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If you don't have a person handy to do this to, try going to YouTube and searching for "[your favorite piece of media] reaction".

It's really easy to find folks reacting to music, and there are also some folks who do reaction videos for movies, games and shows.

You can never experience watching your favourite show for the first time again, but you CAN convince someone else to watch your favourite show and vicariously enjoy all their raw reactions to seeing it for the first time, which is honestly nearly as good.

I've decided that I'm going to actively avoid political content here on Tumblr. I'll use it as my "the world sucks and is stressful" escapism place.

Facebook, NPR, and face-to-face give me plenty of info about what's going on in the world. I don't need Tumblr memes too.

Too late for me. Now I'm praying the embroidery hyperfixation comes back in time for me to finish this set of Christmas ornaments before next Christmas.

hyperfixation please stay with me long enough to complete the project. hyperfixation do not fade. hyperfixation finish what you started for the love of god

I need to show this to my kid

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My absolute favorite outfit from the 2025 Met Gala, because of its sheer cleverness.

Janelle Monáe attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images) if you want to support this blog consider donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways

This man is an actual wizard doing actual magic.

staples?! he made a basket with staples?!

Lyrical Ballad, in Saratoga Springs, NY is one of my favorite used bookstores in the world.

Twitter thread by Melissa Caruso about a labyrinthine magical bookstore in Syracuse, NY. Link to the first tweet in the thread; most pictures have image descriptions! Now here are the screenshots of that thread:

And then a hero of the labyrinthine magical bookstores of the world put all the bookstores that people listed in the replies on a map! (Google Maps link)

I walked past some lilac bushes on my way to lunch today and the smell brought me so much joy. I almost forget, from one spring to the next, how much I love it.

I'm thinking about getting some lilac scented stuff, but it needs to be as realistic as possible.

Anyone have any recommendations?

I've made very little progress on either this scarf or this book.

The scarf I'm not bothered by. Any knitting project I'm not having fun with I'll either set aside and come back to or unravel and do something else with the yarn. No big deal.

The book though...

It's like, I want to know what happens, and the answers to the various mysteries, but I'm not actually enjoying the process of reading these novels. The writing style just doesn't fit my brain.

I'm considering just abandoning the book and reading the Wikipedia page instead. That'll answer my questions well enough.

Current knitting: a simple garter stitch scarf, using fuzzy yarn from Dollar Tree. I'm working in random colors, with two strands together. The goal is warmth and softness rather than beauty.

Current reading: "Area X" by Jeff Vandermeer. This is the omnibus edition of the Southern Reach trilogy. I finished the first book, and honestly, I'm not sure I'd keep going if the second book wasn't in the same volume. It's not bad, but it's a very different writing style than I usually read.

Thinking about experimenting with knitting using different size needles in one project.

Something like casting on to the recommended size needle, and using a two- or three-sizes larger needle for the other direction.

Has anybody tried something like this?