Dreams and wanderlust

It’s loud and bright and productive and glamorous. It’s fast-paced and things cycle through the environment in hours. Everyone is trying to fight for their position in the food chain and stay Relevant. There are lots of pretty things to look at. If something gets Popular it has an impact on everything around it, for a brief time until the next big thing arrives. To an outside observer it’s chaos but to those involved it has order, reason, a Purpose.

Tumblr is like a deep-sea ecosystem.

light but warm silken stuff that the Galadhrim wove. It was hard to say of what colour they were: grey with the hue of twilight under the trees they seemed to be; and yet if they were moved, or set in another light, they were green as shadowed leaves, or brown as fallow fields by night, dusk-silver as water under the stars."

Only silk probably wouldn't be warm enough, so perhaps lined with something warmer on the inside? Hm. OR somehow chameleon tafetta technique but in wool though given the description of the technique in link I don't know how well that could work? Textile people help...

I now have it as an epub.

It features things like handweaving iridescent fabric with four different colours by hand! And as the author says, “There has been surprisingly little information in popular books and magazines about iridescence in textiles, even though weavers have been creating these magical fabrics deliberately for centuries. This book is intended to help fill that void and is the result of more than a dozen years of study and teaching.” 

here’s an example of a four- colour weave by the author. “This four-color scarf has two warp and two weft colors at every point of interlacement. This plain-weave fabric was woven with rayon sewing thread at 60 e.p.i., which was the closest sett I could use with the 30-dent reed I had available. It required a very gentle beat. Sleying the slippery rayon was difficult because it tended to fall out of the reed unless taped down temporarily.”  and another one;

Woven on a point twill threading, this four-color scarf in 20/2 mercerized cotton has orange and pink in the warp and blue and green in the weft. The sett is 48 e.p.i., doubled in a 24-dent reed.

 I think this is pretty much as close to the effect of the Lothlorien capes it might be possible to get; it doesn’t seem possible to get the fabric to adjust to the environment as described in the books (appearing greyer among the stones etc) but if anyone can think of a way to accomplish that you’re very welcome  to tell me. 

Even if it’s a bit out there and probably only possible in a lab. :)

EVERY TIME WE KISS I SWEAR I COULD FLY

CAN’T U FEEL MY HEART BEAT FAST, I WANT THIS TO LAST

NEED YOU BY MY SIDE

There is no victory in skipping dinner, or lunch, or breakfast, or morning coffee, or dessert.

There is no victory in refusing heaters and air conditioners and fans and heated blankets.

There is no victory in denying yourself sleep, or showers, or movement, or water, or a comfortable bed, or taking the elevator vs. the stairs.

There is no victory in refusing pain meds and heating pads and ice packs and medical help.

There is no victory in punishing yourself needlessly, in telling yourself that this pain you feel is because you are bad to the core and deserve it.

There is no victory in choking back your laughter and your tears, to keep an imagined equilibrium of safety that is really just a dry, cracked, empty, endless emotional desert.

You are here. You are in this body, and this body is yours. You deserve good things. You are alive, and that is messy and loud, and messy and loud are okay.

“When no one is around to boop the snoot, so you take matters into your own paws”

wizard

thats plectronoceras its the first 100% definite cephalopod in the fossil record, wizard friend :)

“Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to smell like good quality vanilla absolute, subliminally stoking a hunger for knowledge in all of us.”