is this an answer from this world?

Aether or Somni work for names :) I'm a fictive, any pronouns are okay. profile picture is by @hihello-what-are-boo-doing-here!

[salvadorbonaparte]

Hey did you know I keep a google drive folder with linguistics and language books  that I try to update regularly 

[salvadorbonaparte]

**UPDATE**

I have restructured the folders to make them easier to use and managed to add almost all languages requested and then some

Please let me know any further suggestions

[salvadorbonaparte]

[clockworktardis]

….holy shit. You found the holy grail.

[kittydesade]

….. is this a DIFFERENT person keeping gigabytes worth of language books on google drive? Holy crap.

[wyvyrn]

This. This here. Is why I love Tumblr.❤️❤️❤️

[bard-llama]

Update from OP:

UPDATE because apparently not everyone has seen this yet the new and improved version of this is a MEGA folder: https://mega.nz/folder/kQBXHKwA#-osWRLNCXAsd62ln8wKa8w

2411 files and 819 subfolders

[si3art]

◇•°Aether & Lumine°•◇

[gahdamnpunk]

YOO SPREAD THE WORD PEOPLE

[ryokoson]

Save a marker, SPREAD THE WORD!!!!

[oolathurman]

It’s called the crayola colorcycle program! As on its FAQ, they mention the following:

“Crayola ColorCycle will accept all brands of plastic markers, not just Crayola markers. That includes dry erase markers and highlighters! ColorCycle will eliminate placing hundreds of tons of markers into landfills.”

There do seem to be some limits, however, as far as I can tell, anyone can ship in a box of markers. “Any sturdy cardboard box with minimal outer markings will work. The more markers you ship, the more efficient this program will be. We suggest a minimum of 100 markers and a maximum of up to 40 pounds.”

[lizzieinthesky]

Also, look for the Crayon Initiative. 

Their whole things work with used, donated crayons they melt and make new ones to donate to children’s hospitals. 

[zero-initiative]

This is a really good idea, especially if you are trying to find an economic friendly way to get markers or crayons out of your abode without throwing them in the trash

[sightofsea]

You know your drunk art post about love and personhood from 2019? Every night at bedtime my late cat would lie on my chest, and her little heartbeat would be right on top of mine, and I'd think about that piece of art you made, and have a similar sort of image in my head. Anyway, yesterday I finally put the image to paper, and idk where this is going, just that that piece of art you created means a lot to me. Have a cool day ✌️

OHHHH MY GOD!!!!! EVERYBODY SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LOOK AT THIS. ITS ALL BEEN WORTH IT

[weaponsofclairvoyance]

baking bread is awesome its fun it costs like 6 cents for a loaf and its easy as hell and if you forget about the dough in the fridge for a couple days it becomes more delicious and you can lure housemates into the common area with the smell. and if you dont finish eating it you can turn it into other stuff. #BreadLiker #WheatEnjoyer

[weaponsofclairvoyance]

World's Easiest Yeast Bread recipe - Artisan, NO KNEAD crusty bread

This is the most incredible Easy Bread Recipe in the whole world. A simple yeast breadwith phenomenl results - no knead, no stand mixer, rea

my favorite lazy recipe i make it in my sleep and eat for days i love you bread

[weaponsofclairvoyance]

very happy people are saving this recipe, while you are at it this is my favorite baguette recipe - no stand mixer required and just like the other if you don't have a dutch oven that's fine just invert a stainless steel pot or something to trap steam for proper oven spring. bread forever and thank you recipe developers

The 5 minute baguette

Delicious homemade french baguettes recipe in less than 5 minutes of actual work.Easy no kneading recipe.French breakfast everyday!I insist

[kosmogrl]

never kill yourself. your next mango is closer than you think.

no joke this is the best thing anyone has ever said to me. you just changed my life

[headspace-hotel]

so many articles about Fast Fashion, not enough articles about what the hell is happening to the quality of clothes

Like okay. People own more pieces of clothing nowadays and they wear them a lesser number of times before throwing them out. BUT.

Why do we pretend like this is pure vanity or careless wastefulness, rather than forced by the qualities of the clothes themselves?

The other day, I was going through boxes of old clothes in the basement in search of fabric to practice sewing on. The difference in quality of the fabrics themselves is shocking! The worn-out old jeans from twenty years ago are MUCH thicker and tougher than anything more recent. My old baby clothes are made as sturdy as my work clothes from today.

In the past couple years, I have had entire seams rip out of clothes on the first wash. That's not normal!

Polyester blend shirts that feel cozy and soft when they are new, become scratchy and rough after 20 washes or so. I am trying to avoid polyester, but it gets harder and harder; the other day i couldn't find a single pack of crew socks that was 100% cotton. SOCKS!

Also, pilling is out of control. The newest pants I bought developed pills within a single day of walking around campus with a backpack.

These companies are trying to frog-boil us but touching clothes from twenty years ago, the useless crap of today would stick out like a sore thumb...

[hey-gray]

I used to caddy. I got around 35,000 steps (around 19 miles) on an average day of work. I bought 6 pairs of socks once a year, and they never formed holes in the bottom until I had already bought new socks. I still buy that brand of socks, but now I work a desk job. The socks I bought in February are already wearing thin.

I still have shirts I bought in middle school that I have worn fairly regularly that are hole-free, or only have holes where there is more wear (e.g. armpits). The wear on them matches pretty closely with the wear on shirts I got in the last couple years. One shirt I got new just a year or so ago is practically dissolving - big ass holes all over, including several in the middle of the chest.

These are not the only examples I have. I see no explanation for these facts other than a recent decrease in quality across the board. It's frankly ridiculous, and I want to do something about it, but I don't know what I can do. On an individual level, sure you can buy used, but even good quality clothing does eventually wear out, so not everyone can buy used. It seems like the only solution is producing good quality clothing, but how does an individual even work towards that?

[headspace-hotel]

I know there has to be real documentation of this buried somewhere in the abyssal detritus of the modern world....The companies made the choice at some point, to start using shorter staple length fibers, lesser quality fibers, less sturdy weaving, worse stitching...and the worse stitching is often pointed out by people who sew because it is visible, but i've never seen an analysis of it spanning the whole chain of clothing coming to be.

Personally, I've been experimenting with natural fibers that are alternatives to the usual ones. Dogbane (Apocyonum cannabinum) is the flax equivalent native to North America, and extremely promising, but it's far from the only one.

[thesingersews]

Peer-reviewed tags by @elprupneerg

I can confirm, it is getting harder and harder to find quality fabric for an affordable price. I can't even shop at Joann anymore, and they are the only option for a fabric store in most places that has any kind of variety in their apparel section and isn't owned by religious fundamentalists *cough* like hobby lobby *cough.* The quality of their fabrics has declined rapidly, even from before the pandemic! The only thing they have anymore is cheap synthetic fabrics, mostly polyester, and cotton which used to be decent and is getting worse by the year. AND they charge more for EVERYTHING now. AND they treat their workers like shit. (Like say what you will about hobby lobby and their fundie ideology but at least their pay scale starts at like $18 as opposed to Joann which was still paying $10.50 in 2022 and would never schedule me for more than 15 hours a week)

I know of a few boutique fabric shops but they either just have quilting cotton of varying quality or have prices that are plain unsustainable. Even the online shops I frequent are growing more questionable, and some mislabel their products so it's hard to tell what the fabric is made of or how much it weighs. The sites that are still mostly reliable for quality require you to shell out the cash.

There was one site, fabrics.com, I believe, that had a pretty good search feature and pretty affordable deadstock fabric, but it got bought by Amazon and eventually they shut down the website and subsumed it into Amazon marketplace, where it's impossible to search for anything and get reliable results.

It really is a textile wasteland out here.

[ariaste]

Couple of tips: First: All of the above is correct. Fabric quality has gotten worse. One thing you can do to keep your clothes going longer is DO NOT USE FABRIC SOFTENER!!!!!! Fabric softener works by gradually dissolving the fibers, which contributes to faster wear, holes in clothes, etc. FABRIC SOFTENER IS THE DEVIL. You know those Tide Pods? They're so convenient, right? Make sure you get the kind that is JUST detergent (the one-color kind), not the kind that also has the fabric softener in it (the kind with two or three "sections" of different color fluids). Second, a couple recs for online fabric stores I like: 1. If you're the sort of person who is already looking for fabric to buy your own clothes, then I'm gonna assume that you're not necessarily fundamentally against the idea of dyeing your own cloth, and therefore I will recommend dharmatrading.com as a great place to buy a huge selection of fabric of all fiber types (they've got everything from burlap to silk veiling). Most of it is undyed, but i think they do have some dyed silk fabrics as well. Their prices are really fair IMO, but yeah you will have to dye it yourself. (Dyeing not that hard, though, as long as you follow the directions and enter into it with a spirit of cheerful experimentation and willingness to be flexible on the exact, precise outcome -- at least the first couple times!) 2. fabricwholesaledirect.com -- all sorts of fabrics at wholesale prices, I've bought from them a couple times (velvet and flannel for curtains) and I've been reasonably pleased with the quality -- YMMV probably depending on what you're buying. They do sell by the yard, but if you're planning on getting a huge amount of fabric (ie: if you're making floor-to-ceiling curtains) then I recommend waiting for one of their big sales. I bought mine around Black Friday and the sale prices were bonkers.

3. Silkbaron.com for silks. REALLY great prices

4. wawak.com for sewing notions (buttons, thread, zippers, eyelets, etc etc etc)

5. tandyleather.com for leather and leather-related tools

6. Joanne.com -- yeah, their prices aren't as good as they used to be, but they do send out a lot of coupons and have regular sales, so you gotta make use of those for it to be worth it.

[thursdayplaid]

@elvencantation

[marzipanandminutiae]

if you live in the Boston area, Sewfisticated has discount designer fabrics for great prices- $10/yard 100% silk, for example. the colors/patterns can be limited, since it's bolt-ends from big fashion and design houses, but still worth looking into!

[nonasuch]

Don’t overlook quilting cotton, either — quilters won’t put up with poor-quality fabric, so anything considered “quilt shop quality” should hold up well. You can use quilting cottons anywhere you’d use lightweight or medium-weight wovens in garment sewing — they’re great for things like button-downs and structured dresses.

If you look for sales, there’s a ton of good stuff out there for under $10/yard. Hancock’s of Paducah and Brooklyn Fabric both have tons of good sale options. Small local quilt shops usually also sell online, and frequently have sales.

Most of my dresses are made with quilting cotton, although admittedly that’s more because no one will make the aggressively whimsical novelty prints I want in other fabrics. But I also paid $6-9 /yd for most of it!

[paxamericana]

[halleywars]

Best sticker

[goneturkdad-deactivated20191130]

Freakin’ awesome. We live in anaheim so our boys got to enjoy the all-access Disneyland Daily pass. Our youngest (Tanner) wanted to be an officer. Unfortunately he was too small for the restraints on splash mountain so when the coaster sped up it flung him out and he skidded about 200 feet on the asphalt. Here’s what we’re keeping him in right now:

Disney won’t let us bury on park grounds because of a potential copyright issue with the superman thing.

We miss him a lot, but there’s a cancellation fee on the Daily pass, so we’ve been making the most of it. His brother still enjoys the park and since we chose not to press charges, we’re entitled to one free mickey pancake a day

[crabwalker]

??? Reading that looked like you tried to copy abd paste 3 differint stories together to make us not realise you just copied and pasted??

First of all: splash mountain is a water log ride. There are no places where it just…speeds…up? Its a fucking water log ride???

BECAUSE its a water log ride it DOESNT HAVE RESTRAINTS….it DOES however have a minimum height requirment of 46 inches to ride the ride, so EVEN IF this kid was too small, they WOULD NOT let them ride.

There is no asphault anywhere near the track itself. The CLOSEST you could come is the big drop at rhe end but again, minimum height requirement of 46 inches tall to ride, the angle of the drop and the speed at which you go it is physically impossible to get ‘launched’.

I feel like this is obvious but theres so much obviously wrong about the second addition i suppose i need to state this.

SUPERMAN. ISNT. DISNEY. Superman is DC. The only theme parks that have licenced DC character based rides is six flags.

Six flags, another park that HAS MINIMUM HEIGHT REQUIREMENTS for rides.

That has restraints on rides in which are necesary. Which again, YOU CANNOT RIDE IF YOU DO NOT MEET THE SAFETY GUILDLINES.

Go try to shitpost and ruin the reputation of a differint park, will you? At least make sure your story is even plausable before you open your mis-informed mouth.

[goneturkdad-deactivated20191130]

@crabwalker​ Are you seriously explaining to me how Splash Mountain works? Do you think I don’t remember how my son died? Oh, and it’s “physically impossible to get launched?” Guess what, asshole? My SON got launched. This is the last photo we have of him.

You’ve said some cruel things to me, but I’m going to be the bigger person. I’ll be praying, for your sake, that nobody in your family ever gets launched.

[mosticonicposts]

certified iconic post

[shamebats]

[curseworm]

this sentence came so far out of left field i reflexively closed the tab and had to open it up again to take this screenshot. i mean like yes its true that mushrooms are not plants but ive literally never ever ever ever met or even heard of anyone anywhere at any time who has used this definition of a plant-based diet

[curseworm]

im left with so many questions. does she not use yeast? if her definition of “plant based diet” is so literal that it doesnt include mushrooms, does it also not include salt? does she not eat fermented food because bacteria arent plants? why does she not eat fungi? clearly its not an issue of taste, she praises the taste here. does she think theyre unhealthy somehow? does she have moral objections to eating fungus? i would like to interview her

[followthebluebell]

there’s clearly a morel issue here

[injuries-in-dust]

"I am awake now! I am very awake!"

[ospreyonthemoon]

FASCINATING.

I wonder what came first: using it to revive people or deciding to put it in biscuits?

[internet-sentences]

this shit owns it's just a number go up idle game except the idle mechanic comes from you writing JavaScript to automate tasks it seems like the end goal of the game is to perfectly optimize against this little arbitrary system they've created. There's not any plot to speak of so far but even though nothing is happening people send you messages through the computer telling you to trust no one as they all have ulterior motives. Very relatable.

Bitburner is an idle game about hacking that teaches real JavaScript

You don't have to know JavaScript to get started.

[exeggcute]

guys be careful. this game may look fun but it's actually a ploy to get you to learn javascript

[boombaux]

[foodffs]

[foodffs]

Shrimp Potstickers

Follow for recipes

Is this how you roll?

[liberalsarecool]

Cristoforo Colombo was vile.

[fullmetalfisting]

Okay okay we all know Johnny cash did his cover of Hurt and we were all like “ok he owns that now” but I watched the music video he made and I’m like “oh he OWNS it owns it”

[fullmetalfisting]

It’s totally wild to me because most people agree that Trent Reznor is a master of his craft and Hurt is considered one of NIN’s best songs. Imagine having this great hit and 8 years later a musical legend who hasn’t done anything great in a long time and is ostensibly dying takes your song and fucking. Just fucking obliterates you

[wrenchinator-central]

Taken from the Wikipedia page. Even Trent Reznor said it's not his song anymore.

[anais-ninja-bitch]

in case you hadn't seen

[atlinmerrick]

Holy hell that's video is…painful and stunning. If you grew up listening to Johnny Cash I think it'll hit even harder. And June Carter Cash is in the video, which takes hard and doubles it.

[feuervogel]

#i remember my friend vali saying#why is anyone trying to make songvids to this song?#the most emotionally gutting video has already been made#by johnny cash himself (@bossymarmalade)

[sophiamcdougall]

I'm glad people who didn't know who are discovering it's a cover, not just because Trent Reznor deserves that much, but because I think the fact that Cash did not write it is crucial to the power of his version. This is a young man's song about suffering, about addiction and self-destruction in youth. And Cash is, in the most majestic possible way, taking that and going "oh kid, you have no idea", and changes the meaning without changing the lyrics (except for a single word). In his voice, on his face, in his aged hands on the guitar and piano, it becomes about the agonising brevity of life, the irretrievability of mistakes, and the inevitable loss of everything, including a recognisable self. But the creativity of repurposing only shows if you can still see what was originally there.

[nnmdraws]

... in my head it was better.