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I’m a little bit obsessed with makeover/dressing scenes where the reveal is an undeniable downgrade from what the character started out with. Top tier comedy

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So every gay person saw Cinderella and Rosmund and were like oh they're in love right. Like that wasn't just me right.

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brennan trying to convince everyone he’s not made of evil in episode 4 when bringing the players in

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little gremlin and her gf 

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Kisses you and rides away

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i saw someone in a d20 facebook group i'm in talking about how they are "bothered by the fact that the same crew who pulled off operation slippery puppet spent half a combat episode running around not engaging anything"

and i'm so upset about that holy mother of false equivalences.

like, does context mean nothing? does the fact that the wurst crew had SO many more resources available to them, that they had so many more hit points to work with, mean nothing??

the plan wasn't a terrible one. they just had no good options and the dice weren't on their side that day.

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you dont make a sound, heartbreak was never so loud

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i’m still sad so here’s another meme

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me during episodes 1 and 2: he’s just a little kitty cat lol

me at the end of episode 3, sobbing: he’s just a little kitty cat

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"If I was so dead, where was my funeral?! Where’s my headstone?"

I'm haunted by both these quotes and the idea of what would have happened had Timothy Goose found Ylfa after she'd well ...

Quote is by Kristin Chang

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0. Research!

I decided I wanted to make part of a spinning wheel, but I realized I don't actually know how they work. The first step, then, was research!

(As you will likely notice, I got too invested in research and ran out of time for the important steps... the building...)

I did some searching in the Hatfield library and the online catalog. I heavily referenced the book "Linen: Hand Spinning and Weaving" (citations below).

With that foundation of knowledge, the next step I took was visiting the Willamette Heritage Center. It's home to a few historic buildings, most notably the Thomas Kay woolen mill. They also house the Salem Fiber Arts Guild (a group dedicated to hand spinning and weaving textiles). The visit was less fruitful than I had hoped, as most of the infrastructure of the mill was big pieces of machinery that had moving parts that I couldn't see, and the Fiber Arts Guild has strange business hours. The people at the heritage center will still helpful, and that visit did net me another source book () as well as the possibility of an email from the Fiber Arts Guild (I have not received word from them as of current).

Next was watching a lot of spinning tutorial videos to study the motions of the parts, alongside a few videos of people actually explaining the parts. I wasn't able to make all of the parts, so I won't explain the mechanics in extreme depth, but I'll give an overview later (I spent a lot of time on it, and if I don't show you it my work is futile).

Sources

Baines, Patricia. Linen: Hand Spinning and Weaving. Batsford, 1989.

Smith, Beth. How to Spin : from Choosing a Spinning Wheel to Making Yarn. Storey Publishing, 2016.

"How Spinning Wheels Work." Youtube, uploaded by Tiny Fibre Studio, 24 October 2020, www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgXS1tZKQ_o.

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Here's a picture of the Thomas Kay Woolen Mill! The day I went it was super rainy and they had some Christmas lights up. The museum in general has lots on the history of Salem, and the heritage center employees are wonderful!

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1. Design

After I had done some research on how a spinning wheel works, I made some cardstock and thread mockups to figure out what pieces would actually need to go where. I didn't have any wire at hand, so uh.. it got messy.

This was really helpful in understanding how the pieces work and move together! I then did a bunch of math to try to figure out the dimensions of each piece (this may have been futile as I ended up doing it wrong anyway. Here's a little desmos simulation I made for the math!

Time for sketching! I knew I didn't want to do a hand turned machine, because that's a wheel with a handle and I'm pretty confident I can make a wheel with a handle. There were lots of different single treadle and double treadle machines, but a lot of the double treadle machines only had one piston. There may as well only have one treadle! I decided I wanted two pistons. For the Fun. The Challenge. These are the sketches I referenced; the first image is me trying to understand the geometry of the parts, the second has lots of diagrams of the wheel, and the third has a diagram and instructions for constructing the axle.

Then, there was nothing left to do but build!

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2. WHEEL TIME

I kind of knew the shapes I needed, but how I would obtain each part I needed was mostly done on the spot. The easiest (or at least most straightforward) part was The Wheel.

To make the wheel, I drew a circle onto a sheet of laminate wood. I didn't have a large enough compass, so I drilled a screw into the wood and used that as an anchor to hook a measuring tape onto and then went around the screw with a pencil taped to the 6" mark (I took the screw out when I was done).

I used the panel saw and the table saw to cut out a rough square around my circle (It would have been a lot easier to draw the circle after I had cut the square out, but I didn't think of that).

Then I used the bandsaw to trace my curved pencil markings.

I then used the belt sander to refine my very bad circle cutting attempt, and also to round the edges. If I were to do this again, I probably wouldn't round the edges. The laminate split and peeled a tiny bit and it just didn't look great.

(Do i actually have pictures of the belt sander? No? Well, I shouldn't have done that step anyway.)

Wheel done!