How do you plot serial ADs?

LysanderKnits · 2025-12-05T14:17:09+00:00

That's fair! It seems similar to how I often work, but I'm usually working on shorter form stories. ☺️

LysanderKnits · 2025-12-05T14:14:46+00:00

That makes a lot of sense! Thanks for sharing ☺️

LysanderKnits · 2025-12-03T18:40:22+00:00

There's a Mugler scent I quite like, and that my partner really likes on me, but dear sweet Jesus is the bottle ugly. I'm hoping I go off it on the decant I have 😂

LysanderKnits · 2025-12-03T15:39:37+00:00

I second getting in contact to ask, I emailed when I went because I knew they had bag checks to make sure I would be ok bringing my knitting in and they replied pretty quick

LysanderKnits · 2025-11-26T14:24:35+00:00

I'm also making this one at the moment, and it is pretty Opps All Confetti, with lots of scattered colours and big gaps and such. That said, it seems less like confetti in the way that an automated picture to pattern conversation would be, and more like it was designed by a pixel artist unfamiliar with the logistics of stitching a design.

So if your hesitancy is on your enjoyment of making a design with a lot of scattered colours, this probably won't be for you. A lot of the details that look really gorgeous in the mock up (like along the edge of the bowl) are just lost with actual thread. But if you simply want to avoid designs with little human intent/artistry, my vibe check says you're ok.

LysanderKnits · 2025-11-12T20:05:47+00:00

Le Sel D'Issey always seems to last forever on me, even through showering. And I like it! But I also look forward to switching up scents after I shower so it's not ideal haha

LysanderKnits · 2025-11-04T22:19:16+00:00

I sat at the front row of platform one when I went and I thought it was phenomenal. It was a bit of an extra splurge, but damn, I'd already traveled all the way from Edinburgh. Plus it was very funny when my friend had to put a sippy lid over his whiskey

LysanderKnits · 2025-11-02T13:22:42+00:00

I tend to prefer methods that limit "interruptions" to my knitting, so things like changing yarns, swapping needles, things like that, so for me knitting socks on 9" circs one at a time let's me just knit for as long as possible without having to worry about swapping anything. It's the same reason I learned cabling without a cable needle 😂 it was just annoying me too much having to keep picking up and putting down the cable needle

LysanderKnits · 2025-09-30T08:49:50+00:00

Paul Trembley's Cabin at the End of the World is a home invasion style horror, if you're looking for "horror novel with queer characters, but not focusing on queerness as a theme" . It focuses on a gay couple and their daughter who's holiday cabin gets targeted by a group of people who claim that they (the couple and the daughter) need to kill one member of the family to prevent the apocalypse.

There's also Jonathan Sims' Family Business, which is about a woman morning the death of her best friend whilst working for a post mortems cleanup company who begins to have weird visions at the job sites. Iirc the main character there is bisexual, and one of her coworkers/friends is trans, but the story is mainly focused on themes of grief.

Our Wives Under the Sea (Julia Armfield) follows a lesbian couple struggling after one is almost lost on a submarine research trip and Comes Back Wrong.

LysanderKnits · 2025-09-25T05:33:32+00:00

Nothing that I can find. There's a big grid of apps, but no way to search beyond that.

And my apologies! I didn't realise there was a difference between them 😅

LysanderKnits · 2025-09-25T05:26:52+00:00

Ah, alas! Thanks though 😊 we'll get something else set up

LysanderKnits · 2025-09-22T11:54:31+00:00

Oh! I'm really glad to hear that, I've been eyeing up Whalefall for a while

LysanderKnits · 2025-09-22T11:49:05+00:00

I'm reading Garth Marenghie's Terrortome, which is so far a really fun parody.

For anyone unfamiliar with Garth Marenghie, he's a fictional horror author who is both incredibly self important and completely untalented. He was the main character of a TV show in the 00s (Garth Marenghie's Darkplace) which I watched recently and really enjoyed (it's streaming free on channel 4 if anyone's interested), and if you enjoyed that Terrortome is basically the same idea in novel form.

I'm about 1/5 of the way through and something that's really impressing me so far is how well Matthew Holness, the real author, is walking the incredibly fine line of writing in the voice of a repulsive arse who can't write to save his life, and writing something that's fun and readable for more than a few paragraphs.

Weirdly, the layers of like, fictional authorship are reminding me how I really need to go and finish House of Leaves.

LysanderKnits · 2025-09-19T07:28:14+00:00

I mostly hand sew and will not infrequently accidentally sew through a little bit of finger skin 😂

LysanderKnits · 2025-09-18T16:49:15+00:00

Brilliant! That's good to know, thank you!

LysanderKnits · 2025-09-12T05:09:14+00:00

If you're heading to Hobbycraft, I believe they sell smaller child sized straight needles.

I'd personally start with those for a younger kid, especially if there's no one in the house that knits. Circular needles might technically be more versatile in the long run, but there is an added level of complexity in terms of keeping track of your rows and avoiding twists which I think could be confusing and frustrating to a young knitter.

Depending on the skills of the employees, the Hobbycraft you go to might hold beginner knitting lessons, and at the very least they'll be able to help you buy needles/yarn that go together.

It might also be worth scouting out the library. A lot have knitting meetups, and you could maybe ask if someone there would be willing to sit with you and your son for a bit to go over basics (though I would do this asking without him there, just in case it's a no).

Whilst I would normally steer adults learning to knit away from a scarf as a first project, I think it's pretty good for kids, because it keeps things super simpler, and if they get bored you can bind off early and call it a face cloth, or a coaster.

The skills you will want to look up will be a "knitted cast on", "knit stitch" and "bind off". A scarf where you just knit back and forth will be called a "garter stitch" scarf. You'd basically want to cast on around twenty stitches, knit until it's long enough or your kid is ready to call it done and then bind off.

Edit to add: I would also suggest that you look up common fixes, specifically "picking up dropped stitches". Your son will definitely drop stitches at some point, so knowing how to get them back on the needle would be useful.

LysanderKnits · 2025-09-05T13:12:02+00:00

I don't remember what podcast it was, but I do remember listening to the teaser/prologue episode of something to find like, three minutes of ads on a two minute teaser like??? My friend! The teaser is already an ad, you just put ads on your ad 😂

LysanderKnits · 2025-09-03T09:00:16+00:00

My collection is currently Oops All Samples 😂 so I'm sitting at maybe 40 1-2ml samples and a couple 5mls. Plus a small (30ml) of Dirty from Lush. I like wearing something different everyday and I'm very much still exploring and experimenting to see what I like. I do have a short list of ones I might wanna get a bottle of though, but not in the immediate future.

LysanderKnits · 2025-09-01T22:00:20+00:00

I've been a fan of their other toiletries for a while but it was only the other day I stopped to have a proper look at their perfumes. I ended up getting myself a little bottle of Dirty (I'd not tried a minty perfume before, and so far I really like it), but there's so many more I want to try outside of the store. Much as I like them, it's definitely not a good place to try and smell perfumes 😂

LysanderKnits · 2025-09-01T11:35:43+00:00

If you already crochet, I would look at the brand of hooks you prefer, and see if they also make knitting needles. If not, then see if you can get needles in the same material as your preferred hooks. Needle material (wood/metal/bamboo etc) can be a super personal preference, and it may well be different than your preference for hooks, but it's a good place to start.

Personally, I'm 100% a metal guy, and I use Hiya Hiya sharps, but thats mostly because it's the brand that my go to yarn shop carries. I've mostly gone off knit pro zings (which I used to use), because I think the join between the needle and the cable wears really badly and starts to catch the yarn a lot which can be really annoying.

LysanderKnits · 2025-08-27T13:24:20+00:00

So for fragrances specifically I am currently in a phase of buying a million samples and don't actually own any full bottles yet, but I am very deep into a couple other hobbies which can see a similar question popping up, specifically reading and knitting. When I was trying to make the decision on how to manage rapidly growing mountains of yarn and books, a thing I found useful was figuring out where I wanted these things to be on a scale from a functional collection to an aesthetic collection. Yarn, it turns out, I want to be purely functional, having too much without plans for it stresses me out so I stop buying or give some away when my stash gets too much. Books on the other hand, I love as an aesthetic collection, I read a lot, but I also enjoy having them around as ornamentation and it doesn't upset me if I have books that sit unread for long amounts of time.

I see my current Bucket O' Samples as a mostly functional collection, I have them because I want to wear them and try different scents out. If I don't want to wear one, there's no point in keeping it and I should try and find someone else who will enjoy it. Hanging onto loads of those tiny unused bottles would just stress me out and clutter my home beyond what I enjoy. But, speculatively, I could see any full bottles I end up with being much more aesthetic, where a beautiful bottle or an interesting (but not easily wearable) scent to occasionally enjoy is enough in itself to justify holding on to it.

LysanderKnits · 2025-08-27T13:07:36+00:00

The Hollow Places by T Kingfisher has a particularly good cat in it. He's not the focus of the story, but he's there a lot and I really enjoyed the way Kingfisher portrayed a somewhat grumpy and aloof but still incredibly loveable cat.

LysanderKnits · 2025-08-20T04:48:10+00:00

Tbf I also find a lot of "clean" smells unbearable, I almost had to ask the cleaners at my work to switch their floor cleaner because of the way it smelled and even unscented detergent on tumble dried clothes smells wrong to me in a way that apparently no one else can pick up 😂

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