Adding on- I believe you could make the "have to be married but hate one another" trope well if you made both the characters as adults. It'd be a nice way to wrestle with the themes of what we have to give up as individuals for the world around us. Though the trope itself seems more commonly used as an "enemies to lovers" thing, which can have it's place (if very much overdone at this point).
PascalPistachios
joined 1 year ago
Honestly, I can hardly choose my favourite line in this whole thing. I love it so much, more-so as someone who is working in white tablecloth dining (thankfully all the chefs here are lovely and sane).
The courses change nightly, depending on the seasonality of rutabaga, the availability of jamon iberico pata negra, and, most importantly, the temperament of the chef.
I had to choose one but overall, just. Mwah. I love the entire thing, I was genuinely laughing through the whole thing. Thanks so much!
On the non comedy side, I really like the opening too. How it colours the rest of the story, where the drama is the interest rather than the food. God damn, I ask for bad writing and people come in here giving some great stuff.
Noooo you cut it off at the best part!!! The destined battle between the time traveling magical girl Emo-Chan and her greatest enemy, Adolf Hitler.
Also, I unironically love the take you made on emo magical girl. Outside of the context, of, uh, Nazi Germany, I think the power of "deep emotional trauma blade" is just genuinely the funniest thing I've read in a while. It's like shoots beam that gives you anxiety level funny to me.
Also, I was 100% on board during the first paragraph. Not just for a laugh, but genuinely just intrigued to see where it was going. Don't you know this is meant to be bad writing? (Seriously though, great job!)
Oh trust me, I'll be spamming the instance with my pictures like a proud parent with a child. I was inspired by finding this website that documents the different dyes different eucalyptus trees can make. Gorgeous browns and greens galore. I absolutely want to post my adventures into spinning and yarn for each step.
Beware. Drum carders come PRICY. They last for life though. I'm going to get into it, but I'm looking into dying (and making my own plant based dyes from my own garden!!)
Edit: not the only way to process wool though. Processing raw fleece is a lot of work from what I've read up on it. World of wool is probably your best bet.
I'm going to stay on beehaw where at least they require an application to join. We need smaller and more spread out communities anyway to avoid astroturfing.
Please post your spins! I'd love to an get a proper community going (and I'd love to drool over pictures of yarn...)
I got this specific wool from here. I'm lucky to live in Australia where Merino are just about everywhere, so I get some wool from here too. But that one is quite local.
World of wool is by far the biggest and the cheapest option for finding wool though. Even with the shipping included. Plus, it's the only place I could find Angora at a price that didn't make me want to die.
Weirdly enough, there's a LOT of fleece on the Facebook marketplace, just more unprocessed. That might be an option with a lot more work involved if you're up to it.
Also, a good place to look is wool and sheep shows. Iirc, there was one in Maryland not too long ago. They generally pop up all around the place though.
God tell me about it. I'm still fresh myself, and tried making a skein without a niddy noddy. I lost 70g of plyed yarn 😭
My first wheel bobbin got completely over filled when I was plying. So THAT screwed up too. One skein was underspun and just fell apart. But!! Who cares when I'm having so much fun :) (apart from all the swearing and rage...)
Honestly, just keep at it. It clicked for me after a few on and off attempts over a few weeks.
Hey! Spindles are great! Once it clicked for me, and I moved on from the park and draft method I was having a blast haha. There's a book called "Respect the spindle" all about this. I'll write up my guide to be more general and welcoming to spindle users. There's the saying that a wheel is more efficient by hour, but a spindle is more efficient by week. Alas, I'm not a knitter. I might jump in soon though, hehe.
I think the issue with that is that dog whistles from far right extremists is constantly changing. And to outline an exact rule of what defines hate speech invites people to find loop holes in the rule.
This is just something that you have to trust the community on. And I can understand that sounds way too risky and vague.
I think with things like this, err on the side of caution, be excellent to one another, and keep politics to what you can do rather than what you should do. In my time, the "should do" arguments is where I found most of the division in communities that aught to get along come from. Just my own thoughts though.
Still, if any mods could give their word on the matter, that'd be(e) fantastic.
All I'm seeing is a place to upload video instructions to the tutorials I'm going to post here. Heh.