This is Another Sky

That definitely looks like suspicion to me also @moonstarphoenix

And that line was foreshadowing things she would end up enabling:

Smart girls are the fucking best

But like

They did such a good job

The poses

I haven’t pissed people off lately by reminding them that ALL types of physical punishment of kids has been proven beyond ANY reasonable doubt to have only negative long term outcomes.

So let me scream it from the hilltops:

Stop hitting kids. End of sentence.

If you think, “but I was hit and I turned out just fine” let me pre-reply: NO YOU DID NOT. You think hitting a child is ok, how the fuck does that qualify as “fine”?????? From one abuse survivor to another: please start healing yourself.

I got distracted putting away groceries and SOMEBODY took advantage.

Remorseless! A remorseless, shameless thief!

She put herself in prison and then passed out

Her belly is full and her heart unburdened by guilt. Perfect time for a nap.

Pure decadence

Lost in the sauce

Les Nymphéas, par Claude Monet | Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris 2019 (pictures by me)

Just sit with a kettle and the world will come to you🌿

Let's break this down.

Not counting the time it takes to learn the craft, it can take at least 4 days to hand knit a sweater, and that's if you're really good and you're going constantly. If there are cables and color-work, it will take longer. Some knitters I know can bust out a sweater in a week, but that's only because they are fiendishly fast and don't really have much else going on in their lives. If there's school, or kids, or even a part time job? Psh. A month. A least.

But let's say our girl is really good, knitting at breakneck speed, and knits up a sweater start to finish in 3 days. We'll pretend she's paying herself the US federal minimum wage of $7.25/hr, and knitting 8 hours a day. That's $174 for labor alone.

Now let's talk materials. The average adult sweater takes anywhere between 1000 to 2200 yards of yarn. I haven't seen the sweater in question, but let's say she's using sport weight yarn and is knitting an adult small, so around 1400 yards.

My local yarn store sells locally sourced hand spun hand dyed yarn for $40 a skein/400 yards to a skein. So our girl is going to buy 4 skeins, so that's $160 for yarn alone.

We're currently sitting at $334 for a hand knit sweater using quality yarn.

This isn't including the time it takes to learn the craft, and the hours it takes design and work out the pattern.

But I get it. $300 is a lot to charge for a sweater, right? You can go to W*lmart or H&M and get a sweater for $20.

Big stores can charge what they do because they use machines, sub-par materials, and what's essentially slave labor.

I can only speak from an American perspective, but our culture and economy has destroyed the value of labor and has put convenience above quality.

Artisans are struggling. Fast fashion has given the general public the false impression that dedicated artisans are over charging when really? They can't make a living doing their craft alone.

$300 for a hand knit sweater is a goddamn steal.

Come here so I can give you some Smooches 

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[video: a seal emerges from a hole in the ice to breathe. It yells “Ah! Woo!” then sinks back down]

The ahh was so much deeper and the woo so much softer than i could have expected i love it

hehe, glitters.

shutterbug

“wow it must suck being the only teen titans member without superpowers”

tim drake, with an unlimited number of memes: “are u kidding”

dog in a bog

I CANNOT GET OVER THIS DOG

can i just say: there's something lovely about the idea of a tardis key.

for most of the show, it was necessary to have one. the tardis needed to be locked like an ordinary police box, and if locked, it was incredibly difficult to get into.

(unless you steal the whole-ass lock, which the sensorites totally did. we like to pretend that it can't happen again.)

anyway: this meant that companions needed to receive keys to the tardis in case of emergencies. thus, the key-giving ceremony began to crop up, and it's very, very soft.

part of the significance of this is that it represents vulnerability. the tardis is an extremely powerful bit of kit and it's the doctor's only home. she's their wife, even, in a roundabout way. plus, the tardis can technically be summoned with the key alone, so you can imagine how important this thing is. in the wrong hands, it can do a lot of damage on many levels.

and here's the real kicker: technically, the key isn't completely necessary anymore, and i really like this. it gives the tardis a new sense of agency. rather than being a pure machine - something to lock and unlock, something without a voice - she opens up to people when she chooses to. the key remains a rite of passage for companions, and it's still an important symbol of vulnerability, but now the tardis gets to make the choice as well.

i have so many feelings about this. i just love my small alien and their enormous sentient dimension wife.

@blackkatmagic

A drone has crashed into Iceland's spewing Fagradalsfjall volcano, with its final spectacular moments being captured on video.

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Love geology, love fire 🔥

This is gorgeous

That was terrifying.

It is a painful truth that actually none of my fics are abandoned, no, not even the ones that haven’t updated in five years. I still know exactly what happens next, and after that, and so on. They’re not abandoned; they’re right here, haunting me, characters climbing up my pants like kittens nagging for dinner.

I love this analogy so much!