Embroidery, Lace, & General Chaos

But the thing is...that's not a flaw of kindness. That's not a you problem. That's a them problem. People who are happy with themselves and their lives don't go out of their way to misuse someone's kindness or grace. The "normal" response to kindness or empathy is not to find a way to exploit it. People who are happy with themselves don't look for ways to hurt people for no reason. Kindness will never be the problem. No matter what some shitty person decides to do with it. It should go without saying not to be a doormat, yes. Don't allow people to treat you badly just for the sake of being kind. But also don't let shitty people make you bitter because of how they treated you when you were kind.

Cosplayers at a Star Trek Convention, 1976

You couldn’t just rewatch the episode to look at all the details of the costume. You got lucky with press photos showing up in magazines or you just watched the episode/movie while sketching furiously

I’m a semi old school cosplayer (started in 2001) so some of the old school techniques are still things I learned on (I’ve sketched from stuttering VHS tapes on pause and used the overhead transparency trick)… what we have access to now for costume recreation blows what they had out of the water just in terms of reference material, let alone specialty costume supplies like thermoplastics and cosplay wigs.

Her (sadly) barebones Fanlore page is here: https://fanlore.org/wiki/T.J._Burnside

How I found out that my cockatiel was a girl.

SNUFFLEUPAGUS REAL

Hooray for science and hooray for S. snuffleufagus !

Like. Where is it. What am I missing? And I’m not missing something, what was their beef?

--Adam Savage

But I grew up with mythbusters, I don't work in science, but I love learning, and girls and women are interested in science, and traditionally male crafts for their own sakes, but they're also interested in sewing and fiber arts for their own sake. His statement would be stronger if he had called sewing amazing in its own right. That it is just as, if not harder than many of the other skills he mentions, and should not be denigrated. It's practitioners should not be denigrated- because they do women's work or for any other reason. A skilled sewist is an artist, an engineer, and a crafter, with all the praise they deserve from those skills.

Thank you.

Let’s get rid of those horrible monopoly ads, together.

by: Harune Horigome

(it's wool and not silk like in the movie, but it is a real antique dress. I don't know how you can claim it's the same level of inaccuracy when. I mean. Do I really have to say it?)