The thing I can't possibly stress enough about why, exactly, reconstructing Early Modern recipes totally belongs in the field of game design is that for all there is the joy and satisfaction and some kind of mystic cross-time connection with creators of the past OR WHATEVER--
A Minor Thought: Making Many Many Tiny Friends
I had for some time wondered what would happen when my various apothecary nonsense things went bad. I sometimes had things that turned out strange, and some things that didn’t set right and turned out gross, but eventually the day did come when I had something TURN BAD from OLD AGE.
A Minor Thought: Now I Am Become Unstoppable
Over the previous week and a half, I have received as a consequence of my recent birthday, the following--
Issue 42, containing: The Perils of the Artistic Temperament; The Self, On Reflection; Commonplaces, &c.
What is a new year?
A Minor Thought: Unreliable Narrators
It was always part of digital literacy to be wary of what someone wrote on the internet, but that was typically most applicable to things like Yahoo Answers and random echo chamber forums.
Issue 41, containing: Soap (An Evening of Tragedies), Become Your Own Historically Questionable Apothecary!, &c.
Last week we were off for surprise medical matters. This week let us return to our significantly more disastrous run-ins with historical recreations.
Issue 40, containing: Soap, Local Wanderings, Notes from the Fall Collection, Perhaps a Smidgeon of Medical Horror After All, Commonplaces, &c.
Hello, new Gentle Readers, who may be coming here due to a questionable subscription to the regular blog.
Issue 39, containing: Some Nonsense (in Brief), &c.
Oh, Gentle Readers-- you may not have heard the recent news, but in short, both Apple and Patreon have made some Decisions with regard to money and cost and such-- specifically...
A Minor Thought: GOO
I'm in the workshop making lip balm because I have been INTERVIEWED by my alma mater and have been asked for action photos of me working that AREN'T just terrible soap mistakes or free advertisements for Dunkin Donuts coffee.
Issue 38, containing: 27 March 2023, A Brief History of Putting Pearls in Things (in Europe)(and also My Workshop), The Incredibly Big Difference Between Essence of Pearl and Seed Pearl in Fine Powder, (Mystery Solved) Or Is It, (Consumer-Grade Pearl Powder) Also No, Finding Some Real Goddamn Pearls in This Degenerate Age, The Reading Society, &c.
It should be said directly: None of what I describe in the below should be repeated by any reasonable persons. *Do not make my mistakes.*