#firstofficerrose

[vincentbriggs]

@firstofficerrose replied to your post “Hot damn free motion quilting is fun! Why hadn't I...”:

Oh! Vincent! You have that old White treadle machine, right? I saw a video of a guy doing FMQ on a similar model a while ago when I was learning to fix up my own White treadle. You wanna see?

​I think I saw the same video! The one where he said he made the foot himself because they aren't available for White treadles?

My free motion foot is for my Singer 15-91, and it's working just fine. I also have one for my Pfaff 360 which I have not tried yet, because I still need to get around to un-gunking the rest of the insides so that it can stitch normally instead of only doing a tiny shitty zig zag. But that machine does have drop feed, and a more sensitive speed control, so I think it'll be better for quilting than the Singer.

[camlannpod]

Hey, if there was someone named James T Kirk in the Camlann apocalypse, would he be able to shoot phasers out of kit bashed hair dryers? What about a Clark Kent? Could he fly? How does the Camlann apocalypse interact with modern myths as opposed to oral traditions?

Hi! So there's an in-universe answer and an out-of-universe answer. In-universe, our gang doesn't know the answer to this question. Telecommunications went down in the first nine days, and stories by their nature are often contradictory, so our gang just don't know enough yet about how this all works to know what it does and doesn't apply to.

Out-of-universe, which is to say the way I write it (and likely something that won't come up explicitly in the show) - the stories have to have been told for the first time orally. They have to be part of an oral tradition that involves many creators and many listeners. The more tellers, listeners and permutations of the story, the more powerful it is. The age of the stories also makes them more powerful, as does their connection to 'the land' - wherever they were first told. They also have to be...organic? They have to have been told for the sake of telling them, not specifically made as a product to be sold.

By all of these rules, anything that was written for a paycheque is pretty much out - which rules out Star Trek and Superman. You can draw a lot of parallels between modern fiction and mythology, for sure, but they do fundamentally serve different purposes and were created for different reasons. A lot of heart and politics went into the creation of Superman, not least combating the rise of fascism. However, he was also created in the first place to sell comic books.

Modern myths that might work better are urban legends - especially older ones that find their roots in the late 1800s or early 1900s. American rural stories about strangers on the road etc. But in that example, again, the age of the story and its connection to the land is always the most important factor. This means that in the US, for example, indigenous folklore and stories are always more powerful than more modern settler ghost stories, and in figurative or literal conflict, the indigenous stories are going to win the toss. Which means that you're a lot less likely to find a creepypasta type creature unless you're in an area that's isolated from any indigenous cultures. Which is obviously going to be hard to find.

*Finally, a note on religion: I do not feel comfortable playing games with real people's real faiths, which is a big part of why we're largely steering clear of religions and religious stories. There's a grey area where religious figures that have also become folk heroes can come into play, specifically leaning on the power they have from folk legend - so Santa, Joan of Arc etc. As a white British woman, I don't feel I have the authority to tell those stories for other cultures. One day I'd love to have a series of mini-episodes where we invite writers from around the world to tackle these subjects. But I'm not going to be the one who writes those stories, because they're not mine to tell.

[specialagentartemis]

Trick or treat!

I give you: an underrated sci-fi audio drama miniseries, Roguemaker!

Based on a discord-based RPG a friend of mine participated in, Roguemaker is a single-season complete story about a passenger spaceflight to an interstellar music festival... that gets hijacked and bombed. The passengers all escape into escape pods, and land on a planet that shouldn't exist. A locked-room mystery of a sense, the characters have to determine: who set the bomb? What were they after? And what does it have to do with this sunless planet that they conveniently happened to be nearby enough to land on?

Cool characters and a fun mystery! Though sometimes the audio is tough to understand :')

[todaysbat]

Bats are available for viewing at the Oklahoma City Zoo in the Nocturnal Barn! I saw your list of zoos and Oklahoma wasn't on the list. Thank you!

I really appreciate you sending this in because I couldn't find any mention of their bats on their website.

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

Hey! I know that you're an Irish medieval specialist, but I don't know who to ask about Welsh medieval stuff, and I've read (listened to) the Mabinogion three times so far this year in several translations and I have Questions. Do you know who to ask, or where to look for answers?

Thank you for your time, and I really enjoy reading your Ulster cycle stuff.

hello i am a recreational Enjoyer Of Welsh but mostly only to the point of writing cursed fourth branch fics, however, most of what i know about welsh i get from asking my friend @cicelythereaper who said she's happy to be asked things directly!

[marzipanandminutiae]

Late to the (birthday) party, but I hope you've had a great day! Happy birthday!

Thank you so much! I have indeed.

[goingtoweather]

Have you heard the 528th episode of 99 Percent Invisible? It's on the industrial implications of whale oil and features an interview with the daughter of a whaler.

T'was mentioned to me once before! I haven't listened yet, though. I tend to have a hard time listening to podcasts, but perhaps I'll check it out at some point!

[pasitheapowder]

Hello, I would just like to say that I found the show yesterday and episode 10 has me emotionally devastated. Incredible job. Thank you.

You are extremely welcome!

[rebloggingrexan]

So... the Count has a perfect mustache, but cannot see himself in the mirror (foul bauble of man's vanity!). How does he shave?

[toribookworm22]

First Lines Tag

Thanks @thedahliafrog @artcoffeecats @talesofsorrowandofruin @axl-ul @akiwitch @acertainmoshke @drabbleitout @sam-glade @primroseprime2019 & @oh-no-another-idea for all the first line related tags!

No pressure tagging: @ddbirb @firstofficerrose @kae-luna @ladywithalamp & my open tag!

Have the first line of Chapter 10 of the second book of my Secondary Series:

Whatever Imre poisoned me with is strong, nasty enough that the first time I take a swing at someone, I also throw up in my mouth.

[mycological-mariner]

Tagged by @some-cold-and-some-violence and @clove-pinks (cheers!!)

Five drinks to get to know me:

1. Colada. I haven’t had one or anyone to share one with in years (plus, historically, I’ve never been able to get the espumita right) but it’s still my all-time favourite drink

2. Rattlers cyder

3. Ginger beer

4. Instant coffee with extra coffee, milk and a lot of sugar (2 coffees on this list rip)

5. Spicy hot chocolate! With all the spices and fixings

Tagging @hey-scully-itsme @gigamuffin @bees-with-swords @lovedthestars-toofondly @bonofucker @lobsterdyke @apollosdrunkenmixup @guillemelgat @firstofficerrose and anyone else who wants to!

[camlannpod]

Odyssey? Odyssey??? ODYSSEY!?!?!?

HI YES THAT'S CORRECT

[specialagentartemis]

@grammarpedant said:

ooh, if you have any texts you'd recommend i'd be all ears!

I will keep you posted for sure then! It’s funny, it’s been like ten years since I’ve actually read any Greek Classics. I read Antigone and Aeschylus’s Oresteia trilogy for high school lit class, and Iphigenia in Aulis just because I wanted to read anything about Iphigenia, but I don’t remember who did those translations. I also read sooooo many YA and Middle Grade Greek Mythology retellings and fantasy inspired by it, but I can’t honestly remember which were actually good and which I loved because I was 14. (I do remember reading Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad and thinking it was weird and trying too hard… that may have been just me being 17 but that was my impression.) The interest had to lie fallow and restore nutrients for a fixation to grow I guess haha. So. Join me on this journey of rediscovery!

@firstofficerrose said:

I'm guessing the answer is yes, but have you heard Hadestown? And perhaps also the album Odysseus Dies At Dawn? Both fun retellings

Hah, I actually haven’t listened to the music from Hadestown at all—it was very much a “oh I want to see that on stage!!! That means I cannot listen to the music beforehand because I gotta see it On Stage.” Which… is silly because I don’t exactly have any plans to see it anytime soon. I still really want to though! How is it to listen to without having seen a staged production?

I had not heard of Odysseus Dies At Dawn though, I will definitely look that up! Thanks!

[firstofficerrose]

I made a silly little game!

[toribookworm22]

Heads Up Seven Up (x2) (ish)

Thank you @pure-solomon & @akiwitch for the tags!

No pressure tagging: @minutiaewriter @jamieanovels @winterandwords @authorlaurawinter @inkskinned @mschvs @lockejhaven @pluttskutt @raiphend @tlbodine @rottenbury @writeintrees @firstofficerrose & my open tag!

From that random polyam idea I had that I accidentally went and turned into a short story. (That I may or may not have used for a class. 🤭)

As much as it pained me to admit-- and probably will for at least a little while longer-- we couldn’t be everything to each other. We were good. We are good. We are so good, but that doesn’t mean we can’t be better.

“How would you feel about coming over to mine for ice cream after this?” Wynn tips their head to the side, intrigued. “It was our back up plan if this went badly, but I happen to have a great selection of flavors in my freezer and plenty of bowls.”

I can feel the void shrink as Wynn smiles. “I’d love to. Thank you.”

Just barely, I glance at Ruth. Her eyes shimmer both with unshed tears and the strongest most unfiltered kind of love that is always always enough for me.

I serve her a slice with extra cheese. Before I can pull my hand away, she catches it and raises it to her lips, staining my knuckles with the faintest of green.

Wynn hands her a napkin.

I don’t even know what we’re going to do with more love. Guess we’ll find out.

[firstofficerrose]

I cannot stand the parodies of modern major general, they're overdone and simply not as good as the original. They've done them about everything, whatever topic, big or small.

And when i notice one of them my eyes will always start to roll.

The diction's always slurry when they rush the complicated words, and adding many fricatives will turn it so cacophonous. The slanted rhymes are silly and they keep just making more and more, please someone stop the parodies of modern major general.

The scanning of the lyrics in the meter is unbearable, they emphazise the syllables in ways that are untenable, in short in matters musical, prosodic and ephemeral, i cannot stand the parodies of modern major general!