It's Still Magic Even if You Know How it's Done

Writer | Fond of textile art

[andalittlebitofsunshine55]

I embroidered Captain Flint! I’m so proud of my pirate man!

[wickedpact]

[nero-draco]

[space-blue]

[teeth-like-knives]

[sonypraystation]

white people have the sauce sometimes and dont even know it

[sonypraystation]

i just saw a youtube short of brandon sanderson on a podcast. the whole time hes talking hes doing book signings. what a flex. so many bitches on my dick i gotta multitask

[if-i-was-a-wyrm]

brandon sanderson is actually just built different. once on a podcast with patrick rothfuss they were talking about tools to write better and he said "i try to limit myself to 8 hours of writing per day." he took time off of writing during the first year of covid and accidentally wrote four unplanned books. he teaches a class at byu. his wife has a codeword to get him to stop writing in his head because at any given moment you might think he's doing something normal but no he's also writing another novel. stephen king said he's insane

[sallymew4]

a comment under one of Ben Shapiro’s latest videos that i like

[oysters-aint-for-me]

i’m obsessed with this

and then, two months later....

🥺

[very-gay-alkyrion]

[hrtgallant]

there's something meaningful in how childless black sails is, as a show. there are barely even child extras. there is no second generation, there is no continuation, no 'innocent' unbiased pair of eyes. and when you factor in Treasure Island, you suddenly see that no one exits that story alive except for silver, the pirate king. that world and those people exist solely within his conscience - and then his story is passed down to a young boy. 'there are no legacies in this life' yeah there aren't. 'we have no kings here' yeah and you have no heirs.

[amuseoffyre]

The only child (and barely that) who is given a name and a role is Abigail Ashe. She's the child of society and the world they're fighting against. They are the ones to return her to that world, to safety, and in doing so, they change her view of the world so entirely that she no longer fits with it. She has had the scales peeled from her eyes and sees her father - and the society he represents - for what he is.

The final scene with her and her father is almost a mirror of Miranda's scene with Guthrie Senior back on New Providence. She is no longer the person he sees in her. She is changed and matured and the end of his line and outlives him and his choices (I think. She was sent off to another town, as I recall)

[starfilledsea]

trying to describe black sails to people is my personal sisyphean task. “it’s a pirate show” bad. “it’s functionally a prequel to treasure island but also it’s not at all” bad again, and also confusing. “it’s about pirates trying to destroy western civilization” mostly only true of the second half of the show and also doesn’t fully capture what i love about it. “it’s a pirate show about the power of stories, how civilization uses shame to keep people in line and turns them into monsters, and the power of queer rage. it’s got some of the best acting, writing, everything of any show i’ve ever seen.” the most accurate, but way too long and makes me sound pretentious and insane. send help i just want to talk about my favorite show.

[brightlotusmoon]

Republican women annoyed GOP Congress won't let them run committees: report

For the first time since the 114th Republican-led Congress, it appears that there won't be any women leading House committees, Bloomberg Gov

Republicans have already named who they intend to take over each committee, but it won't be official until all members are sworn in on Jan. 3. So, Republicans can make changes before then and ensure there is some female representation in the assignments, but doing so would admit they need more diversity, equity and inclusion.

“It’s unfortunate,” Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.) told Bloomberg. She's currently an assistant whip and on the Ways and Means Committee.

“We’ve never been the party that was about checking boxes or identity politics, but the difference is we have women that are qualified to be chairs, and I don’t know why there wasn’t one who was able to become a chairperson of a committee," she added.

The only woman who sought a chair post was Rep. Ann Wagner (R-MO). She lost to Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL).

[elfwreck]

[serial-unaliver-deactivated2024]

the funniest thing about the tiktok tradwife craze is people learning financial abuse exists but like, as a hypothetical. "wait what if the relationship doesn't work out and you have nothing of your own and nowhere to go?" congratulations you figured out a common reason people remain in abusive relationships and why it's important to maintain some level of financial independence

[fandomsandfeminism]

It's important to remember this even if your partner is not abusive.

There are lots of reasons that a relationship might end (or should end, amicably, with no one at fault), but if one partner has no income, a big gap in their work history, and no savings....

[goshawke]

and this, kids, is why alimony was invented. not as some kind of "revenge" against a partner who wronged you. but to protect generations of mostly-women who were faithful helpmeets until their man decided they wanted a younger model. and then those former-helpmeets found themselves with no money, no employment history, no credit rating, no job skills, and facing minimum wage scraping at fifty after a lifetime of putting dinner on the table and washing everyone else's socks. i bring this up because i hear often that we should do away with alimony, and i do agree that it should be re-examined in light of how the world has changed. but it should never go away until the world is such that any person finding themselves in that situation wouldn't be facing poverty and struggle in their twilight years.

[samreich]

of all the nice press about dropout this ranks among the most meaningful

Dropout Was The Best Streaming Service Of 2024, And It's Not Even Close - SlashFilm

Forget Netflix or Disney+; it's Dropout that emerged as the best streaming service in 2024 and is paving the way to a brighter streaming fut

[redsans-world]

[gatheringbones]

“I shall never forget the occasion when I was visiting a school as a writer and the whole place suddenly fell into an uproar because the school tomboy - a most splendid Britomart of a girl - had beaten up the school bully. Everything stopped in the staffroom while the teachers debated what to do. They wanted to give the tomboy a prize, but decided reluctantly that they had better punish her and the bully too. They knew that if, as a child, you do pluck up courage to hit the bully, it is an act of true heroism - as great as that of Beowulf in his old age. I remember passing the tomboy, sitting in her special place of punishment opposite the bully. She was blazing with her deed, as if she had actually been touched by a god. And I thought that this confirmed all my theories: a child in her position is open to any heroic myth I care to use; she is inward with folktales; she would feel the force of any magical or divine intervention.”

— Diana Wynne Jones (via joeyvermeil)

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

[elodieunderglass]

Britomart reference! 🥹

Britomart is a character from Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, a loopy novel-length poem from the 1590s. I have a not-secret fell down the rabbit hole once fondness for her.

She’s one of the six roving knights with their own virtues who run around trying to fight monsters and get married, and is thus an early “superhero team” or “adventurer party” representative. Her power is Chastity which means that despite rescuing boys and girls a lot, from situations that could be sexy, she doesn’t mean anything by it and it’s just about rescuing them. She’s holding out for her fiancé.

She’s usually depicted as a redhead because Spenser was trying to flatter Queen Elizabeth.

Britomart hours!!

[ash-elizabeth-art]

A mouse and his tea, 2024

[fromthedeskofcripslock]

It is very dangerous to write application essays/statements of purpose and listen to Stephan Briggs narrate a Discworld book in the same day. Every time I try to write a sentence of platitudes that will please the admissions committee all I can hear is the line about ‘honest words being stripped of all meaning and sent out to walk the streets for Reacher Gilt’.

[lady-of-the-spirit]

I think most stories could benefit from having two characters whose relationship is just "those two guys" (gender neutral). Most of the time if you look for one of them you'll find both of them. They can hate each other or be the best of friends or something in-between but they just can't find that same spark with anyone else. Their relationship is best described as "do not separate them". They are fully fleshed out characters individually but if either of them are left alone without the other for any reason it feels so wrong.

[morlock-holmes]

Also, I am just going to say it:

If your CEO is so inconsequential to the success of your company that he can be gunned down in the street like a dog and it has absolutely no impact on your company whatsoever, maybe he doesn't actually need to be paid several hundred times as much as your median employee.

Maybe you could get away with, like, ten to fifteen times and spend the extra tens of millions of dollars you save on something else.

Just thinking out loud.