I was going to post this picture first, no matter what my next post was about. HI GRACE! EXCITED MUCH??
There is an AWFUL lot of drama going on in some of the boards at Ravelry right now. And I know this is inevitable. You can’t get a big group of people from all over the place into one community without inviting the drama llama. Someone is going to stir up shit, and then some small percentage of the whole divides into “our side” and “their side” and suddenly, people are saying “THIS WHOLE COMMUNITY IS ______” and the rest of us are like “uhhh…what?”
And this is INCREDIBLY stupid in raverly, because after all…it’s just knitting. Or crochet (pft!). And while there are some people who’s livelihoods depend on knitters, the vast majority of us are in it just for the pure enjoyment we get out of it.
But some people don’t see it that way. Some people think that knitting is SERIOUS SHIT and anyone who makes light of such a SERIOUS SITUATION are BLASPHEMOUS UNBELIEVERS! And dude, who needs that drama?
So it is in that spirit that I have created this:
feel free to save it onto your computers and upload it to your own photosharing sites. use it freely whenever a discussion topic gets out of hand.
Some examples:
“OH MY GOD, IT’S BEEN 2 MONTHS AND I HAVEN’T GOTTEN MY ORDER! THIS IS THE WORST THING THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED TO ME EVER! THIS SHOP IS A SCAM!!!”
“well, I suppose you COULD use acrylic yarn to knit a baby blanket…IF YOU WANT TO KILL BABIES!”
“….copyright…!”
and so on, you get the point.
Go forth and spread the word. KNITTING IS SERIOUS FUCKING BUSINESS
I do believe that picture of me fondling roving with such a non-serious and irreverent expression would then be considered BLASPHEMOUS.
Love,
Fiber “BLASPHEMER” Fondler
Oh my garwd! It’s been high on my entertainment radar to see what stupid s*** people will get worked up over. Thanks for the pic of the Sadie monster. All she says to me is “knit socks, knit socks.”
Have I told you I love you!?!?!
Don’t you know that the Internet is serious business all the time?!?!?! SERIOUS!
So if I want to be cool tell knitters that I have vicun(~)a socks? What do they use the extremely fine wool that the vicuna only gives up every 3 years?
Hooray for knitting and knitters!
wow….$600 socks…
that would rock.
And that would be why I rarely venture into the main forums over there. Drama llamas everywhere. I haven’t got the energy.
I do love that picture of Sadie, though.
You totally rock! I lurve that picture of Sadie and will be saving it for further use!
Not just drama llamas, they are Drama Llama-Ding-Dongs! Love the Serious Bidness pic. Shouldn’t the nose hose be blue though?
Drama Llama Ding Dongs is now in my vocabulary for EVAH.
It’s almost as good a recreational outrage.
Augh! Think of the babies!
p.s. Poor Grace. If only she’d learn to relax and enjoy herself.
LOL.
The seriousness turns up in every forum now and then.
I have a cute one for you.
I’m staff for an anime convention that just happened this past weekend. We sold out the damn con BEFORE posting a guest list, six weeks before the event AND let another convention in the same area happening in the summertime have a full-page freaking ad in OUR program guide.
Monday when I got back from con-land, I find a thread on our forum, basically asking why the staff of my con HATES that other con? WTF, really? Seriously, if there were another convention in that area it still would only be a drop in the damn bucket–it’s an urban area and could easily support more of that type of entertainment, yet someone’s got to start rumors that we “hate” them?
I’m tempted to put out the drama-lama and a side dose of wahmbulance, but I decided to be nice. Hopefully the crap will blow over soon.
I recognize the roving bins that has Gracie all a twitter!!!
What a great day & a pleasure to meet you too:)
Sorry I called you the weird science chick………..
You are so right! It is only sticks and string, I couldn’t believe the hysteria over the missing Magknits patterns and the number of people who felt that they were entitled to them. My Magknits patterns will be going up on Ravelry for free download as soon as I have the time to make them into pdf’s, but for goodness sake the world is not going to end because you can’t knit a particular top or sock
dude TOTALLY! I mean, yeah, it was abrupt and a little childish, but whatever - she’s making her own bed. BUT THE DRAMA! THE “OH NOES HOW COULD SHE???”
and the MCY thread…DO NOT EVEN GET ME STARTED! after 20 pages of absolutely no one talking about MCY (thank god) I made one comment in response to someone else’s and got MY ASS CRAWLED UP INTO by a woman who obviously takes herself WAY too seriously.
I ran screaming back to the CPaA group. SANCTUARY! LEVITY! SAVE ME!
Not enough people cry SANCTUARY! anymore.
I’ll see what I can do.
I missed something obviously, I thought it was SADIE that killed and ate babies, right??? Hey, I thought the weenie warmer was making it onto the Serious Business button?!?! Hahaha!!!!
Prozac in the water supply, that’s what we need. Prozac and birth control - haha!