#heckin magnets

[jaubaius]

Kiss by kiss

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[baconpal]

JUST TAGGED OUT OF REINOHEARTS PLACE IN DA MIDDLE OF A COMBO

[julie-su]

Anyways, the context is that I had one of those stupid magnetic pin chargers that they use for 'easy' charging for headphones and smart-watches and the likes; the kind that loves getting attatched to anything that is not the thing that it's supposed to be 'seamlessly' docking to. It attatched to one of my necklace chains, and was getting incredibly hot, nestled into a book I was reading. I noticed only because of the weird smell...

Am Veri Smarte

[starshineyellow]

Heehee, sorting the food and dishes in a kids’ pretend kitchen stove and oven makes dopamine go brrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[woman-respecter]

I love soft uwu mens rights activism. Men may not usually experience misogyny but they're human on planet earth. Your dumbass transphobic terf-magnet post belies yor unfamiliarity with feminism

ok. then get ur mra ass back to 4chan then and see how those heckin smol beans treat you. i’m sure they’ll see your humanity as a woman or trans person, because you fight so hard for theirs, right?

[floridianfireflyfaith]

@onenicebugperday Apparently this one area in North Florida is a cute bug magnet!! Same spot as the amberjack - again, I don’t think he’s identifiable due to his feverish drying attempts from the rain, but he was so heckin’ cute I was ready to cry. 🥲

[artsie-rosie]

some kitchen & cooking tips that helped me a lot lately!

I've always had the hardest heckin time with cooking and kitchen management. From deciding what to have as a meal to grocery shopping to actually cooking, every step of it was a source of stress, guilt and many other bad feelings. I was confused and disheartened and I felt so alone because I seemed to have the hardest time with something other people did so easily and casually.

After I came to terms with my neurospicyness, my wife introduced me to a facebook group called Executive Dysfunction Meals and it quite literally changed my life. Learning that I was not alone in this very specific struggles was so darn validating, and from there on I started learning and coming up with strategies to make my life in the kitchen bearable, and even fun (shocking, I know!).

I'm very passionate about paying forward and spreading help and information, so I'm gonna start typing down the strategies and tips that have helped me the most so far. I hope it may be of help to someone out there!

(Please note I am not a professional and I'm not claiming to know the best way to do anything, these are all just my personal experience.~)

Optimize your space (specifically for you): You know how fridges usually have a big drawer type of space specially for veggies? I used to put my veggies and greens there, but then my brain would magically Out-Of-Sight-Out-Of-Mind them away. Countless times I'd open the drawer up, weeks later, just to find rotten veggies and liquified greens. Then punish myself with guilt and anger... Until at some point we decided that enough was enough, that simply wasn't working out to our advantage, and we changed things up entirely: We started putting things that don't go bad in the big drawer, such as beverage cans, unopened juice boxes, pickled greens etc, and the veggies now go on the area just above, out in the open, so I can see them everytime I open up the fridge. I also have a little magnet whiteboard on the fridge's door, and whenever we do groceries I make a list of the stuff we have to consume quickly before it goes bad - visual cues help me quite a bit. I'm happy to say it's been quite a while since we've let greens go to waste!!!

Optimize your space (specifically for you) II: In the same logic as the item above, you can (and should) adapt your space to you, and not the other way around. I have a little stepladder that I use as a stool whenever I'm cooking or washing dishes, because it's hard for me to stand up for too long. Whenever I start using a utensil more often and it was initially stored behind doors or someplace hard to reach, I change things up to bring it closer and have it easily accessible. If I don't use something for more than a year, I put it away a little further away to free up space for something I use often. I'm always optimizing my space and keeping the things I use the most very easily accessible; it's not an easy process to change things up like this, but I promise the positive effects of this strategy are long lasting in my daily routine!

Learn the best way to freeze and use leftovers, vegetables and fruit, and adapt them to your routine: I freeze chopped bananas and avocados that would go bad otherwise, because I like turning them into smoothies. Leftover rice is saved to make fried rice which we love! Learning the best way to freeze broccoli was a game changer and it gave me a week of really nice quick meals! Google is your friend and there's so much handy info out there, being curious and adventurous really pays back in the kitchen.

Batch make and freeze sandwiches for a quick snack: I picked this tip up from the Exec Dysfunction Meals group! I've been doing it for a few weeks and it really helps. Whenever I feel like I have the extra spell slots, I make a couple more sandwiches than I would normally, put them in little freezer baggies and freeze them. Whenever my wife and I want a quick bite and don't feel like making anything, grabbing a sammich and popping it on our sandwich toaster is so easy and it makes a warm and crunchy meal. I've done it with ham, cheese and oregano, I have friends who do this with plain toast too.

Batch make garlic paste and chopped onions to freeze, for quick cooking starters: Yes I'm aware a lot of people speak against this, but hear me out. As a brazilian, a lot of my cooking starts with crushed garlic and chopped onions. Whenever possible, I do prefer these ingredients to be prepared and used as fresh as I can, but whenever the executive dysfunction or the joint pains hit, having these starters ready to go help a lot. For the garlic, I either crush or process a head of garlic or a handful of cloves finely with salt, then use silicon ice trays to freeze it into little cubes. For the onions, I chop them finely on the food processor, get rid of the excess water, put them into a freezer bag and use the dull side of a knife - or a spoon - to shape them into flat little squares (the flatter it is, the easier it will be to defrost and sauteé them). When it comes the time to get some rice or some stir fry started, I grab one little cube of garlic and one little square of onion and sauteé them; it's quick, easy, and effortless.

Process anything you can: This one is kind of specific, but for some reason I was raised to think that everything is better if it has a lot of effort involved, specially in the kitchen. That's the reason why I've hesitated so much to really put our food processor to use, and kept insisting to do a lot of things the "traditional" way. In the last few years I finally stopped pushing myself and now I use it to grate, slice, chop and blend everything I can. Being adventurous and figuring out in which ways can I put the processor to use instead of doing things by hand is a fun puzzle, too. Besides, a masterfully crafted meal with things finely chopped by my own hands won't help me at all if it never becomes a reality due to how tired or sore I feel to cook.

[I might either come back and add more to this post in the future, or reblog it to add more tips!]

[brilla-brilla-estrellita]

MOCKUP COMPLETE???? (Mostly).

Last time, I was in a tizzy because the pattern for the fingers didn't seem to fit the mockup, but it did fit the wing pattern, and the mockup fit the wing pattern, so...????

I still don't know what that's about, but I persisted! The next thing I did was pin down the pattern and trace it with a yellow Frixion pen so that the line would hopefully be visible, but not obvious if it didn't fully go away. Apparently, I didn't take pics of this step. Oops.

Then I pinned along the traced lines to hold the fabric together but also because the lines were a little too hard to see (should've used the pink marker!). See below my pinned nonsense.

Next, I just had to sew along the lines! These are probably some of the best seams I've ever sewn, tbh. I t was hard to see the traced line sometimes, but I took it slow and checked that I was still on track pretty often and it paid off!

I did have a brief period where I couldn't stop thinking about the apple danish sitting behind me. I had fallen into the trap of promising myself I could have it as a reward when I finished sewing all the finger channels, but that just made me obsess over it and start to rush. I could actually feel the anxiety building up as it went on and I realized how much sewing I still had to do.

I've been attributing this kind of behavior to ADHD, but maybe that's just because I only noticed the pattern after I was diagnosed with ADHD. Maybe someone here can tell me if it's an ADHD thing. Anyway, my brain does NOT work that way. Reward must come before or during activity, not after, if I want the work to be done well. So I took a bite of the danish after I finished each line, and that worked out a lot better.

And with that, I have a wing!!!

I had to hold the un-sleeved wing because adding this fabric added enough weight to make them very crooked. The wings are held in closed position via magnets, and this fabric is so heavy that the wing doesn't stay closed! It opens when I lean over!

This means I'm probably going to have to scrap my original idea for the fabric, which was going to be something suede-like for the "lambs ear" touch on the inside and something a little more leather-like for the outside. I'll need something heckin light for these magnets to hold, and that's probably the only downside to this setup so far.

I didn't put wire in the finger channels because I don't have any yet, and I want to figure out what to do about the spike on top because I want it to be black in the final product, like Simon's. But for all intents and purposes, the mockup is done and I am ready to buy fabric and start on the real deal!

[kollector-of-stims]

does your five below have these sliders yet? they are made of thin matte plastic and the magnet rattles lightly inside each piece. theres one magnet per slider half and 3 other designs i saw— a deck of playing cards, tarot cards and a donut :)

-autistictadpole

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Idk how long this ask was here but...I STILL have NOT seen these in five below or ANYWHERE...which is kind of a shame since these look heckin neat??

[winterrose42]

HELLO EVERYONE

Now that i have your attention i need people to look at this because i am very excited and have been for a while now that i received my loveliest friend's art in sticker and magnet form and i need people to look at them or i will explode.

Before anything here is a link to the redbubble shop i got these from and here is a link to the wonderfully talented artist that created them ^-^ or simply search @birdsongisland and you can find the info💜

First look at how absolutely gorgeous these swords and stars are!! More stars to come the swords are the highlight. The details and color coordination on all of these is mind blowing and them being in sticker form definitely didn't downgrade the amazing quality of the art at all in my opinion. I really encourage clicking and zooming on the pictures because all of the detail needs to be appreciated. Especially the birds the texture of the feathers and shading is just impressive. I have a close up of the one-

Look!!!!! Look at that!!!!!!! And now i just have this is my house!!!!!! The wood texture the feathers the color graduation the attention to how the bird sits and its proportions!!!!! Superb!!!! ~subirb heh~. And it's a sticker!!! A very good quality and sturdy one at that i can just put it anywhere!! And look at it and go hell yeah my friend made that!!!!!!! Not only that-

Ooooh my favorite Round Boy!!!!! LOOK AT HIM!!!! And hes sticking on leather very very well and this is one i carry around with me so people can say "aspen where did you get that incredible fucking bird sticker?" And i can say i got it from my friends redbubble because i love ent and ents work so fucking much look at the colors and texture and round little body he is my favorite and you should go get yourself some heckin stickers!!!!

Finally the stars highlight. I love these with every fiber of my being and im sorry for the odd lighting my rooms not great for it on a good day. But i just cannot get over the colors of these and all the shapes and little details- the monochrome and most colorful ones being my favorites and highlighted for viewing pleasure. They are all so incredible and i am so excited i ended up getting them all because i couldnt pick just a couple. I dont know where im going to stick all of these yet, i kinda just wanna get a big frame and stick them in a little friend art appreciate collage to hang up to be honest. Reblog with magnets i am also so very excited about those but anyone that sees this should go and look at the art themselves bc i know youll find something youll like

[just-a-mod]

I drew @honeycomb-cacube 's DND player group, after the were finished visiting their king for some secret conversations :3c

and a strange princess walked by them in the hall 83c

@voidhusband278 @sugar-heckin-cookie @marionette102 and two others without socials : ) are all on the right hand side

my lovely lady Zalla is on the left

what a heckin bunch of danger magnets<3

[agentgrange]

I also saw that post on Reddit. Lovecraft discourse is the worst because there are two camps, either you cannot engage with his work at all and doing so makes you a horrible evil person or we are all just suppose to pretend that he was just a full on monarchist reactionary for half of his life until his change of heart. I wish we could discuss his fiction, the mythos and him as a person with out the jackassery, because when we do we come up with incredible fiction!

I definitely tend to agree and like to think I have a nuanced opinion on the topic, I'm just slightly taken aback when I see people either unaware, in denial, or trying to justify it poorly without actually taking a deep look at it simply because its the heckin' fishman IP. There's something to be said about how the mythos is a rare form of fiction as a shared, relatively contemporary body of work not tied to an IP since Lovecraft's decision to let it enter public domain on his deathbed. A lot of people think the world of corporate owned IP, and characters being tied directly to a single author, is the natural way things have always been. But for the bulk of human history, stories and myth making has been a collective effort evolving characters through different iteration, incremental improvements, and new original takes on the same material. Its intensely frustrating some people start and end the mythos at Lovecraft's personal history when it ignores the history of shared mythmaking thats taken place sense then, and inadvertently reinforces the corporate status quo mindset of "the sole creator" and branded IP. There's also something to be said that if you look at Lovecraft's specific brand of xenophobia its all very... Juvenile. The more that I've read about their life, I truly believe that they were someone who was very mentally ill with feelings of intense hatred of their own gender identity and body dysmorphia. I won't speculate on specifics, but-- Feelings of inability to communicate arcane knowledge, feeling overwhelmed by a deluge of unknownable information, feeling like your own body is monstrously cursed wretched shell pressed on you by birth that will only grow more eldritch in age from what your mind envisions you as and desperately hopes you could be. These are all things I, bluntly, recognize and deeply vibe with. Unfortunately, they were also raised in a vitriolic, abusive turn-of-the-century Providence estate environment so all of that anxiety could only project onto the context that their environment presented them with, like scraps of paper about the outside world tucked into a gilded cage-- Lovecraft was writing stories to organize these feelings but was locked in place and could only paste together thoughts and words from the scraps around him in his environment, like a ransom letter or fridge magnets. It makes sense that's what his stories are all about, man trying but failing to perceive something grander but limited by their meager understanding of the unnatural. For him, the most easily accessible scraps was the racial and social anxiety that permeated old New England households who felt like the foreigner would topple their dynasties-- Language he gleaned from his family. That doesn't fully excuse it by any means, but I don't think the people that smugly write off engaging with the subject matter fully understand that nuance or make any attempt to understand why it might resonate in a modern context with someone that has more to work with. More newspapers for the letters, more magnets on the fridge. The thing is too, he was getting more to work with and breaking outside of that environment towards the end. The letters he wrote to his many correspondents, his personal relationships once his mother died, it all gave him a wider view on these feelings they had. On his deathbed he admitted as much, and I can't help but wonder what could have been had he lived and continued his work with a more even understanding.

[littleapocalypsekitten]

#we will be making posts like this about coronavirus soon enough#not quite the same tone though - we will be addressing the absurdity of how we had a violent moral panic and then immediately pretended ever

Ah, I found this post back on 9/11 and made my own contributions, because I'm heckin' old and I remember this stuff. I talked about Freedom Fries, too, because I remember that. (Something that didn't happen immediately after, but was tied to the Iraq War, which was fronted on the "9/11 high" and so forth). As for Covid... well, I do remember talk of cancelling Halloween, but for the very good reason of not wanting virus-spread by partygoers and trick-or-treaters. In my neighborhood, Halloween remained a thing and kids and candy-passer-outers just wore masks, which, of course is something that most people do on Halloween, anyway. Those kids dressed up in Naruto-costumes had it made, that was just some ready-made masking right there. I remember some of the panic being well-founded. Like, on a blog I go to, I was telling people not to rile up my anxiety with saying that "soon we (U.S.) will be like Europe and there will be tent-morgues and mass casualties." I was trying not to think about that, to hope against it, but...there were. Things got even worse because of our administration at the time with a wannabe dictator who wanted to pretend it was all a hoax against him and seemed to be happy that it was ravaging minority and general poor communities and overall found that taking advantage of people's fear and the tendency toward conspiracy theories seemed to make him more popular and really bred him up a cult. Uggggggh. I do think the funniest thing to come out of the genuine apocalyptic crisis that was the pandemic that we had to survive through was the claim that some bozos were making that the vaccines made you magnetic / gave you Magneto powers. That was hilarious. (I've gotten my shots and I've tried to stick magnets and spoons to myself for fun. Doesn't work). You promised me fabulous mutant powers, guys! Where are they?!

Post 9/11 Trivia

Most folks on this site were either children on September 11, 2001, or weren’t even born yet.  But America went crazy for about a year afterwards.  Here’s some highlights that I remember that might not be in your history books:

There was national discussion on whether or not Halloween should be canceled because…fuck if I know why.  After planes crashed into buildings in NYC it follows that 6-year-olds in Iowa shouldn’t be allowed to dress up like Batman and ask their neighbors for candy, I guess.  (Halloween wasn’t canceled, by the way.)

On a similar note, people asked if comedy - any sort of comedy - was appropriate anymore, ever.

People sold shitty parachutes to suckers “in case your building gets attacked and you have to jump out the window.” There were honest-to-God news reports warning people not to jump out of the window with shitty mail-order parachutes because they wouldn't work.

As a follow-up to the attacks, someone mailed anthrax to some prominent politicians and news anchors - you know, famous people - along with some badly-written notes about “you cannot stop us, death to America, Allah is good” and after that every time some random dumbass found a package in the mail they didn’t recognize they thought that the terrorists were targeting them, too.

Everyone was similarly convinced that their town was going to be the next target, even if they were a little town in the middle of nowhere. "Our town of Bumblefuck, South Dakota (population 690) has the largest styrofoam pig statue west of the Mississippi! Terrorists might fly planes into that too! It's a prime target!"

People started taping up their windows and trying to make their houses or apartments airtight out of fear of chemical and biological attacks. There were news reports warning people that turning your house into an airtight box was a bad idea because, y'know, you need air to breathe.

"[X] supports terrorism!" and “if we do [X], the terrorists win!” were used as arguments for everything.  "Some rich Arab you never heard of donated to his organization that backs Hamas which backs al-Queda, and also owns stock in a holding company that has partial ownership of the Pringles company, so if you eat Pringles you're supporting terrorism!" "The terrorists want to tear down our freedoms and our way of life and rule us through fear! Eating what you want is one of our freedoms as Americans! If you're afraid to eat Pringles, the terrorists win!" (I promise you that this sort of argument is in no way hyperbole.) (This argument is how Halloween was saved, by the way.  “If we cancel Halloween, the terrorists win!”)

People worked 9/11 into everything, and I mean everything, whether it was appropriate or not.  If you went to the grocery store the tortilla chips would remind you to support the troops on the packaging. Used car sales would be dedicated to our brave first responders. You couldn't wipe your ass without the toilet paper rolls reminding you to never forget the fallen of 9/11, and again, this is not hyperbole. My uncle, who lived in Ohio and had never been to New York except to visit once in the 70′s, died of a stroke about 8 months after 9/11, and the priest brought up the attacks at the eulogy.

On a similar local note, on the day of 9/11, after the towers went down, gas stations in my home town immediately jacked up gas prices.  The mayor had the cops go around and force them to take them back down.  I doubt any of that was legal.

Before 9/11, Christianity in America - and religion in general - was on a downward swing, with reddit-tier atheism on the upswing. Religion was outdated superstition from a bygone age. The day after 9/11? Every single church was PACKED.

Besides dumb shit like that…it’s really hard to overstate how completely the national mood and character changed in the span of a day, or how much of the current culture war is a result of the aftermath. (9/11 was the impetus for the sharp rise in power of the Evangelical Right, who made themselves utterly odious and the following backlash helped the rise of the current Progressive Left, for instance.)

[nattikay]

(troll)Jim and Claire being stupidly touchy-feely for almost 3 minutes uwu

[milesdadworth]

I GOT MY GREAT TURNABOUT ZINE TODAY

im probably crazy for pre-ordering it before I even play the game (I think I was hoping we'd be playing it by the time it shipped) BUT ALL THE MERCH IS SOOOOO GOOD it's an investment in future blorbos

[cam-the-orange-cat]

I do not know.

I am unironically famous for being a bug magnet. I have been bitten by so many insects, it's not funny. My workmates have made the joke that they don't need bug repellent if I'm around. My siblings mock me for having "tasty blood." My friends tease me for getting bites so freakishly often.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I'm not afraid of bugs, I give them their space. BUT THEY HECKING SEEK ME OUT. The worst bite I had was a black widow, which became infected and triggered psoriasis in my legs. I did not have psoriasis before. I heckin hate insects.

have you ever been stung by a bee?