and what are we going to do when the HP series comes out and we start seeing a resurgence of the fandom here including gifsets and fics. like are u guys gonna bring up your neurodivergence and cry "can we separate the art from the artist!!!!! you dont need to pay to watch it!!!!!its my comfort show and I'm DEPRESSED and AUTISTIC"
Reminder that "separating the art from the artist" is a sentiment that only works when the artist is dead and no longer profiting off the work in question.
JKR is still very much alive and very much openly devoted to spending as much of her money on efforts that increase transphobia. You cannot separate this artist from this art, because she is heartily using funds from that art to fund hate groups.
Do not watch it. Do not pirate it. Do not talk about it. Have nothing to do with it whatsoever.
I'm part of a wood carving club and there are a lot of dads who are dripping with adhd/autism vibes who's special interest is wood carving.
One of the master skill level carvers who we'll call... Jim was working on a figure of a super heroine, who was frankly outrageously bodacious.
Several women in the club are uncomfortable with this. They tell me they wish he wouldn't carve stuff like that at the club. This is understandable. I felt a bit uneasy too. I ask if they told him, and they say no.
This goes on for months. He's at a point where he's carving the folds of her skin tight suit. It's shockingly impressive. A real
Giovanni Strazza with wood here. Many of the women in the club, (also boomers) have stopped talking to him because they're offended.
One afternoon I see a woman we'll call Karen approach him and have this conversation
Her: Wow that is really starting to look like actual fabric.
Him: Thanks! It's been a really fun challenge.
Her: I bet! She sure is - a lot- huh?
Him: Yeah a lot of these comic book characters are really outrageously proportioned!
Her: They really are! You know, when I was carving a sign that was political in a way i knew would offend some people here, I just felt so much more comfortable carving it at home.
Him: *nodding*
Her: Okay?
Him: Yeah I get that.
Her: Yeah. Okay. Good luck with her!"
*she walks off and he looks a little confused.*
Next week at the meet up Jims working on it again and Karen's furious. Says to me "He said he wouldn't bring it back! So RUDE."
So I go up to him and we have this conversation.
Me: Hey Jim
Him: Hey Neala
Me: Some of the ladies around here are feeling a little uncomfortable with the figure you're carving because of her massive cartoon titties.
Him: Ah shit, really? I thought they just thought it was funny.
Me: Yeah folks laugh a lot when they're uncomfortable and trying to hide it.
Him: Mm, yeah and I can never tell which laugh is which.
Me: Me either
Him: Well I won't work on this here anymore. I have other projects to do.
Me: Hey thanks! I wanna see it when you're done tho so take a pic for me, okay?
Him: Haha sure!
I go sit down. Karen is shocked. Jim puts the figure away and works on a carving of a crane instead. He is not upset.
A week later I over hear Karen telling her friend I screamed at Jim last week.
Another event at the same club. All names fake. Even mine but u only know me by the fake name so
A carver who does a lot of work for the group comes in with a stunning leather bag. When I say a lot of work for the group, I mean a LOT a lot. He plans out monthly projects, makes the blanks for them and shows the rest of the club how to do the carvings. Lets call him Harold.
So I'm gushing over the bags, and so are a few others. He tells us he made these bags himself and that he's really gotten into leather working over the last year. Jim is complementary of the bags, and teasingly says "Woodcarving and now Leather? You know what they say? Jack of all trades, Master of none!"
Now this quote takes on a different meaning coming from someone who is literally a master skill level carver ways it to someone who is not. But he says it in a jokey way. Clearly meant to playfully rib. Thing is, I see the tightness in Harolds eyes when Jim says this. Having Adhd myself, I also hobby hop a lot and know how it feels to be teased about it. Maybe I was projecting as i flashed back to every time someone had told me to "Just stick with" something.
I say, "Go on Jim, finnish the poem!" In a playful way. Jim laughs and shrugs and says he didn't know there was more. I quote the whole thing, "Jack of all trades master of none but still always better than a master of one." Everyone laughs in a good-natured way, Harold visibly relaxes.
Later, Jim tells me i hurt his feelings. He says it felt like i was belittling him for only being good at one thing. I apologize and explain that he had inadvertently hurt my feelings and that I suspected he had hurt Harold's because it felt like he was saying we weren't good at anything because we have multiple hobbies.
He apologized and said he was feeling a little jealous that Harold is good at so many things, and all he's good at is woodcarving. He also went on to say that if Harold entered any of his carvings into any competitions, he would probably have the same rank as him. Harold just didn't do competitions.
At this point Harold overheard and thanked Jim for what he had said, and told him that he didn't enter competitions because as soon as he started doing that with the goal of achieving a certain rank the hobby stopped being fun for him and he no longer wanted to do it and internally I was like "Ahhh i also have pathologic demand avoidance! Me too."
And everything is fine now.
Nature documentary voice "Here we see the interaction between the autistic adult, who has had one special interest that has lasted his whole life, and some Adhd adults, who have collected many special interests over their lives. They are accidentally hurting one anothers feelings about it."
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hey sorry not to be an asshole but I saw someone say that a sports team posting about pride month was "pandering" and I need you to log off and touch grass because now more than EVER it's important that large institutions (and especially those that could easily be right wing like sports teams) show the fuck up for queer and trans people. especially trans people. so no it is not "pandering" to take a stand for a marginalized group of people that are currently under attack for trying to play sports. be so fucking for real
"But big corporations, including sports marketing departments are not on our side."
They're not actively helping our communities. They're pandering.
FUCKING LET THEM PANDER.
They are declaring, publicly, that they want our dollars and our participation. That they want us to cheer for them.
THAT OUR INTEREST AND ATTENTION ARE VALUABLE TO THEM.
They are not actively fighting for our legal rights. They are not working to remove obstacles from our social communities. They are not directly supportive of inclusive education.
They don't need to be. If they're waving a rainbow flag, they're saying that we are part of the audience they want.
I cannot tell you how hard it has been to get that measure of support. They acknowledge that we exist, and that our existence is good.
Doesn't matter that the "good" of our existence is limited to "they have dollars." They're corporate interests. Dollars is what they care about. The fact that they want our dollars specifically - and are willing to say so in a way that they know will lose them other dollars - is important.
Celebrate the wins that we get.
If nothing else - they're a useful way to tell how much mainstream public interest and support we have. "Rainbow capitalism" isn't corporate activism; it's a measure of progress made.
When I say the transmisogyny affected/transmisogyny exempt thing is binaristic, I really do mean that literally: there are two options, so it's necessarily a binary. You could say that's a pointless observation, trivially obvious with no value beyond semantics, but there is a reason I bring it up.
Consider the following set of characters:
Cis woman with a beard
Drag queen
Butch transfem who doesn't shave her face
Genderfluid person whose gender presentation and conception of gender varies from day to day
NB who isn't really fem but isn't really masc either
Cis guy who always wears a skirt
Intersex NB
Transfem who goes by he/him
Someone who refuses to give pronouns entirely and exclusively identifies as a "faggot"
Which of these people are TMA, and which are TME? You could invent an arbitrary grouping that would sort them into one box or the other, but it would be just that-- arbitrary. Each of these characters will have such a different experience of gender and their gender will be percieved so differently that to try and sort them into a mere two categories is just plainly absurd. Even two people who are both in the same dot point here will have wildly divergent experiences with transmisogyny!! No matter how you arrange it, the terms TME and TMA will miss so many nuances of each person's experience that they fail to have any explanatory power at all. Zero utility in actually telling you anything about these people and their lives.
And this is why I use "binaristic" specifically as a criticism. The world is not binary! Nothing on this Earth is so simple as to have only two possible designations that can adequately describe them. Trying to cram human beings into neat categories always ends up flattening down people's lived experiences into easily digestible narratives instead of actually working to describe the world accurately. To quote that one post, "nice dichotomy idiot, what lies outside it?"
@lumsel on the (fairly realistic) chance that you didn't already know: Even binary isn't that binary - bits being 1 or 0 is an abstraction over a significantly more complex reality, and if you do EE work to actually design chips, you'll find that the VHDL spec for the std_logic type (think: boolean) has 9 different values for what higher levels just think of as "true/false" (And even that is still a simplification of the actual switching characteristics of the underlying physical circuit instantiated in reality.)
And it's not like simplifying assumptions are never useful or valid, but it drives me up the wall when people insist they're dealing with platonic base reality and you can see the layers and layers of assumptions they're ignorantly or willfully blind to.
"Does this matter at all?" Well mainly I wanted @lumsel to have this post to refer back to in case some chucklefuck pushed back on "nothing on this Earth is so simple as to have only two possible designations" with "haha what about binary."
IEEE 1164 std_logic values:
ā1ā Logic 1
ā0ā Logic 0
āZā High impedance
āWā Weak signal, canāt tell if 0 or 1
āLā Weak 0, pulldown
āHā Weak 1, pullup
ā-ā Donāt care
āUā Uninitialized
āXā Unknown, multiple drivers
Which approximately translate into
true
false
whatever you want (effectively: this pin is disconnected right now, so nobody will disagree with it)
If 0V is false and 5V is true, some bitch set this wire to 2.5V
defaults to false when not actively forced to true
defaults to true when not actively forced to false
Fuck off
Fuck off
Like Z but opposite - the pin isn't disconnected, and it's disagreeing with whatever it's connected to
I guess I just donāt get the situation at all, why get so granular with it? Misogyny is cruelty based on your nearness to being a woman.
I guess the issue is probably terfs, that has to be it, why else would this be necessary? You for sure donāt have to ābe a womanā to be treated that way, but a terfs founding thought is something similar to āa man canāt experience misogynyā and therefore blah blah blah. So we have to have the term transmisogyny, and then we have to call it affected or exempt, to try and wiggle thru the cracks of our distastefully unempathetic society.
A terf is someone who thinks her suffering is for her alone and only those that look and act like her, a petty cruel person who wants to take her suffering out on others. To put herself on a pedestal of martyrdom, selfishly making every narrative about herself.
Women: being a terf is the same as being an incel. And both start with slightly toxic internal thoughts that you donāt interrogate, and then a little while later youāre a piece of human garbage.
Iām certainly missing facets of this situation, I am a cis woman. But it really set off this rant, so Iām gonna post it anyway because I stand by every word about terfs.
So what happened was that a group of people started going "trans men have male privilege, and cis women have cis privilege, placing transmisogyny as the largest unique oppressive axis since it oppresses you on both sides. This means we can categorize people into a binary for whether or not they're affected by it, effectively sorting them into whether they're transfem or not." And everyone knows nonbinary people are actually secretly binary ofc
It is effectively a trans version of radfem thinking, and it's spiralled into a truly toxic discourse, where you've started to get a small but loud subgroup of trans women going so far as to say "trans men are men, which means they have all the privileges of men, and feminism should treat them as such" and you can imagine how it goes from there.
Wait, this is trans women saying this?!? About trans men?!? I guess that makes sense, itās all about how horrible misogyny is, and saying trans men are exempt is the same as cis women saying trans women arenāt ārealā women because they didnāt grow up with misogyny.
Well, my opinion of humanity remains largely unchanged. š¤·š»āāļø I guess I still have to go grocery shopping, slightly more informed and depressed.
When I say the transmisogyny affected/transmisogyny exempt thing is binaristic, I really do mean that literally: there are two options, so it's necessarily a binary. You could say that's a pointless observation, trivially obvious with no value beyond semantics, but there is a reason I bring it up.
Consider the following set of characters:
Cis woman with a beard
Drag queen
Butch transfem who doesn't shave her face
Genderfluid person whose gender presentation and conception of gender varies from day to day
NB who isn't really fem but isn't really masc either
Cis guy who always wears a skirt
Intersex NB
Transfem who goes by he/him
Someone who refuses to give pronouns entirely and exclusively identifies as a "faggot"
Which of these people are TMA, and which are TME? You could invent an arbitrary grouping that would sort them into one box or the other, but it would be just that-- arbitrary. Each of these characters will have such a different experience of gender and their gender will be percieved so differently that to try and sort them into a mere two categories is just plainly absurd. Even two people who are both in the same dot point here will have wildly divergent experiences with transmisogyny!! No matter how you arrange it, the terms TME and TMA will miss so many nuances of each person's experience that they fail to have any explanatory power at all. Zero utility in actually telling you anything about these people and their lives.
And this is why I use "binaristic" specifically as a criticism. The world is not binary! Nothing on this Earth is so simple as to have only two possible designations that can adequately describe them. Trying to cram human beings into neat categories always ends up flattening down people's lived experiences into easily digestible narratives instead of actually working to describe the world accurately. To quote that one post, "nice dichotomy idiot, what lies outside it?"
@lumsel on the (fairly realistic) chance that you didn't already know: Even binary isn't that binary - bits being 1 or 0 is an abstraction over a significantly more complex reality, and if you do EE work to actually design chips, you'll find that the VHDL spec for the std_logic type (think: boolean) has 9 different values for what higher levels just think of as "true/false" (And even that is still a simplification of the actual switching characteristics of the underlying physical circuit instantiated in reality.)
And it's not like simplifying assumptions are never useful or valid, but it drives me up the wall when people insist they're dealing with platonic base reality and you can see the layers and layers of assumptions they're ignorantly or willfully blind to.
"Does this matter at all?" Well mainly I wanted @lumsel to have this post to refer back to in case some chucklefuck pushed back on "nothing on this Earth is so simple as to have only two possible designations" with "haha what about binary."
IEEE 1164 std_logic values:
ā1ā Logic 1
ā0ā Logic 0
āZā High impedance
āWā Weak signal, canāt tell if 0 or 1
āLā Weak 0, pulldown
āHā Weak 1, pullup
ā-ā Donāt care
āUā Uninitialized
āXā Unknown, multiple drivers
Which approximately translate into
true
false
whatever you want (effectively: this pin is disconnected right now, so nobody will disagree with it)
If 0V is false and 5V is true, some bitch set this wire to 2.5V
defaults to false when not actively forced to true
defaults to true when not actively forced to false
Fuck off
Fuck off
Like Z but opposite - the pin isn't disconnected, and it's disagreeing with whatever it's connected to
I guess I just donāt get the situation at all, why get so granular with it? Misogyny is cruelty based on your nearness to being a woman.
I guess the issue is probably terfs, that has to be it, why else would this be necessary? You for sure donāt have to ābe a womanā to be treated that way, but a terfs founding thought is something similar to āa man canāt experience misogynyā and therefore blah blah blah. So we have to have the term transmisogyny, and then we have to call it affected or exempt, to try and wiggle thru the cracks of our distastefully unempathetic society.
A terf is someone who thinks her suffering is for her alone and only those that look and act like her, a petty cruel person who wants to take her suffering out on others. To put herself on a pedestal of martyrdom, selfishly making every narrative about herself.
Women: being a terf is the same as being an incel. And both start with slightly toxic internal thoughts that you donāt interrogate, and then a little while later youāre a piece of human garbage.
Iām certainly missing facets of this situation, I am a cis woman. But it really set off this rant, so Iām gonna post it anyway because I stand by every word about terfs.
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I was right with you up until that last point, bro. You just had to ruin it. Classic twitter.
Framing pseudoscience as a harmless fun pastime for the girlies is condescending in itself, as is the assumption that all women are into it. We aren't going to win the fight against the kind of misinformation cranks like Joe Rogan and Andrew Tate spew if we make exceptions for the flavors of bullshit marketed at the girls, gays and theys. Judging people based on astrology is intellectually no different from beta/sigma/whatever, and it's not curmudgeonly to point that out. Many women and queer people resent the assumption that they're expected to like it, or can't make new friends without knowing their fucking star chart.
Pseudoscience of any kind has no place in a progressive society, no matter what girlboss pussy slay rainbow packaging you dress it up in. Values are meaningless if they aren't consistent.
i mean like... yeah but, so is religion? so is believing in ghosts, or souls, or luck, or fate? i might express i don't agree, but i'm only going to strongly insist against someone's belief if it is actively harmful.
The way they handled Siuanās death was a shocking, thrilling, and engaging end to a great fucking season.
I love what theyāre doing with the show, good and bad changes alike. They have been more than clear that this is a different turning of the wheel, so bullshit exclamations about āthatās not what happened in the booksā are uninformed and unimaginative.
Siuanās death was completely shocking, I stood up and shouted at the tv. But weāre watching a woman who fought, by herself, for the last 10 years to lead the tower in a direction while black ajah worked in the background to undermine her.
And her speech shook Elaida to her core, I absolutely loved the look on Elaidaās face during her speech, fear, maybe recognition thatās sheās wrong, that speech is going to eat Elaida inside out, and I can see the direct connection from that to her unraveling that we distantly saw in the books.
And Alviarinā¦? Sheās positioned to be even more scary than Liandrin in the next season, all of the black Ajah evil with no emotional baggage, sheās got the potential to do even more scary shit.
Siuan wasnāt fridged, it wasnāt kill your gays, and this show has seen several characters literally pulled apart from the inside out, so the decapitation was up there for violence, but certainly not the worst weāve seen out of this show.
I dearly hope we get a season 4 so we can see what the consequences are for all of this.
Oh! Letās touch on what happened with Moiraine. Book spoilers: she was actually supposed to die in her fight with Lanfear, and so they changed it. Different turning of the wheel. In the books Moiraine isnāt the main character, but she is in the show, fully sheās the main character if you ask me. And that they gave her and Siuan a relationship is amazing, I love it. But donāt take away Siuanās agency just because Moiraine reacted to her wifeās death, thatās insane.
It's actually incredibly frustrating to me that I see so many people insisting that Siuan's death only happened, and only happened like THAT, for shock value and for Moiraine's angst. I do get that coming from people who aren't familiar with the things that happen in the books, especially since Moiraine and her reactions to it were focused on (which, it would be weird if it wasn't?), but I see people who I feel should definitely be picking up on some specific things about that scene that they didn't.
And let me just get out of the way, that I'm not trying to argue with people's feelings and opinions. I have no desire to make you like something you didn't. I have no desire to change people's mind. If you want to never watch the show again because of this, that's for you to decide. I don't want to change anyone's mind unless they want me to change their mind, and honestly, this isn't even me trying to make people ok with this. I'm not ok with this, if I'm being honest, but I am pretty sure I see what's happening, and I want to see it fulfilled. Like I have no interest in convincing anyone this is ok from a racial standpoint, from a queer standpoint, from a character standpoint or anything. This post isn't about that. This post is about explaining what I see this all being about only, because I've seen no discussion on this at all.
This post will immediately contain major book spoilers under the cut, so if you don't want to know, stop where you are now.
But Siuan's death being like that wasn't about Moiraine or shock. It was about setting up what's to come.
Egwene al'Vere, the Watcher of the Seals, the Flame of Tar Valon, the Amyrlin Seat.
And to say that, I don't necessarily mean its about Egwene, no. It's about Siuan. It's about how Siuan is going to stay there, haunting everyone even after she's gone because they're going to see her ghost in every single thing Egwene does the second the rebel Aes Sedai declare her Amyrlin.
Look at the first thing Siuan does whenever she's faced with Elaida after being stilled and beaten. She gets to her feet and stares down Elaida. Siuan looks absolutely wrecked while Elaida is put together, clean, regal to the point of gaudiness in her Amyrlin dress, trying so hard to put her newfound authority on display only to be immediately defied by the person in a shift that she tried to beat into submission and break.
Siuan gets up, looks her in the eye, and gives her speech (which I will get into in a moment) which is not just for Elaida to listen to but for every other Aes Sedai in the room and all of the ones that will hear about what happened here after. She is openly defiant to Elaida and proclaiming herself for the Light to her last, no matter what they have obviously physically done to her to make her change her story or grovel or beg. She is trying to get them to stop the path they are going on before its too late, and it seems like they don't listen because nothing is done to change what would happen. Nothing is done to stop her execution.
But you know they were all listening. You can see that Elaida is visibly shaken by this, but you also know that Elaida won't do anything to change her ways. Every other Aes Sedai in the room though? At least the ones that aren't darkfriends? They will remember this, and they will have a long time to sit and see everything Siuan Sanche just warned of coming true because they did nothing to stop Elaida's coup. Because they let this woman who only loved power use the weakest interpretations of the law to get rid of her predecessor and see that it only led to more and more chaos within the tower and without. There is going to be more Aes Sedai deaths. More Aes Sedai infighting. More death and destruction outside of the tower because of the Aes Sedai not intervening or choosing to intervene in the ways Elaida dictates.
They are going to have years to see this (because tv shows extend the timeline) and they are going to have years to waste away in their regret and pity as the shadow takes further hold of the tower and they can see nothing but threats surrounding them.
And then what will happen?
A young woman who proclaims to be Amyrlin will be captured by Elaida and brought to task. A woman that Elaida will try to break and make submit.
But this young woman is the same person who upon being beaten and dragged into cells by the Seanchan immediately stood up against her captor and defied her the second she was able to do so. This is the woman who promised death upon said captor even when she appeared at her lowest and most broken. This is the woman who has fought the Shadow and the Forsaken personally, who we will see stand up to Elaida, look her in the eyes, and defy her in exactly the same way that Siuan Sanche did all of those years ago. And by now the Aes Sedai will see that Siuan Sanche was right and her ghost is here to remind them of that.
Now let's look at Siuan's speech. I'm not gonna go line for line in the entire thing, but let's look at the content. First thing she says is that she loves Moiraine, which I think is where a lot of the claims for the "this is about Moiraine angst" comes from. But what does she do immediately after saying that she loved Moiraine, that she would die for Moiraine? She rats Moiraine out. She tells them everything that she and Moiraine had been doing, implicating Moiraine in a crime that up until this point they only could speculate that she was involved in. And she does this, because its how she needs to get the Hall to listen. To understand that they have been working for the light, that they have been working to find the Dragon and make him ready and all that they have been doing is to fight for the light, and all that the Hall should be doing is fight for the light.
She would die for Moiraine, but she will and has also given up Moiraine the second it looks like that is what the Light needs.
And then we have Egwene who loves Rand. Sans Lanfear's interference, I don't think Egwene would have been ready to give up Rand on her own yet if that's what she needed to do. But do you know when she did? In the arches. We see a future where she will be able to do exactly that and its the same future where she is the Amyrlin Seat.
Siuan explains the visions. Siuan tells them that their power doesn't come from tower, from the Seat. It comes from them and their actions and that the light shines through them by these actions. She more or less tells the Aes Sedai sitting there to leave the Tower, to disobey Elaida, the Amyrlin Seat. She tells Elaida to her face that she defies her.
I wonder who else might have such feelings about where Aes Sedai loyalties should be and would be willing to say as much to the Amyrlin Seat herself in front of other Aes Sedai. Who else would recognize the state of the Tower and be able to verbally acknowledge it while Aes Sedai are scared to whisper it.
The parallels to what Siuan and Egwene are doing/will later do have been there the entire time. We can see them the entire time.
When Egwene becomes Amyrlin and is taken prisoner by Elaida, she will be there with all of the context Siuan has laid down in her final scene. She will be there defying Elaida exactly as Siuan did and said to do, and just like Siuan we know she cannot be broken. We have seen that she cannot be broken. She is the physical manifestation of Siuan's final prophecy that she cannot burn. She is water itself. The daughter of the river, and let us not forget the very first time we see Egwene al'Vere of the Two Rivers.
āSiuan was fridged for Moiraine!ā Mm no. You donāt get an epic death scene voiceover speech that guides the whole narrative if youāre being fridged. You donāt get the conclusion of your own narrative arc that has been prophesizing your downfall from s1. Also hereās an alternative: what if Siuanās last act on this earth, after she publicly declared her love for Moiraine, was to give the love of her life the strength she needed to live and defeat the Dark. Without even knowing it. By standing for the Light, for the Aes Sedai and her oaths, Siuan saved Moiraine. What if you gave her that agency back that she fought so hard to keep as she made the ultimate sacrifice? And you bet your ass if she had to do it again she would.
The book series (which I love and have read and read and read again) is disgustingly misogynistic. Her remaining storyline had some highlights, but sheās essentially given away as fucking property.
Not only is the current actress better than that, I purpose to all the people saying ārecast her so someone else can do itā that sucks. This tv show is doing narrative backfilps to eradicate the truly abhorrent misogyny in the source material and doing it so fucking well.
An amazing, moving, devastating and worthy end to an amazing actressās performance.
āSiuan was fridged for Moiraine!ā Mm no. You donāt get an epic death scene voiceover speech that guides the whole narrative if youāre being fridged. You donāt get the conclusion of your own narrative arc that has been prophesizing your downfall from s1. Also hereās an alternative: what if Siuanās last act on this earth, after she publicly declared her love for Moiraine, was to give the love of her life the strength she needed to live and defeat the Dark. Without even knowing it. By standing for the Light, for the Aes Sedai and her oaths, Siuan saved Moiraine. What if you gave her that agency back that she fought so hard to keep as she made the ultimate sacrifice? And you bet your ass if she had to do it again she would.
I feel like I did more for binderary today than at any one point of Feb š
I was in the zone yesterday and today tho, burned thru sewing, gluing, trimming, sanding, painting edges and making the cases! Tomorrow Iām going to get all the htv cut and weeded (which is sooo tedious). And then itāll be time to case in, possibly mailing them out this week š¤
