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notbecauseofvictories · 8 months ago

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I will say, despite fighting an immortal battle against whatever part of my brain is playing HEY BABY LET'S START A CRAFT PROJECT (THE MORE EXPENSIVE THE BETTER REMIX) on repeat, I have never once felt compelled to take up clothes-making. This is probably because buying a sewing machine would hurt me in my cheap soul, and also because I barely understand clothes period, but I like to imagine it's partly because some benevolent power is looking out for me, and knows that getting into textile arts would inevitably lead to my destruction.

I love quick-pickling (pickles! tomatoes! peppers of all sorts!) and for a brief moment I was daydreaming about pickling-pickling, with a water bath and everything---but one look at how many different kitchen implements you need killed that dream very extremely dead.

#I have seven houseplants and a full porch garden. I pickle things and I paint. I scrapbook. I journal. I cook and bake.#I write. I watch films. I read novels and news and poetry. I send letters.#I'm pressing some roses right now; I designed the invitations for my aunt's upcoming birthday party #I can clean (it takes me a while but I can!) and do laundry; minor home repairs with plumbing and drywall #I am....not an accomplished sculptor or metalsmith but I can at least /do/ both if you want me to.#but give me a needle and something more intensive than a small easily-repaired rip? nah. no. no dice.#celestial emporium of benevolent knowledge #(also as a sidenote........sometimes you can do art and you're still boring. it's unfortunate.)

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