Thoughts of a Schneyk

Mostly a page for me to be writer and fangirl. Find my fanfic on AO3 at ConvenientAlias. 

[catchymemes]

[teaboot]

"she thinks this is bonding behavior" my friend this has BECOME your bonding behaviour

[convenientalias]

@invisibleabi has proposed a trade of shows where I watch IWTV and she watches Some Asian Drama. Personally I want to throw either a bl drama at her or something with slashy vibes. Also some level of chaos.

what drama should I recommend?

4 Minutes

Laws of Attraction

To Sir With Love

The Wicked Game

Snowfall

My Country the New Age

Winter Begonia

Voting ended onJun 3

[permanent-detention]

reflections from the marriage of a goth and an emo

[apatheticfluorescence]

some hyper famous artists like Van Gogh transcend overratedness and become underrated because they're so normalized. Like I'll look at a van Gogh and I'm like wait this really is amazing you guys don't get it

[headspace-hotel]

Shakespeare is like this

[insufferablepirate]

Every time I see a Van Gogh that’s not one of his better known pieces it absolutely blows me away

Have you seen this shit my liege? smh unreal

[roundaboutnow]

Shoes by Van Gogh always takes my breath away

i dont know much about him, or art as a whole really, but this whole collection is neat. looks like it provides some context for each of the paintings/drawings too!

[featherquillpen]

FQP's Skip It/Read It Guide to Animorphs

I love the Animorphs series to pieces, but I will freely admit that not only is it unnecessary to read every book, but you might actually enjoy the series more with some strategic book skipping. I also wanted to have an abbreviated list of the Essential Animorphs for people who can’t read the whole thing for whatever reason. So, inspired by the Liz Tells Frank Skip It/Watch It guides to TV shows, I present to the Internet my guide to reading Animorphs.

I guide you through the series book by book with spoiler-free descriptions, and I use the following recommendations:

Must read: It’s either central to the story arc, or just so good that you’re doing yourself psychological harm by missing it. If you read only these, you’ll get a very loosely sketched view of the plot of the series and why we love it.

Read it: You will enjoy the book, and/or it contributes to character development, and/or contains important information to the main narrative.

Maybe read it: The book isn’t perfect, but contains moments that fans of the series enjoy, or has a vague connection to the central arc.

Maybe skip it: There are very good reasons not to read this book, but it does have some redeeming value.

Skip it: Avoid it to maintain plot momentum. Or sanity.

Keep reading

[convenientalias]

Just had to frog a sock that was about one third done. Beautiful yarn but I was knitting with size zero needles and it just kept causing me wrist pain. I'll probably reuse the yarn with size ones or twos in time... it was my first time using size zero needles and I thought I would adjust but it just was not happening :(

[robogart]

A comic I posted last night for patrons, but I wanted to share here too! This has been the time lately 😂😩😔👏✨️

But in seriousness, capitalism worms are rough! But try to ignore them and shoo them out! Take care of yourselves and rest, babes 🥳💖

[shencomix]

[convenientalias]

I was looking through my old Goodreads reviews today and it made me so glad I've become more willing to DNF books. I've had the account for ages, and looking back on when I first began reading adult books more broadly - picking up random free ebooks and ARCs in every genre, choosing books at random from the library - I really didn't know what I wanted to read and would just try anything. Which is good in a sense, but as a result I wasn't entirely fair to the books I was reading, especially because I felt obligated to finish them. I would rate a romance book low and say "this was just a dumb cheesy romance", whereas these days I know that I'm very picky about romance so I wouldn't judge a romance novel so harshly but I WOULD probably just quit it when it became evident it was not my thing. Which these days I can usually judge within 20 pages.

Sometimes I feel bad these days about how easily I DNF books, but honestly, I think knowing your own taste and being willing to say "this ain't it" is better than blindly forcing yourself to read any book just because you picked it up. Not that it's bad to try out new things, but if you force yourself to read a whole book you hate and then say, "this book is a fuckign ordeal", well, that's kind of on you. No one tied you to a chair and forced you to read it. (To be clear, I am very much addressing my younger self here; no salt intended to anyone but the young ConvenientAlias lol.)

Then again, I do think you need a balance, because it's also not great to always read only things you're 100% comfortable with and certain you'll like. So I guess you just need time and practice to find that balance, and it's not bad to take a chance - just don't feel like once you've taken the chance, you can never turn back.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

niche nitpick I know but a "moot point" is not something that isn't worth talking about. it is literally the opposite. "moot" is a word for a citizens' assembly that has cognates throughout the Germanic (especially Scandinavian) languages. originally saying something was a "moot point" meant that it shouldn't be talked about right now, instead it should be tabled until it could be fully debated with the entire community present. the slide from that meaning to "this isn't important" probably has something to do with the emergence of the idea that politics isn't real life. anyway when someone says something is a moot point you should be like "cool, I'll call the lawspeaker and ask them to put it on the agenda"

[hyperrbolic-orange]

Sure, you've got a point OP but the de facto usage still means "no point talking about this" and people aren't just going to change so it's... it's kind of a ....

Moot point

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I'm going to absolutely flatten you when we debate this on the Law Rock in front of the chieftains

[morphmaker]

are there palm tree Ents

[morphmaker]

Palm Tree Ents: The Appendices

[3psboyd]

Spitballing with the fellas on discord and we've come up with a Star Trek character we want to see: A 200-year-old top Vulcan diplomat attending a function and laughing boisterously and slapping backs with everyone and then just relaxing into resting bitch face the moment nobody is watching him. He takes his job deadly seriously and studied parties extensively in the diplomatic academy. Every year he's brushing up on new developments in party theory. He knows every party nuance you could possibly think of, for the sake of intergalactic relations. Peace in the galaxy depends on it. It's weird but you gotta meet people where they're at, he thinks.

[fionn-o-nassus]

Sarek fucking hates this guy and it's 100% envy

[bemusedlybespectacled]

human diplomat: [laughs at joke]

vulcan diplomat (to himself): this is great. I’m going to get a good grade in Party, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve,

[seamayweed]

You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.

―       Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

(insp.)

↳ happy belated bday to our favorite tragic boy nam seon-ho (april 5, 1368)!! 🎁💙💙💙

[theres-a-body-here]

Having a Minotaur Boyfriend would be so fucking funny

Like imagine crying on the couch and you hear his thunderous, big body SUV built ass footsteps approach you.

"Baby, what's wrong," he says tenderly as he rubs your shoulder.

You look up to explain how bad your day was with tears in your eyes and you fucking see this:

I made a small drabble based on this

[fxdizzyie-deactivated20260219]

I had to draw it HELP

[elucubrare]

[drafts clearinghouse day]

[2023] this is definitely a very subjective thing, but i always feel very alienated by the tumblr fave trope of "man looks approvingly at violent/powerful woman" as like, the Ideal Couple Dynamic - and yes, that's partly because my ideal dynamic for a M/F couple is Brothers In Arms But Heterosexual, but it's also because it seems very condescending - it feels like it's buying into gender stereotypes while externally purporting to challenge them.

[2026] as an addendum, or to finish the thought, it's because it often feels like it's not taking women's capacity for violence seriously, similarly to the stock joke character of the hyperviolent woman (she's a tiny cute girl but she's got a big hammer! and she threatens people! but it's funny because we all know women don't really have the power to hurt people!).

it also implies that the only way for a man and a woman to be in anything resembling an equal relationship is if she's capable of violence and he's not. and i think that sucks and isn't true.

[annabelle--cane]

stop. analyse that text through the lens of its author's intentions and original historical context. okay now take the author out back and kill them dead and analyse that text as though it were published by your mutual yesterday and is in direct conversation with the contemporary discourse that's most relevant to your life. okay now pick your favorite angle of interpretation and come up with the strongest possible argument against it. now imagine that the text is your best friend and that it means you well and that you naturally give it every benefit of the doubt because you're on its side and you want the best for it. now imagine that the text wants you dead and it'll eat you if you don't eat it first. now pretend that you found this text locked away in a cave with no evidence of when or where it came from and you have to divine its meaning solely through its internal coherence and nothing else. okay now address the elephant in the room aspect of the text you've been ignoring because you find it boring or confusing or uncomfortable and become the number one expert on it. now spend forty minutes assigning all the characters dnd classes with at least three sentences of reasoning each. okay now do the cha cha slide.

[convenientalias]

A quick rating of every wool yarn I've tried since starting to use wool yarn this winter, in chronological order:

Malabrigo Rios: My first 100% wool yarn. Beautiful variegated and tonal colorways. Immensely soft and pleasant to work with. Merino and a bit fuzzy to touch. Addictive. I made 1 hat and then bought an afgan quantity. Lowering 1 point in rating bc after making half an afgan, i did grow a little tired even of this luxury, but still 9/10.

Malabrigo Washted: As soft as Rios but single ply. I like single ply a bit less bc it feels fragile. Good for a hat, wouldn't use it for an afgan. Many variations in yarn weight, keeping things interesting but again making me worry about fragility in thinnest segments. Gorgeous colors. 7/10 but for limited purposes.

Swish Worsted: Wide color selection, cheaper than Malabrigo yarns, merino so very soft. And yet, somehow boring? Pleasant to touch but the consistency and colors somewhat remind me of acrylics. A solid choice that I will probably use again someday, but it just doesn't excite me. 6/10.

Cascade 220 Superwash Wave: My first highland wool experience and I hated it. The texture is once again kinda boring but also not very soft??? I also chose this yarn for the variegated colorways, but they transitioned so slowly I was still bored. I will use up what I have but probably not use again. 4/10.

Hawthorne Fingering Weight: Thought I would hate this bc it's rough but 1) the rough texture was somehow very interesting to work with texturally and 2) after one wash of the finished sock, it literally became soooo soft. The colorways are also really interesting. Would recommend tonal over kettle. 10/10, my current favorite.

Drops Fabel: Hawthorne set a really high standard for sock yarn that Fabel did not live up to. The colorways are intriguing and addictive to knit, but the texture of the final product is a bit itchy and generally not as good. Fun to use but I care equally about product as process. 5/10, would hesitate to use again.

Drops Nepal: Half wool, half alpaca. The texture is simply very Interesting and squishy. Colors are solid but very pretty. A bit rustic but still soft. This is the yarn I'm using for my current project! 7/10, delightful.

Anyone care to recommend me other wool yarn? I mostly use worsted weight or sock yarn.