#Subcreation

[exercise-of-trust]

i don't generally bother posting the stuff i knit exactly from existing patterns but i finally wove in the ends on a couple frankensteined socks and figured i might as well throw them up here? they're very dumb but i'm fond of them.

for the first pair i made up a colorwork pattern for the feanorian heraldic symbol, and slapped it together with the pisqu sock structure and toe pattern, and a snippet of a mitten for the sole halves. the yarn is 100g of jamieson's of shetland that i got on the high street of fort william, as a treat after walking 100 miles from glasgow to get there, and i had... maybe 10 yards total left over? i had to cut off the long tail from my cast-on and use it to graft the toe closed on the last sock; it was nerve-wracking. if i did this pattern again, i'd probably put the toe motif in between the two heraldic lozenges, but the first time through i wasn't sure how the math would work out so i frontloaded them. ah well!

the second pair is the structure of an existing sock i've forgotten the name of (worked in the round from the tip of the heel to a hat-like shape with six sides; two opposite ones are grafted together to form the instep and the other sets of two open into the cuff and close into the toe), with the colorwork pattern from the gogink sweater yoke. i thiiiink you could do this with basically any colorwork sweater yoke, but i've only tried it with this one. if i did it again i'd add some short rows to the front side of the cuff; the construction sort of pulls it down so that the heel side of the cuff is higher than the front, and a couple short row rounds would probably level it back out. i like these because they neatly smash the cuff-down/toe-up binary and make everybody mad, and i am at all times an imp of the perverse.

[apenitentialprayer]

[T]he conception of a child is not only a physiological happening, but the personal commitment in love of the parents [...] Children, unfortunately, are sometimes conceived in drunkenness, sometimes in lust, sometimes by accident, and such children, alas, from the very moment of conception have been made victims of human sin. If we could imagine a child conceived out of pure love before God, would not such a child from the very moment of conception —I mean, conceived in the loving desire of the parents for the child even before they came together in sexual union— would not such a child be from the beginning the recipient of grace?

John Macquarrie (Mary for All Christians, page 68)

[platonicallyinlove]

homo ludens.

[mereinkling]

Only God Can Create

Satan has many disciples in this world. Some know him by other names, or worship him in spirit without recognizing his actual existence (e.g. Mammon). The irony, of course, is that the Devil is simply a posturer, or in modern parlance, a poser. And the presence of the Holy Spirit makes any single Christian more than his match. A prime evidence of Satan’s weakness is that he is a mere created…

[thebirdandhersong]

Guys isn't it so good that there are people who care so much about moss and trees and the voices of whales and music and math and the power of words and paint and agriculture and textile art in this world????

[elmendea]

Laitië hantaleyë! Alassëa nostarë!

[iridescentoracle]

#I honestly love that indis had had a crush on finwe since cuivienen #it’s such a fun little characterization/relationship note (via tanoraqui)

There was a fair lady of the Vanyar, Indis of the House of Ingwë. She had loved Finwë in her heart, ever since the days when the Vanyar and Ñoldor lived close together. In one of his wanderings Finwë met her again upon the inner slopes of Oiolossë, the Mountain of Manwë and Varda; and her face was lit by the golden light of Laurelin that was shining in the plain of Ezellohar below. In that hour Finwë perceived in her eyes the love that had before been hidden from him. - The Peoples of Middle-Earth, "The Shibboleth of Fëanor"

Tolkien in Color: The House of Finwë (part 4/x)

[exercise-of-trust]

area couple about to miss 600th anniversary dinner reservation bc they won't stop making out like newlyweds on their own doorstep

[apenitentialprayer]

[I]t is important not to think of conception only in biological terms. We may suppose that the conception of an animal may be so understood, but not the conception of a human being, for such a being has his or her proximate origin in the loving personal relation of the parents, and this love includes their longing for a child. The context of conception at the family level is therefore personal and even spiritual [...] This is no mere sentimentality but simply the recognition that human beings are personal beings, not just biological organisms, the recognition that sees the creative moment of conception, whether for good or bad, in the personal relation subsisting between the parents rather than in the biological phenomenon of a fusion of cells.

John Macquarrie (Mary for All Christians, page 67, 68)

[emeraldsubliminals]

the one thing I hate about being a subliminal creator is making the affirmations cause tell me why I’m spending 3 hours on thinking and wording the affirmations just for it to be like 40 affirmations and end up being a 2 minute long video that barely gets views!! (◞‸◟)

(But it all ends up worth it because of the results!!)

my channel

[thebirdandhersong]

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[herbofgraceandpeace]

y’all, I am making a new friend 😭

[exercise-of-trust]

turkish spindle gang make some noise (imagine having to wind your singles off your spindle before you can start plying, couldn't be us)

[apenitentialprayer]

There's an apocryphal quote attributed to Martin Luther that says:

The Christian shoemaker does his Christian duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.

Your fanfiction doesn't need to be Biblical fanfiction; if you're a writer, and you think you can create compelling narratives or explore interesting themes in your work through your fanfiction, you know, go for it.

I am Catholic, I hear pretty frequently that we should use our gifts for God. All good here, I don't disagree. But... I write fanfics. This is my big thing. If I do that for God, am I just... Writing Bible fanfics? I mean, I totally could, there's a lot of good possible fic ideas, but it doesn't feel like that's what they mean

[apenitentialprayer]

detail of an image of Guillaume de Machaut, from a 14th century manuscript. Notice the musical notation. (x)

In the 13th century, music underwent a radical revolution, both in theory and in practice. A new musical notation system made it possible for the first time to indicate the precise duration of sounds. This was the result of efforts begun in the Carolingian period to forge tools that would enable composers to notate their music with increasing precision. Music manuscripts from the 9th and 10th centuries indicate only the articulation and ornamentation of the melody, since a system for analyzing and notating intervals was not developed until the early 11th century. In the late 13th century, musicians finally succeeded in devising a notation that also indicated every possible note-length. When these new models of notation were proposed, they began to radically alter our relationship with time. Music, a phenomenon that could previously be properly grasped only through action, became an object of contemplation. Its unfolding in time could be perceived as a mathematical or geometrical object, independent of its manifestation in sound. This "freezing" of sound made it possible to scrutinize and structure the deployment of the sound material, creating a temporal object outside of time. Musicians embraced this concept eagerly, and toward the middle of the 14th century an even more complex and sophisticated movement, later known as the Ars Subtilior, began to explore the temporal combinations that notation permitted to their furthest extreme. A far-reaching transformation took place. The mastery of numbers in the sphere of time gave men the impression that they had become something greater than mere cogs in a greater cosmic order. Thanks to the mathematical mastery of durations, music had become geometry of time. With this new ability to conceive music outside of time, musicians began to regard themselves as creators, building structures that did not exist before their intervention in the sound material. This is probably why the 14th century gave rise to the gradual emergence of named composers.

Marcel Pérès (Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame)

[skitterjitter]

one reason I love books like Tolkien’s The Hobbit, Richard Adam’s Watership Down, and AA Milne’s Winnie the Pooh is because they were originally bedtime stories for children, made up by their authors and convinced to write them down by said children. they’re all distinct, but there’s also a dreamlike, fairytale quality to them. I get a similar feeling reading these stories as I do reading Sir Orfeo or Sir Gawain and the Green Knight