FeatherConstrictor

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[–] FeatherConstrictor 1 points 4 hours ago

Best of luck with that! I found a reason to keep it (another potential gift recipient) so you might see a post eventually of the finished piece!

[–] FeatherConstrictor 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Haha thanks for the kind words! My friend's mom actually likes it so I guess I'll pick it back up and finish it. This post just pushed me to double check if anyone I knew would appreciate it.

[–] FeatherConstrictor 2 points 5 hours ago

Jk my friend's mom actually would love it so I guess I'll pick it back up and finish it. I'll post the results whenever that happens, I have another couple WIPs to finish first

 

This is my progress on the Pierre Shawl (ravelry link). I'm posting this to say goodbye to it and gain the strength to unravel the many many hours of work it took me to get here. I got all the way to section 8 of 10 on this, and it is by far the largest and most involved piece I've ever attempted to knit.

I started this knit around 3 or 4 years ago as a gift for my (now ex) mother-in-law. After a couple weeks' worth of hard work, I had to put it on hold and never really picked it back up, mainly due to my dissatisfaction with the colors I picked not making as smooth a gradient as I wanted. Now that I no longer have ties to the person I originally knit it for, and because I neither wear shawls nor things in these colors, it is a bit useless to keep the project indefinitely on hold.

The yarn is some of the nicest in my collection (Berocco DK vintage) and these are also the only pair of circulars I own at the moment. I know it makes more sense to bite the bullet and unravel it all so I can make use of the materials elsewhere, but I'm struggling to do so because I'm so proud of what I created and know I'll never see it finished. So I figured I'd share it here! I'm particularly proud of how even my stitches are, especially at the end of the project!

This project taught me a lot about what I'm able to learn and do as a knitter and I'm looking forward to taking the skills I learned from this project to make new things now that I've picked up knitting again (I tend to go on long hiatuses from my fiber arts hobbies and I'm back on a crocheting and knitting kick).

[–] FeatherConstrictor 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

But that's only 5 steps!

[–] FeatherConstrictor 7 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Someone explain the sarcasm belt to me and why Radiohead is sad sarcastic

[–] FeatherConstrictor 12 points 5 days ago

This is what I came here to ask, I specifically was looking for Deftones in the horny section and when I didn't see it I assumed Deftones was excluded.

Imagine my surprise when it's all the way on the angry side.

All the songs are Chino moaning into the mic, make it make sense.

[–] FeatherConstrictor 2 points 6 days ago

No problem!

My guess is it's only a matter of time

[–] FeatherConstrictor 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Hi there! You did do the wrong one ;) reins refers to the item that is used to guide horses and the like, and so "reining something/someone in" is the correct term. Reign means to rule over.

It might help you remember which is which if you think of Santa's REINdeer (deer wearing reins)! Hope that helps :)

[–] FeatherConstrictor 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

6, which I guess is pretty similar to my pick for number 5 on the pen post. Looks like the weight and style would feel best in my hand. Sadly none of them have my favorite feature of having fairly long and good quality erasers on it like my current favorite (non imported) mechanical pencil. Can't remember the name off the top of my head

[–] FeatherConstrictor 20 points 1 week ago

5, man I loved those pens when taking notes in college.

[–] FeatherConstrictor 3 points 2 weeks ago

Hope you get a response, I'm incredibly curious about the technique here!

[–] FeatherConstrictor 2 points 2 weeks ago

Two eggs sunnyside up in a cast iron! My daily breakfast ❤️

Tattoo looks well done and I love the traditional flower element, complements the art style of the cast iron nicely

 

I just started interning and it's my first office job (Yay!) but most of the clothes I feel comfortable wearing are not really office attire. Especially shoes. I have no "appropriate" shoes because shoes have always been a particular source of sensory issues so I wear the same black pair of mesh trainers. I have to commute in a big city so I end up walking a decent amount, and shoes that are tight and/or heavy really mess with my focus.

Do you guys have any advice on how to find comfortable shoes that are at least a bit more office appropriate? Maybe solid clean white sneakers? For reference I'm female.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by FeatherConstrictor to c/[email protected]
 

My brother brought back some plants that the garden center gave him for free since it was end of season and they were very weak and almost dying.

My dad's not a huge gardener at all but he watched some videos and set up a little station in the yard to plant them and water them. They're looking amazing so far and other than the plant the rabbits decided to dig up and steal (roots and all) they're all much healthier! He says he's gotten about three tomatoes so far and he loves it.

Just posting to share and maybe get some tips on how to grow them easily (since he's busy) and when to know when they're ripe. There are a few different varieties but we're not sure which ones are which and how to tell when they're good to eat! When to fertilize, how to protect when weather gets cold, when to do so, etc.

 

Here are today's sudoku puzzles!

What difficulty did you complete? How much time did it take you? Are you stuck on a difficulty, or did you learn any new techniques?

Discuss!

 

Are you experienced in sudoku and/or have experience moderating a subreddit, community, or similar? This is my first time opening and moderating a community and I would love some help growing this place, keeping it active, and moderating content if necessary.

If you're interested in becoming a moderator, just leave me a comment down below if you have any experience (and maybe a bit about yourself, or not, I don't really care much).

Thanks for stopping by!

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unable to view my posts (self.lemmy_support)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by FeatherConstrictor to c/[email protected]
 

I'm unable to see the lists of posts I've made on desktop, mobile, and any of the mobile clients I've used. This goes for my accounts on both sh.itjust.works and Lemmy.world. I like seeing how my posts are doing or going back to read comments on there even if they've been marked as read. Could it be that it's not showing my posts because they've been marked as read and I've got settings to hide read posts? If so, seeing my own posts should be exempt from this setting.

UPDATE: if I show read posts, I can see my posts. This is definitely something that should be fixed; show read posts settings should only apply on my feeds, not when I'm looking through a user's or my own post history

 

TL;DR at the bottom.

I (24f) am going through the legal elements of a divorce but have been separated for a few months now. I loved my ex husband, but before marrying I made it clear I didn't want kids and didn't want him to wait or hope for me to change my mind. He agreed and told me he would be happy with me even if I never wanted kids.

Just under a year ago he sat me down and told me he had been realizing more and more that he changed his mind and thinks he does want kids. I asked how long this had been happening, he said about a year. I already knew where this was headed, but thought I owed it to us to at least try. Months of therapy and thinking and talking and waiting for him to come to the same conclusion I had brought up to him and accepted pretty early on and we finally decided mutually that we would have to divorce. I didn't want him to stay with me and risk having any resentment towards me and feel unfulfilled, and I dont want kids. I don't know if I'll want them in the future, I don't think I will, but he wanted them ASAP so it was irrelevant anyways.

At least the separation/divorce has been amicable, but it was (and sometimes still is) incredible difficult emotionally. I'm grateful that his family didn't guilt me when they learned of the reason for the divorce, though the reason he gave for me being childfree was medical reasons which is only kind of true. Still, at least I didn't get any flak for it from anybody.

The guy I'm talking to now is vehemently childfree and it's great being able to freely make faces about or feel annoyed by children, not want to go to baby showers or baby birthday parties, and all other things that I used to feel alone in with my ex husband (and made me wonder for a while if he was truly childfree like me). Not to say you have to dislike children to be childfree, but I would often get a weird look about my attitude and discomfort around children.

I was never active on the subreddit but I'm making more of an effort to be active in the communities on Lemmy, so I guess hi everyone! How are you? Anybody here with a similar story?

TL;DR My husband changed his mind and I didn't so now I'm a 24 year old divorcée introducing myself and my story being childfree :)

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