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☆ est 2021. carrd + listen to the oh hellos
im in the middle of a long car ride so... what do y'all watch anime on for free ??? (ideally an app not a website but either is good)
im in the middle of a long car ride so… what do y'all watch anime on for free ??? (ideally an app not a website but either is good)
If you are silent about your pain they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it - Zora Neale Hurston
me,sobbing: will you greet the daylight looming? learn to love without consuming?
mcdonalds drive thru employee: ma’am, please just tell me what you want
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For all your dnd purposes
Here's a site that has literally every official (and most UA) dnd stuff
including the books and campaigns
and you can add homebrew
Edit: I should specify it's only 5e. for other additions you'll want another source
I grew up with a grandma who quilted, but she’d never been interested in passing along the hobby, so when she finally kicked it I was the grandkid who got all her materials, ‘cause I was the only one who knew how to use a sewing machine. Then, in 2015, a friend had a baby and I figured I’d make her a quilt, ‘cause how hard could it be?
oh
my
god
Luckily I am the stubbornest human alive, ‘cause I never woulda finished otherwise. I didn’t know what I was doing, didn’t know the terms to look up how to do anything, I musta reinvented the wheel like eight times and it took ten months, BUT I DID IT.
Figured I’d suffered enough and would never do it again and now I’m on quilt #9 smdh
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I’m hyperventilating.
Holy shit. Holy SHIT.
This is INCREDIBLE.
Oh my god.
I’ve gotta go lay down holy shit look at this how do we just walk by other human beings every day and live our separate lives when there’s a person sitting next to you on the train or in line for coffee who goes home and makes things like this what even IS being human holy shit.
GOOD FUCKING JOB.
Oh heck I did not expect the notes to blow up on this, UM
Okay so on a purely technical level, this is not that difficult, you just gotta come at it a little sideways.
The background of this sucker is just rows of 1.5″-wide fabric strips. I can’t remember the exact pattern, but I wanna say it was something like one row 6″ strips, one row 4.5″ strips, one row alternating? I don’t remember exactly, it was a while ago. That’s not difficult, you just lay it out and sew it all together one row at a time. It’s not hard, just tedious.
The fish are a lil different.
I can’t draw, there is a disconnect somewhere and my hands are stupid,
so I figured out probably fifteen years ago that tracing was the way to
go. For this, I legit just yanked several photos of fancy-looking goldfish off the internet and traced over ‘em in Photoshop.
Once I had enough, I printed my outlines, laid ‘em out on the background to create the idea of movement, and then traced the outlines out on fabric and pinned the hell out of ‘em.
This woulda been WAY easier with Heat ‘N Bond, but I didn’t know that was a thing at the time. From there I just used just about every fancy stitch on my inherited sewing machine to make the fish STAY WHERE I PUT THEM, and also look good.
I have since learned this is called “raw edge applique” but whatever. It’s fun, it’s neat, you can do it with a bunch of stuff and impress the hell outta people. More recently, it’s how I’ve gone from this:
to this:
(this was another project I SUFFERED over unnecessarily, because I’m the dip that decided to quilt the waves, like a moron)
god that sucked but it looked SO COOL when I was done!
I’m very sorry to tell you that if you thought we would be less impressed with you after this update you were very mistaken. I’ll say again:
Holy. Shit.
@awheckery that is absolutely mindbogglingly gorgeous work *___* Also clearly you subscribe to Go Big or Go Home (and cry about stitchery) You are such a Stitch Witch, amazing <3
Aw man, that is the most hilariously accurate assessment of my life; in my fam, if you don’t Go Big, did you even try? I am constitutionally incapable of half-assing anything, which is why the goldfish quilt is also, um. a chenille quilt.
The back is plushy as hell and looks like this:
If you look at the front again, you notice those diagonal lines don’t go through the fish, and yet cross the entire back. Please don’t ask me how I did that. It made me so sad and used so much thread, there’s at least a mile of thread in this quilt, but bY GOD IT’S SURVIVED FOUR YEARS WITH AN EXUBERANT TODDLER AND IT’S STILL IN ONE PIECE
as the friend with the exuberant toddler who has the honor of having not just this quilt but the matching pillows in her home, i wanna chime in and say that this is
EVEN MORE GORGEOUS AND LOVELY IN PERSON.
AND IT’S WASHABLE
awheckery is too modest to mention it, but the quilt is loaded up with real specific meaning – I’m Chinese-American, and there are eight goldfish on the quilt and a ninth on an accompanying pillow. Nine is a homophone in Chinese for “always”, “gold” is a metonym for wealth and prosperity, and “fish” is a homophone for the word for abundance, so putting nine goldfish on something for a new baby is a lovely Chinese way to wish them good luck and abundant prosperity in life.
And the pillow shown above is symbolic, too! You’ll notice that the two ships up top. My family is ethnically Han Chinese from Hong Kong, so awheckery put a distinctive Chinese ship up there, and my husband is Norwegian, so that’s a Norwegian schooner. And then the three whales underneath are me, the husband, and our wee little whale.
Please note that I did not know ANY OF THIS WAS COMING. They just FIGURED THIS OUT ON THEIR OWN and by polling friends in our shared fandom, and one day the quilt with the blanket showed up at my house, and I screamed so loud that my husband came running. And then we got the pillows a little bit later, and I may have screamed again. awheckery is one of the most talented humans I have ever had the pleasure of knowing or meeting.
I’ve told OP that if my house is ever on fire, I’m grabbing the kid and the quilt in that order. The husband can go find our wedding photos.
DID I MENTION THIS IS WASHABLE
This post increases my faith in humanity this is so creative and the last explanation of making it specially with a meaning for their friend makes it 10000 better
do they think we're only allowed to eat kraft singles or
i go to the american grocery store and step into the cheese isle pondering which kraft single i will buy
Everyone wants to act like Americans don’t have cheese but no one wants to talk about the cheese caves, the caves where we put all our cheese because we make too much and our cringe government keeps bailing out our fail dairy farmers to keep the price of milk stable because The Great Depression so now we have so much cheese in this country we could literally stop producing cheese right now and still have enough cheese to give everyone in America a pound of it every day for four years. And I’m not even talking about kraft singles pictured above, I’m talking about an actual not cursed product-- real cheese. Cheddar, brie, gouda, munster, swiss, you name it we have a billion pounds of it, literally. We have so much cheese that we’re literally running out of places to put it and in an effort to get rid of it we reprocess a lot of it into kraft singles (hence it’s a cheese product and not actual cheese-- cheese is but an ingredient in kraft singles, much like how bread is itself an ingredient in German graubrot, although graubrot is a food item that is actually meant to exist on this earth and isn’t the end product a cautionary tale on how not to stabilize a vital industry when your economy is collapsing) and for a very long time we gave it away as part of certain food assistance programs. And that’s not even counting the fancy imported shit from Europe, because yes even though we still have way too much cheese we also still import it from Europe in addition to the too much cheese we already have.
#tell us where the cheese caves are#I want good sharp cheddar#get some Munster and Swiss#get some other cheeses to try why not via @malconvoker
The cheese caves are in Kansas City, Missouri I believe, though I’m not sure how guarded they may or may not be.
thought this was something you guys were making up to gaslight the europeans only to find out the massive cheese caves are in fact, real.
what the fuck
Like I get that we can't just feed the poor and the homeless cheese and nothing else but the fact that the US has an enormous stockpile of food that is costing it money and it STILL won't give any of it away really is something, isn't it.
