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I'm reading Oathbringer and Will Santino's comic hit a lil too hard

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Holy shit I need this!

I am mad about cellphone cameras hiding the processing they do, and I am glad about software that lets me control it and opt in and out, and I dictated this rant on insta so I am resharing the images here and will attempt to turn this into a useful text post on my blog in future, when my hand is working better 🤘👍

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Out of pure curiosity and fun!

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You deserve it!

reblog to give the person you reblogged this from a fucking break

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We did it!

Congratulations to the victors (and sucks to suck to the worst moms) of our first annual Mother's Day contest!

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It's utterly magnetic when a character's rage is quiet and precise. When they don't scream and throw things but they just b r e a t h e and very very calmly aim their fury like an arrow shooting inexorably towards the target of their wrath. It captures my attention, I lean in close, I wait for the hit. It never disappoints.

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We thought YOU had him!

Mirror Dance spoilers with no context

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Can confirm it's SO good 😊

I’m not really a podcast person but I’m excited about this!

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Aaaaaand purchased.

Slow and steady. 40 New Limited Edition prints of this matching fella are now available at the link in my bio.

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AwwwwwuuuuUH??? (creature)

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In writing, epithets ("the taller man"/"the blonde"/etc) are inherently dehumanizing, in that they remove a character's name and identity, and instead focus on this other quality.

Which can be an extremely effective device within narration!

They can work very well for characters whose names the narrator doesn't know yet (especially to differentiate between two or more). How specific the epithet is can signal to the reader how important the character is going to be later on, and whether they should dedicate bandwidth to remembering them for later ("the bearded man" is much less likely to show up again than "the man with the angel tattoo")

They can indicate when characters stop being as an individual and instead embody their Role, like a detective choosing to think of their lover simply as The Thief when arresting them, or a royal character being referred to as The Queen when she's acting on behalf of the state

They can reveal the narrator's biases by repeatedly drawing attention to a particular quality that singles them out in the narrator's mind

But these only work if the epithet used is how the narrator primarily identifies that character. Which is why it's so jarring to see a lot of common epithets in intimate moments-- because it conveys that the main character is primarily thinking of their lover/best friend/etc in terms of their height or age or hair color.

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Wait you wrote coraline?

Sounds like the kind of thing I would do, yes.

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Things I wish I had read in "beginner" sewing tutorials/people had told me before I started getting into sewing

You have to hem *everything* eventually. Hemming isn't optional. (If you don't hem your cloth, it will start to fray. There are exceptions to this, like felt, but most cloth will.)

The type of cloth you choose for your project matters very much. Your clothing won't "fall right" if it's not the kind of stretchy/heavy/stiff as the one the tutorial assumes you will use.

Some types of cloth are very chill about fraying, some are very much not. Linen doesn't really give a fuck as long as you don't, like, throw it into the washing machine unhemmed (see below), whereas brocade yearns for entropy so, so much.

On that note: if you get new cloth: 1. hem its borders (or use a ripple stitch) 2. throw it in the washing machine on the setting that you plan to wash it going forward 3. iron it. You'll regret it, if you don't do it. If you don't hem, it'll thread. If you don't wash beforehand, the finished piece might warp in the first wash. If you don't iron it, it won't be nice and flat and all of your measuring and sewing will be off.

Sewing's first virtue is diligence, followed closely by patience. Measure three times before cutting. Check the symmetry every once in a while. If you can't concentrate anymore, stop. Yes, even if you're almost done.

The order in which you sew your garment's parts matters very much. Stick to the plan, but think ahead.

You'll probably be fine if you sew something on wrong - you can undo it with a seam ripper (get a seam ripper, they're cheap!)

You can use chalk to draw and write on the cloth.

Pick something made out of rectangles for your first project.

I recommend making something out of linen as a beginner project. It's nearly indestructible, barely threads and folds very neatly.

Collars are going to suck.

The sewing machine can't hurt you (probably). There is a guard for a reason and while the needle is very scary at first, if you do it right, your hands will be away from it at least 5 cm at any given time. Also the spoils of learning machine sewing are not to be underestimated. You will be SO fast.

I believe that's all - feel free to add unto it.

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A coworker recommended it to me. It was good but too dark for my particular vibe at present.

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Literally the plot of Mirror Dance (well one plot anyway)

My favorite form of redemption arc is “I hate that I have morals now”

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Cordelia!!!!

Propaganda

Cordelia Vorkosigan:

#seriously I cannot overstate what an astonishingly good mother Cordelia is#the odds were *astronomically* against her son surviving infancy#let alone growing up into a happy & successful adult#who is beloved and KNOWS that he is beloved#I mean#Aral helped too#A+ fathering there#but Cordelia has been fighting for Miles from Day 1#and even before#destroy her unborn son once ppl realize he’ll be born disabled?#not on HER watch#make her now-born disabled son feel inferior?#no sir not with this Betan around#help now-adult son pick up the pieces when he fucks up royally & everything falls apart?#you betcha "Further propaganda just because I can: her philosophies of "persons before principals" and "when you chose an action you chose the consequences" have shaped my own life, parenting, and politics." “Well. I don’t wish to invade your privacy. But do remember, you’re allowed to ask for help. It’s part of what families are all about.” “I owe you too much already, milady.” Her smile tilted. “Mark, you don’t pay back your parents. You can’t. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It’s a sort of entailment. Or if you don’t have children of the body, it’s left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.” “I’m not sure that seems fair.” “The family economy evades calculation in the gross planetary product. It’s the only deal I know where, when you give more than you get, you aren’t bankrupted—but rather, vastly enriched.”

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somewhere between Shakespeare and Edinburgh the arrangement changed from "one of us can go to save us the trouble" to "we can go together"