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BoJack Horseman

2014-2020 | Netflix Origional | Dark Comedy/Drama/Satire | TV-MA

It's not just you, you know. [...] Well... you come by it honestly, the ugliness inside you. You were born broken, that's your birthright. And now, you can fill your life with projects, your books, and your movies and your little girlfriends, but it won't make you whole. You're BoJack Horseman. There's no cure for that.

—"Brand New Couch", BoJack Horseman, written by Raphael Bob-Waksberg and directed by Amy Winfrey

Created by writer Raphael Bob-Waksberg and illustrator/head animator Lisa Hanawalt for Netflix, BoJack Horseman is an animated dark comedy about an ageing former television sitcom star trying to keep his career afloat and reinvent himself in search of validation as an actor and person (horse?) after his insanely successful sitcom Horsin’ Around was cancelled after nine seasons. Haunted equally by what he could and couldn’t control from his past and struggling in the present with his self-destructive spiral of depression, addiction, and interpersonal codependency, BoJack must come to terms with and face the consequences for his actions, and in the end improve to be a better horse (man?) by the end of it before it's too late for him to do so. Along the way we also meet an ensemble cast of characters with complex inner lives and harships trying to make sense of what happened to them throughout their lives that brought them to their personal rock bottoms while under the microscope of Hollywood's celebrity and gossip-obsessed culture.

Despite the reputation “adult animation” gets for being needlessly crude, gross, and ugly, BoJack Horseman is a thoughtfully-crafted show with amazing (though frustrating) three-dimensional, believable characters and a consistent art direction. The visual style of the show takes advantage of animation as a medium for some stunning compositions, hilarious running visual gags, and engaging details from episode to episode. I personally want to also go out and praise BoJack Horseman for its representation of both human and anthropomorphic characters with various sexualities, ethnicities, and abilities. These elements of the characters’ identities are explored within the story in a very loving, human way.

Favorite Episode: My personal favorite episode has to be season four, episode eleven (4x11) "Time's Arrow" written by Kate Purdy and Raphael Bob-Waksberg, and directed by Aaron Long. This episode explores the life and hardships that Beatrice, BoJack's mother, went through and how it shaped her into who she is now. The story is told from her perspective in a visually warped and non-linear fashion, and the medium of animation is fully taken advantage of for a visual expression of how the world around her is distorted from her dementia and trauma.

Content Warning: I think at some point throughout this show basically any common trigger surrounding addiction, abuse, violence, homophobia, mental illness, terminal illness, sexual assault, body image, pregnancy, and abortion are touched on.

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Knitting and Crochet

Favorite Patterns

Book Recommendations

Here are some of my favorite knitting books! While some of them have patterns in them, my favorite knitting books are the ones which talk more about technique and history.

A History of Hand Knitting

Author: Richard Rutt

Number of Pages: 248

Originally Published: 1987

I think this is the quintessential knitting history book. It's long, it's dense, and its main goal is to clear up a lot of misinformation regarding the history of hand knitting, and to create somewhat of a timeline of its development and spread across cutltures across time. If you're like me and you read textbooks about your interests for fun though, I absolutely recommend it! Watch listings of this one like a hawk, because even though it's been reprinted it is quite an expensive book, but nothing you need to pay immedietly for. I recieved my copy as a birthday present.

I will also add that this book is very anglo-centric, likely due to Rutt's background as a "scholar-missionary" within the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches in England, as well as his participation in the Knitting & Crochet Guild since the 1970s.

Unravelling Canada: A Knitting Odyssey

Author: Sylvia Olsen

Number of Pages: 256

Originally Published: 2021

This book is a delightful combination of travelog, history lesson, interview, and biography of the author, her family, and the various knitters across Canada. Sylvia Olsen and her husband Tex travel across the country to forty different stops to better understand her identity as a Canadian, as well as look into the origins and techniques of creating the classic Cowichan sweater, a striking Canadian icon which originated on Vancouver Island created by the various Coast Salish peoples.

This is probably one of my favorite books period. The travelog format is incredibly effective, with chapters about the trip, then about the workshops and people she met, and then personal anecdotes from those people. It's a very interesting look at questions like "what is authentic?" and similar thoughts about nationality and patriotism in Canada while grappling with history. This is a book I had a hard time putting down every time I picked it up.

The Filet Crochet Book

Author: Chris Rankin

Number of Pages: 158

Originally Published: 1990

If you've ever looked up any kind of filet crochet instructions or inspiration on Pinterest, I can guarantee that you've seen scanned photos from this book. It's an incredibly straight-forward collection of patterns and charts, and full-color images that show the way you can use filet crochet to trim blankets and skirts, or to create full size doilies or kitchen valances. The book begins with a little lesson on technique, and all the patterns include both a graph/chart as well as row by row instructions. It's a great book for both the patterns, but also for inspiration to creat your own patterns and motifs. They're incredibly easy to adapt to whatever you need, at any size you want.

AlterKnit Stitch Dictionary: 200 Modern Knitting Motifs

Author:Andrea Rangel

Number of Pages: 168

Originally Published: 2017

Similar to The Filet Crochet Book, the patterns and motifs in AlterKnit have been posted all over Pinterest, but I think physically holding and flipping through the book is worth it. There are some amazing and creative stranded colorwork motifs for all types of projects and that will fit every style and aesthetic. Beyond just being a book of motifs, the author provides interesting commentary on how to best work the motifs into your own projects as well as some patterns based around them.

Vintage Collection

Since high school, I've had a fascination with the role that needlecrafts have played in the lives of every day people for as long as we have recorded patterns and extant garments. For the last few years I've been collecting them with the intent to share these pieces of history.

To actually view the patterns, you'll have to go to archive.org since I cannot offer downloads directly through my website.

By Decade:

~~1910s~~ | ~~1920s~~ | 1930s | 1940s | 1950s | 1960s

1910s

1920s

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

Many of these, surprisingly, I've actually picked up for free. I'm lucky enough that my favorite local yarn store keeps a basket at the front full of free patterns people just bring in to get rid of. Some of them are also from eBay. Be careful when looking at listings on there though, as many people only sell a scanned digital copy of them. From my experience, people are pretty good at detailing that though, as nobody likes angry customers.

Some of the best websites I have bookmarked are the Antique Pattern Library (scans of old pamphlets and ladies' magazines) and Free Vintage Knitting (which also includes crochet patterns, don't worry). Another source I found to be great for information on vintage patterns is Subversive Femme. I've not bought any patterns from them, but they have many free patterns as well as articles about grading, yarn substitution, and even faking that vintage look.