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I mean, the main difference is that if you write about sex as a virgin, it's probably gonna be read by people who've actually had sex, whereas those other things.... Less likely. But that doesn't mean that you shouldn't. Just that you gotta research meticulously if you don't wanna write something that rings as incredibly off to a lot of people. For me, researching for smut was the best sex ed I got, and I've read smut by people who've never had sex that was better than smut by people who have had tons.

But yeah. Someone is a lot more likely to go, ".....well that's not how THAT works," over your best guess at a sex scene than your best guess at what time travel feels like, so... Just keep that in mind, I guess.

Do you think people who are virgin should write smut? I feel like most of them don’t even know what they’re writing and just write what they think sex is

the implication this ask suggests that people who write about murders, cannibalism, politics, magic, royalty au, sci-fi, wars, supernatural, time travel, medieval era, werewolves, vampires, mermaids or goblins must be murderers, cannibals, presidents, wizards, royalties, astronauts, ghost hunters, soldiers, time travelers, knights, werewolves, vampires, mermaids or goblins in real life is so funny to me

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"la venida de cristo" (the cumming of christ)

paintings by fabián chairez (mexico, born 1987) also available as a postcard set

his exhibition in mexico city is currently being targeted by extremist religious groups and christian groups are trying to sue him (X) for his work so i thought i would show all of tumblr

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If you don't think homeschool should be regulated, you've never met anyone who came out of one of these extremist homeschool households and it shows.

homeschooling in the US needs to be regulated but this is one of those conversations that immediately gets crushed by extremist conservatives and even well-meaning liberals will pipe up to be like "well some homeschooling is good!" when that's absolutely not relevant. regulation will not change anything for the homeschooling families who are serious about their children's education. the people who need to be regulated are the fringe extremists

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it’s funny how quickly you get desensitized to comic book nonsense like mister sinister is an insane name for a fictional character it’s so goofy but when i read his name i’m like this is not a laughing matter. we’re talking about cyclops’ traumatic secret laser beam eyeball orphanage surgery backstory. stop laughing.

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"Why can't you do the task?"

Have you ever stood on the edge of a diving board and you wanted so badly to jump off like all your friends but your body just freezes you there and will not let you jump because of sheer survival terror? Yeah, that's the same thing stopping me from washing the dishes.

people who dont experience it cannot comprehend how awful executive dysfunction is. I WANT to do the task, i have the resources TO do the task, i will feel better having DONE the task

but i cant fucking do the task

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Are you sure it's not just cursive Russian?

I just found the funniest font ever

Like. What is this. Why is this. Who is the target audience of this?

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Also see if you have a local fabric/craft store. You may, and they may be able to order stuff for you or point you in the direction of where to order.

RIP Joann, now what?

I wanted to make a post I could copy and paste and or link when I see folks asking where to buy fabrics when Joann is gone. I sew a lot, generally between 100-200 items a year and I don't do it on a big budget. Stores are not in a particular order.

Notions:

Wawak.com - start here, mostly stay here. Wawak is a supplier for professional sewing businesses and have the prices that show it. I will not pay for gutermann Mara 100 anywhere else. I buy buttons, tools, thread, and most elastic here.

Stitch Love Studio - this is where I buy lingerie supplies https://www.etsy.com/shop/StitchLoveStudio?ref=yr_purchases

Fabric:

Fabric Mart - this is one where you want to sign up for emails and never buy unless its on sale. They run different sales every day and they rotate. Mostly deadstock fabrics but I buy more from here than anywhere else. Fantastic customer service and if you watch you can get things like $6 wool suiting or $4 cotton jersey. https://fabricmartfabrics.com/

Fabrics-Store - again, buy the sales not the full price. Sign up for the emails but redirect them to a folder because it is TOO MANY. They stock linen or good but not amazing quality. https://www.fabrics-store.com/

Purple Seamstress - This is where I buy my solid cotton lycra jersey. They have other things, but the jersey is what I'm here for. Inexpensive and very good quality. If you ask she will mail you a swatch card for the solids. https://purpleseamstressfabric.com/

LA Finch - deadstock fabrics with a fantastic remnant selection https://lafinchfabrics.myshopify.com/

Califabrics - mix of deadstock and big brands, easy to navigate and always seem to have good denim in stock. https://califabrics.com/

Boho Fabrics - good variety, nice bundles. I have also gotten some really great trims from here. https://www.bohofabrics.com/

Firecracker Fabrics - garment and quilting fabrics, really nice selection and great sale section. I've bought $5 yard quilting cottons here several times. https://www.firecrackerfabrics.com/

Hancock's of Paducah - Quilting fabric and some limited garment fabric. AMAZING sale section. Do not sleep on the sale section. This is my first stop when buying quilting fabrics. Usually the last stop too. Not particularly speedy shipping. https://www.hancocks-paducah.com/

Itokri - This is something a little different. Itokri is an Indian business with incredible traditional fabrics. Shipping to the US is expensive, but the fabric is so inexpensive it evens out. I generally end up paying like $30 for shipping. Beautiful ikat and block prints. https://itokri.com/

Miss Matatabi - this is a little treat. This isn't where you go to save money, but there are so many beautiful things in this shop. Ships from Japan incredibly quickly. https://shop.missmatatabi.com/

Lucky Deluxe - Craft thrift store, always has an incredible selection and fantastic customer service. I need to close the tab fast because I never go to this website without finding something I need. https://www.luckydeluxefabrics.com/

Swanson's - the OG of online craft thrift stores, but I find their website harder to navigate. https://www.swansonsfabrics.com

Honorary Mentions: I haven't shopped at these places yet but I have had them recommended and likely will at some point.

A Thrifty Notion - https://athriftynotion.com/

Creative Closeouts - https://creativecloseoutsfabric.com/ being rebranded to sewsnip.com on March 1 - quilting deadstock

Hawthorne Supply Co. - I just got this rec and I think I need to not look too closely or I'm going to slip with my debit card. https://www.hawthornesupplyco.com/

This is not an exhaustive list of everywhere you can buy fabric, or even a full list of where I shop. There are SO many options out there in the world. You also need to think outside the fabric store box. I thrift men's shirt fabrics for quilts and sheets for backing fabric. I don't do a ton of in person thrifting and my local stores don't get a lot of craft materials but every thrift store is its own universe and reflects the community it is in. Go out and find something cool.

Oh and final note: Don't shop at Hobby Lobby.

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This was.... So ironic. And painful. In such weird ways for me.

When this comic started, I was still a pretty diligent member of the LDS church, as I had been raised. But I was in the very early stages of deconstruction, and exposure to animism and various pagan traditions was a part of that early deconstruction. I found this series early on and was enthralled, but (probably hard to believe now) the elements of Lalli/Emil that I was picking up on made me uncomfortable at that point because of all the internalized homophobia. So, I set it aside.

I picked it up again a couple years ago when it was newly finished and I was fully deconstructed, only to discover that... the author had gone on the exact opposite journey that I had over the intervening years and destroyed her story as a result.

SSSS will remain a great example of how the fear of promoting "darkness" and thereby Satan prevents so many Christians from creating meaningful art.

It was really sad to see SSSS's horror elements die in that final half-arc. The first half of adventure 2 was wonderful, and the bits about the Kade, Ensi, and Hilja were genuinely chilling. I mean, you knew from the Emil/Lalli mess in adventure 1 that the Trolls kept some form of intelligence. But the idea that the Kade managed to be genuinely calculating, enough to manipulate the situation with Toivosaari... brrr. It's a pity it ended up more of a paper tiger in the end. No mind games for us.

a friend mentioned that they checked out the second Tuuri returned as a talking bird, that that's roughly where Minna started to lose the thread of things (even though she clearly intended to pull that with Tuuri as early as adventure one, per her author's notes) and I increasingly agree. the Hotakainen backstory dream sequence is the last big moment showing the comic's strengths. then Tuuribird and the swan of tuonela's characterization mark the start of the downward spiral. once you see how the swan presages all her silly Christian animal comics now, once you make the connection it's...agonizingly obvious. the haunting/horrifying atmosphere starts to wither without you realizing on first read.

by the endgame when you realize she's gotten so lazy she's literally giving the kade (which is supposed to be a mental/mind control/catastrophic level threat!) and Surma (a design that could have been cool if left to stand on its own) the exact same body type, reduced to mindlessly swiping around without speaking....you knew she'd given up on the horror elements. or any creativity, really. and that was her genius.

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Abolish Tesla.

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Same energy

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for a short period of time my daughter hated jerma and would complain whenever she walked into the room to find him on the tv, but now she is five and a half years old and she loves him, "because he says 'what the fuck'".

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The first time I ever saw a cybertruck it was parked outside a sex shop in Salt Lake City and I still regret that we didn't get a suction cup dildo to stick on it.

King shit

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My favorite part is that this is actually pretty similar to a legit thing that happened in Shinto mythology when Amaterasu was sulking in a cave and they needed her to come out and be the sun and stuff...

They finally animated the legendary Sexy Reverse Harem Jutsu.

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I was not prepared for this to be about the baseball team. Just fully assumed it was someone expressing deserved rage against the whole country again. Or possibly just New England.

ID: a discord message that says, in all caps: hate. let me tell you how much i hate the yankees. there are 4 bases on the baseball field. 90 feet on each side of the diamond. if the word hate was engraved on each grain of sand in the diamond, the hundred million grains of sand would not equal one billionth of the hate i feel for the yankees. /end ID

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jury-rigged. even keel. by the board. three sheets to the wind. loose cannon. son of a gun. pipe down. taken aback.

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Woke up this morning with a very important thought rattling around in my head.

How do the cars in the 2006 Pixar masterpiece Cars... safely merge?

This is a question that requires analysis. It doesn't really matter for Lightning McQueen before the movie starts, as he explicitly spends all of his time either at the racetrack or inside Mack (the gay subtext of this is for another post), but if we imagine a normal, non-Piston Cup car, how in the blue hell do they merge?

It's flat-out stated during the "driving backwards" scene in the 2006 movie that cars can see their rearview mirrors. This is because, particularly for Mater's character design, his mirrors are always placed outside his field of vision. But the scene states that he must be able to use them, because the purpose of that scene is to set up Lightning driving backwards during the finale and to advance both of the characters, especially in bringing Lightning closer to Mater as a friend. Even with Mater's ability to articulate his side mirrors to a certain degree, he is never able to bend them forward enough to be able to cover his blindspot. Given where the cars eyes are fundamentally located, this leads me to the conclusion that these vehicles are capable of seeing out of their mirrors. While this raises terrifying questions about the structures of car anatomy, we're gonna completely ignore those implications in favor, instead of a minor question about driving on the highway.

Normally, when one is driving, they eliminate the problem of a blind spot by physically turning their head to look at it before they merge and physically see for themselves whether or not another vehicle occupies that space. But characters in Cars (2006) don't have an in-car mirror, so their blindspots should be the gap between the mirrors and their regular fields of view, and directly behind them.

This, of course, raises the question: if the world of Cars was designed and built for sentient cars, and they have such an obviously unsafe limitation, why is the world still designed in a way that would only be safe to humans who can physically turn their heads? That question, after what I can only describe as a bit of a fever dream, leads me to what I see as the only logical conclusion.

Cars can see out of their windows, too, but have evolved camouflage for those eyes so that their prey can't tell where they're looking.

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been mainlining mythbusters episodes while i work on art stuff and this bit where they attempt to test sneakily entering a building through the air ducts caught me deliriously off guard