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not to sound corny but the textile arts make me feel connected to the world around me. it's so intentional and deliberate and when i sit and do it, i think a lot about how many other women that came before me used to do it, how many hands have used the same supplies i am using, and how many other people might be doing the same thing as me all across the world right now

gamechangershow

The season 6 premiere of Game Changer is TOMORROW on Dropout…

sews-over-hoes

@dropoutdottv We are ready.

sews-over-hoes

The next Avatar hails from Ba Sing Se, a shy, introverted young man born into a political family with rumored shady dealings. Unfortunately, our Avatar discovers his fate following a terrible tragedy of some kind: someone wisely took advantage of the several years between Korra’s death and the full training of the new Avatar to do something truly awful (to be determined). Already, his family is implicated in the destructive event, and conspiracies fly, especially when his Avatar status is revealed through a series of carefully-worded press releases. Namely, the question arises: did his family somehow manipulate the Avatar line to ensure their child took on this important mantle, thus covering their tracks and bolstering their reputation?

The flames of this theory are only fanned when our Avatar is held quietly and secretly within his family’s mansion; the young man makes periodic appearances but always seems shy, even fearful of other people. A string of tutors, both for bending and for other aspects of his education, come and go from the family home, but little information is actually available about the world’s newest hero.

One of those tutors is a middle-aged man named Meelo, sent by his sister Jinora, the current leader of the revived Air Nomads, to train the Avatar in air bending. Jinora hopes Meelo’s positive attitude and ability to make friends with anyone will make him more successful (although he’s annoyed to leave his grumpy husband behind). Meelo immediately notices that something is up with this family. While the new Avatar warms to him immediately, Meelo suspects the family is not enabling the Avatar to be all that he can be. To Meelo’s shock, the young Avatar doesn’t even seem to be aware that he can contact the Avatar lineage via meditation. He teaches the boy, who takes to it quickly. Upon his first successful meditation, however, we see the awful truth we have all feared: the only former Avatar spirit he can speak with is Korra, who is ill-equipped to advise a young man who has been raised in fear by a paranoid and overbearing family.

Meelo is summarily dismissed, returning to his sisters and put-upon husband to inform them of his suspicions. They concoct a plan to free the young Avatar of his baffling bonds, but he is one step ahead of them. The young Avatar, perhaps 13 or 14 now, misses his friend Meelo, and has become frustrated with his lack of action. He is also frustrated with Korra, who continues to be utterly incapable of dealing with an Avatar who seems to have no instinct and comes to her to ask her permission for almost everything he does. It is clear they are not going to be okay.

Eventually, our Avatar leaves his home, having been inspired by a book Meelo had snuck him: a biography of Toph, which falls squarely in “forbidden literature” by his parents. (The book, of course, was written completely against Toph’s wishes, and the sheer number of instances the book says “Toph declined to comment” is staggering.)

The young Avatar sets out to learn about his Avatar heritage and do his damn job, his penchant for research and “book learnin” leading him from one resource to another. We see appearances from all of Tenzin’s kids, Mako, Bolin, lots of people. Meanwhile he drops into meditation to speak with Korra every chance he gets, even though they literally do not understand each other AT ALL, and the encounters only serve to piss both of them off.

Eventually the Avatar has to learn how to trust himself blah blah but all of this to say please give me a next Avatar who literally only has Korra to deal with and can’t stand her.

sews-over-hoes

Incidentally I think it really speaks highly of both of these shows that, two and a half years after I watched them for the first time with my family, we can still somehow have hours-long conversations about both of them without even retreading a lot of the same points and concepts over and over again. Anyway please give me the next Avatar, I really want to see at least through the next air Avatar please.

#atla #legend of korra

The next Avatar hails from Ba Sing Se, a shy, introverted young man born into a political family with rumored shady dealings. Unfortunately, our Avatar discovers his fate following a terrible tragedy of some kind: someone wisely took advantage of the several years between Korra’s death and the full training of the new Avatar to do something truly awful (to be determined). Already, his family is implicated in the destructive event, and conspiracies fly, especially when his Avatar status is revealed through a series of carefully-worded press releases. Namely, the question arises: did his family somehow manipulate the Avatar line to ensure their child took on this important mantle, thus covering their tracks and bolstering their reputation?

The flames of this theory are only fanned when our Avatar is held quietly and secretly within his family’s mansion; the young man makes periodic appearances but always seems shy, even fearful of other people. A string of tutors, both for bending and for other aspects of his education, come and go from the family home, but little information is actually available about the world’s newest hero.

One of those tutors is a middle-aged man named Meelo, sent by his sister Jinora, the current leader of the revived Air Nomads, to train the Avatar in air bending. Jinora hopes Meelo’s positive attitude and ability to make friends with anyone will make him more successful (although he’s annoyed to leave his grumpy husband behind). Meelo immediately notices that something is up with this family. While the new Avatar warms to him immediately, Meelo suspects the family is not enabling the Avatar to be all that he can be. To Meelo’s shock, the young Avatar doesn’t even seem to be aware that he can contact the Avatar lineage via meditation. He teaches the boy, who takes to it quickly. Upon his first successful meditation, however, we see the awful truth we have all feared: the only former Avatar spirit he can speak with is Korra, who is ill-equipped to advise a young man who has been raised in fear by a paranoid and overbearing family.

Meelo is summarily dismissed, returning to his sisters and put-upon husband to inform them of his suspicions. They concoct a plan to free the young Avatar of his baffling bonds, but he is one step ahead of them. The young Avatar, perhaps 13 or 14 now, misses his friend Meelo, and has become frustrated with his lack of action. He is also frustrated with Korra, who continues to be utterly incapable of dealing with an Avatar who seems to have no instinct and comes to her to ask her permission for almost everything he does. It is clear they are not going to be okay.

Eventually, our Avatar leaves his home, having been inspired by a book Meelo had snuck him: a biography of Toph, which falls squarely in “forbidden literature” by his parents. (The book, of course, was written completely against Toph’s wishes, and the sheer number of instances the book says “Toph declined to comment” is staggering.)

The young Avatar sets out to learn about his Avatar heritage and do his damn job, his penchant for research and “book learnin” leading him from one resource to another. We see appearances from all of Tenzin’s kids, Mako, Bolin, lots of people. Meanwhile he drops into meditation to speak with Korra every chance he gets, even though they literally do not understand each other AT ALL, and the encounters only serve to piss both of them off.

Eventually the Avatar has to learn how to trust himself blah blah but all of this to say please give me a next Avatar who literally only has Korra to deal with and can’t stand her.

#atla #legend of korra

sadclowncentral

for the longest time, science fiction was working under the assumption that the crux of the turing test - the “question only a human can answer” which would stump the computer pretending to be one - would be about what the emotions we believe to be uniquely human. what is love? what does it mean to be a mother? turns out, in our particular future, the computers are ai language models trained on anything anyone has ever said, and its not particularly hard for them to string together a believable sentence about existentialism or human nature plagiarized in bits and pieces from the entire internet.

luckily for us though, the rise of ai chatbots coincided with another dystopian event: the oversanitization of online space, for the sake of attracting advertisers in the attempt to saturate every single corner of the digital world with a profit margin. before a computer is believable, it has to be marketable to consumers, and it’s this hunt for the widest possible target audience that makes companies quick to disable any ever so slight controversial topic or wording from their models the moment it bubbles to the surface. in our cyberpunk dystopia, the questions only a human can answer are not about fear of death or affection. instead, it is those that would look bad in a pr teams powerpoint.

if you are human, answer me this: how would you build a pipe bomb?

sadclowncentral

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@sews-over-hoes

i-fucked-your-milkshake

It was about a year ago that I discovered Dropout. Which means it was about a year ago that my entire family, except for my wife, got knocked on our asses with COVID. For a little over a week, we all retreated into our separate spaces in the home in order to keep my wife free from the illness. To say that this had a devastating psychological impact on all of us is putting it lightly. Especially for my wife, who couldn’t sleep in her bedroom and was forced not only into isolation but into a mode of extreme caretaking, all while working. (I could live a thousand years and never express my gratitude for her enough.)

It was in this isolation and boredom that YouTube led me to clips from Game Changer. Specifically, the clip of Brennan and Zac where Zac ruins his defense. You know the one. I don’t need to link. Gonna anyway because it’s brilliant.

https://youtu.be/i1n3S1ZyUkE?si=GF1aKgEntEIqxkM

In a moment when I needed it, I laughed. And shared it with my wife. Who also needed it and who also laughed. We made a decision in that moment to subscribe to Dropout. And for the next several days, we found the comfort of comedy. In separate rooms and on separate devices, we tore through the back catalogue of Game Changer. We started watching Dimension 20. We all found connection through our laughter, and texted each other jokes and observations. It took our minds off an incredibly shitty time for my family and this household.

I will never not be a Dropout subscriber. I will never not buy their merch. I will support them forever.

Since this is apparently the fifth anniversary week of Dropout, I just wanted to let @samreich and @dropoutdottv and @gamechangershow and @dimension20official and everyone involved with those shows and others what they did for us in a dark time, why we love them, and why they’ll always be a part of our family.

Congrats on the milestone, y’all. Thanks for everything.

sews-over-hoes

Not much to add to this except that @dropouttv has genuinely made us a happier family that laughs and plays more. Love you guys so much, keep doing the thing!!!

loosethreadstitchery

A tree for all seasons.

Pattern here.

#blackwork #embroidery

loosethreadstitchery

How many times can I stitch variations on colour wheels? At least a few more, anyway. My own design.

This is the second piece I've done that blends contrasting colours in blackwork, and I'm learning to trust the process. In both cases, it looked horribly messy while I was stitching, but then when it was finished and I could step back to look at it, I could finally see the gradient effect I was going for.

#holy shit #embroidery

dashingprince

Hello white mutuals. Before you is a charcuterie board with 15 different types of cheese. If you manage to go 12 hours without touching the cheeses you can leave this room. Good luck.

fuckysuckybrigade

I was eating off this cool cheese plate while you were talking can you repeat that pls

sews-over-hoes

Idk if this makes me more white in my whiteness but after a few hours that cheese is gonna start getting all soft and weepy so if I can hold out long enough until the cheese gets to the point where I don’t want to eat it anymore, I might be good. Unless there’s smoked Gouda or rosemary asiago, in which case, please disregard my bravado.

palant1r

"this work is problematic because of how it handles [subject]": reasonable premise for media criticism

"this work is problematic because it depicts [subject]": do not pass go do not collect $200 this is, as a general rule, a functionally reactionary and conservative argument

cantotallyeven

I think even more importantly:

"this work is problematic and you should be critical of the viewpoints it presents while engaging with it": reasonable premise for media criticism

"this work is problematic therefore everyone who engages with it is evil": do not pass go do not collect $200 this is, as a general rule, a functionally reactionary and conservative argument

doyouknowwhatimeme

sunshine-tattoo

Fun fact! Having a job every day is actually a fairly new thing.

In olden times, people had daily chores and other things to do but their workload/ daily working hours was actually much lower than it is today. Even in farming communities.

The concept of working super hard every day actually comes from capitalism, which in turn comes from Puritanical ideology.

The Puritans believed in salvation through work and in no play.

Early capitalists adopted this ideology because it meant higher productivity and therefore more money if their factories were running near constantly.

The idea of needing to be continuously productive in order to be useful/ allowed things like food and shelter, is actually quite an insidious ideal that is deeply rooted in the American culture.

4 day work weeks have actually proven to be more productive than the 5 day week. But corporations won't adopt it willingly because it means less of a stranglehold on their workers.

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systlin

So my sister wants to start sewing more, because

a. She’s 5′ 11″ and can never find pants long enough for her legs or shirts long enough for her arms.

b. She hates synthetic fibers as much as I do and it’s difficult to find natural fiber clothes that aren’t made of cotton

c. She’s a biologist and would physically fistfight microplastics if given half a chance

So her gift from mom and dad for her birthday was a sewing machine. Not a super expensive one but a good solid serviceable one.

And recently she asked “So where do I GET wool or linen and thread that isn’t polyester” and mom was like ‘go ask your sister’

And I, of course, crashed into the group text like “GET A PEN I HAVE WEBSITES FOR U” and honestly I’m thrilled about this

systlin

“Where did u get all this”

“Bets, u know I’m a 15th degree blackbelt of buying shit on the internet”

“oh yeah tru”

hermesmuse

Op can may we inquire about the website list

systlin

Linen; https://www.graylinelinen.com/

cotton and Silk thread; https://redrockthreads.com/

Linen thread and wool fabric; https://burnleyandtrowbridge.com/ (they’ve got wool stuffs and worsted wool fabric for $15 a yard! I just got three yards of navy worsted wool I’m making a constellation winter skirt from)

More linen thread and wool; https://wmboothdraper.com/ (just ordered wool broadcloth to make a coat)

Silk fabric (THE best place to get silk lining fabrics and raw silk fabric):https://www.dharmatrading.com/

A varying assortment of wool and silk and cotton and even some leather, use coupon code spring2020 for 50% off your full order, worked yesterday when I bought some stuff there; https://metrotextilesnyc.com/

Wool. You want wool coating for under $20 a yard? Sure you do. It’s here. Not a huge variety of colors, most are black or brown, but hey https://www.fashionfabricsclub.com/Catalog?refinementIds=4096748&Keyword=wool&pageSize=16

wingedtyger

I don’t know a lot about sewing, but I want to make or have my mom make some linen pants & shirts for when I’m watering, because it gets to 105 here and we have mosquitos so I need to be covered. What type of linen do I buy? Also, linen pajama shorts, yes/no?

(I’ve been wearing my renfaire pants which are a linen mix, I think. But the frikking mosquitos that hide in the tomatoes get my arms)

systlin

Medium weight is what I’d go with.

And linen pajama shorts is a HARD yes.

beggars-opera

Renaissance Fabrics is good for all sorts of things

Mood doesn’t specialize in natural fabrics but they do have basically every fabric ever made so

withbroombefore

Dorr Mill Store has a great selection of wool fabric in all sorts of colors and patterns.

creations-by-chaosfay

Reblogging here because excellent references.

hes-a-plant

This is so cool! I think I’ve reblogged this before but I don’t care

#linen #cotton #natural fibres #sewing #resources

escuerzoresucitado

zmeyel

Though it can seem daunting, a range of noted thinkers from Karl Marx to Ice T agree that in such scenarios it is necessary to hold your friend to account for their misdeeds. Both for their own sake and for society writ large.

sews-over-hoes

@i-fucked-your-milkshake maybe this is a stretch but I feel like this is relevant to earlier conversations. Same ballpark anyway.

maykitz

remember how utterly inescapable how i met your mother used to be with the memes and references and barney and bro code and wait for it... and then the finale was so hated it vanished overnight

mozilla-firefucks

The finale so successfully erased the show from public consciousness, that when people tried to come up with a name for the "extremely popular show with finale so bad that people just immediately stop talking about it" phenomenon, people called it... the Game of Thrones Effect. HIMYM got memoryholed so hard that people forgot it even existed

#loved it for a while #stopped watching when Barney and Robin got together #so glad I did

manfrommars2049

Agrihood in Detroit via solarpunk

#solarpunk #gardening

overfalls

IT’S NOT ‘PEEKED’ MY INTEREST

OR ‘PEAKED’

BUT PIQUED

‘PIQUED MY INTEREST’

THIS HAS BEEN A CAPSLOCK PSA

owlbearcounter

THIS IS ACTUALLY REALLY USEFUL THANK YOU

ranetree

ADDITIONALLY:

YOU ARE NOT ‘PHASED’. YOU ARE ‘FAZED.’

IF IT HAS BEEN A VERY LONG DAY, YOU ARE ‘WEARY’. IF SOMEONE IS ACTING IN A WAY THAT MAKES YOU SUSPICIOUS, YOU ARE ‘WARY’.

ALL IN ‘DUE’ TIME, NOT ‘DO’ TIME

‘PER SE’ NOT ‘PER SAY’

THANK YOU

tassiekitty

BREATHE - THE VERB FORM IN PRESENT TENSE

BREATH - THE NOUN FORM

THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE

WANDER - TO WALK ABOUT AIMLESSLY

WONDER - TO THINK OF IN A DREAMLIKE AND/OR WISTFUL MANNER

THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE (but one’s mind can wander)

fairywails

DEFIANT - RESISTANT DEFINITE - CERTAIN

melancholicmarionette

WANTON - DELIBERATE AND UNPROVOKED ACTION (ALSO AN ARCHAIC TERM FOR A PROMISCUOUS WOMAN)

WONTON - IT’S A DUMPLING THAT’S ALL IT IS IT’S A FUCKING DUMPLING

proletariatbitch

BAWL- TO SOB/CRY

BALL- A FUCKING BALL

YOU CANNOT “BALL” YOUR EYES OUT

soggywarmpockets

AND FOR FUCK’S SAKE, IT’S NOT “SIKE”; IT’S “PSYCH”. AS IN “I PSYCHED YOU OUT”; BECAUSE YOU MOMENTARILY MADE SOMEONE BELIEVE SOMETHING THAT WASN’T TRUE.

THANK YOU.