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one time I was complaining to my reenactment friend about some housing issues I was having as I was getting stuff sorted out at my job and I was frustrated that I wasn’t being put where I wanted to be, and he was like “hm… maybe it’s because it’s a men’s living space? but honestly I think of you more as a guy anyway” and I nearly stopped in my tracks, because this guy is a blue-collar-job-working, MAGA-parent having firearms enthusiast who didn’t go to college and doesn’t really Get the whole gender thing, which I have never specifically talked to him about. but in that moment he got it. like, hit the nail right on the head. and I understand why—it’s not because I told him how I identified, it’s because when I do reenactments I only do men’s roles—I wear men’s clothes, I wield guns, I sleep on the ground and do the 18 mile hikes and whatnot—and to him this makes me functionally a guy in these scenarios, even if I don’t look like one. and it just utterly stunned me to realize that a lot of cis people, even conservative ones, understand that gender is a performance. they understand that gender is expressed by what you do and what you wear and stuff like that. and they’ll admit it to you straight to your face! they just can’t—and won’t—put it into those terms, even though they already believe it

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Archaic marble sculpture of a recumbent frog,

Shang Dynasty (1600-1045 B.C.),

Length 9⅞ in., 25 cm,

Courtesy: Sotheby's

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Hot tip from someone who's actually made a battle jacket with homemade patches for fake bands: put one real band on there. Pick a band at just the right balance of obscure and good to catch the eye of a battle jacket enjoyer. The feeling when they come up to you and ask about the fake bands, assuming they're real because of the company they keep? Chef's kiss.

Would be funny to make the most diy battle jacket of all diy jackets, with handmade band patches and pins you painted yourself, but all the bands in the patches are ones you made up. Like you specifically googled beforehand to make sure there is NO band or musician of that name, for every single one.

And any time someone asks you about them, you can start gushing like "oh my god you're the first person I've talked to who's even heard about them, are you a fan too? I fucked the drummer's dad once."

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A pleasure to have in the labyrinth

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gathering the worlds finest scientists to breed a Woke Robert Moses, making him God-king, and fixing infrastructure everywhere forever

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Marcus Leslie Singleton - Yellow Field In The Catskills, 2024 - Oil on panel

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homestuck was about as close as humanity has come thus far to what wagner was banging on about with the concept of gesamtkunstwerk. send tweet.

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get a usb drive with a few gb, BaleenaEtcher, and a linux distro iso. I recommend Mint Cinnamon. Put the iso on the USB with BaleenaEtcher, then try booting your computer from the usb. You can poke around the linux install without even installing it and decide if it's what you want. (If you like gaming, you might want Bazzite instead for example.) The live experience will also offer you an installer, and the installer will offer you the chance to partition your drive so you can keep windows!

You may also want to search your specific laptop + linux compatibility to see if there will be any fun special events, like needing to manually setup your bluetooth or something.

ok so. if i have a laptop with a current windows install and i want to partition that off and move over to using linux as my daily driver. what is… step one

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You have this post till midnight September 1st 2025, you may do whatever you like with it, but afterwards reblogs will be turned off

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Wild boars ❤️🐽

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Ialdabaoth created suffering because he was the first being to suffer. He was rejected by his mother and could not understand. We were created in his image in a fit of frustration, so he might learn to forgive.

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Top 5 Elder Roleplay Moments I have Encountered:

Compliment which is also a kidnapping threat

Writing a rule in a way that specifically infuriates Anarchs into going somewhere bugfuck dangerous

Pulling off the 'don't make me ask you a third time' aura.

You are my special favorite so I'm punishing your friend for the thing you did~ ❤️

This other elder needs me as the final vote in his campaign to overthrow the man he once respected until he found out a specific principal had been disregarded? He's invested his entire game and all his resources in this? He can almost taste the power on the other side? Ok, sure, just betray your principles in the exact same way as the man you're replacing, but for me this time. (+casts Path of Corruption)

I think it would be awesome to play as an Elder in a VTM game if it actually made you FEEL like a scheming Elder and not some vaguely ominous (but actually extremely blatant) cartoon supervillain

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Now that this project has been delivered to its recipient, I can brag about it online a little.

I made this Elizabethan petal hussif for a friend who received an award for her historical costuming work. Hussifs were often used as sewing kits with spots for all of the notions you need for a project. Wives would send them with their husbands to war with extra uniform buttons and repair supplies. This one has an inner pouch area that can fit a small project or pieces thereof.

My friend likes owls, pomegranates, blurple, and starlight. Hopefully this mashup harmonizes nicely. I worked almost entirely from scraps already in my stash.

I self drafted the pattern, but it's approximated from this write up and Sheila Marshall's book "Elizabethan Needlework Accessories". My library didn't have the book, so I relied on Google images.

This little owl friend is a needle minder by greennerddesigns on Etsy. I chopped up a pin and stuck a magnet on there.

The lucette braided cord nearly thwarted me, but we got there in the end. I opted for fancy silk ribbon for the inner pouch instead. I swear lucette gave me arthritis.

I'm still pretty new to embroidery, so this was a real level up project for me. I used wool felt for the leaves and pomegranates to give them a little dimensionality (and to better hide any satin stitch sins) TIL, embroidering velveteen sucks.

The pomegranates are so crunchy! I fondled them frequently throughout the making of this. But the lattice stitch with tiny gold details is my favorite part.

The laurels are a symbol of the award she's receiving. I don't love how they turned out, but they hold up okay from a distance.

Blue beads are from my local embroidery shop, Country Crafts. Silver loops came from my stash. Owl scissors from onethriftystitcher on Etsy. Wool pieces are from my local wool store Black Sheep Wool.

Overall, I have some improvements to make if I ever do another one, but after some 100 hours of work poured into this little guy, I couldn't be more proud of myself. I hope she loves it and uses it until it falls apart.

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"Ah yes, the local Toreador."

> serpentis, necromancy

"Well. There's one around here somewhere."

"I hate Toreador" >sees one who isn't a High Art Enthusiast or an instagram model "actually I like this one"

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Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey. Photograph by Daniel Ibanez, 2024

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cicadas !! my favourite bug, deeply linked to many happy childhood memories :)

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Patlabor 2

1993