Lanna Michaels

we know Aral's "green silk rooms" line, of course, excellent paragraph:

"The really unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, or anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present--they are real."

on the one hand, yeah, very true observation, but I think given the context of what else is going on at that point (that Cordelia and by extension the reader don't find out about until later), I think there's another layer to it.

because that describes the whole Escobar war pretty much exactly. Death wholesale, by the shipload, all for the sake of killing Serg before he can become a nightmare of an emperor and destroying his political allies' popularity so they don't become a problem afterward. sound familiar?

And at the time he says this line, making sure all that happens according to plan is Aral's job. Because Ezar ordered it, and (more importantly) because Ezar convinced him it was necessary. He phrases this in general terms, but I don't think he's actually talking abstractly here, and I don't think he's being a hypocrite given everything else we see of him as a character. He seems to believe - after trying to exhaust other options - that the Escobar plan is necessary, but given how he handles it afterward (drinking, downward spiral, basically suicidal), I don't think he views it as forgivable.

Absolute spitballing here, but I propose: that moment at the end of Vor Game where Gregor stands up to him and says "I'm the Emperor, you listen to me now, not me listen to you".

Essentially, if they're treating religious entities as free real estate because, hey, no one's using them anymore, so it's fine to pick them up and pick and choose and play games with them and completely make things up about them... to just stop and think "is the reason ''no one'' follows these gods anymore is because this religion was systemically murdered?" and when the answer is yes, treat things with a lot more respect for the culture they came from.

Figured I do a quick quilt top, you know, just throw something together.

And then I made two blocks of the forty eight needed for this Harvest quilt and boy howdy.

And the quilt! She be gorgeous!

Love that fuck-off bright yellow I picked for the cornerstones, they’re perfect for this.

I decided that since the quilt top was so colourful, I’d put plain flat black cotton the back and use up some of these bobbins, making the quilting on the back really stand out.

Holy shit did it work or what! I love it, of course LOL

I used a medium purple on the top so it would fade into the patchwork and not show up too much on the background. The quilting pattern is called Pink Lemonade and it is one of my favourite quilting patterns.

I didn’t have any left over border fabric, so I found a nice blue that matched with that print and made it my binding. I debated using purple, but couldn’t convince myself to do it.

The blue looks good though, from the front and the back.

I used a Brother sewing machine to piece the quilt top and the long arm sewing machine at my work to do the quilting!

Here is what the backside looks like. OP notes this takes more fabric than paper piecing, but that excess fabric makes it already triple-layered. Besides not needing backing fabric, I don't think you'd need batting for this quilt at all. It's already thick and soft just from folding all that fabric into a hexagon.

Each hexagon begins as a 6" circle. camelscrafts does this by creating a paper template using a compass. According to the video, a 6" circle will create a hexagon that is 2.5 inches tall.

These hexagons are hand-sewn. Thread the needle.

With the fabric right side facing, find the center of the circle by folding it in half right sides together, then folding it in half again (wrong sides are facing). The top of the triangle shape is the center of the fabric circle.

Make a small stitch into the center of the fabric. The wrong side is still facing.

Unfold the circle. There will be a small stitch in the center.

Now the hexagon is created by folding the circle into itself: With wrong side facing, take the needle to one of the edges of the fabric (it doesn't matter which one). Pull the needle through and pull the thread tight. This will fold down the fabric and create an edge of the hexagon. Crease the fold with your finger.

This fold has two corners, one at the top and one at the bottom. Put the needle into one of the corners and pull the thread taut. This will create another fold.

Continue this going around the circle until all of it is folded down, creating the hexagon. camelscrafts notes that the last corner pulled in may be a little bit "wonky" (no precise point in the corner) if the corners were not done precisely. However, that corner is pulled into the back, so is not visible from the front.

The hexagon is now formed. Sew around the folds in the middle of the circle to hold the folds in place. Tie off and cut the thread.

anyway I am with you, a couple of them I was like "yes I am aware this is yinglish, goyim don't talk like this" but...

*takes long look in the mirror*

"If you want to go, so you should get your ticket now" -> If you want to go, you should get your ticket now." "So" is, I am informed by Sarah Benor, the Yinglish.

"I am staying by my sister for shabbos" -> ??? "I am staying at my sister's home/house/apartment over shabbos". Or "on shabbos"? "For shabbos" makes the most sense but I am second guessing.

"When I said that, I was going on the textbook, not the lecture" -> "When I said that, I was relying on what was written in the textbook, not said during the lecture"

"Dinner, have you had?" -> "Have you had dinner yet?"

"Do you have what to bring?" -> "Do you have what you need to bring" or "Do you have anything to bring", I THINK. However, my feeling is "what to bring" and "what to eat" are not SPECIFICALLY Yinglish and others do that too.

"I am getting also salad, and also chicken" -> "I am getting salad and chicken", although I feel English speakers are expected to reverse it, chicken precedes salad, so "I am getting chicken and salad" or even "I am getting salad with chicken" depending on what dish is being referred to.

"Do you have what to eat?" -> see above, "do you have anything to eat".

"I didn't think I would need, so I didn't bring" -> "I didn't think I would need it/the referrant, so I didn't bring it."

"I want that he should come" -> "I want him to come."

"Do you want for me to come with you?" -> "Do you want me to come with you."

"I felt badly for him" -> per @wenevergotusedtoegypt, this is "I felt bad for him."

anyway I am with you, a couple of them I was like "yes I am aware this is yinglish, goyim don't talk like this" but...

*takes long look in the mirror*

anyway I am with you, a couple of them I was like "yes I am aware this is yinglish, goyim don't talk like this" but...

*takes long look in the mirror*