Robbie, some kind of engineer, atheist, cyclist, weird sex person, unrepentant “choice feminist,” fan of specificity, looking out for the in-between people· they/them · Crafting sideblog is @craftingcreature
from “For the Love of Spock” (George Takei talking about the time when they wanted to cut him and Nichols/Uhura out of Star Trek and Nimoy was having none of it)
I did it! I started working on this one January 1, and now it's finished.
Still un-blocked, but all the ends are all woven in and the weather was perfect to go out at lunch for some photos. This is my first attempt at an adult sweater in about 12 years, and I think I achieved the fit I wanted! (I hope it doesn’t grow in length too much with blocking because the length of the body is really good as-is.)
Pattern is Honeycomb Aran by Gayle Bunn, and the yarn is KnitPicks Simply Wool Worsted in color “Winnie.” I only used about 6.5 skeins for size S.
Currently in turtleneck status, but the collar is supposed to be folded in half inward and sewn down. I’m working on figuring out the best technique for that.
very goofy of life on earth to find itself getting locked into certain kinds of metabolism and then having to recruit helper organisms to diversify into new ecological niches. eukaryotes don't directly produce energy; they had to recruit chloroplasts (and even mitochondria) to become their symbiotes. mammals realized much too late that hey, maybe being able to digest cellulose would be good, actually. they had to recruit microorganisms to digest the cellulose for them. most light-emitting animals are really regular animals + a colony of light-emitting bacteria that live inside them.
i guess it's easier for simpler, single-celled organisms to reconfigure basic chemical pathways than big, complicated eukaryotes? but it's still very dumb. lazy-ass plants can't even photosynthesize on their own! they gotta get these wish dot com cyanobacteria to do it for them! not that we're any better--we'd be useless without our gut microbiome.