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sophia_sol) wrote2024-02-28 04:26 pm
sophia_sol) wrote2024-02-28 04:26 pm
Three things: orioles in mdzs, antique ceramic staple repairs, ao3 bookmarks
one.
rereading mdzs and noting that the Gusu dialect is described as sounding like an oriole. looking up what kinds of oriole would be most likely found in the relevant region of china. looking up what they sound like.
YEP the vibes check out!
https://ebird.org/species/blnori1
two.
I recently listened to the Antiques Freaks podcast episode about staple repairs in ceramics and I'm just like HELL YEAH. can we please have repairing our current possessions with staples be an option. yes yes we all know these days how lovely kintsugi is but have you considered STAPLES as an option
when I was growing up my family used a glue called "china weld" to fix broken dishes. it worked great. but its manufacture was discontinued, and these days afaik there is no adhesive on the market that is waterproof, food-safe, and suitable for gluing ceramics. which kind of implies that china weld, which worked great mechanically, was perhaps not as food-safe as the packaging led one to believe.
anyway. what if you don't like disposability culture and you break a plate in your dinnerware set and want to fix it to continue using it. a perfect context for applying staples! why can I not pay someone to staple my plates together!
three.
clear all over again how much the bookmarking system in ao3 was not designed by a heavy user of bookmarking tools. every time I use it for anything!
current frustration: seriously, you cannot even filter your personal bookmarks by whether or not they're private?!
also: no mass edit function!!!! why can't I, say, select everything that I've given a particular tag, and then mark all of those bookmarks as recs?
I use ao3 bookmarks as an add-on to my main system of pinboard bookmarks. using ao3 bookmarks allows me to see at a glance at the top of a work page whether I've read that work before or not (or whether it's already on my tbr list), which is SO helpful. So I added an ao3 bookmark for all the fics I have bookmarked on pinboard.
but I recently realized that for the fics I read and liked, it would be nice to make those bookmarks public on ao3 so that people who trawl bookmarks for recs can see my +1 to it being a worthwhile read
so I'm going through my many thousands of ao3 bookmarks to update them all..... and I have Opinions.
rereading mdzs and noting that the Gusu dialect is described as sounding like an oriole. looking up what kinds of oriole would be most likely found in the relevant region of china. looking up what they sound like.
YEP the vibes check out!
https://ebird.org/species/blnori1
two.
I recently listened to the Antiques Freaks podcast episode about staple repairs in ceramics and I'm just like HELL YEAH. can we please have repairing our current possessions with staples be an option. yes yes we all know these days how lovely kintsugi is but have you considered STAPLES as an option
when I was growing up my family used a glue called "china weld" to fix broken dishes. it worked great. but its manufacture was discontinued, and these days afaik there is no adhesive on the market that is waterproof, food-safe, and suitable for gluing ceramics. which kind of implies that china weld, which worked great mechanically, was perhaps not as food-safe as the packaging led one to believe.
anyway. what if you don't like disposability culture and you break a plate in your dinnerware set and want to fix it to continue using it. a perfect context for applying staples! why can I not pay someone to staple my plates together!
three.
clear all over again how much the bookmarking system in ao3 was not designed by a heavy user of bookmarking tools. every time I use it for anything!
current frustration: seriously, you cannot even filter your personal bookmarks by whether or not they're private?!
also: no mass edit function!!!! why can't I, say, select everything that I've given a particular tag, and then mark all of those bookmarks as recs?
I use ao3 bookmarks as an add-on to my main system of pinboard bookmarks. using ao3 bookmarks allows me to see at a glance at the top of a work page whether I've read that work before or not (or whether it's already on my tbr list), which is SO helpful. So I added an ao3 bookmark for all the fics I have bookmarked on pinboard.
but I recently realized that for the fics I read and liked, it would be nice to make those bookmarks public on ao3 so that people who trawl bookmarks for recs can see my +1 to it being a worthwhile read
so I'm going through my many thousands of ao3 bookmarks to update them all..... and I have Opinions.
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