Got tired of piecing by hand after like 8 hst blocks lol. So I sat down with my beautiful and heavy sewing machine to finally work out the tension issues.* I've also already deviated from my original plan to just sew a bunch of hst oriented in the same direction together to this diamond and triangle pattern and before someone tells me there is a much less labor intensive way of working it I know! This is where indecision gets a person! Also it's my first quilt so..

*by work out the issues I mean I sat down with her and it was miraculously working perfectly. I am now too scared to put her back in the box out of fear she will start skipping stitches again and have decided to name her Superstition.

Great news for uninsured adults in the USA who want a COVID-19 booster! It now appears that ALL CVS locations are now active participants in the Bridge Access Program. The Bridge Access Program gives out free Covid-19 vaccinations to 18+ adults who otherwise can't afford one, so if you have a CVS near you, please go get one! For others who don't have a CVS near them, please go to vaccines.gov, click on "Find Covid-19 vaccines", fill out which vaccines you prefer (you can mix different vaccines if you have to so i reccomend just marking all of them for the age groups you need), and when the next page loads mark the "Bridge Access Program Participant" option to see only locations that are Bridge Access Program participants. Hopefully, other places that aren't CVS will start participating soon, so just check back every so often to see if there are any updates. The CDC Bridge Access Program website also has more details on what locations will be participating, but only CVS is appearing as an active participant on the vaccines.gov location finder at the moment.

@boar-zine preview of farmer diluc and my sweet Juliet napping

for the record I think wind turbines are beautiful and are not a stain on any landscape and the sounds they make are beautiful and whenever I see one I am filled with love for human innovation and hope for the future of clean energy and if they needed to be built close to my house I would go YAYY ^_^ WAHOO ^_^ WIND TURBINE!!

"This person, who not so long ago searched for herbs with me so earnestly....

"It's too sudden. There's so much everyone wants to say, wants to hear.

"If only he could open his eyes one more time..."

If funerals are for the living, what of one's final moments? For whom do they exist? Is it okay to force wakefulness one more time, even if it should cause pain?

EDIT: @keidokusha has translated this to Vietnamese:

Many thanks to them!

this is a continuation of this goof where zoro went to therapy lmao. Sanji has made this usopps problem.

@spacedembers @georgington

the people are hungry for penis knowledge and i must provide

so: y'all remember that post about them turning a grape into a meat grape? basically using the same process (de/recellularization), scientists are aiming to create transplantable penises w/o the concerns that come with organ transplants by removing the cells from a donor to get a scaffold, and replacing them with the receiver's cells, which would avoid concerns about rejection

here's the article I read on it; disclaimer that's it's a Very scientific read. I do not know much about science, but this process has seen success in rabbits who had their penises surgically removed; they were able to achieve full erections and impregnate female rabbits. I don't think trans humans will be able to ejaculate anytime soon, but if this becomes an accessible form of surgery it would mean we could have a form of phalloplasty that allows for natural erections!!! which is really really cool. obviously this is all far from available for us rn but it's very exciting to see this being researched, and it seems like we have good reason to be optimistic about the future!

also, the article specifically mentions trans surgery, which is really nice. a lot of articles about penis reconstruction/transplants I've seen only focus on the potential benefits for cis men, so i really appreciate that they bring up how this has the potential to revolutionize bottom surgery

having lyrics addressing how mental health is just completely dismissed coupled with all that religious imagery in the staging hits incredibly hard when the cultural mindset in serbia is one of "mental illness isnt real you just need to go to church"

OH MY GOD....

"Lap 1 incident is definitely the worst thing as a driver. Was feeling alright last night, and escited for a good day today but it kind of all fell away straight away. Yeah, there's like this massive build-up and you feel like you have now got all this energy I don't really know what to do with. That's obviously racing, iit happens. Yeah just watching Yuki now and see what we can learn from that. I test on Tuesday, so I'll get back the laps I lost today."

the cool thing about most creative processes like drawing or writing or game dev is that you can just start whenever. the barrier to entry is way, way lower than whatever you think it is and there's thousands of free resources and tools out there online now.

if you wanna start drawing, a pencil and paper is fine! if you wanna start writing, google docs or even a notepad works! if you wanna start making games, gamemaker and ren'py and twine and bitsy are all free game engines!

you can make whatever you want. you don't even have to finish it or show anyone. but if you want to make something, you can get started whenever.

I tend to be a bit of a serial dater when it comes to Stardew. Remember to always keep a rabbit's foot handy!

this is just beyond beautiful, and the way she ended it is just wow

- Holy Ground at The Eras Tour in Tokyo, Japan (N1) on February 7, 2024 (x)

band au rahhhhhhhhhhh

if i have a hunger games phase when im 23 is that cringe

what i love about the Famous Actor Natori Shuuichi of it all is that...it's not just that he's famous and therefore widely recognizable wherever he goes. like yes that is very funny because he was an exorcist before he became a famous actor, which means he CHOSE, on purpose, a day job that would make it harder to hide his double life/secret identity from the hordes of his adoring public, but it's more than that. it's not just that he's famous, it's that he's famous specifically for being an ACTOR, aka a person whose job it is to dissimulate, to make believe, to inhabit roles and emotions other than his own. like he decided he was going to become as visible as possible (which again was literally not necessary! he could have gone into any other career for his day job!!) but in such a way that everyone would see him but no one would see him - they would just see his various made-up personas, including the Famous Actor Natori Shuuichi persona. i can't decide if he's a genius or if he just made so many absurd decisions that they canceled each other out and circled back around to working out. he's either playing 9-dimensional chess or he's eating the pieces. too soon to say.