Inktober 2025

[yazeh]

3 hours ago, catbert said:

 

About onions, refrigerating them before peeling helps. Something to do with slowing the production of volatile compounds?

 

Maybe it’s fate (fado) that onions make our tears (lágrimas) flow — so that we can feel the loss of the city that never was, Lisboa; to be one with saudade, and strum the chords of the onion-shaped Portuguese guitar.  

[yazeh]

4 hours ago, Scriptitans said:

Truly breathtaking! This piece has something special, something indefinable; decades later, it still captivates me.

 

I prefer your interpretation to the original.  

[inkstainedruth]

@Scriptitans -- Ironically, I've been reading a book of quotes (and some drawings) from Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks, including (most on the chapter about anatomy) his drawings of bone structures and muscles and such based on his dissections of human corpses (and also notes on how the anatomy of animals differ from that of humans).  So this is a really interesting prompt.

Really gonna have to try to do Inktober next year.  I do much better with NaPoWriMo, which is in the spring, and am going to take another stab at trying NaNoWriMo (I tried it one time a few years ago, and did pretty well the first few days, even with it being the same time of year as the Ohio Pen Show -- but then after that completely bogged down.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Scriptitans]

10 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

@Scriptitans -- Ironically, I've been reading a book of quotes (and some drawings) from Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks, including (most on the chapter about anatomy) his drawings of bone structures and muscles and such based on his dissections of human corpses (and also notes on how the anatomy of animals differ from that of humans).  So this is a really interesting prompt.

Really gonna have to try to do Inktober next year.  I do much better with NaPoWriMo, which is in the spring, and am going to take another stab at trying NaNoWriMo (I tried it one time a few years ago, and did pretty well the first few days, even with it being the same time of year as the Ohio Pen Show -- but then after that completely bogged down.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Such a unique work certainly deserved to be mentioned in connection with this theme...
Thank you.

[Scriptitans]

11 hours ago, yazeh said:

I prefer your interpretation to the original.  

🙃

[Scriptitans]

#Inktober 2025 #29 Lesson

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[yazeh]

Inktober 2025 challenge: Lesson

 

Cat & mouse went on vacation. But mouse refused to disconnect and insisted on watching a horror movie. He learned a lesson when he walked in the bathroom the next morning.....or did he?

 

Tintenlabor Echinacea, J Herbin Gris Nuage, Corail des Tropiques. 

 

[catbert]

14 hours ago, yazeh said:

Maybe it’s fate (fado) that onions make our tears (lágrimas) flow — so that we can feel the loss of the city that never was, Lisboa; to be one with saudade, and strum the chords of the onion-shaped Portuguese guitar.  

 

👍 

 

 

[catbert]

Is this recycling from unused versions of 'skeletal' and 'blast' in order to keep up? Possibly.

 

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29 lesson

 

As the samovar exploded, João’s whole life flashed before his eyes — and he was barely in it.

 

There was a lesson there, but he wasn’t sure what it was

 

Kuretake zig 005, Kokuyo

[yazeh]

15 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

Really gonna have to try to do Inktober next year.

You can participate in the yearlong inktober challenge. It's once a week. 

I created a thread for the last two months, November, and December. 

 

 

[inkstainedruth]

3 hours ago, catbert said:

Is this recycling from unused versions of 'skeletal' and 'blast' in order to keep up? Possibly.

 

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29 lesson

 

As the samovar exploded, João’s whole life flashed before his eyes — and he was barely in it.

 

There was a lesson there, but he wasn’t sure what it was

 

Kuretake zig 005, Kokuyo

Of course now I'm thinking of the old Tom Paxton song, "The Last Thing on My Mind" ("there's a lesson too late for the learning/made of sand, made of sand").  Which I just looked up the lyrics for -- only to find that I'd copied and pasted them into a Pages file a couple of years ago ALREADY....  

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[catbert]

38 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

Of course now I'm thinking of the old Tom Paxton song, "The Last Thing on My Mind" ("there's a lesson too late for the learning/made of sand, made of sand").  Which I just looked up the lyrics for -- only to find that I'd copied and pasted them into a Pages file a couple of years ago ALREADY....  

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

Coincidentally, I was thinking of Linus:

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/peanuts/images/7/77/March_22nd_1959.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20230617025551

 

[inkstainedruth]

Unfortunately, your link didn't seem to work for me.  I just got some page with an image that looked as if it was designed to be a front page to the site.  Even when I checked and the entire URL was pasted into the header.... 

Of course, for Linus?  I think, "Security Blanket" just in general....  Just like I think of Snoopy dressed up as a WWI Flying Ace, searching for The Red Baron!  (When I was little I didn't realize that Snoopy was a dog, because all the comics in the Sunday paper seemed to show him as the Flying Ace....)

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

[Mercian]

31 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

Unfortunately, your link didn't seem to work for me.

 

You need to copy the url, paste it in to a new browser tab, and then delete everything that appears after the ".jpg" before loading it.

 

Try:

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/peanuts/images/7/77/March_22nd_1959.jpg

 

HTH

[inkstainedruth]

Well, this time it sort of worked.  But I can't figure out how to get it to be bigger....

And of course for the past couple of days I've been getting these stupee popup windows in the upper right hand corner of my screen about how McAfee is about to expire (pretty sure I don't even HAVE anything they do on my system) and just now one from Norton....  And ones supposedly from Apple saying that there's malware and ones that tell me that I need to update my OS (which [a] I'm not willing to do until I do a backup first because every time I've done an update in the past?  Something ELSE gets BROKEN in the process...).  And I don't want to go through another round of fighting with Apple Support about stuff like the time that some twinkie in "Creative Media" swore up down and sideways about how i couldn't have multiple lines of text centered in a center header field in Pages -- and I was going, "SINCE WHEN????!"  And that was AFTER I had someone on the line before her saying that the update to the OS COULDN'T have broken Pages....  And of course MY response was, "Well, it's AWFULLY coincidental that it happened JUST after I updated the OS, then, ISN'T IT???"😡

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

edited because suddenly half the paragraph was in bold face type for no reason.... 

[yazeh]

7 hours ago, catbert said:

Is this recycling from unused versions of 'skeletal' and 'blast' in order to keep up? Possibly.

Always.  

7 hours ago, catbert said:

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29 lesson

 

As the samovar exploded, João’s whole life flashed before his eyes — and he was barely in it.

 

There was a lesson there, but he wasn’t sure what it was

 

The lesson was that in two centuries, he would become glorious in a piggy sort of way.

Loved the Linus nod.

[yazeh]

7 hours ago, catbert said:

 

👍 

 

 

Haunting, fado. 

I had my Amalia phase, then Mariza and now, this which I discovered by chance. Your João series has sent me on a fado bender.  

I have stories and images of a parallel story to yours, popping in and out of my imagination, about a Monge-rato & a  fado-gato, which precipitated João's return.

 

 

[catbert]

Weirdly the link worked when I tested it before posting but now doesn't. 

 

Try this (cartoons for March 1959 — scroll to 22 March).

https://peanuts.fandom.com/wiki/March_1959_comic_strips

[inkstainedruth]

Yeah, thanks!  That worked.  Although a little frightening when I realized that those cartoons were first printed in newspapers more that six months before I was born....

And I say that as someone who inherited a book my parents had growing up, that were of cartoons dating back to I think the late 1890s, and going up through the 1940s -- including a couple of old "Addams Family" cartoons.  I think a lot (if not all) of the cartoons reprinted in that book had originally been published in The New Yorker magazine.  

Dunno if the book had been my dad's, my mom's, or both, but I remember one cartoon strip published in it (the book was called Cartoon Cavalcade) where some kid is pranked by a so-called "friend" -- he's supposed to get down on his hands and knees behind some policeman and the the other kid is going to push him over.  And doesn't.  And the first kid has to pretend he's looking for something and the cop gets down on HIS hands and knees (I guess to help him look).  And the last frame is the first kid talking to the other kid with a big club behind his back, and saying "Ask your mom if you can come out -- I want to show you some fireworks!" 

And DANG!  I just found the 1944 edition of the book in the main branch of the Carnegie Library -- and apparently some libraries in the system also have a 1943 edition of it....  So now I'm curious if the later edition was just a reprint, or has some cartoons which weren't in the original (I con't know where the book is, so don't know offhand what edition we have).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

edited for typos

[Misfit]

9 hours ago, yazeh said:

You can participate in the yearlong inktober challenge. It's once a week. 

I created a thread for the last two months, November, and December. 

 

 

Thank you for this.