Like a rat on a rotarod

And she was just like "school sucks, my mom sucks, being fifteen sucks, i just want to grow up"

and so me, a wise and wisened newly fresh thirty year old just replied "yeah it does fucken suck!"

And when i tell you the air physically lightened up and she laughed so hard! And she told me more about why it all sucks and how she feels like no one listened to her, and they tell her to just do it, just get it done, and this girl is tired! She has so much homework and she feels like shes not smart because shes inundated with homework and school and she feels like the people in her life are not hearing her!

And she was just like "school sucks, my mom sucks, being fifteen sucks, i just want to grow up"

and so me, a wise and wisened newly fresh thirty year old just replied "yeah it does fucken suck!"

And when i tell you the air physically lightened up and she laughed so hard! And she told me more about why it all sucks and how she feels like no one listened to her, and they tell her to just do it, just get it done, and this girl is tired! She has so much homework and she feels like shes not smart because shes inundated with homework and school and she feels like the people in her life are not hearing her!

like I remember being a young dyke who was closeted and wanted to date girls but being so scared I was wrong, because I was seeing constant jokes and media hammering the idea that you might Think you like women, you might like Kissing women, but until you taste a vulva then you can never know for sure (so you shouldn’t risk it, since you don’t want to lead anyone on, better to never have queer sex). all these narratives showing “straight” girls getting that far and then realizing with disgust and horror that they are innately, Categorically Not Into Women because they do not enjoy a specific sex act with a specific genital configuration (because obviously that’s the only Real Lesbian way to fuck /s). and then returning to the “safety” of dating cis men.

and like the exact same thing applies to women with penises too. this idea that, well you might Think you’re attracted to her, you might like kissing her, but until you go down on her (cause obviously all sex with trans women involves contact with her penis /s) then you can never know for sure (so you shouldn’t risk it, since you don’t want to lead anyone on, better to never have sex with trans women). there’s an even greater volume of media and narratives, even more viscerally and violently, portraying people’s disgust at trans women’s privates, and then returning to the “safety” of dating cis people.

It also has a lot of different kinds of stitches you can do that make different densities of fabric.

I was surprised that I’d never heard of it though. It’s older than knitting and crocheting and even though it’s been done all over the world it’s super relevant to Nordic culture and my grandmother and I are both into keeping in touch with our roots a bit so I’m surprised I’ve never heard of it.

It’s also a lot easier to freehand and adjust as you go than crochet or knitting and you mostly go by inches instead of rows and number of stitches so a large number of accessories like stitch markers or whatever isn’t really necessary.