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andromedasummer · 2 years ago

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becoming a data hoarder of crochet/knitting/sewing/embroidery patterns and books on my pc, laptop and phone. an ungodly amount fr.

#also finding good patterns for like 2 dollars at thrift stores and getting books out from the library has been VERY helpful #and so many have maker spaces #where you can sew/weave/embroider/whatever #the one at my local library is mega cool #cos the council realized the suburb next to mine (mine is too small to have a village center like the others so theirs is ours)#had been promised a new mall makeover and a new pool and a new bunch of stuff #and hadnt been given anything in like. decades.#and is also a suburb where a lot of working class and low income families live #so they went ''okay we should. do something and actually support this section''#and thats how we got our new million dollar suburb center building with a new library/cafe/preschool/pool/maker space #and suddenly people have a reason to stay in the area and spend more time at shops and have a study space #available right next to a park and a place for community and information!!!#and everyone is happier and spending more money at the surrounding shops because theyre visiting more often #like that whole project took 2 years but it was so worth it the maker space rules its got a recording booth and a 3dprintet and an engraver #a loom and all these other woodcraft/textile stuff #and i see teenagers from the 3 surrounding schools coming in to record music and/or rent out instruments!#and do carving and sewing and book clubs!!#and have a place to study!#when i was in hs we would walk down to the mall get sushi and sit in a field bcos there was nothing to do #now people from the same high school i have can access all this stuff!#and more online to print out #and partake in healthy hobbies and its like fuck!!! it makes me so happy!!!#all this to say if anyone wants a pattern for smth i can probs find a free one/one costing a few dollars by an indie creator

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evadingreallife · 2 years ago

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*hijacks the post and proceeds to have an existential crisis in the tags* (sorry op i swear i didnt mean to)

i want to learn ceramics, to play the electric guitar, bass, painting, i want to go camping, get into film photography, learn about tea, coffee and wine, all trees and flowers from my country, try out all fruits ever, know how to cook heavenly, have a cosy house and invite people i love and have a wall they can decorate and a handmade outfit from scratch that i’ll keep forever, have a communitary vegetable garden, own a bookshop that’s also a flowershop that’s also a café

#an incomplete lists of hobbies and things i have tried my hand at during the years #weaving sewing crocheting knitting whatever scooby doos were clay shaping drawing painting watercolors pencils glass painting wood carving #wood painting collages origami fan painting calligraphy handlettering brush lettering writing poetry making song writing piano choir #singing being in a band drinking clubbing guitar flute harp drums reading reading reading reading #paper weaving ribbon weaving knotted bracelets pearl bracelets jewellery making making clothes mending #paper cutting paper making book binding hair braiding hair knotting makeup face painting #modern jazz and hip hop dancing ballet swing horse riding archery fishing camping sailing hiking adventure trails small zip lines biking #karate judo summer dances volleyball basketball artistic gymnastics athletics gym weightlifting #swimming holding my breath diving #learning a language learning two languages learning three languages and forgetting two more #living abroad living in a dorm learning the lay of another way of life on the other side of the world #sleeping early sleeping late not sleeping blacking out fainting head spinning alone alone alone alone alone #eyes open in the dark thinking imagining an arm through your chest my own my own my own what would hapoen if i missed a step if i fell #what am i here for #i used to think it was to experince life as it came to me #to the best i could achieve #for me to me in me with the world #but #im alone arent i #everyone is alone is born alone grows alone sings alone dies alone #my mind shifted i could feel il i could feel it is it even me anymore in here #what am i here for if not to connect #to help to share to connect to live together #even still im alone #still #when nobodys around am i still me or do i vanish #i did so many things #and yet #sand through fingers #slipping away

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bomberqueen17 · 5 months ago

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sewing other things

OK so. I have talked about the Loftus Bralette so much on here that one could be forgiven for chuckling gently when i said I should sew other things. But I do actually have several other projects I've been wanting to work on. And i have actually cut some of them out.

Also when I was last at the farm my niece brought me some of her t-shirts and said "I really like this one can we cut it apart and re-sew it bigger so I can still wear it", and I remembered that her BFF's mom, who works at the farm twice a week doing the books and managing store inventory, owns a serger she didn't know how to thread, so I texted her to ask if I could borrow it and indeed she had accidentally unthreaded it and there was a stuck lever and needed me to fix it anyway, and maybe I mentioned that on here but I did actually make my niece a couple of tunics while I was last at the farm. Including hand-sewing a whole bunch of details on the last one while the family was driving on a road trip one weekend.

So I brought all that stuff home with me and was hoping to get to work on it this week. All I've sewn has been the bralettes but I still have today. We'll see what I can get done.

I measured Farmkid and she's ten years old so her shape isn't the same as that of an adult woman, but she's five feet two and like 130 lbs, and some of her measurements put her in a women's size 12. So. She expressed interest in a garment I wear frequently, a Studio Tunic from Sew Liberated. I printed off the pattern in a size 12 and have assembled it, but I'm stuck deciding what fabric to use for her. I should decide that today. She's ten, her favorite color is ostensibly yellow but she mostly wears pinks and purples, she's a grubby kid who wipes her hands on her shirt and always winds up with stains on the belly of her shirt still, and she wants this tunic I think largely so she can cram her tablet into the pocket and go climb trees while listening to audiobooks on speaker. So I want a bright color but not too pale, and I want a tough fabric but not unbreathable, and I'm just. Deciding, still.

Probably what I should do is use some undyed fabric I own, and then bring my supplies and let her tie-dye it. I have a couple other things I could tie-dye, or will by then. That would be a fun bonding activity. I don't know if I'll have time to do it this trip though. So maybe I'll postpone the project and ask her for help once she's on summer break. (Good luck catching her, kids these days have so many summer camps.) As a bonus I bet I could loop her BFF and BFF's Mom in on the tie-dyeing, they're both into that shit.

Hell we could do ice-dyeing, the farm has a 1000-lb ice machine that is very frequently turned on (weekly for the market, biweekly for chicken processing-- there could be ice available at pretty much any time lol).

So anyway. I know she wants me to make a tunic out of a trio of large-print cat shirts she's outgrown, and she wants to wear it for her 5th grade moving up day ceremony, and I looked at it while I was home but I haven't done it yet. I need to get my shit together.

What I might do is print off a size 12 version of the t-shirt pattern I own, it's just that it's designed for busty women because I'm a busty woman, and she's Not, yet (oh, she will be. soon. but not yet.) so I have to kind of. Well, I own a pattern for a swing tunic that's close to what she wants actually. Oh, I should just print that one off. (The joy of the Cashmerette Club subscription patterns is that you get all the sizes, 0-30, and I've now made a couple of them for smaller friends, because like. I mean I own the pattern! PDF patterns are so great because you can reprint them in the smaller size instead of trying to trace it off. I never ever got the hang of tissue paper patterns.)

Yeah here this one, the Wexford Top/Dress, would be easy enough to kind of carve out the bust curve a little and make it fit a kid, because it's not meant to be that fitted. I'll just sort of use that as a general guideline and then make the cut-out-and-patchworked t-shirts fit into that approximate silhouette. The way I made the other tunics for her, I just used a shirt whose neck and shoulders still mostly fit her. But these cat shirts she's thoroughly outgrown, so making a new neck/shoulder area would be best.

Orrrrrr.... I could use one of the zillion old t-shirts of mine that I've saved to cut up. The neck/shoulders of a fully adult-sized garment are no longer too big for her. That's easier.

I also have a bunch of garments I want to make for myself, as I don't seem to buy clothes much anymore (I can't bring myself to pay $40 for a dress off the clearance rack that won't fit me and will mostly be polyester and won't be that interesting and will pill the first time I wash it). The Club's latest pattern is a skort/shorts/skirt dealie, and I need more shorts all the time-- I've largely given up on underpants and just wear boxer-briefs or anti-chafe shorts and I just don't see the point now of wearing a pair of panties and then shorts over the top under my skirt. Like. Just wear the shorts! So being able to choose the materials and print and look of that would be pretty great. And the Cashmerette one is inseam-less, like my favorite anti-chafe shorts are.

So I have cut out a pair of just the shorts in a clearance cotton mesh from Dharmatrading, and I even have the correct elastic for the waistband, so that kind of rules. I will sew those up as soon as I get a chance. I would like to make several skorts as well, probably from synthetic ponte or something, but my ideal would be to get some decent merino/nylon jersey and do a few from that. You never see merino skorts but I would wear the shit out of those.

I also have a lovely underpants pattern from the Club from ages ago, and while I rarely wear underpants of that style anymore, I would like having some cute matchy ones to go with the bralettes. Also, I have a shitton of foldover elastic, and I suspect I could use foldover elastic in some of the bralettes I want to make, so I want to get proficient in its use, and there are directions for applying it in the underpants directions, and it seems like a good way to practice. So I cut a muslin of those from the same cotton mesh as the shorts, and just have to sew the pieces together.

I also want to make myself more pretty dresses, and I have parts of a new Studio Tunic for myself already cut out, but not the rest.

And I recently made myself the button-up shirt from the Club, I know I posted about it on here. And I wanted to immediately make myself several more, and I got out some fabric and prepared it and cut out one pattern piece and then ran out of time. So yesterday I finally cut out the rest of the shirt from this fabric, a print from Mood covered in tiny dinosaurs. So I have that all ready to go in a plastic baggie too, just waiting for me to have time to sit and sew it. (Once I do that, I would really like to make myself a dress version of it from the cool green not-quite-seersucker I got from that remnant bolt at Promenade Fabrics in New Orleans.)

AND. i also have resolved to make my BFF, the one in Rochester who I lived with for a bit in the pandemic, with the little kids-- MM-- I am going to make her a sloper, before I see her next weekend, or maybe while I see her next weekend if i don't get to it in time argh, and I am going to at least try that on her and figure out approximately what shape she is so that I can put together a master pattern for her to make herself dresses from. I took her measurements ages ago, and she's a 14CD bust, a 16 waist, and an 8 hip in Cashmerette's sizing, and so I think just making a sloper with those sizes all graded together will be a huge start. And then we can mildly tweak the fit for her frame, and-- the thing is, she's always buying custom dresses on Etsy because what she wants is very specific and not usually available in stores, and then the dresses come and don't fit her so she has to get them tailored, and then they were just made of cheap quilting cotton from Joann's so they wear out after she washes them a few times, and she's had to add on pockets anyway because they didn't have them.

So I just feel like if I could get her a paper master pattern that fit her... heck i could even just make her dresses if *I* had the pattern. It would be easier and more efficient. I could do the basic construction and then turn over the pockets and embellishments to her, which is what she does anyway. So that's my goal there, and we'll see if I can reach it.

Anyway. If only I didn't have to work at all and could just sew all the time. I am not the first person to say this, LOL.

I have a lot of irons in the fire but at the moment am trapped under a cat so those irons are not going anywhere.

#sewing #diy #garment sewing #making clothing #cashmerette patterns

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dunadaan · 23 days ago

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Still annoyed at the Angle of Mitheithel quests and honestly the lack of good quests and general world building.

Like you introduce the first and only permanent settlement of the Dúnedain and have like. Barely any info on their culture. Like they give us hints of things but little more- why do the old couple not live among the Dúnedain, their own kind? Non-Dúnedain I don’t think would live in the Angle and Tolkien is very strict abt the Rangers being Dúnedain- so maybe Thorn is Dúnedain on his moms side, and decided to live with her husband in Bree? Like you could’ve delved into THAT as a story- how Thorn found out he was a a dúnedain and set off to join them. How it might’ve been a struggle for him to fit in at first and the complications of (presumably, since she wouldn’t keep her own name if she had a last name but take her husbands) her mom leaving to be with a man of Bree. There’s a lot that could be explored there with that story alone.

I want to know more about daily life for the people here, the domestic things. I want to know more about them hiding in the caves- we could’ve had quests where we help prep and move things to said caves and gotten some background or stories of times where they did have to flee. (Which like. Could’ve played into the main story had they not WRITTEN it weirdly).

I wanna know more about their customs or how they raise their children, on stories or if their children get to go on little road trips to Rivendell or if elves come to Tornhad to teach them lessons. Like the little info you get in the deed log says “some (of the children) are additionally fostered in Rivendell.” But how do you choose which ones?? Like I shouldn’t have to read that in a deed log only.

I wanna know more about the women, like Ivoreth! That was a really neat inclusion and honestly highlights even more that Tolkien ignored most the women in family lines in his stories. Halbarad’s got a mom who’s ALIVE and kicking. We LOVE to see old rangers. Calenglad Golodir Ivoreth old ranger club.

I wanna know more about their housing situation…do houses stay with the same families? Do they ever build new homes for newer rangers who have no ties, or simply open up rooms? If you decide to be a ranger, do you keep your own room to return to, or is every house open to whichever Ranger needs a place to lay their head, since you’re not around long anyways? Who are the ones that go into civilization to trade? (I’m thinking more along book canon than the game) There’s little to no places of real trade beyond Bree or Rivendell, so they’d have to be pretty self reliant.

What about little quests where it talks more about the other jobs and duties…like sewing or carpentry or whatever. Parents excited for their child becoming an adult and sewing them clothes for the journey to be sworn in, lovingly stitching each seam. A father carving a truly fine bow as a gift, teaching his child to hunt and track. The community coming together and giving them a newly made pack, and it can never be gifted empty- freshly made rations and jerky and a lovingly sewn cloak and warm gloves and boots and sigghhhh. I think about it too much but we robbed of seeing these dynamics tbh…..

Also another thing that annoys me is the places being called Hidden Place and being glaringly obvious as to where tf it is. You couldn’t have maybe thrown some trees and bushes and shit to cover the place a little better? Put it more off the beaten path maybe?? SSG what is up with that design

#just bitching lmao #I have more ideas but I’ll add more later tbh #guess I’m just gonna have to write a fic abt this

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mothvalentino · 8 months ago

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Your Muse's Hobbies

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Tagged By: @visage-of-hell

Tagging: @wiltingwoes @queenbeeibee @screentimeoverlord @themosthatedbeing @pcisin @the-one-who-killed-the-radio @voodoodaaddy if you want to do it /haven't done it already :]

#ཐིཋྀ: moth musings #ཐིཋྀ: headcanon

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silverwingborn-moved · 8 months ago

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YOUR MUSES HOBBIES

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Tagged by Stolen from: @compelledcurator

Tagging: @drraphaelmd @hellcab @oleandernights @themosthatedbeing @rockange @divine-gnosis @lettherebemonsters @r-adio @cxncrie @xluciifer @laznivec @cannibalxroses and anyone else who wants to ^^

#dashboard games #iisms: silver aesthetics

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externalconceit-1 · 8 months ago

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YOUR MUSES HOBBIES.

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Ganked from: @itsaninfestation Tagging: off the top of my head: @brutalage, @collectingmuses, @fatummortem, @red-hemlock, @emmatriarchy @hauntedreality (muse of choice!), @gammaragee, @watsonjackpot, @sanguine-salvation, @bewitchingbaker, @silverjetsystm, @positivelybeastly, anyone!

#:she's like a thousand years old she's had time to learn things because she CANNOT DIE:#:that doesn't mean she's GOOD at some of these also some are past hobbies:#:yes she keeps bees:#:yes I'm serious:#:dash games:#:canons:

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bewitchingbaker · 8 months ago

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One thing that was hard to mark as a hobby was cooking and baking ecause those are his jobs technically. So I imagine he separates it from his more creative hobbies.

Drawing: Chris is always drawing when hehas downtime at the bakery. Often sketching little logos or his friends from memory. If you're his friend, there's more then likely a comic style drawing of you in his sketchbook. It's more of a comforting thing since it reminds him of days with his mom.

Dancing: Not exactly a hobby but it's something he enjoys. His childhood friend often danced with him, his family taught him how to have good footwork and he loves a nice party. But if he wanted to, he could learn to professionally dance but he goes with the flow so he can dance with anyone.

Playing an Instrument/Making Music: Chris's main way to unwind at the end of the day is to play his guitar (A Vintage Acoustic Fender ) and mess with his SP404. As much as he loves listening to music, Chris loves playing/making little tunes. He looks at it as a chill way to do things on his own time. Letting himself mess up, play well or play for a little bit.

Watching Movies/Shows: Chris loves watching movies. Mainly horror but he loves all genres and he's willing to watch anything. As long as the company is good, the baker is happy to watch a movie or a show. If he needs something on in the background he usually sticks to a shitty horror movie, a random episode of the Simpsons or Living Single, sometimes the Parkers.

Tagged By:@hunting-songs

Tagging: @smolcuriouskitten @brooklynislandgirl @everyoneismytoy @escapedartgeek @pyrokineticwarrior @ofteaandmagic @ofsnarkandmagic @siiinfully (any muse)

#ooc #; facts #headcanon

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pcisin · 8 months ago

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Your Muse's Hobbies

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Tagged By: @mothvalentino

Tagging: @radicheart, @tuneonin, @radiodoe, @themosthatedbeing, @voxxcd, @hellfrczencver, @dancingdevildemon

#.hc

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visage-of-hell · 8 months ago

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YOUR MUSE'S HOBBIES

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#Memes: HappyHourAtTheClub #I love doing these X3

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daddymothxxx · 8 months ago

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YOU MUSE'S HOBBIES

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tagged: @ghostlyrps & @sirserpentine

tagging: na - YOU

#valen fucking tino

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sirserpentine · 8 months ago

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YOUR MUSE'S HOBBIES

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Tagged by: @hazbinned Thank you!!

Tagging: @outforlve, @radiiosugars, @radioiaci, @hellpride, @visage-of-hell, @ladiesofhell, @daddymothxxx, @nebula-gaster

#i never thought of it before but Pen is seriously such a DM and I can see him larping too LMAO #I have never properly done either but STILL I CAN TELL

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hazbinned · 8 months ago

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YOUR MUSE'S HOBBIES - ANGEL DUST

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Tagging: @sirserpentine @damnedrainbows @crimsiin

#♠️ : my effeminate fellow / angel dust.#♠️: dash games.#{ Tagged people never HAVE TO by the way }#{ Strikethroughs are like... yes but not often }#{ He doesn't intentionally do trivia but he knows a lot about the things he likes. He doesn't go out of his way to juggle but can }

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fatummortem · 8 months ago

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YOUR MUSES HOBBIES.

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^_^; Cloud's hobbies are hard, he does a bit of everything & if he doesn't know he can easily know a few seconds later if need be. Then it'll adapt to jobs or what someone close to him finds fun. so *jazz hands at hobbies*

Tagged by: @externalconceit Tagging: if ya wanna do it just tag me in it so I can take a gander ^_^

#dash games #about tj #about cloud #about daken #about ryouta #about rosie #*zooms back to drafts*#wow typos bad naughty

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tangleweave · 8 months ago

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YOUR MUSES HOBBIES.

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Eddie can't deny that his first true love was games. Games have structure and rules. Board games are phenomenal teaching tools, and video games after them are an extension of the same, but many are a one-to-one connection with a singular player, allowing for better immersion. Many games afford all players the same spread of resources and the same opportunities to earn more, regardless of circumstance -- and having grown up in a low-income household alongside classmates who were even less fortunate, Eddie favors equal opportunity. He played American football in high school and earned a scholarship to play in college. While that sport in particular does engage in strenuous physical contact, outright attacking players is typically prohibited and severely punished when it happens.

But unless you know Eddie very well, he will vehemently deny that his love for all of the factors described above is derived directly from his formative experiences with his father sperm donor.

As an adult caught up in the exponential advancement of media technology, Eddie is very interested in the applications, pros, and cons of social media, as well as the observation of people engaging with it -- sometimes to the detriment of their attachment to reality surrounding them.

Eddie is a watcher. He watches people, he watches TV (yes, his interest in true crime is a particular pique especially after his various run-ins with both the law and breakers of it)... and he watches the sky. This last was less an interest of his before he met his Other. Now he looks up and wonders what would be awaiting Them there if They ever chose to leave this island Earth. Would it be friendly? Would it be fatal?

Knowing that nameless wonders and horrors alike swim through that sea of stars, he finds it so incredibly silly and pointless that humanity has the gall to try to eat itself in the name of greed, cloaked in a false veneer of competition. And he realizes that his voice alone will almost certainly not alter the flow of time or fate... but he'll join it with other voices who are perhaps more optimistic than he. If the world turns, or doesn't, on the strength of a few words, then he'll write and shout as many as he can until he finds the right ones.

Tagged By: @brooklynislandgirl

Tagging: Steal this meme!

#The Fourth Wall | out of character #Getting To Know Us | about the muses #muse: eddie brock

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brooklynislandgirl · 8 months ago

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Beth loves dancing and surfing, two things the Admiral could never take away from her, and both are part of her cultural expression. She is a quietly artistic soul. She doesn't bake or cook and the NYFD is grateful for that. She enjoys some shows but a lot of the time she restricts her viewing habits to personal alone times because she's sometimes embarrassed to not be able to keep up with a show or movie and a conversation being had; she has to listen carefully to one or the other. She also doesn't like having to explain why she always has closed captions on. Sometimes she misses visual clues or scenes because she's focused on reading the dialogue, and then has to go back and rewind. With the exceptions of trivia, board games, chess and card games,most of Beth's hobbies and interests tend to be activities that are largely solitary by nature. She is offended that witchcraft is on the list as a hobby but ultimately was forced to choose it for Reasons™.

tagged by: my darling Jo @bewitchingbaker tagging: @mutiineer, @hiippocrates, @morgansmornings, @honorhearted, @tangleweave, @nightmarefuele, @kylo-wrecked {{any of the Bens! spin the wheel! Do all of them!}} and anyone else who wants to!

#She's Talking to Angels {Bethisms}#Glowing like the Metal|Dash Games

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