10:42 : I Woke Up Like 2 Hours Ago Maybe? I Cant Keep Time Hahaha. Anyway Imma Go And Eat A Little And

Amazon’s casting choices don’t reflect the true racial diversity in Tolkien’s works and are focused on tokenism over real efforts to tackle the flaws in the text and make an inclusive vision of Arda

Amazon’s one major POC actress is playing a role that canonically involves her throne and her power being stolen from her by a genocidal colonizer who wants to exterminate the religious minority she’s part of

Amazon fired their Tolkien consultant and their unsafe set conditions caused the injuries of stuntpeople

Amazon as a company is unethical, directly opposed to progressive causes, and openly emotionally manipulating viewers to get them to watch the show

Amazon has done more real harm to actual people of color and other marginalized groups than their efforts to include nonwhite actors in relatively small or stereotypical roles can address

Amazon’s promotional materials for this show treat fans of color as props to further their agenda

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to all my researchers, students and people in general who love learning: if you don't know this already, i'm about to give you a game changer

connectedpapers

the basic rundown is: you use the search bar to enter a topic, scientific paper name or DOI. the website then offers you a list of papers on the topic, and you choose the one you're looking for/most relevant one. from here, it makes a tree diagram of related papers that are clustered based on topic relatability and colour-coded by time they were produced!

for example: here i search "human B12"

i go ahead and choose the first paper, meaning my graph will be based around it and start from the topics of "b12 levels" and "fraility syndrome"

here is the graph output! you can scroll through all the papers included on the left, and clicking on each one shows you it's position on the chart + will pull up details on the paper on the right hand column (title, authors, citations, abstract/summary and links where the paper can be found)

you get a few free graphs a month before you have to sign up, and i think the free version gives you up to 5 a month. there are paid versions but it really depends how often you need to use this kinda thing.

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loom: warped and genders: transed 👍🏳️‍⚧️

Nubia: Queen of the Amazons #4 variant cover by Joelle Jones and Jordie Bellaire

i have decided

im gonna start a studyblr bc i think it would be fun and help me be a bit more productive. well more like just a daily blog but with extra spice. idk lol. i will post stuff like what i did all day (with time stamps hopefully) and stuff i need to do. daily updates at (around) 8pm. school sux but i wanna try to make it feel a little better with this. i hope anyone who finds this will enjoy it and find my ramblings fun :3.

11/30/22

3:36 : i think my laptop hates me??? so annoyed rn. it keeps deleting my posts and im starting to get mad. i wrote a whole post earlier but nooo of course it didnt save. whatever. basically i had an awesome time in *REDACTED* and it was so super fun. AUGH. i didnt have school yesterday and the day before so that was awesome. i got to work on my music all day and just relax and honestly im so glad i got it bc being around all those kids man it DRAINEDDDD me (it was still awesome tho). anyway at school today and OH MY GOD MY GRADES ARE SO BAD!!!!! im gonna be working my absolute butt off. i know what i have to do so HOPEFULLY i can get it done. also my teeth hurt but thats probably bc i keep FRIGGIN forgetting to brush my teeth. so glad that school is almost over. i have rehearsal today and i gotta practice a SHIRT ton today bc i have my lesson tmr and i havent practiced for a whole WEEK AAAAAAAAH! i missed my bf so much man u have no clue. uh but yeah. idk what else to say so i might update later before 8. if not sorry lol. imma be studying my music and working on it and practicing and doing my work all night. i got this :). 

1/9/23

yay happy new year. oopsies i havent updated in forever lol. anyway. i feel insanelt bad about not practicong over winter break so imma be practicing alot tryna do better. im gonan bake a cake as asoon as i get home. my bf is coming over too so yayy :))).

so i didnt bake a cake slay. it was so nice being with him. i love him so much. im glad i got to spend time with him. i dont have a lot of homeworrk so yay. anyway i think this is it 4 2day

Weirdpunk

A punk movement based around being weird and encouraging being weird (in a way that doesn't harm anyone).

I'm autistic, have PPD, and OCD. These carry what neurotypicals deem, "weird traits." They make me act "weird", talk "weird", dress 'weird', etc etc.

I have identities that may be deemed "weird." I go semi-scribal and semi-verbal occasionally that may be deemed "weird."

I have "weird" disorders, disabilities, and identities alongside many factors. I've been called weird multiple times. However, now? I take fucking pride in that shit. I take pride in being weird.

Encouraging being weird includes non-conforming of trying to be "normal" and rather accepting the weird, funky side of yourself. Also, accepts cringe, "flop" things, and more. It heavily goes against the stigma that those with traits that make the individual "weird" should either be sugar-coated or the individual should rather try to "fit in" and erase their "weird" traits. Rather, instead, it encourages that the individual loves the traits for how they are, as they are a part of themselves.

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Tailoring your own clothes

So a little while back, I reblogged a post about tailoring your own clothes. The gist of it was this (IIRC):

Someone was wondering why even people on TV with non-mainstream-TV-approved body shapes always look so good in their clothes. 

The long and short of it is: their bodies aren’t better than yours. They just have people tailoring every single piece of clothing they wear to flatter their figures. 

Off-the-rack clothes aren’t made to look good on most people’s bodies. The advice in the post was buy clothes that fit the largest part of you, even if they’re too big elsewhere, and have them altered to fit. 

That post hit me like a lightning bolt. I have a curvy figure. I’m not plus-sized, but I’ve got a small waist and large hips. Which is great in certain types of clothes (dresses, mainly), but means that if I don’t wear fitted t-shirts or blouses–if they fall straight–I just look sort of… boxy. I need clothes that go in at the waist. 

My grandma was an amazing seamstress, so when I needed clothes fixed, she was around to tailor them. When she got into her 90s and her eyesight was too diminished for her to sew, we started going to a woman in our neighborhood who’d lost her husband and had started doing alterations to bring in some extra income. OF COURSE I looked good back then. I had a tailor.

Then I moved away from my parents without really knowing How To Adult and would go to Target to get clothes and just get depressed by them and never realized how much of an advantage having people who could tailor my clothes (and, you know, parents to pay for having them tailored…) had been. 

So. I have a 1970s Singer Fashion Mate sewing machine that is designed to weather the apocalypse–I got it at Goodwill for $20. 

And I have begun researching how to tailor your own clothes. If anyone else was wondering about that after that last post, here are some helpful links I’ve discovered. 

When and Why to Get it Tailored - This article is (annoyingly) set up as a slideshow, and focuses on getting a professional to do your alterations rather than doing them yourself, but it’s got some good advice nonetheless, such as:

Basic alterations that can make a huge difference, such as adding lingerie loops to keep bra straps in place (SERIOUSLY MY FAVORITE DRESSES FROM HIGH SCHOOL ALL HAD THESE AND WHY DID THEY DISAPPEAR IN EVERYTHING I WEAR NOW?), adding snaps between the buttons on button-down shirts for larger-busted women (you know how sometimes they gap? there’s help for that), etc.

Average prices (at least on the East Coast) for basic alterations: replacing a zipper will run you about $20, while tailoring pants or a skirt to fit your hips and butt will be about $35.

If you want to get a garment made of special materials (leather, fur, beaded/embroidered silk) altered, go to someone who specializes in working with that material.

What NOT to try to alter.

How to find a tailor.

Having that perfect dress that you love so much duplicated and how much that will cost.

Learning Alterations - Great step-by-step tutorials on basic alterations like how to take in the waist of jeans (essential if you have a smaller waist and larger hips, because it’ll stop them from riding down every time you bend over or sit down).

Tailoring Ready-to-Wear - A full-on online course from Craftsy (costs $24.99) with videos and individual lessons on everything from hemming pants to lengthening them to altering shoulders and armholes to adding hidden zippers.

Plus-Sized Fitting and Design - Another online course (this one’s $34.99) that looks like it focuses both on alterations and on actually making clothes that are flattering to plus-sized forms.

Alterations and Tailoring 101 - Not a how-to post, but this one has a lot of useful information and ideas, such as identifying which garments to alter.

Alterations Needed blog - A whole blog on this stuff, with a lot of detailed how-tos. It focuses on fixing things to fit if you’re shorter than average/petite, but contains a lot of great advice for anyone (like an entry on why button-down shirts often bulge in back and how to fix it). 

Pinch and Pin your Shirt - Super-quick video tutorial (aimed at gentlemen), but useful for anyone who wears button-down shirts on how to fix a baggy shirt. 

If I find other helpful tutorials, I’ll add them. If you know of any, please let me know!