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still fucks me up what a bad rap coyotes get in peoples eyes. like ive talked to people who see em as like. gross pests who should be culled. theyre literally just as cool as wolves just a lil smaller and less confident. i love them with all my heart to balance out all the coyote haters out there, coyotes rule theyre doing great

amygdalae

imagine having hatred in your heart for this beast

amygdalae

this post was so fucking funny I literally was just like “I like coyotes I think they’re cool” and so many people fucking hated it. Shut up I’m trying. To enjoy animal

autistook

Pippin Took as text posts

#pippin

valtsv

me trying not to make impulse purchases when i’m sad

edgebug

happy 20 year anniversary of Neil banging out the tunes!

though every rat is special, it's a wonderful and unusual thing for their accomplishments to be remembered and cherished by so many people so many years later. we're all so fortunate to know about the rat who banged out the tunes!

thank you to all the people who sent me reference photos of their beloved rats for this piece!!! credits under the cut!

#“the average pet rat is a joy beyond measure. the average pet rat is a soft little treasure”#truer words have never been spoken #absolutely adorable #makes me miss my ratties

pandebunny

Safe to say Kyojuro likes Pombon 🐾

#kyojuro

tongxiong0911

The end

fcntasmas

y’all ever read a fanfic that you cannot believe an author just wrote for free?? what an honor it is to read a piece of someone’s soul they shared out of nothing but love for a piece of media. what a privilege it is to be allowed their talent because you share an interest!!

swarnpert

*right clicks on you*

swarnpert

*views your properties*

I love him

tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva

I want to pet you like an animal...

gothfiles

theprofessional-amateur

Oh hey, do you know what time it is? It is highly specific resource time!

Today we have the Royal School of Needlework Stitch Bank! There are HUNDREDS of stitch types in the RSN Stitch Bank.

And more added regularly, let’s look at a recent addition

I picked the first one in the 25 recently added Elizabethan stitches, the Elizabethan French Stitch

The stitch bank provides written and photo tutorials as well as a video option to learn to do it yourself. There are examples of the stitch in use, resources, references, everything but a needle and thread!

RSN Stitchbank

rsnstitchbank.org

vincentbriggs

I looked at some of the tutorials last night and holy shit I'm so impressed! They're SO thorough! Not only do they have written and video instructions, but there are photo and illustration options for each image AND a "flip view" button so that left handed people can see all the images in reverse!

theprofessional-amateur

I am going to jump in and add, as you said they are very detailed in their directions, something that takes a lot of time and money.

If anyone who has enjoyed this resource has the means, I encourage you to adopt or sponsor a stitch to help keep this free to access. I know not everyone has the means to (fair, been there) but if you can, check out their sponsor options

RSN Stitch Bank Progress

And one other resource I have shared before, The Lady's Magazine. Embroidery patterns from 1770-1819. In case anyone wants some historic ideas for using all these new embroidery stitches

The Lady's Magazine: Patterns of Perfection

#reference #art reference #for future reference

staticbluue

Merry Christmas! I give to you: P*E*A*N*U*T*S! I have a few non-Christmas/New Year P*E*A*N*U*T*S that I’m saving for later. I rushed to finish these last night and this morning because I NEED my Christmas M*A*S*H post !! Interesting how they can never get the medical supplies they need but they do have 4 fake beards…

(Finally I have Colonel Potter Peanuts for all of you Potheads out there <3)

These are all available from my inprnt, which is linked in my pinned post!

#m*a*s*h

anotherontheway

The thing about Henry Tilney and Catherine Morland is that their romance is a deliberate subversion of the tropes found in those melodramatic gothic fantasies that Catherine loved reading and which Jane Austen adored mocking.

Some readers get upset that Henry didn't fall in love with Catherine immediately and that she fell first, but it's a deliberate jab at those gothics where the male becomes creepily hyper-obsessed from the millisecond he spots the heroine and she finally 'succumbs' only after he's worn her down. Similarly, the heroes in those gothics are dark, brooding, grim and stoic, while Henry is a delight, charming and funny and playful. The fictional heroes and heroines of Catherine's gothics have dark, intense dynamics, often dangerously attracted to each other while not even especially LIKING each other, while Catherine and Henry take strolls and chat amiably about books and develop a genuine friendship before even kissing.

Catherine's arc is about learning to dispel her unrealistic fiction-formed assumptions about life and love through actual experience. Henry is nothing like the fictional romantic heroes she's read about, yet the perfect man for her in reality.

And Catherine is exactly who Henry needs as well - someone who's as curious and eager to learn as he is, someone who genuinely enjoys his playful sense of humor rather than thinking he's annoying or condescending, someone who adores his beloved sister, and someone who genuinely entertains and surprises him with her vivid imagination and surprisingly insightful instincts. (Keep in mind that Henry himself acknowledged that Catherine's instincts about his father's character were completely on point - my girl just went a bit too far in deciding he murdered the wife whose life he made miserable!)

Most importantly, Catherine's filter-free candor and sweet sincerity cuts through the layers of irony and snark he's cultivated to protect himself from a dreadful home life and are a refreshing contrast to the phony interactions in 'society' that seem to have left him quite cynical and jaded.

I'm not saying anyone else has to like them, but I started loving and appreciating them even more when I realized that they're supposed to subvert the romantic tropes found in many romance novels (then and now!) in favor of the more quiet yet real love that Jane Austen and I believe is built to last :) And the fact that Henry's sister Eleanor was the one embroiled in a secret, passionate and forbidden "gothic-esque" romance the whole time is one of Austen's best winks to her audience.

#northanger abbey