The Horrors Persist, But So Do I

Fiber arts, writing, and drawings. Just 3 raccoons - all disaster bisexuals with anxiety - in a trenchcoat.

[rylandsgrace]

WWDITS (2019 -2024) I 4.05

[stitchingwolf]

Happy pride month ♥️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜

[tboybball]

spurs group hug immediately after winning the WCF 🥲

[stitchingwolf]

Thank you Spurs, for, in no particular order:

1.) Being such a sweet wholesome team of young guys looking out for each other

2.) playing generally ethical hoops, but also willing to go after those that are intentionally trying to hurt them on the court

3.) taking out OKC so I'm not obligated to root for the fucking Knicks in the finals

[stitchingwolf]

Rare aesthetic: getting halfway through a project that you absolutely have the technical skills to make it amazing......but wishing you didn't so you'd have an excuse to quit 🤣

Finally starting to work on some of my extra-special trinkets for GenCon trading: card-sized cross stitch renditions of some of my favorite board games. Who can tell what this one will be? 👀

[stitchingwolf]

PROGRESS! Now I just have to do the title/logo......

[stitchingwolf]

COMPLETE!!! I am so proud of this little card of one of my favorite board games. Can't wait for GenCon to trade this for some other handcrafted trinket ❤️

[stitchingwolf]

Rare aesthetic: getting halfway through a project that you absolutely have the technical skills to make it amazing......but wishing you didn't so you'd have an excuse to quit 🤣

Finally starting to work on some of my extra-special trinkets for GenCon trading: card-sized cross stitch renditions of some of my favorite board games. Who can tell what this one will be? 👀

[stitchingwolf]

PROGRESS! Now I just have to do the title/logo......

[stitchingwolf]

Rare aesthetic: getting halfway through a project that you absolutely have the technical skills to make it amazing......but wishing you didn't so you'd have an excuse to quit 🤣

Finally starting to work on some of my extra-special trinkets for GenCon trading: card-sized cross stitch renditions of some of my favorite board games. Who can tell what this one will be? 👀

[toast-the-unknowing]

the bad news: I now hate my current wip and strongly believe there isn't a single joke in it that lands

the good news: I know my process enough to recognize this as the slump that I hit in everything I write when it's like three-quarters-ish done

the bad news: the only way out is through

the good news: I do know the way out!

the bad news: yeah but it's through

[toast-the-unknowing]

making a cross stitch that says "I am funny and he would fucking say that" to hang directly above my monitor

[toast-the-unknowing]

"hey toast you stayed up past midnight because you were working on the fic and not because you were procrastinating by making a hideous pattern for a joke cross stitch" have you never met a writer before

[toast-the-unknowing]

gonna tell my kids this was live laugh love

[stitchingwolf]

Okay so it took way longer than intended due to both straining the tendon in my thumb and then amazing full-throttle vacation, but I have now completed series 2 of tangram cats!

[aroedmundpevensie]

there's actually a secret eighth deadly sin and it's exactly like gluttony except for textile projects

[stitchposts]

[mothermara]

remember to bury the dead with a phone, everyone. these days the ferry terminal at the river styx wants you to download a fucking app

[stitchingwolf]

If I find myself in another Facebook art or craft group that, at the time of my joining, has wording in their community rules that indicates that gen-a.i is not welcome and art is inherently political, and then within a month of my joining, that language has disappeared and mods are actively promoting gen-a.i work and banning anyone posting art that is explicitly anti-gen-a.i or anything obviously liberal while allowing right wing bullshit, I'd have two nickels AND WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN IT HAS HAPPENED TWICE?!?!

[stitchingwolf]

THREE NICKELS

[josilverdragon]

"The horrors persist but so do libraries, books, iced coffee, sunsets, trees, the word 'fuck', the moon and the sea."

[stitchingwolf]

Perks of having weird colored hair: the ability to always immediately know the appropriate reaction to finding hair in my food.

Hair in food is blonde or brown: obtain new food immediately, this is not a drill, help help help

Hair in food is red and purple: ah. Well, I hope my coconut sea salt hairspray goes well in this dish.

[stitchingwolf]

**EDIT** All 7 have been set up in trades! I'm gonna cry I'm so happy 😭

My first run of ATCs is officially ready for trading! I'm so excited to have found a way to bring my long-standing craft love, cross stitch, into this medium. These little tangram cats are stitched on PVC canvas so they're pretty durable, while still being bendy and slim enough to fit in penny sleeves and most binder pages. They are stitched onto backing cards with artist info. Patterns were self-drafted (the freaking MATH that took to make them fit!). Series of 7 cards to match the 7 pieces in tangram puzzles.

I would love to trade for animals and landscapes, and anything in non-traditional mediums! These are cross-posted in a few different trading groups but I'll update as needed.

[stitchingwolf]

Cross stitch, crochet, leatherwork, beadwork, jewelry making. It does not matter which hobby I'm currently indulging. They all lead to math.

And carpal tunnel.

[stitchingwolf]

Guess who crafted too close to the sun and strained the tendon in their thumb 🙃

[animalphotorefs]

Photos of the Day: an airborne Canadian lynx

Artists creating derivative or transformative works (without AI) have blanket permission to use this and all photos in the repository as references, including works that will/may be sold.

The Animal Photo Reference Repository is an independent, permanently open-access project and funded entirely by donations.

**Patreon** -- **Ko-Fi**

[narcissistcookbook]

SHIRT IS HERE 2026 TOUR SHIRT ME MINE YOURS SHIRT WEAR SHIRT

based on when I saw Oliver's original version of this design on his battle jacket I flipped out and asked if I could use it for the upcoming tour shirt. I am so pumped, I love this design

[capesandshapes]

As a former librarian I'm actually required to remind you that many libraries that subscribe to Libby are opted into a program that lets you subscribe and access magazines for free with no wait

And that this is actually a really fun, low cost way to not only access news and larger cultural magazines, but also to get free patterns for many different crafts that you can screenshot if need be and that lower the financial barriers to entry for trying new things

From my experience working in both academic and public libraries, many libraries are use it or lose it funding-- I have to say this because a lot of patrons feel guilty for how much they use the library and how often they're using it funny enough, but the worst thing you can do for libraries is not try out new features and not use what's already given to you as much as possible.

The numbers that come as a result of your patronage are how most libraries justify their continued existence in times of financial hardship, which sucks but, go check out some magazines on Libby!