eggbug_club | Anyone wanna share interesting things?

I kind of miss how easy it was to see people talking about media, technology, history, etc that I'd never heard about before on Cohost... despite Cohost having some structural similarities to Tumblr, I just don't get that experience there.

I'm pretty bummed out by recent events (to put it mildly), and I imagine a lot of other people here are too. Anyone wanna share stuff that brings them joy, or at the very least positive stimulation? Books you're reading, hobbies you've gotten into, etc.

I had been reading Who Owns this Sentence by David Bellos and Alexandre Montagu, which is very good, but had to take a break because it was just making me depressed thinking about how we're going to get out of the enclosure of the cultural commons on top of... everything else. I've had a bit of fun with a short free fangame RPG on Itch.io, made by a user going by Atena. And I'd like to share an old middle-school favorite website, "Dog Coat Colour Genetics" by an artist named Jess, as well as the even bigger and older "MessyBeast" website run by Sarah Hartwell, which is an especially thorough as a resource on cat color genetics, but has many other interesting alleyways to explore.

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I'm reading a graphic novel on the history of food. I love fact-based graphic novels.

>> resource on cat color genetics <<

Have you seen the salmiakki cats?

Book rec if you're a fan of print nonfiction: Consider the Fork by Bee Wilson. A history of cookware and kitchen technologies, from bowls and fire all the way to refrigeration. She does a very good job at digging into the different cooking technologies that were available at different periods of time, and how those things shaped how cooking was done (i.e. cooking on a gas stove is much different from roasting over an open fire, beating eggs to stiff peaks is a different prospect with a motorized handwhisk rather than 3-4 very tired kitchen staff using a stick-whisk). She even does a pretty good job with describing cultural differences, though there are a handful of details she gets wrong about Chinese cooking (don't know enough about any others to catch any errors). Highly recommend it as a read.

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*laugh* Did she include the part about picking out the eyeballs of armored knights?

I'm sorry the what

It came up in one of my fun history classes. Forks were a late-arriving type of silverware, so not everyone caught on to how they were used immediately. Some peasants decided that forks were tools for picking out the eyes of armored knights. At the time, a knight was like a human tank. Even if you got him down off his battlesteed, he remained a tough nut to crack. But if you could knock him down, he was somewhat more vulnerable. Then if you had a fork, you could stab through the narrow slits of his visor and, if not kill him outright, at least render him useless as a combantant.

In some places, the nobility responded by banning forks. LOL history LOL

I'm reading a graphic novel on the history of food. I love fact-based graphic novels.

Oh, that looks good. Speaking of graphic novels... have you ever read Scott Mccloud's Understanding/Reinventing/Making Comics trilogy?

Have you seen the salmiakki cats?

Messybeast has a page on them! ^_^

http://messybeast.com/roan-finnish-mutation.htm

Scott McCloud's Six Layers is what explained why so much of everything is crap. Most people try to build from the surface in. I build from the core out. Though admittedly I consider the first two layers (Idea and Form) to be interchangeable; start with either, then do the other, then work out.

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