maybe too this will offset all my Kindle recommendations from the trash romance novels I borrowed via Kindle on my library’s ebook app. I don’t actually want to purchase trash romance novels, thank you, just trash slice-of-life isekai manga
As ironic as it is to purchase yon library-economy-promoting book, our comrades still need that cash money to function in real life. And this indie ebook is significant cheaper than the last mainstream ebook I bought.
Yeah, the sticky thing is that money is a useful, often convenient social construct, but I am not educated enough to know if it’s possible to effectively uncouple it from the baggage of capitalism.
Like how marriage can be a useful legal construct, buuuuuuut most of that is about property rights, and originates from when women WERE the property to be regulated. :/
Another one for listening: mostly TV and youtube that are not visually heavy. I’m getting into some podcasts, but I haven’t made the leap to audio books yet.
I have mixed feelings about it because I am fairly familiar with educational neglect, having been trapped in an strongly underfunded rural Midwest high school where the football coach was also the history teacher and the science teacher and the music teacher (and from secondhand info, the agriculture science teacher) just gave the fuck up on us (we only had one of each of those).
Same for mending and sewing clothing. Except I’ve run aground a bit on my own perfectionism. I’ve somehow talked myself into making a pattern block for my butt so I can make the most optimal pants and shorts, but making a block is an Ordeal with Math involved and I haven’t had the bandwidth to accomplish it yet.