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I was having writers block and so I took a break and soon enough it was 3 in the morning and I had impulsively sewn together a tiny mouse you’re welcome

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For those of you who asked, I have made a sewing tutorial on how to make your very own Peaches the Mouse!

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I see people reblogging this with “to buy” but this pattern is free??? Someone even asked me “why don’t you charge money for it, it took you forever to put the document together” and I said “Not a lot of people have money and if they have some fabric scraps and a couple of buttons lying around they can make themselves a little mouse friend for free and that might make them happy and that makes me happier than receiving money???” Make yourself a liddol creacher! Heals the Soul!

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Hey y’all wanna see the worlds most appropriately unhinged phantom of the opera as it came up on my FYP?

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Crochet an Anatomically Correct Skeleton - FREE Pattern Includes All 206 Bones, 1/5th Size Scale Model! 👉 https://buff.ly/3sxUOW6 💀

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Secret of Shadow Ranch Ending- ‘Here’s Shorty!’- by me :) But I take no credit of course. Anyone else feel a little bit creeped out when he does this?

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8-foot giant squid pillow.

You’ll need:

2 yards of felt

1 yard of patterned fabric (I suggest a polka dot-type pattern so it looks like suction cups)

1 medium piece of black felt, 1 medium piece of white felt (for the eyes)

white thread, black thread and thread of the same color as the felt you’re using

pins

about 5 lbs. of stuffing

a couple big sheets of paper to draw your pattern

First, you need to draw out your patterns. Here’s a basic template to get you started, although most of the measurements are reasonably fudgeable. If in the likely event you don’t have any four-foot-long pieces of paper lying around, just tape a few pieces together.

Once you’ve drawn out your eight patterns, it’s time to cut the fabric. Pin the pattern to the fabric, laid flat, and cut out the following, leaving a half an inch or so of extra fabric around the edge of the pattern:

FOR THE ARMS: 8 felt and 8 fabric cutouts of piece 1

FOR THE, UH, LONGER ARMS: 2 felt and 2 fabric cutouts of piece 2

FOR THE BODY: 2 felt cutouts of piece 3

FOR THE FIN: 4 felt cutouts of piece 4

FOR THE HEAD: 1 felt cutouts of piece 6

FOR THE EYES: 2 white felt cutouts of piece 7 and 2 black felt cutouts of piece 8

So now you’ve got all your pieces ready, it’s time to start sewing them together. I did mine by hand because my sewing machine is busted and I get a kind of Zen buzz from sewing by hand, but if you have a non-busted one I recommend that you use it as it will be MUCH EASIER. You’re going to be sewing everything with the nice side of the fabric facing in, then turning it inside out to stuff it.

THE ARMS: (To make a quilted pattern that looks like suckers, see this other post). Pin together one patterned fabric piece 1 and one felt piece 1 (with the nice sides facing the inside). Sew down around the U-shape and back up, leaving the top open. Then turn the arm inside out, stuff it (it’s easiest to do both of these things if you sort of scrunch it up like you’re trying to put on a pair of tights, excuse the non-dude-friendly reference) and sew the top closed. Do the same for the other seven arms and rejoice in the fact that this is the most tedious part. Same deal with the two long arms, they’re just harder to stuff.

THE FINS: Pin together two of your piece 4s and sew together the curvy outer edge. Turn the piece inside out, so the seam you just sewed is on the inside, and start sewing up the other side, stuffing gradually as you go along. You should end up with a triangle-ish puffy thing. Repeat for the other two piece 4s.

THE BODY: Put down one piece 3, then place the two fins you have down with the point up and the curvy side pointing in, then make a sandwich by putting the other piece 3 down on top. Pin it all together and sew around the edges with the two fins still inside, as shown. Turn it inside out and move on to…

THE HEAD: So take piece 6 and the ten arms you’ve already done. Lay the arms, fabric side facing you, out with the arms’ top seams in a line half an inch from the top of piece 6. The order should be arm arm arm arm BIG ARM arm arm arm arm BIG ARM. The legs should be almost entirely covering piece 6. Pin them in place and sew a straight line through the individual legs seams to attach the legs to piece 6.

When you pick up the other side of piece 6, you now have something resembling a really weird untied hula skirt. Sew together the two 9-inch ends of piece 6 with the fabric side of the arms on the outside, and keep it inside out for the moment.

PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER: Fit the open end of the body through the arms (still fabric side facing out) and pull the edge all the way through the felt cylinder so it’s even with the edge that DOESN’T have arms attached to it. Sew around the diameters of the head cylinder and the body cylinder to attach them, then pull the legs down over the head and you’re almost done!

Stuff the body, then seal it off by sewing piece 5 over the open end (even if you do have a functional sewing machine, you’ll probably have to do this part by hand).

THE EYES: Sew the black circles on the white circles and whipstitch the eyes onto the head. You do this last because you can’t tell where they’re going to end up on the end product if you put them on before stuffing the body.

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10 Most Disturbing Films I’ve Ever Seen

I started writing this because I needed a distraction from current events. Now I’m not sure if it’s a good time for a disturbing films list as I’m going through it? But at the same time, I will say that the scarier and/or more disturbing I find a film to be, the farther out of reality I am taken. So maybe a film or two on this list will be a good distraction for someone out there. And hey, maybe it’ll also serve as a good list of movies for some people to stay away from.

Anyway, these are the films I couldn’t finish, that wigged me out pretty hard, and/or stuck with me for a while afterward. These are ranked and not definitive, of course. I am but one person. Spoiler alerts for some of the movies on this list. I don’t necessarily recommend these films, either. In fact, many of them, I recommend you specifically don’t watch. Make sure you read the trigger warnings if you decide to watch any of these. I probably missed a few because it’s been a while since I’ve seen any of these, but I’m pretty sure I got the major ones.

Honorable mention (I couldn’t finish it): Megan Is Missing (2011)

Genres: Found footage, horror, psychological

TW: SA, violence

A story about a girl who meets a creep on the internet in person and subsequently goes missing. I don’t remember enough about this film to properly give you all the TWs, but I do remember that I had to turn it off during the SA of a minor. The realism got to me.

Streaming: Nowhere free rn

10. Compliance (2012)

Genres: Thriller

TW: SA

This film is based off of a real phone call scam where a caller posed as a police officer and convinced the manager of a restaurant to perform illegal acts on an employee after telling her she stole money from a customer. This is horrifying on so many levels, especially considering it’s based on something that really happened. So scary :(!

9. We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)

Genres: Psychological, thriller, drama

TW: Mass shootings, SA, racism, homophobia, pregnancy

A film showcasing the struggle between reluctant mother Eva and her psychopathic son Kevin leading up to a night in which he commits the most vile of atrocities.

The way Ezra Miller portrays Kevin is utterly chilling. Eva makes some poor choices, but the characterization of this straight up evil child is really haunting, and you can almost understand why she fucks up as badly as she does. It makes you question what humanity is truly capable of, and that is a dark place to be. I do highly recommend this film if you’re able to watch it. The direction and acting are superb. I thought about this movie for a while after seeing it.

Streaming: Prime, Tubi, Pluto TV

8. Sleep Tight (2011)

Genres: Psychological, thriller

TW: SA, violence, pregnancy

Wow, 2011 was a sick year, eh? In this film, the unhappy concierge of an apartment building in Barcelona chloroforms a tenant at night in order to be closer to her. And then it gets worse. This film *starts off* creepy. It only gets worse and worse. It will make your skin crawl from start to finish. It’s always someone you know….

Streaming: Tubi, Shudder, Pluto TV

7. Inside (2007)

Genres: Horror, home invasion

TW: Home invasion, pregnancy, violence, gore

This film is probably the last on this list I would actively recommend, but only if you really wanna be scared. It involves the attack on a pregnant woman in her own home by a stranger who wants her unborn baby. True to form for new wave French horror, it is brutal and terrifying. Even more so when you realize that this sort of stuff happens in real life.

Streaming: Nowhere

6. Irreversible (2002)

Genres: Psychological, thriller, drama, r*pe revenge

TW: SA, violence, gore, alcohol, drugs

Irreversible starts off hard to watch and doesn’t get any easier as it progresses. It’s about how the lover and ex boyfriend of a r*pe victim decide to enact revenge on the r*pist told in reverse chronological order. I hear a lot of people find this film unwatchable, and I believe it. I would definitely not recommend it if you’ve got a weak stomach.

Streaming: Tubi

5. I Spit On Your Grave (2010)

Genres: R*pe revenge, horror

TW: SA, violence, gore, alcohol, drugs

A novelist travels from NYC to Louisiana to work on her next project. Along the way she meets several men who get together and decide she “needs to be taught a lesson.” They assault her, and she enacts revenge.

I remember this film being exploitative, and I remember explicitly thinking that men shouldn’t direct r*pe revenge movies after finding out the director is a man. Do not recommend.

Streaming: Tubi

4. Martyrs (2008)

Genres: Psychological, horror

TW: Gore, violence, child ab*se, self h*m, torture, nudity

A young woman embarks on a quest for revenge on the people who ab*sed her as a child, which leads to her and her best friend going on a hellish journey. I’m not sure what to say about this film. It’s quite shocking. I would say definitely don’t watch it if you’re not in a good headspace and/or have any concerns about the TWs.

Streaming: Tubi

3. The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)

Genres: Mockumentary, horror

TW: SA, violence, kidnapping, torture, child ab*se, nudity

In Poughkeepsie, New York, police raid a house and discover hundreds of videotapes made by a serial killer that serve as a visual record of the killings. If you want to be horrified and disgusted, this is the film for you. Again, just be sure to heed the TWs. It is not an easy one to get through.

Streaming: Prime, Tubi, Pluto TV

2. Cannibal Holocaust (1980)

Genres: Found footage, horror

TW: *Real* killing of animals, SA, violence, gore, cannibalism, racism, nudity

This is tied for number 1. An American university professor and film crew go missing in the Amazon rainforest while making a documentary about indigenous cannibal people. It shows people actually killing animals. On that basis alone, I won’t recommend it. I almost turned it off and had to look away. It’s also just not even a good movie. I gave it the lowest possible rating on Letterboxd.

Streaming: Shudder

1. A Serbian Film (2010)

Genres: Horror

TW: N*crophilia, SA, CP, p*dophilia, inc*st, violence, gore, torture, alcohol, drugs, sex, nudity

I was dreading talking about this. I dread acknowledging this film’s existence. It’s about a retired porn star trying to make ends meet by signing onto do a mysterious art film project. Little does he know what depravity awaits him. I cannot stress the depravity enough. They were literally like, “what are the most depraved things you can possibly think of? Let’s do that!” I think I’ve blocked a lot of it out. I probably didn’t even get all the TWs. I feel filthy writing about this film. I cannot not recommend it enough. Do not watch this film.

Streaming: This film will probably not stream on anything ever. You have to buy it or know someone.

Interesting that almost all of these came out from 2000-2011. What were we going through those years as a society that made us want to make that kind of content? And as it turns out, I really would only recommend them up until number 6. It just gets to be a bit much from there. No judgment if you’re into that sort of thing. That’s why I made this list, no? Some of these are even regarded as classics, so it’s all in the eye of the beholder. What are the most disturbing movies you’ve ever seen? Do you agree with any of these? Lmk!