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when I was still in the closet, I once went to a hairdresser and asked him to give me a haircut that is, quote, “the most femme I can get before anyone starts to suspect anything” and he just nodded and said “I know just the thing.” I appreciate that dude so much, he was down for it Immediately and did not ask ANY further questions

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Caleb

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My maternal grandmother could crochet.

Nothing complicated. Basic granny squares and double crochet, but she was the one in the family who made blankets for her kids and grandchildren. Dementia hit in her nineties but she still remembered how to make granny squares and made dozens. I asked her for one last blanket but by that point the dementia had taken how to join the squares. They were stacked in piles around the dining room table and when she went into care, into a plastic box for storage.

When she died, I asked for them. By that point I could crochet but didn’t know how to join, and figured, someday, I’d learn.

It’s at least a decade later. I’m the one who makes blankets for my nephews, for my cousin’s children, for pregnant coworkers. Last year I made seven blankets, three for Project Linus, the rest for family and a friend. I can follow crochet charts, filet crochet, do clusters, fans, basic lace, amigurumi.

The world, as is its wont, is on fire. Tonight, I have opened the plastic container for the first time in a decade. I’m sorting them into piles by color. I know now how to look at them and see where her memory slipped or areas I’ll need to repair. There’s no printed pattern but if I need more I have the skills to copy the pattern.

Each square is 5 inches. Blanket size for Project Linus is 40x60. I’ll see how many people I can give her last crochet legacy to.

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Some 2023 illustrations. I was trying to make a collection 👀

Large Family 🕸️

Mother, the one and only 💜

Safest place on Earth 🐊

Over my dead body 🔥

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'this property says it has nine acres but those neighbours look pretty clo-'

oh.

ohhhhhhhhh no

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Groundhog Day (1993) dir. Harold Ramis

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At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

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musk is going to die in a Tesla explosion in 6 months after sticking his nose where it doesn't belong and we will never get a conclusive answer on whether it was a CIA car bomb or just a normal Tesla malfunction

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glad to see those spreading the truth

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children in christmas movies: 🥹 all i really want for Christmas is for mommy and daddy to stop fighting so we can be a family again 🥰

every kid with dysfunction families I've known since birth: i wish my parents would get FUCKING DIVORCED

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First ape to go to the watering hole with a container and put some of the water in it so that they could drink more later without returning to the watering hole must have been lauded as a fucking genius.