#world past six

[calllynx]

Assorted Coa sketches from my notebook + one of her iterators, Kindling Spark.

[nounaarts]

The hero and the warrior!

[redeemed-wren]

I don't think humans are designed to spend more time at work in a day than with family members and loved ones

[dykedvonte]

Ulysses obsession with the Courier is a special type of sad to me cause the Courier’s part was so important but so unwitting. They had no idea what was in the package they delivered and neither did he. Neither had an idea of what it could’ve done and the Courier was only caring out their job (mind you the Courier could be killed via notes in the express contract if they don’t). To them it was just another regular delivery to the divide and one that they likely thought would help, just like all the ones before.

It’s so tragic for Ulysses to hold so much ire to the Courier when it really was the case of it could’ve been anyone. Anyone could have delivered that package but they did and so he focused the blame on them and it destroys what he is trying to instill in the courier on a fundamental level.

[cloudinal]

CAT Birthday (1)!

Textless version for all of your textless needs

[ray-1205]

Art dump because I keep forgetting I have this app

[celestialrealms]

Barbato's ideal world being supporting Diavolo when he becomes Demon King and achieves his dreams and putting a chloroform rag over Lucifer's mouth and replacing his role in the dynamic with MC and having MC by their side family-style is heartwarming to me, actually 🥺🙈

[quirinah]

to the ones that encouraged me

[swiftie-as-a-coursing-river]

Xmen but it’s that cursed bald Freddy picture as Professor X

[iamthepulta]

I think I'm slowly getting a picture of a narrative. This is tricky though. If I had uh- known what the fuck I was doing six months ago, I would've titled the presentation, "Alum mining, trade, and metallurgy from Bronze Age to Present" and called it a day.

The lax definition of alum's chemistry also makes it really hard to pin down. It ranges from hydrous to anhydrous (impure and pure) aluminum sulfate salt to aluminum clay. Civilizations until the Roman era just kind of pointed at white shit, called it alum, licked it to see if it was sour (not salt) and tossed it in the chemical vat.

There were also specific locales for the good shit. So instead of saying 'alunite', you'd say 'alum from the Hittites', or 'alum from Egypt'. One could be used for tanning, but the other was used for a fancy blue glaze (cobalt-clay). You could also produce alum from alunite, like on the isle of Lesbos (Sappho historical romance novel with alum when??)

But. Within all this. You have the Babylonians primarily using it as a tanning agent and wool-dyeing. The Egyptians used it as a glaze, for pottery, and medicinal/metallurgical uses. Apparently blue beads were making it all the way to China and Scandinavia at this time? The Romans took the metallurgical uses and cranked that up to 11. After the fall of Rome, the Arabs used alum for all the above and Germany was also using it metallurgically, but my research ends here right now.

In the present, alum is still used as a mordant (dyeing agent), but is more often used as a water treatment flocculant (filtering impurities). It's also more rigorously defined as either ammonium, potassium, or sodium hydrous aluminum sulfate. Whether we still mine it is unclear?? It doesn't seem to be the case: we mine aluminum, get aluminum oxide, which either goes to Iceland to be made into pure aluminum, or is sold separately and then added to Na2(SO4) to make alum.

It doesn't really pack the same punch I wanted it to with clothing though, because it's not really used for that. Chromium sulfate is now the primary mordant if you're doing chromium tanning, which is environmentally bad and kind of like nuking a hide to make it tan fast. I guess I can track down where the chromium is coming from, and how they make that.

This isn't even getting involved in plastic production, or rayon, or nylon, or the history of fast fashion and petroleum. I think the end line of this will have to be something vague and unspecific, like "disregarding the non-renewable resources that go into <I want to say artistic, but they're not artistic. The proper term is probably female-driven industries lol> fundamental human tools can lead us to overlook industries that have just as much impact - economically and socially - on geopolitics."

... I can already see the first question on that being, "what are some other non-renewable resources you think have been overlooked?" :') ahh, idk. I've been reading for 30hr. I'm going to go to sleep. I'll run away from the podium or smthg.

to do: I should reread Al-Razi with alum in mind... the translator is not Levey, so I have to chemically check all the names she gives minerals. But I distinctly remember alum coming up several times and tripping me up.

Also chromium sulfate manufacturing/mining; saving this chrome/ferric reference because I haven't seen them written altogether anywhere else.

[purplemninja]

LN2 comic episode 1 with 'Pictures of the Past' from Rain World's soundtrack (footage by 6)

I don't have the comics or a recording program, so I downloaded the footage of this comic episode from 6 (yes, that's their username) and slowed it down slightly to fit the duration of the music. Original video: https://youtu.be/eEavAqWg7so?si=1D5jA5XXx7I4V1bL

The music is called 'Pictures of the past' and is from Rain World's soundtrack, composed by James Primate.

[freshthoughts2020]

[beheadedcousins]

oh i saw sydney parra in teeth the musical on sunday and she was so good!!

[lesbian-honey-lemon]

happy PALentine’s day, everyone! Also, Other Worlds Than These has officially hit 40K words!

[thereareeyesinsidethetrees]

anyhow in other news saturnus falls is a new project we’re working on now so that’s exciting

[thediktatortot]

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