Yarntastic Yarny Fun

Ok someone help me out. I haven’t been here on Tumblr for a while but when I try to go to MY OWN BLOG while logged in, I get “This tumblr may contain sensitive media” and the only option is to go to dashboard. I can’t see my own tumblr! Wtf? Also there is 0% adult content on this, it’s literally yarn with a hint of Buffy. When I try to adjust my settings there’s nothing allowing me to toggle safe search on or off. Can someone help me figure out what’s going on??

^^ Here's my finished piece. Let's wash it.

^^ I use fabric Mod Podge as a sort of Fray Stop as well. It works really well to make the edges stay put. I actually did this before washing it, but it doesn't matter.

^^ Once it's all washed and dried (and ironed, if you do that, which is recommended), use TINY amounts of fabric Mod Podge to dab onto your ends. Just a little bit, all over the back of the design. This is going to glue your ends in place. Let that dry.

So I'm really into saving the bees right now.

For a few weeks I've been planting a bee garden to make sure local bees had enough food (pic 1, my cute sign is already covered up by hostas).

Then today I found this article about building something so bees can quench their little thirsts without the risk of drowning (cuz that's a legit risk). And I thought, yeah, I gotta get my bees some beverages.

So I headed to the dollar store and found this thing that looks a little like an ashtray (pic 2). It's shallow and divided into thirds, and the raised dividers definitely help make it good for this purpose. The label said it's a relish dish. Who the hell needs a dish for relish? Whatever. It's a dollar and perfect. I got some large accent gems, also a dollar (pic 3). I didn't end up using the littler ones, but maybe I'll put them in at a later date.

ERMAHGERD FIGWIT.

A quote from the book Socktopus by Alice Yu that I want to keep for future reference:

A well-fitting sock is usually 1 inch (2.5 cm) narrow and shorter than actual foot measurements, but you can adjust this to your preference.

There's been some discussion on the Tumblr sector of the Buffy fandom regarding whether the series finale was a "beautiful feminist message," as Joss put it. Did Buffy and Willow violate hundreds of women, including exploiting women of color, in the same way that the Shadow Men forced a young woman to be the First Slayer? Here's a point to consider.

When the Shadow Men forced Slayer powers onto the First Slayer, it's analogous to rape (the show treats it as such), and people have been saying that unlocking the power of all the Potentials was as bad as what the Shadow Men did. But throughout the series, what Buffy struggles with is being the only one who has the power. When Willow unlocks the Potentials, each new Slayer has a choice--no single one of them must take on all that responsibility. Any Slayer can choose to lead a normal life. So harnessing the power of the scythe wasn't "raping" all those Potentials, it was reclaiming that power and changing its meaning. The "beautiful feminist message" was that instead of struggling on their own, waiting to die, the way Buffy did, now they all have each other and they can own their power however they choose. The important part of the finale is that they changed the meaning of being a Slayer from what the Shadow Men did to something truly theirs--that's what empowerment is.