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This might be Derek Guy's greatest masterpiece.

(The Twitter thread is probably easier to read and easier to look at the images, but I wanted to make sure it got preserved. Images are the tweets.)

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what is it they put in the hardware store to make it smell so good

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cr 小风车手工

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Serious question, how do I recurl felicity's little curls?

Hello! I will give you a serious answer for this, because it’s a good question. 

Re-curling Felicity’s pin curls is, thankfully, easy and inexpensive. 

First: make the pin curl wet. Spritz it with hot water (not boiling, just very hot). Don’t get her eyes wet. Then pull the curl as straight and as long as it will go.

Next, you’ll need something small and cylindrical to roll it around–I used an oil pastel. Traditional hair rollers will be too large; you need something about the size of a pencil. 

Then roll it around the object. It’ll wrap around several times; that’s okay.  

Next, you’ll need to fasten it somehow. I used a rubber band to wrap it around the curl and bind it to the rest of her hair. 

Repeat on the rest of her curls (as you can see, she has a few more that are in need of some re-styling).

Now, here’s where you decide how long to leave the hair set on the curler. If the curls were pulled out completely straight, then you’ll want to leave them like so for at least a week, spritzing with water once a day. I know that sounds like a long time, but the longer you leave them in the curlers, the more permanent it will be. (I had Josefina’s hair in little crown braids for over a month last year, and took them out in late November; it’s still wavy even now!)

Or, if your Felicity’s curls are like mine and just needed a bit of help to go from S shape to O shape, you can leave it a few hours, and end up with a perfectly lovely little curl:

This method also works for Elizabeth’s pin curls; you’ll need a longer set time for longer and thicker curls, of course.

However, I cannot endorse this as a method of making pin curls if you decide to cut a few strands to do it–I generally don’t believe in cutting doll hair to style it, as it’s too easy to make a permanent mistake. So use this as a maintenance tool only.  

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Kitty paw appreciation post.

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Spin this dang wheel of every 5e subclass. You are hit by a truck and end up on the Sword Coast as that class, at the level you select that subclass.

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Julie the interactive doll by George Doddington, Texas Instruments, distributed by Worlds of Wonder (1987). Julie recognises a small vocabulary of spoken words, and can be trained to recognise the voice of a given speaker. There's a sensor in Julie's right hand that reads "Magic Spots" in her activity book, which she then reads aloud. She can also detect temperature, light, movement, and tummy tickles, each of which may trigger canned phrases. "In 1987, Texas Instruments created a doll capable of responding to speech recognition utterances with spoken output. Described as the "first fully interactive" toy, Julie was a standard-size plastic doll that was indistinguishable from other dolls of the period except that it had a DSP chip that enabled it to respond to and generate speech. Julie could understand eight utterances: Julie, yes, no, OK, pretend, hungry, melody and be quiet. George Doddington, who led the team that created Julie, readily admits that Julie is prone to mis-recognitions that cause her to make inappropriate verbal responses." – Toys That Have a Voice, by Judith Markowitz, SpeechTechMag.

"The technology that made Julie possible was a TMS320C17 (a variation of a standard digital signal processor), an LPC-10 speech synthesis algorithm, and a 16-word speaker-dependent speech recognition algorithm. The design of the algorithms allowed them to be completely contained within the DSP's memory space, including the recognition templates, leaving enough algorithm space for the product algorithm (Julie's personality) to be included. The only off-board memory requirements are for the speech synthesis data and the unique personality information needed for additional play value. The result: a single-chip speech synthesis/recognition product at an affordable consumer price. ... All of Julie's functions are enhanced by inserting an add-on voice card module. These modules provide additional speech, several more recognition words, and changes in Julie's character. One voice card takes Julie on an adventure around her neighborhood while she talks about things she finds along the way. The voice cards effectively remove any limits in the initial product design, in a sense allowing the doll to grow with the child. As hoped for, Julie sold out in her first year and is ready to go on to her second successful year." – Julie: The Application of DSP to a Consumer Product, Gene Frantz, Jay Reimer, Richard Wotiz, Speech Technology, Sep/Oct 1988.

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I'm not really a HanLuke shipper but I can imagine them hooking up early in their friendship & then Han later after various revelations having a personal crisis over whether or not it's weird to have sex with both halves of a set of twins

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Today in niche genres of joke that I can never get enough of and will probably still be secretly thinking about four years later

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If you know you know.

... Extrapolating from incomplete data be like...

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For anyone seeing this later: 18-10ga (er, 18-10 gauge) was the size that kept showing up for me for the metal ferrules

Hi, I was curious if you know what size ferrules the dolls use and if you know an Amazon seller that sells the elastic?

Hi! The metal ferrules should be at least a little bit larger than 1/8 of an inch, or 3mm, which is the width of the elastic. Since they’ll be clamped onto the cord and held tight, the size doesn’t matter too much. As long as they can fit over the cord, they’ll work fine. 

For the elastic cord, size does matter. You can search Amazon for “3mm round elastic cord” and get tons of results. A lot of sellers are marketing them for making face masks, so you’ve got lots of options. It looks like it’s a few bucks cheaper from sellers on eBay if you’d rather use that site. 

Alternatively, you can also search eBay or Etsy for “american girl restringing kit” and spend around $8 for the pre-cut pieces of elastic and metal ferrules. But if you’ve got more than four limbs to restring, it’s probably smarter doing what you’re doing and buying the elastic and ferrules in bulk. 

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Growing potatoes is great because not only are they an incredibly easy and fairly fast-growing crop, but the sheer number of potatoes that one potato can turn into is amazing. I got a few shrivelled, wilting seed potatoes off my ommer about a year ago and now I have enouygh of them to turn them into a nice little row. The area under the orchard where I bury any supermarket potatoes that go green on me is a forest of free carbohydrates. It really feels like an Infinite Food Hack in a way that most gardening doesn't.

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All of my major Danny Phantom AUs have a central driving theme. Girl Out of Time's is fate.

I've always found Danny Phantom's contradictory takes on the concept of fate (especially when using time travel as the means of exploration) to be pretty interesting, due to how clearly it illuminates the very black and white, one sided handling of the show's two titular halfas. Within the confines of a single season you have The Ultimate Enemy, a story entirely about second chances and undoing mistakes and changing terrible fates to create a better future. Following it, you have Masters of All Time, which took a similar premise but firmly said "fate cannot be changed or altered and if you try to, you'll only make your circumstances worse." The idea that one character can be allowed to rewrite his future but the other is doomed no matter what is intriguing in how blatantly unfair it is.

Neither Danielle nor Vlad were ever afforded the grace shown to Danny in The Ultimate Enemy. So in Girl Out of Time, I've plucked them out of their canon shackles (Vlad, who must always be inherently evil no matter the timeline, and Danielle, who exists only to be an irrelevant, imperiled victim for Danny to save) and placed them on the same journey with the same question. Can these two forsaken kindred spirits change their fates?

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…oh shit actually that last reblog prompted some self-reflection over here too

trans people will literally go “i have a complicated relationship with my history with gender and sometimes see it as a gender i ‘used to be’ and i don’t really look like a cis person of either gender and i don’t think i can fit it into simple categories” and everyone will spontaneously combust

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I hate that SEPTember OCTOber NOVember and DECember aren’t the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th months.

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Sam Winchester text posts