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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I'm an expert hand weaver in the Byzantine Empire! Pretty good (substantial improvement on "professional ice hockey player)

You are now forced to have the same job as the main character in the last book you read.
What is the job?

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Sex is great but I think this bobbin might be even sexier

Top-down view of a castle style spinning wheel with a bobbin with a single in greens, blues, and yellows being worked on. Some of a hand dyed fibre braid in yellow and green is hooked over the side of the wheel, in progress.

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I finished a couple of knitting projects this week! Both in handspun. The satisfaction is off the charts ngl

Bathroom mirror selfie of me, a heavy Pākehā woman wearing a pink and light green/blue stripey handknit vest with a v-neck collar over a white shirt and jeans. The vest has quite inconsistent stripes and some lumps and bumps

$A handspun scarf in garter stitch with an i cord border in stripes of dark green, orange, purple, grey, white, light green, and dark red, jumbled together in fractal spin order$

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Reunited and it feeeeels so goooood

Holding up a scarf on a circular needle, knit in a multicoloured selfstriping yarn in oranges, reds, and maroons

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Hey Auckland, you nice, keep going

The side of a generic city building with cool wall art - classical vases decorated with toi Māori patterns and themes

The Ferry Building on Auckland's waterfront, a red brick building with beige columns and accents and fun windows etc I am not good at alt texting this becsuse I don't know architecture.

View of some of Auckland Harbour with ferries and a distant ish shore that I don't know where it is bc I'm crap at geography but also the weather is beautiful, blue skies, puffy clouds, blue water, etc

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Patisserie is something I really haven't conquered! I have hot hands. This is my best viennoiserie

A berry Danish and a custard Danish with admittedly pretty sexily laminated pastry

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

5 is too hard to pick one so I'm going to do some honourable mentions: Mexican hot chocolate snickerdoodles, perennial fave; Civil War: The Cake, V's 40th birthday cake; earl grey chocolate choux buns with a chocolate craquelin; New Neapolitan Cake, a raspberry chocolate orange cake

chocolate biscuits with a sugar-chili flake topping cooling on a baking tray on a white bench

A cake decorated with marshmallow fondant. Half the cake shows the red, white, blue rings around a white star of Captain America's shield; the other half shows a dark blue and white symbolic depiction of Iron Man's arc reactor

Choux buns with a chocolate craquelin topping cooling on a rack on a white bench

A large pink-frosted cake on a cake carrier, decorated with a raspberry coulis that drips down the side, slivers of confit orange peel, and blobs of chocolate ganache

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

#4 terrible picture but my favourite thing that I make: chocolate pear walnut cake. I created this after I had an incredible cake at the short-lived but much-missed Frenchie. It's a toasted walnut cake with chunks of pear and dark chocolate folded through. I serve it uniced and it is incredible

An uniced cake cooling on a rack. It is a warm golden brown studded with chopped dark chocolate and with various dips and pits in the surface indicating chunks of pear

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

2 in a completely different direction, the topped focaccias I made for Christmas this year. One with a grape-fennel-brown sugar topping, and one with a zucchini-gruyere topping - basically the SK zucchini pizza but on focaccia. Plus baba ganoush. Went SO hard

two large trays of foccacia, one topped with a zucchini gruyere mix and one topped with a grape and fennel mix, plus a dish of baba ganoush

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

The rest of these will be just as they come to my mind but #1 has got to be that one time I made my sister's wedding cake

A wedding cake with three tiers arranged on a plexiglass stand that floats the two smaller tiers over the larger tier. Semi-naked frosting showing a chocolate cake on the bottom and the smaller tiers a yellow cake

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

My favourite kind of baking project is a specific assignment from a friend and I am having great fun auditioning some recipes tonight

Four cookbooks on my couch: Baking and the Meaning of Life by Helen Goh, Sweet by Ottolenghi and Helen Goh, Beatrix Bakes Another Slice by Natalie Paull, and Start Here by Sohla El-Waylly

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Latest updates from craftland: finished a knitting project for the first time since June, a new-to-me spinning wheel and two new spins

My feet in new hand knit socks in a variegated yarn that is overall light green but with light pinks, purples, and yellows. The feet are posed with the soles pressed together as if I am sitting on the bed with my legs stretched out before me, so there's a good view of the slip stitch heel and gusset

A castle-style spinning wheel with a smallish wheel with a lovely septagonal centre, in a polished wood. It's on an orange Turkish style rug with an orange couch and some rainbow fibre in the background. A bobbin with a rainbow single is sitting on the built-in bobbin holder

A large hank of pastel rainbow gradient yarn

A large hank and a second smaller hank of variegated yarn in rich dark colours (dark purple, maroon, orange, and green are visible) as well as neutral shades of white and dark beige

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

The lights on the plant cabinet look good though

A grey metal side cabinet with a spider plant, a jade plant, a peace lily and another plant that I think is a begonia potted on it, decorated with a string of warm white LED lights, very festive

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

I didn't get a tree this year so I out baubles on my decorative harakeke stems and it's giving #bleakmas

The top of a bookcase with a bunch of harakeke dried stems in a vase decorated with baubles. Also featuring some Christmas cards, a lit candle, a couple of unlit candles, a picture frame, a fruit bowl, etc

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

We did a cookie swap (or is it a biscuit exchange)

A spread of biscuits/cookies on a Christmas tablecloth

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Inside me there are two sets of blorbos (very funny to me I have no BTS albums here, but tbh I tend to listen to them on playlists)

My Wrapped top albums: D-Day by Agust D, Indigo by RM, Te Whare Tīwekaweka by Marlon Williams, Right Place Wrong Person by RM, and D-2 by Agust D

My wrapped top podcast, Hard Launch with Dan and Phil (258 minutes listened)

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

My favourite late millennials with mental health issues

Spotify Wrapped screenshot showing my top 5 songs of the year as Kāhore He Manu E by Marlon Williams and Lorde, What Was That by Lorde, Snooze by Agust D, Man of the Year by Lorde, and Amygdala by Agust D

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

@unchcrosswords.com on the bus feat. @liari.bsky.social (going nowhere fast but I did get a few in before I got to work...)

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I regret to announce that I did get into spinning after all despite publicly proclaiming that I wasn't going to

Six bundles of yarn, a dark grey and two pastel multicolours of various shades, sitting on an orange couch. The spinning is amateurish to say the least

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I've resisted for so long but I made this on my mum's e-spinner and it was sooo fun

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

I went and got my friend to go through her google drive for this

a powerpoint slide with a picture of the members of BTS lined up in a row, all dressed in dark grey suits and looking sexy-serious. in the top right is the text "7: a guide to learning just enough about BTS to swim in the fic like Scrooge McDuck" and in the bottom left is "bangtan sonyeondan" in hangeul

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Sorry to spoil fun but it's super clearly this guy on the left to the point that it feels like op is spreading misinformation

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

These are such terrible photos but this was such a good dinner

A roasted butterflied chicken sitting breast-up on a chopping board with a knife and a spatula next to it. It is a lovely golden brown and it looks delicious

A plate of roast dinner with wilted Brussels sprouts and cauliflower, roast carrots and kūmara and onions, and a golden chicken leg

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

None today but you could text him and ask

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Today in being annoying: I'm in holiday (double annoying) and went for a long walk. I did get rained on but I also saw a rainbow so

Small yaghts moored in a river with a sunny hill rising behind them and harakeke in the foreground

View of a sculpture on a shore near a river. The sculpture is made of stone and depicts a waka with a roughly formed wave breaking inside it.

Portrait angle shot of a rainbow coming down behind pretty industrial looking streets and power lines

View of the Hundertwasser museum, a large weird-shaped museum made out of brick and black and white tile in mosaic shapes. Also there's a tower with a gold dome

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Another dnd session, another excuse to make the world's most perfect biscuits

Macro photo of a chocolate snickerdoodle on a blue willow plate. The snickerdoodle is dipped in sugar and also has visible chili flakes on it

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Okay this was extremely addictive and voila, filled-in triangle

Mirror selfie of me wearing a brown hand-knit sweater with the right-hand side partially filled in

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

This has a fun construction. It's essentially a 90-degree-rotated raglan, with the increase points at the centre back, centre front, and at the top of each of the sleeves. Now that I've split the sleeves off, I start on the right-hand front and right-hand back and work short rows to fill the gap

the wip showing that half of the sweater has been picked up on needles and the sleeve and the other half are on waste yarn waiting their turn

The sweater yoke laid out on the couch, showing that on the right-hand side of the sweater the sleeve stitches have been split off, and the front and back halves are being worked in short rows. Essentially the front of the sweater is shaped like a triangle with the tip pointing down, and I am working a long skinny triangle under one half of that triangle to fill the gap and make it a rectangle.

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Today in internet poisoning: cooking for a potluck tonight and realising stuffed shells are tacos

White woman's hand holding up a stuffed shell, a large pasta shell shape filled with a ricotta and spinach mixture. Background is a stovetop and a bowl of filling

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

I went all out and got the fancy colour Kobo and this feature is very cool for a book with a cover, like so

Picture of a Kobo with the label "Sleeping 93% read" and a book cover displaying an androgynous android or robot figure in heavy armour, then in narrow white text Martha Wells, heavier red text All Systems Red, small white text The Murderbot Diaries

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Proposal for the ao3: come up with embedded covers in the epubs that are ever so slightly less exposing

Picture of a Kobo e-reader with the the note "sleeping 24% read" over a cover that summarises some of the ao3 metadata: "Indelible, posted originally on the Archive of Our Own" and then a link to the work; "Rating: Explicit; Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings; Category: M/M; Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis; Relationship: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard"

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I'm not someone who keeps a lot of pictures so the majority of pictures of my BSOs on this device are things like e.g. this file labelled "RM sweater 2.jpg"

a very bad screenshot of a youtube video showing Namjoon (RM of BTS) wearing a commercially knit sweater with what sort of looks like intarsia cables (but probably isn't), the cables in a pale blue and the reverse stockinette in white

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Okay I Google mapsed it and this is apparently the relevant burger

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I am seriously contemplating a burger for dinner. We saw a burger place with burgers based on cities and indeed it featured an Auckland Burger and I almost feel I *ought* (it features neither a fried egg nor beetroot but does include... kiwi sauce which I assume means kiwifruit sauce?)

A storefront with a row of pictures of burgers labelled, variously, Three Seasons, Hamburgini, Los Angeles, Auckland, and American Music

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I suppose given i tested a very, very faint positive on Thursday it's not that much of a shock that I'm still testing strongly positive on Sunday but I'm still a bit gutted (my test looked like this after ~60 seconds)

A covid RAT showing a very strong positive, much darker and bolder than the control line

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

My takeaway lunch came in bags and the hotel has nary a plate so I was simply forced to buy additional mango sticky rice to solve my problem

Three small plastic bags sealed with rubber bands containing fried cabbage, a red curry, and rice

A plastic clamshell takeaway container, open on a desk, with cabbage, rice, and pork curry in the bottom (actually the lid) and mango, coconut milk, and sticky rice in the top

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

New hotel room view... And I hope it stays interesting because I have covid

View of Chiang Mai rooftops, with a nearby flat roof top with a door into it, apartment buildings, streets, and mountains in the background

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Started with this, ended with beef noodle soup and this absolutely incredible roti with cream and Milo which was, frankly, better than the pear (and the pear was quite good). It's the simple things

A bowl of beef noodle soup with a beautiful dark broth, beef balls, beef slices, and beef tendons

Honestly you can't really tell what this is but it's a roti with a pile of cream on it that has then been dusted with spoonfuls of milo powder

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Today we're gonna go mooch around the palace area and Wat Arun but I'm starting my day reading my book, drinking a matcha frappe and eating this jewel of a pastry

A small entremet-style dessert made up to look exactly like a red-and-green pear sitting on a circle of cake

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

"you can't possibly be that bad" yes I can

The inside of a white shirt with very, very poor hand sewing inside outlining the shape of a patch shaped like two cherries on a stem with a leaf. There are so many dangling threads, puckering, stitches aren't even

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Played D&D in one of my all-time faves @lcsnz's birthday week so I made her a cake and it turned out pretty cute

Top-down view of a cake generously covered in buttercream piping in four separate shades, peach, pink, yellow, and green. The piping is done with closed star (pink), open star (yellow), French star (peach), and leaf (green) tips so the effect is a bit floral, with large sort of rose or rosette swirls, little French star blobs or blossoms, and green leaves

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Trying to persuade my book club to read Rakesfall next

Screenshot of a spreadsheet with columns "Book Title/Author" and "Genre (optional)". The book is Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekhera and the genre is "I am part-way through this book and the genre I would describe it as is 'fucked'."

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I loved Hobi's album but the Jungkook feature is only highest because Spotify played it to me randomly a lot. HUH?! and Haegeum are not my two favourite tracks on D-Day, might actually be my least faves (D-Day and Life Goes On are tops for me). Groin is legit though, my SOTY

Spotify wrapped giving my top artists as RM, BTS, SEVENTEEN, Agust D and j-hope, and i wonder..., Haegeum, Groin, HUH?!, and on the street (solo ver) as top songs. I listened for 37735 minutes.

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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Confidently expecting this disturbs Burgeoning Matcha Snob Dave @wellingtonskeleton.space as much as the ways I like to drink coffee

A faux mason jar glass with a handle filled with an iced strawberry matcha, pink strawberry millk at the bottom and dark green matcha layered on the top. The glass is being held in the air by a white woman's hand and in the background are pots and pans hanging on a white wall

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