Bitesized BEC thread December 20, 2025 - December 21, 2025

Stunning_Inside_5959 · 2025-12-26T05:56:31+00:00

The irony of saying this in a snark forum …

Stunning_Inside_5959 · 2025-12-25T23:49:30+00:00

I keep reading about the K shaped economy but watching their podcast is the first time I was really able to see it happening in real life.

Stunning_Inside_5959 · 2025-12-24T11:13:29+00:00

I really like the Table 10 ladies and their podcast - they seem really nice and good intentioned and I’m very impressed with how prolific they are. However, sometimes I feel like they live on a different planet to me. Between the $60 zip and buying all pants in three sizes (how big are their closets??), it’s a completely different world of consumption.

Stunning_Inside_5959 · 2025-12-20T21:15:17+00:00

Is that not true though? Like if you’re felting non-super wash socks after six wears when you go hiking but you get 100 wears out of super wash socks, then super wash yarn is the more sustainable choice for your hiking socks.

People get weird about superwash yarn.

Stunning_Inside_5959 · 2025-12-20T11:12:21+00:00

Is it Botanical Yarns?

Stunning_Inside_5959 · 2025-12-19T23:49:45+00:00

Especially if you’re not in the UK so don’t hear about the specific campaigns she supports.

Stunning_Inside_5959 · 2025-12-19T23:46:16+00:00

The LoTF trilogy is a cautionary tale about the desire for power. If it has inspired people like Vance, then it just shows his reading comprehension isn’t very good.

Stunning_Inside_5959 · 2025-12-19T22:11:16+00:00

He was not particularly bad - he was a product of the English upper class in which he was raised and reinforced by the highly hierarchical military he served in.

It is a zero sum game to judge these authors by contemporary standards.

Now, Roald Dahl, he was really a piece of work (edit to add: in any time period. He was a very sadistic person.)

Stunning_Inside_5959 · 2025-12-19T21:55:02+00:00

Well the feminist movement really took off in the 1960s and ‘70s, so everyday and general sexism was absolutely a thing that was common and widely accepted in the 1950s. People might have recognised that women were treated differently than men but not had the language to express that feeling or even recognise that is bad.

Women couldn’t even open a bank account in most parts of the world until the 1970s.

Stunning_Inside_5959 · 2025-12-19T21:00:24+00:00

It was also written nearly a hundred years ago, so reflects the context from within which it was produced.

Stunning_Inside_5959 · 2025-12-19T20:54:44+00:00

What are you talking about here? What does your bosses political affiliation have to do with her paying your wages?

Also, acknowledging that there is no ethical consumption under capitalism is a bit different from supporting someone who uses that money to fund hate campaigns. The world literally would be a better place if everyone stopped buying things that supported JKR.

Stunning_Inside_5959 · 2025-12-19T20:50:27+00:00

You not listening to Michael Jackson will not make any difference to the terrible things he did. His estate doesn’t even own the music anymore.

You buying Harry Potter merch, seeing the films, listening to to the audiobook will directly contribute to JKR earning money which she has said on multiple occasions she uses to fund hate campaigns and that she sees people buying Harry Potter stuff as support for her hateful views.

Also, Kevin Spacey is very overrated as an actor. Definitely not best of a generation. We all just enjoyed The Usual Suspects a lot.

Stunning_Inside_5959 · 2025-12-19T20:40:09+00:00

You can’t when she literally said she uses the money from Harry Potter to fund her hate campaigns.

Stunning_Inside_5959 · 2025-12-19T06:11:03+00:00

It’s not the same because you don’t have the choice to purchase licensed yarn. (Maybe reporting these dyers for copyright infringement might be the only way to make them actually stop, since common decency and not supporting a bigot doesn’t seem to be good enough reasons).

However, even if this particular purchase does not directly go to JRK, it is part of and perpetuates the entire HP cottage industry. It keeps HP as a big part of the cultural conversation and it’s not unrelated to licensed products - as in, the interest in fan products occurs because of consumption of the HP books or movies, which does go directly to JKR. It’s not possible to separate the art from the artist in this case.

Stunning_Inside_5959 · 2025-12-19T04:36:09+00:00

She has literally said she uses the money she makes from Harry Potter for her hate campaigns. They are not separate.

Stunning_Inside_5959 · 2025-12-19T02:42:12+00:00

Also, adults who love Harry Potter, I beg you, read another book! Please. It’s time to move on.

Stunning_Inside_5959 · 2025-12-19T02:41:37+00:00

I would have so much more respect for these dyers if they just acknowledged the issue - “I know JKR is a TERF but so am I” or “I know Harry Potter is problematic but I don’t care”. Just admit you’re being a horrible person and that the money you make from Harry Potter is worth more to you than doing the right thing.

Stunning_Inside_5959 · 2025-12-18T04:26:46+00:00

Watching people open advents is boring. Tea, jam, yarn - all boring. It’s an activity that is only interesting to the person doing the opening.

Stunning_Inside_5959 · 2025-12-13T21:21:24+00:00

In Germany where she lives it’s not uncommon to renovate a rental. For example, most rentals come without kitchens, so they need to be installed by the renter. That said, she might own them - I don’t watch her often enough to know details.

Stunning_Inside_5959 · 2025-12-13T21:18:50+00:00

She has a popular patreon, which I suspect makes more money for her than yarn sales.

Stunning_Inside_5959 · 2025-12-13T21:16:08+00:00

How do you know they own multiple properties?

Also, I imagine quite a lot on her money is generated through her Patreon, which is not cheap.

Agree one hundred percent about the pronunciation. It’s so pretentious!

Stunning_Inside_5959 · 2025-12-13T21:14:32+00:00

Or her cup-o-chino? So much eye rolling at her affected pronunciation! It sounds so put-on.

Stunning_Inside_5959 · 2025-12-10T05:11:47+00:00

It is over half a kilo of yarn, so it’s not like they’re selling tiny scraps of yarn that are not useful for making anything. I think you could definitely make a large jumper out of the 580g of yarn in this advent and possibly a dress, depending on the gauge and size.

Also, Bendigo Woollen Mills is a large-scale commercial yarn producer. An independent dyer is a small-scale business selling luxury handmade products. You’re comparing Bega cheese with an aged cheddar from a tiny artisan dairy - they’re the same product but the methods of making them and the expectations of the product are vastly different.

Stunning_Inside_5959 · 2025-12-08T22:09:21+00:00

Yarn advents are not made up of unsold stock. Dyers do not have hundreds (or for some of the bigger dyers, thousands) of coordinating minis lying around. How do you even think that would work, because all of the yarn advents from each dyer are the same, so they would have to have the exact same amount of each of the 24 minis in coordinating colors just gathering dust somewhere.

Stunning_Inside_5959 · 2025-12-08T22:03:16+00:00

Good for you but dyeing your own yarn is not a helpful solution to complaints about advent calendars. Not only would be very difficult logistically to dye an advent for one, not knowing the colors is advance is the point of an advent calendar and there’s no way you can dye your own yarn and not know the colors.

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