@plaidpanties.bsky.social
queer, genderqueer, neuroqueer. quiltmaker, small fat, unschooler, upholsterer. living joyfully, and as mindfully as possible in the back hills of tennessee
Another reject star for this quilt! It's cute, but I think I want something bigger for the last one. I save the rejects and extras and whenever possible sneak them into other quilts. This quilt has several repurposed blocks.
I kind of like the way this quilt looks upside down! It's giving me ideas
I kind of like the way this quilt looks upside down! It's giving me ideas
November 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Another reject star for this quilt! It's cute, but I think I want something bigger for the last one. I save the rejects and extras and whenever possible sneak them into other quilts. This quilt has several repurposed blocks.
I kind of like the way this quilt looks upside down! It's giving me ideas
I kind of like the way this quilt looks upside down! It's giving me ideas
Borders are done! Time to start the applique. I haven't done bats before, so I'm nervous about this.
November 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Borders are done! Time to start the applique. I haven't done bats before, so I'm nervous about this.
A few more inches added to the top of this quilt.
November 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
A few more inches added to the top of this quilt.
getting some borders on this quilt
November 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
getting some borders on this quilt
Legos. They were "too commercial". I'd have loooooooved legos. I had one friend for a while with legos and it was great playing at her house... until her parents discovered we went to the "wrong church" and were therefore nonpersons. Ah, Christian fellowship, lol!
What was the one thing you wanted so bad as a kid and your parents didn’t get for you just because they didn’t like them?
Canopy bed for me. My mom hates them.
Canopy bed for me. My mom hates them.
October 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Legos. They were "too commercial". I'd have loooooooved legos. I had one friend for a while with legos and it was great playing at her house... until her parents discovered we went to the "wrong church" and were therefore nonpersons. Ah, Christian fellowship, lol!
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A hero whose heroism consists of killing people is uninteresting to me, and I detest the hormonal war orgies of our visual media, the mechanical slaughter of endless battalions of black-clad, yellow-toothed, red-eyed demons.
October 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
A hero whose heroism consists of killing people is uninteresting to me, and I detest the hormonal war orgies of our visual media, the mechanical slaughter of endless battalions of black-clad, yellow-toothed, red-eyed demons.
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Neurotypicals: Autistic people lack theory of mind.
Also neurotypicals: The robot in my car is a better therapist than my wife.
Also neurotypicals: The robot in my car is a better therapist than my wife.
October 16, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Neurotypicals: Autistic people lack theory of mind.
Also neurotypicals: The robot in my car is a better therapist than my wife.
Also neurotypicals: The robot in my car is a better therapist than my wife.
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Reading anything is better than reading nothing. Even if all you read are comic books, graphic novels, plays, or story rich video games, enjoying stories will always enrich your brain and soul. You don’t have to read thick novels twice a week to enjoy literature and the beauty of story telling.
Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.
October 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Reading anything is better than reading nothing. Even if all you read are comic books, graphic novels, plays, or story rich video games, enjoying stories will always enrich your brain and soul. You don’t have to read thick novels twice a week to enjoy literature and the beauty of story telling.
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Spooky bird stories. Last year's Halloween comic.
October 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Spooky bird stories. Last year's Halloween comic.
shifting my focus to do some applique
October 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
shifting my focus to do some applique
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Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.
I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.
October 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.
working on a couple of quilts at a time - I mean, I always have a bunch of projects going, but today I'm actually moving back and forth between these two
October 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
working on a couple of quilts at a time - I mean, I always have a bunch of projects going, but today I'm actually moving back and forth between these two
shouting at my own anxiety today
September 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
shouting at my own anxiety today
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And even if your work isn't seeking to make a huge political statement - People need Art.
We need it like air. Because we need a safe harbour for thought and expression and just plain old fun.
We need joy and we need to remember the good things about life outside of survival.
We need it like air. Because we need a safe harbour for thought and expression and just plain old fun.
We need joy and we need to remember the good things about life outside of survival.
September 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
And even if your work isn't seeking to make a huge political statement - People need Art.
We need it like air. Because we need a safe harbour for thought and expression and just plain old fun.
We need joy and we need to remember the good things about life outside of survival.
We need it like air. Because we need a safe harbour for thought and expression and just plain old fun.
We need joy and we need to remember the good things about life outside of survival.
Getting some work done on this quilt.
(CW for embroidered spider)
(CW for embroidered spider)
September 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Getting some work done on this quilt.
(CW for embroidered spider)
(CW for embroidered spider)
I didn't even know who tf he was until my (more online than me) wife came dancing into the kitchen to gloat about his death.
I think the regime is exaggerating both the popularity of Charlie Kirk and the impact of his death--I haven't had a single meatspace conversation about it.
September 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I didn't even know who tf he was until my (more online than me) wife came dancing into the kitchen to gloat about his death.
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Charlie Kirk was a bad person and his death is cause for celebration, writes journalist Evan Urquhart.
Read our very special free speech edition of Assigned Media.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Read our very special free speech edition of Assigned Media.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Charlie Kirk is Dead. Here’s Why I’m Celebrating! — Assigned
It’s a wonderful thing to outlive a someone who spent his life working for your elimination. That's why I'm celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk.
www.assignedmedia.org
September 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Charlie Kirk was a bad person and his death is cause for celebration, writes journalist Evan Urquhart.
Read our very special free speech edition of Assigned Media.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Read our very special free speech edition of Assigned Media.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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Reminder that muting specific words on social media for a day, a week, a month, or even forever can be laudatory self-care.
September 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Reminder that muting specific words on social media for a day, a week, a month, or even forever can be laudatory self-care.
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Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet
August 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet
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We will never defeat Trumpism in this country so long as we accept the idea that some kinds of people are not as good as others.
It's liberty and justice for all, all the way, for everyone, without a single asterisk.
It's liberty and justice for all, all the way, for everyone, without a single asterisk.
August 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
We will never defeat Trumpism in this country so long as we accept the idea that some kinds of people are not as good as others.
It's liberty and justice for all, all the way, for everyone, without a single asterisk.
It's liberty and justice for all, all the way, for everyone, without a single asterisk.
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Today's word is TURN. Today's #BookQW is from Direct Descendant (@dawbooks.bsky.social 2025) a great summer read with an enchanting small town, a white sand beach, and a lake with sparkling clear water. Actually forget that last bit. STAY OUT OF THE LA... Oops. Never mind.
Shop indie if you can.
Shop indie if you can.
August 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Today's word is TURN. Today's #BookQW is from Direct Descendant (@dawbooks.bsky.social 2025) a great summer read with an enchanting small town, a white sand beach, and a lake with sparkling clear water. Actually forget that last bit. STAY OUT OF THE LA... Oops. Never mind.
Shop indie if you can.
Shop indie if you can.
I knit socks. I'm not good at it. They don't look great and they don't last more than a few wearings. But I enjoy making them for myself.
we really need to uncouple "doing [thing] makes me feel joy" and "I am good at [thing]"
they're not the same!
I am only okay at drawing, but I still think it's fun. I'm not great at dancing, but I like it! and I'm never gonna win any contests but I still love to sing
they're not the same!
I am only okay at drawing, but I still think it's fun. I'm not great at dancing, but I like it! and I'm never gonna win any contests but I still love to sing
also the assertion that it's unpleasant to learn to do art is ??? to me. I'm doing this because I like it? I always have, right from the start?
that's not to say it was never frustrating! it's often frustrating! even now my work often falls short of my vision. but I do it because... I like doing it
that's not to say it was never frustrating! it's often frustrating! even now my work often falls short of my vision. but I do it because... I like doing it
August 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I knit socks. I'm not good at it. They don't look great and they don't last more than a few wearings. But I enjoy making them for myself.
Got this top quilted and bound, now just need to finish the embellishments!
August 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Got this top quilted and bound, now just need to finish the embellishments!
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Fantasy wood elves should have Appalachian Accents. I want angry hillbilly wood elves. Git out our holler ya sumbitch or we'll fill yer backside with so many arrows you'll look like you got a porcupine for a sit-upon
August 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Fantasy wood elves should have Appalachian Accents. I want angry hillbilly wood elves. Git out our holler ya sumbitch or we'll fill yer backside with so many arrows you'll look like you got a porcupine for a sit-upon
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Lol I forgot I wrote this.
"These moral panics allow hegemonic masculinity to succeed because it doesn’t trouble the starting position of the patriarchal status quo – that young men are in need of intervention to succeed in the dating “game”." @goingmedieval.bsky.social
going-medieval.com/2023/02/23/o...
going-medieval.com/2023/02/23/o...
On dating advice and men
Of late I have noticed that ever since that one sex trafficker guy got himself arrested there has been a recurrent theme down the old discourse mines: who on the left is talking to young men about …
going-medieval.com
August 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Lol I forgot I wrote this.