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Happy Pride!
Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions
I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.
Given that I have scheduled this post back in October, it is very likely that by the time this pops up on my dash again, I may have forgotten about it. But dammit I want to make sure that this year I won't forget to reblog this frankly hilarious and fabulous bit of Pride
Happy Towel Day!
Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) dir. George Lucas
Not to nitpick a good scifi movie but the way Grace was pipetting those astrophage gloop was pissing me the hell off lmao. Like clearly the material is pretty vicious but he's pipetting them too fast and it shoots up into the shaft of the pipette and when he ejects the material there's still a bunch left in the tips which means he didn't use low binding tips......
He also didn't balance his centrifuge! It's only one of the very first things they teach whenever you set foot in a bio(-med) lab! You can literally break a centrifuge if you don't load it correctly and bio(-med) scientists will load a test tube with the same amount of water in the opposite slot if they only have one sample to centrifuge.
I went to see Hail Mary with five friends, two who also have worked or work in a bio lab and one who is a chemist. We literally gasped in unison when we saw grace load his centrifuge incorrectly.
Otherwise, absolutely great movie even if the science fiction was occasionally more fiction than science
So I just now learned that museums on Twitter were having a battle over the best bum around! I am delighted!!!
I mean, just look!
WHY DID NOBODY FUCKING INFORM ME
*dissolves into helplessly giggles* * rallies for one moment of clarity*
But(t) what about Venus Callipyge!
* goes back to giggling*
First set of sneaker socks of the year! Knit/purl pattern found on stitch-maps.com, strong heels and my usual hobbit toes construction
Renewables reached almost half of global electricity capacity in 2025
Text and image from this Reuters article:
•Global renewable capacity reached 5,149 GW in 2025, up 692 GW from 2024 •Annual renewable growth rate rose to 15.5% in 2025 Renewable power made up almost 50% of the world’s electricity capacity last year after a record increase in solar installations, data from the International Renewable Energy Agency shared exclusively with Reuters showed on Tuesday.
While I ended up making the sleeping bag first, the reason why I was inspired to make one is because I actually direly needed a new camping mattress and wanted to see if I could make one.
A while ago I discovered TPU coated fabrics thanks to DIY Packraft . TPU coated fabrics are airtight fabrics and can be used to make inflatable objects if properly heat sealed. The guys at DIY Packraft use it to make inflatable rafts but an inflatable mattress is also definitely an option.
Having discovered that, I bought myself a leather pressing iron, which, according to them, is far more practical to use for heatsealing than a normal iron ( I can now concur) and TPU coated fabric from my favorite outdoor guys at extremtextil.de.
First of course was cutting the fabric which involved a lot of measuring once, twice and even thrice ( and I still managed to fudge it up a bit)
Then, of course I used the leftovers to figure out the proper temperature setting of my iron to get a good seal (https://www.diylpackraft.com/proper-heat-sealing-technique/). According to the guys at DIY packraft a good seal is when you have welded the TPU together without burning your fabric which you can test by pulling the seal open again and checking if there is still TPU on both sides or just on one side. If it's the latter you have a good seal. For an even better seal you then add a reinforcement strip wherever you can.
Having figured that out I went on to actually make my mattress which ended up being a three afternoons job.
First was adding all the baffles on the top of the matress
Then attaching them to the bottom of the matress is when I discovered that given that my fabric was only TPU coated on one side I couldn't do what I had done on the top and first add the baffle and then the reinforcement strip but rather the other way around
Then adding the valve which was ironically a bit daunting because suddenly I was making a hole into something I had been very careful to not make holes in so far.
But I succeeded, and then I proceeded to seal the whole shebang closed. I couldn't reinforce that seam the whole way given that I a) had run out of strips and b) had to do that bit blind. But using the same trick as I used to attach the baffles to the bottom of the mattress, I could reinforce the seams somewhat, which hopefully will extend the life of my mattress.
Then, of course, it was time to inflate the baby and see if my madcap, not entirely thought-through project had actually worked. After quickly resealing a couple of spots, I had apparently missed it turn out that my DIY inflatable mattress actually works. Of course, it has yet to survive a true stress test of sleeping a few nights on it, but it works. It won't win any esthetic prizes anytime soon since my seams, especially at the beginning, are rather wonky, but hey! I made my own inflatable mattress. How cool is that!
The second pair of winter socks of the year and probably the last for a while as well since I stalled enormously on this pair and it is now already warm enough I am going to focus on sneaker socks again.
Usual construction of reinforced strong heel, asymetric hobbit toes ( thank you @lavender-linens for naming them so charmingly) and a three stranded braid cable.
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Half of the skirt!
Beading should take me two weeks. Gold work another week. I’m thinking I can start pleating and smocking by end of March
Then I need to work on my commissions 😬
This. Is. So. Awesome!
I mean the details! The designs! The skill! The effort!
Sometimes you have projects that are entirely whimsical and unnecessary while you have hosts of other projects that still need doing and yet you'll still do them. This project was one of those for me.
For some reason I had decided that I could use a new sleeping bag for when I go to castlefest despite the fact I have a couple already for different temperatures and that no-one would ever see it except for me since it was going to stay in my tent. On top of that I decided to make it a proper leafy quilt just to make it extra complicated.
First of course there was creating the pattern and cutting all the fiddly bits of fabric
Then assembling the quilt top and while not shown ironing the shit out of it to make sure it would lay flat.
Basting the bugger so that I could machine quilt it without too many issues
Quilting!
Aaaand finally adding the zipper and binding
All in all for an entirely unnecessary project I am quite happy with it since it is a bit roomier than most sleeping bags which has always been my main issue with sleeping bags and it turned out looking a lot better than I expected for a project I only vaguely planned ( that said you don't want to see the inside because that is a pieced mess)
Éowyn, disguised as Dernhelm, among the Riders of Rohan ⚔️
Based on Eugéne Grasset’s “Jeanne chevauchant au milieu des hommes d’armes” (1894)
In honor of the other stabbing on the fifteenth of March have this absolutely stunning picture of Eowyn as Dernhelm
As someone who grew up being spoonfed franco-belgian comics there is only one way to celebrate the ides of March and that is by citing Asterix, the Gaul as much as I can.
𝖧𝖺𝗉𝗉𝗒 𝖯𝗂 𝖣𝖺𝗒!!!
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