Geek, through and through

things that make me smile - PeasemealBrose on AO3, and just plain old Brose Pre-AO3

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Turtle Quilt by Laurraine Yuyama

Tokyo Quilt Festival

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QUILT

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QUILT

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This Dan Piraro comic always makes me cry.

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When I lived in London there was a murder of crows that lived near me. I fed them often, they brought me presents (shiny rubbish and cigarette butts they found on the floor to thank me.)

When I moved, I’m certain they understood I was leaving because I had all my stuff and gave them lots of food and compliments.

But, they chased down my friend who lived in the next burrough over. They had recognised that friend with me several times and followed them to their house when they couldn’t find me.

They adopted my friend and it was now my friend’s job to bring them snacks and receive the presents.

This was maybe 6-7 years ago.

I visited London last year. Went to see my friend. The crows all not only recognised me, they tracked me down. We got into my friend’s flat and not twenty minutes later there was chaos on the balcony.

We open the curtains, the entire fucking murder is there shouting because they wanted to see me.

Crows are the very best birds.

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Came across this art installation, Liza Lou's Kitchen, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC. It's a kitchen made of tiny glass beads, that artist Liza Lou did, taking 5 yrs. to complete, from 1991 - 1996.

My favorite part is the sink.

Details of a recipe book.

All the details in tiny glass beads.

Love the pie in the oven.

Love this so much.

No wonder it took 5 yrs.

https://whitney.org/collection/works/34855?

[prismatic-bell]

I recently discovered laundry stripping and y’all, no matter how much of a crock of shit you think fast fashion is, you’re underestimating.

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OKAY SO. You know how we talk about how one way fast fashion has made itself “necessary” is that the clothing looks like shit and feels horrible after just a few washes?

Let. Me. Tell. You. Something.

Laundry stripping is a process where you load your laundry into a tub or bin (I’ve been using my bathtub) with warm water, half a cup of borax, half a cup of washing soda, and half a cup of laundry soap (not detergent, SOAP, there’s a chemical difference). Leave it there for at least eight hours. I’ve been going for 12-24.

What you will come back to is a tub full of nearly-opaque black-gray-brown water that absolutely REEKS. This is normal. You are looking at (and smelling) hard water buildup, body sweat and oils that were embedded in the fabric, dead skin, and just regular grime.

Wring out your clothes. Throw them in the washer. (I like to do a spin-only cycle before going any further, because I have one of those washers that determines by weight how much water any given load needs.) Wash as usual.

You will notice I didn’t suggest any further pretreatment, and that’s because 1) you don’t want to layer too many chemicals on top of each other but also 2) you may not even need it.

When your clothes come out, check each one as it goes into the dryer, and if anything else s still stained, set it aside to run again with a regular pretreatment. One of the sweaters I did this with apparently did need a second treatment…to deal with what appears to have possibly been a hot chocolate stain that was previously invisible due to “well, it’s old” dinginess. I was planning to throw this sweater out. It looks almost new now. I need to wash it one more time for the probably-a-hot-chocolate stain, and then it needs to have the hem weighted to block it and bring it back to evenness, but dude. I wear my clothes to rags and I thought this thing was unfixable. “I need to reshape it” is nothing.

Remove clothes from dryer when done. Fucking MARVEL at the colors and how good the fabric feels. Give them a smell. Get righteously and royally angry that you can rejuvenate this stuff so easily, with a process that does take awhile but is 90% hands-off, but we’ve been trained to believe it’s all got to be binned once a year because discoloration and gross fabric is “normal wear and tear” and can’t be fixed.

It’s utterly unreal! I just pulled a seven-year-old work undershirt out of the dryer and this thing looks NEW!! It FEELS almost new!!! One of the shirts I hung up from the last load is older than some of the people on this site and it went from “I keep this to wear on laundry day, for sentimental reasons” to “I could actually wear this out of the house, it looks old but respectable”! The pajama bottoms I’m wearing were from Goodwill and they have BRIGHT YELLOW in them! I thought it was goldenrod!!

I do not know how often you’re supposed to do this (doing it every time can strip the dye out of your clothes, not to mention it’s way too much work to do every time), but once or twice per season seems respectable. I don’t wear white, so I can’t test the “it will make whites look almost-new as well” claim, but I’ve seen a lot of people on the cleaning subreddit attest that it works.

Just remember: WASHING soda. Not baking soda. I tried baking soda and a little bit happened, but not a lot.

Go forth. Rejuvenate your clothing. Strip your laundry.

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This unusually dark purple gown was created by Janet Patterson and her team for the 2009 film 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳, where it was worn by Abbie Cornish as Fanny Brawne. The costume appears throughout the film in several forms, with and without sleeves, and originally featured copper-colored ribbons and decorative flounces around the skirt.   The gown later appeared on Claudia Jessie in the 2018 adaptation of 𝘝𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘍𝘢𝘪𝘳 before turning up again on Ella Bruccoleri as Mary Bennet in the 2026 mini-series 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘉𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘵 𝘚𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳.   The distinctive semi-sheer linen and sleeve flounces strongly suggest it’s the same costume, but there are some intriguing differences.   In 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳, the back is almost entirely open and tied with a ribbon. By the time it appears in 𝘝𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘍𝘢𝘪𝘳 and 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘉𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘵 𝘚𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳, the back seems to have been permanently closed—perhaps with hook-and-eye fasteners or even a zipper (gasp!).   The skirt flounces also appear to be gone, possibly removed to alter the length. Interestingly, in 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘉𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘵 𝘚𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳, tiny holes and loose threads may mark where they were once attached.

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Two World Cup finalists from opposing teams in this fucking picture, this sport isn't real

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Context for anyone who is wondering: Lamine Yamal's parents won an UNICEF raffle for a charity photoshoot in which Barça players posed with kids, and 5 month old Lamine happened to get 20yo Messi. Which is like. Literally insane

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18

[firlalaith]

I've done all twenty, guess I'm Nobody.

[prplhawk]

@firlalaith hello nobody, I'm nobody

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Aye gather round and heed the song

Of generations born without wireless or bong

At grandma’s was rotary

At home, mothers primo IBM typewriter and DOS

We never considered their permanent loss

‘Pon dialup we waited on the AIM screen

‘Pon our t-9 Nokia bricks when receiving a text our parents did scream

And now the youth sit with their smartphones and TikToks

And look up at us else elders and say “Boomer what’s a registry”?

So ne’er thou forget the moral of this tale

For many tech lifecycles will ye watch rise and fail

And whence thou art wizened and at least three decades hath seen

A teenager will look up on you and say “I can’t believe you got rid of CDs physical media is so important!”

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one normal day in british politics that’s all i ask for . will never happen

[originalleftist]

I refuse to believe that the potential ascendancy of intergalactic candidate Count Binface to the British Parliament does not have something to do with the Doctor.

[glorious-spoon]

one of the most challenging skills i've had to learn as an adult is the art of figuring out whether i'm proportionally annoyed with someone or just tired and overstimulated and looking for reasons to be pissed off

[glorious-spoon]

congratulations to the only post i've ever had breach 100k notes without any real discourse or fighting, just a lot of people wearily going, oh, god, same

[apathetic-revenant]

favorite bits of the cast interviews in the LOTR special features:

Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, Elijah Wood and Viggo Mortensen all taking the piss out of Orlando Bloom for going on about a cracked rib too much, while Orlando Bloom desperately tries to wriggle out of talking about it (special mention to Elijah Wood’s “oh it hurts, babes, and I can’t ride the horse, babes” and Viggo Mortensen’s “they can be very fragile, elves, especially the…Mirkwood strain…”)

Ian McKellen commenting that “they never did find any suitable underwear for Gandalf…”

Dominic Monaghan going on and on about how Viggo Mortensen apparently had a crush on one of the Rohirrim extras (who like a lot of the Rohirrim extras was a woman in a fake beard) while Vigoo Mortensen just mutters “one could perhaps say something about Mr. Monaghan’s…proclivities…”

Dominic Monaghan’s imitation of John Rhys-Davies ordering food at a restaurant for the whole cast. “You have partridge? BRING THE PARTRIDGE!”

John Rhys-Davies talking about an incident with the Lothlorian boats and saying “if an elf and a dwarf are in a boat…and…the boat goes under…let us say that the blame was not placed on the elf” while Orlando Bloom splutters “he’s a big guy, man!” 

Elijah Wood talking about how the hobbit actors shared a trailer with Ian McKellen and sometimes they would hear inarticulate bellows of protest from his side when they played loud music in the mornings

Viggo Mortensen talking about how, while filming with those same boats, Kirin Shaw (Elijah Wood’s scale double) started telling him “if the boat tips over…save yourself…I can’t swim.” 

Elijah Wood describing how Sean Astin would try to direct the helicopters to land while they were on location, while the other three hobbits were screwing around and throwing pinecones at each other

Christopher Lee recounting how he had so much trouble going up some steps in Orthanc with his long robe that he stopped in the middle of the scene and said, “I cannot get up these goddamn steps, Peter.” 

Viggo Mortensen mentioning that he left a weekend rehearsal and went walking down the street still swinging his sword around, and promptly got the cops called on him

[goldensunset]

>‘this thing is too generic and tropey’

>look inside

>forefather of that genre

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Stole this from somewhere but i think it’s appropriate

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i made a post like this before but I can't find it now. so. I'll just redo it.

What's the first "big news story" you remember from when you were a kid?

It's something I love to ask mixed-aged groups sometimes because I think it's really interesting to see the responses. I've gotten answers from the Olympics of [whatever year] to Watergate to more recent stuff from my niblings.

My first news thing I remember is the OJ Simpson trial. I vaguely remember watching the news with my grandparents before that, but that's the first story I remember, in part because my second grade teacher had us go play so she could watch the verdict 😂