Learn how to appreciate beans and learn how to cook them from dried. Dried beans keep forever, don’t take up a ton of room and can be used to make SO MANY THINGS.
Meat is about to get A LOT more expensive (and eggs) and you’re gonna need an alternative protein source.
genuinely, who gives a shit about this in a genuine way?
We have a nepotism shitshow circus coming in, so fucking spare me the pearl clutching and concerns over morals in terms of Biden pardoning his son’s politically-motivated prosecution.
I do love that our outgoing President with less than 2 months left to be President pardoning his fuck up son of a number of constitutionally questionable charges is getting 200% more coverage and 4 million times as much outrage as the incoming President picking his two daughters’ Father-in-laws for major diplomatic posts they’re in no way qualified for just because they’re members of the family, because he’s a fucking mobster.
And it’s getting more outrage than the fact that the incoming president is literally a convicted felon who was also indicted for tryin to overturn the last election!
I mean we all know, we ALL! know he’s gonna pardon himself, like we knew this from day one of the election, and everyone is politely acting like its not about to happen, and when it does happen we’ll ignore all the think pieces about it published before and claim that pardoning Hunter “opened the door” and I will blow up with the fire of million suns
log onto tumblr and you learn that cowboys are secretly leftist and pirates are secretly leftist and superhero comics are secretly leftist and vikings are secretly leftist and greco-roman antiquity is secretly leftist and knights are secretly leftist and the concept of the appalachian region is secretly leftist and all genre fiction is innately secretly leftist and every animated show you ever watched as a kid is secretly leftist and you never have to think about the political subtext of anything ever and you log off tumblr and for some reason people are talking about a descent toward fascism
me: oughghgh okay you gotta go OUT today and run errands like an adult, pick up prints, buy floss for the beans cross stitches you sell, maybe some groceries….
also me: oh 3pm’s not that late! plenty of time to spend on a cross stitch project!
several hours later, it is already dark out:
me:….. shit.
(ty to @presidentdragon for a sentence that goes extremely hard)
also idk what the cheapest way to get this pattern out to yall would be is there like, a public drive folder somewhere where you can upload free pattern pdfs?
for those who would like to do alterations, like @trippol-threat, here is the antialiased transparent png file
okok so I’ve been putting this off for ages:
first, an update on my prototype of this pattern:
things that I have learned:
the blackish-brown and grey thread i chose to distinguish the bird wings has BARELY any contrast. the whole thing needs to be redesigned
the red and dark red on the ribbon-work doesn’t contrast highly enough, it sort of just. sludges together? I need a darker red or maybe even a red-tinted brown
i’m attempting to use some of the blackish-brown as letter outlining to make up for the fact that I chose a metallic (and therefore pricier) floss
the auto-settings for uploading a cross stitch pattern based on existing art is uh, NOT GREAT
NOTES! GROUPINGS! SEPARATIONS! oh by god was it a mess. Some colours were so close I had to group them to make it make sense. others, such as the DMC 444, was trying to be both lemon yellow in the text gradient AND brownish straw in the goat itself so they needed separation.
I’ve remade the pattern stitch by stitch on a different maker. It’s still available at the same pay-what-you-like link up there ^ but here’s the NEW preview:
oh also i made the birds look more like jackdaws
UPDATE: PROTOTYPE VERSION IS COMPLETE
I WILL HENCEFORTH BE WORKING ON STITCH MY OWN VERSION OF THE RE-MADE PATTERN AS SEEN ABOVE
(also i need to borrow my old roommate’s iron this thing is wrinkle city)
amhrancas 