Does Rusty Quill have a minimum Mike requirement to be a podcast on their network? Or are the rest of the podcast covered by The Magnus Archives and WOE.BEGONE?
So recently I discovered that there is a historical recreation group that runs a local park. That park is a old abandoned quarry that a local man bought and then started rebuilding historic buildings in. Like, an old doctor's office. An old farmhouse. A period blacksmith's shop. That sort of thing. He did this for 50 years, puttering around on the property happily and indulging his special interest in re creating period accurate nails and horseshoes. We stan a local flourishing autistic king.
ANYWAY. He donated it to the local city when he died and now a local historical reenactment society runs it. IDK why I didn't know about this because I got married there. The only recent revelation is that the reenactment society will accept, say, any local madwoman who messages them out of the blue going 'hey u need someone who can spin on a period wheel?'
Long story short, yes. The previous lady who could hand spin was 87 and died recently. Peacefully, of being 87, and they've been going mad trying to find someone else who knows how the fuck to refurbish and work a spinning wheel. I'm eyeballing Frigga rn hardcore for that 'hey I should google that place' thought.
HOWEVER. I encountered a reality check.
Namely, Liz, the lady who runs the group, texted me 'omg do you know how to work a loom?'
Me, who has been marinating in a bubble of fiber artists online for years; I mean not like super well? I've dabbled but I've not attempted anything more adventurous than a regular plain weave, fair warning.
Liz; what's a plain weave
Me; .....
Me; Okay so like what kind of loom is it.
Liz; it's a big one (sends a picture of an antique floor loom)
Me; oh shit six pedals, nice, well, the heddles look in good shape so...
Liz; what's a heddle
Me;
Me; Yes I can clean it, set it up properly, and warp it. What do you want to weave.
Liz, after sending about 48 delighted emojis; rag rugs to sell in the gift shop omg omg thank you so much it's so complicated looking all of us have been afraid to touch it
Me; this is that xckd relative familiarity comic isn't it
With all my love Systlin, your discord chat is literally called "Fiber Hell".
This point was made to me by about 28 of the feral fiber gremlins there yes
I KNOWWWWWW THIS THING IS A BEAST AND THEY WANT RAG RUGS
Bestie I will get the rag rug frame loom grandpa made out of my mom's garage for you let me play with this beauty and a twill weave
I'm not sure what level of fiber hell this puts me on, but my initial reaction was "Oh yeah you can do rag rugs on a loom too I guess. I'm just used to the crochet ones."
I mean we're not really beating the accusations here uh
are you lost little boy
This is so much funnier than my caption, dammit
I'm right where I want to be
Also hey you cut off the part where I support the Oregon Ducks. We just beat UW a few hours ago, sco Ducks!
I really appreciate how the sociolinguistics of compounds mean that we have one suffix -vore, -vory meaning "to eat", and another suffix -phage, -phagy meaning "to eat (fucked up)"
official linguistics post
i’m sorry kink fans but i just can’t see the suffix ‘con’ without thinking it means convention
‘dubcon’ will skrillex be there??
oh no oh no please not this post please
reblog to get your bones rattled at the dubious convention
i don't have romantic or sexual fantasies about famous people but i do sometimes indulge in daydreams about chance encounters that lead to us developing a sincere and lasting friendship based on mutual trust and respect and shared interests/compatible personality traits which i think is significantly more embarrassing
it isn't even a case of me being starved for human connection i have multiple friends both irl and online who i love and recognise how fortunate i am to have. my social life is rich and fulfilling and i'm hardly lacking in appreciation for that. i just wish i could be dming bullshit texts to some guy from my shows as well for no discernable reason except that it would be nice to have even more people to talk to and then ignore for weeks after i clicked on their message notification and forgot about it.
I'm filling out forms for a doctor's appointment and they want me to list any family members who have had various conditions, like diabetes, various cancers, or if they've got "healthy".
apparently being healthy is a serious medical condition now
also any form that asks you if you're sexually active and then wants to know what birth control you use should include "homosexuality", "no one involved has a uterus", "it's not that kind of sex" as options.
I mean if you're going to list 16 different methods you clearly are trying to be comprehensive, so lets not kid ourselves about what options are out there
they list OCP as one of the birth control methods
HALT, SPERM. YOU MAY NOT PROCEED
they also make me check which genders I've had sex with and only offer the vintage genders. come on, I'm not even binary, why are you assuming everyone I've had sex with can easily be slotted into a male or female box?
IT'S 2025, WE HAVE MORE SEXES AND GENDERS THAN THAT
contraceptive method
* other, list here: [i only have sex with people who are already pregnant so it's not possible for me to get them more pregnant *shrug*]
they have a section called "Social History - Other Factors" and give me various options, like:
neurotypical fuckers are always like "autistic people have trouble following directions" and then hand me a form that asks if I have a history of bike helmet
well, do you?
mind your own business, that's protected personal medical information
ALTno. freaking. way.
ALT
ALT(the hybrid prince / book 16 cover just dropped and the setting is sydney, australia) (REAL)
having thoughts. open to suggestions.
excellent suggestion from the notes
one of the homework questions for my stats class involved some dating app data and the details aren't important because the point is that whoever wrote the homework considered 20 year olds girls liking 23 year old guys "liking older men" and I was like. oh honey.
I believe in the power of sexualizing that old man
