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Whenever a video with a new device for launching arrows goes viral, I get a bunch of requests to fact check it. Which feels weird because if it works it works, and figuring that out from a short video is guesswork at best.

But here’s some of that thought process!

Anyway, here’s Patreon. I do more answers to requested questions there.

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Corgi loves new baby brother

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I bought a quarterly needlepoint magazine from 1991 today for $1 at an op shop, and there’s a four page spread about a woman who completely faithfully remakes samplers from the 1600s and the part that blows me away is that she was keeping women in history alive.

The original sampler maker was a teenaged girl called Loara she’s the only one known of seven siblings in that family. She was born approximately 1632 and had passed before her father had in 1656 which they know because it was mentioned in his will.

So in the 1630-40s a girl made a sampler, in 1991 a woman had put in years of research before recreating the sampler as Loara had 350 years earlier , and I’m reading about it in 2024.

Embroidery keeps women alive in history, and it’s part of why I love samplers so much.

Here’s a quote from samplers that I think about often:

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Happy Pride everyone, today is the tenth anniversary of the nationwide right to gay Marriage in the United States and the 22nd anniversary of nationwide legalization of Gay Sex. In 2 days is the 56th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising.

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thank you Canada 🇨🇦

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svu characters as cars pt 1

alex cabot - 2001 lexus ls 430

olivia benson - buick lesabre

amanda rollins/ + dominick carisi - toyota rav4 & honda crv

elliot stabler - chrysler town

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You have just been magically transported into a random ao3 fic!

Spin the wheel of ao3 tags three times to find out what your fic is about. Put in the tags what your fic tags are!

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my favorite scene in LotR as a kid was when Sam started miserably freestyling in the tower of Cirith Ungol and the only reason he ever found Frodo was because he deliriously tried to join in

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Chrysler once offered Bruce Springsteen $12 million to feature Born in the U.S.A. in a commercial, but he refused and still will not allow his songs to promote any consumer goods ever.

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Also fascinated by the parallel with how Nate chose not to kill Dubenich and Latimer in front of the team but absolutely orchestrated their death via their own actions vs Parker choosing not to kill Ramirez with Eliot waiting outside but absolutely orchestrating his own personal nightmare by leaving him broke and alone in a foreign country and about to be arrested (while telling him it's his chance for redemption) via his own actions. One feels a lot more ruthless than the other, and while Ramirez may have lived, Parker's final words to him definitely had "God killed you, I just made sure it took" vibes.

Nate would be so proud of her.

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Spite can be a incredible motivator

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In the spirit of encouraging people to comment on fanfics while also making it easier to do so, I feel obliged to share a browser extension for ao3 that has quite literally revolutionized the comment game for me.

I present to you: the floating ao3 comment box!

From what I've seen, a big problem for many people is that once you reach the comments at the bottom of a fic, your memory of it miraculously disappears. Anything you wanted to say is stuck ten paragraphs ago, and you barely remember what you thought while reading. This fixes that!

I'll give a little explanation on the features and how it works, but if you want to skip all that, here's the link.

The extension is visible as a small blue box in the upper left corner.

(Side note: The green colouring is not from the extension, that's me.)

If you click on it, you open a comment box window at the bottom of your screen but not at the bottom of the fic. I opened my own fic for demonstrative purposes.

The website also gives explanations on how exactly it functions, but I'll summarize regardless.

insert selection -> if you highlight a sentence in the fic it will be added in italics to the comment box

add to comment box -> once you're done writing your comment, you click this button and the entire thing will automatically copied to the ao3 comment box

delete -> self explanatory

on mulitchapter fics, you will be given the option to either add the comment to just the current chapter or the entire fic

The best part? You can simply close the window the same way you opened it and your progress will automatically be saved. So you can open it, comment on a paragraph, and then close it and keep reading without having the box in your face.

Comments are what keep writers going, and as both a writer and a reader, I think it's such an easy way of showing support and enthusiasm.

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This is so fucking funny

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5 of 8 done!!

This painting was so challenging but SO fun!! The idea behind it was to depict @ catnissdraws (on insta)'s warden Areina Tabris and Zevran after the events of Awakening where Areina joins him in Antiva to assist with his "business" concerning the crows. So, in the scene, the two of them are pretending to be deep in their cups, unaware that they've been followed by the crows lingering in the background. This is the moment right before battle, both with a hand casually on a weapon. 😌💕