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I just got into the band Possessed and a few weeks later one of the members is revealed to be having creepy interactions with a minor.

It is not hard to be weird guys.

my contribution to the masc hypno genre

i feel like a little elf sewing the hole in my socks

I really love Mae from NITW. She's literally me but she also gives me second hand embarrassment. The scene in Bea's room was PAINFUL.

Rose wouldn't make sense if she wasn't a diamond

hi this is a little rant about the things that would be plot holes unless Rose wasn't Pink Diamond/ little hints dropped by the team.

Renaldo literally says it in his little breakthrough moment after kidnapping Steven. He's set up to be crazy so no one including the fans believe him. (Not a great point but kinda funny)

Rose deflected a blast from THREEE OF THE DIAMONDS. She would be an insanely powerful if she wasn't a diamond.

Her healing tears. No other Rose Quartz or any Quartz is mentioned to have this power and every gem is made the same unless they're cooked too long. If every Quartz had that they'd spam it like no tomorrow.

Rose can float. I know Jasper and Amethyst aren't the same gem but they have the same powers. Both characters fall like rocks(hehe)

Pink Diamonds death itself has holes in the story. If you remember there's a moment during Stevens trial where a gem explains how it would have to be someone close to Pink to shatter her. Guards would be a problem, her pearl disappeared with no sign of shattering of being poofed, ECT.

Diamonds are powerful enough to to crush a gen with one finger. How would a simple sword shatter that strong of a being.

Anyway those are some of my opinions and reasons so hope you enjoy and I welcome (respectful) discourse

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support trans people.

Blood Kandi 🩸🩸🩸

he's so real...

Had a few folks interested in how I made the patches I posted for Solarpunk Aesthetic Week, so I thought I'd give y'all my step-by-step process for making hand-embroidered patches!

First, choose your fabric and draw on your design. You can use basically any fabric for this - for this project I'm using some felt I've had lying around in my stash for ages.

Next, choose your embroidery floss. For my patches I split my embroidery floss into two threads with 3 strands each, as pictured. You can use as many strands in your thread as you prefer, but for the main body of my patches I prefer 3 strands.

Next you're going to start filling your design using a back stitch.

First, put in a single stitch where you want your row to start.

Poke your needle up through the fabric 1 stitch-length away from your first stitch.

Poke your needle back down the same hole your last stitch went into so they line up end-to-end.

Repeat until you have a row of your desired length (usually the length of that colour section from one end to the other). Once you have your first row, you're going to do your next row slightly offset from your first row so that your stitches lay together in a brick pattern like this:

Make sure your rows of stitches are tight together, or you'll get gaps where the fabric shows through.

Rinse and repeat with rows of back stitch to fill in your patch design.

When you're almost to the end of your thread, poke your needle through to the back of the fabric and pull the thread under the back part of the stitching to tuck in the end. Don't worry if it looks messy - no one's gonna see the back anyway.

This next step is fully optional, but I think it makes the patch design really pop. Once your patch is filled in, you can use black embroidery floss to outline your design (or whatever colour you want to outline with - it's your patch, do what you want). I use the full thread (6 strands, not split) of embroidery floss to make a thicker outline.

I use the same back stitch I used to fill the piece to make an outline that adds some separation and detail. You could use most any 'outlining' stitch for this, but I just use back stitch because it's just easier for me to do.

Once you're finished embroidering your patch, it's time to cut it out!

Make sure to leave a little border around the edge to use for sewing your patch on your jacket/bag/blanket/whatever, and be careful not to accidentally cut through the stitches on the back of the patch.

If you have a sturdy enough fabric that isn't going to fray, you can just leave it like this. If not, I recommend using a whip stitch/satin stitch to seal in the exposed edges (I find that splitting your embroidery floss into 3-strand threads works best for this).

And then you're done! At this point you can put on iron-on backing if you want, or just sew it on whatever you wanna put it on. Making patches this way does take a long time, but I feel that the results are worth it.

Thanks for reading this tutorial! I hope it was helpful. If anyone makes patches using this method, I'd love to see them! 😁

Shout out to my favorite single dad

Raising three kids (students) as a single father (the librarian at their school) all by himself (they all have parents).