“well, hello fellow hunker-downers! coming to you high on half’a ambien, my doctor prescribes 10mg for when i can’t sleep and i get so wound up over all this but i only take a half otherwise i’ll eat everything in the house, but look- another way i calm down is i write in my journal! and i put little stickers- [chuckling] i decorate- i’m a high school cheerleader stuck in a 65 year old male body… my violette stickers came today, LOOK!! aren’t they beautiful? i think i fell outta the womb and landed in my mother’s high heels. i just like things pretty, i think that’s why homosexuals were put on this earth, just to make things pretty! rabbits!!”
[First Image ID: A tweet by joe @/jxeker. Text: “i would die for leslie jordan and his stickers.”/End ID.]
[Second Image ID: The Bugs Bunny in a tuxedo meme. Text:“I wish Leslie Jordan a very pleasant ambien trip./End ID.]
My sister adopted a dog this year, her name is Ellie and she is a delight! You bet I got lots of cuddles :). Does your pet do any funny quirky things like the ballerina leg that Ellie does?
Been a rough couple days for one of our favorite cats, send Miette some good thoughts.
TREMENDOUS news
miette tripping balls on a lizard she ate is not the news i expected to wake up to today but here we are. i hope the knowledge of the cosmos bring her clarity and wisdom and an extra brain cell
Happy disability pride month!! Pls help a disabled muslim lesbian in the middle east (me) escape an abusive household + arranged marriage that’s been fixed for later this year.
I’m making a new post bc old one has lots of notes but the donations have slowed down a lot and my situation has now become potentially time sensitive. You can read the old post or the link for more details.
Please consider donating and sharing this post! I also have made posts on instagram and twitter that you can share. Here’s also a link to proof (bc for whatever reason people think I’m scamming…like I’m making this up for fun? lmao.)
I’m so so grateful to everyone who is and has been helping me, thank you so much, i appreciate each and everyone of you ❤️
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some events [redacted to protect from nazar] has happened that makes my ability to escape marginally easier insha'allah and i would like to reach the goal by then so please continue sharing and donating!!
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i forgot to say in the previous update but the redacted window for escape won’t last long so i need to escape within then insha'allah. im so grateful to everyone who’s been helping💖
3,666 to go! please keep donating and sharing ❤️
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3,140 to reach goal!
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2,780 to go!
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2,700 needed to reach goal, we’re so close. Please keep sharing and donating 💕
I grew up with a grandma who quilted, but she’d never been interested in passing along the hobby, so when she finally kicked it I was the grandkid who got all her materials, ‘cause I was the only one who knew how to use a sewing machine. Then, in 2015, a friend had a baby and I figured I’d make her a quilt, ‘cause how hard could it be?
oh
my
god
Luckily I am the stubbornest human alive, ‘cause I never woulda finished otherwise. I didn’t know what I was doing, didn’t know the terms to look up how to do anything, I musta reinvented the wheel like eight times and it took ten months, BUT I DID IT.
Figured I’d suffered enough and would never do it again and now I’m on quilt #9 smdh
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I’m hyperventilating.
Holy shit. Holy SHIT.
This is INCREDIBLE.
Oh my god.
I’ve gotta go lay down holy shit look at this how do we just walk by other human beings every day and live our separate lives when there’s a person sitting next to you on the train or in line for coffee who goes home and makes things like this what even IS being human holy shit.
GOOD FUCKING JOB.
Oh heck I did not expect the notes to blow up on this, UM
Okay so on a purely technical level, this is not that difficult, you just gotta come at it a little sideways.
The background of this sucker is just rows of 1.5″-wide fabric strips. I can’t remember the exact pattern, but I wanna say it was something like one row 6″ strips, one row 4.5″ strips, one row alternating? I don’t remember exactly, it was a while ago. That’s not difficult, you just lay it out and sew it all together one row at a time. It’s not hard, just tedious.
The fish are a lil different.
I can’t draw, there is a disconnect somewhere and my hands are stupid,
so I figured out probably fifteen years ago that tracing was the way to
go. For this, I legit just yanked several photos of fancy-looking goldfish off the internet and traced over ‘em in Photoshop.
Once I had enough, I printed my outlines, laid ‘em out on the background to create the idea of movement, and then traced the outlines out on fabric and pinned the hell out of ‘em.
This woulda been WAY easier with Heat ‘N Bond, but I didn’t know that was a thing at the time. From there I just used just about every fancy stitch on my inherited sewing machine to make the fish STAY WHERE I PUT THEM, and also look good.
I have since learned this is called “raw edge applique” but whatever. It’s fun, it’s neat, you can do it with a bunch of stuff and impress the hell outta people. More recently, it’s how I’ve gone from this:
to this:
(this was another project I SUFFERED over unnecessarily, because I’m the dip that decided to quilt the waves, like a moron)
god that sucked but it looked SO COOL when I was done!
I’m very sorry to tell you that if you thought we would be less impressed with you after this update you were very mistaken. I’ll say again:
Holy. Shit.
@awheckery that is absolutely mindbogglingly gorgeous work *___* Also clearly you subscribe to Go Big or Go Home (and cry about stitchery) You are such a Stitch Witch, amazing <3
Aw man, that is the most hilariously accurate assessment of my life; in my fam, if you don’t Go Big, did you even try? I am constitutionally incapable of half-assing anything, which is why the goldfish quilt is also, um. a chenille quilt.
The back is plushy as hell and looks like this:
If you look at the front again, you notice those diagonal lines don’t go through the fish, and yet cross the entire back. Please don’t ask me how I did that. It made me so sad and used so much thread, there’s at least a mile of thread in this quilt, but bY GOD IT’S SURVIVED FOUR YEARS WITH AN EXUBERANT TODDLER AND IT’S STILL IN ONE PIECE
as the friend with the exuberant toddler who has the honor of having not just this quilt but the matching pillows in her home, i wanna chime in and say that this is
EVEN MORE GORGEOUS AND LOVELY IN PERSON.
AND IT’S WASHABLE
awheckery is too modest to mention it, but the quilt is loaded up with real specific meaning – I’m Chinese-American, and there are eight goldfish on the quilt and a ninth on an accompanying pillow. Nine is a homophone in Chinese for “always”, “gold” is a metonym for wealth and prosperity, and “fish” is a homophone for the word for abundance, so putting nine goldfish on something for a new baby is a lovely Chinese way to wish them good luck and abundant prosperity in life.
And the pillow shown above is symbolic, too! You’ll notice that the two ships up top. My family is ethnically Han Chinese from Hong Kong, so
awheckery put a distinctive Chinese ship up there, and my husband is Norwegian, so that’s a Norwegian schooner. And then the three whales underneath are me, the husband, and our wee little whale.
Please note that I did not know ANY OF THIS WAS COMING. They just FIGURED THIS OUT ON THEIR OWN and by polling friends in our shared fandom, and one day the quilt with the blanket showed up at my house, and I screamed so loud that my husband came running. And then we got the pillows a little bit later, and I may have screamed again.
awheckery is one of the most talented humans I have ever had the pleasure of knowing or meeting.
I’ve told OP that if my house is ever on fire, I’m grabbing the kid and the quilt in that order. The husband can go find our wedding photos.
DID I MENTION THIS IS WASHABLE
This post increases my faith in humanity this is so creative and the last explanation of making it specially with a meaning for their friend makes it 10000 better
I saw this on Tiktok and thought it needed to be passed on. Pololū Valley is sacred land currently at risk of being developed into yet another “scenic tourist attraction” for profit. Activists like @/melemaikalanimakalapua on Tiktok are fighting to have this petition seen by as many people as possible in order to prevent the senseless destruction of this land.
Note that the petition says not to donate to change.org–donations to change.org do NOT protect Pololū Valley.
I hope that by spreading this to tumblr, I can help it reach more people. Please sign this and reblog it if you can!
We need to learn as a society to not think doing stuff like this is “immature” if you’re older. Like no it’s not! Go play laser tag and go to build a bear even if you’re an adult! Skip around if you want, trust me it’ll be great for your mental health :)
i need to hire someone who can speak to cats to explain to Shams and Noor that they are supposed to be predators. I’m trying to introduce toys that emulate prey (with sound/smell of course so they can track it) so I can get them to play hunt but they’re just like. *pats toy lightly with paws* ‘hmmm interesting. i dig. a friend perhaps?’ and i’m like nooooooo it’s your prey you’re supposed to chase it! i try to look it up on youtube but all videos are for if the cats are *disinterested* in play but they’re very interested! just in a very polite manner lol like i’m introducing stuffed toys for them to cuddle with
*Oblivion guard voice* Excuse me sir, are you alright? I - by the Divines. This person’s dead.
i was kidding at first with the oblivion guard quote but, the fish is battery operated to flop around and when i turned it off to charge the battery they were both IMMEDIATELY concerned that it stopped moving. when i turned it back on they were like, oh thank god. it doesn’t even entice them to chase it. it just makes them feel better to know it’s alive and kicking apparently??? shjdgsjdhd they care about this fake fish so much what the fuck
me: violence? care for some violence sir?
shams & noor: hmm… what is this
me: a fish! a prey! to bite and kill! to chomp! to-
shams and noor: to… to have and to hold? to love and cherish? a friend in time of need? a cuddle partner to brave the cold nights? a trusted comrade? and someday… if the fates are kind… something more, perhaps?
Are these okay for witchy lockscreens?
*these were found on google, I added the crescent to the crystals with PicsArt. If you just want the crystals feel free to DM/ask me*
