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ysobelI have been productive, this weekend, at designing knitwear with a political bent.
So over on Ravelry, someone published a fuck-Trump hat. It's called "Not For Trump Fans", and is marked as mature (people have the option of blocking mature patterns so they don't have to see genitalia or curse words or whatever), *and* has a picture of a cute doggy as the first picture (which is what shows in search results). Basically, there's no way to accendally this pattern.
The hat depicts a raised middle finger plus trump in profile, but also contains charts for a penis, poop, eclipse, chainsaw, and biohazard symbol, as well as the numerals 46 and the letters for FUCK TRUMP.
Naturally, there are a multitude of outraged comments, including such things as "knitting isn't about (orly), "Ravelry shouldn't allow opinions" (very hypocrisy there), "if someone had made the equivalent about Obama it wouldn't be allowed" (yet no one ever bothers to try), "think of the children" (tell that to the POTUS), and the usual slew of "this is disgusting".
The designer is quite civil and polite, especially since no one made them look. I mean, back when messy bun hats were a Thing and there were hundreds of "new" versions, I had no interest in them, so I *didnt bother looking at them*. Shocking concept, I know.
Anyway. My designer brain, especially the perverse side, gets inspired by this.
First pattern is an emoji headband, something that mildly amuses me because I have the brain of a teenage boy. To sum up, it expresses the sentiment that Russia is politically fucking America over, only instead of fucking there's an eggplant and a peach. It hasn't gotten much vitriol, I think in part because it doesn't mention trump. I did borrow the cute-dog-picture idea, though.
But the one today ...
You know the "Obama is the Ant Christ" meme?
Yeah, I designed a hat..
(Marked as mature for potential offense value, not because it contains naughty bits. I've still gotten a few outraged comments, but mostly they get deleted immediately.)
It occurred to me that the ant motif would make a good hat for any budding entomologist; I plan on designing/releasing that version, separate from the political version except in addition to "hat with ants marching around the brim" version, I want to do a more complicated design where the ante actually spiral around. (Which probably involves 8 segments each starting at a different chart row, though I'm going to have to do some jiggering so the end of round jog gets incorporated.). So basically easy mode and hard mode.
Ant hat will get tested, though. It's only smartass response-to-drama patterns that I post asap.
So over on Ravelry, someone published a fuck-Trump hat. It's called "Not For Trump Fans", and is marked as mature (people have the option of blocking mature patterns so they don't have to see genitalia or curse words or whatever), *and* has a picture of a cute doggy as the first picture (which is what shows in search results). Basically, there's no way to accendally this pattern.
The hat depicts a raised middle finger plus trump in profile, but also contains charts for a penis, poop, eclipse, chainsaw, and biohazard symbol, as well as the numerals 46 and the letters for FUCK TRUMP.
Naturally, there are a multitude of outraged comments, including such things as "knitting isn't about (orly), "Ravelry shouldn't allow opinions" (very hypocrisy there), "if someone had made the equivalent about Obama it wouldn't be allowed" (yet no one ever bothers to try), "think of the children" (tell that to the POTUS), and the usual slew of "this is disgusting".
The designer is quite civil and polite, especially since no one made them look. I mean, back when messy bun hats were a Thing and there were hundreds of "new" versions, I had no interest in them, so I *didnt bother looking at them*. Shocking concept, I know.
Anyway. My designer brain, especially the perverse side, gets inspired by this.
First pattern is an emoji headband, something that mildly amuses me because I have the brain of a teenage boy. To sum up, it expresses the sentiment that Russia is politically fucking America over, only instead of fucking there's an eggplant and a peach. It hasn't gotten much vitriol, I think in part because it doesn't mention trump. I did borrow the cute-dog-picture idea, though.
But the one today ...
You know the "Obama is the Ant Christ" meme?
Yeah, I designed a hat..
(Marked as mature for potential offense value, not because it contains naughty bits. I've still gotten a few outraged comments, but mostly they get deleted immediately.)
It occurred to me that the ant motif would make a good hat for any budding entomologist; I plan on designing/releasing that version, separate from the political version except in addition to "hat with ants marching around the brim" version, I want to do a more complicated design where the ante actually spiral around. (Which probably involves 8 segments each starting at a different chart row, though I'm going to have to do some jiggering so the end of round jog gets incorporated.). So basically easy mode and hard mode.
Ant hat will get tested, though. It's only smartass response-to-drama patterns that I post asap.