ThatssoFanny

joined 1 year ago

Thank you! That sounds awesome yet daunting ๐Ÿ˜… I haven't even attempted any clothing yet. It feels like anything beyond a single sock would take years lol.

Thank you for the suggestions! The Atelier games are right down my alley! XD

That sounds absolutely adorable and addictive! adds to steam cart

Not odd at all! Before discovering games like Stardew and Cozy Grove (which I'm now obsessed with), my go-to relaxing game was AC Black Flag, because pirates xD

Holy shit, that's an amazing list! Thank YOU for all these wonderful suggestions!

Ah, yes! I love Sims 4, could get lost in it for days, despite being absolutely dreadful at constructing stuff ๐Ÿ˜…

Unpacking sounds fun! I'll have to check it out. I've played a mobile game that's similar in theory, but it was pretty shit.

Oh god, Valheim. I love the "chores" aspect, too, but I usually play it with my SO and he's all about chasing down giants and trolls and getting us killed. Now I'm lowkey terrified to play it alone ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] ThatssoFanny@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thank you so much! ๐Ÿ˜ญ I made a couple of mini prototypes for friends and other gifts, but I haven't properly started selling stuff. I'd love to if people are interested though.

Thank you! It is! I stumbled upon it at the local fabric store. They only have like five yarn options and I nabbed every skein of it I could find ๐Ÿ˜…

It's my favorite yarn I've found so far ๐Ÿ˜

 

Hello!

I recently got back into crochet after a decade-long hiatus, and this is my first bag! I mostly winged it, so it's not perfect, but I love it!

What's your latest favorite project?

 

I'm new to the cozy gaming world, but it was love at first sight. Stardew was my first truly Cozy Game, but I recently started Cozy Grove (loving it!) and am about to try Sun Haven. I tried one called The Archipelago a couple months ago, but it got a bit repetitive and boring after a while. Breadsticks was cute, but I'm terrible at platformers.

So, I was wondering, what are some of your favorites?

 

I recently got back into crochet and a cute new bag was high on my projects list. So, here it is, my little mushroom bag ๐Ÿ„ I mostly just winged it, so it may not be perfect, but I absolutely love it!

What have you been working on lately?

It's like finally getting a good pair glasses after years of blurry vision and blindspots.

And holy shit, "sonic micro opera" of Finnegans Wake sounds bloody amazing.

As for the book, it's one of my favorites. It's both a mind trip and a literary feast. It's playful and odd and musical and wild and confusing all at once. There's also a couple recordings of Joyce reading excerpts of Finnegans Wake and Ulysses on ye olde youtubes, which are pretty interesting, because it's like getting to hear Beethoven play the piano in person, through time. Plus, his accent is hella fun.

[โ€“] ThatssoFanny@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can totally relate to this. We had to read it in school (American system school) and there was no mention of the historical context. When I had to read it again in college, it broke my brain and made me want to revisit so many books I'd read in the past in search of whatever deeper context I might have missed or wasn't made aware of back in school. Same thing happened to me with Ulysses and Finnegans Wake after I reread them with added guides. Those rereads made me fall in love with James Joyce. Literature never ceases to amaze me with its ability to short-circuit our brains.

[โ€“] ThatssoFanny@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Bobiverse sounds so fun xD

 

Hello, folks! This is my first post here (and in the great, wide, still-confusing world of Lemmy). So stoked to find a new book community!

To answer the question, mine is "The Future of Nostalgia" by Svetlana Boym. I stumbled upon this book when I read a quote from it in a different book and I immediately went to track down a copy. A truly happy accident.

The most fascinating thing about this book was how universal it felt. Here was someone writing about post-Soviet Russia in the nineties, yet it felt strangely familiar. The commercialization of nostalgia, the unchecked rewriting of history, and the rose-tinted delusion of "The Golden Age"; it felt like she was talking about my own country. I'm a Lebanese expat, so nostalgia is a big part of my life and my relationship with my country (which is very much a love/hate relationshit), and this book completely redefined my understanding of nostalgia, nationality and collective identity, heritage, and even food. It helped me understand the survivor's guilt, the PTSD, the resentment, and the stubborn fondness. It's been so long since a book scooped out my soul and shook off the dust like this.

So, yeah. What's the last book that made you go, "Holy shit, I think that just rewired my brain"?

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