all the things

I've spent the weekend binding and finishing my two quilts for the Sydney Quilt Show in 2 weeks' time. I still have a hanging sleeve to affix, but they're nearly done!

I'll put pics up here after I've had a chance to photograph them at the show. :)

And I think I got a little sunburned at the hockey games on the weekend. Even in winter, our UV levels are pretty high. My face feels like it's radiating a gentle heat right now. I really need to remember the sunscreen.

( Not Prime Time )

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Next up: sexism in quilting.

( no, not 'reverse sexism' )

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Pacific Rim 2 announcement has me hopeful. Cautiously hopeful - particularly in light of the news that GdT is back on the project and writing the script.

I only have three wishes:

1. the story is more clearly about Mako and her achieving her goals post-Pitfall.
2. the story includes her relationship with Raleigh to debunk the "a woman can be strong and well-crafted or she can be in a romantic relationship with a man" stupidity that's making the rounds after that idiot article the other week.
3. there are more non-white non-male characters - as in, all the new characters are non-white and/or female to balance out the four white males who survived to the end of the first movie.

Monday recs: Night On Fic Mountain

The Musketeers
La Folie Des Trois
Athos meets Porthos one wet, miserable October day. As far as first meetings go, it isn't an auspicious one.
Beautifully written, concise and descriptive and with a lovely lilt to the interactions of the characters. I don't watch this show, so I can't speak to the characterisation, but I do love how they interact, the situations they're in, and the way they come through the story.

Anne of Green Gables
Intensity and Steadiness
Real friendship isn't only about the intensity of wanting to see each other every day, wanting to tell that person everything; it's also about the times when even if you don't see each other every day, talk to each other every day, even years, when you find time to see each other everything falls back together and it's like you were never really apart.
A sweet and tender look into the friendships between Anne and Diana Barry, and Anne and Leslie Moore.

Anastasia (1997)
Safe Passage
Paris, 1943.
Short and funny.

Young Avengers
A Good Disaster
Loki may have a crush.
Okay, so I'm not a Loki fan in MCU. The character makes a good villain, but I'm otherwise indifferent. However Kid!Loki is a different matter, and this too-short fic put a big grin on my face, because that last line is so very Young Loki...