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“these names are meaningful in a way that a given name cannot be because these are determined by your being. you are no longer defined by a name that was given to you as a child. you are free to manifest your own true nature with a name you create” is one of the most genuinely touching things ive ever heard as a trans person and im struggling to accept that it came from a polygon shitpost video about an 11-page hideo kojima name generator

amuseoffyre

For those of you who may not be aware, in Scotland there is an officially registered tartan called Pride of LGBT.

yaminoendo

@thebibliosphere

checkeredtablesloth

This is so cool, because tartan patterns were originally family symbols. Almost every Scottish clan has a unique one. Even my family has one. It’s like saying LGBT+ is a family, one you can belong to even if your blood family doesn’t accept you.

haloanddclover

@velvetjinx

thewoollykraken

Hi my name is Nicole and I buy cheap yarn at the craft store. *gasp* What!? I know! S H O C K I N G ☠️ So. I’ve seen a lot of people recently touting the whole “Only buy sustainably sourced, naturally dyed, organic fibers spun by woodland fairies on a hand carved mahogany wheel in a field of wildflowers.” thing…bleh. I get it, I do, if I could knit with only the finest quality yarns in all the land of course I would. But I can’t. And a lot of people can’t. And for whatever reason people aren’t getting that. When I buy a luxury yarn (or shmancy yarn as I call it), it is a treat that I worked my butt off for. But if I only knit with the shmancy stuff, I’d maybe make a sweater a year. So please, don’t go on and on about your fairy yarns like it’s attainable for everyone, don’t shame people who use low priced acrylic, don’t scoff at big name craft stores; I’m just as much of a knitter with my $7 value skein as you are with your $39 ancient spider silk. And that’s not to say you should feel guilty for being able to afford it, go you, you deserve it, but be cool about it, don’t be a douche #dontbealluncool 👍🏻 OK I’ll step off my soapbox now to start on my sweater that cost me $13 (and you better believe I used coupons 🕺🏻)

knitblr

This!

Yarn snobbery can suck it.

ixalia

Oh, this!! Yarn snobbery is the worst and always comes complete with, at minimum, classist overtones.

I am privileged in that I can afford to drop money on that fancy skein of indie dyed sock yarn that I have been eyeballing for months and that I want rather than need.

I am also a fat girl. You know what I can’t do? I can’t knit a sweater out of indie yarn. Because it will set me back a good £100 ($125) for a fingering weight* sweater and at least half that again if I’m buying DK weight.

So I buy cheap yarn**. I buy acrylic mixes. I mix cheap yarn with the fancy stuff I buy on destashes (great way to get indie yarn cheaper, though comes with a hefty warning of be careful who you buy from).

So knit with your big brand store yarn. Make things out of acrylic. And don’t let anyone shame you or tell you that it somehow makes you less of a knitter, because that’s bullshit.

If you’re knitting? Congratulations, you’re a knitter!

* Assuming 5 skeins fingering/4-ply weight yarn at £20 a skein which was the price I paid a few months ago for a skein of sock yarn I had been lusting over for months.

N.B. Yarn prices for yarn from indie dyers have jumped recently in the UK with changes to VAT rules, meaning most dyers now have to charge an extra 20% tax.

** If anyone’s curious, I tend towards the following companies:

- Garnstudio Drops - reasonably priced yarns including wool and alpaca. Have at least 1 big yearly sale where their yarns become insanely cheap. Have, in the past at least, been associated with claims of pattern plagiarism, though I’m stuggling to find sources to confirm this right now, and they’re far from the only brand to do this. A fingering weight sweater for me comes in at between £20 & £40, and that £40 is for an alpaca/silk blend, the wool blends top out at about the £30 mark at full retail prices.

- Womens Institute Yarn - yes, that Women’s Institute. Only available in the UK as far as I’m aware, but is one of the nicest acrylics I’ve worked with. They’re starting to branch out now in terms of yarn weights and colours, and it’s nearly always on 3 for 2 at Hobbycraft. Does have issues with labelling yarn weights - their 4-ply is 270m per 100g, which to me is a sport weight not a fingering. But a fingering weight sweater for me still comes in under £20 and that’s before any discounts.

- West Yorkshire Spinners - slightly more pricey and have, in the past, had some issues with some colours not matching up to the quality of others, but they make a good sock yarn in basic & striped colours and their heavier yarns are supposed to be good too. A fingering weight sweater for me comes in at about £36.

Other options include Opal (primarily sock yarn, great colour options but not the softest wool in the world), Cascade (averagely priced, soft and nice to work with, have some dubious political affiliations which I’ll leave the individual to google and make their own judgement about the company), Rico (tends towards baby yarns and cotton but very reasonably priced if you don’t mind hunting for what you want) and KnitPicks (hard to get anyway in the UK and also comes with a hefty tax & processing fee when shipping in from the US - makes it much less budget friendly).

#reference #knitting

patroclusdefencesquad

me

nudityandnerdery

“How bad is it, doc? Give it to me straight.” “I… I’m afraid I can’t do that.”

sapphetti

Boarding School Friends (1837) by Unknown Artist, attritubed to French School

hopetomorrow

I, too, tenderly and passionately kiss my friends while half-crawling into their laps, cradling their head in a longing, nearly reclined embrace; knocking their reading from their hands - one of which wraps about the back of neck, the other pressed to my womanhood under layers of modest skirts.

It’s just how we say hi.

gayavatarstyle

Aang, forming the Gaang: I need the best possible teachers of water-, earth- and firebending if I’m going to be ready to face the Fire Lord when the comet comes

Korra, forming the Krew: I need a beautiful genius girlfriend and a pair of just the SEXIEST himbos

helloijustreadyourpost

#the gaang are role models#the krew are underwear models

How dare you hide this quality content within the tags.

#atla #atlok

fotobilog

iwillreadyourbooks

STOP! Let the little penguin cross your dash he has places to go.

rebelmeg

I just sat here and waited for a pixel penguin to waddle across my screen, AND I WOULD DO IT AGAIN

#such a good little penguin #v calming would recommend

robvalentines

who did this

#final fantasy #they're not wrong

pummelpanda

Will you dance with me?

Inspired by a certain vampire queen and her sweet princess girlfriend.

ghostsandgoblins

#gif set #gif warning #fuck it barely feels like april even happened

littleoil

bubbles hugging the universe

and I hugging a star to see you

fuckyeahchinesefashion

amazing double dance by hao ruoqi ( in blue)and wang xuerou(in red)

words-and-wonders

OH MY GOD OH MY GOOOOD A FEW THINGS ABOUT THIS:

the facial expressions

the effortless sensuality

I AM SO GAY

the inexplicable moment in which the dynamic between the two shifted like they changed bodies

did china allow this to be shown? china?

DID I MENTION THE GAY

what is the lore of this? I figured that it was a malevolent spirit shifting from one body to another

the part with the leg. you know which one I mean

seriously are they actresses cause this level of portrayal is more astounding than any Hollywood actress has ever amounted to

the end with the smile and the head grab and the beating heart

O H M Y G O D

chinajousama

For those wondering, the dance is based on a soul-switching scene from the movie Painted Skin II: The Resurrection and the music is Su Yunying’s Moment.

#dance