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Writing period dramas in the discord, lads
never ever ever in my long-legged life have I *nor will I* see a better use of the internet/human ingenuity than this thread
that's a hill I'll willingly die on ✌🏻

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Wow, it’s so kind of Sam Reich to make an episode of Game Changer specifically for Jacob Wysocki, his dear friend with a heart of gold, and me, a random person with a crush on Jacob Wysocki.
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Happiness Will Come To You.
when tho
When You Least Expect It. Probably Late March
reblog for happiness to come for you in late march!
I reblogged this last year and I hung out with blink-182 backstage on March 30. Reblogging again because it worked the first time.
honestly, last year one of the best days of my life happened in late March
I really need this march

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Quietly manifesting that Mica Burton is brought on as a regular cast member for Campaign 3
In the UK we have a similar issue with the Family Reunification Scheme for people who’ve been granted asylum. For those who don’t work in UK immigration (and I’m guessing that’s most of you) a Family Reunion application can be made by a person with refugee status, and unlike most immigration applications it doesn’t involve fees, so your asylum seeker who has been barred from working throughout their claim (whole other issue that I could rant about at length) can exercise their right to family life basically as soon as they have some accommodation sorted.
HOWEVER, it only applies to bringing a spouse and/or children. It feels like such a western patriarchal mindset went into designing it, like they sat down and went ‘well what does a man need in order to exercise his right to family, ah yes he needs his wife and children at home waiting for him.’ That’s some Victorian bullshit! It means 1. there is a complete misunderstanding of what women typically need for meeting their immediate family needs, which, from the cultures that they’re often coming from is their older (usually female) relatives, because that’s where they get the majority of their childcare support, and 2. Unaccompanied asylum seeking children have no legal route for reuniting with the parents/siblings once they have status. Welcome to the Hostile environment.
Here, a cheater course on caring for natural fibers!
1. Wool. Treat it like it has the delicate constitution of a Victorian lady and the conviction that baths are evil of a 17th century noble. (If I get in WATER my PORES will OPEN and I will CATCH ILL AND DIE.)
2. Cotton; easygoing. Will shrink a bit if washed and dried hot.
3. Silk; people think it’s like wool and has the constitution of a fashionably dying of consumption Victorian lady, but actually it’s quite tough. Can be washed in an ordinary washer, and either tumbled dry without heat or hung to dry.
4. Linen; it doesn’t give a shit. Beat the hell out of it. Historically was laundered by dousing it in lye and beating the shit out of it with wooden paddles, which only makes it look better. The masochist of the natural fiber world. Beat the fuck out of it linen doesn’t care. Considerably stronger than cotton. Linen sheet sets can last literal decades in more or less pristine shape because of that strength.The most likely natural fiber to own a ball gag.
why are all my thrifted linen clothes dry-clean only ? is that fake ? is it a linen blend ?
That is a blatant lie. Throw that shit in the wash and iron it as hot as you can once it comes out and bam presto good as new.
Also important fabric note: cotton, wool, and sufficiently thick silk can be torn, for a nice straight line. Linen cannot. Linen laughs at your puny mortal strength. You have to cut linen
Truth.
Your puny mortal hands will give out before the linen does.
Hell, for a truly awesome finish on your linen, throw it into a pot of boiling water, stir it around vigorously, haul it out, wring EXTREMELY firmly once it’s cool enough to safely handle, hang dry, iron as hot as your iron will go while it’s still slightly damp. Your linen will thank you. Your hands might not
Truth.
This is why heirloom linens are a thing. Your great-grandmothers linens outlived her, your grandma, and with proper care will also outlive you.
Also! If your linen is only lightly worn and you didn’t sweat much while wearing it? Just soak it down with water, wring it out, and hang it in the sun. It’ll take care of any weird smells on its own
all this^^^ about linen YES it is a miracle fiber!
but… i really feel like wool gets an unfairly bad rep, especially since it is also very easy to sew with, and wool naturally inhibits the growth of mold, mildew and bacteria, i.e. the reasons fabrics tend to get (and stay) stinky.
I dyed 2 pair of hand-knit 100% wool socks this week and the process consists of putting the socks in almost-but-not-quite boiling water, adding acid in addition to the harsh aniline dye and then keeping it in there for the better part of an hour.
… which… sort of belies the ‘delicate Victorian lady constitution’ as outlined above.
If you don’t understand wool it can absolutely be frustrating to work with, but like other natural fibers wool is quite forgiving if you know its nuances and preferences.
SO! behold this super cool image of different fibers under a microscope!
See all those ‘scales’ on the animal hair fibers (image left)? when you expose that fiber structure to wet + heat the fiber swells and those scales extend out, then when you introduce agitation (see: ‘beat the hell out of it’ above) the scales on neighboring fibers catch and lock together - the fabric then shrinks and you get felt (if you’re doing it with non-woven fiber) or felted fabric (if you’re doing it with woven or knitted fabric).
Sometimes you want felting - felted fabric tends to be denser, warmer, and more waterproof.
but if you’ve just spent 40 hours hand knitting a pair of socks with intricate lace and cable detailing you really don’t want felting. So the key is just to remove one of the two main elements that lead to felting - hot water or agitation (and really agitation is the main culprit).
Since wool naturally resists getting stinky, all you have do to is hand wash your wool garments periodically - immerse them in a sink or bath or bucket of cold water, add a little delicate detergent or shampoo (it’s formulated for hair, wool is hair, no special fancy laundry detergent needed!) and just kind of swish it around gently with your hands, then rinse and hang or lay flat (in the case of knitted garments) to dry. Now that I have a tub in my bath I usually wait till i have a pile of woolens that need cleaning and do a tub-full at a time. Easy peasy.
also side note the ‘dry clean only’ tag is often a ‘cover our ass’ tag. I never dry clean anything but heavily tailored things like suits and winter coats. everything else can be hand washed tbh.
One note with linen, cheap linen tends to be made of the remnants of higher quality linen; aka short strands spun into longer threads. This means it’s a bit weaker than other linen, so be careful putting it in a dryer too often, as it may eventually start weaken the fabric.
(I work in a fabric store that specializes in natural fiber and you can absolutely feel the difference between the short strand linen and the long strand linen)
The reason linen and silk tends to have the dry-clean-only tag isn’t the fiber.
Many expensive clothing items, such as the ones that you tend to be able to buy made of linen or silk, have stuff Done To Them as part of the design; this can be a bunch of things, but a decent general term is ‘sizing’. If you wash the item in water, the sizing will come out. It won’t damage the fiber, but the way the garment behaves may change - generally, it will be less stiff and not hold its shape as well. So if you’ve got a store-bought garment made of silk or linen, you can totally wash it in water, but be prepared for it to change a bit.
None of this applies to things made from yardage; when you buy fabric to sew with, the first thing you do is wash and dry it, in the manner you’ll use to wash the resulting clothing (wool) or very very harshly (the other three). That way it does all the shrinking it’s going to do before it’s sewn up, and there will be no unpleasant surprises the first time you try to put it on after it comes out of the laundry…
Saw this without the notes, so reblogging with one of the (many) helpful note chains. (If you go into the notes there’s actually a bunch of helpful ones. )
But also, yeah silk varies wildly by item in terms of how well it will wash.

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Leaving this for myself if not others because someday I want to be able to grow my own food
@steakplissken you said you were growing a garden, right?
Yeah! Too late for this year’s plot but definitely something I’ll look over for next season! Thank you! ❤️
there are so many really great REALLY INFORMATIVE guides like this on Instagram.
here's one from @courtneyahndesign (on insta)
If you’re in the His Dark Materials universe, what in the actual fuck do you do if your dæmon settles on a walrus?

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Watching episode 2 of Undeadwood and just came to the realisation that Brian is flipping a poker chip in the intro. I legit thought he was giving an awkward thumbs up.
Ace/Aro Representation in Popular Media: A Reference Guide
NOVELS
THE GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO VICE AND VIRTUE AND THE LADY’S GUIDE TO PETTICOATS AND PIRACY BY MACKENZI LEE
REPRESENTATION: Felicity Montague, a supporting character in the first book and the main character of the second, is openly aroace. There’s a lot of queer rep in these books apart from Felicity – her brother, the main character of the first book, is bi, and there are also gay and lesbian characters.
PLOT: Felicity is a white, British teen girl who is dead set on becoming a doctor in the 1700s, despite opposition on all sides, both from her family and the misogynist men who control the medical establishment, and she is also busy navigating a world where her value as a person is equated with her ability to marry and have children, despite the fact that she has no desire to do either.
SAWKILL GIRLS BY CLAIRE LEGRAND
REPRESENTATION: Zoey, one of the three main characters, is ace, black, and a teen girl. The other two protagonists, Marion and Val, are also openly queer.
PLOT: Teen girls keep mysteriously vanishing without a trace from Sawkill Island and no one seems to be doing anything about it. Zoey, the daughter of the local sheriff, starts her own investigation after her best friend disappears. Not to spoil too much, but the plot involves monsters, a terrible curse, and magic.
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