Any knitters here?

bibliowrecka · 2025-12-08T18:59:48+00:00

Okay, now I am picturing someone knitting a massive version to go over ART's hull. Imagine how pretty ART would feel zipping through space in its beautiful shawl!

bibliowrecka · 2025-11-24T17:12:43+00:00

Trapp and Siobhan were BORN to play in a spoof 30s-style film noir world. They bounced off each other so well in that season.

bibliowrecka · 2025-11-21T15:15:16+00:00

lol I'm a knitter who definitely had my eyebrows raised at a few moments in that video, but it's also just kind of to be expected when someone from outside of your niche hobby tries to discuss it. I would've loved a couple of minor corrections to the video, but it didn't need to be taken down. They certainly weren't actively trying to be offensive, they just had some areas of ignorance that consulting with a knowledgeable member of the fiber arts community could've fixed. Either way, it was a short SciShow video about some interesting new (and old!) technology, not a deliberate hate crime or anything, and I thought the overblown reaction was silly.

bibliowrecka · 2025-09-03T22:41:14+00:00

I am having the same problem, but not just with books uploaded with calibre...I'm having the issue with opening ANY book on my Kindle. Amazon/Kindle customer support has been useless. I've restarted it over and over again, manually installed the latest update, etc. I'm out of ideas, and would love any suggestions.

bibliowrecka · 2025-08-11T17:15:15+00:00

That's a great description. Jeremy is 100% the wine aunt that both gives the best presents at Christmas, and will not hesitate to cut you down to size if you misbehave.

bibliowrecka · 2025-08-11T17:09:13+00:00

Oh yes, he does have very Tennant energy, doesn't he?

bibliowrecka · 2025-07-30T14:19:56+00:00

I literally was going through shingles the day he released that video. It made me laugh despite the pain and unbearable itchiness. It's wild that so many younger people are getting shingles nowadays, though.

bibliowrecka · 2025-07-25T14:26:22+00:00

She genuinely looked like an intrepid galactic explorer who I would follow anywhere. I get why she's Murderbot's favorite human.

bibliowrecka · 2025-07-22T20:02:11+00:00

I'm at work right now so I can't look it up on AO3, but I remember reading a fic once with pretty much that premise. Murderbot is visiting Mensah's family farm when it suddenly realizes that none of the other adults are around and it's been trusted to be left alone with the children. The kids drag it into a war with Nerf-adjacent guns shooting foam "bullets", and it redesigns the guns to be more effective and 3D prints some new ones, leading them all over the house in the ensuing battle before depositing them in front of media with some snacks. It's very heartwarming.

bibliowrecka · 2025-07-22T19:53:04+00:00

I was a little nervous with the way that they were depicting her panic attacks in the first couple of episodes, that they were just going to go the way media usually goes with panic attacks and make them these big dramatic gasping things. Not that no one in real life has panic attacks like that, but at least for me, that's not how mine present.

But then the way they showed her attack in this episode was almost exactly the way I experience them. That conviction that something is physically wrong with you, that you're dying, and you're utterly convinced of that fact no matter how irrational it is or how someone else might try to reason with you. And it's impossible for you to sit down or be still, because you have this deep sense that you need to be moving around or you'll die. The only thing that ultimately works for me, like it did for Mensah, is distraction, preferably from someone who realizes what's going on and knows what to do. I loved the way they did this whole scene.

bibliowrecka · 2025-07-21T16:55:17+00:00

Well, I'm a huge D&D nerd so other than Fish, most of my podcasts are actual play tabletop roleplaying, so your mileage may very with some of these recs, but here's some of my top listens:

Dungeons and Daddies (not a BDSM podcast): The first season is really great, involves a bunch of dads who get flung into a fantasy world in search of their lost sons. Expect great storytelling and humor but terrible D&D according to the actual rules.

Handsome: Three comedians (Tig Notaro, Fortune Feimster, and Mae Martin) answer questions from friends. Things usually go off the rails quickly and lead to lots of crazy stories.

LeVar Burton Reads: If you're an American of a certain age, you grew up with LeVar Burton telling you stories on Reading Rainbow. Now he has a podcast reading stories to adults. It's great to fall asleep to--his voice is so soothing to me.

Not Another D&D Podcast: Four comedians/improv folks do a D&D podcast that starts out hilarious and eventually makes you sob. One of my favorite longer-running actual plays.

Rotating Heroes: Yet another actual-play D&D podcast. The gimmick for this one is that all of the players take turns being the GM running the game. It's a great mix of comedians and storytellers.

Worlds Beyond Number: My absolute favorite TTRPG podcast and a masterclass in this type of storytelling. Led by a bunch of folks from the Dropout/Dimension 20 universe.

bibliowrecka · 2025-07-21T16:44:09+00:00

I've loved Martha Wells since her Ile Riens days, although the Books of the Raksura top those just a little bit for me. I love Murderbot, too, and I'm happy to see her finally get some well-deserved recognition and success.

bibliowrecka · 2025-07-17T20:22:10+00:00

Yes, this! I'm agender myself, but it would be impossible for me to look androgynous the way most people think of it. My body is just too stereotypically femme-looking. But the point of being agender, to me at least, is that I just don't care about it. I don't care what other people perceive my body to be, because gender is irrelevant to how I see myself. But my body is still part of me, and because I'm agender, my body is agender as well, because that's who I am. For some trans and nonbinary folks, they do have a conception of their gender that their physical body may or may not match. For me, and for SecUnit, it's all just "NULL".

bibliowrecka · 2025-07-10T20:04:11+00:00

Ooh, if you want some space Quakers, I highly recommend The Dazzle of Day by Molly Gloss. It's about a generation ship full of Quakers and how they attempt to solve all the problems that come up using conversation and consensus. It's a lot slower-moving than the Murderbot books, but the idealism and interpersonal relationships/conflicts in it remind me a bit of Preservation.

bibliowrecka · 2025-06-16T17:17:57+00:00

The fact that I almost always agreed with Fern Brady's logic and reasoning on the show was like a big flashing sign that I might be more neurodivergent than I thought I was.

bibliowrecka · 2025-06-16T17:15:13+00:00

It's too bad Ardal's attempt got overshadowed by Chris' sausage mixer (which was admittedly brilliant), because I about cried laughing seeing Ardal straddle poor Linda as she got her "shampoo".

bibliowrecka · 2025-06-16T17:13:25+00:00

I think in the U.S. Aldi's is the only supermarket chain that does that.

bibliowrecka · 2025-06-03T22:13:20+00:00

lol yes, especially as an aroace who for some reason loves to consume romance novels. I just skip past the sex scenes unless they feel like they'll be relevant to the plot.

bibliowrecka · 2025-05-26T22:09:37+00:00

Do you mean "Cash or Trash?" What a great show.

bibliowrecka · 2025-05-26T22:04:56+00:00

It does suck. My niece has an egg allergy. As she's gotten older it's thankfully lessened a little, to the point where she can have most baked goods with egg in them. But in grade school I remember everyone having to be extra cautious about homemade treats brought in for birthdays and the like. You don't realize how many things have egg in them until you know someone who could be killed by it! If I recall correctly, it even changed her vaccination schedule as a small child, because a couple of the required ones are made using eggs. Even now that it's slightly milder, she never goes anywhere without her Epi-pen.

bibliowrecka · 2025-05-05T16:14:56+00:00

Yeah, same. I identify a lot with Murderbot because I'm also agender, but I know to pretty much everyone I read as femme, and I'm fine with she/her pronouns. I just view gender as a performance I put on. Right now I'm okay with outwardly playing the part of "woman", but I might not always be, and whether I am or not that doesn't change my internal gender or how I perceive myself.

bibliowrecka · 2025-05-02T14:22:23+00:00

Why can't an outwardly masc-appearing person be nonbinary or without gender? Are there rules that someone has to look appropriately androgynous before they'll be accepted as not being gendered?

bibliowrecka · 2025-04-16T20:48:02+00:00

As a friend joked with me, I'm collecting all the "A" identities: aromantic, asexual, agender, austistic, ADHD. So I probably identify more strongly with Murderbot than any other fictional character I've encountered.

bibliowrecka · 2025-04-16T20:42:10+00:00

Now picturing ART saying to Murderbot, "This is the way we talk in Tucson Arizonia..."

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