The White Rabbit Is Following You.

I'm Róisín 22 years old From Manchester, recent graduate of the University of Leicester, spent a little time in California. I apologise in advance for the mess I have made of my theme You can find me as @decidedlypale on most social media Personal posts under #personal My Face Poems AO3 Twitting sc_online_t(415843,"Users Online","FFFFFF"); Free Tumblr Users Online Counter

[n0cnimura]

[parakeet]

if you go looking for doom and gloom all you will see is doom and gloom. if you go looking for reduced items at the grocery store you may find a littol treat

[gaytanic-panic]

[so-many-ocs]

immediately after an interaction: i have GOT to get more normal oh god i need to get more normal immediately i have to get more normal or they're going to hunt me down they're going to hunt me down and flay me for sport

during an interaction: and why not put a little spin on it? why not add some conversational zest?

[prismatic-bell]

I recently discovered laundry stripping and y’all, no matter how much of a crock of shit you think fast fashion is, you’re underestimating.

[prismatic-bell]

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OKAY SO. You know how we talk about how one way fast fashion has made itself “necessary” is that the clothing looks like shit and feels horrible after just a few washes?

Let. Me. Tell. You. Something.

Laundry stripping is a process where you load your laundry into a tub or bin (I’ve been using my bathtub) with warm water, half a cup of borax, half a cup of washing soda, and half a cup of laundry soap (not detergent, SOAP, there’s a chemical difference). Leave it there for at least eight hours. I’ve been going for 12-24.

What you will come back to is a tub full of nearly-opaque black-gray-brown water that absolutely REEKS. This is normal. You are looking at (and smelling) hard water buildup, body sweat and oils that were embedded in the fabric, dead skin, and just regular grime.

Wring out your clothes. Throw them in the washer. (I like to do a spin-only cycle before going any further, because I have one of those washers that determines by weight how much water any given load needs.) Wash as usual.

You will notice I didn’t suggest any further pretreatment, and that’s because 1) you don’t want to layer too many chemicals on top of each other but also 2) you may not even need it.

When your clothes come out, check each one as it goes into the dryer, and if anything else s still stained, set it aside to run again with a regular pretreatment. One of the sweaters I did this with apparently did need a second treatment…to deal with what appears to have possibly been a hot chocolate stain that was previously invisible due to “well, it’s old” dinginess. I was planning to throw this sweater out. It looks almost new now. I need to wash it one more time for the probably-a-hot-chocolate stain, and then it needs to have the hem weighted to block it and bring it back to evenness, but dude. I wear my clothes to rags and I thought this thing was unfixable. “I need to reshape it” is nothing.

Remove clothes from dryer when done. Fucking MARVEL at the colors and how good the fabric feels. Give them a smell. Get righteously and royally angry that you can rejuvenate this stuff so easily, with a process that does take awhile but is 90% hands-off, but we’ve been trained to believe it’s all got to be binned once a year because discoloration and gross fabric is “normal wear and tear” and can’t be fixed.

It’s utterly unreal! I just pulled a seven-year-old work undershirt out of the dryer and this thing looks NEW!! It FEELS almost new!!! One of the shirts I hung up from the last load is older than some of the people on this site and it went from “I keep this to wear on laundry day, for sentimental reasons” to “I could actually wear this out of the house, it looks old but respectable”! The pajama bottoms I’m wearing were from Goodwill and they have BRIGHT YELLOW in them! I thought it was goldenrod!!

I do not know how often you’re supposed to do this (doing it every time can strip the dye out of your clothes, not to mention it’s way too much work to do every time), but once or twice per season seems respectable. I don’t wear white, so I can’t test the “it will make whites look almost-new as well” claim, but I’ve seen a lot of people on the cleaning subreddit attest that it works.

Just remember: WASHING soda. Not baking soda. I tried baking soda and a little bit happened, but not a lot.

Go forth. Rejuvenate your clothing. Strip your laundry.

[prismatic-bell]

I recently discovered laundry stripping and y’all, no matter how much of a crock of shit you think fast fashion is, you’re underestimating.

[prismatic-bell]

[image ID: a screenshot of the notes on this post, featuring several people indicating they want to know more. End ID.]

OKAY SO. You know how we talk about how one way fast fashion has made itself “necessary” is that the clothing looks like shit and feels horrible after just a few washes?

Let. Me. Tell. You. Something.

Laundry stripping is a process where you load your laundry into a tub or bin (I’ve been using my bathtub) with warm water, half a cup of borax, half a cup of washing soda, and half a cup of laundry soap (not detergent, SOAP, there’s a chemical difference). Leave it there for at least eight hours. I’ve been going for 12-24.

What you will come back to is a tub full of nearly-opaque black-gray-brown water that absolutely REEKS. This is normal. You are looking at (and smelling) hard water buildup, body sweat and oils that were embedded in the fabric, dead skin, and just regular grime.

Wring out your clothes. Throw them in the washer. (I like to do a spin-only cycle before going any further, because I have one of those washers that determines by weight how much water any given load needs.) Wash as usual.

You will notice I didn’t suggest any further pretreatment, and that’s because 1) you don’t want to layer too many chemicals on top of each other but also 2) you may not even need it.

When your clothes come out, check each one as it goes into the dryer, and if anything else s still stained, set it aside to run again with a regular pretreatment. One of the sweaters I did this with apparently did need a second treatment…to deal with what appears to have possibly been a hot chocolate stain that was previously invisible due to “well, it’s old” dinginess. I was planning to throw this sweater out. It looks almost new now. I need to wash it one more time for the probably-a-hot-chocolate stain, and then it needs to have the hem weighted to block it and bring it back to evenness, but dude. I wear my clothes to rags and I thought this thing was unfixable. “I need to reshape it” is nothing.

Remove clothes from dryer when done. Fucking MARVEL at the colors and how good the fabric feels. Give them a smell. Get righteously and royally angry that you can rejuvenate this stuff so easily, with a process that does take awhile but is 90% hands-off, but we’ve been trained to believe it’s all got to be binned once a year because discoloration and gross fabric is “normal wear and tear” and can’t be fixed.

It’s utterly unreal! I just pulled a seven-year-old work undershirt out of the dryer and this thing looks NEW!! It FEELS almost new!!! One of the shirts I hung up from the last load is older than some of the people on this site and it went from “I keep this to wear on laundry day, for sentimental reasons” to “I could actually wear this out of the house, it looks old but respectable”! The pajama bottoms I’m wearing were from Goodwill and they have BRIGHT YELLOW in them! I thought it was goldenrod!!

I do not know how often you’re supposed to do this (doing it every time can strip the dye out of your clothes, not to mention it’s way too much work to do every time), but once or twice per season seems respectable. I don’t wear white, so I can’t test the “it will make whites look almost-new as well” claim, but I’ve seen a lot of people on the cleaning subreddit attest that it works.

Just remember: WASHING soda. Not baking soda. I tried baking soda and a little bit happened, but not a lot.

Go forth. Rejuvenate your clothing. Strip your laundry.

[mollybeenoel]

“What’s the most impressive and stressful thing you’ve seen?”

Me:

Source

[theriu]

That looks SO dangerous but I am SO impressed and UTTERLY charmed and FULL of childlike wonder

[cass404]

I can't believe I'm saying this but Too Much Fire.

[gothiccharmschool]

THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF FIRE.

[argentsunshine]

well you know what they say. when you've invested billions of dollars into hammers every problem looks like a nail and you keep handing these hammers to your users and they go "i don't really think i needed this hammer" and "but i don't have any nails that need hammering in right now" and "this is not a nail this is a glass vase that will break if i hit it with a hammer" and "didn't you used to have, like, other tools avaliable that might be better suited to this job" and you tell them to suck it up because you've replaced all your screwdrivers and wrenches and box cutters and crates and ladders and paint with hammers because your shareholders need to see an increase in value from your hammer investments

[galileosballs]

[chronicowboy]

something about bill being a purely operational and functional man who centred his life on survival but he indulged in his food and made elaborate dishes for himself, something about bill suddenly having someone to cook for and the art of that food becoming more intimate, something about frank begging for paint because he wants to surround himself with beauty and that's how he shows love, something about frank growing strawberries for bill to communicate his love through bill's artform, something about bill getting frank all the paint he wants and their house being filled with art, just something about bill and frank and creativity

[cosmiclion]

Is it too late to join the episode 3 reaction party?

[codependencyisthenameofthegame]

Okay one of the things that strikes me the most about the tlou show is the way it is written. I’m not gonna say it has the best writing ever because even I wouldn’t know what that means. It doesn’t have bad writing either, though, I’m fucking loving the writing. No, what makes me go “oh my god I will never get over this” is the fact that it is WRITTEN LIKE A GODDAMN AO3 AUTHOR WAS ON THE WRITING CREW.

I have never seen things treated in such ways/explored in such ways other than in fic. One of the best examples of this is the sadness factor, in particular episode three.

Throughout the entire series there are regular flashbacks. Never chronological, almost always for new characters or settings and shit. In episode three Joel and Ellie are heading for a hideout, talking about meeting up with Bill and Frank. Who are Bill and Frank? We don’t know—but we’re about to, because we get an ENTIRE GODDAMN EPISODE of flashbacks about them. About how they met, how they fell in love, how they grow old together in the apocalypse. I cried and nothing had even happened yet. The last flashback shows, after building up their relationship and their characterizations and the watchers’ love for them, how they grew old, grew weary, and died together, after having gotten married in an empty town in suits they stole from a 30 year old boutique, after Bill cooked them one last dinner and Frank smiled at his new husband who he’d loved for 20 years and crushed sleeping pills into both their wines. And they’d drunk it, climbed in bed, and died holding each other.

Now what fucking significance does this have on the plot?

None.

None whatsoever.

If they needed a reason for Bill and Frank to be dead, they could have given any number of half-assed excuses. They could have just let Joel find the note, let the watchers see his grief, and let the story continue. Because Bill and Frank are dead, and they have no impact on the story. HOW they died has no impact on the story. Theyre literally just there as a plot device to give Joel a truck.

Instead, they have us an hour long episode in which we became irrevocably attached to these men, and then watch as they die.

Writers don’t just do that. They’re not going to waste a whole ninth of their show on a subplot that affects nothing.

That’s a fanfic writer thing to do. To spend so much time and effort getting you to love something only to experience the pain of ripping it away because THATS WHAT THIS SHOW IS. ITS MEANT TO BE PAINFUL, AND NOT JUST IN THE PRESENT—ITS ABOUT THE APOCALYPSE. TWENTY YEARS AFTER IT STARTED. THERES PAIN IN THE PRESENT AND IN THE FUTURE BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY IN THE PAST and if a writer actually takes the time to explore that, then they have my attention

[figmentof]

The Last of Us x Our Flag Means Death Bill and Frank / Ed and Stede parallels “You were my purpose.” • “What makes Ed happy is you.”

[taiturner]

THE LAST OF US ◆ 1x03 “Long, Long Time”

[thedgeofsleep]

And there’s a hesitation. Bill hesitates because he’s looking, he’s just suddenly seeing how handsome this man is, standing there in the light.  And that’s something that Frank’s brain is incredibly attuned to.  It’s that fast.  There’s a moment there, if you watch that scene again, where he kind of smiles. And he smiles because in his mind, he’s like: I got you, I know you. And from that point forward, it was about, in my mind, about Frank thinking to himself: look, maybe I get lunch and I move on, I don’t know, but let’s just see where this goes.

— Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann talking about the first moment Frank realizes that Bill is gay, on the HBO TLOU podcast. 

[daddy-joel-miller]

"Frank is the flowers, and Bill is the soil." -Nick Offerman

[charlybird]

the script for the last of us episode 3 got released and I’m crying over this one description so I had to draw it. Bill.exe has stopped working

[bananaeatstape]

not very new hyperfixation rediscovered write a poem abt it