#SK10

[violetheart77]

Guess that Five O’Clock came sooner than we thought huh

#starkid #starkid productions #starkid musicals #team starkid #hatchetfield #hatchetverse #hatchetfield universe #hatchetfield series #working boys #workin' boys #workin’ boys #tgwdlm #the guy who didn't like musicals #nerdy prudes must die #npmd #starkid returns #sk10 #starkid memes #i write shitposts not tragedies

[awwkeithright]

(i feel so strongly about this but i fear my opinion may be in the minority)

#starkid #team starkid #sk10 #starkid homecoming

[spankoffski]

STARKID SK10 BACKERS CHECK YOUR INBOXES RIGHT NOW ‼️

WORKING BOYS UPDATES ARE OUT! 🚨 WEEWOO WEEWOO 🚨

#AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH! #starkid #hatchetfield #working boys #sk10 #tgwdlm

[vesperione]

So apparently workin boys is still available for rent and,,, do any other sk10 kickstarter backers feel awkward abt that? Bcs workin boys was made as a kickstarter perk for us and us specifically but if they’re keeping it up for renting then it’s not exactly a perk. And also, why did everyone get to see it first, and why did we have to wait to get the link even though it was our perk

#starkid #choices. #that is all I’ll say #kickstarter perks #workin boys #sk10 #Hatchetfield

[daisyishedwig]

Cannot enter into the tag for this information for fear of spoilers. So, for the people who were able to watch the NPMD talk back and workin boys, did they mention selling digital tickets of that for those of us that couldn't watch it live? I keep checking the Starkid website and Instagram but they have yet to post anything about it.

#personal #starkid #team starkid #workin boys #npmd #i was at a wedding on friday and couldn't watch #but i assumed i could just watch it later but they usually have the watch anytime tickets up by now #and like i was a sk10 backer so i /know/ I'll get workin boys on the 30th #but i want to watch the talk back

[lopez-richter-fangirl]

My only real issue with mk is her petty resentment towards TCB/Starkid for being more popular/bigger than SC. I get the feeling she feels tcb in particular is more 'low brow' humour compared to their far superior educated humour. Yet at the same time she has no problem constantly using the tcb/starkid connections to sell their stuff and grow their audience.

Yeah it just feels really shitty especially with tcb where there’s a lot more collaboration between the two that she’ll put them down and criticise them and yet she does leverage those connections

#and it def seems like she’s jealous of sk #like i remember her tweeting with the sk10 kickstarter something like ‘i’d say back this project but they don’t really need my help’ #maybe that genuinely was all in good humour! #just with the way we’ve seen her act with this stuff rubbed me the wrong way a bit and still does

[meanbuy]

Tips for online shopping - Meanbuy

#meanbuy #meanbuydeals #meanbuyoffers #meanbuy smartwatches #meanbuy earphones earbuds kzearbuds sk10 kz #meanbuyjewelry

[awigglycultist]

re: spankoffski parents, in Nicks original concept for npmd that circulated instagram ages ago off someone’s SK10 call Nick mentions that Pete regularly /calls/ Ted for advice which to me means they likely don’t live together at least in that iteration from like 3 years ago or whatever (bonus: Pete was originally supposed to call and ask Ted how to be less of a nerdy prude, and Ted was supposed to reply “by sucking up to the alpha,” and then immediately beg Paul for a coffee from Beanies)

1. I'm ignoring that this very much would mean Pete lives with their parents, it ain't in the script it ain't canon thank you I will continue with my headcanons until the Langs explicitly state otherwise is canon

2. I absolutely love that call, it's hilarious

3. I am taking the phone call as canon actually, in some timeline that absolutely happened

#starkid #hatchetfield #npmd #nerdy prudes must die #inbox

[mirith]

Bet.

Apologies for the messy background, but here's my lovely knitting machine! It's a Silver Reed SK10.

While writing another post, I noticed I was writing a lot about my knitting machine. So I put the words here. And added a lot more.

This is going to be a long post. I talk a lot about things I like, and I will not apologize for it. I will add a cut here so you can scroll by this more easily if you want. But! It'll be more fun if you read on! And I put photos of stuff I made at the end!

I learned to knit by hand from a book in elementary school, and I learned wrong. I have been happily hand-knitting things ever since, and consider myself a fairly knowledgeable and experience hand-knitter. I haven't steeked anything, to be fair, but my interests tend to be geared toward lace.

Which is good, because that's my default handspinning weight. Here's an example of the stuff I like to spin and knit (4 months from start to end, oof oof):

After I graduated college, I found out about flatbed knitting machines! I found one that looked cool, and drove myself a few hours to buy it. The end. Just kidding. You're not even halfway through this post. Not sorry.

I did not know how to operate a knitting machine. I just liked how this one looked (still do) and it also had a ribber! And it was $50? Something like that? Probably paid more for gas.

Anyway. Flatbed knitting machines range from "I can only do stockinette hehe" to "I am fully electronic, I'll knit lace or colorwork for you all by myself, EZ".

Mine is firmly in the former camp. No punchcard capability at all, and the ribber carriage is not even sophisticated enough to link up with the main bed carriage. Each row of ribbing requires the main bed carriage to be moved first (laying yarn across the ribber needles), then the ribber carriage (hooking the previously laid yarn down to complete the row). So knitting in the round is, yes, one pass of the main, then the ribber, then the main again, then the ribber carriage... (I actually made a lil' youtube video about this).

I cannot tell you why I wanted it, other than "new yarn thing!". At this point in my life, I was a very comfortable hand-knitter. There was no reason to acquire a large metal object that would do what I did, but "less good" (considering this machine would only ever do stockinette and hand-manipulated stitches -- but I didn't know tuck stitches existed!).

Tuck stitches look like the honeycomb pattern in the middle here, and are kind of knitting machine exclusive:

I think I actually may have wanted a circular sock machine, but those are very, very expensive, and not really in my price range. Still aren't. Very much considering adding one to my wedding registry to see if someone bites. (Would have to plan a wedding, but it would be worth it).

I figured that a flatbed machine with a ribber could knit in circles, ie, what CSMs do; but would also knit large flat things (CSMs can do small flat things, I think). And since the price meant a CSM was unrealistic without some serious saving, it was clear I would have to find a flatbed with ribber.

But working knitting machines with working ribbers are difficult to find. And expensive! I think prices were $350-500 for the full package plus shipping (expensive shipping because these are bulky and heavy and delicate instruments), and I'm sure they've only gotten worse.

I kind of live in a domestic craft desert, so there was very little hope for finding something local anyway. So when I saw a working machine with a ribber "near" me for less than $100, I was stoked. I was aware of its non-ability to pattern, but I just wanted to knit in circles.

When I got this machine, it was functional, but dirty. Oh, so dirty.

First thing I did was remove all the needles (took forever) and soak them in isopropyl alcohol (smelled terrible), and take everything apart as much as possible to scrub every reachable surface.

It was then that I re-affirmed my love for all-metal, vintage hardware. My sewing machine is a 1950s Singer and oh boy is that thing an absolute unit. This knitting machine is also an absolute unit in the best way. It was dirty, but in excellent knitting condition.

It was then that I also found this machine does not have a sponge bar. Which is really weird for a knitting machine. But also why I'll never get rid of it, I think.

It's got a metal U-shaped thing instead, to tension the needles. Sponge bars serve the same purpose, but the foam decays terribly over time. I don't think this metal thing ever needs to be replaced. I've knit quite a lot (will get to that!) on this machine and it knits beautifully still.

I think this machine predates sponge bars (??? pure speculation), because everything I've seen online about buying used machines says that you must consider the sponge bar and how to measure the sponge to buy the correct size and must immediately buy a new one and maybe even have a spare for when yours starts to get old etc etc. Never seen anything that says there's a metal tension rod like mine.

Ravelry did not believe this was the sponge bar equivalent, and asked me to please look elsewhere on the machine for the real sponge bar. They also told me this machine was not worth $50, which I kind of disagree with. Yes, it's super limited, but I love it. It will also, like my sewing machine, probably outlive me.

It's a standard gauge machine, and not a very common one (?). I think it's an earlier machine (4th oldest on this list), in terms of domestic machines, and likely was passed up in later years for models that had punchcards. There is another internet presence who has an SK10! KinoKnits did a video on hers.

There is a manual for the machine and a manual for the ribber online, and the scans aren't great, but they are very readable. Not much else though.

Okay. Infodump mostly completed.

Once I got the machine home I immediately set it up and realized I didn't quite know what I was doing.

After much trial and tribulation, I created some... things...

I optimistically cast on with my newly-learned e-wrap cast on and the included cast on wire (I have still not figured out the cast on wires, I don't think they actually work, and are simply a cruel prank)

I switched yarn (to something thinner and less elastic), in case that was the issue, and also switched to trying just i-cord to see if I could get that to work. It worked!

Switched back to the original yarn. I-cord also worked!

And back to trying fabric. Progress! But a lot of dropped stitches. I think this was very similar to attempt 1, but I just persisted and more aggressively picked up droppped stitches. This took me a very long time.

No dropped stitches! I used a weird cast on, or maybe just a really loose e-wrap?

Fabrice! I was confident enough to mark that I was using tension 7 with those (intentional!) yarn-over holes near the top.

I believe that those six attempts took me a few hours, and a lot of it was me trying to gauge whether or not yanking the carriage across was the right thing to do. I wasn't sure how much force to apply, and was deathly afraid of breaking needles, because I don't think these are standard ones and I can't get replacements.

There wasn't much to learn after this.

Oh.

Except for, you know, using the ribber.

It looks pretty similar to the main needle bed. Long metal guy with lotta needles. It's flatter, and hangs off the main bed with some sturdy arms on either side (which you can't see, sorry).

Close up:

You kind of have to wiggle it so that the needles don't smash into each other.

It does function identically to the main bed otherwise. But it's so much trickier to fix dropped stitches (or even see them!) because, as you can see, the ribber kind of covers everything. And it doesn't come off till the ribbing is done.

I've found that I need lots of weight to get the ribbing to knit off properly, which sucks if I run either carriage across without yarn accidentally. The knitting will simply yeet itself onto the floor and I will have to start over.

The cast on is kind of weird, but not terrible if you understand what it's trying to do, which I do, but will not endeavour to explain on this already horrendously long post. The Singer SR10 manual explains the cast-on process if you're interested. Or just tell me and I'll make another infodump post! Love talking about my knitting machine.

Here are some first attempts at ribbing and tubular knitting:

Allllllrighty it's project time!

I made a hat! (I made it a free Ravelry pattern btw, because the decreases are optionally worked by hand).

I made some sock tubes and hand-knit the heels and toes!

I made a bunch of ribbed cowls with my handspun!

I made scarves with more handspun!

And most recently I made a bralette:

Which turned out smaller than I planned because I do not gauge swatch properly at all, but I can wear it semi-modestly anyway.

#knitting #machine knitting #knitting machine #yarnblr #knitblr #mirith #infodump #just yeeting this info into the void

[youtiedupmyheart]

didn’t take a picture of the jacket but here is the merch booth for npmd. the jacket is very similar to the sk10 varsity one and they only had two sizes (s and xl) so heads up if u go tomorrow-ish

#starkid #team starkid #hatchetfield #hatchetfield series #npmd

[sk10rb0i]

*Infected’s phone buzzes.*

Samantha: Hey Infected.. just wanted to check up on you.. ^_^

Samantha: I’m over at Miché’s, if you’re wondering..

Samantha: If you even care.. I dunno.. sorry…

*She unsent that last text pretty quickly, but Infected saw it.*

-Samantha..

(Sry this is like so angsty teen core,, 💔 /ooc)

It was going to respond, but after seeing the message sent briefly, it hesitated. He didn't know what to say after seeing it, so he would just have to pretend he didn't.

sk10: d4tz n1c3!! b3tt3r d3n my pl4c3, l4wl

That's all he could manage.

#regretevator #roblox regretevator #regretevator infected #infected regretevator #sk10rb0i! #sukiithedummii #@ samantha #ask blog

[mythuzalasheir3]

I am preemptively warning people who will be seeing workin boys before general release (halloween party or sk10 backers) to TAG YOUR SPOILERS (And also keep tagging NPMD spoilers for a while after yt release)

I’ll be tagging with Workin Boys Spoilers and NPMD spoilers respectively :)

#myth muses #tag yo spoilers

[vesperione]

To Clear Things Up:

Is Workin Boys a SK10 Kickstarter reward: yes!

Is there going to be a livestream announced on Friday taking place directly after nerdy prudes must die where workin boys will be shown: yes!

Is that kickstarter sk10 backer exclusive?: NO

If you backed sk10, do you get a free pass to the Hatchetfield Halloween stream?: NO. YOU STILL HAVE TO PAY!

If I backed for sk10, will I be able to get a free pass to watch workin boys whenever I want to?: YES

If I didn’t back sk10, Will there Be a way for me to also get that free pass to watch workin boys whenever I want to?: not until it goes on YouTube! It is still a reward!

#bcs I saw someone say it was a backer exclusive livestream on Twitter #starkid

[night-ah-ahks]

here’s a silly little ramble in light of the npmd news:

whenever SK moves into a new project era, I’ve always found it to be incredibly fun to be a part of. I got into SK weeks before SK10 so needless to say, I’ve seen a lot of the project eras come and go. and there is something so unifying about seeing new posts from the fandom every 10 minutes all about the latest casting or plot detail (like how we got Black Friday trending in APRIL of 2019)

quarantine lowkey sucked that away a little with the original VHSCC, NMT2, and Jangle Ball as all of those projects (amazing as they are) weren’t as accessible as the other projects for one reason or another. but now that VHSCC has a full staged production up, and NPMD is on its way, people are a lot more excited because all of the info is just THERE and people are theorizing and creating again and it’s just so COOL

the starkid fandom is so so cool man

#I’ve been in this fandom for all of HS and it has done something to me #starkid #starkid returns #nerdy prudes must die #npmd

[lopez-richter-fangirl]

Love knowing that everyone on this blog is as uninterested in NPMD as me /hj

#i am instead thinking about taxes lol #it kind of sounds like they’re gonna do another multiple kickstarter like they did for sk10 maybe??? #so i’m wondering what else could be happening #cause theyve said previously they run the kickstarters so they can spend the money before the end of the year so they dont get taxed on it #which means it would have to happen this year or i guess april?? bday/anni celebration?? but i don’t really see them doing that #probably overthinking this entirely lmao #i also got barely any sleep

[gotta-get-back-to-hatchetfield]

I will actually be well curious to see how much money starkid manage to raise this time round

Because half a million at SK10 was fucking silly and i truly wouldn't be that surprised if they beat that this time

#starkid