a dog? a fucking dog?

30+ | they/them

[bedupolker]

Autobiography of that one time i thought I saw someone dressed as a trout

[bedupolker]

You may be a catfish, but you'll never catfish me the way troutdog did... if you catch my drift.... if you know what im saying.... if you're picking up what im putting down.......

[shamebats]

Emos & scene kids got this close to abolishing gender for real. I try not to think about it too much.

[shamebats]

The idea of a popular teenage subculture where girl & boys pretty much all dress the same feels impossible now but for a while it was reality and it was beautiful.

[taproot-bread]

You know that weird phase where you are not asleep yet but your mind starts doing whatever and you can't really control it? Yeah.

[taproot-bread]

[taproot-bread]

I'M????????????

[swayerto]

[kifaprokumiv]

for icicleteeth on butterfly app 🐤🍦

[dreamstars]

[adamtotscomix]

[woodsdyke]

thinking about a lake i hiked to last year that was so small and cute. i jumped in to cool off and swam out to the middle, then looked down and saw trunks of entire dead trees dozens of feet below me and this is how i learned this particular lake is 100ft deep despite looking like a pond

[woodsdyke]

my immediate first thoughts were 1) damn im glad im a strong swimmer because this is a lake that eats people who can't swim and 2) i thought i had gotten past my fear of open water until right now

[woodsdyke]

it looks so nice and deceptively shallow. but she'll get you

[r4zberry]

medieval knight or something

[sleepnoises]

i am trying to make some pants. many people #online are losing their gourd over how easy this pattern is and i'm contrarianfully a little peeved about the assumption of serger ownership, 3/8th topstitching that fails to enclose 1/2" turned over raw edges, general expected minor failure cases of a pattern you buy on etsy

BUT i got it all cut out from leftovers without buying any new fabric so that's my win

cedar pants, label by inside voices labels

[sleepnoises]

not done yet but

hehehe

[sleepnoises]

It's Pants

Build notes under the cut

Overall review: it makes sense this patternmaker has been operating on Etsy for 2.5 years, this seems like a 2.5 years of operation quality pattern to me. It's very cleanly presented and produces a end result that I'm jazzed about! But it also seems incurious about seam finishes/attention to detail, and I feel that beginner sewists attempting this pattern might not know what they're missing out on.

What I like

Easy breezy fit with no fit mods (except turning the cuffs up 1.5" vs 1") - big fan of gusset and knee dart

Mega comfortable fabric choices using stash only (undyed slightly stretchy twill from Fabrics R Us, Rifle Paper Co Camont - Poppy Fields - Natural Unbleached Canvas off someone on etsy I don't have customer loyalty to)

Pleasant embedded links to Youtube tutorial

Really big fan of the carabiner loop

Cute!!!

What I changed

Hopelessly reliant on crayola washable markers + gluesticks for holding turned-over edges in place. Also got into banging on bulky seams with a hammer. PRO TIP: use oxyclean to guarantee washable markers wash out.

Oh my god the pattern doesn't recommend a denim needle for the many layers of midweight fabric? Denim needle was a huge QOL improvement.

Did not buy topstictching thread. Used regular thread.

To squeeze this out of limited fabric: shortened knee patches ~1", cut pocket facings off grain, bound edge of weird back pocket with selvedge instead of cutting out this shape of piece

Also extended the trapezoid with floral fabric to create a hidden lining for the pocket that layers on top of it (another fabric-saving measure)

Added a patch pocket for my phone on front right, inspired by the Jones Trousers

Skipped hammer loop (despite using a hammer while making this pattern)

Flat felled inside leg seams, butt curve. The instructions simply say "finish" for all seams btw :(. The gusset to inside leg seam join proved impossible to flat fell so I just zigzagged it right to hell.

Added a baste together and try on step while installing gusset before all the flat felling

Bias bound outside leg seams, tacked flat at points along leg. Kind of a Hong Kong seam attempt.

Reinforced outside leg seams at very thick joining points... otherwise pressing open as recommended means you will see daylight through your pants

Used a shorter zipper (the actual length of the fly) (already on hand). This nerfed me on the mandatory-pull-zipper-head-out-of-the-way-so-your-machine-foot-fits step

Hand basted down the waistband before machine sewing. God I hate waistbands.

Made a wretched buttonhole with my zigzag stitch. Could be worse! It's holding the button!

What I would do next time

Check front and back pocket dimensions against each other before sewing to pants; mark with washable marker to ensure topstitching lines up

Trim pocket foldover so it's fully encased in topstitching (it's fraying now in an annoying way)

Extra line of topstitching to completely secure down pocket facing

Either use a longer zipper or a different fly construction method that allows better checking on functionality as I go. I am not jazzed about trimming down a metal zipper (pattern doesn't mention what tools to use for that!) so probably the latter

Shorten legs/add contrast cuffs

Maybe add little darts in the back

Try to figure out a way to do the waistband that I hate less. Sew inside seam first?

Fix weird little gapping at top of zipper/grade in at waist a little?

The knee panel is bait for quilters and I might fall for it

I also don't think this is gender neutral unless you grade the bejesus out of it, as the pattern assumes a 10" waist-hip difference.

Girl this is not a tip. This is just something you have to do for the pattern to work.

7/10 overall and I love my pants <3

[o0kawaii0o]

Hero of Time

[superchat]

[flanexism-draws]

Twin bods

[toastyglow]

the backrooms are simply not as scary conceptually if there is Something In Them

[toastyglow]

the whole reason why they're so unnerving is BECAUSE there's nothing in them!! because they're unrelentingly liminal and lonely and uncomforting. there shouldn't be a monster guy in there chasing you. you should glimpse other humans (?) from a distance but they walk away before you can close the gap and then they're gone. things should run away from YOU. do u get it

[toastyglow]

"and there was a MONSTERowooowwohhhh" the monster is isolation and banal beige sameness and uncanny valley architecture. you fool. you rube. you're putting a hat on a hat and the second hat is not only unnecessary but it ruins the first hat!!!!!!! "there's a monster in there" great so now it's just another place for a monster to be. ridiculous

[palossssssand]

hi I like him

[h0use-fly]

Owed

[anti-parent]

teamwork makes the dream work. and dreamwork. makes shrek

[anti-parent]

fantastic. i love it. i posted this after my wife said it yesterday and as i was doing it i was like "this can't be an original thought. as soon as i hit post someone's going to say 'you stole this from a tweet from 2014' and i'll say 'no, i stole it from my beautiful wife.'"

[makingtrouble]

It's my cat's birthday (anniversary of me getting him) so I told him the story of his life while petting him real good

Highlights include:

For your first two years (when you were small) you lived in a foster home with people who raised you into a very polite young man. Two is like you plus me, that's what two is.

Some people adopted you before me and they called you Timmy (which is a stupid name) and they returned your ass almost immediately because you were so annoying at that age.

Like think about how annoying you are right now at seven years old, but way worse.

I'm better than them though, I don't call you Timmy and I wore earplugs to bed for three years because you love to scream at bedtime. Earplugs are like when I roll over and go back to sleep even when you are yelling so so so loud.

I got you at a time in my life when I was really sick (being sick is like when I'm up late because I'm throwing up and you are a very handsome good boy who sits with me) and they had to put me asleep for a procedure. A procedure is like what happened to you when they put you asleep and took your balls away.

Now you've lived with me for five years. Five is like the number of toe beans on one of your feet. When I clip your nails five is when we're halfway done. But we're hopefully not even halfway done with how long we get to be together. I'm gonna have to figure out new ways to help you count.

[makingtrouble]

Actually I've decided this is a poem