JRRT's legendarium sorta is about hope overcoming despair. But despair isn't brushed aside, it's sat with, taken seriously, recognized as a legitimate response to a world so full of shit. It's part of the experience, not merely a bridge to better things.
Critically endangered crafts Crafts classified as 'critically endangered' are those at serious risk of no longer being practised. They m include crafts with a shrinking base of craftspeople, crafts with limited training opportunities, crafts wit financial viability, or crafts where there is no mechanism to pass on the skills and knowledge. Arrowsmithing Basketwork furniture making Bell founding Besom broom making MORE ENDANGERED Bow making (musical) Bowed-felt hat making Chain making Clay pipe making Clog making Coiled straw basket making Coppersmithing (objects) Copper wheel engraving Currach making Cut crystal glass making NEW Devon stave basket making Diamond cutting Encaustic tile making Engine turned engraving Fabric pleating Fair Isle chair making Fan making Figurehead carving NEW Flower making (trade and manufacturing) NEW Flute making (concert) Fore-edge painting Frame knitting Glass eye making Glove making MORE ENDANGERED Hat block making Hat plaiting Horse collar making Horsehair weaving Linen beetling NEW Linen damask weaving Maille making Matte painting (filmmaking) NEW Metal thread making Millwrighting Northern Isles basket making Orrery making Paper making (trade and manufacturing) Parchment and vellum making Piano making Pietra dura NEW Plane making Plume making Pointe shoe making Pottery (trade and manufacturing) Quilting (frame NEW | Rake making MORE ENDANGERED Rattan furniture making NEW Saw making Scientific and optical instrument making Scissor making Sieve and riddle making Silk ribbon weaving Silver spinning Spade making Spinning wheel making Straw hat making Sussex trug making Swill basket making Tanning (oak bark) Thatching (Irish vernacular) NEW Thatching (Scottish vernacular) Thatching (Welsh vernacular) NEW + Tinsmithing Wainwrighting Watch face enamelling Watch making Whip making Wooden fishing net making 84.7
new bucket list unlocked for my adhd craft friends:
A cute figurine of a bear made from amber. It looks like a gummy bear
A figurine of a hippo with a hole in his back and a loop of gold going through the hole. The figurine is made of a transparent glassy material. Rock crystal, perhaps. It looks not unlike a Foxe's glacier mint.
A carved bust of a bearded man in a brown material, against a red background. If you told us it was carved from chocolate, we wouldn't argue.
A figurine of a hippo in a green material (nephrite, apparently, whatever that is). It looks like it could be a wine gum, but one of the green ones that no one really likes.
Today we will be mainly posting pictures of artefacts that look like sweets. 🍬🍫
I’m so many years too late to be yelling about events halfway through its run, but nevertheless: ROSS POLDARK AIN’T SHIT
Cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was there when it was written and I think it’s important to credit our sources.
“golluming” in this house
Happy Appomattox Day to all that celebrate
Clearly!
To give them probably too much credit, they’d never do anything without making members float things like this and see how the public tolerates it. If we embrace it, leadership still won’t do shit but they’ll be less likely to fight noisily against principled newcomers
-my unfounded optimism
PSA: Trader Joe’s has Takis but without the food dye — in case I wasn’t the last to know!
Very few people just come out and say to me they are too scared or don't wanna organize but instead will give me a lecture or some condescending comment about how I have too much faith in institutions. It would just save everybody's time to just tell me point blank you don't wanna organize, lol.
When you read Animal Farm and thought, “I was really rooting for them — if only those pigs had been meaner and stupider!”
can this be a solution?
The FAST AND FURIOUS franchise but there's me driving a Richard Scarry apple car.
Trying to do Everything: a bold strategy, Cotton, let’s see how it works out for me
Sign at the International Women's Day demonstration in Paris reading "hope is a discipline, Mariame Kaba"
At the International Women's Day demonstration in Paris today:
"Hope is a discipline", @prisonculture.bsky.social
A mass delusion of normalcy
I’ve had a lot of folks interested in helping me collect the rest of my signatures—thank you so much. If you’re one of those people, please go to the volunteer link on my website andreaformaine.com and fill out your information there so I can get back to you. ✌🏼🌲
Still unclear where Trump would change strategy if he were a foreign asset tasked with completely disabling the US domestically and internationally.
brick layer and dairy farmer, and genuinely surprised so many of you come from fancy!
Large media has failed to give people context showing how fast and how extreme the norms erosion has been
It’s coming from progressives — not purist if-you’ve-every-done-anything-wrong-you’re-worthless children, either. Serious people who have done real and meaningful work are disgusted and angry, and I’m not hearing decent answers to their objections.
Maine, folks are misconstruing criticism of Platner. Of course some comesfrom conservatives and centrist-democrats, but their smaller populations here may be masking how marginalized groups view his candidacy, and how supporting him at this still-early stage signals disregard for their safety.
goddammit
Inside of you there are two wolves and they kiss each other. Like, frenching. With tongue, I mean.
Leaving your art at a gallery is akin to dropping your kid at the first daycare. Like hey this contains so much of my heart, please be nice.
Searching for the One (pepper) Ring to rule them all
I can respect this opinion because most humans on earth haven’t had the opportunity to experience fresh Maine blueberries.
Honestly, I’d rather people who are overwhelmed did nothing rather than doing actively counterproductive stuff like yelling at the people who ARE doing something that it’s hopeless, it’ll never be enough, why bother.
An … inexpertly-made snow sculpture of a dragon with oyster and mussel shells for eyebrows and eyes, pine needles for smoke. Overall… rustic. Made with love.
Snow Smaug :)
