Bluebell-24

blue | adult any pronouns

[radioactive-yuri]

officially identifying as some guy. you wouldn't try to gender just a random guy, would you? i'm literally just some guy. unbothered. serene. living my life. what's gender got to do with it? nothing! just let a guy live!

[okayyoureacab]

Hexagon Quilt

[rumade]

This is the second time I've seen a video of this technique and this explanation is so clear! It does use more fabric than English paper piecing (EPP) but you end up with a double sided hexagon so don't have to source fabric for the backing.

I'm doing EPP at the moment but I have a hole punch to make the papers and just use leaflets and junk mail, so it doesn't feel wasteful. I don't think it's difficult either- in the video she mentions it's not for beginners, but I don't have that much experience with hand sewing or EPP and I've been finding it pretty easy so YMMV

[lindstromm]

I saw this video yesterday and was seized with the need to try it out immediately. Lookit my cute lil' hexagon baby!!

Here is what the backside looks like. OP notes this takes more fabric than paper piecing, but that excess fabric makes it already triple-layered. Besides not needing backing fabric, I don't think you'd need batting for this quilt at all. It's already thick and soft just from folding all that fabric into a hexagon.

[lannamichaels]

Hexagon quilt tutorial video by tiktok user camelscrafts. Method:

Each hexagon begins as a 6" circle. camelscrafts does this by creating a paper template using a compass. According to the video, a 6" circle will create a hexagon that is 2.5 inches tall.

These hexagons are hand-sewn. Thread the needle.

With the fabric right side facing, find the center of the circle by folding it in half right sides together, then folding it in half again (wrong sides are facing). The top of the triangle shape is the center of the fabric circle.

Make a small stitch into the center of the fabric. The wrong side is still facing.

Unfold the circle. There will be a small stitch in the center.

Now the hexagon is created by folding the circle into itself: Take the needle to one of the edges of the fabric (it doesn't matter which one). Pull the needle through and pull the thread tight. This will fold down the fabric and create an edge of the hexagon. Crease the fold with your finger.

This fold has two corners, one at the top and one at the bottom. Put the needle into one of the corners and pull the thread taut. This will create another fold.

Continue this going around the circle until all of it is folded down, creating the hexagon. camelscrafts notes that the last corner pulled in may be a little bit "wonky" (no precise point in the corner) if the corners were not done precisely. However, that corner is pulled into the back, so is not visible from the front.

The hexagon is now formed. Sew around the folds in the middle of the circle to hold the folds in place. Tie off and cut the thread.

Attach hexagons to each other along the sides. With right sides together, whip stitch the sides together.

[noah-wyles]

it's pride month

everyone get more understanding of the asexual spectrum right nOW

[lucydacusgirl]

And like I genuinely am loath to negatively discuss women’s bodies online and I think the way that famous women’s bodies are up for discussion online and in the press is upsetting and dehumanising and I feel a lot of compassion for women who are struggling with eating disorders and body image issues in the public eye however the fucking mass weight loss happening to all famous women either through eating disorders or weight loss medication cannot just go uncommented on. Nearly every single famous woman got skeletal overnight and it is so incredibly worrying both for them and for what it signals to other women and girls about how they should look.

[water-weaving]

i dont think RE-reading joyce with the objective of studying the intricacies more deeply, using scholarly guides, is a bad idea, if you want to do it; curiosity is always a good thing. but doing it on your first read is patently insane. i think this entire conversation is just what happens when people get scared of modernism. the mystery is the point. you have to keep moving. thats the entire point. i would even argue it's not for nothing modernism in literature coincides with the jazz age. you have to keep it moving! the world as we knew it is gone and yet new perspectives and overwhelming freedom are opening every day, you have to throw yourself into it. it's interesting to see that people say the same thing about both ulysses and the waste land (and so-called "intellectual, complicated" poetry in general tbh). and they have the same approach too. you simply do not have to do all that. you simply have to read the sentences. ok. you let the words pass you through ok. you just look at the text and you keep it moving. you will understand when you stop trying to understand. because you will understand it's not about understanding. idk!!!! just experience it and stop trying to think about it idk idk let it flow over you and then you'll see. it's not a test it's not an exam it's weird on purpose idk stop being earnest and trying to be good. you will not get a good grade in modernist literature. it is shrimply Unpossible. or maybe i am actually the intellectual fraud ive always worried about being . whomst canst telleth

[water-weaving]

social media helped creating this social anxiety/humor as a reaction to anything confusing, strange/overall comfortable mediocrity + degrading laughter bubble where legibility is demanded at a glance and everything must be slotted into neat categories and solutions and Fear is a governing force. i think that out of all the literary movements i'm aware of, modernism is the most antithetical to this cultural mindset, and also the one that resonates most deeply with us nowadays, though i'm not qualified to make big sweeping statements like these. it's not helped by the shadow of academic humiliation looming over us all. but modernism can save us if we let it. ok lets escape the dogma of clarity and legibility ok do it for me do it for carmine ok. i love you ok

[monsterboyjunction]

Saw a post and decided to fix it ^^

[weevilwoodpecker]

i always reblog pro wasp propaganda to spite my phobia

[brothermouse-skeleton]

The thing you gotta understand about Mr. Terrific in the new Superman movie is that he is always the smartest man in the room.

And he HATES it.

It's not that he hates being smart, he just hates how he can never quite predict how dumb everyone else is.

Just when he thinks he knows how low Guy's IQ is: "we are both of the cloth"

No, Lois, we can't repel down there, WHERE WOULD WE GET THE EQUIPMENT?

DO YOU REALLY NOT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CIRCLES AND SPHERES?!??!?

WHY WOULD YOU BRING YOUR DOG TO THIS TEAR IN THE FABRIC OF REALITY?

And then, when there's someone who actually is intelligent, it's like the intelligence only increases their capacity for dumbassery

Lex, you're supposed to be a super genius so whY WOULD YOU BUILD A GOD DAMN POCKET DIMENSION?!?!!?!

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

I've just found the single most homoerotic piece of LOTR art ever who wants to see

[outlaw-monarch]

Um, YES?

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

This is The Taming of Smeagol by Donato Giancola and by god they're gonna have a threeway with that wriggly guy

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

[proverbialphoenix]

[elvis-shrimpley]

Woah mama I hate reblog bait that's triggering for people with OCD. Hummina hummina you don't have to reblog a post to be supportive of people, mama

[rylandsgrace]

Superman (2025) + Text posts

[bowsersex]

Somebody in a Twitch stream chat was trying to insult a streamer by saying, "You're almost 40, and you've only gotten a tarot card reading once?" And I don't know, I'm still amused by this. I'm in my late 20s and I've also only had a tarot card reading once. One of those ones on the street you pay for. The guy doing my tarot card reading was like, "You're going to join the military," or something like that, and 15 year old me thought to myself, "Okay, well that's not true. So I guess I just got scammed," and then I just never got a tarot card reading since then.

[bowsersex]

Military recruiter who pretends to be a tarot card reader so he can tell every person who gets their future read by him and they'll be joining the military in the future.

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

(military recruiter tarot card reader in august of 2001) *draws The Tower* *draws a second The Tower* now that's not supposed to happen

[bladeweave]

cannot understand why people like youtubers who are yelling the entire time. why do you let that man raise his voice at you.

[retroactivebakeries]

the principal aim of lying is to accomplish your goal in as few lies as possible, and with the least amount of effort necessary to keep those lies going. It follows naturally that the world’s greatest liar speaks only the truth.

[catchymemes]

[mariakono]

Man i feel really bad for the guy who wrote this article because the article actually manages to raise a very very very good point but the way the headline is phrased completely omits 95% of what they were trying to say

And because i know people won’t even bother to click and check the article itself i’m gonna screencap it, it’s fairly short, give it a read:

tl;dr: the article’s point isn’t “corporate satire is not funny anymore as in “we should stop making fun of corporations””, the article’s point is “corporate satire is not funny as in “it’s extremely depressing to live in a capitalistic hellhole and corporate satire aims more to poke fun at that without actually making you think about our world or giving you hope for a better future, and therefore it’s just lost its bite””

[cheaphalloweencostume]

“be gay do crime! but sex is yucky and crime is wrong!” ass website

[cheaphalloweencostume]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Bonus stairs: Not death stairs, but did they fill the first floor with cement and carpet it?

[subaru-copilot]

im so sorry that you're doomed by the narrative but i really need you to answer my message on Microsoft Teams