Notices by Sini Tuulia (sinituulia@eldritch.cafe), page 2

Plant photography thread!

These are a bit older. I used to visit local botanical gardens with a camera in tow and admire all the tiny details. I tried to take photos with emphasis on color, shape and mood while just enjoying a stroll.

#PlantPhotography #plants #photography #MacroPhotography

Related to my previous post, with the corset. From the same set of photos in the glamorous setting of my living room... One of my favourite photos of Pörri and me, as he wanted to participate. Not the best photo of the corset, but the littlest sir! So soft, so cute!

Photo contains eye contact, a cat and happiness.

You know what I also like about Dropout? Usually, if not almost always, there's the performer's name and their pronouns listed. (And if they're playing, the character's as well.) It's just on there! No fuss! Traditional media could fucking never!

Anyway. It's certainly been a fucking month, and I love to watch artists have fun and get paid. It's pretty good.

Oh, and the first episode of the first season is on Youtube. The rest of it is behind a paywall or subscription (I think) but it's something like six dollars per month. The first season is them learning to play, but it's quite sweet to have them guided along by a nice DM and falling in love with the game.

Oh, and. Gotta love how absolutely everything has very descriptive closed captions. Extra delight for when the descriptions of sounds and music are a whole other layer of clever, accessible because it's usually all very thorough.

I just like Dropout. 😶

And if I may. I know I am gay as all hell and even I know that there's a bunch of you out there for whom this is The Exact Formula, and I don't want you to miss out! 😂

There's something incredibly healing about watching a bunch of fabulous drag queens, and more than half of them POC to boot, having fun and playing some DnD, led by Brennan Lee Mulligan in sparkly makeup. If you've ever thought about watching Dimension 20, now is a good a time. The Dropout sub comes with a ton of other shows with people of all sizes, colours, genders and persuasions, too, but there's also this: Dungeons and Drag Queens! Season two no less!

#Dimension20 #DnD #Drag #LGBTQ

Today, in the theme of: "Please don't move before I've managed a photo, please..."
The boys, they are cute.

#Cats

A random memory surfaces. I was working on the final of the video & directing class one year, where we had to make an exactly 20 or 30 second long ad, I don't remember which. Had to source a product, write, direct, shoot and edit the video for it. (Making a very short video is an art. Another year I filmed and edited a three hour long play!)

Anyway. I needed music for it and messaged my older brother like: "Could you noodle something slow and hopeful on the saxophone for me?" He said yes.

Somehow I managed to hit some magical zone of ADHD and life and music, where he just did it kind of right away and sent me the music. Just a little recording, barely touched up, of a nice and ambient little composition with hopeful tones. "I'll do it again at some point, but you can probably edit to this."

And indeed I could. I edited to it, he never remembered to record, edit nor send me the finished one, so one of my graded work now and forever is tracked to the rough draft of some random sax. 😆

Anyway. He plays like seven different instruments whenever he has the time and remembers to (not often, I think) but it's just funny to me. The little composition sounded actually very nice to me, a person who does not play the saxophone and only played piano a little bit and sing, and everyone else liked it too.
It's very convenient to know people who know how to do stuff.

This is my life for the next little bit. It's not exactly slow but it's certainly not fast. But oh the results. 😍

#HandSewing #Sewing

Cross discipline benefits. Have put my needlecraft beads into a little tin I got with calligraphy nibs ages ago, and am able to fit the tiniest beads onto my millinery needles that I got when I was making hats more. ADHD, it has positives, too!

@valhalla @IcooIey @Janet_52square Here you'd often not have very many rooms, so the bedroom was where you spent time when you weren't cooking, eating or working outside! A combined dining room and parlour was a fine thing to have, often you'd also sleep in the combined parlour, dining room and bedroom if you weren't wealthy, or were staying with the owners of the house and needed somewhere to sleep (farm workers, labourers, other people's children, unmarried relatives)... But this was fairly efficient, because the big honking brick oven was also in the same room, so it would be quite warm!
Attics were mostly for storage and cats in regular people houses, the roof insulation wasn't ever very good. In big houses you'd put the servants there with maybe the heated water bottle or coal pan.

@suearcher I have autonomic wool scarves, aka cats, that will readily wander onto me as soon as I sit down!

The thing about a cat that likes to sit on your back. Is that if the cat doesn't want to come off, there's very little you can do about it without getting incidentally clawed.
Open for gif of a pleased little kitty backpack from the selfie angle, near eye contact.

It's remarkable to me that you can cook fridge cold potatoes to piping hot in some three to five minutes in the microwave. But then when you're trying to reheat fridge cold cooked potatoes to an even temperature, it's an almost impossible task. I figure it's something to do with the starches, but theoretically they contain pretty much the same amount of water and should thus be minutely agitated by the microwaves roughly as much. And yet!

What the fuck goes on inside a cooked potato, that's what I'm wondering.

Another one of my linen shifts has torn at the elbow! This one is about ten years old so it's not surprising, but at this rate I'll have patched elbows on all of them. 😄
Guess I'll try to fix this one in a quick enough way that I can still put it in the laundry today. Let's be good and do a diagonal patch, too.

#Mending

Went into my bookmarks for a Victorian manual to check how the octagonal patches work, came across this one: "Instructions for patchwork - A new book of patterns and instructions for making fancy patchwork"
Enjoy, if such falls within your interests!

https://archive.org/details/instructionsforp00inga/mode/2up?view=theater

#VisibleMending #Victorian #OldManuals #Patchwork

@laumapret Oh it's pretty much impossible to find a dressform that is actually your shape unless you get one of those ones that are made with a 3D model of yourself. 😄 I used to have a basic one, but none of my jackets ever fit it because my torso is *so small* but it was useful for hanging and hemming skirts.

I'm pretty flexible and can use my left hand for precision work also, so I just fit on myself. If it requires enough contortion to disturb the shape, it's a lot of eyeballing, taking it off, pinning and trying it on again!