Crambe Repetitia
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Breakfast in Shi'Kahr
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A kissing study.
Another one.
Probably chronological, as it tracks with T'Pring’s transition from ‘this is deeply inappropriate’ to 'I do not care.’ XD
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A Round on J'Gal (2743 words) by Alsike
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Christine Chapel/T'Pring
Characters: Christine Chapel, T'Pring (Star Trek), Joseph M'Benga
Additional Tags: War, Graduate School, is graduate school worse than war?, (probably not, but bear with me), Golf Story Video Game, startrekfemslashweek2023
Summary:
An unexpected kiss during wartime. -
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I have no idea why this particular photo of Nichelle Nichols is in the Star Trek III: The Search For Spock press kit, but I’m very glad it is.
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I was pretty happy today to see that YT’s “3 strikes and you’re out” policy for adblockers had finally been rolled out to me. I have discovered the miracles of Freetube and actually figured it might be quite nice to have the video player blocked in my browser. I could watch videos in Freetube without invasive algorithms spying on me and copy the URL over to my browser if I want to interact with the comments or like the video - without the video player slowing things down. Sounds like a pretty good setup actually! I immediately reloaded the video 3 times to make sure I was blocked.
Too bad that uBlock Origin updated so quickly. My video player got unblocked, much to my annoyance. The uBlock team is too good, too fast! I use Brave for YT only and Firefox for everything else, so I have stopped uBlock’s auto-update in Brave now. Hit me with that block, Google! I fear nothing!
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ftr I am forever going to be bitter that the post I wanted to be “let’s talk about extinct ecosystems and how cool they are!” got derailed into yet another post just talking about a single taxon like the millions of other posts on palaeoblr
Please tell me more about these extinct ecosystems. Why did they go extinct? Could an ecosystem like that return?
When I say “extinct ecosystem”, I mean those ecosystems that have existed in the past, with extinct animals and plants etc. inhabiting them
by their very definition, they are gone forever
there are ones that were truly unique, like Polar Tropical Forests and Fern Prairies, that we just could not have today
but there were ones that have equivalents to today, as well, like the first savannahs and steppes of the Miocene - they just have earlier versions of the plants and animals
there were so many because there are so many today, and each one had its own flora and fauna and was glorious
There’s the wetlands and forests of Hell Creek in the Latest Cretaceous
the bizarre Volcanic Lake Forests of the Jehol Biota
whatever the hell the Ediacaran Reefs were
the Scale Tree Swamp Forests of the Carboniferous
“Mesozoic 2” aka pre-human Aotearoa
the Western Interior Seaway dominated by Mosasaurs
and so many other things, I couldn’t possibly list them all. Every time period had its own biosphere and biomes, and they were all unique.
#i wanna see the Aurora Borealis over a tropical forest#BC Canada has a Boreal Rainforest so you can definitely get that
that isn’t what I mean by “Polar Tropical Forest”
I mean a tropical forest
at the poles
ie, the ecosystems present during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
we have fossils of plants that showcase how different tropical plant lifestyles had to be up at the poles because of the light weirdness
the important part is “tropical”, not “wet/rainforest”. those are two different things
Temperate and Boreal Rainforests are wonderful and some of my favorite living biomes, but they aren’t what I was talking about
May I ask about the fern prairies? That sounds really cool!
Grass is a relatively recent thing
it first evolved in the latest Cretaceous, but it didn’t actually take over everywhere until the Miocene, when grasses that process light differently (look up C3 vs C4 photosynthesis) evolved and just took the fuck over the planet
before then, other plants formed the low ground cover over the earth, and in many places those plants were ferns - spread all over the ground and covering it, much like grass, but significantly less dense. Dirt would have been much more common everywhere.
This is why I am begging every single game developer to remember that grass is not a neutral ground cover
My favorite extinct ecosystem, if it counts while being as physically tiny as it was, is the floating logs that existed in the ocean between the first appearance of woody trees and the first appearance of organisms that could break down wood - floating reefs of a sort, trailing enormous filter-feeding crinoids below them. The baleen whales of their time
yeah that counts! And how bizarre those must have been!!!
Speaking of reefs, we’re so used to rocky or coral reefs in the moderns world but there have been so many different reefs throughout prehistory that were made of things that straight up don’t exist any more!
Like the reefs of the late Devonian, which were made of stromatoporoids, which may have resembled corals but were actually a highly diverse extinct group of sponges!
This is one of my own reconstructions of a stromatoporoid reef off the coast of Devonian Australia (plus anachronistic underwater baited camera):
The Cretaceous also had some wild extinct reefs which are known as carbonate reefs and were dominated by a group of bivalve molluscs called rudists!
Scale tree swamps are the only one of these I know anything about and they were SO WEIRD. There’s definitely some controversy about how they functioned cause these things are hard to work out from fossils, but the current thinking is that these trees shot up to around 100 feet tall in 10-15 years, grew more tightly packed together than basically any modern forest, produced spores one time and then promptly keeled over and died. Forests just do not work like this anymore! It’s not just different types of trees, it’s a whole *different type of forest* that has gone extinct! Different nutrient cycling, different natural rhythms, different everything!
Even today there are all kinds of niche hyperlocal ecosystems that function in their own distinct ways - shale barrens, waxcap grasslands, cataract bogs. What else have we just never seen??
Anxiety over all the prehistoric organisms we’ll never know, meet your big sibling: anxiety over all the prehistoric ECOSYSTEMS we’ll never know
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Dragon Eye, a metamorphic rock formation, was found in a stone mine in Lancashire, England.
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Meiji period fashion was some of the best in the world, speaking purely from an aesthetic standpoint you can really see the collision of European and Japanese standards of beauty and how their broad agreement even in particulars (the similarity between Japanese and Gibson girl bouffants, the obi vs the corset, the obi knot vs the bustle, the mutual covetousness for exotic textiles, the feverish swapping of both art styles and subjects) combined and produced some of the most interesting cultural exchange we have this level of documentation for. Europeans were wearing kimono or adapting them into tea gowns, japanese were pairing lacy Edwardian blouses with skirt hakama and little button up boots. haori jackets with bowler hats and European style lapels. if steampunk was any good as an aesthetic it would steal wholesale from the copious records we have in both graphic arts and photography of how people were dressing in this milieu.
«The botany professor,» from Kkokei Shimbun, October 20, 1908.
she’s wearing a kimono blouse or haori, edwardian skirt or hakama, gibson girl bouffant, a lacy high-collar blouse with cravat and brooch, and a pocket watch with chain
1910-1930 (Taishō era, right after Meiji, which I should have included in my OP) men’s haori with western lapels
I have a love for both kimonos and bustle dresses, so I love seeing how the two fashions influenced each other over this period. And thanks to Pinterest, I have pictures!
Victorian tea gown that clearly started as a kimono. It still has the long furisode sleeves, but now they’re gathered at the shoulder and turned around so that the long open side is facing the front instead of the back. Similarly the back is taken in with curved seams to fit the torso and pleated below that for the skirt.
Woodblock of a woman in a a bustle dress made with colorful patterned fabrics and examples of how a woman could style her hair with it.
More prints to showcase hairstyles, two women wearing western wear and two women wearing kimonos.
This next one’s modern, but it involves hoopskirts so I’ll add it in because it makes me so happy. There’s been different styles of wedding fashion that take kimonos and give them a more modern look. Often this involves taking a kimono and then cutting and resewing it into a new dress. Very pretty, but it can’t ever be worn like a traditional kimono again. But now there’s another trend where the bride wears a hoopskirt with a white skirt, then you take the kimono and drape it on. The back of the kimono covers the front of the dress, the long sleeves fall across the sides or the back, and you still wear an obi with it. The result is pretty and the kimono itself doesn’t have to be altered at all.
And because you mentioned steampunk, I have to add in these two:
Personally I’m a big fan of Taisho Meisen kimono, which are what happen when the Japanese textile industry abruptly gets access to aniline dyes, new spinning and weaving technology, and the concept of Art Deco:
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It’s freedom, and I like it! My spark has been ignited!
Jess Bush as Nurse Chapel in Strange New Worlds Season 2
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