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if you don't know how to end a written work you should be able to just let the words fade out like an 80s song and not resolve anything for the reader

[ginneke]

I'm fairly sure KerrySpindles ships them with a little bit of merino rolag, specifically.

I absolutely butchered the rolag on the first one I ever got (I was, to be fair, a complete novice), but found it to be a fantastic way of learning the spindle's temperament for spindles #2 and #3.

(The maker seems to be making more in the realm of the mid-to-heavyish spindles now, but if you do ever get a larger 'parasol' plying spindle (50g+), I think the weight is carried more in the whorl on those. At least, that's how it feels when I use that one.)

New spindle (the long one)! 🌪!

@ginneke some weeks ago clocked my little given-as-gift, years-old, maker-unknown spindle as probably of Kerry Spindles on Etsy. I messaged her and she said she couldn't be sure after this many years but yes it looked like one of hers. And I love it and then I was too tempted so I justified an additional spindle to myself.

It is 30g (little one is 18g) and carries the weight quite differently - more in the shaft, less in the whorl - which is an adjustment, but I am enjoying it so far with the unidentified rolag it shipped with. And these might make a nice pair of spindles for maybe teaching people sometimes???

[ginneke]

The warp is wound! The supplies are still not here. This will need to live on the warping board a little while longer.

(Image ID: more threads are on the warping board, now, with the same wide X shape and colour split as before. A blurred and out of focus kitchen counter is in the background.)

Winding time! 44 threads wound, 236 to go.

(image ID: two sets of yellow and red threads form a wide X shape as they are wrapped around a series of wooden pegs. The red threads run from top left to bottom right; the yellow threads run from bottom left to top right. A white piece of cotton serves as a counting aid)

[ginneke]

it also massively depends what your "typical yarn" is, and what you are intending those numbers to mean. @batbetbitbotbut has broken the 'measurements' down well, but here is an illustration with an actual finished object:

The ubiquitous fingering weight (400m/437yards per 100g/3.5oz skein) will make you a nice scarf from a single skein.

judging from my tassels, and assuming I twisted them in groups of 4 warp threads - this had 88 warp threads in total (edit: this would have been dictated by the width of my loom, size of my reed, and calculations on the yarn quantity - it was a mystery skein of unknown providence, length and composition), so not *too* far off picturing 108. That would only be a couple extra inches wider. I wouldn't even know where to start with guesstimating the number of weft picks - it'll be multiple hundreds, though, for sure.

So with just this one example of a ubiquitous craft store yarn weight, 108 warp threads won't be very wide, and 108 weft picks won't give you something very long. (It would only start entering the region of potential blanket-width if you are using a very, very heavy yarn, like a super-duper bulky weight, and that will have its own host of problems - namely how to even go about weaving it).

Long shot and probably going to get a "it depends" answer but

Is 108 by 108 warp and weft a large piece of fabric to be woven? Let's say using a typical kind of yarn that you buy at a craft store. Would that be a big enough project for a blanket or cloak? Or would it be more like a tapestry?

[ginneke]

Winding time! 44 threads wound, 236 to go.

(image ID: two sets of yellow and red threads form a wide X shape as they are wrapped around a series of wooden pegs. The red threads run from top left to bottom right; the yellow threads run from bottom left to top right. A white piece of cotton serves as a counting aid)

[ginneke]

[ginneke]

For me, the surest sign that someone loves a character is when they let them be a loser. People who put their fave on a pedestal and can't mock them? Weak. Your fave sucks in and you should embrace it.

[ginneke]

how to explain to mutuals that while yes you can have my discord, and i wanna hang out! my response time is anywhere between 3-7 business days

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Round 4 Of WIP Big Bang Claims: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - "Untitled Link/Revali Fic"

Round 4 claims for both events are open until August 14th. You may claim as many projects as you want for each claims list this round (ie, you may claim multiple fics for WIPBB and/or multiple art projects for WIPRB), and you do not have to already be a participant of WIPBB or WIPRB to pick up a fic or an art project to claim. Claims are on a first come first served basis. Please fill out the form with a unique check-in for each project you want to claim if you want to claim more than one.

If you are signing up to do art for WIPBB or fic for WIPRB, you and your project partner will be picking a posting date that works best for both of you when posting date claims open August 23rd. The posting dates for claimed posting are between September 8th and November 30th, with the month of December open for emergency posting. You no longer have to have your project finished by September 7th!

Please remember this is the last round of claims before the fics/art projects go to pinch hitters! If you want it, now is the time to claim it.

Form and instructions can be found at link below!

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild #172 Title: Pairing/Characters: Link/Revali Rating: Teen | T Warnings/Tags: No Warnings apply Character injury, temporary disability, temporary blindness [on the path to being] resolved by the end of the story. Elements of horror. Summary: There is a forest where no light shines, and where the wind goes to die.

It is a terrible place for a Rito to be stranded. Lacking all bearings and unable to see, even the legendarily stubborn Revali could easily find himself defeated here -- but for a knight. A knight who refuses to give up on him, just as he refuses to give his name...

[ginneke]

For this sentiment, I'm breaking out the Library Curse that's been banned from use in my library*:

MAY YOU FORGET ALL YOUR PASSWORDS. FOREVER.

May your favourite author archive-lock their works, and may you never get to see them again.

* Note: Lasted 24 hours. Banned from use because actually it's too powerful and creates far too much extra work for ourselves. We've reverted to the lego curse.

Maybe if people updated more we wouldn't turn to ai

You’re a pathetic, impatient loser. Fanfic writers owe you nothing, and their writing is their own, not yours to do with as you choose, you entitled brat.

[ginneke]

Every time someone comments on my old fic, i feel like I'm an old actor getting paid residuals. Appreciate you, old-fic-commenters. Key source of emotional income, tbh.

[ginneke]

Drop spindle dangerous. Accidentally spent 6 hours spinning yesterday.

[ginneke]

WIP Big Bang Claims (Round 3): The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Form and instructions can be found at link below!

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild #172 Title: Pairing/Characters: Link/Revali Rating: Teen | T Warnings/Tags: No Warnings apply Character injury, temporary disability, temporary blindness [on the path to being] resolved by the end of the story. Elements of horror. Summary: There is a forest where no light shines, and where the wind goes to die.

It is a terrible place for a Rito to be stranded. Lacking all bearings and unable to see, even the legendarily stubborn Revali could easily find himself defeated here -- but for a knight. A knight who refuses to give up on him, just as he refuses to give his name...

#174 Title: Speedrun, but like, in a cyclical way Pairing/Characters: Link, Impa, Riju, Sidon, Dorian, Cado, Teba, Yunobo Rating: Teen | T Warnings/Tags: Graphic Violence Some suicidal ideation and related mental health issues Summary: Link lived and died, then lived again and died again. And… a third time? A fourth? Stuck in a time loop trying to save Hyrule of the Calamity, Link is at the end of his rope. He has to end it and break the cycle; the quicker, the better. Now. If other people would just let him speedrun his way through this stupid quest…

[ginneke]

WIP Big Bang Claims (Round 3): The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Form and instructions can be found at link below!

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild #172 Title: Pairing/Characters: Link/Revali Rating: Teen | T Warnings/Tags: No Warnings apply Character injury, temporary disability, temporary blindness [on the path to being] resolved by the end of the story. Elements of horror. Summary: There is a forest where no light shines, and where the wind goes to die.

It is a terrible place for a Rito to be stranded. Lacking all bearings and unable to see, even the legendarily stubborn Revali could easily find himself defeated here -- but for a knight. A knight who refuses to give up on him, just as he refuses to give his name...

#174 Title: Speedrun, but like, in a cyclical way Pairing/Characters: Link, Impa, Riju, Sidon, Dorian, Cado, Teba, Yunobo Rating: Teen | T Warnings/Tags: Graphic Violence Some suicidal ideation and related mental health issues Summary: Link lived and died, then lived again and died again. And… a third time? A fourth? Stuck in a time loop trying to save Hyrule of the Calamity, Link is at the end of his rope. He has to end it and break the cycle; the quicker, the better. Now. If other people would just let him speedrun his way through this stupid quest…

[ginneke]

4, 14, 18?

4 - is there an au or trope that you haven't written before, but would want to try?

One day, I would like to try writing a true and proper 'for want of a nail' Butterfly Effect canon divergence: to find a loose thread, or something that could have gone differently in canon, and tug on it, and see where it unravels. 

Realistically, it would end up being the sort of fic that I only ever write snippets of and never share with anyone, but as a simple (or, more likely, overly complicated) exercise in storytelling, it would be interesting to try one of theese days.

14 - is there anything outside of your normal content that you want to write?

 ...Honestly, I think I'm happy in my little niche of self-indulgent shipfic and occasionally going somewhat off the wall with [short] genfics. I don't feel the urge to write outside that anytime soon. 

(My other creative pursuits are another matter. ;) )

18 - how do you want your writing to feel to your readers?

This was a hard one to answer... I hope that my readers might feel moved by it, but I also really want people to extend some measure of grace when the writing style is slightly more opaque and difficult to engage with than they might be used to?

A passage might be better served by an ebb and flow, a drifting current, the swell-and-recede of a wave breaking upon the sand or a stream forced to part around an obstacle. Not everything has to be brusquely linear. And I hope that a reader might be willing to pause and to listen for the effect the words reach for, even if it falls short or doesn't entirely reach there.

(But maybe I'm still haunted by the person who professed to mocking the language and phrasing I used in the same breath as claiming to like the story behind it. Obviously, everything I was trying to achieve fell far short for that person; and I fear that singular comment may have overshadowed my preconceptions of how people might perceive a work since then.)

Have a question? you can find the list here: [click for link]

[ginneke]

writing: act of creation, or increasingly lonely isolation?

more and more it's looking like the latter.