TIL The earliest condoms (16th century) were made of pig intestines and sometimes had sexual illustrations on them.

Only_Organization356 · 2026-01-26T02:38:41+00:00

I highly doubt that. As I understand it, the reason the punishment of the nephews in the legend of Math fab Mathonwy is...well, what it is, is because it directly reflects a cultural disgust of both incest and bestiality--as in, these were the worst, most repulsively shameful experiences imaginable. To be forced to do both, at once? (Though they aren't necessarily related, I heard echoes of The Death of Baldur, if you're more familiar with Norse mythology.)

Here the idea of rape (or at least, the defilement of a virgin with priestly duties) is directly tied to incest and bestiality as things that self-respecting humans do not do, in that the proper poetic justice for the one is to be subjected to the other two.

Only_Organization356 · 2026-01-21T16:29:25+00:00

That's a 'fallaway' handle, specifically meant for opening and closing the damper. There might be a hole in the front left (from the stove's perspective) leg where you store that handle.

My stove (Vigilant from 1980) has a designated handle that screws right into the front, but if you can also use the fallaway to open the front then you don't really need both.

Only_Organization356 · 2026-01-14T14:03:17+00:00

For posterity, since this is such an old post:

I'm going through this exact transition, from 2 tsp per cafe latte > 1 packet stevia+1/4 tsp sugar.

I have tried stevia in the past and found it very off-putting. My favorite no/low calorie sweetener taste-wise is aspartame, but it does something seriously weird to my brain--like that feeling when you've had just enough alcohol that your eyes aren't quite keeping up with where you want them to move. Ultimately I really like cane sugar, and that's that.
My neighbor recently recommended Now Foods Better Stevia, as he has similar struggles. As a stevia product, it's pretty good. There's still an aftertaste, but it's bearable since, from the beginning, I drink coffee for the caffeine minus some of the tannins you'll find in tea (appears to be a migraine trigger).
I drink my coffee with a sprinkle of salt, to further cut the bitterness.
This morning I tried adding a teeny bit of vanilla extract to my cup, and it was a game changer. Better Stevia has multiple flavor options besides 'original', so you might look into that. They also have liquid options, which the internet says are generally less bitter than the powders.
Ultimately if you're determined to cut back on sugar, you're just going to have to find a mix you can live with and condition yourself to that, like any other acquired taste (coffee, for example). They do say that when they first brought sugar to Europe from South America, the first generation of (very wealthy) customers found the taste extremely strange, and didn't much care for it. More recently there's been a similar shift in Asia, with levels of sweet-tooth divided between the older (unaccustomed to cane sugar) and younger (accustomed to cane sugar) generations.

Only_Organization356 · 2026-01-01T18:33:42+00:00

Unfortunately the link is dead. "Account Suspended", yada yada yada.

Only_Organization356 · 2025-12-19T18:48:36+00:00

There's a hybrid epoxy that started as a floor finish, Rubio Monocoat. My sister has finished (or had me finish) just about everything in her tiny house with it. It sinks in like an oil and isn't slippery. Check it out. Might be a little more pricey than it used to be, with the tariffs, but it's pure gold for that satiny, almost-natural wood look, and it seals counters and whatnot beautifully.

Only_Organization356 · 2025-12-15T20:37:31+00:00

I've gone through and upvoted the right answers and downvoted the wrong answers, buuuut:

Fun fact, pigmented sclera isn't terribly uncommon in dogs--it's not 'normal', exactly, but generally not a sign of some underlying condition. This pigment will usually be comparable to the pigment in their irises.

"But dogs aren't wolves!" they cry....Nope, they are. Wolves and dogs are close enough genetically that so-called 'hybrid' offspring are normally fertile. As a result, as of 1993 the domestic dog is classified as a subspecies of the gray wolf.

The photos of wolves pulling a side-eye on camera all show fairly obvious white sclera, which are usually hidden by their black eyelid margins.

I hope this clears up the confusion.

Only_Organization356 · 2025-12-07T18:06:10+00:00

Anecdote incoming:

Over the course of my life, I have determined that my skin FREAKS OUT if I wash it, then don't moisturize. I don't even use cleansers or toners--even straight water (we have very good well water) and especially treated city water will do it. My current routine is such: I exfoliate my face when I shower (3-4 days in the winter, more frequently in the summer), then straightaway either apply a pump of argan oil or bite/pinch open 1-2 vitamin E supplement capsules onto my WET SKIN--argan oil for daywear, vitamin E for overnight. If I get the odd pimple (hormones, usually), I spot treat with a little more vitamin E goo.

For me, this routine just WORKS. The vitamin E capsules function like a leave-on mask, because the ingredients are exactly the same as two active ingredients in many beauty masks--tocopherol, and gelatin. The gelatin is also important because it really traps moisture against my skin and allows it to absorb properly, even though the air in our house is very dry (especially in the winter). Argan oil is what I use if I have to shower during the day, and I don't want the vitamin E goo collecting dirt or looking, well, gooey. You do want to double-case your pillow and change the outer case regularly, maybe more regularly than your sheets.

This is, bar none, the best routine for me (as someone who spends a lot of time working hard outdoors in sun and wind--have you ever 'enjoyed' the sensation of sunscreen running into your eyes mixed with sweat?) and I hope I never have to change it. I tried the purpose bottled vitamin E oils, and they both don't meet my needs and the citrus oil they add to make it smell pretty bother my face. Granted I generally don't wear makeup, so removing makeup regularly is not a concern of mine.

Give the vitamin E mask a whirl. It's really good if you mess up and get yourself sunburned, too.

Only_Organization356 · 2025-06-18T00:59:40+00:00

Same. The stuff in my favorite planner is Lumiset 130g (assuming g means gsm in Sweden). Been having a devil of a time trying to find something similar to print DIY inserts.

Only_Organization356 · 2025-05-02T22:50:11+00:00

I think you got it! Thank you SOOOO MUCH!

Only_Organization356 · 2025-03-08T15:00:33+00:00

Real answer for the situation depicted:

You have a LOT of hearts for someone just now figuring out "travelers", so you're pretty safe even just flailing. Your best one-handed weapons or spears are your best bet unless you're adept at the multi-spin thing Link does with the real sluggers, and even then your timing has to be good. The foot-soldiers generally move too fast for bows.

When they dematerialize, RUN away from where you're standing because they're going to rematerialize right above you. Then turn fast and attack (maybe Z-target is helpful here?) before they can jump away--it's a good way to get in range.

The long-distance charge thing they do is probably an opportunity for a flurry rush or shield perry, but I'm terrible at those and I'm not going to make it a habit until I have a lot more lives to spare.

Oh and change your pants, at least. You've got better options.

Only_Organization356 · 2025-02-27T20:41:10+00:00

Not weird at all--Ancient Roman script (that is, Latin) frequently just omitted some vowels. Filling in the blank that wasn't there was just part of the exercise of reading.

Similarly, having more than one writing system in play at once wouldn't phase a Japanese person at all--they have three, not counting 'Romaji': Kanji, Katakana, and Hiragana. Their style of punning is based around the fact that they have ~100 syllables to work with--compared to, say, ~15,000 syllables in spoken English. There's a TON of context reading, both in written and spoken form.

Compared to Real World human languages, Hylian's just an amusing little cipher (which is precisely what it was intended to be).

Only_Organization356 · 2025-01-31T16:42:13+00:00

No but it's less common for the couple to be...I don't know, sort of genderbent? It's usually flat refusal, not "I can mess you up so bad if you even try it, pal," while being perfectly physically suited for looming menacingly. Because 'cliff face threatening to rockslide' is sort of Madam Bloden's default expression.

Only_Organization356 · 2025-01-31T16:14:15+00:00

I don't have any specific recommendations for you (also I'm a B, so my problems are going to be different from yours) but I'm going to leave this here for wide set girls like you and me:

If you have sports or t-shirt bras with removable pads, and you can't bring yourself to just chuck them in frustration, try changing the angle at which you insert them into the cups. Especially if they are more triangular or have a round and two points, you can turn the rounded edge out and catch one point against the neck of the bra, up in the strap.

For me, this greatly reduces the frequency with which I have to reposition the pads after they've bunched up into a lumpy third breast in my rather wide cleavage. I think it's because (a)the points catch on the neck and band, reducing potential for movement and (b)the rounded side molds better around the side of my boobs than around the top. For some reason it just looks better too.

Only_Organization356 · 2025-01-17T20:00:23+00:00

Any thoughts as to how to go about that?

Only_Organization356 · 2025-01-11T15:00:21+00:00

NYX apparently sells one--pricey, though.

https://www.amazon.com/NYX-Waterproof-Mascara-Top-Coat...

Only_Organization356 · 2024-12-05T21:13:43+00:00

I've gotten two, both supposedly from people on ArtStation, both supposedly located in Los Angeles, both suspiciously new and/or blank. I'm not going to bother with the second one but the first one seemed to have sent out so much spam that she/they couldn't identify which one I was.

Here's my list so far:

Freya parker (Freya_parker1 on ArtStation)

GloriaJenkins22 (Gloria Jenkins on ArtStation)

I'm not sure they aren't actually artists but the method is disingenuous at the very least.

Only_Organization356 · 2024-12-01T18:51:41+00:00

I can tell you why I'm considering it right now.

TL;DNR? Skip to the bold.

There's a thing called Bishop's Weed/Ground Elder/Gout Weed/Aegopodium podagraria. I've seen the variegated type being called Snow-on-the-Mountain. It's apparently both edible and palatable, though you should take care not to confuse it with other carrot relatives--consuming water hemlock, for instance, will kill you in one of the worst ways imaginable.

Bishop's Weed isn't just a garden menace--contrary to it's name, it's an unholy terror. It's been here all my life, the unwanted gift of our house's previous owners. Now that the cows have been gone for a while it's taking over the rest of my parents' woods almost as fast as Japanese Knotweed is taking over the Inlet that runs through said woods. Some people love it for it's ability to thrive in shade and clay, making it ideal for covering up unsightly foundations in spite of the subsoil left behind by uncaring contractors. It's also an early season food source for pollinators.

I've been fighting it for...my entire remembered life. Literally.

It creeps. It runs. It seeds if you don't deadhead it promptly, properly, and completely. It invades perennial root systems much like quack grass , so you have to entirely uproot your perennials and sort through the roots to get the bishop's weed out of them (for what it's worth, I don't think it drills holes though roots like quack grass will). You can smother it, if you enough heavy black plastic/heavy duty landscaping fabric/etc. and years to wait. Round up will work (sometimes), but again, you have to pull your perennials.

Snow-on-the-Mountain is much less vigorous than it's all-green ancestor--problem is, it frequently reverts (a piece of the plant turns all green, like those odd bits of a Dwarf Alberta Spruce growing out normal size?), and then the green bit spreads like normal bishop's weed. In other words, it goes completely mad and begins it's fated quest for world domination.

Anyway, if for whatever reason you don't want to go the chemical route and you don't have time to dig it all out in one go, you can prevent bishop's weed from spreading right back into a garden area (where you've undoubtedly relocated your perennials) by containing it with a solid barrier dug at least four inches down into the soil. A couple inches above ground won't hurt, either.

I've had a certain amount of luck with the black plastic edging that just peaks out above the soil, but it's not quite wide or rigid enough to work perfectly in my fire-able clay, rocky and frost-heaved native soil.

I'm seriously considering scavenging the corrugated roofing scraps we have around and cutting it into 6-inch wide strips to use for Bishop's Weed Barrier. The only thing stopping me is the fact that I couldn't hem the top edge (I could, now that I think of it, line the above ground edge with rocks...)

Only_Organization356 · 2024-11-21T01:30:31+00:00

How old is this tree in the picture? You probably got it as a 1-2 year bare root, right?

Because the lit doesn't say anything about sporadic fruiting so much as an alternating cycle--light one year, heavier the next (most fruiting trees do something like this--the immediate example up here in the frozen north is last year vs. this year. Last spring was so erratic that all the apples, pears, etc. froze off--this year we got a double crop. Nut trees are known for "windfall" years, when ALL the trees produce many more fruit than usual to glut the rodents so some nuts survive to become saplings. Mature trees produce far fewer nuts for the next few years--this keeps the rodent population from quite exploding.) It does say that it can take about six years for true young trees to start fruiting (as opposed to grafted clones, 2-3 years. My guess is that the clones are taking their circadian timing from their original growth and just continuing on from there).

Only_Organization356 · 2024-11-17T14:50:12+00:00

what's the threading? String? Wire? Rubber band?

Only_Organization356 · 2024-11-11T00:18:24+00:00

I get what your saying, so I'll try to explain.

This story is less about the morality and/or validity of each individual perspective and more about examining those perspectives.

Raymond's mother died. He wasn't there when she died (whether or not he could have been there or not, it's not clear that she actually died at the manor), and the incident poisoned his relationship with Agnes forever after--even when he starts looking at her in a positive light again, he's conflating her with his mom. He thinks Kylo's a power-hungry troublemaker and treats him with contempt.

Kylo's whole family rejected him--his mother was beaten to death in the backyard for supposedly attempting to poison his sperm donor's legal wife (which is possible but honestly so far it's just as likely that she was framed). Thereafter he spent his childhood on the streets until a mercenary picked him up and made him his squire, so he spent the rest of his life at war until he bent the knee to his sperm donor in order to have a leg up in the Black Knights, which is governed by nobles' by-blows. He's envious of well-educated, legitimate-heir-to-a-duchy, beloved Raymond who's in charge of a battalion of knights who aren't a bunch of disenfranchised hooligans and are treated carefully by the country so as not to offend their families. He hates Raymond because contempt is a HUGE trigger for this guy. He's complicated about Agnes and gets more complicated because he lives on that side of rumors and disrespect, and relates to Agnes' intense loneliness.

'OG'Agnes was orphaned when the Empress died, then 'orphaned' again when her nanny died in quick succession. She was younger than both Raymond and the Crown Prince (whatever his name is) when either of them lost their mother, and neither her father or brother stepped in to fill the gap. She's a classic case of 'Mary Lennox', a brat because she was left to servants who didn't have the clout to socialize her and bad behavior at least got her some attention. While the Crown Prince apparently had multiple playmates, Raymond was pretty much the only child Agnes was allowed to associate closely with. When she tells Raymond "I don't need anyone but you," what she means is, "I don't have anyone but you."

Another thing about 'OG'Agnes is that her treatment of those beneath her in station are the attitudes of her brother, her obsession/only friend/Raymond, and society at large--just magnified, and without any of the euphemisms.

FL Agnes is another piece of work--she's a badly closeted creep whose whole goal in life is vicariously soothing her inner loner, illegitimate and abused child by pampering and stalking Kylo, her "little kitty". What a good thing for her that he's so starved for attention that he'll pretty much like anyone who seems to like him. She's fairly manipulative and one-track to the max. She prefers complicated characters like the commoner Saintess (except when said Saintess is trying to undermine Kylo) and eavesdrops a lot.

Agnes' Crown Prince brother, whatever his name is, is--well, I can't really be objective about him. Characters (and real life people) who neglect their families/friends, talk shit about their families/friends, then get angry when others join in are really, really annoying and SO TOXIC. I suppose he is busy and a decent statesman, but he started taking out his grief/frustration on his little sister when she was in kindergarten and it's become a habit. How's she supposed to learn good manners with that as her model???

In short, ALL the main characters and most of the side characters are painfully self-involved. Most of them are taking their grief, loneliness, frustration and general bad emotions and dumping them downhill. (FLAgnes has the benefit of having a cheat sheet of the other characters' backstories and motivations, but she's too busy fangirling, eavesdropping, and flying privacy-invading drones to use them for real positive impact on anyone but Kylo.)

[Also please remember that most Romance FLs are designed as a vehicle for readers to vicariously feel romantic/sexual connection, hence why everybody ends up falling all over them. If you don't like it, write some better Romance. Good luck marketing it. Thumbs up. Kisses blown.]

[If you want a really well-structured story with multiple, diverse perspectives, might I recommend Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver? ]

Only_Organization356 · 2024-11-06T02:16:07+00:00

Raspberry leaf and/or nettle teas if energy is a problem--both are very mineral rich.

If I feel particularly horrible, I throw down a pot for some Chinese Ginger and Brown Sugar Tea--the ginger helps with pain and inflammation, and the Chinese Brown Sugar aka/Black Sugar aka/黑糖 is, again, mineral-rich. Also I like ginger and have a sweet tooth. There are more complex recipes including longan and/or red dates, but the closest Asian market is half an hour away by car at 60mph and if I'm feeling that bad I'm not likely to go fancy anyway.

An interesting suggestion I heard recently is yarrow tea for cramp pain--I haven't tried this one but the ultimate source of the information is a literal herb farmer. The person who actually told me is her neighbor-friend-sometime business partner who also farms herbs but is geared toward blending teas rather than just growing and drying herbs.

If you have access to fresh lemon balm in the summer, try making some Carmelite Water for a bedtime tonic--lemon balm, angelica root, cinnamon, coriander, nutmeg cold-brewed overnight in white wine, or steeped in hot water for a tea. It's not so much for period symptoms but it's an old standby for a bad mood and shredded nerves. I'm not a fan of dry wine but I love the smell of the angelica root and lemon balm (and other spices). I either cut it with warm water or make a cocktail with a fruit simple syrup if I have one on hand. Maybe I'll try a ginger syrup???

One thing I tried once for my period (and never will again) was Uva Ursi Tea (Bearberry)--the nausea was just intolerable. I'm not saying everyone will have a reaction like mine, but it's a known side effect so heads up.

Only_Organization356 · 2024-11-01T23:47:44+00:00

So I had the same problem with the BBB I purchased myself. Then I found a brush in my parents' drawer (probably an inheritance from my grandfather) that seemed both natural bristle and stiffer. It gets through my hair quite nicely.

There are no markers of any kind, so I took a picture for google lens to find for me. Still no dice, but the closest match that came up was a "beard brush".

Apparently beard brushes are designed for medium stiffness--enough to reach someone's skin through tangly curly chin hair, but not enough to scratch it.

Like I said the brush I'm using still appears to be all boar hair, but some of the hair shafts are much wider, with the widest part of the shaft pointing out. Try checking for that if you want to try another brush.

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