save your sympathy; it's all rotten in the end

[warsfeil]

idk how to aesthetically post fanfics to tumblr but ill have like 8 to post for bottom dazai week so i guess i will un-aesthetically post them here and bsky bc twt is an evil creature

[theprofessional-amateur]

I am reading an interview with a historian that set out to weave the type of textiles that was sold to plantations for use by enslaved people using period appropriate looms.

But because I knew nothing about weaving, everything had to be explained to me, down to the most basic tacit knowledge: things that an eight-year-old girl in 1828 would have known, because when she was not winding yarn around a quill to help her mother, she was working on the family’s loom herself...

The great challenge of our work as scholars—at least, those who are interested in historical reconstruction or the histories of any craft tradition—is that almost none of what we want to know is written down—because it didn’t have to be and it didn’t need to be articulated. So to be in a situation where expert weavers had to talk to me like I was a child was one of the best things that happened to me in the course of my research for this book.

[theprofessional-amateur]

Cloth and Complicity: Seth Rockman on Plantations, Textiles, and the Art of Weaving - Public Books

“But I had found a set of instructions in the archives of one of New England's leading manufacturers of low-end woollen cloth for enslaved w

For my textile, weaving, historic textile, history enthusiasts

The interviewer is also a weaver!

[theprofessional-amateur]

SW: ... That’s really awesome. You’ve taught this class now for two semesters. What have you learned from your students?

SR: Their expertise as makers has clued me into historical experiences most scholars have glossed right over. A 1930s Federal Writers Project interview with a formerly enslaved octogenarian might reference a grandmother’s sewing prowess, but then a student will say, No, you can’t just skim over by that! Do you know how many hand stitches it takes to do the seam of a dress? If you’ve never handsewn a skirt (and I haven’t), you might need to be reminded of the labor involved. One student reproduced a 19th-century skirt as her final project, and it was all about the stitches. Their reading of primary sources picked up on things that I missed.

And this took me in new directions in my own research. You might remember a discussion of sewing labor in the final chapter of Plantation Goods and the implication of a cloth’s width for a woman’s work routine. If you know how to cut the pieces for a shirt from a 32-inch-wide piece of fabric, it is going to mess everything up when you’re given a bolt of 28-inch-wide cloth. I had seen letters from slaveholders in the 1830s and 1840s complaining about the narrowness of the cloth and how enslaved women didn’t “understand” these fabrics. This wasn’t transparent to me as a historian. Only with students talking about the expertise involved in cutting cloth into the components of a garment did I realize what a difference it made when, say, a New England weaver was haphazard and turned out fabric four inches narrower than the usual variety. That error would reverberate in the lives of people 1,000 miles away who might face extreme forms of violence because they couldn’t meet their daily production quotas. Or they might experience other kinds of privation—a lack of rags for postpartum women, for example—because a wider fabric left scraps while a narrower one did not.

[theprofessional-amateur]

The conversation that happens in this relatively short interview about all the processes and choices in textile production (then and now) are really important.

From the arguments made and lengths slave holders went to to acquire the worst wool, to under appreciated labor of textile and clothing production.

[warsfeil]

girl ive really gotta remember to use tumblr more often but honestly im slowly ceasing to use social media at all

its the fascism boss

[bsdflowerzine]

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Dive into his stories, you don’t want to miss them!

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[dorothylarouge]

[fukuranzine]

Author Rei will be contributing a piece to GOOD AS INVINCIBLE! 🤍

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[warsfeil]

hahaha and you all thought my xillia layout was outdated! surprise!! it's coming back for all of you, bitches!!! (and for me also)

see being too lazy to rebrand for over a decade winds up being really useful when those fandoms inevitably become in vogue again.

[duckbunny]

every so often I remember a post on here where Americans in the notes literally would not believe that there was anywhere in the world where sheep was a normal thing to eat.

I just bought a lamb samosa from the coffee van that comes round the office park. it's not an exotic speciality, it's just food. Who taught you that foreign food is imaginary and why do you as an adult believe them?

[venelona]

This is how I envision reunion happening

[loveridden1999]

was death note your first anime

yes

no something else (mention pls)

Voting ended onAug 12, 2025

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

you just teleported to your recent hyperfixation, will you survive?

yes

no

barely

results

Voting ended onAug 17, 2025

[miggylol]

Spin the wheel. That's who's trying to kill you.

Spin the wheel again. That’s who’s trying to protect you.

(If you have zero idea about the name you got, spin until you see someone you recognize.)

Are you safe?

Absolutely not. I'm dead. 100% dead.

I might stay alive, but it'll be a really close thing.

I'll take some hits, for certain, but I should be okay in the end.

A few attacks might get through, but nothing concerning.

The attacker might be able to get in one lucky hit. If that.

I am the opposite of worried. I'm 100% safe.

…Look. I've tried picturing this. But I honestly don't know how to answer.

Voting ended onAug 18, 2025

(Six months ago, I did a version of this poll with about five hundred options on the spinner wheel. For this one, I more than doubled it.)

[eridan-ampora]

who up dinking they oiter

[tmos-time]

you fucking know it babeyyyyyyy!!!!!!! #dinkers

[eridan-ampora]

[lesbi-nyan]

[whatcoloristhatcat]

black mackerel tortoiseshell tabby (torbie) with moderate white spotting

[a-sentient-cup]

what about the other cat?

[whatcoloristhatcat]

fert

[tonysopranoproskater69420]

lying in front of the street cleaner

[nic0las-uncaged]

did the street cleaner believe you?

[tonysopranoproskater69420]

it is like talking to a fucking genie with you people

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Toadbert's Tonic for Fit Frog Form.

(Toadbert was inspired by @dickwad-666!)

[prokopetz]

Going directly from what the average person I know in real life thinks constitutes kinky sex to what the average person I follow on Tumblr thinks constitutes kinky sex like

[charyou-tree]

Average Neighbor: Kink is when you pretend to hurt each other :(

Average Tumblr Mutual: Look, cannibalism is conventional erotic imagery, that can't be a "hear me out".

[shichimi0000]

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