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[direshrimp]

Talent

The following tags are in response to a dress I made recently, which was my first serious sewing project.

I know these were left as a compliment and I don’t mean to single anyone out, but I want to talk about this for a minute.

What you might be imagining when you see a post like this is that I woke up one day and decided to make this costume, and then I just made it perfectly on the first try, no problem. What you are not seeing is:

me having to look up youtube tutorials for every single thing. “How to make a ruffle” “how to sew a zipper” “what is bias tape” “why won’t this fusible interfacing work” “how to make a bustle” “how to lace a corset”

sewing a jacket into a mobius strip that can’t be turned inside-out

spending five hours troubleshooting a sewing machine to discover I inserted the bobbin the wrong way

having to go back to the fabric store a dozen times because I kept buying the wrong fabric/interfacing/tool/tape/lace

sewing machine eating my fabric again and I don’t know why

begging the fabric store ladies to help me interpret instructions on a pattern because I don’t know how to decode it

redoing the corset five times because I couldn’t get it right

a mountain of failed mockups and pattern pieces

renting a car to drive to a friend’s house for emergency sewing instruction

wasted material

about 100 hours of work over several months

crying while sewing at 4 am

angst

Chalking up a success to natural talent is a harmful idea and unfair for everyone. It dismisses the hard work that went into an achievement, and it makes you believe that you can’t accomplish that same thing unless you were magically born with some special skill. Guess what: nobody is born knowing how to sew or draw or sing or write give a speech or compose an opera. Natural talent does not exist. There is only hard work, practice, and learning. Slam dunk the concept of talent into a volcano, where it belongs. 

[cowbuttcrunchies]

THIS +1000000.

[sixpenceee]

On Thursday, the Nagasaki Bio Park tweeted a photo of their capybara collection taking shelter during a storm and it’s already been retweeted 14,000 times. (Source)

[humanityinahandbag]

Is it just me, or do they all look at the storm like it killed their families and said shit about them behind their backs. 

capybara? more like capyglare’a

[allonsyemrys]

Colin Morgan and Tom Hiddleston at the ATP World Tour Finals, Novermber 2012

[gifbro]

[4gifs]

[Opposite]

[lfdy88]

[anthonybourdainpartsunknown]

lets not forget this gem

[slopaganda]

cant believe we’re leaving out this

and more importantly this

[anthonybourdainpartsunknown]

interesting how you forgot 

and

[slopaganda]

ok but

and

[anthonybourdainpartsunknown]

hmmm and perhaps

[tumblin-monkeys]

and these ones too

[bisexualculture]

I’m not sure how you managed to forget this gem:

[blu-canary-deactivated20220609]

[adulthoodisokay]

excuse me but:

[bardstardish]

where would we be withour kermit

[woolawool-deactivated20220724]

[xorlada-deactivated20210223]

can’t believe y'all forgot

[yesyourstalker]

[wall-maria-around-ba-sing-se]

[fullymechanized-consoomer]

[rubyetc]

hello Monday

[rubyetc]

hello tuesday

[rubyetc]

hello wednesday

[rubyetc]

hello thursday

[rubyetc]

hello friday

[rubyetc]

hello saturday

[rubyetc]

hello sunday 

[huntydraws]

Friends

[thelonelyrogue]

As a chronic migraine haver, I need the 'my head hurts' shark on a t-shirt. It's making me feel things

[unimpressives]

That awful moment when you learn that this wasn’t scripted. That Will Smith’s character was actually supposed to brush off the whole thing, but Will’s father actually had left him when he was younger and he just fell apart on the set and the hug at the end was from one actor to another, not one character to another…

[lucid-eyess]

Always reblog.

[enbyho]

STOP SPREADING THIS FUCKING LIE. THIS WAS SCRIPTED. WILL SMITH’S FATHER WAS ALWAYS IN HIS LIFE. STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT. HE IS A WONDERFUL ACTOR AND HE MADE THIS BELIEVABLE, THAT IS ALL. FUCKING WHITE PEOPLE TRYING TO MAKE EVERY BLACK PERSON’S SUCCESS BASED IN “THIS WAS THEIR REALITY” FUCK YOU.

[amurdertramp-deactivated2019032]

His father featured on the left.

[bjornwilde]

Reblogging since I spread the lie once or twice before. In fact, here’s a source for the truth.

[whitegirlsaintshit]

damn son

[technicalamends]

This has been a widely spread lie on tumblr since 2007 please bring a fucking end to it

[absoluteshiiit-deactivated20160]

Shit

[itscolossal]

Shimmering Metallic Embroideries of Dragonflies and Other Insects by Humayrah Bint Altaf

[ofcarnivora]

Attention: No flowers on the sheltie please!

[mothsplaining]

what the nose do

[ofcarnivora]

PSA: Sheltie snoots are very flexible as depicted in the following photograph.

[terabetha]

This piece is one of my favorites in the entire museum; ‘Dream Cloud’ is carved from one piece of boulder opal mined in Australia.  It’s an impressive piece, large enough to fill the palm of your hand.

[sixpenceee]

The above is a violet backed starling. (Source)

[hahwhatno]

he looks like a galaxy

[monsternamedzero-blog]

galaxy bird 

[coffeetwosugars]

so you know the rule in fairylands where you cant eat or drink anything or you’ll have to stay there forever? does like.. .eating out/sucking dick count

[actualtrashbag-deactivated20170]

holy f uck jane

[coffeetwosugars]

its a serious question

[tinfoil-on-the-windows]

well like, the whole thing is that you cannot have consumed anything belonging to the fey realm. so, yes, probably, you would be stuck there. the same would apply if you just straight up ate a fairy.

[coffeetwosugars]

new question: would deepthroating count in this case even w/o swallowing

[tinfoil-on-the-windows]

no. temporary doesn’t count, otherwise fairies would all be running about sticking their hands in your mouth to get human servants.

you gotta digest it.

so like??? if you puke afterwards?? maybe it doesn’t count?

[coffeetwosugars]

huh! i wonder how long is enough time for it to be legit. like whatever goes through your stomach immediately condemns you no matter if you throw it up later?

[generallyhuxurious]

Well Persephone only ate 6 seeds so she only stayed 6 months, so maybe if you spat out most of it you’d just be condemned to the occasional day “BRB got go pay the two day toll for fellating a fairy.”

[coffeetwosugars]

“you wanna come over for the weekend?”

“oh man im so sorry i sucked some fairy dick once and now i have to keep coming back to do it again– its a long story”

“you what now”

[the-negotiator]

i can hardly believe this isn’t already the plot of an Oglaf comic

[coffeetwosugars]

now that u said it im really surprised as well

[rainnecassidy]

what the fuck did i just read

[manynamedshe]

Why ISN’T this an Oglaf comic yet?

[thewinterotter]

I’m so happy that i’m not the only person who thinks of questions like these. I love you all so much.

[audsbot]

I’m not convinced by this, actually!

Like, this analysis treats it as a substance problem, i.e. “edible matter from fairyland has properties that, if ingested, physically prevent you from being able to return to the real world.”

But OTOH, a recurring theme throughout fairy stories is that they’re all about…rules and exchanges and agreements with really steep interest rates:

“I’ll do you this favor, but if you don’t guess my name you’ll have to give me your first-born child.”

“You’re gonna be real good at everything but when you’re 16 you’re gonna prick your finger and die.”

“You loaned me $2 for the bus when I looked like a beggar, so now here’s a literal pile of gold and shit.”

Not to mention that in Childe Rowland, one of the central “if you eat food from fairyland you’re stuck there” stories, Rowland manages to retrieve his siblings despite them all presumably having chowed down on fairy food – all it took was beating the Fairy King in a swordfight and threatening to chop his head off.

The takeaway, I think, is that the food thing a matter of implicit exchange: if you get your grub on in fairyland, you’re accepting their hospitality and eating food that they own. This means you owe them, which the fairies can magically leverage to prevent you from leaving.

(You can probably get around this by explicitly agreeing to pay for your meal before you sit down to eat. From what I remember, fairies don’t seem capable of pulling a “Haha, we had an agreement but you’re fucked anyways!” maneuver, so if they agree to let you leave they might even be forced to help you leave.)

Which brings us to the matter at hand: if you blow a fairy you’re doing them a favor! They owe you.

And…they’re a fairy, so if you didn’t agree to terms beforehand they might not repay you in a way that’s ultimately helpful or safe, but it certainly doesn’t seem like they’d be able to, like, pat you on the head and be like “Thanks, you’re really good at this buuuuuuut also you’re stuck here forever now.”

Instead, what seems more likely is…I dunno, showing up to your wedding years later and giving you a beautiful white horse that always comes when called, while loudly praising you as truly deserving it for giving them them simply the best oral they’ve had in years. 

[orderoftaraka]

This is a discussion I have literally never considered i’d see before my eyes

[pressxtodavid]

@kyl0renpai useful info!

[oddmegaverse]

@trilliondollarbooty @theboywiththepurplesocks

[enbizaka-murders]

[daniel-black]

Recently I’ve seen lot of posts where McGonagall freaks out when Harry’s children start Hogwarts and I know it sounds funny but it really bothers me that some people think this is something she would do. 

Let’s just remember that she:

- fought and survived THREE wars. - had to deal with the marauders AND Voldemort’s inner circle when they were young. - kept the Weasley twins at bay.  - perfectly managed a school full of teenagers when every year a psychopath tried to kill Harry. - had to bury most of her dearest and brilliant students. - had to deal with the fact she is one of the main reasons why the Death Eaters were really good, she taught them well and then used this knowledge to kill. - spent months living in constant mortal peril when Snape was headmaster and never cared about her safety, her main concern were her students. - HAD TO ALWAYS FIX DUMBLEDORK STUPID MISTAKES BECAUSE HE HAD NO CLUE ABOUT HOW TO MANAGE A SCHOOL AND ALWAYS KEPT HER IN THE DARK UNTIL THE SHIT HIT FAN THEN IT WAS HER RESPONSABILITY TO SAVE THE DAY. - was only “defeated” once and it was because she was fighting against FOUR Aurors when they tried to arrest Hagrid.  - was feared and respected even by the Death Eaters and the corrupted Ministry of Magic.  - classy dealt with Dolores Umbridge even when her career was in danger.

Do you really think she would be scared of a bunch of kids just for their last name?!

Come on! She will be like “Finally! I was getting really bored”.

Those children are so not ready for Minerva “McBadass” McGonagall.

[ajellyinthemix]

McGonagall’s wand is made of fir which is literally called “the survivor’s wand” (x). Even her wand knows that nobody fucks with McGonagall. Remember that time she took multiple Stunning Spells to the chest that should have killed her?

Honestly those kids should be scared of her.

[aconfusedbird]

let’s bring back the term “cats” when referring to a group of people (i.e. “see you cats later”)

pros:

it’s gender neutral

you get the chance to look like a cool jazz musician

you can compare all your friends to cats (always good)

cons:

????

[kittenesque-blog]

it makes sense since, from what i’m aware, everybody wants to be a cat, because, apparently, a cat’s the only cat who knows where it’s at

[cinderfell]

anyways here’s matt mercer (voice of mccree) confirming that he fucks with people while playing overwatch while also annoying travis willingham and marisha ray in the process