yk when you see someone share a finished handmade item that they clearly spent a lot of time and money on and it's just. The absolute tackiest thing you have seen in your life. And then you ask yourself why someone would waste all those resources on such an eyesore.
(no, of course you can't relate to that because you're a much nicer person than me)
In any case.
BEHOLD!
A wool coat!
The top fabric is handwoven and handspun, the whole thing is sewn by hand, too.
Leftovers. Barely anything, all things considered, which is very satisfying.
This thing took me well over 3 years to make, on and off. And now I'm done.
Thank you for your attention.
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she says he won't let her get a dog, which is fine, because they're in an apartment, and that's the kind of thing people say about their partners. he won't let me get a dog. and you're at a dinner party and you tilt your head a little to the side just like that dog he won't let her get, because is this the thing that's going to upset you? you don't know every corner of their relationship, she could be joking, they could have had so many healthy conversations about the dog, right, and maybe she's not letting herself get the dog because of money and time and whatever. but, like, she did say let
and she wants to move away from his hometown and he wants to stay and then he tells you with a wink and a conspiratorial stage whisper don't worry i'll convince her and she laughs about it - so clearly this is something they laugh about. but you do just stand there and stare at him like what the fuck, man. you can't say what you want to say which is why do you get the final say on everything because they're both obviously aware of the other person's stance on this and have obviously had private conversations about it and what are you going to do about it except make a scene and then he'll be mad at you and call you one of those bitches behind your back and she'll cut you off, which is a loss that doesn't feel worth it just because he makes you a little skeeved out every 3rd comment
and they both agree he just isn't the type to get flowers which is fine because everyone shows love differently, and are you really gonna judge someone based on their sense of individual relationship responsibility? maybe he's constantly cleaning her car and writing her poems and making her furniture or something. maybe she doesn't even like flowers and this is perfect, actually. and no you couldn't date him, obviously, ew; but like, she tells you she's happy. you almost send her a tiktok that says don't be 25 and the cool girl that doesn't need anything, you'll hate not getting flowers at 30, but that's like, starting drama & you shouldn't start drama needlessly.
and you're a little older than her but not so much older you can pull the whole trust me on this one babe thing and besides that wouldn't have worked anyway (when does it ever) and besides you have trauma so you and your therapist both agree that you're always looking for a problem even when there isn't one. and you tell yourself that just because you see them for 15 minutes every month does not mean you can identify every single red flag based on a single shitty half-joking(?) comment
and besides, what are you going to do? she says i actually wanted another stand mixer but thankfully he stops me when i'm about to spend too much money and you're standing there like are you okay? is this normal? is this just something people say? and again - what are you going to do?
to your therapist you try to language it - it's not, like, any of my business. but sometimes, doesn't it feel like - you should do something. there's got to be something, right? you've tried dropping little hints but they sail right through and you've tried having a single serious conversation and she got upset because why does it matter to you, yes it's different but we're happy, it doesn't need to make sense to you and you're like. really unwilling to push a boundary about it anymore; because the truth is that you know logically it shouldn't matter to you, as long as both parties are happy.
and besides, you've been wrong before. it's just... like, every time you see them both, something else happens, some kind of shiver down your spine like do you even hear each other when you talk. it's their strange, bickering orbit. just the way he's on his phone through dinner or watching sports instead of helping in the kitchen or, fuck, another one of these little throwaway comments he makes about we'll see about that, babe. she laughs when he calls her passions stupid shit and meanwhile she gets him tickets to see the knicks and he tells you well at least she's smart about something and still! it's none of your business.
you say get the dog anyway and she laughs. like, this is is you being funny. and not you saying - no really. get the dog. get the dog and get out of here. pack up and start running.
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Ok since I've seen a lot of people saying they haven't started yet:
START CLEANING YOUR HOUSE FOR PESACH IF YOU HAVEN'T YET. DON'T TRY TO DO IT ALL THE DAY BEFORE, IT WILL BE PAINFUL AND YOU KNOW IT!!
Alternatively, sell your chametz to a goy
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Please do not reblog.
Colin Trevorrow needs to be fired HOLY HELL.
The new Jurassic World movie is an insult to the existence of brains. When I heard people clapping in the cinema (which is uncommon where I’m at) I legit booed. Wow, what a movie...
I really need to vent, because this movie... OH MY GOD. No, no, no, for the sake of everything, do not incorporate animal rights themes/parallels if it’s clear you don’t know what you’re doing.
Spoilers for one of the introductory scenes of the film below. Also, I am an animal rights/vegan activist, and as it’s a big passion of mine (and my special interest), I’ll be going into that aspect as well, and I WILL be in my crazy hyper passionate will overindulge in talking about this mood, so get outta here if you don’t want that! It’s going to get VERY long and I’m doing this more for myself than anything, so please don’t start any bullshit in the comments and let me indulge goddammit!
There’s one specific thing that particularly pissed me off that I wanna write about here. I don’t tend to go into much detail about my support of/passion for the animal liberation/vegan movement here for a multitude of reasons, but you will see snippets of it sneak into my writing (e.g. I avoid anthropocentrism, I avoid referring to animals as ‘it’, that kind of thing). I genuinely grow extremely annoyed when I see fiction attempt to tackle the subject, and clearly be written by someone who not only knows nothing about the movement, but also holds no interest for it either. Just taking the aesthetic or the ‘comfortable’ parts while upholding the dominant and invisible ideology of carnism.
There’s a lot wrong with this movie; an insulting script, disgraceful hoards of plot holes, surprisingly boring, etc... but oh my lord, I’d like to focus on this animal rights thing because I don’t think most people will comment on this, and I wanna write about it.
The movie opens with characters trespassing an illegal dinosaur farm/breeding facility, all clad in black and hiding their faces as they document the conditions the dinosaurs are kept in. They are horrified by the conditions and decide to liberate and escape with a sick baby dinosaur because they’d die otherwise, due to the neglect.
This isn’t aluding to or mildly paralleling what activists fighting for animal liberation do... this is LITERALLY what some of us do (I personally have not done direct action, my activism is focused on outreach– but I’d love to do it someday, or vigils, but that’s a whole other story). The imagery of them clad in black and freeing the dinosaur as they make an escape from authorities is... it’s literally just the fucking ALF (Animal Liberation Front). Well, the ALF do lots of property damage, so you could also compare it to people who do the basic documentation (without such damage), but end up rescuing an individual who would otherwise die.
But then the rest of the film does what most others do, to a rather uncomfortable level considering what came before... there’s a noticeable level of casual/unquestioned animal exploitation here, even objectification (a quote from the film is something like “our food, and our food’s food will disappear”, in reference to the loss of crops. Reducing a sentient being to just ‘food’, a someone to a something– which is a focus of my novel, so this gave me a fair amount of motivation to GO AND WRITE IT AND ACTUALLY MAKE A STORY THAT DARES TO CHALLENGE THE READER AND HAVE A SERIOUS DISCUSSION OF ANIMAL LIBERATION (oh the horror!).
It’s a very small thing, but there were other things too, and it all comes together to normalise and avoid questioning what you’d think the film might want to question, you know? It angers me to see the decision to take what activists do in real life, activists who are mocked by some of the general public for having compassion and opposing injustice, taking that imagery and everything they do for animals, and using it in such a cheap and thoughtless manner (considering the rest of the film very much upholds typical carnist attitudes, beliefs and actions). It angers me as an activist myself. As the movement grows– which it absolutely is– this kind of thing really isn’t going to age well... hell, it already aged horribly because this movie’s a JOKE, even if it hadn’t butchered the subject the way it did.
Holy hell I truly believe carnists should not dare to incorporate animal rights/liberation into their story if THIS is how they treat the subject.
Anyhow, my apologies. It’s late, I’m annoyed that this movie was as bad as it was, I’m dead tired and I don’t do much activism during uni, so I got a lot of pent up energy in me. Preferably don’t reblog this because I don’t have the energy to deal with people getting all up in my face if they disagree.
Oh my God I’m tired. This movie drained me.
And yes I swear I’m beginning to work on drafts.
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