Stacy King

Congrats and so very well deserved Anthony!! 🎉

That is a great, if highly subjective, compliment!

Weird fact: I was briefly related to Maddin (his daughter married one of my cousins, but they divorced after just a few months).

And nukes. Still got plenty of nukes.

I feel like it would be silly *not* to. You've gone all that way, what's a little bit more?

Indecent society is where all the good parties happen anyway!

Ugh.

Thanks! I had a terrible time drafting a pattern for the first shirt I made him, so when one of his favorite shirts wore out, I took that apart and used it as a pattern. Success!

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Solid analysis, thanks! One point, however: Putin has tried to kill Zelensky so often that there's a wiki page dedicated to the topic: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassi...

Best boi 😍

Thanks! My mom taught me to sew when I was a kid and it's been a useful skill to have.

When I saw this fabric with monster artwork from the original D&D Monster Manual, I knew I had to make something for Jim with it. Pretty happy with how it turned out!

FYI When they say sold out, they mean on a wholesale level, individual stores may still have it on the shelves.

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It's officially licensed fabric from a company called Camelot Fabrics. Quilting stores are the most likely to carry it, and there are a few online places that stock it as well! There's a bunch of other designs as well: camelot.ca/collections/...

I think they are sort of trading off on the spotlight, back & forth? There was a while when Hudson was everywhere and Connor was almost invisible, and now we're in a Connor blitz (in part because Hudson is currently filming on YAGA, an 8-episode Crave TV show based on Kat Sandler's play).

I have survived my personal gom jabbar box.

I'm on a daily buckley's regimen.

Fun fact: taking buckleys after brushing your teeth? Apocalyptic levels of mistake.

At this stage of my week-long coughing adventure, I'm ready to try anything.

An accurate and evergreen horoscope.

It's also not true. He's posting in English, which makes him part of the in-group of humans who communicate using written English language. On a specific communication medium that not everyone has access to, even! Internet-users is yet another in-group, of which Bsky users is a smaller subset.

I'm curious how general a reference needs to be for this person to not consider it exclusionary & thus an in-joke. Can I remark about a chicken crossing the road, or does that rely on in-group knowledge of agriculture and transit infrastructure?

I'm fascinated by the people who pick this moment in history to become agitated about this terminology.

I've started having a smoothie for lunch every day. Learning that I could blend kale / spinach with a few random fruits and not lose any nutrition or fibre has been a Game Changer.

I do feel like it starts to sag in Act Two - I think Maddin found the ballerina playing Lucy to be more "his type" and that first act is stronger as a result. (I love his work, but that man's libido is stamped on every single film frame lol)

That said, still fabulous!

I have to watch myself for it all the time! Society tells us that certain people should fill certain emotional roles for us, but that's not always the case (like the post's example of parents who can't offer excitement about news) & letting go of those expectations can be so useful.

But yeah: the key to a low-drama life is to not expect things from people that they're not going to be able to give you.

Engage with who people really are, not who you want them to be.

Some people start in one category and stay there for decades. Some people move around based on what's happening in our respective lives. Heck, my husband started as a gaming pal, became a long-distance friend, then a fellow aspiring writer and eventually my life partner. Life takes many twists!

I have a lot of context-specific friends. People I reach out to about movies. Fashion buddies for when I need an afternoon of frills, tea and Tea. Gaming pals. Hours-long rant friends and "did you see this dumb video" friends. And being in one category doesn't exclude the others!

It's not always easy. Sometimes that role isn't what you need from them. Sometimes it's better to cut ties than try connecting a mis-matched set of needs & offerings in a way that doesn't generate ongoing resentment. But more often, it eases pressure on a relationship to understand those limits.

This is a good overview of a thought process I find very useful: identify what people in your life are good at & appreciate that, instead of trying to get them to fill roles that they neither suit nor want. Accept who they are rather than pinning hopes on who you want them to be.

Well worth your time if you've never seen this before!

(and if you dig this, I strongly recommend checking out "Cowards Bend The Knee" and / or "Brand Upon the Brain!," my two favorite full-length Maddin films, plus his Dracula ballet adaptation if you can handle 75 minutes of just dance)