Oh hey, do you know what time it is? It is highly specific resource time!
Today we have the Royal School of Needlework Stitch Bank! There are HUNDREDS of stitch types in the RSN Stitch Bank.
And more added regularly, let’s look at a recent addition
I picked the first one in the 25 recently added Elizabethan stitches, the Elizabethan French Stitch
The stitch bank provides written and photo tutorials as well as a video option to learn to do it yourself. There are examples of the stitch in use, resources, references, everything but a needle and thread!
rsnstitchbank.org
Caterpillar by Skein Spider
Free Crochet Pattern Here *** Video Pattern Only ***
are you a horror fan, getting into the genre, or just looking for something to watch? here’s a bunch of links to some horror films and shows (both good and bad cuz i felt obligated to put whole franchises in here) for everyone to enjoy!!!! or hate!!!! always remember: being a horror fan is watching god awful movies to find the good ones that will change your life
halloween (1978)
halloween 2 (1981)
halloween 3: season of the witch (1982)
halloween 4: the return of michael myers (1988)
halloween 5: the revenge of michael myers (1989)
halloween: the curse of michael myers (1995)
halloween h20: 20 years later (1998)
halloween: resurrection (2002)
halloween (2018)
halloween kills (2021)
candyman (1992)
candyman: farewell to the flesh (1995)
candyman: day of the dead (1999)
candyman (2021)
the evil dead (1981)
evil dead 2 (1987)
army of darkness (1992)
evil dead (2013)
ash vs evil dead (2015-2018)
scream (1996)
scream 2 (1997)
scream 3 (2000)
scream 4 (2011)
scream (2022)
night of the living dead (1968)
dawn of the dead (1978)
day of the dead (1985)
child’s play (1988)
child’s play 2 (1990)
child’s play 3 (1991)
bride of chucky (1998)
seed of chucky (2004)
curse of chucky (2013)
cult of chucky (2017)
chucky (2021-ongoing)
the texas chainsaw massacre (1974)
the texas chainsaw massacre 2 (1986)
leatherface: the texas chainsaw massacre 3 (1990)
texas chainsaw massacre: the next generation (1995)
the texas chainsaw massacre (2003)
the texas chainsaw massacre: the beginning (2006)
texas chainsaw 3d (2013)
leatherface (2017)
texas chainsaw massacre (2022)
saw (2004)
saw 2 (2005)
saw 3 (2006)
saw 4 (2007)
saw 5 (2008)
saw 6 (2009)
saw 3d (2010)
jigsaw (2017)
spiral: from the book of saw (2021)
ringu (1998)
ringu 2 (1999)
ringu 0: birthday (2000)
a nightmare on elm street (1984)
a nightmare on elm street 2: freddy’s revenge (1985)
a nightmare on elm street 3: dream warriors (1987)
a nightmare on elm street 4: the dream master (1988)
a nightmare on elm street 5: the dream child (1989)
freddy’s dead: the final nightmare (1991)
wes craven’s new nightmare (1994)
freddy vs jason (2003)
friday the 13th (1980)
friday the 13th part 2 (1981)
friday the 13th part 3 (1982)
friday the 13th: the final chapter (1984)
friday the 13th: a new beginning (1985)
friday the 13th part 6: jason lives (1986)
friday the 13th part 7: the new blood (1988)
friday the 13th part 8: jason takes manhattan (1989)
jason goes to hell: the final friday (1993)
jason x (2002)
hellraiser (1987)
hellbound: hellraiser 2 (1988)
hellraiser 3: hell on earth (1992)
hellraiser: bloodline (1996)
alien (1979)
aliens (1986)
alien 3 (1992)
alien resurrection (1997)
predator (1987)
predator 2 (1990)
predators (2010)
prey (2022)
house of 1000 corpses (2003)
the devil’s rejects (2005)
3 from hell (2019)
fear street part one: 1994 (2021)
fear street part two: 1978 (2021)
fear street part three: 1666 (2021)
the strangers (2008)
the strangers: prey at night (2018)
a quiet place (2018)
a quiet place part 2 (2021)
the silence of the lambs (1991)
hannibal (2013-2015)
get out (2017)
us (2019)
nope (2022)
perfect blue (1997)
killer klowns from outer space (1988)
the thing (1982)
carrie (1976)
the shining (1980)
doctor sleep (2019)
pet sematary (1989)
it (2017)
it chapter 2 (2019)
trick ‘r treat (2007)
suspiria (1977)
black christmas (1974)
my bloody valentine (1981)
american psycho (2000)
el hoyo (2019)
shaun of the dead (2004)
train to busan (2016)
resident evil: welcome to raccoon city (2021)
hereditary (2018)
jennifer’s body (2009)
the lighthouse (2019)
little shop of horrors (1986)
orphan (2009)
spree (2020)
re-animator (1985)
wolf creek (2005)
freaky (2020)
bloody birthday (1981)
scary stories to tell in the dark (2019)
mandy (2018)
the cabin in the woods (2012)
ready or not (2019)
10 cloverfield lane (2016)
the blair witch project (1999)
possum (2018)
the exorcist (1973)
stranger things (2016-ongoing)
the twilight zone (1959-1964)
twin peaks (1990-1991)
Hey kid, look at me.
I want you to T-pose. Turn your right thumb up and your left thumb doen and look at your right thumb. Move your arms up and down a bit until you feel a nerve running from your armpit to your palm. Now turn your right thumb down and your left thumb up, and look at your left thumb. Keep your chest facing forward and your shoulders back. Move your arms again until you feel that nerve again. Keep alternating between these two for a minute, or look at each thumb thirty times each.
Now sit down. Put your left hand firmly under your left buttock, palm down. Keep your shoulders back and put your right hand over the crown of your head, very gently pulling it to the right. Do this for thirty seconds, then do it again but with your right hand under your right buttock.
These are stretches for the nerves in your arms, and are very good for people who sit behind a computer a lot, or fibre artists, or you name it. Do them daily. They will hurt in the beginning, but keep doing them, even after the pain has gone, or it will return and you'll have to start all over.
when i say my gender changes to the tune of the bit i mean a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do and if he can’t then god forbid women do anything
I’ve teased it. You’ve waited. I’ve procrastinated. You’ve probably forgotten all about it.
But now, finally, I’m here with my solarpunk resources masterpost!
YouTube Channels:
Andrewism
The Solarpunk Scene
Solarpunk Life
Solarpunk Station
Our Changing Climate
Podcasts:
The Joy Report
How To Save A Planet
Demand Utopia
Solarpunk Presents
Outrage and Optimisim
From What If To What Next
Solarpunk Now
Idealistically
The Extinction Rebellion Podcast
The Landworkers' Radio
Wilder
What Could Possibly Go Right?
Frontiers of Commoning
The War on Cars
The Rewild Podcast
Solacene
Imagining Tomorrow
Books (Fiction):
Ursula K. Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness The Dispossessed The Word for World is Forest
Becky Chambers: A Psalm for the Wild-Built A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
Phoebe Wagner: When We Hold Each Other Up
Phoebe Wagner, Bronte Christopher Wieland: Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation
Brenda J. Pierson: Wings of Renewal: A Solarpunk Dragon Anthology
Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro: Solarpunk: Ecological and Fantastical Stories in a Sustainable World
Justine Norton-Kertson: Bioluminescent: A Lunarpunk Anthology
Sim Kern: The Free People’s Village
Ruthanna Emrys: A Half-Built Garden
Sarina Ulibarri: Glass & Gardens
Books (Non-fiction):
Murray Bookchin: The Ecology of Freedom
George Monbiot: Feral
Miles Olson: Unlearn, Rewild
Mark Shepard: Restoration Agriculture
Kristin Ohlson: The Soil Will Save Us
Rowan Hooper: How To Spend A Trillion Dollars
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing: The Mushroom At The End of The World
Kimberly Nicholas: Under The Sky We Make
Robin Wall Kimmerer: Braiding Sweetgrass
David Miller: Solved
Ayana Johnson, Katharine Wilkinson: All We Can Save
Jonathan Safran Foer: We Are The Weather
Colin Tudge: Six Steps Back To The Land
Edward Wilson: Half-Earth
Natalie Fee: How To Save The World For Free
Kaden Hogan: Humans of Climate Change
Rebecca Huntley: How To Talk About Climate Change In A Way That Makes A Difference
Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac: The Future We Choose
Jonathon Porritt: Hope In Hell
Paul Hawken: Regeneration
Mark Maslin: How To Save Our Planet
Katherine Hayhoe: Saving Us
Jimmy Dunson: Building Power While The Lights Are Out
Paul Raekstad, Sofa Saio Gradin: Prefigurative Politics
Andreas Malm: How To Blow Up A Pipeline
Phoebe Wagner, Bronte Christopher Wieland: Almanac For The Anthropocene
Chris Turner: How To Be A Climate Optimist
William MacAskill: What We Owe To The Future
Mikaela Loach: It's Not That Radical
Miles Richardson: Reconnection
David Harvey: Spaces of Hope Rebel Cities
Eric Holthaus: The Future Earth
Zahra Biabani: Climate Optimism
David Ehrenfeld: Becoming Good Ancestors
Stephen Gliessman: Agroecology
Chris Carlsson: Nowtopia
Jon Alexander: Citizens
Leah Thomas: The Intersectional Environmentalist
Greta Thunberg: The Climate Book
Jen Bendell, Rupert Read: Deep Adaptation
Seth Godin: The Carbon Almanac
Jane Goodall: The Book of Hope
Vandana Shiva: Agroecology and Regenerative Agriculture
Amitav Ghosh: The Great Derangement
Minouche Shafik: What We Owe To Each Other
Dieter Helm: Net Zero
Chris Goodall: What We Need To Do Now
Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Stephanie Foote: The Cambridge Companion To The Environmental Humanities
Bella Lack: The Children of The Anthropocene
Hannah Ritchie: Not The End of The World
Chris Turner: How To Be A Climate Optimist
Kim Stanley Robinson: Ministry For The Future
Fiona Mathews, Tim Kendall: Black Ops & Beaver Bombing
Jeff Goodell: The Water Will Come
Lynne Jones: Sorry For The Inconvenience But This Is An Emergency
Helen Crist: Abundant Earth
Sam Bentley: Good News, Planet Earth!
Timothy Beal: When Time Is Short
Andrew Boyd: I Want A Better Catastrophe
Kristen R. Ghodsee: Everyday Utopia
Elizabeth Cripps: What Climate Justice Means & Why We Should Care
Kylie Flanagan: Climate Resilience
Chris Johnstone, Joanna Macy: Active Hope
Mark Engler: This is an Uprising
Anne Therese Gennari: The Climate Optimist Handbook
Magazines:
Solarpunk Magazine
Positive News
Resurgence & Ecologist
Ethical Consumer
Films (Fiction):
How To Blow Up A Pipeline
The End We Start From
Woman At War
Black Panther
Star Trek
Tomorrowland
Films (Documentary):
2040: How We Can Save The Planet
The People vs Big Oil
Wild Isles
The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind
Generation Green New Deal
Planet Earth III
Video Games:
Terra Nil
Animal Crossing
Gilded Shadows
Anno 2070
Stardew Valley
RPGs:
Solarpunk Futures
Perfect Storm
Advocacy Groups:
A22 Network
Extinction Rebellion
Greenpeace
Friends of The Earth
Green New Deal Rising
Apps:
Ethy
Sojo
BackMarket
Depop
Vinted
Olio
Buy Nothing
Too Good To Go
Websites:
European Co-housing
UK Co-housing
US Co-housing
Brought By Bike (connects you with zero-carbon delivery goods)
ClimateBase (find a sustainable career)
Environmentjob (ditto)
Businesses (🤢):
Ethical Superstore
Hodmedods
Fairtransport/Sail Cargo Alliance
Let me know if you think there’s anything I’ve missed!
Martial arts? Go on!
Hello!
I love martial arts. Unfortunately with the lockdown, I haven't been able to attend classes, but it's still a love of mine.
It all started with taekwondo. I spent about three and a half years there, and achieves my black belt. I left because I was doing more teaching than I was learning, and so I decided to switch to karate. I did wado kai karate for two and a half years, and in that time I achieved my blue belt. I was a month away from testing for my brown belt, but I had to move for school. I then did a little mma and jujitsu after I moved.
I'm hoping to do some kung fu after this lock down has been sorted out. I picked out a place that does wing chun and northern shaolin. I think it'll be a lot of fun and that I'll learn lots!
Thank you for the ask, I love any excuse to talk about martial arts!
sexual thrill at the mere prospect of cataloging things in a database
What's a citizen science project? Basically, it's crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!
You don't need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases
Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.
Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.
Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El Niño.
Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.
Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.
Oh, and btw, you don't have to worry about messing up, because several people see each image. Studies show that if you pool the opinions of however many regular people (different by field), it matches the accuracy rate of a trained scientist in the field.
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I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can't participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.
Detailed list of books below the cut!
For more book recommendations, especially queer horror, check out my Bookstagram @hauntedstacks
The Buried ⚰️ - Into the Sublime by Kate A. Boorman - Stuck by Ben Young - The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling - The Deep by Nick Cutter
The Corruption 🦠 - What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher - Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris - The Honeys by Ryan La Sala - She Is A Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran
The Dark 🌑 - Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes - Nightfall by Jake Halpern & Peter Kujawinski - No Power by Todd Kirby - The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
The Desolation 🔥 - Firestarter by Stephen King - Burner by Robert Ford - Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Koryta - Burn the House Down by Kenna Jenkins
The End 💀 - Funeral Girl by Emma K. Ohland - Pet Sematary by Stephen King - Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune - This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno
The Extinction 🦴 - Lost Signals by Max Booth III - Bride of the Tornado by James Kennedy - No Safety in Numbers by Dayna Lorentz - The Rules of the Road by C.B. Jones
The Eye 👁️ - Video Palace by Maynard Wills - Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie - A History of Fear by Luke Dumas - The Watchers by A.M. Shine
The Flesh 🦷 - You’ve Lost A Lot of Blood by Eric LaRocca - Carnivore by Justin Boote - A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers - Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
The Hunt 🏹 - Hunt by Alexandra Nisneru - The Woods Are Always Watching by Stephanie Perkins - Survive the Night by Danielle Vega - The Hunger by Alma Katsu
The Lonely ☁️ - Red River Seven by A.J. Ryan - Solitude by Michael Penning - Dark Matter by Michelle Paver - We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
The Slaughter 🥩 - Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin - Your Shadow Half Remains by Sunny Moraine - American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis - The Summer I Died by Ryan C. Thomas
The Spiral 🌀 - That Darkened Doorstep by Catherine Jordan - Mind the Mirrors by Amanda Leanne - Grey Noise by Marcus Hawke - Last to Leave the Room by Caitlin Starling
The Stranger🕴️ - It Looks Like Us by Alison Ames - My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix - The Deep by Alma Katsu - The Outside by Stephen King
The Vast 🪂 - From Below by Darcy Coates - Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant - Floating Staircase by Ronald Mafi - Nightmare Sky by Red Lagoe
The Web 🕸️ - The Taking of Jake Livingston - The Fervor by Alma Katsu - The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig - Come Closer by Sarah Gran
If You Like The Magnus Archives 💚 - Thirteen Stories by Jonathan Sims - Family Business by Jonathan Sims - Gas Station by Jack Townsend - Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix