The creature outside my window that has been building a nest all week finally had a baby!
I'm sorry, is this... Is this implying there's no DYE in that rug? All raw wool in its natural colours? She fucking bred the sheep to get the colours she wanted over the course of ten years!? Holy shit.
Edit: this has gotten a huge amount of traction (fibrearts tumblr is a, uh, tight-knit community it seems!) so I am adding this note to state that I checked Lola Cody's website and can confirm: There is no dye in her work. She uses exclusively hand-spun Churro wool sheared from her home-raised sheep flock. It's all natural colours!
Anonymous asked:
Uh- are you aware of the meaning of proship?
autistichalsin answered:
Proship has never meant anything except a combination of three ideas:
- Ship and let ship (your ships don’t harm me and vice-versa) and YKINMK (your kink is not my kink, and that’s okay; my kink stories don’t harm you and vice-versa)
- Harassment over fiction is not acceptable
- Censorship of fiction is not acceptable either
Any other definitions are made by antis, not proshippers, and are an attempt at revisionism to justify harassment based on false claims.
WAIT that’s what that means?? 😭😭
everyone always has a dni for proshippers I thought it was something freaky or fucked up 😭😭
Yeah.
Antis like to claim that the "pro" means "problematic", but nope. "Pro" (for) is simply the opposite of "anti" (against), and all that "proship" really means is "Let everyone ship what they want, everyone mind their own business".
Listening to antis about what proshipping means is like listening to incels tell you what feminism means.
ID: A screenshot of a Tiktok. It shows a Brown person with long black hair staring into the camera, text over them reading:
"white ppl always gotta throw in random words to avoid just admitting something is Indian/south asian. they will see a jhoola and be like 'gothic renaissance era antique celestial indoor swing' like girl that's from my nani's living room 🤦♀️"
End ID.
i got called ableist for this post because someone said she might be autistic and this was just her stimming i love this website i could never leave
ALTGet peer reviewed
i think every publisher should have to institute a ban on books that fail what i’m calling the “little life” and “what else?” tests
for reference.
"When I taught creative writing at Princeton, [my students] had been told all of their lives to write what they knew. I always began the course by saying, “Don’t pay any attention to that.” First, because you don’t know anything and second, because I don’t want to hear about your true love and your mama and your papa and your friends. Think of somebody you don’t know. What about a Mexican waitress in the Rio Grande who can barely speak English? Or what about a Grande Madame in Paris? Things way outside their camp. Imagine it, create it. Don’t record and editorialize on some event that you’ve already lived through. I was always amazed at how effective that was. They were always out of the box when they were given license to imagine something wholly outside their existence. I thought it was a good training for them. Even if they ended up just writing an autobiography, at least they could relate to themselves as strangers."
-Toni Morrison in an 2014 interview with NEA Arts Magazine
Idk Louise Guck and Toni Morrison just sound like they hate people? What a horrid mind to have that is actively hostile to being interested in others peoples 'little' lives. How people that think like that could be interested in other peoples 'big' thoughts or care about what they produce is beyond me, it sounds predisposed to just ignore them anyway no matter how free and quality the writing is
They are giving creative writing advice at an academic level. Anyone can write diary entries or give straightfoward retellings. This advice is to expand and improve in the craft by not being so close minded as to believe your limited life experiences are inherently valuable to the arts—or inherently interesting.
They are also paid professionals who know from their experience that most readers are not fascinated by every poem about a dog or novels about the divorce of the writer's parents. There's a reason bestselling biographies and memoirs are about famous people or people with uniquely interesting lives—or people with boring lives who learned how to tell them creatively. Everyone else is more or less the lady in the checkout line info-dumping to the cashier.
Think of it as being like going to a massively televised, international, celebrity chef attended, cake baking competition where they will have sky high cakes no one has ever seen or heard of before with exotic flavors and moving parts and sweet insides that gush out when sliced....and you enter a single-layer yellow cake you made from a Pillsbury mix exactly as the instructions said, but you added some tears and childhood memories to it. No one there will be intrigued, and more than a few will be annoyed.
Do many people like cake made from Pillsbury mixes? Yes! And they often enjoy making them too. Do they go to culinary school and train under extremely skilled leaders in the field of baking to just keep making cake from a mix? No!
That's it, that's what the post is about.
This is fascinating because there's an entire writing movement thats the exact opposite of this sentiment and that's auto fiction, which ( I learned from a professional writer) main exploration is: "Everyone lives an interesting life, even if it is seemingly plain." and its about the way we can write fictional retellings of our lives to ascribe theme and time and meaning and intent.
I love the simplicity of the genre. Motherhood is such a good novel. I think about it all the time.
Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):
- “For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.
- “But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.
- “When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.
- “When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”
- “This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”
- “There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.
THIS IS A LIFESAVERRR
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