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sophia_sol) wrote2025-02-26 04:29 pm
sophia_sol) wrote2025-02-26 04:29 pm
five things: illness, bias tape, thumbkey, fic writing, gees bend quilts
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Whew that was the worst illness I have had in a lot of years. And my whole household was laid low by it at the same time! I disapprove. I'm so glad to be (mostly) better at this point, and come crawling back with a functional brain again
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a few weeks ago I decided to stop being so intimidated by bias tape, and tried making my own! Turns out it's much easier than I feared; it's merely tedious. It's very doable!
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I am up to 27 wpm on thumbkey, the weird mobile keyboard I switched to! There was a while where I felt convinced I would never make it up to a reasonable speed, but it's happening! It just takes a lot of practice. But I persevered.
(The other issue: google has a bug in gchat that means the correct way of coding backspace into a keyboard doesn't function right in gchat. Thumbkey has filed the bug report; there has been no change. Yes, this means I cannot backspace when typing in gchat on my phone; I can only highlight and overwrite if I typo or want to reword something! Infuriating, but of course google is not incentivised to care)
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I have been back to regularly working on my current fic wip this week and it feels so good to make my small incremental daily progress again. this is how fics get written!! thank you jingyi for waiting for me <3 I'm nearly at 5k now!
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spent a while recently browsing historic gees bend quilts....I've looked at them before and I'm still blown away by the artistry in the form. I love how within that artistic community, asymmetry, skew, and playfulness with colour and design are such important elements, handled masterfully. SO different from the quilting tradition I come from!
(if you're not familiar, this is a good resource: https://www.soulsgrowndeep.org/gees-bend-quiltmakers)
Whew that was the worst illness I have had in a lot of years. And my whole household was laid low by it at the same time! I disapprove. I'm so glad to be (mostly) better at this point, and come crawling back with a functional brain again
two
a few weeks ago I decided to stop being so intimidated by bias tape, and tried making my own! Turns out it's much easier than I feared; it's merely tedious. It's very doable!
three
I am up to 27 wpm on thumbkey, the weird mobile keyboard I switched to! There was a while where I felt convinced I would never make it up to a reasonable speed, but it's happening! It just takes a lot of practice. But I persevered.
(The other issue: google has a bug in gchat that means the correct way of coding backspace into a keyboard doesn't function right in gchat. Thumbkey has filed the bug report; there has been no change. Yes, this means I cannot backspace when typing in gchat on my phone; I can only highlight and overwrite if I typo or want to reword something! Infuriating, but of course google is not incentivised to care)
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I have been back to regularly working on my current fic wip this week and it feels so good to make my small incremental daily progress again. this is how fics get written!! thank you jingyi for waiting for me <3 I'm nearly at 5k now!
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spent a while recently browsing historic gees bend quilts....I've looked at them before and I'm still blown away by the artistry in the form. I love how within that artistic community, asymmetry, skew, and playfulness with colour and design are such important elements, handled masterfully. SO different from the quilting tradition I come from!
(if you're not familiar, this is a good resource: https://www.soulsgrowndeep.org/gees-bend-quiltmakers)
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If you have a chance to see Gee's Bend quilts in person, do it! They have the same kind of presence as Van Goghs. Pictures don't even come close.
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(Also, I notice that you changed the names of your tags and then had to look up the word "anent." A new one to me!)
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haha, good catch on my tag name change! I only just did that -- because of the bug with any tag beginning with "about" where you can't see more than one page worth of posts in such tags. I finally decided to just change it up, but I liked having those tags be at the top of my tag list so I had to come up with a reasonable synonym for "about" that also started with A. I was very pleased to remind myself of the word "anent"!
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Glad you're on the mend!
I tried a similar keyboard for iPhone and lacked your persistence. Keep it up!
Ah, those quilts are great--some are as tightly structured as hymns, while others are free jazz!
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yeah I am uhhhhh very stubborn when it comes to certain kinds of things and apparently teaching myself to use new keyboards is one of those things! I absolutely understand not having the persistence to keep going; it was really rough for me for weeks there in the transition process. But I'm glad I did it!
and you're so right about those quilts!
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