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when i tell you i had an aneurysm
"Average canyon is full of arachnids" factoid actually just a statistical anomaly. Average canyon has a normal amount of arachnids. Spider Gorge-
tumblr has like 5 jokes that just get recycled.
it’s very efficient that way.
average tumblr user only knows five jokes factoid actually just statistical error. Spiders Georg-
pride month!!!
Is that a miette?
Pride for you! Pride for a thousand years!!
you COME OUT to miette? you come out to her as queer? oh! oh! pride for mother! pride for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!
back again encouraging people to start using the hobby stuff they've been acquiring for years
reasons to start can include:
the hobby industry wants only for us to keep buying and never use, so using the stuff pushes back
some hobby items do not survive long term storage
if there's some craft or hobby thing that you want to do but feel your skills aren't up to, consider that those skills won't improve if you don't practice on other things
using it allows it to move from the hobby hoard to the [whatever you made it into] hoard, where you may be more likely to enjoy it more often than just when you specifically look at the hobby hoard
making things is good for the brain
curious to see what other reasons people might add
Me trying to persuade myself to use the foamboard I've been "saving for a special occasion" 😅
I wouldn't be encouraging people to use the hobby stuff they've been acquiring for years if I hadn't personally started using the hobby stuff I've been acquiring for years, and found out it felt pretty good, actually XD
So, I know exactly how it feels to be saving that thing for something special
and also how--for me--it normally ends up feeling pretty special to use it at all
Not always, though! there will inevitably be hobby projects that don't go the way you expected. I have learned (and am still learning) to acknowledge that nothing's perfect and mistakes happen and then move on to the next project.
While it's true that you can never mess up a project if you never do it, that also keeps you from making the things you end up having fun with and loving, doesn't it?
Tags from @jupitermoths
#this includes sports/movement hobbies#use your skates your bicycle use the fuckin. soccer ball you have in the back of your closet. go crazy
Yes! Every hobby. The crafty hobbies, the art hobbies, the movement hobbies, the food hobbies, the game hobbies (tabletop and video), the music hobbies, the fashion hobbies, the "it's all done on the computer" hobbies, the "go out in nature" hobbies, and every other kind of hobby.
There are entire industries associated with most hobbies, and each of those industries very often wants you to think the stuff you already have isn't enough, that the next purchase will be what really kicks the hobby into gear for you.
Plastics deteriorate, bugs get into stuff, gaskets leak, electronics fail (or the manufacturer stops supporting them), things fall apart, wild plots of land get developed, things expire or dry up or otherwise become unusable while in storage.
No matter what it is: if you want your skills to improve, they won't get better by waiting for it to happen. You can never enjoy what you don't do.
Using it allows it to be shared more readily--showing it to friends, giving it as gifts, making it part of your daily life, chatting with people who have similar interests. Keeping everything in storage not only isolates the things, but it doesn't do much for your own sense of community, either, does it?
Of course, if you're happy to be a dragon sitting on your hoard, that's great for you! Genuinely! But, if there's even a hint in your mind that maybe you might want to use it...? It could be the time to start.
(and, as I've said elsewhere, if you decide the stuff in your hobby stash isn't what you want to do after all? That's OK! You can give it away, letting someone else figure out if it's for them or not.)
I've addressed this elsewhere, but, to keep it in one place:
Going through your stash and figuring out what you want to use, where your tastes have changed and you now know you won't ever want to use, and what you didn't get around to using before it became otherwise unusable, and then paying attention to and remembering these things, can help you keep the stash from growing so much in the future
Having your hobby stash be more focused can help you be more likely to use the things, because it's not as overwhelming
Actively using the things can help you see that, quite possibly, it doesn't take as much as you thought to make the things you want to make, and your existing stash--even after you've started using it, given a lot of the unwanted stuff away, and gotten rid of the ruined stuff--will already be able to provide materials for years' worth of projects
And it can help you be more selective when acquiring more--for example, I am now a lot better at recognizing that, yes, I might be able to see the potential in something, but, if it's not necessarily the potential for something I actually want to make, so I am more able to pass on it
It can also help you identify gaps--there might be something you've been making do with that works well enough, but is annoying or painful or otherwise unpleasant to use, so you are far more likely to just not do it at all, and there might be something that would solve that. This is not the same as the thinking that says "If I buy this next New Thing, then I'll really start the hobby!"—this is about already being engaged with the hobby and analyzing what could help with what you're already doing. (This applies to not only tools, but also things like taking the time to get a sewing pattern adjusted to fit the way you want, or re-arranging storage so it works better for you, or making a point of de-linting and oiling and changing the needle on your sewing machine on a regular basis)
Notice I used the auxiliary verb "can" in the paragraphs up there—nothing is universal, and I acknowledge that. What works for me will not necessarily work for you.
For me, personally, though: I gave away so much (I have crafty friends and access to a craft thrift store and that helps), threw away a lot (so much cardboard), used a large amount (including most of what I brought in after analyzing the things I let go), and my craft stash is still enormous.
It is so easy to lack perspective on our possessions, especially when all we do with them is put them in storage with Dreams of Someday, y'know?
A true story from 1928 with a few artistic embellishments.
(And starring my disaster boys Jack and Al, of course)
Everyine wants transformers to sleep on comfy human like beds nobody apprecjates that the idw slabs are funnier.
Going ti sleep on my slab #myslab. Love my slab #myslab. Boy i cant wait to get off work ti lay completely flat on my slab #myslab
Can't wait to get home and sleep with my husband on separate slabs #ourslabs
No but Thundercracker is a full mood in there
My very first tiger drawing and my latest
Your skill level is unquestionable but listen.
I love him.
me also. as well.
This is the COOLEST thing I’ve seen in AGES. You both completely made my entire week.
unpopular opinion: Vimes is kind of drama queen
Sam “held a burning hot coal until it nearly took the skin off his hand while maintaining perfect calm and eye contact with the asshole in need of intimidation Just Because” Vimes? Sam “sitting on the stoop with a mug of cocoa and a cigar, cautiously aware of every inch of the scene he’s building” Vimes? Sam “could just tear his sleeve to show the mark of the Summoning Dark but instead tears off his whole goddamn shirt” Vimes? A drama queen? Reaching a bit don’t you think
Yep, certainly doesn’t seem to describe Sam “pretends to eat poison as a power move” Vimes. Not Sam “buries an axe in the table in the Rats Chamber” Vimes.
I mean are we really talking about Sam “yes a whole room full of candles with wicks dipped in holy water is the best way to beat this vampire” Vimes, here? Sam “has fought bad guys on top of a speeding train AND a riverboat during a flood” Vimes, really? Definitely Sam “nearly gets shot in the head by a crossbow bolt that shatters his shaving mirror and then uses the bolt to prop up a shard of said mirror to finish shaving” Vimes we’re discussing here?
excuse me?????
vimes did not resign from his post in protest, observe the rest of the watch resign from their posts in protest, recruit them into a militia, sail to the country they were at war with, and attempt to arrest two different armies for disturbing the peace so you could sit here and call him a drama queen, as though drama was some myffic quality bestowed by an accident of birth and not the inherent right of every creatively petty and histrionic citizen of ankh-morpork
vimes is a drama public employee
🥕 Veggie Patch Needle Book Tutorial
I feel this is the longest tutorial I've written, but not because it's incredibly complex - I was trying my best to cover as much detail, as possible.
This is one of my favourite designs, and I really wanted to make it accessible to everyone to make or simply to be inspired by.
You can watch a sew-along video here, or purchase the detailed PDF with photos and detailed diagrams here. I tried my best. Hope, you'll like it.
Woman murders man in broad daylight
beautiful like to reblog ratio on this
That's because people are reblogging it every time they see it. Like I'm doing right now lmao
Reblog to gain creative energy and to give more creative energy to the person you reblogged this from.
Hey I heard you like mummy stories. ...you don't? Oh.
Illuminated and his Comics about Killing People
A resident of Hamnavoe, Shetland Islands in Scotland, Anne Eunson decided to knit herself a beautiful lace fence using twine. The fence is fashioned from strong black twine - the same kind that is used to make fishing nets - and Anne knitted it on specially adapted curtain rods. It took her about three weeks to knit enough lace to surround her front garden, using a 23 stitch repeat of a familiar Shetland lace pattern.
*Photo via Laine Glover, Social History
I recently impulse-purchased a buck’s worth of nylon rope to get an order to the free shipping minimum, and this is giving me ideas…
This is so fucking cool!
The pattern pictured here is print o da wave, and Anne Eunson is an extremely skilled makker outside of this! Here is an interview with her and another makker on the Fruity Knitting podcast (starts at around the 39 minute mark), wherein both women discuss Shetland lace and Eunson discusses her fence and other designs.
You can additionally find her instagram here: anneunson.
Shetland lace is commonly considered the pinnacle of lace-making skill for knitters, and I'm always happy when more people learn about it :)!
Is that…… them
YALL THERES MORE TO THE SERIES
I just remembered that this was a thing that was HILARIOUS in 2006 and apparently that was ten years ago now.
Old people: join with me in remembering how funny we found this on LiveJournal.
Young people: look at this lolrus, it’s so happy, it has a bucket.
And then they stealed away the bucket and we realised we had fucked up a perfectly good elephant seal and given it anxiety.
listen this vintage meme is high quality and i will hear nothing said against it
20 years. I am not happy about this.
I’m delighted at the bucket reappearing but dismayed at the passage of time
Happy 20 years to Lolrus and his bucket!
i dont believe in air frying. sounds like something a mime would do.
happy 20 year anniversary of Neil banging out the tunes!
though every rat is special, it's a wonderful and unusual thing for their accomplishments to be remembered and cherished by so many people so many years later. we're all so fortunate to know about the rat who banged out the tunes!
thank you to all the people who sent me reference photos of their beloved rats for this piece!!! credits under the cut!
