#is on the loose

[imperatoralicia]

I get a lot of entertainment thinking about how containers are used in video games sometimes.

#video games #elder scrolls #morrowind #baldur's gate 3 #skyrim #i think having to visually see how meager those 5 coins are #sitting loosely in that big old wooden chest #makes me rethink whether i really need to steal them haha #update: i fixed the egg

[antisocialxconstruct]

PHEW.... just over a month of work but it's done 👏 As usual at the end I feel like a couple colors could have been changed but... I'm not doing this one again lmao

Okay! Due to (totally unexpected) popular demand:

CMYK Test Print PATTERN - pay what you want, a tip would be appreciated but no pressure!

#fiber art #fiber crafts #cross stitch #xstitch #artbyrom #it looks a little wibbly at the top bc it kept coming loose in the frame =_=

[ocxmaul]

my text post collection vol. 1

#i want these to have some sort of loose theme so for this one it's the first tweet #plenty more to come. if you care #valor core #maul core #text posts #edit: this post breached containment lmao

[ukrainian-psycho]

yeah boss i don’t tbink he’s the guy youd want to be quoting on that ☠️

#is this a troll im loosing it

[hattersarts]

"have you met the husbands who run the bookshop down the street?"

#ineffable husbands #aziraphale #crowley #good omens #i loose focus. blink. #and shit like this gets drawn

[iknityounot]

(Long post, sorry y'all)

A little more than two years ago now, my grandmother passed away. She and my grandpa had moved down to my home town a few years before so we could take care of them. I brought them groceries once a week, helped them write checks, fixed tvs, and found lost things. I was really close with my grandma.

In addition to her hilarious personality and dry wit, one of my favorite things about her was that she was a painter and a crafter like me! She used to crochet, and I took her to the craft store a couple of times so she could get more yarn and books on crochet. But her arthritis and the shaking in her hands kept getting worse, so she eventually had to stop.

She kept her most recent project, a granny square blanket, safely packed away in a plastic bin. She told all of us she was going to finish it one day.

Her hands never got better, and when she got sick, and we found out it was cancer, she rapidly deteriorated.

After she passed, I went to work helping my mom clean out my grandparents apartment so we could move my grandpa in with her. In our frantic cleaning, I found that bin again:

DOZENS of granny squares, dozens of half used skeins. I asked my mom what she wanted me to do with it, and she said she didn't care. I set it aside and later took it home.

Maybe a month later, that tumblr post about the Loose Ends Project was going around. It felt like a sign--I was never going to learn to crochet in order to finish my grandmother's blanket. But they might be able to help!

So I filled out the interest form. They got back to me SUPER quick. And maybe 2 weeks later, I was paired with volunteer in my state (only 2 hours away!) and the box of yarn, granny squares, and my grandmother's crochet hook were in the mail. That was at the end of January this year.

Over the next couple of months, my "finisher" emailed me regular updates on her progress, and asked me questions on my preferences for how she constructed the final blanket.

At the end of August, the blanket was done!

I had always intended the blanket to be a gift for my mother. So I cleaned it up, put it in the only bag I had big enough to fit it, and drove to my mom's. I gave the blanket to her and she was gobsmacked. I explained to her all about Loose Ends, and how someone volunteered to finish the piece for us. She was speechless. (I was quite pleased with this, because I am not the best at giving gifts, so this was a pretty exciting reaction!)

She said that it was the most thoughtful gift she had ever been given. She said "your grandma would love this". To which I replied, "yeah, I know she really wanted to finish it a couple of years ago". But that was when my mom dropped the bomb of a century on me--she told me that my grandma had started making those granny squares OVER 30 YEARS AGO. She had started the blanket when my grandpa was staying in the hospital, but that was back when my mom was younger than I am now! My grandma had packed them all away, planning on finishing it, when my grandpa was sent home from the hospital. Then it went from house to house, from condo in Chicago to their apartment in my hometown. All that time and my grandma had wanted to finish it, but couldn't. First because she was busy, then because she forgot how to do it, then because of her arthritis, and then because of the cancer. My mom said she had given up on expecting my grandma to finish it. 

She said I brought a piece of her childhood with her mom out of the past.

And really, all of this is to say, if you have seen or heard about the Loose Ends Project and have an uncompleted project or piece from a loved one who has passed away--these are your people. They were so kind and treated my project with such care. That box probably would have been found by my own grandkids one day if I hadn't heard about Loose Ends.

Five stars, absolutely worth it!

(From what I understand, you can sign up to volunteer too! If you have time to share, it might be worth checking out!)

#loose ends #the loose ends project #joy knits #text #long post #knit #knitting #crochet #crocheting #craft #crafting #diy #crochetblr #yarnblr #yarn #knitblr

[visenyaism]

me and the bad bitches i pulled by having matching brain parasites that psychically draw our thoughts together

#bg3 #bad bitch is a loose category. astarion is annoying

[agendratum]

finished death's game finally, cool drama, cool ending, totally just cried my eyes out

but is no one else worried about the fact that by the end he's *again* living in a world with a fucking dangerous capitalism-powered all-controlling serial killer?

that he is very much aware of

i would be worried about that

#and i also a liiiiiiiiitle bit conflicted about the messaging here #like on one hand it's good? #i mean it's very much there are people who love you and care for you worth living for #and it also shows you from the very beginning #that people are driven to suicide by the system that is unfairly rigged against them #where they have no winning options basically #capitalist hellscape and all that #but then it turns and blames people for still killing themselves cause look now you're an egoistical bastard? idk #but that's a whole other conversation #my point is #shitty killing piece of shit ass ceo #is on the loose #AGAIN #what to do about that #but overall honestly it was really fun to watch such a good piece of cinema #death's game spoilers #watching things and stuff

[deadite-central]

One of my favourite facial expressions in op is the “there’s NO WAY in hell I’m loosing to a teenager wearing flip flops” face

#followed immediately by loosing to a teenager wearing flip flops #one piece #sir crocodile #enel one piece #rob lucci #donquixote doflamingo

[talonzane]

LAYERS IN MSPAINT OUT NOW!!! 🎨

[check reblogs for links!]

#talon zane #mspaint #it feels good to finally let it loose!!!

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

The Bronx Zoo has just released Flaco's necropsy results.

He was not thriving, as the people championing the ideal of "freedom" claimed.

He was poisoned.

He was sick.

He was suffering.

"Freedom" would have eventually killed him. A building just happened to do it first.

"Postmortem testing has been completed for Flaco, the Eurasian eagle owl that was found down in the courtyard of a Manhattan building a little over a year after his enclosure at the Central Park Zoo was vandalized on February 2, 2023. Onlookers reported that Flaco had flown into a building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on February 23, 2024, and acute trauma was found at necropsy. Bronx Zoo veterinary pathologists determined that in addition to the traumatic injuries, Flaco had two significant underlying conditions. He had a severe pigeon herpesvirus from eating feral pigeons that had become part of his diet, and exposure to four different anticoagulant rodenticides that are commonly used for rat control in New York City. These factors would have been debilitating and ultimately fatal, even without a traumatic injury, and may have predisposed him to flying into or falling from the building. The identified herpesvirus can be carried by healthy pigeons but may cause fatal disease in birds of prey including owls infected by eating pigeons. This virus has been previously found in New York City pigeons and owls. In Flaco’s case, the viral infection caused severe tissue damage and inflammation in many organs, including the spleen, liver, gastrointestinal tract, bone marrow, and brain.   No other contributing factors were identified through the extensive testing that was performed. Flaco’s severe illness and death are ultimately attributed to a combination of factors—infectious disease, toxin exposures, and traumatic injuries—that underscore the hazards faced by wild birds, especially in an urban setting."

The naturalistic fallacy kills animals in horrible ways. The romanticism of what humans want to think of as a "free, wild, pure life" cannot be allowed supplant the reality of injury, sickness, and death. Releasing captive animals (or keeping them from being recaptured) because it's "better" for them to suffer untethered than live a healthy, safe, captive life is inhumane and horrific.

Flaco's life didn't have to end in pain, sickness, and suffering.

Flaco's death didn't have to be tragic.

But once the idea of "freedom" entered the chat, Flaco's fate was unavoidable.

#flaco #tw animal death #tw animal sickness #better dead than fed is a horrific mindset #zoo animal welfare #screenshot feat the WCS's inability to remember to remove their editorial template from highly sensitive press releases round 2 #colored text #people who loved the ideal of him more than the reality of him #congrats #you killed this owl #I'm still so mad that people who wanted him to stay loose got all sorts of media attention for the elegies they wrote when he died

[daeyumi]

another meme redraw from twt, i just couldn’t help myself

#zelda #legend of zelda #twilight princess #zelda twilight princess #midzel #zelda tp #twilight princess zelda #midna #midzel supremacy #midzel moment #zelda fanart #daeyumi art #it’s been way too long since i last drew midzel #and like come on this template was literally MADE for them #i tried some new brushes too #it was fun doing a more loose(?) painterly style

[despazito]

Idk I have such a fascination with people who coddle and baby wild animals (or even domestic ones). Maybe it's not that deep but I think in some ways it does speak to a lack of maturity in empathy, which sounds counterintuitive but I think its not unlike some forms of unhealthy parenting. It's a cognitive disconnect that perhaps the way you'd like to be treated does not always translate to what others want or feel comfortable with. That maybe your reality is not universal, and an inability to place yourself in another's shoes. People hear low empathy and assume it means distant and unloving, but it can also look like lovebombing or over imposing oneself on others with a lack of boundaries. From the outside it can look loving and pampering and an incredible life, but do they ever really stop to try and get to know the other party, what it actually feels and wants? Are you doing what's best for it, or just what you think is best? Or worse, what you think makes you look best in front of others?

They call animal care professionals who ask for more restraint and less contact with said animals uncaring and cold because they honest to god cannot place themselves in a reality where a kindhearted hug could feel terrifying and a free donut could be horrible for one's survival. And I think information based arguments can fall short because they are primarily operating through emotions and what "feels" right to them. And I think some of these people may be drawn to animals and habituating wildlife because they won't ever tell them off in clean english. Idk it intrigues me

#i think youll find kooky animal people myself included tend to have a screw loose somewhere

[seagiri]

can i be sad here for a moment

#my art #dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #laios touden #falin touden #um. sibling dynamics make me really sad. these two specially #i start thinking of that extra where baby laios is telling all the animals that he has a little sister and i bawl my eyes out #i dont usually post sketches here but im about to shatter #dungeon meshi spoilers #??? i guess but very loosely

[h0rsegirlpercy]

DI ANGELO’S SANDWICH PLACE AND THE MYTHOMAGIC CARDS THIS IS ALREADY MORE THAN MY NICO STAN ASS THOUGHT I WAS GONNA GET

#LOOSING MY MIND #percy jackson #pjato #pjo #percy jackson and the olympians #rick riordan #pjo tv show #nico di angelo #1k #mine

[daydreamdiaz]

Thinking about how Eddie is a deeply silly man who has been forced into always being the responsible one. Thinking about How Buck is someone who longs to be taken seriously but is always treated like he's immature or irresponsible. Thinking about how Buck gives Eddie the freedom to be his most ridiculous and how Eddie trusts Buck with his most serious responsibilities and problems.

#im loosing it a little bit im clawing walls im chewing my arm #they are so perfect for each other i cant handle it #they love each other so so mcuh and they love each other how they need to be loved #eddie diaz #evan buckley #buck #buddie #911 abc #original txt.