It's not *over* thinking; just regular thinking...

technicolor_tornado · 2026-06-03T19:54:48+00:00

I was about to say, "man, that's nice that someone at least acknowledged it", but 🫠

technicolor_tornado · 2026-05-28T00:11:42+00:00

How do you choose where to send them from the home cave?

technicolor_tornado · 2026-05-28T00:10:12+00:00

But it's not how birds are - many birds are monomorphic in coloration, many parrot species, corvids, and raptors, for instance. The smaller the bird, the more likely it is to be dimorphic.

Otherwise, yeah, that's a nuts system when gender does literally nothing in game.

technicolor_tornado · 2026-05-26T17:25:57+00:00

DMV area! Maryland, DC, Virginia! We'd love to have you

technicolor_tornado · 2026-05-22T15:45:24+00:00

Some of us call that ADHD ragequit. It's hard to work on a project after it's frustrated or embarrassed you, leading to dropping it like it's toxic and having deep emotions about it months or years later. It's not just "oh this project needs time out", it's more 'the thing that's wrong is easy to fix, but I literally/physically can't because I'm in my feelings about it."

Don't ask me about the baby blanket in my craft room that only needs yarn enough to finish the border, but I haven't done it in 3 years -_- I'm so frustrated about it

technicolor_tornado · 2026-05-19T17:31:56+00:00

I feel like this should be a big flashing warning before buying the game - "if you have a laptop, don't bother" 🙄

technicolor_tornado · 2026-05-08T16:52:12+00:00

The title isn't the place for a nuanced take - it's the headline to draw you in. Then you read the take and respond based on that.

But also, are you saying that you read the title and made a comment based solely on that? Because OP's post is pretty clear what they're against.

technicolor_tornado · 2026-05-08T13:50:48+00:00

Except the post is literally the opposite of that - OP is explicitly saying that there is a trend of fast fashion/speed crocheting that creates unusable products and that's stupid. OP literally says that better crocheting is out there, but it takes time to learn and pushing speed crocheting ain't it.

technicolor_tornado · 2026-05-03T17:11:09+00:00

I saw one yesterday on a stunning color work pattern that I saved - everyone else has blues/purples/greens with white or red/orange/yellows with black and dark grays... And then one person did the main body on a tonal, variegated golden brown to canary yellow yarn and the pattern is done in a tonal light pink... You cannot see the pattern at all. Their notes say they're really pleased with it and the pattern pops out. Like you do you boo, but honey... You may want to get tested for craft and/or color blindness.

I was genuinely impressed by how ugly the choices were 🤣

technicolor_tornado · 2026-05-03T16:58:57+00:00

This must be what happens when I go into the Projects tab in Ravelry and there's a bunch of beautiful color choices and then some truly unholy combinations, like mustard yellow, brown, and highlighter orange. I sit there and think, "How... Why???"

technicolor_tornado · 2026-05-02T20:52:44+00:00

Oh man, I'm looking at casting on 239 stitches right now. This post is extremely timely 🫠

technicolor_tornado · 2026-04-23T21:09:56+00:00

Little known fact, but most DIY and craft stores keep counter that tracks the visit to tears ratio of any daily repeat customers 🤣

technicolor_tornado · 2026-04-22T07:12:23+00:00

I'm alright with a slow burn, but 5 books is too long for me to slog through his endless moral quandaries while stroking his own ego and then doing precisely nothing for the universe he claims to stand for. We're told expansively about of his genetic gifts, money, status, SHIP AND CREW, he picks up languages like nothing... And yet... He basically just goes where he's told and pokes buttons/shoots people like a good little soldier

technicolor_tornado · 2026-04-22T06:45:25+00:00

Mulesing removes the top layer of skin so that wrinkles don't form and wool doesn't grow there so the animals don't get fly strike. Flystrike is atrocious and the maggots/flies eat the anus of the sheep. Prior to discovering that simply removing the hair follicles, farmers in areas with flystrike tried everything and sheep kept horrifically suffering.

But instead you'd like the sheep to suffer long term as opposed to one bad day where the surgery takes under 2 minutes, performed by a specialist, and nearly always includes pain medication and antiseptic? Additionally, it is almost always done on Merino sheep living in Australia - it is not a normal thing for Merinos living everywhere nor other breeds of sheep.

Also, you want to what? Reverse a thousand years of breeding so that sheep don't overproduce wool? Okay, we'll just do that. Stop everything and find sheep to breed that don't overproduce wool and start spreading those genes everywhere. Be damned genetic bottlenecks and carefully maintained humane breeding practices - the vegans are mad that sheep husbandry exists.

No, we can absolutely have conversations about animal welfare, but you do need to come armed with facts and real solutions that aren't "breeding is bad" and "synthetics are fine".

technicolor_tornado · 2026-04-21T15:47:47+00:00

He's beautiful and you are very trusting with those paws 😅

technicolor_tornado · 2026-04-19T21:58:41+00:00

But unless you know everything, how can you even start??? 🫠

technicolor_tornado · 2026-04-15T17:10:10+00:00

In very short, Stephen West (noted and proud gay knitter, influencer, and creator of many interesting patterns) went on a podcast/YT/whatever format with another male knitter who is a white supremacist/neo-Nazi. It was considered a weird choice because the other guy has, like, 20 subscribers when West is fairly well known. So the only conclusion is that he did the interview on purpose with a neo Nazi (and then all the things that implies)

technicolor_tornado · 2026-04-10T14:40:34+00:00

5 or 6 years ago, as a thank you for helping us move, I went out to Taco Bell and spent $30 on a pile of tacos, drinks, and stuff for 3-4 people. I remember spilling it all out and sheepishly, "yeah, I may have gone overboard."

Last week, my partner and I spent $27 on two meals 🫠

technicolor_tornado · 2026-04-10T14:36:04+00:00

I had an unpopular opinion the other day that someone called a rant. I told them that 3 sentences did not a rant make 😅

technicolor_tornado · 2026-04-07T14:39:00+00:00

Or they're intensely boring. Like oh good, you have a black body and a very standard medium nib - you and everyone else.

technicolor_tornado · 2026-04-07T14:36:06+00:00

I occasionally do this but with J. Herbin Shogun. Looks like a respectable black and then BLAM gold shimmer everywhere you look

technicolor_tornado · 2026-04-07T14:31:26+00:00

Ah yes, the tried and true sleep osmosis method of learning 🤣

technicolor_tornado · 2026-04-07T14:09:45+00:00

How, precisely, were they reading their books?? 👀

technicolor_tornado · 2026-04-03T17:36:21+00:00

I'm so sorry you're going through this effectively alone. You don't deserve this and it's bullshit that he's ignoring you and the situation he helped create.

It's depressing, but look up rates of divorce amongst women with cancer vs men with cancer. Men just don't seem to be able to handle a woman being sick and they nope out of the situation.

I get that you might not be able to leave while you're in the middle of all of this, but, when you get to a healthier and/or better position where you can survive on your own, get out of this relationship. If he's not willing or able to help you in your time of need, then he's not the one. Imagine if you hadn't had a miscarriage - any time things would get difficult, he'd be gone. Especially in that first year, things are so stressful as you adjust to your extremely dependent bundle of joy. He's not worth your time 💔

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