Aspiring cr*zy cat lady

WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO: Recognize the Klu Klux Klan as a domestic terrorist organization & make their eradication a Homeland Security priority.

The North Carolina based Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which calls itself the “largest Klan in America, will be speaking outside the North Carolina State House. The groups leader, Robert Jones, has stated that he believes Dylann Roof “was heading in the right direction.” And, “He should have actually aimed at the African-American gang-bangers”

The KKK has been responsible for far too many deaths and too much violence against American citizens in our country’s history. They are terrorists, plain and simple. The White House needs to declare them as such and deny them the legitimacy they currently appreciate. There is no excuse to let them organize. Hate speech should not be protected speech. Endorsements of violence are terrorism.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov//petition/recognize-klu-klux-klan-domestic-terrorist-organization-make-their-eradication-homeland-security-priority

Making a higher angle also could help the balance issue, but it requires a lot more leg strength to walk in them the more you tilt. If you’re used to high heels that might help some too but you’re still going to be fighting the bungie tendon to some extent. 

I tried to make some higher/longer stilts, valuing appearance over functionality, and while I eventually shortened them enough that I “can” walk in them, technically, but it’s a rather tricky balancing act so I can’t do so practically. And with every step, I can feel the bungie trying to pull the stilts back farther than my leg wants to naturally swing.

(Of course, we need to get around to fixing them up a bit more and I need to practice more once we do, but we ended up just focusing on my husband’s stilts (wider and at a lower angle but still very nice looking once furred up) and then the event we were working on them for passed so we’ve been lazy about picking it back up.)

But yeah. So I recommend moving the foot down and sacrificing a bit of that length for ease of use, OR making the weight/hoof/long-furred area bigger to shift the center of gravity farther back while retaining some length.

As another thing to consider, the bigger the bottom plate is (both in terms of how far back and the option of possibly making the bottom plate a bit wider than the rest of the stilt), the more stable you’re going to feel while standing; going for a sort of “Clydesdale hoof” look (even if it ends up also being cloven, etc) is certainly an option. However, that stability comes at the cost of being heavier and harder to maneuver. Walking straight shouldn’t be a problem as long as you’re balanced and can lift the legs, but turning could start becoming an issue (watch out for hooves bumping into each other) and I definitely don’t recommend running in them if at all possible no matter how the base ends up being done. If you get a good blend of attributes that work for you, you probably could if necessary, for short distances over smooth terrain, (my husband can sort of jog in his), but no sense adding unnecessary strain and all.

Apologies that this is really long and also if any of this was obvious or stuff you’d already read about elsewhere; I just see stilts and “:V HEY I’ve made those before! Let me try to help them avoid some of the mistakes we made!” heh.

Anyone who asks the nerds stupid and irrelevant questions gets the shit beat out of them. This is fact.

Also introducing my first attempt at agender McGucket. He was definitely raised in an environment where he didn’t come into contact with anyone outside of the binary for a very long time. It wasn’t really until he met the twins that he realized agender was a thing and finally understood why being called a ‘guy’ always made him…itchy. Even so, he still responds automatically, like he was raised to do, to someone asking if he’s a guy. He’s trying to fix that though. (Still don’t like he/him pronouns for McGucket they just don’t fit!)

Hang Drum

WHENEVER YOU SEE THIS POST ON YOUR DASH, STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING AND WRITE ONE SENTENCE FOR YOUR CURRENT PROJECT.

Just one sentence. Stop blogging for one minute and write a single sentence. It could be dialogue, it could be a nice description of scenery, it could be a metaphor, I don’t care. The point is, do it. Then, when you finish, you can get back to blogging.

When my parents are out of town, my pup Remmy sleeps downstairs with me. I don’t mind because the basement is chilly sometimes and he’s a fuzzy little space heater. But he always does this weird thing and I didn’t figure out why until last night.

I’m a stomach-sleeper, while the rest of my family are back-sleepers. So Remmy has taken up this very different behavior with me (my family says he doesn’t do it with them). It always takes me a while to settle down, but when I do, Remmy takes his head off of his paws and rests it square in the center of my back.

So I’m thinking, “What’s the point of that? It can’t be comfortable. It cranes his neck in a funny way, and besides, every time I breathe his head goes up and down. That’s a weird thing.” So I formulate a hypothesis, and test it.

Last night, I got comfortable, Remmy put his head on my back, I waited a while, then I held my breath. It took him a while to react, but when he did, he fuckin lost it. He started whining and yipping, and repeatedly licking my face and hands. And I was like oh my god.

Conclusion: my dog noticed that I slept in a way that was different from the rest of my family, thought “that kid is gonna die” and made sure that I never stopped breathing in the middle of the night.