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"I love you , I'm glad we're friends"

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don't give up

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a dead scene kid is trying to contact me through captcha

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I wore these every second of every day and then a cyclone hit Auckland and I kept wearing them and the shoes grew mold

On the whole yes I do recommend shoes made of rope; I felt like a shounen anime boy and that’s worth any price

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no, i don’t watch that show, but i do follow its developments extensively via tumblr

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saw this absolute king at the Paris Miku Expo

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condescending online man day

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yesterday's halloween piece

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Pumpkin punk special fall release! Happy October hehe 🎃

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I'm currently testing the limits of my antidepressants by rewatching Breaking Bad

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I’m incredibly bad at fashion and yet I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about it in relation to stories and characters.

When I learned about goblincore I was immediately convinced proper folkloric Scandinavian trolls would dress like this in a modern setting, and in my opinion trollcore would be exactly this except with more gold and jewelry.

It got me wondering what other types of creatures would dress as, and hear me out, high elves would dress in high-end Scandinavian fashion.

Both because the style is characterized by an obsession with using muted natural colors as well as natural materials like cotton, wool, silk, and whatnot, but also because of the subtle I’m-better-than-you smugness that comes with it. It looks humble and is environmentally conscious but is also incredibly expensive and most people can’t afford it.

Wood elves would probably dress more like hippies in clothes that is also environmentally conscious but actually affordable.

Also, despite their otherwise gruff personalities I can’t help but think dwarfs would have aspects of crystal grunge fashion just because they love mining for stuff so much.

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One of my favorite things about learning about traditional textiles is the little ghosts they left in the language. Of course the ghosts are there, now that I know to look for them. Once upon a time, half the population spent a majority of their day making textiles. Spinning, at the very least, has been a part of humanity since the Neanderthals. That kind of knowledge doesn't just disappear.

A heckle was a device with sharp metal spikes, and people drag flax through the spikes to separate out the fibers from the chaff. When you say someone heckled a performer, you think you are being literal but you're speaking in an ancient metaphor.

When my grandpa says "spinning yarns" to mean telling stories, he knows that one's not quite literal, but its vividness is lost to him. There is no image in his mind of rhythm, muscle memory, and the subtle twist that aligns clouds of fibers into a single, strong cord.

When a fanfic writer describes someone carding their fingers through someone's hair, that's the most discordant in my mind. Carding is rough, and quick, and sometimes messy (my wool is full of debris, even after lots of washing). The teeth of my cards are densely packed and scratchy. But maybe that's my error, not the writer's. Before cards were invented, wool was combed with wide-toothed combs, and sometimes, in point of fact, with fingers. The verb "to card" (from Middle English) may actually be older than the tools I use, archaic as they are. And I say may, because I can't find a definitive history. People forget, even when the language remembers.

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i’m only on reddit for r/Kevin

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looks like october is…. octover

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This is what an evil boop looks like.

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halloween turtle 🎃