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Well my loves, it appears as though the answer to "Can the Big Pattern Company (Simplicity/Burda/McCalls/ect.) survive the death of JoAnn?" has come.

The answer is no. No it cannot. It has been sold to a liquidator just like JoAnns was.

So if there is ANYTHING you want I suggest you get it now. simplicity.com is currently having a pattern sale and I snatched up some that might be useful for cosplay purposes.

I am very glad these last couple of years I have built up my collection.

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pope francis it is your moral obligation to make the entire ocean holy water. the devil cannot be allowed to surf

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A tutorial on a (bit cheating) way of creating fictional maps.

Open your editing software (RECOMMENDING Krita, since it's free and it's very good).

Step 1: Google "X country silhouette" and copy it.

Paste it onto the canvas.

Step 2: Separate the silhouette from the background you copied with it! You can do that by using magic wand selection tool or by making a gradient map with black on 49,9% and transparent on 50% on the slider.

Step 3: Repeat several times with numerous countries and/or islands, cities, municipalities, communes, continents et cetera.

Step 4: Combine, mesh, stretch, rotate, mirror - go ham, make it work.

Step 5: Erase and add.

Step 6: Have your map outline ready, copy/paste it several times in the same doc on different layers and edit in different ways like biomes, kingdoms, mountains and other.

Step Mountains+: To figure out mountains, make another layer on the doc and do something like this:

-and then in every polygon you add an arrow.

Where arrows meet or transfer onto continents, add mountains.

Color the sea with a couple layers of depth and you're done :D

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Anybody who says cats only play along with human nonsense in order to obtain food has never seen a hungry cat completely ignore a full bowl of food in favour of giving you shit because you did not correctly perform the Dinner Ritual.

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This is awesome on so many levels.

Ladies and Gentlemen i present to you John Carpenter’s The Thing, as performed by the claymated, Antarctic cast of the hit children’s animation Pingu. Directed by Lee Hardcastle, in under 3 minutes. Noot, Noot.

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Corn dogs are named for their traditional meat, the unicorn. As unicorns are now extinct, they can only be referred to properly as ‘Corn Dogs and not “Unicorn Dogs” as they were prior to 2009.

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Seen in the wild.

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TOP 3 TRAITORS:

3. Brutus 2. Judas 1. Printers when you are in a hurry

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I think this is a conversation that fandom needs to have in general.

When you encounter something that makes you uncomfortable while you’re playing a video game, reading something on AO3, browsing Twitter, or scrolling through Tumblr, you have the power to remove yourself. You can stop reading, you can hit the back button, you can block/mute, you can turn the device off entirely.

“Consent” has a very specific meaning. When you’re consuming a piece of media that a creator has posted on their own personal account, you are in their space. That is a one-sided interaction. They’re not at all involved, they can’t reach through the screen to hit the back button for you. They’re not “violating your consent” or “pushing your boundaries”, because you are the one in control.

We need to stop acting like creators are 100% responsible for the mental well-being of every person who could possibly encounter their work, and instead start taking responsibility for our own online experiences.

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tolkien writing elves: this is Fëafineärenfindelwë he ruled as a king for 12,069 years and he slew seven balrogs and he created three conlangs and he invented light

tolkien writing men: this is Berengorn he's a nobleman with a fancy sword and he looks just like an elf and he was raised by elves and he marries an elf

tolkien writing dwarves: this is Durin XVI Ironking he forged a billion legendary swords

tolkien writing hobbits: this is Berry Bingo Bongfeet he writes songs about trees and he owns a weed farm

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I recently mentioned that my to-do list contains an item called "7pm Chores", because I have a bunch of minor tasks I do around the same time every night. It mainly has to do with my phone, because there are a number of apps I use that give you little bonuses for logging in daily, and they reset around 6 or 7pm for some reason. Duolingo gives an XP boost, Merge Dragons gives special drops, certain daily-puzzle websites reset with new games, etc.

I've got almost a dozen of them at this point, in their own screen on my phone -- not all of them HAVE to be logged into after 7pm, and often I've already done the daily login at some other point, but it's a good reminder to do so if I haven't. It systematizes something I would otherwise not be very good about scheduling.

But I have to admit that calling the task "7pm Chores" wasn't entirely accurate.

The actual to-do list item is called

THE POWER HOUR.

"Power Hour" is a term with several meanings; the most common is a drinking game where you do a shot of beer every minute for an hour. It can also refer to an intensive hour-long workout, or to a revival-style hour of prayer and evangelism in certain areas of Christianity. For me, it's simply the funniest possible thing to title this daily moment.

Every evening, around 7pm, I look at the cats and announce, "It's the P-P-P-POWER HOUR!" in a voice like an aggressive professional wrestler doing pre-match hype, or the announcer of a fight-based video game in the 80s.

And then I go sit on the sofa with a blanket and two cats on my lap, and quietly read and play soothing games on my phone for roughly forty minutes.

Power hour.