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tweeted excerpts from A Field Guide to Getting Lost, via Rebecca Solnit's twitter
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Solace and Joy: Blue (a drabble)
Fluffbruary 1, 2023
It's Fluffbruary again! 2023's flufflets will stay in the Solace and Joy series.
– Bad day?
– What was your first clue?
– You’re rereading The Museum of Innocence. Again. You do that when you need comfort reading.
– Observant git.
– But it doesn’t seem to be working.
– And you know this how?
– Your fingers are white, gripping the book. And I haven’t heard you turn a page in ten minutes.
– You’re right. Obviously.
– What’s wrong?
– Wish I knew. I’m just blue. I even feel bad about not having a reason for feeling bad.
– Don’t bother. It happens. Here, give me that. I’ll read to you.
– Put on your velvet voice?
– Just for you.
– Yes. That one.
This will be Ch. 39 of Solace and Joy, and it's is the first of my @fluffbruary 2023 ficlets; word prompts for today were velvet, clue, and museum.
Thanks for reblogging! Check out the prompts at Fluffbruary 2023.
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And this will be MY scarf :)
Warping the loom :)
Shuttles loaded :)
This merino is so soft that even doubling the warp still doesn't make it show as much as similar size of cotton/acrylic would. I have to tap the weft very carefully to preserve warp visibility.
Undid single weft weaving, folded it double and tried again. Looks better now.
Over the midpoint.
Nearly there :)
Using the smallest shuttles now - one serves as a pickup stick, since the heddles aren't moving at this stage :)
End result
On the back of my sofa.
Both folds
Up close
The warp colours are visible, just subtly.
wow, beautiful! also you are fast!
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blue on blue :: tst
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“In Greek, whose color lexicon did not stabilize for many centuries, the words most commonly used for blue are glaukos and kyaneos. The latter probably referred originally to a mineral or a metal; it has a foreign root and its meaning often shifted. During the Homeric period it denoted both the bright blue of the iris and the black of funeral garments, but never the blue of the sky or sea. An analysis of Homer’s poetry shows that out of sixty adjectives describing elements and landscapes in the Iliad and Odyssey, only three are color terms, while those evoking light effects are quite numerous. During the classical era, kyaneos meant a dark color: deep blue, violet, brown, and black. In fact, it evokes more the “feeling” of the color than its actual hue. The term glaukos, which existed in the Archaic period and was much used by Homer, can refer to gray, blue, and sometimes even yellow or brown. Rather than denoting a particular color, it expresses the idea of a color’s feebleness or weak concentration. For this reason it is used to describe the color of water, eyes, leaves, or honey.”
— Michel Pastoureau, Blue: The History of a Color (via emmaylor)
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Sherlock at the Sea Life London Aquarium.
forwards or backwards?
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A Study in Pink, Purple and Blue ~ queer themes in the cases part 1/9
Using colour to decipher the ASiP cases.
Purple: a colour associated with gay pride.
Bisexual pride flag:
made of
blue, representing opposite sex attraction,
pink, representing same sex attraction and
purple, representing the combination of both.
example,
*
I think that all the victims in ASiP are in the closet and kill themselves because they can’t come out. Blue, here, represents the closeted façade that these characters put up for the world.
Victim 1
pink tie,
purple light orbs when he takes the pill,
blue backdrop for his photo, his public image is that he’s, ‘straight’.
affair with woman in purple,
Victim 2
Would rather die than share an umbrella with his best friend: afraid to be seen as attracted to his best friend/afraid of being attracted to his best friend,
purple orbs of light when he takes pill,
Victim 3
purple bar lighting,
friends find her to be embarrassingly drunk: will her true sexuality come out when she’s drunk?
four blue containers represent the four straight façades of the victims,
blue backdrop,
Victim 4
She’s different from the first three. Is she bi instead of gay?
head to toe in pink, has lots of short-lived affairs,
(Potential) Victim 5,
bathed in pink light,
purple light only on his side, (is the killer straight?)
Blue scarf: pretends to be straight,
Killer
purple light frames him,
purple backdrop as we meet him,
blue shirt: straight façade or actually straight? (in the original pilot, he makes a suggestive remark to Sherlock about being drugged, 'I could do anything I wanted to you, right now, Mr Holmes. Anything at all.’)
*
Additional thoughts:
* Why does Sherlock not get to find out which pill was which? Because as John said, 'it’s all fine’. You don’t have to come out.
* Lestrade said, 'don’t commit suicide’, and that’s the message, here, despite the absurd delivery.
* But, as he adds, 'we’re all as safe as we want to be’, Sherlock says, 'wrong!’. Because people are victims of homophobia while others are oblivious to it.
*“Who passes, unnoticed wherever they go?” People who are in the closet.
*Sherlock’s life is not, 'real’, according to John. Is it because he’s in the closet? A hint to how life is more genuine once you’re out of the closet.
* John ditches his, 'crutch’, when he chases Sherlock down an, 'alternate route’, which is bathed in purple light: John is not exactly out of the closet, either.
Reblogging ASIP meta in January.
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uhhh so the flowers at john’s two therapy sessions are different?
HMMM, looks like one is just white roses, and the other has added babys breath and something BLUE.
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The Blue Carbuncle
requested by thenumberonesolitarycyclist
THEY ARE SO CLOSE :>
ah, the way Holmes turns his gaze from the stone to Watson... :)