A Healed Femur & The Shapes In The Stars

So far I've only mixed up the main batch of colors, but I'll split them up and create a palatte of tints and shades once I have access to a scale again.

I don't have any fancy tools and have been blending the fiber by hand, so it's probably best I have a forced break for the sake of my fingers. Once I'm done I should have a very useful set of 57 2g swatches to play with! (Plus 5 more for a set of grayscale swatches)

The ratios are presented in the same order as the wool swatches in the photo above it. I didn't simplify any of the ratios so you'll have to deal with 2:2s instead of 1:1s, oops.

Plus some pure black and white mixes to compare to my cyan/magenta/yellow midtone gray tint and shade.

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of these magnificent ancient creatures still alive on this world. and I was aware of this at that age because nearly half of them were in a very secretive building on a hilltop near my house, in a last ditch effort by conservation scientists to breed and raise babies.

fifteen. Just born. this season. I cry tears of joy.

When I was born there were zero condors in the wild. And only about 18 in captivity. Now, there are over 350 flying free and they are breeding in the wild. And now we have 15 babies that hatched and are being raised in captivity with intent to release and even MORE hatching in the wild.

We fixed it. We can fix it. We did and we can and we have and we will. We fixed it with Silent Spring making lots of people wake up and move together to get DDT banned and start cleaning up our house together, and pass laws making sure it stayed clean and good for everyone who lives here. Clean air regulations do this. Smog checks do this. DDT and pesticide regulations do this. Regulating industry and monitoring them heavily and constantly monitoring the water and the air and the land do this.

I say this because I think it's very easy for people to not connect up which laws and regulations help, and it's very easy for people to think that all we need to do is just captive-breed animals and release them into the wild again. No. We need to make sure Earth, our home--everyone's home--is taken care of, and that we tread carefully and with respect to everyone else that lives here with us. We need to be neighbourly to the animals and the plants we share our home with.

But we are terraformers, that is part of our species just like it's part of elephants and wolves and bison. It's just part of what we do. And with that power we have to make a choice: to harm everyone including ourselves or to heal everyone including ourselves.

It's like the man said: Unless someone like YOU cares a whole awful lot, nothing's going to get better--it's not.

And lots of people DO care a whole awful lot. Many people who care a whole awful lot devote their whole lives to planting that truffula seed, and treating it with care, and giving it clean water, and feeding it fresh air. And planting a forest. And protecting it from axes that hack.

And whaddya know? It works! Because that's what we DO--we can raze a whole forest, or we can plant one. We shaped the whole world into neighbourhoods we wanted. And there are way more people, more generations of people, who care about the neighbourhood, than there are people who don't. And it's important to remember that, as you plant your truffula seeds--you are not the only one out here planting them, and protecting them so they can grow! Take heart from that, you are not alone, you are not the only one who cares, who finds delight in the triumphs, who keeps working on solutions.

I HAVE FOUND MY FAVOURITE POST ON THE INTERNET

part of my role is going to people and gently saying "hey please stop taking photos of people without their consent. that can be dangerous for the people in the photos and you were asked not to at the start of the rally/march" and I have had people threaten to punch me over it so........

just stop taking photos. I don't care if they're "just for you" or if you "plan to redact them" you have no idea what situation someone is in and your photos will never be secure. if you want to take a photo just ask people in it first.

and of course they're always like "well what about those people taking photos" and I explain that "those people are known to our community and know who does and doesn't want a photo. people have already consented or not consented at past events to that person's photos and they know this" or "thanks for pointing that out I will talk to them too because they also should not be taking photos." this also, of course, does not solve the conflict and they continue taking photos anyways.

I have my own tactics for stopping photos when someone refuses that don't involve smashing cameras but they tend to escalate things anyways.

I want to boost everything this person has said and add on.

The reason I call myself a tomboy now, despite it being seen as a childish word and having had someone swear at me over it because ‘tHeRe’S nO suCh thInG as BoY thInGs anD giRL thIngS sHut uP’ is because I couldn’t call myself that or be like that when I was a kid. It was seen as a negative thing and I was already bullied enough. “Looking like a boy” was the worst thing that could happen to a girl.

And I’m not even 26 yet. We aren’t talking 30+ years ago, we are talking 2000s and even 2010s. It’s only since trans people have become more accepted in the past few years that gender nonconformity has too.

And the people who helped me accept my gender nonconformity more than anyone else? Were trans people. They taught me, “there’s nothing wrong with how you feel. You’re still a valid woman no matter what you wear, how you have your hair or what you’re into ❤️”

And don’t even get me started on how people treat gender nonconforming men. JK Rowling has a lot of nerve to be like “uwu boys can wear dresses and only us gendercrits accept that!” when she has, even in recent works, made femininity in men a negative trait, as well as making masculinity in women a negative trait also.

A lot of people still don’t accept gnc people even now. Just last year I had someone tell me they’d never let their daughter “dress like a boy”, and I’m always terrified to walk into a bathroom in case the next JK Rowling is in there, sees my gender expression and pepper sprays me or worse.

It feels like a uniquely American capitalist take to assume these traditions will make you completely self sufficient. You need a lot of people, a lot of time, a lot of knowledge across a lot of subjects, and a lot of luck to provide for everyone's nutritional needs.

So should you even bother trying to be more self sufficient with your food? I argue yes. Foraging and gardening are fun and will teach you so much about many things. They are deeply rewarding activities that can supplement your diet. There are herbs I haven't bought in years because I grow my own. There are dishes I can only make with foraged ingredients because I can't get them in stores.

"But!" she said:

People who see a clean, trash-free river are more likely support laws to curb more harmful "systemic" forms of pollution. People who participate in river cleanups take pride in their work--their river!--and become evangelists for protecting it.