So hot they call me Paracelsius

my main blog is theophrastus-bombastus-von-hoe.

[mrvelocipede]

Now that I've finally put up some instructions for the Traveling Stitch/False Decrease, maybe I can also post about some of the things I've been doing with it.

One category I've been exploring is lace, because I always seem to revert to lace. Knitted lace often has lines of decreases, which distort the vertical columns of stitches into emphasized diagonals. Here is a small swatch of a lace diamond pattern, fairly bog-standard except for the cable crosses at the points of the diamonds. The top half of each diamond shape is framed by its decrease lines, while the bottom half grows vertically out of the YO increases.

By using some False Decreases, it's possible to add diagonal framing lines to the lower edges of the diamonds as well. Now they look more symmetrical, and have a nice kind of crispy-edges effect.

Here are charts for both stitch patterns:

They are identical except for the False Decreases. The outlined diamonds end up looking a bit smaller, because the area of stockinette stitch gets more covered up by the diagonals.

[morhath]

I hate when king arthur has all these fussy little steps in the instructions and you're like "no way do these fussy little steps matter" but you try it and they do. they matter so much.

[bookaddict7342]

I thought you meant Camelot quests and I was like "that's fair, 'never pick a four leaf clover on the last Wednesday of the month' IS a fussy little step that shouldn't matter" but then I was like "wait isn't that also a flour company"

[morhath]

nooo I am not a beleaguered knight of the round table I am making elaborate focaccia 😭

[ardri-na-bpiteog]

no matter how normalised it gets I will die on the hill that it is rude to record strangers in public without their consent

[knifepadme]

what day is it

[knifepadme]

always fucking some day or another around here

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

[k-wame]

[gingersnapsvhs]

did your parents *"pre-screen" the media you interacted with when you were a kid/before legal adult age where you are?

yes, always AND they did parental guidance talks about it

yes, always but there was no parental guidance involved

sometimes, with parental guidance talks

sometimes, no parental guidance talks

not usually, but occasionally (WITH parental guidance)

not usually, but occasionally (WITHOUT parental guidance)

they never pre-screened but there were other rules (elaborate?)

my parents fully didn't give a shit about what media i engaged with

see results

Voting ended onDec 16, 2025

*by "pre-screening", i typically mean any sort of behavior that exists on a spectrum of "actually watching/playing/reading the thing before you played it" to "doing any sort of research on it before letting you watch it".

feel free to share your experiences in the tags or replies or whatever!

[gingersnapsvhs]

admittedly, i am a little obsessed with like 65% of the tags on this post so far basically saying "my parents didn't pre-screen things but they [describes behavior that DEFINITELY qualifies as pre-screening]". i kinda hope maybe this post and others like it wake some people up to the fact that yes, even YOUR parents were controlling what perspectives and ideas you were and were not being allowed to access.

[sesamie]

learning that addiction is a progressive narrowing of the range of things that make one happy was kinda life changing for me. i apply it to everything not even just addiction i am always checking to ask if i am narrowing my range of happiness or widening it

[elvenmoans]

Reblog if ur a godless degenerate

[philippus-areolas]

[zombie-dogg]

i wish folks were more normal about hairy legs so i could feel good about going out in a dress or skirt without feeling like i have to shave

[philippus-areolas]

I haven't shaved my legs in years and I wear dresses and skirts all the time. If anyone is judging me I am immune bc stupid opinions cannot get past the protective layer of leg hair. Join me

[rosegardenofeden]

Frankly, as a woman who got to transition in high school and live out my senior year as a teen girl, people who claim that trans girls wouldn't have liked having their high school experience as a girl are fucking liars. Like yes I had the fortune to go to a pretty chill and liberal high school but that shit was 100x better as a woman than it was going as a boy.

[rosegardenofeden]

Obviously it wasn't all good, but no one's high school experience was. I got my heart a little broken by a straight girl. I had (thankfully unfulfilled) comphet impulses. I experienced horrible high school breakup drama that shattered my friend group. I made questionable fashion choices. But the important thing is that I got to do that all as a woman and not a shriveled quiet husk of a boy and that made such a big difference that it drives me crazy. People liked me and talked to me more, I got to buy a prom dress, and a lot of these things probably seem banal but it was a lot better than the alternative.

It just makes me mad whenever people condescend to trans women about our own desired experiences, but it just hurts a little bit more when we get a lecture about things we actually experience. I know that periods suck because my wife wakes up with intense cramps when she gets hers. I know big boobs might cause back problems, but I know tons of trans women who got them and don't regret a damn thing. Maybe if you started seeing us as women and not as tourists of the female experience we could actually commiserate on the common ground we have.

[philippus-areolas]

High school is a weird time no matter what, it makes NO sense to insist it's somehow better with extra gender dysphoria ? I'm also glad I started transitioning in high school. If I had waited I never would have known how supportive some of my teachers would be. (Not all of them were the ones I would have expected, either.) Experiencing transphobia was impactful, yeah, but not nearly as impactful as the kindness and support.

[were--ralph]

something something short trans folk something something microtransaction

[philippus-areolas]

How dare you! Come down here and say that to my face

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[teaboot]

My philosophy on faith-based violence is simple.

If your God doesn’t want you to hurt people then you shouldn’t hurt people, and if your God wants you to hurt people then your God is an asshole. So if you believe in a God and you’re hurting people, then either your God is an asshole or you are.

This is not a complex philosophy.

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

Have you read Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle (2025)?

yes

no

I didn't finish it

I've never heard of it

Voting ended onOct 31, 2025

[rrredgi]

It is by no means cheaper to craft your own clothes btw, it's just that every piece is special and dear and well loved, and every time you wear or clean them you feel all the work you've put into them

[rrredgi]

Couldn't keep this buried in the tags treasury

[autistic-af]

Source ~ Neurodivergent_Lou

Alt Text added to each image.

Note: these are different ways these can show up. They can also show up in a stereotypical way. If you've met one autistic, you've met one autistic.

[teaboot]

REALLY

FUCKING ALL OF THEM??!?!?!!

[biracy]

Basically I think a lot of White ppl think the antithesis to racism is "Black people are inherently Cool, White people are inherently Lame" and it's just very hard to convince them that this is also extremely racist lmfao

[biracy]

It's the combination of "seeing a racialized group as Fundamentally Inherently Good is still dehumanizing and you aren't seeing them as people" and "your self-flagellating White guilt is extremely annoying for the people of color around you to deal with"