Back during the time when it was popular to bash Twilight for both legitimate reasons (Edward being borderline abusive to Bella, the whole child grooming plot point in Breaking Dawn, etc.) and not (REAL VAMPIRES DON’T SPARKLE THATS GAY), I saw this meme on Facebook where it was Louis and Lestat from Interview With The Vampire commenting on Edward’s sparkling and making fun of him for being gay. Like… Buddy My Guy. My Fair Dude. My Dear Sweet Homophobic Idiot. Not only are the Vampires in IWTV super duper gay, you’re lying to yourself if you think Lestat wouldn’t slam dunk his entire body into a tub of glitter on any given occasion. You Fool. You Imbecile.
They are slightly misshapen and lopsided because I followed my standard MO of “Fuckit do the thing PATTERN WHAT PATTERN HAHAHAHA” but I am very proud of them.
Another crocheter who tells the yarn “Fuck you! I’ll MAKE it work!” in da house! *high five*
My crocheting process;
1. Start chaining
2. ????????? IDK man stuff happens
3. FUCK (Rips out row)
4. Repeat step 2
5. Finished project!
A demonstration of the difference between crocheting and knitting and an example of why I don’t knit. You can’t say fuck it in knitting.
This is EXACTly the explanation of why knitting and I have never gotten on.
I can wing that shit in crochet. if you need to add a few stitches or drop them NBD.
Incidentally, crocheting was invented in Scotland by farmwives, presumably because “Fuck you ya dafty tit, am no going tae let no ball of wool tell me what fer while I’m makin some stockings for the weans.”
Making friends all over the world and coming to terms with the fact that you might only meet half of them, ever, if you’re lucky
Occasional-to-frequent sleep-deprivation because the words finally started flowing two hours after you were supposed to be asleep
Getting into arguments with strangers about which fictional characters should kiss
Realizing you are working through your own feelings about events from your own life by imagining your favorite fictional characters going through the same things
Researching the sorts of things that make you worry you’ll end up on an FBI watchlist
Watching pornography only to help yourself visualize specific positions/acts
Crying
author’s note on fanfic ch4: i’ll probably have it updated by the end of this week!
author’s note on fanfic ch5: so i know it’s been two years but i can explain
This is the “free speech bus.” Run by a gaggle of homophobic religious groups, it kicked off a trip on the East Coast this week to try to convince the world that transgender people aren’t real.
Guess how long it took before it got vandalized: one day. Whoops.
It’s almost as if when you embark on a road trip specifically to harm and dehumanize other people, those people and their friends will push back! Some great observations from Twitter: