Oooh. Well, I don’t really like to definitively plan to write anything in a time period – it makes me itchy to have WIPs. Mostly I need to finish Seven Nights, Seven Days and make some inroads into finishing Sons of Jerusalem. 🙂 If you want something, though, feel free to ask!
reblog if you want more interaction w your lovely followers
Controversial opinion on Judaism – particularly my interpretation of it – below the cut.
Namely, that the halachic requirement to “treat converts as just any other Jews and it’s forbidden to mention that they’re converts” is complete bullshit. And just like other laws of Judaism, it occurred in a historical context.
We are an ethnoreligious group, but a few thousand years ago when the law came to be, many of the people who were converting to Judaism were of the same ethnicity as us and we lived in a melting pot. This was pre- Diaspora, pre-ghettoization, pre-everything. Nowadays, due to that same ghettoization, we are a distinct ethnic group from the surrounding people. To say that a white person, for example, who converts is exactly the same and has experienced the same oppression as an ethnically Jewish person (even a white-passing one) is obfuscating and disingenuous at best and a self-congratulatory way to get out of acknowledging white privilege at worst. Ethnic Jews have different experiences than converts, especially white or white-passing converts, and that has to be acknowledged.
And for the record, my fiancee’s rabbi says the same thing.
I’ve just finished a bunch of knitting projects and also realized two things just now: a) setting up an Etsy shop’s going to be hard as fuck, and b) I don’t even know if it’ll be successful without a trial run. However, I really, REALLY want to go to the big Middle Earth con next year (MagicCon).
So I’d like to announce that I will be opening up KNITTING COMMISSIONS!
You can see some examples of my work here, along with sample prices (I will provide the names of the patterns).
The pattern is called Balin. I spent six months making this and I had to majorly simplify the pattern, so if you wanted something like it, I’d charge at least $1000 (plus cost of the yarn if you wanted something I don’t have in my stash). This is the high-end stuff that no one will buy, but I figured I’d put it first because it looks cool. 😀
Fancy socks (like these ones I made for @bookhoor), would be $50+, while plain ones made of thin yarn on tiny needles like that would be $40+. Worsted-weight socks good for wearing in bed on a cold night would be $25+. The pattern for these is called Owlie Socks.
A simple sweater, or one with minimal colorwork like this one, would be $90-150+. (Remember, good knitting lasts a REALLY LONG TIME, much longer than machine knitting!) This pattern is called Whiteleaf.
Simple hat: $15+. (This is from when I wasn’t very good at knitting yet.) Pattern: Fitted Seed Stitch Hat.
Fancy hat: $25+. This one is called the Alseid Hat, and I’m putting it under a cut at the end of the post because it’s a gift for someone who follows me.
Logistics:
– I will work with you over PM, Skype, or Gmail to choose from the patterns I have available to me (I have hundreds!).
– If possible (and it’s usually possible, because a lot of these designers are online), I will ALWAYS ask permission of the designer to sell the project to you so that we don’t run into any legal snafus.
– I can design some simple things myself.
– I will charge by amount of time/yarn needed, but will do so incrementally (like by $5-10) and will not solely charge plus-size wearers. I’ll also make my starting size reasonable.
– I often test knits on myself, ex. hats and socks, before I wash them.
Scarf: simple $30+, complex $50+ (like this one, pattern here)
If you look closely, it has gold beads!
I will consider design work on a case-by-case basis. If you would like me to design part or all of a piece of knitting, the prices will increase somewhat.
I have also recently come into possession of a LOT of good-quality, bulky-weight wool that would look fantastic on anyone who likes Hobbity colors. Want a hat? Let me know! 🙂
Reblogging again ‘cause my tax refund is not what I thought it was gonna be, and moving is expensive.
I’ve finally found words for why I hate Tywin Lannister so much: he’s a rape-minded, murderous asshole with delusions of grandeur like many of the other men in Westeros (as others have pointed out), but he manages to hide that behind a veneer of competence because he’s surrounded by fellow rape-minded, murderous assholes who also happen to have idiotic delusions of grandeur and are louder about it.
Death By Catchphrase 