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readings: essays & articles

reassuring ghosts and haunted houses

fish recorded singing dawn chorus on reefs just like birds

what people around the world dream about

poet and philosopher david whyte on anger, forgiveness, and what maturity really means

oranges are orange, salmon are salmon

how memories persist where bodies and even brains do not

the avant-garde musical legacy of the moomins

the weight of our living: on hope, fire escapes, and visible desperation

disturbed minds and disruptive bodies

what is better ー a happy life or a meaningful one?

after my dad died, i started sending him emails. months later, someone wrote me back

on the igbo art of storytelling

what the caves are trying to tell us

promethean beasts — how animal uses of fire help illuminate human pyrocognition

the art of loving and losing female friends

on memorizing poetry

the ecological imagination of hayao miyazaki

reading in the age of constant distraction

holly warburton illustrates tender moments of love and light

romancing the fig: what one fruit can tell us about love, life and human civilization

mystery and birds: 5 ways to practice poetry

can a plant remember? this one seems to — here's the evidence

why female cannibals frighten and fascinate

when you give a tree an email adress

fear not — horror movies build community and emotional resilience

Links to my free sewing patterns! - big manta ray - smaller manta ray - monster friend (those monsters with horns I’ve been making lately, but without horns) - pie slice - Fred, the Fish of Minimal Effort - tiny cat (aka Jiji) - mini mothman - whale shark/donut whale shark - juggling frog/toad (aka my smallest, simplest frog pattern of the three I’ve made) - large frog - tiny hedgehog - minecraft bee

hi! since u mentioned dreads earlier, i thought it would be a good time to ask if you have any tips on drawing dreadlocks!! i'm doing my best but it doesn't always turn out how i want it too, so any advice would be helpful!!

I use a lot of shorthand to draw krav fast, but here’s a loose tutorial for how i do natural dreadlocks. 1.) Draw your boy. Indicate the hairline so you know where to start. 2.) Use straight lines to indicate what direction you want the strands to hang and fall. 3.) Draw bumpy lines over the straight lines. Consider how thick you want the strands to actually be, and how they rest on the head. 

4.) Use short curved lines to indicate where the strands twist off from the scalp and where the strand ends, curving to kind of a point. 5.) Gradually build off the individual strands from the mass of hair. You can also draw a bit of fuzz here and there, depending on how neatly twisted/kept the dreads are. 6.) erase small sections and at jewelry/charms at leisure.

Final step: color the boy.

Download this easy DIY clothing repair guide (only 10 pages) from Uni of Kentucky

link to PDF

https://fcs-hes.ca.uky.edu/sites/fcs-hes.ca.uky.edu/files/ct-mmb-147.pdf

the problem with autism is sometimes you want to do something (brave) but you need someone to gently walk you through each step so you know what will happen. and people don’t like doing that

Everything But the Kitchen Sink Casserole

Ingredients

(Feel free to swap ingredients based on what you have on hand!)

Protein (choose 1-2):

2 cups cooked chicken, turkey, ground beef, sausage, or tofu

1 cup cooked beans (black, kidney, or chickpeas)

Vegetables (choose 2-3):

1 cup diced onion, bell pepper, zucchini, or mushrooms

1 cup frozen peas, corn, or spinach

1 cup chopped tomatoes (fresh or canned)

Starch (choose 1):

3 cups cooked pasta, rice, or quinoa

3 cups diced cooked potatoes

Cheese:

1–2 cups shredded cheddar, mozzarella, or your favorite cheese

Optional: ¼ cup grated Parmesan

Sauce (choose 1):

1 can (10 oz) cream of mushroom, chicken, or celery soup

1½ cups marinara, Alfredo, or cheese sauce

1½ cups broth mixed with 2 tablespoons sour cream or yogurt

Toppings (optional):

½ cup breadcrumbs, crushed crackers, or crushed potato chips

Extra cheese for sprinkling

Seasonings:

1 teaspoon garlic powder

1 teaspoon Italian seasoning or paprika

Salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

Preheat Oven: Preheat your oven to 375°F (190°C). Grease a 9x13-inch baking dish.

Cook Protein & Vegetables: If not already cooked, sauté protein and vegetables in a skillet until fully cooked and tender.

Mix Base: In a large bowl, combine cooked protein, vegetables, starch, and sauce. Stir in shredded cheese and seasonings.

Assemble Casserole: Pour the mixture into the prepared baking dish. Spread evenly. If using toppings, sprinkle breadcrumbs, crushed crackers, or chips over the top, followed by extra cheese.

Bake: Bake uncovered for 25-30 minutes or until the casserole is bubbling and the top is golden.

Serve: Let the casserole cool for 5 minutes, then serve warm.

Tips

Make Ahead: Assemble the casserole, cover tightly, and refrigerate for up to 24 hours before baking.

Freeze It: Wrap tightly and freeze for up to 3 months. Thaw overnight in the fridge before baking.

Customize It: Add fresh herbs, hot sauce, or mustard for an extra kick.

Enjoy your cozy, crowd-pleasing dish! 🥘

Wait, do people know about the Before I Play wiki?

I have used this for..... at this point easily over 6 years. It's a wiki where there will be low-spoiler/non-spoiler hints about just stuff you would want to know before playing a game.

It's always stuff like.... "Vitality in this game is useless, put your points in everything else first" or "Don't leave the second hub town until you buy X item, it'll become unobtainable."

Lemme pick an example almost everyone will know. From the Animal Crossing New Horizons page, the first tip is:

Nearly everything on the island is movable later, including all buildings and even cliffs and rivers. The main things that are fixed are the stuff on the border of the island (river mouths, beaches, rocks/peninsulae, the dock and the airport) and the resident services plaza, so picking your island layout should be based around that primarily.

That's stellar advice, tbh, given what you'll know about the game 30 hours in instead of 30 minutes.

Not every game is covered obviously and not every piece of advice is good, it's all subjective, BUT..... I look up almost every game I play for the first time, just to keep stuff in mind. The SMT4 page had top tier advice imo.

okay so if you need more veggies/fruit, protein or fibre (bc most people do NOT eat enough) in your diet but you struggle to do so, hear me out:

look up recipes (especially snack recipes) that are child/toddler/baby-friendly

i can guarantee there is a woman with a cooking blog out there who has found away to pack a bunch of vegetables into a surprisingly delicious little snack for her kids. this process has never failed me when i feel like i am not eating enough fruits and veggies. my entire flat is eating spinach muffins at the moment, which doesn’t sounding particularly appealing to most people and yet somehow. they’re delicious.

omg such a gorgeous hayden!! the colours are so soft and warm. could i ask what brush set you used?? it's suits your art so well!

thank you so much!! (´▽`ʃ♡ƪ)

it's a clip studio paint brush pack by an artist called crvptozoology!! it's available for free (or for tip) on their itch.io - hiiiighly recommend, i was literally on the hunt for a good comb/rake brush when it showed up on my feed 🙏

Things that will make your computer meaningfully faster:

Replacing a HDD with an SSD

Adding RAM

Graphics cards if you're nasty

Uninstalling resource hogs like Norton or McAfee (if you're using Windows then the built-in Windows Security is perfectly fine; if you're using a mac consider bitdefender as a free antivirus or eset as a less resource intensive paid option)

Customizing what runs on startup for your computer

Things that are likely to make internet browsing specifically meaningfully faster:

Installing firefox and setting it up with ublock origin

adding the Auto Tab Discard extension to firefox to sleep unused tabs so that they aren't constantly reloading

Closing some fucking tabs bud I'm sorry I know it hurts I'm guilty of this too

Things that will make your computer faster if you are actually having a problem:

Running malwarebytes and shutting down any malicious programs it finds.

Correcting disk utilization errors

Things that will make your computer superficially faster and may slightly improve your user experience temporarily:

Clearing cache and cookies on your browser

Restarting the computer

Changing your screen resolution

Uninstalling unused browser extensions

Things that do not actually make your computer faster:

Deleting files

Registry cleaners

Defragging your drive

Passively wishing that your computer was faster instead of actually just adding more fucking RAM.

This post is brought to you by the lady with the 7-year-old laptop that she refuses to leave overnight for us to run scans on or take apart so that we can put RAM in it and who insists on coming by for 30-minute visits hoping we can make her computer faster.