ur clothes size doesnt say anything. like it doesnt say anything abt u as a person but it also especially doesnt say anything about what size your clothes are
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ur clothes size doesnt say anything. like it doesnt say anything abt u as a person but it also especially doesnt say anything about what size your clothes are

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guys what do you do when you are receiving a bad haircut? like in the chair, things are going wrong⦠what do you Do? (coming from me, who has just received an⦠unfortunate⦠haircut š£)
like things have already gone wrong, you canāt add more hair back on, i donāt want to be an ass and tell her she did a bad job (she did), but iām not happy. itās not what i asked for, not what she did last time, not what was in the picture of what she did last time. what do you do.
i hate having to stay sitting there while the rest of it happens, and just smile and āyep thatās fineā staring at your butchered fringe
It's Autumn, which means if I make a Big Pot of Soup it will Fix Everything. No one fact check me on this. We need to let the soup speak for itself.
i do feel somewhat ruined forever. but itās okay we stay silly
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As both the World Wars and Tolkien recede from living memory I feel like there's room in the fantasy-doorstopper space for someone to do a story about a decaying, hegemonic fantasy nation that's been coasting on an internal narrative about how they beat the dark lord and the evil empire a generation ago, with basically every bad thing that's gone down since then being the result of someone growing up on those stories trying to pattern match whatever bullshit they're about to enact to that last wonderful moment of collective moral clarity
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reblog to tell a 14 year old that these are the very, very hard years and they're not wrong to feel the way they do.
I had a fifteen minute long crying session yesternight over the fact that all I was 10 years ago, at the ripe old age of 14, is lost and lonely, and now, at 24, I am neither and that filled me with so much gratitude
reblog to tell a teenager that these arenāt actually the best years of your life and that things can and will get better when you have independance and maybe are away from your situation right now.
Its me reblog to tell me that
I truly hate to tell you all this, but the reason needle sizes are numbered that way (smaller numbers = bigger needles) is BECAUSE SOME ASSHOLE HAD A 1-INCH DIAMETER CYLINDER AND LABELED HIS NEEDLES' SIZES BY HOW MANY NEEDLES HE COULD SHOVE IN THERE.
Like, 24 24-gauge needles can fit in a 1-inch cylinder. 18 18-gauge needles can fit in a 1-inch cylinder. Wrong and horrible. The worst possible way to measure a needle. Good night.
this is how shotgun shells are made apparently and then needles got made that way too
Wires as well
That is so unnecessarily imprecise.
Itās not actually that imprecise from a low-tech perspective though? How else are you going to measure the difference between a 6 vs a 9 gauge needle without some highly precise measuring equipment? This is cheap and replicable, and isnāt it easier to make a big cylinder to match a specific diameter?
I'd measure the diameter of the mold used to make the needle and label the molded needles accordingly but however people want to do it is fine I guess
Stacking circles inside circles doesn't measure things all that precisely. To give a super exaggerated example, a 1-guage needle via this method could be 1 inch diameter, .51 inch diamater, or anything in between. You can nearly double the size of a needle at that scale and still have the same gauge.
Obviously most needles are smaller than that and the margin of error is thus smaller, but it's still so unnecessarily imprecise when you can just measure the diameter of the molds and use that as your standard. If you want to measure them at home by chucking them in a ring you still can. But the measurement standard should be diameter-based.
It seems weirdly imprecise because it's not true. I don't know where this rumor comes from, but that's not how needle sizes came about. As I understand it, they come from wire gauge sizes, where you make a wire thinner and thinner by repeatedly pulling it through smaller and smaller holes in a draw plate:
They're numbered in order from largest to smallest because you do them sequentially, making the wire slightly thinner each time, and the gauge # is just the number of holes you pull it through.
Notably, in every gauge system I'm aware of, the size-0 wire or needle is still much, much less than an inch across, because it's a wire or a needle, not a piece of rebar.
My best guess about the "number of wires/needles that fit in a 1in cylinder" things is that someone who was confused about gauge numbers had a 1" hole, noticed that they could shove a little more than 20 24-gauge wires in it, jumped to the conclusion that this must be how it was defined, and started confidently telling everyone that this was true.
Do you want me to use historical knitting knowledge to make this a little bit worse
I must know how historical knitting information can be anything but a benefit.
And now I'm thinking about the Terrible Knitters of Mold or whatever it was, the women who hand-knit REALLY fast using knitting sheaths.
Right! so this post is about sewing needles, where gauge/diameter are slightly less important than in other types of needle, such as medical needles or knitting needles. There's of reasonable amount of wiggle room in crafting a sewing needle, a very ancient technology that can really be made any old way (it doesn't even need to have an eye - it can just be a poky thorn or animal quill that pokes thread through holes.) And the technological innovation of the metal sewing needle being made from drawn wire and the points ground on a grindstone is supported because we know that's how they did it and because that's the easiest way to to make long thin pieces of metal, so needle size mapping to wire size (and a higher number being number of draws through a plate) makes sense.
A historical forerunner of knitting, nalbinding, involves a single bone needle that looks like this, which is a tool that a reasonable competent handcrafter can make from bone.
The modern practice of fast knitting, however, requires at least a pair needles whose diameters exactly match, and for a lot of knitting work, require a set of needles that exactly match.
Sewing needles are tremendously low-tech tech. As I said, the eye is optional. It is not-impossible to make a bone, wood, quill or ivory needle with very little technology, simply by whittling. The introduction of metal wire-drawing techniques made them easier and better-quality, but you don't need to start with fine metalcraft to sew. (although sewing does FEEL like that. If You Wish To Make An Apple Pie From Scratch Sew A Single Flipping Button You Must First Invent the Universe.)
Knitting needles are pickier in their production than sewing needles. It is annoying and difficult to make four perfectly matching bastards. Also, since knitting makes its own fabric as it goes, it's very useful to have a fixed idea of the diameter of the needles, because that determines the properties of the resulting fabric.
So knitting needle popularity and knitted textile volumes are strongly (but not universally!) linked to the development of drawn-wire metal manufacturing, and the rises in popularity of knitted textiles follow the rise of drawn-wire metal manufacturing. European depictions of Knitting Madonnas show Mary knitting in the round on long metal double-points.
(also, for the record: knitting needles used to be called "pins," in English, which made a bit of sense because, like pins, they don't have eyes. But they also make stitches (like needles). At any rate, English now calls them "needles.")
So why aren't knitting needles - which you'd think are more closely linked to wire gauge - numbered "backwards" (higher number -> smaller needle) like sewing needles are?
Well, regrettably, they used to be - and that's how you'll find needle sizes described in (for example) early 20th century European knitting patterns! the oldest methodologies of knitting terminology corresponded in some ways to "draws through a plate", though it's hard to find out more about that (a historian who cares could do that) because standardised wire gauges weren't common, knitting patterns were secretive, the textiles themselves haven't survived, and people didn't think it was very important. Various countries and artisans used different numbers to describe wire and needles, and there were no consistent gauges for any.
That's why, today, a serious knitter will have a helpful tool to measure needles, detect what size they are, convert between USA and metric needles sizes, and also helpfully measure the gauge of the knitted material in cm or inches to compare against the expected fabric gauge in the pattern. To measure your needle, you pass it through the hole and see which one it matches! Here's a knitter's gauge:
You'll notice that a modern knitter's gauge recapitulates two tools from further up the thread (ha) - it resembles the wire draw plate, used for making wire, as well as the more engineering-looking wire gauge! This is because, again, it's one of the more efficient ways to measure this kind of material item. But you'll note a few other things. One is that there are quite weird numbers on one side. The hole at the bottom, labelled "9.00 mm" on one side, clearly refers to the current standard 9mm knitting needle. In the US, this needle is called a size 13... and in some mysterious measurement called GWR, it's 00.
This harkens back to when knitting needles were connected to wire-drawing and the numbers ran "backwards". I don't know precisely what GWR stands for, but it's known to be connected to that, and thus some kind of "gauge wire reference."
A blogger who has looked at old knitting gauges connected Chamber's Bell Gauge with a knitting pattern, which begins: Take steel pins No. 13, Chambers' bell gauge...
Here's Chamber's Bell Gauge for sizing knitting needles. This gauge was created in the UK in 1847 and became almost the knitting standard - and the numbers go backwards. You can see that a size-1 knitting needle is the biggest, and indicates the size of the wire used to start making knitting needles! and the more "passes" make a smaller needle.
The USA was sort of a Wild West of knitting gauge for a very long time, either using artisanal English gauges (as steel needles tended to come from England anyway, but that's another post) or random individual manufacturer's sizes determined largely by wool size. This is a topic of great interest to people who like historical fashions and designs, and collectors of knitting gauges. An in-depth post below calls gauges, fittingly, "Rosetta Stones". Here's a proprietary measurement system of unclear age - a historian could make a guess - but look at the absolutely fabulous materials the needles could be made from! Bone, steel, applewood, celluloid, and NON-INFLAMMABLE (as celluloid was apparently that much of a problem.) There's a separate scale for your steels. There's a proprietary metric AND the metric system.
Early North American Knitting Needle Gauges Part 1 ā Early Days and the Sizing Challenge ā Webster's Knitting Needle Notions
And what that little card shows is that, at a point that we can only narrow down a little bit, "imperial/USA" knitting needle sizes swung 'round to recapitulate the metric system: bigger needles have more millimetres, and are thus a higher size-number.
But the UK didn't do that. Look at this gauge from part 2 of the post: Early North American Knitting Needle Gauges Part 2 ā The Big Firms in the USA ā Webster's Knitting Needle Notions
It has English sizes going backwards. Because of wire.
By WW2, there was a burst of innovation, from which the USA emerged staggering and blooded, with a single unified knitting-needle size, agreed-upon as a shared industry standard by needle manufacturers. This happened overnight and possibly as a result of a drinking session.
With the USA having pinned (ha) a measuring system down, and Metric ticking along in blissful and inarguable perfection, the Old English measurement, or GWR, based on the "backwards" wire scale, started disappearing.
Today, we tend to measure knitting needles as either Metric or USA, and patterns note both:
But if you're interested in historical knitting patterns, which use either "old English sizes" or an equivalent, those go backwards - and link directly to wire gauge.
This is part of the underpinning tradition of knitting being a direct conversation across the elders of human history (if you wish to knit a mitten, you must first reconcile the generations) as well as a pitched long-distance psychic battle with the pattern designer.
I hope this helps nothing, and confuses you more. Kiss!
I went to the library to borrow some DVDs we're planning to watch, but when I handed the librarian my card, it took me a solid 15 seconds to register that I handed her my fucking weed card.
Me, fumbling to swap it out: "OH MY GOD, I AM SO SORRY, I was on total autopilot!!"
The librarian: "It's all good, I just assumed it was a flex."
#did the exact opposite of this the other day when I handed the cashier at a book store my library card instead of my credit card#and we both just stared at in confusion for a solid 15 seconds before I went oh fuck I canāt use that here#and she said āoh Iām glad that was unintentional bc I thought I was gonna have to explain some hard truths about bookstores to youā fhshsgag via @formereldestdaughter
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everyone on replies is terrified of this fact but i just think it's so sweet and heartwarming. she's holding our hand and leading us somewhere secret and we're both giggling like kids. i love her
letās travel through the vast unknown with mama
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not to be problematic but i literally do not give a shit about age gaps when dating vampires. they thirst for your blood. "but it's predatory!!!!" yeah. it is. "they're preying on you!!!" they're vampires. they do that. "it's a power imbalance!!!!!!" what part of vampires are you not getting
they eat people and can turn into bats and crawl around on walls, lizard fashion, and can hypnotize you with your eyes. a) the age gap is not the creepy part and b) the creep factor is kinda the appeal
they donāt age. thatās part of the horror of it actually. would you accept eternal life, if you can never progress? can never grow or change? youāll live forever, eternal youth, but frozen exactly as you are now. you will never become the person youāre meant to be. you are trapped in the mind of a 17-year-old forever. also ātheoretically old if you disregard the fact that heās a vampireā doesnāt even make the top 20 worst things about edward cullen list. girl heās mormon. prioritize
"do it scared" is valuable advice but it'd also be SIIIICK and AWESOME if it stopped being scary at some point. any point
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Wille telling Simon that he wanted to get some fresh air.
Simon, an empath, sensing that Wille might be needing a mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
Via The Nutrition Tea on Facebook. Reminders from Shana Minei Spence.
reminders because we all need them sometimes
the seventh pic, for those unable to see it well, says: stress will take more of a toll on you than a cookie ever will
@kaity--did hereās some vindication.
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