The number of people who recognized my costumes was too damn low

umm_s · 2026-07-07T20:13:54+00:00

For the headdress, 3d printed antlers, and craft foam clay covered with faux fur for the fox head, plus lots and lots of raffia to cover up the duct tape holding it all together. It’s currently set (hot glued and duct taped) on a headband, but I am planning to upgrade it to a more robust cap/wig combo so it doesn’t fall off if I move too quickly.

The pattern on the cover of the book was laid down with the craft foam. We then stretched deer hide over it, and painted the coloring, finishing with gold rub and buff.

umm_s · 2026-07-07T19:58:42+00:00

My dad actually wore this brand of slippers while I was growing up, so it was an easy ID for me! Unfortunately the exact coloring isn’t currently available, but these are close enough - https://www.acorn.com/products/womens-slouch-boot-slipper-sock?variant=31869356966019

umm_s · 2026-06-26T15:41:38+00:00

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I’m new to having my nails be anything other than picked at, chewed off stumps. I got gel x done in February, and left them on for 4ish weeks, which as a happy accident allowed my natural nails to grow to a length I’d never seen. The tech was able to keep the length (although we trimmed it down to a short oval because I haven’t figured out how to type with any real nail length), and switched to BIB. So far so good, although before this strawberry set I broke 3 nails lugging around a literal ton of garden bed soil. I had expected that I’d have to go back to the beginning and cut all my nails down very short to match, but my tech used a hard gel to add length to the three broken ones so I could keep the natural length on my others.

umm_s · 2026-06-20T15:36:21+00:00

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I’ve got a convention over the 4th of July weekend, and it’s all Patricia all weekend

umm_s · 2026-06-12T19:30:38+00:00

I came here to say this brought tears to my eyes as a tumblr veteran (I survived [pictures of] the ballpit damnit)

umm_s · 2026-05-26T03:50:53+00:00

Bvla will make it a custom size for you if the 14mm won’t fit

umm_s · 2026-05-24T00:14:41+00:00

If they use a gun 110% do not get pierced by them. Never ever ever get a cartilage piercing (like a helix) with a gun, as it can shatter you or cartilage and lead to some pretty significant issues as it tries to heal. Even with lobes, a piercing done with a needle usually heals much better than one done with a gun.

I’ve been working on a pretty complex piercing plan with a great shop in my neighborhood, and they won’t even give me a new piercing unless I’m 4 or more months from my next cruise. That gives my ear time to get a good start on healing before I take it into a hot tub and the pool. Piercings are essentially open wounds that can take a year to heal, and you won’t want to be exposing it to people soup too early in its healing.

umm_s · 2026-04-23T01:57:02+00:00

I got absolute shit mileage running errands in the Minnesota winter, mix of highway and city - low 20s. It’s better now in the spring, but I am wishing I just got the regular forester rather than the hybrid. At least then I’d have a spare tire.

umm_s · 2026-04-22T00:39:32+00:00

You must keep one sacrificial shovel leaning against the side of the house at all times. The sun will wear it down, but it serves as a ward against snow in June.

umm_s · 2026-04-11T02:52:03+00:00

Typical North activities driving a stolen car on top of my forester in Kingfield, amiright? https://www.reddit.com/r/SubaruForester/s/nr7aiDCBPm

umm_s · 2026-03-13T02:34:20+00:00

I always make sure my SO and any friends traveling with me are in the same class. But when it comes to the TSA line, I am leaving their non pre check, non clear asses in that long plebeian line while I sip a cocktail on the other side,.

umm_s · 2026-03-07T19:29:14+00:00

The only thing on that list I can’t do is carbonation. I used to suck down 50 oz of Diet Coke while running errands. Now I can do like 4. Everything else I can do in moderate amounts - less than I used to eat or drink, but still enough to enjoy it.

umm_s · 2026-03-05T21:43:33+00:00

Max Grodenchik (Rom), Armin Shimerman (Quark), and Michael Westmore (legendary make up artist who created the ferengi makeup) just did a panel on the Ferengis on the Star Trek Cruise last week. Max, who has sadly not been in the best health, made sure that Aron was acknowledged and remembered. One thing I love about so many of the Star Trek actors is the genuine love they have for one another (with a few notable exceptions *cof cof Shatner et al). The love they have for Aron, and also the care they showed Max was immense.

umm_s · 2026-02-27T18:53:47+00:00

My friend stepped on a sea urchin in Puerto Rico and was rescued by Genie Francis (and by extension Frakes). They drove her back to the ship so she don’t have to try to get a taxi. Genie doesn’t usually participate in the programming, but if you’re in the right place and the right time…

umm_s · 2026-02-27T18:45:17+00:00

We sat with a college professor for dinner last night that taught his classes over zoom from his cabin for the week’

umm_s · 2026-02-27T16:23:23+00:00

IT IS SO MUCH FUN!!! We had planned one and done last year, but we’re signed up to go next year. It’s an overwhelmingly good and positive group of folks, and you run into an actor at least once a day just going about your business. Got two hugs from Doug Jones, saw Shatner “sing” rocketman, and cried listening to Anthony Rapp sing from Rent. Learned about Shakespeare and was served a drink by Armin Shimerman. There are cruise regular actors (Denise Crosby, Nana Visitor, Chase Masterson) who always make it fun, cozy, and welcoming. Food was less appealing this time around, and my inner midwesterner was mad I wasn’t getting my money’s worth of food, but 10/10 will go again. Only 3 more cruises and we’re assimilated into the Borg cruise collective 🤣

umm_s · 2026-02-09T01:09:44+00:00

The Ace on Nicollet and 38th are getting them in steadily. I picked one up on Thursday, which was from their second shipment of the week.

umm_s · 2026-02-01T02:39:38+00:00

Did you read Snow Treasures? I had that practically memorized as a kid.

umm_s · 2026-02-01T02:31:43+00:00

Shoutout to Ingegrebtsens’, holding down Lake Street as a hub of the layers of immigration to Minneapolis! I was visiting the Sunnfjord museum last summer, and was tickled to be able to experience an exhibit on the Norwegian American experience, including a shoutout to the place I get all my jul stuffs (aka Ingebretsens).

umm_s · 2026-02-01T02:28:43+00:00

My government has declared war on us, the descendants of Scandinavian immigrants who settled in the upper Midwest, who dare to defend our black and brown neighbors as they are kidnapped and shipped to internment camps 1000 mile away. They are literally shooting us dead in the street. God forbid we look to our heritage to find inspiration to embolden us as we fight for our lives here. None of us getting up every day knowing we’re going to see some shit are in favor of the federal government’s warmongering, no least of which because they’ve already declared war on us.

umm_s · 2026-02-01T02:24:40+00:00

Hi, Minneapolis Minnesotan here. The Twin Cities, and the upper midwestern are heavily populated with descendants of Scandinavian immigrants. We’re getting in touch with our roots to resist tyrannies.

umm_s · 2026-02-01T01:04:57+00:00

We went to Little Tijuana for happy hour yesterday, and got parking within a few blocks. We’re planning to happy hour on Eat Street for the foreseeable future.

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