It’s her...Ursula K Le Gun...
The Word for World is Violence
The Ones who Walk Away from My Heater
The Left Hand of Shooting
The Dispossessed (of Their Weaponry)
The Blasting
they called it earthsea because she's the last thing you'd see before they put you in the earth
The BeGunning Place.
RoCannon's World.
“happy endings” this “sad endings” that– you can debate the relative merits of each till your mouth goes dry and it’s still not a meaningful binary. Is the ending coherent and emotionally appropriate for the story? Cool.
Do people debate which one is better? Or which one they prefer?
They couch the debate in terms of which one is better but are often really debating which one they prefer
Aaaaand I'm back at the pottery desk starting my next batch, working on a new round of slab-built mugs (& assorted other creatures while I wait for slabs to firm up...once I've made a few more mugs, I'm hoping to finally find time to focus on some bird ladies!!).
Also, I AM working on a shop update & WILL be announcing it soon (goal is maybe 2nd week of march?!). I just have this problem where working on pottery is more fun than getting my shop organized (sorry, sorry!).
who do you think i am exactly
the reason why people in Ankh-Morpork speculate that Vetinari is dating Margolotta, but people in Bonk-Schmaltzberg don’t speculate that Margolotta is dating Vetinari is that Vetinari leads a very chaste lifestyle and no one knows for sure that he’s gay, but Margolotta is out there in Überwald openly letting any woman in a nightgown enter her castle.
Margolotta has been the epicentre of Überwald lesbian drama for at least three generations
Angua, to Vimes: oh, you met the countess? She used to date my aunts.
Vimes: which aunt?
Angua: All of them, come to think of it. But not at the same time.
You: Ankh-Morporker making a comment about the assumed relationship between our leaders
Me: perplexed Bonk citizen frantically cloogling (clacks googling) to find out how I missed the election of a woman to the patricianate
The best part about Tumblr is I have no idea if this is genuine discourse about a piece of media, absolutely niche history, entirely invented by OP, or fanfiction based on a piece of media. I feel like I'm seeing spilled tea from another dimension.
This is not discourse. It is jokes.
You can google any of these names and find out where they’re from. (Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series)
drew this one ages ago when terror twitter decided to put james and francis in our clothes - thus here’s some salty seadogs out enjoying a stroll while sporting my finest outfit work ⚡️👢
Hey bestie whats a narrow boat? I saw you tag that on something you reblogged and I'm pretty curious now!
- Terry Darlington, Narrow Dog to Carcassone
A narrowboat (all one word) is a craft restricted to the British Isles, which are connected all over by a nerve-map of human-made canals. To go up and down hills, the canals are spangled with locks (chambers in which boats can be raised or lowered by filling or emptying them with water.) As Terry says above, the width of the locks was somewhat randomly determined, and as a result, the British Isles have a narrow design of lock - and a narrowboat to fit through them. A classic design was seventy feet long and six feet wide. Starting in the 18th century, and competing directly with trains, canal “barges” were an active means of transport and shipping. They were initially pulled along the towpaths by horses, and you can still see some today!
Later, engines were developed.
Even after the trains won the arms race, it was a fairly viable freight service right up until WW2. It’s slow travel, but uses few resources and requires little human power, with a fairly small crew (of women, in WW2) being capable of shifting two fully laden boats without consuming much fossil fuel.
In those times the barges were designed with small, cramped cabins in which the boaters and their families could live.
During its heyday the narrowboat community developed a style of folk art called “roses and castles” with clear links to fairground art as well as Romani caravan decor. They are historically decorated with different kinds of brass ornaments, and inside the cabins could also be distinctively painted and decorated.
Today, many narrowboats are distinctively decorated and colorful - even if not directly traditional with “roses and castles” they’ll still be bright and offbeat. A quirky name is necessary. All narrowboats, being boats, are female.
After a postwar decline, interest in the waterways was sparked by a leisure movement and collapsing canals were repaired. Today, the towpaths are a convenient walking/biking trail for people, as they connect up a lot of the mainland of the UK, hitting towns and cities. Although the restored canals are concrete-bottomed, they’re attractive to wildlife. Narrowboats from the 1970s onward started being designed for pleasure and long-term living. People enjoy vacationing by hiring a boat and visiting towns for a cuter, comfier, slower version of a campervan life. And a liveaboard community sprang up - people who live full-time on boats. Up until the very restrictive and nasty laws recently passed in the UK to make it harder for travelling peoples (these were aimed nastily at vanlivers and the Romani, and successfully hit everyone) this was one of the few legal ways remaining to be a total nomad in the UK.
Liveaboards can moor up anywhere along the canal for 28 days, but have to keep moving every 28 days. (Although sorting out the toilet and loading up with fresh water means that a lot of people move more frequently than that.) you can also live full-time in a marina if they allow it, or purchase your own mooring. In London, where canal boats are one of the few remaining cheapish ways to live, boats with moorings fetch the same prices as houses. It can be very very hard for families to balance school, parking, work, and all the difficulties of living off-grid- but many make it work. It remains a diverse community and is even growing, due to housing pressures in the UK. Boats can be very comfortable, even when only six feet wide. When faced with spending thousands of pounds on rent OR mooring up on a nice canal, you can see why it seems a romantic proposition for young people, and UK television channels always have slice-of-life documentaries about young folks fixing up their very own quirky solar-powered narrowboat. I don’t hate; I did it myself.
If you’re lucky, you might even meet some of the cool folks who run businesses from their narrowboats: canal-side walkers enjoy bookshops, vegan bakeries, ice-cream boats, restaurants, artists and crafters. There are Floating Markets and narrowboat festivals. It’s generally recognised that boaters contribute quite a lot to the canal - yet there are many tensions between different kinds of boaters (liveaboards vs leisure boaters vs tourists) as well as tensions with local settled people, towpath users like cyclists, and fishermen. I could go on and on explaining this rich culture and dramas, but I won’t.
Phillip Pullman’s Gyptians are a commonly cited example of liveaboards - although they were based on the narrowboat liveaboards that Pullman knew in Oxford, their boats are actually Dutch barges. Dutch barges make good homes but are too wide to access most of the midlands and northern canals, and are usually restricted to the south of the UK. So they’re accurate for Bristol/London/Oxford, and barges are definitely comfier to film on. (Being six feet wide is definitely super awkward for a boat.) but in general Dutch barges are less common, more expensive and can’t navigate the whole system.
However, apart from them, there are few examples of narrowboat depictions that escaped containment. So it’s quite interesting that there is an entire indigenous special class of boat, distinctive and highly specialised and very cute, with an associated culture and heritage and folk art type, known to all and widely celebrated, and ABSOLUTELY UNKNOWN outside of the UK - a nation largely known around the world for inflicting its culture on others. They’re a strange, sweet little secret - and nobody who has ever loved one can resist pointing them out for the rest of their lives, or talking about them when asked to. Thank you for asking me to.
i’ll update this as i find more fundraising initiatives and please free to share your own. reblogs with anything than sharing resources/mutual aid requests/fundraising opportunities get blocked.
Donations for evacuees from Little Red River Cree Nation can be sent by e transfer to Roseann@lrrcn.ab.ca (ref # foxlakedonation15043)
And a (nation approved) gofund me has been set up:
- The cold of the waves
you didnt put a nametag on your boyfriend and he despawned. sorry.
I’m starting to think that maybe you guys don’t know what a boyfriend is
he be a forme of creechure
Hey all, I’m Sorry to have to remake this.
My spouse and I are disabled native people who are struggling at the moment.
We currently need assistance. Our Amazon wishlist is here.
Donations can also be made here:
Venmo: KajiW
CashApp: $kajiw
Things needed:
-the wheelchair items (gloves and silicone wheel grips)
-heating items (blankets, etc)
As always, even if you aren’t participating, I’d be very grateful if you could signal boost by re-blogging! I’ll also be cross-posting to my Twitter *here* so RTs much appreciated if you’re on there ~
What’s a Secret Santa?
For those who have never done a Secret Santa before, the way it works is you submit a gift request, which goes into a pool which is then randomised. The randomised requests are then handed out to the participants.
So basically, its Mystery Gift! Everyone draws/writes a gift for someone. You won’t know who it’s for, and you won’t know who is doing yours! Then at Christmas I will hand out the completed gifts anonymously to whomever they belong, via email. After the gift exchange there is a master-post with everyone’s works with the authors/artists named.
Sounds good, where do I sign?
Send your email applications right here! -> tlhodsecretsanta@gmail.com
What do I write in my application email?
1. Your name / tumblr tag / most used social media - a link to your blog would also be helpful so I know who you are and can contact you if emails are not working or something. A link to examples of your work (art tag, etc) is also appreciated!
2. Preferred gift rating. NSFW requests are totally okay as long as they are not offensive/racist/sexist but if you’d like something NSFW, please also provide a SFW alternative request as not everyone is comfortable producing such content. If you don’t mind receiving NSFW but would prefer not to submit it, please tell me and vice versa.
3. Your actual request! If you prefer shipping/non shipping, please tell me.
Examples of requests (just for reference, there’s no required format):
- something with your fave pairing / a particular scene
- an AU you’d like to see (please provide some details)
Your requests don’t have to have any particular theme, request whatever you like!
4. Whether you would be able to pinch-hit (fill an extra gift if needed).
5. Whether you would like to remain anonymous to your gift recipient and/or on the master-post of entries (which will be posted up on Tumblr a few days after gift exchange)
———- DEADLINES ————–
Applications: 1st November 2022, 00:00 GMT
> The randomised requests will be sent out to everyone a couple of days after the closing deadline for applications
Gift submission: 20th December 2022, 22:00 GMT
> Please submit your completed gifts to tlhodsecretsanta@gmail.com
GIFT EXCHANGE WILL TAKE PLACE ON 24th December 2022 (time TBC. evening, GMT)
———- RULES/GUIDELINES —————–
- Don’t be a butt. (generally the best rule to live by)
- Complete the gift using your MAD SKILLS, be it drawing or writing fanfic! If you have other cool magic abilities like animating, you’re welcome to use those too!
- Please submit completed works only. Your gift should be fully coloured if it’s art (unless you are specifically doing a monochrome / inked piece - please submit complete works only), and properly formatted, spell-checked and at least 1,000 words if it’s a written piece.
- For written pieces, google doc links/word documents are fine for the email exchange, but if you want me to include your fic in the tumblr master-post please bear in mind you need to post it somewhere link-able such as AO3.
- if you are submitting NSFW art, AO3 hosts art too! With the recent tumblr restrictions, this is a good hosting option and I think they have anon options too.
- Please don’t post any completed gifts on your blog before the gift exchange date!
- if the deadline is approaching and you know you won’t be able to submit your piece in time, please tell me as soon as possible so I can arrange for someone else to fill your assigned prompt.
- if you’d like to remain anonymous, please tell me (there will be master-posts of all the submissions a couple of days after exchange)
- I’ll be tracking the tumblr tag ‘tlhod secret santa 2022’.
There’s also a Discord group - please let us know if you’d like an invite!
Three days left!
I've been making some silly shorts for the Ren Faire, lately. Now to make a cute matching belt!
The conversation around abortion shouldn’t be “are you absolutely sure you want an abortion” it should be “are you absolutely sure you want a child”. You can get pregnant again. You can adopt. But you can’t half-heartedly raise a child or change your mind midway through parenthood. Children are a huge responsibility and if someone isn’t 110% sure they are willing and able to do it, they shouldn’t. Having a baby shouldn't be the default because of how extremely demanding and difficult parenthood is and the irreversible damage it does to a kid to be raised by someone who didn't even fully want parenthood and wasn't prepared for that level of responsibility.
