Lyn Thorne🍁Autumn 🍂
Yan was out of cinnamon, a crime against baking, but she was also out of white orchid petals, arguably more urgent a matter: she used the petals in 3 potions: an antidepressant, a topical wound-healer, & an antibacterial.
She put the kettle on to boil anyway. Any chance at a hothouse was at least a year out, so she was going to have to get clever.
She winced at her dwindling supply of vanilla beans. A good idea, but then she'd have to find a substitute for them as well.
Becka Sutton
@Prince_Herb yeah... I did start sewing lessons before but they were cancelled because there weren't enough students 😞
Becka Sutton
#nanowrimo What should I work on in November for #NaNoWriMo
[ ] Haventon book 3
[ ] Dragon Wars 4 rewrite
[ ] Work on Whisper buffer
[ ] All of the above
Becka Sutton
2020 I am definitely learning to sew
Becka Sutton
Now she's making a skirt from a thrifted man's shirt...
I may have found another channel to sub to
Becka Sutton
Though I imagine the jacket is really warm
Becka Sutton
Watching a woman on youtube make a jacket from a secondhand sleeping bag and it's really cool
Becka Sutton
@Rowyn I wish I still had 4thewords but I can't afford it at the moment
Becka Sutton
@Rowyn II will be doing it. Not sure what yet though
Becka Sutton
*watches darning videos on youtube*
*makes shopping list*
Coincidentally one of my favourite sweatshirts has developed a few small holes and a couple of tears
It will have a new life as a pyjama top
Becka Sutton
@Anke here they are "Side blotched lizards" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side-blotched_lizard#Sex
Becka Sutton
@Anke yeah, those are the ones... four genders ... or possibly two genders that have nothing to do with plumbing and everything to do with plummage
I think there's a lizard that has five gender morphs
Becka Sutton
*Muses on #worldbuilding and Dwarves and Dryads*
*Finds self thinking about white throated sparrows...*
I really like this idea...
A cookie to anyone can figure out what I'm thinking
Lyn Thorne🍁Autumn 🍂
“How do you twist Strands to get more sunlight? Or more tuna?”
“Sunlight’s hard… warmth, light are pretty easy.Tuna’s just making a can open up….”
They fell silent, both of them staring at their host’s cat.
The rotund ginger was chasing strings — attacking them, tangling them up with each other, biting them.
Except that they weren’t strings.
They were the Strands between the two of them and their host.
“Ahem. Geese? Yeah, Geese. Geese can’t see Strands.”
Lyn Thorne🍁Autumn 🍂
"Cats can't see the Strands."
They had been drinking a little too much, & thus they were debating the theories of Strand magic - the way every being was connected, the way you could use those connections to change the world - in increasingly outlandish ways.
“Why not? Come on, a cat is made of connections.”
“A cat is half arrogance and half fur.”
“That’s just because you don’t know cats. Come on. A cat Strand-Worker—”
Becka Sutton
rough colourised sketch of an elf woman... I will need to get a new graphics tablet before I can shade it properly but I'm quite pleased with it.
Becka Sutton
@InspectorCaracal @chr h goodness me yes, I mean think about what it takes to be a *good* middle manager (and they do exist) - they have to take it in the neck from upper management while shielding their underlings from the whatever ridiculousness the powers that be come up with this time while also taking the flack from said underlings when that proves impossible (as inevitably happens sometimes)
Definitely sounds like hell to me
Becka Sutton
@Anke @b OMG someone actually went there X-D https://www.deviantart.com/lamecho/art/Scorpius-come-here-HP-63415700
*dies and is dead of laughing too much*
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