just start now. whatever you’re holding off on, just start now. don’t wait until the mood strikes. start now. working on it for even five minutes is better than nothing. just start now. now
There’s a website where you can learn ASL (American Sign Language) on your own, free and it’s a 31 Day program! The woman on there, her name is Rochelle Barlow, she runs the site and she actually is a homeschool teacher and teaches ASL. I am passing this on to some of you guys cause most of y’all on here is open-minded and curious and it is something important to learn.
I truly believe this site is helpful for some people who can not afford to going to ASL classes, or someone like me that just enjoys learning something new. This site will help with that. Once you sign up you will put in your email address and Rochelle sends you emails on tips on how to sign, gives you practice sheets, and gives you your weekly videos. And its all online. No need to paying for anything. (Unless if you want to she has something very different to this program)
IMO and yes, this site is really amazing and is important because you never know if someone who is deaf or HOH needs help, if you end up losing your hearing ability this is something you will at least have on the back of your head, and it is just like any other language and should be taught.
Medieval ruins found under high school gym in Finland
Located adjacent to the Aboa Vetus history museum, also built over medieval ruins, the plot on which the Cathedral School stands has been the site archaeological digs for the past three years.
Concept: priest-king of theocratic city-state discovers that God’s aim is ever so slightly off, encourages precisely calibrated sinning among populace in order to smite rivals across the river.
This is some shit I’d do right here
How do you precisely calibrate sinning, I wonder? Is it a matter or location, or degree?
A fine art of “lust here, pride there, kick a goose that only slightly deserves it here”?
Or more a matter of “All right, everybody line up along the shore with lawn chairs and your drink of choice. We’re having a sloth-a-thon to tip the average in that direction.”
so the glow club post is very much still making the rounds and today someone reblogged it saying something like “but Bilbo’s sword in the Hobbit was supposed to glow to warn him of danger, so if an orc was using it, it would only glow if another orc came by who was dangerous to that person”
which is, a sweet and generous interpretation of the glowy weapon trope! it would also be a really overpowered item and I wouldn’t let one of my players have it but also, there isn’t really a way to know whether Bilbo’s sword glows in the presence of any orc or only dangerous orcs, because in Tolkien “orc” is synonymous with “threat you should stab on sight.”
I am, very not comfortable with that worldbuilding!! There are parts of the fantasy genre that come out of straight-up racism and bigotry and a desire to glorify some really fucking horrifying eras of history! and I don’t want putting up with that shit to be the price of admission for playing certain games or telling certain stories. The characters should take damage, the players should not, and if I get that wrong I’m not doing my job.
if we want, we are going to tell stories about violence. if we want, we are going to tell stories about marginalization. we are not going to tell stories where the bad guys are ugly caricatures of ourselves, our friends, our families, and the good guys look like the people who slaughtered our communities way back when.
all of which is to say: Bagdurash’s club doesn’t glow in the presence of people who are dangerous. It glows in the presence of orcs. It was made as a tool of hate and exclusion. We’re using it for something else now.
[Elizabeth Bennet is crying after having discovered about Lydia Bennet’s elopement with George Wickham]
Mr. Gardiner: What’s wrong, Lizzie? Why are you crying? What happened?
Mrs. Gardiner: Are you okay? Did someone make you cry? Who is it? I’ll go talk to them if you want me to.
Mr. Darcy: WHERE ARE THEY? I’LL FUCKING KILL THEM.
Part 1: How Differences in Gauge Affect Your Final Project
Here’s some quick plug-and-chug ways to figure out what will happen if you can’t quite get the right gauge (or just don’t want to find a better gauge).
(All written on paper and shown as pictures because I’m bad at computers)
The second one picture is very important if you’re doing a simple repetitive stitch but it has a design worked in either via colors or knit/purl.
Additional Note: as long as you measure your gauge and the original gauge with the same units, the original pattern units can be whatever. Your answer will be in whatever units the original pattern size units were.
example: a scarf pattern is 6 feet but your gauge and original gauge are in inches, your answer will be in feet
Feel free to send me questions if you have any! I hope to do more of these in the future, as well as a really basic quantity algebra one to help you figure out your own things!
Kimchi and Justice 