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The thing about sewing is it's only like 15% sewing and like 85% other shit that is not operating a sewing machine. If it was just the sewing part I wouldn't mind!! But it's like 50% ironing (conservative estimate) and 20% lining things up and pinning them in place and 10% dealing with cutting out your pattern pieces and (if ur lucky) 5% ripping out what you just fucked up. All of which!!! Is tedious and boring!!!

But I have been cursed to become The Sewing Machine Guy despite not knowing as much about sewing machines as I would like if I'm going to hold that title. Which mythological figure am I like if I've become cursed to be known for this thing I hate?

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I have. Somehow. Become The Sewing Machine Guy in Joy Demorra's patreon discord server. There's like 200 people in that server. I don't even LIKE sewing. In fact, I kinda hate it! But, somehow things have snowballed and not *only* am I The Sewing Machine Guy in a discord server with more people than my entire highschool had any given year... I have made a server specifically for teaching my friends how to use a sewing machine and what to look for when buying one. I just added 3 people to it!!! For a thing I hate doing!!

But! The thing is! I strongly believe that sewing is an extremely useful skill that everyone should have the chance to learn, especially if a person doesn't fit in off the rack clothing or has specific personal tastes they can't find anywhere (hello I am both of these things). Like. Plus size clothes are *so* ugly. They come in 3 colors and the only one that's not black or khaki is the most hideous pattern you've ever seen in your life IF you're lucky. We deserve better!!!

I am short. Like. Extremely Short. I have had to hem every pair of pants I have owned since I was 12 years old short. But I knew how. I Despise doing it but I knew how from a young age because while the weird fundamentalism that lead to me learning how to sew was Bad, I'm actually very lucky to have learned at like 8 years old how to operate a sewing machine.

So I'm sharing that knowledge because despite feeling like some kind of curse has lead me to this point, I *do* know enough about sewing machines to teach someone the basics and they can learn whatever more advanced stuff they want on their own from there

RIP me I believe in helping others more than I hate doing this thing I hate doing

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What if there was a cow that could fly?

um. uhh um. fat bumbalbee

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My modern sewing machine I bought in 2014: szzzzhhhhh how are you today so nice to see you ❤️

My 50 year old sewing machine I bought for $20 at a yard sale: CHUNKACHUNKACHUNKA YOU HERE FOR A GOOD TIME LIL LADY?

He's loud but he's currently functional and the modern machine isn't. He's obnoxious but you oil him regularly and he'll treat you right (he's not calling me a lady cuz he's transphobic he's just stupid)

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It has been said often, but it is always a good reminder. Your best varies each day. Sometimes your best is getting through a whole to do list in time to bake muffins later and see a film with someone. Sometimes your best is getting through the day, and that is okay. You are not less than someone else. You did your best, and I’m proud of you whatever “your best” looks like today. Please don’t beat yourself up, It won’t help. You owe yourself the same compassion and understanding as you would grant a friend. 🌸

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Dragon Spouse Caldarus 💚

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Teapot, Takayuki Sakiyama, 2025

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So. Sometimes. When I get up to pee in the dead of night, I'll see one of my cats and what little light there is bounces off their eyes, making them glow. And every. Single. Time. I stop short and briefly go into fight or flight mode as caveman brain screams at me that I'm about to get eaten, until enough rational brain returns to remind me it's just my cat.

This phenomenon is very funny, but I think I do it back to them cuz sometimes if I walk behind my cats in a pace and cadence that's similar to how humans move when stalking something quietly, they'll hiss and run away (in Tina's case) or cry and run away (in Cas's case).

So I think we're both going "fuck! I'm being hunted! ... Oh right we domesticated these guys." Which is very funny to imagine

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how to make a zishahu紫砂壶 by 山白shanbai

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hand in marriage NAOWWWW

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能不能把龙形态还来

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thinking fondly of this meme I made for a coworker years and years ago

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On Shopping While Fat 2: Son of Fat

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I’ll never not be amused by the fact that I can drop the words “crucifix nail nipples” into a conversation and some of you who have been with me since the livejournal days will join me in the flashbacks, screaming and crying all the way.

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Being a little too cold: brrrr i’m a little too cold !!!

Being a little too warm: i am going to kill the next person who makes eye contact with me.

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Honestly kind of embarrassing how angry I get when my knitting doesn't work out as intended. Why am I ragequitting a pair of socks

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Someone please give this girl a sword