By growing it in the dark it means the rhubarb doesn't place any energy and nutrition into growing leaves. So it puts everything into the edible stem and grows taller, more nutritious and tastier.

The candle light is just tradition. You could use electric lights if you wanted.

Hot take of the day: Arthur is only considered the most bland of the suitors because he has all the marks of a disney princess, which people also consider bland (unrightfully so on both counts). Likes animals? Check. Beautiful hair? Check. Flings himself onto the nearest object (Jack and Mina) and cries? Check. Is very soft and gentle but still has a strong morality and sense of justice? Check. Does not deserve the censure he gets because he IS an interesting character if people would look at him for more than two seconds to see it? Check.

Boom. Boy is a princess.

Tragic parental death? Check.

#part of it is that he’s more action-oriented than verbal throughout the book #I headcanon that part of why Lucy chose him was the fact that he was reserved/let her take the speaking lead #as he does with his friends #in a society (and likely a home life) where a girl/woman is encouraged Not to speak her mind #Arthur would be a breath of fresh and attentive air #and we’ll also see soon what a good reader of character he is when it comes to detecting Something Wrong even when Lucy tries to bluff #on how ~fine~ she is to keep others from worrying #he’s not a bombastic character #but he is a good one

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YES!!!

Personally, I headcanon the reason why Lucy didn’t record his proposal was because it went completely differently from the others (also… ya know, for other reasons I’ve listed before). Not as formulaic. He didn’t go through this whole long speech and only let her have the floor to say yes or no. Both Seward and Quincey laid it on thick how much of an honour it would be to have her as a wife, and we know Quincey’d already been dominating the conversation before he even got her alone to pop the question. Sure, it’s romantic to have this big anticipatory speech… but it’s a clue for what would come out of those prospective marriages. They talk, she listens.

But none of that even matters. She didn’t choose Arthur because the others were trash or smth, she chose him because she loved him.

I imagine him coming into the room after all the fuss, rizzed up and ready to ask for her hand until he sees her distress. She tries to wave it off but he insists. What is wrong? Then she finally lets go. How horrible it is! Such lovely men, and they’re all wasting their time being upset over her! And Arthur just listens. He listens, and once she’s gotten it all off her chest, he says to her that he doesn’t see it that way. That those men were lucky to fall in love with such a lovely woman… and this is very awkward, but—

And he proposes. And she throws herself into his arms.

AUTISM RULES.

It is deeply strange to think that no 1963-1967 Dr Who episode release since around the turn of the century (give or take) has featured the same version of the theme tune that was actually broadcast

All DVD and CD releases of episodes from this era and their soundtracks feature a replaced edit of the original TV theme that Mark Ayres prepared around 2000, which features two significant differences from the theme as originally broadcast in 1963 (and as released on VHS in the 1990s).

The most important (and thus far unresolved) difference is the opening "wind cloud" hiss which coincides with the beginning of the title sequence.

This is the version that has become "official" since 2000, but by his own admission, Mark Ayres had to fudge it a little (since the original downmixed master tapes do not feature any hiss at the beginning, and the isolated element apparently no longer exists in the multitracks either)

This is all well and good, but the alternative wind cloud hiss he dubbed on is a poor match for the one originally used, which can be heard below, and (as I found after examining a load of crusty old VHS rips very carefully) is in fact the same hiss used on the earlier August 1963 edit of the theme (something I can only assume Mark Ayres overlooked whilst doing restoration work on the archives)

Compare here the difference between an unaltered VHS rip and the "official" version prepared by Mark Ayres, see how different the noise grain and amplitude swell patterns are?

Whereas the noise grain and swell on a version that uses the August 1963 version matches up FLAWLESSLY

This lower, slightly more WHOOSHY hiss (which imo complements the visuals much better) is what audiences would have originally heard when the show was actually airing.

The OTHER odd difference between the broadcast version from November 1963 and the 2000 "restored" version is that there's a peculiar added hiss at the beginning of the middle 8 section

I've highlighted it here, contrasted against a copy that does not feature it.

This added hiss is a byproduct of about 0.8 seconds of the August 1963 version being spliced in to cover a dropout in the (apparently poorly preserved) master tapes. To his credit, this at least is something which Mark Ayres corrected some time around 2004, as most DVDs released since then have a different edit (presumably a sufficiently high quality and undamaged copy of the proper master tape was found which could be spliced in instead)

...BUT the weird 2000 edit is still the go-to copy for soundtrack CDs and has shown up inconsistently on some DVD releases, since such a small detail can apparently easily slip through the cracks.

The upshot of all this is really just to say... It makes me a little sad that Delia Derbyshire's unaltered work on this particular recording just doesn't seem to exist in any accessible format anymore beyond increasingly degraded VHS tapes, and has to my knowledge never been released intact digitally.

Fightin evil by moon light 💪 💖🌸🌸🥺🍇

native moms who dance with their daughters>>

transphobic parents will be like “there was no indication that my sullen, anxious, reserved, socially outcast, overcompensating, deeply unhappy child was transgender growing up”

there's just nothing that beats being at home. the world will try to convince me i should be doing more and it's like yeah but im at home

like if youre at home right now just take a minute to be like UGH yes im at home 

We often teach kids to do chores by finding ways to turn them into a game(and also by doing them together and offering positive reinforcement in the form of compliments and encouragement during and after). The thing is, that doesn't just magically stop working once you're an adult. On top of that, way back when most people did hard work in groups, small or large, and we usually talked and sang while doing so, so like, if the only way you can get yourself to do your laundry is to imagine you're a Pikmin or that Master Chief is there cheering you on then imo that's a fantastic coping mechanism that taps into the natural human desire for connection, comradery, and fun that has helped us get through hard work for hundreds of thousands of years.

Fun is not antithetical to hard work. Kill whatever is in your head that thinks suffering is moral and thus hard work must suck for it to count. There's a reason Pokemon Go gets people outside and Pokemon Sleep helps people sleep, it's bcs humans need fun to make life bearable! I know that one post above is a joke but this is like, the opposite of mental illness. It's good, it's normal, do not feel ashamed of Naruto motivating you to brush your teeth.

You know. Some people could really stand to get more comfortable with the idea of “you shouldn’t say that because it’s mean”. Especially with really common body shaming and straight up bullying lines.

“You shouldn’t make ugly bald jokes because what if a transman on T sees it!”

“You shouldn’t make virgin jokes because what if someone who’s asexual sees it!”

How about you just don’t make them because they’re mean. How about people can be balding or a virgin for a number of reasons and also don’t deserve to be routinely made fun of. How about saying that the reason you shouldn’t make x joke because it spares x specific identity’s feelings also let’s them know that you actually have no problem saying or thinking bald people are ugly or virgins are stupid or etc but you’re just not saying it in front of them. How about you understand this kind of body shaming and bullying especially in a very public setting online are always going to have way more unintended damage to people who did nothing wrong than damage to the person you’re upset with.

Sometimes the best reason to not make a bad joke like that is because it’s fucking mean.

don’t think i can call it a hyperfixation anymore fam im afraid im just long term insane about this piece of media

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One of the best tips for writing descriptions of pain is actually a snippet I remember from a story where a character is given a host of colored pencils and asked to draw an egg.

The character says that there’s no white pencil.  But you don’t need a white pencil to draw a white egg.  We already know the egg is white.  What we need to draw is the luminance of the yellow lamp and the reflection of the blue cloth and the shadows and the shading.

We know a broken bone hurts.  We know a knife wound hurts.  We know grief hurts.  Show us what else it does.

You don’t need to describe the character in pain.  You need to describe how the pain affects the character - how they’re unable to move, how they’re sweating, how they’re cold, how their muscles ache and their fingers tremble and their eyes prickle.

Draw around the egg.  Write around the pain.  And we will all be able to see the finished product.