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Little cat wakes up and stretches after a beautiful nap
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this does not apply if you wear exclusively leggings. Those things tear all the time you need like a million on standby
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There should be a fanfic writing game called the showrunners challenge where someone writes a story and partway through someone else can play things like "actor leaves after 4000 more words" or "topic now too politically sensitive due to unforeseen world events" or "lost rights to that reference"
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Wizards make all those funny hand gestures because they're selecting the spell from a terrible UI
The reason spell slots are so limited is because your wizard refuses to buy premium magic.
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Trains love physical media and hate your streaming, that's why the wifi is always broken, they want you to bring a portable DVD player or a Walkman or a cd player or something for the media you consume to be owned by you, it's an act of love
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If you enjoyed
the Radio,
Consider:
downloading 371 songs onto your phone and an mp3 player app
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What's the point of a Cyberpunk dystopia if you aren't even going to have a metro line that is elevated and goes through abandoned skyscrapers and is rotting away with broken neon signs at the entrance.
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Today I am thinking about weaving.
I can knit and crochet, but those crafts didn't exist in Roman times. Any historically accurate Roman cloth must be woven. So when a little potholder loom jumped into my shopping basket for 50 cents, it felt like a sign I should learn.
One potholder that was 50% yarn and 50% weird gaps later, I looked up a tutorial, and realized why the damn thing was 50 cents. I needed a better, more adaptable loom. And, because I am a cheapskate and slightly loony, I decided to make one instead of buying it.
So, how does this thing work?
First, you string the warp threads up and down, around the pegs. Here, I made a zigzag shape. Then, you use a needle or shuttle to weave more yarn over and under the warp, horizontally, back and forth. This produces woven fabric.
Some looms weave from the top, some from the bottom. This Greek urn shows two weavers working from the top. The left weaver uses a rod to compact the woven fabric upward, keeping it even and sturdy. The right weaver is passing an oval-shaped shuttle through the warp threads to form another row.
Most Roman looms would have looked like this, with the finished cloth at the top. Unlike my looms, these are warp-weighted. That means you keep the warp yarns taut by hanging weights at the bottom, rather than through a bottom row of pegs.
Warp-weighted looms also have a big advantage over my little potholder loom: you can easily create multiple sheds.
A "shed" is a temporary gap between lifted strands and non-lifted strands. Instead of having to go over and under each strand individually, you raise the entire shed, then pull the shuttle or needle straight through. This saves lots of time! Then, to weave the next row, you close the shed, lift up a different set of threads to create a new shed, and send the shuttle/needle through the other direction.
On a warp-weighted loom, the sheds are opened by loops called heddles (H), which are attached to a heddle rod (G). When the rod is down, shed (1) is open (middle diagram). When you pull the rod up, shed (1) closes and shed (2) opens instead (right diagram). Most warp-weighted looms also have a pair of forks you can rest the heddle rod on, to free your hands.
Here, there are three heddle rods and sets of forks, the heddles are white, and the warp thread is red. This gives you four different sheds, and the potential to weave very complex patterns indeed. Not bad for a device invented over 6500 years ago!
I liked the multiple heddle-rod design so much, I tried incorporating it into my DIY loom, too. I've tested both yarn and paperclips as heddles:
I actually got both sheds and heddle-rods working, too. Which is pretty cool for a lap loom - every other lap loom I found only has one shed, so you have to go over-under the individual threads on alternate rows.* More time-consuming. However, the sheds here are narrow, and I'll need a smaller and smoother shuttle to pass through them smoothly. This wouldn't be an issue on a warp-weighted loom, where the warp hangs freely downward, and can move more flexibly with the heddles.
Anyway. I may get a "real" loom at some point, but I wanted to build one first, and I think it gave me more appreciation for just how resourceful ancient weavers were. They created technology, clothing, and artwork out of very basic materials, and civilization depended on these skills.
Now, I need to go finish the...whatever the hell it will be. Big thanks to Wikipedia and to the lovely Youtubers who make this craft easier to learn. I think it'll be a lot of fun.
(*Edit - found out a rotating heddle bar can make two sheds on a lap loom! Exciting!!)
#i like ancient technologies because they make things look easier and more manageable#Like looking at a modern loom makes you wanna cry from how complex it looks
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1886 Alexander Sokolov - Portrait of a woman
(State Russian Museum)
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there are some internet friends where eventually you start calling them by their real name and then there’s times where its like nah son your name is crispy forever
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(Sorry I had to shorten some quotes)
From:
Anna Karenina-Leo Tolstoy
A Tale Of Two Cities-Charles Dickens
Moby Dick-Herman Melville
Pride & Prejudice-Jane Austen
War Of The Worlds-H.G. Wells
The Iliad-Homer
The Great Gatsby-F. Scott Fritzgerald
The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer-Mark Twain
The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn-Mark Twain
The Divine Comedy-Dante Alighieri
Romeo & Juliet-William Shakespeare
My Immortal-Tara Gilesbie
#you can't top the iliad. Though of course the whole beginning of the Comedy is burnt in my brain. But you gotta recognise my immortal holds#Historical value
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It makes me happy when they listen
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