I’ve Only Ever Seen This In YouTube Compilations And Pinterest 

So my sister wants to start sewing more, because

a. She’s 5′ 11″ and can never find pants long enough for her legs or shirts long enough for her arms.

b. She hates synthetic fibers as much as I do and it’s difficult to find natural fiber clothes that aren’t made of cotton

c. She’s a biologist and would physically fistfight microplastics if given half a chance

So her gift from mom and dad for her birthday was a sewing machine. Not a super expensive one but a good solid serviceable one.

And recently she asked “So where do I GET wool or linen and thread that isn’t polyester” and mom was like ‘go ask your sister’

And I, of course, crashed into the group text like “GET A PEN I HAVE WEBSITES FOR U” and honestly I’m thrilled about this

Cultural Anatomy: Sokka’s Choker

From what I’ve researched, chokers were traditionally worn by some Native American tribes rather than by the Inuit, who traditionally preferred looser fitting necklaces. But Sokka’s particular choker is identical to traditional Alaskan Inuit bracelets, which are made from walrus or whale ivory.

Which means that Sokka might just be wearing a bracelet as a choker. And I can’t think of anything more perfectly Sokka than using an item for something beyond its intended purpose. I can totally imagine how the whole thing started:

Mother Kya: “One day, when Katara gets married, I’ll give her this necklace that Gran-Gran gave to me.”

Lil Sokka: “No fair! Why don’t I get anything?”

Hakoda: “Sokka, this necklace is for girls only.”

Lil Sokka: “Fine, I’ll just make my own necklace.” *ties his bracelet around his neck and immediately starts choking*

Gran-Gran: *sighs* I’ll get more string…

a list of 100+ buildings to put in your fantasy town

academy

adventurer's guild

alchemist

apiary

apothecary

aquarium

armory

art gallery

bakery

bank

barber

barracks

bathhouse

blacksmith

boathouse

book store

bookbinder

botanical garden

brothel

butcher

carpenter

cartographer

casino

castle

cobbler

coffee shop

council chamber

court house

crypt for the noble family

dentist

distillery

docks

dovecot

dyer

embassy

farmer's market

fighting pit

fishmonger

fortune teller

gallows

gatehouse

general store

graveyard

greenhouses

guard post

guildhall

gymnasium

haberdashery

haunted house

hedge maze

herbalist

hospice

hospital

house for sale

inn

jail

jeweller

kindergarten

leatherworker

library

locksmith

mail courier

manor house

market

mayor's house

monastery

morgue

museum

music shop

observatory

orchard

orphanage

outhouse

paper maker

pawnshop

pet shop

potion shop

potter

printmaker

quest board

residence

restricted zone

sawmill

school

scribe

sewer entrance

sheriff's office

shrine

silversmith

spa

speakeasy

spice merchant

sports stadium

stables

street market

tailor

tannery

tavern

tax collector

tea house

temple

textile shop

theatre

thieves guild

thrift store

tinker's workshop

town crier post

town square

townhall

toy store

trinket shop

warehouse

watchtower

water mill

weaver

well

windmill

wishing well

wizard tower

I keep seeing ads for cotton candy flavored vape pods on tumblr and it made me wonder…

Why/Why not in the tags?

I’m interested because I feel like when I was in high school/college in the mid-10s, almost nobody smoked - even if you otherwise had some pretty hard vices. I think it was considered not really worth it for something with such a small buzz. But now, idk. Maybe the advertisers are right to target people here because it’s just that popular again??

(Reblog for a bigger sample size etc etc.)

this is amazing

hwat do we think gamers. good fit or too early 2000s?

Love that they kept in chillchuck looking at his dick

She hasn’t responded to you yet because she’s busy being openly pathetic on Tumblr. Give it some time

One of my favourite things about Mori and Fyodor projecting onto Dazai is that they keep thinking he's exactly like them when... no??? He's not???? At all??????

Idk maybe I interpret Dazai differently but while Mori and Fyodor are clearly Dazai-foils, I just can't see them as really all that similar.

Sure, strategy-wise, they have a lot in common. They're also all relatively unbound by such things as morality and have few close people - feeling lonely for the most part.

But what gets me is... Mori does what he does because he is an ambitious leader. Fyodor does what he does because he has an ambitious dream. Both are after a way to make the world/city better according to their visions and are prepared to go about darker means to achieve this.

Dazai... doesn't really have any ambitions? They all have eerily similar lines of thinking and ways of dealing with and manipulating situations and people, but their emotional cores are completely different.

Dazai is not ambitious. Dazai is empty. What's more, he's kind of lazy and only really motivated to take action on someone else's requests/orders - otherwise he's actually a really passive character imo. He took orders from Mori in the mafia, only intervened in the DHC because Chuuya got mad, and left the mafia and helps people in the present day because he made a promise to Odasaku. All his strategizing and planning is retaliatory, rather than proactive like Mori or Fyodor. I think the only time we see Dazai planning proactively is in Beast, but even then, that's not some lofty vision for the world/city, that's a desperate plan to save one single person.

This is a huge part of the reason why I think Dazai's threats to kill Mori and take over as the boss were complete bs. Why would he want that? That's more responsibility. I don't see why he would have any desire to lead the mafia outside of Beast.

But because Mori expects Dazai is just like him, and this is something he would do in that situation, he accepts it, putting him and Dazai in this uncomfortable stalemate where neither has complete power over the other. So it has a tactical purpose, yes, but it's far from ambitious.

What's more, Mori and Fyodor are shown to have no compunction with sacrificing people like pawns, even people close to them. Logic wins out, at all costs. Dazai is not good at sacrificing. He's selfish. Once he has something or someone, he's loathe to let it go. If he is significantly close with someone, emotion will actually win out in the end (Odasaku). Dazai is afraid of loss.

So, yeah, they are all amoral brilliant strategists who are isolated from most other people but their motivations are completely different. In all actuality, I think Mori and Fyodor have a lot more in common on that note than Dazai ever did.

hc that Dazai made a point of calling Chuuya small when they met because Dazai was used to being the small one.

like, finally there was someone shorter than him. because let’s be real, Dazai was barely taller than Chuuya in Fifteen.

i think people forget how small Dazai was too— not just in height, but also in weight. He was underweight in Dark Era, but in Fifteen & even at present he's barely within the healthy weight range for his height. he was constantly described as a twig in Fifteen, and almost every time he's introduced in the light novels he's called lanky, slender, etc.

Feminist fantasy is funny sometimes in how much it wants to shit on femininity for no goddamned reason. Like the whole “skirts are tools of the patriarchy made to cripple women into immobility, breeches are much better” thing.

(Let’s get it straight: Most societies over history have defaulted to skirts for everyone because you don’t have to take anything off to relieve yourself, you just have to squat down or lift your skirts and go. The main advantage of bifurcated garments is they make it easier to ride horses. But Western men wear pants so women wearing pants has become ~the universal symbol of gender equality~)

The book I’m reading literally just had its medievalesque heroine declare that peasant women wear breeches to work in the field because “You can’t swing a scythe in a skirt!”

Hm yes story checks out

peasant women definitely never did farm labour in skirts

skirts definitely mean you’re weak and fragile and can’t accomplish anything

skirts are definitely bad and will keep you from truly living life

no skirts for anyone, that’s definitely the moral of the story here