Never Dosent Mean Forever

very not smart age: 21+ #1 cloud fan ☁️!! (Not in an expert ‘knows what each cloud is kind of fan’ but just a I LOVE CLOUDS! Way) Also fog is a love language Shirley temple connoisseur 🍷

[you-have-startled-the-witch]

do you know the acceleration due to gravity on earth off the top of your head

yes

no

Remaining time: 10 hours 47 minutes

[traegorn]

Who Wants to Join my Advance Reader Copy (ARC) Team and Read My New Book Early?

So one of the biggest challenges for a lot of indie authors who self publish like me is getting our books in front of other people's eyeballs to begin with. One of the easiest solutions is getting real, honest reviews onto platforms like Goodreads, Storygraph, social media platforms, and online stores like Amazon. These only really work if they're honest, real reviews too -- most readers can spot a fake review from a mile away. So how does a writer get these needed eyeballs on their work? With ARCs (Advance Reader Copies). An author like me will give out copies of their books ahead of release with the hopes that the readers will post (ideally positive) reviews of their work upon release date. And doI say "hopes" because I cannot require reviews to be posted per the rules of the various platforms. The issue is figuring out who to give those ARCs to. You don't want to send them to people who will never read the book, and you definitely don't want to send them to folks who might leak the book to people before release date. So, as I've posted before, I have a new book coming out on August 10th. I want to start sending out ARCs soon so people have a chance to read the book ahead of time to post reviews around the release date. So, uh, this is where I'm out here, on my various platforms, asking... do you want an ARC of my new book? If the answer is yes, fill out this really simple application! I won't accept everyone to the ARC list, but it can't hurt to toss your name in. All ARCs supplied will be in ePub format. Those should be compatible with almost any eReader, and should be readable on most smartphones and tablets. I can't really send out paperbacks, sadly. Also, I know this is book five in the series, but it's okay if you haven't read my earlier work. The ARC version of the book will include a brief synopsis of every earlier book in the series necessary for a new reader. Is reading the earlier books better? Yeah. But you should still enjoy this one too. Again, let me know if you're interested.

[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.

[catchyvideos]

OP theaverycottage on TikTok ♡

[femmepathy]

The mile-long rainbow flag being carried down First Avenue in New York City.

[arcaneasexual]

“For New York City Pride in 1994 (Stonewall 25), Baker created a mile-long rainbow flag that was carried down First Avenue in Manhattan. During the parade, Baker used scissors to cut segments from the flag to be rushed to Fifth Avenue for an impromptu protest march in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the headquarters of New York City’s anti-gay Catholic archdiocese.

^“At the bottom of the image is the segment of the flag cut for the St. Patrick’s Cathedral protest. Photograph by Mick Hicks”

“Gilbert Baker wearing a white sequined dress (right) and other protestors triumphantly march the cut pieces of the mile-long flag past St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Photograph by Charles Beal”

[loontattoo]

see unfortunately I have this condition where if I am not explicitly told that I am a part of the ingroup then I will assume I must be part of the outgroup

[kragehund-est]

it actually is insane to me that it's a cultural norm for men to suck ass at getting their wives/gfs gifts. especially when they whine about how they have no idea what women like.

man, you're not getting a gift for Female Domestic Partner. you're getting a gift for Natalie, a person whom you have been married to for 7 years, whom has lived in the same home with you for a decade, whom speaks to you every day about her thoughts and interests, whom you presumably love, and whom you can directly or indirectly ask what she wants. it's not that you don't know what half the human population wants, that's irrelevant. you don't know what Natalie wants and that is inexcusable.

[imsobadatnicknames2]

I feel like advertising is probably the funniest place anyone can choose to predicate their moral arguments against AI on the basis of environmental impact because like. The advertising industry is already probably the most wasteful i dustry in terms of environmental costs vs. actual value it provides, to the point that adding AI to it amounts to a very small drop in the world's biggest bucket. Like.

"Using AI to design flyers looks cheap and tacky" 👍 I completely agree.

"Using AI to design flyers is bad for the environment" I can tell you with 100% absolute certainty that the environmental impact of printing hundreds of paper flyers which will be looked at exactly once and then thrown in the garbage is like. Several orders of magnitude bigger than the environmental impact of generating the picture that will go on said flyers.

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Like I find it hard to think of a position that more succinctly communicates "I never think about where anything comes from or how it's produced or how it's disposed of or the environmental costs of any steps in that process unless there's some sort of moral panic telling me to be concerned about it" than thinking that the "AI" part of "ads made with AI" is the part that's bad for the environment.

[ninjasmudge]

ive been in here so long........

[fullcravings]

Banana Zucchini Muffins

[criminalizegolf]

> read library book

> it's good

Thank you library

[fiercestpurpose]

> read library book

> it's bad

Thank you library for saving me from buying it :)

[official-library-posts]

official library post

[living400lbs]

> read library book

> it's good

> thank library

> want to re-read book

> enjoy re-read

> consider buying the book if you continue to want to re-read

[the-haiku-bot]

> consider buying

the book if you continue

to want to re-read

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[angelbabyspice]

don’t nobody want no damn dubai chocolate we are midway through 2026 give it a rest

[pansyfemme]

not to get dark but if you’re a person who’s had multiple suicide attempts and hospital stays you kinda. unlock a new way of living where everything still sucks and you still feel like trying again but also you have learned that 1) there’s not an easy way out, every ‘way out’ is more painful and difficult than you can execute right now and 2) even trying or even thinking about trying gets you in places that you never want to be again so you just have to keep walking forward and hoping one of these days you’ll find meaning. I always wished that if i survived i would be one of those people who found god or found meaning or even regretted trying, but those feelings never came. There’s something positive about finding yourself accepting the pain you’re in as just part of your reality. This is my life! This is my mind! I have to live with it. I don’t know my future. I will likely try to think about a way out again. But i don’t think i’m going anywhere. I think i’m just going to live for now.

[the-quasar-hero]

We do not combat racism because it’s fun. We do not point out misogyny for giggles. We do not speak up about transphobia for laughs. We do not stand against bigotry for our amusement or the opportunity to feel superior to others, it’s because if left unchecked; it will claim lives. Just because they’re commonplace, spread throughout society and casually thrown about by the average person, doesn’t mean it’s beneath the effort of correcting. Indeed, it is because it is commonplace, that it deserves diligence. The best weapons aren’t always the loudest, it’s the ones you don’t perceive as a weapon.

[northstareclipse]

lol so I've been vagued and waterboarded today...

fellas, is it reactionary to be a cult survivor?

I was never saying that visions of a better world should include the desires of Literally Everyone, Including The Biggest Asshole Bigots You Know, I was saying, like. Don't alienate autistic people, which I'm literally always saying. I was also saying that a lot of people who otherwise want equity and social justice would still be completely fucking miserable if you took away all their favorite pastimes and replaced them solely with things that bored or overwhelmed them. Yes, even if they didn't have to worry about rent or medical bills anymore!

[northstareclipse]

"well, how do you know this? sounds essentialist to me"

Well, quite famously, minors generally don't have to worry about those things either and yet you don't exactly see all of them jumping for joy at the idea of an endless camping trip with their most tedious, church-brained relatives. And that isn't because they're "immature", either. It's because they're. You know. People. And people can be materially safe while still being psychologically trapped.

[northstareclipse]

Getting “kys reactionary cunt” messages over the take that autistic people and cult survivors might have reasonable objections to compulsory togetherness is certainly one way to demonstrate that your politics are healthy, liberatory, and not at all organized around coercive social punishment. /s

They are not from the person who vagued and waterboarded me, but they certainly prove that putting people on blast like that has consequences.

I could really use some kind words and support right now, in any case.

[meangirlnurse]

gosh, isn't it interesting that this symptom is specific to men for some unknowable reason? listening and learning

[meangirlnurse]

why is this symptom specific to men. think

[meangirlnurse]

#‘I HAVE BIG FEELINGS’ is only allowed for toddlers#you are an adult. use your words. stop making excuses.#bet these men dont do that around their bosses or anywhere there could be consequences they care about either 💅

[mockiatoh]

lol “have you considered your abusive boyfriend might have ADHD? Try having some empathy once in a while”. Great. Love it.

Seriously, ‘the angry man being aggressive and physically threatening is doing so to express that he is mad’. WOW ya don’t say. ‘But this common abusive behavior is different because he’s special’. Bro they all think the reason they’re abusive is special and not actually abuse or not actually about hurting you or not actually about intimidating you!

[obestriddbifftomat]

Why does he do that? - Lundy Bancroft