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reading this as someone who does cross stitch but is scared of the other kinds of embroidery is like overhearing an incredibly tall and buff person say they have beef with Mr. Tom, the kitten that chills at the bookstore

FUCK Mr. Tom and his stupid little fluffy tail ok. And his little charted designs.

Okay, but this neglects the true villain of embroidery stitches: the French knot

Don't you dare malign my girl again

Ok the french knot is very useful but it is a BITCH to do it consistently

We talk about how this website’s hate mail game is insane, but this might just be a new level

"skill issue" made entirely from French knots is a next level roast. no coming back from that one. damn

a significant problem with crafting is that once you make something you now have it forever. you can sidestep this by making gifts for people but well now they have the thing forever and there's probably a limit to how many things they want. unless the thing you enjoy crafting is also a thing you want an infinite amount of there's just no good solution here.

This is why baking and decorating cookies or making candles / soap is a good compromise! You get an creative outlet, but the end product gets consumed.

Personally I grew up crafting, my mom is a crafter and she works at a crafts/hobby store. The benefit is that I always have something fun to make/paint/decorate so I never get bored. The downside is I will never have a clean room because I never have the space because every time I reorganize and get rid of stuff to create space and I see my mom again I get ten new crafts to do because she always thinks of me. It's sweet but I have only so much room in my one room.

this gag NEVER fails to make me laugh. watching them all file in one by one and collectively laugh harder every time the next guy walks in…i could watch videos of this practical joke all day

Their faces as they collectively realize they’re married to the funniest women on the planet

I keep putting this back in my queue because it means I restumble upon it and it always makes me laugh. So delightful

mutuals have this incredible power to curse you with liking kinks you previously would never engage with even with a gun to your head

Like how do I know if something is affecting my "performance." How do I know what kind of discomfort is "mild" and what is "severe." genuinely it makes no sense.

imagine you work at a luxury car dealership. two college kids show up in a shitty rental car one day. one is has facial tattoos and the haughty attitude of a famous person. the other is a dead-faced goth the size of an elf. tattoo boy says they’re here to buy so you humor them and show some cars. elf man doesn’t say a word the whole time but clearly is calling the shots. he points at a Maserati and says he’ll be paying for the whole thing, no financing necessary. then he goes back over to the rental car, where evidently there has been a whole person asleep in the backseat the entire time. this man is about the same height as the goth pixie and dressed like a homeless person. he listens to the goth say something, pulls out several wads of cash, hands them over and goes back to sleep. your boss spends the next hour walking these freaks through the paperwork while you count through what turns out to be nearly 100k in cold hard cash. no one explains a goddamn thing and they leave with the nicest car on the lot

I love when people try to gotcha me on my stance that all sports should be gender integrated with "even American football???" because I can instantly come back with "oh lmao, no, I don't think ANYONE should play American football at all, it's way too dangerous" like nice try but I know no amount of testosterone is going to protect you from the profound, life ruining health issues caused by getting repeated severe concussions over the course of several years. No one should play this sport.

re: the notes on this post, even though I have only seen the four Matrix movies and not the rest of the Wachowski sisters' filmography, I can 100% with absolute certainty guarantee that there is not a single movie or television that they've made which was bad, it's a fact and you can disagree all you want if you think they made a bad project it's simply because your brain is not calibrated enough to understand it, ergo you were too stupid to get it AND it was too smart for you at the same time

if they gave chud moleman 250 mil to trash the beaches for a whatever movie, they can give one of their most successful directors 1/25 of that for a passion project that already has a dedicated intended audience. that's like, cinema business 101.

Look, I understand that you're going through some shit, and you know I'll always support you, but I just had to fight your shadow-self in the kitchen. Yeah, I was getting breakfast and the enfleshed eidolon of your existential alienation was shooting, I don't know, some sort of beam.

It banished the Froot Loops to a far and sunless realm. I really wanted those.

#also i recognise that the self that walks in darkness is not inherently any more true than the self that walks in the light#but i've gotta ask: is there something going on that i should know about#like#pronoun-wise?