No, absolutely not. At least, certainly none of my own, even if I were capable of it... I don't really see the point in procreating with the world on such a catastrophic trajectory. On the other hand, if I find myself in a situation where I have a home and resources to share, and some unfortunate already-existing kids need those things, I'd certainly offer them a place. That would be just as true for non-kids though, so I dunno how much of a "parent" that'd really make me.
I came to say the same thing about Camellia sinensis, thinking "am I about to be more of a tea purist than is even encapsulated in this chart?" So I'm glad somebody else got there first lol
Me as a vampire and also Marvel's The Thing: "It's hemogobblin' time!"
Mostly I'm onboard with what you're saying here. Although, like others have said, don't forget there's plenty of people on OF who aren't women! If there is any problem at all, why isn't it also a problem for them? Second, I definitely wonder how many of the opinions in this thread are coming from other women who've done sex work. Those are mostly the only people I wanna hear from on this topic.
As far as the "fakeness" not working for you personally, I might have some good news for you. While of course capitalism does tend to suck all of the joy out of everything, like all professions, there are sex workers who definitely do enjoy their work. At least as much as anyone can feasibly enjoy working under capitalism anyway.
You'd be surprised, attractiveness is subjective!
I was saying the same thing as you a while ago and somebody told me that I'd be surprised and that attractiveness is subjective. And you know what? They were right!
An old PS1 fighting game called Unholy War. It had a lot of really unique mechanics I haven't seen since.
Lowe Mill in Huntsville, Alabama. It's like a giant collaborative art space in an old factory building. Pretty much the most anarchist space I've ever been to, although that's a very low bar for me.
It's been great honestly. I've got two boyfriends I love very much. While it's not all sunshine and roses all the time, they're the only people in my life who I feel like truly have my back, and I have theirs. Of course that's not something that's unique or inherent to romance, you could have the same thing with friends, family, etc. Just worked out that way for me.
...encountered a withered, nearly skeletal body on the side of the trail. It looked ancient, the surrounding plants had sent their roots growing into it. He tried to pay it no mind and hurry past, not even daring to look at it. But just as he passed by, it wrenched one arm free of the foliage and latched onto his ankle. It turned it's still oh-so-horribly intact eyes upon him, and with the voice of ages it said "boy, listen to me..."
Oh what a cool concept! I definitely have some to contribute
Yeah totally agree, it looks great!!
These were delicious and so simple! Split peas are really cheap, we mostly just wanted to test out how they would do as a flour. The only ingredients here are pea flour, water, salt and seasonings. It's not even leavened at all and it's still super tasty. Plus the color is just really novel and fun. I think it would be amusing to use this to make a zucchini or cucumber bread.
Peas seem to be less common as a flour than some other legumes, i.e. chickpeas, lentils, soy, etc. I figured maybe try looking for Indian recipes instead, since legume flours are more popular there, but even then peas seemed pretty under-represented compared to like urad, moong, etc.
Anyway, I dunno where you'd buy the flour itself, but if you've got a cheapy hand-crank grain mill these grind up pretty easy. 10/10, would reccomend.
This time of year, there's a zillion of these loudly and clumsily zooming around right outside my backdoor. They're very curious about everything that moves; they'll just like stare you down, hovering a foot in front of your face. Too cute!! They are also kinda eating the landlords mudroom... but so slowly that I'm pretty sure it hardly matters? You just can't be mad at these little fuzzballs! Worth it for the pollination anyway.
I got these as bare-root saplings a couple years old, and planted them last year. One actually bloomed and produced some berries the same year I planted it! These things sure are prolific. This year, they're all already blooming.
I tried a couple things with the handful of berries from last year, i.e. just eating them raw, making juice, jam, etc. Raw was (somewhat predictably) not very good, but the juice and jelly were great. Also, while I don't at all mind supplementing the diets of local fauna, it was nice that the birds actually left us some! Unlike my elderberries, which they picked clean so fast we didn't get a single one lol.
Trying to get the hang of celtic tatting, just working freehand for now. Real celtic tatting patterns are surprisingly uncommon! There are a lot of cool faux ones, but those won't teach me to use these shuttles. It doesn't look very good at all, trying to keep in mind it's just for practice.
This was a perfect project for getting the very basics of tatting down. Every time I made a mistake I just kept plowing ahead, rather than getting frustrated trying to fix it. Now that the motions feel more natural, it'll be easier to advance, maybe? The pattern is from Urban Knot Design. Even though it's chock full of mistakes, I still wet blocked it and will find some use for it somewhere.
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Ohhh, that's brilliant! I've been using named sketch constraints and then formulas referencing those so far, but AFAICT you can't seem to name the parameters in pads/pockets/etc? Using a spreadsheet sounds much better, thanks!