Pit of Doom

Tumblr has filled a hole in my life I didn't even know was there...

[hppjmxrgosg]

proud victim of the tumblr accent. it's fading out of public consciousness as the tik tok accent takes precedence; a linguistic evolution that makes the tumblr accent 85% funnier to unsuspecting civilians. it's like releasing a disease on a non-inoculated population. coughing baby versus hydrogen bomb.

[inconspectus]

once my therapist said I used very uncommon and creative phrases and adjectives and i just did not have the heart to tell that Old Lady From A Foreign Small Town that I was translating tumblr speech into our language. so I was like yeah... must be from the books I read...

like girl we have an army of scholars over at tumblr.com crafting our language it's not just little old me I swear

[copperbadge]

I once called a colleague's Borzoi a beautiful Gentle Alien, assuming the term had long since become commonplace outside of Tumblr, and discovered when he burst into delighted laughter at the term that it Had Not. I had to explain to him that I'm not a comedy genius, just repeating a niche meme.

[keyvei]

Imogen my beloved ♥️

[sorrrowfull]

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[importantdogimages]

[babyfoxcollectionthings]

[zitasaurusrex]

unrestrained summer fun

[copperbadge]

Right before I scrolled down I mumbled “unrestrained summer fun” to myself and then yelled when I saw the caption.

[theavengers]

THOR RAGNAROK (2017) dr. Taika Waititi

[jusjuiceboxbox]

Welcome to being an adult! Featuring such injury causing events as

- sneezed wrong

- turned your neck a little too fast

- slept weird

- took the trash out to the curb and stepped at a slightly different angle than usual

- breathed

- failed to breathe properly

- breathed in the wrong stuff. Allergy time

- looked too hard at something too far away

- knees

[geekerypeekery]

@copperbadge

[copperbadge]

I was gonna add some but I think simply adding "copperbadge" to the list really sums up being an injury-prone adult.

[sluttyquarantinetheory]

The most horrifying thing about being a human is that no matter how intelligent you are or how much customer service training you have, nothing will stop you from being the idiot customer on occasion. At some point you won't read a sign or you'll misread a menu or ask the dumbest question a human has ever formed and there is nothing you can do to prevent this. It will happen. Accept it and continue on your way as one of today's dipshit customers.

[oganneb]

Emil is my "yup this is real wool" detector. It's only real wool that he goes this nuts over

[unicornery]

[sweetwithheatwriting]

@copperbadge

[copperbadge]

Emil looks very sweet so I can't make the joke I want to make about orange cats indeed being simple tools. :D

[oceantoyz]

This item is called "The Dingray"

[sweetwithheatwriting]

@copperbadge

[copperbadge]

I hope it's in the key of sea.

[erinbowbooks]

[copperbadge]

The Merriam-Webster Hyphen is right there.

[teathattast]

[auguris]

Has anyone warned @copperbadge yet

[copperbadge]

What a lot of people outside of Chicago may not realize is that The Beans are a native species to this region and right now is baby season! What you're seeing there is probably just an instance of a young mature The Bean being kept in a secure enclosure, probably due to some kind of injury that's being rehabbed.

In urban Chicago around this time of year if you want to go The Bean spotting you mostly just need to keep an eye out around downtown drugstores for formations like this.

I took this picture myself in a Walgreens. As you can see we have a nice healthy-looking family group consisting of a parent The Bean, several juveniles who will often stay with the parent for several years, and some newborns this year who naturally group up protectively near any large sign reading "Chicago".

The Beans are usually extremely docile and can even be kept as pets once the juveniles separate from their family group, since they are low-maintenance and require only a small flat area such as a desk or bookshelf on which to recline. Fun fact, a group of The Beans such as pictured above is known as a Tchochki!

[copperbadge]

I love this post because that Walgreens with all the The Beans in it is my pharmacy, and it's a chore to go pick up my prescriptions twice a month. Except now I think of this post as I walk into the building and get a little spike of joy.

I'm not sure if I caused this but about three weeks after I took that photo, the big The Bean was moved from upstairs near the beauty products to downstairs in the front window of the store, with the little The Beans on a shelf nearby. There aren't that many little ones left so I'm wondering if I actually helped Walgreens clear out its stock.

[anafigreen]

Family first

[copperbadge]

I bought a sashiko kit at the fiber arts festival and just completed it! Top is the "front", bottom two images are the back before and after washing off the preprinted pattern/instructions.

Sashiko is beautiful as an art form and very useful as a method of mending clothing but what really fascinated me is the stitching technique you use on work like this, where both pieces of fabric are thin and flexible.

Rather than stitching up-and-down like in most western embroidery, with sashiko you stitch "through" horizontally. You hold a long needle with the thumb and middle finger of your dominant hand, close to the tip, with the eye braced against a special ring thimble worn at the base of your middle finger. Using your other hand, you push the fabric up and down against the tip to load several "stitches" on the needle at once, then push the needle through and pull the stitches flat, then repeat. It's very satisfying and I'm sure once I get better at it, it'll go much faster. (But first I have some cross-stitch commissions to complete.)

[gatheringbones]

tbh a lot of my advice boils down to “hey you know that terrible horrible looming thing you’re doing your best to avoid and distract and escape as much as possible but no matter what you do it just keeps looming and looming and ruining your life”

“just, fuckign, run straight at it screaming.”

[quasarkisses]

i needed this as a background

[spectrexviiii]

[copperbadge]

Went to the Detroit Institute of Art Museum, found a cat.

(That's Cat, 1913, carved from oak by Raymond Duchamp-Villon. He also does a lovely horse.)