#sensitive dependence

[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]

[itstimeforstarwars]

I think it's really funny when people say I'm converting them either to "korkie is a kenobi" or "korkie is not a kenobi" truthers. You don’t need to be a truther if you don’t want to. Join me in the middle with Schrodinger's Kenobi, where Korkie both is and is not a Kenobi until I figure out which option makes the plot funnier.

[chappell-roans]

when you’re fat but your thin friends keep talking about how fat they are (when they’re not)

[majachee]

Sensory issues 🤯 autism? 🤨💥

[tridentrans]

family resemblance. or something

[yuikomorii]

// I can’t believe I saw some people again claiming to like Yui but really complaining about how she’s poorly-written due to acting “too sensitive, too dependent and too soft” in certain routes. It's fine if you prefer her bolder moments, but just saying, if my only family member abandoned me and I ended up living with strangers (who happen to be vampires on top), I would easily become attached to the one who gave me the most attention too because desiring affection is completely normal in that situation. As a result, when Yui acts in that manner, it merely demonstrates a very realistic behavior rather than being OOC.

[realbeefman]

i just think the idea of. house, who always takes, who can be so deeply selfish, literally giving his blood, giving himself to feed vampire!wilson and wilson, who is so repressed, who bends over backwards to accommodate everyone around him finally taking, indulging, savoring the flavor of love on his tongue. “blooddrinking is a doing verb” or whatever the quote is

[chronicallyonline101]

Chapter 12 of Dumb Killers should be out in the next few days! I've got two more scenes to write, and they're about 5k words each so if I'm determined enough it should be out this Saturday or Sunday! Preferably Saturday, since i'm busy Sunday, but just, be prepared!

[foxykatie425]

I wanna make it clear that I haven’t done a lotta research into this argument, it is mostly coming from my own understanding of Star Wars canon.

But if people are questioning how Sabine could tap into the force when she is not, at least in the traditional sense, force sensitive…

I’d just like to point out…

Technically, neither was this motherf*cker! 🤔🤷‍♀️

[crying-adamantium]

The knuckles alts mean so much to me. Hes so environment dependent. Committing to the bit if you will.

[rosszulorzott]

Reading Journal

With two short stories, The Lucky Strike and A Sensitive Dependence On Initial Conditions, plus an interview by Terry Bisson this slim volume is like the spoonful of soup you set up to be perfect. The two short stories work together excitingly, one is more fiction, other is more science, and then there is the conversation offering further reflection on these works and much else.

There is a real joy to be had in submitting to a task like a madman.

The links go to the full text of the short stories, enjoy. Other books in my Kim Stanley Robinson appreciation series.

[triptychofvoids]

Heya doc , my nose is bleedin' (for the fourth time ever) any advice man?

- the bite of 87

you all like to send me such time sensitive questions....

firstly, stay calm, its not the end of the world. dont tilt your head back, because youre not going to want blood running down your throat and into your stomach (thats a very easy way to become nauseous), instead youll want to tilt your head forward or lean forward and gently pinch the bridge of your nose and apply pressure there for about 5-10 minutes. repeat this as necessary until it stops but it will most likely work the first time. and i assume most people dont want blood running down their faces and onto their clothes or floor so you can stop that with a tissue or paper towel or whatever else. and, the obligatory 'if you cant get it to stop after 20+ minutes consider seeking medical attention' as usual.

[domme-switch]

it was sooooo wet and puffy for you.... i miss it. but i just got my period, so i can't do much over the next few days, any ideas for a girl to tease herself in that time over a pad/etc ?

-🦷

aww I always suggest to all the lovely people that get their periods- if you feel comfortable, give yourself an orgasm (or multiple😌), they can help ease the pain and cramps!💛 use a vibrator on your clit, rub yourself over your panties, it really can help and I think everyone deserves to be spoiled when they have their period!😌 or take a warm bath, with a lot of bubbles, and touch yourself the way you want😘 (don’t forget snacks like a chocolate bar🤭😋)

period sex talk in the tags haha

[lucalicatteart]

A few little sketches of some possible school uniforms for mage schools/learning centers for magic/etc. :0c Though because Nanyevimi is so scattered and disconnected, it'd actually vary much more by region (like not everywhere would have a cultural concept of what a suit jacket or neck tie looks like lol), so it's probably unrealistic for so many of them to follow too many traditional Uniform Conventions from cultures in our world, etc. But, still, fun to mess around with designs, and think about which would be most fun to wear/what school you'd go to just based off the clothing lol~

[guinevereslancelot]

eye doctor was trying not to scare me today bc i have a sight threatening condition 🥲 it's probably treatable but i need to go to a specialist

[dennisboobs]

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