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(See also the video here from ITN.)

#he's the chief mouser! SOMEONE in uk politics has to be doing their job!

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bonesbeetle

compilation of my all-time favorite tweets

pitviperofdoom

I try not to fall into the "I never liked their work anyway" ditch when an artist/creator reveals themself to be a terrible person

BUT

a feeling I do have and will stand by is "While I enjoyed their work overall I did have some gripes that I overlooked out of affection and whimsy, but now that my loyalty is gone and my affection tainted there is nothing holding me back from enumerating my many grievances, to which the revelations of the creator's shittiness may or may not provide a new and infuriating context."

beatrice-otter

#such a good summation of this actually#because yeah there’s usually things that were always present#but which were easy to overlook or give the benefit of the doubt#that suddenly become relevant after a revelation about the creator#and it’s really not the same thing as the self-defensive “’I never liked it anyway’

tags via chimaerakitten

valentinetheeviljester

Maybe lean out

valentinetheeviljester

#cunty paddington skfjdkfjksfj #laugh rule

greenlabcoat

when you have a hammer everything looks like a guy you could kill with a hammer

#laugh rule

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segamascott

rexuality

hikes are very good yes but a deluxe hike is when you are accompanied by a freak with niche nature knowledge. they’re like omg stop there’s a horned valerian varmint beetle here and then you both get to crouch down and look at a bug like :)

#i can't do bugs but i WILL be quizzing myself on leaf shapes and playing treespotter the entire time

misscromwellsmonocle

The Little Art Connoisseur (1863) August Friedrich Siegert

darnitjack

Last time this came around I showed my three year old and he said "He's little like me!" and stared for a whole minute (v. Long in toddler time).

charlesoberonn

I appreciate Siegert including a self portrait in a mirror.

jewish-joy

Last year, I befriended a Catholic seminarian. We've gotten to be pretty decent friends. Seeing as he was staying in town for the summer and I wasn't, I entrusted him with caring for my plant.

He did a wonderful job, but as he was returning my plant to my custody, he explained "I watered her every other day, I gave her new dirt, moved her into the sunshine, prayed the rosary-"

"What?"

He looked at me, confused. "Isn't she a plant you pray with?"

"No," I said slowly. "She's a prayer plant. That's the... colloquial name of the plant."

Upon seeing his stricken face, I realized something went wrong. Turns out, this entire time, he's been including my plant in on his prayers and leaving her near icons.

Listen, totally cool. My plant becoming Catholic is a great deal for her not dying over the summer. But now I must navigate this interfaith household. Keep me in your thoughts.

#laugh rule

prokopetz

Organising my recently downloaded indie tabletop RPG manuals/playtests/etc. is always fun because it's like:

10 000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN

FULL-METAL SPIRITS GODSMASH

THIS MACHINE HAS MEAT IN IT

THE THUNDER IN OUR HEARTS

SCHISM: THE NEW FLESH

Wet Grandpa

prokopetz

THE DEVIL CITY AND ITS SEVENTY-SEVEN VICIOUS PRINCES

FOR SMALL CREATURES SUCH AS WE

SPAWN OF THE HUNGERING ONE

THE THUNDER PERFECT MIND

A MOST BLOODY DEVOTION

Don't Kinkshame God

#i know at least one of the inspirations for the first one was 10000 HP PLANET #Which has a cover that fucks hard btw #ttrpg

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red-berin

Kyle Gordon's back

#oh my fucking god #video #music

olderthannetfic

After scrolling through a bajillion pages of the current fad for greige 10 mohairs held together plain sweaters, I have finally found a designer worth buying patterns from! If only they had this scale pattern on a sweater!

robotogato

Ok. This is pretty neat. Makes me wish I knew how to knit.

olderthannetfic

Tragically, all the good tentacles are crocheted, not knit.

olderthannetfic

BTW, if anyone knows other Ravelry designers who give off similar vibes to Lavish Craft, I want their names! Or just your favorite designers in general as long as they aren’t PetiteKnit.

I’ve seen a lot of designs that are incidentally named after things from fantasy books, but the actual look of the piece wouldn’t tell you what it’s inspired by. I’m more interested in designers doing dragon scale designs or at least sweaters I can picture on a hobbit.

Fabel Knitwear has some pretty stuff, but I hear her gauge is weird af and her patterns are confusing. I have the Montmartre but haven’t made a serious attempt at it yet, so we’ll see what I think. I’m not finding the instructions bad, but I agree with all the nitpickers that her own knitting is that trendy airy bullshit where the needles are 5 sizes too big and you’re making up for it with hairy yarns. My sense is that she’s one of those designers whose shots of herself in samples are by far the best thing about the designs.

I’ve spotted a couple of things I want from Skeindeer Knits. Lots of classic looks there that I can’t easily get from a store.

dreamerinsilico

Norah Gaughan‘s more whimsical designs, like this one and this one, might be up your alley. (She has a lot of really basic stuff too, including at least a couple in the vein of the trend you mentioned, but she’s also a bloody wizard with cables and other interesting design elements.)

olderthannetfic

Oh man! I had not realized those were by the same person! I’ve run across both separate times and found them intriguing.

loracarol

You may like Dragon Lore? Or any of Alexandra Davidoff’s other dragon projects?

Her other knits are a range of “normal” to “fantasy-esque”, but I think they’re neat. :)

Heavener Scarf

Azul

olderthannetfic

Niiiice

sparklecryptid

Some of Nim Teasdale’s designs give off similar vibes!

She also has a lot of lacework in some of her shawl designs but all are very pretty.

I’ve made her Goldleaf and Corozona patterns and I’ve found them easy to follow.

morwentrouble

May I introduce you to my knitting crush Tania Richter?

Her designs aren’t things a fantasy character would wear, necessarily, but *I* sure want to wear them as a lover of fantasy. (I haven’t sprung for any yet so I can’t speak to the pattern drafting functionality, but she seems to be popular which is a good sign.)

olderthannetfic

Ooh, I don’t think I’ve seen these yet.

I’m very excited about the recs you’re all giving me, especially the ones I’ve never seen.

storiesintheashes

When searching on ravelry, you can put a minus before a search term like so: -mohair. This will remove any patterns that identify as using mohair. This might make avoiding those kinds of patterns easier.

Here are some cool fantasy-ish pieces I’ve seen:

Olivia’s Cape by Amy Gunderson

The Seer by Ninja Chickens

Silversmith Hoodie by Meiju K-P

Dragon Scale Mitts by Colette Smith

Sekiryu Kimono Sweater by Tania Richter

Long Cardigan by Little Bunnyxx

Firebird by Inna M (a colorwork chart)

Tahesha the dragon (ess) by Ina Wendrock (cable chart)

olderthannetfic

Interesting. I didn’t realize Ravelry search respected - notation like that.

Ooh, I’ve spotted Olivia’s Cape before, and I do indeed love it. Nice list here!

kenta-rin

do you like lace? Because I just discovered Sharon Winsauer

Imperial Dance of the Dragon & Phoenix

Running Free

The Zodiac

epersonae

@emi–rose

blunderpuff

Kulabra Designs is also great for interesting, intricate colorwork!! Obviously, your choice of yarn really matters, but Natalia Moreva does incredible colorwork. The best part? Very rarely do you ever have to break your yarn. You might think you’re gonna have to weave in a million ends, but you don’t.

(above) Royal Peacock: (Ravelry link/Website link)

(above) Dripping Ripples (Ravelry link/Website link)

(above) Taboo (Ravelry link/Website link)

(above) Squirpool (Ravelry link/Website link)

(above) Pavlin (Ravelry link/Website link)

She also has a ton of extremely detailed colorwork socks, mittens, hats, and sweaters, but these shawls/scarves allow for such big, striking motifs, I had to show them.

#knitting #crochet #holy shit so many patterns

kissycat

Has anyone noticed that translating poetry is not easy

kissycat

It's kind of like if you were in unrequited love with the crossword puzzle

#LMFAO #laugh rule #god its so true #i found a secondhand book called Le Ton beau de Marot about translating the works of one specific french poet #and the author waxes philosophical about how hard it is and how he wants to Take Up The Task and Write This Book #real Look At My Degree You Guys energy but I'm like okay sure he's enthusiastic i can appreciate the passion #he gives a bunch of examples of poems and ones he asked his associates to write and I'm like oh Interesting to see the choices they make #and then the author goes ''and so with all of this in mind - here is MY translation ✨️''#and it sucks. so bad actually #i literally had to close the book and say I Need To Get My Annotation Sticky Notes Right Now #i still need to get back to it but i want to really dedicate the time to analyze why his choice of translation was so dogwater lmfaoo

sawed-on-shotgun

hello my name is Stray Hair snd my big dream is to play the itsy bitsy spider on broadway. doyou mind if i practice on the side of your head.

adhduck

Does the “I’m gonna get a good grade in” person know the impact they’ve had. Do they know they did in fact got a good grade in post, something that’s both normal to want and possible to achieve,

cellobuster

They do know it and in fact if you want to support them you can buy a patch or sticker off their Etsy shop

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