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May. 4th, 2022 01:12 pmThings:
- We had a craft swap at the library last weekend - people could bring supplies and tools they didn't want anymore and other people could then take them away. Someone brought in an inkle loom and it was still there after the swap was over, so I have snagged it. And now I have to figure out how to use it! And then I will weave some shoelaces or something.
- This has sent me down a weaving rabbit hole and I currently trying to convince myself that I don't need a rigid heddle loom. And I don't. But I want one. (This is how the yarn craft progression goes, of course. You start with crochet or knitting and then you learn to spin. And then you start dyeing your own yarn. And then you get into weaving. And then you start raising sheep, or so I've heard. I do not want sheep and our yard is the size of a postage stamp, so hopefully weaving is where I stop.)
- Yesterday, I was listening to an actualplay podcast and someone made a throwaway joke about their character in a Weird West rpg worshipping trains. And my brain, which loves both trains and Weird West fiction (and, let's be real, imprinted really hard on the Dark Tower series), went, "I now desperately want a Weird West story with a train cult, that's amazing, who is going to write me that novel?" The answer is, of course, nobody is going to write that for me. But! I have a long running Weird West solo rpg that already has mysterious and inexplicable ancient sentient automata - no one (least of all me) knows who built them or where they came from. There is no reason that one of them couldn't be a train (which otherwise don't exist in the setting) and likewise no reason that there couldn't be a train cult. Who knows when it will come up in play, but at least I know it's a possibility.
- Years after everyone else, I have started playing Breath of the Wild. I bought it when I bought my Switch, played it for about an hour, and then got distracted by Pokemon and Hades. But I picked it up again this weekend and you guys, it is pretty great.
- We had a craft swap at the library last weekend - people could bring supplies and tools they didn't want anymore and other people could then take them away. Someone brought in an inkle loom and it was still there after the swap was over, so I have snagged it. And now I have to figure out how to use it! And then I will weave some shoelaces or something.
- This has sent me down a weaving rabbit hole and I currently trying to convince myself that I don't need a rigid heddle loom. And I don't. But I want one. (This is how the yarn craft progression goes, of course. You start with crochet or knitting and then you learn to spin. And then you start dyeing your own yarn. And then you get into weaving. And then you start raising sheep, or so I've heard. I do not want sheep and our yard is the size of a postage stamp, so hopefully weaving is where I stop.)
- Yesterday, I was listening to an actualplay podcast and someone made a throwaway joke about their character in a Weird West rpg worshipping trains. And my brain, which loves both trains and Weird West fiction (and, let's be real, imprinted really hard on the Dark Tower series), went, "I now desperately want a Weird West story with a train cult, that's amazing, who is going to write me that novel?" The answer is, of course, nobody is going to write that for me. But! I have a long running Weird West solo rpg that already has mysterious and inexplicable ancient sentient automata - no one (least of all me) knows who built them or where they came from. There is no reason that one of them couldn't be a train (which otherwise don't exist in the setting) and likewise no reason that there couldn't be a train cult. Who knows when it will come up in play, but at least I know it's a possibility.
- Years after everyone else, I have started playing Breath of the Wild. I bought it when I bought my Switch, played it for about an hour, and then got distracted by Pokemon and Hades. But I picked it up again this weekend and you guys, it is pretty great.
