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SHNDRIT SHNDRIT SHNDRIT

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No one:

Tommy Cash's stage visuals:

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I'm placing my bet that Tommy Cash is gonna be this year's Tumblr Eurovision darling

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Spot the differences

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yoooo theyre playing my fucking leitmotif in here this party rules (hearing it change to minor key) Oh Shit. Oh Fuck

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If you're a writer you're supposed to write a lot of bullshit. It's part of the gig. You have to write a lot of absolute garbage in order to get to the good bits. Every once in a while you'll be like "Oh, I wish I hadn't wasted all that time writing bullshit," but that's dumb. That's exactly the same as an Olympic runner being like "Oh, I wish I hadn't wasted all that time running all those practice laps"

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Medieval Dance by Andrey Vinogradov

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tolkien fans are insufferable because you'll agree to watch the movies with them and then seven hours in they'll say "omg my favourite character is about to appear!" and it's a fucking siege weapon

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I should be able to both read for 8hrs a night and sleep for 8hrs a night. That I cannot is very rude and, frankly, poor design.

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Fuck this one hits home.

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Hey friends. I know I’m not as active here these days, but in the last week, my mom lost her job and last night, our 7-year-old cat Max needed emergency vet support to breathe when his asthma became life-threatening. We’ve wiped out every line of credit we have and been denied a dozen different quick-loans trying to cover Max’s care, and we could use some help.

My mom has set up a gofundme to clear both of our CareCredit accounts so we can continue to get him the care he needs while she looks for a new job. If you can throw anything at his vet bill or even just share this post, it would mean a lot.

If you would prefer not to use gofundme, mom’s Venmo is @ukmelia and her Paypal is @sromanski

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I am drowning

There is no sign of land

And you're coming down with me

Hand in unlovable hand

And i hope you die, I hope we both die

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Hey friends. I know I’m not as active here these days, but in the last week, my mom lost her job and last night, our 7-year-old cat Max needed emergency vet support to breathe when his asthma became life-threatening. We’ve wiped out every line of credit we have and been denied a dozen different quick-loans trying to cover Max’s care, and we could use some help.

My mom has set up a gofundme to clear both of our CareCredit accounts so we can continue to get him the care he needs while she looks for a new job. If you can throw anything at his vet bill or even just share this post, it would mean a lot.

If you would prefer not to use gofundme, mom’s Venmo is @ukmelia and her Paypal is @sromanski

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Something I see a lot, with people who are new to sewing, is a lack of understanding of the grain of woven fabric, and why it's important to cut out pattern pieces the way the pattern tells you to in relation to that grain.

The grain runs parallel to the selvedge edges of the fabric yardage, and is physically made up of the warp yarns that run the length of woven fabric, that the weft yarns are...well, that those yarns are woven around to make the fabric.

Because the warp yarns have to withstand the shuttles, carrying the weft yarns, passing back and forth across them repeatedly, the warp yarns are generally stronger than the weft yarns.

This means that, if you cut something perpendicular to the grain that is intended to be cut parallel to the grain, then the direction of the soft yarns and the direction of the sturdy yarns will be swapped, and the piece won't hang like it's supposed to.

Furthermore, the warp yarns need to be more stable, while the weft yarns, since they're traveling back and forth while being woven, are more flexible, which often results in a subtle stretch across the grain--from selvedge to selvedge--that can make a noticeable difference in how the finished item fits, especially if it's in any way fitted. There is almost never stretch along the warp/with the grain.

I so often see people new to sewing doing things like folding the fabric so the cut edges are together, which results in cutting the pattern pieces from the fabric across the grain instead of with the grain (not to mention doing potentially unwanted things to the nap and print direction.) Folding the fabric so the selvedges are together is usually what's directed in pattern cutting layouts, with the pattern pieces laid out parallel to the folded edge and selvedges, along the grain.

It's also common to see new-to-sewing people laying out the pattern pieces in all directions (usually jokingly called tetrising), to maximize the efficiency of fabric usage. This can easily lead to a finished item that doesn't quite fit right, even if you've used that exact pattern with that same kind of fabric before, and, without understanding the role of grain, it will seem completely random as to why it didn't work this time.

I know that a lot of the things sewing patterns tell you to do seem fussy and unnecessary, but they really do have their reasons!