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falling-mist · 2 hours ago

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#oh memories #this captures the essence of the whole thing i believe

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falling-mist · 14 hours ago

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June 15 is the anniversary of both the Night Vale and Gravity Falls pilots, as well as Vanessa Doofenshmirtz’s birthday and “give it up for day 15” day

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falling-mist · 20 hours ago

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"Do you want a boyfriend/girlfriend?" no i want a best friend/roommate/soulmate that I can go on silly adventures with and hang out with and have deep intellectual discussions with and we can be life partners without any of the romance stuff

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falling-mist · 24 hours ago

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falling-mist · 24 hours ago

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oh and while we're here, i started planning a bigger fair isle project

a while ago i spotted a vest on the original all creatures great and small series from the seventies. the show is old and the resolution isn't great, but i managed to replicate the motifs as closely as i could. although aside from the shape of the motifs i don't have the yarn to make an exact copy with the same colours (and i have no interest to)

i knitted up a swatch with my heavy lace weight lambswool held double (and marling the colours again!). it's SO beautiful and i am in love. i measured my gauge and did the maths and drafted a pattern for a vest. i can't wait for july to come so i can have free time to work on this!!

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falling-mist · 1 day ago

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hi hi hi I have thoughts and feelings about The Martian. I know a normal amount about it. pspspspsps

yeah hi hello polaraaace hi yes okay so another thing? i cannot get over how fucking. amazing. and brilliant and clever a decision it was to write 90% of the book as an epistolary

like. okay so obv Watney was alone on Mars for basically the entire book. the usual problem with having a character alone is there's no dialogue, and you end up with a lot of exposition, which can feel like information dumps and can tend to drag. by writing it as an epistolary and having Watney tell 'NASA' what was going on, the reader was told without it feeling like an info dump.

it also meant he could complicate or dumb down explanations as much as he wanted without seeming out of place. imply the science w/ minor explanation rather than science the science, which made it a lot easier to follow.

additionally, it really Did Something for the pacing of the story, and the flow and such. like i was thinking about it. right. and he could skip all the boring shit and Watney just reports the Major Event, Key Factors etc. to the logs. he just. skipped over days of digging or weeks of driving or drilling holes or any of the other hundred things that would have been slow and tedious to write out. and. summarised the interesting parts in as few or many sentences as required without too much depth. like. consider the drilling. he explains, in brief, that he tried to drill. it sucked bc the drill wouldn't catch. he chipped out a bit with a driver and the drilled and that went better and then he did it like a hundred more times. how long would that have taken to write out in full if it was 3rd person limited? how tedious? the lost time and the frustration and the problem solving? no, instead we get the problem, and then immediately what it took to solve. just. quickly. which meant each chapter was quick and snappy and set a really fast pace for the book from start to finish.

it also i think impacts how we view Watney as a character. like. you're not in his head. it doesn't go into what he's feeling so much. so i know when i think of his character i think of him as Brutally Pragmatic. Have problem? Solve problem. whatever it takes, and then it's only the next problem. and that's probably in part bc you're not in his head, only the logs. but it's also bc like. in the hab breach scene? he has a hissy fit at Mars (in the logs) and then the next log he's like 'okay i had my hissy fit now on to solving the problem'. it sets the reader apart and creates distance from him in such away that really keeps a humorous and lighthearted tone to the book that perhaps you couldn't if it was 1st POV or 3rd POV limited. but, still and despite that i guess, still my interpretation of him is brutally pragmatic. he didn't let emotion or despair at any point get in his way.

AND THEN. we get to the 3rd person limited sections, not epistolary, where we were watching the way the events on Mars were being viewed by earth and NASA. that was interesting to me. the POV change. it made it feel much more immediate, much more Real Time than the epistolary parts. we were there with Mindy, knowing what she was seeing when she realised Watney was alive. with Vankat as he had to tell Teddy. with the Hermes III crew as the got the Rich Purnell maneuver and had a choice. we got to see that, those key moments in real time.

ALSO, the 3rd person omniscient parts? god, i dreaded those. as soon as the POV changed to focus on a thing rather than a person i immediately started dreading what was going to happen next. it was like watching a car crash. knowing something was going to happen and being unable to look away. the hab breach scene? the Iris launch failure? the rover rolling? all of them fucking. preceded by a 3rd person omniscient POV. just. until a thing went wrong they were innocuous but that fact that Weir saved that pov for those scenes just mean that when they came up it was building tension and suspense anyway. just an innocent scene about how hab canvas is manufactured. about the launch of the Iris probe. about the weather and dust storms on Mars. totally innocent, nothing to see here....

and those scenes contrasted so dramatically with the immediate follow up of the logs.

like. the 3rd POV omn. is slow. dramatic. 'the canvas expanded for the last time. the hab breached.' juxtaposed with Watney's log which is a lot move lively. and then later compared with the quiet horror from Mindy or Vankat or something seeing it from the satellites and just crossing their fingers and praying. I think that aspect was really brought to life even more in the audiobook though, which is how i read it. like. serious kudos to Will Wheaton and his performance. i feel he did a lot of work and an amazing job setting the tone and the emotions of all the characters. the tiredness and the happiness and all the rest.

... okay i think that's all i have to say on this, unless someone else wants to weigh in. there's probably more i haven't considered and i'd love to hear your thoughts.

#oooh i have to reread the martian now #you expanded so much on this its so cool to read!

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falling-mist · 2 days ago

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I love having mutuals. #myfriends<3

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falling-mist · 2 days ago

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falling-mist · 2 days ago

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anomalocaris is a maid

#yeah i see it

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falling-mist · 2 days ago

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I missed WIP Wednesday again but here is my (slow) progress since my last post about this stocking. Trying to not freak out about imperfections…

#it reminds me of olives its really pretty

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falling-mist · 2 days ago

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After six pairs of wool socks on 1s or 2s, this sparkly acrylic on 8s is WILD

(it's going to be a lacy sparkly cardigan for a queer charity auction, bc ofc it is)

#i love it it looks so pretty!

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falling-mist · 2 days ago

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Got this gorgeous thing off the loom today! This is the main piece for our tree skirt; the top will be gathered and fastened in some way (button? ribbon? tbd) to go around the stand and trunk, and the bottom will have a wide ruffle to peek out from under our tree ☺️

#beautiful #but also #all those ends oh nooooo

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falling-mist · 2 days ago

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there used to be this giant book that was shipped to everybodies home whiched doxxed everybody in the city

#and i miss it

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falling-mist · 3 days ago

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falling-mist · 3 days ago

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"I want to live in a world in which teenagers can fulfil their natural purpose of being annoying" and "I do not always want to be annoyed by the teenagers" are compatible sentiments

#seeing 3 kids at 10:30 on a thursday night #sitting near a tree by the road on a property that i know is not theirs #scared me driving by them #but then im like yeah ok they get to be kids and be annoying and be little shits who should not be there but are there regardless #but like #is that fun???? is it really that fun?????????

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falling-mist · 3 days ago

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No one:

Me: PETER PAN

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falling-mist · 4 days ago

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Kitty Kitty was begging me to turn the sink on, but I was running so hard on autopilot that I didn't register that she wanted the sink to be Just A Little On, and I ended up turning it on full blast while her head was right under the faucet. Luckily she, like me, only possesses 3 brain cells, so she didn't consider getting upset, and instead just stared at me while purring as her forehead became increasingly drenched and I realized what I had done.

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