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Filigree Needlequeen of the Desert

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Book artist, sword&planet fantasy writer, bead hoarder, curmudgette, white but not fashy linktr.ee/mcranehana2

PP: quail scrimshaw with glowing gold eyes, ornate floral brocade in metallic gold, hot pink, and bright orange silk.

Filigree Needlequeen of the Desert 's avatar Filigree Needlequeen of the Desert @filigreemchana.bsky.social
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Sometimes when there is too much desperate noise in the world, I selfishly just *stop* and look at something lovely for a while. Like this cloisonne pendant. Pierced copper, same design on both sides, hand enameled, polished, and plated in gold. Probably Chinese tourist trade, but gorgeous.

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These are so lovely. I can almost see them in a book, with inked & painted illustrations.

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It's Entirely up to Us.

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For the people who don’t have time, here’s your Readers Digest version. You’re welcome.

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If you're worried about brevity in your writing, don't. It took Project 2025 nine hundred pages to say fourteen words.

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Excellent! I just got a cream silk curtain at Goodwill, for the same thing.

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6/ *If* I can save the dress & keep it presentable after taking off the crystals, I'll re-donate it. Someone could Cinderella this up. But honestly, it's terrible sewing on everything that isn't public-facing. To make the inner tulle really wearable, it needs a lot seam binding lace.

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We have to stop this. With prejudice.

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5/ Update. The crystal bicone beads, metal cup sew-on crystals, and flat teardrop sew-on crystals are *all* Swarovski or very clever high-quality fakes. Examined cut patterns under hi-res magnifier. At least $50 in crystal on this thing.

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I call them 'Fuckyou Filters' & gained them sometime in my early 30s. It has been glorious having them. I wish I share them with anyone who needs them.

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Notice how everyone is somehow talking about Biden Too Old right now, and NOT about how the Supreme Court just legalized Trump being a dictator for life and gutted the administrative state, and how the Heritage Foundation is now issuing terrorist threats? Think that might not be an accident?

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Hello social medias...

You may not be aware a major Cat 5 hurricane struck an area that normally doesn't get them. The eye passed directly over Carriacou and Petit Martinique.

The devastation is tremendous. The need is great.

You can help and make a difference:

www.gofundme.com/f/the-people...

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4/ I will take off every glass bead worth taking, leave the silver acrylic sequins. Wash the dress, then take it apart for the outer flounce & the tulle (which I can finish properly & reuse.) I don't wear polyester dresses. In central AZ, there's 4 weeks a year when I could.

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3/ The back has a no-nonsense closure of nylon snaps, a massive metal hook&eye, and a ribbon loop corset lace. All fabric is polyester. It says dry clean only; I'm betting a tub of cold water & mild soap will take off dust. Outer layers & bodice are well made & finished. I'm not reselling it.

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2/ I'll try to dissect for nonsewing folks. Most of the clear beads, cup sew on crystals, and pierced crystals appear to be glass (why I bought it). The bodice is reasonably boned to support a size 16 torso. It has FOUR skirts: outer sheer flounce, blush opaque layer, fluffy tulle, then slip.

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1/ Holy shit, #ThriftFinds. Star of the show, a size 16 Christina Wu style 15500 ivory/blushpink dress that was at least $1000 new ($12 at Goodwill, put on floor July 2). Donated because of some missing beads on bodice.

So big it had to leave Goodwill in a large garbage bag.

This dress is weird.

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There’s just a few more hours That’s all the time you’ve got A few more hours Until this shit gets bought If you are worried for elections Here’s one good use of funds and time Come on, you doxies, Update those proxies And get us to the finish line!

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That...that is gloriously vicious. Kinda like what NASA really stands for.

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L O L G O P's avatar L O L G O P @lolgop.bsky.social
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You know that people are starting to get how dangerous Project 2025 is when Donald Trump had to pretend to disavow it.

It was an honor to talk to the Sultan of Schedule F @donmoyn.bsky.social about his supporting role in the Last Night Tonight explainer that helped this story break through.

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Same here. I can find no text transcript, and I don't want to pay money for something that might have been concocted by Murdoch & Rowling. The timing looks bad.

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10/ As an ace/demi, my libido rarely gets in the way of daily life & logical matters. I understand, power is aphrodisiac, on both sides. Liberal public figures have to grasp: they are targets, no matter how they behave. We don't do enough turnabout: I'd guess 60% Dominionist men rape or want to.

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9/ My questions (& they will infuriate some people): Did Tortoise Media get a conservative donation at any point in the development of this story? Were the 2 women paid off to bring their stories? Did anyone pay off NZ police to look the other way? Why did Neil not keep it in his pants?

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8/ Like Furries, trans and gay people, immigrants...whatever 'other' target can be lined up as a handy wedge issue. I'll remind y'all that American conservatives mostly didn't give a damn about abortion...until post 1973, when they realized it could be a proxy substitute for their Jim Crow racism.

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7/ What people do in their private sex lives is not my business, until it impinges on age & consent issues. Is Author into BDSM? I don't know, AND that should not be an automatic assumption of guilt. Best practices BDSM is founded on rigorous, reaffirmed consent. It's a proxy target.

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6/...And however long this podcast series about A Certain Author has been in development, I find some timing issues interesting. Just after Queen Terf got smacked down by Author in the public sphere? Just when the Tories effectively lost the UK Parliament (& far right groups *gained* members?

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5/ The goal is not to seek any form of justice, but to convince onlookers that 'everyone sins, everyone is bad'. To take power in the vacuum of exhaustion, when easily-swayed people just give in to reflexive nihilism. Do I trust Tortoise? They have noble goals. They're also losing money. Timing...

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4/ Entertainment has always been just as big a mountain to them as Politics & Education. When they can't make inroads via overt or subtle Dominionist programming, they turn on liberal progressive figures. Tear them down, take advatange of their unsavory secrets in blatant whataboutism.

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3/ Sex, for them, should be for procreation only, between a biological man and woman married to each other in a religious marriage. Even female sexual pleasure within marriage, is seen as suspect & unnecessary. 7M Dominionism aims to 'take over' 7 key aspects of the modern progressive world.

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2/ I'd advise people to listen to the Tortoise Media 4-part podcast, and make up their own minds. I need to add some caveats here. Believe women *and* fact-check everything you can. But first a side trip to Project 2025 & 7 Mountains Dominionism. Under both groups, most sex is outlawed.

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1/ CW: SA, consent, 7 Mountains Dominionism. There's a certain matter that has most of us in the Science-Fiction & Fantasy fields reeling in shock. A celebrity writer has been accused of 'rough sex' during consensual sex, in two accounts twenty years apart. There are so many sides to this thing.

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“If a [political] party knows you’re not going to vote for them, the best thing they can do is convince you not to vote at all." — Stage_Door_Johnny (on instagram)

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Sigh. The sooner I go to the grocery store, the sooner I can be home sipping tequila & seltzer.

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I have no patriotic red, white, & blue shirts to wear, anymore. I don't want to be mistaken for a MAGA. I have a necklace. I made it the day after 9-11-2011. I wear it now on election days & July 4th. With a blue shirt.

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You have my sword & detonators, sir.

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