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Dec 29, 2025

OH MY LORD

Going from crocheting to weaving is so interesting. A crochet hook is a small tool like a pencil or a screwdriver, and I have dozens at this point, in various sizes. There are some hooks that I have some attachment to, but any of them could break or get lost and I would mostly consider it an inconvenience. I respect the creativity of crocheters in the myriad of ways they use the simple hook, but I can't really fathom respecting the hook itself.

My 16 inch rigid-heddle loom is relatively small and simple compared to other looms but it's so clearly not just a tool but a machine. It has so many parts, which I had to polish and assemble by hard — and assembled, it has a strange sort of life to it, a kind of character. In the first couple dozen of hours I've spent weaving, it feels less like I'm using the loom to achieve the task, in the way I might use a hook to crochet, but that I'm working with it, learning and respecting the quirks of this particular machine. It's hard not to feel strangely intimate with something I set on my lap and lean over for hours and hours, of something hefty, wooden, and complex but capable of making something so beautiful and fine.

#different type of textile art but this is how i feel about my sewing machine#textile arts#edit: i hope this is okay to say/doesn't count as derailing @thetrashthatsmilesback

Not at all! That's so interesting, and I can absolutely see that. I wonder whether this plays into why some people prefer either handsewing or machine work.

Wake Up Dead Man (2025)

Bonus:

i'm the only white boy swinging a warhammer around in this entire gym. and i'm being asked to leave.

Whoa!

Dream Address DA 6519 3814 2030 PANCAKE

I've been working on this since the game came out! Time to finally share it!

Still not entirely done.. That's why its winter. It looks bad in winter. But here it is!

Please come check it out. Please! I made it so interactive. I wanted it to be like youre walking through the film. There are a LOT of items everywhere. Have fun exploring!

PLEASE TELL ME YOUR THOUGHTS!!!!

Things to find-

Burnish shelter

Secret Mad Burnish message

Gravestones of Galo's parents

Thyma's resting place

Krays tower

Pizzeria!

Lio Galo Wedding

Tell me if you can find it all!!!

HI PLEASE VISIT MY TOWN

Look, it’s a weird hill to die on, especially when I don’t really explain, but children deserve to experience fear, disgust, and discomfort in safe scenarios where they can process those sensations.

Media for children used to be scary and that’s important.

Don bluth films

Goosebumps

Brave Little Toaster

Old Disney, too. Snow White lost on the forest. Maleficent calling on the forces of hell. The stone cold look on Lady Tremaine’s face and the way her eyes practically glowed in the shadows. The entirety of the black cauldron…

It’s actually one of my complaints about modern pokemon and other “kids franchises” that are still around from when I was a kid. They’re too nice now. They’ve lost their bite. And I honestly feel kids need to experience that.

I feel like there's very little stepping stone media for kids now--it's very safe shows like Bluey and Paw Patrol right into adult content. There aren't those cartoons like Avatar or even the old school Disney like Duck Tales where the antagonists present a real danger, even if they never really cause permanent harm. Spiderman and the Avengers used to save the world, and now Spidey and Friends basically do "No Swiper, no Swiping!!" level work exclusively. Villains like Gaston and Scar with evil intentions have given way to familial/internal conflicts with no real danger--there's way more Encantos and Inside Outs than there are even Zootopias in current media. Not that there isn't a place for those, but yeah, kids want to see the scary dragons and see them defeated. It'd be better to have age appropriate villains and danger instead of letting 4-year-olds watch 5 Nights at Freddys, which is what happens when that need isn't met.

My kids are 7 and 4 and as wild as this feels to say, Over the past year or so I've started to actively seek out "scary" media for them.

Not throwing any shade at Bluey, Paw Patrol, or Blaze and The Monster Machines (OK, maybe a little for Blaze, I can only handle so much of it LOL). But when I was their age I was up to my eyeballs in Star Trek TNG. My dad read Lord of The Rings to me when I was my oldest's age. And I only recently realized how many lessons those media taught me...namely, that I could feel fear and get over it. And one way to learn that was watching or reading about people doing it.

Mr and I started letting Burrito stay up past his bedtime on occasion to watch Star Trek SNW and Farscape with us for this reason. We started mining YouTube for 90s cartoons like Gargoyles. Star Wars TCW and Rebels. 80s and 90s Disney movies. It's just insane that it took me so long to figure out that when I was young you couldn't avoid "scary" movies and shows and now I have to LOOK FOR them for my own kids.

Still not watching Land Before Time with them though; Mr can do that when I am not in the same zip code.

I am making them watch Homeward Bound right now so they can be sad and scared but happy at the end.

They were so sad during the head fake with Shadow at the end and then when he came over the hill they jumped up and down and yelling “SHADOW CAME BACK! SHADOW CAME BACK!” and I’m sitting here trying not to happy cry.

I read my 3rd graders Tale of Desperaux and Lion Witch and the Wardrobe, and they're SPELLBOUND.

Glued to my words during the darker parts, but literally wiggling out of their chairs at the triumph of light and goodness.

We do them no good by pretending scary and cruel things don't exist, but there's plenty of good kids media that shows those things being defeated.

game: has any kind of elemental based fighting system

me: apply pokemon logic

To be fair Pokemon element logic is rooted in normal logic.

yeah, everyone knows a wrestlers biggest weakness is the local pigeons

go outside and try to suplex a bird

tell me how bug resists fighting

go outside and try to suplex a bug

“𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘦’𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘡𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘶𝘴 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱… 𝘎𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘥’𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘥! 😏”

ive watched this video 5 times in the last two days and it always makes me laugh til i get a headache & i wanted it on my blog but didnt find it anywhere so guess i gotta do it myself

It's official: I can't find my drop spindle! I've looked at least four separate times since Thanksgiving and fully cleaned my house so it is officially Missing.

While I know I should be trying to save a little money, the only way I will find my old spindle is of course by buying a new one. Then it will appear.

I made some Very Daunting Phone Calls and sent some Very Daunting Emails, so Spindle Mail is now in the future.

Some myths that need debunking because they're being pushed by bots and it’s making me angry:

1. "He's gonna declare martial law!" Okay, so what then? This isn't something you can enforce nationwide on a country of 350 million people with a military that has a combined force of less than 3 million people, including all support and logistics staff. That doesn't equal half the population of Los Angeles. Y'all need to fucking stop acting like we're approaching a mythical point where shit gets "serious." We're already there. People are already being disappeared.

Civilians are already being killed in the streets. We're there. And you know what? They're already getting near the limits of their ability to force compliance. ICE is dedicating a double digit percentage of their manpower to Minneapolis and they're not controlling shit. People are pushing back. Your default response when the administration says "We will force you to do this" shouldn't be "Oh no they're gonna make us do this!" It should be "Fuck you. Make me."

2. "Americans are doing nothing!" I did a post about this recently, but it bears revisiting: I don't know where the hell you're getting this, because everywhere that ICE or other arms of the federal enforcement apparatus go, they are being pushed back on, humiliated, driven out of neighborhoods, and shown the door. People are fighting back on a truly awe inspiring level. Stop assuming that "doing something" looks like an armed mass of civilians storming Washington and fighting the military in a pitched battle. This is movie bullshit. The world has not looked like that since the early 20th century. What you are seeing, right now, is what "doing something" looks like. Stop it stop it stop it. We ARE doing something, in vast numbers.

3. "He's gonna cancel elections!" This one has been pushed by bots for the last year, and big name people have been picking it up, and it frustrates the hell out of me so I'm going to hold your hand and tell you bluntly: He. Cannot. Do. This. There is no mechanism. Elections are controlled by the states, and they decide when they happen. There is no federal mechanism for control of elections. What's Trump gonna do? Post soldiers at every polling place in every swing state? Do you know how many polling places there are in every district? How much manpower this would require? He doesn't have the people to do it. He doesn't have the mechanical ability to do it. There are no tools to execute this plan. Is he gonna try to make elections unfair? You bet your ass, but our elections have never been fair. Voter suppression has always existed and will continue to exist until we fix it... but a blanket ban of elections or even some ability to make them not happen? Lol. He doesn't have the manpower or the means.

But what if he did? Let's game this out: Congress--or at least the House of Representatives--is not a perpetual body. At the end of 2026 the current congress ceases to exist, and the next one isn't convened until the following year. Mike Johnson will cease to be Speaker at the end of the year and wont be Speaker again in '27 unless his party wins a sufficient majority to elect him. Remember if there are no elections then republicans will not have their seats in 2027. There will be no congress, and without congress, Trump does not have a mechanism for governance. I dunno about you, but those Republican reps like having their jobs, their staff, their salaries, and all the perks that come with office. They do not get those if there is no Congress. That is not something they want.

But he said he was gonna! And? So fucking what? He says a lot of things. He issued an executive order at the start of his second term ordering all school districts in the country to immediately cease teaching "DEI" whatever the hell that means. Do you know what most districts that weren't actively kissing his ass said? "That's nice. Make me." And then he didn't, because the states control their own education systems, not Trump. His words don't have the force of law, and are limited by what he actually has levers of power to accomplish. We are **still having elections.** Several happened last week. The States decide this. Trump doesn't.

The Midterms are gonna happen. They're gonna matter and they're gonna have consequences. And you all need to stop acting like he has power over things he doesn't just because he says he does. That's propaganda and you're falling for it.

As with all things Authoritarian, when Trump says "I'm gonna force you to do this," your response should be as I articulated above:

"Fuck you. Make me."

I love you all. Be safe. Don't comply in advance. Don't give them power they don't have just because they say they do.

Dragonair used Dragon Rage