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If I’m knitting at least 2 rows of the fractal cowl per day, and I have 40 rows left, then I will be done in a maximum of 20 (+5 for emergencies) days, so before school starts February the 19th. Sweet.

Meanwhile I have been knitting one hexipuff a day to make a quilt, and I am currently pretty pleased? Yay. If every mini-skein of the yarn I have in a bunch of colors makes ~2.5 hexi-puffs, then I should have 2.5x42 mini-skeins= ~105 more daily puffs from this bin of tiny yarn. So I won’t run out of yarn until April 24th or thereabouts. Sweet.

If you know of any sport-weight cotton in interesting tonal or variagated colors, do let me know?

I’m tired but my brain won’t shut up. Ugh. Gonna try to sleep anyway, night night.

Cartomancy and feelings

I want to get used to the new Alphonse Mucha deck, so I want to do some card readings between now and the 29th. I’m not sure which days they’ll get done on, but drop a comment if you want a reading?

Feelings and wants behind the cut:( Read more... )

Thanks to fandom

Snowflake Challenge #5

Talk about what has improved in your life thanks to fandom.

1. Fandom taught me to interrogate a text. I can now to some extent see whose voices and perspectives are missing from a piece of media, which is a real skill for an autist. With some thought, I can pick out what writers are bullshitting themselves about being accepting of.
2. Fandom introduced me to more fannish people, who tend to be LGBTQ-accepting -accepting of me- and skew autistic. I would possibly still not know I’m autistic without maeritrae and those like her.
3. Fandom skews writerly and disabled, a thing which I also am. My ableism, internalized and otherwise, used to be way worse and I might not have survived the fibromyalgia diagnosis and chronic pain if I hadn’t already known folks who had similar stuff going on, who led by example how to accept yourself when your body is being a pile of fail.
4. I met my Boston Spouse through fandom, and so many friends I’ve kept up with through the decades. (My fannishness is now old enough to drink, zomg)
5. I have written fics and researched things for them that changed how I deal with people, with life, with my family.
6. I have read fics so profound that I had to reorganize parts of my life around different ethical lines.
7. Collectively, years worth of time reading fics and listening to podficcing and looking at fanart. Y’all are amazing!
8. You’re here. That’s got to mean something, too. 😉



Helpful reminder, if you’re looking to spread joy and make friends: Check out the comments on snowflake_challenge for all the awesome participants and visit their journals/challenge responses to comment on their posts and cheer them on.