Mathysphere

I love cross stitch and math and every sampler ever made. Feel free to drop me a line sometime! I like talking to new people. :) pronouns: any and all! no strong preference here ✌

[yayxstitch]

I HAVE FOUND. THE MOST AMAZING WEBSITE.

it’s called braceletbook.com and it appears to be a resource for like…friendship bracelets? And making cool patterns for them? Which is super cool and I do want to try it. But all of these patterns absolutely work as cross stitch patterns

Like. Look at this!

Again it’s geared towards bracelets so they tend to be long and skinny, which is the only major limitation. But you can search and filter by number of colors, I’m making myself a frog bookmark.

anyway I thought you and your followers might enjoy!

Thank you for spoiling me with this! I'm going to lose some time here for sure!

[mathysphere]

the @hidinginyourwifizine is out today! it's a free PDF of different reimaginings of my girl Hatsune Miku, and of course I had to make mine a cross-stitch one 🪡

you can see all the Mikus (and get the pattern for this one!) in the full zine-- everybody's work is very beautiful 🙏✨

[radicarian]

Bird arguments I have seen recently, and who won:

Two mockingbirds vs. one crow (team mockingbird)

Male house finch vs. a smaller male house finch trying to put moves on his mate (bigger guy won, but smaller guy keeps coming back and female seems totally unbothered by any of this)

Amorous mourning dove vs. mourning dove who wasn't into it (dove who wasn't into it)

Red-winged blackbird vs. osprey (the blackbird!! due to his greater maneuverability and infinite reserves of anger)

Grackle squad infighting (I won this one because I got to look at grackles)

[radicarian]

Four crows trying to steal a fish from an eagle (I didn't see how this ended because Team Crow managed to force the eagle down below the canopy and out of sight. But let's be real. Once the crows have done that to you, the crows have won. And I hope they enjoyed their breakfast)

[radicarian]

SINGLE crow trying to steal an unseen treasure from an eagle (this one looked like a toss-up?)

[radicarian]

saw a red-winged blackbird solo a bald eagle today. smart money is always on the guy with epaulets

[elizabethofthepasture]

twin peaks sampler is complete!! now I need to stitch it actually… hopefully it won’t take 1000 years.

I would like to stitch a sample before putting it on kofi, but I can make it available ASAP if there’s a lot of interest!

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

hey anyone know a free blog host that doesn't shit the bed and scream if you include the words "erotica" or "pornography" anywhere in the description

i just tried to put up a page (singular) collating the links to max stroke stories and the fucking proximity of the keywords and the cover images (which contain nothing even slightly sexual) has causes photomat's Other Project to piss its pants, presumably because their "algorithm" consists of a keyword search.

ANYWAY. SUGGESTIONS, PLEASE. "FREE" and "NOT INSANE".

[imathers]

[iphigeniacomplex]

my first year of high school i was in this intensive outpatient exposure therapy program which i attended for the first half of every other weekday, or something. it was in this out-of-the-way room in some sort of hospital; the memories flicker a bit because i've been in a lot of rooms with buzzy fluorescent lights and adults who talk to me like a dog, so they sort of blur together. there are a few things that distinguish my time in iop, though, and one of those is the little boy on the other side of the room, with a different small group of kids and therapists, who screamed endlessly. he couldn't have been much older than eleven. he would come in every day a bit after me and start screaming and i would put my head down on the table between my arms, trying to cover my ears. i never heard him say a word. there was a tiny empty room they sent him to, but it wasn't actually soundproof, just a little further away, so everything we did at the program was accompanied by the background score of a little boy screaming in another room. at the time i found it only a bit more annoying than the slight buzzing of the fluorescent lights, because none of the adults gave any indication that something was wrong here, and all of us kids were crazy anyway. i graduated the summer before my sophomore year, and he was still there when i left. i don't remember his name or what he looked like, and it's not like i could reach back and save him if i did.

[iphigeniacomplex]

i keep wanting to reframe this act as some kind of tiny liberation, but that's a lie, and not a permissible lie like the lies that slip into everything i write from memory no matter how objective i pretend to be. it's the worst kind of lie! it's theft! i spent some time in that room, too, when i became too unwieldy, but i can't cut and fold my memory over him and place the screams in my throat. i can't know why he screamed. i know that i could have, and i think that i probably should have, and i know that i didn't. i spent the first part of my childhood screaming, and then i spent a lot of time in rooms with buzzy fluorescent lights and adults who talked to me like a dog, and i became the only person i can tell this story as: the girl on the other side of the room who listened to him scream and didn't wonder about it at all.

[iphigeniacomplex]

“I was thinking,” I said, “about back then, at Hailsham, when you used to go bonkers like that, and we couldn’t understand it. We couldn’t understand how you could ever get like that. And I was just having this idea, just a thought really. I was thinking maybe the reason you used to get like that was because at some level you always knew.”

Tommy thought about this, then shook his head. “Don’t think so, Kath. No, it was always just me. Me being an idiot. That’s all it ever was.” Then after a moment, he did a small laugh and said: “But that’s a funny idea. Maybe I did know, somewhere deep down. Something the rest of you didn’t.”

— Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

[ritavonbees]

The Shout by Simon Armitage

We went out

into the school yard together, me and the boy

whose name and face

I don't remember. We were testing the range

of the human voice:

he had to shout for all he was worth

I had to raise an arm

from across the divide to signal back

that the sound had carried.

He called from over the park - I lifted an arm.

Out of bounds,

he yelled from the end of the road,

from the foot of the hill,

from beyond the look-out post of Fretwell's Farm -

I lifted an arm.

He left town, went on to be twenty years dead

with a gunshot hole

in the roof of his mouth, in Western Australia.

Boy with the name and face I don't remember,

you can stop shouting now, I can still hear you.

[finalgirlabigailhobbs]

cannibal chappell roan: you can put a hundred boys in jars

[finalgirlabigailhobbs]

vehicular manslaughter chappell roan: you can hit a hundred boys with cars

[finalgirlabigailhobbs]

medieval torturer chappell roan: you can coat a hundred boys in tar

[bigfoots-biggest-fan]

due to popular demand you can now stream the Slur Song for free without Spotify, using my new streaming service slurify.co

[mathysphere]

for as long as I've been making patterns, I always put in a 'what you can do/what you can't do with this pattern' section in the PDFs, but over the years I just keep shrinking the 'what you can't do' section and now I kinda think I just want to take it out entirely

[mathysphere]

found out a couple months back that someone had uploaded a couple of my patterns to a piracy forum, and straight up? it kinda ruled. like if etsy nukes my account or I get hit by a bus tomorrow people will still be able to get copies of the Geology Rock Collection. that's rad as hell

[mathysphere]

for as long as I've been making patterns, I always put in a 'what you can do/what you can't do with this pattern' section in the PDFs, but over the years I just keep shrinking the 'what you can't do' section and now I kinda think I just want to take it out entirely

[here-by-chance]

im obsessed

[the-real-seebs]

oh, of course. because he died for our sins.

[potato-bin]

Just wanted to share an update of my pride flag. It’s going to take me a long time, but it’s been really fun so far to work on 🥹 it means a lot to me and how I’ve been feeling since I’ve been making this flag. Stay tuned for more about this project

[mathysphere]

happy prideee you can now make your own custom pride flag planet cross-stitch patterns 🌈🌈🌈

REALLY proud of this one-- all its outputs are public domain via Creative Commons 0 1.0, and if you make any patterns with it I'd love to see them!

[mathysphere]

happy prideee you can now make your own custom pride flag planet cross-stitch patterns 🌈🌈🌈

REALLY proud of this one-- all its outputs are public domain via Creative Commons 0 1.0, and if you make any patterns with it I'd love to see them!

[mathysphere]

just updated the tumblr without numbers userstyle to work with the new notes buttons! it'll scrape the numbers right off of them. 👍

[mathysphere]

just updated it again in our beautiful 2026 👍

[memories-of-ancients]

Anthropeum

A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artif

An interesting game where you are presented with 10 artifacts from the MET. You have to place where the artifact is from and what time period it is from. Each artifact scores up to 10,000 points, and you lose points the further away your guess is and how far off in time you are. You can only play once a day. Thanks to @baebeylik for showing this to me.

Today I scored really well. Yesterday ... not so much.

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[motherfuckingnazgul]

oh this is extremely fun. i did NOT do all that well but i can see myself getting good. i will be doing this regularly.

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