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[yomozukis]

I’m reading on old superstitions and: “Do not go out collecting nuts on Sept 14th, holy Rood Day, as the devil will be out nutting too!” September 14th: the day the Devil nuts

[yomozukis]

HAPPY DEVIL NUT DAY

[sweaterkittensahoy]

Oooh, devil nutting!!

[tahthetrickster]

there’s only 4 hours of labor day left and absolutely nobody on my dash posted todaybor day is labor day. fucking unbelievable. i have to do everything around here

[tahthetrickster]

it’s that time of year again lads

[tahthetrickster]

good morning americans

[shutinthenutouse]

[389]

[crumbwinner]

now this is what i’m talkin about. Leaf surfer

[depsidase]

[dragon-png]

help a trans person in need

hey, again. i'm sorry to end the year like this, but i need help again. i need some money for my utility and my phone so i can keep doing doordash making money until i start my new job next month. i also couldn't doordash this week because i've been sick.

my utility bill is due in TWO days and my bank is negative. i need at least $120 for that alone. if you could please donate or reblog i would greatly appreciate it.

i have paypal, but that is currently even further in the negatives at -$72.38. i've been really stretched at my limit as you can see.

please help me 🙏 i need $330 overall

$0/$330

cashapp - $hellishqueer venmo - hellishqueer

[dragon-png]

$20/330

any bit helps. i'm running low on food and other basic things so i really need to get back on the road as soon as possible. :')

[dragon-png]

$95/$330

thank you SO much you guys are amazing. please continue to share if you're unable to donate i really, really appreciate it

[nannaesthetic]

Paul Cornoyer

[liberalsarecool]

Republican electorate is the worst. Greedy, selfish, unserious, gullible, hateful, and most definitely shameless.

Trump spends his life playing a victim. White voters with no merit identify with that immaturity and resentment.

[wonderlartcafe]

Kawanabe Kyōsai (1831–1889), 
 1. Crow and Willow Tree 柳に鴉図. 
 2. Crow on a Branch 木に鴉図. 
 3. Crow on a Rock 岩に鴉図. 
 4. Crow Flying in the Snow 雪中鴉図. 5. Crow and the Moon 月に鴉図. 6. Crow on a Bamboo Branch 竹に鴉図. 7. Crow and Reeds by a Stream 水辺に鴉図. 8. Two Crows on a Pine Branch 松に鴉図

[homunculus-argument]

A demon simply called The Brother. It doesn't have siblings or any family, and it's ambiguous whether that creature itself is even male at all. It just keeps turning everything and everyone into broth.

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

Oh my favorite summon

[frontmansdefender]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

OH IT'S A NOSE

That took me way too long. Staring at the unsettling singular eye.

[ctimenefic]

Seasonal Affective Disorder is just emotional scurvy, all my core wounds are reopening and they won't be fixed until the big lemon in the sky comes back

[fisharescary802]

Have you tried making an image of the big lemon in the sky. To encourage it to come back

[eggtempest]

[what-even-is-thiss]

The little kitten insists upon grooming me when I pet him. He’s like oh you groom me do not worry I groom you too. Big sandpaper tongue on your arm.

Yes baby that tiny amount of licking you’re doing on my thumb is making a world of difference thank you

[what-even-is-thiss]

He also does this to the teenage cat who you can tell is also humoring him like yes thank you you licked two square inches of my fur in the wrong direction little brother wonderful

And then he immediately fixes his fur the second the little one walks away lol

[headspace-hotel]

so many articles about Fast Fashion, not enough articles about what the hell is happening to the quality of clothes

Like okay. People own more pieces of clothing nowadays and they wear them a lesser number of times before throwing them out. BUT.

Why do we pretend like this is pure vanity or careless wastefulness, rather than forced by the qualities of the clothes themselves?

The other day, I was going through boxes of old clothes in the basement in search of fabric to practice sewing on. The difference in quality of the fabrics themselves is shocking! The worn-out old jeans from twenty years ago are MUCH thicker and tougher than anything more recent. My old baby clothes are made as sturdy as my work clothes from today.

In the past couple years, I have had entire seams rip out of clothes on the first wash. That's not normal!

Polyester blend shirts that feel cozy and soft when they are new, become scratchy and rough after 20 washes or so. I am trying to avoid polyester, but it gets harder and harder; the other day i couldn't find a single pack of crew socks that was 100% cotton. SOCKS!

Also, pilling is out of control. The newest pants I bought developed pills within a single day of walking around campus with a backpack.

These companies are trying to frog-boil us but touching clothes from twenty years ago, the useless crap of today would stick out like a sore thumb...

[hey-gray]

I used to caddy. I got around 35,000 steps (around 19 miles) on an average day of work. I bought 6 pairs of socks once a year, and they never formed holes in the bottom until I had already bought new socks. I still buy that brand of socks, but now I work a desk job. The socks I bought in February are already wearing thin.

I still have shirts I bought in middle school that I have worn fairly regularly that are hole-free, or only have holes where there is more wear (e.g. armpits). The wear on them matches pretty closely with the wear on shirts I got in the last couple years. One shirt I got new just a year or so ago is practically dissolving - big ass holes all over, including several in the middle of the chest.

These are not the only examples I have. I see no explanation for these facts other than a recent decrease in quality across the board. It's frankly ridiculous, and I want to do something about it, but I don't know what I can do. On an individual level, sure you can buy used, but even good quality clothing does eventually wear out, so not everyone can buy used. It seems like the only solution is producing good quality clothing, but how does an individual even work towards that?

[headspace-hotel]

I know there has to be real documentation of this buried somewhere in the abyssal detritus of the modern world....The companies made the choice at some point, to start using shorter staple length fibers, lesser quality fibers, less sturdy weaving, worse stitching...and the worse stitching is often pointed out by people who sew because it is visible, but i've never seen an analysis of it spanning the whole chain of clothing coming to be.

Personally, I've been experimenting with natural fibers that are alternatives to the usual ones. Dogbane (Apocyonum cannabinum) is the flax equivalent native to North America, and extremely promising, but it's far from the only one.

[thesingersews]

Peer-reviewed tags by @elprupneerg

I can confirm, it is getting harder and harder to find quality fabric for an affordable price. I can't even shop at Joann anymore, and they are the only option for a fabric store in most places that has any kind of variety in their apparel section and isn't owned by religious fundamentalists *cough* like hobby lobby *cough.* The quality of their fabrics has declined rapidly, even from before the pandemic! The only thing they have anymore is cheap synthetic fabrics, mostly polyester, and cotton which used to be decent and is getting worse by the year. AND they charge more for EVERYTHING now. AND they treat their workers like shit. (Like say what you will about hobby lobby and their fundie ideology but at least their pay scale starts at like $18 as opposed to Joann which was still paying $10.50 in 2022 and would never schedule me for more than 15 hours a week)

I know of a few boutique fabric shops but they either just have quilting cotton of varying quality or have prices that are plain unsustainable. Even the online shops I frequent are growing more questionable, and some mislabel their products so it's hard to tell what the fabric is made of or how much it weighs. The sites that are still mostly reliable for quality require you to shell out the cash.

There was one site, fabrics.com, I believe, that had a pretty good search feature and pretty affordable deadstock fabric, but it got bought by Amazon and eventually they shut down the website and subsumed it into Amazon marketplace, where it's impossible to search for anything and get reliable results.

It really is a textile wasteland out here.

[ariaste]

Couple of tips: First: All of the above is correct. Fabric quality has gotten worse. One thing you can do to keep your clothes going longer is DO NOT USE FABRIC SOFTENER!!!!!! Fabric softener works by gradually dissolving the fibers, which contributes to faster wear, holes in clothes, etc. FABRIC SOFTENER IS THE DEVIL. You know those Tide Pods? They're so convenient, right? Make sure you get the kind that is JUST detergent (the one-color kind), not the kind that also has the fabric softener in it (the kind with two or three "sections" of different color fluids). Second, a couple recs for online fabric stores I like: 1. If you're the sort of person who is already looking for fabric to buy your own clothes, then I'm gonna assume that you're not necessarily fundamentally against the idea of dyeing your own cloth, and therefore I will recommend dharmatrading.com as a great place to buy a huge selection of fabric of all fiber types (they've got everything from burlap to silk veiling). Most of it is undyed, but i think they do have some dyed silk fabrics as well. Their prices are really fair IMO, but yeah you will have to dye it yourself. (Dyeing not that hard, though, as long as you follow the directions and enter into it with a spirit of cheerful experimentation and willingness to be flexible on the exact, precise outcome -- at least the first couple times!) 2. fabricwholesaledirect.com -- all sorts of fabrics at wholesale prices, I've bought from them a couple times (velvet and flannel for curtains) and I've been reasonably pleased with the quality -- YMMV probably depending on what you're buying. They do sell by the yard, but if you're planning on getting a huge amount of fabric (ie: if you're making floor-to-ceiling curtains) then I recommend waiting for one of their big sales. I bought mine around Black Friday and the sale prices were bonkers.

3. Silkbaron.com for silks. REALLY great prices

4. wawak.com for sewing notions (buttons, thread, zippers, eyelets, etc etc etc)

5. tandyleather.com for leather and leather-related tools

6. Joanne.com -- yeah, their prices aren't as good as they used to be, but they do send out a lot of coupons and have regular sales, so you gotta make use of those for it to be worth it.

[thursdayplaid]

@elvencantation

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[mayra-quijotescx]

[Video description: A classical musician in hanfu absolutely shredding while on a small boat floating down a river. End description.]

#craving a wuxia type story of a travelling bard that has a reputation of being cursed or working with demons#but shes just nosy and pisses people off on purpose to make them drop their guards so she can upend their whole world n find rot underneath#and she does this while being sloppy and poorly mannered on purpose#but also extremely badass and elegant when she needs to get shit done#and she ALWAYS makes a fucking Entrance wherever she goes#shes the bad guy#most people know if you let her into your village she'll bring destruction in her wake#but the people who REALLY know know that the change she brings is usually for the better#like the death tarot card#.........HEY SOMEBODY WITH MORE TALENT THAN ME- (via @spookymodernjazz)

HELP I NEED THIS TOO

[headspace-hotel]

curious to hear y'all's suggestions for the worst possible pasta shape

(Assume that "pasta" needs to be made of sheets or strands of dough with enough surface area relative to thickness so that they can be cooked.)

[headspace-hotel]

I was going to suggest fettuccini but twisted with the ends connected to form a Möbius strip, but then I realized that would fuck like hell.

[headspace-hotel]

@fishofthewoods I did NOT expect to get such a strong contender so early.

[headspace-hotel]

@alilcajun @aralioideae

a couple of challengers emerge

[headspace-hotel]

You are all fucking madmen

[gogogoat495]

[ID: Some ideas for terrible noodle shapes.

fishofthewoods: bowl shaped and it's the size of an entire bowl. /but/. it's got holes punched in it like a colander. you need to put it in your bowl like some fucked up liner and then put sauce in it. Can't even use it like a bowl.

alilcajun: tap root-esque pasta. one big strand of noodle with tiny little angel hairs coming off of it

aralioideae: some sort of enclosed shape like conchiglie but the opening is shaped like a valve so that it lets the pasta water in but not out so when you bite into it you get a mouthful of scalding hot pasta water

zaneplodes: picture bowtie pasta. pinched thick middle part and flat edges? I propose a noodle that's like a long strand of bow ties connected by the thick middle part with a simple strand like a speghetti --&--&-- something like that, where there's no way you're getting uniform doneness throughout the noodle and can't easily twirl or hold its own weight

imageartifacts: Flat sheets of pasta bubblewrap. The bubbles have tiny holes so that they all fill with water as you cook it

domesticated-chaos-uwu: big sphere (like bowling ball size) that is all empty in the middle. you buy it as a giant ball and it flattens out while boiling

chaoticrystal: pasta that's built like an underwater cable. It has multiple different thicknesses of pasta in the middle, surrounded by a larger pasta matrix. Bonus points if the inner pasta are tubes, so you have to cook it by pumping hot water into it like a multi-tubed hose. Any sauce/cheese/topping that's liquid enough can be pumped in the individual tubes afterward. Served on a long rectangular plate, and you saw off chunks like a thick sausage to serve it to individuals.

evtrained: I like the idea of a sheet of lasagna noodle, but with tiny little angel hair spaghetti plugged into it vertically so it's like a hair mat or a toupee

ionized-alpaca: smooth sphere outside, lots of squiggles inside. like an enclosed mitochondrion. minimal sauce outside, shit ton of squiggly naked pasta inside. probably impossible to get it all one texture too.

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