#how do you queue

[mctreeleth]

hey! fellow aussie here and I just discovered your blog while looking for vintage patterns and was wondering if you were uploading the sewing patterns or just compiling the pattern envelopes in the google drive?

Short answer: yes, some of them, eventually.

Longer answer: digitizing patterns without any proper equipment requires a little bit more space than I have right now to do it efficiently. I don't have access to the kinds of tools that would traditionally be used for this kind of thing, so instead I do it by photographing the patterns sandwiched between a clear sheet with a five centimeter/2 inch grid overlaid, that I use to correct the distortion of the photos in Photoshop. From that point it can either be copied by hand onto drafting paper using the squares, or if it's something particularly cool, I can trace the outlines in illustrator to make basically one big printable PDF.

But to do this I need space for a very big piece of either clear acrylic, or some other kind of semi-rigid plastic that can have the grid on it, as well as a support material to keep it flat, and most importantly, somewhere to prop it up where I can take a photo of it straight-on and from a sufficient distance away that there's not too much lens distortion or light glare from the plastic. Unfortunately, right now my very small city apartment isn't really configured for it, and I'm using basically a big-ish piece of cardboard and a thin sheet of plastic with tape lines, so the images take a prohibitively long time to make usable.

I've bookmarked the big sheets of acrylic I want to buy to make the process easier, but I don't really have the space for them just now.

[revvethasmythh]

I think it's very funny that shadowheart has a reputation for constantly missing attacks at lower levels, because in the early levels of my shadowheart origins run her hit rate was actually quite good, but LAE'ZEL could not hit the broad side of a fucking barn. not kidding, I think one time she missed SEVEN times in a row, including opportunity attacks and riposte, which is NOT NOTHING at low levels when you only get one attack per round. so what I'm saying is that shadowheart's curse IS real, but being The Main Character cures it and gives it to somebody else in your party, apparently

[needlejuicerecords]

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[unforth]

Gentle reminder that very little fandom labor is automated, because I think people forget that a lot.

That blog with a tagging system you love? A person curates those tags by hand.

That rec blog with a great organization scheme and pretty graphics? Someone designed and implemented that organization scheme and made those graphics.

That network that posts a cool variety of stuff? People track down all that variety and queue it by hand, and other people made all the individual pieces.

That post with umpteen links to helpful resources, and information about them? Someone gathered those links, researched the sources, wrote up the information about them.

That graphic about fandom statistics? Someone compiled those statistics, analyzed them, organized them, figured out a useful way to convey the information to others, and made the post.

That event that you think looks neat? Someone wrote the rules, created the blogs and Discords, designed the graphics, did their best to promo the event so it'd succeed.

None of this was done automatically. None of it just appears whole out of the internet ether.

I think everyone realizes that fic writing and fanart creation are work, and at least some folks have got it through their heads that gif creation and graphics and moodboards take effort, and meta is usually respected for the effort that goes into it, at least as far as I've seen, but I feel like a lot of people don't really get how much labor goes into curation, too.

If people are creating resources, curating content, organizing the creations of others, gathering information, and doing other fandom activities that aren't necessarily the direct action of creation, they're doing a lot of fandom labor, and it's often largely unrecognized.

Celebrate fan work!

To folks doing this kind of labor: I see you, and I thank you. You are the backbones of our fandoms and I love you.

[profblahson]

Two things

I just remembered I used to have an “always reblog big cats” tag on here might bring that back I love big cats

If you see me blogging at 3 am no you didn’t

[aeide-thea]

on principle opposed to describing art i dislike as 'masturbatory' because even though it's an alluringly contemptuous word to sneer it's impossible to reconcile with my pro-masturbation stance

[braisedhoney]

fighting back? against who? they're so happy—they've been waiting for you.

you are wonderful. don't you know that?

bonus: they play sims together :)

[fkitwebhaal]

Astarion: I need to manipulate someone to get these people to protect me

The entire party, after learning about Cazador: Hey, so we’re killing that guy right?

[daily-hanamura]

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

saw @chez-cinnamon's absolutely BANGER butterfly!Howdy design and couldn't resist! two fluffy flutterbyes <3 solidarity

[solarpunkani]

"Oh no, someone's attracted to the aesthetics of my -punk movement but doesn't know the praxis and history behind it like I do--"

OK. Tell them. Make it a teaching moment. Everyone who's in your movement learned the background from somewhere at some point, maybe this is that point for that person. Give them a jumping off point that they can dive into later.

"Oh but I shouldn't be responsible for teaching baby -punks about the history and the how-tos and--"

OK. Then don't tell them. You don't have to be responsible for teaching people with a budding interest in your group the ins and outs and how-tos. That's fair and valid! It can be a lot of work. Someone else will handle it

"But I'm annoyed that they would try to claim to be part of/be interested in my community without knowing all the details that I know after being in it for months/years/decades, they're dumb, they're posers, they're--"

OK. Then don't engage with them, if it's that bad. Maybe someone else will come around and tell them the history, maybe they'll pick it up on their own, maybe they'll just enjoy the fashion elements for awhile.

"But they shouldn't claim to be part of the -punk community if they don't know the--"

I feel like we have a few options here. People can either talk to them, share the history, share the values, share the praxis. Or they can just chase off anyone who even thinks about dipping a toe in their community, and then wonder why it's dying off later down the line.

I dunno, maybe I'm too naive and patient or whatever. But if people are entering your -punk spaces without knowing The Rundown of what you feel they need to know, maybe being nice about it and informing people instead of immediately assuming stupidity and malicious intent could help you make a new friend. Even the loudest voices in a space had to learn from somewhere, and not everyone has the luxury of being in the space as the History was Happening--whether it's an age thing or a not being aware of the space thing. Or maybe I just don't see what the big deal is behind people hating people who like the aesthetic of something and don't know the behind the scenes history about it yet.

Because I believe in the word 'yet.' No one comes into this world knowing everything about everything, and we're all constantly learning new things. I'm not gonna degrade someone and call them a poser for not knowing what I know. Because if it were me, interested in a scene but getting chased out and called a poser? I wouldn't hit the books and study up, I'd go 'that fuckin sucks, those people sucked' and then avoid anyone and anything having to do with it.

So chase people off and call them posers if you want. But if your community starts dwindling, don't be fucking shocked.

[tapeworrmart]

He's having fun

[petitesmafia]

hc thinking about Dazai practicing how to control his heartbeat around Chuuya except Chuuya doesn’t know that, so every once in a while when he unknowingly causes Dazai to slip up Dazai would glare at Chuuya and Chuuya would be like. tf are u looking at. are u tryna fight with me

Dazai, steadying his heartbeat: okay this is easy Chuuya, leaning over Dazai to grab a pen beside him: 'scuse me Dazai, heartbeat speeding up: Dazai: UGH. what is your problem Chuuya: ??? Chuuya: what the fuck is YOUR problem

[unisongakikoeru]

imagine your f/o holding your hand, and thinking to themself, "their hands are so soft..."

proship/comship dni

[aroaceleovaldez]

actually one of the details that frustrates me the most from TSATS, relating to how much the book completely erases or absolutely bastardizes neurodivergence, is how Percy's cameo is characterized.

One of the consistent things aspects of Percy's relationship with the education system throughout the series is that Percy is smart, and he does try in school, but he has a learning disability. The only reason he gets bad grades is because he has a learning disability and the way the modern american education system is built is inherently at odds with that. In the first series we actually have explicit references to Percy doing better in school when he's in environments that actually accommodate for his disabilities! It's not that he's not trying, he's disabled.

So it is so disheartening and horrible to see Percy characterized in TSATS as just being disinterested in school, and his failing grades being made a joke about implying him ditching classes because he just doesn't care. That's the number one ableist thing ADHD/dyslexic students hear! Implying that they "just don't care" and dismissing their disabilities. It is so horrible to see that joke being made in the Percy Jackson series of all franchises. Especially when you add that on to the rest of the quite frankly ableist characterizations in TSATS and how much the book erases Nico and Will's disabilities/neurodivergence.