Call To A Mentor

Historically Inspired Sewing. Enjoyer of Trash. I write sometimes. Listen my pinned post is a puppet harassing a passerby because I spent three years trying to find it again. Do with that what you will.

[stability]

i literally can’t stop thinking about this video and i lose it every time

[zamzamafterzina]

Lmfao

[noneeyewithleftyork]

okay everything about this video is absolute gold:

the fact that the guy argues via the puppet the entire time

the music

“let’s discuss the contradiction”

the overuse of the word “camera”

the way the puppet goes from trying to placate the guy to actively arguing against the guy and like turning it around on the guy

“youre consciously making a conscious choice”

the fact that by the end the puppet is basically screaming and the music is just. so loud.

“YOURE BREAKING THE CAMERA” as the video abruptly ends

[calltoamentor]

I have thought about this video off and on. For. Years.

[guiltfactory]

the "my favorite character did nothing wrong" mindset is completely unappealing to me because i love thinking about all the things my favorite characters did wrong

[plantnerderyallday]

Annual deer post:

If you see a fawn laying down on the ground all alone, leave it alone. It is not lost, it does not need your help, do not pick it up, do not move it.

This behavior evolved to keep deer young safe. The baby is very small, very quiet, and hard for most predators to see. A young fawn cannot keep up with a fleeing mother deer, which is their primary problem-solving strategy. So while the mother goes elsewhere to graze, the fawn stays safe and hidden. The mom will be back.

Leave the fawn alone.

[sea-salted-wolverine]

This is always good to pass around this time of year, but I would like to add something for the few of us who might be encountering the moose kind of deer.

Moose are deer, but moose have the opposite strategy. They stay close to their babies, and their primary response for anything getting close to their babies is immediate violent murder. If you do see a baby moose by itself, leave. Leave the baby alone and leave the area, preferably quickly. Momma is at most 30 yards away and has already kicked on the kill bill sirens.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Nature Documentary: these deep sea creatures can withstand crushing pressures of thousands of pounds per square inch!

Me: they’re not withstanding a goddamn thing. The pressure is a part of them. Their interiors and exteriors are equalized. Just because your respiratory system is built around a pair of fragile poppable bubbles-

[legrandcirque]

Stan Wayman, A lesbian couple strolling through the woods after their wedding, 1950s.

[post-buster]

The original caption/title was “Wedding Of Starlet Andra Martin,” which was the name for a large set of archived photos. 

The same couple sits beside a man at a table in another “Wedding Of Starlet Andra Martin” photograph, with the caption “Actress Andra Martin (L) sitting at kitchen table w. parents discussing balked romance from her producers.”

The photos were taken for LIFE magazine according to the source link above, and some of them were included in the Sep 1, 1958 edition article about the marriage of Andra Martin and her male fiance, Ty Hardin. 

The same image featuring both women from the original photograph appears with the caption “OVER COFFEE CUPS Andra and her parents, Herbert and Gertrude Rehn, farm people of Swedish descent, talk about her balked romance”:

The above sources confirm that the photo is not of “a lesbian couple […] after their wedding” but rather of a woman and her mother discussing a failed heterosexual marriage.

[fagstaynight]

(getting a taste of my own medicine) actually this is okay. Is this what you guys have bene whining about? Jesus christ

[shroomshroomm]

[burnazog]

[thegadaboutgirl]

One more for the collection. Book is Stars at Last by Jessica Jocelyn

[elfgirlcraftworks]

Someone asked so here's all the behind the scenes posts collected into one place.

The Underpinnings 

The Skirt

The Dinner Bodice 

The Accessories

The Overskirts

The Day Bodice

The Evening Bodice

The Completed Ensemble

[hearteyes-wheeler]

Rest in peace ❌ Rest in pieces ✅

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

I like the implication that Caesar gets re-murdered each time

[calltoamentor]

How do you say goodbye to a place and time you will never see again? How do you move forward from the person you could have been had things gone differently? When is last time really the last time? For me, it was when time forced a change out of me that created a million ripples across the surface of my life; each just that much broader and deeper than the last.

To Be in a Joann's One Last Time

[ficauthor]

[calltoamentor]

A love letter to the small things that make a life. To be seen is to be loved, and to be loved is to be changed. It never feels like enough, but we all must start somewhere.

A Sweet Lifesaver

[alexanderwales]

I used the phrase "waiting on tenterhooks" and then thought "what the hell is a tenterhook".

It's these things! So when you're waiting on tenterhooks, you're stretched tight like a piece of cloth. Very evocative, now that I know what it means.

[headspace-hotel]

like 40% of english idioms are just Textiles Again

[calltoamentor]

Change Only Stops if You Stop Changing

Stability used to mean things things staying static. Growing up with three siblings while using the poverty line as the world’s most rickety board over the world’s deepest and most inescapable chasm meant thing–and people–staying in one place once out of sight became a sign of safety. Security. Protection. No one touched it. No one moved it. No one fled. No one died. If things could stay in place…

Change Only Stops if You Stop Changing

[calltoamentor]

Is staying only in the present reckless? Is never turning your eye toward the future or the past a good way to never learn from your past and make sure you bring it into your future? How do you not become overwhelmed by the past in the present and stop looking for triggers? You find glimmers of joy in the present. You learn how to integrate past and future to build toward a better future. All things taken in excess will lead to negative outcomes. It's what you do with the resources you have available that define what they become.

Glimmers Against Apathy

[creekfiend]

people talk about how we need to bring back "don't feed the trolls" rhetoric for modern internet ragebait and I agree but also I think the most useful thing from the Old Internet that I miss is LURKING

be a lurker. just read things and think about them without feeling the need to weigh in or call out or disseminate everything you encounter. it's so nice and so freeing and it's a good way to learn things.

I have frequently regretted getting involved in shit that didn't involve me online but you know what I've never regretted doing? Lurking. literally lurk moar

[whatthemythicalwhat]

I love Josh’s anti-classism so much. I grew up in a single parent household that didn’t have time/the ability to cook. I taught myself as an adult and ended up loving it. I cook with this stuff a lot. Shit, the RealLemon juice ends up in a lot of my cocktails. Sure, I like fancy ingredients when I can afford them and I have things I get picky about using - but I have bad hands, mincing garlic is painful as fuck. There’s a lot to be said for knowing how to work with what you have. Don’t shame people for trying, don’t shame people for feeding their families things that they enjoy.

[brunhiddensmusings]

if you are only a good cook if you have access to premium ingredients at whole foods or above prices then you arent really a good cook

[headspace-hotel]

I think about this post a lot because of the phrase "i'll cook anyone's ass under the table."

[moosekleenex]

avoid self loathing ✅ your art is special because YOU made it ✅ literally anything you create is better than AI✅