Life of Nerd

They/ them Mid 20's This blog is a collection of everything that catches my eye deal with it

[chryza]

TikTok is a fundamentally evil app however the reason i use it is because you occasionally stumble across gems like the Chinese power transformer manufacturer who posts kawaii edits of their power transformers

[lynaiss]

Family 🩸

Lucanis week (day 4!) piece, that took far to long to do.

[pantaloonwarrior]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwydx34kzlvo

[runcibility]

"Vanderhorst had been under the influence of MDMA and three litres of vodka she had consumed on the night of the offence last September, her lawyer Michael Hill told the court."

three. liters.

[anais-ninja-bitch]

i support women's wrongs

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

[gardeningwithpina]

My mentor: I wanna do a wall garden, because it doesnt take up too much space

Me, already vibrating from the dopamine and adrenaline: Let's talk about espaliers

[gardeningwithpina]

okay, so espaliers are beyond sexy, they are so unbelievably productive

The basics are just... pruning growing trees so they are more 2 dimensional, usually placed against walls. It takes a few years to form/ raise, but they are much easier to maintain than free growing trees in the long run.

(source)

Not only is it more accessible, easier to harvest fruit, but the design has a double purpose; the walls hold and release heat that can keep warm-weathered plants alive during Northen winters!

Fruit Walls: Urban Farming in the 1600s

We are being told to eat local and seasonal food, either because other crops have been tranported over long distances, or because they are g

There are people who use this method to grow avocado, fig, etc trees outdoors without electricity in -20C weather.

A similar technique to espalier can be used to grow furniture without killing the tree!

[zoesupreme]

smoking that shit that made the Miocene epic

[rocktheholygrail]

Hannibal (2013-2015)

1x09 - “Trou Normand”

[jordanbolton]

To the Person Who Asked If I Was OK

Pre-order my new book here

[phantomrose96]

Roy Mustang really spends the whole series fancying himself being in some sort of Usurper Rivalship with Bradley only for Bradley's interactions with Mustang to be, "Okay Mustang sit in that office chair while I evil-monologue at you. Do it again. Okay now go away I have to go fight tanks with my swords and then get slaughtered by a holy man of the people I genocided, which will leave my dictator chair wide open."

And then Mustang doesn't even get the dictator chair.

[mikkeneko]

#truly bradley has such contempt for mustang it's very funny#and part of this contempt is rooted in the fact that like. they're both puppets. they're not technically opposed#mustang is wrong when he thinks bradley is his nemesis#bradley's nemesis is indeed scar#not just bc bradley genocided his people#but because bradley is 'wrath' and wrath is scar's fatal flaw that he must overcome#(wow i should write a fic about thisOH WAIT-)#you'd think this means Father is mustang's nemesis.#WRONG AGAIN!#father is hohenheim's nemesis - obviously.#then who is mustang's nemesis? is it truth?#no! truth is ed's nemesis.#mustang's nemesis is: GRUMMAN!#and grumman fucking wins by a landslide#AS FORETOLD by their original chess game where grumman obliterated him#thank you and goodnight - via @parkersgeorg

[classycookiexo]

Please reblog, this could really help someone

[unicarcass-archive]

ONE OF MY FAVORITE VIDEOS EVER

[cuteness--overload]

[morganathewitch]

Moss and clover, Skottvång Sweden.

[whispers-in-a-dream]

It's not clover it's ... wood sorrel. It tastes like blueberries and has cute white flowers early, just before the summer starts.

[elodieunderglass]

The clover emojis ☘️ 🍀 actually depict wood sorrel - note the heart shaped leaves!

[pmamtraveller]

The Pearl With The Girl Earring by Olaf Falafel

[high-metafive]

so i made and account on tv tropes and it asked for my relationship status

i went over and was about to put in “single” or “it’s complicated” and, well..

i can’t deal anymore

[starry-raccoon-shaker-central]

and the link……

[dangerously-human]

Oh, this is remarkably of its era. I was just viscerally launched back to the specific amalgamation of meme printouts my roommate and I decorated our bulletin boards with senior year of college.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

SO YOU WANT TO CROCHET THE FOX CARDIGAN

You know the one:

This post brought to you by @hollowedskin, who tagged me and said "Gayle might end up doing it."

Which, yes, it is on my list, but also, not right this second. However, I do love a bit of research, so here is what I found.

First of all, this sweater was made from this Mary Maxim pattern:

Which I was about 99% sure of when it popped up on ravelry, but then I found this youtuber who confirmed it:

I have not watched the whole video, and I don't think I've ever seen Michelle pop up on my recommendations, but looking at that thumbnail, her work looks fantastic. I'm gonna go watch the whole thing now and will report back if I am iffy. I doubt I will be.

NOTE: When she made the video, you could only get the pattern as part of a kit. This is no longer true. The link above is ONLY the pattern.

EDIT: Oh, wait, the eyes are different! So, the "official" version of the knitting pattern IS only available in a kit, but if you can tapestry, I think you can easily just adjust the eyes to be more open like they are in that version. But it is still 100% based very much on the wolf pattern.

If you don't want to watch a 40-minute video, buy the pattern and follow the gauge and the charts. I recommend single crochet because the original is done in stockinette but also because tapestry crochet (which is how you do this) looks cleanest in single crochet.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

Okay, I had to stop watching the video. She is great. She's having a ball. But she is also not working with the pattern the way I would work with the pattern, and it is making me twitchy.

When I say "use the charts to make the sweater" I mean to use them both for the fox design but also for the shaping. If you make it to the pattern, then you should be working the same number of stitches, so if the pattern says to "bind off" three to decrease for an armhole, just work slip stitches like you would when making an armhole for a crochet pattern.

Again, I cannot stress enough I have zero issue with her making adjustments to fit her style, but I would be duping this to as exact a copy as a could, so watching her decide she wants it very square when there's sleeve shaping and a shawl collar makes me feral.

I should do a knit-to-crochet video when I'm back to filming and take one of the several knit sweater patterns I have and show how I do my adjustments to crochet. That would be very helpful for people, I think.

[justiceinspandex]

[fancyfrogg]

Sage I beg you don’t keep this in the tags