Five-Headed Dragon

okay so we all agree that futurama is an isekai but what about an overly long and dumb title?

(clean version under the cut)

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“I can’t go to Hell. I’m all out of vacation days.”

“Despite everything, it’s still you.”

“My brother’d really like to see a human, so it’d really help me out if you’d keep pretending to be one.”

“Don’t worry, my little monarch, my plan isn’t regicide. This is so much more interesting.”

“First, however, is as customary for those who make it this far… I shall tell you the tragic tale of our people. It all started, long ago… No. You know what? SCREW IT! WHY SHOULD I TELL YOU THAT STORY WHEN YOU’RE ABOUT TO DIE!”

“The more you kill, the easier it becomes to distance yourself. The more you distance yourself, the less you will hurt. The more easily you can bring yourself to hurt others.”

“If I were you, I would have thrown in the towel by now. But you didn’t get this far by giving up, did you? That’s right. You have something called ‘determination.’ So long as you hold on… so long as you do what’s in your heart…I believe you can do the right thing. Alright. We’re all counting on you, kid. Good luck.”

“I understand why Asgore took so long to hire a new royal scientist. The previous one… Dr. Gaster. His brilliance was irreplaceable. However, his life… was cut short. One day, his experiments went wrong, and… Well, I needn’t gossip. After all, it’s rude to talk about someone who’s listening.”

No one has ever looked at one of my cross stitch or embroidery pieces and asked if they can have it, or if I’ll make them one just like that for free.

But knitting. Knitting is different. It’s seen as being so simple and, presumably, worthless that people feel free to pass unsolicited comment on your work as well as ask if they can have one. You name a price for doing so and they look at you like you should be able to magic free, decent quality, wool out of your arse so how very dare you suggest charging them for a scarf, hat, sweater, whatever (at this point you don’t bother mentioning that labour would have cost extra)

The one thing that knitting and stitching do have in common is the amount of people who will say: “Oh, I could never do that. It looks so complicated.”

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BUT this isn’t just my experience of it.

My sister used to earn money making clothes when she was between ‘proper’ jobs.  She never had any issues with payment or pricing with a sewn garment.  She’d give them a price, explain how much the various fabrics, notions and labour cost and that was it. She only ever had problems with people wanting knitted items. They’d haggle over the cost, whine about how long it it would take her to make (knitting time was always given in advance), complain about the quality of the cheap ass yarn they’d chosen, etc, etc.

As time passed she just gave up offering to knit items for money.

Why has knitting become such a devalued skill for anyone who isn’t a big name knitwear designer?

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Yes, her funeral. My grandmother, who taught me to knit, was in awe of this shawl. It is beaded lace and took me hours upon hours to complete. That is a queen sized bed it was being blocked on. If I were to add up the hours and calculate federal minimum wage (which is much less than the minimum wage here in MA), people just might choke

One of my aunts remarked how lovely it was, and asked if I would ever consider making them for sale

Knowing she was moderately well-off, not rich but comfortably middle / upper-middlr class, I decided to ask what she would pay for it

Keep in mind, hand knit beaded lace, covers a queen sized bed, probably 48-60 hours of work (maybe more; i never counted), took me months and months because it was done in my spare time

Guess what she suggested

Go on, guess

Got that number?

Ok, good

She suggested the grand and exorbitant price ooooofffffff……

$50.00

I told her that the one I was wearing took about 3 months to make if you put all the moments I actually worked on it together and so, there was absolutely no way I would be able to make 12 of them in 3 weeks.

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