Weta Time

[brawltogethernow]

Look what my friend with no social media posted to the chat with the damning staggered timestamps of 1:11, 1:37, and 1:42 A.M.

[melibemusca]

this is EXACTLY how sea otters eat fat innkeeper worms

like. I'm not even kidding

[brawltogethernow]

Oh my god?

[historical-nonfiction]

Bugs Bunny accidentally transformed the word nimrod into a synonym for idiot because nobody got a joke where he sarcastically compared Elmer Fudd to the Biblical figure Nimrod, a mighty hunter.

[omegajako]

Etymology is ridiculous and terrifying sometimes

[garbage-empress]

Bugs Bunny is more powerful than God

[libertarirynn-deactivated202006]

He also solidified the idea of rabbits loving carrots when carrots actually carry very little nutritional value for rabbits. The funniest part of that is that the original joke was a reference to a Clark Gable film where Gable munches on a carrot, it was never meant to imply that rabbits love carrots. The Clark Gable reference would’ve been obvious to audiences in the 40s but it has been pretty much lost to time.

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

Bugs Bunny has too much power and should be feared.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

Do you personally follow Ben Affleck around photographing him for reaction images ?

yeah

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

I also flick the cigarettes at his head full speed whenever he starts looking stressed to tempt him

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

the first rule of wildlife photography is of course that you're not supposed to intervene but I've simply transcended that in my professional relationship with Mr. Affleck

[elucubrare]

i wish my brain were not full of gludge. i would like to be using it & because of the gludge i cannot do that.

[sarcastictexas]

So, my iPod does this fucking genius factory thing where it forgets which artwork goes with which album and it makes guesses. Because it’s pretty sure I won’t notice.

Needless to say, I noticed.

[neverendingmidnightsun]

the most 2014 post possible

[oddarette]

Yep, I made a frutiger aero soft soap alien… 💧🐠🤍🫧🧼

[celaquinn-ichard]

The cleanomorph

[mariacallous]

[ulyssessimpsongrant]

The way the American Civil War was remembered and subsequently how it is now written about and interpreted reflects an intense struggle between Victorian romanticism and the fraught birth of the modern world.

Think of the way Robert E. Lee is often described by authors and historians, even those who favor the Union, and how he is often described in terms that would not be out of place in describing a medieval knight (gallant, chivalric, gentlemanly). The way the war in some sense was a struggle between the past (represented by the sharply hierarchical agrarian south with its aristocracies and slave labor) and the future (the industrial, forward-thinking, more friendly toward the concept of egalitarianism north who valued the idea of being self-made, in many ways the birthplace of the “American dream”), and the way the idea of the Confederacy seduces people who don’t know the issues of the war well (or who care more about the aesthetics) through its gauzy visuals and ideas of ideas not unlike the Victorian medieval revival. A lot of Civil War buffs who fanboy over the Confederate generals seem to talk and think of the war almost like a gentleman’s game. Lee himself is a borderline mythological figure as the public knows him nowadays, more idea than man. The Confederate military history focus on sweeping battlefield tactics also reflects on this.

You contrast that with Ulysses S. Grant, considered one of the first modern generals if not the modern general, who saw war as something to quickly and efficiently bring to a close, and how he’s perceived. His prewar stumbling in life, his alcoholism, rough manners, function over form sensibilities. There’s more of a practicality there when one examines Grant and his fellows at the head of the Union army. They were modern men fighting a modern war and struggling to deliver the complicated birth of modernity.

The ultimate visualization of this that I always think about and go back to is April 9, 1865 at Appomattox Court House where Lee surrendered in full ceremonial dress to a Grant wearing a uniform splattered with mud. The proud, impeccably dressed son of an old moneyed Virginia family who holds the distinction of having graduated West Point without a single demerit surrendering to a humble, mud-splattered Ohioan raised by self-made parents who’d been forced out of the military due to his drinking and struggled to make a living until the military took him back.

[mariacallous]

[oncce-againn]

My alone time is for everyone’s safety

[charl0ttan]

ive been down and out. ive been out and about. but not once in my life have i ever been down and about

[charl0ttan]

the implications are truly astounding.

[sorreleater]

where is that post that’s like “*HR guy who’s made of hands skittering in* no touching”

[sorreleater]

[aidashakur]

Your partner actually LIKING you as a friend is important. Romantic love is not enough.

[mousegirlheart]

in america they force their buffalo to drink red bull and then harvest their newly grown wings for consumption

[wastelesscrafts]

I read somewhere that embroidered clothes need to be washed differently. Is this true? I read that right after getting a bunch of embroidery floss to visibly mend some clothes

Washing embroidered clothes

Yup! Check out my post on securing embroidery thread, which includes laundry instructions. My embroidery tag's also a good resource.

Handmade embroidery tends to be fragile, so it's important to properly secure your thread and take good care of the embroidered item. If you don't, you risk for your threads to come loose.

If you're not careful when washing embroidered items, your embroidery threads could get snagged on things like buttons or zippers in the washer.

Try to either wash them by hand (safest), or use your machine's delicate cycle combined with a laundry bag. Always let the item air-dry.

[sadiie]

Side note, especially with antique or vintage traditional european folk clothing… sometimes they were made not to be washed at all (heavy color embroidery on a white cloth, gold thread) or to be cleaned with snow during frosty days (woolen thread embroidery). You take your item outside on a freezing winter day, throw copious amount on snow on it, hang it outside and at the end of the day you pat the snow out together with all the dust.

[wastelesscrafts]

Thank you, that's an interesting addition.

I can confirm the snow technique. One of my family members recreates historical textiles in their spare time, and they occasionally use it to clean their wool items.

(Always make sure the item is completely dry before storing it afterwards to avoid mold.)

[olderthannetfic]

Reading is in the trenches because why did my 9 yr old nephew look at the word "jealous" and said "jewish"? And when asked why he mistaken it as such he said they both started with a "J". It's like his brain is doing autofill. No matter how many time I try to tell him slow down and sound out the words he just won't.

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TRAP CARD ACTIVATED

No, but seriously, anon, you need to look into what's going on in his classroom because he's probably being taught this trash method instead of phonics. He does not know how to slow down and sound things out because his school has never taught him that. When you tell him to do this, he has no context for what you're even talking about.

This has come up repeatedly here, and I don't have time to froth at the mouth today, but look up "whole language".

This podcast made waves a few years ago when all the lockdown parents discovered, to their horror, that their kiddos weren't being taught to read in the NORMAL FUCKING WAY WE'VE USED FOR LITERALLY CENTURIES and were instead being taught a fake-ass method backed by vibes and antivax-levels of pseudoscience.

Intervene now, anon, or he's never going to read well.

[kittenwriter]

I remember one of my grade school teachers discussing with my mother the differences between me and my sister at learning to read, and he described me as a "sight reader from the start"... which is to say, an acknowledgement that most people do not do that and it's not reasonable to expect that of the majority of kids, who really do need the phonics and the "sound things out."

Generally speaking if a kid has arrived at school not knowing how to read already, they're not going to do well with sight reading and need phonics. The few kids who develop The Reading in the way the whole language people think they should do it before they hit school.

[olderthannetfic]

So true. I know a retired teacher who bawwws and tries to contradict me when I rant about whole language at our knitting meetup. She's all "different kids need different approaches!" and "I saw it work!"...

But of course it feels intuitively sensible to her. She taught herself to read at age 2. That's the exact kind of experience that does make this method sound reasonable. But like you say, if it's going to happen, it happens very early and without the school curriculum.

As for me, I've said it before, but I assume anon wasn't around: I could not learn to read.

I was in second grade. (First grade? I can't remember. Around then.) Most of my classmates were reading at least a little. Me: nothing. I could not learn.

It was even a god damn private school, but I had to have a fucking tutor. I got dragged over to that lady's office a few days a week for... two months? Four months? It really wasn't that long, as far as I know. I was more than ready to learn. I just needed an actual fucking method that wasn't lying trash. Almost at once I jumped from nothing to reading well above grade level. For the rest of my childhood, I continued to diverge from my classmates in how many words I knew, how well I could read, the works. Every year of grade school makes that gap widen. I was on the desirable side of that gap. I was lucky.

It's obvious how verbal I am from reading my tl;dr on this blog.

But I could not learn to read.

I was a couple years younger than this nephew, but not that much younger. It's not too late. Now is the perfect time for some tutoring. If you can afford it, get a pro. If you can't, do your best. But you've got to do something.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

The four cueing systems if whole language reading education are a band-aid method used by severely dyslexic people. When people's dyslexia is so bad that they simply cannot learn to read effectively, tricks like cueing allow them to function well enough in society to get by. They do NOT teach proper literacy.

This system was popularised by a guy who is obviously dyslexic, refuses to acknowledge that when asked, and essentially decided that everyone else must be like him and therefore the system that helped him get by was a substitute for real literacy since it was so much faster and more achievable for him to learn to "read" this way than phonically. It's kind of like if somebody without hands was learning to sew, found it incredibly frustrating to do without hands, so they started putting their creations together entirely with fabric glue which they found easier to apply... and told everyone how much easier it was so all the schools got rid of needles and thread and sewing machines and everyone was taught to "sew" using fabric glue only and then wondered why their clothing kept falling apart on their bodies.

[hiveswap]

big fan of when you peel back all layers of a character and at the bottom of it there's love

[hiveswap]

why are they doing this? because they loved someone so much it caused the plot to happen. Grief counts btw

[hiveswap]

ESPECIALLY a big fan of when this isn't enough to make them a good person