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I keep thinking about this bit of music from Pokemon 3, so I made a video about it

[ID: short clip of the theme "Greenfield" from Pokemon 3 The Movie with several meme videos of people dancing. end ID.]

There is no drug on earth that can replicate the absolute euphoria of hitting a writing flow state at 2:00 AM. You aren’t even typing anymore. You are a vessel. You are a channel for the gods. The characters are speaking directly into your brain and you’re just the stenographer trying to keep up. You feel like you could fight a bear. You feel like you invented the alphabet

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~ Every Day Home Advice and The Practical Business of Life, Containing The Best and Most Practical Advice in Household Management, 1882

ariaste

See, this sounds insane at face value, until you remember that Louis Pasteur had only invented pasteurization in 1865, that Robert Koch published his postulates on the link between microorganisms and diseases in 1884 (after this book was published), and that Dr John Snow's research on the Broad Street cholera outbreak of 1854 (in which he proved that cholera was waterborne and not caused by bad smells, as the entire medical establishment believed) was not publically accepted until 1866, eight years after his death (and only 16 years before this book was published) -- and despite that, there were still people who doggedly insisted on believing in miasma theory (aka that disease is caused by "bad air" or bad smells) well beyond that.

So the writer of this book isn't actually.... wrong, per se. In an age before they had clean, sanitary, safe drinking water, you probably DID get at MINIMUM awful diarrhea pretty regularly after drinking water. This is why so many people drank small-beer (very low alcohol content, but the fermentation process (and by some preparations, boiling the water) killed the dangerous microbes and made it safe to drink). The popularization of tea actually really cut down on cholera outbreaks and other water-related digestive troubles as well! not only because you have to boil the water, but the tannins in tea also kill off (at least some) bacteria.

And in case you cannot comprehend the state of how breathtakingly "they didn't fucking know" -- If you were really poor in London in the first half of the 19th century, you were often literally dipping a bucket into the nearest gutter, letting it sit for a day for the solids to separate out, and drinking what was left. Even the well-to-do houses with fancy newfangled running water were at risk of waterborne illnesses, because a lot of those water supply companies had intake pipes stuck into the fucking Thames (you know. the famously polluted river that all the sewers dumped into) and were so negligent about filtering it that people sometimes got live eels coming out of their faucets.

So yeah, drinking many glasses of water IS a potentially injurious one and DOES weaken digestive power -- IF you are unfortunate enough to live in the 19th century before public health became a government concern.

(I just read a book on the Broad Street cholera outbreak yesterday, The Ghost Map, and it was riveting, highly recommend -- the Broad Street pump's well, which provided water to thousands of people in a neighborhood of London, was situated two and a half feet away from a cesspit where residents of a house were dumping their sewage. According to reports by the inspectors after the fact, the bricks lining the cesspit were so degraded that they could be removed with hands, and upon excavation, the earth between the cesspit and the well was muddy and saturated with human waste. The well's water level was eight feet below that of the cesspit.)

#never forget context!!

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If you’re looking for some free to low cost quilt patterns, I have a few sites in my favs you may be interested in checking out. Many of these quilters are on Instagram. If you have an account (I do not), consider following them. They offer free patterns, designs, tips and tricks, and other nifty things.

FPP = foundation paper piecing

Unicorn Harts - FPP, all patterns are great for beginners, and many of the patterns are free. I love her patterns and highly recommend them. If you’re looking for zodiac stuff, this is a great designer to consider.

Violet Craft - FPP, patterns range from beginner to advanced, and many are free as well as low cost. She has full quilt patterns instead of just blocks available.

Quiet Play - FPP, patterns range from beginner to advanced, several are free as well as low cost. She has blocks and full quilt patterns. Lots of free Star Wars blocks as well as a pattern for making a quilt using those.

Fandom In Stitches - FPP, 100% free, but take note that what you make with most of these patterns cannot be sold. What you make must be free as gifts, trades, or kept for yourself. I used this site for the last Quilt Block Swap.

Lilly Ella - FPP and traditional, many free and low cost, geared more towards moderate and advanced but a few are good for beginners. Those butterflies I recently made? Her pattern. She has blocks and full projects, like making a sewing machine cover and fabric baskets.

Sew So Easy - FPP and traditional, everything is free. From the very beginners to advanced, clothes, various projects, quilts, all of it is free. They put out a newsletter every week with new stuff on the website.

Gnome Angel - FPP and traditional, free and low cost, PDF and physical books, full quilt patterns as well as individual blocks, and she has quilt-a-long events. If you’re looking for a quilt that uses 100 different blocks for less than $30, this is who you should check out. They write the patterns with FPP and traditional quilt options.

Teresa Down Under - FPP and traditional, free and low cost, PDF and physical copies, full quilt patterns and individual blocks. She’s the one who taught me how to FPP! She loves interacting with her followers and teaching people how to quilt. She has a Youtube channel as well!

Sew Hooked - FPP and traditional, free and low cost, and has a lot of fun fandom things to check out. Beginner and advanced options. They participate in quilt events, like sew-a-longs, and give reviews on a few things.

Generations Quilt Patterns - FPP and traditional, all free, very beginner to advanced. There aren’t any full quilt patterns, just blocks. Still my favorite website to use for figuring out patterns I wanna use. An excellent site for making a sampler quilt (a quilt made using a bunch of different blocks).

Carol Doak - FPP, free, beginner to advanced. The quilt block designer who made my favorite quilt books. All those little blocks with stars, trees, houses, and other small things? Nearly all were designed by her. She has several books, and if you opt to buy any, consider getting the 300 blocks book seeing as the smaller ones are also in it.

Crafty Nomad - FPP, beginner to advanced, low cost but with free tutorials. I’ve not used her patterns before, but they look to be geared towards all levels. I have a difficult time learning from videos being a more in-person and diagrams with pictures and instructions kind of person.

My Pattern Search - I did a google search using “free quilt patterns -pinterest” (minus the quotation marks) to get a general collection without Pinterest showing up. When you look for patterns and don’t wanna be flooded with Pinterest boards, use -pinterest. You can do the same with -amazon, -walmart, and various other sites you don’t want showing up in search results.

Quilting Daily - This is an excellent website with all sorts of projects from very beginner to advanced! Sign up for the newsletter if you don’t mind getting one daily. They have giveaways and other events you receive notice of in the newsletters.

Fave Quilts - FPP and traditional, all are free, from beginner to advanced. Some of the info they list, like the links, may no longer be valid, so look over the patterns carefully. They link to other websites with the patterns.

Stashify - FPP and traditional, all free, from beginner to advanced. They won’t be adding new things to the site since Covid19, but they do still have patterns listed.

All About Quilts - FPP and traditional, all free, from beginner to advanced. There’s a video on the page showing how to make FPP blocks. There are full quilts listed as well as individual blocks.

All People Quilt - FPP and traditional, nearly all are free and have at one point or another been in various quilt magazines, lots of pictures, download, and print options. I’ve used many of the patterns featured on the website. There are also tips and tricks available on the blog and articles they post.

Fat Quarter Shop - Traditional, focused primarily on using precuts. The patterns range from beginner to advanced, with lots of pictures, download, and print options. This particular link is to their free patterns.

Moda Fabrics and Moda Fabrics Wordpress - Mostly traditional, with pictures, download, and print options to choose from. Beginner to advanced. The second link has virtually no organization, but it’s all free.

Bear Creek Quilting Company - Mostly traditional with a lot of pics. Beginner to advanced.

Quilter’s Cache - Mostly traditional and it’s just quilt blocks. The site is difficult to navigate, so I haven’t done much exploring. Seeing as it’s mostly just quilt blocks, I suggest using Generations (link up above) because they’re also just blocks but far easier to navigate.

The Fabric Hut - they created an ebook with 161 patterns, 100% free, for download.

Wombat Quilts - FPP and all free

Internet Archive - You will need an account, which is free, and will then be able to borrow these books for an hour each. There are over 1000 quilting books with patterns uploaded to the archive.

My Personal Collection of Free Patterns - This is a Dropbox folder with free patterns I’ve collected. Download whatever files you want. I’ll add more as I find them, but make sure you check out the links available on some of the patterns for more information regarding them.

APQS - A variety of FPP and traditional, all of which are downloadable and free.

McCall’s Quilt Blocks - 150+ free quilt block patterns

The Sewing Loft - This is full of free patterns, with quilting, sewing projects, tutorials, videos, and all sorts of other goodies. Oh, and 100+ quilt block patterns you can download.

Sewing With Scrap - This website focuses on using scraps, and it’s packed with free patterns, tutorials, and projects.

Crafty Staci - Loads of free blocks and patterns, including several Block-of-the-Month projects.

DuckaDilly - This is their free downloads website. It has patterns, templates, and other goodies for you.

Sew Can She - This is all free quilt patterns. Some are very beginner, some are not. There are also some non-quilt patterns in there too.

Tilda’s World - Free quilt and doll patterns.

Always Expect Moore - this is all her free patterns, but she has several others available for purchase.

Leila Gardunia - These are primarily FPP and all are free. They also have a shop! This is also one of my favorite designers, and you’ll see why when you see the patterns.

Quilting Daily’s Free Block Library A-H - all free quilt blocks and tutorials

Quilting Daily’s Free Block Library I-Q - all free quilt blocks and tutorials

Quilting Daily’s Free Block Library R-Z - all free quilt blocks and tutorials

Patchwork Posse Charm Pack Patterns - this has over 35 free quilt patterns designed for using charm packs. Very beginner friendly!

Scattered Thoughts - free quilt patterns and all very beginner friendly.

Subscription Boxes - This is a longer post I made, and it contains links to various subscription boxes. Most of these contain at least one pattern, and each of these has a monthly subscription option. Please read over it if a subscription box might be something you or someone you know may be interested in receiving.

Riley Blake Designs - free patterns, but make sure to be patient because some may take several minutes to download.

Pattern Posse - free quilt patterns and tutorials. This link is all jelly roll patterns.

There are many other designers out there; these are just what I have saved and/or used. Remember to check all the info on the patterns! Some have rules like not selling the finished items/quilts, and others require just mentioning/tagging them when you post the projects online.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me or any of these designers and websites. If you have questions regarding a specific pattern, I may be able to help, but if it’s from one of the sites, consider contacting the designer(s) first.

#resource list!#dang what a list!!!!#thank you so much!!!!#quilting #fibre arts

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by the way. it never is too late to decide you want to be happy. the woman who helped me get hormones didnt start hers until she was 70, and i met her at 73, beautiful and smiling - and told me that the last three years of her life had been her favorite. your favorites might be ahead of you too. why not hang around and find out?

porcelain-dollbones

snakes really make you appreciate how gross mammals really are. squamates are very dry and clean

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a bird is a kind of reptile that has learned to be yucky.

antikate

I went to a clothes shop with my daughter yesterday and we were talking about how the clothes were nice but how it was the kind of shop that made us both feel like a horse. You know it’s like, here I am, a horse at a human clothing shop, putting on clothes that look ridiculous on a horse, and it’s obviously my fault for being a horse and not a human

Of course that sweater looks weird on me, I’m a horse, not a human! I can barely get my hooves through the sleeves, and it bunches up over my withers and doesn’t reach my fetlocks, and there’s no accounting for my hindquarters. Or my forequarters either

So then we started talking about horse shops and classifying clothes as for humans or for horses, and now I’m afraid the idea of the horse shop is permanently cemented in my vocabulary, and someone is going to ask me about clothes and I’ll be like “oh I can’t shop there it isn’t for horses” and it will be weird

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boring take from real 21st century idiots: bdsm is bad because it's basically torture

interesting take from a fictional 14th century monk: torture is bad because it's basically sex

ohholydyke

Shoutout to the nun who had other nuns tie her up and pour hot wax on her as she confessed her sins

amorphousgenderlesscryptid

I'm sure that's true, but something tells me googling "nun tied up by other nuns" "hot wax" "confessing sins" will likely get what you might call rather un-academic results

were--ralph

i think i said this one before but i remember we used to go to church and one day on the way i just out of the blue asked the car "how do we know god is real? what if people just made him up" and the adults all got super mad at me and gave me generic answers like "we just know" and stuff and my ass was fucking CURIOUS so when church started i asked the Sunday School teacher and she was like "well the bible was written about him" or something like that and i was like "but someone wrote Curious George and hes not real, what if someone made him up too" and she was like irritated but was like "he's a talking monkey of course hes not real, children just like fun stories" or something like that and i don't remember exactly what i said but it was something very close to "but adults like stories too! how do you know he's not made up so because adults want to believe in something too?" and she got SUPER mad and i had to apologize in front of the church but i saw an opportunity so i was like "but no one answered me so i still dont know and i guess you guys don't either" and [everyone] got super mad and none of us could go to that church anymore

the adults were okay to go to church again but me and my siblings had sundays off from that point on and that was kind of a catalyst for the way my brother and sister perceived religion

hyydraworks

When it’s time to take out the fine china 👌🐴

These guys will be in the 7/24 drop at 5 pm ET!

dharmaart

An older painting I never got around to posting. I've always really enjoyed painting golden hour lighting especially on grey or white horses.

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Western passport holders will never understand. To go anywhere with a third worlder passport like a Filipino one, you need your tax returns, certificate of employment, bank statements, marriage certificates, sometimes a recommendation from a citizen of the country you want to travel to, everything possible to prove that you have a job and a family at home and you're not planning to be an illegal immigrant, JUST to get hit with a rejection because the embassy didn't believe you had enough proof.

Did you have travel plans? Already booked the plane tickets and hotels? Fuck you, better hope they issue refunds (they don't).

bloodmech

Americans and Western Europeans will never understand how insanely hard and bothersome it's to travel anywhere with a weak passport, let alone immigrate.

You want to study abroad? Show us proof that there is a quadrillion dollars in your bank account. Oh, an average monthly salary in your country is $400 and you plan to work when you arrive? You can't do that, silly, a student visa only allows you to work 2 hours every third Wednesday, and if we find out that you're working a second more we will deport you.

You want to work abroad? Better be a programmer, then of course you are welcome. Doctor, scientist, white-collar or, god forbid, blue-collar worker? You can fuck right off, your visa application goes straght into trash.

But if you marry one of our first-world citizens, then fine, you can come. Because we can't upset them, after all, they are a real person, unlike you.

xantissa

EU Advice to people who have friends in places with weak passports- go to your department of foreigners and ask for something that called Formal Letter of Invitation or something similar. It usually is called something similar and costs a few euro/whatever currency you have. It will not be more than a fancy coffee at Starbucks or such place.

You will have to prove that you can afford a guest, have some income and also usually take responsibility for possible deportation cost.

But if you really are inviting a friend over, they will give you a formal document you can send to your friend. Then the friend applies for a visa while attaching the Very Official document with it. They will get the Schengen visa and most probably will get it expedited too.

It's some effort, but if it's for a friend it's worth it. And it's way less costly than the ridiculous loops the friend is being forced to go through and pay for multiple 3rd party services just to get a freaking visa for a month.

overthinkinglotr

Another hilarious thing I feel we should talk about more is the fact that *film* Aragorn and Arwen break up right before Aragorn leaves Rivendell……. meaning that film!Aragorn spends most of the quest in an “oh my god my relationship of 50 years just ended what do I even do with myself????” depression haze.

It explains so much…..

Like. Externally Aragorn is on an epic quest to save Middle Earth, internally he’s crying on the couch in his sweatpants eating a tub of the Middle-Earth equivalent of Ben and Jerry’s

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Legolas: Aragorn?

Aragorn: Arwen used to call me Aragorn…..

Legolas: Because it’s your fucking name

overthinkinglotr

To be clear I actually love the film’s version of Aragorn/Arwen’s relationship, there’s a lot of Dramatic Potential/ angsty meta you could write on it, but–.

BUT

It’s also like– you think Aragorn has to put up with Legolas and Gimli’s annoying romance antics? Legolas and Gimli have to deal with Aragorn spending half the quest staring wistfully into the distance and sighing dramatically about What Can Never Be™…with how often he sings the Lay of Luthien, basically the Middle Earth equivalent of Adele’s Someone Like You….

overthinkinglotr

Gimli: You haven’t washed your hair in MONTHS. We’re staging an intervention.

Aragorn (lying flat on the ground with his face in the dirt): aweralwkerjwae

Legolas: You’re only 87– you’ve got your whole life ahead of you. You can find love a second time!

Aragorn: I did. Boromir died.

Legolas: Maybe three is your lucky number!

teddy-after-all

#for me film Legolas’ main character trait#is that he’s incapable of reading the room (tags via @overthinkinglotr)

sweetiepie08

Aragorn, any time he gets a moment to himself during the quest:

starr-bryte

Gimli: This lovely Rhohirrim woman is clearly into you. She’s a fighter. You’re a fighter. She loves horses. You love horses (also you smell like one). Give her a chance!

Aragorn: *flashbacks to him and Arwen making out in Imladris while the elvish version of “when somebody loved me” plays in the background.