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It's not transformers but I knit my giant eurypterid body pillow a sweater and its the best thing I've ever made PLEASE LOOK AT IT

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I think this is my favorite tablet weaving partnern so far. Just look at the 3D effect 🥰

This one is apparently also a historically accurate pattern. It's called "Snartemo 2"

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I have published a new knitting pattern. It is the result of quite a long design process - starting in 2020 and involving a lot of knitting, ripping back, re-knitting, ripping back again, re-thinking, re-calculating etc. The final outcome is a colourful shawl, in bold neon colours that are reminiscend of the 1980s. It is also a lovely mixture of colours, textures and knitting directions, i.e. a bit of a challenging knit and not a beginner pattern.

The knitting pattern is available via Ravelry and Payhip:

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/neon-shawl-2

https://payhip.com/b/t6iNd

You can get a 25% introduction discount with coupon code "NEON". Discount ends March 7, 2025.

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Gift for my bestie @draco2368 ! These are their favorite colors and also they love octopi. I specifically looked for the hottest pink DMC has available. Pretty simple pattern but kind of obnoxious to follow.

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crazy that in the 1970s they were like, "fine, women can play sports. but because they're innately less athletic than men, only in a special ghettoized League For The Frail And Delicate where they get paid less 😊". And not only is that still the system in 2023, but viciously lashing out at the smallest challenges to that system gets framed as Feminist Praxis

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"The shift from the Afro-Caribbean zombie to the U.S. zombie is clear: in Caribbean folklore, people are scared of becoming zombies, whereas in U.S. narratives people are scared of zombies. This shift is significant because it maps the movement from the zombie as victim (Caribbean) to the zombie as an aggressive and terrifying monster who consumes human flesh (U.S.). In Haitian folklore, for instance, zombies do not physically threaten people; rather, the threat comes from the voduon practice whereby the sorcerer (master) subjugates the individual by robbing the victim of free will, language and cognition. The zombie is enslaved."

— Justin D. Edwards, "Mapping Tropical Gothic in the Americas" in Tropical Gothic in Literature and Culture.

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yellow pikmin are my favorite

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MORE FIBER ART this piece has literally taken the whole school semester and like 100+ hours. I am Mentally Ill and go to art school so my profs don’t care if I work on embroidery during lecture as long as I participate. It’s made of dyed muslin and shitty craft store embroidery thread because quality materials are for cowards.

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friends asked me to draw a bee with a binky here you guys can have it too

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SCA Thirty Year Tapestry Project

(1995-1996)

The Barony of Adiantum (Eugene, OR) created a Jacobean style tapestry to gift to the Kingdom of the West depicting a "Tree of Life" showing the kingdoms and principalities of our organization as they branched out from the first kingdom, the West. It was presented at the SCA's 30 Year celebration event held in An Tir (1996).

All of the yarns used were hand spun and dyed using natural and period dyes. An army of 50-60 volunteers spend about a year carefully stitching the tapestry itself. It was an incredible project to be a part of. These photos are scans of film photos taken to document the project.

Annathea Yarnspinner spun most of the wool yarn we used.

These show a day-long session of dying the spun yarns. First picture shows Catriona of the Fields preparing an indigo dye bath. Next, as yarn came out of the bath it was hung on a line to dry. You can see yellow yarns (done with onion skins) and blue done with indigo. The green was achieved by overdying indigo on the onion skins yellow. Pictured are: Catriona, River, Baranne, and Annathea.

Here are some of the variety of colors we achieved for the embroidery of the tapestry. We had a very impressive color palette to work from.

Here is one of the MANY group embroidery sessions. This is in Madelynn's living room. Pictured from closest and clockwise: Fearga, Annathea, Marian, Alys, Raven, River, and Meagan.

All total there were probably hundreds of sessions like this with 50-60 people working on it overall. It was taken to various events and people would work on it while other things were happening (such as court). I think we all got at least a few stitches into it.

Here is the finished project as it was being prepared to be presented. Then baron and baroness Ambrose and Marian presented it with much ceremony to the king of the West. He was moved to tears (the good kind) when presented with it. It still resides in the Kingdom of the West.

(my Facebook Archive originally posted 10-18-2013)

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I appreciate the fact we have people fighting the good fight for transgender people with studies and arguments and personal life stories of how beneficial transition is, how rare regret occurs, why someone would transition in the first place, how horrible discrimination is, all the ways our society's understanding of gender and biological sex are built on sand, and so on, but I think we need to remind ourselves that whether or not someone might regret transitioning is irrelevant to whether or not they should be allowed to do it.

There's no "canon" to real life. We just have people who want to do one thing, for whatever reason they feel like, to themselves, that objectively causes no harm to other people and they are getting fucking wailed on for it because other people are squeamish and think skirts are pussy locked. Any argument that doesn't recognize that fact is automatically bunk.

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ordering a pup cup for my chikorita in lumiose

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The Wrong Turn

Guess who's back here? I had a bumpy ride but I made it eventually.

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I’m not generally against people trying to pronounce loan words and names with the exact same pronunciation they have in the language they came from if that’s what they want to do but I’m not for trying to force that on others. I generally try to respectfully anglicize words and names I come across and pronounce them correctly with English pronunciation and not try to sound like the language it came from.

Part of the reason I do this is I talk to people in German or Spanish occasionally and I’ve heard people do this with English words and the effect it has on my brain when people suddenly pronounce a word with perfect English pronunciation in the middle of a Spanish or German sentence is kind of similar to when an automated robot voice is randomly inserted into an audio file without warning. Even when it happens with my own name.

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Love how all of the justifications for doing shit to Iran make no sense. "We need to stop them from having nuclear weapons so we're going to be in talks for years and also sanction them when they maybe try to make nuclear weapons" but we can have them??? Just Iran can't??? "We need to bomb them because they might have nuclear arms" WHY WOULD YOU BOMB THEM OF YOU THINK THEY'LL FUCKING NUKE YOU????

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Imagine scarfing down chinese food like a rabid animal only for jeff bezos to come and sit next to you and insult your dead wife, so you go home and get a lobotomy about it