@Snackness said in The Crafting Thread:
@Auspice I may need this pattern. For me. And like, everyone I know.
http://cunningcrossstitch.blogspot.com/p/syoa-letters-from-hogwarts.html
be prepared to cry over the prep stage.
all I've done is the top-left Hedwig.
You start with that and your wand (which is decided via die roll). The first 'chapter' is your House (your choice, I'mma be doing Slytherin) in the top center.
someone in my group is winning me over to the idea of learning sashiko because I totally need another craft
but then I look at a brown jacket I've been debating things to jazz it up and I'm like y'knooooooooooooow
Esp. when she links stuff like this:
@Pandora said in Separating Art From Artist:
Election day should be a federal holiday and the fact that it isn't smacks of a contempt for the right to vote for the poorer working class who have less control over their work schedules.
Unfortunately with the utter disregard for any other federal holiday anymore, I doubt it'd make a difference. It'd still leave issues, too, of transportation and childcare.
It's why I'm so very pro WA's election style. Sit down, take your time, drop it in a mailbox or one of the drop spots all over your town (postage already paid).
@GreenFlashlight said in Good or New Movies Review:
I never saw Inception, because Christopher Nolan movies always tend to be about his creative process, which itself is usually about suppressing emotion to abide by patriarchal English virtues and I've seen that movie enough times already, thanks.
He's so hit-or-miss for me.
I loved Memento. Loved Dunkirk. Batman Begins was p good. Dark Knight was good. I never saw Dark Knight Rises (sorry but Bane talking makes me start laughing a lot).
But then it's like.
Inception. Interstellar.
Ugh.
I'm mad about Interstellar still. I went wanting LEGIT SCI-FI after reading about the shit ton of money poured into modeling programs for black holes and how it actually benefited astrophysicists and..... what I got was a hamfisted awkward HUMAN WUV story.
Ugh.
@Tinuviel said in Separating Art From Artist:
@Auspice The easiest way to make more people vote is to ease accessibility to voting.
For truth.
I loved Washington's method: 'we're gonna mail your ballot and a booklet of all your options to you, you get 2 weeks to fill it out and drop it in a mailbox'
In TX, they've massively expanded the 'early voting' options so that you have plenty of time to sort out your schedule (jobs aren't the only thing that can get in the way for people, after all) and transportation.
States are getting there, but I wish everyone would use WA's method.
@TheOnceler said in Good or New Movies Review:
@Auspice said in Good or New Movies Review:
@Ghost said in Good or New Movies Review:
@Auspice Nope. I really did just watch it again. I love it. F.A.K.U
The very first time I saw that movie when it came out, all I could think was 'cool visuals ruined by it being too far up its own ass' and that opinion has not changed.
I thought "I wish I could see a movie with crazy visuals like that, but without all the tedium" and then Marvel gave me Doctor Strange and I was happy.
Too bad duder isn't on DrS2. Hopefully it doesn't mean that they've pulled away from making it kind of a horror-y movie.
I felt much the same!
Inception always read to me as 'a movie for non-intellectuals to pretend they get so they can feel deep'. It just didn't hit for me, but damn it looked cool.
And then yeah, Doctor Strange came along and I was like fuck yes more of this plz
btw reading that article:
*That’s precisely the kind of reaction Mikey Dickerson envisioned for VoteWithMe, an app drawing on public voting records to show whether friends and family in your contact list are participating in America’s democracy. *
yikesyikesyikesyikes
look, I don't approve when people don't vote, but I don't shame them either.
There's a cycle I didn't vote in because I had moved before the cut-off, had to do an absentee, and it arrived over a month after the election. I don't need someone up in my face all WHY DIDN'T YOU VOTE IN 2004?!?!?!?!
@Tinuviel said in Separating Art From Artist:
Choosing to officially affiliate with a particular party is mind-boggling to me. But then again so is 'deciding not to vote.'
Unfortunately, in many states, you are required to do so. And as someone who prefers to weigh all options, I fucking hate when Republican/Democrat are the only two options.
(It also opens you up to getting calls from politicians so it's almost worth it on major election years to swap affiliations. 'Oh the Republicans are the incumbent party this year? Time to be one for an election cycle so I don't get a shit ton of campaign calls and emails.')
My guess is the read on it was 'It's not a name I intend (to see) pass(Ed) on to future generations'
Which is a misinterpretation of the statement, but a) we don't always write exactly what we mean (not purposefully; it just happens) and b) I think an understandable one considering the rest of what has been said.
@marsmrsmars +request about it on game.
@TNP said in Separating Art From Artist:
I'll like the art on its own merits, regardless of the beliefs of the creator. I will not, however, give the artist a cent of my money to support them and their offensive beliefs. Orson Scott Card comes to mind and I regret ever buying his books. I'd pirate Ender's Game instead.
Piers Anthony is my example in this, but I got all the Incarnations books second-hand at least.
I found this article today and I really appreciated this woman's take on these matters (reading classic works through today's lens).
@Tinuviel said in Separating Art From Artist:
All that said, cancel culture is extremely dangerous. Especially on Twitter, where a few hundred characters can easily be misinterpreted - and drama propagates faster than explanation or apology. I'm not saying that any of the mentioned authors/artists are right, or not bigots, just that the idea of summarily eradicating a person's work based on speculation is a dangerous undertaking.
It also gets unfairly applied based on how well-liked the person is at the moment it occurs.
We've seen people have their career ruined because a stupid tweet made in HS is found (and none of their current behavior showcases them as being that person anymore). But then, for example, we saw James Gunn get initially 'cancelled' due to tweets he'd made years ago... and everyone campaigned for him to be reinstated and commented how unfair it was.
Which, it was, re: Gunn. But it left a bad taste in my mouth to see some of the same people supporting him being the ones who will rail on someone else who isn't someone they're a big fan of.
@surreality It's Hedwig!
I have so so so so so so much more of the first pattern drop for the HP SAL to do. <sob>
In other news, this is my new favorite pattern and I am buying it soon, I swear to glob:
@Tinuviel said in The Work Thread:
@GreenFlashlight said in The Work Thread:
@Auspice said in The Work Thread:
Someone put up posters all over work for a fundraiser they're doing for Australia.
And I'm like.
This is cool what you're doing but covering the poster with glamor shots of yourself plus like, two stock koala photos is weird and means I am prob just gonna look for an official foundation thanks.(p.s. Australia is more than just koalas.)
Yeah, I won't take shots at anyone trying to help, but I'm really suspicious of how basically every story I hear about the Australian fires frames it in terms of animals dead and contains no mention at all of the effects on the indigenous population. It makes me think there's a horror going on there we're not being told about.
To be fair, the fact that an estimated billion animals have been killed in these fires is really hard not to talk about. People have died, twenty-five at last report, and it is possible more unreported indigenous deaths... but that pales in comparison to a billion dead animals.
I think it's also easier to market animals into fundraising. So it's a frightening number (with many populations considered entirely lost) and it helps get people to open their wallets. I don't consider it a loss at all (er, a loss in terms of 'what gets money raised')
(I am one of those people more likely to donate for animals than people.)
@GreenFlashlight said in The Work Thread:
@Auspice said in The Work Thread:
Someone put up posters all over work for a fundraiser they're doing for Australia.
And I'm like.
This is cool what you're doing but covering the poster with glamor shots of yourself plus like, two stock koala photos is weird and means I am prob just gonna look for an official foundation thanks.(p.s. Australia is more than just koalas.)
Yeah, I won't take shots at anyone trying to help, but I'm really suspicious of how basically every story I hear about the Australian fires frames it in terms of animals dead and contains no mention at all of the effects on the indigenous population. It makes me think there's a horror going on there we're not being told about.
I figure it's just 'people like cute animals and koalas are v. fetch rn'
because I adore flying foxes and there's reports entire populations of them are gone, but you don't hear much about them at all in the news.
@Ghost said in Good or New Movies Review:
@Auspice Nope. I really did just watch it again. I love it. F.A.K.U
The very first time I saw that movie when it came out, all I could think was 'cool visuals ruined by it being too far up its own ass' and that opinion has not changed.
@Ghost said in Good or New Movies Review:
Just watched Inception again (haven't watched it in a few years). So fucking good.
@Tinuviel said in The Work Thread:
@gryphter said in The Work Thread:
@Auspice said in The Work Thread:
(p.s. Australia is more than just koalas.)
Citation needed.
Someone put up posters all over work for a fundraiser they're doing for Australia.
And I'm like.
This is cool what you're doing but covering the poster with glamor shots of yourself plus like, two stock koala photos is weird and means I am prob just gonna look for an official foundation thanks.
(p.s. Australia is more than just koalas.)
