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A "salad" of radishes on the side would make this dish perfect.

You could add mozzarella pearls to the radish salad. Soften the pepperiness of radishes a little.

Do they sell mozzarella balls that small?

Yeah, they're sold as mozzarella pearls. The idea is that you can throw them into a salad, instead of shredding a normal sized mozzarella ball.

Some stores have mozzarella in a tube shape and it's firmer. You can slice pieces and put them on pizza and they keep the shape better.

Yup, balls and bricks are what I'm familiar with.

But yeah, more spheres for the sphere menu! xD

could have mochi for dessert

At the Tumblr Ball Pit Diner

You can't just hide this in the notes @theadveragecanadian! xD

he escaped into the real world…..

I'm obsessed with this chair. The artist takes a flimsy hunk of injection-molded plastic that's been cost-cut to hell and back, and insists that we look at it with fresh eyes and understand its beauty. And they went about it in the most labor-intensive way I can think of.

Absolutely nothing about this design is convenient to execute in wood. Every piece is curved, most have compound curves. This is artisan craftsmanship: it's inherently slow, manual, and skilled. Notice, also, that most features of this chair must be thicker and heavier than on the plastic chairs being imitated. Injection-molded chairs can be produced in this shape in a matter of minutes with far less material at very low cost.

If these flowing, organic curves are so beautiful in polished wood, perhaps they are also beautiful in the mass-produced chairs that are far more accessible. Perhaps we should remember to admire designs that succeed enough to become ubiquitous. I don't know about you, but I'll never see injection-molded chairs the same way again.

@puppygirllaika

I agree with all of this, but YOU HAVE HIT UPON A FORGOTTEN TRUTH OF PLASTIC CHAIRS!!!!!

The standard one-piece injection molded plastic chair is referred to as a "Monobloc", literally just describing it as a single piece. The history of this chair is fascinating, and it all starts back in 1946, with the D.C. Simpson Monobloc.

Douglas Colborne Simpson was an architect mostly active in the 40's and 50's, designing a lot of classic mid-century style buildings in Vancouver, Canada(1). In 1946, as part of a government project to find new uses for materials developed for WWII, he and engineer James Donahue developed the design you see above, simply called the Monobloc(2). Unfortunately, we don't know a lot about this chair as it was only ever a prototype, and no modern examples have survived, nor have most of the records surrounding it(3). To my knowledge, we don't actually know if this was technically injection molded, or crafted some other way. We can't even be sure if it was technically the inspiration for the designs that followed, but no matter the case it has lent its name to the entire genre.

Plastics technology was simply not what it is today back in the 1940's. Most people would have had very little plastic in their homes, most likely just a few pieces of Bakelite (the first commercially viable plastic, made from a formaldehyde based resin in a Bakelizer, the best name for any industrial manufacturing equipment ever). Over the following few decades, however, as a wider variety of plastics were both developed and came down in price to the point of commercial viability, the concept of the plastic chair was revisited, and the first folks to revisit it were Helmut Batzner, in 1964, and Joe Colombo, in 1965.

This, is the Bofinger chair, Batzner's design:

The elements of D.C.Simpson's Monobloc were pretty alien compared to todays mass-manufactured plastic chairs, but here we start to see some more modern elements come into play. The first thing you probably notice is the front legs, which have that characteristic visible 90 degree bend in them for added rigidity, plus a much more comfortably leaned back and slightly scoop-shaped seat. We also see much more support in the back rest, with broad triangles allowing for a more efficient use of materials without losing back support.

Similar to Simpson, Batzner was not an industrial designer, but an architect, and this chair had a very specific purpose. Batzner and his team designed it as part of a project to build a new theater in Karlsruhe, Germany, which required a large amount of additional seating which could be easily packed away into storage or distributed around the theaters rooms by the staff (4). As such, it was designed to be both lightweight and stackable, so several of them could be moved by one person, and they could be stored compactly. This piece of furniture was a huge hit a the theater, and was so popular that 120,000 units would ultimately be manufactured and sold around the world, with each one taking just 5 minutes to produce (4).

Around the same time, Joe Colombo enters the scene with this:

Colombo was an artist in several mediums who, after taking over his families appliance company in the 50's, made the shift towards architecture and interior design, and started designing a wide array of trend-setting furniture(5). The chair shown above is known as the Universale (sometimes referred to as the Chair Universal 4867), designed in 1965. This chair differs pretty greatly from the ones that came after it, it many ways it represents a different path that could have been taken, but it's also very widely referenced as an inspiration for what is broadly considered the origin of the white plastic chair the world over.

Enter: the Fauteuil 300

This is, arguably, the first iteration of the white plastic chair we all know today. Designed by Henry Massonnet in 1972, the Fauteuil 300 and it's imitators are, collectively, the single most widely used piece of furniture in the entire world(6). Before that, however, it was something else entirely: works of art.

What might be hard to recognize in hindsight is that all of these chairs described so far were not everyday objects. They were on the forefront of modern design, they made use of brand new materials and manufacturing processes, and at the time they were each made, they were slick, stylish, and fairly expensive. Despite the speed at which they could be manufactured, these innovative, high-end chairs rose sharply in cost up through the early 1980's due to the sheer demand for them. They weren't cheap spare seating you stuck in the garage, they were placed at dining tables and on fine patios, and they were a wildly popular talking point. That's not to say their expense justified their artistic value, but rather that their expense and popularity was a product of their status as highly contemporary and boundary-pushing designs.

With the price of plastics declining after the 70's, the increasing accessibility of injection molding to manufacturers, and the widespread popularity of these designs, copycats proliferated rapidly, and eventually drove the price down. This era, in the 80's and 90's, is when these chairs became cheap an ubiquitous, and where they became manufactured the world over.

And here is where we reach this piece, "Plastic chair in wood", by Maarten Baas, and a piece of the history I've left out so far. The Monobloc was designed to be made out of wood. Like the the other chairs designed by Joe Colombo, like the chairs that predated the Simpson, the Monobloc was designed with the intention of using laminated plywood, but as the artists and designers behind them began to experiment with new materials they fell in love with the idea of making them from plastic, and so they did. They redesigned and redesigned until they made something that would be impossible to make in wood at a price most people could afford, but which could be made from plastic in mere minutes. The organic curves and thin profiles would take so much time, so much waste material, so much skill and effort to create if made of wood that they could never be furniture, they could only be art. Baas' chair is a perfect, beautiful reflection of that.

That, in brief, is the history of the design of the white plastic Monobloc chair, but it's not all there is to know. In fact, it's kind of just the start. I've linked my sources below, but I would strongly recommend checking out the German documentary Monobloc, by Hauke Wendler. It goes over the history, but it's far more interested with what the Monobloc means, and what it's place is in our world today. The impact it's made, the better and the worse, and what it says about us. It's fascinating, and well worth your time.

sources below.

Always fun to learn about a tumblr friends surprise special interest

We all hear about the hatemail and PVP, but this site is also unmatched for activating a trap card.

I know that when people complain about the Folgers commercial, they’re usually pointing out the weird incest vibes, but I don’t think we give enough hate to the fact that this man came home from generic Africa, his sister put on a pot of Folgers, and he swooned over it saying “ooh! Real coffee!” You were in Africa, my guy! Africa has several countries that are known as having the best coffee in the world! Saying you didn’t have any real coffee in Africa is like saying you didn’t see any Black people in Africa! The fuck is wrong with these people?!

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was thinking about bear/bare

your average cis ally seems to think that the voice is feminized by estrogen & oh to live in that world….

cis ally was far too generous actually. ur average non transfem seems to believe this

do the people embarrassing themselves by admitting this shit realize that they don't have to say this out loud, or do they genuinely think it's funny to be ignorant about trans women's lives?

hi everyone! OP here!

When i made this post, i was expressing FRUSTRATION with this exact type of behavior. i do not think it is funny. i do not think it is cute. i think it betrays a stunning level of self-absorbed, navel-gazing idiocy that you should not feel comfortable admitting to me, let alone as though it's a joke we're both in on. Your ignorance of transfeminine hormone therapy is something you should be ASHAMED of. No investigation, no right to speak!

This breaks the flow of the post, but it was so egregiously wrong that I had to single it out. This is not true! This is not an 'amab/afab' thing! Higher testosterone levels, especially during puberty, leads to the lengthening & thickening of the vocal cords, along with expansion of the larynx. The larynx still expands during an estrogenic first puberty, but not as much, and the vocal cords do not thicken and lengthen in the same way. This is WHY trans women have to voice train- estrogenic second puberty does not undo this. Instead, we need to physically train the muscles in order to produce the desired sound.

The notes on this post broadly split into two camps- the first of which being fellow trans women commiserating the difficulties of finding and accessing voice training, how often they've heard this from TME people in their lives (multiple girls were asked when their voices would raise by their ENDOCRINOLOGISTS. horrifying), etc etc. Nothing but love to all of you, and I'm so sorry we're all going through this. A few girls have expressed that they found out through this post, and again, I'm so sorry. To put it in no uncertain terms, you were failed. We all deserve better than this. Here's a compassionately written (and in my experience fairly accurate) guide to estrogenic second puberty. And for good measure, here is transfeminine hormone therapy 101. I recommend reading both of these to familiarize yourself with what you can expect, and what you should be getting from your medical providers.

As for camp 2- the TME people on this post proudly proclaiming their ignorance. I'll repeat myself. No investigation. No right to speak. As @estrogenesis-eeveeangelion put it in her own post-

"if you can understand why "cishet man is proudly ignorant of and openly disgusted by vulvas/menstruation/menopause" is not just rude but has an intensely political dimension that is about power and oppression, but you are a queer person who declares out loud in public with no shame that you don't know how feminizing HRT works and have never learned[...]" - you are engaging in transmisogyny. Ask yourself. Why don't you know this? Why did you never bother to learn? Are there trans women in your life? Do you talk to them? Often? Read the above links, and for fuck's sake stop lining up in front of me to tell me you find it that you didn't know this. We're not laughing. Take the hint.

— Vincent Van Gogh

- Vincent van Gogh

horrible news: you have to practice to level up your skills because it's unrealistic to think you'll be good at everything first try

this applies to unlearning things like shame and creating better coping mechanisms and forming new habits

Scream this is iconic….

i really love how you can tell how much happier she is

wow you got to the red stop light faster and more dangerously than anyone else. should we throw a party?? should we call nascar

incredibly, the architect behind both the building that melts cars in london and the building that burns people in las vegas foresaw this exact problem happening for BOTH buildings, did not do anything to prevent it, and describes the effect as "phenomenal". King

i looked up pics of people cooking eggs in the building's reflection and

this is like a renaissance painting

I am very endeared by humanity’s tendency to check if it’s truly hot somewhere by attempting to cook an egg

bus is my friend. shes no train but shes trying her hardest in a world that hates her

for make a terrible comic day