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shark vs the universe
izzy's playlists!
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YOU ARE THE REASON
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Origami Around
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Stranger Things
hello vonnie
taylor price
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
we're not kids anymore.
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trying on a metaphor
occasionally subtle
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Some very old art from before the Silksong was born. Two routes of evolution
"Similar bugs would gnaw away at unguarded food supplies in my homeland. As a child, I would hunt them, eager to make use of myself and test my skills."
Facebook: we analysed your entire internet history, tracked your location and took a deep dive into your personal relationships, and we’ve decided to recommend you this specific conditioner that you also saw in your local Tesco two days ago, aint that neat!
Tumblr: HEY sHITHEAD *slurring words* how would you like to buy *throws dart* a gym membership for your *spins wheel* pARROT
This was shared as a "bad" joke but I was so charmed by it I've been thinking about it for days.
Moose at the next table: No they don't. I've been waiting here for an hour.
Lady in drive through had a bearded dragon sitting on her boobs and she held it up and let me pet it. killing myself canceled
art is not my strong suit but this is my best recreation of what i saw when i opened the window. i have to emphasize that she was supermodel levels of gorgeous
do you guys remember when we used to say oh worm all the time. remember that
is anybody out there
Suddenly remembered that one time I was coming home from the Ren Faire dressed as OOT Zelda, and we stopped off to eat at iHop, and there was a dad with two little girls there. And mentally i was like 'hohoho perhaps the girls will be excited to see A Princess, as I would have at that age' but what happened instead was the dad saw me and his eyes went REALLY wide and he gasped and said "PRINCESS ZELDA??????"
Because it's Father's day, I wanna say Happy Father's Day to Random Zelda Fan IHop Dad, you were a real one for real
I think instrumence should be free for those who are pure of heart
u should be able to put ur hand down and let the instrument sniff u and if it smells a beautiful quality in ur heart and spirit that's ur instrument now. stray tumpet follow you home.. bwaa
Sniff my hand, sweet bwa bwaa.... You will be safe with me
There is a lot of information out there about weaving, crocheting and knitting, but relatively little about spinning.
Which is a shame, since spinning is really where the "resource provided by the earth" tangibly becomes "object with a use."
Aspects of spinning, such as the amount of twist and the length of the fibers, are impactful upon the thread or yarn created, but lots of fiber crafters don't get to directly play with those variables...
It is so strange how textile production is so utterly dominated by very few fibers, when so many are possible. Industry keeps coming up with new ways to transform bamboo or something into fibers, which is all well and good, but we have yet to run out of easily usable natural fibers that have worked for thousands of years.
Dogbane—Apocyonum cannabinum—was called "Indian hemp" because it was used by Native Americans for ropes, cords and textiles. It's incredibly strong, soft, and easy to collect large amounts of it. But hardly anybody uses it.
As far as yarn construction (twist, fiber staple, ply, draw, etc) goes, may I recommend the Spinner's Book of Yarn Designs (Sarah Anderson) and Yarnitecture (Jillian Moreno)? @dirtypuzzle mentioned SpinOff and Fibershed in the comments and those are great magazines and ways to find local groups as well. I've read some great articles on prepping and spinning flax, hemp, cotton, and silk on there in addition to the more popular fleece/fur/hair fibers.
For those especially I can't over-recommend the Fleece & Fiber Sourcebook or the Field Guide to Fleece (Deborah Robson and Carol Ekarius.) An awful lot of excellent fiber breeds and species are now unknown, under-used, and in danger of going extinct; Shave 'Em to Save 'Em and the Livestock Conservancy in general are good resources for finding local people working with those. There's a chiengora (dog wool) group on Ravelry that's great, too, and lots of easily searchable info on raising silkworms at home and spinning from hankies.
There really is a dearth of information easily available on most plant fibers, I too would love to see more of it for like... almost everything, really. At a guess, most potentials get ignored at an institutional level because they're a pain to grow and process in bulk, which in turn means there's little if any data on how they stand up to modern washing and drying and detergents. Bast fibers tend to be a pain to prep as an interested individual (and often smelly!) and can be hard on the hands while spinning, especially those with extra long fibers. Even so a lot of people would spin old/new/ignored plants if they didn't have to process raw plant into spinnable fiber. I suspect that and not knowing which plants might be good options are the biggest obstacles to at least hobbyist experimentation.
Here's a blog post where someone attempts to process and spin milkweed stalks. Keep in mind, milkweed stalks produce a bast fiber whereas milkweed fluff can also be spun but makes a brittle yarn by itself and is often mixed with wool or cotton, though I would assume you could process the stalks and then spin the floss into the fiber from the stalks. Spin Off talks about it here. Milkweed also sustains monarch butterflies, which have been having a rough time. You might have some skin reactions when handling milkweed though, so keep an eye.
Fibershed did a spotlight on dogbane, nettle, and milkweed in comparison to hemp and flax. They talk specifically about Native American techniques and current cultivation of all three, particularly dogbane, and ways to spin yarn and make rope. They aren't super in-depth about processing the fibers, but it seems like it's because they have more tutorials/guides on other pages. Bast fibers all have a similar retting->drying->scutching->hackling->spinning (you also have to ripple flax at the beginning) process, generally speaking.
Of course, flax is a really accessible plant fiber to spin yourself! You can plant it yourself, buy unprocessed flax (locally or online), or buy processed but unspun flax. If you're interested in the whole process, this book is the flax bible: Linen: From Flax Seed to Woven Cloth by Linda Heinrich. There are a lot of youtubers who go through it all, too.
If you're interested in kudzu, then may I suggest Oigawa Kudzu-fu Studio! They're located in Japan, but they have helpfully created an English website, too, where they go over making kudzu-fu (Japanese name for the cloth from kudzu). And if you ever find yourself going to Japan, you can take a class from them.
On Oigawa Studio's info page, they also mention that they work with ramie (plant in the nettle family), linden tree (basswood), and wisteria, so do with that what you will. I assume a lot of those resources are in Japanese.
Finally, hemp. Laws around if and how you can plant hemp, even for personal non-THC uses, vary wildly from state to state and country to country, so do your research. I'm not super familiar with it, and in my state I literally can't grow any of it at all without applying for a permit, so it's not really worth it for me.
To the previously mentioned sources I would add Abbey Franquemonty's
Respect the Spindle. Anyone looking for the how's & why's of hand spinning will find answers there. Interest in hand spinning has seen a steady growth in the past 15 yrs since this book's release.
We live in an era where there is a wide availability in tools, raw materials, and instructions. Before 2005 the spinner-wannabe was hard pressed to find the tools & fiber to even become a spinner much less explore the nuisance of rare fibers.
This guy's illusions are great
A little northern ringneck snake I caught by the river in Kentucky! It wiggled around for a minute but after that just sat still. In the photo I'm not applying any pressure or anything to hold it. His head was not even half a centimeter long and it was so adorable. Put him right back after I took this photo so as to not stress it out too much.
idk why but describing hornet's family situation in both canon and just abt anything soulblood-related is so funny to me.
her mom loves her
her other mom loves her
her stepmom loves her
her half-siblings all love her
her dad
hornet thinking about her family tree be like
fondly remembers her mom
fondly remembers her other mom
fondly remembers her stepmom
was ready to die for her half-siblings
her dad (file not found)
Haru Dipthong's Utena Fansub Masterpost
On the 23rd of September 2024, @dontbe-lasanya and I began a project to retranslate the anime Revolutionary Girl Utena. The project finished on the 7th of August 2025. The goals behind the project were to provide more natural dialogue between characters, do a better job of conveying the themes, and provide a nonbinary perspective on Utena the character, and I believe we achieved them!
To summarise my translation approach in one sentence, I would say I focus on rewriting the script as though it were originally written in the target language. This means, for example, never using honorifics like "sama" or "senpai" in the English translation and instead making up for it by using ways of indicating relationships and hierarchy in English such as changing the way characters speak around each other.
Translation Notes
Episode 1 - The Rose Bride
Episode 2 - For Whom The Rose Smiles
Episode 3 - On The Night Of The Ball
Episode 4 - The Sunlit Garden Prelude
Episode 5 - The Sunlit Garden Finale
Episode 6 - Take Care, Miss Nanami
Episode 7 - Unfulfilled Juri
Episode 8 - Curried High Trip
Episode 9 - The Castle Said To Hold Eternity
Episode 10 - Nanami’s Precious One
Episode 11 - Graceful And Ruthless; The One Who Picks The Flower
Episode 12 - For Friendship, Perhaps
Episode 13 - Tracing a Path
Episode 14 - The Boys Of The Black Rose
Episode 15 - The Landscape Framed By Kozue
Episode 16 - The Almglocken Of Happiness
Episode 17 - Thorns Of Death
Episode 18 - Mitsuru’s Growing Pains
Episode 19 - The Song Of The Fallen Kingdom
Episode 20 - Wakaba Flourishing
Episode 21 - Nasty Pests
Episode 22 - Nemuro Memorial Hall
Episode 23 - What Makes A Duellist
Episode 24 - The Secret Nanami Diary
Episode 25 - Eternal Apocalypse For Two
Episode 26 - Miki’s Birdhouse (The Sunlit Garden, Arrangement)
Episode 27 - Nanami’s Egg
Episode 28 - Whispers In The Dark
Episode 29 - Azure Paler Than The Sky
Episode 30 - The Barefoot Girl
Episode 31 - Her Tragedy
Episode 32 - The Romance Of The Dancing Girls
Episode 33 - The Prince Who Runs Through The Night
Episode 34 - The Rose Signet
Episode 35 - The Love That Blossomed In Wintertime
Episode 36 - And The Doors Of Night Open
Episode 37 - The One Who Will Revolutionise The World
Episode 38 - The End Of The World
Episode 39 - Someday, Let’s Shine Together
This cormorant is gulping a fish. Many such cases
As someone who was alive when Bob Ross (and William Alexander before him — that’s where the approach is from) was on PBS, I can 100% testify that you can paint along with him.
You may need to learn how to set up your paints and such… but this is what people did, live, while the show aired. That’s what the show was for. I had family members create lovely works of art they enjoyed, which I still have on my walls, because William Alexander and Bob Ross both said:
SCREW METICULOUS CLASSICAL ART PRACTICES — JUST GRAB A PALETTE KNIFE AND BIG OLD BRUSH AND PAINT!
They freed a whole generation of people who were taught to paint detail and realism and exact representation of reality — people who largely gave up this kind of thing because it got tedious.
I watched the joy of family members as they rediscovered art as a messy fun spontaneous half hour activity.
Give it a try.
