Lior 🇺🇦 | knitting design

Pink ^^ pale and soft but slightly zingy, or deep and magenta and intense. :D

He he, that's cool!
I love dressing up and creating characters, but self portraits are another matter entirely 😅 always impressed with people who do it!

Looks good to me :)
And the buttons fit very prettily :)

😢 may his last days be filled with contentment and peace, and may you part ways with a clear heart. All the best to you.
The colors are beautiful <3

Closeup of handknit sweater worn by a clearly pretentious knitter sipping from a stemmed martini glass filled with tiny glass holiday ornaments. Despite the silly attempt at a high brow Vogue-style shoot, this detail photo shows off the luminous flecks of the rainbow strand plied into the brown yarn.

A woman in a brown sweater, brown pants, and a black hat stands in a corner between a door and a mirror wearing a silly grin. The sweater has long belled sleeves, a wide turtleneck/stand up collar, and rolled gems. The predominantly brown yarn has flecks of bright colors throughout. Note the artsy-fartsy reflections of the woman’s bust on the mirror and of the mirror on the door. More silly.

“She wore a brown sweater
Along with her favorite pants
She carried a book she was reading Oh she was beautiful”
—lostwritingg

My first Big Girl Knitting Project! From 2003

Pattern: Topsecret by Kate Wisson (@knitty.com)
Yarn: Gedifra Dandy

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The photos are truly hilarious 😁 I think my favorite is the detective style shadow in the mirror.🤣

Black trans women are the most marginalized in our community — so yeah, watching one be sidelined or erased in the narrative feels painfully familiar.

If people actually care about protecting Black trans women instead of just erasing us, there are ALWAYS real ways to help. 🥺⬇️ x

which has a very well written Black trans man as the main character.
(Though I might miss some elements as a white trans person, tbh)
...i think I want to read that again now, 5 ys later ^^

I don't actually mind as much when a character isn't written by an author using their own experience, to me it's important that the characters are portrayed as full people, on eye level with the narrator.

A imho great example is Olumide Popoola, who is a Black cis woman, in When we speak of nothing

characters as full people, just some "exotic background". (Which is a common problem ofc)

And yeah, it's racist.
It's also ableist for the reason you indicated.

instead of, say, writing those scenes from the Black or Indigenous characters, for example. She did POV switches in other places to provide more context/a different perspective, after all. But she chose not to and it read to me very much as if she didn't even consider the Black and Indigenous

That sounds cool!
In the other books, a lot of the characters are neurodivergent in some way or other, and it's possible that the author of Pelican Girls is as well. But she played up the autism of the character+started using her POV the second Black and Indigenous characters were also introduced

was by the infamous dude who wrote "My brother's name is Jessica" (and is a good friend of Her Who Must Not Be Named). Another well-known bad book by him is The Boy in Striped Pajamas.

I truly hate authors who hide behind disabled characters to fling their "opinions" around+get major prizes for it

fascinating topic, but
omg, a perfect example of how autism is used by a white cis woman to make her character more "innocent" and use all the horrible racist slurs and stereotypes against Black and Indigenous characters. A mirror example of it against trans women

Faebound (Saara el-Arifi; I don't know what happened here, I loved the Final Strife. I think Cleopatra is a lot better, though it's not my cup of tea rn)
Màgòdiz (Gabe Calderon; v interesting plot, but I would have loved a lot more fleshing out)

A nonmagical DNF: Pelican Girls, by Julia Malye

The Tiger Flu (Larissa Lai, same)

Curious Tides (very bad and predictable HP crossover/knockoff, go read the Kingston Cycle by @clpolk.com instead)
Blood on the Tide (cool idea, v annoying to me execution, mainly for the amount of sexualization+ bad prose that gets worse by the voice acting)

And to round it out, 9 books of the darker magical variety I didn't finish and why. Doesn't mean they're bad

Green Fuse Burning (Tiffany Morris, started)
Dragon Keeper (Robin Hobb, crushing ableism)
Cry, Voidbringer (Elaine Ho, doom)
The Default World (Naomi Kanakia, need to read,not listen)

For Murder in G Major I'd add heavy ableism and minor/medium transmisogyny, lesbophobia, racism against traveler/Rom_nja/Sinti_zze CN bc
of the character framing. It feels like a good insight into "conservative Black auntie" and respectability mindset to me.

(Thank you to @novicsara.bsky.social for making me aware of dynamics. Everyone, if you're new to ASL and Deaf community in the US, including some history on Black ASL, True Biz is your book.)

but the two middle-class white cis lesbians are the heroes and survive, of course. The Deaf portrayal felt very tokenizing, plot device and patronizing to me as a hearing person, there is only one line where a Deaf character gets to tell in ASL to another, hearing ASL speaker how much the MC suck

all the books by Aiden Polydoros, who does excellent, bone chilling level Jewish Ashkenazi trans/queer horror.

*i don't recommend Into the Drowning Deep, I found it very boring and the resolution very 80s feminism. The first two victims are a fat gay man of Color and a Deaf woman,

since those are more expensive to produce.

And these are just the ones I finished.
Ring Shout by P Dèli Clark for example, or Sunforge by Sacha Stronach are still unfinished simply bc I don't have the stomach for that level of darkness rn.
And if we went further back, we'd get

Hassan)

#booksky #bipoc 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
All of them of the darker magical variety, nearly all of them from major publishers, and all of them read in the last half year. Only 3 authors are white cis women, everyone else is trans or of Color.*
Also, I'm restricted to audio books, which further narrows it down

Of Monsters and Mainframes (Barbara Truelove)
The Isle in the Silver Sea (Tasha Suri)
Grey Dog (Elliott Gish)
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng (Kylie Lee Baker)
The Transition (Logan-Ashley Kisner)
At Midnight (ed Dahlia Adler)
Model Home (Rivers Salomon)
The Buried and the Bound (Rochelle

Just going backwards on my list of books I finished+rec, 14 titles in the same genre by people who aren't white endo cis men:
The Sapling Cage (Margaret Killjoy)
Murder in G Major (Alexia Gordon)
Into the Drowning Deep (Mira Grant)
Antelope Woman
The Sentence (Louise Erdrich)
Mere (Danielle Giles)

@storybundle.bsky.social why are at least 11(!!!) of 14 of your new bundle of mystery/noir/magic books by men? You seriously didn't find more female authors in that genre?

🤣🤣🤣

That sounds like you had a lot of fun trolling teachers 😁and of course gaming

(I know that bc it was my PhD research as a historian of science before I got sick)

that science from GDR (and in part other Eastern bloc countries) was "hopelessly behind" bc there was simply not the materials or computing power available. At the same time, there was a strong focus on math and theory. This is where the "genius old Soviet physicist" trope comes from, btw.

idk availability of medical treatment or is turning around/getting way more complex, esp with how the Trump admin is dismantling ...everything useful.

*in 1980, for example, it was a given for scientists and science admin from the US/UK, West Germany, and GDR