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So I was writing a small paper in Microsoft Word and the program suddenly crashed (I saved a couple minutes before, thank god) and I get this message in the corner of my screen two seconds afterward

what the fuck

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New piece! Am calling her “Skör” (fragile in Swedish).

Assembled from strips of lace, a doily, and some fiddly needle lace and crochet for the teeth. Starched with diluted wood glue.

Perfect in time for Halloween!

#fiber art #skull #so cool

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because sometimes there are invisible tests and invisible rules and you're just supposed to ... know the rule. someone you thought of as a friend asks you for book recommendations, so you give her a list of like 30 books, each with a brief blurb and why you like it. later, you find out she screenshotted the list and send it out to a group chat with the note: what an absolute freak can you believe this. you saw the responses: emojis where people are rolling over laughing. too much and obsessive and actually kind of creepy in the comments. you thought you'd been doing the right thing. she'd asked, right? an invisible rule: this is what happens when you get too excited.

you aren't supposed to laugh at your own jokes, so you don't, but then you're too serious. you're not supposed to be too loud, but then people say you're too quiet. you aren't supposed to get passionate about things, but then you're shy, boring. you aren't supposed to talk too much, but then people are mad when you're not good at replying.

you fold yourself into a prettier paper crane. since you never know what is "selfish" and what is "charity," you give yourself over, fully. you'd rather be empty and over-generous - you'd rather eat your own boundaries than have even one person believe that you're mean. since you don't know what the thing is that will make them hate you, you simply scrub yourself clean of any form of roughness. if you are perfect and smiling and funny, they can love you. if you are always there for them and never admit what's happening and never mention your past and never make them uncomfortable - you can make up for it. you can earn it.

don't fuck up. they're all testing you, always. they're tolerating you. whatever secret club happened, over a summer somewhere - during some activity you didn't get to attend - everyone else just... figured it out. like they got some kind of award or examination that allowed them to know how-to-be-normal. how to fit. and for the rest of your life, you've been playing catch-up. you've been trying to prove that - haha! you get it! that the joke they're telling, the people they are, the manual they got- yeah, you've totally read it.

if you can just divide yourself in two - the lovable one, and the one that is you - you can do this. you can walk the line. they can laugh and accept you. if you are always-balanced, never burdensome, a delight to have in class, champagne and glittering and never gawky or florescent or god-forbid cringe: you can get away with it.

you stare at your therapist, whom you can make jokes with, and who laughs at your jokes, because you are so fucking good at people-pleasing. you smile at her, and she asks you how you're doing, and you automatically say i'm good, thanks, how are you? while the answer swims somewhere in your little lizard brain:

how long have you been doing this now? mastering the art of your body and mind like you're piloting a puppet. has it worked? what do you mean that all you feel is... just exhausted. pick yourself up, the tightrope has no net. after all, you're cheating, somehow, but nobody seems to know you actually flunked the test. it's working!

aren't you happy yet?

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So Maker Faire is coming up, right? And the spinning group is gonna be there. And we need decorations.

And a suggestion was to craft triangles and make a cute bunting/garland thingy. So i took to the grab bag of fiber i had bought for the kids to play with and got this really felted combed top out of it and seperated colours and carded it and then spun some thicc singles on my Nano2:

... and then plied these:

All in one evening! Go me! xD

I'm not a big pink fan, but i love this 💕💕💕

Not sure if that's enough to oslo stitch a triangle, but I can always make some more.

(I can make yarn! and then make something from it! It's so amazing, that whole process! Damn! *happy swearing in awe of humanity's long history of fiber doings and makings*)

Anyway, maybe (maybe!) I can eventually make enough yarn to needlebind, crochet and knit a small triangle (base with 12-13 cm).

Maybe not. I AM having ideas. Spring is putting ideas in my head (and itches in my eyes and nose)..

Not sure if my energy will be able to keep up, so I'll be happy with any idea actually coming to life ^_^

Going by the old Jim Morrisson Motto of "Take it easy, baby, take it as it comes."

#fiber art #spinning #ooh very cute colours! ^_^

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Wilhelm pantomime costume design (1890-1910) PNGs, part 5.

(from: vam)

#art #clothing

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My cutest creations yet by snommu

#fiber art #chicken #oooh so good!

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“Notes on skirts and pants”

Source: miyuli on twitter

#clothing #art #art resource

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It was perhaps naive of me to think I was prepared to deal with transphobia. =.=

Help a girl out with funny pictures and letters.

#offering of a supportive psyduck #and also wishing you strength #I still don't know how to send people stuff here if it's not in a pm #so if a reblog is not ok I can remove it

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Cousin Itt by AsparagusPleasant646

#fiber art #crochet #the addams family #aaaaa! #so good!

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Nell the bananer slug has buttery yellow, hand painted silk body. I saw these little guys for the first time in 2019 while on Orcas Island, and absolutely fell in love with these slimy babies 💛

#fiber art #slug #plushie #so good!

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Working on the band that I'll use to make a collar for my parents' dog, Archie, and I feel like my weaving has leveled up. I've done this pattern before, but this one definitely is turning out much smoother and with the actual pattern more visible.

#fiber art #tablet weaving #so lovely!

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100% Bitefree* Disco Crocs !!!

they are big, soft, weighted and have poseable little leggies!

*bark´s bog is not legally liable for any croc bite injuries caused by the little dudes provided by us

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adopt one of these chonky guys from my bog!

barks-bog.com

#fiber art #plushie #amazing! #perfection!

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A fancy shot from our exhibition space!

#plants #ooh ^_^

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Aaa, horrible bat AI nonsense. x_x

#personal #sitting upright on a branch like a bird with fused wings #hovering upright in front of some branches and still wrapped up into the wings #'but it's cute though' no. no. just. no. #for some reason I get very grumpy with 'manufactured cuteness' like those certain animal videos or ai crap #like asmr level disgust for me #I mean if you like the asmr stuff-that's fine. for me those kinda things feel awful

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Nålhus aka needle houses aka needle keepers made with wool fabric, protected by a ceramic case. Stamped patterns with inspiration from plants and nature in general and the geometrical lines somewhat inspired by runes.

🌿

One of these are still in the shop now at nymla.se

#video #sound #that's cool

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taking off a mask to reveal what lies beneath as a romantic gesture is overdone, and besides i want to see the romantic or even platonic potential of protecting someone's identity beneath the mask, without any expectation of ever being allowed to see what's under it. picking it up and holding it gently to their face when it's knocked off and they're in danger of being exposed, without trying to catch a glimpse of what they "really" look like under there. throwing yourself in front of them to hide them from view while they put themselves back together without taking advantage or looking back to see what you're protecting. learning to read them by body language, tone of voice, and behaviour so well that you never need to see their face to feel like you know and understand them.

#yessss

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i think one of the least used concepts in elder scrolls lore is its nebulous relationship to truth.

like something i do actually appreciate about that cunt kirkbride's writing in morrowind is that the mythology of the tribunal is allowed to be relatively ambiguous and there's room for poetry and fable and unreliable narrators. there's a strong general tendency in both fandom and dev to interpret lore quite literally and treat every text as reliable sources of fact about tamriel even when the text is like. fiction or written with a clear bias towards certain factions or prejudices.

the main example I'm thinking of is the 'notes on racial phylogeny' lore book. it's literally just racist pseudoscience and in a real life context would be considered unreliable and deeply offensive. but in tes, i rarely see anyone stop to actually consider that perhaps this lore isn't really a factual study of how bodies work but about how the imperial empire categorises the people it colonises and justifies it's supremacy. there's so much focus on determining the rules and metaphysical aspects of the world that there's no consideration that the way factions like the empire see the world is inherently flawed.

it's fun to think of a world where stars are literal holes punched in the fabric of the sky, or that water is made of memory, but i also think it would be a much more fun and flexible world if these theories are considered to be just a few of many lenses that people in tamriel use to try to understand their world. some of my favourite pieces of lore and world building are things like 'cherims heart of anequina' that imply a rich world of culture and art; i love the idea that tamriel has art and art critics and people who discuss ideas for other purposes than trying to figure out what's The Only True Lore.

#yup