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the author's barely disguised hobbies and interests

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Ahsoka glove in burnt orange yarn.

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You all need to hear this:

1. You probably dont suck at your craft as much as you think you do, I bet a lot of people are amazed at what you can make, and

2. If you actually are the Literal Worst In The Whole Wide World at your craft... who the fuck cares? What are they gonna do, call the police on you? Keep making your shitty little things, youre the boss of you, fuck the haters.

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I would like to preface this with I am not a Doomsday prepper. But if I was, I would be the sole person in the compound who can make hats. And that's a more marketable skill than having a large weapons cache.

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Fandom: Apex Legends

Sample Size: 3,432 stories

Source: AO3

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I think that more fanfiction should be written with the aim to tackle the original meaning of hanahaki. Because when the concept of hanahaki disease was originally created, it was intended to be a metaphor for suppressing one’s feelings.

Your feelings are this beautiful garden of flora inside of your chest. When you express how you feel honestly, you allow for it to grow freely. But when you hide how you feel out of fear of rejection, and try to make it smaller and smaller, the flowers become cramped inside of you, until you choke on your own feelings. Every flower you cough up is something you’ve felt, but refused to say.

The whole “dying” thing is intended to be more symbolic especially. You’re killing off bits and pieces of yourself and how you feel, because you’re afraid to express yourself.

It’s not really supposed to be, “The one I love doesn’t love me back, and I’m dying from it.” Rather, it’s more along the lines of, “Repressing your emotions is bad for you, and it’s better and healthier to express them freely, even when it’s scary.”

Which is to say that, one, the cure for the disease should be telling the person that you are in love with how you feel. How the other person feels about the person afflicted should have nothing to do with it, as the trope is meant to be about feeling your emotions unapologetically.

And that, two, it’s not an inherently romantic trope. Obviously, it has romantic applications, but it can be written for any situation where a character is hiding how they truly feel. This can include a refusal to address a specific trauma, a desire to indulge in something that they’re ashamed of, and even really practical things, like wanting to ask one’s boss for a higher position.

Although (as an aromantic person myself) I don’t agree with this conclusion about the trope, this application would also avoid people calling it arophobic. When the thing killing the character is a refusal to be honest with themselves, rather than an unrequited love, it’s on nobody’s hands but their own to save their life.

There are a ton of ways that this interpretation of the hanahaki disease could be applied in new and interesting ways in fanfiction, and I’d love to read what things people could come up with!

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Putting another reminder into the world that authors on Ao3 can see your bookmarks. If you didn’t like a fic and want to leave a note to yourself so you don’t accidentally start reading the same fic again, fine, but make it private.

No writer needs to open their bookmarks and see your snarky comments.

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I spent so long on this 😭🪦

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@twistedmyrib asked to see the inside of my hannigram sweater and yeah sure why not :)

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i had great fun with the formatting for this one. the bar at the bottom is actually the exact same colour and texture as the bar near the top in the light mode of ao3. or at least it was until my mediocre printer had its way with it.

the fonts are also the same as what's used on ao3

did y'all know that on firefox you can screenshot specific elements of the html of a webpage? very handy, to have it immediately cropped to what you need (used for the navigation ui, i couldn't easily replicate that)

this is part of my project to make a zine a day in april

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I've been trying to distract myself from the horrors of modern life by knitting unnecessarily complex cable swatches. They are partly inspired by printer's ornaments and other typographic elements.

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Plusle and Minum weren’t the only electric types lurking around!

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do NOT sort by kudos the real play is to find the most prolific writers in the hockey rpf tag and go to their profile to see if they’ve written a single bizarrely high-quality fic for the fandom you’re actually looking for

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did Cytherea even knew how to crochet

or she was doing whatever with that yarn on the veranda and Gideon barely ever saw crocheting in her life before

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A yarn snob is someone who is very particular about their yarn selections, usually leaning towards high quality wools and handspuns. You're unlikely to find a Redheart Supersaver skein in their stash doing anything but collecting dust

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I find that they make good accessories or parts of garments (so either just the sleeves or just the body of a sweater)

Genuine question as a knitter but like what do people knit out of those really pretty hand-dyed or variegated yarns? Like I see sooo many really pretty skeins of yarn that are such a beautiful combo of colors but I feel like it would look weird as a hat or like as a whole sweater? Also I only usually have the money to get like one at a time.

Maybe I'll take up weaving and weave a scarf out of them? I think I prefer woven to knitted scarves. Maybe knit a shawl? Idk.