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[somefrecklyginger]

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This is the blog of a permaginger history, camping, and reading enthusiast, who formerly made a living as a swimming instructor (who occasionally also guarded lives) in the Northern Hemisphere.

Languages available include: English, Franglais, and Tropespeak.

For more information, check out the GPOY tag, or its extreme cousin. Posts actually about me live over here. Most other tags are available in the filing cabinet.

Credit for the excellent word combination of troublegirl and fiend goes to lucentgallivanter.

{formerly: rootvegetable, grootvegetable}

[truestoriesaboutme]

I can't quite explain it, but Clue (1985), The Princess Bride (1987), Galaxy Quest (1999), and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) are all the same genre

[silverbirching]

It's not just self-awareness, I think -- plenty of shitty unfunny movies lean on the fourth wall and think they're too cool for their own material. I think the secret sauce is these were parodies done by people with deep and abiding love and sincere affection for the thing they were doing a piss-take of, at once celebration and savage satire. If you don't really love something, you can't show it to it's best effect OR get right up in its fucking guts with a joke, and these movies all do both.

(I'd put the entire Cornetto Trilogy in this genre as well)

[okiedoki-todoroki]

Everyone says that reading fanfiction is a useless pastime, but let’s not forget that I learned how to cook grilled cheese from a kiribaku fic 

[okiedoki-todoroki]

OH MY GOD YOU’RE THE ONE WHO TAUGHT ME HOW TO MAKE GRILLED CHEESE

[skylerhyrule]

A touching reunion 

[legendof]

[oppositionresearch]

You guys call anything Catholic just because it's christian and vibesy. "oh he's southern and makes me feel bad about myself" girl that's a baptist

[oppositionresearch]

only valid tag on this so far

[milfstalin]

[yanderelesbian]

i am NOT letting this stay in the tags

[theirisianprincess]

they got married in 1843 never give up

[busket]

sometimes I think about how rattlesnakes are starting to adapt to bite immediately instead of using their rattle as a warning, because this defense mechanism that says "im here! im frightened! don't come close or ill bite you" has instead ilicited a reaction of "oh fuck a rattlesnake, i should kill it"

so of course every snake that has the instinct to warn humans of its presence gets killed, and only the snakes that bite first and dont make themselves known get to survive. a human who's been bitten is too worried about his swelling ankle to decapitate a snake with a shovel.

it's a good example of how humans make the world more dangerous for ourselves by believing that we have mastery and ownership of it. we think we have the power and importance to control the life around us down to the snakes and insects, but every animal fights for life. and no animal thinks that any human is more important than it's own life.

[bonniebugsy]

Remember: an animal that is growling (or rattling in this case) likely does not want to hurt you. That's their "fuck off" warning, not their kill engine revving up.

[weaselle]

this is why dogs in my pack walks are allowed to growl. If you punish a dog for growling you wind up with a dog that bites with no warning

[maverlok]

I hear my mom shrieking downstairs, shouting up to me about “THE CATS! THE CATS!”

I run downstairs, thinking someone has died or something and see THIS:

I FEEL LIKE I NEED TO PUNCH SOMETHING TO GET OVER THE ADORABLENESS

[deejohnes-deactivated20151107]

They look like they’re about to break out in a musical number

[maverlok]

hence:

[nethaca]

This post got better since I re-blogged it earlier.

[lamsandmulletteblog-deactivated]

This is everything

[ammoth]

@maverikloki

… my hand slipped

[girl4music]

See this is why I love Tumblr.

When do you get creative engagement like this on other social media sites? You just don’t have the space to.

[flaminghobgoblins-deactivated20]

pacific rim commentary

i took a few notes from guillermo del toro’s commentary on pacific rim:

gypsy danger was designed to look like a machine from ww2 and to have the gait of a “gunslinger” 

he talks a lot about how in movies “form is content” and that he designs not for “eye candy, but for eye protein”; narrative is submerged in the audiovisual details and the details are everywhere in pacific rim

he is constantly juxtaposing massive elements w small details for scale; like a giant battle and a little red shoe, to contribute to the sense of “awe and majesty” 

the movie deals w types “the pilot…the scientist” so the characters had to be textured w minimal gestures; mako and raleigh (two of the main characters) have some of the fewest lines in the film 

ww2 aesthetics; bomb refuge, overalls, working for rations were all incorporated

not a movie about one hero but a composite of humanity; the world saving the world; a movie about togetherness, connecting, and trust

Mako is coded blue bc of her origins in the kaiju; blue stains her heart and her hair

every character has to learn to trust all the others 

all the characters get a Hero Moment

re: the fighting stick scene; “if this was a 19th century movie they would be dancing the waltz” 

the little red shoe is the absolute heart of the movie 

quiet power is still power; mako as a strong character w quiet determination 

the Russian jaeger team are so hard-core they have no escape pod

some of the Battle of Hong Kong was done in miniatures and models not just cgi 

“This film is the most controlled joyful exercise in image creation of my life” 

one of guillermo’s fave moments is when newt and hermann drift 

“No one carries the suit like idris elba” 

“No matter how many times you drift with someone you still have to say I love you”

structured the three fights for raleigh as; losing a partner; gaining a partner; saving a partner (”it won’t happen to [him] again”) 

it was important to guillermo that the humans saved the world, not machines or ballistic power; humanity.

[kateknowsdramas]

The Emperor’s New Groove + Letterboxd Reviews

[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

[chainofclovers]

Put in the tags the completely finished (whether cancelled or wrapped up on its own terms) TV series that has YOUR perfect ending, however you define that

Please don’t include huge spoilers for the specifics of the endings, and it would also make me happy if people don’t use this to talk about the shows whose endings they hated

[avatarmerida]

Happy pride month to the tiny cowboy and tiny Trojan man from Night at the Museum

[futurakid]

[leg-stealing-bee]

[closetedguyy]

[knitordeath]

This hands down the best comment in the notes, I will not be taking criticism.

[song-of-sea-and-sky]

happy pride month 2021 I ain’t quittin’ you…

[msue0027]

[maxstarfall]

[gengaritez]

[pumpkin--rabbit]

[minyicho]

[vincentbriggs]

I recently learned about a kind of embroidery called bobbinwork where you put a really thick thread in the machine bobbin and sew from the back side and it's so fun! I've tried doing a bunch of sample lines and shapes and squiggles, but most importantly I have made a beautiful garlic. I'm doing it mainly with the regular sewing foot and a lot of pivoting, because when I try it with the free motion foot it skips a lot of stitches.

[pillowfightsandlatenights]

well thats neat as hell :o also, woah, vintage embroidery machine?? sweet

[vincentbriggs]

no no not an embroidery machine, it's an ordinary Singer 15-91! Just a basic domestic machine that does straight stitch forwards and backwards and that's it. But there's a lot of embroidery you can do without a special machine! I've just come across a very intriguing 1911 book on the subject which I'm excited to read.

And there is a lot of fascinating stuff in the 1997 video that I posted about a while ago. She's also using a domestic machine without any fancy embroidery settings or attachments (beyond a darning foot and a hoop), but being newer it has zig zag, which has even more possibilities.

[vincentbriggs]

Here's the rest of what I filled out the sample with. Did a wee bit of appliqué in a couple of them.

I've put it aside for now to work on other stuff, but I'm excited to try out a much wider variety of threads and yarns sometime in the new year! So many possibilities!!!

And maybe if I use an actual embroidery needle I can do it with the free motion foot without it skipping half the stitches. This sample was almost entirely just regular straight stitch and pivoting - the only free motion stitching is the little bit of brown for the garlic roots.

[reynard61]

Let's ambush mama! 😼

[nayters]

[sinmonger]

Hudson Williams | Best Lead Performer in a Drama Series

I didn't write a speech but I do have a little thank you list. Immediately to all the other nominees, it's just an honor to be nominated alongside you. I'm honored to be Canadian and this is fantastic.