Little Works

18+ tagless wasteland of shiny crow things. 30's.

[padurenii]

Metro in Tashkent, Uzbekistan

[kosmogrl]

[thecryptkeeper]

i know the way people talk about their pets now is probably how we’ve been doing it for all of history. a cat owner in ancient rome saw their cat lounging on the dining pillows and commented “he thinks himself to be the senator claudius 🤣”

[im-mender]

Feeling like the "friend who's too woke" when I tell people not to mock trump for wearing a diaper or shitting himself or whatever.

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

the problem with this man is not and never has been that he is ugly or poorly dressed or fat or incontinent, it is that he is an evil dangerous cruel malicious man with the powers of the presidency

[drizzledrawings]

☆tiger☆

[miamaimania]

Hanne Zaruma ⬣ Your selfie, disassembled into its ancestors

[star-shard]

Sometimes, fanfiction is carefully plotted out stories, with plot points and call backs and themes that all tie it up in a meaningful and exciting way.

And sometimes fanfiction is, ‘Watch me do a fucking KICK FLIP off this cool sentence!! Also here's some sex'

Both are beautiful forms of writing.

[eggl-rd]

i do like how tumblr tags work as like a quieter less intrusive part of the post/reblog however my one gripe is that due to the nature of them being tags you cant make #thing jokes as effectively

[memorycycle]

hush little baby dont you cry. mamas gonna buy you a big horse fly. and if that big horse fly dont fly. mamas gonna buy you another horse fly

[memorycycle]

[club mix] another horse fly. another horse fly

[lmaonade]

coupons used to mean something now deals are like HURRY NOW! get 3 free napkins when you spend $75+ 😋

[pangur-and-grim]

it is my experience that people with dermal implants and eyeball tattoos and 34 visible piercings are the sweetest people you'll ever meet and will cry if they see a pigeon with a broken wing. it is also my experience that clean-cut people in polo shirts with perfect smiles will vote against your rights and say the most disgusting things imaginable once they think you're out of earshot.

[nuka-rockit]

[earlgraytay]

So I 100% agree with the sentiment here but... there's a principle behind it that I think is more important than any specific Subculture Signifier. Making it about the Subculture Signifiers can wind up twigging people out when they don't need to be twigged out.

There's nothing wrong with wearing polos. Or keeping your house clean. Or shaving, or 'politeness', or whatever. But.

... A very important test of someone's character is how they deal with things that Society (TM) in general, and their social circle in particular, thinks are Not Okay. If society says it's Not Okay to be gay, are you capable of being decent to gay people? If society says you Have to like drinking, and you can't stand the taste or effects of alcohol, are you gonna let people pressure you into drinking anyway, to get along with others? If your social circle says that it's Not Okay to listen to certain music, are you going to listen to that music anyway? If your social circle says that people with Political View A are all evil bastards, are you able to be decent to someone with Political View A? (Or someone with Political View C or Religion Q that vaguely looks like Political View A, if you squint?) Things like that.

If you see someone who has stripped their life of anything that society disapproves of, that's not a great sign. If you see someone who has stripped their life of anything their social circle disapproves of, even if they're alt and anti-government, that's also a bad sign.

You need to have something in your life that is yours, that is not dictated by someone outside you, that no one is going to take away from you. You need to have some part of your life that you will defend and hold onto, even if everyone else is telling you that it's wrong. Even if everyone you know thinks you're dangerously bad and stupid for it.

Because if you don't have that, if there is nothing that you will face god and walk backwards into hell for, if there is nothing that you know is right and good regardless of what anyone else says... that is when you turn into Polo Guy from the OP. It has nothing to do with whether you like normie bullshit and fold your underwear- there's plenty of punks and goths and metalheads who don't have it, and there's plenty of people who look like your mom who do.

[gobusto]

saw someone mix up "abysmal" and "abyssal" today, so as a reminder:

her skills are abysmal = she is unskilled

her skills are abyssal = her abilities draw upon the forbidden power of the dark void

[plus-size-aesthetics]

The Met Costume Institute Exhibition, 2026

[only-cat-memes]

[forgwater]

[chainsawpunk]

Martin Wong, Closed, 1984–1985, acrylic on canvas, 84 1/8 × 108 3/16 in (213.7 × 274.8 cm)

[weepingwidar]

Martin Wong (Chinese-American, 1946-1999)

[eternalgirlscout]

winona ryder's character in stranger things has never been wrong even once and every time the fucking gravity turns off or whatever she says "hey thats weird right" and everyone in a 10 mile radius is like "woah category five woman moment incoming"

[eternalgirlscout]

if i were joyce byers and somebody told me i was overreacting to anything i would say "remember the time an entire town thought i was insane but it turned out the government actually did fake my son's death after he got sucked into an alien hell dimension?" i would milk that for all it was worth for the rest of my life

[koniknits]

@fictionalred gifted me these heddles for band weaving but I've been a bit stuck on them because I haven't been able to find a good resource on using them. Does anyone have a bandweaving guide that is very visual, aimed at rigid heddle users, and has example patterns mapped to the threading?

[batbetbitbotbut]

Hey @tiuhtaviuhta I think you have this type of heddle (with the mid height slots), any ideas?

[tiuhtaviuhta]

What a treasure trove 😍

Aikama has good tutorial videos for warping up and weaving with both simple band heddle and pick up pattern heddle! They are in Finnish but I think the visuals are clear enough even if you don't know the language.

https://m.youtube.com/@aikamafinland

Also this blog has a rudimentary heddle band pattern generator that I haven't had a chance to play with yet but I'd be curious to see if someone else finds it useful

https://withmyhandsdream.com/pirtanauha-generaattori/

Also! I can't find the specific Post but @crookedtines has really good explanations about designing your own patterns for one of these!

[crookedtines]

I had the same trouble when I first started bandweaving, and decided that once I learned how to do it, I'd create some nice visual guides to fill in the gaps.

It's still a work in progress, and quickly spiraled out of control into a fully illustrated book (oops), but here are a few pages you might find useful that explain how plainweave patterns work with a rigid heddle:

Apologies if the wording doesn't make perfect sense, it's still a somewhat rough draft textwise.

As for the double slotted heddles for baltic pick up, I found this video super helpful when I was first learning how to use them:

I also have a post that very briefly goes over how to design your own baltic pick up patterns here.

[koniknits]

Wow, your book looks exactly like what I'm looking for! I'd love to support your progress!