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did you title your knitting blog like this on purpose or am i the bad guy

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best m/f dynamic is a flamboyant bisexual show-off desperately in love with an extremely practical girl who’s difficult to impress 🤩

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forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit

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it's so epic that we're all supposed to treat speculative or straight up imaginary enemies (roving internet suicide cults, slinking broad-daylight child snatching predators, black mirror style phone exposure brain necrosis, child-honing heroin dealers, etc. etc.) as immediately more dangerous and addressable than the real statistically proven constant threats to children represented in their parents & religious authority figures, to the point of further empowering the latter and giving them even greater control over children as a supposed protection against the former

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I mean

I admit to being a small-r republican but I'm not sure you can make a bloodline supremacist system which is also a pressure cooker of duty and ritual (like, there's a reason 'royally fucked up' is a saying) and a game in which everyone is both player and pieces (often simultaneously) and in which everyone is also playing a separate yet related game with the lives and wellbeing of less powerful people - like, I'm not sure you can make it unproblematic.

Like, if you make this system fine with queerness? Somehow? I mean, that's technically better than the alternative, but it's also like being in a lake of sewage with a rubber ring, yanno?

yes. correct

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Gar time 🌿

Appliqué and reverse appliqué! This is also a fully lined one and ngl, twelve million times easier than flat felling the sleeves <3

Up in the little shop.

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Square Bloom

quilt by Jo Wollschlaeger

2nd place in American Patchwork & Quilting Transparency Quilting Challenge, QuiltCon 2025

this challenge focused on the illusion of transparency in quilting.

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it’s crazy how much you can read if you read

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i think we should talk about degendering more as a very real form of transphobia. you should not be calling a trans woman "they" when she's explained her pronouns to you. you should not be calling her a "person" instead of a woman. she's not too gnc, she's not too androgynous, you're not "confused" about her identity, you're degendering her. I fear we've gotten to a point we've forgotten the very basics of this movement is "trans women are women" and "trans men are men", and not just "trans people are someone who's pronouns you have to memorize so you don't offend them." you see her as a man in a dress and it pisses me off

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they should invent friends that do not live so fucking far

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paperbacks! these can be preordered wherever but if you use this link it supports indie bookstores. out 7/15!

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if you're writing and find yourself thinking 'this is too weird/gross/offputting/esoteric/ambitious/catered to my specific interests + sure to push away a broader audience' that is the devil speaking and it is a lie. you are already firmly on the right path and you need to double down

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i think about this a hundred times a day

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shrewtabaga

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Who’s next? 👀 Gandalf in my style 💫

I never spoke about this but LOTR is probably the thing I’ve watched/read more times in my life. The hyperfixation I had on it when I was a kid was insane. It just makes me happy and as I grow up I connect with it and with myself in a different way. My dream would be if some day I could make someone feel 1/6 of this but with something I created 🌞🔮