Romance and Knitting, the NHL edition

Min (she/her most of the time). Younger than Jagr, older than Crosby, objectifying hard working athletes anyway. DNI if you respect the concept of DNIs or if you claim to be under 18 on tumblr, please.

[yvesdot]

I have seen a young lady with her table loaded with volumes loaded of fictitious trash, poring day after day and night after night over highly wrought scenes and skillfully portrayed pictures of romance, until her cheeks grew pale, her eyes became wild and reckless, and her mind wandered and was lost — the light of intelligence passed behind a cloud, and her soul was forever benighted. She was insane, incurably insane from reading novels.

-- an anonymous pastor in 1864, on the greatest threat to young women

[abyssalbloom]

People complaining about the current romance book trends ruining women

[slashdraisaitl]

does haribo know how much i’m loving this sponcon

[slayerbuffy]

I've gone. Not one for goodbyes, I thought it best to slip out quietly. Love to you all, Giles.

Rest in peace, Anthony Stewart Head (1954 – 2026)

[90s-kid-sad-adult]

lie to me

[tarragonthedragon]

in 2026 i am wishing for all of us the energy of bilbo baggins, who was headhunted for an extremely well paid role he had no qualifications or experience for, blagged the interview, and within his first week found a magic ring that does the job for him

[invisible-goats]

Potato bracket qualifier 3

Potato wedges

Potato waffles

Potato smiles

Boiled potatoes

Aligot/cheesy mash

Hassleback

Roasties

Voting ended onJun 6

Also reminder that submissions are closed and there are 4 more qualifiers to go so there's no point in all your "where's x" comments like yesterday (btw all the x's in question are already on the list!)

[nicolegendary]

sometimes you just gotta fuck up your sleep schedule by reading all 100k words of a fic you're not even enjoying, and don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise

[invisible-goats]

Potato Bracket

Ok, here's how we're going to do this

I have 49 potato formats. Some are similar, but I believe they are all different, if sometime only by one ingredient

As such, I will do 7 polls of 7 options each. This gives every option an equal shot at votes. The 32 options with the most votes will be seeded into a bracket

That being said

Pick a spud!

Kartoffelpuffer - shredded potato pancakes

Colcannon - mashed potato with cabbage

Champ - mashed potato with spring onion

Farls/potato cakes - mashed potato pancake

Dauphinoise - sliced in a creamy garlic sauce

Scallop - sliced in a cheesy sauce

Jacket - baked with toppings

Voting ended onJun 4

[sleepnoises]

come look at selected retrospective works of ruth mcdowell with me

Ladders, 2017. 57" x 45". Machine pieced, machine quilted, cotton fabrics, cotton batting.

Sycamore. 1989. 74" x 52". Machine pieced, machine quilted, cotton fabrics, cotton batting.

Who Are We? Where Do We Come From? Where Are We Going? 1993. 45" x 73". Machine pieced, machine quilted, cotton fabrics, cotton batting.

[sparklekittyn]

it is DISCREET not discrete. Yes, I get that 'discretion' is a relevant word! It is still not related to 'discrete'. You are writing about CLOSETED FICTIONAL ATHLETES the word you are looking for is DISCREET. thank you.

[elodieunderglass]

you gotta be so careful

[despazito]

I don't have time for tumblr discourse they're calling the very hungry caterpillar degenerate art over on twitter

[despazito]

good art is when something looks like real life, the more real it looks the more better the art. abstracted figures give my trad children nightmares, one time they were exposed to cubism and couldn't go outside for a week

[beyondthisdarkhouse]

So what if it's a distinctive technique that's fun to do that will make my child want to experiment with different art media and styles? Children's early artistic exploration should be stifled as quickly as possible unless they're incredibly good the first time they do something.

[findingfeather]

I hope she had fun being the main character of the internet for a bit.

[jesterlesbian]

what are people's favorite niche ice cream flavors. mine are superman and blue moon (specifically from the midwest like michigan/indiana/wisconsin), van leeuwen's royal wedding cake, and jeni's wildberry lavender

[rthwrms]

HOW TO START (2026)

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image transcriptions under the cut

How to Start by rthwrms

for the times when you really truly want to do something, but find resistance or that starting feels impossible

most helpful action to get into a task is: look at it options include: review what you've already done open the tab on screen blur your eyes at first if that helps fullscreen the image browse or skim relevant texts let your gaze move around how it will JUST...LOOK!!!

Your brain has resistance towards starting the particular project in the way that you've previously conceived of it. Instead of fighting that resistance, try to change your approach to starting your work. Ie, start with colored pencils on a piece you were doing in gouache, include a new stitch in a crochet piece, Step one: identify the process Step two: identify places where something new can be included Step three: brainstorm new options to fill these spots Step four: select one or more options and try your piece from this new angle

encourage yourself by asking questions start with: "What am I actually trying to do right now?" then try: "What would this look like if it were more fun?" "How would I do it if anything was possible?"

divide into discrete tasks make the closest or shiniest one literally as small & specific as freaking possible

image text: I BELIEVE IN YOU screenshot text: The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. W.B. Yeats (via billowy)

there is a window now there is a door

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[invisible-goats]

insufferable person amnestly post, what's a spelling/grammar mistake people make that is honestly not worth mentioning ever but bugs you?

mine is spelling laser with a z

[sparklekittyn]

What is UP with the current use of the word 'nasally' to mean ... squeaky? maybe? Yes ok I am assuming that what is up is some kind of malign LLM presence in current spellcheck design. Anyway. No-one has 'a nasally voice', where do you even GET that from, make it STOP. And furthermore, if you are writing fiction about closeted athletes the word you are looking for is 'discreet' not 'discrete'. Just do a find and replace all on it if you're not sure.

[stackslip]

we're moving to an internet where children would be banned from reaching out for help and friendship online but abusive parents can post their children's every second online to humiliate and expose them for money with no pushback

[sparklekittyn]

Only relevant to people in the UK, but here's a thing: (why yes, the link was easy to find because the tab is open but I have not yet done anything about it myself) https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/growing-up-in-the-online-world-a-national-consultation

Our current unworkable mess (in the UK specifically) is mostly the result of assorted previous governments and their own unworkable messiness. Possibly everyone currently involved would like something simpler that does not involve respectable citizens working out how to use a vpn or risking handing over personal data to random underpaid international contractors in order to do whatever they were doing just fine last month. If you have things to say (politely), then please do! And if you have any links to suggestions of points to make then I could do with some help putting words together!

[knownqueerbaiter]

my most wild and fanciful dream is that customers will learn to read