Occasionally Existent Ghost

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But anime and video game boob jiggling is like. The most uncanny valley shit I've ever seen nine times out of ten. You would think people this horny about tits would have actually looked at some but I guess not.

YOU DO IT ON ONE OF THESE! OBVIOUSLY!!!

and that brown end? the hard bit? pencil sharpener. or sharpened with a blade. are you following me? now, attach six of those to a harpy.

Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.

take these tags, on somebody else's post (condolences pip)

the thing is. this is what i would call an inside thought. nobody would have known you didn't get it if you didn't tell them that. if you recognised that it was important but didn't have the headspace to process it, you can reblog without commentary for others, or to come back to later. or you can save it somewhere and wait until you DO have the capacity to read it over a few more times, ponder it, consider what it might mean, figure out how to understand it, and THEN reblog it

but no. rushing to reblog while it is still opaque. rushing to admit to ignorance rather than spend the time to achieve understanding. perhaps hoping that somebody will break it down for you more simply, though to my mind it was quite simply phrased in the first place. never stopping to take the time first

comprehension is not always instant! sometimes it takes a bit of time for something to percolate after you read it; sometimes you need to read it a few times; sometimes you realise you don't have the context for it and either go and get the context or accept that it's not for you right now

made some correspondence sigils into vector art to use them as in-line images. correspondence emojis, if you will. svg versions if anyone wants them: an unmappable direction, the pain experienced at apogee, eternal dominion/everything in its place, and a generic sigil

This is a popular clasp I've seen around and recently I've been using it a lot more because it's a lot easier to put on than fiddling with a button with one hand. Essentially a bracelet band can be widened without breaking the loop:

This relies on a square knot's ability to slide along its base cords.

It's mainly used in bracelets because you would need an awkwardly long sliding cord for necklaces or anklets. It takes a lot less extension to get over a hand than say, a head.

Here's how to make it:

^The slide clasp starter

A) Place a bead or some kind of bulky knot at the end so the slide clasp can't get pulled out completely.

(ngl I carefully drew the bead attached with a lark's head knot like an idiot but in practice if you followed the picture the bead would come right off. Don't. Don't do that. Loop the bead on the cord and secure it with an overhand knot.)

B) Leave a section of base cord blank. Make it slightly longer than you want the cord to be able to slide. 3in. is a good length, not including cord for holding the bead.

C) Start your project with a square knot starter, no overhand knot.

D) Build the bracelet/project to almost the final length. Don't count sections A and B in the bracelet length.

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Finishing the slide clasp:

^When you get about half an inch to the end length of your project use an overhand knot to secure the base cords only.

Line the starter up to cover the ending's overhand knot and continue the bracelet without any gaps:

A sequence of 3 or 4 square knots works fine.

^The result should look like this.

A) The base cord's overhand knot is hidden beneath the sliding cord.

B) The outer cord is secured by an overhand knot also hidden beneath the sliding cord. Do not include the sliding cord in the overhand knots. This allows the cords to slide within the square knot sequence.

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Two-sided slide clasp:

I personally prefer a single slider but most sliding clasps I've seen other people make have two sliding cords held together by a short independent square knot sequence. It looks like this:

It's good if your style is to start in the middle of a bracelet and work outwards twice, giving you two bracelet endings and no 'start.' This isn't really my style but it's good to mention.

^Sections A and B are the ends of the same bracelet. Overhand knots made more obvious. Section C is a short square knot sequence made from a new cord, not repurposed from the bracelet.

((Also,,, I am straight-up SQUINTING at my past self. Another mistake- there is one cord folded over used to make the outer cords in section C and there shouldn't be 4 strings coming out of its ending overhand knot.))

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So in Macra-May 2024 I made this spectral line bar bracelet:

I didn't mention it at the time but it was secretly given a slide clasp: