#alba replies

[gregorvorbarra]

@jade-ellsworth : “oh my gosh, can you say more about the pattern? i also like to knit but i've never made a pattern before!”

(on this post) (I’m trying to do a not terrible reply on mobile, pls bear with me)

sure !!

do you want to hear about the pattern itself, or like the process of putting it together? this is the first time I’ve made my own pattern. I’m going to do a temperature scarf (knit the daily high and low temp for a whole year, I’m starting on my birthday), but I think scarves are super boring to knit, so I made a pattern that hopefully I won’t be sick of after a year.

so the bottom and top edges are a combo of seed stitch and a slip stitch rib. seed stitch not pictured in the swatch below (but it is in the original post), but you can see the slip stitch rib, which is the lil chains. the main pattern for the scarf is going to be seed stitch chevrons, which is the middle bit in this pic:

I’m going to reverse the direction of the chevron (like pointing up or down) for every month. it’s a 4-row repeat, so I can knit two rows for the low temp and two rows for the high temp, and then i’ll be done for the day. don’t have to keep track of the pattern over multiple days.

seed stitch is basically just k1, p1 every row. the slip stitch rib: slip one stitch purlwise (with the yarn in back), knit 3, repeat.

each of the left and right edges are an edge I lifted from a different scarf pattern, which I liked. on the front: right edge: knit, knit, purl; left edge: purl, knit, knit. and on the back side, for both edges: knit, purl, knit. makes that cute bumpy edge on the side!

sorry if this doesn’t make much sense ;o; I have the whole pattern charted out, but I haven’t written it out because I prefer charts. I’m happy to share the charts though!

[spacetimehighway]

@rattyjol ha risposto al tuo post ““pasta puttanesca” “i wonder what it means in italian” asdkdlfkfk...”

what does it mean?

pasta “in the style of a prostitute” literally

when my professor mentioned it in class, we all were like WHAT

my professor said it’s called that bc it’s spicy? but idk really

[gregorvorbarra]

@jade-ellsworth ha risposto al tuo fotoset “some of the pages. i’m only doing one-sided bc the ink shows through...”

yr handwriting is so cute and neat looking... this is like studyblr material except, for dnd,

thank you! finally did it, finally achieved studyblr-level notes... for dnd....

and i’ve been looking at this reply all day, it makes me feel v happy, thank u

[gregorvorbarra]

@m0rdecaw thank u. yeah that’s what i’m gonna end up doing, going by bra size, i’m just bitter and stung that i gotta pay like $60 for a swim top, esp since i’m gonna end up covering it up since showing that much skin is uncomfortable. i guess i’ll just have to think of it as a swim bra rather than a swimsuit.

on the bright side i found a GREAT swim shirt that i’m excited for

[gregorvorbarra]

@the-tabularium ha risposto al tuo post : hey look at my boy i know his face is uneven and i...

hOLY HECK FRIEND YOUR RENDERING IS GREAT!!! It looks fantastic, I can’t wait to see how the hair comes along because you’ve set out the lighting on it really nicely

thank you!!! i'm really excited for doing the hair tbh, very fun colors going in there. thanks ales!!

[gregorvorbarra]

@aramiol ha risposto al tuo post : mera gets spider climb as a domain spell at level…

in our campaign, one of the NPC had an item that altered magic missile so the missiles were globs of goo that could pin the targets in place, which would also be helpful if you wanted to spider yourself up

i’m DELIGHTED by this idea. mera’s domain is monkey, so i think sophos would feel very hurt if mera took a spider theme, but i love that omg

[gregorvorbarra]

@hauntedpamplemousse ha risposto al tuo post

??? who are these people who think it's okay to do that? like, it takes a very low level of awareness to see how fucked up it is to call someone by a fake anglicized name. i'm sorry she did that

it was partly a joke, because someone came up to the desk the night before and asked for “lucy or lucille?” and my name sounds nothing like that, but people will assume that’s what they heard instead :/ (and in this case specifically, i’d been on the phone with a woman and we could both barely hear each other, and she called her sister to go pick up the info i got her, and her sister could barely hear her though, so a literal game of telephone with my name)

but it’s just like. don’t. don’t. susan has not had to deal with 14 years of people mispronouncing her name. i’m very touchy about it, and i don’t think i’m wrong to be. (that’s why i switched to alba! much easier! less hassle!) thank u heather

[gregorvorbarra]

@rattyjol ha risposto al tuo post

you should do a d&d event at the library! idk how it would work or if you even have that power but it would be cool

i ask kate to have the library pay me to make character sheets for kids and DM a one-shot all afternoon on gary gygax’s birthday

but yeah i really have no idea how a dnd event would work. i can’t really think of a dnd thing that could successfully accommodate a bunch of kids (although, less kids show up for teen events so it could be marketed as a teen thing and younger kids could join if they wish) and still give them a good dose of dnd? we have had small northwest-only events that were organized by the northwest librarians and staff (rather than handed down to us from administration as part of a system-wide thing), so i think it would be easier to pitch it a small event only at our branch to kate and kim than to pitch it for a system-wide thing

but yeah i agree that it would be cool to have one, i just have no clue how to have one and not much power to have one unless kate and kim, at the very least, also think it’s cool and wanna do it. but it would be cool