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Hello friends, it is I

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Kris - they/him - 28 y/o - non-binary transmasc - instagram.com/drawn.binary

Fanfic writers spend years trying to come up with realistic “bed sharing” scenarios, and the X-Files writing team drops a cow through the roof of Mulder’s motel room.

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my fav quote by freud is definitely the one where hes writing to his fiancee and hes like im gonna make you eat so much you are just a little weak baby and im a big cokehead

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FOUND IT

Cyanometer - an instrument for measuring blueness, specifically the color intensity of blue sky - attributed to Horace-Bénédict de Saussure and Alexander von Humboldt

you mothers fucker don’t need to make us scroll forty goddamn linear feet.

“We have the color of the sky at home”

I won't say what the answer is, but I can tell you with certainty the fact only one of these is wrong says a lot about the series.

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The best part is one of these things is probably discovered due to Actual Cannibal Bill Gates. ACBG invented chat forums just for the purpose of making Internet predators possible, and might actually be less evil than his twin.

Actual Cannibal Bill Gates was SO underutilised.

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oh god I forgot about that

Because he was underutilised!

Answer: the character named after a fan (Erek King) was actually a major character in the series!

Looks like a lot of people should read the book where they're almost killed in morph due to a distant warp-speed spacecraft.

(They get to blow up an alien continent in that one.)

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damn, I knew it was either the one about a fan (how would I know that) or the dinosaur with a human face one (think I didn't get far enough in the series, I keep telling myself I'm gonna reread but it's hard to sit down and read)

Oh don't worry dinosaur with a human face is SUCH A DICK

I have never read those books. And I don't think I wish to.

You're missing out on some classic children's lit

双面三异绣 shuāng miàn sān yì xiù  is a new genre of suzhou double-sided embroidery. It is done on both sides, but the patterns, stitches and colors are different, hence the name 双面三异绣( literally double-sided triple difference embroidery). It enables the viewer to appreciate the image of traditional chinese embroidery art with different patterns, stitches and colors on one embroidery. 

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Embroidery is a high art form

Okay… but how does the fiber change colors? I’ve been doing needlework fo decades. I’ve never met any sort of embroidery floss that was a different color on the back than it was on the front. (Don’t throw variegated at me. You can see this shirt ain’t variegated.)

The stitches are smaller on one side! Ive done something similar by couching one thread with a different colored in a satin stitch worked in one direction. With silk threads being so thin, you could make long satin stitches with one color on side a, but you wouldn’t be able to see the very tiny stitches made on side b. Then you do the same thing vice versa with side b, giving you two different colors on each side

It could be more complicated, idk, I couldn’t really find tutorials for it, but that’s how I do my double sided embroideries. it doesn’t look as good but here’s how the couching method looks when it’s done!

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I don’t think i’m gonna wanna actually line this… but i just…. dave and toshi beloved… i ship them so hard….

David called it timed faces and toshi just can’t help but laugh. For someone who’s so technologically inclined he didn’t really know the finer aspects…