#free place to visit

[thailand-tourist-places]

Dinh Cau Temple

Have you visited Dinh Cau Temple where nature meets serenity? Dinh Cau Temple in Phu Quoc, Vietnam is a place where nature and peace come together. Sitting on a rocky cliff near Duong Dong Town, the temple offers stunning views of the sea, especially at sunset. It’s a perfect spot for anyone looking to experience both the island’s beauty and its spiritual side. A Place of hope and…

[taffybuns]

Not sure if tumblr's seen this yet, but the Philippine-Palestine Friendship Association is taking donations to help refugees from Gaza who are currently staying in the country. This was last updated on December 13.

Attaching images below from their posts. They're taking donations both locally and internationally.

[goatskickin]

Tiny House #12 - 🖥️ Students🍻

tiny 1x2 lot!

3 bedroom student house! one of those 'bedrooms' is a porch

realistic student clutter!

room for study and room for play!

no CC at all!* Needs all Expansions and Stuff packs however

*this lot does contain some extracted accessories (red solo cup, juice bottle, pile of trash) and unlocked hobby items (evil quilt, badly made curtains), which to me are not technically considered CC. But if they bother you, simply leave them out of the DL when you install it with the Sims2Pack Clean Installer

Download - Tiny House 13 - Students

[souenkun]

Judging from these panels, would it mean that there's no other yorishima exorcist that's still alive (since natori said that the yorishima family "was once" a big name, past tense) in the canon timeline, and that the yorishima we know probably ended his family's exorcism business for good by retiring himself? If so, was the reason tied to the youkai living in his left arm, or is there another cause? And when exactly did he retire— was it before or during seiji and shuuichi's high school days, which was why his left arm appeared with the thick bandages when he gave them the loquats in the anime, but he still lived in the estate during that time, or was it after the two became legal adults, which lined up somewhat with him moving into his forest home, abandoning his family estate in favor of living in isolation?

And, speaking of retirement, I wonder if we'll ever know why midorikawa told us that the takis were "famous" (which presumedly meant they were strong enough to be well-known) as occult diviners, since tooru herself only ever mentioned what their previous family business entails, and never about their status in the exorcism community? We don't really need this extra bit if she wanted to further establish how tooru has an aptitude for spell-casting, either. Again, there's another "strong" family (whose members are still alive in canon) that went into retirement, but did the taki family lost their power because the ability to see (if they were needed for diviners) disappeared for at least the last three generations (if we assumed that tooru and isamu's parents couldn't see youkai too), or was it due to another reason? How close was shinichiro (tooru and isamu's grandpa) to the matobas that even the current clan head came to pay his respects during his sixth death anniversary; was his relationship with seiji's father strictly resolved around exorcism business, or was anything else involved? Does tooru herself doesn't fully understand the prowess her family once had, hence why seiji was the one who told takashi (and us readers) about it? What would this tiny bit of lore mean for tooru with it revealed this late into the manga, when tooru herself only talked sparsely about her ancestors in previous chapters?

[cjgladback]

I went to my first fiber festival this past weekend! Hoosier Hills Fiber Festival; if I'm still in this state come June next year, I'll probably be back and would love to meet anybody else there. Socializing/hanging out/talking to people without feeling like I was obstructing Real Customers was the one thing I missed, though I didn't really get to any of the free lectures so maybe that's where I could've met some people. Since it was an unknown situation with a lot of people and nearly an hour drive each way, I strategized to make sure I'd go:

First day, I signed up for a couple volunteer shifts. Absolutely a recommended strategy.

Got to be helpful!

They happened to have goodie bags, to help me justify the gas and time (I now have a nice tape measure to replace the one that's been vacationing with a missing sewing kit for a couple years and a lasercut wood two-inch gauge window that might help me with consistency versus my suboptimal practice of just trying to knit perfect squares when swatching in pattern)

I got to learn things about the layout and schedule I wouldn't know to ask when answering questions and acting as a gofer -- especially true working two different locations

And of course, some people were pretty much guaranteed to be happy to see me!

Second day, I signed up for a workshop in the morning so I'd be there and able to shop for anything I needed at the end. Ombre yarn dyeing was the class! It's acid dyes, something I'm several years off from wanting to get into enough to commit to dedicated cookware, full pots of dye powder, etc. The room with the workshop was a barn that had plenty of outlets--but they did not represent plenty of breakers. So there weren't quite enough functional heating elements for the class to have sufficiently cooked our yarn before leaving, and I did need to risk a giant stock pot at home for three batches of four jars, almost-simmering in a water bath for thirty minutes each, of the yarn that hadn't proven it was done (all but the two palest greens). I was a little worried the delay/drawn out heat situation would affect the results but if it did it wasn't much; I got pretty much exactly what I was hoping for with my two color gradient and the single is great too!

The single dye gradient is the color Moss, which did some interesting things with the red portion separating out once they were heated. Every skein has redder blotches, so I'm not bothered about any inconsistency -- if anything it'll help my finished product camouflage stains. Though it was definitely a surprise for me and the other Moss user in the class when our first yarn to have exhausted the dye was the complementary color to what it went in as.

The two color gradient used Rhodamine Red on one end, which was one end of one of our instructor's samples where she chose a cool-green for the other end to show how multi-component dyes mix less predictably than most paint. (It was kinda like shading with markers where you can still see washes of the pink and green in what you squint at and call a grey-brown.) The other end was Cantaloupe, which was one of the maybe three colors she didn't have a sample cut of yarn for. But she described it as the flesh of a perfect ripe cantaloupe and obviously I had to see that, and it sounded like it would be fairly guaranteed to combine nicely with the magenta while being just enough around a bend in the color wheel to be interesting--warm orange versus cool pink. As I said, it turned out pretty much exactly as I was picturing. Not anticipated was how much the jars looked like they were full of some delicious dragonfruit-mango beverage. Were I still a barista I'd be trying to recreate this for my shift drink.

Image descriptions under the cut.

[ID: Five images following fourteen small skeins of sock yarn dyed in individual glass jars, in two gradients. One gradient is six skeins from a medium forest green through a pale creamy pink, the other is eight skeins from a vibrant yellow orange through an even more vibrant magenta. The first photo is inside under fluorescent lights, showing the 32oz glass canning jars with metal lids and rings, full of dye and yarn on a table at the end of the class in which they were filled and heated for a short time.

The next two images are animated gifs. The first gif is two frames showing the finished dye jars sitting in grass, with their yarn and with it removed. The green gradient left only transparent blue color in its jars, and most of the pink to orange gradient's water looks more orange without its yarn, aside from the third and fourth jars from the orange end, which shade toward a neon lilac with the peachy pink yarn removed. The second gif is a view of the inside of the bright green wash bucket, with just the pink-orange yarn in it, then all of them mixed up, all as they were after a soak with the rust-brown water, in the first rinse, and that rinse water alone showing its transparent but still brown tint.

The last two photos show the gradients lined up along a weathered wooden bench on the side of a deck. The first photo has the wet piles of yarn bundled in front of each of their respective jars with remaining dye. The final photo has the clean, dry yarn wound into center-pull balls and still vibrant in the direct sunlight. End ID]

[kagooleo]

the zine’s officially out, so I can post my contribution for the @extraordinaryzine :D!

my piece is an interpretation of the caverns on Iron Island 🏝️ so I wanted to incorporate more of the water surrounding it by creating a sea cave to have light spill inside (akin to the modra špilja/blue grotto)

the focus of the zine was on the daily lives of trainers and their pokemon, so Riley uses a spot inside the caverns like this to meditate with his team, although any new Riolu he trains can’t resist wanting to jump into the water to play υ´˶ ･ﻌ･ ˶`υﾉ”

this piece alongside a ton of amazing artists can be found free to download digitally here! (and lastly some closeups bc I liked getting all the little deets down)

[cuz-reasons]

Summary: Emmet investigates around work.

So glad I saved this chapter before heading home

[goddessofroyalty]

Hi!! I love your arcane fics and drabbles they are super fun! Sorry I'm too shy to come off anon but I was wondering what the dynamic was like when Vander, Silco and Benzo all lived together when Silco was pregnant with Viktor and when he was born. Did Benzo every try help out or did he stay away as much as possible?? I can't imagine cranky pregnant Silco and Benzo were a good mix lol 😂

No worries at all - I keep anon asks on so people who are shy can still message me.

The dynamic was very much one of people living practically on top of each other. So while Benzo did try and give Vander and Silco their own space it's kind of hard for him not to be involved. It's definitively part of the reason why Benzo ends up being effectively the kids uncle and a complete pushover to Viktor.

The pregnancy was not a great time for Silco and Benzo's relationship. However I do think Benzo's way of dealing/managing it is that it's Vander's problem (and regularly tells Vander that when Silco is clearly having some hormone emotion). But he still ends up roped into a lot of things because Silco tells Vander to do something/get something and Vander takes Benzo along with him for the errand. So he's helping out but that's because he's helping out Vander despite knowing the original request came from Silco (because he was often right there when Silco made the request).

Once Viktor is born I think they kind of find the dynamic that works and that dynamic is very much one of an uncle who is living with them and Silco and Benzo settle into their snarky but not overly antagonistic relationship. Because having Benzo around is very useful in both the terms of another set of hands (and eyes) but also someone that Silco and Vander can leave Viktor with if they need to go out and do something and don't want to bring Viktor with them. Silco and Vander are still definitively Viktor's Primary Caretakers but Benzo is definitively helping out. He's done diapers, he's done pacing with the baby that won't settle, he's done toddler feeds. But it's all very much just randomly here and there to help out then a set expectation on him

[sunnibits]

hi I don’t usually make posts like this but can you do me a favor and reblog this telling me what your favorite pajama combo to wear is?? even if it’s something really mundane like a tank top and sweatpants, I wanna know :)

mine is combining this really oversized retro doctor who t-shirt with a pair of space/constellation pj pants, bc then the whole thing is doccy who themed and it brings me joy :)))

[ladychlo]

"Palestine Cinema Days" Around The World : 2024 Screenings

''Eleven gruesome months have passed since the devastating genocidal war on Gaza, and Palestinians continue to suffer from ongoing human rights abuses. Yet, international media outlets and social media platforms often distort or ignore the Palestinian narrative, further dehumanizing the population.

This year, Palestine Cinema Days will once again be held around the world. On the solemn anniversary of the Balfour Declaration on November 2nd and amplify Palestinian voices, we are organizing over 250 screenings of Palestinian films globally. Join us in supporting Palestinian cinema and challenging distorted narratives.

Check screenings in a city near you on the list below or on the map.''

[magicalgirlmindcrank]

Blehhh

[watermelinoe]

extremely funny that corporations respond to customer complaints by giving you free product of the thing you just complained about

[gorps]

Idk what it is with me and sushi chefs but I think they all love me by default. i just got sushi and chatted with the chef a bit and he made sure i got free green tea and some extra snacks:)

[littlemizzlinguistics]

The thing about being neurodivergent and trying to be funny is just that… I could be giving my BEST material. A proper standup act! True hilarity (like that in my bio, thank you very much!) and… nada. Zilch. లేదు. לו. Total crickets!!!

But then, I just… say something. Completely random, somewhat serious. Just a regular old response to something. And then like… people are like “OMG UR SO FUNNY!”

And I’m like… I made THE BEST pun five minutes ago and you looked at me like “oh, sweetie…” but then I just… respond naturally to whatever you just said and suddenly I’m a comedian!!!

[lord-shitbox]

ais visits brothels to fuck but leander just takes people up to the spare room

[amogus-real-not-clickbait]

welp, it's done! whiteboard rules everyone, it's time to let it die o7

this was so much fun what the heck!! we gotta do it again sometime :0 thank you everyone who joined or was in some way a part of this experience!!<33333