woman-shaped person, she/her/hers are fine, terfs/swerfs/exclusionsts will be blocked. i simply do not care about shipping discourse and purity culture wars bc i have other things to worry about and assimilation is not my goal.
a common throughline in shit i like is understanding how and why systems work and fail. i do my best to have unique and blockable tags per fandom. popular tags include:
#tuesday again no problem- a weekly roundup where i talk about what i’ve been reading/watching/playing/making/listening to
#evil lair llc - shit i do to my apartment/various non-textile hacky nonsense
#mackintosh my little black cat. mack for short.
#phil short for philip marlowe, my little tabby cat. not a thought in her beautiful empty head.
#maps charts and graphs/ #and lists and flags - bureaucratic & simplified representations of information
#technology and you - dumb hardware mostly
#better living through the scientific method- science communication (mostly astronomy hoax debunking), shit i think is neat, early- to mid-century physical sciences lab aesthetics
#my one true love is the sky - astronomy shit
#cowboyblogging general western stuff/#ain’t that a kick in the head - stuff tangential to a Fallout: New Vegas/The Good The Bad and the Ugly crossover you can read on ao3 here
#textile crimes - i was a textile lead at a makerspace and i’ve never really grown out of playing with string
#good lines - art i think is neat
#answered - ask memes mostly if u wanna go ahead and block that
#capitalism and you the stupidest tech finance shit imaginable from when i used to do market research for video games
elsewhere:
ao3: sictransitgloriamundi
discord: girlfriendsofthegalaxy#5949 (mutuals only pls)
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mackintosh is slowly grasping the concept of play with another cat. i think. this is significantly less fraught than slappyfeet usually is. like she’s not Thrilled but she’s not totally and completely convinced phil is going to kill her until near the end of the video
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Do you need affordable sewing supplies? Do you want to help cut down on waste and fast fashion?
Do yourself a favor and check out Swanson's Fabrics! The physical location is in Turners Falls, Massachusetts, USA, but the online shop will ship to you!
I can't remember who first told me about Swanson's, but they're a textile thrift shop that collects and repurposes donations of unused sewing supplies. Their physical location, The Stash House, offers community sewing resources and a studio. For non-locals (such as myself), their online shop offers fabrics, patterns, and notions. The shop restocks on Thursdays, and they have a constantly-rotating collection of items. If you like thrifting secondhand craft materials, Swanson's is for you!
Via their official "about" page:
Swanson’s Fabrics and notions are gifts from retired sewing stashes. They are the fabrics and supplies that sewers and fiber-artists naturally accumulate. I had a suspicion that the reason we all collect so much is that we didn’t have a place “good enough” to take it. So I made the place. Turns out I was right, and thanks to my community (and yours) of makers and crafters, I can resell these fine materials at a low, approachable cost.
ALL FABRICS ARE $5.00/yd, NO MATTER WHAT THEY ARE MADE OF. REALLY. I MEAN IT. I KNOW. UNBELIEVABLE BUT TRUE!
As we come to grips with the climate crisis, interrupted supply lines, and our dependency on slave-labor in far away countries to produce our cotton and fiber goods, we need another way to approach the fabrics in our lives.
We have a massive resource of textile goods in our country and it is time to tap into it. Our attics, basements, thrift-store donation bins, and dumpsters are brimming with discarded fabrics. It is time to start making and trading for the things we need, and stop buying so much new stuff we don’t. We need to see ourselves as trash-rich.
Customers at Swanson’s can pay for goods and services with goods and services. I accept trade of sewing and fiber supplies/materials, and trade for help in the shop.
I hope to inspire you to make your own clothes, to mend the ones you have, to shop second-hand and alter things to your taste. There is a lot of power in dressing yourself. Custom is king, and you can’t have a revolution in your master’s clothes….
❤️💪🏻
-Kathryn
The CovidSafeCosplay blog and its admin are unaffiliated with Swanson's Fabrics, and are simply sharing the resource.
Do you have a favorite place to get your crafting supplies? Share in the comments or via a reblog! Bonus points for those that prioritize sustainability, accessibility, community, and trade.
Lots of cities / areas have stores who also sell repurposed or donated fabrics! Here’s one directory of creative reuse stores. (Though ‘creative reuse’ is usually the key search term)
I get most of mine at Scrap in Ann Arbor (they also sell some items online) and New City Sewing Center in St. Louis.
stupid little tabby that’s been bothering my girls hustled past my car with a big ol wound on his hock so if i can get him into a carrier we will be visiting the county shelter’s after hours injured animal intake this weekend
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Another batch of samplers is up! And I'm already excited for the next batch-- I'm quite happy with the last two updates to Samplerbot, and I think the upcoming samplers are gonna be real pretty. :)
As a stitcher, working on Samplerbot has been good for my artistic instincts-- especially when it comes to being more adventurous with fabrics! I typically stick to white and black and coffee-dyed, but now I am thinking I might like to find a deep red... or another jewel tone, perhaps...
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"RPF is soooo hard to explain it's sooooo weird it's bad and wrong'" it's fine. it used to be if you were a sex symbol people would just whack off to a picture of you or maybe write a dirty fantasy letter about you for a book or magazine, and now everything is all alienated and sublimated and abstracted and so a major way of Being a sex symbol is people imagine you, making out with another sex symbol, with tongue, and the dreamer happily uninvolved. fantasies are part of sexuality. it gets more elaborate because people crave tension & resolution and i mean lots of erotic material is also complex & always has been. it's the age of the voyeur baby it's fine. run that one again but they're up against the racecar and with more tongue. nice.
