ok so this is another long shot but a few years ago there was a twitter post (in japanese i think?) that had measurememts for how to make this book stand thing out of cardboard that you could use to double up books and use up more space on shelves
back then i made a bunch of these but by now i lost the pic and dont know how to find the original post anymore
if it comes down to it i can just take one apart and get the measurements from there but i would be very grateful if anyone happens to have the original post or something similar??
don't mind how long it's been since i made this post, anyway i realized that i don't even need to take one apart to get the measurements when i can literally just unfold it and refold it /FACEPALM
so anyway here is the diagram for anyone else who is interested!!
this requires pretty big carboard pieces, if you have a really big box or something you can make it from one piece, but if you don't, you can also just make each of the pieces individually and then tape them together
and then in the end you put it together like this!!
and then when you make a bunch you can put them all next to each other and stack your books like crazy
EVERYONE START GETTING MORE USE OUT OF YOUR SPACE NOW!!!!
July Prompt: Steady | Word Count: 666 | Rating: T | CW: Language, Period Typical Internalized Homophobia | POV: Eddie | Tags: Post S4, Not-So-Secret Relationship, They Can't Both Be Runners, Good Uncle Wayne, Boys in Love
"Ahem."
Eddie pulls back, lips leaving Steve's, his tongue back in his own mouth. Steve's tense. So, Eddie slides his hand down Steve's forearm. Squeezing. Trying to stop him from fleeing.
It doesn't work.
Steve darts off the couch, right past Wayne, and down the dirt road to where he'd left his car parked. Eddie's isn't sure this level of subterfuge is required.
Eddie's the runner in any other situation, but with this? Steve's fucking goosey, no matter how much Eddie's reassured him that it's all good.
"Did you really have to do that?" Eddie asks, giving Wayne a staredown.
"Have you asked him to go steady yet?" Wayne counters, and Eddie rolls his eyes.
"Nobody asks anybody to go steady. Do you see us at a malt shop? I sure as shit don't," Eddie says, standing at the screen door. He should be able to see Steve kick up dust as he leaves Forest Hills like a bat out of hell.
Sure enough, he catches the glow of his taillights as he bails, turning and gunning it onto the pavement.
Eddie sighs.
"You don't have to keep scaring him off, you know?" Eddie says.
"I keep thinking eventually he won't be so dang scared of his own shadow," Wayne counters, and it's so absurd. Steve Harrington is the bravest person Eddie knows. About everything.
Except this.
Eddie's pretty sure Steve's parents did a number on him, and Steve's just freaked out. About the prospect of being outed, or maybe of even being involved with another guy at all.
"Maybe he's not on the same page," Wayne says, and Eddie would love to say he's never thought that himself, but that'd be a lie. He does worry about that, even if when he's with Steve he doesn't feel anything other than adored.
Loved.
He feels loved.
He's just gotta feel that love very deep in the closet. It's not that Eddie wants to go parading around town, he doesn't, he's no fucking fool. But he would like to hang out in his own home without Steve turning tail every time Wayne gets within fifty feet of them.
Wayne knows. Steve knows that Wayne knows.
And he still flees.
It's rough.
Eddie hears the tapping on his window, and while it could be a murderer. He knows it's Steve. And when the glass is pushed up, Eddie makes room, scooting over.
"Welcome back," Eddie says, voice thick with sleep.
Steve laughs, "Sorry. I panicked."
Obviously.
Steve sheds his clothes, and climbs in next to Eddie, burrowing close.
"Wayne knows. There's no reason to bail out like your ass is on fire. He knows. You running doesn't make him know any less."
Steve chuckles, pressing his lips to Eddie's shoulder. "I know. It's knee-jerk. I can't help it. If it was my dad, I'd need a head start."
Eddie pulls Steve closer, "Wayne's not your dad. He asked if I've asked you to go steady yet."
Steve giggles, burying his face into Eddie's neck.
"You haven't. You haven't offered me your class ring or your letterman jacket. Nothing. Bupkis."
Eddie grins in the darkness, "Well, I have neither."
"I have both," Steve says. "Want me to ask you? Make it official?"
Eddie wants to say no, wants to act above it, but, well. This is Steve Harrington.
"About time," Eddie teases, and Steve slings his leg over Eddie's thighs.
"You wanna go steady? Be my boyfriend?"
Eddie's pretty sure he's been Steve's boyfriend for a long fucking time now. But, still.
"Yes," Eddie says, "You want to meet my Uncle for breakfast?"
Steve nods, and Eddie knows this is progress.
And in the morning, sitting on the couch, Wayne only gives him a little grief.
"It's nice to see the front side of ya for once, kid," Wayne says, handing Steve a plate, making him blush a pretty shade of pink that Eddie will work to deepen later.
Steve smiles, more at ease, "Thanks for being so cool."
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This is the second time I've seen a video of this technique and this explanation is so clear! It does use more fabric than English paper piecing (EPP) but you end up with a double sided hexagon so don't have to source fabric for the backing.
I'm doing EPP at the moment but I have a hole punch to make the papers and just use leaflets and junk mail, so it doesn't feel wasteful. I don't think it's difficult either- in the video she mentions it's not for beginners, but I don't have that much experience with hand sewing or EPP and I've been finding it pretty easy so YMMV
I saw this video yesterday and was seized with the need to try it out immediately. Lookit my cute lil' hexagon baby!!
Here is what the backside looks like. OP notes this takes more fabric than paper piecing, but that excess fabric makes it already triple-layered. Besides not needing backing fabric, I don't think you'd need batting for this quilt at all. It's already thick and soft just from folding all that fabric into a hexagon.
Hexagon quilt tutorial video by tiktok user camelscrafts. Method:
Each hexagon begins as a 6" circle. camelscrafts does this by creating a paper template using a compass. According to the video, a 6" circle will create a hexagon that is 2.5 inches tall.
These hexagons are hand-sewn. Thread the needle.
With the fabric right side facing, find the center of the circle by folding it in half right sides together, then folding it in half again (wrong sides are facing). The top of the triangle shape is the center of the fabric circle.
Make a small stitch into the center of the fabric. The wrong side is still facing.
Unfold the circle. There will be a small stitch in the center.
Now the hexagon is created by folding the circle into itself: Take the needle to one of the edges of the fabric (it doesn't matter which one). Pull the needle through and pull the thread tight. This will fold down the fabric and create an edge of the hexagon. Crease the fold with your finger.
This fold has two corners, one at the top and one at the bottom. Put the needle into one of the corners and pull the thread taut. This will create another fold.
Continue this going around the circle until all of it is folded down, creating the hexagon. camelscrafts notes that the last corner pulled in may be a little bit "wonky" (no precise point in the corner) if the corners were not done precisely. However, that corner is pulled into the back, so is not visible from the front.
The hexagon is now formed. Sew around the folds in the middle of the circle to hold the folds in place. Tie off and cut the thread.
Attach hexagons to each other along the sides. With right sides together, whip stitch the sides together.
We have got to stop framing our oppression in ways that promote the idea that other people cannot relate to our struggles. Not only does it isolate comrades in the struggle, it actively diminishes recognition of other struggles--often including those even more horrific than what we are at risk of. And this happens especially between Gay and Black struggles.
"when have straight people ever had to check what states were safe for them?" Sundown towns are still a thing. Starlight tours. What states have abortion access? What states have open carry? What states have stand your ground? What states have 3-strike rules? Women, people of color, disabled people, immigrants, and more have had to be abundantly cautious where they travel to. Straight trans people have much more travel risk right now than gay cis people.
It's a new iteration of the same tired question: "imagine if straight people weren't allowed to marry" interracial marriage in the US is younger than my parents. We disgrace people of color by forgetting their history and contemporary struggles, and we abandon queer people of color, Black queer people, by segmenting their overlapping fights.
As lovelyshananigans says, "intersectionality, babes"
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