video essays i’ve loved a lot recently!

Shared Cujostody AU Timeline

ARC 1 (The silly goofies)

ARC 2 (Danny fucked up)

Questionably canon?

Secret Agent Cujo

(And stuff by other people are now under this tag :] )

Today I learned

Free Audiobooks and Ebooks on OVERDRIVE.

Free Graphic Novels (DC, Marvel, Image, etc), Music, TV shows, and music on HOOPLA.

Free music that you can KEEP on FREEGAL

You are PAYING for all this with your tax money - USE THEM. Most likely systems will have all 3 or 2 out of 3, so if you aren’t sure call your local library’s reference/information desk and how you can get set-up or started.

Helpful links to all of the above:

Overdrive: https://www.overdrive.com/

Hoopla: https://www.hoopladigital.com/

Freegal: https://www.freegalmusic.com/home

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More places to find FREE EBOOKS:

Standard eBooks (basically stuff off of Project Gutenberg, but prettified)

Baen Free Library

Book Bub - Free eBooks and Free Kindle books

Bubblin Books

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Useful if you’re an ebook power user: Calibre

Oh yes, and Kanopy for movies.

Yesterday I checked a book out from overdrive, but had to stop reading while I cooked dinner. Then I remembered that, when I had searched for that book, the audiobook version also showed up as available. So I opened my phone, checked out the audiobook, and listened to my book while I cooked dinner.

overdrive is rad.

yeah this sound like a thing I should remember.

Yo I feel like the idea that the only historical women who counted are the ones who defied society and took on the traditionally male roles is… not actually that feminist. It IS important that women throughout history were warriors and strategists and politicians and businesswomen, but so many of us were “lowly” weavers and bakers and wives and mothers and I feel like dismissing THOSE roles dismisses so many of our mothers and grandmothers and great-grandmothers and the shit they did to support our civilization with so little thanks or recognition.

YES. This is such an important point. Those ‘girly’ girls doing their embroidery and quilting bees and grass braiding were vital parts of every domestic economy that has ever existed.

This is precisely what chaps my hide so badly about the misuse of the quote “Well-behaved women seldom make history,” because this is precisely what the author was actually trying to say.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is a domestic historian who developed new methodologies to study well-behaved women because they were

1) so vital, and

2) their lives were rarely recorded in the usual old sources.

“Hoping for an eternal crown, they never asked to be remembered on earth. And they haven’t been. Well-behaved women seldom make history; against Antinomians and witches, these pious matrons have had little chance at all. Most historians, considering the domestic by definition irrelevant, have simply assumed the pervasiveness of similar attitudes in the seventeenth century.”

Original article: “Vertuous Women Found: New England Ministerial Literature, 1668-1735” (pdf download from Harvard)

If you didn’t know: Martha Jefferson (Thomas Jefferson’s wife) led a very successful effort to fund the American Revolution. How did she and her tiny army of women do it?

They made lace, and sold it to the aristocrats. Real lace (the stuff you see on old outfits in museums, not the machine-made stuff you might be familiar with from today) is stupidly difficult to make, takes a lot of time and skill, and, well:

If you watch this through, you’ll hear her say this is DOMESTIC lace. This is not fancy, this is for household objects. You can imagine what it would take to make some of the elaborate pieces you see on old aristocratic clothing, and see why it was so expensive and valuable. (Incidentally, if you’ve ever heard the music from the musical 1776, in the song where Martha and Jefferson are trading letters and he’s like “ma’am we need saltpeter” and she’s like “dude we need pins,” THIS IS WHAT THEY NEEDED THE PINS FOR. That song was based on real letters between the two.)

And this is all those revolutionary Revolutionary women did, every free moment of every day. They pulled out their pins and their bobbins and they made lace until they couldn’t see straight, and they sold it to revolutionaries and royalists alike, anyone who would pay. Yard upon yard upon yard of lace to earn cash to translate into rations and bullets.

The war was won by a women’s craft. Not even a “vital” women’s craft like cooking or cleaning. It was won by making a luxury item whose entire purpose was to say “look how wealthy I am, I can afford all this lace.”

Lace was not the only source of income for the Revolution. But it was a major one, and it is extremely fair to say it turned the tide.

And until this post, I bet you didn’t know.

Honestly, its kinda hard to find anything beyond the skills themselves appealing for me. Like, while the conflation of domestic tasks with femininity is common historically, in my experience its not what those around me actually concerned themselves with, as far as adequate (or inadequate) gender expression as a child. It really, and sadly was a case of the performance I wasn't doing rather then skills I might fail to obtain, and its kinda strange that the media language around these roles hasn't changed even though the attitudes around it have shifted in some pretty incomprehensible ways.

MASTERLIST

I accidentally deleted the old one due to sleep-deprivation and got a bit too lazy trying to put it back.

SO! HERE’S THE NEW VERSION!!!

MY AO3: ThanatosAndHypnosMyBeloved

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TCF/LCF FIC IDEAS

The Eurydice

Recorded Names

The Laziest God: Rock Soup!

Who is This Edgy Lost Child? Cale’s Journey to Graduating College!

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TCF/LCF FICS

(AO3 - G) The Trash Uncle of the Kim Family 

( AO3 - E) (Not So) Hidden Viewer 

( AO3 - T) His Soul Slid Down to Cry 

——- PLEASE READ THIS REACTION FIC BY Messy_Haired_Bum: Revelation of a distant future that will never be 

RUSSIAN TRANSLATION by KiraKainbekova

ART (Twitter) by jiminsi_arts

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Batman Fics

Tim and Damian:

(Tumblr) the magic hour is now (you cannot slow it down)

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Danny Phantom and Batman Crossover IDEAS

Summoning Danny:

Burgers are How You Summon the Almighty Ghost King

Jason Todd’s Cooking: Ghost King Approved!

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Danny and Jason are Siblings:

A Blanket Full of Stars

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Danny and Tim are Siblings:

The Missing Danielle Drake

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Clockwork x Alfred

Danny Had Enough of Clockwork’s Pining

Danny Meets the Batfam

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SuperBrainDead

Tim vs Danny: Who’s the Better Sugar Daddy?

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Jason Helping Dani and Danny keep Away from the GIW

Soup Kitchens and Runaway Ghosts

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

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Dash Summoning Billy

Excuse Me, Barmaid, I’m Afraid You Brought Me the Wrong Hero

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Platonic Jon x Danny

Help! I Accidentally Got Engaged with the Ghost King!

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Dani and Tim

She is a Ghost; He Stalked Batman. What More Can I Say?

Talita clothing design doodles in ink. I like drawring her in cute girly outfits that she rarely wears in canon, lmao. Also the ultimate outfit, sheet ghost:

PATREON | STORE | Runaway to the Stars

I love seeing Talita in cute stuff. The anatomy of her clothes is always really easy to ascertain.