I remember reading a book mentioning the wizard Gren Idgmean, but not who wrote it

[apiphile]

Greenwich, Mean Museums, Poor Calorie ManagementYesterday: No gym. Went to fling money at tattooist, who is back in the UK again unexpectedly, and therefore secure further work on m'leg. Then dragged my sartorially laughable self to Greenwich on an ill-conceived but well-executed whim. There follow many images and not a lot of words (save that I

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[wolfy_writing]

Gold pencil in what sense? (My brain is supplying three different interpretations, and rejecting a fourth on "Would that technically even be a pencil?" grounds

[apiphile]

It's - you know you can get pencils that are just 100% graphite with no wood? And then you can get ones which are like that but harder? It's like that, but instead of making black graphite smears it makes a dull sparkly gold/brassy line instead. Very pretty. Sort of a pencil crayon minus the wood, and a bit harder.

I didn't GO in any of the museums because while the NMG is free I've already been and the interesting bits of the Planetarium cost moooooooney (lots of it) and the Meridian costs FUCKING MONEY.

I just find them inherently creepy, and no one's even tried to cure my disability with woo-massage or claimed that they can! [I did have CREEPY CREEPY FAUX-OSTEOPATH in my teens who let's just say my mother should have been better at vetting adult men]

WORK! Was this while you were in Not!Kinshasa or?

[wolfy_writing]

Ooh, very cool! I want one!

...okay, you are going to love the Smithsonian. There are a few video programs that cost money, but there's a ton of different museums all within reasonable walking distance (what you would probably consider easy walking distance), and you can just show the security people you don't have like cans of spray paint or anything and then walk in and wander around and explore spaceships and whale skeletons and diamonds and 9th-century silver statues and the US Constitution and everything!

My default idea of a massage is a shoulder rub where people end up squeezing on the back of your neck, and that's supposed to be comfortable, but it makes me tense up, and I tend to associate massages with people putting pressure on some spot that makes everything tense up while being all "That's comfortable, isn't it?" (Ugh, sorry about that. And sorry about your mother not being good at...anything related to actually being a mother.)

No, just yesterday! I actually mustered up small amounts of creativity!

[apiphile]

The US constitution, a document become more and more of a historical artifact with every passing day and EO. I think the main reason the cost of the Planetarium and the Meridian museum piss me off so much is that the majority of the big museums and galleries in London are free, this is CLEARLY A NONSENSE THAT MUST BE RECTIFIED.

Yeah, although I did just submit to some shoulder abuse from Jess last night because I managed to fuckerate myself at the gym.

THE CURSE IS LIFTED! QUICK! WRITE A SCENE!

[wolfy_writing]

Museums should be free! Like libraries! Free and in every town and something people are introduced to as small children!

Ow! Hope it gets better.

I have no writing ideas!

[apiphile]

Plymouth Museum was free when I was a kid, and our local museum in my borough (Bruce Castle Museum) is also free and a delightful weird hodge-podge of local history. So that's cool.

WRITING IDEA: A HYENA WITCH IS SUCKING ALL THE IDEAS OUT OF YOUR BRAIN? IDK.

[wolfy_writing]

Very cool!

...I'm not good at writing nonfiction.

[apiphile]

Owwwww.

[wolfy_writing]

Although I did have an interesting dream last night that could potentially be something if I could figure out why anyone would brainwash people into thinking they had superpowers.

[apiphile]

Sadism? Getting people to behave in risky, disposable ways as a distraction?

[wolfy_writing]

...a deniable test run for something less silly? Like they want to test brainwashing techniques while making sure any attention drawn is "Those crazy people who think they're superheroes" rather than "Literally training assassins"?

[apiphile]

Working out who is susceptible so that they can target them later on?

MARKETING PLOY? If we can get them to buy this they'll buy anything.

[wolfy_writing]

Ooh!

A bit intensive for a marketing ploy. Like if you can already persuade people to devote a week of their time to you and take whatever chemicals you give them, there are more direct ways of selling the product.

[apiphile]

Test case for the drug itself (pharmaceutical trial) which is going to be used for "utopian reasons" (behaviour-changing, like hypnosis - quit smoking etc) but immediately co-opted by military contractors?

[wolfy_writing]

Ooh! Yeah, a drug that makes people extremely vulnerable to suggestion and prone to adopting beliefs presented to them while they're on the drug would be both extremely popular with medical professionals trying to help people ("You like to exercise and will make an effort to do it every day unless you feel ill", "You don't want to smoke, and will ignore any offers of cigarettes", "You are human and can forgive yourself for making mistakes", etc.), and immediately misused. (And yes, there would definitely be some overlap between the two categories.)

[apiphile]

YESSSSSSS (if you need any research materials/notes for this about medical trials I have TONNES obviously from NBO).