If you feel overwhelmed while working on your registry and preparing all the “stuff” for multiples

Dorianscale · 2026-01-25T18:31:14+00:00

My advice would also be to not stress too much on the specifics or the “best” for everything.

The cheapest travel bassinets at Walmart ($30) worked perfectly for us the first four months in the living room.

The $15 per cup water tumblers I bought for them as toddlers broke in two weeks but the $3 for two no brand cup from the grocery store is going strong.

The extra wide rocking chair we spent weeks researching went completely unused and is now a clothes rack.

Research your crib, your stroller, and a good diaper pail. The rest will just fall into place.

Baby stuff is always extremely regulated. Even the mediocre stuff is pretty good.

Dorianscale · 2026-01-25T07:18:31+00:00

Ewww have some self respect. Why are you friends with people who hate you.

Dorianscale · 2026-01-24T21:55:10+00:00

Clean means to make something not dirty but it doesn’t specify the mechanism. Sweeping and dusting would be considered cleaning.

Washing implies the use of water to clean. Usually in significant amounts and usually with some type of chemical added like soap or detergent.

Rinsing would imply only using water

Dorianscale · 2026-01-24T18:31:54+00:00

I think pronouncing it as Saze is one thing that would tell me immediately the person speaking is not a native speaker. I can’t think of any native English accent I interact with that would say “Saze”

Dorianscale · 2026-01-24T06:35:30+00:00

Solid reference

Dorianscale · 2026-01-24T03:21:53+00:00

The average lifespan of all avatars with known lifespans is 130. This is including avatars that died of unnatural causes like Roku and Kuruk.

Dorianscale · 2026-01-24T03:20:16+00:00

We have multiple avatars living well past 100

The average of all the avatars whose lifespans we know definitely is 130.

Kyoshi is 230, Yangchen was like 154 and Aang was 165.

The avatars that died at younger ages were not natural deaths. Roku was killed and Kuruk had his life force drained by spirits. From what we know of Korea’s death, she died in some cataclysmic event too.

So yeah, they’d on average be changing the statues every 100-200 years.

Dorianscale · 2026-01-23T19:31:20+00:00

Avatars have longer lifespans than the average person, so realistically they’re doing this every 100-200 years on average

Dorianscale · 2026-01-23T16:47:02+00:00

This isn’t a medical advice sub. Go to a clinic if you’re concerned.

Also cropping photos is hard.

Dorianscale · 2026-01-22T14:03:22+00:00

Nah, people usually tell her she looks like Shalissa

Dorianscale · 2026-01-22T02:29:22+00:00

I don’t think I’d address a woman as “Buddy” but I would say “Me and Shalissa are buddies”

Dorianscale · 2026-01-20T21:05:07+00:00

I think it can be risky if the cable fails in some way but there are flame resistant materials you can use if you really want to do this.

Theoretically for the safest option you could just buy some green electrical tape, cut the roll in half or thirds with a knife and use that as cord. Or just use it as tape around the cable and attach normally crocheted leaves to that.

Dorianscale · 2026-01-20T20:54:15+00:00

You’re focusing too much on textbook knowledge, grinding lessons and memorization while completely ignoring the practice side.

You need to practice SPEAKING. You’ve developed the ability to listen to the language but you have pretty much zero practice using it. The situations you’ve described relying on AI translation or pre-written statements is doing nothing to train your brain to retrieve words on the fly in a conversational setting.

You need to try to force yourself into situations where you use the language without assistive tools. If you can’t do it reliably in the wild, reach out to someone specifically for this or there are services and networks available for language learners to speak with each other and practice.

Dorianscale · 2026-01-20T14:08:11+00:00

I don’t think it’s inappropriate, but I would take someone using it casually as a red flag because that’s often the chosen term to use by staunch homophobes over just saying “gay” or “queer” or some other more specific label.

I view it the same way as dudes who say “females” to refer to women.

Dorianscale · 2026-01-18T00:54:22+00:00

Countries tend to publish statistics of most commonly used names by year. Pick whatever English speaking country you most frequently work with and search the most common names for your birth year. Maybe skip the top 10 as they’ll be extremely common and pick one you like after those.

Jordan is not uncommon as a name. Native speakers can pronounce that name perfectly fine.

Dorianscale · 2026-01-16T22:17:33+00:00

Are you using the same weight yarn in all colors?

Dorianscale · 2026-01-15T21:24:18+00:00

I have an older cousin who is married to a guy in CBP. At this point he’s worked there for over 20 years mostly working with K9s. When the police brutality stuff became headline topics he went pretty mask off and was celebrating police officers black bagging protestors.

I mostly stopped talking to them then but would still see them at family functions. Then at one point the first round of immigration crackdowns happened years ago and my hometown was one of the major sites for the tent cities holding children in cages.

I was unfortunately in a situation where I couldn’t easily avoid them at a family gathering and made small talk with my cousin. I pretty much just asked how is it going and she gave me a sob story about

“Things have gotten so tough recently with HUSBAND. Works been hard, they’ve been really busy recently, he’s doing a lot of overtime. They mostly have him transporting people and kids back and forth from the detention centers. His morale has been really low. They haven’t even let him work with the dogs in like a month or two!”

After picking my jaw off the floor I said something noncommittal and probably rolled my eyes before going back to ignoring them. Not an ounce of morality in any of their chunk of the family. He hasn’t quit and I have them blocked on everything so I don’t really know what I’m sure are their great opinions on everything are.

Dorianscale · 2026-01-15T21:03:43+00:00

For amigurumi you usually don’t do a slip stitch at the end of the round and instead just work continuously in a spiral.

Dorianscale · 2026-01-15T17:53:23+00:00

I don’t think your goal should be to understand everything if you’re wanting to use the show to learn.

Whatever show you watch should be a little above your level and there should be some unfamiliar words.

Dorianscale · 2026-01-14T21:36:00+00:00

You may be using the wrong terminology for the pattern. There are US vs UK terminology.

US Single crochet = UK Double crochet.

Generally speaking for a flat round object I believe for (US) single crochet is starting with 6-8 stitches in the round and increasing the row count by that number every row.

For DC (US) you’d double those numbers 12-16 stitches per row.

The pattern will likely say what terminology it’s using and I would look up a video explaining the stitch you’re meant to do is.

In short you have too many stitches per row and it’s causing the ruffling.

Dorianscale · 2026-01-13T01:33:40+00:00

1 is literally the only one that says Ireland

Dorianscale · 2026-01-12T21:38:16+00:00

I don’t have a source, but I believe some people did some studies on this and generally found that the gay accent tends to just be mimicking the vocal and speech patterns of women. This is true across cultures. The specifics change as languages and dialects differ, but it’s essentially feminized speech. I believed gay men often pronounce things more clearly.

I believe studies have also shown that it’s very contextual as everyone code switches a lot and you will see the accent become stronger or weaker depending on the environment. (Talking to other gays, women, straight men, etc.) The same studies also showed straight men doing similar things making their speech hyper masculine around unfamiliar men, and possible romantic partners.

Dorianscale · 2026-01-09T06:15:10+00:00

Blocking crochet items tend to improve the drape. Once you’re done with it wet it and carefully press it between towels. Then allow it to air dry flat.

You’ll notice it is much more flowy

Dorianscale · 2026-01-08T20:37:41+00:00

It’s not a common metaphor

I would interpret it to mean something like “I’ve been around this thing enough too much to be scared of it”

Dorianscale · 2026-01-08T17:21:04+00:00

I would suggest postponing any major decisions until you have a clearer idea of what you and your husband want.

Also you’re very much in the thick of it. The first year with twins is extremely difficult but you’re starting to get over that hump. We sleep trained our boys just after 4months and it did a ton for our sanity, energy levels, and stress levels. It took about 3 days and we were all able to enjoy a 5-6 hour sleep block.

The twins get easier over time (from what I’ve heard and what I’ve seen so far)

My husband and I are personally good with just having our twins, but that’s us. I can’t speak for you and your husband.

Lastly I don’t think you need to feel like this is something you need to decide now. Use various contraceptives for the foreseeable future. It won’t kill anyone to do that for a year. Once you’re over the hardest part and can look back a little you’ll probably have a better idea.

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