#my tension is fine also

[unopenablebox]

Wove

[ed89]

cant stop thinking about rogue and the doctor. i knew they were setting up a romance before the episode aired cus u know... its two openly gay actors, and a lot of the doctor flirting with men this season. but oh my god. AAAAAHHHH!!!!!

[bookshelfdreams]

Hey, probably a question you have heard a thousant times. But what is the best way to get into any of the fiber arts? Books? Youtube? Actual people teaching you? (and if so how in the hell do you find them)

I started crochet and knitting but I pretty much can't get out of the basics, I can't managed to finish something that I have started cuz I always get frustrated that it's starting to look bad...

Hi! That's actually a really good question. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately, depending on how u look at it) the only way to get any better at fibre crafts, is to keep doing them. Practice really does make perfect. There is no book or video tutorial or in-person teacher that holds the one ultimate secret that will make you Good At Crafts. All of these can be valuable resources if you struggle to understand how to do a specific thing; you can be taught stitches, and how to read charts, and such things. But the only way to really learn is to practice.

This is because there are more skills involved in crafting than just knowing how to do certain stitches. Confidence, patience, frustration tolerance: you can't learn that from tutorials. These are essential skills that you need to build. And the best way to build them, I'm afraid, is to actually finish the damn thing. Even if it has mistakes. Even if it "looks bad". You need to learn how to tolerate imperfections, if you ever want to get anything done.

Now that doesn't mean you should bully yourself. If you get easily bored and frustrated, leave the scarves and sweaters for now, and start small. Potholders, dishcloths, scrubbies or coasters are all projects that finish up quickly and yield usable objects, even when they are not perfect. If you never allow yourself the dopamine rush of Fuck Yeah I Made That, how do you expect yourself to build up the resilience to stick through the parts where it is slow and difficult and makes your fingers hurt?

Here are Ravelry searches for free dishcloth and potholder patterns.

Of course that doesn't mean you should only do those projects. You can do whatever you want. The most important thing is to teach yourself that you can have success, and the only way to do this is to successfully make things.

Also, it should always be fun. If it's not at least a little bit fun, maybe the technique isn't for you. This is also an important skill to develop: To learn when to stick through a bout of frustration, and when to abandon something.

There is a very steep learning curve. But you can and you will get there. I believe in you, and I also believe that what "looks bad" to you is perfectly fine.

[magpie-trove]

Today on Pop Culture Addressed By Ancient Theologians: Does Free Guy synthesize the tension between will and intellect as the vehicles of ultimate human bliss as seen in Thomistic medieval theology?

[navii-blaze]

Redrew a Fiona from a while back, I think I finally figured out how her hair works

[first-blight]

. . . i'm too aro for this

[chiptrillino]

hello there! can i ask you what app do you use to draw and what are your favorite brushes if it’s not too much trouble? :D

i used photoshop for a long time. official CC and cracked versions but things got to pricy or kept braking so i switched to Clip Studio Paint. Its a good program all in all i like it but it takes some time getting used to everything. i have this post about what brush i like to use and how LINK but so far i couldn't manage to recreate it in CSP yet and the settings are still a bit to new to me. but i like the SOL brush so far the most. probably uhm... idk just for understanding. i use an intuous 4 tablet. its like... old but works like one the first day. so nothing fancy with a screen in it or something.

[dionysus-complex]

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[heckling-hydrena]

so after 5 years I redownloaded famous mobile gacha game afk arena (the demons made me) (they have dragons in that game now btw) and I see that they have a new game called afk journey so I go to check it out and APPARENTLY I started playing it mere hours after markiplier made a sponsored video for it so now everyone on the server is just talking about markiplier

[brechtian]

this thesis literally better meet her standards this time it has everything it's formalist with a dash of deconstruction it incorporates my research into the occult i can fold in a quick comparison to the end of her favorite woolf novel (dalloway) it even includes my original (REJECTED !) idea of exploring bernard and authorship as divine creativity. if she says no to it literally don't know what i'll do

[rawliverandgoronspice]

realizing I'm very sensitive to pacing, actually

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

I did something completely out of my comfort zone and I lived!

[quietlyblooms]

“you don’t have to sit so far away.”

touch-starved muses | @starpoacher wishes chiyo were closer :' )

she has no idea what she's doing. no, that's a lie -- chiyo knows what she's doing, but she doesn't understand why she's doing it. actually, that's a lie, too. she impulsively invited seth over because she missed him. it's that simple.

it's that simple, yet the knowledge scares chiyo all the same. it's scary to care for someone so much that she misses him, craves his company when she's gone without it. it's scary, and it's ridiculous of her to be scared when she takes into account their situation; she should be scared of the people seth does business with, occasionally has to handle. and she is. a little. but chiyo finds herself more worried over the man sitting on her couch, about how he's faring, about seeing him roughed up again, about the things he might keep to himself for her sake, about whether or not she'll get to see him, about---

" you don't have to sit so far away. "

chiyo looks over at seth, her legs tucked beneath her and a couch pillow pressed against her chest. she really does need to sit this far away. there's a tension in her muscles that she can't -- or maybe doesn't want to -- explain, and her stomach flips at the thought of moving closer. but it would be weird to insist, wouldn't it? and what harm could it really do to sit a little closer?

her eyes fall from seth's eyes to his lips and then to the pillow she's hugging to her chest. a smile tugs at her mouth, sheepish as pink threatens to blossom upon her cheeks. " i know you like your space. just wanted to respect that. "

still, the artist scoots closer, fixes seth with a little, playful grin. if chiyo teases him, jokes around, then it's like everything's normal. it's like nothing's changed, even if it has.

" this good, chef, or do you want me closer? "

[monster-noises]

OOF it's been a while since I've had a nightmare visceral enough to wake me up from a dead sleep into straight terror... But I guess I shouldn't have underestimated how much my brain would pick up from a podcast Teirlisting Horror Games. .....

(I go on to describe the dream in the tags so watch out if you don't want to hear descriptions of the horrors my brain can cook up.. cw Body Horror mostly)

[explorerspack]

hi guys i'm posting again. as much as i love playing characters who have a self-preservation instinct it's so much EASIER to play characters who do not have one even at all especially in situations Like This

[jorvikzelda]

adding this to the list of Severely fucking stupid absrad deaths

BUT!! (under cut so as to not Clog)

we fucking got there in the end baby

(did a couple tries for radiant, then was Swept Away by the Migraine. We’ll get there.)