I used the phrase "waiting on tenterhooks" and then thought "what the hell is a tenterhook".
It's these things! So when you're waiting on tenterhooks, you're stretched tight like a piece of cloth. Very evocative, now that I know what it means.
like 40% of english idioms are just Textiles Again
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holiday outtakes… this christmas was my first one spent with extended family since covid, so it was a bit more meaningful than most.
lately, i’ve been feeling noticeably less lethargic than i tend to feel around this time of year. i think it’s related to just how much music i’m engaging with now: social dancing at salsa clubs, fiddle with my friend’s rock band, fiddling with friends, singing and playing in a reggae band. i’m not someone who particularly likes music in an artistic or intellectual capacity, which i think is perhaps unusual considering how much of my time i devote to music. mainly, my enjoyment comes from the pattern recognition and synergy of things lining up just right. it’s a lot of the same reasons why i knit and why i fell into lutherie: repetitive motion, predictable patterns and responses, and the magic of executing something correctly and being able to feel that it’s correct.
… my thesis here is just that i’m keeping myself well stimulated with puzzles and patterns, basically. humans need enrichment !!
🎧: deseándote - frankie ruiz
from the bottom of my heart: just because something makes you uncomfortable doesn't mean it shouldn't be allowed to exist
"But what about <thing that literally kills people>?"
This was on a non rebloggable post so I'm setting it free.
yes I am drawing fanart of the prioress and the lord’s wife WHAT OF IT
the other day i saw a tiktok of a woman talking about how her hyper-militant abusive parents would sometimes punish her by “taking away her name” and referring to her as a prisoner number. genuinely terrible stuff, obviously. but i skimmed the comments and. listen. i truly DO NOT mean to dunk too hard on this person, like they could be a kid or something, but.
just. breathtaking. imagine if your primary reference for the concept of the un-personing of prisoners was (check notes) a book series about owls.
This is why it's important to Include stuff like this in fiction, especially ya fiction. It can be a lot of sheltered and/or indoctrinated children, in the case of a lot of rural "Christians", first introduction to these types of concepts in a way they can understand.
I don't think there's anything weird or shameful about it. Knowledge is knowledge, regardless of where it came from.
