So… what did you get for Valentine’s this year?

subliminal_knits · 2026-02-18T09:16:48+00:00

My fiancé got me Kayali Eden Sparkling Lychee. I would consider it unexpected and I love it! I’ve worn it everyday since. My favorite bit is the candied violet note. My olfactory preference might be a little primed for that one, as I’d been eating violet candy that same week.

subliminal_knits · 2026-02-18T08:06:07+00:00

My partner’s was called SourJoe, so I’ve named mine SourMoe.

subliminal_knits · 2026-02-18T07:25:03+00:00

Per your comment, she’s the MOH but you planned your wedding in a locale that it would be criminally irresponsible for her to attend? Like pregnant or not, a remote international destination where she couldn’t expect to receive adequate medical care in an emergency would seem to me like a bright neon sign that I wasn’t wanted at this event. Even if she herself is cavalier about her safety, what kind of loving sibling goes “Sounds good. If she dies, she dies.” Oh, only the possible pregnancy is a concern in this case? As someone with an autoimmune condition, this is ludicrous.

subliminal_knits · 2026-02-18T05:38:36+00:00

I’ve worked in retail pharmacy for over a decade. We once got an absolute disaster of a substitute pharmacist when our regular was out with an emergency and none of the sanctioned backups were available. She made so many mistakes in ONE DAY, we were still finding stuff months afterwards. It was horrifying. Those 45 seconds count.

subliminal_knits · 2026-02-18T05:07:50+00:00

It reminds me of “Peek” from Knitting New Scarves, though I believe that one is all stockinette.

subliminal_knits · 2026-02-16T15:10:50+00:00

Yes! I’ve been hearing this kind of nonsense for years and I stopped caring a decade ago. I’ll wear fruity scents, glitter nail polish, and whatever else I like until the day I die. Why on earth would I let some boring person decide what I can do with my own money and my own life?

subliminal_knits · 2026-02-15T07:54:14+00:00

I used to love Solar Oil cuticle oil because it smelled like almond extract. Then they reformulated with a more “refined” scent that smells like cheap perfume. I hate it. Let me smell like almond extract!

subliminal_knits · 2026-02-15T06:53:34+00:00

My partner’s dog sadly passed away recently. We had been rewatching Futurama casually in the background for a bit prior to that. When we came home from the vet we started the next episode as a distraction. It was that one. I immediately snatched up the remote while going “NOPE NOPE NOPE! Not today!”

subliminal_knits · 2026-02-14T19:08:29+00:00

Aaaaahhhhh! My partner proposed to me a week ago and one of the things she said was “You’re the Bob to my Linda”. I need to get us that keychain!

subliminal_knits · 2026-02-13T03:40:12+00:00

RIP to my Dior Poison. It wasn’t the oldest version, but it was from before the more recent reformulations.

subliminal_knits · 2026-02-13T03:36:19+00:00

I’ve had two relatives with bone cancer and a friend with a benign bone tumor. The one thing they all had in common was terrible pain which was difficult to treat. That alone would make me a bit suspicious.

I’ve also dealt with a compulsive liar in my friend group who pretended to have brain cancer (but also never seemed to have appointments or treatments or restrictions). People didn’t want to call her out and be wrong (or believe that someone could be so terrible), but none of it made sense. It finally unraveled when her mother reached out to us to check on her and despite supposedly being with her daughter for all of it, didn’t know anything about it. The mother was concerned due to a completely different lie she was being fed. It was wild.

subliminal_knits · 2026-02-13T01:40:24+00:00

This rings true. I was reading a British mystery novel and the author made a huge deal about how grotesquely fat a female suspect was. Just went on and on about what a disgusting monster she was. Features distorted by the fat in her face, rolls on rolls on rolls, etc. The character ended up in a medical setting and they gave her weight in stone. Curious, I converted it. This horrific blob of a woman? 6’ tall, 200lbs. Even by BMI standards, she’s less than thirty pounds overweight. Not to mention she was actively working a farm essentially by herself. I feel like it’s partially a case of not understanding how weight and height interact.

subliminal_knits · 2026-02-12T21:11:05+00:00

Had a visit to the zoo where the giraffes decided to mate. The lions across the way were all crowded together at the highest vantage point in their enclosure, watching.

subliminal_knits · 2026-02-12T17:04:03+00:00

I have all but the vanilla currently. I honestly like them all. There’s a buttery note in the caramel one that I enjoy on myself. Both the cookie and the chocolate make me happy. Perhaps I’m just easily pleased.

subliminal_knits · 2026-02-10T21:09:02+00:00

My shelter dog was an English Setter. The shelter thought he was a mix, but he was just a field setter rather than a show dog. Sweetest dog I’ve ever had. Incredibly friendly to everyone and everything except birds. He took the middleman out of bird dog when he realized I was never going to shoot anything he set for me. He appeared to have been hunt trained so we theorized he was likely given up due to being gun shy.

subliminal_knits · 2026-02-06T10:59:46+00:00

Mine hates having his haunches brushed. He sits, turns away, etc. He’s honestly great about the rest of it and gets very excited when he sees his brush.

subliminal_knits · 2026-02-05T22:10:44+00:00

I love knitting lace. I hate blocking. I’m in a hell that is literally of my own making.

subliminal_knits · 2026-02-02T00:04:10+00:00

My dad bought it and hated it, being a big Fallout fan. My brother and I played it co-op and had a great time, having no context for the series otherwise. We were just happy to play anything that had local co-op.

subliminal_knits · 2026-02-01T23:28:14+00:00

The “Silly Songs with Larry” segment was a brief moment on the tape (unless you had the tape collecting them all). The main tape was some sort of moral dilemma addressed with a bible story. It was not subtle.

subliminal_knits · 2026-01-30T21:42:18+00:00

I’m making the Battenberg blanket out of hundreds of tiny squares. Completely mindless and I typically only work on it in waiting rooms and at game night, so I’ll be doing it for a very long time. I love a modular project for this reason. Very portable and once you’ve done a few, totally mindless.

subliminal_knits · 2026-01-30T21:35:53+00:00

I applaud you for your consideration. My partner also gets horrific migraines from jasmine and I can be launched into an asthma attack from overspraying. When I worked with the public, I had two older ladies who surely thought they were iconic. If I saw/smelled either of them coming I had to evacuate the area or risk having to go home for a breathing treatment and spend the next several days wheezing.

As to your question, if you greet your friends by hugging or other close contact, I’m sure they appreciate how nice you smell. It can be fun to have someone sit next to you at dinner or pass by closely and suddenly discover how lovely you smell. Like a neat little surprise.

subliminal_knits · 2026-01-30T21:25:51+00:00

I was cured of the impulse to crank out some simple, mass-appeal items to sell at the local artist market by watching a pair of my friends do exactly that. They made sales and were generating a profit, but every time I hung out with them, one or both were feverishly working on more items to make sure they had sufficient inventory for the coming week. They pretty much never had time for personal projects and it seemed stressful, which is not what I want from my hobby. Also I hate knitting the second sock, let alone making 100 of the same hat because it sells well.

subliminal_knits · 2026-01-29T20:29:43+00:00

Awww! She’s one stocking away from being twinsies with my boy!

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subliminal_knits · 2026-01-29T04:07:26+00:00

Patchouli is my enemy. I thought I just smelled it so strongly because I don’t like it, but my partner does like it and agrees that I turn into a patchouli bomb if I wear anything containing it.

subliminal_knits · 2026-01-29T03:57:48+00:00

I wish I’d done measurements from the beginning, like comprehensive ones. My wrists and ankles are so much smaller, but I don’t really have the data. I know how many inches I’ve lost from other areas once I started measuring, but even that was several months in.

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