Blunt Force Yearning

Olga / She/Her / Sarcastic by birth

[justangrymacaroni]

knitting tutorial made by a twenty-something knitting influencer: 18 min long, 12 of those minutes being the intro and a sponsor plug, they show the first few steps of the tutorial at the slowest speed known to man, they show the most important steps at a neck-break speed, they stop every five seconds to talk about what they just did, 40,000 comments filled with questions ranging from insightful to “how do i knit”, filmed with a camera that costs more than a car, the tutorial is incorrect.

knitting tutorial made by a seventy-something grandmother: two min long, filmed 17 years ago, shows you what you want with the skilled patient hands of a beloved deity, made with the world’s shittiest camera, the best video on the fucking internet, four comments and 30 views, you lose the video and never find it again.

[justangrymacaroni]

two things i’m noticing in the notes:

1. every artist/crafter/cook agreeing that influencers in their communities also pull shit like this

2. ppl shouting out their fav old lady tutorials and being like “i would die for u diane”

[justangrymacaroni]

everyone in the notes was being super lovely and dropping their fav tutorials/crafters, so i made a list of some of them (sorry if i missed any!):

Joanne’s web (knitting and crochet)

Knitting with Suzanne Bryan (knitting)

EliZZa (German knitting community)

Jane Loures (cooking)

Happy Berry Crochet (crochet)

Sue Ripsch (chainmaille jewelry)

SeaLemonDIY (book binding)

FourKeysBookArts (book binding)

sheilasknittingtipsandtricks

VeryPinkKnits (several recs for this!)

Mick Grewcock (bow making)

Mrs Nadelspiel (knitting)

Winwick Mums Knit n Natter (knitting Facebook group)

Cutsey Crafts (embroidery)

Twinsday (sewing)

Creative Grandma (crochet)

Das Bookbinding (bookbinding)

Yoyomax12 (baking)

Sharon B (doll repainting)

Nimbleneedles (knitting)

Chasing Sunraee (crochet)

Heindselman’s Knit & Chasing Sunraee (crochet)

Heindselman’s Knit & Gifts (America’s oldest knitshop)

Ivor Sorefingers (guitar)

Elly Everyday (overnight sourdough recipe)

K3n Slowstitch (stitching)

Miss Nancy/Nancy Zieman (PBS knitting episodes for free on youtube)

Roxanne Richardson (knitting)

Imamu Room Husbento (bento box making)

Nerdforge (bookbinding)

Jess Huff (amigurumi)

Nerdy Knitting (knitting)

Gayle Francis (crochet)

Bag-o-day Crochet (crochet)

Sewing with Nancy (sewing)

Felts by Philippa (felting)

Sowoolly (knitting)

Nadelspiel (knitting)

Lacefromireland (lace)

Bill Souza (yarn crafts for left handed folks)

and my personal fav that I just had to look up:

Glendalf, who made a tutorial for fixing a prius battery.

[bluntforceyearning]

When in doubt, ask yourself what would Aragorn, son of Arathorn, do? What would Samwise the brave do?

Unless you're PMSing. When you're PMSing, it's what would Feanor do! Go be a drama queen and wreak havoc

[nerdyinfluencertastemaker]

But would Fëanor eat an entire tub of ice cream? Yes, mehasthunk

[bluntforceyearning]

Most definitely. And cursing the gods inbetween bites, as one would do in such cases (for entirely different reasons though)

[superlazytuesday]

books i read and liked | 2026

the bear and the nightingale by katherine arden

It is time to put aside dreaming. Fairy tales are sweet on winter nights, nothing more.

[thelovelygods]

[the-last-punbender]

"He's here somewhere. I know it."

Vetinari is standing behind his chair for this entire scene

[bluntforceyearning]

When in doubt, ask yourself what would Aragorn, son of Arathorn, do? What would Samwise the brave do?

Unless you're PMSing. When you're PMSing, it's what would Feanor do! Go be a drama queen and wreak havoc

[beacon-lamp]

hello beloveds ☺️

[iceslushii]

made an alternate version for the mutuals ive never spoken to

[thetreeofliberty]

You are appreciated

[chickren]

i saw this post on reddit the other day that said jaime's arc in feast is about him becoming tywin and that's not even worth engaging with for just epically stupid levels of ignoring what's in the text but it got me thinking about how much of feast is jaime mining the carcass of tywin's existence for anything of value

jaime's an accidental and reluctant philosopher but there's this overt hand of george element to watching jaime pick through ilyn payne's rooms looking at the absolute wreck that devoted service to tywin made of ilyn's life and you have jaime there dragging ilyn out of his cave into the sunlight to try to give him a chance at living the sort of worthwhile life jaime imagines he once intended to live

there's nothing subtle in the way this relates to jaime's view of his own life.

then jaime's wandering through the crownlands and riverlands looking at the absolute decimation tywin left in his wake with no delusions about tywin's responsibility for it (or his own tbh) which makes it almost magical when jaime reaches down tywin's gullet into the guts of his dad's advice and legacy and looks at the gore he pulls out, weighing and evaluating what's worth using and what isn't. and then he's like well i can use this song as a weapon, i can use words as a weapon, i can weaponize the horror of tywin in a way that spares people the actual physical harm of tywin's favorite methods as i possibly can

[janiedean]

nothing to add to this jewel of meta but am I seriously reading that someone said this with their whole chest when there’s literally black on white genna telling jaime that there’s nothing of tywin in him???? this isn’t even reading comprehension this is just……….. i can’t even

[ilynpilled]

a character being a perpetrator does not negate their victimhood and neither does their victimhood negate being a perpetrator. u can accept and reckon w both dimensions in ur analysis

[ilynpilled]

there is nothing morally purifying about suffering or victimhood, it is not something that inculcates “goodness.”

one’s character has no impact on whether they were/are a victim or not, victim status is not something that is only afforded to the palatable.

it also does not = absolution.

[ilynpilled]

ppl cant handle this in cartoons made for teenagers lets not get ahead of ourselves

[bitterballin]

My body is my temple. Ancient and crumbling. Probably cursed and haunted.

[angrylittlesliceofpizza]

TRUTH! JUSTICE! FREEDOM! REASONABLY PRICED LOVE! … AND A HARD BOILED EGG!

[harrisonknott]

Rewatching Remarkably Bright Creatures and I noticed something only my weird ass would notice.

Tova: "Flirting? What is flirting? Flirting is nothing. It's words and eyes and... Everything that matters takes time and effort."

And then there's my brain going, "There's something familiar about this line. This delivery. What is it?"

And then it hit me.

While You Were Sleeping.

Jack: "It was a lot different than hugging. Hugging's very different. Hugging, that involves...arms and hands, and leaning is whole bodies...moving in, like this. Leaning involves wanting...and accepting."

These fucking Pullman boys. 🫠

[chickren]

When did Jaime fall in love with Brienne?

[herrnethar6]

[parkayquarts]

Every step I choose to take begins to set the world aflame!

And the soldiers march behind me,

I can hear them beat their spears!

And for the first time in all my life,

I know I'm more than what I fear!

Happy Glorious 25th of May!

[ducissatenebrarum]

For the first time in art history, the powerful depictions of "Saturn Devouring His Son" by Rubens (Left) and Goya (Right) are being presented together.

[amarguerite]

Via @danse-de-macabre

[bluntforceyearning]

Ok, so... we have a group of friends forced to leave behind their idyllic remote village, because the adoptive father of one of them brought the wrong souvenir back from his travels and a Dark Lord has sent his minions after them. So they leave in the night hunted by a dark rider, cross the river with the ferry and among their company have a pipe-smoking wandering magician, a weathered but lethal, strong silent type warrior and an actual powerful magic wielding individual with a staff.

WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN IT'S NOT THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING????