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heya, it's samwise/alto/paradox/orion/perseus/tamiss/fionn here. i'm the host of the quilt collective and this is my blog! (though other members will post here sometimes. dw about it)
my pronouns page is here -> link
sideblogs are going under the cut since i've got a lot
evil great lakes
lake inferior
lake normal
lake offtario
lake hurton
lake michigan
the reason that lake "michigan" is evil is that it is named after a place which is not real 🤣 how droll 🤣
Beaded Rainbow Odenwald Shawl!
Lost my mind a little and added (if my math is correct) 5,615 beads to Nim Teasdale's Odenwald pattern. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing!
The goal was “soothingly weighted but not uncomfortable to wear, even as someone with chronic pain.” It could have been a little heavier, so maybe I’ll make a shawl with larger beads another time, but I’m very pleased with this one. I used size 6/0 seed beads, applied as I go with a .6mm crochet hook.
Yarn-wise, used 2 cakes of YarnArt Flowers. I knitted the fully purple sections from both, then knitted all the way through the yellow-oranges with a single ball. When I hit the beginning of red-oranges, I used yarn from both cakes, alternating between them. (Not the entirety of both, I played it by ear to make sure I made it through the full rainbow.)
I do have edited charts with bead placements. I will only share them with Nim's permission.
I've done A LOT of knitting/crochet this year while chronic illness kept me from my sewing machine, but I'm feeling much better now. There will be new quilts to look forward to soon, plus a few more yarn crafts to share in the meantime!
i made this a while ago but forgot to post it
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You can never escape the symbolic Waterloo dates!!
googles shitty overview giving me such a beautiful mental image of a band with three drummers, a bass guitarist, a harmonica, and jason (he's there too)
uh oh
"etymologynerd" is at it again and this time i do feel i have to say something. the disability advocates have it covered on addressing the impact, but there's also a serious problem with the linguistics.
in a video shared on may 16, adam aleksic begins by saying: "i think we have to accept the fact that the 'r-word' [retard/retarded] is permanently coming back and it's functionally changed meanings to no longer directly refer to disabled people."
this first sentence alone betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of language change in several points.
this word never went away. what we're seeing now is an attempt at re-normalization by people who sense that they will not be socially punished by openly using this term.
we actually don't have to "accept" its return to mainstream use. for decades, disability advocates have worked to inform the public of the harm caused by casual use of this term. the harm has not disappeared, and neither will this advocacy and its impacts.
now i'm just mad. how tf does it NOT refer to disabled people? the entire point of a pejorative term is that it negatively invokes comparison to a person, group, etc. the assertion that the r-word has changed meanings is categorically false. at most, its primary context has changed from clinical to casually pejorative, but the insult fundamentally rests upon the original reference.
he goes on to refer to the "euphemism treadmill," another concept he misrepresents by extending the metaphor to say that terms which have been sufficiently distanced from their original reference are no longer pejorative. to quote: "...once we sufficiently distance a word from its historical usage, it stops taking on the same offensive power and just becomes colloquial instead."
which... what? what the fuck is he talking about? the words he uses as examples – idiot, imbecile, and moron – are definitely still offensive, if perhaps less impactful. "just becomes colloquial instead" is a nonsense phrase. are offensive words not colloquial? the only english word that comes to mind as having changed so much in definition as to no longer be offensive is "nice," which has been shifting in meaning for more than 700 years and was never a weaponized clinical term.
he ends by saying, "it is undeniably true that the people who are afraid to say the r-word right now are going to get old and die out, while younger generations keep saying it with no knowledge of where it came from." again, fundamentally misunderstanding language change in society over time. it rests on the assumption that we're all going to start or re-start using this slur and never have a conversation about its harms, which just completely ignores both the abovementioned disability advocacy and the fact that people tell each other not to use offensive words. you think i'm just not gonna teach my kids that using slurs is bad??
the whole video is devoid of both empathy and an understanding of long-term semantic change.
tl;dr etymologynerd is wrong, we do NOT "have to accept that the 'r-word' is coming back," and we all need to read more crip linguistics.
after continuing to stew about this during my lunch break, i'd also like to point out that framing this sort of thing as "inevitable" is some fascist bullshit.
don't fall for it.
I read this post, and at first (incorrectly) assumed that the video might’ve been made with good intentions. But after watching it, what the fuck.
Adam, if you’re reading this, you have made a video excusing ableism and sanism. With the platform you have, you should understand how irresponsible this is. I dare you to try making a video with this with any other slur (please don’t actually istg) and see how that would go.
Yes, the r-word is a violent word when there are billboards on the New York City subway calling for eugenics. Yes, the r-word is a violent word when news show hosts say that mentally ill homeless people should face “involuntary lethal injection”. Yes, the r-word is a violent word when disabled people all over the world are murdered by their caregivers at a horrific frequency.
The r-word is a word of violence and hatred against disabled people. To normalize the r-word is to normalize violence and hatred.
You've only drawn Kitsunami three times?! I swear I remember more, I'm losing my mind
four times now!!!
NEW TEAM CONFIRMED FOR SONIC HEROES 2 100% REAL MY DAD WORKS AT SEGA
Amazing commission I got by @jesterjesteringjesterly !! Version without the police tape under the cut uwu
Unnamed character leak: The tenrec (1996)...
Nah this is just my take on a classic Surge and kit, guys, i hope You like it.
Comm for @/Venusthefoxcat on twitter! i'm really proud of how those two came out and i was so happy when i recieved that i was going to draw Surge and Kit :D
I started this in May btw
— A silly reformed AU I thought of while watching the TV where Surge and Kit get defeated completely and are actually forced to become better people. They just gave up on the whole destroy everyone thing
Just a silly thought! Idk if I’ll expand on it :3 💚
i think the beatles broke up bc they were all jealous ringo had a way cooler name
This was incredibly well received on Twitter.
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