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fewcanafford · 1 year

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every now and then i try and track down old intarsia patterns by gary kennedy and always come to the conclusion that people don't like to share :(

they've been out of print for longer than i've been alive, but people are selling scanned pdfs (or in some cases honest to god inkjet photocopies) for £5-£10 each...

#its so frustrating!!#he made loads of licensed patterns in the 80s and 90s and none of them are free online anywhere that i can find #just a ton of etsy and ebay scammers who want you to pay ten quid for something where you can see the ink bleed #text #not patterns

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karnalesbian · 3 months

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she commit acts of intercourse on my erogeneous zones until i achieve sexual climax

#pattern recognition has transitioned from a reliable ally into a dangerous enemy #alternatively: memes that were written by data from star trek

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not-quitenormal · 3 months

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Rage. In my heart. All-consuming. FUCK AI.

#i can't even function i am so fucking livid right now #they didn't even TRY to match the pattern!!!!#congrats!! you fucked it up!!! now burn your computer!!!!!

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brightlotusmoon · 4 months

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#oh no #i know a lot of audio engineers #it's like a hallucination #dare i say it #because color theory #children's hospital #hotel carpet patterns #color theory #heavy sigh

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procyoren · 3 months

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Multiple Mabels

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bamsara · 4 months

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"youve already written that trope" yesss. i like it a lots. i will be writing it again. 1000 stories of the same trope over and over again for ten million years

#'enemies to lovers' BANGER #'one is bridal carrying the other while theyre injured' BANGER #'sacrifice of something important' BANGER #'drunken chapter that results in at least one fist fight' BANGER #theres more but only me and readers who have read all of my fics througout fandoms will help me find the patterns #sara shush

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scorchedhearth · 6 months

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characters who dig themselves out of their graves (whether literal or metaphorical) are at the top of the list. nothing beats a character who should have died but didn't and comes back to haunt their own life and the world around them, benevolent or violent it doesn't matter, it's enthralling either way

#realizing that many of my ocs follow that pattern #as do other characters i fixate on in a strict or loser definition #its so.... <33 #to live beyond death

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paintedstitches · 6 months

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You guys! Look! I finished the river, ocean and lake fish pattern and already startet with the next one. Finished 39 of 73 fishies from stardew valley!! <3

#embroidery #paintedstitches #cross stitch #fiber art #stardew valley #stardew valley fish #cross stitch pattern #fish

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talaricula · 5 months

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Things I've seen tumblr memeing about James Somerton doing à la "How did no one see how bigoted he was!" as if those things haven't been a significant part of tumblr culture for over a decade :

Presenting untrue and bordering on conspiratorial versions of (queer or otherwise marginalised) history without any sources

Completely disregarding and disrespecting any expertise on socio-cultural topics/humanities and distrusting academics and historians (incl. acting as if no academics or historians could be queer or marginalised)

Downplaying the role misogyny played in the historical oppression of queer women and concluding that queer men must have been more oppressed than queer women

Bi women are, at best, not as queer as "real" queer ppl, and at worst, simply equivalent to straight women

Despite nominal trans inclusivity, transmasculine ppl are functionally women when convenient (combined with the above, bi transmascs are functionally straight women)

Despite nominal trans inclusivity (bis), shamelessly attacking, threatening and actively endangering any trans woman who questions them or smth they find important (often by unfairly presenting her as violent or as a threat)

Having absolutely fucking wild and reductive takes about ace ppl, the oppression they face and their place in the queer community

Stating that marriage equality is an assimilationist fight while completely ignoring its direct roots in the horrifying consequences of the AIDS crisis for partners of ppl who died of AIDS

Praising western media creators from the past for queer coding even under censure and in the same breath condemning current non western media creators for being homophobic bc their representation isn't explicit enough

Blaming China for all existing homophobic censoring in western media

Assuming all queer media would be better told by western creators and by western standards

Only out queer ppl get to tell queer stories

Heavily criticising almost all queer media created by women or ppl they see as such (see above points about trans ppl) or involving/starring a significant amount of women for any perceived or real amount of "problematicness", but fawning over and praising and negating criticism of queer media created by and starring mostly or even functionally exclusively men (even when it could be argued that, you know, not involving/seriously sidelining women is a pretty clear example of misogyny which should probably be considered "problematic")

And I'm probably forgetting stuff or there's stuff I have internalised myself and don't recognise as an issue

Like idk but I feel like the takeaway from Hbomberguy and Toddintheshadow's videos should maybe be "be aware of such patterns in your communities bc they definitely exist" and not "this guy is uniquely awful" and I feel like a lot of the discussion I've seen surrounding this has been severely failing at that. Most ppl who've spent any significant amount of time on tumblr prob either have internalised at least one of those thought patterns, have had to de-internalise them, or have had to be extremely vigilant to not internalise them (which is done by, you know, seeking out other sources, which also seemed like an important takeaway from the videos)

#Also I'm saying this as someone who actually watched quite a few of Somerton's videos #And noticed those patterns and stopped watching bc I recognised them from here #and had already learned to unlearn them after being so exposed to them here #And tbh I think anyone who hasn't had the luck or made the conscious choice to seek out ppl who pushed against those narratives #Would absolutely have fallen for this man's bullshit. Like let's not kid ourselves we see takes like this every day on this hellsite #2014 me would have. For sure.#This is next to the plagiarism issue which as Harris points out is an Internet wide issue and this includes tumblr #James Somerton #hbomberguy #todd in the shadows #This brought to you by a conversation with my wife yesterday #So many ppl on here don't deserve to meme or be this self absolvingly critical of this man #The call is coming from inside the house #The man has a tumblr it would legit not surprise me if some of the things he supposedly made up himself he did actually get from somewhere #And that somewhere was a tumblr post

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sproutinglupine · 2 months

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