Amber’s tumblr. Aww yeah!

“Glimpsing at the seabed through the water and the complexity of the light within, at a soothing southern sea.” By Shigeko Inoue (2002).

I made a paintbrush today and am absolutely obsessed.

I’ve tried to be as ethical as possible - the fur is from vintage clothing offcuts and the rest of the materials are either foraged or things I already had (dental floss, wood glue).

Currently reading: nothing, because I'm unable to read and knit at the same time. BUT I did just read Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree, which was delightful (and has turned me into a coffee drinker as well as a tea drinker; it's a problem!).

Favourite colour: I am constitutionally incapable of picking just one, but I love soft greys, deep jewel tones, as well as desaturated jewel tones. I am most often drawn to mint, eucalyptus and sage greens, mauve, amethyst and lavender purples, robin's egg, cornflower and smalt blues and garnet and ruby reds.

Last song: ummmm, title unknown instrumental performed by a busker (name also unknown, sorry) on electric violin with effects pedal to loop and layer; also Tuca Tuca performed by Pink Martini; and also It's Thursday Night performed by the cast of Critical Role.

Last movie: Nimona! And I love it!

Sweet/spicy/savoury: yes (though I am a wuss when it comes to spice, trying to build a tolerance).

Currently working on: knitting the border for a baby blanket for a colleague; writing, working desultorily on The Tales of Bretha Stitchwitch and The Trials of Rowan Queensbane, an original fantasy duology. The knitting is progressing much faster.

Currently reading:

I'm listening, when I have time, to Old In Art School by Nell Painter, a nuanced journey of what it's like to be a sixty year old black woman with an academic background, choosing to put herself back in school for a bachelor's degree in fine arts. It's funny and frustrating, and I often get mad at her teachers for being casually dismissive of their students' passions.

Favourite colour: hard to choose... fuschia pink? Prussian blue? Neon orange? Raw sienna? There's too many good ones!

Last song: Heal Over by K. T. Tunstall, unless you count the snippet of Love Shack I just heard in the mall

Last movie: Astérix et Obelix, L'Empire de Milieu on Netflix, subtitles on of course, it was so so good!

Sweet/spicy/savoury: yes to all, but if I really had to pick one it'd be savoury.

Currently working on: I'm packing to move, so I really can't be working on much right now, but I have a spinning project (pink three ply corridale) and a crochet project (multi-coloured infinity scarf of double crochet) to tide me over.

the fact two seperate folks got it commissioned.....

good news, it's allll ready! you can buy 'em at this link here for ten canadian bucks apiece!

There are at least 300 million unique visitors worldwide on this site. Over 500 million blogs.

Listen. Tumblr is $30 million in debt. This is Super easy for us to solve.

If each user gifts one blog crabs, which costs slightly over $3, that would be roughly $600 million at least. Far more than enough to get Tumblr out of the red zone.

If we want tumblr to stay afloat and not change something as integral about their operating system, we need to show them they can be profitable without reducing themselves to common social media sites. What we have here is special. It is different. We are the social media site people run to when theirs collapses and for good reason.

On July 29th, gift as many crabs as you can without breaking the bank. Post crab memes if you cannot afford a crab.

I was just watching a piece on lucid dreaming and remembering an old animated Batman episode where he realized he was dreaming because none of the books had words he could read in them.

I read books in my dreams all the time.