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sophia_sol) wrote2025-02-05 09:43 pm
sophia_sol) wrote2025-02-05 09:43 pm
4 things: printing designs on fabric, measure for measure, beancurd sheets, pern podcast
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omg hello what if I stamp-printed designs onto fabric to make clothes with fun patterns instead of relying on manufacturers to make patterns I like
eg: https://www.dharmatrading.com/home/the-cameloozy-blouse-a-mad-mim-tutorial.html
I mean yes this would require me to pick up SEVERAL more crafting skills. but. do you see the Vision.
I could make myself so many bird-themed clothes! and dinosaur-themed! and more!!!
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I haven't ever seen or read or studied Measure For Measure before, and having now done the first three acts with my zoom theatre troupe, I sure do see why it's so rarely performed! One of shakespeare's "problem plays" for sure.
Which isn't to say it's a bad play, because it isn't! It's just very.....oh boy.
Buuuut his choice to engage in sexual coercion is one of the main drivers of the plot of the play, and it sure is a lot!
My zeatre group is people I trust, so engaging with this theme with them is good -- but it is not the sort of play I'd imagine the average person would choose to go see for a fun night out at the theatre, and not the sort of play the average school board would think is a good choice to have teens study in high school, the two main ways people today might experience Shakespeare's works. I think relatively very few people today are familiar with measure for measure. I didn't even know what the play was about until I was reading up about it in prep for zeatre casting.
And it's too bad, really, that I didn't ever have previous exposure to it -- I bet it would be a very fruitful play to study and analyse! And a story that's remarkably relevant to today's politics in some ways too!
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I enjoy buying things at international grocery stores that I have never cooked with before, to see what I think and expand my food options. This week: really enjoying something that the package calls "beancurd sheets"!
From a little research, this seems an ambiguous term that can mean multiple things, but the thing I have is tofu pressed into thin sheets, not a film lifted off the top of heated soy milk.
I tore some into strips and ate them with noodles for lunch and they are a lovely addition. I will definitely buy this again in the future, and would not be surprised if it becomes something I frequently have on hand!
four
Just started listening to a podcast about dragonriders of pern, a book series I was obsessed with when I was 12 years old, but haven't read any of for at least 15 years at this point. (I loved these books, but I cannot say they are GOOD books.) The podcast: Dragons Made Me Do It.
And in the first few minutes of the first episode of the podcast they already said something that goes a long way to explaining why I loved pern so much as a young person: it's a story very interested in the question of "when is legend legend, why is myth a myth." And in "exploring connections between history, myth, and present reality."
And stories that ask questions about the connections between stories and reality have always been extremely my shit!
(I mean. Also there are dragons who you telepathically bond with. That WAS also a draw for preteen Soph!)
Then the rest of the episode was a delightful discussion and analysis of the first pern book, excellent all the way through.
Even more excited to keep listening to this podcast now!
In case you're interested, btw, it's one of those podcasts you have to add to your podcast app via url, you can't just search within the app. Their website lists the rss subscription url, but to make it even easier for you, here it is: https://dmmdipodcast.neocities.org/rss.xml
omg hello what if I stamp-printed designs onto fabric to make clothes with fun patterns instead of relying on manufacturers to make patterns I like
eg: https://www.dharmatrading.com/home/the-cameloozy-blouse-a-mad-mim-tutorial.html
I mean yes this would require me to pick up SEVERAL more crafting skills. but. do you see the Vision.
I could make myself so many bird-themed clothes! and dinosaur-themed! and more!!!
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I haven't ever seen or read or studied Measure For Measure before, and having now done the first three acts with my zoom theatre troupe, I sure do see why it's so rarely performed! One of shakespeare's "problem plays" for sure.
Which isn't to say it's a bad play, because it isn't! It's just very.....oh boy.
content note: it's a play about sexual coercion and the use of power
I am playing the role of Angelo. As an actor this is a great role! A character doing a lot of mental self-deception to justify his own actions to himself, which is really meaty and fun to play.Buuuut his choice to engage in sexual coercion is one of the main drivers of the plot of the play, and it sure is a lot!
My zeatre group is people I trust, so engaging with this theme with them is good -- but it is not the sort of play I'd imagine the average person would choose to go see for a fun night out at the theatre, and not the sort of play the average school board would think is a good choice to have teens study in high school, the two main ways people today might experience Shakespeare's works. I think relatively very few people today are familiar with measure for measure. I didn't even know what the play was about until I was reading up about it in prep for zeatre casting.
And it's too bad, really, that I didn't ever have previous exposure to it -- I bet it would be a very fruitful play to study and analyse! And a story that's remarkably relevant to today's politics in some ways too!
three
I enjoy buying things at international grocery stores that I have never cooked with before, to see what I think and expand my food options. This week: really enjoying something that the package calls "beancurd sheets"!
From a little research, this seems an ambiguous term that can mean multiple things, but the thing I have is tofu pressed into thin sheets, not a film lifted off the top of heated soy milk.
I tore some into strips and ate them with noodles for lunch and they are a lovely addition. I will definitely buy this again in the future, and would not be surprised if it becomes something I frequently have on hand!
four
Just started listening to a podcast about dragonriders of pern, a book series I was obsessed with when I was 12 years old, but haven't read any of for at least 15 years at this point. (I loved these books, but I cannot say they are GOOD books.) The podcast: Dragons Made Me Do It.
And in the first few minutes of the first episode of the podcast they already said something that goes a long way to explaining why I loved pern so much as a young person: it's a story very interested in the question of "when is legend legend, why is myth a myth." And in "exploring connections between history, myth, and present reality."
And stories that ask questions about the connections between stories and reality have always been extremely my shit!
(I mean. Also there are dragons who you telepathically bond with. That WAS also a draw for preteen Soph!)
Then the rest of the episode was a delightful discussion and analysis of the first pern book, excellent all the way through.
Even more excited to keep listening to this podcast now!
In case you're interested, btw, it's one of those podcasts you have to add to your podcast app via url, you can't just search within the app. Their website lists the rss subscription url, but to make it even easier for you, here it is: https://dmmdipodcast.neocities.org/rss.xml
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I too was obsessed with the Pern books when I was 12 (and have also not revisited them in 20 years or so). I can still picture the mass market paperbacks on the spinner in my middle school's library.
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or you can make it into a dessert: https://www.3thanwong.com/chinese-dessert-ginkgo-barley/
or use it to roll things up (e.g., https://www.seriouseats.com/chinese-bean-curd-rolls-pork-dim-sum-recipe)! It's one of my fav things. Glad you like it!
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(Though British non-denominational Christian state schools are much less... weird/intense than some!)
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I mostly read big old hardcovers from the local public library, and I remember sitting on the floor in front of the shelves to browse them
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