We are a polycule of four married queer folks doing our very best! Despite living in a tiny apartment, we somehow manage to churn out so so many crafts. We also read (and hoard like littol dragons) so so many books.
You can find all of our links at polycraftory.com, which includes the link to our etsy shop, the polyamory advice podcast we briefly ran, our used book seller page, our various storygraph accounts for book reviews/what we're reading, and our other social medias!
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We have an etsy store: Polycraftory! If you are interested in supporting some queer disabled folks, please consider checking out our shop! We make LGBTQIA+ and polyamory shirts, as well as a lot of fandom and D&D merch!
If you like a design but you'd like to get it on a different item, a different color, or a different size than what's available please shoot us a message and we'll try to make it happen!
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Our tag directory and more info about our polycule is under the cut!
Directory
General
Polycraftory: for all our original posts.
Polycraftory.com (External Link) for all our links and social medias
Etsy Shop (External Link)
Etsy Specific Tags: Shop Drop, Behind the Scenes
Other Tags: Laugh Tag, Words to Live By, Queer, Polyamory, Masterpost
Polyqueue: for our reblogs. For insight into a specific mind and tag commentary, you can check out Gabe Posts and Meghan Posts
General Crafting: Work In Progress, Craft Complete, Getting Started Guides, Buy List
Fiber Art: Embroidery, Needle Felting
Other Crafts: Leatherworking, Bookbinding, Cricut, Junk Journaling/Scrapbooking, Papercraft
Craft Starter Guides: Junk Journaling
Craft Tutorials: How to Curl a Heat Sensitive Wig
All Things Cosplay: Prop Making, Wigs, Cosplay Detailing (Embroidery, HTV, & other finishing touches)
Our Cosplays: Nic Cosplays, Meghan Cosplays
Specific Character Cosplays: Danny Phantom, Nott the Brave, Imogen Temult
Other Cosplay: Critical Role Cosplay, CR Cosplay Leatherworking Master Post, Genderbent Cosplay
Specific Polycule Crafts: Gabe Crafts, Meghan Crafts, Nic Crafts, Nathaniel Crafts
These are all links to various tags on our blog that might be helpful if you are looking for something specific. If the tag is there but not linked, it means I have an upcoming post and I'll add the tag here once it's up. If any links are broken/mis-linked, please let me know!
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The Polycule
Meghan (she/they) - the primary person running the blog. A queer disabled femme with a hobby of picking up new hobbies. Latest hyperfixations are leatherworking and bookbinding. Other crafts include embroidery, digital art and every cricut craft imaginable. In our cosplay work, their focus is makeup, leather and detail work like embroidery or heat transfer vinyl.
Gabe (they/them) - an adhd nerd that never stops crafting because they always need to be doing at least three things. Their first love is knitting, but they have recently picked up "the devil's craft" (aka crochet). Other crafts include: bookbinding, sewing, embroidery and digital art. In our cosplay work, they are our primary tailor and a wizard with the sewing machine.
Nic (she/they) - a chaotic genderfluid media lover who is the only one who can always find Meghan & Gabe's things. Their primary crafts are junk journaling, gouache painting, and needle felting. In our cosplay work, they primarily handle our wigs and face painting.
Nathaniel (he/him) - the newest crafter in our squad, but our number one fix it guy when it comes to being handy around the house. Those skills have translated well to his newfound love of all things prop making, which is his main contribution to our cosplay work. He also loves photography, and occasionally dabbles in basket weaving.
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What's Next?
We're planning to continue work on how tos for the various crafts and cosplay. We also do a lot of design work and we try to add at least one new shirt/merch design a week to our Etsy Shop. If there is interest, we may also start adding cosplay patterns and other digital content so you can craft along with us.
As disabled folks, we want to be as accessible as possible! We try to include image IDs on all our photos. Please let us know if you want us to tag something or if there is anything else we can do to be more accessible!
Polyamory feels so natural to me. I love to love others. I love to be loved. I love to see the ones I love be loved.
Polyamory allows each of us to show up as our best self. To be who we are without having to force ourselves to be something we're not.
Polyamory is freedom and safety. Freedom to love people the way that's most natural for you, knowing that it's okay if you can't fulfill every single need or want that your partner has. I show up differently than each of my partners do, we each have our strengths and weaknesses. Being together means that we raise each other up and help support through areas where we might struggle on our own.
Acetaminophen/paracetamol has a hard stop upper dose limit, above which it becomes extremely toxic.
That limit is 4g (8 “extra strength” (500mg) tablets) in 24 hours (about 2 tablets every 6 hours).
A single dose of 22 extra strength tablets can kill you.
Taking 12 or more tablets per day for more than a week can also kill you (this is about 3 tablets every 6 hours).
Symptoms of overdose take up to 24 hours to manifest, and are fairly difficult to distinguish from other problems. They include abdominal pain (especially right upper quadrant), nausea, malaise, and confusion.
The antidote (n-acetylcystine) must be given within 8hours of ingestion in order to be useful.
After 10 hours the only thing that will work is a liver transplant.
You might think “why would I ever accidentally take so much?”
Well, acetaminophen is in almost everything in the cold/flu/pain aisle. Migraine combos like Excedrin, cold and flu combos like NyQuil, basically anything that says “non-aspirin pain relief”, and anything that’s branded as a fever reducer. It’s all probably acetaminophen/paracetamol.
So the goal of this post is to get you to read the labels on your medications. Because taking taking Tylenol and NyQuil together for a week (like you might if you had the flu) could kill you.
Please don't forget this shit, after it happened to a family member, he died 8 years later because of the continuing health complications even though he survived the initial overdose
I didn't know this for years, and I took so many pills, sometimes 4 at one go, every four hours, like 16 a day, because of endometriosis and migraines. It took a migraine specialist to explain rebound headaches and overdoses when I was in my 40s. Then I went cold turkey on all OTC drugs to get off the cycle. Please, please, if a couple tylenol aren't working for you, talk to your doctor or find one who will listen to you if you can.
and OP mentioned both names, but I'm highlighting it again: when you travel internationally, this compound has different names. in the US it is called acetaminophen, while in Europe and elsewhere it is called paracetamol. Pharmacists often use the abbreviation "APAP" which is short for its IUPAC name, N-acetyl-p-aminophenol. They are the same compound. If a product says "do not take with products containing paracetamol," check the labels of other products not just for "paracetamol" but also for "acetaminophen."
And if you have currently or have ever had liver problems, even minor, the amount of Tylenol (acetaminophen/paracetamol) that is safe for you to take is 0 actually.
When I get sick and must take it, it is under extreme supervision. Like 2 every 48 hours max, no more than 3x per week, if absolutely necessary.
periodic reminder that the queer liberation library is an awesome non-regional library you can add on libby to access hundreds of queer titles. NO LIBRARY CARD NEEDED. i just found an audiobook for a pretty new release on there with no waitlist. also everyone use libby for your local library too NOW
Book excerpt + final merch reveal for THE WISDOM OF EMPERORS kickstarter: the coolest t-shirt you've ever seen in your life
A t-shirt! I didn't even want to do a t-shirt! I said to my Marketing Vizier, Rusty, "Let's not do a t-shirt, that sounds complicated, I have too many opinions about the decline of fabric quality and itchy tags, and it will be a headache to have to keep track of different sizes when I'm packing up the orders, so let's keep it really simple and Not do a t-shirt—"
And then Rusty showed me this design, and what happened in my brain was something like, "......................OK I MEAN I COULD DO A TSHIRT, FOR SURE I COULD DO A TSHIRT, FUCKING GOD THAT IS PAINFULLY COOL, i need it for ME, i need ME to have this, fuck fuck fuck holy fuck, ok don't worry about it, don't even worrrryyyyyy about it!!! We're doing a tshirt, and it WILL be worth the headache."
So. Big news, everybody, we are doing a t-shirt!!! And not only are we doing a t-shirt, but you get to be the beneficiaries of all my pickiest and most opinionated standards, such as:
100% cotton or go home. Get that plastic shit out of my face, I hate it.
Fabric quality in the garment industry has been going down in recent decades, so I have intentionally found a printer who offers shirts made of fabric that's a little heavier than that really cheap, thin shit you often find in stores these days--it is better for durability, so that hopefully you (read: I, who needs this shirt for Me) won't notice it getting holes within the first year of wearing it.
You know what I hate when I buy a cool shirt like this? The way a big design on the front feels kind of stiff and uncomfortable and plasticky, and how it gets sweaty and uncomfortable in the summer because it doesn't breathe properly. SO WE AREN'T DOIN THAT! Instead, it will be printed using a method called discharge printing, which removes dye from the fibers and then adds different dye back on. Result: The design just becomes part of the fabric. After the first wash, I'm told you can't even feel a difference between the printed and non-printed areas of the fabric. As an extra bonus, you know the way that those plasticky designs get cracks and fissures over time? Literally cannot happen with discharge printing, so it will stay fresh and new-looking for longer. AND, even better, because there aren't any bits to flake off, no microplastics getting released every time you wash it!
Tear-away tag. Fuck tags. We all know this, we all get it. I don't need to say anything more about that.
In this house, we love supporting small businesses! The screenprinting company I've chosen is based in the USA and still owned by the same guy who founded it 25 years ago. No corporations, no soulless franchises, thank you very much, just cool humans making neat stuff. They also do a lot of charity work and have been prioritizing eco-friendly production/cleanup techniques since before it was cool.
More options, more good! The size range goes up to 4XL (you'll tell me what size you want in the backer survey after the campaign ends). Although the fit is your standard unisex tee, I DO hope that some folks will get bold and experiment with cool, punk DIY adaptations to make the shirt exactly what they want. Chop the sleeves off. Cut a wide-neck or V-neck collar into it. Crop off the bottom or make it a beaded fringe. When you start thinking of a standard-fit tee as really more of a blank canvas, the world is your oyster.
As for the design itself, it references the official Imperial deification of both the historical Antinous and his fantasy equivalent in the book, Anaticula, the cities named after them, the 2000 sculptures commissioned of them, and the religious cults founded to honor them...
You know what, I'll just let today's excerpt explain the details -- it is a LONG one today, the entire Foreword, written by a more established academic to commemorate the publication of Dr Amatio Orlanti's revised dissertation. Enjoy! (But before I turn you loose on this excerpt, remember to schedule an alarm for 4pm EST tomorrow for the launch of the campaign!)
Read the excerpt on Kickstarter:
Today's update is a long one, folks! After the merch reveal, we've got the WHOLE Foreword to the book! A t-shirt! I didn't even want to do a
This is one of those posts where I feel like I'm doing others and myself a disservice by not sharing. I wish someone had shown me this a long time ago.
Maybe I'd be having to do less work to break out of this shell, now.
[Image IDs: Series of tweets from (neuro)diversity (green heart, yellow heart, orange heart, red heart, sparkling heart, purple heart, blue heart emojis) (@/ GummiPie) reading: I went to a woman's funeral. Her husband gave a eulogy and spoke mostly about himself. I mean he started from his birth and spent a significant amount of time explaining his life and career before he met her. Her pastor said she was the kindest, most helpful person he'd ever met.
Her kids said she was the best most helpful loving mom. Everybody said she never complained. She put everyone first. It was a virtue. She didn't take care of her, she devoted herself to church, husband and kids. They cried so much. An angel on earth! They'd miss her dearly.
I never met this lady. I sobbed. My husband thought I was going to join her in the ground when I bent down to give me rose and spoke to her. I told her I understood why her heart attacked her. She swallowed so many teeth!! A dozen people said she was the best woman on earth and
I hadn't learned a thing about her personality except that she made it small. I heard about her service and she never complained. I don't even know if she was funny.
That's when I decided to stop putting everyone above me all the time. Stop swallowing my teeth. Because I refuse to let these people kill me and then get up at my funeral and talk about themselves. How I died for them but without saying it. I refuse.
If you hear someone praising you for "never complaining" please get mad. Please take up space. This is your life, not a pageant. Complain. Even if you can only whisper "this hurts me". Complain.
No one can help if you won't say "this hurts". Maybe you're crazy like me. Maybe little "harmless" comments hurt. So what? Say something. Maybe they get mad and block you. (start all caps) Good! (end caps) You have to find a life that does not hurt. You have to say something. Nothing is too small.
If you think "other people wouldn't be so hurt by this" so you shouldn't speak up, you're wrong. You literally were forced (start all caps) Pushed or pulled) (end caps) into life. You didn't ask for your sensitivity. There are people allergic (start all caps) to water. (end caps) Should they not complain because it's atypical?
Things hurt. Hurt changes your brain. It practices the pain and (start all caps) Gets better/faster at hurting. (end caps) You must find peace and practice (start all caps) that. (end caps) The damage of pain is silent and invisible but it's one of the realest, most dangerous things we know. /End IDs]
Reblog if you’d rather give yourself papercuts between each of your fingers and then rub hand sanitizer all over your hands than use generative AI to write or draw anything ever
Tweet 1: O best beloved, if you are doomscrolling Twitter today, ask yourself if there is anything you can personally do. If there is, do it. If there isn’t, remember that anxiety is not activism. Your misery does not improve the world a single iota.
Tweet 2: You are not required to wallow in despair to prove your humanity. Better to go and work on something you can fix right now. /End ID]
