Update: I have a cold.

I've decided that tomorrow I'm going to down a shot-glass of apple cider vinegar and maybe that will fix me.

After which I am likely to chug a gallon of tea with lemon and honey and if that doesn't do anything for me then I am going to attempt to boil myself in the bathtub.

If all else fails, perhaps I'll try a coma.

Strange creature encountered!!

(undescribed, sorry i'm very very tired)

redraw of a comic page from wonder woman: outlaw pt3 with julia causing a sapphic crisis as inspired/prompted by @disastersteps <3

Been busy enough to justify a full round up for this WIP Wednesday. The TL;DR being that I'm back to being fully lace brained.

Blanket 10 is NEARLY finished. I've started attaching the last row and just need to finish out this row and then do a border (and give him a good wash, I've owned some of this yarn for years and it smells a little dusty). The nights are starting to get really cold here so I'll be happy to have it done, I just gotta force myself to work on it.

Doily 14 (Yarn | Pattern) needs to go on a longer needle but other than that is very fun and cute. I've decided to put it down for a bit to work on the next two projects but I expect when they get boring I'll go back to this. This pattern is surprisingly simple for a Neibling as long as you're prepared for the long pattern rows. Absolutely going to have to break out the washi tape to mark off my rows for the second chart, but the first one has been very easy lace knitting.

Unnamed project aka me fucking around to see if I can freehand this sweater design. I had started with a two row lace ("Honeycomb lace" from A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns by Barbara G Walker) but honestly didn't find it fun to knit. So I transitioned to a favourite of mine (ssk, k2tog, yo twice). It's going a lot faster now tho it looks a little weird. I'm going to knit to the underarm and if it fits, it stays. If it's too small I'll rip all the way back and redo the shaping in this lace pattern instead with longer shoulder saddles. It's unfortunate that I didn't like knitting the honeycomb lace, I really like how it looks, I'll have to try swatching it in different yarns to see if the problem is just that this yarn has zero stretch (100% cotton).

I have decided I will put short sleeves on this tho. I had planned to just add ribbing for the arms but I saw a drop shoulder vest in a similar style and did Not like it, so this just saves me from having to rip back. I also think I'm going to have to leave this cropped, I'm not a big crop top person but with this yarn being cotton, having a full length body along with the sleeves is going to have the neckline very stretched. There may be no helping it regardless but there's no harm in trying. I imagine if this is does become something I wear it'll either be in the dead of summer or layered over a button up/some sort of top anyway, so a crop wouldn't be too uncomfortable.

Last but certainly not least is Shawl 14 (Pattern | Yarn). My precious Evenstar is coming along very well, I'm actually on the second to last pattern row before the set up for the border. I know the border is going to be a slog but I'm excited for it regardless, he's huge even all compressed on the needles. My self imposed deadline for him is April, but the border is only 56 repeats. If I can do one every other day I should be right on time, which sounds do-able even tho I know I'll get bored by the halfway point.

I need to keep an eye out for patterns for this yarn, I have a whole second cone plus what'll be left after I finish this shawl. These cones staring at me will probably be the push I need to settle on an Orenburg shawl pattern. (Or possibly a large Neibling, or one of MMario's patterns.)

I just gave a talk at work that I've spent weeks preparing for (and rewriting till 2am last night based on some late-breaking news). I was nervous about it, but it went extremely well!! I got approval from all the desired Grand High Muckety-Mucks.

Afterward, I walked out of the room still deep in conversation with two of the Muckety-Mucks, and I immediately tripped over a low side table in the hallway. Laptop and bag shot out of my arms and exploded across the hall, and I did a literal faceplant. (I also came down really hard on my knee along the way to burying my nose in the industrial carpet fibers, and it hurts... @thetarttfuldickhead we are unfortunately knee twins! XD )

Literally face planting turns out to be a very effective way to halt a conversation. Just fyi. ;)

why yes, voices in my head, i Will take a nap at 3 pm

style swap!

Sitting in my car waiting to go in for my appointment with the social worker who's hopefully going to write me my second letter that I need to get a top surgery consult. Bored as hell because I'm here over an hour early

I've worked on this for literal hours instead of my graduation cards because I would do anything for Aubrey Omori. Anyways

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUBREY OMORI!!!

I spent WAY too much time on this which. Ya know. Tracks when it comes to me because... well. Yeah.

Anyways I adore her so so much. She's amazing. She is literally amazing I would say so much more if I wasn't trying to be nORMAL

Are you guys also sleepy 95% of time?

i should tell people i dont plan on getting any sleep more often seems to be doing wonders for me actually sleeping

all i know is be wide awake at 3am and have zoomies with my cat

this is getting concerning leo, everytime i open tumblr you're always online i'm not even sure time even exists in your little world please get some sleep or i'm about to reach out to you from this internet barrier just to tuck you into bed

:3

1. Yay!

2. Ow

I was told that the nurse was gushing after about how this is the best top surgery she’s seen in a super long time because my pecs are big and i have “pretty much no body fat.” Like ma’am please i worked hard to put that body fat there 😭 but thanks though

I was first into surgery this morning but there was another, very young-sounding transmasc nearby who also had top surgery. This guy really does do a metric shitton of top surgeries every year

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Weird intense sertraline dreams are super real side effect.