How / why did you learn to crochet?

The contiguous shoulder/sleeve method slaps if I may say so myself

I woke up at 6am and wrote an obituary for the two old guys in the muppets

suns out and I’ve got a big mug of coffee: here goes

Water freezing in high winds. ❄️🌬

A few more rows done this week. Almost to the end of the first increase chart, woo!

Might get a lot done next weekend, it's a four day weekend, but after that it's back to maybe an hour or two a week.

𝖱𝗂𝗏𝖾𝗇𝖽𝖾𝗅𝗅 𝖥𝖺𝗋𝗆

カシミアの黒を紡いでます。

紡がれたボビーの写真を撮ろうとしますが難しい。

この後、少し強撚にしたいので撚りをかけるために紡ぎます。

which is definitely not an omen

Shrimply the Best socks PDF knitting pattern // StoneKnits

Finished knitting a blanket for my nephew as a graduation gift.

Used a variegated acrylic yarn and a diagonal stitch (that's really hard to see with this yarn, as it turns out 😅).

It's basically a large throw blanket (big enough to curl up and sleep under if you're short like me).

I like how it turned out, if I say so myself. I only screwed up the pattern in a few spots, and since the pattern is hard to see in the first place, it's even harder to see the mistakes.

This took me a few months (knitting in my free time, and when I wasn't working on socks for my sister lol). Someday, I'd like to get faster. Gotta remind myself that I'm still pretty new at this. 😅

vampire who’s married to an archaeologist voice: my love, stop trying to carbon date me

What do you think about the ideas of '2-cakes', or the idea that more fic with similar tropes is a good thing? I've seen some popular writers in my fandom claiming it promotes fic plagiarism and now I'm not so sure if the fic I want to write would be welcome since there's already fic in my fandom with a similar premise. Im not copying anyone directly, at least I don't think so, but I'm worried about upsetting someone and being accused of plagiarizing. Is this something I should really be worried about?

The two cakes idea (from this comic over here) is 100% valid, and those authors in your fandom might be confused about what plagiarism is. 

Plagiarism occurs when someone copies the exact words of another author and then claims that they wrote those words themselves. 

Plagiarism is not using the same plot as someone else, using the same headcanon as someone else, it’s not even using someone else’s OC (although if that character belongs to a fellow fan instead of a professional writer you really should ask permission first, to be polite).

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Those authors should be proud that they were able to inspire someone else. A second story using the same plot device or the same trope doesn’t take anything away from the first story. It doesn’t “steal readers” or anything else they might be saying because a reader who enjoyed story 1 will very likely decide to read story 2 as well. 

Make your own interpretation. Write your own words. Even if the core idea is the same, the stories will be different. And they will both be loved.