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I recently got some new skirts from @mayakern and wanted to highlight the new fabric versus the old. In this pic the new skirt is on the left and the old version is on the right. The old one is pretty well loved, and has been washed several times, so it's pretty faded. The old fabric also pilled quite a bit with wear whereas the new fabric is slick and smooth so it doesn't feel like it will do the same thing. I only wish that she could bring all the old designs back, because I would 100% buy new versions of them, especially the Cherry Blossoms.

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I'd like to add my grandfather who died yesterday to this post, if I may. His name was Carl and he was truly an incredible person. He worked as a train engineer for Union Pacific for many years, and took great pride in his work even if he complained about the long hours sometimes. He was a great musician - he played the trumpet, and the cello, and sang beautifully and always took joy in making music with us. He and my grandma both instilled a lifelong love of music in all of my family. He was extremely clever and witty and could always get a laugh out of us even when he was declining during the last year. I will miss him dearly.

There will always be bad men in the world, but take heart that you don't have to be one of them. Choose to be good.

The amount of shitty news coming out this week made me feel like this needed to be said, so.

For all the boys and young men currently afraid that being male means some kind of moral death sentence: the same world that produced Neil Gaiman and Donald Trump also produced Levar Burton, Steve from Blues Clues, and my (step)dad, who isn't famous but did look at a deeply traumatized child with a bunch of mental health issues and said "is anybody going to support that?" and then didn't wait for an answer. There are good men out there doing good work in ways both big and small. Choose to use your strength to help rather than hurt, your voice to speak for those who must be silent, and you can be one of them.

Be the man Mister Rogers knew you could be. He wasn't wrong very often, and he believed you could do wonderful things. I do too.

(Anyone clowning on here will summarily get their ass kicked and their blog blocked. Pain is pain and I know there are a lot of scared teenagers right now.)

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What's the point. Why should I keep going when my country hates me?

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You also teach them that making a mistake is a punishable offense.

Look, one of my most basic parenting tips: research backs this up, but tbh all I need is my personal experience. If a child does something wrong, and you apply a punishment, their focus is IMMEDIATELY completely on the punishment. You've totally wrecked your chance to actually talk about what was wrong and build empathy or critical thinking or whatever is necessary to actually prevent the problem from happening again. Punishment completely torpedoes learning, and I don't know about you but what I actually want is for my kids to learn to do better.

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Hey.

Reblog with pictures of your pets.

Thanks.

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The progress of my hand-embroidered Sera character card from Dragon Age Inquisition.

75 hours, 11.5x19.5 cm

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chronic fatigue from mental illness and neurodivergency isn't something you can just will your way out of. your nervous system is part of your body. your brain is an organ. the fatigue is real. you're not lazy. so be kinder to yourself. be gentler with your bodymind.

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I have a feeling that beneath the little halo on your noble head There lies a thought or two the devil might be interested to know You're like the finish of a novel that I'll finally have to take to bed You fascinate me so

You Fascinate Me So, Blossom Dearie

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I have nearly gotten into several wrecks trying to identify birds while driving. Also it's so easy to miss turns when you're Thinking.

Can we talk about driving as a neurodivergent? Because personally, for me, its

The Fucking Worst

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Extremely excited to announce these official Sirrus and Achenar prints that I did for Myst's 30th Anniversary! MY BOYS. My heraldic boys.

(They should be available soon, though there's a chance to win a set of the limited foil-embossed editions over on Cyan's twitter 👀📕📘)

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I swam in from the side with jewelry making and embroidery and never left lol

Crafting iceberg

How many (mostly fiber) crafts can you do?

Note: The chart isn't ranked by difficulty. The order is how many people can do it / got first introduced to (imo of course).

For simplification I put only headlines (embroidery= satin stich, cross stich etc) there.

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Um.

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i watch baseball for the side quests