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In Defense of Embroidery Embroidery is routinely used in historical fiction to represent women's oppression. And I ask, why? And what if it weren't like that?

New blog post: In Defense of Embroidery!

Embroidery is routinely used in historical fiction to represent women’s oppression. And I ask, why? And what if it weren’t like that?

mimicofmodes.com/2024/05/19/i... #FashionHistory #c18th #c19th

19.05.2024 20:09 — 👍 204    🔁 86    💬 17    📌 15

Seconding the slowcooker/crockpot method - best thing is to make a LOT (hardest part is chopping all the onions) and then freeze. Only way I’ve ever reliably had caramelised onions in home dishes.

01.12.2023 05:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A Dungeons & Dragons character alignment chart with the words "when did the Roman Empire fall?" superimposed above it. Lawful good: 1453 Neutral good: 565 Chaotic good: 1475 Lawful neutral: 476 True neutral: 395 Chaotic neutral: it never fell Lawful evil: 1922 Neutral evil: 1806 Chaotic evil: 1918

15.11.2023 00:42 — 👍 386    🔁 141    💬 26    📌 64

My gore level is not high to start with and that was VERY tough

30.10.2023 19:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

then for that I apologise 😂

20.10.2023 22:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

what annoys me most about Sanderson is that he is honest to god a person I devote 0 brain space to 99.9% of the time, but then he keeps having hideously bad takes about WoT and unfortunately other people think his takes are somehow more profound, and...here we all are.

20.10.2023 19:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I've never read any of his books because the way he approached WoT made me think I would have this problem, and my wife (who does read them) was like "yeah you wouldn't hate them but they're not that great" and you know, life is short.

20.10.2023 19:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0