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With failure, you learn. With success, not so much!

[embroiderycrafts]

Any fellow artists feel this way? Too many ideas, not enough time 🪡 by shopenchantedplanet on reddit.

[crochethub]

I made a koi pond themed crochet bag! 🪷 by Rxsimo

[vestadragon]

Adding some helpful links!

Original creator's post on Reddit here

The tutorials they followed to make the bag:

Koi Fish - Lotus Flowers - Lily Pads

They also mention in the comments the granny squares are: Fountain Flower Crochet Granny Squares

[a-totally-reasonable-username]

@namelessennes

[avidreaderffn]

@sandstonesunspear

[polyamorousmisanthrope]

Jesus Tapdancing Christ... THIS is a good welt pocket and the people who designed Simplicity 2895 ought to be blasted well ASHAMED of themselves for the crap way THEY wanted a welt pocket made. *SNARLS*

[makereadgrow]

This is how I learned to do it and a good example of what you want to see in a short form tutorial: pinning, pressing, seam finishing, good fabric handling.

I would mention that you can make the pocket facing with a small panel of your matching fabric that is visible and the rest in a lighter fabric to reduce bulk. That's a lot of denim layers for comfort.

[swiftispunk-deactivated20241031]

*THIS WAS SENT TO A FRIEND. NOT ME*

the friend who received this is too nice to say something about it but i have reached a point now where i have seen them receive so many messages like this that i just can't keep my mouth shut anymore

this is straight up evil behaviour. whatever lighthearted tone this anon thought they were sending this with, i don't care. it's gross in every sense.

i'm speaking directly to whoever sent this now and frankly, if you follow me, non, unfollow me right fucking now because i don't want this energy anywhere near my blog. it hurts enough that you've targeted my friends with it.

listen up because apparently it bears repeating for the millionth fucking time -

FANFICTION AUTHORS ARE HUMAN BEINGS. they have lives and jobs and school and things they struggle with. maybe they've even spoken publicly about their struggles in the hopes their readers would understand them a bit better because at the end of the day this is a community and they have every right to use this space however they fucking want to.

"don't start a fic you can't finish" - literally shut up. shut up! we are not paid to do this, i will start and not finish whatever the fuck i want.

and holy shit, anon. as if this message wasn't disgusting enough, please let me state plainly something you "desperately" need to hear: no robot can give you what a human writer can. and the fact that you even threatened to just go to AI at this point shows how little you care about storytellers and all they provide for you.

again, i don't care if every word of this message was sent in jest or meant to be read playfully. it's not fucking cute. this shit hurts writers and ya'll need to realize that.

if you take time out of your life to send messages like this, you're a bad person. period. this is not how fanfic works, it's not how the world works. if you can wait two-three years for a movie or a new season of your favourite tv show, you can wait a few months for a fanfic to update. or you can wait forever. we literally owe you nothing.

i'm done sugarcoating it, ya'll. disrespectfully, grow up. grow up! enough is enough.

anyway

[keldabe-kriff]

Hey anon if you've got that big a bug up your ass about works taking too long to get finished here's a handy goddamn tool for you:

You're welcome you ungrateful fuck.

[aniseandspearmint]

Part of fanfiction is going on the JOURNEY with the author. And yeah, sometimes that means ending up in a dead end. But the journey was still FUN, wasn't it?

I really do NOT get people who bitch and moan about unfinished works.

[amotleycrew]

times are hard but have hozier accidentally calling badgers “hobbit motherfuckers” publicly to soothe your soul

[not-safe-for-democracy]

[lady-averie]

This might be unpopular but I’m not going to use simpler vocabulary in my writing if it’s out of character for the narrator. If my POV character is a botanist, he’s going to call a plant by its name. If you don’t know what it is you can either Google it or move on just knowing it’s a plant of some sort.

I don’t like this trend of readers being angry that not everything is 100% understandable for them. I want my characters to be believable as people and sometimes people use words people outside of their field will not understand. That’s not a bad thing.

You don’t have to understand every word to get the gist of what’s happening. I’m not going to slow down an action scene to describe every weapon because someone might not know them by name. They can just assume it’s a weapon because that makes sense in the context of the scene.

[author-a-holmes]

I just had a debate with myself over using the word mezzanine, wondering if I should describe it instead. Ultimately I decided the character would call it a mezzanine, and therefore readers could look up a new word if they didn't know.

It's how I learned words like myriad as a seven year old reading Lord of the Rings for the first time, why would I steal that experiance from someone else by simplifying language?

[headspace-hotel]

I don't know about y'all, but books are how i know my vocabulary in the first place

[heywriters]

my favorite thing relevant to this is when a dumb character uses regional or obscure words completely casually, but i have to look them up. To me it's a big weird word, but to the silly town drunk in a story what else are you supposed to call that thing??

anyway, read outside your culture as well, even if it's just the state/city/country next door that you've never been to. you will expand your vocabulary substantially.

[ziparumpazoo]

[aqueerkettleofish]

Okay, having watched the coverage, I'm actually optimistic. I was of the opinion that Biden dropping out would be disaster, but now I think it might actually be a good thing.

The following things should be noted:

While the media keeps pointing out that it is possible someone will challenge Harris for the nomination,

The media desperately wants a Dems In Dissarray angle, and they're not giving it to them.

I don't know if they had time to compare notes, but EVERY Dem I heard was right on the "Prosecutor vs. Felon" angle.

The timing is BEAUTIFUL. Nobody's talking about the GOP Convention, nobody's talking about the assassination.

Donations are rolling in. (If you can, donate NOW.)

Trump put a lot of work making the campaign about Biden's age. He... might not be glad he did.

Black women are the most reliable voters in the party. So. Yeah.

[butterflyslinky]

Two big updates:

Harris had the single most successful fundraising day in history, raising over $60 million in 24 hours.

The Heritage Foundation (aka, the people behind Project 2025) are considering legal action against Biden in certain states where candidate filing dates are shorter and reasons for dropping out are more strict. This signals they're very mad and very scared and are doing everything they can to stop Harris from being the nominee.

[cleolinda]

I didn’t panic when the news dropped because I am unwillingly in the presence of so much Fox News that I knew how bad a tailspin “wait what do you mean we don’t have Biden to shit on anymore” would throw them into. Like, I’m still scared because [gestures at everything], but they’ve spent the last several months INTENSELY pushing “senile Joe Biden and his crime family are bringing down America.” And now ALL of that is utterly moot. Useless. Wasted. Conservative media will go in on Kamala and whoever her VP is, of course, but they haven’t had a year in advance to build it up. And Republicans didn’t get to use their convention for it. This is a sucker punch, tactically speaking, and I hope the new ticket can keep moving light on their feet like this.

[relelvance]

[catchymemes]

How to protect yourself during stampede

[bohemian-pixel-pusher]

this isn’t the usual thing I’d share on my stupid nerd blog, but this is SO important. I was nearly crushed in a crowd like this once. It was terrifying because you have NO control over the panicking mass of humans around you. you are just at the mercy of all this chaotic force. this is a real thing that can happen very suddenly! it did happen in the news recently! My situation was, the olympics was happening in my city, I was on my way home from school, and a crowd of people suddenly flooded into the street around me. in seconds it went from, busy-city-street-crowded, to, wtf I can’t even move crowded. I was so pressed against the backpack of the man in front of me, my feet lifted off the ground a moment. People were climbing lamp posts, signs, bus shelters, trees, everything to get up out of it. it was like the street became an ocean of people, and all the people’s survival instincts were making them dumber. everyone was yelling. no one knew how to solve it. police, fire fighters and medics saved us by breaking the locks on the inside of the mall we were trapped next to. a huge group flooded into the building, releasing a bit of the pressure on the people outside. I was in that group that got in.

We were trapped in the mall awhile. Because the olympics was on, they had big screens in a few sitting areas of the mall that would normally be showing the games. but now the coverage was focused on this crowd surge. They showed a helicopter shot of the building we were now in, totally surrounded by colorful dots. a solid mass of humans with no space between.  I know someone was partially trampled and needed medics, because I saw that, but i don’t know the statistics on who else was hurt, hopefully no one killed! I don’t know if these methods can definitely save you, but they might give you a better chance. so watch and share!

[tenthdynasty]

Sharing to my own stupid nerd blog for the same reason, this is SO IMPORTANT. Human crushes are one of the most unexpected ways to die. People go out to a show or a sports game, and make it there, but they never come back. Other strategies include staying away from large obstacles (like fences) that you could get crushed against, and doing your best to stay above the crowd. Try to climb onto something if you can.

And also — not to get nitpicky with deadly tragedies, but they’re called “human crushes,” not “stampedes.” It’s an important difference in description and also in respect. The deaths usually happen because the victims are pinned together in a tight space, they can’t breathe (as in the video) and they suffocate. “Stampede” doesn’t convey what actually happened to those people. The crush that happened in Seoul recently wasn’t because people “stampeded,” it was because they couldn’t move at all and they suffocated. But calling it a “stampede,” you’d think it was the people themselves that ran over each other, like wild animals. It’s disrespectful and untrue.

Horrifyingly, the victims of many human crushes have been blamed for their own deaths, which are usually purely accidental or due to criminal mismanagement from authorities. If you’re in a mental place to read about tragedies and police corruption, check out the Hillsborough Disaster, in which 97 people died due to the incompetence of the police, who then blamed everything on the victims: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

If you can’t play the video:

1. Stand like a boxer. Nice wide stance, arms up like you’re preparing to either throw a punch or shield against one, i.e. elbows bent by your waist and fists by your shoulders. That will keep some space around your chest

2. If you fall and can’t get up, roll onto your side and curl up in the foetal position

[cannibalchicken]

[krudman]

[kateammann]

A lil compilation of ace pride artwork I’ve made over the past year! 💜

[queer-as-city-folk]

Wouldn't trains always be nude since they don't have clothing?

Paint

[trainwreckarollin]

Me, jumping up and down: I REFUSE TO GIVE IN TO DESPAIR.

the world: *suckerpunch*

Me, jumping up and down and now bleeding: I REFUSE TO GIVE INTO DESPAIR.

[trainwreckarollin]

Me, jumping up and down: I REFUSE TO GIVE IN TO DESPAIR.

the world: *suckerpunch*

Me, jumping up and down and now bleeding: I REFUSE TO GIVE INTO DESPAIR.

[zuko-always-lies]

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[deliciousstrangeobject]

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[retromini]

The Miyoo Mini+ Plus is a portable retro console. It can run GB/GBC/GBA/NES/SNES it also has support for Sega Genesis, Master System, Game Gear, PC Engine, Wonder Swan Mono/Color and PlayStation 1 .  It has built in WIFI, Retroarch support and with a recent update you can trade/battle in the original Gameboy Pokémon games.

1. Miyoo Mini Plus (64gb)

2. 128gb MicroSD card for Miyoo Mini

[sword-grandma]

I have one of these and it really is an amazing device. it runs on a custom Linux OS and there is a huge modding community for the device on Reddit!

They have even managed to get Nintendo DS games to work on this thing! You press r2 to bring up the second screen and l2 to use the virtual stylus. Games like Pokemon Black and Mario Kart DS work great!

[asmodus-vulcan]

looks cool as hell

[xenaskywalker]

It also comes in clear purple :3c