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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 22h

Second baby blanket almost done. It’s sunnier than it looks in the pictures.

Yellow crochet with a simple two-line chain-and-flower stitch I forget the name of.

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“That needle flashes in and out of living skulls.”

Her great soul withdrawn, the story goes through its tricks in a weak voltage of vicious reactions and bad piety, which I'm sure will amuse you but come now, admit: there is no shock in it anywhere except Aphrodite. Aphrodite is pure shock. When she comes on stage in the prologue and tells you about a few simple stitches she is going to take in the lives of [Phaidra], Hippolytos and Theseus, you feel the salt of absolute cruelty sting your face. That needle flashes in and out of living skulls.

Oh yes, [Phaidra] will die -
you didn't think I'd put her suffering
ahead of my right to punish enemies, did you?

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I didn’t say they were good, I said I have been insane about them. Though they are good. Mostly.

Nine movies: The Wizard of Oz; Sense and Sensibility; Dil Se…; Children of Men; Portrait of a Lady on Fire; Dead Again; The Last Jedi; Moulin Rouge; The Handmaiden

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Okay so this is from last year but: this too is reyl—

A honey badger, full of quills, pursues a porcupine who presumably put all the quills in it. Photo by David Northall.

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Do you know Moira Egan’s Bar Napkin Sonnets? #11 is at the poetry foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/160555...) and it does rock but I am fond of this one:

BAR NAPKIN SONNET #24
It's wicked to admit I love these bruises, the set of fingerprints along my hip that an FBI Agent could dust and use to track him down. I love the boy-stung lips from hours kissing, lips soft, but his whiskers grown rougher with the hours into night, and rougher still, we move together, quicker, as if our muscles' work brought on the light.
Mornings like this, I'm torn between two notions:
Are love's inscriptions like a form of art, or injuries incurred from constant motion: tennis elbow, carpal tunnel, arrhythmic heart?
And you should see my scars I sit alone, a glass of wine, a napkin, and my pen.
Moira Egan

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

60x64 stitches because I got a little carried away. Hanging with clothespins to get straight, if such a thing be possible.

Green cotton in an eyelet stitch, hung with clothespins on the hem

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Also I updated my vampire fic. There are a lot of vampires in it now, and I don’t think it’s a major spoiler to say that Inej kills them all. Also she has to get a job as a casino waitress though. archiveofourown.org/works/863025...

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

And right after we got him with the Gun That Makes You Yiddishe

Zohran Mamdani with his hands up and his eyes squinted shut and his eyebrows raised in your classic yiddishe grandpa “well, if that’s how it is, what is there I can do about it?” kinda way.

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Terminally suspicious liquor store cat celebrity of the summer 5 years running.

Tabby looks grimly wary in front of shelves of gin.

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Anyway, I updated my vampire fic with a glimpse of the Ketterdam rich and also a little car chase. archiveofourown.org/works/863025...

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

But the Sister Light Sister Dark books are about women warriors who call their own embodied shadow selves out of mirrors to fight beside them. I think I remember a description of the camp full of them sleeping beside each other? Also the cover of the copy I read looked like this.

Two naked light-skinned women, one with white hair and one with black, face each other. They are tactfully blocking the naked breasts of a looming naked goddess, whose hair, half blonde and half black, wraps the women in turn.

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Progress on baby blankets continues, at various rates.

Three different weights of yarn in three different stitches, green, yellow, and orange.

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I fear I am once again posting fic, and it’s not actually because I’m in my feelings about Buffy but also it kind of is. archiveofourown.org/works/863025...

The Unmourned fic graphic: an alley fenced with chainlink and barbed wire, at night; hands covered in blood; something red poured from a bottle; a close up of the chest of a woman in a tank top, who has dark skin and seems to be sweating hard.

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Sir you cannot go getting on the train in your socks sir.

A dog on the train, black with white “socks”

The white-socked dog lying prone and wistful on the subway car floor.

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Coming along okay I think.

$A fraction of a green baby blanket made in an open eyelet stitch with fingering weight yarn.$

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Having tried it in the cotton yarn, I think this may actually be our winning swatch. The stitches I tried out in the bigger acrylic yarn came out too much like fishing net in this one but I think this will have a nice drape?

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Okay, baby-adjacent and baby-experienced friends: I got some fine cotton yarn but I made these swatches in medium yarn just to make sure I could actually accomplish the stitches: which of these, assuming the finer grade, would be better baby blanket material? (Forgive the light change.)

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Apparently when Andrew W.K. was a judge he advanced Wolf Hall because he liked the cover more. But the founders say they know the whole enterprise is “fundamentally stupid.”

"The ToB, as a conceit, is fundamentally stupid," says Rosecrans. "We can't emphasize this fact enough. If you think it's dumb, we think it's dumber. We're writers and authors and editors ourselves
—we don't see any value in calling one novel the best of the year, or trying to turn art into sports. At the same time, too much of literary culture is unthinking and fawning. A lot of it, especially in social media, is about the authors, not the books themselves. Plus, it's easy to read a novel and say I liked it, or I didn't like it, and put it away on the shelf. But to pause for a second and compare that novel to another one requires that you figure out why you liked or disliked it and what that says about what you value. Art belongs to the beholder. But to give that beholder a mic for a second, make them test themselves out loud—whether it's the judges or the commentariat-and then have everyone discuss it out in the open?

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Anyway. Chag Purim Sameach, as best we can.

A number of fig hamantaschen, some with a not-very-successful glaze on them but all relatively structurally sound.

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Not as good as in the big fluffy yarn but still a nice texture I think.

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Fascinated by the deliverista chic of this.

A woman on the street towing a large square insulated bag. It looks like a deliverista bag only it’s on concealed wheels and it’s shiny silver.

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Did I buy a ticket to this tepidly-reviewed show because I think the lead actor is hot? Look… in my defense they sent me many many badgering emails.

Program for The Other Place starring Emma D’Arcy with the set out of focus in the background.

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

A basic stitch but I think it works well for this yarn. Maybe a little loose because I accidentally used a larger hook than I should have. I could switch now but I think that would just look worse, and I’ve crocheted and unraveled this yarn so many times I’m not sure it can take another try.

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I turned out to not have as much of the blue yarn as I thought so I made not much more than a collar, even at a narrower width. The white is a better size/shape, though maybe it should be longer.

Two scarves, one shorter blue one and one longer and wider white one.

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I don’t have enough yarn to finish the scarf at this width so I’m going to get to the end of the skein and then work it back, but I do like this stitch in this yarn.

Crochet work of a thick blue-green yarn in a rounded stitch with a cross-hatched look (bean stitch).

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

There are simply more of us than there are of them.

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

This was so good I had to bring it over from Tumblr.

Tumblr post from courtjester69420
Jan 18
Screenshot of word processor text: "Wolf this hall," Thomas Cromwell said, beheadedly.

this fan fiction shit easy

Reblog with added comment by lordansketil
Jan 19

no listen, hear me out
In large text: Wolf this hall, he, Cromwell, says, beheadedly.

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Oh my fucking god who trained this thing???

Archive of Our Own comment email:

freyo 756 (Guest) left the following comment on Chapter 1:
Hendriks, Wylan. "Woven in the Ear: Unexplored Structures of Early.
Kerch Poetry," delivered to 12th Annual Conference on Early Kerch Literature, Belendt University, Winter 25, 2023 of Publish or Perish:
You survive by becoming resilient, not because you wanted to, but because no one noticed when you needed softness instead of strength. While going through it, an art idea also came to my mind that you might enjoy. You can reach me on Discord under the same username. frey 124
(Spaces need to be removed when contacting)
Posted: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 23:03:59 +0000

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Saw the movie in a very nice spot.

The ceiling of the main theater of Angelika Village East— a gilded mosaic dome with a central star and sort of deco-looking chandelier.

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Be it known that I did try to watch the hockey show. At the lesbian bar.

A bar packed shoulder to shoulder with people, presumably mostly women. The lighting is low and there is presumably a big screen back there somewhere but damned if I could see it, the crowd being like 20 deep from me, at least.

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I recently sent this to my father, who teaches statistics sometimes.

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

It turns out I can, in fact, finish a fic (with help from @bombastique.bsky.social) Publish or Perish E; 12/12 archiveofourown.org/works/562404...

Moodboard for Publish or Perish: an empty lecture hall, a departmental email from Haskell, a woman’s hands typing on a laptop, a gothic hallway, a cane leaning on a wall beside a bookshelf

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

There is also a foot thing that recurs frequently. But it all goes on for pages, and I sort of imagine this was the equivalent of nudity in prestige television back in the day.

I beheld you stripped and handled, half naked, by the infamous hands of the tormentor. I beheld your foot, that foot which I would have given an empire to kiss and die, that foot, beneath which to have had my head crushed I should have felt such rapture,-I beheld it-

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

In case you were under the impression that what was batshit about the Disney version was how horny it was: no, please rest assured that the book is like twice as horny.

Then from the captain, his thought passed to the people, and there came to him a jealousy of an unprecedented sort. He reflected that the people also, the entire populace, had had before their eyes the woman whom he loved exposed almost naked. He writhed his arms with agony as he thought that the woman whose form, caught by him alone in the darkness would have been supreme happiness, had been delivered up in broad daylight at full noonday, to a whole people, clad as for a night of voluptuousness. He wept with rage over all these mysteries of love, profaned, soiled, laid bare, withered forever. He wept with rage as he pictured to himself how many impure looks had been gratified at the sight of that badly fastened shift, and that this beautiful girl, this virgin lily, this cup of mod-

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Okay fine here’s one more.

Spotted animal captured mid-wag with a squeaky toy between his paws.

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Star Wars fans in the Seattle bar restrooms.

A sign about toilet function which begins “hello there,” but someone has written in “general kenobi” underneath in pen.

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Many responsibilities accrue to a good boy!

Good boy being petted by a nice visiting older lady sitting on the floor.

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Life is hard when you’re a big adorable puppy.

A white dog with a brindle head and big black spots lies on his bed looking disconsolate.

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Someone else on here recommended this hot sauce brand and having tried it out I am passing on the rec. As someone whose morning egg-on-a-roll is basically just a vehicle for hot sauce, keeping these at my desk has sincerely brightened my work day.

Queen Majesty hot sauce in a pretty sample box — jalapeño, tequila & lime; scotch bonnet & ginger; red habanero & black coffee

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Shoulder holster made repeat appearances in Child Ballad because

Tommy Shelby looking grim in his shirtsleeves, wearing a silver watch fob and taking a gun out of a black leather shoulder holster.

Tommy Shelby looking glacially calm in his shirtsleeves, wearing silver watch fob, sleeve garters, and a gun neatly tucked into a brown leather shoulder holster.

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Oh I think I have it?? Jonathan Rhys Meyers??? Maybe???

I got this image by duckduckgoing “steerpike”

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Speaking of journalists who know things, Andrew O’Hagen wrote this about Julian Assange in 2014. I thought about writing in to ask if he’d name the other hundreds of men so the 14-year-old girls of the world could have some warning. I didn’t, because I didn’t want to have my name in the paper.

The three of us went to a very pink café in the town and ordered sandwiches and cakes. We sat outside, and Julian got distracted by some young girls walking past. 'Hold on,' he said, and turned his gaze. 'No,' he said. 'It was fine until I saw the teeth. One of the girls was wearing a brace. When Sarah came back and asked what we were talking about, Julian said he'd been admiring some I4-year-old girls,
'until they came close'. I record this not to show how predatory Julian is - I don't believe he is any more predatory than hundreds of men I've known. It's not that: I tell it to suggest how self-delighted he can be. He doesn't at all see how often his self-delight leads him into trouble.

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