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puppygirldick

Stained glass smoker window on a purple obs

churrotowns

since it’s pride month, throwback to this beautiful cover and this wholesome interaction between two icons

moghedien

I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with

But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy

moghedien

Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy

batmanisagatewaydrug

sorry to be a broken record every month but christ menstruation is a stupid concept. oooooh excuse me for not getting pregnant, why the fuck is there goo falling out of me about it? grow the fuck up and reabsorb that shit for nutrients.

carolofthebell

The lack of punctuation initially led me to assume that “christ menstruation” was a new irreverent way to refer to the way some denominations take the sacrament of communion monthly instead of weekly like others.

I was ready for some scathing inter-denominational reads but then I hit the word “pregnant” and had to reevaluate.

muffinlance

But going back to OP @batmanisagatewaydrug : there are ways to give your period the boot semi-permanently and safely!

Research options and talk with your doctor, but I haven't had a period in years thanks to my hormonal IUD. My kind is literally prescribed for heavy/painful periods as well as birth control.

Viva la fuck that bodily shit revolution!

Mirena is a prescription IUD that affects periods in different ways. Find out what to expect from your periods using Mirena and signs it is

TL;DR: 20% of people stop their periods completely. Everyone else has the joy of having them at least dialed the fuck down, because it literally works by thinning the lining that sheds during your period.

I plan on offering my daughter the option for one of these immediately upon it becoming possible, because why SHOULD she have a period for the majority of her lifespan just because Biology Says So. Naw man, if she wants to unsubscribe from monthly issues I'm 110% behind her.

Also! It reduces some types of uterine cancer!

GET AN IUD YOU'LL THANK YOURSELF LATER

frostedmagnolias

bodice, waistcoat

c. 1615-1618

linen, silk, silver, silver-gilt, metal, hand-stitched

Glasgow Museums

marzipanandminutiae

people in the notes of that "I don't have a serger" post are going off on tailor's chalk for some reason? as if that's also something that's hugely expensive and insane to assume everyone has?

like. okay. you don't HAVE to use tailor's chalk, but you should at least use something you know won't bleed or otherwise mess up the material. in this case, it does make more sense to do the extra research and maybe buy something new if what you have to hand isn't ideal. ruining your fabric will cost you more time and money in the long run

much as we all hate Am*zon, you can get a 10-piece box of tailor's chalk on there for like $6 USD if you're really cash-strapped and want to sew. that's not the only safe marking material, of course, but it is a tried-and-true option you don't have to research the fabric safety of.

trust me- it's worth it in this case

marzipanandminutiae

if this is helpful to anybody-

Marzi's Sewing Must-Haves:

needle

thread

fabric

ruler, or ability to eyeball 1/2" reliably

scissors

pins

way to mark fabric that you know won't cause problems down the line

Marzi's Sewing Extremely Helpful To Haves:

sewing machine

specifically a clear ruler intended for sewing

ironing board and iron

Spray bottle for dampening fabric to be ironed, if you're like me and keep losing the little iron-filling cup

scrap fabric/cheap fabric to use for mockups

Things Marzi Swears By Because Her Main Money-Consuming Hobby Is Sewing:

French curve (for drawing curves if you plan to modify patterns)

Needle board for ironing velvet (okay can someone explain why these cost an arm and a leg?)

Beading needles

Embroidery Needles

Awl

Pinking shears

Sleeve board (for ironing sleeves and smaller pieces of fabric)

Gridded paper to transfer patterns from books (I use wrapping paper, tbh)

Tracing paper to transfer soutache and embroidery designs

Ribbon-threader/bodkin/drawstring-pull/whatever you want to call Big Needle For Threading Ribbons And Drawstrings Into Casings

Needle case

Piping foot (called by normal 21st-century people "zipper foot")

Things Marzi Sees No Need For Because She Is A Misplaced Victorian-Era-But-More-Progressive Alternate Universe Dweller:

Serger

Buttonhole foot (I just like having more control over things like buttonholes, personally, than a machine can comfortably afford me)

Super-advanced computerized sewing machine

Things Marzi's Friend Got For Christmas And Promised Her Use Of And She's Incredibly Excited About:

EMBROIDERY MACHINE

vinceaddams

Also very important:

Thimble

Seam ripper

Measuring tape

Other things I find useful:

Pin cushion. Easy to make yourself, just double up the fabric layers and stuff it with sawdust.

Needle book. Also easy to make yourself.

Beeswax. Important for a lot (but not all) hand sewing. I've used the stump of a beeswax candle and it worked just as well as beeswax cakes made for sewing.

Another thimble or two in slightly different sizes, for when your hands are a bit swollen.

Terrycloth hand towel, or a piece of cotton velvet, to use instead of a needle board. I've pressed soft slinky velvet just fine on terrycloth by pressing lightly and carefully, using mainly the tip of the iron right on the seam.

A small chisel for cutting open buttonholes. (PLEASE don't use seam rippers for that, I beg.) There are ones made specifically for buttonholes, but a cheap little wood chisel works perfectly fine, just as long as it's sharp. I have two I got from a junk shop.

A few glossy magazines, to use as a cutting surface for said buttonhole chisel. For situations when you're pressing straight down with the blade it's WAY better than a cutting mat.

Tweezers & a lighter for burn testing the fibre content of thrifted fabrics. Mine live in their own little jar.

Magnetic bowl, which can be found at any hardware store. Keep it next to the sewing machine and you can just chuck the pins at it as you pull them out.

Several thrifted metal trays & serving dishes. Good for keeping all this clutter contained and easily moveable between surfaces. And it's fun to keep pins and buttons and thread clippings in fancy little dishes.

Pressing ham. Also super easy to make yourself, though I have a fairly old one someone gave me. A lot of people stuff them with fabric scraps, but we also had a big one at school that was stuffed with straw.

Organza press cloth. Great for pressing intricate things because it's see-through! I have a couple metres of secondhand silk organza and it's lasting me forever, I just cut a new chunk off it, about the size of a sheet of printer paper, every time the old one gets full of holes. A cotton organdy would work too.

Assorted thrifted glass paperweights, to use as pattern weights. I also have two pattern weights that are just broken chunks of iron sewer grate I found in the gutter. They're nice and heavy and I just washed and painted them.

jstor

Happy Pride Month! 🌈

This year’s LGBTQIA+ Pride Month roundup from JSTOR Daily brings together stories on queer history, literature, activism, archives, community care, and the people who built spaces where LGBTQ+ communities could thrive.

You’ll also find links to free scholarly research throughout, making it easy to keep exploring.

See the full roundup.

Image: Covers for several alternative gay and lesbian feminist publications via JSTOR's Reveal Digital Independent Voices Collection.

hungry-skeleton

Asexuals were always part of pride and it really fucking shows when people think it's a recent term.

hungry-skeleton

Although not going by the term "asexual" yet, asexuality was spoken about alongside homosexuality as far back as the 1890s. Asexual history is just as vital to queer history as any other term and I'm so tired of watching us being treated like a new thing

hungry-skeleton

This image is so so fucking important to me

hungry-skeleton

Reblog this, cowards

dreamycastaway

The original pride flag and the sewing machine it was sewn on

iwriterobots

sunnymeel

just-another-cat-blog

pride month!!!

lemonsharks

Is that a miette?

jeanjauthor

Pride for you! Pride for a thousand years!!

lost-and-cursed

you COME OUT to miette? you come out to her as queer? oh! oh! pride for mother! pride for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!

kosmogrl

get in loser we’re gonna try again despite it all

idiotvirginpng

camewiththeframe

persephonesstrap

This is worse. Looking at these you can tell they have no significant monetary value. They were confiscated as a fear tactic. Nothing more.

arithanas

This picture breaks my heart everytime it appears in my dash. It’s a fear tactic, alright but—

The first one in the left corner: It’s a first communion rosary, and it’s not cheap.

The black one in the first line: That’s a widow rosary and it’s old.

The white one in the second line: is a commemoration rosary. It has a miniature picture in the round part. I haven’t seen that since the 70′s.

In the third line, multicolor one: It’s an Anima mundi, I have only seen those in the hands of Rosary ministery’s old ladies. The oldest ones are from the 80′s after Juan Pablo II came to Mexico for the first time. It’s one of the old ones, I know because the crucifixes are different. The third one on the fourth line: Red and gold. The style is old, the metal is dark, that’s a 50′s rosary, probably a quinceañera one (or it’s maybe older, from the 40′s when the brides carried red roses with their offerings).

The fifth one on the fourth line: It’s a quinceañera rosary with Ignatius’s tear. The style is old and in my part of Mexico is orphan girls who used it. At least it was when I was young. The third one of the fifth line: the blue one with the anchor. That one I have only seen in Veracruz and it doesn’t look new. The fifth one on the fifth line: That’s a 90′s wedding rosary. Black and white patterns were popular on that date. The fourth one on the last line: That’s a first communion rosary from the 30′s. It’s delicate and most probably silver. The rest wrench my heart too, the humble everyday rosaries with wooden beads and knots. Those are cheap and bear the wear and tear of their user handling. But those I described are much more.

Those are mother’s rosaries.

Those are not just rosaries. Those are mementos, that’s the proof of their families stories. They are taking from them the only portable things they can carry to feel the connection to their families. It’s not a fear tactic. Call it like by its name. It’s dehumanization.

lkblackham

There is absolutely nothing ICE could have gained by confiscating these rosaries. Absolutely nothing. They did it to be cruel. It is, indeed, dehumanization.

lifeafterpsychiatry

It's a lot healthier to go for a daily walk than to sign up for a gym membership you won't be using because you hate that kind of exercise. It's a lot healthier to eat a frozen meal than to skip a meal because you were too tired to cook something healthy. It's a lot healthier to take a quick shower than to procrastinate an elaborate routine for days. Don't aim so high that you won't be hitting anything!