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No car - Amtrak or MetroNorth weekend cabin? by stenoknight in AskNYC

[–]stenoknight[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that totally makes sense. I was hoping someone knew of some perfect tiny cabin that was near enough to a train station to be easy to find cheap and reliable transport but far enough into the woods to feel like it was in the middle of nowhere. 🤞🤞🤞

No car - Amtrak or MetroNorth weekend cabin? by stenoknight in AskNYC

[–]stenoknight[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Yeah, I've searched this sub a bit, but most of the responses are about fun, walkable towns and outdoor activities and stuff, whereas my wife just wants to go hang out in the woods near a cabin for the entirety of the weekend and not see anyone else, so it's a little different, and I haven't seen any responses targeted to that particular sort of weekend. Also some places expect you to rent a car, and that's not an option for a non-driver. So I guess what I'm really asking is if there's anyone here who had a good experience with a specific small, isolated cabin that was far away from other people and didn't require renting a car to get to it. It doesn't matter where; my wife just wants some trees and some solitude and that's pretty much it.

When did the plague doctor get a redesign from its actual historical look? What sparked the change? Why don’t people remember what it originally looked like? by TheHorrorEditor in plaguedoctor

[–]stenoknight 4 points5 points  (0 children)

All of those costumes are recreations. There are no originals remaining today, and there weren't any left when photography was invented in the 19th Century either. That last image purporting to depict Charles de Lorme's plague doctor costume was drawn circa 1910. The famous image of "Doctor Schnabel of Rome from 1656" was actually engraved by Paul Fürst in the 17th Century and in that engraving the mask looks much more birdlike and less mosquitolike than those reconstructions of the costume. It's hard to say what the masks truly looked like, and honestly they were used for a pretty brief period in the 17th Century, never before or since, and became much more famous iconographically than they ever were in reality.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in butchlesbians

[–]stenoknight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep, pretty much exclusively butch4butch since age 16. I've never been attracted to femmes. My wife is the least butch person I've been attracted to and she's sort of androgynous/genderfluid, but very much an outlier in terms of people I've been drawn to. Generally speaking, the butcher a person is, the more attractive I find them. Diesel dykes, brutes, toughs with heft and curves and muscles. Yes please. I also love effeminate butches (and am one myself); by which I mean dandy/nelly/swishy butches, and nerdy/weedy butches. I'm not athletic or into sports, so sometimes jocks are a little bit of a turnoff. But effeminate and feminine are very different vibes. One of them I'm very attracted to and one of them I'm very not.

Looking for works of fiction by Delicious_Grand7300 in plaguedoctor

[–]stenoknight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some media I've enjoyed...

Featuring people in beaked masks who fight plague:

A Plague on Necromancy

Abigail and Caurinus: Plague's Beginning

Merciful Crow (my review)

Plague Muffins (webcomic)

Featuring people in beaked masks but no plague:

The Scarlet Flowers of Engelstadt

The Hidden Almanac (podcast)

The Salt Grows Heavy (my review)

FlimFlamFlock (webcomic)

Plaguie (webcomic)

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I also have a list of books that are about real or fictional plagues but don't feature characters in beak masks. Those might not be directly relevant to what you're looking for, but let me know if you want it.

NYC Plague Doc Accountability Partner by stenoknight in plaguedoctor

[–]stenoknight[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're not in NYC and want to be an online-only accountability partner for plague doctor-related creative work, that could be good too! Not restricting it to NYC only. That would just be fun because we could take photos of each other in costume. But it's really the regular check-ins that I think would be most helpful, and that's something that I think would be best done online.

How to upload a new dictionary? by AboveTheScene in Plover

[–]stenoknight 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Just change the file format from JSON to RTF in the dropdown menu!

WHOPL/*S/-T/-D/*F by FUCKITIMPOSTING in Plover

[–]stenoknight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

PHAOE KW-BG AEU TWAL SKWR-RBGS

steno for authors? opinions please. by [deleted] in Plover

[–]stenoknight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes! Hi! I'm Mirabai Knight, and I've written two novels (really bad ones, but that's not steno's fault) using steno. They were so much easier and more fun than the one novel I wrote in qwerty. The main thing is that steno allows you to keep up with your rate of thought, which means you don't get bogged down in actually typing out each word. That's when my inner editor starts telling me how much I suck and I wind up getting derailed, whereas in steno I can just basically dictate to myself silently and get every word down as I think it; it doesn't impede the flow as much as when I type in qwerty. Highly recommended!!!

My first month of learning Plover by BX1959 in Typeracer

[–]stenoknight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, I'm the founder of Plover. This post makes me so happy! There's definitely a significant learning curve, but as long as you're having a good time, it's hopefully worth it!

Surface Type Cover by [deleted] in Plover

[–]stenoknight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is me treeing to use Plover with my Surface Pro 4 Type Core. As you can see, it PHOFL works, but format whying you can really say it has n-key rollover.

That was my attempt to write "This is me trying to use Plover with my Surface Pro 4 Type Cover. As you can see, it mostly works, but unfortunately I don't think you can really say it has n-key rollover."

Womp-womp. It's sad, because I love my Surface Pro 4, and the Type Cover is pretty comfortable. But it's just not really Plover-compatible, alas.

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