Revisions

The writing's been going better since I switched to the plotline that ISN'T full of holes and problems. Of course, I suspect I'll have to do some backfilling, so I don't abandon the other plotline completely.

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Meh!

My sewing machine (at least six years old, and bought for very cheap in the first place) didn't seem likely to hold out much longer, and that seems increasingly likely to be the case. Threads snapping and snagging everywhere--it has to hold out. It has to. There's no way I can do this by hand, and despite my protests that the fashion industry deliberately makes ugly clothes so that we can be tricked into buying new ones every few months, I don't sew often enough to justify buying myself a good one. Alas.

I will take it apart and blow air into it. And who knows? Could be a fixable problem. Please please let it be a fixable problem.

ETA: Hooray; there is no problem sufficiently complex that it cannot be solved by blowing air into it. (Sewing 10 yards of fabric together tends to produce prodigious quantities of pink silk dust. Who'd have guessed?)