Trying out a 9:16 here for the girlies of the 1800s.

(Also, doing this little show and tell brought out my guest-adult-on-Sesame-Street-voice for some reason. Didn’t want to re-record it so forgive me. 🙉)

Building a little space at /thenextwave and watching everything on /videolab.

Super interesting… curious though, any reason the blacksmiths tended to be so literate?

technology ate the world and turned it into a hellscape. in search of flowers that have grown up in the cracks

Beyond physical labor, blacksmiths needed basic literacy to keep records, order materials, and handle practical math for measurements. So they sometimes took on random roles in communities (marriages, disputes, etc.) as one of the few literate people around rural towns.