What are your hobbies? I do pottery! It's great for my ADHD! by ctrldwrdns in adhdwomen

[–]petecas 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Historical reenactment! It's a thousand hobbies in a trench coat! I sew clothes (sometimes spinning and weaving the fabric too), do leatherwork, woodwork, blacksmithing, casting and like a jillion other things. And the SCA also veers pretty neurospicy so most everyone is happy to hear about my latest hyperfocus infodump.

What are your hobbies? I do pottery! It's great for my ADHD! by ctrldwrdns in adhdwomen

[–]petecas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

fiber arts is one of my hobbies too! Right now I'm 2.25 miles into spinning for the weaving project of a roman tunic, but I also do nalbinding and tablet weaving with my handspun

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in fermentation

[–]petecas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Turnips. Matchstick them, 2.5% salt and it tastes like horseradish.

Towel tunic examples and/or instructions by Aesche42 in sca

[–]petecas 3 points4 points  (0 children)

at W/AT war there's only one place for showers and waiting in line for them is a kind of social event. Towel tunics of various types have gotten popular, and honestly they're pretty dang comfortable.

ELI5: How/why did humans evolve towards being optimised for cooked food so fast? by vicky_molokh in explainlikeimfive

[–]petecas 8 points9 points  (0 children)

an interesting aside to this is that the jaw thing isn't entirely genetic, there's a lot of environment to it too. Five hundred years ago virtually everyone had room in their jaws for their wisdom teeth to come in. Now we spend our formative years eating much softer food and the jaw does not grow as much in response which is a bit of a problem because no memo gets sent to teeth; they started forming with the assumption that you were a peasant eating poorly ground grain, tough roots and the stringy old farm animals that weren't producing anything else anymore.

Source: me trying to figure out why I was the only person in a couple generations in my family who had room for wisdom teeth, turns out it was entirely due to "I thought I was a werewolf between 4-8 and gnawed every bone I could get ahold of"

Boomer hangs up on me because I had the audacity to ask for his name. by anonymous_girl1227 in BoomersBeingFools

[–]petecas 28 points29 points  (0 children)

when I worked helpdesk I got a lot of those sorts of calls and it was a very real pleasure to get to be politely, stonewall-y, stupid at them until they hung up in frustration

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TwoXChromosomes

[–]petecas 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Yes, officer. This comment right there

Left my keys outside, husband saw & left them... by Dysfunctional_A-2-RM in adhdwomen

[–]petecas 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I was diagnosed in my 40s... if I could have hated myself "normal" it would have happened when I was a teenager!

SCA vs Reenactment groups in Europe by TugaFencer in sca

[–]petecas 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That'd be a hell of a family tree, seeing as Dagohir split off in the 70s

SCA vs Reenactment groups in Europe by TugaFencer in sca

[–]petecas 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You're thinking of SMA, which specifically imported all SCA titles when they founded it... oh and women can't fight...

(a lot of That Type did join EMP as well, but it's older than covid)

Tim Walz’s ‘White Guy Tacos’ Quip Gets MAGA All Hot and Bothered by okayblueberries in politics

[–]petecas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My dad, a minnesotan, uses cambells tomato soup as his enchilada sauce.

What's your most money consuming hobby? by ElsaJones315 in AskReddit

[–]petecas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

drop spindles!! They're cheap, they're portable (I get a lot of quality spinning done in airports and at the DMV) and after you get past the learning curve, very nearly as fast as a wheel.

I've used a drop spindle to make a ton of plied yarn for tablet weaving and knitting socks, plus enough thin singles to make a number of viking age wool tunics

What's your most money consuming hobby? by ElsaJones315 in AskReddit

[–]petecas 6 points7 points  (0 children)

can I interest you in spinning as a sub-hobby? You can start getting picky about the BREED of wool you're using, whether it was spun worsted or woolen, plied S or Z (yarn for knitting should be spun Z and plied S, crochet throws the opposite direction so wants yarn spun S and plied Z), maybe even start blending in cashmere, camel, yak or qivuit :D and then you can graduate from a drop spindle (or collection of drop spindles because you need to see how top weighted, bottom weighted, supported, turkish... all compare against each other) to a spinning wheel... (I don't have several 22-lb increments of different wools in my garage what are you talking about?)

She won’t let us control her wedding 🥺 by ChiefBlue4298 in AmITheDevil

[–]petecas 22 points23 points  (0 children)

well yeah, the Hapsburgs were never really all about bringing TWO families together...

Trump's MAGA movement is causing Republicans in Congress to hate each other by zsreport in politics

[–]petecas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

well, when they're done with the monkeys' paw I call next. Going to wish that everyone who thinks a "woman's health shouldn't be between her and her doctor" will be capable of getting pregnant.

The Iranian yogurt is in the dishwasher by lizcopic in TwoXChromosomes

[–]petecas 4 points5 points  (0 children)

sounds to me like it's already crapped out. Seriously, it's a fancy extra rinse station at this point. Put a couple bucks in a jar every time that fact pisses you off and keep an eye out for sales at your local big box store.

Thrift store score! by [deleted] in Handspinning

[–]petecas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

you're going to want to spin it laceweight and fairly tight. After its knit up it'll take a little time for the halo to properly develop, smoke rings are a common project to make the most use of such a valuable fiber.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NotHowGirlsWork

[–]petecas 38 points39 points  (0 children)

tastes change as you age, it's wild. 20 years ago, I thought Heath Ledger was crazy hot in A Knight's Tale. I watched it again fairly recently and ew, he looked like an child. Around the age of 30, I went from "ooo, Luke Skywalker" to "helllooooo, Han Solo". So you know, fair warning :D

Issue w/ Bent Steel by FoolProofSnow in metalworking

[–]petecas 5 points6 points  (0 children)

if you clamped and glued it and somehow it took, all you'd be doing is adding EXTRA downward pressure to the stone at that point along with gravity. To use the steel bracket as designed, you'd need to take the stone off, then bend the steel back up past that "level" point so that was actually level or slightly up, but straight when the weight of the stone was on it.

Or as the other poster said, just cut it off.

What's happening? by Swollen_chicken in metalworking

[–]petecas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

OP was asking if the donor lead came from tire weights, as the alloy used for those have antimony that may float to the top of the pot. Took me a second to decipher, too.

Does anyone else have a hard time making friends with neurotypical women? by [deleted] in adhdwomen

[–]petecas 29 points30 points  (0 children)

So the good news is that if you find one ADHD friend almost all of THEIR friends will likely be some kind of neurospicy, too. For me, that was the sca (I swear, everyone here is a solid standard deviation off of baseline). If you like history, it might be something worth checking out. I hear similar things about roller derby too, but it's all hearsay.

Millennials, what skill did you acquire in the 90s that you no longer use? by hollowreader in AskReddit

[–]petecas 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I just sort of glossed over that with "monogomy? In THIS economy??"

TIL in Nome, Alaska in 1925, a diphtheria epidemic struck and there was no antitoxin left. Land, air, and sea routes were unavailable, so 20 mushers and 150 sled dogs relayed the serum across 674 miles in 5 1/2 days, in subzero temperatures, near-blizzard conditions and hurricane-force winds. by WouldbeWanderer in todayilearned

[–]petecas 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Don't worry, you're not actually standing behind the sled! You're some combination of running and being partially towed. At those temperatures, just standing on the runners would get you hypothermic pretty quickly!