[roboticchibitan]

Hello, newer followers! I write stories! Well, I write one story that's sort of a series of episodes. It's slice of life fiction about a neighborhood of folks who don't have a lot but work together to make it just enough. There's found family in the form of a delightful older lady who I personally find very funny and is probably my favorite character, and a little girl who's lost her father and is the whole neighborhood's granddaughter or niece.

The main characters are Serenity, a cottage witch who sells knitted and crocheted items and tea's she's imbued with magic, and her dragon familiar who is just a very mischevious baby who pulls pranks like switching the salt and the sugar before an important meal.

It's just like a day or a scene in their life at a time. It's very cozy. It might make you cry but they'll be good tears. It started out as a joke, "what if a dragon could transform into a shawl pin." Then it progressed to a story and that story turned into a love letter to lonely people.

I'm sure my readers will leave reviews on this post. Feel free to check them out. If you'd like to read it, it's on AO3 here

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It’s Pride Month Eve, so leave out some milk for Freddie Mercury and his cats.

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Time for the annual Pride Month reblog of Freddie Mercury and his fabulous cats!

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Thank you, /r/ProgrammerHumor, I love you endlessly.

Redditors competing to make the worst volume sliders possible...

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special delivery for @soffies!!!

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This is horrific, thank you!!!

[roboticchibitan]

Ok so I have been using this little app called Finch that's supposed to help you build self care habits and the incentive is you are raising a little bird that you can dress up and whose house you can decorate. It's cute and fun to play w friends.

Well there's this item in Finch called a "groovy door" that comes in multiple colors. I have two variants

And I am sooo jealous of my lil bird because baby me loved the concept of bead curtain door hangings and desperately wanted one but was vetoed by my mom who is an otherwise sweet lady who thinks they are "ugly and tacky."

Then! I happened to see an instagram video of a door hanging someone crocheted that was basically flower garlands hanging down from a tension rod! And I was like "oh I could totally crochet a bunch of hearts and make one of those for my craft room door!

So behold!

I don't know how many I am gonna make. No real plan just vibes tbh. I did realize that this heart pattern is too big after I finished it, but I am thinking I'll make the bottom heart a bigger one to weigh it down a bit.

I am also considering adding fake pearl beads to it but the smallest amount I can find in my price range on a website that works is like 300 and I need like 35... I don't want to carry around 200+ fake pearl beads. I do not need or want them... So we'll see!

[roboticchibitan]

Update! I have decided to alternate between columns where the bottom heart is big and the other hearts are all small and there are fake pearls in the strand, and columns where there are no fake pearls but the hearts get progressively bigger as you go down. Arranged kind of like this (don't mind all my unwoven ends... I'm sure I won't regret those later....)

I'm also since the inspiration is bead curtains and I don't feel like carrying around an absurd number of fake pearl beads forever, considering adding strands of fake pearls betweent the columns of hearts. One of my friends suggested adding fairy lights but while I am usually the most extra bitch on the planet, I decided that wasn't the vibe this time.

Trying to convince @yarnaddiction to join me in crocheted door hanging land. Also trying to convince @birdofpyre to crochet some of the hearts for me. Joiiiinnnn meeeee both of you. You know you want to. It'll be good for you. Keep your hands and brain busy. Quick project. Take your mind off your worries.

[justiaerdumas]

how it started:

how it ended:

[roboticchibitan]

Ok so I have been using this little app called Finch that's supposed to help you build self care habits and the incentive is you are raising a little bird that you can dress up and whose house you can decorate. It's cute and fun to play w friends.

Well there's this item in Finch called a "groovy door" that comes in multiple colors. I have two variants

And I am sooo jealous of my lil bird because baby me loved the concept of bead curtain door hangings and desperately wanted one but was vetoed by my mom who is an otherwise sweet lady who thinks they are "ugly and tacky."

Then! I happened to see an instagram video of a door hanging someone crocheted that was basically flower garlands hanging down from a tension rod! And I was like "oh I could totally crochet a bunch of hearts and make one of those for my craft room door!

So behold!

I don't know how many I am gonna make. No real plan just vibes tbh. I did realize that this heart pattern is too big after I finished it, but I am thinking I'll make the bottom heart a bigger one to weigh it down a bit.

I am also considering adding fake pearl beads to it but the smallest amount I can find in my price range on a website that works is like 300 and I need like 35... I don't want to carry around 200+ fake pearl beads. I do not need or want them... So we'll see!

[gamergirl-lumine]

Frodo: *speaks Elvish*

Legolas: The heck was that?

Aragorn: He said good morning.

Legolas: He did?

Frodo: I thought you would… understand that?

Legolas: I’ve never heard someone speak like that before…it was strange, and stilted, and you used full words the whole time.

Aragorn: Elves may sound fancy to us, Frodo, but they speak slang, and almost exclusively in metaphors.

Frodo: Oh.

Legolas: Aragorn has described it as ‘a monstrosity of a language’.

Gimli: Dwarves have a better language.

Legolas: You do.

Gimli: Ha! You admit- wait, you admit it?

Legolas: Elves curse by using the names of trees. Tree names! You have actually cusses. Do you know what I would give to cuss, just once in my life, Gimli? Do you know what I would give to tell someone to f- f- f- I can’t even say it.

Gimli: You can’t say fuck?

Legolas: …I have an idea.

-

Legolas: The-

Gimli: Fuck.

Legolas: -are you talking about?

Boromir: Why did we let the dwarf start swearing for the elf?

Aragorn: Because I can’t wait to see Thranduil’s face when he finds out.

[roboticchibitan]

Making your own clothes truly is like eating the fae's food because

Once you realize you can have any item you want in any color you want you become a menace to society. I have bright purple pants. I have bright turquoise pants. My new Look is "crazy bright hand embroidered pants, plain black T shirt" or brightly colored everything because my goal in life is to be as obnoxious to look at as possible

Once you've tasted THESE pockets, you can never go back

(Pants pattern those pockets come from link to page that includes plus size grading tutorial link because I know y'all are gonna ask)

I regularly carry around in these pockets

Small A7 notebook I use to write things down in so I don't forget them as a brain fog backup brain

Mini pencil to use w notebook

Handkerchief

Glasses cleaning cloth

Glasses lens wipe (up to 3)

Lactaid (up to 4 individually packaged chewable tablets)

Carmex lip balm (the in a little pot kind)

Measuring tape (flexible for sewing kind, 60"/150cm long, button retraction, sooo useful to have on you all the time. My hot butch preparedness thing. Impresses people every time)

Small pair of folding scissors (comes in soooo handy)

Pocket rock (rn it's a garnet cube)

I feel like I am forgetting something but don't feel like getting up to check

I have also either previously all the time carried or on occasion added

Small A7 sketchbook I made myself

16 oz water bottle (full)

And man it really is like having plenty of good food around you and starving anyway because you cannot go back to the way things were. I have items from indie designers that have decent sized pockets for ready made clothes but they piss me off because I can't put a whole saddlebag's worth of stuff in them without stuff falling out.

When I make the clothes, I decide how big the pockets are. I am limited only by the strength of my waistband. Truly this is power.

[roboticchibitan]

Thing I forgot: phone

Have added today to the things I usually carry: this folding bluetooth keyboard I got to use w my phone because I have fucked up hands that bend in ways they are not supposed to when holding a phone which results in typing on one being very painful for me. It's about 6" x4" or 15cm x 10cm and has plenty of space in my right pocket which up until now just held my phone

This thing rules. Hands hurt way less using it. Accessibility win!!!

[roboticchibitan]

I am so sad that the version of this post that's circulating is just the original post and not my addition because I think an entire fucking keyboard I use as an accessibility aid (admittedly one that folds in half but) is a really good way to shamelessly brag prove my point about the pockets.

Also, been carrying it around successfully for several days and it's not even like. Annoying to carry around. I just have to take it out of my pocket before I lay down to rest because it's a bit flimsy and I'm afraid I'll forget it's there and roll over on it.

[roboticchibitan]

I started the geometry for project boobmageddon today!! Here is my basic body block square right before I realized I had rotated it 90° and every corner was labeled incorrectly which meant most of what I'd done up until that point needed redone.

Designing a body block for Mr Steve Minecraft

A back! With no darts yet because those are their own section that I will get to later.

I started the geometry!!! I did 20 out of like 70 steps!! For the first set of geometry... We are not thinking about the fact that I am gonna have to do geometry AGAIN immediately after this...

Also learned that for the sake of my back I need to limit how much time I spend leaning over my sewing desk to like an hour at a time. Lying on the heating pad now. Ow.

[roboticchibitan]

I have been complaining to my friends about how I am bad at geometry so this is going to be hard for me, but you know what? That's limiting myself. I think learning to draft a body block and patterns from that body block will help with the part of geometry I really struggle with which is picturing 2D objects as 3D shapes. This makes sewing from a pattern kind of difficult for me sometimes. But I think doing the reverse, taking the 3D body and making a 2D pattern block that I then in turn use to make 3D items, is really going to help with that.

Because I used to have problems understanding knitting patterns for similar reasons and now I'm the person my friends go to for help when they don't understand their knitting patterns. So maybe I'm not cursed to be bad at geometry forever. Maybe I just needed it to be geometry I actually cared about.

[roboticchibitan]

I started the geometry for project boobmageddon today!! Here is my basic body block square right before I realized I had rotated it 90° and every corner was labeled incorrectly which meant most of what I'd done up until that point needed redone.

Designing a body block for Mr Steve Minecraft

A back! With no darts yet because those are their own section that I will get to later.

I started the geometry!!! I did 20 out of like 70 steps!! For the first set of geometry... We are not thinking about the fact that I am gonna have to do geometry AGAIN immediately after this...

Also learned that for the sake of my back I need to limit how much time I spend leaning over my sewing desk to like an hour at a time. Lying on the heating pad now. Ow.

[roboticchibitan]

I have been complaining to my friends about how I am bad at geometry so this is going to be hard for me, but you know what? That's limiting myself. I think learning to draft a body block and patterns from that body block will help with the part of geometry I really struggle with which is picturing 2D objects as 3D shapes. This makes sewing from a pattern kind of difficult for me sometimes. But I think doing the reverse, taking the 3D body and making a 2D pattern block that I then in turn use to make 3D items, is really going to help with that.

Because I used to have problems understanding knitting patterns for similar reasons and now I'm the person my friends go to for help when they don't understand their knitting patterns. So maybe I'm not cursed to be bad at geometry forever. Maybe I just needed it to be geometry I actually cared about.

[roboticchibitan]

Making your own clothes truly is like eating the fae's food because

Once you realize you can have any item you want in any color you want you become a menace to society. I have bright purple pants. I have bright turquoise pants. My new Look is "crazy bright hand embroidered pants, plain black T shirt" or brightly colored everything because my goal in life is to be as obnoxious to look at as possible

Once you've tasted THESE pockets, you can never go back

(Pants pattern those pockets come from link to page that includes plus size grading tutorial link because I know y'all are gonna ask)

I regularly carry around in these pockets

Small A7 notebook I use to write things down in so I don't forget them as a brain fog backup brain

Mini pencil to use w notebook

Handkerchief

Glasses cleaning cloth

Glasses lens wipe (up to 3)

Lactaid (up to 4 individually packaged chewable tablets)

Carmex lip balm (the in a little pot kind)

Measuring tape (flexible for sewing kind, 60"/150cm long, button retraction, sooo useful to have on you all the time. My hot butch preparedness thing. Impresses people every time)

Small pair of folding scissors (comes in soooo handy)

Pocket rock (rn it's a garnet cube)

I feel like I am forgetting something but don't feel like getting up to check

I have also either previously all the time carried or on occasion added

Small A7 sketchbook I made myself

16 oz water bottle (full)

And man it really is like having plenty of good food around you and starving anyway because you cannot go back to the way things were. I have items from indie designers that have decent sized pockets for ready made clothes but they piss me off because I can't put a whole saddlebag's worth of stuff in them without stuff falling out.

When I make the clothes, I decide how big the pockets are. I am limited only by the strength of my waistband. Truly this is power.

[roboticchibitan]

Thing I forgot: phone

Have added today to the things I usually carry: this folding bluetooth keyboard I got to use w my phone because I have fucked up hands that bend in ways they are not supposed to when holding a phone which results in typing on one being very painful for me. It's about 6" x4" or 15cm x 10cm and has plenty of space in my right pocket which up until now just held my phone

This thing rules. Hands hurt way less using it. Accessibility win!!!

[roboticchibitan]

I started the geometry for project boobmageddon today!! Here is my basic body block square right before I realized I had rotated it 90° and every corner was labeled incorrectly which meant most of what I'd done up until that point needed redone.

Designing a body block for Mr Steve Minecraft

A back! With no darts yet because those are their own section that I will get to later.

I started the geometry!!! I did 20 out of like 70 steps!! For the first set of geometry... We are not thinking about the fact that I am gonna have to do geometry AGAIN immediately after this...

Also learned that for the sake of my back I need to limit how much time I spend leaning over my sewing desk to like an hour at a time. Lying on the heating pad now. Ow.

[roboticchibitan]

I personally think there is nothing hotter than when you're like "Oh no! I need X tool" and then a hot butch in your near vicinity goes "Oh, I got X tool right here in my pocket/car/garage." Therefore, I started carrying around 1. folding scissors and 2. a measuring tape (sewing kind) in my pocket all the time and the folding scissors surprise and please people because they are very useful. But the measuring tape? Impresses the hell out of them every time. "You just HAD that? Thank you I'll give it back in just a sec." I AM the hot butch with the tool you need!

Anyway I highly recommend this, feels great every time. A 60in/150cm measuring tape that's button press retractable costs like $5 for a 3 pack on amazon (or $4 for a single one from a local yarn store if avoiding amazon) and man it is so useful and impresses the pretty girls every time.

[roboticchibitan]

Making your own clothes truly is like eating the fae's food because

Once you realize you can have any item you want in any color you want you become a menace to society. I have bright purple pants. I have bright turquoise pants. My new Look is "crazy bright hand embroidered pants, plain black T shirt" or brightly colored everything because my goal in life is to be as obnoxious to look at as possible

Once you've tasted THESE pockets, you can never go back

(Pants pattern those pockets come from link to page that includes plus size grading tutorial link because I know y'all are gonna ask)

I regularly carry around in these pockets

Small A7 notebook I use to write things down in so I don't forget them as a brain fog backup brain

Mini pencil to use w notebook

Handkerchief

Glasses cleaning cloth

Glasses lens wipe (up to 3)

Lactaid (up to 4 individually packaged chewable tablets)

Carmex lip balm (the in a little pot kind)

Measuring tape (flexible for sewing kind, 60"/150cm long, button retraction, sooo useful to have on you all the time. My hot butch preparedness thing. Impresses people every time)

Small pair of folding scissors (comes in soooo handy)

Pocket rock (rn it's a garnet cube)

I feel like I am forgetting something but don't feel like getting up to check

I have also either previously all the time carried or on occasion added

Small A7 sketchbook I made myself

16 oz water bottle (full)

And man it really is like having plenty of good food around you and starving anyway because you cannot go back to the way things were. I have items from indie designers that have decent sized pockets for ready made clothes but they piss me off because I can't put a whole saddlebag's worth of stuff in them without stuff falling out.

When I make the clothes, I decide how big the pockets are. I am limited only by the strength of my waistband. Truly this is power.

[roboticchibitan]

Making your own clothes truly is like eating the fae's food because

Once you realize you can have any item you want in any color you want you become a menace to society. I have bright purple pants. I have bright turquoise pants. My new Look is "crazy bright hand embroidered pants, plain black T shirt" or brightly colored everything because my goal in life is to be as obnoxious to look at as possible

Once you've tasted THESE pockets, you can never go back

(Pants pattern those pockets come from link to page that includes plus size grading tutorial link because I know y'all are gonna ask)

I regularly carry around in these pockets

Small A7 notebook I use to write things down in so I don't forget them as a brain fog backup brain

Mini pencil to use w notebook

Handkerchief

Glasses cleaning cloth

Glasses lens wipe (up to 3)

Lactaid (up to 4 individually packaged chewable tablets)

Carmex lip balm (the in a little pot kind)

Measuring tape (flexible for sewing kind, 60"/150cm long, button retraction, sooo useful to have on you all the time. My hot butch preparedness thing. Impresses people every time)

Small pair of folding scissors (comes in soooo handy)

Pocket rock (rn it's a garnet cube)

I feel like I am forgetting something but don't feel like getting up to check

I have also either previously all the time carried or on occasion added

Small A7 sketchbook I made myself

16 oz water bottle (full)

And man it really is like having plenty of good food around you and starving anyway because you cannot go back to the way things were. I have items from indie designers that have decent sized pockets for ready made clothes but they piss me off because I can't put a whole saddlebag's worth of stuff in them without stuff falling out.

When I make the clothes, I decide how big the pockets are. I am limited only by the strength of my waistband. Truly this is power.

[roboticchibitan]

Ok I would never ever make this joke about someone else and I 100% don't want strangers on tumblr making this joke to me but FROM FRIENDS I HAVE GIVEN PERMISSION my agender ass actually finds someone going "GIRL (gender neutral)" at me hilarious. Like sometimes the gendered phrase does not have a good alternative.

Like there's no good gender neutral version of "good girl/boy" for sex that has the same vibes. I have heard many suggestions and much debate but I would rather be called a good girl or good boy than literally all of them. So I'm the guy in Just Some Guy and the girl in Girl Help because the rules are fucking made up and I am stealing gendered phrases like they are clothing items on my neighbor's clotheslines that I decided would look better on me than them.

IT'S ALL FAKE AND MADE UP LET ME HAVE MY FUN

[rainyydoves]

i beat myself up for not knowing enough about my special interests a lot but then i remember the average person off the street has no idea what the carboniferous is and i feel better

[rainyydoves]

are you really bad at it or are you in "good at it" spaces

[bigbigtruck]

"are you really bad at it or are you in 'good at it' spaces" has derailed so much self-hate since I read it

this is a load bearing sentence in my psyche and I can't believe it's only 2 months old