Threw this on the long arm finally just to get it off my WIP pile LOL
I was gonna go with grey thread for quilting, or black, but I found this Wild Plum and it was a perfect match for the accent colour. Granted it doesn’t show up much in the actual quilting, but I know it matches LOL
Used a black Northcott Canvas print for the binding since I had some left over and none of the fuchsia. I like it, looks good from the front and back.
I don’t remember what the name of this quilting pattern is, but i really like it. And it would look very good smaller.
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“Musk talks about Mars as a lifeboat for humanity, which is among the very stupidest things that someone could say,” says Adam Becker, an astrophysicist and author of the book More Everything Forever, which outlines the messianic, sci-fi fantasies of the tech oligarchs. “There are so many reasons why it’s such a bad idea, and this is not about, ‘Oh, we’ll never have the technology to live on Mars.’ That’s not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that Earth is always going to be a better option no matter what happens to Earth. Like, we could get hit with an asteroid the size of the one that killed off the dinosaurs, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could explode every single nuclear weapon, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could have the worst-case scenario for climate change, and Earth would still be more habitable. Any cursory examination of any of the facts about Mars makes it very clear.”
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I really like sci-fi stories where people have to go off and terraform a planet, or figure out how to rebuild civilization after some disaster, or ideally both. "The last ark-ship leaving Earth right before it becomes uninhabitable" sort of deal. But lately I've been coming around to this same idea, that it will always be more practical to try to save Earth than to try to start over elsewhere.
I was reading one story where the apocalypse was impossibly-rising oceans. Like, water is appearing from *waves hand* the Earth's crust or something, and literally all dry surface land on Earth is going to become underwater in X years. Part of the story was about a giant research project to invent FTL to send a few hundred humans to a nearby star which might have a habitable planet. You know what they were hoping to find? A planet with liquid water. Their plan was to descend from their starship and restart civilization using just the tools they brought with them, on a world with no life and no breathable air and the wrong gravity and the wrong temperate and the wrong sunlight and the wrong day-night cycle, just because it had liquid water. You know where else has liquid water? The flooded Earth you just abandoned. Instead of researching starship technology, you could have spent that time loading up all the same civilization-restarter tools into boats.
And this is really true of any futuristic apocalypse scenario. If you can terraform Mars to have a thick oxygen atmosphere, why not just do that to Earth? Even if you smash an ice comet into Earth and destroy basically everything, Earth will still be more habitable than Mars! It'll still have roughly the right atmospheric pressure, and magnetic field, and heat balance, and it'll still have whatever life the comet didn't kill... Same with a starshade to cool Venus. Same with excavating asteroids into city-stations. Same with abandoning Sol System entirely and heading to another star. If an ark-ship arrived in a new star system and found Earth-but-choked-by-climate-change, the crew would be ecstatic. They would never have thought to get that lucky. So why bother with the trip? Just stay and fix the damn Earth.
Do you think they have a dom/sub dynamic? The thing I personally like about their relationship is that they’re equals, so I’ve never loved interpreting their relationship as dom/sub. If there is dom/sub stuff in their relationship, I feel like they would switch roles sometimes to keep it equal, especially as time goes on and Shane gets more confident and Ilya has less in his life that feels out of control. But curious for your thoughts.
I think I disagree with the premise that being dominant or submissive makes them unequal to begin with.
It is not degrading to be submissive. It’s not degrading even if you’re literally into degradation. And it does not make you unequal with your partner. As long as everything happens with the mutual consent of both parties, then literally anything is fair game and it does not reflect positively or negatively at all on the people doing it. Safe sane and consensual is the rule for a reason.
Bedroom dynamics are meant to be for the bedroom. And I mean that more in a “this is their dynamic for when they fuck” kind of way and not a “if they fuck on the couch the rules are DIFFERENT” kind of way. Sex is about sex. It doesn’t have to mean anything about how they are in the rest of their lives.
If they have a dom/sub dynamic in the bedroom, that does not make them unequal in the relationship. Shane can like being ordered around in the bedroom and Ilya can like ordering him around. But that doesn’t mean that Ilya is ordering him around in the rest of their lives. They are not reinventing the nuclear household and making Shane the housewife just because they both like it when Ilya orders Shane to get on his knees for him. They are two equal partners doing what feels good to them when they are having sex. But when sex ends, they leave that dynamic behind and they go out and they make decisions as two adults with mutual decision-making authority.
Sincerely, sex is literally only ever supposed to be about what feels good to the people doing it. It has absolutely no reflection on your dynamic beyond what’s happening literally during the sex itself. There are no other implications or connotations or positives or negatives involved. Because sex requires vulnerability and trust and respect between both people. They have to be equals with equal power in the relationship or the sex is not healthy, and it doesn’t work.
And I mean power in an actual power sense. They need equal power to stop the situation if they don’t like it. Anything else that happens in that bedroom is just playing pretend.
Say Shane likes to be held down and fucked by Ilya and Ilya likes doing it. Say they’re into consensual non-consent.
If they’re doing stuff like that in bed, then they are effectively just playing pretend with each other. They are actors in a play. Yes, they are acting like Ilya has all the power. Yes, they are acting like he is in charge of Shane. But he only gets to do that because Shane lets him do that. It only happens because Shane also wants it to happen. The second anyone says a safe word, the play ends. Because both parties always fundamentally need to have equal control over a sexual encounter or it is not healthy or safe.
Like, sincerely, I do not give a fuck what people do in bed and I do not think it has any reflection whatsoever on the nature of a relationship. Piss on each other for all I care. You’re still equals after. As long as everything you do feels good to both parties and happens with mutual consent, fucking green light it. Safe, sane, and consensual. Go forth and be freaks.
That all being said, I don’t have strong opinions on Shane and Ilya being dom/sub or them switching the dynamic later. I read their dynamic like that but it doesn’t mean anyone else has to. Though I think if they do switch it up it would be more about a desire to experiment than about trying to make them more equal. They were always equals. What they do in bed does not change that.
I'm in favour of people getting weird with pronouns, but nobody gets grammatically weird enough with pronouns. You can mess around with the declensions if you want. Yeah, my pronouns are 'she/she'. That's right, I don't have an accusative form. I refuse to be an object, direct or otherwise.
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