just completed an important but relatively uncomplicated task that's been hanging over my head for 2 weeks straight. i have been having actual nightmares and anxiety over this, worrying i will never get it done. it took me all of 30 minutes and was lightly annoying but not terrible. the relief i feel is physically palpable, like a sword has been removed from my sternum. and yet! in the nature of the human spirit! i will learn nothing from this experience!
Shane is really going through it, someone get this man some Ativan…
If Yuna had her way they would have already shot that boy with the tranquilizer gun they use to subdue escaped zoo animals. Absolutely everyone is down for medical intervention except for Shane himself and he is Fighting The Idea of Sleep Or Anxiety Medication Tooth And Fucking Nail. This is in part because he is harboring some very pervasive fears that if he does get an industrial grade Xanax dose prescribed to him then some fuck ass reporter will do an Ocean’s 11 style heist of the pharmacy and find a way to leak the prescription too and then the next thing he knows Shane Hollander Is A Mentally Unstable Drug Junkie will be plastered all over the internet and a bunch of tweens will be making sad girl edits of him on TikTok that are captioned with the exact number of milligrams of benzos a medical professional thought he needed to make his Blood Stop Trying To Boil Him From The Inside Out and he’d just. Rather not deal with that right now if he’s being perfectly honest.
But it’s also because I headcanon that Shane absolutely fucking hates the feeling of medication in his system. It makes him feel like he’s not in control of his own body and Feeling Like He’s In Even Less Control Of Things is not a feeling he can take right now. This is a point that he’s dug his heels in on like a hydrophobic mule threatened with a river crossing. Negotiations for medical intervention are ongoing and. Tense.
#snapping birch#Ilya has the all out knockout world record of Getting Shane To Do Things Right Now#the secret to his success is he looks sad and says ‘please for me’ and Shane says ‘you cannot just keep saying ‘please for me’ to get me to#do things ilya’ and Ilya says ‘I know. but please for me’ and Shane says ‘you are the fucking worst’ and he says ‘please Shane for me’ and#Shane says ‘FUCK YOU’ and does it.#Dave is in second place because he’s so sad and guilty and miserable and Shane Does Not Want To Be Mad At His Dad Right Now He Doesn’t Want#To Deal With His Emotions Around How This Happened At All Actually so Shane gives in to him because he’s worried his dad thinks he hates#him now and he doesn’t he doesn’t he doesn’t want to be angry he doesn’t#you know that thing where you take anxiety medication and so often the anxiety medication is like ‘You Can’t Be Anxious If You Are#Unconscious’ and knocks you the fuck out? Shane hates that. or how if you take sleeping medication and it’s like ‘Cool You Will Be Drowsy#For The Next 20 Consecutive Hours’ even after you wake up?#he fucking HATES that. he just was on a fuck-off course of pain meds and the whatnot for his injury and he only barely cooperated in that#because that was dedicated to getting his body back into Hockey Playing Mode#this is a guy whose been keeping huge portions of his life secret for his entire adult life there is absolutely no way he likes the feeling#of his thoughts/reasoning being impaired at all. if you have him the option to do wisdom tooth extraction surgery stone cold sober he would#take it over pain meds he just fucking HATES the feeling of being out of control of his own body#he has control issues to the point that he meal prepped his way into an eating disorder you cannot convince me he would easily turn to#medical intervention. it took three hours of argument to get him to accept the melatonin and at the very least that’s a chemical your body#already produces. He Does Not Want Your Drugs He Is Approaching Life With A Purposesful Zen. Now Let Him Build This Fucking Deck Chair.#secretly Shane’s Pretty Fucking Sure he has a stress ulcer right now but He Doesn’t Think That Information Would Be Well Received so he isnt#sharing it. this is fine. Yuna meanwhile had a conversation with Ilya involving the worlds least amount of eye contact about how he needed#to get Shane to sleep before his heart exploded and She Did Not Care What His Methods Were he just needed to get Shane horizontal in bed and#keep him there and Ilya says Okay Understood Let’s End The Conversation Here With No More Sentences and then spent the rest of the day#wondering if Yuna just ordered him to have sex with her son#from a purely clinical perspective sex releases endorphins that reduce stress and induce drowsiness and Yuna Will Think Purely Abstract And#Clinical Thoughts right now
Listen, marketing-as-exploitation discussions aside, Rainbow Capitalism is, has been, and continues to be the canary in the coal mine of social acceptance for the queer community.
If you’ll all pardon my Americentrism for a moment, the amount, visibility, and flamboyance of Pride merch available in clothing, home goods, and comestibles stores is a DIRECT reflection of how safe it is to be queer in public in the United States.
How? Simple. Out groups aren’t profitable. If you’re not “acceptable” in the current social climate, big franchise businesses will not market to you. (Prime example - Look how quickly Target dropped all their Pride merch after having been wall-to-wall rainbows every June for almost a decade prior.)
Sure, capitalism sucks and being viewed as an exploitable marketing demographic isn’t a fun concept.
HOWEVER.
The grim truth is that being normalized enough to be considered profitable by corporations IS A GOOD THING in terms of the barometer of social acceptance.
Same thing goes for smaller businesses that throw kitschy Pride events or even just put a token rainbow flag in the window or somewhere inside the shop. That’s a level of acceptance that DID NOT EXIST thirty years ago, and I can tell you because I was there.
The fact that we can scoff and bitch about being an exploitable marketing demographic nowadays means we have made GIGANTIC strides since the 1990s. It also speaks to the fact that the drive and the conversation surrounding LGBTQ+ rights and acceptance are continuing. And getting louder.
You can be cynical about it if you want. But I will take a store that puts out lip-service rainbow merch over a world that pretends we don’t exist any day of the week. Because that will always mean something.
Agreed, and also, it has always struck me as a little bit of a double-standard in queer politics when people used to point out the exclusion of queerness from mainstream capitalist products as evidence of their marginalization (e.g., there are no m/m or f/f wedding cards)
Yet, when they start being included, they are like “well, that’s just capitalism taking advantage of us, so it doesn’t count.” Like, you can’t use your EXCLUSION from something as evidence of general societal marginalization and then claim that once you’ve started to be included, it is politically meaningless. You don’t really get to have it both ways. That’s moving the political goal posts.
I get that we shouldn’t consider Target pride merchandise as like the pinnacle of queer politics or even the pinnacle of queer inclusion. I get that inclusion in capitalist intuitions is a very ambivalent form of social progress. But the truth is, capitalism is a big part of what creates our social reality right now (unfortunately).
Capitalism makes TV shows, and movies, and books, and ads, and greeting cards, and toys, and clothing, and, and…
When every single aspect of commercial social reality excludes queerness, that DOES create a real sense of social alienation. I don’t love that capitalism is responsible for creating so much of our collective social reality. But granting that it does, I think we’re forced to accept that our inclusion in it IS politically and socially important.
And yes we should still be trying to resist capitalism as the primary means of meeting human needs. But we can resist treating capitalism as an inevitability or an inherent good, AND ALSO acknowledge that our inclusion within it remains politically important while it still holds so much power and responsibility for creating our shared reality.
See also a recent article from NPR (published May 30, 2026) discussing how pride celebrations have struggled financially with the loss of corporate sponsorships. Organizing big visible events (and fairly compensating the labor of those who make them possible) is expensive.
Public support for the LGBTQ+ community by corporations has become politically risky, public relations expert says.
Found out I was short fabric on another project and decided I wasn’t going into town to pick it up, so I pulled a jelly roll out to keep myself busy until I went back to town.
Figured I do a quick quilt top, you know, just throw something together.
And then I made two blocks of the forty eight needed for this Harvest quilt and boy howdy.
So we have this bin of partially used bobbins for the long arm. And we only have so many bobbins of course.
I decided that since the quilt top was so colourful, I’d put plain flat black cotton the back and use up some of these bobbins, making the quilting on the back really stand out.
Holy shit did it work or what! I love it, of course LOL
I used a medium purple on the top so it would fade into the patchwork and not show up too much on the background. The quilting pattern is called Pink Lemonade and it is one of my favourite quilting patterns.
I didn’t have any left over border fabric, so I found a nice blue that matched with that print and made it my binding. I debated using purple, but couldn’t convince myself to do it.
The blue looks good though, from the front and the back.
I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.
there are too many things happening this summer that i'm thinking we are going to need an extra 6-12 months of june and possibly another 3-4 months of july. probably no extra august as the problem should hopefully sort itself out by then. we are also looking into extending the day night cycle to 55 hours and extending the human lifespan to 10000 years.
Decided to get rid of a bunch of left over 2.5” strips. I found 40 -40!- grey strips in my scrap bin and whoop there’s the background 🫣
So I pulled out all the different black strips I had for the other pieces and am attempting Cozy Quilt Design’s Strip Tube Lattice. I have attempted this before, in blue batiks, but… got distracted. Then I packed everything up when I moved, but I am sure they are somewhere in the shed just waiting for me to find them LMAO
So then I had to wait on the whole 15”xWOF I had to order to arrive so I can make an extra eight strip units so there are enough blocks for the corners and four interior blocks left over to make into a matching pillow case.
Ofc, if I had gotten 35” then I could have made exactly the number of blocks for two more rows with nothing left over.
But my math failed me this time. I thought 15” would be enough.
A matching throw pillow will be a nice accompaniment for a couch quilt anyways.
I know the pattern calls for a background border between the interior and exterior blocks, but I’m not buying any more than I need to to finish this thing; it’s supposed to help get rid of fabric, not make me buy more.
I don’t know when I’ll get around to putting this on the long arm, but I do like how it turned out. I’ve already collected some more black 2.5” strips for the binding, so that will be scrappy too.
The longer I look at it the more I like it.
The diamond border. The interior blocks framed with alternate colours all the way around, giving it a clear boxy feeling.
Even the colours. I switched out a few of the more unmatchy ones with the four I made with the extra ordered grey fabric and put them into the pillow case.
Hmmmm. It reminds me of a stone tile floor I think.
Finally got this up on the long arm and got it done. Grey thread of course, and a very simple brains meander.
Granted the quilting almost looks like puzzle pieces which is cool.
I hated basting this though because all of the edges are bias, which are stretchy as fuck. Next time I’ll so a stay stitch around the whole thing. I mean, it worked, it just could have been easier LOL
The matching pillow, of course. It’s an 18” pillow case, but I stuffed a 20” pillow in there to make it fat and happy 😂
I used the same quilting pattern on the pillow as on the quilt just halved the size so it’s tighter and will bare more washing.
really fond of humans just from an appearance standpoint. the long legs. the manes of hair that can come in practically any colour and texture. those crazy high-contrast eyes with the white scleras and colourful irises. the fingers being so much longer than the toes. there's a lot to love. solid 10/10 animal species
Here's some of the notes, starting with the things multiple people brought up:
SHRIMP COCKTAIL:
banahbanah: #flashback to that one fic where Peter Parker frets about drinking shrimp cocktail because of the alcohol
generaldeliciousness: adding: what a prawn/shrimp cocktail is
#why is your character turning it down because they're under 21 #do you think prawn cocktail is a cocktail #this lives in my brain rent-free constantly #the rest of the fic was so normal #and good enough that i'll still re-read it #but bro
And then many, MANY, people wondering if this was actually authour mistake, since Peter really would do this!
POMEGRANATES:
zhajhassa: #haha where's that post that was like someone describing someone eating a pomegranate but they ate it like an apple
thornhands: #once someone wrote persephone biting into a whole Pomegranate #had to stop and stare at a wall for a minute
sungsingsanguine: I once saw someone very confidently write about a character eating slices of pomegranate.
FRUIT TREES:
zagreuses-toast: #given a very endearing glimpse into a writers blindspots by seeing them describe someone sitting under a ''pineapple tree''
salatrash: I remember something about picking watermelons... OF A FUCKING TREE
baander: #cranberry trees
DOUGH/BATTER:
maycelium: #I'm a chef so I'm really used to people not accurately describing how to cook food #But I was surprisingly flabbergasted when someone was writing making a cake and was kneading it. Which uh #Not necessary for cake. It was interesting for sure but just bizarre
livebloggingmydescentintomadness: #the one that drove me nuts was when a character set aside a batch of PASTA DOUGH 'to rise' #pasta doesn't have yeast!! #it does need to REST but it will never RISE #you do not want an airy crumb on your noodles
lovesodeepandwideandwell: #THE ONE WHERE THEY MADE COOKIES BY LADLING BATTER INTO A TRAY
Some other topics:
ANIMALS:
catenarwhal: #mandatory 'how cows produce milk' mention#i'll never recover from that one I fear
piromantic: #one time i saw someone fake their way through describing how spiders behave
pluto-lichen: horses
misskittypotter: #stardew valley faking its way through what fresh fish smell like
pa-pa-plasma: #saw someone faking their way through knowing what a seal is once #i still am fucked up over that one to this day. they just straight up did not know #& they were NOT good at guessing it either like it was clear they had never googled that animal ever #& was only just now realizing via answering questions from anons that seals are not!! what they assumed. initially
SEX:
dykevandyke: #what a prostate is #and where it is located #as in. external.
dreamyeyedrose: #I remember back in the ff.net days reading an Ichigo/Renji fic where the writer assumed the penises go inside each other #and I was like “I mean I don't know how it works for sure I don't have one but idk if that's how it works”
SOME OTHER FOOD STUFF:
thetrekkiehasthephonebox: #add another one to the list bloggers#this character is cooking a salad
shosta: #still baffled about the published work that didn't know food could freeze
sun-dari: #once i read a fic where the author didn't understand cinnamon
alto-tenure: #read something recently where the author was just. blatantly wrong about spices
dramatic-dolphin: #i saw someone try to fake their way through what ramen is once. like 14 years ago.#but i remember.#i was very confused about ramen for a few months. they were writing it so authoritatively.
the-celery-stalks-at-midnight: #i will never ever forget someone putting leftover fries in the microwave to reheat them and setting the timer for five minutes
typeghost: #this sparked a memory of a hannibal fic where the author had to fake their way through writing about gravy
draculin: #the one fanfic where the author knows about coffee only as a concept wrote a character as a coffee drinker#was very interesting#I don't remember the fandom or the plot but I was mesmerized by the coffee actions and choices
11235811235811: #there's a lot of faking their way thru congee in the svsss fandom i'll also note
fishali3n: #read one where the person clearly didnt know what tofu is
emmy-everafter: #in the aftermath of shadow and bone s2 i saw a lot of people pretending to know what stroopwafels are #babes they are more like cookies than breakfast waffles #like yes there is a waffle pattern but you're not gonna cut into a stack of them with syrup and sugar#🤣🤣🤣
NON-FOOD STUFF:
red-umbrella-811: Shoutout to Dame Agatha Christie for faking her way through what a wrench is in a very popular published work.
bluebeetle: #once saw someone have a character put an entire phone book in their pocket
nonametis: #- sex talk in languages other than english #<- or just the petnames in a different language other than English
sadisticpony: #the fanfiction i saw this week where op DIDNT KNOW HOW AUTOMATIC DOORS WORKED #and that they arent in peoples homes!!! of course. also opening the automatic door for someone is unironically very funny but its not #its not like. grabbing the door handle to let someone in. helpppp
danmeichael: #reminds me of the fic with the figure drawing class where the character started with the feet. #i love you feet first figure drawing author
meowmix1100blr: #me watching this one fic absolutely obliterate what the board of directors does
vexedhexes: #one time i read an architect character making a doorway bigger by building a bigger door #what a beautiful world. #OH. also gravity falls fic where they go 'oh piedmont is in california so its warm all year round'
leveragehunters: #characters going to a beer garden #And it's literally a garden outside the pub#It was a very cute mistake
fitofpique: #yes! #grown men do not get blind drunk off two beers #but i am possibly guilty of the hypothermia one #assuming it does not make you very horny?
dadvans-likes: #always thinking abt the soup kitchen fic #the entire setting of the fic was 'soup kitchen' #and i very quickly realized #the author did not know what a soup kitchen was #and they thought that soup kitchens only served soup #fic
msmargaretmurry: #i love fanfiction #once read a fic where the characters played 20 questions #but the author seemed to not know how to play 20 questions and was just kind of winging it........ #immaculate
shakespeareaddict: #Look I know not all of us are hockey experts #But it takes about ten seconds of research or any attention paid to the show to realize #That the Stanley cup playoffs are not in fucking September
baejax-the-great: #the funniest one i saw #was someone faking what church is like #like 1. they really didn't have to write an entire church experience for their fic #and 2. they had clearly never even watched a show where people went to church #it was bonkers weird
twosunson: #things ive seen authors faking #knowing how to unclog a drain #knowing. literally any history #knowing what ketamine looks like (apparently- oregano) #(you know who you are)
waterhorseyblues-ao3: #beltane being celebrated in winter #wales being portrayed as a completely separated land from england (i wish) #characters getting up after weeks of bedrest like that dosnt completely fuck you up
violetfairydust: #i once read a fic where the flight time from london to seattle was 3 hours
purekesseltrash: One time, in a fic set specifically in Des Moines, IA, two of the characters casually drove 20 minutes to the ocean. The memory continues to delight me. I want to know where that author thought that Iowa was.
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