#twine ball

[supersonicgrandma]

Monday Morning Twine Ball Blues

[snarglefarg]

"Weird Al" Yankovic "The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota" reimagined as a limerick

A dad, with his kin full of glee,To Minnesota they longed just to be.Past odd sights they did roam,To a stringy sphere’s home,A grand ball of twine they would see!

[loislane-ana]

Travel: twine ball, Montana rodeo, New Orleans flights

[shootfromthesun]

i was going to write a road trip AU of Escape From the Vault but then I went on maps and it literally only takes like 13 hours to drive from the literal top of scotland to the bottom of england? even if traffic literally doubled that it would only be like 2 days of driving? do people from the uk literally not have roadtrips???

[thatsbelievable]

[finalgirlsamwinchester]

like, ultimately, spn could never actually break the cycle of abuse and familial violence, bc to truly break the cycle would've required its writers to have the radical imaginary to look beyond the status quo. the show just reifies the idea of a paternal authority over the world. god dies but he has to be replaced you see, but it's okay, it's someone better now. family is hell but now family is also heaven.

[samwolfcos]

they glowing

[lemmebeyourhog]

[sideblogandabiscuit]

Y’all can’t leave Five be! Like, really. Leave him be!

[cosmicrhetoric]

episode 24 go crazy go stupid interrogate the fairytale framing device

[thechurchofsplatterdaysaints]

world's largest crow in Belgrade, MN

[petro1986]

If a witch is looking to harm you, here are some potential ways to de-escalate the situation:

- "oh thank god, do I owe you anything?" This will make the witch re direct their Aire onto the fucker who hurt you... Not guaranteed

- offer them a novel/cool looking jar: the smaller/bigger it is, the better chance of survival is, especially if it's a BIG jar of pickles (pickles would also help

- have a big ball of gardening twine, this is good advice for maker type folks

- "would you like to see/have this cool rock I found?" Please confine the types of cool rocks that aren't a threat to your/others health

- "were there any long form YouTube video essays you were meaning to watch? Because I'd love to make brews and chill out with a 4 hour video looking at some 90s/00s ephemera!"

[minnesotacore]

I saw this quote and was like, wait do people outside the Midwest even know about the twine ball???

It’s no longer the biggest ball of twine in the world, but the other balls of twine were more intentionally crafted and this one just kinda happened to one guy who really liked collecting string.

Here are some more pictures of it, including one with the twine collector himself, Francis A. Johnson.

The ball currently resides in a gazebo in Darwin Minnesota, where Johnson’s farm was, about and hour and a half west of the twin cities!

Also, Weird Al wrote a song about it and that’s pretty neat.

[thingsasbarcodes]

The Umbrella Academy 3x02 - World's Biggest Ball of Twine

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

you've never seen simon says quite like this

[kvetchinglyneurotic]

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That night, Beard slept on the couch — or maybe didn’t sleep at all, the way the shadows carved dark under his eyes the next day. He struck up a monologue, more words in a row than Ted had heard from him in all their years of friendship. Made breakfast and lunch and dinner; didn’t say a word about the team, or the string of ties, or their duty to the boys.

In the evening he opened the window wide and dragged a pair of kitchen chairs over to face it, settled in one and waited for Ted to haul himself over to the other. Night in London was glowing yellow and rushing with traffic, but the coool breeze eased something inside him all the same.

“Remember the Great American Twinetrip?” Ted asked. It’d been not long after Beard got out of prison, back when he was still living in his and Michelle’s guest room and skittish as a newborn deer. Come summer and with it the end of the coaching season, Ted had packed them both into his car and spent two and a half weeks driving them around the country to see every record-breaking ball of twine in the country. “We camped in that field out by…”

“Lake Nebagamon,” Beard supplied.

“Yeah.” They’d gotten lost on some deserted road, ended up sleeping there in some field getting eaten by mosquitos. “Remember the stars? Can’t see nothing like it out here.”

“Light pollution.”

They went quiet again. The curtains fluttered. In the field outside Lake Nebagamon, Ted had told him, just ‘cause you used to be a certain way don’t mean you’ll be that way forever. He’d closed his eyes when Ted stored the car keys for the night and Ted had torn a piece of paper from the back of his notebook and scrawled CAR KEYS HERE-> in neon pink highlighter and pressed Beard’s wallet back into his hands when he tried to hand it over as collateral Crunched there together in the folded-down back seat Beard had met Ted’s eyes in the dark and said—

“Think I might be cursed.”