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"And sometimes, in a shop, the mirrors / were still dizzy with your presence, and, startled, gave back / my too-sudden image. Who knows? Perhaps the same / bird echoed through both of us / yesterday, separate, in the evening." -Rainer Maria Rilke, [Du im Voraus]

1 - Finished the sleeves on this Agnete Cardigan for Lynn because her wrists are out of commission from working too hard at her job. I didn't do it for her I did it for the refugees. Jk ilu

2 - Ran out of my editing ink and so "had to" get an additional bottle for "free" shipping. I am glad for my asinine ways because I have never been so in love (at first sight)

3 - But I am still very much in the "I would rather figure out the riff of this song" part of the editing process and not in the "I am ready figure out the problems of this novel" part of it

4 - Relatedly, running season: the 6 weeks of the year when the temperature is between 5C and 15C and I also happen to be avoiding a much more unpleasant thing

5 - Really should be congratulated for my self-control. I was dressed for winter AND it was a Monday (this is not a threat)

6 - A musical comedian, a classicist philosopher, and a sophist mathematician observe Yom Kippur together. Only one of them is religious. Which one is bisexual?

7 - Mike has always known the way to my heart. He gave me another Kaweco DIY Sport. Yes, this is the second; how many pens have YOU given me, hmmm? Don't you know my address??? Nevertheless, after much deliberation it is now inked with the GvFC Olive Green

8 - Pulled out my late grandmother's mala because lately I need the 109 beads as opposed to the wimpy 59 of the rosary. I've had an accidentally interfaith week

9 - Celebrating September 23 with my favourite fish part. Points if you can identify it at first sight. Extra points if you can guess the significance of that date. (We ARE very chatty today because I extra miss writing/manuscripting just gladly and I am really hating editing and so refuse to edit this down)

10 - Gratuitous bonus shot because for all my whining (becasuse of?) I feel CUTE. If you need one, then you need two (this is advice) by @tidknit

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7 days ago

"Love--discovering another person matters to us--anchors us in Time." -Stephen Grosz, Love's Labor

1 - Relapsed

2 - "No, Pop Pop does not get a treat. I just brought you a fucking pizza"

3 - I felt that I deserved a new farm

4 - Action baby canine dives ever for grounded heights in jumping kinetic light motions now or presently

5 - Sorry too busy being kind to myself to meet my usual standards by @tidknit

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14 days ago

"To have known the glory, violence, and banality of such an experience is corrupting." -Robert Lowell, Memoirs

1 - Obligatory sleeve separation shot. Daily Pullover by Paula Pereira in Hedgehog that Laura gave me years ago for hanging out with Luna and Artemis. Also please admire my new guitar storage, which secures my status as a fuckboy. Which I will point out is just the latest in a lineage of inexplicably derisive words for 'lover' (cf. dilettante, amateur)

2 - "I couldn't read it in a million years, but still, it's gorgeous"

3 - Desperate times call for ochazuke

4 - Times are so desperate I'm singing church music fml

5 - Committed hard to fucking around this week

6 - But drawing a character from my novel counts as working on my novel, right?

7 - Lol I know. It's really too much even by my standards. Sorry not sorry! by @tidknit

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21 days ago

Pairs for 2 years: Tenure tracks for school year kids AND genre mashup jams for wishful waiting

1 - Before the frogpocalypse

2 - After becoming the kind of person that lets go of things that are not working (don't worry, you're ever the exception). Will reknit and finish in different colours, some day

3 - Celebrating 26 years of "friendship"

4 - Which is incidentally how long we need to have been friends for me to take you on a Heated Rivalry tour of Hamilton. No exceptions

5 - Procrastination tactics have reached new heights (depths?) and I have dusted off the JavaScript to get my Obsidian default file to say something "encouraging" at random from a list of a hundred-odd such strings which I compiled over several days (of not editing). Because how would a Claude know that what I need is to be told to be a worse person? It would have known how to do this much faster than I did but the point was to waste time

6 - I know no one cares about this but I'm never proud of anything I make so let me just bask in this exception

7 - The other one's better imo (Diamine Tyrian Purple in Pilot Custom 823 F nib)

8 - Admittedly, it's maybe too exceptional so I get it (Wearingeul Brothers Karamazov in Pilot E95s F nib)

9 - When I do a thing I really do the thing. Except when I don't by @tidknit

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a month ago

"Whose is the desire? Perhaps Moses, the object of the divine call, is also in some sense its subject?" -Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, The Hidden Order of Intimacy

1 - Picked a project back up to discover the body's almost done. Is it knitting itself when I'm not looking?

2 - Physically ready to get back to heavy editing, mentally screaming, spiritually indifferent in the Ignatian sense

3 - First time back at the gym since The Great Poisoning of '26. Got my ass beat and told that's what I get for licking batteries

4 - Back to drinking after TONY, a buildings Roman (more specifically a Künstlerroman imo but that's harder to build a joke on)

5 - St. Michael's Lent is back. We're so back

6 - Welcome back babe. Gold star shot. Looking as hot as ever

7 - Still not Bach tho, tbh by @tidknit

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a month ago

"My mother used to tell me that sometimes life unravels all of a sudden, that she was lost, all tangled up, and one day everything suddenly unraveled. What I never understood about the knot metaphor is why you would want to untie it. Wouldn't that just make you feel completely unmoored?" -Malén Denis, Lithium

1 - These mittens turned out gigantic???

2 - Just kidding I did it on purpose to felt them. Mike brought me back Lettlopi from Iceland so he gets some mittens

3 - Montreal with Mom. The term is "효도" (cf. The Aeneid)

4 - One of very few moments I got to travel how I like to travel. Which is to do the same stuff I do at home just in a different place

5 - Like buying many books

6 - The only way to get someone in Old Montreal to speak French to me is to go to French mass

7 - I'd love to but I don't think he'd like that

8 - Why didn't God provide some schmear with the manna? Theodicy question by @tidknit

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a month ago

Summer's Golden Sigh/Surprise Gross Sweat

1 - Officially filing a complaint against this interminable season with this Moss Jacket by @helens__closet in thrifted wool. Modified the collar, made the sleeves too long, and left raw edges, all definitely on purpose

2 - Leo has chosen a new name: Sweet Mango

3 - Spencer made supper

4 - Sad girl & sad girl

5 - Tolerance is way down

6 - A real accomplishment to still manage to be so hot

7 - At least the cats are happy that I'm spending more of my days in bed by @tidknit

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2 months ago

"Where will the heart's movement stop? The pure, sincere movements of the heart? ... the chest is like a fortress, or rather like protective clothing, to stop feelings from overflowing--the broken heart in your hands." -Margo Glantz, The Remains

1 - Surprise, surprise. Matching socks

2 - In a perfect exchange economy, one may take in a hateful Chanel dress and come home with a Fender partscaster with a well-loved Telecaster body

3 - Sometimes breakfast needs to look like this because how else will the day be doable

4 - Sometimes breakfast needs to look like this because MP stands for morning pancakes

5 - Seasons have been changing the dolostone for 400 million years, which is a lot more time than 40 thousand hours, and it's still here. Hang on Math Joke Genius

6 - Walked 7 km for knit night and it was worth every step

7 - Had forgotten how fun French is. Swann to Marcel. "Une rechute dans le désespoir. Je sais qu'il n'y a rien que tu puisses faire ou dire, mais je me souviens encore du temps où je pouvais te parler et où te parler était aussi un espoir. Alors je viens te parler malgré, je te dis que mon désespoir est revenu. En le disant j'espère entrevoir une lueur d'un espoir" by @tidknit

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2 months ago

"I can't spare you a whole rosary you know. Just a decade. I've got such a long list of people. I take them in order and they get a decade about once a week." -Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

1 - I was worried it'd be too big. It is too big but I love that. Clay Tee by @ozetta. It turns out @lastsupperbooks is not only a great place to work but also a great place to take FO pics

2 - I need a re-up! Try to be funny about it! Thanks!

3 - Drinking non-alc Jelly King does feel less sad than drinking orange juice but it is still sad. My system's messed up still: all the more sense in showing me some mercy

4 - Because I am on a temporary book buying ban I went to the library to get my fix. Loopholes are everywhere if you just put your stupid mind to it

5 - Pls?

6 - "This was all I wanted from the day"

7 - The buried lede foreshadowed last week: find one of my short stories in the fall issue of Bellevue Literary Review. After a week of revisions with Danielle Ofri herself, I have secured my first fiction publication. If I seem calm, it's because I'm lying AND because I've been mostly sadder than I've been letting on by @tidknit

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2 months ago

"He pressed a finger into my chest. The gesture said: You know how to keep secrets. It also said: Thank you." -Mariana Enriquez, Hyena Hymns

1 - It looks so good! So good! @hedgehogfibres @grenouilleco @skeinstudy @seungheeknits

2 - The cold noodles game has been consistently strong this season

3 - It made the cut. Thanks to The Invite

4 - "'People should love each other' - Jesus C." - Matt C.

5 - Maguro @sakanahamont to celebrate. Celebrate what? Find out next time

6 - Michael @salondeelephant gave me a blunt bob

7 - I'm the worst? You're the worst by @tidknit

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2 months ago

"The famous line of Antonin Artaud that people always seem ready to quote at the drop of a hat, the one where he says that no one ever wrote, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except to escape hell, is perhaps a dreadful misconception. The reality is the opposite: The person who writes, draws, and so on has already emerged from hell, which is precisely why they can write. Because when you're in hell you can't talk about anything, you can't invent things, you're too busy just being in hell." -Neige Sinno, Sad Tiger

1 - Not the best jute bag I own but certainly the best jute bag I've knit

2 - Doesn't matter what you've given me, I'm not sharing mangoes either

3 - Not even with Ding Dong

4 - "That was a freebie"

5 - Thanks, I hate it

6 - Warm greetings from the frozen fish aisle

7 - To celebrate getting back into the fiction after nearly two months away (yes it was your fault) I sewed my 40% a lil house. My greatest strength as a sewist is that I know I'm bad at it but idgaf

8 - Fighting the encroachment of big evil one handwritten letter at a time. How creepy would it be if I sent you an unsigned letter by post? Asking for a friend by @tidknit

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2 months ago

Classical compilation for misguided midnight admin ambience

1 - Why did two-summers-ago me do this to now me?

2 - ln(stubborn meandering)(heat wave + lithium)
= mild toxicity
= S - beer + oj
= S^(sad mess)
Given mt = 1.2 mEq/L and b = 88 ibu, solve for sm

3 - Bounced back tho, just in time for a great-sized Aperol Spritz with Cath

4 - But actually I spent most of the week recovering in my house, which, unlike lava, is air conditioned, so that's it til next time and you can keep yourself busy spotting the third cat by @tidknit

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3 months ago