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Gamers this has been on my mind for a while, and I've been Going Through It so I can't thoughtfully articulate it yet but: the little things can, and absolutely will, save you.
It's noticing the bunny in the yard eating dandelions one by one. It's buying lemonade from eager kids at a stand using change scrounged from the center console of your car. It's enjoying the smell of hot pavement steaming after a brief summer rain. It's taking a breath that feels fuller and more satisfying than usual.
It's painstakingly training your brain to notice the small but rampant string of good things woven through every single day. It's that same kind of training that you have to do in order to undo the years of anxious patterns that have been ruthlessly hammered into the soft pathways of your mind.
I don't know how to connect the two dots, but the connection is there. I know it's there because something as silly as the satisfying crunch of a knife cutting a crisp grilled cheese sandwich in half has meant the difference between hanging on and panicking during a stressful day.
I can't explain how the many small things I did and asked for and noticed over YEARS finally coalesced into something solid and real and steadying but they did. I'm not saying that petting the one patch of fur between your pets ears that's a little softer than any other spot is going to cure your depression tomorrow.
But I'm suggesting that when you stitch it together with a thousand other things from a thousand other days, it might just rescue you from the one day in your future that would have destroyed you otherwise.
It is WIP Wednesday.
SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT.
Sweater with my gorgeous birthday yarn!!!!
OH MY GOSH
Isn't it beautiful?! It's Simply DK in Carnival from Greenwood Fiber works. She does roving as well as yarn in her hand dyed colorways!
Update at almost 7" long for the body.
OH MY GOSH!!
I'll take that you like it! XD This was the end of the first skein.
I dooooooo
The yarn is beautiful and it looks amazing in action!!
10 inches long now!!
I have finished the ribbing! It is over 11.5 inches long for the ribbing and the stockinette is only about 1/2 an inch long so far.
In case you were thinking I am small, this ribbing is at least double in width (not counting the stretch of knitting in general) what it looks like. Ribbing be sneaky that way. I am short, though, so I took off a whole inch from the ribbing length in the pattern-- *gaspeth* --so it wouldn't be too long in the body on me. @turretangel @knottybliss
It looks like I smudged my glasses and am staring at a field of wildflowers! This has captured that perfectly! I'm so excited to see what you do with your new fifth-dimensional-poetry-compressed-into-a-3D-sweater!
The one with the poetry is you! You’re making me cry and become even happier whenever I pick up this project. <3
Update on the sweater! On 2.5″ of the needed 5.5″ before I start separating front and back and begin the shaping for the bust. I hadn’t gotten too far because I was focused on knitting a Tudor hat for a friend, which I finished. @knottybliss @turretangel
The image is clearer now the longer you make it! It's the joyous dots of waxy color I'd make on paper with crayons as a kid, given form! It's the colors you get when you close your eyes really hard in the day! It's what screensavers dream about when they go to bed. It's lilacs and wildflowers seen from a plane!! (@stargazing-bookwyrm, can you confirm?)
I didn't see the tag for this post for some reason (thanks tumblr), but I remembered it was WIP Wednesday and rushed to your blog to check to see if I'd get to see more! Thank you for sharing once again!
Update on the sweater! It’s been a couple weeks and I have been dealing with a lot of stress irl, so this went slower than I wanted, but there has been progress, nonetheless. First, here’s the back, I have separated the front and the back, so the back stitches have been put on spare yarn, loosely, so I can try this all on soon.
Here is the front right half, I have done short row shaping for the right side of the chest (the curve you’re seeing under the lazy kate holding my yarn). I am currently on the strap heading up to the shoulder.
Here’s the best I could do to take a picture of the front as a whole. Once I finish the strap on the right, I’ll be doing the short rows and strap on the left. You can however get a better sense of the size of it in this picture since I can spread out the stockinette better.
@turretangel @knottybliss
This looks amazing! It's wonderful to hear from you and see your progress. And hey, slow progress is still progress! It's turning out so well though, look at how even your stitches are! It looks like how pop rocks taste! 11/10, I always adore your updates!
Your descriptors never cease to make me squee! And now I want to eat pop rocks. While working on it just now and watching the Cinderella musical with Brandi, I noticed something you’ll appreciate:
It’s the ball scene and all the costumes are in this color palette! Even the light spots stand in for the Prince and Cinderella’s paler colors! I been laughing over this for ten minutes! (...ago I met you, and we murmured our how-do-you-do’s... okay I’ll stop singing it)
Trying it on! Not the best pic but it does fit well for me tossing it on over my pajamas.
This is the back, I’m working on it right now, got about 30 more rows to go before I can seam the shoulders together.
Here’s the front, which I have finished, so once the back is done and shoulders are seamed, I’ll be doing an I-cord collar edge around the whole neckline. Hope you guys like it!
*delighted yelling noises*
Sweater update! Due to sickness, I hadn't touched my needles in nearly 2 weeks, but on Monday, I picked them up again! I finished the back and then seamed the shoulders together. After that, I did the very tedious i-cord collar edge. Tried it on, and it still looks good! I'm definitely blocking it, though.
I've begun the right sleeve, and once the two sleeves are done, the sweater will be complete!
Guess what?!?
She's done and blocking!!! I only pinned the sweater at the neckline to make the sweetheart curve come out right. And yes, I tried it on. She fits great!
*delighted screech* she is beautiful!!! That neckline is to die for.
How much yarn went into it?
banning pornography will not stop people from horny posting on your website but instead all the horny posts will now be about how someone wants to be a 2008 Volvo and have a butch mechanic change their oil and stuff like that
@knottybliss you have fulfilled the prophecy
🧙🏼♀️
I mean, I definitely assume so.
These ones are still available, by the way.
I dunno if this has been posted yet, but.....
Keep this shit off AO3
We don't want that kind of pearl clutching 'christian' conservative sitting on the AO3 board. Keep Moms For Liberty out of our fanfiction.
this is the second fucking year in a row someone has tried to pull this crap. but if you're still on the fence about it (though fair warning, I am not copying everything she wrote as a response, which you can read on the OTW website):
Would you be in favor of creating a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee? Why or why not? I see no reason creating another committee would help anything in light of the continued staffing issues, and see several ways it could hurt. Lumping nonwhite, and non-English-speaking, and non-American volunteers together in one committee is just tokenism with a bow on top. Those experiences are not singular or universal. The DEI consultant to be hired by the organization will be able to speak to this far better than I can. The cost of becoming a member/voting in elections is prohibitive for many users, particularly disabled, international and POC ones. Do you have any ideas about how this could be improved to make the otw more inclusive and less privileged? No.
Also, just for some proof of the "Republican" part, from Twitter:
like, it's not a pejorative, it's how she's self-identified
also, ENTIRELY unrelated to this crap, but she's only been a volunteer for about a year and a lot of her answers to questions about ongoing problems is "I don't know because I've only been here a year." she doesn't even know what PAC is.
THE PYR REVIEW episode 01 Please enjoy a short history of the Great Pyrenees breed… a PYR-story, if you will :)
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#when you set out for revenge dig two graves#unless you’re hamlet#in which case you’re going to want to rent a backhoe (x) YOU’RE NOT LEAVING THAT IN THE TAGS BUDDY
nooo i just thought about wayne going with eddie to pride, wearing one of those free hugs shirts, and steve coming by and taking him up on the offer of a hug, and completely breaking down because wayne gives good hugs and when was the last time a parental figure hugged him, and eddie is just hovering awkwardly because cute guy is having a breakdown while hugging his uncle and cute guy is at pride so probably into men but eddie can't flirt with someone having a breakdown, but what does he do—
wayne just rolls with it, comforting steve, making sure he's okay, and offers steve to stay with them if he's alone or until his friends arrive
The world's least tucked in and kissed stuffie has just shed it's millionth tear
The world's least tucked in and kissed stuffie has just been picked up by the world's most autistic 7 year old girl. "She just would not let that thing go," one witness observed.
The world's least tucked in and kissed stuffie has just been tucked in and kissed "a million bajillion times," one source informed us.
Guess I can post this now! My ring from THE 2023 TRUNGOTHON MEGA ART TELEPHONE GAME!!!
I went to a library book sale this weekend and I found a very old book called “Electronic Life: How to Think About Computers,” which was published in I think 1975? I’ve been reading it kind of like how I would read a historical document, and it’s lowkey fascinating
There’s a whole paragraph that’s like “okay, find the keyboard. Don’t panic if it has more keys than a typewriter, that’s normal. Really, it’s fine. The extra keys don’t make things harder. It’s FINE”
Thought this section was particularly interesting:
Can the computer create something? At first glance it seems obvious that it can. Animated computer graphics, with their fluid transitions and whiplash perspectives, look strikingly new. And if one watches the machine doing animation work, there seem to be lengthy periods when the computer is acting “on its own.”
But if one observes these processes in more detail, it becomes clear that creation is not occurring within the machine. First of all, computer graphics are not unique. Computers have yet to generate anything that cannot be done by hand—and usually already has been done. Second, the apparent ability of the computer to “act on its own” is the outcome of thousands of hours of patient human effort to refine its instructions. The computer can manipulate a shape for us if we have already informed it what a shape is, what the rules for shape manipulation are, what this specific shape is, and so forth.
You can start an automobile engine and it will run by itself, too, but that doesn’t mean it’s being creative. It’s just running.
