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Seven Recipes For Revolution & Eight Tastes of Treachery

high fantasy series

following a boy who works as a butcher carving up magical animals to serve the rich, but dreams of being a chef. but the only way someone of his class can become one is to create a new greater recipe, with magical effects

when he steals some meat and combines it with an imported spice, he manages to create one, and is invited into the elite chef school, while being exposed to the corruption at the centre of Rare society, and becoming involved with revolutionaries, as he’s become an unwilling symbol

he is telling this story to an archivist, 10 years later, while on trial for killing the king

and book 2, three years later - as the war continues, conspiracies and prophecies loom, and they journey west to find a way to end things

bi/pan MC, queernormative

Did Ardbert ffxiv because of your profile pic! 😁 (I'm guessing it's him, apologies if not!)

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: 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.

Atwert and Galga end up using the loophole of master and apprentice to stop Galga from being removed from witch society... but the fact that Atwert is actively removed from the tent against his will where Galga is being healed, the fact that he has no agency to help Galga due to not being defined as 'family' (presumably blood relations, or a married couple) and most condemning, the fact that they are a queer couple, strongly is reminiscent to me of the AIDs crisis and how queer relationships have been, and still are depending on where you live, invalid legally. And in being invalid legally, you get situations in which sometimes their partners are unable to visit them in the hospital, in which blood family are given legal rights to make decisions over the care of those within hospitals when people couldn't advocate for themselves anymore, over the money and belongings of those who passed away, over funerary arrangements rather than their partners; family who often unfortunately did not recognize or accept the person's queerness nor their partner. And essentially the exact same thing is occurring here, with Atwert and Galga, with Atwert being unable to care for, or make decisions for Galga, due to the regulations considering their relationship invalid. At this point we don't know really anything much about marriage within WHA, and we don't know if same-sex marriage is legal; it seems like in the brief scenes we get that no one is disgusted by Galga and Atwert being partners, so it seems like homophobia (at large) may not be nessicarily a issue, but then that doesn't mean that same-sex marriage is legal. Even then, maybe it's only an issue because they aren't married... but then why not have a het couple? Why is the only canonically queer couple-and newly introduced or explored characters-within the manga, the couple that experiences this?

We know Shirahama within the manga is very deliberate in what she shows, in highlighting the issues within the system, and I think this is another instance. After all, making Galga a gay man with a partner and having erased his memory, she displays both the irony of a Knights Moralis having their own tools used against them, pointing out the flaws within the system they enforce by showing what it does to the person and people that care for them; while also pointing out other systemic injustices within WHA (and within our own society) of the limits on who is legally recognized as 'family' and to have power of attorney, which is emphasized by a queer relationship due to the ongoing and historical issues queers (including non-monogamous or qpr relationships) have experienced in this matter. All in all, I think this was a very deliberate choice Shirahama made, in that the only (so far) canonically queer couple was to experience these issues... and interestingly, a choice that shows she is knowledgeable on queer issues. As a result I'm curious on how much more we'll get regarding this topic, and queerness in general within WHA as a result... although I doubt this will be particularly picked up too much as there are many themes.

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