Doodles and such

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[userzade]

captain killian "hook" jones + text posts 7/?

[owl-quill]

I have a language question: What does "serve cunt" mean?

[boutet]

My understanding is that it’s being powerful and dominant (and maybe a bit of an asshole) but in a feminine/queer way? Serve is the way that you are being or the way you’re presenting yourself. And cunt is being used in a more reclaimed way rather than a derogatory way, like “yeah I’m a cunt so fuck you” kind of way.

The “lived, served cunt, died” thing is also a meme that’s floated around in a few variations, so it’s calling on that meme.

[wizardpotions]

Incase anyone was wondering how this heatwave is going in the UK. All our grass has died and looks like this

[dovin-baan]

That’s just how grass in Texas looks

[wizardpotions]

I don't know how to explain to you that a country on the same latitude as Canada should not be experiencing a texas-like climate

[stahl-tier]

Increasingly starting to believe that americans don’t understand climate change because they’ve always lived in an inhospitable dead environment instead of having to watch their surroundings turn into such while they were growing up

[elodieunderglass]

It isn’t dead yet, just resting. Lawn grass is perennial and resilient and that should recover. It’s quite common for grasses to go dormant, dry out and turn golden in this kind of stress; actually, we rather rely on this innate property of grasses. Storing the dried grains of grasses like rice, wheat and maize were pretty foundational to settled societies.

It’s still holding the soil together, still has a busy biome underneath, and will green up after the next rain. Just like the savannah, which is golden but not dead. And the prairie. And so on. It can certainly die of drought, but it isn’t there yet.

And it isn’t definitely meant to happen like that in this climate band. The UK being year round green is kind of a national thing.

[boutet]

That’s also how our grass looks in Manitoba (Canadian prairie) by August, and even without going out of our way to water it it’ll perk back up after some rain, or next spring. As long as it’s well established it’ll sort out.

But also yeah, that doesn’t negate it being a really bad sign in a place where that doesn’t happen regularly. As I understand it they should be more like BC, which is milder and damper than we are. 

[boutet]

Had some new tools to break in, and it’s been a while since I’ve done Tris. I’ve struggled to draw people with larger bodies and/or more body fat because there’s always this struggle inside me to “make it (the art) look better” and societal pressures to “make it (the human woman) look better by our standards.” It’s a fight to try to make it better without buying into harmful ideas.

In any case, I am pleased with my new tools, and pleased with my progress. There’s always more work to do, but it’s work I enjoy.

EDIT: OMG I forgot her glasses...

[vanessagillings]

A few resources to help, learn, and promote:

TO HELP AND DONATE:

Black Lives Matter carrd with info, petitions, donation sites they recommend, and readings they suggest

President Obama’s List of orgs to help, things to read, and ways to get engaged

Black-led LGBTQ+ Organizations posted by Alexis Michelle

TO LEARN AND UNLEARN:

5 Ways to Take Action for all non-black people by The Conscious Kid

10-Steps to Non-Optical Allyship by Mireille Cassandra Harper 

How to Be Actively Anti-Racist by Good Good Good Co

Victoria Alexander’s recommendations on Anti-Racist Literature

TO SUPPORT AND PROMOTE:

Abelle Hayford’s #drawingwhileblack Directory of Black Creatives to hire

Author Oge Mora’s List of Children’s Books by Black Authors - also check out Oge Mora’s beautiful books!

A Twitter Thread from Melissa See on Black YA novels

Karina Yan Glasser’s 100 Must-Read Children’s Books by African-American Authors

10 Black-Owned Online Bookstores to buy all these lovely books from!

Bookshop.org’s List of Independent Black-Owned Bookstores 

[abby-howard]

SORRY FOR THE VERY PERSONAL COMIC!!

This is my half of “Unhealthy”, an essay comic double header with the lovely and talented Sarah Winifred Searle. She and I both wrote about our personal experiences as overweight ladies with eating disorders, and her story is breathtaking! You can buy a physical copy of the book here: https://topatoco.com/collections/abby-howard/products/ah-unhealthy

Or buy a digital PDF here: https://abbyhoward.itch.io/unhealthy

[boutet]

This is a powerful story. I also did this, to an extent. I looked a trees and thought, “that’s a beautiful one, I could die there.” I often crawled under beautiful evergreens and tried to fall asleep. I stared out the window into storms wondering how far I would have to walk before no one would find me. 

I am lucky to still be here. It wasn’t the work of anyone in my life. It wasn’t the work of myself. It was sheer luck, and chance, and enough time passing that the anger at my world grew larger than the self-hate.  I ordered my copy, and I already know who I’m “lending” it to. Anyone who needs this story, adolescence really is the worst of it. It gets better. 

It gets so much better. 

[boutet]

Trying to do more face work. 

[boutet]

Evvy! I’m so glad Evvy got a whole book, I love her. I’ve lost my copy of Battle Magic somewhere in my home and it’s really bothering me. I love the idea of Dedicate Evvy also.

[boutet]

Reread the first few chapters of Wild Magic, remembering how important this character and this series was to young teen me. I identified so heavily with Daine where she started, with her fear of being open with people, her fear of her own mental health, her frustrations with the role and limitations that her small community forced on her. How her mother pushed so hard to develop skills in her that she did not and could not have, and how that damaged their relationship and Daine’s view of herself. 

Daine is a great character, and I love how she develops, but she’ll always mean most to me as she was at the beginning. It was the first time I felt like I had really found someone like me in a book that I loved.

[boutet]

My floppy and uneven weaving is growing! It didn’t occur to me until too late that I’ve seen weavers do a little bit of a barrier at the bottom and then do the weaving against the barrier. I just went right into it, so the bottom is raggedy.

Still, it’s fun! I don’t know how to make even edges and good tension. I’m trying to err on the size of loose since I’ve found too loose to be better than too tight with knit and crochet. 

5YO likes helping beat. He sits there so solemnly with the comb until I have it ready for him and then gently combs it down like it’s hair. He’s not impressed with the speed though.

[boutet]

I have picked up a basic loom from Ikea. From Ikea! Of all places. It’s listed as a kid toy. Um... LUSTIGT is apparently it’s name. It comes with 2 inch nylon ribbon for kids but I’m giving it a go as a regular frame loom. 

I’m starting out with the big ass plastic need it comes with. I may switch to the lovely wooden one my partner made for me for my inkle, but I want to see what can be done with the stuff in the box.

So we’re starting tonight! It’s warped with a 100%wool KnitPicks palette in some kind of sky blue? I am terrible at keeping tags. I’ll be wefting with a lovely deep teal of the same yarn type. I guess we’ll see!

[boutet]

Reading the Children of Hurin

 and did Feanor really need to have SO MANY CHILDREN?!? Did we need to chase down quite so many lines? It’s hard enough with everybody being immortal and getting into everybody’s business for ages and ages, without having quite so many lines to keep track of as well.

I kind of want to make a chart to refer back to.

[boutet]

The Thing in Mastiff

This is my 3rd reading of it and I’m SO ANGRY and SO SAD

Partner came to check on me and was concerned and I was like THIS BOOK IS SO AWFUL! And so good! And terrible.

The Thing is an injury to me. I don’t recover. It’s harder to read knowing it’s coming.

[boutet]

Wooooo double sided weaving!

[boutet]

Got to attend a workshop on tablet/card weaving today, and putting that learning to work now. It's great! I'm a bit terrible at keeping track of whether I'm turning the cards up or down but hopefully experience and practice sorts that out.

[boutet]

DPNs really help get a neater start. I don't remember where I saw this tip but I'm super grateful for it.

[boutet]

Ugly woven strap! My tension is all over the place. I'll sort it out I guess :)

[boutet]

Don't know what I'm doing! Doing it anyway! With palette yarn from Knit Picks