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i hate the word spicy can we bring back calling things erotic
rolling up to Wendy's to get an erotic chicken sandwich
I never thought Terry Pratchett's advice would be useful in THIS context
'Erotic' is when you use a feather.
'Kinky' is when you use a chicken.
So you're saying I need to order a kinky chicken sandwich?
NASA just dropped the closest image ever taken of Jupiter
@hamletthedane’s tags: #Vincent Van Gogh is crying somewhere in the after and I’m crying just thinking about that#you knew!! you saw the patterns!! there is a whole planet painted in the oils from your brush!!#TIL that the craft Juno went as close as 4000km from Jupiter’s weather surface#for context: the craft was closer to Jupiter than NYC is to LA#which is space terms is like. basically being on the planet#holy shit
You are allowed to find things hot in theory while also never wanting to actually do them in real life btw. You can get off on whatever wild shit in your imagination and still prefer to be very vanilla in real life. Or not want to have sex at all in real life. You don't owe the universe anything in exchange for your dirty mind.
Have you ever wondered how tech technicians recover data from faulty flash and memory whose data cannot be recovered by normal methods.
this is necromancy
This, right here?
THIS is a magic circle and NOTHING you can tell me will convince me otherwise.
@eroticismofthemachinedetector
Beep BOOP
The -mancy suffix, though it has branched out greatly in recent times, originally referred to divination. This is literally wresting knowledge of the unknown from the bones of the dead. So this isn't just necromancy, it is necromancy in the original sense. Old necromancy meeting new technology.
Fun fact: by just using imaginary numbers, some Evil Math, and 101 rotating vectors You Can Create a shitty approximation of a fish.
two points of view on math fish
it isn't good art unless it's itself enough to get haters, so
win
it isn’t good art
unless it’s itself enough
to get haters, so
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Oh, to be a tiny mermaid to escape the heat
i watched one (1) video on how to draw hands that changed my life forever. like. i can suddenly draw hands again
these were all drawn without reference btw. i can just. Understand Hands now (for the most part, im sure theres definitely inaccuracies). im a little baffled
for those of u asking for the vid!
So apparently, over the summer, Quibi (the shortest-lasting streaming service ever lmao) did a quarantine project called “Home Movie: The Princess Bride” where a bunch of celebrities recreated The Princess Bride in tiny chunks at home.
And like there was no permanent cast, all these celebrities seem to have gotten a scene or part of a scene to do (i’m not sure exactly, I did not ever watch Quibi and thus haven’t seen this yet), and then they just… recreated it as best they could. At home. Under quarantine.
So like, you had Jennifer Garner in a blanket cape playing Princess Buttercup AND the Booing Old Woman with a crowd comprised entirely of stuffed animals:
Or Taika Waititi paying Westley off a badly-drawn Inigo on a piece of cardboard held in front of someone’s face:
And it’s all just delightful.
But my absolute favorite part of this thing that I’ve sadly never seen but assume is probably absolutely hilarious and a treasure and I want to find it some day and watch the whole thing… is that Carey Elwes is in it.
As Prince Fucking Humperdink.
https://youtu.be/lR8pA_WV9QI
Here ya go
In case you need a comfort watch and because Youtube search nowadays sucks rancid farts, I remind you of the Princess Bride Home Movie from the lockdown, starring everybody
June. Is there a sweeter (and hotter 🔥) month? The parties, the long days… it’s all just so… gay! 🥳 But we want to pause (as we do every year!) to remember who we are, and why we’re here; to honor the communities that we belong to and love. Celebrating queerness; honoring each other; loving our differences with compassion, honor, and joy—this is what Pride is all about. Here’s a collection of writing prompts for Pride that we hope help you deepen your queer stories and characters. Go explore some queer themes and possibilities, and reflect on what it means to be queer… in all our messy and magnificent multiplicities! Happy Pride, Ellipsus people! Full list of prompts on the blog. (Artists pictured in the Snippets above: Holly Stapleton; Jeanne Mammen; Rachel Droter; Anthony Cudahy) - the Ellipsus Team xo
i would like to officially thank sesame for its seeds, its oil, and of course its street
couldn’t leave this in the tags
I have been enjoying seeing people experience food this World Cup
The person who wrote this has almost certainly never been to Japan- if they had, they would know that Japanese restaurants also offer table appetizers in many contexts. Some of them? Mexican restaurants. You can get free tortilla chips when you eat Mexican food in Tokyo Osaka Kobe Kyoto and rural HIMEJI for fuck’s sake. Those are just places where I’ve personally had free tortilla chips in Japan.
This is chat gpt trash prompted to “sound Japanese” and it’s based off of racist old movie dialogue. There’s zero correlation here to Japanese grammar and how Japanese translates into English or how a native speaker of Japan uses English. It’s slop. It’s racist ai slop rehashing Western exceptionalism, fantasizing about a Japanese person being in awe of how great the USA is. It’s depressing that people fell for this. I know it feels good to think that other people like us, and sometimes they do, but this only works if you assume Japanese people have extremely limited experience and worldview. It’s mortifying.
If someone other than me would push back against this propaganda, it would be nice.
im so sick of unnecessary dinner scenes in movies 😡 every fucking movie they just want to titillate you with some food because they think you’re a dumb animal who just wants to see mashed potatoes bouncing. if its an IMPORTANT dinner scene where they explain lore then whatever i understand. but they shove useless meals into every movie these days and its disgusting
really? you don’t say
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hey can you do me a favour?? Can you go get that nice pristine sketchbook or journal you've been hoarding and put some kind of mark on the first page? Anything will do, like a smudge of graphite or a blob of ink, or perhaps a very scribbly dinosaur. Just put something there. Please, or the dinosaur will be sad.
I was SO SAD for this dinosaur that I grabbed the nearest notebook (a calendar) and drew a little sailing ship for him
oh thank goodness!
IT’S OKAY IF YOU MESS IT UP
SKETCHBOOKS ARE FOR MESSING UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THEY ARE!!!! It's right in the name! Like @sleepnoises said a while ago, they're for the quick putdowning of ideas! to catch the stuff that comes out of your brain! (I don't mean to say that pretty sketchbook pages are bad, but it's important for your health to do quick scribbly stuff too. if not in a book then perhaps on small scraps of paper)
The dinosaur is very glad to see so many doodles in the notes! Also lots of comments with very good suggestions for people who have a hard time starting, like starting on the second page, just signing & dating it, numbering the pages, or using the first page to put samples of all your usual pencils and pens and such.
Here's how I started my new sketchbook, which I got for 5 dollars at Dollarama. I would have drawn on that first blank page instead of just signing it, but it was partially glued to the endpaper and wouldn't lie flat.
(Also, since the sketches are about making velvet mites with little wired legs, I must mention that if/when I get around to doing that it'll be posted on @vincentbriggs where all my non-dinosaur arts go.)
ok here is the mite, finally finished! More pics on my other blog.
oh gosh did I forget to update you on the mite? I made another one and filmed it a few months ago.
... Vincent... Is... Is your notebook cover an Imagine Dragons pun? 😭
No, it's a monster (no wings! not a dragon!) and I was just trying to cover up the writing the book cover came with.
Hello! I'm new to your blog and to sewing and I enheireted a (I think) Domestic Rotary 153. It was my great grandmothers and I do not have a manual for it. I was hoping you might save me from possibly destroying it out of ignorance and have some advise on getting started?
Oh gosh, I started answering this in January and saved it as a draft and then forgot, I'm sorry!!
Hello! (Link to the post that presumably prompted this ask.)
(Also, I mostly try to keep this blog for dino comics, and my sewing blog is here.)
Ooh nice! I hope you can get it cleaned up and working! That's not a brand of machine I've ever met personally. While I've been sewing on a Singer 15 my whole life, it's only recently that I've really gotten into cleaning & restoring machines, so I'm not super knowledgable but I do have some advice for starting.
There are a LOT of resources out there for vintage & antique sewing machines out there. Tons of blogs and youtube channels, various forum sites, and the International Sewing Machine Collectors' Society.
A lot of machine manual scans can be found online. In addition to the users manual, sometimes you can find the service manual, which shows how to take apart and adjust & replace things.
I can't find the service manual for the Domestic Rotary 153, but the users manual is right there at the top of the google results and you can download it as a pdf!
My experience is limited to the 6 machines I have, but I've found scans of users manuals for 5 of them, including my 1885 White treadle. (And the 6th one is nearly identical to one of the others due to being a "15 clone", so it's ok that it has no manual.) And I've found the service manuals for 4, (though again 2 are so similar they share the same manual).
I've also found loads of useful stuff by googling [name of machine] [specific problem], and watching the videos that come up. There are a lot of old people on youtube who make long mostly unedited videos walking you through how to fix various things. I searched "singer 99k timing" and found a very clear video showing how to fix the timing, which turned out to be wonderfully easy.
(It does depend on how common the machine is though. The Singer 99k is very popular, but I couldn't find much of anything about the White VS2.)
I have no idea what kind of shape your machine is in but hopefully it's not missing any major pieces and also the wheel turns?
A lot of the time the bobbin winder tire needs replacing, and maybe some felt discs, and the drive belt if there is one. The soft bits that break down if it's been in poor storage conditions too long. Sometimes they're still ok though, it depends a lot on the storage conditions, or if they've already been replaced somewhere along the line. One of my vintage Singers came with a perfectly soft rubbery drive belt, and another came with one that is stiff & crispy as a potato chip.
As with any old electronic device it's important to examine the wires first to make sure they aren't damaged before you plug it in. It's possible to rewire things if necessary - I had my father do that to one of my Singers last year, and I only helped a little and don't have the knowledge to give any advice on that but it did look like it wouldn't be too hard to learn, and any electrician ought to be able to do it.
(One thing I would like to learn about is taking apart & cleaning the motors - scrubbing off any residue that shouldn't be there and replacing the brushes or oil wicks or whatever. I don't know how yet but I know it's possible.)
I'd suggest watching some cleaning videos, and getting a jar of metal polish. I was recommended this stuff, so I got some and am very pleased with it.
Get a whole box of q-tips just to keep with machine stuff, you'll need a lot of them. I use them for polishing in small places, and cleaning, and wiping oil on bits a rag can't reach. (And a sewing machine cleaning brush is useful for more regular maintenance.)
Fine sandpaper is good for rusty bits if needed. A removable small rusty piece can be soaked for some hours in a vinegar/water mixture and scrubbed with a wire brush, but you've got to slather it in oil as soon as it dries or the rust will come right back. Or, slater for moving joints and things with small crevices, but wiping down with an oily rag is good for more easily reachable surfaces. An oily q-tip is also useful for reaching things.
I like to use rubbing alcohol on q tips to dissolve dried gunky grease but ONLY on bare metal, don't do it on paint or shellac because it dissolves that too!
Wood and painted metal can be cleaned with a damp rag, and an oily rag is also good for painted metal. Actually, with the old lacquered machines the general advice seems to be to rub a light coating of oil all over the painted surface. Not enough to make it greasy to the touch, just a thin little protective shiny barrier. It can also help remove dirt, though as washing methods go it's very slow. I did manage to get a whole strip of old tape residue off the bed of one of my machines using just oil and a lot of rubbing with q tips.
A bit of fast orange is useful to have for washing it off your hands more easily if you get really gunky, but for just a bit of oil you can wash them off fine with dish soap.
Oh speaking of oil, if you find a vintage bottle of oil that's gone brown don't use it, it'll be so stinky! New sewing machine oil is clear as water and hasn't got much of a smell at all.
For anything requiring rags I use either paper towels or soft cotton rags. Old cotton flannel pyjamas make great rags.
When you start taking stuff apart to clean & polish & oil stuff be sure to take photos as you go so you know how to put it back together, and keep things organized! I group my machine bits on paper towels on various trays. Sometimes you put something back together wrong and have to disassemble it and reassemble it a few times before it's right. (Going back and looking at the manual or any videos you might find can help, of course.)
Get an oil bottle with a long spout so you can reach every place you need to, and oil everything that moves. If metal is rubbing against metal you want it to be greasy. (Excluding anywhere the thread goes, of course, don't oil the tension discs.)
Good luck! With a solid metal machine you're unlikely to accidentally break it as long as you don't try to force anything, so don't worry too much, and enjoy learning as you go!
