Thoughts of Joy

From the overflow of the mind, the blog speaks. (I'm an adult btw)

[omar-little]

dear followers, today I offer you incredibly niche content that is deeply fulfilling to me first and only. tomorrow? The Same

[deluxeloy]

Human: Deal.

Fey: Very well. When you return home tonight, your mother will be in pristine health again. It will be like she never fell ill at all. Even the memory of her suffering will fade…

Human: Thank you so much. She means everything to me.

Fey: I know, I know. Let’s hope the price wasn’t too much for you after all… Only time will tell.

Human: So, when do we start?

Fey: …If I may ask you to elaborate?

Human: You said you wanted my firstborn.

Fey: Yes? And you agreed?

Human: Yeah, so, when do we start?

Fey:

Fey, blushing: Ah.

[hayleyolivia]

So good. It deserved some art. 😊

[neenarchive]

infinite changeling glitch

[pearson-m4v]

hello firefly fandom, interact with me im shy (stupid)

[lasertee]

Geralt is such a good protag to me because he is an impossibly good monster hunter and swordsman, has 1/3 of the continent's population (male and female) in love with him, is very articulate and intelligent- and yet he is still a bit of a loser. Girldad to deeply concerning teenager. Is in a 30-year-long situationship. Falls out with his best friend like they're on the playground. Spends all the money he barely scrapes up on a new jacket. Immediately ruins said jacket. So it goes.

[nekomimidusteon]

the purrpose of playing commander is to have a stax deck and every time someone is inconvenienced you get to turn the vibe on. you get to boost the strength whenever someone is majorly annoyed. this helps train away the shame of making everyone else at the table hate you by having you cum your brains out as another player goes "oh my fucking GOD" when you remind them of 3 different stax triggers.

[aro-culture-is]

Aro culture is finding some REALLY GOOD CHICKEN LIKE SO GOOD AUGHHHHHHHAHAHAHA!!!!!

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[headspace-hotel]

my brother and I get on bandcamp and click on songs from the live updating list of albums that are selling and we listen to 30 seconds or so of a song and if we like it we add it to a playlist. and we call this "foraging for music."

anyways one of terminology we have coined to talk about music is "Knee Music" which is derived from the fact that album covers that show a person's knees tend to sound the same as each other. It's kind of a sleepy, grungy indie folk pop sound with youthful-sounding, vocals that affect a candid and vulnerable feeling.

or anyway we found multiple album covers with knees in quick succession, and they all sounded the same, hence "Knee Music"

but it doesn't have to be knees to be Knee Music. any kind of blurry, candid-looking photos that include skinny white people is likely to be knee music

[headspace-hotel]

My other brother's method of foraging for music is slightly more complicated: he gets on everynoise and uses random number generators to get a random genre, a random artist, and then a random song from that artist.

For a while, his method was slightly different, instead choosing a random genre and listening to it until he found a song from that genre that he liked.

However, this could be very time-consuming. once he became trapped for a long time in "geek rap" which was mostly a lot of people rapping in potentially spanish or portuguese (?) about Five Nights at Freddy's

[vshamru]

today’s enrichment activity since the puzzle feeder was still wet: i got a few bowls of ice cubes and put her lunch mixed in with them on a sheet tray. she is fascinated by the ice and is doing a great job picking her kibbles out.

(also the plastic is hers i promise there’s not just trash on the floor, she just loves plastic wrappers)

[belladonnabedlam]

Okay. I was on my beloved AO3 and I saw something that made me do a double take. So, now I really want to know…

What is your AO3 user ID?

I’m an OG user 5 digits or less

Six figures baby!

I’m in the millions…

Remaining time: 5 days 15 hours

I’m so curious to see how long people have been on AO3! I know some people have been on there since beta/invite only, but I would love to see what the number is on tumblr!

[pointless-letters]

One of the best letters I’ve ever seen just popped up on my Facebook memories. Still makes me laugh.

[pointless-letters]

As today is the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, it’s a great time to revisit Dinah from Devon’s memory of this historic event. And yes, still makes me laugh.

[pointless-letters]

Today is the 54th anniversary of the moon landing, but Dinah’s diary entry is still absolutely magnificent.

[pointless-letters]

57th anniversary of the moon landing and the best diary entry in the history of diary entries. Sit down Samuel Pepys, it’s over. UGH.

[okayyoureacab]

Hexagon Quilt

[rumade]

This is the second time I've seen a video of this technique and this explanation is so clear! It does use more fabric than English paper piecing (EPP) but you end up with a double sided hexagon so don't have to source fabric for the backing.

I'm doing EPP at the moment but I have a hole punch to make the papers and just use leaflets and junk mail, so it doesn't feel wasteful. I don't think it's difficult either- in the video she mentions it's not for beginners, but I don't have that much experience with hand sewing or EPP and I've been finding it pretty easy so YMMV

[lindstromm]

I saw this video yesterday and was seized with the need to try it out immediately. Lookit my cute lil' hexagon baby!!

Here is what the backside looks like. OP notes this takes more fabric than paper piecing, but that excess fabric makes it already triple-layered. Besides not needing backing fabric, I don't think you'd need batting for this quilt at all. It's already thick and soft just from folding all that fabric into a hexagon.

[lannamichaels]

Hexagon quilt tutorial video by tiktok user camelscrafts. Method:

Each hexagon begins as a 6" circle. camelscrafts does this by creating a paper template using a compass. According to the video, a 6" circle will create a hexagon that is 2.5 inches tall.

These hexagons are hand-sewn. Thread the needle.

With the fabric right side facing, find the center of the circle by folding it in half right sides together, then folding it in half again (wrong sides are facing). The top of the triangle shape is the center of the fabric circle.

Make a small stitch into the center of the fabric. The wrong side is still facing.

Unfold the circle. There will be a small stitch in the center.

Now the hexagon is created by folding the circle into itself: Take the needle to one of the edges of the fabric (it doesn't matter which one). Pull the needle through and pull the thread tight. This will fold down the fabric and create an edge of the hexagon. Crease the fold with your finger.

This fold has two corners, one at the top and one at the bottom. Put the needle into one of the corners and pull the thread taut. This will create another fold.

Continue this going around the circle until all of it is folded down, creating the hexagon. camelscrafts notes that the last corner pulled in may be a little bit "wonky" (no precise point in the corner) if the corners were not done precisely. However, that corner is pulled into the back, so is not visible from the front.

The hexagon is now formed. Sew around the folds in the middle of the circle to hold the folds in place. Tie off and cut the thread.

Attach hexagons to each other along the sides. With right sides together, whip stitch the sides together.

[yanguang]

[lizholmes]

oh he would have loved having a blog

[savouryduck]

Official Siku Quanshu Post!

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This post has been Certified as a Treasure by the Old Man of Ten Great Campaigns!

[links to his carrd and askbox]

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[chipper-smol]

You are a romanceable option to your OCs, (they do not know you created them) this is

Bad

BAD BAD

Good

Real Good 😏

I’m aro and/or ace

I’m aro and/or ace but i kinda wanna see what they come up with

LOL this will be great

LOL this will be a trainwreck

Ehe i’m in danger :)

Meh/Results

Remaining time: 5 days 17 hours

[tiktaalic]

jack: dean did you have two dads like i do?

dean: [hacking and choking] what?

jack: well grandpa bobby’s your dad but your mom was married to someone different so did you have two dads?

dean, doing furious mental math on whether it’s better to make up a total lie out of whole cloth and if so WHAT the fuck his lie is going to be or if he should stick with the mealy half truth that he pulls out for strangers or if he should tell a baby about a fraction of the john induced trauma: hey if you go grab your coat i’ll take you to see trollz world tour

jack: ok!

[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?

[cowthropologist]

Do I actually want to write this fanfic or do I just want to wallow in the delicious daydream like a pig in the mud?

[thebitchywitchyone]

Unfortunately I wish for others to wallow in my magnificent mud pit

[yaketysmax]

thank you for the magnificent mud pits, fanfic writers

[the-chekov-collective]

We suspect Chekov never received swimming lessons. We may have thrown him into a lake on shore leave. We assumed he would float. He did not. There was a lot of screaming. Bones had to go in and get him. Jim said we aren’t allowed near bodies of water anymore.

[garaks-padded-cell]

My tumblr refreshed before i could reblog this and i genuinely screamed NO !!!!! Cuz i thought i’d lose it forever