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sorry to be a 30 yr old millennial that still likes kids cartoons at the very least I'm not fandom abt it i just like Things

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by fomajc on instagram. im losing my shit over this

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when a character has a shirtless scene and they have washboard abs and no sign of any belly fat not even a little bit

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watching twin peaks is hard because sometimes you think 'these characters could use some therapy'. and then you remember that some of them did seek out professional help but their only option was this

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people who draw link taller than zelda are weak and will not survive the winter

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I had a great day at work today

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Bag made at approx 5 years old

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sometimes i wish i could tell other women that you can just stop removing your body hair and in many cases the consequences will be way less severe than u expect. you can go to the beach with all your leg hair intact and nobody will stop you or say a thing. you can stop waxing your upper lip and people won’t stare at it the way u might be bracing yourself for. you can quit plucking your brows and eventually they will grow back into themselves and no one will even notice. like for sure women are punished for not participating in beauty rituals but i also feel like so much of it is like The Panopticon sometimes where you just convince yourself that if u stop that kind of gendered upkeep everyone will be mad and stop talking to u forever when in reality you just keep existing and nothing remarkable happens. it’s not always easy but you can kind of just stop for real

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“Fatherless behavior” stop giving my DAD credit for all the work my MOM put into making me a terrible person!! Stop erasing women in history!!

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here's some more unsolicited adult advice as someone in her 30s who knows there are a lot of twenty somethings and teens that follow her: if you're trying to build a new habit you really want, and are struggling, you have to break it down to the smallest building block possible. If you're failing, you haven't thought small enough. I know it's possible to hear stories of people who just snapped into new life mode one day by "just deciding", but truly what's happening there is a confluence of events and experiences that force the brain into some sort of epiphany. You cannot will an epiphany. It'll never work. For most times of your life, you will need to build habits intentionally, and that means not working against yourself and to set micro goals. like laughably tiny goals. because once that easy tiny goal is met, you can build off it, tiny goal after tiny goal until you reach your big goal.

so for example, if you want to be a morning person that gets up at ass crack dawn so that you can work out, eat brekkie, shower, and get to work at a leisurely pace, and you're not that person because you will hit your snooze button 800 times, you have to get the big picture goal out of your head. think smaller. "I want to get up 15 minutes earlier than I normally do." If you can't do that, make it 5 minutes. "I want to cook breakfast every day" hell no too big. "I want to eat something, anything, before I leave the house" hell yeah, fantastic. When you go to the grocery store to make sure there are things in the house for breakfast, if you keep buying bagels and microwave sandwiches that you ignore, you gotta think smaller. SMALLER. What's something so easy to eat that you'll never say no to. Is it a yogurt? Is it a handful of grapes? Is it a hostess ho ho? is it hot cheetos? FORGET the big picture of the fantasy put-together woman preparing a full nutritious meal that you'd be proud to admit to. Think only of the smallest goal you can achieve. If you know you can't say no to an ice cream sandwich, put a ton of ice cream sandwiches in your freezer and have one for breakfast every day until it's so instilled in you that you gotta get up to eat something you can start diversifying.

It sounds like, from the lack of habit place, that must take forever. But really it doesn't take too long to form the habit once the discipline kicks in. the trick is that you have to give your brain something easy to become disciplined to. If it's too hard, think easier and smaller. No one has to know. Literally no one in the gd world has to know that for 4 weeks when you were 22 you had an ice cream sandwich for breakfast every day. who cares. If it gets you eating oatmeal with fresh fruit in a few months who cares. you did it, yay. smaller, easier. if you can't do it, think smaller and easier. smaller!! EASIER!!! You are not thinking smaller and easier enough. break your brain thinking how small and easy you can go. SMALLER. EVEN SMALLER, SIS.

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from “ask polly: why should i keep going?”

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does my bestie kim kitsuragi smell like communism?

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they are finally giving me a magnificent gilded cup for all of the folding chairs ive helped put away at various events and functions

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Lieutenant Kim Kitsuragi's Jacket!

It's been a while since I posted a big project to here. And after umm 5? something years I return with what is easily the best thing I have ever made. I am so proud with how this jacket turned out! So in terms of reference images I used a mix of Kim's actual in game portrait, model and the official jacket.

1. The quilting marathon

The fully quilted lining was by far the easiest and also most time consuming part of this project, both with ruling all the lines and then sewing them all. The main body is two layers of quilting and the sleeves are just one layer. This is where I ran into my first hurdles, first of getting the quilting to line up on the main body and I severely underestimated the amount of thread needed for quilting and then overestimated how much I would need. 2. The Outer

This section was overall very easy, the main struggle was in dying the duck cotton. The sheer volumes of times I rinsed this fabric in attempts to get the dye to stick and not wash out it. I probably spent an equal amount of time dying as I did quilting. But! It was worth it in the end for this lovely orange. 3. Inner Pockets

This part was rather fiddly but I am very happy with how they turned out. The pockets themselves where the most frustrating part of this project so I don't have any photos until the finished jacket of them.

4. The Patches

I got these amazing patches from AValleyofStars on etsy. They were easily the most expensive part of this project (I will forever curse American shipping prices). Because of this they were also the most nerve wracking part to sew because it was going to a very expensive mistake!. I first sewed them onto a back piece of orange so I would both have a greater margin to sew them into the jacket and to maintain the stability of the jacket since I was cutting into it to inlay the patches. Overall I am very pleased with how they came out :) 5. Final Patch

This was one of the last things I made before putting the jacket together. It was shocking hard to find a reference image outside of Kim's portrait because literally everyone draws this differently and the patch on the official one is the ZAUM logo not Kim's. I drew out the design, machine sewed then hand embroidered the design. And then sewed and trim the boarder before hand sewing to the jacket.

6. The Final Jacket

And that's a wrap! This is project is easily the best thing I've made and I am so proud of it. Below are some more specific thoughts making this jacket has produced about my creative project for anyone interested. (I might also post some of my other disco projects soon!)

This project was a real break through project for me in terms of my creative project.

I've always kind of been in doubt in my textiles skills (I'm not good just better/ more knowledgeable than the people in my immediate vicinity). But this turned out so well, because my processes for it was different.

Taking breaks, holy hell I usually never take breaks unless I need to wait for something. This project was a great test in patience. When I'm getting too tired or frustrated it's better to go lie down/do something else for 10 20 minutes then come back with a fresh look. It saves a lot of mistakes and accidents because I'm getting annoyed

Checking over everything right after I do it. After you sew every seam check it fully to make sure nothing was missed, because it's an easy fix now but won't be 2 steps later. This saved so many headaches of small sections where I'd just missed catching the seam.

Similar to point 1 is really taking the time to understand the instructions and think on the parts I didn't understand. I spent a lot of time at work just rotating this jacket and the instructions in my head to figure out how to do it and I feel it sounds silly to say Just thinking about it improves the product significantly but it does! Because by the time I get to the actual jacket I've already got a solid understanding of what I need to do.

As mentioned above, when I'm not sure what to do textiles wise, I usually defer to my mother for help because I didn't trust myself or my skills to follow my gut on the right method. However with some unexpected help from my brother (deferring to me fully for help with his sewing project over mum) I finally got over that hurdle of not trusting my judgement, and it worked out fantastic!

And the product of all of that is a much healthier creative process, a strong lesson in the virtue of patience and trusting myself that I know what I'm doing and I'm, occasionally good at things :) This is easily the best thing I've ever made and I am so so proud of how it turned out. Hopefully this year I'll have some more time for projects like this. I want to keep making beautiful things that I can be proud of.

Thanks for reading all this way, have a wonderful day <3