#cordwaining

[havinghorns]

My Giorno shoes are done! The thread got tooooo big to add them but you can see me making them here

#cobbling #cordwaining #shoemaking #giorno giovanna #cosplay

[dannydevitosrightindexfinger]

Built up a pair of shoes lasts over the last ✨month✨

Managed to stretch an hour or twos work into the month of February, finally ready to make a pattern though! Need to project it onto the lasts

#cordwaining #shoe lasts #shoe making #leatherworking #leather

[getahobby-docementwork]

Walking amongst the flowers . 2024

#fashion #shoes #cordwaining #floral #leather #leathercraft #Spotify

[geekysteven]

#id in alt text #cordwainer smith

[bracketsoffear]

Carnivore (Justin Boote) "Detective Inspector Jim Morfield is worried. In the quiet, countryside village of Fritton, human remains have begun appearing. Bodies so viciously mutilated that only their bones are left behind, in some cases less than a few hours after they were reported missing. What creature could possibly devour human remains so quickly? Surely, as with the case of farmer Stanley Walters, it couldn’t be his cows nearby and covered in blood that dismembered and devoured him? Then, when another person is attacked by a horse, his arm nearly torn off, he has no choice but to consider the impossible. The problem is that there is another killer to contend with. One who has Fritton terrified. A serial killer hiding among the woods and fields, unseen, unchallenged. Now Jim has to decide if the bodies accumulating in the area are the works of a human or something as harmless as the local wildlife."

A Planet Named Shayol (Cordwainer Smith) "The protagonist, Mercer, who lives within the Empire, has been convicted of "a crime that has no name". He is condemned by the Empire to the planet Shayol, where he lives in a penal colony whose inhabitants must undergo grotesque physical mutations caused by tiny symbiotes called dromozoans. Most grow extra organs, which the Empire harvests for medical purposes. The bull-man B'dikkat administers the prisoners a drug called super-condamine that alleviates the pain of their punishment and various surgeries.

More than a century passes. Mercer has found a lover, named Lady Da. B'dikkat shows the couple a sight that horrifies him: children have been sent to Shayol -- alive, though with their brains removed. Lady Da knows how to contact the Lords of the Instrumentality so that they can intervene. When the Lords arrive on Shayol, they are shocked by what they find. Moreover, the children there are heirs to the throne. Apparently, the Imperium has become so bureaucratic and corrupt that it condemned them to prevent them from committing treason when they matured.

The Instrumentality voids permission to allow the Empire to exist and to maintain Shayol. They will free the prisoners who are still sentient and provide a cure for their suffering with a substitute for the super-condamine, namely an electronic "cap" which stimulates the brain's pleasure center. The mindless prisoners will be decapitated, their heads "taken away and killed as pleasantly as we can manage, probably by an overdosage of super-condamine", leaving the bodies to be used by the dromozoa."

#flesh poll #the flesh #poll #the magnus archives #leitner tournament #Carnivore #Justin Boote #A Planet Named Shayol #Cordwainer Smith

[fishstickmonkey]

The October 1962 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. Cordwainer Smith's novelette The Ballad of Lost C'Mell was the cover story. Artwork by Virgil Finlay.

#Cordwainer Smith #Virgil Finlay #galaxy magazine #SF #science fiction

[bookmaven]

ATOMSK by Carmichael Smith [aka Paul Linebarger; aka Cordwainer Smith] (New York: Newell, Sloan, Pearce,1949)

Drawing on Paul Linebarger's own expertise in the field of psychological warfare, the book is a study of the personality of a U.S. operative (Major Michael Dugan) who has little in common with James Bond except his extreme resourcefulness under cover and in danger.

It is considered b some to be the first Cold War secret agent novel.

#book blog #books #books books books #book cover #pulp art #espionage #cold war #secret agent #paul linebarger #cordwainer smith #carmichael smith #book design #suspense

[tomoleary]

Virgil Finlay, illustration for Cordwainer Smith’s story Under Old Earth, Galaxy Magazine (Feb. 1966)

Source

#virgil finlay #Under Old Earth #Cordwainer Smith #Galaxy Magazine

[silkdamask-blog]

A special #FootcandyFriday from on-site at the @WoodmanMuseum where we are opening an exhibition 4/6 I have had good fortune to work w/ all 3 pairs of shoes TY to @unhlibrary & @MoffattLaddHouse for the loans for ‘Combing History: Flax and Linen in New Hampshire.’ @unhresearch

#18th century fashion #footcandyfriday #georgiangorgeous #worn in New England #cordwainers #silk satin #wool #linen lined

[yellow-yarrow]

girl who only thinks about (disco) elysium: i'm getting a lot of elysium vibes from this

#does anybody think that cordwainer smith's instrumentality of mankind could have influenced kurvitz

[righteousmenswear]

#suede boots #goodyear welt #cordwainer

[havinghorns]

A different kind of porn for y'all as I get these lasted ;)

#also im around tonite if ya got any asks #shoe making #cordwaining

[dannydevitosrightindexfinger]

I bought a whole bunch of stuff for cordwaining and honestly can't wait to see this go completely wrong for no real reason. Complete beginner at shoemaking

#cordwaining #shoemaking #diy project

[arcticdementor]

On the history of catgirls, in meme format:

Broke: talking about Masamune Shirow's Puma sisters

Woke: talking about Osamu Tezuka's Bagi

Bespoke: talking about Cordwainer Smith's C'mell

#catgirl #masamune shirow #domionion #tank police #osamu tezuka #bagi the monster of mighty nature #anime #manga #science fiction #cordwainer smith #instrumentality of mankind #of course the actual originals are in h.g. wells #the island of dr moreau

[geekysteven]

#id in alt text #cordwainer smith

[bracketsoffear]

A Planet Named Shayol (Cordwainer Smith) "The protagonist, Mercer, who lives within the Empire, has been convicted of "a crime that has no name". He is condemned by the Empire to the planet Shayol, where he lives in a penal colony whose inhabitants must undergo grotesque physical mutations caused by tiny symbiotes called dromozoans. Most grow extra organs, which the Empire harvests for medical purposes. The bull-man B'dikkat administers the prisoners a drug called super-condamine that alleviates the pain of their punishment and various surgeries.

More than a century passes. Mercer has found a lover, named Lady Da. B'dikkat shows the couple a sight that horrifies him: children have been sent to Shayol -- alive, though with their brains removed. Lady Da knows how to contact the Lords of the Instrumentality so that they can intervene. When the Lords arrive on Shayol, they are shocked by what they find. Moreover, the children there are heirs to the throne. Apparently, the Imperium has become so bureaucratic and corrupt that it condemned them to prevent them from committing treason when they matured.

The Instrumentality voids permission to allow the Empire to exist and to maintain Shayol. They will free the prisoners who are still sentient and provide a cure for their suffering with a substitute for the super-condamine, namely an electronic "cap" which stimulates the brain's pleasure center. The mindless prisoners will be decapitated, their heads "taken away and killed as pleasantly as we can manage, probably by an overdosage of super-condamine", leaving the bodies to be used by the dromozoa."

Food of the Gods (Arthur C. Clarke) "In this imagined future, we have stopped killing animals for meat and started to grow tissue in vats instead (to help support our even-more-massive population). People actually retch at the thought of eating animal flesh, although the vast majority of the various manufactured foods replicate the characteristics of various meats exactly. Several companies manufacture the stuff and get into a competition about who can make the best. Eventually, one company makes one that apparently tastes delicious and is perfectly tailored to human needs, calling it "Ambrosia Plus". The competition goes before a Senate subcommittee to explain why this might be a problem: "Yes, Triplanitary's chemists have done a superb technical job. Now you have to resolve the moral and philosophical issues. When I began my evidence, I used the archaic word 'carnivore'. Now I must introduce you to another: I'll spell it out the first time: C-A-N-N-I-B-A-L …""

Excerpt from Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Luo Guanzhong) "Untitled, fictitious story in the larger work, meant to demonstrate Liu Bei's incredible character. He stops at the home of Liu An (a hunter, and one of his relatives). Liu An doesn't have enough meat to feed his lord and his retinue, to he kills, butchers, cooks and serves his own wife so that Liu Bei and company wouldn't be under-served. When Liu Bei finds out this he is shocked, but not outraged, at having been unknowingly fed human flesh. He is, instead, amazed at Liu An's devotion to hospitality (to the point of feeding his lord his own wife), and instead praises him as a model citizen. And this is a story the author inserted to make Liu Bei sound more virtuous and heroic than he was in actual history!"

#flesh poll #the flesh #poll #the magnus archives #leitner tournament #A Planet Named Shayol #Cordwainer Smith #Food of the Gods #Arthur C. Clarke #Romance of the Three Kingdoms #Luo Guanzhong