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just some guy fr (they/any) makin crochet, makin videos (occasionally) speaking of videos: gaming | random stuff

[itslc123]

welcome!

hey! i'm LC, and i crochet and make videos and do a lot of stuff. don't know exactly what's gonna go here just yet, but it's likely to be a lot of crochet lol.

about this blog

lots of random stuff- my thoughts, and my art. mostly crochet art, but the occasional other random thing as well.

click the read more for more about me, relevant links, relevant tags, and the like :D

about me:

currently in school for mechanical engineering

that being said, i often drop off the face of the planet because of school

certified math enjoyer

certified music enjoyer (if you mention a band i like that i feel like is small/underrated i WILL freak out) (scratch that, if you mention a band i like i will freak out)

certified dropout enjoyer

certified enjoyer of a bunch of other stuff too

i also do youtube, and there's a couple channels i have for that: gaming, random stuff (i might add a crochet channel because. reasons.)

relevant links

will update as i post. if i post. everything i ever do is purely aspirational :D

tags/organization

very much work in progress

#lc makin stuff - anything and everything i've made- wips, drawings, crochet, memes, etc. basically anything i can look at and say "yeah i made that with my hands"

#lc's crochet lab - anything I'm prototyping or thinking about in terms of crochet design, especially weird/unconventional approaches.

#lc's guys - i do not have a better term for these because i refuse to call them dolls. anyways these are my guys!

#ramblebamble - Thoughts™

[trying-trying2lyk]

i love writing out numbers and then putting them in parentheses like "one (1)" even when i dont need to i think its funny

[mangled-by-disuse]

in happier pride news i actually found this deeply heartwarming

that's solidarity baybeeee

[lgbtlaughs]

Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”

[genderkoolaid]

if you've never seen the film Pride (2014), which tells the story of LGSM, you really really need to. Set aside time to watch it this month. Extremely important part of leftist and queer history, and a lesson on what "solidarity forever" means in practice that everyone desperately needs to learn right now.

Here's the r/piracy megathread if you need it. & you can pair that viewing with this article on the real-life history of Lesbians & Gays Support the Miners; they don't make it explicit in the film, but every founding member was a socialist / communist, and that article goes more in depth about the movement.

Notably: LGSM did not wait for the mining communities to be openly supportive of queers and anti-homophobia before showing solidarity. They saw the connection between oppression of Welsh miners and the oppression of queers, and chose solidarity first. It was this choice to materially support other oppressed people, and see the queer community and mining communities are inherently connected through their experiences of oppression and resistance, that allowed the relationship seen above to exist at all.

None of this could have happened if LGSM's solidarity was dependent on the mining communities being queer allies at the time of Thatcher's attacks on them. This solidarity was born out of queer communists seeing things from a broader perspective than just "getting gay rights." They saw how the labor struggle and the queer struggle are connected, and organized to provide material assistance through food and funding. We should all internalize this and seek to apply these lessons to our own communities.

[ivycryptid]

hope you don't mind me adding an extra little resource onto things- this video goes over some of the history in the movie directly! (and the couple inaccuracies too). Also: I just like it.

[lgbtqiatext]

[mono-red-menace]

the two genders are yes or no

[mono-red-menace]

and im STILL nonbinary!

[mono-red-menace]

so call me maybe

[red-r0ver]

via @bagginshield

[thestuffedalligator]

“When we were kids, the Phonics Wizard came to our town to show off how the letter E can change the sounds of vowels. He turned a can into a cane, a pin into a pine. This one kid had a cap and he changed it into a cape, that kind of thing.

“And we loved it, we were all having a great time, but then he saw my sister and I, and he just got this - this look in his eyes, and then-”

She hesitated, worrying the coarse material between her fingers. “Things got pretty bad after that,” she muttered. “I know it’s silly, but I try to keep - her - comfortable. We don’t know if she can still hear us, or see us, or if she’s even still in here, but I like to think she is. I talk to her when I can, I leave music on when I’m out of the house. I tried to convince my parents to bring her with us when we went to Disneyland, but they didn’t - didn’t really take that well.”

After a moment, she put the ball of twine back onto its pillow. “Anyways. They tried to arrest the Phonics Wizard, but he had a plan in case something went wrong and he turned it into a plane and flew away.”

[kimiko24]

I fucking love this video

[cheacegirl]

I made a bad comic and now you have to look at it

[femmepathy]

The mile-long rainbow flag being carried down First Avenue in New York City.

[arcaneasexual]

“For New York City Pride in 1994 (Stonewall 25), Baker created a mile-long rainbow flag that was carried down First Avenue in Manhattan. During the parade, Baker used scissors to cut segments from the flag to be rushed to Fifth Avenue for an impromptu protest march in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the headquarters of New York City’s anti-gay Catholic archdiocese.

^“At the bottom of the image is the segment of the flag cut for the St. Patrick’s Cathedral protest. Photograph by Mick Hicks”

“Gilbert Baker wearing a white sequined dress (right) and other protestors triumphantly march the cut pieces of the mile-long flag past St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Photograph by Charles Beal”

[janmisali]

oh I know how to make a poll's results look like the letter E watch this

what is the rightmost digit of the number of responses this poll has right now? (it should be visible before you vote.)

0, 1, or 2

3

4 or 5

6

7, 8, or 9

Remaining time: 5 days 3 hours

[our-queer-experience]

we DO grow old and happy. btw.

[imconfusedallthetimehelp]

And you find love and it stays with you.

[irisbleufic]

Older women are so, so beautiful, and older trans women are no exception. Celebrate the beauty of our elders! Celebrate trans beauty!

[our-queer-experience]

^^^

[stayingmachine]

I wanted to share some more of these, specifically trans women of color. The images I'm posting are from a project called To Survive On This Shore and it's an interview project. I am only posting a handful so it's so worth checking out!

This is Linda, 60

Alexis, 64

Helena, 63

Kendrah, 72 (!!)

Tasha, 65

It was deeply healing to me to discover this project. The site has selected photos and attached interviews and it's definitely worth your time. I didn't include any because the focus of this post imo is transfems but there are a lot of beautiful interviews with transmasc people too if you're interested! But that'll have to be another post 💖

[prisonparty]

To Survive On This Shore, including photos and interviews of trans folks of all identities in their golden years

[thestorieswesay]

@this-is-trans-joy

[this-is-trans-joy]

This is trans joy!!!

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

you’ll achieve the most you can if you go at your own pace

[tired-stressed-trying-my-best]

[mysillycomics]

[somewhatgrownup]

Had to do it

[chicicherrycola]

[sleepnoises]

come look at selected retrospective works of ruth mcdowell with me

Ladders, 2017. 57" x 45". Machine pieced, machine quilted, cotton fabrics, cotton batting.

Sycamore. 1989. 74" x 52". Machine pieced, machine quilted, cotton fabrics, cotton batting.

Who Are We? Where Do We Come From? Where Are We Going? 1993. 45" x 73". Machine pieced, machine quilted, cotton fabrics, cotton batting.

[queenlua]

btw did you know Seattle now has a zine store

...b/c it totally does & it whips

some of my fave pickups from opening weekend:

94 feet and a peach basket by jeremiah wistrom: did a DOUBLE TAKE when i opened this one & was like holy shit i know that basketball court!!! i've BEEN IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD!!!  and the accompanying writeup was like "yeah i was eating a sandwich in boston's north end & did a double take when i turned a corner and there was a basketball court shoved right up in there?" and i'm like I KNOW THE SANDWICH YOU ATE haha

but yeah—beyond that initial shock of startled & delighted recognition, it turns out this whole book is a photomemoir of sorts, in which the author's taken all these (cool/interesting/from-unusual-angles/etc) photographs of random basketball courts in all these places he's visited, all across the country, and written up a little bit about the history/context/etc of each one, what it was like to shoot some hoops there, what brought them there, etc, and... just a lot of love & interest & local color in it, i really adored reading through the thing

it reminded me a lot of what i love about birding: like birding, i guess you can in fact do basketball Everywhere and just by doing it you learn a little bit about Everywhere in the process.

weird tigers by kiriska: AS ADVERTISED. 10/10 delightful. i love every weird-ass tiger in these pages

what horse are you? by aya borucki: i'm a friesian :)

ἄγχω (ankhō) by s. barnes: i love it when things are claustrophobic & paranoid & bad!  spend the Night Before Battle inside the trojan horse with Odysseus, in glorious black & orange :)))))

i picked up a bunch of other zines too and spent too much money ahlgiehalgie... no time to photograph them all, but, there's unsettlingly-illustrated toxic fish!  there's traumatized geese!  there's surprisingly-affecting poetry!  it's all good shit

so yeah!!! go check out the Paper Pusher's Print Shop if you're in the area, it's a cool spot

[catchymemes]

[mustachioedwalrus]

[shoresoftheshadowlands]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

He’s right. Ten dollars for that much cheese, buying it is the only correct decision.

[anaridgrassland]

HANG ON IT GETS BETTER!!!

I just went to her tiktok to see if there was ever an update to the cheese situation (she reposted the video a year later saying they still had half of it) and said they just shredded the last of it recently.

HE FUCKING DID IT AGAIN!!!!! 🤣

[noadventureshere221b]

They censored the store name. I get it but damn. I wanna know.

[big-smiling-monkey]

Find the name of that store before they go out of business for some inexplicable reason