Stolen from reddit where it wasn’t being properly appreciated
“Indigo dyeing silk thread”
In case anyone wonders what the Japanese is saying
I just learned about this recently from a Viking reenactor! Indigo dye isn’t blue until it oxidizes, so when you dye with indigo your cloth or thread doesn’t come out of the water blue, it comes out and then reacts with the oxygen in the air and seems to spontaneously turn blue in front of your eyes. It’s a really cool process to witness.
ok time to lock the fuck in *opens discord* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens tumblr* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens gmail* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens youtube* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens an unstable vortex in time and space* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens ao3* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens discord* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens tumblr*
oh this one resonated huh
thats too much resonating. thats too much. you can stop now
no. no!!!!! SHUT UP!!!!! lock the fuck in and CLOSE TUMBLR EVERYBODY
anyway the thing about fanfic is that it’s not essentially bad or good; it’s essentially amateur. some people are absolutely out there writing award-worthy prose (some fic writers ARE award-winning writers IRL!), but that’s not the point. the point is that we’re all telling campfire stories. it’s a community, and it’s a way to spend some more time in the worlds and stories that we love.
“amateur” has become synonymous with “lacking skill,” and it can mean that, but it doesn’t have to. the word derives from the Latin for “lover.” that’s the other definition. one who does it for love.
At least people who make religious predictions of the apocalypse have an answer to the question ‘Why didn’t you predict any of the other ones that happened recently?’
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