i am wild

zoe's musicals side blog

[weaponizedducks]

do you think george blagden knows he broke an entire fandom. does he even know what he is to us

[euphraisette]

Èponine: Of all the girls he had to fall for, it had to be her. Little Miss Perfect. Stupid Cosette with her soft skin and her silky hair and her perfect teeth and her mesmerizing deep brown eyes and the way her nose scrunches up when she laughs

Azelma: Uh... Ponine?

Èponine: [sighing] I hate her so much right now I think I'm going to throw up

BEHHWHSHE LITERALLLLYYYYYYYY

[nasnyys]

🌷💕 cosette! now i remember! cosette! how can it be? 🌷💕

[coolthingoftheday]

A poodle clipped and dyed to resemble a pony.

[0kkvlt]

Every time I see this I go “oh, neat pony” and scroll past while my brain chugs through the caption like the slowest computer on earth and I have to scroll back up to it

[images-that-are-only-cursed]

[unclefather]

[all-hail-the-rx-ft500]

banger tweet from mr. goats this afternoon

[unseelie]

someone lost this at my work 🤨

[daglout]

[hadleyfrasergender]

no offense but if heaven and hell decide that they both are satisfied illuminate the ‘no’s on their vacancy signs if there’s no one beside you when your soul embarks i will follow you into the dark in revolutionary school vicious as m

[enjolrasbottoms]

will never shut up abt how crazy the ending of les mis (musical) is. it ends on a call to action!!!!!! its detrimental to the message of the musical!!!! think about how profound it is - you sit and watch so many innocent, hopeful, undeserving people die for two and a half hours, and then at the end they come back and tell you to keep fighting. you would think the message, after watching everyone die, would be some lame shit like “violence is never the answer” or something, but its not!!! it says “you have just watched innocent people die fighting for justice and freedom. the fight is hard and you may not see the fruits of it in your lifetime. but that is irrelevant - knowing the hardships that come with it, knowing the fight is never over, will you continue the fight? when the revolution comes knocking, what will you do?” and you can say that its uninspiring because of just how much tragedy is in it, you can argue that they ‘died for nothing,’ but at the end of the day, you’re watching this musical with the comforting knowledge that things have changed since then, and thats hope!!! the hope is knowing that as long as there are people opposed to the injustice in the world, things will continually get better even if you dont live to see it. and, furthermore, that the modest life you live now isnt any less meaningful just because you dont get to see the of your effort - as long as you were kind and loving, your life has meaning. its!!! so !!! crazy!!!! im not saying its not a flawed musical, but its one of the few pieces of media about revolution/rebellion that emphasizes its struggles without dismissing it as unnecessary. it would be so easy to have written about the february revolution (which hugo lived through and could have written about) and had a happier story about a succesful revolution - or even a story about the first french revolution - but hugo sepcifically chose not to do that. he chose the 1832 rebellion because, among other reasons, he wanted to emphasize that the fight for freedom is not always linear. and the musical reminds you of this, and encourages you to fight anyway. 

[droptheguillotineplease]

Ahhhh my drawings are so inconsistent;( oh well give it up for my printer scanner!!

[hadleyfrasergender]

no offense but if heaven and hell decide that they both are satisfied illuminate the ‘no’s on their vacancy signs if there’s no one beside you when your soul embarks i will follow you into the dark in revolutionary school vicious as m

[ginkovskij]

my blorbeaux from the barricades

[riverselkiesing]

" How's it go again? "

a little Enjoltaire comic, using lyrics from AJR's "Sober Up" .

[meme-conservation]

i havent seen many my beloved heart locket gif memes lately, how are they doing conservation-wise?

Heart Locket

Conservation status: Endangered

Classification: non-native, non-invasive

The Heart Locket was once a ubiquitous meme on tumblr dashes. For a while, it was nearly impossible to scroll without seeing one or two. However, habitat loss has dramatically impacted the wild population of Heart Lockets and the species may never recover on its own.

The life cycle of the Heart Locket does give us a possible source of hope. Experts have noted that the Heart Locket readily engages in symbiosis with other memes--the interior of the locket can be anything, so a post uniting it with another meme can rely on either meme's reproductive cycle. If the Heart Locket were to symbiotically interact with a series of current popular memes, the endangered meme could be saved.

For example:

[lavenderprose]

Today I found out that yarners think crocheting socks is subversive and controversial and I just…on one hand, why the fuck not, I guess yarners are allowed to have their controversies, but on the other, how much time do you have in your FUCKIN DAY??

[lazulisong]

My main concern is how they would feel but Maggie u know yarn fandom gotta think about something while knitting five miles of stockingnette for a sweater

[arinrowan]

Look, you can’t just leave it at that, why is it subversive and controversial? *gets popcorn*

[snipertrifle]

I mean, I’m taking this on good faith, and I’m not saying this is my own personal belief.  I believe in all crafts. 

But…the structure of the stitches and the resulting fabric is pretty different between crochet and knitting.  You get different effects between them, which lends themselves to different crafts.  And none of the effects of (most) crochet stitches lend themselves naturally to socks.  You’re (usually) going to end up with something either stiff and bulky, or full of holes that will Not Feel Good to walk on. Whereas knitted socks will just…BE elastic and comfortable.

Sure you CAN do it.  And there are people and patterns that do it well!!

But MOST crochet socks are a bit like calling this a bicycle

I mean… Okay?  But people are going to Talk.

But this is BABY controversy, this is nothing.  You haven’t even touched on the good shit like RHSS or that time the Olympic Committee dissed us.

[arinrowan]

Iiiinteresting. So one of those “just because you CAN doesn’t mean you SHOULD” things.

Also I know very little about the yarn fandom except for that bit where a woman had to fake her death and had a nervous breakdown over selling homespun/dyed yarn so like, I already have big expectations.

[snipertrifle]

Was that the one that “died” of leukemia or the one that “died” of lupus, or the one that overdosed?

[arinrowan]

From what I know of the narrative as it was described to me, I want to say the one that overdosed, but I am intrigued and vaguely concerned that there are multiple distinct individuals the above situation could apply to.

[kimmywithay]

hey umm, what the fuck

[destroyroxy]

the fake deaths thing: indie yarn dyer gets popular, gets overwhelmed by orders, can’t refund money because of shitty bookkeeping, decides faking online death is the only way out.

i’m sure some of them are unintentional rather than premeditated scammers but they’re all still thieving assholes who shouldn’t be running businesses and need to give all the money back.

the olympics commitee: ravelry, well-known knitting (fiber arts in general) site, held a contest they called the ‘ravelympics’ to drum up olympic support then get a cease-and-desist letter for copyright infringement, and the letter said that calling it that ‘denigrates the true nature of the Olympic Games’ and was ‘disrespectful to our country’s finest athletes’

except, you know, ravelry had like 2 million users who all, by nature of ravelry being a website, have basic tech literacy. the social media backlash was so bad that the olympics board had to make 2 official apologies because the first wasn’t good enough.

RHSS: Red Heart Super Saver is cheap Walmart-level yarn. some people hate it because it used to be just really fucking awful and they haven’t bothered updating their opinions. some people hate it because they hate non-natural yarns. some people hate it because they’re yarn snobs(which, btw, comes in two flavors: the disdainful assholes and the people who just don’t see the point if you have the money and don’t indulge yourself). a lot of people defend it because it’s cheap and widely locally available and honestly not that bad after a wash and some fabric softener.

crocheted socks: exactly what kaitoukitty said. people who crochet socks tend to either be new crocheters who are not aware crochet is not the best medium for socks or experienced crocheters who are pushing the boundaries of the medium.

babies on fire: i can’t believe we’re talking about yarncraft controversies and no one mentioned babies on fire. that’s my favorite controversy.

so when deciding what material to make baby blankets out of, in addition to considerations like softness, ease of washing, and allergy concerns quite a lot of people like to consider what would happen to the baby if the blanket was set on fire. yes, really.

wool has the problem of hand-wash only blankets for a new mother (superwash wool exists but that’s a whole ‘nother paragraph), allergy concerns, and also real fucking expensive if you want quality not-itchy-on-baby-skin wool. but pro-wool-blanket people insist that because wool actually resists being set on fire pretty well and also can self-extinguish, it’s the only sensible choice.

acrylic on the other hand is cheap and you can throw it in the washing machine, and while bad quality acrylics might be stiff and plastic-y they’re not itchy, but if it gets set on fire it will melt onto the baby’s skin. pro-acrylic people insist that if your blanket is on fire, you probably have bigger problems than what the blanket is made of.

[kimmywithay]

wow I didn’t expect such a detailed response. thank you!

[gallusrostromegalus]

Fiber Arts Just Be Fucking Like That.

[actualaster]

what hte FUCK

[themintycupcake]

A couple more from Ravelry:

It became the first website to ban pro-Trump content. This occurred after a user reported a pro-Trump pattern maker for I believe hate speech? For some reason Ravelry didn’t have an anonymous reporting feature at the time, so the pattern maker found out and sent followers to harass the user. This caused Ravelry to 1) make the report feature anonymous 2) say “fuck it, you guys are all assholes, Trump supporters are banned now.”

Disney went after a pattern maker on the site and issued a DCMA takedown for a crochet Grogu amigurumi pattern (known as Baby Yoda at the time). This prompted a huge backlash from the users who posted their own modified Baby Yoda patterns en-masse for no other reason than to spite Disney and their lawyers. The entire front page of Ravelry was nothing but Baby Yoda at one point.

If I ask my mother she could probably give me more. These are just what I remember off the top of my head. I don’t knit or crochet (I do cross-stitch and don’t really interact with the wider community) but my mother runs a small yarn dyeing business and has been part of the community on the Internet for a LONG time before that so I get all the juicy details on the drama.

[mornyavie]

It’s worth noting that the founders of Ravelry, Cassidy and Jessica Forbes (both women) are married to each other; and Cassidy is trans.

[princesacocacola]

I had no idea this was the drama I needed on my dash today

[basinke]

It’s nearly Cozy Things Knitted By My Mother season!!!!

[ruffboi-mags]

(via @scoutdoesstuff)

1) Yeah I’m not necessarily the biggest fan of the change but the timing and number of TERFs make it either the TERFs co-opted an existing complaint made by people who liked ravelry but had physical issues with the new site, or it was entirely FABRICATED by TERFs to try to make the founders problematic bc one of them is trans.

2) oooo now I want to try making a slipper in Tunisian crochet because you’re right, it makes a much flatter, knit-like fabric that might be actually quite pleasant!

3) I assume it’s a collective word for both knitters and crotcheters, since both work with yarn but their crafts are quite different. It’s the easiest most intuitive word to refer to both groups at once.

[teddylacroix]

I don’t understand… I grew up in crocheted socks… I mean, they were more like house slippers because we didn’t really wear them inside shoes, but still. What’s wrong with 덧 버선?

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

I love that this looped back after all that to absolve the crocheted socks.

[power-chords]

yurameshi replied to your post “rgr-pop replied to your post “I don’t mean to boast or anything, but…”

once had friends mercilessly fail three attempts at making me a birthday cake before realizing they’d been using diatomaceous earth in lieu of flour the whole time

I gasped with greater intensity than I ever have in my life

[authorityissues]

dirt cake with dirt jar pictured in background

[power-chords]

DUDE

[thesurestthing]

Pineapple upside ground cake