Like a dandelion up through the pavement, I persist

secondbeatsongs:

somehow instead of saying “as a treat”, I’ve started using the phrase “for morale”, as if my body is a ship and its crew, and I (the captain) have to keep us in high spirits, lest we suffer a mutiny in the coming days.

and so I will eat this small block of fancy cheese, for morale. I will take a break and drink some tea, for morale. I will pick up that weird bug, for morale.

I’m not sure if it helps, but it does entertain me

(via unhandme-orbleed)

joyisabike:

Anyone else watching OFMD want like, more Frenchie and Oluwande adventures? I loved their vibe together when they ran the pyramid scheme like it was exquisite. Like here is this guy who thinks cats are witches and that women have crystals in their bodies that attracts demons, also he plays the mandolin(??) and this other guy who is wonderfully competent and ride or die and slyly funny and attractive and together they are ROBBING THE RICH via PYRAMID SCHEMES can we have more pls?

(via ferengiphanatic)

Kind of fucking had it with people in my family borrowing my stuff and losing it, or otherwise putting it in a “better” place than where I had it and then forgetting where that better place is before they tell me. If they ever intended to tell me at all. Lol.

I changed my password on Tumblr from the desktop site and have been automatically signed out of the app… kinda thinking I might just stay signed out of it tbh.

The thing where some people vehementally and vocally dislike when bisexuals (especially those who are in “straight passing” relationships) are GNC or “look gay” or have “gay” mannerisms is like… so fucking absurd, because how did we arrive at the take that enforcing cisheteropatriarchal expectations of gender presentation on queer people is Good, Actually, nay, Essential Praxis if they are not queer enough to have earned it?

I mean, jk, I know how we arrived there, but it’s truly baffling when some of the same people who rightly criticise cis gay guys who pride themselves on being “straight acting” and who denigrate other gay men with “stereotypical” mannerisms or presentations, who they believe are Embarrassing to be associated with, will then like, literally in the same breath that they call that bullshit lateral homophobia, also expect that bisexuals be “straight acting” lest we fucking hoodwink anyone into thinking that we aren’t traitors who sleep with the enemy.

obstinatecondolement:

obstinatecondolement:

obstinatecondolement:

I think I probably won’t do this, because it would be A Lot of work and may not even work, but I kind of want to knit a swimsuit? To like… use qua swimsuit, I mean. Something that has a similar silhouette to early 20th-century swimwear (i.e. a one-piece with shorts and as much coverage as a t-shirt would give on the upper half).

I have So Much sock yarn, and something I made from that would have a lot less nylon content than a commercial swimsuit (and I wouldn’t have to buy anything new, as opposed to if I were to buy something from a brand that makes cotton/hemp/bamboo/recycled synthetic/etc. swimwear and have it shipped to me from overseas). But like… I am very reluctant to put all that work into something that may not be functional and/or durable, so… it’s possibly just going to remain an idea.

Like, I’m very sceptical of claims by activewear brands that natural fiber swimwear Could Not Be Done, because petrochemical textiles are a relatively recent develoment in the history of people wearing clothes to swim in, and people used to swim the Channel and compete in the Olympics in wool swimsuits, so while I think it’s fair to say that natural fibres would not perform in the same way that we have become accustomed to from modern swimwear, it’s like… certainly something we have used in the past? And it did work? Also, I am not a competitive swimmer who needs to shave milliseconds off my 200 metre butterfly and neither are most people who swim.

But also, am I firm enough in this conviction that I want to spent hours of my life knitting something as an experiment that might distort unwearably out of shape the first time I wore it or that would last less than six months even with careful laundering? Probably not.

I’ve found a pattern that’s vaguely similar to what I had in mind on Ravelry (no longer available at the link on the pattern page, but you can still find the PDF on the Wayback Machine), but of the nine projects on the site only one person mentions having actually worn it in the water (apparently it sagged a bit, but I don’t know how much ‘a bit’ is and if it was only worn in the water once to photograph it or if it was used as a functional piece of swimwear), so I still don’t have a huge amount of insight into how realistic this would be and what precautions I could make that would increase my chances of success.

My thoughts so far have been to include as much ribbing as possible for elasticity, make it with plenty of negative ease, use a protein based fibre rather than cellulose for warmth and to prevent it growing too much with wear/laundering, probably use a sock yarn with a small amount of synthetic fibre for elasticity and durability, prototype with, idk, a wrist band or something, and… that’s kind of it.

Again, almost certainly not doing this for real, but troubleshooting for this purely hypothetical project is helping me with the horrors.

Like my current swimwear is perfectly adequate to my needs, I must stress, and this is all predicated on the assumption that some point in the future when it would need to be replaced I would be able to replace it with something with less synthetic fibres, which I could like… also do by just buying something from one of the various natural fibre athleticwear brands out there (of which there may be more, and more local, options by the time my two current swimsuits are no longer functional).

Also, lol, I might not have to cover my chest by then, depending on how feasible it is to have the choperation within the natural lifespan of my current swimwear.

obstinatecondolement:

obstinatecondolement:

I think I probably won’t do this, because it would be A Lot of work and may not even work, but I kind of want to knit a swimsuit? To like… use qua swimsuit, I mean. Something that has a similar silhouette to early 20th-century swimwear (i.e. a one-piece with shorts and as much coverage as a t-shirt would give on the upper half).

I have So Much sock yarn, and something I made from that would have a lot less nylon content than a commercial swimsuit (and I wouldn’t have to buy anything new, as opposed to if I were to buy something from a brand that makes cotton/hemp/bamboo/recycled synthetic/etc. swimwear and have it shipped to me from overseas). But like… I am very reluctant to put all that work into something that may not be functional and/or durable, so… it’s possibly just going to remain an idea.

Like, I’m very sceptical of claims by activewear brands that natural fiber swimwear Could Not Be Done, because petrochemical textiles are a relatively recent develoment in the history of people wearing clothes to swim in, and people used to swim the Channel and compete in the Olympics in wool swimsuits, so while I think it’s fair to say that natural fibres would not perform in the same way that we have become accustomed to from modern swimwear, it’s like… certainly something we have used in the past? And it did work? Also, I am not a competitive swimmer who needs to shave milliseconds off my 200 metre butterfly and neither are most people who swim.

But also, am I firm enough in this conviction that I want to spent hours of my life knitting something as an experiment that might distort unwearably out of shape the first time I wore it or that would last less than six months even with careful laundering? Probably not.

I’ve found a pattern that’s vaguely similar to what I had in mind on Ravelry (no longer available at the link on the pattern page, but you can still find the PDF on the Wayback Machine), but of the nine projects on the site only one person mentions having actually worn it in the water (apparently it sagged a bit, but I don’t know how much ‘a bit’ is and if it was only worn in the water once to photograph it or if it was used as a functional piece of swimwear), so I still don’t have a huge amount of insight into how realistic this would be and what precautions I could make that would increase my chances of success.

My thoughts so far have been to include as much ribbing as possible for elasticity, make it with plenty of negative ease, use a protein based fibre rather than cellulose for warmth and to prevent it growing too much with wear/laundering, probably use a sock yarn with a small amount of synthetic fibre for elasticity and durability, prototype with, idk, a wrist band or something, and… that’s kind of it.

Again, almost certainly not doing this for real, but troubleshooting for this purely hypothetical project is helping me with the horrors.

obstinatecondolement:

I think I probably won’t do this, because it would be A Lot of work and may not even work, but I kind of want to knit a swimsuit? To like… use qua swimsuit, I mean. Something that has a similar silhouette to early 20th-century swimwear (i.e. a one-piece with shorts and as much coverage as a t-shirt would give on the upper half).

I have So Much sock yarn, and something I made from that would have a lot less nylon content than a commercial swimsuit (and I wouldn’t have to buy anything new, as opposed to if I were to buy something from a brand that makes cotton/hemp/bamboo/recycled synthetic/etc. swimwear and have it shipped to me from overseas). But like… I am very reluctant to put all that work into something that may not be functional and/or durable, so… it’s possibly just going to remain an idea.

Like, I’m very sceptical of claims by activewear brands that natural fiber swimwear Could Not Be Done, because petrochemical textiles are a relatively recent develoment in the history of people wearing clothes to swim in, and people used to swim the Channel and compete in the Olympics in wool swimsuits, so while I think it’s fair to say that natural fibres would not perform in the same way that we have become accustomed to from modern swimwear, it’s like… certainly something we have used in the past? And it did work? Also, I am not a competitive swimmer who needs to shave milliseconds off my 200 metre butterfly and neither are most people who swim.

But also, am I firm enough in this conviction that I want to spent hours of my life knitting something as an experiment that might distort unwearably out of shape the first time I wore it or that would last less than six months even with careful laundering? Probably not.

I think I probably won’t do this, because it would be A Lot of work and may not even work, but I kind of want to knit a swimsuit? To like… use qua swimsuit, I mean. Something that has a similar silhouette to early 20th-century swimwear (i.e. a one-piece with shorts and as much coverage as a t-shirt would give on the upper half).

I have So Much sock yarn, and something I made from that would have a lot less nylon content than a commercial swimsuit (and I wouldn’t have to buy anything new, as opposed to if I were to buy something from a brand that makes cotton/hemp/bamboo/recycled synthetic/etc. swimwear and have it shipped to me from overseas). But like… I am very reluctant to put all that work into something that may not be functional and/or durable, so… it’s possibly just going to remain an idea.

Is there a way to change the desktop dashboard back to how it used to look? This is very disquieting :(