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Children's book illustration by Zinaiida Volkovynska, 1960
never watch the sodium intake!!!!! soup and chips forever!!!!
Happy 10th birthday to the best tweet of all time.
Ngl guys this entire saga and phenomenon stumbled upon is fucking frying me.
what the hell did I just read
Now this is a framing device
Its so beautiful that cats have their own special weed. Mother nature rewarding them for being the best animal
Parsival or a Knights Tale by Richard Monaco Illus by David McCall Johnston Published 1977. Read more here. Scanned from personal collection.
Thoughts that are mutual between cats and their people:
Yeah you're cute when you sleep but you didn't let me sleep either so I'm going to annoy you now because I'm bored. Hahah get poked, sleepy idiot.
How do you not comprehend this when I am literally staring at you. Like I understand that your brain can't understand things this nuanced but come on, how do you not get this.
I don't know if you know that what I am currently doing is an expression of affection, but that won't stop me. Knowing that I showed you that I love you is enough.
I heard a crinkly material and the sound of you chewing so I have to know what's in your mouth RIGHT FUCKING NOW.
I can't communicate with you and you can't communicate with me, so I'm just copying the tone of the sound you're making in hopes that you understand that I try.
You are doing activities beyond my comprehension, and I find this fascinating. I will never understand what the fuck you are trying to achieve here, but I am intrigued nonetheless.
Hey are you ok, you haven't done your weird thing in a while. Yeah I don't get why you do that but I know you do that when you're ok.
they told me not to get lost in the weeds, but these are lush, beautiful, and ecologically necessary native plants so it's probably fine
I'm in fucking stitches dude
He's worried about stepping on flowers. He loves nature.
Wow thanks everyone ;v;
Mini lore snippet lol: at first I just doodled the cat alone in the middle of a page, but I loved him so much I just turned the page and drew the whole thing. He's so great.
Not feminist as in "women should be included in the draft" but feminist as in "being drafted is a violation of bodily autonomy for any gender".
The draft should not exist. Drafting people into the military is a violation of human rights. You should not be able to force someone to risk their life. If you can't find enough people who care about a conflict to keep it going then it simply shouldn't keep going. You can't even force someone to donate a kidney using government power, why the fuck can you force them to donate their whole body and life to a cause they don't agree with or don't care about?
wordle in 1: joyless. it is statistically inevitable that your go-to starting word will be the solution one day, and this is no more of an accomplishment than running a random number generator once a day until it gives you "1"
wordle in 2: misleading. you may think that this is the highest achievement, but it suffers from the same disappointment of a lucky guess that wordle in 1 causes. your second guess is a strategic choice, but ending the game this early just isn't interesting
wordle in 3: the peak. your starting word gave you some information and then your second guess contextualized that information into a solvable position. your sharp intuition and restraint is what truly separates you as above average.
wordle in 4: statistically average, par for the course, the baseline against which all other wordles are compared.
wordle in 5: you're sweating. you made a mistake at some point, or your starting word was effectively useless, and it took an extra guess above average to close things out. wordle in 5 comes as a relief.
wordle in 6: crushing humiliation. you have technically succeeded but at what cost. your thirty square grid will stare back at you like barrels of a firing squad. a failure in all but name.
wordle failure: never your fault. what kind of stupid word even was that like come on
TABLET WEAVING INTRODUCTION
When i started i was going off of diagrams from old websites, and struggled a good bit. I hope this post will help you get started! Feel free to ask questions!
This video shows the very basics (not in english, but quite clear). This video explains how to read patterns before you start doing it backwards, mirrored and upside down (which is what i did!).
Basic tools; the beauty of tablet weaving is that you need minimal supplies to get started.
Cotton yarn (I use 8/4)
Cards (thin cardboard and a hole punch will do)
A chair or door handle, to tie the threads to
A belt, to tie the threads to yourself
A shuttle (you can start with a pencil, old credit card, ruler, your fingers,... i use a bone folder)
Variables to understand before trying to use a pattern
S/Z card slant or threading
The direction the cards face
Forward or backward turns
ABCD or DCBA
This video (mentioned above as well) explains these variables and how to read different patterns you will find. There is no universal way to write a tablet weaving pattern, resulting in different patterns directly opposing one another (& lots of frustration on my end </3).
General tips from me, a novice
Start with a thin band
Start with a simple pattern, where the cards all turn forward for the whole band, like this one
Then move to a pattern that alternates forward and backward turns, this one is simple but very pretty
After that, try a pattern that has you divide the cards into groups, like a ramshorn or dublin dragons
Be sure to use contrasting colours (in hue and/or tone). A black and white filter can help you here
Get some bag clips to prevent tangles (ikea!)
Always turn the edge cards in the same direction. This gives a neater end result. The edges can be the outer two cards, or a group that forms a decorative trim
Personally, i like looping the thread around a door handle instead of tying it, which makes untwisting threads very easy
You can eventually omit the written ABCD on the cards, but it is a good crutch to lean on when learning
I use some scrap wood with bolts that i tie to my belt, making it a little easier to manage tension and move the woven band along as i go
Finding patterns
I use pinterest for the most part. Twisted threads has many patterns, with a built-in program, but the search function is not great.
I made you four pinterest boards; for the sake of simplicity, the patterns are all GTT which means tablets face RIGHT, S/Z refers to the THREADING direction, use ABCD, forward turns the tablets AWAY from yourself (forwards = D over A)
Level one: all forward turns
Level two: alternating forward and backward
Level three: groups of tablets that turn differently
Level four: a fuckton of tablets with complex patterns
This video made me understand double-face weaving, this one is shorter and easier to follow. Double-face is a fun technique but i would reccommend getting good at following a regular pattern first.
My main mistake when i was starting out:
Whether the slant is S or Z, the cards should all face the same way. For some reason, I made the S-cards all face right and the Z-cards left. Simple, repetitive patterns will turn out fine but anything slightly more complex will be distorted, and you will be frustrated:
Your first few projects will likely be messy! Don't be too discouraged. Here's a couple of my firsts:
Saved for when I finally learn tablet weaving! (I'm a sting heddle band weaver)