LONDON REPORTBACK! London’s Chinatown shut down on Tuesday as restaurants & shops went on strike, allowing workers to march on the #HomeOffice, to deliver a letter to the Minister calling for an end to heavy handed immigration “fishing raids”. (via Plan C)
Monday, July 23rd – Hi everyone, I’m so sorry that I keep making this post but I desperately need your help. Is anyone able to send me a few £’s so I can eat today/this week?
This is a continuation from my benefit sanction post (please click to read about my situation), as I still desperately need help. Thanks to some incredibly kind individuals, I was able to pay off my overdrawn balance on my back acct and a majority of my overdue bills. However, I still desperately need help to get groceries and basic supplies (laundry powder, dish soap, toiletries etc..) and I really need to get these essentials as I have regularly skipped on eating for the past few days in a row now to try and make ends meet and it has taken such a toll on me that last week, I was diagnosed with a folic acid deficiency, due to lack of nutrition. I have been prescribed medication to help (I can show this) and I really need your help to get by.
If anyone could spare any amount to help me, even if it’s just £1/$1/€1, it would literally save my life and, sharing definitely helps just as much as donations. Nobody has to donate if they can’t or don’t want to, I know we’re all struggling. Thank you for your help 💖
Please consider helping out guys if you possibly can, if anyone could spare anything to help me get food for at least today and maybe next week it would really mean a lot to me and sharing is also very much appreciated, thank you 🙏💖
Children’s art in media: fully-colored, stylized but recognizabke figures with backgrounds and aesthetically textured and messy crayon coloring that
Children’s art in real life: an anguished disembodied head floating on one side, a massive sea of amorphous red scribbles taking up half the paper, ‘SAM’ written in enormous shaky letters overlapping everything, partial figure of a dinosaur abandoned before drawing the legs
in a movie this would be a fully-colored crayon drawing of a ranger standing in front of an arch that said “Jurassic Park” but instead it is two dinosaur skulls floating in the abyss while a ranger’s head is swallowed by his own enormous speech bubble and I adore it
Part of my job is literally making those dumb kids drawings in film/tv AND LET ME TELL YOU, the reason why they’re never like actual kid art is because 1. None of us art goblins remember what weird shit kids think of when they draw so we rely on bad reference images and the random stuff we remember drawing 2. We have so much muscle memory that it’s legit difficult to make ‘bad’ art 3. It’s a legal nightmare to use actual kid art most of the time so one of the dept art goblins makes it 4. The colour is because it adds contrast and draws the eye; usually we’re working with nice art supplies with a full spectrum of colours and trying to tone it down to look as bad as possible but failing miserably because it’s just not in us to do it.
This is the funniest fucking professional problem I can imagine.
I’d love to see the results of like… trying to commission children to make art for film and TV. “Draw a happy family!” “Okay!” [chird churns out three weirdly proportioned humans and a yellow amorphous blob with a speech bubble shouting something unintelligible] “Oh uh… it’s very. Nice. Can you tell me who the yellow person is?” “That’s Spongebob. The family is happy because he came to their party.”
I would recommend for kids drawings what my mother did with santa signatures (and what I do now for this exact thing)
Use your non-dominate hand
Like at one point I rolled in d&d a botch for drawing a missing poster I think so I just drew the picture with my left hand. Lets give spongebob a shot.
That is pretty awful but I think maybe not good enoygh. This is still like, a middle school level probably. What could make it worse? Instead of left hand lets try LEFT FOOT.
NOW we are talking that looks authetic as fuck draw shit kid drawings with your feet to remove the skilled part of your labor.
especially anti-psychs and SNRIs, these meds increase your body temp and the more you take, the more it does that. You are NOT just “feeling the heat” if you start to feel like you have sunstroke this Summer. You will most likely get it before anyone else so treat yourself as you would treat a small child. Ensure that you stay hydrated and keep an eye on yourself!
I had to remind myself of this because I’ve been feeling the heat a LOT since my dosage was increased and it can actually lead to your meds fucking up/you getting really sick!
And be careful because often the full effects of the sun on you don’t show up until later! I once had my body swell up hours after being out and it was horrible. If you’re on antipsychotics especially please stay hydrated, wear sunscreen, and try to stay in the shade!
especially anti-psychs and SNRIs, these meds increase your body temp and the more you take, the more it does that. You are NOT just “feeling the heat” if you start to feel like you have sunstroke this Summer. You will most likely get it before anyone else so treat yourself as you would treat a small child. Ensure that you stay hydrated and keep an eye on yourself!
I had to remind myself of this because I’ve been feeling the heat a LOT since my dosage was increased and it can actually lead to your meds fucking up/you getting really sick!
And be careful because often the full effects of the sun on you don’t show up until later! I once had my body swell up hours after being out and it was horrible. If you’re on antipsychotics especially please stay hydrated, wear sunscreen, and try to stay in the shade!
One unexpected thing that caused me problems dealing with heat was Buspar/buspirone prescribed for anxiety. It didn’t actually help with the anxiety, but it did pretty much stop me from sweating.
It apparently makes more people sweat more, but it can also do the opposite. And that’s one drug that I didn’t even consider might be causing a problem there, until after I went off it.
So, even if you’re not on antipsychotics, other medications could also complicate dealing with hot weather. Be careful, and please take it seriously if you’re starting to feel sick from the heat even if you’re not on any meds generally recognized as causing trouble there.
The hottest day so far here, with tomorrow supposed to be about the same 😖
At least it should hopefully cool down a little more overnight, not that it’s noticeable in the bedroom with no cross ventilation.
This isn’t the hottest I’ve ever seen it get here. But, it seems to be trying.
(I was actually visiting Mr. C just in time for the 2003 heatwave, with still-record temperatures. Got over 100F here in the SE, with the usual island humidity. At least now we have some fans in the house. He didn’t before, and–surprise!–everywhere we tried had sold totally out. Coming to badly set up for heat London straight from a Virginia summer, I did get heat exhaustion more than once. Trying to push through when we were out places and make a better impression, of course 🙄)
Not quite there now, but I am not going in the sun if I can help it at all today.
Big Horses are a Very New Thing and they Likely Didn’t Exist in your Historical and/or Fantasy Settings.
You’ve all seen it in every historical piece of media ever produced. Contrary to popular belief, a big black horse with long legs and long flowing mane is not a widespread or even a particularly old type of horse.
THIS IS NOT A MEDIEVAL THING. THIS IS NOT EVEN A BAROQUE THING. THIS IS A NINETEENTH CENTURY CITY CARRIAGE HORSE.
All the love to fancy Friesian horses, but your Roman general or Medieval country heroine just really couldn’t, wouldn’t, and for the sake of my mental health shouldn’t have ridden one either.
Big warmblood horses are a Western European and British invention that started popping up somewhere around 1700s when agriculture and warfare changed, and when rich folks wanted Bigger Faster Stronger Thinner race horses. The modern warmblood and the big continental draught both had their first real rise to fame in the 1800s when people started driving Fancy Carriages everywhere, and having the Fanciest Carriage started to mean having the Tallest and Thinnest Horses in the town.
Before mechanised weaponry and heavy artillery all horses used to be small and hardy easy-feeders. Kinda like a donkey but easier to steer and with a back that’s not as nasty and straight to sit on.
SOME REAL MEDIEVAL, ROMAN, OTTOMAN, MONGOL, VIKING, GREEK and WHATEVER HISTORICALLY PLAUSIBLE HORSES FOR YOU:
“Primitive”, native breeds all over the globe tend to be only roughly 120-140 cm (12.0 – 13.3 hh) tall at the withers. They all also look a little something like this:
Mongolian native horse (Around 120-130 at the withers, and decendants of the first ever domesticated horses from central Asia. Still virtually unchanged from Chinggis Khan’s cavalry, ancestor to many Chinese, Japanese and Indian horses, and bred for speed racing and surviving outdoors without the help of humans.)
Carpathian native horse / Romanian and Polish Hucul Pony (Around 120-150 at the withers, first mentioned in writing during the 400s as wild mountain ponies, depicted before that in Trajanian Roman sculptures, used by the Austro-Hungarian cavalry in the 19th century)
Middle-Eastern native horse / Caspian Pony (Around 100-130 at the withers, ancestor of the Iranian Asil horse and its decendants, including the famous Arabian and Barb horses, likely been around since Darius I the Great, 5th century BC, and old Persian kings are often depicted riding these midgets)
Baltic Sea native horse / Icelandic, Finnish, Estonian, Gotland and Nordland horses (Around 120-150 at the withers, descendant of Mongolian horses, used by viking traders in 700-900 AD and taken to Iceland. Later used by the Swedish cavalry in the 30 years war and by the Finnish army in the Second World War, nowadays harness racing and draught horses)
Siberian native horse / Yakutian pony (Around 120-140 at the withers, related to Baltic and Mongolian horses and at least as old, as well-adapted to Siberian climate as woolly mammoths once were, the hairiest horse there is, used in draught work and herding)
Mediterranean native horse / Skyros pony, Sardinian Giara, Monterufolino (Around 100-140 at the Withers, used and bred by ancient Greeks for cavalry use, influenced by African and Eastern breeds, further had its own influence on Celtic breeds via Roman Empire, still used by park ranger officers in Italy)
British Isles’ native horse / various “Mountain & Moorland” pony breeds (Around 100-150 at the withers, brought over and mixed by Celts, Romans and Vikings, base for almost every modern sport pony and the deserving main pony of all your British Medieval settings. Some populations still live as feral herds in the British countryside, used as war mounts, draught horses, mine pit ponies, hunting help and race horses)
So hey, now you know!
I love this so much – and now I know why Tall Lanky Thin horses have a terryfying vibe to them, and the “primitive” native pony-like breeds awake in me only hope and trust.
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