started reading slaughterhouse five and tbqh i fear billy pilgrim isn’t supposed to be this relatable. but it is early days i suppose

real probablymoons fans already know this but in the many years of having this here blog, it is safe to say i have never been accused of supporting the united states government before

i dont know if a full story would even be tolerable but wow Vera and Cy’s dynamic. sure, give that twenty-something a 10 year old to raise it’ll just be the MomSister and BrotherSon. they do not respect each other in the slightest

small as it was, i was still quite happy with the depiction of disability in Wake Up Dead Man (2025)

strobe warning for the movie

video description:

A scene from Wake Up Dead Man (2025) where Simone, a wheelchair user, stands up in the background while others are talking. The church secretary screams when she sees this, then shouts “It’s a miracle!”

Simone explains “I can walk, Martha. It just hurts.” She grabs a cigarette lighter and sits back in her chair while continuing the conversation; “And I say good, expose it all. Wicks was a con man, miracles and supernatural power of God bullshit. (scoffs) I really believed. I still wanna believe, how sick is that?”

It cuts to an end clip of Simone playing her cello with black support tape along her arm. It is a slow zoom to her face while Father Jud does the voiceover; “And some got their miracle. Not being cured or fixed, but finding the sustaining power to wake up every day and do what we’re here to do in spite of the pain. Daily bread.”

Kiran @handweavers:

i’m interested in finding historic weaving drafts produced by non western cultures so i can expand this research. [Original post]

hello! definitely fell down a rabbit hole, but i think i finally found something here, from China! here is similar article, also these model looms from the Han Dynasty have pattern shafts.

These 2 are about Nishijin brocade from Japan: Kogei, Okomoto. they both discuss charts called Mon-Ishozu, but don’t provide images of historical drafts.

You might be able to find some stuff on Egypt, misc links on this Digital Archive of Documents and UCL

The Murúa code might fit into this? second part of that article. a code recorded in 1590 was a heddle loom pattern still being used. i should note that the contemporary weavers weren’t using the code, they kept samples of the motif to use as reference.

Actual titles n stuff:

1. Newly Discovered Ancient Silk Fabrics in Xinjiang—Qi, Jin and Xiu by Nai Xia, 2024 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7475-7_25
2. The Silk Road and Silk from the Han to the Tang by Nai Xia, 2024 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7475-7_28
3. The earliest evidence of pattern looms: Han Dynasty tomb models from Chengdu, China by Feng Zhao et al., 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.267
4. Nishijin Brocade by Kogei Japan https://kogeijapan.com/locale/en_US/nishijinori/
5. The History and Characteristics of Nishijin Ori: Part B by Nishijin Okamoto https://okamotoorimono.com/en/blog/nishijin-kinran-brocade/history-2/
6. Digital Archive of Documents Related to Egypt by Ralph Griswald https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/topic_egypt.html
7. Textile production and clothing by Hero Granger-Taylor and Stephen Quirke, 2003 https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-static/digitalegypt/textil/index2.html
8. The Murúa Code by Lynn A. Meisch, 2012 https://www.naturalhistorymag.com/features/112333/the-mur-a-code

also maybe worth something:

The Language of Weaving by Clair Kail (essay)

A Collection of Old Weave Patterns (pdf)

The Penelope Project, which is trying to integrate weaving with the history of science/ tech (website)

Mathematical and Computational Topics in Weaving by Ralph E Griswald, 2006 (pdf)

“"It’s Just Matrix Multiplication”: Notation for Weaving" by Lea Albaugh (lecture)

got back from visiting my friend who is also disabled! im tired from the travel but oh sitting on someone else’s couch while crafting and watching movies was so good 🥲

i struggle to understand how someone could walk away from reading The Witcher series and say “my favorite part was when the monster-hunter hunted the monsters”

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The End.

i think im going to a riso workshop on saturday. i think i can plan out everything and itll be good for me to get out. masks required so im thinking they’ll be crip friendly :)

edit: it says they are “sold out” on the website but imma call when i get the chance to see if they have any flexibility

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Valmor from Ellen Gallagher’s Deluxe. 2004-05

13 x 10 ½" (33 x 26.7 cm). Photogravure, screenprint, plasticine, gouache, graphite, collage and toy eyeballs. Source.

i felt so seen when karina shared this graphic she made to explain horse math to the manufacturing. one thing about me is i love making an oddly specific diagram

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