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And that she can maybe have that for herself. She can be the tough one AND have a love that is soft and kind.

There’s something really sweet and satisfying in the fact that Zheng is a part of Stede and Ed’s reunion on the beach. She’s been mocking Stede off and on for Blackbeard leaving him, but she’s also empathized with him over it. And she sees firsthand how important these two men are to each other. She sees probably the greatest, toughest pirate in the world (other than herself) shout across a battlefield for the man he loves—a man that she knows is ridiculous and soft and also commands such loyalty from his crew—then run across a beach and embrace him. She sees Blackbeard touch Stede Bonnet’s face and call him “babe” and tell him he did great in the fight. And she sees them choose each other over piracy and revenge.

It’s so lovely and it does, in part, help her to understand even more that softness isn’t weakness.

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Here is kitty Frenchie for you to hold, as well! 🖤🐈‍⬛🖤 He's an absolute charmer with a love for musical instruments, but watch your food/pockets. He'll rob you blind, adorably. 🖤🐈‍⬛🖤

(These OFMD kitties will be stickers in the future, so be on the lookout for them to go on sale! 🖤🐈‍⬛🖤)

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Kitty Archie is ready for you to hold with Jim! ❤️🐈‍⬛🧡 (They are a pair! Do not separate!) Kitty Archie has a lot of energy and loves playing with snake toys! Or live snakes. She was the pet of a snake cult. 🐍❤️🐈‍⬛

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Who wants to hold kitty Izzy while I draw the rest of the crew? 🖤🐈‍⬛ Careful, he will bite and scratch (out of love, even though he'd never admit it).

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This was entirely self serving, I hope you love it too though! The reference was insane.

I will post the gorgeous reference in a reblog so you can see what I’m talking about.

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…Could be arranged.🖤🏴‍☠️

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I had to draw this 'stede as a pin up girl' idea on twitter

[ID: A single pin-up image of Stede Bonnet Standing on a ladder picking oranges from a fruit tree. The background is a dreamy blue sky with soft washes of pink, white and a slightly darker blue in the background. Stede is wearing his yellow robe with a flower pattern, terracotta pants that stop just below the knee and long socks that span the length of his legs, accentuating his calves, and ending at black heeled shoes with white ruffles. He is looking back at the viewer with a bright vibrant smile. His cheeks are rosy red and behind each ear he has placed daisies in his hair. His head and shoulders are bathed in a golden glow of sunlight. His right hand is reaching out to pick an orange out of the tree. He’s holding a wicker basket in his left hand out of which he is accidentally dropping his collected oranges. This is Stede as seen by Ed in a snapshot of a moment. He is bright and vibrant and in love]

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I have a folder called Time is a Flat Circle in which I collect evidence of humanity. Here is most of them.

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"I love you... I love you." "I know... I know that."

Omg they were co-captains 🥹

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I do love how Max keeps digging themselves into deeper and deeper shit the longr this goes on.

They look terrible, and everyone knows it. They cancelled a very successful show, one of their flagship properties, a show that has enjoyed a passionate fanbase and excellent critical reviews. Canceling the show was always going to look bad (there's a reason the cast and crew were acting like a renewal was a given for a while there).

And they no doubt expected a backlash, but not to this level. And you can just see them scrambling for any way to make themselves look better now. First it was the intentionally vague "numbers" comment, now it's "ooh we didn't know how to market such a violent comedy" (which, yeah, it's from an anonymous source, but awfully convenient timing, right?). It's just laughable given we can all see how successful this show was, and HBO as a platform has no leg to stand on with the violence nonsense.

They're just so obviously trying to save face at this point, and it's only making them look worse. If only there was a way they could have prevented all of this in the first place...🤷🏾‍♂️

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Do you do that? Do you tell your little son that he's a girl whenever he isn't behaving in a perceived masculine way? Are you likening him to feminine traits when he shows softness and wonder for beauty? Are you telling him, that being feminine is less than he should be? Are you training him to see girls and women as the lesser weaker sex? Are you say things like 'You scream like a girl! Don't be such a girl! You throw, run, catch like a girl!' Do you give him girly names to tease him about behaviour you deem unmanly?

If so, stop! Stop this shit! I hate it, my daughters hate it, every woman I know hates it. Don't be a dick about it! It's awful and hurting. You are an asshole if you do this, and I won't discuss it with you.

And yes, this is deeply personal, as I see it happening all around us. And people ask themselves why our society never evolves further than this!? Baffling.

#personal thoughts #sociology #i despise this #Training little boys to become dicks in their future #Telling them girls a worth less #Telling them being feminine is ugly #I hate this so much #How dare you

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Is it possible that a whole nation is blind in one spot?

The Right is rising in Germany and even as there is crushing evidence and statistics about crimes the fascists are involved in and invoking, there is still no public outcry, no big demonstrations against it. Instead the slow but steady rising of political power and the creeping of fascist believes into the population is discussed over and over. It's all just 'How', 'Why' and 'Who'.

We should be in the streets as millions against the fooking brown shit heads. 80 percent of the population says they can't imagine voting for fascists (or, you know, Nazis!) and still, no big movement is forming.

I'm having a very, very bad feeling about this. It's like living through time again. It's the freaking 1920s again! And I'm going slightly insane while watching it happen. It feels as if I've been there, seen it all before and are just as powerless as last time. Going mad here watching the world slowly circling into this nationalistic, murderous madness again.

#personal story #personal thoughts #Rise of the Fucking Fascists #what the heck #why is this happening #again?

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There’s discovering that you have a kink as in learning something new about yourself, and there’s discovering that you have a kink as in you always knew you were into it, but you didn’t realise it was a kink because you honestly thought everybody was into it, and of the two, the second one is much, much funnier.

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Sewing Machines & Planned Obsolescence

I've got these two sewing machines, made about 100 years apart. An old treadle machine from around 1920-1930, that I pulled out of the trash on a rainy day, and a new Brother sewing machine from around 2020.

I've always known planned obsolescence was a thing, but I never knew just how insidious it was till I started looking at these two side by side.

I wasn't feeling hopeful at first that I'd actually be able to fix the old one, I found it in the trash at 2 am in a thunderstorm. It was rusty, dusty, soggy, squeaky, missing parts, and 100 years old.

How do you even find specialized parts 100 years later? Well, easily, it turns out. The manufacturers at the time didn't just make parts backwards compatible to be consistent across the years, but also interchangeable across brands! Imagine that today, being able to grab a part from an old iPhone to fix your Android.

Anyway, 6 months into having them both, I can confidently say that my busted up trash machine is far better than my new one, or any consumer-grade sewing machine on the market.

Old Machine Guts

The old machine? Can sew through a pile of leather thicker than my fingers like it's nothing. (it's actually terrifying and I treat it like a power tool - I'll never sew drunk on that thing because I'm genuinely afraid it'd sew through a finger!) At high speeds, it's well balanced and doesn't shake. The parts are all metal, attached by standard flathead screws, designed to be simple and strong, and easily reachable behind large access doors. The tools I need to work on it? A screwdriver and oil. Lost my screwdriver? That's OK, a knife works too.

New Machine Guts

The new machine's skipping stitches now that the plastic parts are starting to wear out. It's always throwing software errors, and it damn near shakes itself apart at top speed. Look at it's innards - I could barely fit a boriscope camera that's about as thick as spaghetti in there let alone my fingers. Very little is attached with standard screws.

And it's infuriating. I'm an engineer - there's no damn reason to make high-wear parts out of plastic. Or put them in places they can't be reached to replace. There's no reason to make your mechanism so unbalanced it's reaching the point of failure before reaching it's own design speed. (Oh yeah there is, it's corporate greed)

100 years, and your standard home sewing machine has gone from a beast of a machine that can be pulled out of the literal waterlogged trash and repaired - to a machine that eats itself if you sew anything but delicate fast-fashion fabrics that are also designed to fall apart in a few years.

Looking for something modern built to the standard that was set 100 years ago? I'd be looking at industrial machines that are going for thousands of dollars... Used on craigslist. I don't even want to know what they'd cost new.

We have the technology and knowledge to manufacture "old" sewing machines still. Hell, even better, sewing machines with the mechanical design quality of the old ones, but with more modern features. It would be so easy - at a technical level to start building things well again. Hell, it's easier to fabricate something sturdy than engineer something to fail at just the right time. (I have half a mind to see if any of my meche friends with machine shops want to help me fabricate an actually good modern machine lol)

We need to push for right-to-repair laws, and legislation against planned obsolescence. Because it's honestly shocking how corporate greed has downright sabotaged good design. They're selling us utter shit, and expecting us to come back for more every financial quarter? I'm over it.

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I rolled my eyes. It's a horrible thought. I'm deeply (ha!) afraid of the deep sea. But 'Killed by implosion' is a rather Badass way to go.

"Private submarine carrying several billionaire tourists goes missing while surveying the wreckage of the Titanic."

Well, it had to happen eventually. This is where big-ticket extreme tourism and shooting untrained assholes into space and such was always going to lead – frankly, it's surprising that it took this long for a major incident to crop up.

"One of the missing passengers is the president and CEO of the company that owns and operates the submarine."

Huh. Well, points for putting his money where his mouth is, I guess. I wonder if–

"The missing CEO's name is Stockton Rush."

Oh, bullshit. That's not a real person – that's the name of a guy who builds an inexplicably 1950s-themed underwater theme park and then gets eaten by a shark in a cautionary tale about the perils of libertarianism. That's the name of a guy who carries off an oceanfront real estate scam that somehow ends with Superman fighting a telepathic squid. Fucking "Stockton Rush". Unbelievable.

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tell me where youre from but through food. i'll go first i like blueberries, seafood, venison, and maple syrup.

#potatoes #beer #cheese #wine #sausages #like a lot of them #Bread bread bread #Dark bread #White bread #bread rolls #Over 250 kinds of bread #slightly obsessed #With bread #did i mention #The sausages #😁 #asparagus #strawberries #Herring