Things I will never stop doing: translating Elfenbeinschwarz as Elvish bones black, and expect it to be extracted from real bones from real elves.

Now, I do worry a bit about the fact that elves are supposed to be immortal unless killed, so extracting said bones would probably require violent death, but they are going to the Halls of Mandos and then reincarnate in a new body, so they are going to eventually be ok? maybe?

ok, maybe it's better if they extract the pigment from random inanimate carbon sources :D

Dear paintingverse,

when I decided I wanted to try #painting with #acrylics I bought a few 20 ml tubes, because I didn't want to spend a lot of money on a new hobby, even if the price per liter was significantly higher, and I expected to only paint on A6 / postcard size, like I do with watercolours. They weren't metal tubes like I was used to in the 1800s :D but transparent plastic.

And then I got into myself some ideas on a bigger scale, and now I'm buying *huge*¹ 120 ml tubes. However I've found that the smaller tubes are quite convenient to use when painting on small scale on a cramped desktop, which is something I'm not planning to stop doing.

Does anybody have any experience with refilling smaller plastic paint tubes from of bigger ones? Is it even doable? If it is, I'd expect it's better to use the same brand/line/colour of paint, and possibly to avoid a complete refill, and only doing limited amounts at a time, to prevent wastage in case the biocides fail at their work and there is spoilage.

Also, I'm thinking I could either try to refill from the opening, or cut the seal at the bottom and easily refill from there, but then I'd need a solution to close it back in a way that doesn't let air in.

I guess that the alternative would be to buy empty metal tubes of the kind used by people who make their own paints, but that's too easy, right?

¹ I know :D

Today I need to do things that require quite a bit of washing of hands.

I have a big papercut on the base of my thumb.

The. Pain.

(and I don't even remember how it happened)

occheculo, RFI / #trenord sui quotidiani nazionali

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Dear #sindarin speaking fediverse

I don't speak Sindarin, but I found myself with an urgent need to know how one would say something like “Say meow and enter”, and some googling¹ and reading of web pages lead me to think it could be something like “Pedo muio a minno”, would it be correct?

Or maybe something like “Say, cat, and enter” would be better, and that, if I'm not mistaken, would be “Pedo muig a minno”?

If I understand correctly they are both neosindarin words, which makes me question Tolkien's priorities, but isn't necessarily an issue for my needs.

Did I get something horribly wrong? Would something else be better?

Thanks!

¹ on searx :D

I went to the bathroom to retrieve the palette knife I had washed previously, the window was open, noticed the colour of the sky, decided to check whether some of the laundry was already dry and bring it inside.

By the time I had gone from the bathroom to the balcony via the kitchen it was just starting to rain (but everything was dry, so I hurriedly brought everything inside.

Then I run one flight of stairs to my mother, to help her retrieve *her* laundry, and by the time I reached her and we were half-way through her laundry it had started to *pour*

(most of her laundry was saved by the awning)

Yesterday I believe we met one of these

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it was quite long, shiny, black and quite beautiful, and I told @Diego Roversi “I believe that's a “scurzun””

Then I opened the Italian page on wikipedia, specifically the section it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierophi… and found that, because of a ~20 km difference, it was a “ratera” instead. And both places are supposed to be speaking the same language! :D

Prima legge dei sistemi operativi

• se è windows e funziona, è merito di windows
• se è windows e non funziona, è colpa del produttore hardware che non sa fare i driver
• se è linux e non funziona, è colpa di linux
• se è linux e funziona, no guarda, è un caso, una anomalia statistica, probabilmente sei un nerd che non ha una vita

Seconda legge dei sistemi operativi

• se è windows e si rompe, lo risolvi tranquillamente con un formattone riparatore
• se è linux e si rompe, è complicato, non è stabile e sinceramente non posso vivere così.

@Yaku 🐗 non so perché, ma leggendo questo articolo mi è venuto in mente un tuo post di qualche giorno fa :D

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Up to know, everything I've ever painted¹ was on a format between A6 and B8. The acrylic paint I have is in 20 ml tubes, other than 120 ml of titanium white that is lasting me forever.

Then during the weekend I had an overambitious idea that I don't even mention, because it will end in nothing, and I decided I wanted to do at least a couple things on a slightly bigger format, before committing to anything else.

Of course, I also never bought any mounted canvas: I paint mostly on watercolour (postcard) paper, as that sturdy enough for such small formats, and I have a couple pieces of canvas mounted on cardboard, also in A6, that I haven't used yet.

And it was the weekend, and a weekend when I was too busy to visit a shop, but I had a couple one-hour slots and I was feeling the Urge.

So I took the biggest pad of watercolour paper I have (A3-ish, spiral bound at the top, not even glued on the sides) and started to paint with acrylic on it.

#WhatCanPossiblyGoWrong?

¹ badly