yellow fly of the dismal swamp

See the First-Ever Photos of Cozumel’s Mysterious Dwarf Fox

Many believed the tiny fox had gone extinct

Strange things happen to animals when they colonize islands. Some of them get larger, like the enormous rabbit Nuralagus rex of ancient Menorca, while others get smaller, like the dwarf fox of Cozumel. This mysterious species of gray fox is estimated to be only around 60 to 80 percent the size of its larger mainland brethren. Fossils indicate it first arrived on the Mexican island around 5,000 years ago, predating the arrival of humans...

Busy day, buncha spindle spinning. I did continue chipping away at the breed study while waiting for the bus and also did a hint of yak hair, but I didn't snap a photo and I'm too lazy to do it now.

Also borrowed fiber arts friend's spindle real quick for a tiny mini project, because I got really tired of working on the stuff I'd actually brought with me.

That, I did get photos of!

23.6g of the white and 3.3g of the teal.

I had been thinking about only using the treadle wheel on my days off, and using just the espinner on days I’m working, but I was worried I wouldn’t be able to finish that project before the end of TDF if I did that.

Turns out I didn’t need to be worried. I only have 17.4g left to spin, which can probably be done in an hour or so. I am probably going to ply it on the espinner, because I know I’m going to get lazy and not treadle fast enough when I’m plying.

Mails shirt with rings inscribed with the names of Mohammed and the five leading imams of Shi'a Islam, possibly Iran, 15th-16th century

found the post. to be fair to them. not the most egregious thing said on this post, but they did endorse the rest of it so.

ignoring "horny frat boys" being an insane way to describe percy, byron, and polidori, not to mention poor fucking claire lmao. theres a pervasive issue of people really wanting mary shelley's life and career to be a story of a woman being greatly underestimated and silenced by her (male) peers but persevering nonetheless and this idea is generally pushed in popular culture and by some ill informed biographers to the point that it is just no longer reflective of her actual experiences. i think people forget a lot that mary shelley existed in radical circles that, while not devoid of misogyny, had moved past the idea that women shouldn't have opinions and be writing and have lives outside of their relationships with men and who certainly were not discouraging her from pursuing a career in writing. she was deeply admired for being the daughter of wollstonecraft and godwin and then as a writer in her own right, and i think its sad that this idea that she was discouraged from pursuing writing by the men in her life, especially by her husband, is so pervasive because one of the most interesting things about her social group to me is the creative relationships built among them. people joke a lot that percy shelley is just remembered as the wife of the author of frankenstien as a diss on him but everything he is on record saying about her work implies that he would be fucking honored. they had a deep creative partnership and mutual admiration for one another's work that was much stronger than even their romantic relationship and its deeply frustrating how that is often disregarded and put down because people are so fixated on this stereotype of how they think 19th century women should exist that they dont let themselves engage with what her life was actually like.