please, please do not send me asks about a fundraiser. i will not post them. i am focusing on organizations instead of individual funds. i am so sorry, but i cannot help you spread your fundraisers.
organizations i am donating to and encourage others to donate to as well: the palestine children’s relief fund, crips for esims for gaza, world central kitchen, doctors without borders.
I mean it’s kinda the real life tragedy of love exaggerated, innit? Irl people die young or one person dies old and another person dies even older. At the end of it all someone gets left behind and has to learn how to move on after that. And for the one who dies you know you’re leaving them behind. You know you’re dooming them to moving on and if you believe in an afterlife god only knows how long you’ll be waiting for them on the other side. The tragedy of the immortal loving the mortal takes those feelings we all know about and rips your heart out about it.
Wax: Thread wax or thread conditioner. I use beewax or thread magic. It makes cheap thread glide like the expensive ones. I am an old punk so ive done lots of hand sewing for patches and the standby is to use waxed dental floss to sew on patches since it doesn't snag or break so easy. This is the same principal but now any thread will work. Wax makes working with thicker thread so easy. For hand sewing, just drag your thread over the wax (I've used candle wax for patch sewing). Some places say to iron your thread after, but I've never done that. For sewing machines, they make wax that attaches to the top of your machine so the thread glides over it as you sew.
Washi Tape: if you put washi tape down your traced pattern lines (on the fabric), just inside where you need to cut, it will keep the material from fraying. It also makes it easier to cut out silky or thin fabrics. Frayed fabric leaves all those little hanging-off threads at your hems and it’s a mess. If you use a good washi tape, there is no residue. You can even sew over it and not remove it until the end. It is fantastic for hems. Washi tape is going to give you a definite location for your hems and gives you a straight edge to follow. I've also used painters tape.
Seam Ripper: Flip the seam ripper over, put the ball tip in the seam and then push the tool through the stitches, quickly cutting them. *Caution – don’t use this part of the technique on delicate fabrics. It’s too easy to tear holes in them doing this. It is fine on most cottons and denims. The point is for picking out individual stitches, tight stitches, or difficult ones.
Gutermann thread: The spool opens to hold a needle. There is a myth that it comes with a needle included. None of mine has ever come with one.
Ribbon Fraying: quickly run a flame across the end of the ribbon to eliminate the fraying.
Lock your stitches: reverse sew at the beginning and end of each seam to lock your stitches in place to prevent them from unraveling once the threads are snipped.
Pins: Use a magnet to collect them. I use a magnetic bowl from harbor freight. It's cheaper than the sewing specific ones and you can rubber coat them or cover them in fabric if you want to protect your pin tips.
Thread Cutter: Many machines come with a thread cutter on the machine. But if your machine doesn't you can buy a stick on one. They are convenient but not a necessity.
Magnetic Seam Guides: tool that attaches to any stitch plate of a sewing machine, near the presser foot. The magnet helps the fabric that is pulled forward by your sewing machine to stay firmly in place, giving you a solid, reliable guide for setting seam allowances and sewing straight lines.
Seam Guide Ruler: a small ruler used to mark an accurate seam allowance. Place the Seam Guide under the presser foot and lower the needle through the appropriate hole in the guide. Video reference here.
Sewing Needles: I have a whole post here but the basics are
Glues: Huge time saver.
Fray check: A permanent, clear liquid seam sealant that prevents fabric from fraying and secures thread ends; Use to finish raw edges of ribbon, trim and fabric. It soaks into fabric.
Fabri-tac: won't soak into fabrics, which can cause discoloration or damage to the fabric. Instead, it creates a strong, permanent bond on the surface of the fabric. This makes it a great option for attaching embellishments like rhinestones, sequins, ribbons, or beads to fabric.
Original Gutermann HT2: designed specifically for use with fabrics and is ideal for attaching patches to clothing, bags, and other fabric items. It's a great choice for attaching patches to fabrics that will be washed or worn frequently. The glue is also resistant to heat and cold, making it suitable for use in a variety of different environments. It is a bit expensive but it is worth it imo.
Aleene's: I love Aleene's they always perform well for the affordable price. They have a wide variety of glues and adhesives. They even make fabric glue sticks.
Dritz Original Liquid Stitch: Dries clear but applies white. It takes 24 hours for it to full cure but once it does its flexible.
SpraynBond Quilt Basting Adhesive Spray: It forms a temporary bond between the batting and the fabric when quilting so that you don’t need to baste the quilt before you stitch. Unlike traditional adhesives, which can leave a residue on the fabric, spray glue dries clear and leaves no residue. I have also used this for backpatches. it washes out.
Happy Halloween Sewists!
I don't know who needs to hear this but you don't need to expose every single facet of yourself online. There is no inherent requirement for you to be 100% transparent about your personal life and yourself in your online presence. Your online persona is a curtain, and it can be as thin or as thick as you're comfortable with. You can share your chosen name and leave it at that, and there's nothing wrong with that. Don't let people bully you into thinking you need to share all your intimate details, wants, needs, diagnoses, because you don't. There is no bare minimum, you can share nothing and that is completely acceptable.
This is your internet stage show and you're in charge of the curtain. Both the material it's made of, and how far up it goes. Remember that.
This is about the sexiness of The Golden Girls but I really feel the need to remind the world of how fucking progressive this show was.
In the episode 72 hours, we find out Rose may have contracted AIDs during an emergency gallbladder surgery.
Rose: Why me, Blanche? I'm tired of pretending I feel okay so you won't say, 'Take it easy', and I'm tired of you saying 'Take it easy' because you're afraid I'm going to fall apart. Dammit, why is this happening to me? I mean, this isn't supposed to happen to people like me. You must've gone to bed with hundreds of men. All I had was one innocent operation.
Blanche: Hey, wait a minute! Are you saying this should be me and not you?
Rose: No! No, I'm just saying that I am a good person. Hell, I'm a goody-two-shoes!
Blanche: AIDS is not a bad person's disease, Rose, it is not God punishin' people for their sins!
In Isn't it romantic? we find out Dorothy's childhood best friend is a lesbian who recently lost her partner. She confesses she has feelings for Rose. Rose turns her down but makes it clear that she still wants to be friends even though she doesn't return those feelings.
Sophia: Jean is a nice person. She happens to like girls instead of guys. Some people like cats instead of dogs.
Jean: Rose, about last night. I should never have said anything.
Rose: You only said what you were feeling.
Jean: It's just that this last year has been so difficult for me. Pat was the person I planned to spend the rest of my life with. And when she died, I just felt so terribly alone. Empty. I thought I could never care for anyone again. Until I met you. I just got very confused. I hope I didn't make you uncomfortable.
Rose: Well, I have to admit that I don't understand these kinds of feelings. But if I did understand, if I were, you know, like you, I'd be very flattered and proud that you thought of me that way.
Ebbtide's Revenge gives us Phil's funeral, and Sophia addressing him wearing women's clothes.
Rose: So what if he was different? It's okay that you loved him.
Sophia: I did love him. He was my son, my little boy. But every time I saw him I wondered what I did, what I said, when was the day I did whatever I did to make him the way he was.
Angela Petrillo: What he was Sophia, was a good man.
Sister of the Bride, where Blanche's brother Clayton brings his boyfriend to town, because they're planning on getting married.
Blanche: Oh, look, I can accept the fact that he's gay, but why does he have to slip a ring on this guy's finger so the whole world will know?
Sophia: Why did you marry George?
Blanche: We loved each other. We wanted to make a lifetime commitment. Wanted everybody to know.
Sophia: That's what Doug and Clayton want, too. Everyone wants someone to grow old with. And shouldn't everyone have that chance?
There are so many episodes I could sit here and quote but this show is still so important. It isn't perfect, there are jokes that definitely don't land that I will not sit here and defend, but in the context of when it was created? This show is a fucking masterpiece and deserves respect for that.
the human mind is prone to catastrophizing when left unoccupied. And that’s why it’s important to always have a little Blorbo to rotate in your head. It acts as a protective charm of sorts to redirect your imagination away from harmful spirals
thoughts without Blorbo: oh my god I was so cringe in seventh grade why did I do that
thoughts with Blorbo: I haven’t considered the interactions with bleebus; I must rectify this immediately
You know what I think is really cool about language (English in this case)? It’s the way you can express “I don’t know” without opening your mouth. All you have to do is hum a low note, a high note, then another lower note. The same goes for yes and no. Does anyone know what this is called?
These are called vocables, a form of non-lexical utterance - that is, wordlike sounds that aren’t strictly words, have flexible meaning depending on context, and reflect the speakers emotional reaction to the context rather than stating something specific. They also include uh-oh! (that’s not good!), uh-huh and mm-hmm (yes), uhn-uhn (no), huh? (what?), huh… (oh, I see…), hmmn… (I wonder… / maybe…), awww! (that’s cute!), aww… (darn it…), um? (excuse me; that doesn’t seem right?), ugh and guh (expressions of alarm, disgust, or sympathy toward somebody else’s displeasure or distress), etc.
Every natural human language has at least a few vocables in it, and filler words like “um” and “erm” are also part of this overall class of utterances. Technically “vocable” itself refers to a wider category of utterances, but these types of sounds are the ones most frequently being referred to, when the word is used.
official linguistics post
ID: Turk from “Scrubs” (TV Show) with wide eyes and a confused expression. The captions say: [Makes “I Don’t Know” sound]. End ID.
Dutch resistance members celebrate at the moment they heard of Adolf Hitler’s death over the radio, May 1945
this will one day be us
This is basically a messenger that actually wanted to be a GameBoy but couldn't
Motorola Pagewriter
a little girl who grows up thinking all doors are automatic but actually she’s haunted by a really polite ghost
So chivalry IS dead?!
World Heritage Post
I opened my copy of The Tale of the Body Thief & immediately had to close it again because of this silly little annotation
so here's what I've now done to make the internet usable as a person living in the UK without handing my ID and/or facial scans over to random third parties:
now it's time to open source this whole thing so others can enjoy using the internet the same way they did three weeks ago
Or just… go outside? Touch grass?
"screens bad ha ha boomer comic where's the power switch on this book" is not an appropriate reaction to a government implementing digital surveillance on a massive new scale.
Vincent Price - Twice-Told Tales; House of the Seven Gables (1963) dir. Sydney Salkow
This picture was taken by Heidi Levine. She works for The Washington Post and Associated Press, as well as others. The Washington Post has published this picture, as well as some videos and more images taken from the aid plane in an interactive slideshow article. From the article:
This is real
For comparison, this is a photo of the Gaza strip from this article from 2021
