Prompt #1,501
Write about a system taking the wrong bus!
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reading a tome of a fantasy novel in trade paperback format and thinking about how wrong it feels to have a big floppy fantasy novel when god intended fantasy novels to be mass market paperbacks that you can comfortably (or mostly-comfortably) hold in one hand
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Hi Maker! I've seen a couple of your posts before but just discovered your blog, highlight of my day :)
Omg your drop spindle is so pretty! I get such spinning envy seeing your posts about bus and train spinning, the mentality that spinning while travelling has always been a human thing is so true, might have inspired me to take a drop spindle out more often ahaha
Also I love your bean, I have a bean too!
omg! hiiiiiii bean 2. yours is a black bean and mine is a coffee bean… nearly we have a whole meal together…
and aaaa that is such a sweet thing to say!! re: my spindle, I feel that i gotta promo Kerryspindles on etsy bc their stuff is so gorgeous and so tactile… i know crafts are not abt having fancy tools, and i think improvised spindles are super cool (i learnt to spin on a chopstick shoved thru a little wooden toy wheel) i do also love the sensory experience of sth that looks beautiful and moves beautifully…
but also, i am DELIGHTED my bus spinning adventures may have inspired you!! i’ve had some people go “ick” about buses being dirty (my fibre doesn’t touch the bus! it’s round my wrist! also it’s washable lol) or be worried about social anxiety (i started spinning in public as a way of fighting back against my own social anxiety actually; and also in months of doing this i can count on One Hand the number of people who’ve commented to me on it. small children do stare quite a lot, but i find that charming and aspire to be the sort of person small children stare at anyway so). but i really really do love the sense of ~doing the same thing my ancestors would have done~, in a very loose sense of the word.
and also the sense of just like… i think being “weird” in public is vitally important, and i also like that i’m exposing the public to otherwise quite niche and endangered craft forms that they probably have no exposure to. there are probably hundreds of people who’ve seen me spin, now, who would otherwise never have seen the process of making yarn. i don’t think that Does anything vis a vis improving society, on a cosmic scale, but it does seem kind of neat.
anyway. long ramble aside, yes! take your (you specifically, but also anyone reading this) drop spindle places!! take it mundane places like on a bus or a tram! spin in public! have fun! bewilder some small children!! make yarns! experience joy! and if you take/post any pictures, tag me in them bc i’d love to see :)
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