This is my somewhat secret account where i post my fan arts of things I like. If you actually wanna see the junk I put effort and share with the world, I'm on instagram as @champwon
Piecing the next beauty has begun! This is a commission for @anastasiaoftheironwood.
The fabric is The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars by Jason Yenter for In The Beginning fabrics. The pattern is my first curvy log cabin, and will be darks and lights, all neutrals, and no colors will be added.
Guess-stimate for piecing is hard to say because this log cabin technique is new to me. I did, however, buy thr template specifically designed for this. Work smarter, not harder.
I expect nothing less! I'll show you cool bugs to bc I desperately need to Hold A Little Bug Soon or I will Go Silly
Hello! I genuinely don't tell you enough, but you really do inspire me. I admire your passion for your projects and your eagerness to collaborate and create large scale productions. I love how innate it is in you to love and create and gather people. You're doing amazing. I'm so proud of you, sista<3
GUUUYS ITS MY BROTHER!! MY BROTHER IN MY INBOX NO WAY THEY’RE SO COOL
But no seriously, thank you 🥺🥺🥺 You’ve been nothing but supportive of my work and you make me so so SO happy. You drive me to do my best ❤️❤️
I can’t wait for everyone to see the amazing work you’ve done for the fan episode. ALSO LMK WHEN YOU’RE FREE NEXT I MISS YOU 💜💜💜
Gosh we do need to touch dirt soon I gotta take you to the waterfall :)
Hello! I genuinely don't tell you enough, but you really do inspire me. I admire your passion for your projects and your eagerness to collaborate and create large scale productions. I love how innate it is in you to love and create and gather people. You're doing amazing. I'm so proud of you, sista<3
GUUUYS ITS MY BROTHER!! MY BROTHER IN MY INBOX NO WAY THEY’RE SO COOL
But no seriously, thank you 🥺🥺🥺 You’ve been nothing but supportive of my work and you make me so so SO happy. You drive me to do my best ❤️❤️
I can’t wait for everyone to see the amazing work you’ve done for the fan episode. ALSO LMK WHEN YOU’RE FREE NEXT I MISS YOU 💜💜💜
some visible mending I did on an old flannel recently! this was fun but took me so long to convince myself to do, Im very happy with how its come out though. The lichens are oak moss, bloodstain lichen, a third thats very common in texas but i forgot the name of, and then some lovely little algae (i love algae in theory but hate it in eutrophication ;v;)
I saw this book entitled "Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do is Ask" by Mary Siisip Genuisz and i thought oh I HAVE to read that. The author is Anishinaabe and the book is all about Anishinaabe teachings of the ways of the plants.
Going from the idiotic, Eurocentric, doomerist colonialism apologia of that "Cambridge companion to the anthropocene" book, to the clarity and reasonableness of THIS book, is giving me whiplash just about.
I read like 130 pages without even realizing, I couldn't stop! What a treasure trove of knowledge of the ways of the plants!
Most of them are not my plants, since it is a different ecosystem entirely (which gives me a really strikingly lonely feeling? I didn't know I had developed such a kinship with my plants!) but the knowledge of symbiosis as permeating all things including humans—similar to what Weeds, Guardians of the Soil called "Nature's Togetherness Law"—is exactly what we need more of, exactly what we need to teach and promote to others, exactly what we need to heal our planet.
She has a lot of really interesting information on how knowledge is created and passed down in cultures that use oral tradition. The stories and teachings she includes are a mix of those directly passed down by her teacher through a very old heritage of knowledge holders, stories with a newer origin, and a couple that have an unknown origin and (I think?) may not even be "authentically" Native American at all, but that she found to be truthful or useful in some way. She likes many "introduced" plants and is fascinated by their stories and how they came here. (She even says that Kudzu would not be invasive if we understood its virtues and used it the way the Chinese always have, which is exactly what I've been saying!!!)
She seems a bit on the chaotic end of the spectrum in regards to tradition, even though she takes tradition very seriously—she says the way the knowledge of medicinal and otherwise useful plants has been built, is that a medicine person's responsibility is not simply to pass along teachings, but to test and elaborate upon the existing ones. It is a lot similar to the scientific method, I would call it a scientific method. Her way of seeing it really made me understand the aliveness of tradition and how there is opportunity, even necessity, for new traditions based upon new ecological relationships and new cultural connections to the land.
I was gut punched on page 15 when she says that we have to be careful to take care of the Earth and all its creatures, because if human civilization destroys the biosphere the rocks and winds will be left all alone to grieve for us.
What a striking contrast to the sad, cruel ideas in the Cambridge companion of the Anthropocene, where humans are some kind of disease upon the Earth that oppresses and "colonizes" everything else...!...The Earth would GRIEVE for us!
We are not separate from every other thing. We have to learn this. If I can pass along these ideas to y'all through my silly little posts, I will have lived well.