BOLDNESS IS ALL [faceplants]

And all of that is literally just the same tropes we have faced for centuries.

We are seen as inherently shady and untrustful. That we are trying to lie about our lived experiences to manipulate the masses.

My stepmother did NOT like the way her Libertarian Viking Neighbor framed pregnancy as the fetus "attacking the woman". She incredulously told him this was extremely disrespectful to expectant mothers to portray pregnancy as so violent and negative.

Libertarian Viking Neighbor's response was that people consensually hurt each other all the time, and "there's like a whole community about that, with the acronym the one that starts with a B" And his reasoning was that if the mother was consenting to bring attacked by the baby, it in fact wasn't violent and negative because there was consent.

SOMETIMES

Going to the library can activate A Little Treat pleasure centers

Coming home with music and books and some movies, and paying zero dollars for it all

And finally, FINALLY! having it spread out on the bed atop a dark contrasting color enabled me to see just what was so wrong that it was abandoned to the thrift:

Ch8 and join to make ring.

Into ring, Ch5, (tc, ch2)x7, sl st into 3rd chain of ch5 to join [8 tc spokes]

Ch4 or chainless starting tc, (3tc into sp, tc into tc) around, 3tc into sp, sl st to join [32 tc]

Ch4 or chainless starting tc, tc in same st, tc in next 3 st, ch2, (2tc in 1 st, tc in each of next 3 st, ch2) around. Sl st to join top of 1st ch/tc. [8 repeats

Ch4 or chainless starting tc, tc in same st, tc in next st, ch1, 5tc in same st, sl st back through ch1 just made, tc, 2tc in last st before ch sp, ch2, (2tc in tc, tc, ch1, 5tc in 1 st, sl st back around ch1 just made, tc, 2tc in last st before ch sp, ch2) around, sl st to join [8 repeats]

***that was a weird row, here’s a top view of one of those 5tc bobbles to show how you connect back to that ch1 behind the 5tc to force them to puff out

Ch4 or chainless starting tc, tc in same st, tc in next 2 st, tc into joining st behind the top of the 5tc bobble, tc in next 2 st, 2tc in last st before ch sp, ch2, (2tc in same st, tc into joining st behibd bobble, tc in next 2 st, 2 tc in last st before ch so, ch 2) around, join

Ch4 or chainless starting tc, tc in same st, tc, ch, 5tc bobble, join around ch1 behind, tc in next 3 st, ch, 5tc bobble, join around ch1 behind, tc, 2tc in last st before ch so, ch2, (2tc in same st, tc, ch1, bobble, join, 3tc, ch1, bobble, join, tc, 2tc in same st, ch2) around, join.

Ch4 or chainless starting tc, tc in same st, 2tc, tc in bobblejoin st, 3tc, tc in bobblejoin st, 2tc, 2tc in last st before ch so, ch2, (2tc in same st, 2tc, tc in bobblejoin, 3tc, tc in bobblejoin, 2tc, 2tc in last st before ch sp, ch2) around, join.

Ch4 or chainless starting tc, tc in same st, tc, ch1, 5tc bobble, join, 3tc, ch1, 5tc bobble, join, 3tc, ch1, 5tc bobble, join, tc, 2tc in last st before ch sp, ch 2, (2 tc in same st, tc, ch1, 5tc bobble, join, 3tc, ch1, 5tc bobble, join, 3tc, ch1, 5tc bobble, join, tc, 2tc in last ch before ch sp, ch2) around, join.

Ch4 or chainless starting tc, tc in same st, 2tc, tc in bobblejoin, 3tc, tc in bobblejoin, 3tc, tc in bobblejoin, 2tc, 2tc in last st before ch sp, ch2, (2tc in same st, 2tc, tc into bobblejoin, 3tc, tc in bobblejoin, 3tc, tc in bobblejoin, 2tc, 2tc in last st before ch sp, ch2) around, join

That’s the most of it. I need to stare at the triangle bits to sort out how they attach and how many stitches and such, but I am Le Tired

This bitch

A) remind me and I will look at it, whilst better rested and under better light

2) I write all the above straight to post without double checking or edits. If my abbreviations don’t make sense lmk. If I have egregious typos lmk. If anybuggy does a test make by following these instruction, I would dearly like to see it!

this is what i got by following it as you wrote- i did use US dc for the main body since they seem to match the height in the photos a little more, but kept the US tc for the bobbles to make them puff out more

going by the photos, it almost looks like they attached entirely new strands of yarn for the triangles/lacy bits, but that didn't seem right based on how fiddly it would be (especially for a blanket) or based on how it's coming apart, so instead i tried doubling back with chains, tc, and sc to create it

so for mine the last round was:

ch 3 or chainless starting dc, dc 1 in same sp, dc 13, 2dc in last st before ch sp, ch 2, (2dc in same st, dc 2, place marker, [dc 5, place marker] x 2, ch 4, turn, tc 1 in 2nd marked/center st, ch 8, tc 1 in same st as previous tc, ch 4, sl st to 1st marked st, ch 1, turn, sc 1 in top of same st as sl st, sc 4 in ch4 sp, sk tc, [sc 5, ch 3, sc 5] in ch8 sp, sk tc, sc 4 in ch4 sp, sc 1 in last marked st, dc 1, 2dc in last st before ch sp, ch 2, 2dc in same st, dc 13, 2dc in last st before ch sp, ch 2) around

(separated out for readability since that was a block of text)

You can do it

You can be people who create also, the magic is inside you

If your magic requires permission for activation purposes, I provide that now. Proof! It is I, your fairy craftmother, activating in you the ability to go fuck around with stuff and learn from all the things that go wrong, and keep trying things, and watch other people make things and ask them questions sometimes too, so that you can learn from their shit, and just.

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Enjoying bad art is neither virtuous nor unvirtuous because enjoyment is passive. It is barely a choice. I do, however, think that incuriosity is shameful. Taste, as in the ability to understand, diagnose, and articulate, the artistic choices that make up a work, is the vehicle for understanding and producing art. Taste can only be cultivated by reflecting upon a broad field of art, peak to dogshit. Because of this, the cultivation of Taste is one of my favorite parts of being alive.

If you've only ever watched marvel movies, of course they are your favorite movies. Your love of marvel movies means little. However, if you have sampled everything the world of cinema has to offer, have watched every single movie dogshit to peak, and marvel movies are still your favorite, that is meaningful. You probably have some very interesting things to say about movies. Even though I will probably disagree with them.

I had to wait quite a while for the doctor to see me, but fortunately the nurse who was helping me had an excellent bedside manner and went out of her way to distract me. She expertly did this by getting me talking about books I'd read recently.

I went all in on criticizing the last book I'd read. I don't remember what it was, but I really hadn't liked it, and I denigrated it as "Misery Porn". And she was like "Hmm, that sounds interesting, tell me more". So I gave a general plot synopsis. As I was telling her that most of the characters were immigrant miners, she interrupted me to say "That's interesting, I didn't realize that there were mines in Missouri".

And at that moment time stopped for me and I realized that the entire time I'd been talking about the book, she'd been assuming I was talking about porn set in Missouri. I had just assumed that she had understood from context that when I said "Misery Porn", I meant "A story that is gratuitously depressing so that readers will think it's deeper than it really is".

Nerds (affectionate): Actually, Missouri has many lead mines.

Health care professionals: This is just what working with patients is like.

and the post begins

because otherwise it gets kind of visually confusing to parse, which is annoying to some folks, including me

GRANTED not everybody uses the same theme or even the same update. you might have noticed my version of tumblr is earlier than yours (I don't like the new button setup)

but still, it's just about being polite