truck driver and she appears in the passenger seat of a truck, screams, and then vanishes.

Mt. Madonna State Park, 7850 Pole Line Rd. Mansion ruins and surrounding areas are haunted by former owner Henry Miller and his daughter. The daughter has been seen in open fields riding a horse. She was killed on site when she fell off of a horse and broke her neck. There have been ghostly observations of a girl on a horse and she will disappear in front of your eyes. Strange mist has been seen in the hills for decades. Ghost Identified: Henry Miller and The Girl and Her Horse.

South Valley Jr. High School, 385 IOOF Ave. Inside the old ROP building, footsteps were heard in the hallway by the nightshift employees. Upon investigating, no one was located in or around the area. Ghost Identified: The South Valley Jr. High School Walker.

Joshua Tree / Joshua Tree Inn, 61259 Twenty-nine Palms Highway / The Inn is the place where rock star Gram Parsons (of the 1960s band, The Byrds) died. He overdosed in room 8 and visitors staying there say that he still haunts that room. Objects shake, move by themselves and sometimes disappear only to reappear later. Famed psychic Kenny Kingston stayed there in 1997 and could feel Parsons vibes. Friends of Gram also stole his body before it was to be shipped home to Louisiana and tried to cremate him near Joshua Tree. They were arrested and Parson is buried in Louisiana. Ghost Identified: Gram Parsons.

Modesto: Modesto High School, At the intersection of 1st St. and H St. / The spirit of a young man paces the balcony of the auditorium. Supposedly, quite a few years ago, a young man had fallen from the balcony railing to the carpet-covered cement ramp below and was killed. There are also reports of knocking noises heard in the main hallway, where the floor slopes by the sewing room, that are coming from the tunnels that used to run under the school. Ghost Identified: The Balcony Man.

Napa: Napa Cinedome, 825 Pearl St. / The Napa Cinedome is said to be haunted by two ghosts that look like a loving couple. There is one spot in the last theater room in the building that gets cold enough to shed ice over your coke, when you sit there you also feel like someone is watching you. Ghosts Identified: The Loving Couple of Napa Cinedome.

Oakland: Holmes Book Company, 274 Fourteenth St. / Haunted by a male ghost that will throw books around. Ghost Identified: Book Thrower.

Pardee Home, 672 Eleventh St. Located in California ‘s Preservation Park Historic District, this house was home to California ‘s Governor (George Pardee 1903-1907). Pictures showing orbs have been taken, but no naked eye sightings. The rest of the park is also haunted with orbs having been photographed. They believe that George Pardee still haunts this home. Ghost Identified: Governor George Pardee.

By Paul Dale Roberts, HPI’s Esoteric Detective Halo Paranormal Investigations – HPI International. www.facebook.com/#!/groups/HPIinternational/

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DAY 2 - Magical Phone

Today is my second day of the “challenge”.

To know more about the challenge, please check my previous post!

The second challenge is Magical Phone. This time around, we are challenged to rearrange the apps on our phones and computers.

The link for today’s challenge is attached below;

Episode 2: Magical Phone <http://www.wnyc.org/story/infomagical-challenge-2/>

Surprisingly, a Japanese woman was featured in the podcast......I forgot to mention that I am also Japanese.

Her name is Marie Kondo, and she is the author of the No. 1 New York Times Best Seller book in 2015, “The Life Changing Magic of Tidying up”. I am not sure if this book had been so popular in Japan before being translated into English, but I personally got to know about it after it gained popularity in the US. (Interesting, isn’t it?) I even heard about a verb “kondo” that was created on social media to mean tiding up.

In the podcast, she challenges us to focus on what we keep, and not throw away. This is possible when we live organized lives. She also encourages us to keep what sparks joy in us, as well as living simple lives. This will assist us in tidying up our brains.

Being inspired by the words of Marie Kondo, Christopher Mims, a Wall Street journalist, decided to take on this challenge and “kondo” his digital device. He tidied up the apps on his phone and put them together in folders. Now his standby screen has only one folder.

Then, they requested us to do same thing.

Okay, let’s do it then.

At first, my iPod touch which I used as a phone without the number looked like;

Then, I thought about what to keep.

First, I realized that I still had some apps that were not necessary. For instance, there were some English learning apps for IELTS which I had not used for long. Deleted them!

Second, I put them together in terms of functionality.

For example, I created new folder for social media. You can see that I had some folders to put apps together, but social media which I use often were not placed in any folder.

At last, I turned off the notification following the command on the project website.

Done! (Don’t care about the time difference between two pictures, I just forgot to take a photo).

Basic apps from Apple are all left on my device. I use clock app almost everyday, and often open calendar app. Sometimes other pre-installed apps such as numbers are needed to load materials. Safari is obviously an essential app to use for internet searching. Social media apps are important for me not only to share my life, but also as the way to contact people since I have no mobile number. I also use this device as a camera, so I decided to keep cameras and photo album. There are some other apps left, like for education or school and for management health in such. Those were what I wanted to keep.

I didn’t change my wallpaper for this challenge as they recommended. I’ve never changed it before nor will I. This is too nice for me to change.

Through this process, I realized that people use their mobile devices as many genre of materials. For navigation, camera, photo alum, texting message, university, insurance service, social media, health management...... It is inevitable that people have lots of apps on their devices because it takes longer if you search them on the internet, and some services are available only on apps.

I tried to spend the whole day with this new organized iPod touch. In my opinion, it was hard to use apps in a folder. For example, when I used a camera app which is not provided from Apple since I didn’t want to use Apple camera and make noise with the sound of the shutter which cannot be turned off on Japanese Apple devices, which means I need to unlock my iPod touch first, it took longer to open from the folder. It was kind of annoying. Regarding notification, I couldn’t stop checking test apps because I had no way to know if I received important messages without notification. Before the challenge, I originally organized my setting and turned off the notification of some apps that were not necessary. I thought my original setting was better to judge if I should reply to messages. Also, from the beginning, my iPod touch and computer desktop are not messy because I originally try to make them easy to use for myself. The way to tidy up for digital devices of this challenge is not suitable for me though one day was not long enough to gain the benefits.

(This is how my computer desktop looks like)

I feel a little bit sorry but will revert all of my phone back except deleted apps after I finish writing this.

Well, however, if you haven’t tidied up your apps for a while, it is definitely worth a try. This task didn’t work well with me, but it was not a waste of time.

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By Irish Collene Caña

Social expectation is not uncommon. It has evolved throughout the centuries. Our ancestors have probably experienced being pressured into abiding by the social norms. And now, here we are in their futures, experiencing the same thing. Media, on the other hand, mirrors the reality we have today. Often times, in media, such social expectations can be seen from films to books to TV shows. It is something so internally woven in our lives that it is almost impossible to break free from it. However, nothing is impossible with something constructed by society. It can simply be reconstructed, if not abolished.

Dope (2015)

It is a coming-of-age movie that tackles issues of race, identity and authenticity. It’s presented in such a manner that no one would take it seriously regardless of the violence shown in the film. However, I believe this kind of representation made it easier for the audience to digest it. It’s like an irony and humans naturally react to something out of the ordinary. Hence, the outrageous feedback this movie received.

Dope (2015), according to IMDb, is about Malcolm (Shameik Moore) who is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A chance invitation to an underground party leads him into an adventure that could allow him to go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself. It is directed by Rick Famuyiwa and stars Shameik Moore, Tony Revolori, Kiersey Clemons, Zoë Kravitz, A$AP Rocky, and even supermodel Chanel Iman.

The movie is centred on a black crime-filled community in Inglewood, California which Malcolm deemed to be one of the worst neighbourhoods to be in. It may be hard on him because of his evident detachment (being a geek) from the community but then again according to Malcolm, “For most geeks, a bad day might be being the butt of jokes in class [or] being beat up by a jock. But when you live in the Bottoms, a bad day might be accidentally getting killed.” The fault isn’t in being a geek anymore, but being black.

Even before the movie progressed, Malcolm and his friends have withstood constant bullying and mockery by his fellowmen for liking 90’s hip hop culture and white stuff such as skateboards, manga comics, getting good grades, and applying to college. However, the three rose up to the occasion when they realized Dom, a drug dealer, put Ecstasy in Malcolm’s bag, in attempt to hide it from the eyes of the police under the heat of raid. Honestly, even if the whole film revolved around that conflict, I can’t help but feel that the plot was a cover-up from the real problem: the social expectation of Malcolm’s community. Throughout the film, he has been stressing over college and the approval of the alum assigned to him.

In a place where the norm is dealing with drug money and gangs, Malcolm’s perception of success is a joke. Because of constant rejection for being black, the people around him have given up on the idea of a better future and expect him to do the same. Malcolm recognizes this by the end of the film as he ends his college admission essay with, “So, why do I want to attend Harvard? If I was white, would you even have to ask me that question?” Even if it concluded with a tinge of bitterness, I personally believe that Malcolm only came in terms with his identity. Even if he has almost perfect SATs scores and likes manga comics, people won’t look at him twice after knowing that he hails from Inglewood. No matter what he does, people will judge him. "For most of my life I have lived somewhere between who I really am and how I am perceived. Between categories and definition." It’s up to him to decide whether it should affect him or not.

MTV’s Awkward (Season 1)

Awkward, according to IMDb, is a TV series about an unpopular 15 year old (Jenna Hamilton) who gains immediate, yet unwanted, popularity at her high school when the student body mistakes an accident she has for a suicide attempt.

It all started in summer camp with a boy named Matty Mckibben who called Jenna over to the utility closet, two weeks before sophomore year starts. Due to Jenna’s overwhelming happiness of being noticed by her crush, she willingly gave her virginity to Matty. After the two had sex, Jenna expected there would be something more. Matty quickly shut down the topic with words along the lines of, “Nobody can know that I like you.” In attempt to eradicate the awkwardness between them, Jenna pretended she’s okay with it.

Due to the high she experienced in camp, Jenna slowly wanted to have more. This emotion was prodded further by an anonymous care-frontation letter sent to her after the first day of school. The letter contained guidelines on how to standout in high school, but presented in such a harsh manner. This evoked anger and sadness in the protagonist. The accident, soon, followed.

At first glance, this series is harmless but then again, what school-centric media isn’t problematic? High school was a difficult episode for me. I could go as far as claiming it was even worse than college. It’s not because of school works or mandatory memorization of prayers, but the people. No one, at that age, has already realized the toxicity of ideologies.

I’d like to point out a few scenes where certain ideologies were expressed.

Lissa, a stereotypical dim-witted blonde who has a strong belief of her Christianity and abstinence, has been feeling the pressure of her third monthsary with Jake, Matty’s best friend. But because of her Christian values, she still hasn’t slept with Jake. Sadie, her best friend & arch nemesis of Jenna, told her that Jake will eventually look for another girl if she won’t keep him satisfied.

This scene failed to address the effect this could have on viewers as young as 15. The age bracket of the characters in Awkward is from 15 to 16 years old for season one. Now, this could send a message to teenagers, females especially, that they are entitled to have sex with their partners to keep their relationship going, even if they don’t want to.

“A person’s popularity is directly related to the number of red cup pics they have posted online.” Tamara, Jenna’s best friend, said. She continued to express her fixation on popularity as she maneuvered around the popular kids in a small house party to take pictures as proof she was part of the scene.

Tamara is Jenna’s chirpy best friend. She’s the one who kept on prodding Jenna to join the party. She’s intoxicated by the idea of popularity and fame, even going as far as coaxing Jenna to let her come. Popularity, obviously, is not the kind of power that matters—at least not in the real world.

“It wasn’t my stigma or another girl keeping me from Matty. It was how I saw myself.” Jenna said. Jenna continually looked down on herself because she felt like Matty’s way too good for her. It may be the girls around him but she constantly worries over this even when Matty has already made it clear that he wants to be with her.

Society has obviously let Jenna down after her ‘accident’. She’s labelled as ‘the girl who tried to kill herself’, and it took a toll on her no matter how fictitious the statement is. Because of the image her community has constructed for her, she is unable to look at herself in a different light.

“Honey, I know you are. And you will be successful if you track what you eat.” Sadie’s mother said after Sadie broke down in front of her regarding her struggles in losing weight & not being able to wear the clothes she wants.

Sadie’s mother is slim and beautiful. Sadie, on the other hand, is not. However, she is tall, intelligent, strong and even funny. Despite Sadie’s other gifts, her mother still recognizes a miniscule of what makes up of her—her weight. Society is so absorbed with the concept of beauty that most fail to understand that it doesn’t really matter. The concept of beauty is just a concept.

“Being a Knick Knacker means that I won’t just be that girl who got knocked up in high school or that girl who didn’t go to college and make something of herself.” Jenna’s mother explained to her. Jenna couldn’t understand her mother’s desire to be in the Knick Knack group. Obviously, Jenna doesn’t know about her mother’s desire to be recognized for something.

MTW’s Awkward Season 1 ended with Jenna finally coming in terms with herself. She decided that she wants to put herself first before anything. If Matty doesn’t want to be seen with her, it’s fine. If her mother isn’t at all happy with her popularity, it’s fine. If the whole high school still sees her as ‘the girl who killed herself’, it’s fine. As long as Jenna’s good with herself, she’s happy.

It’s Kind of a Funny Story

It’s Kind of a Funny Story is a coming-of-age novel about an ambitious New York City teenager Craig Gilner who is determined to succeed at life—which means getting into the right high school to get into the right job. But once Craig aces his way into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School, the pressure becomes unbearable. He stops eating and sleeping until, one night, he nearly kills himself. The suicidal episode gets him checked into a mental hospital, where his new neighbors include patients who are going through the same thing as him but are able to still live. There, Craig is finally able to confront the sources of his anxiety.

Craig was perfectly happy before he had a mind of his own. He was just a young boy who enjoyed creating maps from his imagination. He, then, grew up and realized he might not be as talented as his parents thought he would be. After getting into the prestigious school, everything went downhill for him. It’s ridiculous as most of his pains are self-inflicted.

Nonetheless, Craig tried unlike his best friend Aaron who breezily got in to the famous school and effortlessly got the half-Chinese, half-Jewish girl named Nia. With the kind of people he has around him, it’s not hard to fall into peer pressure. One would ask himself if he was in Craig’s situation, “why am I not as good as Aaron when I worked my butt off to get in?”

Craig slowly leaned towards a vice to try and steady his troubled mind—weed. However, the weed didn’t stop the vomiting & fatigue which continued to haunt him every day until he checked himself in a psychiatric hospital.

There is so much pressure from society. Craig wanted to make maps because he’s passionate about it, but as soon as he realized there’s no salary in making maps from his imagination, he just stopped dreaming. If the craft you love doesn’t make any money does not mean you won’t be happy. Craig’s argument is that if he doesn’t get into a good school, he won’t get a good job. If he doesn’t get a good job, no one would marry him. If no one marries him, he’ll be utterly unhappy. If he’s utterly unhappy, he might as well die. Society constructed such a pristine image of an ideal life for us and it is so toxic to think about the future that might not even come.

Eventually, Craig got stable and realized how good he actually has it. All of those realizations took place in a psychiatric hospital where his world was just within the white walls of the ward. This just goes to show how harmful it is to live in society. But because we are social beings, we cannot detach ourselves from it. Instead of Craig staying within the ward, he got out and started his life again.

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NeNe Leakes lands rich Bravo deal for RHOA plus Bella Thorne on Scott Disick

NeNe Leakes didn't mind having to wait a few seasons before returning to Bravo's Real Housewives of Atlanta as that only made her price tag rise more as Phaedra Parks fell apart on the show. After some very intense negotiations, Leakes will be earning more than $2 million for this upcoming season. This will include some sweet perks that will have her returning to her famous mantra "I'm rich, bitch!" These perks include her getting the personal treatment she loved in the past so she can juggle personal engagement and any new shows she might be on. Ryan Murphy won't be including her in anything after using her for Glee and The New Normal, so she'll be looking for another producer who loves a 'hot mess' as Murphy as always said. Bravo will let her promote her HSN Clothing, SWAGG Boutique along with hosting Fashion Police on E! Big news for fans of Bravo’s reality series Real Housewives of Atlanta. On Wednesday, it was announced that Housewives alum NeNe Leakes would be officially returning to the show. Back in 2015, NeNe exited the weekly drama-filled show and proceeded to pursue other opportunities in the entertainment industry. In fact, the humorous star has since been a facet on E!’s show Fashion Police. On Wednesday, Nene took to her Twitter to share the big news with her fans and followers. Alongside a photo of her holding up a drink and wearing a crown, NeNe captioned, “It’s been a long process, but we’ve finally reached an agreement! All hail the Queen for season 10 of [Real Housewives of Atlanta].” NeNe Leakes, Twitter post: https://twitter.com/NeNeLeakes/status/875089492339810304 While NeNe is returning to RHOA, it has been reported that fellow cast member Phaedra Parks will not be on the 10th installment of the reality series. After she was caught spreading malicious sexual assault rumors about her costar Kandi Burruss and her husband Todd Tucker, Phaedra’s career as a professional Housewife has supposedly come to an end. Filming has begun, and you can be sure that NeNe has negotiated to be a central storyline with her return. Kandi Burruss, Porsha Williams, Cynthia Bailey, Kenya Moore and Sheree Whitfield are all expected to return full-time. Williams’ friend Shamea Morton will make appearances alongside Kim Zolciak. Stay tuned for more details about the upcoming season of Real Housewives of Atlanta. Remember a few weeks back when 19-year-old former Disney actress Bella Thorne was spotted getting super close to troubled reality star Scott Disick? While their extremely short-lived fling may have lasted only a few days, people are still talking about the unexpected pairing. Inevitably, Bella decided to candidly address her run-in with Scott in Cannes in a brand-new interview with Complex magazine. When asked how she met Scott, the Famous in Love star told the magazine, “I throw a lot of house parties and that’s how I meet these people. They come to my house party and they’re like ‘Yo, I heard you’re having a party.’ I’m just like ‘Okay, French Montana. Hi, French.’ That’s how I met Scott - he came to a house party of mine [with French] and I was like ‘hi.’” Later in her interview, Bella went on to explain exactly what was going on at the time Scott was photographed blatantly touching her chest. The star gushed, “Honestly, my nipple came out of my bikini, and he tried to fix it for me, and it looks like he’s grabbing my boob. That’s very nice of you to actually not sit there and stare at my nipple because my boobs are big - they come out of my shirt all the time! You can’t keep those suckers down.” While the two seemed to have been enjoying each other’s company at the time, Bella claims that she just didn’t fit in with Scott’s hardcore partying lifestyle. Bella told Complex, “Scott is really nice, sweet and charming. I don’t drink, and he really drinks a lot. And it just ended up…I just wasn’t down, I was like, ‘I got to leave.’” The star went on to elaborate, “We were [at Cannes] a day and a half before I was like I’m booking my flight and leaving. I love to go out and have fun, I love to f***ing dance, but I just don’t party hardcore like that, and it was way too much for me. I was like, ‘Woah, this is not the way I live my life, bruh.’” Ever since she and Scott abruptly ended their flirtation, Bella has been getting close to her ex-boyfriend, actor Greg Sulkin. Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones says he'll release an unedited version of his controversial interview with Megyn Kelly set to air Sunday on NBC. Jones said on his Infowars website that the full interview he recorded will counter Kelly's upcoming report, which he labeled a "fraud." The site touted the interview's availability Thursday night, but it was not online after midnight EST. The Infowars host posted a video online, along with a teaser clip, around 8:45 p.m. and claimed he would be posting the full tape on the conspiracy website later in the evening. “I’ve never done this in 22 years, I’ve never recorded another journalist, but I knew it was a fraud, that it was a lie,” Jones said in the video, recalling how Kelly approached him about the interview. “God, she was like, ‘I want to get steaks with you, I’m obsessed with you, oh my God,’ wiggling around in her seat. It was all crap,” he explained. “I knew it was all a lie. I said Sandy Hook happened, and she wouldn’t even put it in the promo pieces. So we’re going to release, oh yea, we’re going to release the pre-interview. And then when they put their fraud out on Sunday — which I’ve asked them not to air because they’re misrepresenting who I am and saying I’m as bad as Saddam Hussein, or Jeffrey Dahmer, or Charles Manson — we’ve got the whole interviews here…We’ve got it all…It’s all going to come out.” The clip that accompanied Jones’ tweet featured a short audio recording of Kelly, seemingly assuring the 43-year-old that her questions wouldn’t be tough. “All I can do is give you my word and I don’t double-cross,” she can be heard saying at one point. “My goal is for your listeners and the left — you know, who will be watching some on NBC — to say, ‘Wow, that’s really interesting,” she adds. “It’s not going to be some gotcha hit piece, I promise you that.” Kelly and NBC have been getting blasted by families affected by the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, with several victims’ parents writing letters to the network — urging them to scrap the interview — due to Jones’ prior beliefs that the shooting was staged. “What I think we’re doing is journalism,” Kelly has previously said about the exchange, which is currently set to air on her new NBC show, “Sunday Night.” “The bottom line is that while it’s not always popular, it’s important.” Jones, who has since admitted that the Sandy Hook shooting was real, said in his preview video on Thursday that Kelly and NBC took his words out of context and edited his interview to make it seem like he still was on the fence about the subject. “You’re gonna hear what I actually said,” Jones claimed. “Like when it cuts, and I’m sitting there and they go, ‘Oh, you don’t think Sandy Hook happened.’ And I go, ‘Yea! Well, you don’t care about dead Iraqi kids!’ I’m [really] like, ‘Hey, they did fake babies in incubators, they did fake dead kids, that’s why we have to question this. I don’t hate the families. We question everything.'” NBC did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A backlash greeted NBC's decision to book Jones, who has questioned whether the killing of 26 people in 2012 at an elementary school in Newton, Connecticut, was a hoax. Sources close to Jones have commented that he has been using the NBC to his advantage and threatening to leak the full interview and then not doing it is nothing new for the conspiracy theorist. "With Alex, it's not about getting the truth out. It's all about exploiting every opportunity to line his pockets any way he can," the source, commented. "Fifteen years ago, he was more about the truth, but once he realized how to make easy money, he suddenly didn't care about selling out." A new round of deliberations is raising the prospects that Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial will end with a verdict instead of a hung jury. Jurors who have appeared stressed and even angry seemed more upbeat as they left court outside Philadelphia Thursday night than on previous nights, despite enduring another marathon session. The sequestered jurors had deliberated about 30 hours before telling Judge Steven O'Neill earlier Thursday that they couldn't reach a unanimous decision on any of the counts against the 79-year-old comedian. The judge told them to try again for a verdict. As the jurors left for the day, O'Neill heaped praise on them, thanking them for their dedication and the sacrifice they've made being 300 miles (482 kilometers) from home in the Pittsburgh area. "I want to reiterate how proud I am of each and every one of you," O'Neill said as he sent the jury back to the hotel. "I thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything that you've done." They will get back to it Friday morning. Cosby is charged with three felony counts of aggravated indecent assault stemming from Andrea Constand's allegations that he drugged and violated her at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004. Each count carries a maximum 10-year prison term, though the counts could be merged at sentencing if Cosby is convicted. Cosby's lawyer said he and Constand were lovers sharing a consensual moment of intimacy. The jury of seven men and five women have deliberated for nearly 40 hours since getting the case Monday. Cosby's spokesman said the impasse showed that jurors doubted Constand's story. "They're conflicted about the inconsistencies in Ms. Constand's testimony," spokesman Andrew Wyatt said. "And they're hearing Mr. C.'s testimony, and he's extremely truthful. And that's created this doubt." Constand's lawyer, Dolores Troiani, said only that the "jury is apparently working very hard." The district attorney's office declined to comment. 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The letter, from the law firm Koskoff, Koskoff and Bieder who represent several of the families who lost loved ones in the 2012 tragedy, reads, “Airing Ms. Kelly’s interview implicitly endorses the notion that Mr. Jones’ lies are actually “claims” that are worthy of serious debate; and in doing so it exponentially enhances the suffering and distress of our clients. For that NBC is responsible. “We urge you to consider the ethical and legal ramifications of broadcasting this interview to millions of Americans. By now, it should be clear to NBC that airing the interview will cause serious emotional distress to dozens of Sandy Hook families. ” Describing the pain the families still suffer, the letter states, “Parents have marked their children’s seventh, eighth, and ninth birthdays not with wonder and joyful chaos, but with the most profound loneliness this world knows. Erica Lafferty walked through a graveyard in her wedding dress and veil so that she could feel close to her mother, Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung – a woman who died trying to protect other parents’ children. “Then there are all the other days; regular Thursdays like this one where a sound or a smell can transform the unrelenting ache of grief into intense, physical pain. Surely, we can agree that these families have suffered enough already and that they will continue to suffer enough to last several lifetimes. “Which is why we cannot fathom – from a moral, ethical or legal standpoint – NBC’s decision to amplify the voice of a man who has made a living debasing that suffering and smearing our clients’ names. “Over the last few years, Alex Jones has weaponized his radio show to publish false and defamatory statements about our clients: chief among them that they are actors perpetrating a massive fraud on the American public by faking the deaths of their loved ones. “NBC is not responsible for the harassment and abuse Alex Jones has cruelly visited on our clients. But, by choosing to air his interview with Ms. Kelly – at all, let alone at prime time on Father’s Day – NBC has tendered its good name and considerable influence to provide Mr. Jones with something he has never enjoyed: legitimacy. “This decision may be driven by the simple urge to gain an edge in a well-publicized ratings war, but it has devastating human consequences as well.” The letter was sent on behalf of Mark and Jacqueline Barden, who lost their 7-year-old son Daniel, Hannah D’Avino, the sister of Sandy Hook teacher Rachel D’Avino, Nicole and Ian Hockley whose son Dylan, 6, was killed. They also speak for Erica Lafferty who lost her mother Dawn, the principal of Sandy Hook Elementary, Veronique Pozner, the mother of Noah, 6, who was killed, the family of Victoria Soto, a first-grade teacher who died trying to shield her first-graders, and Francine and David Wheeler who lost their son Benjamin, 6.

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