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Flowers for Eliana baby blanket is washed and blocking dry, and then I have all the ends to weave in 😅
I've been working on this blanket on and off for almost a year, and I'm so happy with the decisions I made. Started with an attempt to create a spiralling gradient, and then pivoted drawing inspiration from patchwork quilts.
The colours are warmer and softer in person, this phone's camera is allergic to colour accuracy.
White yarn is Bendigo Woollen Mills 4ply Luxury in Frost. Pastel rainbow yarn is Bendigo Woollen Mills Multicoloured Sock in French Macaron. I used 2.25 balls of the Frost and 2.5 balls of the French Macaron.
Pattern is sort of my own, but I adapted the modular pieces from Cerys Hexagon Blanket by Suzie Blackman and Rainbow Remnants by Amy Gunderson, both available on Ravelry.
Looking at the blocking, I definitely need to invest in blocking wires for better straight lines...
And an adjustable vertical blocking frame, so that I can block the larger blanket projects I have planned without rearranging furniture or losing floorspace.
bread and circuses where claudius orders mccoy's execution instead of kirk's (still attempting to force kirk's hand), and when the guards come to take mccoy from the cell, he - under the impression that he and spock are okay now, after their fight - tosses out as a goodbye something like: "don't worry, mister spock, i'm sure doctor m'benga will keep those numbers up for you" - trying to show with a joke that he's not upset or blaming spock for not being able to save him
alas, our dear mister spock, who has been in emotional turmoil these last however many hours, absolutely fails to take it in the way mccoy had intended it.
he thinks, as coolly logical and rational and inscrutable and CLEARLY (lol) amazing at hiding and burying his emotional responses as he is: he thinks that mccoy believed him. he thinks mccoy believed that spock had only saved him for the good of the ship. he thinks that mccoy believed that spock doesn't care about him.
and now it's too late to actually have that honest conversation that mccoy had wanted.
so mccoy's going to die believing that.
[the rest of the episode is the same, mccoy's saved just as kirk was, etc etc, i just think it would be mean to do this to our beloved spock (and therefore, also, fun, lmao)]
tbh i think the funniest way to do the After for this is for spock to get Super Intent when it comes to all things mccoy, because he still can't, like, bring himself to Say It, so he's just being super weird and intense—he stares Too Much (he's trying to figure out how to make mccoy understand), and refuses to engage in arguments (see doctor, i'm not being mean to you, obviously you should understand that means i like you???) and even worse he starts arguing that the doctor shouldn't join landing parties (he doesn't want the doctor in mortal danger =/). and mccoy's like OKAY I GUESS MAYBE WE AREN'T OKAY, I GUESS SPOCK DOES ACTUALLY DISLIKE ME???
and kirk is ThisClose to a nervous breakdown as he deals with the pair of them, because the more spock tries to pin mccoy down the more mccoy's adamantly determined to wriggle free. and obviously kirk still wants mccoy to join landing parties, and kirk not only enjoys when they bicker but also finds it genuinely helpful when he's trying to decide what to do, and kirk would sure rather have his uhhh quite limited free time just be the three of them hanging out again rather than this weird intense pressure cooker of a situation where spock keeps staring intensely at mccoy and mccoy glares right back all while kirk's just, like, trying to play some chess
he wants to try to just let them figure it out themselves, but he finally cracks when spock makes the argument that the cmo should be kept aboard in a meeting WITH AN ADMIRAL, and kirk has to cut in with a bite in his voice because that is his emotional support doctor, spock, what the hell are you doing, and he brings spock to ground in his quarters and is like WHAT IS GOING ON WHY DO YOU SUDDENLY HATE DOCTOR MCCOY???
and spock does the vulcan equivalent of breaking down in tears, all stiff upper-lipped thousand yard stare why does everyone think i dislike the doctor about it, like the more he's tried to prove that he actually REALLY LIKES the doctor the more disastrous things have gone, and now even kirk thinks he hates him???? spock is Out Of His Depth.
and kirk finally drags the whole story out of spock, really having to put his back into it because spock's being the obstinate idiot he normally is, and kirk just pinches the bridge of his nose and is like. i am giving you a direct order as your captain to go TALK to mccoy.
and THEN spock, known emotionally repressed weirdo extraordinaire, is like, well if my captain orders me then obviously i have no choice, i can put all blame on what comes next on jim, i am personally entirely innocent in this situation, time to follow my captain's orders <3
and of course kirk just wanted spock to like, actually explain that he doesn't hate mccoy and that he simply has been doing his misguided best to ensure mccoy's safety, but spock, the king of doing too much, is like, no, obviously kirk meant i should go storm into mccoy's office and finally stop bottling up all these confusing feelings i've had for two months, time to back that doctor into a wall and—crucially, still not explaining a goddamn thing—kiss him until he understands how much i care for him.
(ten to one spock gets hypoed halfway through because mccoy's convinced he's possessed or what have you, and then kirk, teeth gritted, a migraine of epic proportions on the horizon, has to stand next to spock's unconscious body on the biobed and explain to mccoy that actually spock's just in love with mccoy, can the two of you please sort your shit out, and then kirk takes a hypo to stave off the migraine and goes and gets Extremely Drunk with scotty.)
spock wakes up and mccoy is staring at him with an unreadable expression, his fingers tapping lightly on the bed. and then he sighs, and presses his index and middle finger lightly against spock's. and spock just blinks a long, slow, content blink, fully learning from this the Wrong Lesson that he can absolutely skate by without ever having to Say It.
(two months in, mccoy will be threatening to strangle the life out of spock, and spock will still be just trying to kiss him in lieu of using his words <3)
(they are actually gonna be the death of their captain tbh)
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This plant, we tell children, has a one in ten-thousand chance to have four leaves. You can search through a clover patch all day and never find one. But if you do, and you pluck it and keep it, it will bring you luck.
And this flower, we tell children, if you let it bud and bloom and age from sun-yellow flower to moon-white seed, you can then pluck it and blow its seeds away to make a wish.
And this flower, we tell children, can be woven into a hat
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This is literally what people are talking about when they say AI will be used to mainstream widely held bigotry. LLMs are trained on frequency and probability -> straight relationships are more well represented in the dataset -> straight pronouns and terms become the "correct" normal.
This is a form of backdoor bigotry from both normative facts (there are more straight than gay relationships) and well represented bigoted beliefs (men are superior to women).
Combine this with the mass of people inclined to believe (and being encouraged to believe) that if AI says and does something it must be correct
It’s when AI produces discriminatory outcomes as a result of being trained on data that is biased which results in these AI systems replicating and reinforcing those biases.
That very well could be why Google Doc’s spellcheck is regurgitating this kind of bigotry because it’s literally what it was trained to do.
Side note this is why BAME folk are so concerned about the rise of facial recognition for criminal investigations. Cause not only is facial recognition less accurate for us than it is for white folk (cause they make up the majority of that trained data) but also because the police systems are institutionally racist.
Which is being reflected and perpetuated by these AI systems I mean people are already being misidentified and wrongfully arrested because of this.
Im agnostic raised liberal protestant, but absolutely the catholics got saints right. Sometimes your problem is so fucking specific you need Some Guy. If you're listening, Guy of Workers Who Have Strain Injuries,
#looked up and thought ‘that can’t be hard’#and then my eyes widened with horror as I realized the sheer number of rectangles everywhere#I’m . I’m horrified
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I truly don’t think people realize how dingy and dark most movies and tv shows actually are so they can’t appreciate the work and skill it takes to make gifs look the way your brain “remembers” it looking.
Another before and after example:
This gif needed 6 different adjustment layers, not including the sharpening process, which is its own separate challenge. The blue window was also changed to green to keep the palette more consistent and to reduce the range of colors needed, because a wider range of colors generally results in worse gif quality since gifs only support a max of 256 (compared to the millions your monitor can display).
current state of the internet is a FUCKING EMBARASSMENT. was chatting with my grandma bout the history of crochet and knitting (and the comparative ages of those respective technologies) and i was like "oh YEAH and also that ancient greek fiber art we partly figured out from chemically testing the scoured bleached pigments of stolen statuary (tumblr knows what im talking about)—gimme 30 seconds to look up the name."
5 minutes and 3 search-engines later i am crying tears of blood screaming spitting blubbering in despair as my grandma attempts to digitally pat me consolingly on the back. the library of alexandria didn't burn it was "restructured" to "increase shareholder profits"
i am scouring the internet like the victorians scoured and destroyed all trace of joy and color from stolen relics for the LOST NAME OF THE ANCIENT PROCESS of textile-creation akin to knitting/crocheting/nålebinding that at least one academic/crafter used to recreate the leggings on this Glorious Motherfucker:
the google execs erased it. they bleached my bestie AGAIN from history...
Archer statue from the Temple of Aphaia (ca. 480 BC) next to a reconstruction of its original paint job:
The leggings and sleeves would have created using a method called SPRANG which predates knitting and is over 3,000 years old. What's even sexier is modern artisans managed to recreate the entire outfit using the original method!
Mmm-HMM, love me a shapely thigh in harlequin hosiery. Put👏men👏in👏clingy-ass👏clothing👏again👏👏👏
Unfortunately english sources are hard to find, partly because Google's a shithole, but also because this textile project comes from a German museum, in Germany, where people tend to speak (and publish) in German. That said, the original link is to a short-but-sweet article I would have had no problem finding in 30 seconds a mere few years ago. fortunately i have clever beautiful insane people following me, but alas not everyone has such luxury. thanks to everyone in the notes who shoved themselves down this rabbithole with me!
in conclusion let us take a moment to sincerely wish Google a very burn in hell🙏
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