Hold me fast, hold me fast

What you'll find: Black Sails, M*A*S*H, HBO war media (Band of Brothers/The Pacific/Generation Kill), various other historical fiction media, Broadway musicals, assorted other things I like.

[essentiallydanielle]

I’m dead 💀

[elodieunderglass]

it's a well-known fact in the textile crafting community that "making objects from textiles" is an entirely separate hobby from "having a collection of materials to make things with."

crafters often refer to this collection as a "stash" or a "hoard."

it's normal to have, but sometimes comes with a certain awkwardness.

the problem is that it takes a very long time to make things from textiles - and it is extremely quick, fun and easy to get more materials.

Presents, impulse purchases, leftovers from other projects, things you bought FULLY intending to make something that you changed your mind about...

Another problem is that you genuinely DO have a plan for the materials! your intentions and desires are THERE!

and admitting that it isn't going to happen - or that your mind has changed, or you're no longer able to do them - can be really painful!

it's incredibly hard to say: "we are not the people who can do these things. we are not the people who WILL do these things."

but sometimes you need to.

it's a natural part of life. it might feel painful to let go of things that you really want to use, but won't. But clearing them out - and the attached guilt and shame - will make room for a lot more things in your life. Room for things you'll use. Room for the projects you'll do.

Room and space - not for hanging on to the shades of the ambitions and intentions and people you aren't - not being held for lives you don't have - but room and space for who you are today, and who you'll be tomorrow, and for the things you'll do.

Room and space to grow.

[elminx]

I’ve noticed some posts around about how you can’t romanticize your life during a fascist regime and while I deeply sympathize with this sentiment, I want you to try to understand that’s what they want you to believe.

Fascism thrives best in the cesspool of hopelessness. They want us so confused and hopeless that we give in. When you give in, you don’t fight back.

If you wait for life to look good to do the things that bring you joy; life will still be bad - you will just have less joy.

As someone who has struggled with my mental health a lot for the last thirty years, I know this struggle firsthand. And changing this belief system - the one where you spend all of your time expecting bad things so you won’t be surprised when they happen - it’s the hardest work that I have ever done. And I’m not perfect; I still have setbacks. I still experience really real fears about the state of the world and the US, in particular, because that’s where I live.

But I made a vow to myself that I will not let the choices of others ruin my life. When I made that vow, I was thinking of my parents - but it applies to the state of the government right now, too.

There are still flowers in my garden, and ripe tomatoes, and it’s almost pick-your-own apples season, and I have plans with my friends to go to as many cemetery ghost walks as we can find this October.

I still deserve to live. I still deserve to laugh. I still deserve to love. I still deserve to be as happy as I can be.

And you do, too.

[yeahawvampire]

Dan Savage.

[thememedaddy]

[talesfromthecrypts]

Christopher Heyerdahl in the Vampire Media

Are You Afraid of the Dark (1993)

Blade: Trinity (2004)

Twilight (2009-2012)

True Blood (2012)

Van Helsing (2016-2021)

Bonus:

[hawkbi-pierce]

My finished TDF skeins so far! Finally wet finished these, and I love how much the fiber bloomed in the wash. The first race is finished, but I’m still planning to spin through the end of Tour de France Femmes.

[hawkbi-pierce]

Sooooo happy with how these turned out. No idea yet what I’ll make with them.

[beardedmrbean]

[theman]

I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF

[tattooedzombigirl]

This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.

[secondlina]

Reblogging because it’s a damn potato and I want to encourage people to assume potatoes are magical.

[sinksanksockie2]

w-what if potato is actually lucky

[hawkbi-pierce]

Tour de Fleece day 11: skeins plied

(Merino/bamboo blend)

[hawkbi-pierce]

Tour de Fleece day 4:

Working on a merino/bamboo blend. 2oz down, 2 to go, then I plan to spin the grey merino in the pic and ply both together.

[hawkbi-pierce]

Tour de Fleece day 3: First skein finished! Fiber is a Bluefaced Leicester/sari silk/merino tweed.

[hawkbi-pierce]

The “Tour de Fleece” is a spinning event that takes place during the Tour de France, the idea being to spin every day the TDF rides. My goal is to get through my backlog of pretty braids, some of which I’ve had for more than a year.

[hawkbi-pierce]

Victor Hugo why are you like this

[hawkbi-pierce]

MONSIEUR HUGO

[hawkbi-pierce]

Victor Hugo why are you like this

[thebreakfastgenie]

if you're shipping two thirty-year-old dudes in a fifty-year-old show that's not [old man] yaoi that's old [man yaoi]. don't forget order of operations.

[papergardener]

The number of times I saw MASH in the tags is correct.

[majorbaby]

[hawkbi-pierce]

SAW BEAR MCCREARY LIVE AND THE HURDY GURDY SOUNDED EVEN BETTER IN PERSON 😭