#*chatter

[themetalhiro]

Please hug your friends! Tell your loved ones you love them! Be kind and leave no room to regret!

[stitchposts]

hi! i’m self taught in embroidery and am trying to get better. how do you stitch words? specifically the ones that look like handwriting and not serif fonts. the way that you make each stitch blend with the next looks so closely to writing with pen that i had to zoom in to figure out it was even embroidery. thank you and have a good week!

Hey there! I tend to use one of three stitches for stitching out text - stem stitch, backstitch, or split stitch. It depends on what I'm going for with the design and the scale of the work. Given the timing of this ask, you probably want stem stitch specifically.

Not entirely related to types of stitches but general advice. I often find that newer embroiderers tend to leave too much space between stitches. Finding the balance is key, but the best way to describe how stitches should look is that they are overlapping each other slightly when you are actually stitching it. Otherwise you get gaps. This is true especially of stem stitch and long-and-short stitch. It'll look correct and smooth and even when it's all stitched out though.

[barrenclan]

given that PATFW takes place in nebraska, was barrenclan's territory inspired by what happened in the 1930s with the dust bowl?

Subconsciously, I'm sure it was. I am from the Midwest, after all, and grew up learning about the Dust Bowl. Though truthfully, I think my conscious inspiration was definitely Holes.

[same-pic-of-rickroll-everyday]

Ngl, as an American, I am low-key excited we might get the first woman president of the united states in 2024. If everything goes well.

And I helped elect her.

[connorswhisk]

low effort meme

[bisexualdinahlance]

I just don't think most of y'all can actually read facial expressions. The way two characters (or even celebrities) "look" at each other is always cited as proof of one thing or another and at least 80% of the time the pictures tell a completely different story

[bonni]

I feel so bad for chappell roan. she never expected to get this big and she's only 26 and she's bipolar? like she is clearly dealing with so much shit already and people on the internet seem dead-set on sending her into a mental health spiral

[mekanikaltrifle]

also, on the note of the Second Doctor's era of doctor who, I wanted to point out one fun thing about Jamie. As a Scot I often find Scots written and played by English people to be... pretty un-fun. At best they're usually a neutral, because they just don't register.

However, one fun thing I actually quite liked about Jamie is that he speaks pretty standard English. this is before the establishment of the Tardis having translator psychic stuff going on, but it fits alright with it if you add it retroactively. Jamie's from an era and placement where he'd be a Gael, a speaker of Scottish Gaelic (or Gàidhlig as it should be correctly), and we do see him at least call out his clan's warcry in Gaelic (with disastrous pronunciation lmao). What's notable is that he rarely speaks much Scots, though occasionally he uses phrases like 'wee beastie' but he's hardly a Limmy type. Obviously a lot of that is down to the pronunciation and linguistic standards of the BBC when they were writing the character-- it'd be a long time before we saw 'good guys' speaking something as common as Scots on a BBC show after all. Interestingly though this isn't entirely inaccurate for a Gael. Many don't speak broad Scots and vice versa: areas where Scots is chiefly spoken aren't generally Gaelic-speaking areas either. Often, gaels when communicating with non-Gaels will just use a fairly standard English, rather than broad Scots. So... unintentional correctness from a 1960s Englishman-playing-a-Scot character. Or maybe relatively intentional, I'm not sure. Thought it was a cool little thing tho.

[tieflingkisser]

it is so disgusting watching other white people reassure each other about taking breaks from social media and "prioritizing your mental health" when literally the one thing Palestinians are asking for more than anything is that people do not look away from what is happening to them

EDIT since some people seem to have misunderstood: i'm talking about the white people who have given themselves and each other permission to check out and go on about their lives in blissful ignorance, not the people who actually are taking mental health breaks. hence the scare quotes. specifically i was reacting to a trend on tiktok at the time but it happens everywhere on social media

[enfranchisement]

hello?

[themetalhiro]

Are there any one piece ships you are opposed to drawing if I were to request a commission?

No! I will literally draw ANYTHING you want me to, as long as it doesn’t involve minors or real life people in sexual contexts.

That includes any ship you want, any character you want, in any outfits you want, etc etc etc

[stitchposts]

unfortunately my flavor of embroidery is using thread to play with optical physics and this is why my fine arts major friends want to burn me at the stake, among many other reasons

[roseslights]

this was just something I drew to send to a friend but thought was funni

[same-pic-of-rickroll-everyday]

With how popular the haiku bot is, any post it reblogs is bound to gain a lot of notes.

I occaisonially reblog from the haiku bot.

So it occurs to me that, sometimes, I help niche posts break containment.

[bonni]

since sabra has been advertising on tumblr lately I'd like to remind everyone that they "donate" a portion of their proceeds to the iof. so please buy literally any other brand of hummus and ask your friends and family to do the same!

[jainesity]

How I imagine Philza’s chat