Nearly blocked someone for a vaguely annoying reply they made in 2017 then remembered 2017 was 9 years ago. They will live. We can change *opens their blog* nevermind they got worse. Guards
I don’t like specific lists of things to accomplish in a year so I don’t vibe with make9s or long term project planning BUT I do love checking off squares and marking off things I did so I’m trying bingo.
No specific patterns or designs, theoretically fiber craft agnostic, hopefully a good mix of being encouraged to try new things without being overly prescriptive about it.
Please play along if you’d like. Interpret the entries in whatever way makes this process most enjoyable for you.
#fiber arts bingo <- tag that I will be tracking
I made fiber arts bingo for 2026 pls play with meeeeee
I am not a fiber artist, alas, but I know many of my friends are! (Hey @laikiirnodel wanna apply this to your marudai and tablet weaving?)
I’m also seriously considering that most of these prompts would take minimal tweaking to apply to other crafts, like beading, etc… 🤔
Beading is frequently almost weaving or almost embroidery - I think that definitely counts!
My account is still blocked from searching/tags/etc on my business blog @foundfamilyadventurecrafts so I’m posting this here. There’s something very bad happening with Small Business, Tech, and Amazon. What else is new?
Hey, that’s us and a bunch of our friends! This whole thing SUCKS so bad and we’re pissed. We’ve intentionally not listed our products on Amazon for the 15 years we’ve been in business. We’re ready to join a class action lawsuit and kick some ass.
Friday makes really good tea, both just by the flavors and as reflections of fandoms. I absolutely LOVE my Second Breakfast (hobbits) and General’s Jasmine (Uncle Iroh).
Go check out the Friday Afternoon Tea website DIRECTLY if you want to support them - and if you, unlike me, are in Seattle, go visit the brick-and-mortar store!
Sucks how many people were taught that “horses put their ears back when they’re mad” but then never taught the difference between “angry backwards ears,” “mildly annoyed backwards ears,” “pain backwards ears,” “concentrated backwards ears,” “sleepy backwards ears” and “just happens to be listening to something behind it.”
“Horses put their ears back when they’re mad” idk man i think it depends
These are all completely different expressions in completely different scenarios, and only two of them are decidedly negative.
Actually, I wanna talk about the third horse, the one putting its ears back in pain. Over the last 15 years veterinarians and animal scientists have worked out pain scales for most domestic animals by taking photos of the during routine procedures.
We know vaccines painful, and by comparing horses at rest with horses getting vaccinated, we’ve been able to determine how they express pain visually. By looking at horses with disorders like colic, broken bones, wounds, and so on, we can determine their facial expressions during more severe pain.
At zookeeper school we were drilled through the pain faces of the most common lab animals and livestock. Nowadays I believe this has become a routine lesson in all animal related fields, but the general public still doesn’t know that this is a thing that exists.
Here are all the pain face/grimace scales I’ve been able to find. Please study them if you interact with any of these animals on a regular basis:
Just when you thought that Plesiosaurs were anything but terrifying… until an Elasmosaurus platyurus devours a helpless juvenile Tylosaurus as a Hesperornis dives for fish in the background, somewhere in the middle of the Western Interior Seaway of what is now the Niobrara Shale of Kansas. Elasmosaurids were once traditionally thought to have preyed upon shoals of feeder fish, but recent research in this decade has shown that they were actually quite voracious predators which would have used their powerful snapping jaws, which were armed with dozens of conical teeth, to grab, rip apart and consume prey animals as big as humans, ranging from the fish Enchidus to sharks, juvenile mosasaurs and even pterosaurs or Hesperornis.
recently I’ve been thinking about how I think some (I repeat some, not all, not even most) of the reason behind why it’s harder for female characters to get popular enough to achieve real blorbo/The Character status is a kind of overcompensating reaction to a certain type of male gazey voyeurism in mainstream media. in my horror/tragedy niche I’m seeing six posts a day on my dash along the lines of “mmm I need that brunette bisexual man writhing around crying out in pain,” and, yknow, love that, strong agree, but I absolutely never see that kind of blorbo sadism posting where the vague character figure is a woman. the most discussion I ever see of female characters suffering beautifully/sexily is people making fun of booktok m/f dark romance; wanting to see a woman as that kind of “chew toy experiencing the horrors and accidentally being kinda hot about it” protagonist is treated as completely off limits. at best it’s laughable and at worst it’s a sign of rising fascism.
and I think that sucks! I think there’s a huge gap in the market in queer fandom spaces both for women who identify with that Eternal Suffering Era archetype and for people who are attracted to women in that “The Character covered in blood” way. I’m particularly talking to sapphics in the audience right now: I am very much not telling you to eat your vegetables, I’m telling you that you can eat desert without going directly to hell. that brunette bisexual woman can also be covered in blood while having the worst day of her life for five years straight and you won’t go to feminism jail for thinking about it.
i think a big reason why nobody on this site is able to conduct discourse in an intellectually engaging and honest way, often appealing to insults and logical fallacies to drive their argumentless rhetorics exclusively through pathetic lenses, is that nobody is interested in emancipation. the only end goal of discussion on this site seems to be complaining about how bad we have it, while Others have it so good and are therefore the perpetrating, guilty Other, sole agent involved in our own marginalization. nobody is interested in reconstruction politics or offering alternatives, it’s all immunitary, verbal reaction and it’s perfectly consistent with consensualism-neoliberalism.
to make this even more clear:
i believe this fundamentally hypocritical way of engaging in discussions is pervasive both on and offline, but easier to find online where the the relative safety of anonymity represents a genuine encouragement to call your fellow human being the worst things that come to mind.
this is the process that creates callout culture (immunitary governmentality), and the process that legitimizes the calling of those who give in to callout spreading fundamentally evil. they’re the same process, a reaction to a reaction, paranoid readings escalating off of one another with little or no genuine argument other than x person is evil, or guilty of harm and evil.
lacking inquisitiveness isn’t a sin. being manipulated by the very insidious forms in which consensualism undermines our desire to feel differently is a sign of the times. yet it is something we must actively combat, carving out spaces and moments in which we can interface in new ways, emancipation on the horizon, searching the mechanisms of power that have lead to a specific event. you brush a mere moment of another person’s life; will you make that moment one of strife, or do you want this person to have the seed of emancipatory movement planted in their mind?
let’s have discussions that reawaken the will to live and dream of different futures. see none as your enemy, engage with the world as if full of potential allies.
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