turns out you can get anything you want on a patch

[radiantfracture]

Including in-jokes about the weird scholarly treatment of ancient Mesopotamian epics.

Comments

[bibliofile]

I love this story and that you had patches made TWICE (and maybe again someday, who knows).

I also love custom patches now, I didn't know they were even a possibility.

[elusis]

Oh thank goodness someone liked this story; while I was writing it, I thought "there is no way it makes any sense abbreviated, and it is so specific in its full version there's no way it can be amusing."

The 2024 hoodie was a pullover version which, as a fat, perimenopausal woman is completely unfit for my purposes, so I deliberately ignored all hoodie-related pledge drive jokes.

2026 will be upon us before we know it, though.

I think everyone needs custom patch in-jokes. When I was in college I painted a denim jacket with what were essentially my own in-jokes with myself and I wore it everywhere. (Unsurprisingly it didn't sell at my "moving to grad school" garage sale, and of course I now regret that I don't have it as a time capsule of 1994 me. Alas.)