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A Marvellous Light
Jan. 20th, 2022 01:07 pmI finished A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske the other night. It was so good! The basic premise is that magic exists but is secret, and a non-magician in Edwardian England (probably sometime between 1908 and 1914) accidentally gets appointed to the government office that's meant for someone part of that world; he's immediately plunged into a deadly conflict he knows nothing about, with only his prickly magical liaison for help.
( here be spoilers )
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Emboldened by my success at getting permission from other museums, I'm considering opening up the question at home. Basically, I was asked for my thoughts on points for the next strategic plan, and most of what I sent over were points about photographing the collections and getting them online. This seems like a good opening to discuss putting patterns online as well, scale ones, I mean. But I feel like then I have to go all the way to talking about doing the full thing otherwise it could seem like I'm trying to inch us closer to what's beneficial for me without being upfront about why/how - issues of conflict of interest in museums can be kind of arcane and extensive, and doing basically anything pattern-wise could theoretically benefit my pattern business by raising my profile, which could potentially be a problem. Everything I tried to write today came out really twisty and elaborate, and I'm thinking of just saying tomorrow, "I have a pattern company, what if I do my thing and we put the resulting graded and scaled patterns on the website for free?" Without my branding on them or anything of course.
( here be spoilers )
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Emboldened by my success at getting permission from other museums, I'm considering opening up the question at home. Basically, I was asked for my thoughts on points for the next strategic plan, and most of what I sent over were points about photographing the collections and getting them online. This seems like a good opening to discuss putting patterns online as well, scale ones, I mean. But I feel like then I have to go all the way to talking about doing the full thing otherwise it could seem like I'm trying to inch us closer to what's beneficial for me without being upfront about why/how - issues of conflict of interest in museums can be kind of arcane and extensive, and doing basically anything pattern-wise could theoretically benefit my pattern business by raising my profile, which could potentially be a problem. Everything I tried to write today came out really twisty and elaborate, and I'm thinking of just saying tomorrow, "I have a pattern company, what if I do my thing and we put the resulting graded and scaled patterns on the website for free?" Without my branding on them or anything of course.
