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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♀️ (she/her, 30s) i have no idea what i'm doing

[ishimarukiyotaka]

The sign many left wingers have subconsciously accepted moving right on covid and embraced lowering public health standards is when people seem to think “masks should be mandatory in healthcare settings /airplanes “ is somehow a radical position to take in an ongoing pandemic

[jupiterroxx]

its so fucking weird because "masks in healthcare" should be the default all of the time. Doctors and nurses are literally employed to go from sick person to sick person, treating immunocompromised people especially often.

It should have been mandatory BEFORE covid

[pardalote]

Finished stitching my Oversight series.

12 small embroidered poem-objects in wool, linen, cotton, silk, stitched on canvaswork mesh and edged in glass beads.

[wordslikesilver]

I don’t care if 10 million queers have said it before, I’ll say it 10 million times more, the only Dandy I am is a Dandelion because I’m gonna ruin your ugly fucking lawn and break your ugly fucking concrete no matter how much vinegar you pour, no matter how many roots you pull, I will haunt your perfectly useless grass like a spectre you can’t escape while little kids weave me into crowns and blow wishes from my hair because that’s how pretty I am to someone who doesn’t know what it means when you call me a weed. Thats how pretty I am to kids who don’t know you’re gonna call them a weed too. You can’t let them see me or they’ll know how pretty weeds are. You can’t let them see me or they’ll make wishes like birthday candles and I’ll come back, splashing that gorgeous white and yellow on your green. I fear no concrete you could pave me with but you, you are afraid of nothing more than the sweetest, smallest flower that your kids will one day hand you like a bouquet.

[wordslikesilver]

Really in love rn with the phrase “a flower in the first bouquet your kids will ever give you” to describe dandelions. Like among all the other tenacity imagery, among all the calling it a weed to get rid of, it is also this. It will be a flower in the first bouquet your kids ever give you.

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Working on some art to decorate the frosting containers I use to hold the yarn I'm knitting with, figured I'd upload it as a coloring page kinda thing c:

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Finished! Technically this picture is one step before completion (I slapped a bit of white paint over the brick line I accidentally put on top of the sheep's wool), but it's hard to take a full picture of it when it's wrapped all the way around a cylinder. The rainbow didn't quite line up, but that's ok!

[fractangle]

Figured I should try anyway.

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Working on some art to decorate the frosting containers I use to hold the yarn I'm knitting with, figured I'd upload it as a coloring page kinda thing c:

[fractangle]

Finished! Technically this picture is one step before completion (I slapped a bit of white paint over the brick line I accidentally put on top of the sheep's wool), but it's hard to take a full picture of it when it's wrapped all the way around a cylinder. The rainbow didn't quite line up, but that's ok!

[knit-bake-run-make]

Plotting my next two projects - and this one has been on my to-do list for far too long.

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dyed some yarn c:

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Did a sharpie drawing on a tote bag today:

It's meant to be inverted, like this:

[bookhobbit]

The first rule of sewing is you can fix anything if you have patience, creativity, and a little bit of extra fabric! The second rule of sewing is AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

[glowingclitmagnetraccoongirl]

I took an edible for the first time in 5+ years. Eventually, I went into my friend’s kitchen, grabbed a piece of cake, carried it back to the couch while chittering. My friend asked me why I was eating cake with my bare hands. I replied back, “why is the raccoon girl acting like a raccoon girl?” Then, I licked my fingers off and laid down on the couch while everyone pet me. Admittedly, I would have done the exact same thing sober, but it sure felt strange this time.

[fractangle]

Working on some art to decorate the frosting containers I use to hold the yarn I'm knitting with, figured I'd upload it as a coloring page kinda thing c:

[genderneutralhole]

everyone say thank you beautiful trans woman in her 30s

[fantasiavii]

One thing I love about Murderbot that I don’t see talked about much is how it literally translates everything it hears. I think it’s easiest to notice with swears. This is most obvious in Fugitive Telemetry with the crew of the Lalow. They say things like “that picker” and “penis move” and “pussing corporates,” some of which confuse even the Preservation humans. But it does it all the time.

In System Collapse, Tarik says “motherless” (as opposed to something like motherfucking) and the BE corporates say things like “lame-skulled” and while you could think those are just futuristic insults as a result of linguistic drift (which they could also be), I think they’re just literal translations. It becomes more noticeable when you see how religious terms are rendered: “oh high one! Oh deity!” Which is like…sure. They could literally be saying that. But imo it makes more sense if MB is translating something they’re saying in another language.*

I think the most notable case of this is when Thiago calls Amena “my daughter.” On first read I literally thought it was just a Preservation thing but then I realized it made a lot more sense to me (a 21st century American) if he was saying something like mija but MB was just literally translating it into its archive bc that’s how it processes language.

This is also the reason for Amena’s use of Second Mom and Third Mom. It sounds kind of clunky in English but Chinese does a similar thing which sounds perfectly natural in that language (e.g. da-ge, er-ge, san-ge for first/oldest brother, second (oldest) brother, and third (oldest) brother).

Anyway! It’s a fun little detail I really enjoy about MB. There are definitely way more examples but I didn’t have time to track them all down.

*Don’t ask me which languages. Linguistic drift ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[prokopetz]

The one that most obviously struck me as signposting this convention is Murderbot's constant use of the set phrase "humans and augmented humans". That's clunky as hell at face value, but it makes a lot of sense if interpreted as a diegetic translation artifact, with "augmented humans" being a literal translation of some word in whatever language Murderbot is "really" speaking which has no snappy English equivalent.

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big things are happening

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Huh, I never followed up on this post. Well uh. the coat's been done for a while:

It's extremely bulky and warm and I love itttttt

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it's hexagonin' time

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IT'S HEXAGONIN' TIME

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HEXAGONS HEXAGON'D - IT IS DONE!

I'm really happy with the way this project bag came out - it's a little sloppy on the inside of the handle attachment points, but it's still sturdy AF.

[fractangle]

SIKE - MORE HEXAGONS

I'm not actually super happy with how this one came out - it's too thick-walled for how small it is, and it looks like a little wastebasket. Oh well, it was still fun to make!

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it's hexagonin' time

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IT'S HEXAGONIN' TIME

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HEXAGONS HEXAGON'D - IT IS DONE!

I'm really happy with the way this project bag came out - it's a little sloppy on the inside of the handle attachment points, but it's still sturdy AF.

[things-from-strings]

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