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LK. they/she. bi. autistic. 40s. multi fandom nonsense. ao3: xenikay

[oldfarmwitch]

Hello!

I'm oldfarmwitch and I don't think I've ever actually had a pinned post, so I might as well do one now.

My pronouns are they/she. I'm also trying out "LK" as a name, so you can call me that if you want. I'm queer, bi, nonbinary, probably older than you, autistic, fat, disabled, and half Chinese, among other things.

I sometimes post art. And by sometimes I mean very rarely. But it's been known to happen.

Always and forever obsessed with Schitt's Creek / David x Patrick and RWRB / firstprince.

Currently obsessed with Heated Rivalry / Hollanov.

I reblog anything and everything that catches my fancy, so enter at your own risk.

AO3: xenikay. I've written exactly 1 fic, for David x Patrick, back when there were ~50 fics in the SC fandom. I don't think I'll ever write a fic again, but I try to comment on everything I read.

Bluesky: oldfarmwitch

I love chatting with folks, so please feel free to send me an ask or DM me!

[enki2]

[galileosballs]

Very few things-that-don't-matter bother me like the concept of 'zero-waste sewing', especially when it's also touted as 'beginner-friendly'.

Using your fabric efficiently? Makes total sense. No objection to that.

But specifically designing patterns such that every single part of a length of fabric is consumed by it? You're setting people up to fail. For one, you can really only do this with patterns made mostly of rectangles and right triangles, which can only make a very narrow range of garments that simply do not play nice with many people's bodies (especially bodies with lots of curvature). For another, a zero-waste pattern is also a zero-error-tolerance pattern. One wrong cut or measurement and the whole thing's toast. The wiggle-room that a more standard pattern allows also allows you to fix problems when they occur.

If you make a zero-waste garment and never wear it because it looks bad on you? That's not actually zero-waste. If you start a zero-waste garment and can't complete it because you made one little mistake? That's not actually zero-waste.

But more importantly, the whole idea of 'zero-waste' as a desireable outcome is antithetical to the methods and traditions of sewing. It's a form of functionless, guilt-driven, aesthetics-first minimalism that has no place in actual sewing practice. The scraps of fabric left over from cutting a pattern are incredibly useful. Larger pieces can become parts of new projects. Smaller pieces can become patchwork. Even really tiny scraps can become stuffing or batting or kindling or any number of other things. Home sewing has always been about not wasting things, but the way to not waste things is not by piously making only garments that suck, it's by repurposing, reusing, and recycling everything you buy. Once that fabric reaches your house, 98% of its environmental impact has already happened.

Use it all, sure, but use it well.

[themoonandmyman]

Ilya: I’m slowly boiling in this pot…. It’s burning my flesh… it’s hollowing me out… why won’t Shane get me out of the pot…

Galina: that’s very difficult. have you told him about the pot?

Ilya: OF COURSE I HAVEN’T TOLD HIM ABOUT THE FUCKING POT

[oldfarmwitch]

I...didn't love Heartstopper Forever and I'm sad about it.

[shanehollanderilyarozanov]

shane hollander moments that break my heart

[nohoperadio]

A spoon's only objective in life is to make soup go upwards, and it knows this. That's why when you put one under a running tap it blasts the water way high. The spoon thinks there's suddenly TONS of soup to deal with and it freaks out.

[mortimermcmirestinks]

OP I want you to know I think of this post every single time I have to wash a spoon.

[lliveonthesunn]

i get why people don't believe in marriage as a social construct but legally it is the best and easiest way to say "this is who i trust to take care of me when i can't take care of myself" and i'm so glad gay people fought for that right bc when shit gets scary at least i know im in good hands

[deathtofun]

I told a guy his total was 13.21 and he said “wish it were that year, could actually get some good music on the radio”

[regularlesbian]

breaking news from the AP, our boys on the front have just sacked constantinople. take that, heretics. coming up next are the soothing lute dirges of bing crosby

[villainessbian]

*screams of a witch burning at the stake*

THOU ART CURRENTLY LISTENING TO

*Gregorian chanting*

13.21

*leper bell ringing*

HIGH MEDIAEVAL FM

*recording of John Lackland sobbing as he signs the Magna Carta*

WHENCE COMETH NAUGHT BUT LITURGIES

LITURGIES

AND MORE LITURGIES

*Templar knights praying out loud*

THIS ISN’T THY GRANDMOTHERES STATION

*Imagine Dragons - Radioactive starts playing*

[lesbianshepard]

waaaay back when I was a cashier in retail we would talk about dumb shit while unloading the truck, and we got to the "what would you do in a zombie apocalypse" me and another worker were like yeah we would just die. End it all, we can't fight or run or shit. I refuse to put that much effort into survival.

And my manager was like no!!!! If that happened, I would drive to find you guys in my truck and we could eat stuff from my wife's garden and I would make sure everyone I know survived!! I would carry you all on my shoulders away from the zombies!!

Anyway, random shout out to that guy. You were too kind for retail management, Devin.

[lesbianshepard]

also afterwards everyone who was talking about their cool bunker fantasies were like "Damn, Devin's right, we should also be considering helping people around us." which is the only recorded instance of a retail shift making people better human beings.

[c---crow]

i keep seeing people talk about their bfs/husbands weaponizing incompetence to avoid grocery shopping or purposefully fucking it up. mine doesn't do that he'll shop on his own prerogative like an actually functional adult, his issue is he occasionally brings home a Cursed Item

[c---crow]

it is. uh. not good tasting

[dragon-in-a-fez]

you know what really helps you locate any small paper cuts you might have forgotten you have? putting your hand in a bucket of acid. cool things I learned today

[goldenleopard34335]

Why. If I may ask. Why would you Do That

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I buy citric acid crystals in bulk and mix them with water to make a bath for cleaning aquarium equipment. and then sometimes I reach in with my bare hand to take things out because I am fundamentally the kind of person who would do that

[the-knight-was-actually-hollow]

You have. The. Dream job

[dragon-in-a-fez]

this is not my job, I just have an aquarium

[goldenleopard34335]

DO YOU HAVE FISH????

[dragon-in-a-fez]

yes that is who lives in the aquarium

[madeofclothandlove]

this has the energy of a world heritage post

[dragon-in-a-fez]

do I come to your blog and curse your bloodline

[the-supernatural-atheist]

if theres one thing that really pissed me off from my 3 years of architecture i took in high school it's learning about how we used to have all these little techniques to maximize or minimize heat or warmth and now we just merrily abandoned all those to have the same copypaste style buildings everywhere that are often INCREDIBLY unoptimized to the local weather and climate so we can just throw more money at our heating and cooling bills

[the-supernatural-atheist]

where i live it is hot as balls approximately 80% of the year. i do not want a massive butt-ugly grey mcmansion with a huge echoey open-concept kitchen-livingroom-foyer-diningroom-staircase that has huge windows so i can have an hvac unit the size of a barge heaving and straining to keep it at a constant 72 the grees. i want a north indian traditional style home with small windows to force the airflow to cool, decorative grates to limit the amount of sunlight, and a COURTYARD with a POND *smashes unspecified large object*

[makaeru]

I hate learning about instances of "oh yeah we know how to do that, we just don't".

[transmascreplica]

are we too far gone

[audioexorcisms]

[hudsonswilliams]

bonus:

[thememedaddy]

[avidcollectorofdust]

Really glad predictive text exists. Should i bring my own parking lot