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Elodie Moreau faking her death and starting anew in the US when the family that she was sold to goes there for business. Elodie Moreau ending up at Palmetto where no one will ask questions. Elodie Moreau falling in love with 2nd year goalkeeper Robin Cross. Elodie Moreau meeting Kevin Day when he comes visit Wymack and he recognizes those Grey eyes instantly. Elodie Moreau never meeting her brother because he only survived in one draft and it's not this one
Stratt: You have no immediate family.
Grace: No, but the people on the project are my nuclear family.
Stratt: …what?
Grace: Get it….because we nuked Antarctica??? Do you get it? Do you get the joke?
Stratt: …
why is this post completely broken in every way imaginable
Broken notes… deactivated account… removed image….
Finally, we have them all.
In addition: OP’s name is just… gone. No “[insert username]-deactivated[insert a bunch of numbers]” as is the standard for deactivated blogs.
Just the world “deactivated.” Look upon their post, ye mighty, and despair.
It’ll be almost impossible to find this post unless it wanders across your dash.
Reblog this triple-dead post for something good to happen to you this week.
Hexagon Quilt
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
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.
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.
Personally I hate AI because it uses slave labor, is killing the planet and is making people stupid, but that's just me. The soulless art aspect is just one little piece of my grander disdain.
wait how does AI use slave labor? Do you mean the human works that are stolen and not credited or compensated? Because technically under capitalism everything is exploited but there are varying degrees
Aside from the scraping, AI tech companies, including openAI/chatGPT, have outsourced training their models to countries in the global south, specifically Kenya in openAI's case. These workers are working in sweatshop conditions for less than 2 bucks USD per hour. I'm on mobile, but if you search 'openAI Kenya slave labor' and related keywords, you can find multiple articles about it.
Training AI takes a heavy toll on Kenyan workers, who say they earned $2 an hour to label and sift through gruesome content for American com
that damn quilt is so cool i want one so bad
Petrova “I LOVE MY JOB I LOVE MY BOSS” taskforce
where's that post about couples who are a package deal in an evil way because i think that's exactly how the scientific community sees stratt and grace. eva stratt is literally a businesswoman with an unlimited budget and rudimentary knowledge of my specialist field so you'd THINK i'd be able to convince her into funding my research forever and always amen but OH NO she keeps dragging along her STUPID SCIENTIST BOYFRIEND who once called my favourite supervisor at grad school a WASTE OF CARBON and she won't give me a penny until HE approves it for some reason fuck my stupid baka life
she's platonic about it but in my opinion, stratt 100% treats grace as her dead wife. she keeps a tacky fox trinket in her coat pocket. there's a framed photo of him in her study . he's grinning goofily in it (bc he's a dork). new guy like: is that her husband? / no, dumbass, it's dr. ryland grace, 1/3 of the hail mary mission. / oh, fuck. were they... ? / yeah, it's unclear. black-and-white montages of grace messing around in high-level meetings play every time stratt contemplates committing more environmental crimes. she looks up at the night sky and vaguely wonders if he's enjoying his space ramen. that's her dead wife. she killed him.
there is no greater joy on this earth than Making Lists, Categorizing, & Sorting
oh do I have the game for you
I could . not. put. this down for 48 hours - stayed up too late, had weird dreams about it, woke up early, and played it while I was supposed to be doing other things. the last several dozen items took a lot of googling, which I do not even begrudge it.
and then. My partner started it. And the SAME THING happened to him.
surprisingly compelling. start when you have free time. like, yanno, a snow day.
oh my god, if you are the kind of person who gets sucked into logic puzzles, do not click that link if you have to do anything/go to sleep in the next couple hours
I was disappointed there weren't more levels, so I made them! The creator's code was under CC Share Alike, so I moved a copy to my website, rustled up 40 new categories, and added buttons so you can generate smaller puzzles!
Check it out! More levels!
hey, thanks, @improbabledreams900! i've been obsessed with this style of puzzle since i first played colthurst's a couple months ago. it's rough being entranced by a genre of puzzle that was literally invented This Year. i've been playing your new version for a few days now and, while i am quickly running into repeat categories, that is less a function of "you did not do enough" and more a function of the amount of time i have spent playing (i am a bedbound person with intractable insomnia, i have a lot of time on my hands). i really appreciate your time and effort!
i finished my puzzle! you can play it here if you want! it is a classic 45 x 45 with the same features as the original. i hope you enjoy!
i have also started collecting all of the sorting puzzles i am aware of on my personal neocities. if you are interested in playing more, or if you are aware of more that i might not have seen yet, please check it out here!
AU where Jack survives and hates his son’s boyfriend. Not because he’s homophobic but because Bernard posts those archeology conspiracies on his facebook account and Jack, as an actual archeologist, is enraged.
Oh my god- giants did not build the pyramids!
The family drama the fandom needs and deserves.
If Janet we're alive, she'd probably team up with Bernard for fun. Jack would lose his mind.
I won't lie to you I AM a little fond of those "mortal au poseidon is a millionaire and finds out about percy and takes custody of him" fics but they're always like sally was murdered by gabe or died in an accident or something equally sad. I want one that still keeps the base plot of the lightning thief. just imagine how hilarious it would be if random rich guy poseidon turns on his tv one day and sees that 1) the woman he cheated on his wife with is missing in a mysterious car explosion and 2) her 12 year old who is being labeled a domestic terrorist looks exactly like him. the olympian family pr firm is going fucking CRAZY.
imagine. your wife and kids are finding out you had an affair from CNN. your ex's husband is on fox news trashing a 12 year old you just found out about and saying the 'evil' in him must've come from your side of the family. the 12 year old in question has just blown up a national monument. hera is threatening you at knife point in the emergency family meeting. you are begging your arch nemesis athena to defend this random 12 year old in court and she's refusing until she sees news footage of HER 12 year old daughter at the crime scene and frantically calls her baby daddy. conservatives that were already big mad about a powerful and rich family from another country being so entwined in american politics are having a fucking field day. you just wanted to run your silly little marine life passion project in peace.
apollo is live streaming the emergency family meeting and it's only fueling the media storm,
when percy's giving his 'here's gabe's phone number' interview at the end the reporter follows up with 'do you think your olympian family has done enough to protect you in this ordeal? why would they not publicly defend you and state your innocence? how close are you to your father?' and poor percy is just like. .what.
percy on live television finding out his dad is 1) alive 2) insanely rich and powerful and 3) has an evil father who just orchestrated percy's kidnapping despite literally no one knowing he existed prior to this
(and also 4) desperately trying to work out from context clues whether or not the cute girl he's been stuck with all month is his cousin or not)
poseidon frantically giving sally 12 years worth of child support and insisting he will always be there to Help from now on no matter what
like 3 days later he gets a call from percy who's like 'quick question how serious were you about that 'do anything for us' promise' (sally just murdered gabe and they don't know how to get rid of the body)
ooooh okay let's go:
1) Thalia wasn't in the camp she's been in a coma for years and in an act of desperation to get good press Zeus announces she's showing signs of waking up (she's not) (and it doesn't out shine the national manhunt at all) and then when she Actually wakes up a little over a year later the public doesn't believe the news at first bc of it. like they see the front page news about her miraculous recovery and the general public is like "what did Percy do this time"
2) the concept of Jason still getting raised by wolves- normal, non magical wolves this time- is KILLING ME!!! when he eventually gets discovered and rescued, Hera is his biggest supporter in helping him get readjusted to society and everyone is genuinely shocked that she's not Just doing it for good press
3) Hades actually takes custody of Nico and Bianca right away and it's not a big news story. when the press find out about HAZEL, HOWEVER,
4) Mr. D is still In The Family he's just cut off financially and out of the will and he literally does Fine for himself like he's rich in his own right between the strawberry wine vineyards and the camp he owns and runs. but every time he turns up to a family event he acts like he's a street beggar and has the hardest life imaginable. very 'woe is me I'm the only one of my siblings that can't afford TWO yachts' energy lmfao.
5) Kronos had Percy and Annabeth specifically kidnapped bc they were the two weakest spots in The Family- no one knew about Percy, so no one was protecting him, and while Annabeth grew up around the family because of her mom's job she wasn't Related to them and they never thought to extend any protection to her. Grover just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time bc he was tagging along on Percy and Sally's vacation and while Ares was okay with kidnapping and arson for his evil grandfather he decided to not be down for murder. this is why he never killed Percy's annoying ass during their cross country trip even when Percy kept fighting him and ruining his various bombing plans. AND he was mad as hell that Percy kept getting all the credit and being called the terrorist bc none of the reporters seemed to notice Ares was even there lmao
6) Annabeth was definitely missing for at least a week before Athena saw her on the news and Realized lmfao Frederick WAS trying to find her but he was more scared of telling Athena than he was for their daughter's safety
7) Amphitrite was mad about. well everything. but when she found out Sally murdered Gabe she was happy to help cover it up lmao she had a BLAST. she's like damn I married into such a shady family I can't believe I haven't had the opportunity to do this yet
8) Triton and Kym HATE Percy the beef is so immediate but Tyson adores him and Rhodes, who doesn't live at home, is nice when she stops by. Percy is literally more scared in this fuck ass family than he was when he was kidnapped lmao
9) Apollo keeps trying to get Percy to do an 'exclusive interview' with him and Poseidon keeps literally chasing him off
10) Zeus is never going to financially recover from this bullshit
screaming!!
Apollo's only like in his 20s in this and publicly he's just taking a gap year before starting medical school bc Zeus doesn't wanna admit he 'had to' cut off ANOTHER kid. but this means he can't control the narrative of whatever the hell Apollo's doing when it hits the press, so it's all like
Apollo Olympian spotted dumpster diving, seemingly confused of his surroundings
Apollo Olympian has reportedly kidnapped the 12 year old daughter of his father's business rival
Apollo Olympian and cousin Percy Jackson-Olympian seen in high speed car chase with the missing 12 year old girl in the front seat
Apollo Olympian comes clean about affair he had with one of his father's business partners when he was only 16!!
CEO accused of sleeping with Apollo Olympian says the then teen tried to kill him, disputes claims of a relationship
Breaking News: the 12 year old Apollo Olympian kidnapped is actually his cousin who was kidnapped years ago??
like just shit like that and everyone's losing their minds but the only people in the family he has regular contact with are Percy and Jason (minors, not allowed to talk to the media to clear his name) and Thalia (keeps encouraging him to be even more destructive). Artemis is M.I.A. on some "wellness retreat" in the Mediterranean but it later comes out Zeus is keeping her there to be an ass. the only person who really CAN go to the press to explain he's not actually on a crime spree is Rachel, but as she's not In The Family and also regularly creates scandals of her own out of boredom, no one really believes her lmfao.
eventually Apollo gives up and posts like a six hour long YouTube video detailing all the crimes he's caught the Triumvirate red handed of, he has a full blown conspiracy corkboard behind him and looks like he hasn't slept in a year, everyone is losing their God damn MINDS!! by the time his story culminates with him talking about having to fight a giant snake the general public already have their pitch forks and torches out.
Zeus is DEFINITELY never going to financially recover from this!!
@maedhroses THE IDEA OF KRONOS STILL EATING FAMILY MEMBERS IN THIS AU IS KILLING ME????
1) Zeus lying about Thalia's coma to get attention off Percy gets memed to shit over the years after this. when Percy is spotted at fjcking Mount Saint Helen's right before it exploded and the press was going crazy, the onion put out a headline that was like "Thalia Grace Threatens To Wake Up From Coma" and everyone loses their minds over it. Thalia has a framed copy of it.
2) I just can't stop imagining a Poseidon who hasn't slept in close to 3 weeks because he's been tracking this case trying to find his insane little kid and he like, gets swarmed by paparazzi while coming out of the police station and all they wanna know is why he cheated on Amphitrite and he finally snaps and is like
I'm with you but I don't think Juno and Hera are twins I think everyone in the Olympian family has multiple fake identities for their assorted shady rich people bullshit/emergency situations. She kidnaps Jason and Percy to keep them safe from whatever the fuck her evil grandmother is plotting, they were specifically being targeted so she was just gonna lock them up in a safe house for a while, but they have weird reactions to whatever sedative she used to nab them and lost all their memories and she doesn't have the patience to deal with that so she arranges for Jason to be looked after by the same guy she has keeping an eye on her secret grandson Leo that Zeus doesn't know about, and then Tries to get Hades to keep an eye on Percy since he's more off-grid then the other family members (and Percy tends to attract more attention than Jason), but he won't do it, so Hera's like "well fuck you. now I'm involving your secret daughter that no one knows about. yeah Nico found her and told me lmao", and sure enough within the week the press has a clear picture of Hazel escaping in a private jet with legally missing teen boys Percy Olympian-Jackson and heir to the Zhang family fortune Frank Zhang, who's mansion just mysteriously exploded.
In all the chaos of trying to a handle on the media storm, Nico, who was not originally a target, was left unguarded and gets kidnapped by Gaea (and Thalia once again threatens to wake up from her coma).
1) "Apollo your secret identity cannot also be named Apollo" "why NOT!!!"
2) when Percy is recounting his amnesia trip, Poseidon is like "I love you but you are lying about the wolves part. there is no way that happened twice in our family. please tell me you were nowhere near wolves" but Percy describes them all in great detail and where he was when they found them and Jason is like "wait that's...my wolf pack??? that's the exact pack that raised me? #mywolves" and everyone is like. WHAT.
3) Dionysus and Ares going by their fake names solely to fuck with amnesiac Percy
4) Nico was snooping through family documents and found Hazel's birth certificate, tracked her down, found out she was in foster care and snuck her out and then told Hera so she could arrange for Hazel to live at a boarding school run by the family. Hera was so thrilled to have dirt on Hades the kids hadn't even finished explaining before she got her checkbook out.
5) Frank was not originally part of the family but after the big news story about his house blowing up Ares adopted him for clout, and just kept sending him to the school he and Hazel went to
6) Leo finding out the reason he keeps getting caught by cps is because his billionaire grandmother has security guards around him at all times but she doesn't want to just take custody of him:
7) Piper realizing her amnesiac boyfriend is actually the younger brother of the man her mom keeps having affairs with:
8) Annabeth still somehow ends up getting sent on a suicide quest by her mom
guys what did tumblr do to my keyboard why is it dumb and ugly someone help me pls. it’s only like this when i try to reply to other ppl’s posts but i hate it what did they do to my beautiful goddess
why are my parenthesis?? my question marks?? MY EXCLAMATION POINTS???
Did … did Kevin just head out to his game against Riko wearing Jeans used bandaid???
Percy listens to those whale noises that people use to sleep but he just listens to them like a podcast.
And any time he hears someone like Annabeth listening to them he's like "Wow Daphne is really something else. Honestly I can't believe she would do that"
And Annabeths's like "what?"
And Percy just translates the entire thing to her and instead of calming sounds to help her concentrate she now has Percy tell her all the whale drama which she is oddly immersed with.
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This is so cool!!!!
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