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Okay so this yarn is actually Lion Brand yarn, specifically Heartland. The colors are all named after various national parks around the USA, which is a lovely thing to do (especially in these trying times). But it seems that a. of the three big craft stores in my area (Jo-Ann's, Michaels, and that orange one we don't talk about in my household) only Jo-Ann's seems to carry Lion Brand. It's definitely the only one with Heartland; we can only hope that Michaels will start stocking more yarn after Jo-Ann's closes for good.

Speaking of that, I had a deadline since I decided that yes, I want more of these colors after all. And of course I knew I was already at a disadvantage; I haven't stepped foot in any of the stores for weeks, so I had no idea if any of the yarn I need would even be left. I also realized that I was going to need more colored skeins for the inside. I only had a purple-red, a maroon, a lime green, a sky blue-teal, and a light grey with colored flecks. I also needed more of the black to put it all together.

Could I have ordered this online? Sure, of course. But then I have to pay for shipping, and more importantly, I would have to do the worst thing of all: I would have had to wait.

So I got up super early, which for me is 8:30am, and I set out to see what there was left. There are three Jo-Ann's within half an hour of my house, and roughly half an hour of each other, so I figured it was worth checking them off one by one and seeing if I could find everything I needed that way.

First one, the one I usually go to, was almost completely a bust. It did have a lovely dark blue, a bright red, and a dusty orange, so I took those so it wouldn't be a complete waste.

Second one had a bit more; the dark brown was there, and I also got two different purple shades, and two more different blues because why not.

After a quick break to get new work shoes and some food shopping done, I decided that I would go to the final Jo-Ann's after all. I had been on the fence about it purely because it's the one I have gone to least for no particular reason, but in the end I am so glad I went. It had the tan I needed, and enough black skeins that I got three. I also grabbed a tawney, a stronger orange, a dark charcoal grey, and a dark green that I spotted in the wrong bin on my way out.

...then when I got home I ended up buying a golden yellow online because it was bothering me that I am clearly about to make a rainbow blanket but I didn't have a proper yellow for it. So uh. That was my day!

And now I am not allowed to step foot in any hobby store until this dang blanket is done. Plus maybe a few more months after that.

My attempts to make a mitered square blanket are ongoing. I didn't measure this nor do I really know what I am doing, but either way it isn't big enough. What will be big enough? /shrug emoji.

So now I need to decide if i want more of these colors or another color, and how much of each. I guess it's time for another trip to the crafting store this weekend and hope they still have this yarn or I'll have to start online shopping and that never ends well for my bank account.

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My attempts to make a mitered square blanket are ongoing. I didn't measure this nor do I really know what I am doing, but either way it isn't big enough. What will be big enough? /shrug emoji.

So now I need to decide if i want more of these colors or another color, and how much of each. I guess it's time for another trip to the crafting store this weekend and hope they still have this yarn or I'll have to start online shopping and that never ends well for my bank account.

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My two spreads for Almost Real Volume 5: MYTHOLOGY! You KNOW I had to do an entry for sphinxes!

This is a combination of the work I've done for Skin Deep sphinxes as well as its own thing set in a world where mythical creatures are known but still largely a mystery to science. I leaned hard into the Zoobooks aesthetic for this, one of my favorite parts of those magazines were the anatomy drawings so I wanted to do one just like it!

You can buy the Almost Real PDF (and some physical books) here!

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infinite tea dragon for all your tea needs:)

[prompt: tea, butterfly, wyrm]

kinda following @kmccaigue 's list:)

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So apparently I’ve been mispronouncing the word ‘tarot’ all my life.

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"Why can't the freaks on AO3 just go and make a site for all the gross stuff and leave AO3 alone."

Because AO3 is that site. Because AO3 was that site long before you decided AO3 was better than the sites you bullied us off of before, and I can promise you if someone somehow comes up with a fanfic site you like better specifically for the 'gross stuff' you'll try to bully us off that too so you can benefit from it.

AO3's specific core purpose is to preserve fanfiction, yes, but it was also instigated as a host site for the fanfiction that kept getting yeeted off other platforms like Wattpad. Its designed to preserve all fanfiction, not just the fanfiction you, personally, think is 'allowed' to be written.

AO3 is the site for all the gross stuff the freaks make. We've been there just as long as you. We've been funding it just as long as you have. AO3 has specifically said you have a place here. The timeline was literally:

Wattpad/FF.net/LiveJournal purge fanfics > AO3 is born > The people who's fics got purged moved over to AO3 > AO3 gains popularity as the best functioning site > The people who pushed for the fics to be purged off Wattpad move to AO3 > The same people try to push for AO3 to purge fics.

AO3's source coding is open-access. You go make a polished, strict, rigid site where nothing 'icky' is allowed. You go make a site where you can control what is hosted. We already have our space.

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God Games but it's court drama

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🎶 Deep down I would trade the world to see my son and wife🎶

Kind of obsessed your honor 😑

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meditations on the odyssey

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so i made a potpourri with cinnamon and nutmeg and ginger and cloves and orange peel and anise and i have boiled it all day and it smelled so nice i took a sip and the sip was actually wonderful so now i have drunk four cups of potpourri juice and i am only now going to the internet to ask if i am going to Experience The Torments. or if i may have a fifth.

(i cannot quite explain it, but it’s like my entire low i have had a low grade stomachache, and normally i just deal but This Juice helps a little. i am unreasonably fond of it.)

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Want some OFMD prints for the holidays? Or to commission art for a fic, yours or someone elses? Prints and Comissions are available here!

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I rarely post politics. I try not to have any of that negativity in my life. This is my escape. This is my refuge from all the ceaseless shit I have to endure on a daily basis.

But you know what? I've had it. Gloves are off.

I'm fucking terrified, but more than anything, I'm fucking pissed.

I hope all of you, who couldn't hold their noses for five seconds to vote for Kamala Harris, are happy.

I hope you're so fucking happy a raging narcissistic, vile, racist, sexist, insurrectionist piece of shit is the leader of the free world for the foreseeable future.

I hope all of you, who thrashed their fists about how Harris won't do enough for Palastine, will have to contend with the blood of every fucking person who is not a straight white cis Christian male on their hands.

I hope all of you, who said Harris isn't good enough, will now have Trump, FUCKING TRUMP, as our president, because somehow you can't wrap your fucking pea-sized brains around the fact that there is no fucking option C.

I hope all of you, all of you with immigrant, non-white, non-Christian, LGBTQA+ friends and loved one, have to look them in the eye and explain to them why they don't matter enough to you to let someone who is actively seeking their death and destruction take office.

I hope you can live with the blood of every single woman who's died because they couldn't get the help they needed due to pregnancy complications because now abortion will be outlawed nationwide. I hope you revel in the suffering of millions of women.

I hope your smug self-righteous vindication is worth the suffering of not just Americans, but of all our allies; Ukraine, but even more ironically, fucking Palestinians.

Hope it was worth it.

Now lie with the blood now covering your hands.

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"Why, Ford," the former megalomaniac triangle demon grinned up at him with his single eye slightly hooded. It was disturbingly cute, despite Ford's best efforts to be professional about this. "Are you calling me hot?"

The effect was instantly ruined by Bill doubling over with a hacking cough. Ford barely resisted the urge to roll his eyes. "No, I'm calling you sick. Stop being difficult about this."

Bill snorted and somehow didn't start coughing again. "It's like you don't even know me, Sixer."

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Yes hi hello I'm losing my fucking mind it's fine everything is fine.