LoveMakeShare June 2: Do queer themes, identities, characters, etc. feature in your work? Any that you're particularly proud of?

When it comes to knitting I love working in pride flag colours. So far that's only been rainbow but I would like to make some future projects in other specific pride flag colours.

In my fanfiction the series I write fanfic for features queer characters in a queernormative universe (The Murderbot Diaries). Everyone in the series knows they're queer and grows up in queernormative societies where queerness is normalized and a regular part of life, but the main character manages to be queer within that universe, compared to other characters.

One fanfic I have planned for it will explore a self-discovery theme, the main ace character discovering it is interested in sex with its good friend, and the sex is queer within-universe, and this is an important factor in the character finding this out about itself.

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LoveMakeShare June 3: Creative and artistic people tend to be driven by something. What is it that drives you to create?

I want to create things. The act of creation brings me joy. So does sharing my creations with others. But I would do the first without the second, I think, because I have done a fair amount of that. But sharing my creations and seeing the reactions of others is quite wonderful too. This is also why I spend some of my creative efforts on commenting on and responsing to others' creations.

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LoveMakeShare June 4: Share a picture of a tool of your trade. Is there anything special about it?

I've mentioned these before, and KnitPicks isn't the only brand that makes this kind of thing, but it's what I've gone with since they're the first ones I encountered.

With a standard set of circular knitting needles you'd need to buy a set with the right size of needles and length of cable for whatever you're working on. And if you need different sizes at that cable length you buy multiple sets of circulars. I have a few sets of circulars like that. But this is much more adaptable.

I like circulars for non-circular projects as well, they can be good for particularly large or long ones, depending on your length of cable. I made an entire poncho for my roommate with items from this set. And a fairly large project can be fit into your bag too, with circular needles.

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LoveMakeShare June 5: How tied to the environment is your creative work? Are there themes of environmentalism in your work?

It's not something I have particularly tied in to my work or creative process at this time, no. I generally try to do my best within my life for the environment such as one person can and I advocate for environmental concerns to various people I know and sometimes with my representative politicians, but I don't really have it tied into my creative work.

Though, I did have some environmentalist themes in my Thirsty Sword Lesbians TTRPG that I ran back in April. This was partially inspired by some of my players making characters that were attuned with local spirits and living things. Plus it fit well with the overall themes I was writing for the story.

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LoveMakeShare June 6: Do you tend to practice one or more art forms? ... If many, is there one you want to focus more on?

Many! Although currently I'm only really involved with two.

Right now it's knitting and writing, but I have also done drawing and singing and (not-indigenous) hoop dancing.

I'd like to get involved in making podfic too, I've been getting plenty of practice during a fandom server's read-a-long events and I've been having a lot of fun. Live storytelling piqued my interest maybe a decade ago and podficcing/narrating fiction/voice acting/etc. seems very close in spirit to it.

I'm focusing more of my effort on writing at the moment but I have been planning my next knitting project that I'm going to try and get done as quick as possible, so that will get more attention soon.

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LoveMakeShare June 7: Share a single word that describes, represents, or thematically links to the project you're thinking about today.

Restart

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LoveMakeShare June 8: The ocean is sometimes described as more unknown than the moon or Mars. Does the unknown excite or scare you when you are creating?

A bit of both?

It also depends on what medium I'm creating in.

Knitting I generally prefer to work within comfortable areas and patterns designed by other people. Crochet I've struck out and made up entire projects of my own without having made anything like them before. Writing I suppose I'm mostly working with the known being that it's all fanfic of a series I'm obsessed with.

I think I can be quite anxious of the unknown but I still get excited too and like to take little trips outside areas known to me.

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LoveMakeShare June 9: Share a mistake you made on a current or past project. What did you learn?

So, on the rainbow peacock shawl I did for the 2024 Fasten Off Yarn-A-Long, I dropped some stitches in the process of knitting it. And I didn't notice. I'm not sure how it happened without me noticing either because my process should've caught that at least by the end of the row?

Anyways, it didn't become apparent until I was blocking the project, when a hole started opening up in the area. And I knew that hole could, and would, get bigger, as more stitches unravelled.

Fortunately it was located mostly in a single solid colour area, and I went in and fixed it with some leftover yarn in the same colour. I'd never made this kind of repair before and I was worried it would be obvious where it was.

But you can't tell where I fixed it.

I didn't know I could do that. :3

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LoveMakeShare June 10: If money were no object and you could have your dream creative space, what would it be?

A room set up for all my art, both digital and handcraft. With some entertainment setup as well. Well lit.

While I'm at it, make it have enough space for two or three people to work together in there. :3

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LoveMakeShare June 11: Shameless self-promotion day!

Okay so I don't have anything new I want to get eyes on, I'm still working on my fic, I have about a chapter to go but it might be done before the end of June, maybe?

Oh wait I have completed D's other sock, just need to weave in the ends. I'll attach a photo to this post. :3 It may look a bit big but that's just this style of sock, I made the same pattern for myself and J and they fit perfectly!

Otherwise, here's a link to my friends' fanfic that I've been helping to edit/pre-read/cheer on/rubber duck.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/85651776/chapters/226321816

Recursive Systems, part 1 of the Multiplicity Protocols series. Murderbot Diaries fanfic, takes place post-canon, written pre-Platform Decay. Plural SecUnit/Murderbot, written by a plural system.

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LoveMakeShare June 12: Shameless appreciate others day. Share a post from this or another hastag game that made you think, and thank the person who posted.

Today I learned that @troodon has been making up those WritingPride hashtag questions I've seen them retooting from their writing account. I'm not writing original fiction (I haven't even been writing with OCs in my fanfic xD) but I've been enjoying seeing the prompts and their responses and I've gone into the tag a little to check out other folks' responses, because queer themes and characters and writers talking about their writing make me happy. :3

Also, thanks to @skysailor for giving me details on things I can obtain or do in order to get started making podfics myself. :DDD That was in response to one of my entries in this hashtag game a few days ago.

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LoveMakeShare June 13: Think back to around this time one year ago. Are you more or less happy with your creative output than you were back then? Why?

I'd say I'm more happy now, simply because I'm doing more creative things, and have more mental spoons to spend on doing creative things, which is also nice.

I was doing some knitting last year after getting restarted in it during the yarn-a-long six months prior, it's possible I'd started knitting socks around that point actually, which is pretty cool. I was just finishing up my peer support training school too.

Anyways, now I'm knitting socks and a hat and I'm working in peer support and volunteering, and I'm writing and editing some friends' fanfic too. :3

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LoveMakeShare June 14: If you could take a month off to work on any project, what would it be and what would you do with that month?

Well, I don't know! I'm going to read this question as if I had a month off from all things that hold me back from doing all the things I want to do. Outside of social activities, I might just dedicate all my time to writing my fanfic. It's such a huge project I've decided to take on, with the goal of writing a number of novellas/novels (depending on how long these end up being.)

I'd probably share some of that time with reading and beta reading because I enjoy both things and also they help me with m own writing.

I'm really fortunate that I get to do all of this already, though! I don't have the attention span/spoons to, say, write 500-1,000 words per day, but I have been putting out 200-300 words per day for June, and beta reading & reading. :3

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