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“I know nothing about British or American imperialism in the Far East that does not fill me with regret and disgust, I am afraid I am not even supported by a glimmer of patriotism in this remaining war.”

- JRR Tolkien, Letters, p. 115

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CHARADE 1963 — dir. Stanley Donen

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Mouse and Ptarmigan by Sandara Tang

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tolkien did not need to write that throwaway line in FOTR about how aragorn is the tallest one out of the fellowship because now i’m just like…. is aragorn just an absurdly tall human? or is legolas just a really short elf. like i imagine aragorn making fun of legolas for being a short elf. or thranduil watching legolas grow up and eventually being like… wtf isint he supposed to be taller?

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the death of dvds is so fucked. what about bonus features

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Rufus Sewell, "Middlemarch" (1994)

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Chemise Sewalong 2025 - Step 1: Measuring and Cutting

Step 1: Measuring and cutting

Time to start the chemise! Find a measuring tape and a flat surface to lay out your fabric.

The necessary measurements are:

Desired full length of the chemise =  measured from where you want the neckline to hit down to where you want the skirt to end

Arm length = measure from where a tshirt seam sits down to where you want the sleeve to end (+add 10cm to this length for floof)

Wrist width = measuring tape goes around the wrist, not too tight ( measure your elbow width for half length sleeves

Pieces to cut:

2 body pieces, full fabric width x 80 cm each

2 sleeves, 60 width x 70 cm length for full length each

2 underarm gussets, 18 x 18 cm each (these get cut in half to get triangles)

Binding (or buy bias tape), 4cm of the full fabric width is the easiest. (cuffs can be cut larger, or taken from this piece)

I find it helps to just draw it out on a piece of paper:

Cut all these pieces.  This already includes 1cm seam allowances on all pieces. If you don’t have tailor’s chalk, you can measure on either side of the fabric, fold where you’ve measured and cut the fold. It’s less accurate, but it’ll do.

If you happen to know a quilter, steal their cutting board and rotary cutter, it’ll make this step a breeze. If you’re a dutiful sewer, iron all pieces. Conveniently become unable to read at this point if you are not.

Make sure you mark all pieces so you’ll know what goes where next step. If you don’t have a fabric marker, write it on a post-it and pin it to the squares.

Next up: starting the stitching!

Tl:dr – Cut all your squares according to the little diagram (amended with your own measurements)

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This is how I cook, unless my mother is around, then I pre-heat to avoid wrath. Her's or God's , I don't now yet.

As a child I often questioned the rules of both heaven and earth and let me tell you my controversial wisdoms: you can put the dried noodles in at the same time as the cold water and bring it to a boil to cook. It'll still work. The world will not in fact end and you can indeed eat them. You don't need a rolling boil, that's a myth.

There is a thinner margin of error and it is more likely to boil over. You've been warned.

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When your tv show has a low budget... but the show must go on

And good actors play pretend that a calculator is an actual cellphone and it takes the audience a couple of rewatches to notice.

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Ok consider a Hogan’s Heroes AU where no one is sure of exactly how many children Schultz and his wife have, and that is 100% by design, because he is helping hide Jewish children and transport them through the Underground.

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Idgaf if you don't want to write essays for school. I don't care if you don't want to write corporate emails yourself. I don't care if you can't draw well, I don't care if you can't write well, I don't care if you just really really want to talk to your favorite fictional character but don't want to RP with a real person because you have social anxiety or whatever

If you're still regularly using generative ai, chatgpt or midjourney or character.ai or literally whatever the fuck, im personally blaming you when my utility prices start going up.

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Quiet joys w/ Marge

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I honestly feel like nobody in lotr mentions how fucking weird Legolas is. He stays up pacing the floor and singing to himself in the dead of night. He deadass stares straight into the tree line in the absolute pitch black when no one else can see anything. He yells goodbye to a river he has heard about in songs. He's so strange and not one character mentions it AT ALL. I absolutely love him.

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Listen, I am a very deeply, old school, traditional kind of gal. I kinda get where some of those girls are coming from. But when I say this is wrong, I mean it.

Back in the day( like medieval times back), more often than not, the women were in charge of accounting and more often than not, she had a stash of money to herself, and at the very least she knew which banker her husband was indebted to. She often had side hustles to make her own cash, stuff her husband never got to touch. Stuff she'd use on a rainy day, or to spend on her kids, or to buy something pretty with. I want you to know that the way he treats you would probably make Sally from 1245 A.D. Cornwall have a conniption......and that's REALLY bad when a woman from an era that the majority of people wrongfully perceive as primitive would be appalled at the way you are treated.

I know women who are now in their late 70s and 80s, even 90s, who were married to men like this. They did not lead very happy lives.( probably an understatement) I know young women in their 20s who have married young idiots who act like this. I've met these guys. And they need a beating with a 2x4, I swear to God.....the guys that is...the girls need saving. This needs to stop.

maybe i’m a joyless bitch but i actually do NOT think it’s funny to see women being like “the house is just in my husbands name” or “my husband makes all the money” or “i don’t even know who our mortgage is with” or “the only bank account/credit card is his and i get an allowance” like i do NOT find that cute or romantic and i am begging these women to Stand Up. you should at least be named on the deed to your house and the title to your car and the bank accounts even if you don’t pay for them/earn all the money. you can’t stop existing in the eyes of the law and the credit unions simply because you have a husband. if you’re raising his children and washing his socks half of everything he’s got is yours and it needs to be yours LEGALLY BY NAME. "he takes such good care of me :)" girl you are a PRISONER!! that’s all

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