stormyseasons

I should try and figure out how to mirror some of my tumblr posts onto dreamwidth. Ah well... Also in personal business: There's nothing like being ill in ways which puzzle the doctors to really give the... sucking sense of exhaustion in everything kind of feeling.

I would like my jaw to stop hurting now. Dental surgery is really no joke.

magencubed.substack.com/p/thieves-in-the-temple/comments

 A very good and sobering read.

most current writing archive is here: AO3 archive

followed by Squidgeworld archive

Am slowly backing up everything. Very slowly.

some days the most uneasy thing about some of the.... ao3 and otw shenanigans, is not that there are many committees and they are all very busy and arguably overstretched.

It's that sometimes it seems like committee A doesn't know what committee B is doing, even when committee B is busy building up all.... kinds of .... promises... or... implications... on their behalf. [personal offense aside... this degree of siloing... when combined with their alleged volunteer attrition level...]

Well. At least the communication and siloing related problem has FINALLY made it up to their actual priority list...

It reminds me somewhat, actually, of actual work related problems when the organisation got very large -- at least in terms of responsibilities -- and the working teams and tools/aids available didn't get scaled up at the same time. Which. Hm. As many things as the Organisation for Transformative Works is working on... I'm not surprised, but I wish I was.

I haven't used this for ages. The interface is nostalgic. Well, if nothing else I can set up a spare backup archive...

Had tea with family, then sat down to bead when I got home. Managed to remind myself how much faster than off-loom square stitch working on a loom can be - a 2/3 around my neck strip of beaded fabric worked up, in essentially 2 afternoons, with the only slow down at the adding and tying in of thread, and the weaving in of the warps. If I use my beading looms more often, I think I'll try the methods of laying in warps which don't result in having to weave in many many strands of warp threads after I'm done with the weaving.

Result: a totally used up 10g tube of cream coloured short Toho bugles, used up for the main strip of my new choker necklace. 14 picasso finish 2 - hole bar beads, and 40 8/0 cream coloured Toho seed beads, and one vine pattern anti-tarnish brass toggle-loop clasp, used to lengthen necklace strap and clasp it. Cream coloured 15/0 Toho seed beads, 4mm fire polished czech crystal, czech pressed glass bellflowers, both in a partly translucent pale gold-mauve colour, used as accents along with some 2-hole light mauve and black Toho superduos I've been meaning to find some good ideas for.

I think I'll wear it a while and let the necklace design percolate in my head a little before embellishing further. It's been quite a while since I've tried to add netting embellishments...