lizcommotion (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
untonuggan) wrote2016-01-25 01:45 pm
untonuggan) wrote2016-01-25 01:45 pm
fiber geek watching dystopias
ok ok
so i'm really liking the 100 now I've gotten past the beginning, and actually now I've gotten to canon f/f pairings i'm ON BOARD.
however the thing that is bothering me with a lot of these dystopias is FIBER.
i get the whole "let us wear grungy black clothes for a cool look" thing costumers are going for, I really do.
but I feel like if no one has figured out how to manufacture new fibers (which everyone is wearing machine made stuff, so yeah?), then it should be WE MUST CONSERVE THIS AT ALL COSTS, not "rip it up all the time because arrows and pulling them out and blood and stuff."
do they have some secret stash of dead peoples' clothes somewhere from when the bomb went off? that have lasted 100 years? seriously?
has no one remembered how to mend things with a sewing needle and thread?
because otherwise, seriously, stop ripping all the fabric into gritty pieces.
(seriously, there's no *patching* on anyones' clothes in any of the societies, which you think someone would have come up with somewhere.)
./fiber rant
(i know it's tv, but. still! some dystopia somewhere should think of the clooooooooooooooooothes)
so i'm really liking the 100 now I've gotten past the beginning, and actually now I've gotten to canon f/f pairings i'm ON BOARD.
however the thing that is bothering me with a lot of these dystopias is FIBER.
i get the whole "let us wear grungy black clothes for a cool look" thing costumers are going for, I really do.
but I feel like if no one has figured out how to manufacture new fibers (which everyone is wearing machine made stuff, so yeah?), then it should be WE MUST CONSERVE THIS AT ALL COSTS, not "rip it up all the time because arrows and pulling them out and blood and stuff."
do they have some secret stash of dead peoples' clothes somewhere from when the bomb went off? that have lasted 100 years? seriously?
has no one remembered how to mend things with a sewing needle and thread?
because otherwise, seriously, stop ripping all the fabric into gritty pieces.
(seriously, there's no *patching* on anyones' clothes in any of the societies, which you think someone would have come up with somewhere.)
./fiber rant
(i know it's tv, but. still! some dystopia somewhere should think of the clooooooooooooooooothes)
no subject
Okay, so, for reasons incomprehensible (I know them, I just can't quite wrap my head around this is my Twitter life now) to me one of the more recent showrunners and I are mutual follows on Twitter. And a while back there was a thing, in some cases a rude thing but still a thing, about where did these people get hair dye how are people coloring their hair and clothes what is this.
I may have accidentally at least a three tweet mini-rant on no, actually, since some of these processes are for protein fibers and these are the plants you can use to dye both hair and clothing and technically human hair is a protein fiber anyway but you'd need something to bind it with so here's how you hair with henna which they could totally harvest and process and did I mention one of the most common mordants for fiber dyeing is pee?
And I'm reasonably sure he RT'd it.
You're not the only one who watches post-apoc dsytopias and goes BUT WHAT ABOUT THE FIBER. There's a tumblr post like this too.
(I should watch The 100 probably.)
no subject
watch here because I don't know why it won't embed in the comments.
no subject
no subject
Unfortunately, they cut the best part of the scene where they go and drink after and make Claire piss in a bucket. But yay for getting fiber history right!
no subject
unfortunately i cannot do Outlander at all because I read the books right around when I was dating Asshole Abuser Ex, and That One Scene (or several) were...kind of entwined with a lot of those memories.
but I am glad you are enjoying!
no subject
OMG I completely understand that 100%. Ugh. :( :( You could watch this scene though. Only women in it! And they are waulking the wool. It's super great.
no subject
WHY ARE THEY NOT USING MORE PLASTICS
surely a TON Of plastics would have survived the apocalypse, not just BADASS METALS
i would expect a bunch of "let's turn all these six-pack-rings into rope" and "i'm using these milk jugs for all kinds of things"
also glass! using glass shards for weapons and tools and occasionally badass decor.
AHEM.
you *should watch it*
THE KISSING SCENE
i cried honestly just for the representation
also it was a really sweet kiss
no subject
(She has a semi-unusual name, so when one of the senior writers I know RT'd something from her, I blinked at the name and was all "wait. That's not. HOLY SHIT THAT IS." She was in my class and we used to do Shakespeare together.)
SO. Good to know I will most likely enjoy the watching. :D