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It's a fabric creation technique older than knitting or crochet, and apparently more durable. I saw the link somewhere on tumblr. I used to play around a lot with yarn as a kid (I made straw-and-string dolls, did weaving both on a tiny wooden loom and the improvised cardboard version, knotted tiny carpets, and more recently and in terms of general fabric craft I've been sewing and painting fabric by hand or with stencils) but for some reason, knitting and similar stuff is one of the things I've never tried. Back then, I did not see the value of warm socks. Now, I kind of want to learn this...
Alexandra Rowland: One Atom of Justice, one Molecule of Mercy, and the Empire of Unsheathed Knives.
An essay about how three types of story--grimdark, noblebrightt, hopepunk--relate to the struggle for justice that I found via metafilter. I'm still thinking about it, because in parts these thoughts are close to what I think about the stuff I write and that in turn makes me wonder whether I'm too close to see the pitfalls.
Akwaeke Emezi: My surgeries were a bridge across realities, a spirit customizing its vessel to reflect its nature.
An article about their medical transition and the concept of Ogbanje, which I came across looking for reviews for their book Freshwater. I already have way too many unread books--in my defense, everything is so interesting--but yesterday I read an article comparing US and UK book covers because I was too tired to do anything useful and too awake to go to bed, and two covers stood out to me: Olivia Laing's Crudo (UK version) with the lobster flesh and the fly which is so cool I'll probably end up reading the book, and the UK version of Emezi's Freshwater--less for the design but for the words on it: "I have lived many lives inside this body. I lived many lives before they put me in this body. I will live many lives when they take me out of it." Like, wow. I really want to read this. But I have so many books.
It's a fabric creation technique older than knitting or crochet, and apparently more durable. I saw the link somewhere on tumblr. I used to play around a lot with yarn as a kid (I made straw-and-string dolls, did weaving both on a tiny wooden loom and the improvised cardboard version, knotted tiny carpets, and more recently and in terms of general fabric craft I've been sewing and painting fabric by hand or with stencils) but for some reason, knitting and similar stuff is one of the things I've never tried. Back then, I did not see the value of warm socks. Now, I kind of want to learn this...
Alexandra Rowland: One Atom of Justice, one Molecule of Mercy, and the Empire of Unsheathed Knives.
An essay about how three types of story--grimdark, noblebrightt, hopepunk--relate to the struggle for justice that I found via metafilter. I'm still thinking about it, because in parts these thoughts are close to what I think about the stuff I write and that in turn makes me wonder whether I'm too close to see the pitfalls.
Akwaeke Emezi: My surgeries were a bridge across realities, a spirit customizing its vessel to reflect its nature.
An article about their medical transition and the concept of Ogbanje, which I came across looking for reviews for their book Freshwater. I already have way too many unread books--in my defense, everything is so interesting--but yesterday I read an article comparing US and UK book covers because I was too tired to do anything useful and too awake to go to bed, and two covers stood out to me: Olivia Laing's Crudo (UK version) with the lobster flesh and the fly which is so cool I'll probably end up reading the book, and the UK version of Emezi's Freshwater--less for the design but for the words on it: "I have lived many lives inside this body. I lived many lives before they put me in this body. I will live many lives when they take me out of it." Like, wow. I really want to read this. But I have so many books.
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