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@whistlesilver
Please let this be real. This is a seaweed bath in Doolin, County Clare. You can see the ferry to the Aran islands in the background, and mostly out of frame to the left are the cliffs of Moher.
I myself have used these tubs, and can vouch for how great the experience is. I can absolutely see why that seal wanted to make soup. Probably smells better than when I was marinating!
Happy Pride!
Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions
I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.
march moodboard
Some of our favorite titles we added in March
this was so hard to narrow down. truly. how delightful that there are so many amazing queer books to keep adding to the collection
Breaking from the Frame - slow burn! lesbian romance! 1969!
Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die - cowardly knight! prophecy! “in which many dangerous and homosexual things happen"
Crafting for Sinners - craft store! evil megachurch!
Tears in the Grass - intergenerational survival & courage
Slant - AIDS activism, Irish lesbians
Full metal indigiqueer - “a world where making love is akin to making live”! poetry! unearthing bones!
Four Minutes - post communist Bulgaria. bureaucratic horrors
Floodlines - multigenerational, intimate & epic, Iraqi-British sisters, art & memory
Local Fires - short stories! debut! wales!
Heap Earth Upon It - from the author of Sunburn!!
A Black Queer History of the United States - what it says on the tin. read this!
Steppe - russia? long haul trucking? bitter father/daughter relationships? read Steppe.
you can find all these & more in the ‘just added’ section of QLL’s libby
happy reading!
My friend just sent this in the group chat, we got the new gay or European 2026 update
A rigorous diagnostic. 15 questions. One uncomfortable truth.
“Result: Both. The Wittgenstein Result. I don't know whether to be proud or concerned.”
Holy shit it correctly uncovered I’m half-German…
Hmmm I'm more German than I expected (as far as I know, I'm 0% German)
I've never been diagnosed as autistic but like... it's a distinct possibility tbh
*Scrolls past*
*reluctant sigh*
*scrolls back up*
*rebogs*
Last year JK Rowling personally funded a group called Sex Matters to amend UK law so that trans women *overnight* went from legally women to legally men. This has resulted in mass exclusion of the trans community from numerous organizations, along with ongoing violent assaults on both trans and cis women alike.
With the new Harry Potter series she will be making a reported $20 million per-season renewal + other performance dependent royalties. She has been open across multiple interviews regarding her intentions to use said funds to push forth even more trans targeted legislation in the years to come.
This isn’t a “she gets paid no matter what” situation. The more eyeballs on this show the more money she has to actively harm vulnerable communities. By engaging with it you are directly supporting this and otherwise making a conscious choice to consume HP over doing the literal very least possible to not destroy the lives of trans people across the world.
If my stating the objective facts above upsets you then feel free to unfriend and move along. Your nostalgia-goggles feelings for a tired, problematic franchise mean nothing to me compared to the welfare of my trans friends and loved ones."
If you care more about badly written children's books and imaginary wizards more than you do about real people in the real world do it far the fuck away from me.
Don't try to be in my life.
In fact, you are cordially invited to eat shit and die.
DO
NOT
WATCH
THIS.
Finally updated the summary of Swan and Nightingale:
A perpetually WIP tale of political intrigue, magic. Flashbacks, old enemies, new friends, and true love. Set in Season 2 with a slight resemblence to the show. Multiple plot lines. OCs, and re-examined charecters bring an entirely new dynamic to Storybrooke.
A reluctant savior, an ex-evil queen, a werewolf-waitress, an adventurous librarian, a loyal warrior, and a princess in search of an identity all come together for an epic adventure that Storybrooke may not survive.
Explicit scenes and triggers will be noted per chapter as applicable. Updates are a bit spotty.
It's better but it probably still suffers from the Suck At Summaries Curse.
i am doing my best to be a helper
Mister Rogers says that when terrible things happen, to look for the helpers. This is so important to me, I have the tattoo. Terrible things are happening. I’m upset. And I’m angry. And I’m so sad. While I am looking for the helpers, I am also doing my best to be a helper. I have to be honest: when a domestic terrorist organization, created and unleashed on us by our own government, are…
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Oh my gosh. I just found this website that walks you though creating a believable society. It breaks each facet down into individual questions and makes it so simple! It seems really helpful for worldbuilding!
Heads up that this is a very extensive questionnaire and might be daunting to a lot of writers (myself included). That being said, it is also an amazing questionnaire and I will definitely be using it (or at the very least, some of it).
Bookmarking this…
This inspired me to see if Patricia C. Wrede’s Worldbuilding Questions are still online, and not only are they, they’re on the exact same page I saw them on in 1998. Somewhere there’s a binder of the Word doc I made of all of them and the answers I filled in for Baby’s First Fantasy World
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
@whistlesilver asked: Character A must spend time alone in a shared home for a longer than normal period of time. The quiet time gives them a chance to reflect on all the ways their love, B, fills their world
And I tried.
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
I'm begging of you, please don't take my man
Your sword is long, your lance is keen, your shining helm afar is seen
But into darkness fell your star, Jolene
Long ago you went away, and where thou dwellest none can say,
In Mordor where the shadows are, Jolene.
The last whose realm was fair and free between the mountains and the sea
Gil-galad was an Elven king, Jolene
fantasy author: the story ends with the magic going away forever. don’t you find it sad and poetic? please give me a pulitzer or at least a hugo
me: this is very dumb. I hate you. bring back the wizards
So the other night during D&D, I had the sudden thoughts that:
1) Binary files are 1s and 0s
2) Knitting has knit stitches and purl stitches
You could represent binary data in knitting, as a pattern of knits and purls…
You can knit Doom.
However, after crunching some more numbers:
The compressed Doom installer binary is 2.93 MB. Assuming you are using sock weight yarn, with 7 stitches per inch, results in knitted doom being…
3322 square feet
Factoring it out…302 people, each knitting a relatively reasonable 11 square feet, could knit Doom.
Hi fun fact!!
The idea of a “binary code” was originally developed in the textile industry in pretty much this exact form. Remember punch cards? Probably not! They were a precursor to the floppy disc, and were used to store information in the same sort of binary code that we still use:
Here’s Mary Jackson (c.late 1950s) at a computer. If you look closely in the yellow box, you’ll see a stack of blank punch cards that she will use to store her calculations.
This is what a card might look like once punched. Note that the written numbers on the card are for human reference, and not understood by the computer.
But what does it have to do with textiles? Almost exactly what OP suggested. Now even though machine knitting is old as balls, I feel that there are few people outside of the industry or craft communities who have ever seen a knitting machine.
Here’s a flatbed knitting machine (as opposed to a round or tube machine), which honestly looks pretty damn similar to the ones that were first invented in the sixteenth century, and here’s a nice little diagram explaining how it works:
But what if you don’t just want a plain stocking stitch sweater? What if you want a multi-color design, or lace, or the like? You can quite easily add in another color and integrate it into your design, but for, say, a consistent intarsia (two-color repeating pattern), human error is too likely. Plus, it takes too long for a knitter in an industrial setting. This is where the binary comes in!
Here’s an intarsia swatch I made in my knitwear class last year. As you can see, the front of the swatch is the inverse of the back. When knitting this, I put a punch card in the reader,
and as you can see, the holes (or 0′s) told the machine not to knit the ground color (1′s) and the machine was set up in such a way that the second color would come through when the first color was told not to knit.
tl;dr the textiles industry is more important than people give it credit for, and I would suggest using a machine if you were going to try to knit almost 3 megabytes of information.
@we-are-threadmage
Someone port Doom to a blanket
I really love tumblr for this 🙌
It goes beyond this. Every computer out there has memory. The kind of memory you might call RAM. The earliest kind of memory was magnetic core memory. It looked like this:
Wires going through magnets. This is how all of the important early digital computers stored information temporarily. Each magnetic core could store a single bit - a 0 or a 1. Here’s a picture of a variation of this, called rope core memory, from one NASA’s Apollo guidance computers:
You may think this looks incredibly handmade, and that’s because it is. But these are also extreme close-ups. Here’s the scale of the individual cores:
The only people who had the skills necessary to thread all of these cores precisely enough were textile and garment workers. Little old ladies would literally thread the wires by hand.
And thanks to them, we were able to land on the moon. This is also why memory in early computers was so expensive. It had to be hand-crafted, and took a lot of time.
(little old ladies sewed the space suits, too)
Fun fact: one nickname for it was LOL Memory, for “little old lady memory.”
I mean let’s also touch on the Jacquard Loom, if you want to get all Textiles In Sciencey. It was officially created in 1801 or 1804 depending on who you ask (although you can see it in proto-form as early as 1725) and used a literal chain of punch cards to tell the loom which warps to raise on hooks before passing the weft through. It replaced the “weaver yelling at Draw Boy” technique, in which the weaver would call to the kid manning the heddles “raise these and these, lower these!” and hope that he got it right.
With a Jacquard loom instead of painstakingly picking up every little thread by hand to weave in a pattern, which is what folks used to do for brocades in Ye Olde Times, this basically automated that. Essentially all you have to do to weave here is advance the punch cards and throw the shuttle. SO EASY.
ALSO, it’s not just “little old ladies sewed the first spacesuits,” it’s “the women from the Playtex Corp were the only ones who could sew within the tolerances needed.” Yes, THAT Playtex Corp, the one who makes bras. Bra-makers sent us to the moon.
And the cool thing with them was that they did it all WITHOUT PINS, WITHOUT SEAM RIPPING and in ONE TRY. You couldn’t use pins or re-sew seams because the spacesuits had to be airtight, so any additional holes in them were NO GOOD. They were also sewing to some STUPID tight tolerances-in our costume shop if you’re within an eighth of an inch of being on the line, you’re usually good. The Playtex ladies were working on tolerances of 1/32nd of an inch. 1/32nd. AND IN 21 LAYERS OF FABRIC.
The women who made the spacesuits were BADASSES. (and yes, I’ve tried to get Space-X to hire me more than once. They don’t seem interested these days)
This is fascinating. I knew there was a correlation between binary and weaving but this just takes it to a whole nother level.
I’m in Venice, Italy several times a year (lucky me!) and last year I went on a private tour of the Luigi Bevilacqua factory. Founded in 1875, they still use their original jacquard looms to hand make velvet. Here are the looms:
Here are the punch cards:
Some of these looms take up to 1600 spools. That is necessary to make their many different patterns. Here are some patterns:
How many punchcards per pattern?
This many:
Modern computing owes its very life to textiles - And to women. From antiquity weaving has been the domain of women. Sure, we remember Ada Lovelace and Hedy Lamarr, but while Joseph Marie Jacquard gets all the credit for his loom, the operators and designers were for the most part women.
I’ve seen this cross my dash a few times, but I’ve never watched the video before. Maybe I just didn’t pay attention when I was a kid, but I don’t remember ever seeing just how the Jacquard loom works. I just knew that the punch cards controlled which threads were raised. It’s cool to see the how, not just the what.
Don’t hide this in the tags, @drylime :D
Thank you so much for sharing this! I’d seen it before, but didn’t save it, and I want to share this with my Girl Scout Cadettes. We’re doing the Think Like a Programmer leadership journey, and these are great examples of thinking like a programmer without having to do the coding.
@opalescentegg
Utterly fascinating
Thank you for making this!
Bí Bog Léi
read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2Z55qxX
by AiKat (OldEmeraldEye)
Déanann Emma iarracht Lá Vailintín a dhéanamh mar a bhí beartaithe. Millteoir foláireamh, ní dhéanann sé.
Words: 302, Chapters: 1/?, Language: Gaeilge
Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: F/F
Characters: Emma Swan, Evil Queen | Regina Mills, Henry Mills (Once Upon a Time)
Relationships: Evil Queen | Regina Mills/Emma Swan
Additional Tags: Family Fluff, Humor, Family, Translation, Gaeilge | Irish Language
read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2Z55qxX
I cannot believe this! So happy! Go hiontach! Go raibh míle, míle mhaith agat!
Waiting for Tomorrow
So I wrote some fluff for the Swan Queen Advent Calendar Collection! Follows on from that other silly story I wrote that time, Even Though Our Love is Doomed.
Summary: The winter solstice is upon Storybrooke and Regina celebrates with her family. Long winter nights leave time to reflect, connect and germinate.
A break from angst after finishing that behemoth Thread Softly.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/21564841#main
