crafterreader
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I need to show this to my kid
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I walked past some lilac bushes on my way to lunch today and the smell brought me so much joy. I almost forget, from one spring to the next, how much I love it.
I'm thinking about getting some lilac scented stuff, but it needs to be as realistic as possible.
Anyone have any recommendations?
I've made very little progress on either this scarf or this book.
The scarf I'm not bothered by. Any knitting project I'm not having fun with I'll either set aside and come back to or unravel and do something else with the yarn. No big deal.
The book though...
It's like, I want to know what happens, and the answers to the various mysteries, but I'm not actually enjoying the process of reading these novels. The writing style just doesn't fit my brain.
I'm considering just abandoning the book and reading the Wikipedia page instead. That'll answer my questions well enough.
Current knitting: a simple garter stitch scarf, using fuzzy yarn from Dollar Tree. I'm working in random colors, with two strands together. The goal is warmth and softness rather than beauty.
Current reading: "Area X" by Jeff Vandermeer. This is the omnibus edition of the Southern Reach trilogy. I finished the first book, and honestly, I'm not sure I'd keep going if the second book wasn't in the same volume. It's not bad, but it's a very different writing style than I usually read.
Not that I think it's particularly likely anyone will want to...
bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements
I get so frustrated with myself sometimes. I have THOUGHTS about a serious topic, but when I try to express them, they never make as much sense to other people as they did in my head.
People who want to be awful are going to be awful.
What they read/watch/listen to/play might affect what flavor of awful they end up being, but not the basic state of awfulness.
"fiction affects reality" wrong "fiction doesn't affect reality" wrong
The decision to emulate or not emulate what we see in fiction is on the audience. It's YOUR responsibility to KNOW better like a reasonable ADULT.
Abusive people are going to be abusive regardless of what total strangers are writing on Tumblr. Because being an abusive person is an active series of decisions that you make. You don't get to blame murder on Satanism and metal music in goddamn 2025
Just finished reading a Zeetha-focused AU that was simultaneously one of the best fics I've read in ages, and one of the most frustrating.
The basic change point was a good one, the changes that would follow from it were well thought out, the peeks into Zeetha's head fit with both who she is in canon and the version of her in this AU. But...
The whole thing (more than 216000 words in three stories) was riddled with the sort of grammar errors you get when you trust your spell check too much. To/too/two mixed up, "there" when it should have been "their", and so on.
I'm only a grammar purist when I'm professionally required to be, but the mistakes in this one were significant enough to be a distraction from the story. Which is a shame, because like I said, the STORY was really good.
It was like trying to walk a trail through beautiful scenery, but not being able to relax and enjoy the beauty because you keep stubbing your toe on roots and rocks sticking up in the middle of the path.
My absolute favorite outfit from the 2025 Met Gala, because of its sheer cleverness.
Janelle Monáe attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images) if you want to support this blog consider donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways
I've decided that I'm going to actively avoid political content here on Tumblr. I'll use it as my "the world sucks and is stressful" escapism place.
Facebook, NPR, and face-to-face give me plenty of info about what's going on in the world. I don't need Tumblr memes too.
I've also considered stargazing and archery.
planning to start birdwatching soon cause all of my hobbies go like this
and I need a hobby that goes like this
to try and fix my back ya know?
One thing that I think Facebook and YouTube do better than Tumblr is giving people the ability to opt out of specific ads.
Especially being able to tell them that the reason you don't want to see that ad is because it's not relevant to you.
I don't mind a reasonable number of ads in exchange for a free service, but the ones here on Tumblr are so horrifically misaimed and there's no way to tell them that.
This is cool and awesome and amazing science and all that, but I have one question:
Why do we keep talking about de-extincting Ice Age animals in a warming world?
cocked that up. they're way too small
The thing is, it DOES work... sometimes. But the older you are the less often it will work.
Like, when you're in your teens, absolutely you can fix a screwed up sleep schedule with this sort of hard reset. It'll work 95% of the time, and will still help at least a little bit in the remaining 5% of cases.
In your 20s it will solve the problem about 80% of the time, help 15%, and make things worse 5%.
In your thirties the ratio becomes 50/25/25%
In your forties there's still a chance the hard reset will work, but the odds don't favor it. Something like 29% chance of solving, 19% chance of helping, 50% chance of making things worse, and a 2% chance of triggering a major crisis.
I haven't gotten to my fifties yet, but I can see the pattern.
Currently doing an Insomniac's Gambit. For those of you who don't know, this is when you mess up your sleep schedule badly enough that you attempt to fix it by skipping an entire night of sleep then going to bed at a reasonable hour the next day. Crucially, it does not work
Thinking about experimenting with knitting using different size needles in one project.
Something like casting on to the recommended size needle, and using a two- or three-sizes larger needle for the other direction.
Has anybody tried something like this?
Too late for me. Now I'm praying the embroidery hyperfixation comes back in time for me to finish this set of Christmas ornaments before next Christmas.
hyperfixation please stay with me long enough to complete the project. hyperfixation do not fade. hyperfixation finish what you started for the love of god
This man is an actual wizard doing actual magic.
staples?! he made a basket with staples?!
Lyrical Ballad, in Saratoga Springs, NY is one of my favorite used bookstores in the world.
Twitter thread by Melissa Caruso about a labyrinthine magical bookstore in Syracuse, NY. Link to the first tweet in the thread; most pictures have image descriptions! Now here are the screenshots of that thread:
And then a hero of the labyrinthine magical bookstores of the world put all the bookstores that people listed in the replies on a map! (Google Maps link)
Current knitting: a simple garter stitch scarf, using fuzzy yarn from Dollar Tree. I'm working in random colors, with two strands together. The goal is warmth and softness rather than beauty.
Current reading: "Area X" by Jeff Vandermeer. This is the omnibus edition of the Southern Reach trilogy. I finished the first book, and honestly, I'm not sure I'd keep going if the second book wasn't in the same volume. It's not bad, but it's a very different writing style than I usually read.
You know what would be cool? A story about a mideval Strong Rebellious Warrior Woman... who actually enjoys sewing and embroidery. Like, yes she dreams of riding horses through the fields and swinging a sword, but is also looking forward to returning home after a long day of fighting to finish that really cool lapel piece shes been working on all month.
If you don't have a person handy to do this to, try going to YouTube and searching for "[your favorite piece of media] reaction".
It's really easy to find folks reacting to music, and there are also some folks who do reaction videos for movies, games and shows.
You can never experience watching your favourite show for the first time again, but you CAN convince someone else to watch your favourite show and vicariously enjoy all their raw reactions to seeing it for the first time, which is honestly nearly as good.