[THEY EVEN POURED IN A CEMENT FLOOR IN THE BACK ROOM. INDOOR PLUMBING?! TABLE IS LAID FOR THREE PEOPLE. WHAT MADE YOU COME HERE? JAMES BEARD AWARD OVER THERE.]

Daily Dose of Gratitude

Today I am grateful for indoor plumbing. Because outside is too cold.

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all those posts that are like "why am i researching currency debasement in the 1860s for a fanfiction no one is going to care" are full of shit, i just DNFd a fic for being obviously incorrect about the history of plumbing

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Danny, Jason, Tim and Damian get Isakaid into a high fantasy world.

Jason is enjoying himself due to his love of period dramas and Damian has somehow managed to gain the class of Beast Tamer. Do not ask how many animals he has the answer is too many.

Tim at first was suffering immensely thanks to the lack of tech and many of the things he loved from the modern world being missing (thankfully this world does have indoor plumbing) until he realizes he can just make some of the stuff himself as an inventor.

Danny tries to flee, seeing as the reason they're in this mess to begin with is all Dannys fault (authors choice as to how) but kept getting recaptured until he stopped. Now he helps the others with whatever they need in-between trying to find a way home and stargazing.

Unfortunately for the isakai world the bats are scary no matter where they are. They become a party in a guild and-alongside Danny-basically stomp everything flat.

In vatnik clownland, having gender neutral toilets means you're a Nazi….

(After returning from the Ever After, Jaune Arc went to the bathroom)

Jaune: (Gazing lovingly at the toilet and toilet paper) Thank you. No more banana leaves...

I realize this is a weird question for a Sunday morning, but does anybody have particularly incisive articles about the tension between architectural preservation and the need (because I do think it's a need!) for new buildings, new spaces, and revising the landscape of a city?

I'm watching a piece on Richard Nickel, who is almost single-handedly responsible for photographing the work of Louis Sullivan and other architects of the Chicago Prairie School, prior to their demolition in the 60s. It's a great piece, and I love Nickel's photographs, but as someone who knows only the Chicago that sprang up in the wake of Nickel's, I can't help but wonder if there's more than simple aesthetics at play here.

sarah snook has a face for period pieces

Are showers canonical to fable smp?

This question won't stop bothering me.

i mean the ghaae household in season 2 had like. a hot tub and sauna and whatnot so im gonna say probably yes???

i feel like we don't talk about twosun enough. its inherently very interesting. this is the world that shaped our heroes. but the minutiae is easy to make up to suit your purposes and none of it ultimately matters to the narrative. trying to think of what we know about this world. there are 2 suns. a purple sky. it was a hard world (aren't all worlds?). there was a spaceship.

so what's the technological state of this world? hard to say. there's a spaceship, first of its kind, but how specific is that? is it the first flying ship at all, or only the first to leave the planar system? the light fell down a year before the starblaster took off, since the hunger came down right on that day. the ipre had the light for one year. how much did that contribute to their technological advancement? (i hate the idea of 'advancement' as if it's some inevitable linear progress but bear with me here, that's the easiest language to use). were they building ships beforehand? what else did they have?

here's how i tend to think of it: the ipre has the light. the ipre is already quite "advanced" for this world. here are things the ipre has, so by extension twosun has: bond engines, indoor plumbing, industrialized steel production. however i don't tend to think of twosun as a globalized world. so there are many places that do not have these things. and of course these are all things we think of as "advanced" but they also lack many things we think of as technological "advancement," like steam engines, or concrete. anyway.

i don't think its possible for the light of creation to have inspired all of this in only one year. this world was already well on its way. the ipre already existed, it already built spaceships. just not as ambitiously, and more rooted in magic than technology (the idea that magic is just science/technology you don't understand yet is very fun, but in this case i think magic is very much different, and has a longer history. although it can be used in tandem with tech, like in the bond engine).

and aside from technologically i tend to think of it as very politically fractured and chaotic. small regional governments with little reach, fraught and difficult trade, certainly no formal schooling systems (there are, like, wizard universities, all with different inscrutable systems, and then the ipre, and that's your choices for "education"). which is why there's more tech in some places than others.

the most interesting thing is, i think, the difference in lifespans among our crew. magnus, lucretia, and barry know only a more or less industrialized world (although i do tend to have barry grown up rural, that'd be one of those places all this tech hasn't quite reached yet), where there's an organization that sends spaceships with engines to different planes of this reality, and now with a little extra kick from the light, to different realities entirely. magnus has only ever showered with water from pipes indoors. he doesn't bat an eye at buildings made of all metal and glass. but lup and taako grew up in a medieval fantasy world. this shit's all, like, seventy years old max, and they've been around for nearly two centuries. they were bathing in big medieval washtubs as kids. their clothes were all handmade. merle too, although he grew up off the grid anyway. and probably davenport as well, but he would've been more immersed in tech, growing up in a gnomish warren. which is maybe why he was such a good pick for pilot of the starblaster.

but also: we see some of the same happen in faerun. even there it's not clear what the time period is. it's fantasy, all swords and sorcery. but there's trains and arcane engines and skyscrapers. again, not globalized, these things exist in isolated pockets. is it the light? did it still manage to have subtle influence all those years? is it just the luck of the millers finding a window into the plane of thought? is the real answer just that it's inconsistent in whatever way makes the most fun story? is it fun to play in the space of trying to make sense of it anyway?

im obsessed with the bathroom roman and mencken had their conversation

i'm literally constantly thinking about this tbh. bathrooms are really interesting spaces sociologically because having indoor plumbing and the ability to piss and shit inside your home is considered as a mark of cultural gentility and the 'civilising process,' even as pissing and shitting themselves are made increasingly taboo and relegated to the margins of polite society. like, think about how often people fuck onscreen, versus how many times you've seen someone shitting into a toilet (and of those, how many weren't played for laughs).

succession has ~30 scenes/character beats set in bathrooms (there are some ambiguous cases). bathrooms convey a few different things across these scenes, but one recurring theme is that, as the designated sites for excrement and physical waste, bathrooms are often also where the characters go to discuss 'filthy,' taboo topics, or to conduct business that can't be done in the open (think roman jacking off, kendall doing coke, roman talking to asgarov, greg rehearsing his congressional testimony, etc).

at the same time, bathrooms are also where characters go to cleanse themselves, physically and metaphysically: logan rinsing piss off himself, roman literally washing his hands of the rocket launch, kendall bathing after he kills the waiter, etc. bathrooms are both the receptacles for waste and the place where one goes to purify and cleanse oneself.

this makes the bathroom the perfect setting for roman's conversation with mencken. as roman puts it earlier in the episode, they're "a couple of cool guys having some disgusting fun." at the same time, roman is also trying to verify that mencken is acceptable enough to mainstream society for atn to endorse him. arguing over the respectability of fascism, roman and mencken are really hashing out political and cultural boundaries: what they can say in the open, who's included in civil society, "who gets to join," as roman puts it. he brings mencken to the bathroom to discuss an ideology he fears might be too poisonous to cop to publicly, then leaves having been reassured that it's actually 'clean' enough for waystar to ally with.

i think this tension is also reflected in the interior design of this particular bathroom. lots of bathroom scenes on succession are kinda gross and grimy-looking, for obvious reasons (think roman and matsson at kenfest, kendall and stewy in the coffeeshop bathroom, etc). in "what it takes", on the other hand, the bathroom is in a posh hotel room, with lots of gold, glass, and marble (?) sinks. it's the perfect setting for what roman is doing: trying to rehabilitate a politics of extermination and white supremacy into an acceptably pretty, slick spectacle that his family can sell on tv.