there might be something wrong, actually

Longstitch binding

https://youtu.be/a_LZ-BWhH_Q

2)Japanese Binding

https://youtu.be/j-r6c_trSxY

3) Belgian Binding

https://youtu.be/w-oct9Ttp1g

4) Coptic stitch binding

https://youtu.be/TdHo8NtDOXc

5) Case Bookbinding

https://youtu.be/Av_rU-yOPd4

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

[id: x/twitter qrt from user styloshka that says "I read a forum post about art once, that it's a product of the dialectic between the effort of the artist and the friction of the medium. You push on the thing and the thing pushes back on you, it has its own voice. The weight of a piano key, the tension of a guitar string." original post from user colleen_daves says "Don't you want to skip over the mindless drudgery that is making art?" I do six stand embroidery and break like 10 needles a day, would I prefer that activity didn't hurt my hands and make me angry? Sure. But that's what makes having the finished piece after so worth it to me."]

I loved the slow methodical mediation of the stretches before class. I loved the quiet discipline of the barre exercises, the endless repetition, the feel of me shaping my body into the same forms, closer ever closer to correct.

Most of the others didn't rush onto the floor the moment it cleared to stretch alone.

Most of the others complained endlessly about barre. For me it was part of it. All of it was dancing and I loved dancing in every fiber of my being, pushing ever pushing at the boundaries of what my body can do.

It was never boring to me, not even the most mundane, repetitious parts. I gave no fucks for those few performances in front of the audience; I was dancing for me and that included doing feet positions over and over at the barre. It was doing the thing that mattered and I loved every second of it.

I was the same way with the assorted marital arts styles I studied over the years until my body gave out. The spars are the glamourous bits, but I loved the drills too, repeating, repeating, repeating.

I was the same way with candle wicking and needlepoint, my fingers reading canvas. My fingers mindlessly going in and out or doing the knots over and over.

A well-known writer got collared by a university student who asked, ”Do you think I could be a writer?”

”Well,” the writer said, ”I don’t know. . . . Do you like sentences?”

writing poetry helps one discover if you love micro-writing: if you love choosing the perfect word and shaping the perfect line (usually a word or phrase), you'll love writing longer works. if you find laboring over each word fun - is this the perfect noun? the perfect verb? the best way to arrange these words to reinforce your goals and have your desired effect on the audience? - you'll do great as a writer

if you find that process tedious, you'll probably be happier doing something other than writing, or at least doing a different kind of writing (less dependent upon the words)

I found out a few years ago that I'm apparently a type of dyslexic who often writes sentences longer, more complex, and - in early drafts - with phrases and clauses out of order. also makes me read really slowly, as I frequently need to go back to the start of a sentence or paragraph and re-read to understand the rest

so writing is one of the most difficult things for my to do

but I love it, and I get great pleasure out of expressing thoughts and feelings and sharing the human experience, so I breathe through the writing and editing process, I let myself really sink into it, hyperfocus until I've gotten out all the words that will come that day. and there's little in the world more satisfying than that

Fundamentals are the foundation of fun.

I have to admit that this really is the secret to physical accomplishment. You have to do it until you are able to be terrible.

You start being unconscious regarding your competence, to practice and practice and practice. You then start to learn and develop consciousness regarding your incompetence at the skill. Then you practice, and practice ad nauseam. Eventually become competent enough to be conscious of your competence. Still need to practice and practice and practice and practice as you progress towards becoming unconscious of your competence. The practice is not something you can montage through.