fashioned from things that carry themselves

dni w/ zionism or transmisogyny

[achillesinhighheels]

[stitchposts]

what is your LEAST favorite stitch?

I don't like counted work at fucking all. So: the cross stitch.

[rabbitindisguise]

reading this as someone who does cross stitch but is scared of the other kinds of embroidery is like overhearing an incredibly tall and buff person say they have beef with Mr. Tom, the kitten that chills at the bookstore

[stitchposts]

FUCK Mr. Tom and his stupid little fluffy tail ok. And his little charted designs.

[the-dragongirl]

Okay, but this neglects the true villain of embroidery stitches: the French knot

[stitchposts]

Don't you dare malign my girl again

[im-a-dream-wizard]

Ok the french knot is very useful but it is a BITCH to do it consistently

[stitchposts]

[ao3-anonymous]

We talk about how this website’s hate mail game is insane, but this might just be a new level

[talbatross]

"skill issue" made entirely from French knots is a next level roast. no coming back from that one. damn

[quillonism]

a trans couple got beaten up by a literal mob in Louisiana and THEY were the only ones arrested. this is fucking sickening.

Trans Couple Brutalized At Louisiana Park Bathroom, Then Charged By Police

An angry mob allegedly beat them. The police charged them. The municipality voted for one of the most severe anti-trans bathroom ordinances

here’s the link to the gofundme for their medical bills and legal expenses. I already donated 25 dollars. please do the same if you can. any amount helps.

Donate to Help Trans Couple Recover from Hate Crime, organized by S B

Raising funds to help AU and her partner pay their medical and legal bills, recover from… S B needs your support for Help Trans Couple Recov

[letterful]

— ANNA KAMIEŃSKA, translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh & Stanisław Barańczak.

[ancientknitter]

Astronomy Sweater (England, 1980s) designed by Jamie & Jessi Seaton. Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales.

[lovevintagestuff]

illustration from the Soviet magazine for young children Merry Pictures (Весёлые картинки), nr 11 from 1959

[judithschaechter]

Super/Natural. by Judith Schaechter, engraved flash glass, wood.

www.judithschaechter.com

[ssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

children's chair from the 1920s

[calvinanddune]

The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.

[prinz-myshkin]

two deer moving through the forest

[neoyorzapoteca]

Ghada Amer, My Nympheas #2, 2018 (via the thread)

[polkadotmotmot]

Annieo Klaas - Daydream No. 2, 2024 - Oil on canvas

[melanchol1e-deactivated20250809]

Realmonte Salt Mine in Sicily, Italy

[boiga]

A scribbly gum tree (Eucalyptus haemastoma) in the process of shedding its outer bark. NSW, Australia.

by Tessa Barratt

[pastperfectcontinuous]

bell hooks mentioned going through a time in her life where she was severely depressed and suicidal and how the only way she got through it was through changing her environment: She surrounded her home with buddhas of all colors, Audre Lorde’s A Litany for Survival facing her as she wakes up, and filling the space she saw everyday with reinforcing objects and meaningful books. She asks herself each day, “What are you going to do today to resist domination?” I also really liked it when she said that in order to move from pain to power, it is crucial to engage in “an active rewriting of our lives.”

[ritavonbees]

I have come to think of the suicidal impulse as the brain waving a flag to say three things:

something needs to change here

this is urgent

I don’t know how to do it

death is the ultimate metaphor for drastic change. it’s a general specific. whatever your problems are, it is very likely that dead people don’t have to deal with them. a real solution to your problems may demand a very narrow range of action that’s likely to be out of reach at this moment, but death is sold on every street corner, so it feels like a more realistic fantasy than happiness.

you don’t really want to die per se but it’s also not completely random chemicals swamping your brain for no reason. you want the pain to stop, you want to be somewhere else, you want to be someone else. it’s urgent. you don’t know how to do it. the end is not the end but a means that feels within your reach right now.

this is the wisdom of bell hooks: daily rituals of meaning and resistance and solidarity are part of slowly building a future where you can make the change you really need. and only alive people can do that. every step you take towards change and power is another step away from death.

[cunt242]

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i have never been so insulted in all my life i could swallow the seas to wash down all this pride first you run like a fool just to be at my side and now you run like a fool but you just run to hide i can't abide i got my feet on the ground and i don't go to sleep to dream you got your head in the clouds and you're not at all what you seem this mind this body and this voice cannot be stifled by your deviant ways so don't forget what i told you don't come around i got my own hell to raise

[aqua-regia009]

Ab Eo Quod (1956) - Leonora Carrington