one day there will be a game called 'Sapphicworld', and it will be good and huge and pornographic. but that's just a rumor...

*i return to my silkmaking, running wood over wood til' the stuff between is smooth*

Silkmaking. Ukiyo-e woodblock print, about 1840’s, Japan, by artist Kikugawa Eizan.

There's a panel in Larry Gonick's Cartoon History of the Universe where the narrator, speculating on the origins of silkmaking, asks what on earth induced someone in ancient China to boil silkworm cocoons, and an ancient Chinese person addresses the reader - "Hey, I was really hungry that day!"

Mèi explains the Dào of silkmaking in 'Glinter'. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Schwartz apparently planned to flee to Mexico; he had also written to his wife, who stood to collect $190,000 life insurance, apologizing. As it also turns out, the French-born Schwartz had faked his scientific credentials, and his silkmaking business was bankrupt. 5/5

Silkmaking. Ukiyo-e woodblock print, about 1840’s, Japan, by artist Kikugawa Eizan.

Amitabh Bachchan shares his journey from struggles to stardom
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#AmitabhBachchan #KBC16 #BigB #Struggles #KBC #Bollywood #Actor #NishantJaiswal #SilkMaking

I really like Andor and it is the best spinoff series. But:

The Eevill Plot™️ by the Committee on Eeevill to collapse the silkmaking planet was really ham-handed and put me off. A cartoonish letdown from the moral complexity of S1.

Also: Andor is either a pilot or he’s not. FIGURE IT OUT.

Silkmaking ‘traditionally includes killing the silkworm by boiling or steaming it alive’ https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/silk-making-is-an-ancient-practice-that-presents-an-ethical-dilemma

Margilan: the only silkmaking town remaining in Uzbekistan http://on.natgeo.com/2nYQ0fR From the #EdenWalk archive

Margilan: the only silkmaking town remaining in Uzbekistan http://on.natgeo.com/2nYQ0fR From the #EdenWalk archive