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life is so ruthless so i must love you as hard as i can. basically

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Reblog to hug prev poster (they need a hug)

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a pouch I crocheted for some cards! i am very proud of the closure. designed it myself

i always struggled with closures on pouches that aren't suitable for drawstrings. i have 1 that just barely fits the cards and they don't fall out cause of the tension. this one though, the cards actually have enough room.

what i did was i made a flap, i chained some, i attached chain to the other side of the flap, and cut the yarn. then i chained a bunch, surface crocheted a line onto the pouch, and then started chaining again, making sure that the points at which the chains "detach" are about where the loop attached to the flap is fully stretched out.

if this makes you go "huh" and you'd like to understand, feel free to ask

closeup of the yarns, i used 2 cotton crochet threads and 1 fingering weight cotton, held together, it's such a beautiful effect, don't you think?

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strawberries | raspberries | currants | cherries

— by Virginia Granberry (1831-1921)

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it’s done!

22 hours in the making. worth every second.

my tummy hurts

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hey man I found a piece of your soul stuck in the text messages of old friends you don’t speak to anymore. do you want it back

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and is your shame helpful? is it inspiring goodness and change? or is it keeping you frozen in time unable to move on and be everything you have expanded to be?

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emma woodhouse is the funniest austen girl. she has one-sided drama with the most reserved girl who has done nothing but literally just mind her business. she gets angry about not being invited to a social event even though she would have said no just because she would have liked to be asked. she's said she's aiming to read more for years but has never actually read more. she refers to her best friend as being naive and not very smart and kind of manipulates her while simultaneously both complicating her life greatly from the moment they meet to being her ride or die. she is literally The Problem. she denies that she is The Problem. she makes me want to pull my hair out. I love her more than anything.

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endless discourse cycle of "not doing drugs is pathetic loser behaviour" -> "making fun of people for not doing drugs is high school bully behaviour" would be resolved instantly if ppl simply recognised that doing drugs is like anorexia in that both are socially encouraged but only until you cross the line into disabled and/or unemployable

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saw a grown woman on tiktok snidely calling gen z the christopher columbus generation bc someone’s fifteen year old son ‘thought he’d discovered weezer’. newsflash every generation finds out about the music of the previous generation at some point it comes free with being fifteen. being annoying about music also comes free with being fifteen. a kid saying yeah i’ve just found this band nirvana have you ever heard of them should be a thing of joy

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give it up for taipril day 30!!! she's gonna get them home!!!!!!!!

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So, in an effort to continue my reign as Queen of Overthing Everything I Love, here's two more things I've noticed while rewatching Church on Ruby Road...again.

1) How The Doctor words his telling of the story of Ruby being found. His narration of the story goes like this:

"Once upon a time, late on Christmas Eve, a stranger came to the church on Ruby Road.

"She carried in her arms the most precious gift of all: A newborn child. A baby girl.

"Just before midnight, she left her daughter on the steps of the church.

"The child was taken in, and they named her Ruby after the place where she was found.

"As for the mother, she was never seen again. No one ever knew her name...

"Until that night a time traveler came to call. A traveler known as The Doctor."

Now, certain parts of that feel like artistic liberties for the sake of the story/fairytale vibe. (Ex. "...on the steps of the church" as we watch Ruby be placed on the ground in front of the door, no steps insight.)

I've already made a post about why I think the woman being Ruby's mother is likely one of those artistic liberties, but that's not what this is about.

This time, I'm caught up on the "No one ever knew her name UNTIL..."

The only ways to take the whole last part of his story is that when The Doctor arrives during that scene, are a) he knows her name in that moment, or b) somehow his arrival causes an unnamed but relevant someone else to know her name.

And while, that alone wouldn't be enough to warrant this post, it did feel intentional. Especially considering that by the end of the episode, as far as we can tell, there's no known reason/opportunity for The Doctor to have learned her identity yet.

Which leads me to my next point.

2) I can't help but wonder if we're intentionally being misled. Because the scene we're shown at the beginning during The Doctor's story is not the same as what we see in the end of the episode when The Doctor goes back to rescue Ruby from the goblins.

And I can prove it.

It's shot as if it's the same scene twice, and we're clearly meant to think we've just caught up to what we saw at the start of the episode.

Pardon my poor quality photos (idk how to get screen shots from either iplayer or disney+) but look:

These are from the start of the episode. Note: the tears actively running down his cheeks.

BUT!

These are from the "same" moment but at the end of the episode. Note: watery eyes, but no active tears spilling over.

Now I understand enough about the filming process to know there can absolutely be minor inconsistencies between shots as the various takes are edited together to create the final product. But why bother to edit and use different, identically framed shots that are supposed to be of the same moment, but don't line up? Especially when it's a closeup of a single person?

It just seems intentional to me. Especially when you consider my first point in tandem with it.

I think what we hear/see at the beginning isn't what we see in the episode. Maybe it happens later after Ruby and The Doctor figure out the identity of the woman/Ruby's mother.

Thoughts?

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people love visual novels they just have to get tricked into reading them

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hey y'all! our first batch of mini skirts will be dropping on 5/2 at noon eastern time!! ✨

our skirts are: 🩵 size inclusive (XS-8X) 🩵 made ethically 🩵 fitted with pockets deep enough to hold a nintendo switch and maybe like a really tiny puppy

you can find more information on my blog!

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I asked dr house his opinion on the male loneliness epidemic and he told me to kill myself

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I just calculated the total yardage for a project and it takes 5.6 miles of yarn.

Anyway, I'll be publishing my first crochet pattern next week so watch for updates.

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there's this one photo of Tim at the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and he's holding a program or something that says MECHANISMS on it, but it's super blurry and his arms are covering most of it. is there any chance you have a clearer picture of this program? i just really want to know what it says.

Hey! Could you please attach/reblog this post with the image in question? If its the one im thinking of, i think we do!

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