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spiderversegf · 2 days

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i asked my friend if it’s okay if i refer to her baby as my nephew and she said “it would be weird if you didn’t!” I LOVE MY FRIENDS

#🍜#j&c

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cheerstotheelites-if · 2 years

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Is there going to be an opportunity to escape the tragic fate that will befall us? Maybe like gathering allies to fight back against the clan or escape from Bellhollow altogether?

Please read the reminder of the last J&C related ask.

#J&C

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kaison07 · 1 month

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Fell and falling

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saintapplebees · 10 months

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joey and carson sketches <3

#shoutout to anyone who remembers these guys (probably no one)#old ocs ive like.. rebooted recently basically LMAO #original character #ocs #art #sketch #joey #carson #j&c #snow.txt

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petermorwood · 25 days

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More on pre-electricity lighting.

Interesting to see this one pop up again after nearly two years - courtesy of @dduane, too! :->

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After experiencing a couple more storm-related power cuts since my original post, as well as a couple of after-dark garden BBQs, I've come to the conclusion that C.J. Cherryh puts far too much emphasis on "how dark things were pre-electric light".

For one thing eyes adjust, dilating in dim light to gather whatever illumination is available. Okay, if there's none, there's none - but if there's some, human eyes can make use of it, some better or just faster than others. They're the ones with "good night vision".

Think, for instance, of how little you can see of your unlit bedroom just after you've turned off the lights, and how much more of it you can see if you wake up a couple of hours later.

There's also that business of feeling your way around, risking breaking your neck etc. People get used to their surroundings and, after a while, can feel their way around a familiar location even in total darkness with a fair amount of confidence.

Problems arise when Things Aren't Where They Should Be (or when New Things Arrive) and is when most trips, stumbles, hacked shins and stubbed toes happen, but usually - Lego bricks and upturned UK plugs aside - non-light domestic navigation is incident-free.

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Here are a couple of pics from one of those BBQs: one candle and a firepit early on, then the candle, firepit and an oil lamp much later, all much more obvious than DD's iPad screen.

Though I remain surprised at how well my phonecam was handling this low light, my own unassisted eyes were doing far better. For instance, that area between the table and the firepit wasn't such an impenetrable pool of darkness as it appears in the photo.

I see (hah!) no reason why those same Accustomed Eyes would have any more difficulty with candles or oil lamps as interior lighting, even without the mirrors or reflectors in my previous post.

With those, and with white interior walls, things would be even brighter. There's a reason why so many reconstructed period buildings in Folk Museums etc. are (authentically) whitewashed not just outside but inside as well. It was cheap, had disinfectant qualities, and was a reflective surface. Win, win and win.

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All right, there were no switches to turn on a light. But there was no need for what C.J. describes as stumbling about to reach the fire, because there were tinderboxes and, for many centuries before them, flint and steel. Since "firesteels" have been heraldic charges since the 1100s, the actual tool must have been in use for even longer.

Tinderboxes were fire-starter sets with flint, steel and "tinder" all packed into (surprise!) a box. The tinder was easily lit ignition material, often "charcloth", fabric baked in an airtight jar or tin which would now start to glow just from a spark.

They're mentioned in both "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings". Oddly enough, "Hobbit" mentions matches in a couple of places, but I suspect that's a carry-over from when it was just a children's story, not part of the main Legendarium.

Tinderboxes could be simple, just a basic flint-and-steel kit with some tinder for the sparks to fall on...

...or elaborate like this one, with a fancy striker, charcloth, kindling material and even wooden "spills" (long splinters) to transfer flame to a candle or the kindling...

This tinderbox even doubles as a candlestick, complete with a snuffer which would have been inside along with everything else.

Here's a close-up of the striker box with its inner and outer lids open:

What looks like a short pencil with an eraser is actually the striker. A bit of tinder or charcloth would have been pulled through that small hole in the outer lid, which was then closed.

There was a rough steel surface on the lid, and the striker was scraped along it, like so:

This was done for a TV show or film, so the tinder was probably made more flammable with, possibly, lighter fuel. That would be thoroughly appropriate, since a Zippo or similar lighter works on exactly the same principle.

A real-life version of any tinderbox would usually just produce glowing embers needing blown on to make a flame, which is shown sometimes in movies - especially as a will-it-light-or-won't-it? tension build - but is usually a bit slow and non-visual for screen work.

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There were even flintlock tinderboxes which worked with the same mechanism as those on firearms. Here's a pocket version:

Here are a couple of bedside versions, once again complete with a candlestick:

And here are three (for home defence?) with a spotlight candle lantern on one side and a double-trigger pistol on the other.

Pull one trigger to light the candle, pull the other trigger to fire the gun.

What could possibly go wrong? :-P

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Those pistol lanterns, magnified by lenses, weren't just to let their owner see what they were shooting at: they would also have dazzled whatever miscreant was sneaking around in the dark, irises dilated to make best use of available glimmer.

Swordsmen both good and bad knew this trick too, and various fight manuals taught how to manage a thumb-shuttered lamp encountered suddenly in a dark alley.

There's a sword-and-lantern combat in the 1973 "Three Musketeers" between Michael York (D'Artagnan) and Christopher Lee (Rochefort), which was a great idea.

Unfortunately it failed in execution because the "Hollywood Darkness" which let viewers see the action, wasn't dark enough to emphasise the hazards / advantages of snapping the lamps open and shut.

This TV screencap (can't get a better one, the DVD won't run in a computer drive) shows what I mean.

In fact, like the photos of the BBQ, this image - and entire fight - looks even brighter through "real eyes" than with the phonecam. Just as there can be too much dark in a night scene, there can also be too much light.

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One last thing I found when assembling pics for the post were Folding Candle-lanterns.

They were used from about the mid-1700s to the later 20th century (Swiss Army ca. 1978) as travel accessories and emergency equipment, and IMO - I've Made A Note - they'd fit right into a fantasy world whose tech level was able to make them.

The first and last are reproductions: this one is real, from about 1830.

The clear part was mica - a transparent mineral which can be split into thin flexible sheets - while others use horn / parchment, though both of these are translucent rather than transparent. Regardless, all were far less likely to break than glass.

One or two inner surfaces were usually tin, giving the lantern its own built-in reflector, and tech-level-wise, tin as a shiny or decorative finish has been used since Roman times.

I'm pretty sure that top-of-the-line models could also have been finished with their own matching, maybe even built-in, tinderboxes.

And if real ones didn't, fictional ones certainly could. :->

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Yet more period lighting stuff here, including flintlock alarm clocks (!)

#period lighting #tinderbox #too light too dark #social history #writer notes #research #period tech #sword vs lantern #c. j. cherryh

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selwynsel · 4 months

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sansa and tyrion's marriage is interesting from tyrion's perspective. he is canny enough to understand that she is only saying things to please and mollify him, but he also genuinely thinks that she is "so dutiful" that she would tell him what she prays for in her frequent visits to the sept (and he thinks she's excessively pious). as the reader we know she's praying for lannister annihilation and would never admit this out loud, but tyrion doesn't seem to really... get that sansa hates him and his family. even after everything, the multiple beatings, being terrorized by joffrey, the entire forced marriage, THE MURDER OF HER DEAR BELOVED DAD - he has a perception of her as a simple dutiful girl whose inner world consists of piety and supplication. that her prayers are a form of resistance and escape doesn't occur to him. he also exercises a very similar lack of understanding with shae - he thinks she's angry with him bc she lost her jewels and silks, not bc she is scared of her unstable position.

#asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #sansa stark #tyrion lannister #the lannister brain delusion complex filters every thought that j c t have. and it spits out smthg nuts. just bonkers.

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uwhe-arts · 3 months

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calm down . . . | uwhe-arts

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pommegrantaire · 7 months

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well, heaven knows

that without you is how i disappear

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kailixart · 6 months

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this is how i imagine they hang out btw

what movie do you think they're watching?

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fidgetspringer · 3 months

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A selection of Leyendecker's dogs.

#Leyendecker #j c leyendecker #because i adore the way he painted dogs #man was a huge fan of scrappy little terriers apparently #this isn't even all his dogs #he's got so manny good ones

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this-is-a-mess-101 · 2 years

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I thought I recognized Lestat's robe in this scene

And it matches with this robe from (gay artist) J. C. Leyendecker's 1916 Arrow Collar Shirt ad

And my art history nerd ass needs to know if that was on purpose or just a coincidence. But whatever it is, it's gay as fuck

#interview with the vampire #iwtv #lestat de lioncourt #lestat #iwtv amc #iwtv 2022 #jacob anderson #j c leyendecker #leyendecker #tvc lestat #tvc #iwtv spoilers #my queer heart stopped #when i noticed #its just so gay #am i reading too much into this?#probably #but the connection is there #as i adjust my tinfoil hat

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spiderversegf · 5 months

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i told my friend that i’m really excited to meet her baby and that i hope he likes me and she replied “i think he’ll love you as soon as he knows you! how could he not?” and i think i will cry and lose my mind over this forever and ever and ever

#🍜#i’m sooooo excited to meet him he’s so tiny and his cheeks are so round!!!!! new tiny bestie just dropped!!!!!#j&c

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cheerstotheelites-if · 2 years

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How many months/years have Adele and Welhaven been dating before they decided to marry? In what season do the story's events start?

Reminder: If you want to ask Juliet & Cinderella related questions, please ask in the other blog. I won't be answering them here, and this will be the last time I'll be doing so.

The time for how long have they been dating has been already answered here.

The story event starts in early to mid Spring.

#J&C

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caemidraws · 5 months

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