A pattern to sew a “Knitting Apron,” designed to take your knitting projects on the go in a stylish and practical garment. Taken from Gifts You Can Make Yourself, c.late 1940s.
Having your own personal blog is honestly quite a nice change of pace compared to Reddit. I could put a funny GIF of George Bush getting hit by a shoe on here and the worse case scenario is that no one even notices.
You put that on a big subreddit and you get your eyes gouged out and a heap of political discourse underneath your post.
oh yeah have i ever told yall of the academic war i have been an unwilling soilder in for the past two years
okay SO. i have two professors that both teach this one subject, but different classes. they have different last names, so i didnt know this at first and espically since they are academic RIVELS at my school, but they are MARRIED. but for the past 8 years they have been in an academic WAR of geospatical sciences data. more accurately, the raster vs vector data debate. i am personally on the side of “both have their pros and cons and can be utalizied to the utmost efficency” but both professors are like, DEADLOCKED in insistanting one is better then the other
so, professor A is my mentor. i like him a lot, and he was the main person that taught me the most abotu Eris and ArcGIS. professor B is a professor i had one for class, and shes nice and knows a lot of little tricks about Eris programming but mostly relies on arcMAP because shes the raster data professor.
and THESE MOTHERFUCKERS. have written no less then 30 papers that is basically like a “re: re: re: re: re: re: vector data is better then raster fuck you” but like, Professionally. and they leave stupid notes in the footnotes that read “Reguardless of Professor A’s opinions reguarding the efficency of Vector data, Raster data has a more efficant polygon computing rate and is the most commonly used program on interplantaring mapping” and its HILARIOUS
ive read all of their papers, and its basically like reading an email chain between a married couple arguing over the colors of the kitchen backsplash for their new home. its HILARIOUS. but obviously, because of their differnet last names and because they act like they HATE each other, NOT VERY MANY PEOPLE REALIZES THEYRE MARRIED
until like LAST WEEK
professor B publishes a paper that casually drops the word “husband”
and obviously all the students are like “oh i didnt know u were married!” because we read that shit like how white suburban mothers read People Magazine
and shes like “yeah, its Professor A”
and we all FLIPPED. THE FUCK. OUT
we thought the framed picture of the two of them on professor A’s desk was ironic because hes that type of guy
like, you gotta undestand. these two have gotten into YELLING matches in hallways. these two refuse to go onto trips with each other. but apparently they have a system where they quite LITERALLY leave all of their work at work and drive home in seperate cars and literally NEVER mention work at home. it is SO funny
Despite my love for him, Solas is so stupid that it’s painful. Smart and Stupid, as impossible as it sounds.
Why he’s so surprised things went to shit when he created the Veil? The entire world functioned with the Veil, especially Elvhenan that had integrated it into every single aspect of their lives. Even if he hadn’t slept and he had taken it down right back, the floating cities would’ve fallen, other cities would have no import/export completely isolated for who knows how long it could take him to restore things, the library would’ve collapsed, and the Evanuris would’ve still be a problem. So, what was he thinking? Did he even truly considered the consequences? And if he did, did he create the Veil even knowing that things would go to shit? Was there really no other way?
It’s like putting a Veil to oxygen or water and hope things will be okay.
If someone has an explanation for his reasoning, or knows more about this topic, please explain it to me because I can’t understand how he thought it was a good idea to do it.
(I know why he wants to take it down currently, despite also been a stupid decision as he again hasn’t considered all consequences, but I understand it at least. )
*appears from the center of the Solas Meta Summoning Circle holding a popsicle*
Hi yes hello, I am sorry in advance but I LOVE thinking about this part of his story arc!
My favorite analogy for Solas’ situation is comparing it to Shepard’s choice at the end of ME3. (which I know 90% of the fandom hated, but bear with me). Even full-renegade aggressive Shepard is considered a hero! Their job is to Stop The Reapers, and they do! But when they are given choices to end the war for good, none of them are perfect, and all of them have potentially horrific long-term consequences that Shepard doesn’t have a lot of time to stop and mull over before flipping a switch. Does it make them less of a hero? Will future generations revile them and curse their name for the switch they chose? We don’t know (yet!) because that is where their story ends.
Solas is the story of what comes after that kind of choice.
I don’t think he was surprised about most of the things that happened when the Veil went up. He knew people would die. He knew the places connected to the Fade would be torn asunder. He knew most spirits would be trapped in the Fade, and that magic as a whole would be weakened.
And he flipped the switch anyway, because the Evanuris were (allegedly) trying to tear the world apart.
(My theory is that the Evanuris killed a bunch of titans, got hopped up on lyrium and either found or created the Blight and the Darkspawn and had plans on using them to quash Solas’ rebellion and anything else that got in their way. So, he stopped the world from ending for thousands of years by raising the Veil, but even that could only be a delaying tactic, because the Evanuris could still reach people through dreams.)
What I DON’T think he expected was elves becoming mortal. Or that most of the world wold lose it’s connection to magic entirely. Or that his entire civilization would fall apart when both he and the Evanuris were down for the count. I mean, even with all the chaos, how could he predict the rise of Tevinter and the enslavement of pretty much his entire race the minute he stops and takes a nap? Human were hardly a blip on his radar.
He wasn’t dumb (in this instance), but there were just too many variables to anticipate all of the things the Veil would effect and change and destroy. Even the smartest person alive couldn’t foresee the every one of the consequences from a change so big it reshaped the entire world. But there’s no way he didn’t think there would be ANY problems when the Veil went up. He knew. Was there a better option? Who knows? Maybe he was standing in a room with three switches, and the Veil just seemed like the least terrible one at the time. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Titanic: Project 401 allows you explore a jaw-droppingly authentic recreation of the RMS Titanic, from first class all the way down to the engine rooms.
I say this with affection: the Honor & Glory guys are absolutely fucking insane. They’re going on? Eight years of work now? With the eventual end goal of recreating every inch of Titanic in painstaking historic detail. There used to be an actual game planned for the environment as well but I think at this point it’s 100% about the ship.
Godspeed, you lunatics. Hopefully my computer will be able to handle the end product.
Getting closer to what you saw in your head, eh? Keep at it!
Your story when somebody else sees it:
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This is a lovely post. It goes to show that when we percieve our own work, most of us have some type of insecurities about our own talents.
Also possibly relevant is that probably when Van Gogh finished Starry Night, he jumped up and down in frustration for a while because it didn’t look as good as it had in his head.
Tolkien used to complain that he could never write anything as well as he could imagine it. So you know, ‘good enough’ is definitely a thing.
A relative of mine is a professional author and every time someone asks him which of his books is his favorite one, he always says “The one in my head, because I haven’t messed it up yet.”
He’s written more than thirty books and several of them have been on the Times bestseller list, and he still thinks this way.
You’re always your own worst critic.
Okay, that last addition might be my favorite ever. I need a name so I can quote this genius
Since Dragon Age has been on the brain with all the upcoming releases (!!!), I thought I’d share this comic again. I made it while I was playing Inquisition, but it really hits different after playing Trespasser… 🙃 The sentiment for Swan (my Lavellan) still stands, albeit pretty tragically. There is so much erasure of history for the elves, both by humans and by horrors lost to time, and I think it is the thing he fears the very most about his own legacy.
