@ayvalentine
Headmistress of the Finishing School for Young Games, freelance fiction and RPG editor, Jinkx's cat-mom, cross stitch fanatic, probably some other stuff https://www.finishingschool.games/ https://ko-fi.com/stressstitching (my free cross stitch designs)
If world events make you want to stab something many times, I got you - stress stitching! Easy patterns, often snarky messages, free (although tips welcome). Here's one of my newest ko-fi.com/s/289de07c03 The pattern says fuck; I like to keep my ko-fi shop rated G-ish #crossstitch
We're also frequently amused by Cirque-de-squirrele out the wall of windows in our kitchen area that looks out on our miniforest of oak, hemlock, and rhododendron. They're endlessly amusing as they go careening from branch to branch.
Somewhat lost in the fog of war (perhaps the purpose of that fog)… HCR’s post on the night of Feb 27 describes what appears to be an organized crime and drug trafficking ring involving Jeffrey Epstein and 14 others.
Illustration of a fluffy black cat lying on green grass with small flowers under a blue textured sky. The cat looks tired and the text says: “I would like some spring, please.”
Happy Read an Ebook Week! To help you find a book to celebrate, you can find my entire collection at a promotional price at @Smashwords from March 1 - March 7. Find my books and many more at www.smashwords.com/sale #ebookweek26 #Smashwords
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Ha! That’s awesome!!!
A cross stitch of a blue shark with the text ‘trans rights or I bites’ around it. The design is framed in a circular embroidery hoop with blue pom-poms around it.
Chomp chomp!
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#CrossStitch #TransRights
As always, my cross stitch patters are free to download and stitch, but donations appreciated. These two patterns, like most of my patterns, are beginner friendly and made entirely of full stitches - no partials, back stitches, or knots. #ArtIsResistance ko-fi.com/stressstitch...
They're a little big, probably fit a 8x10 frame best, but I love the fancy font at the top. Might make a nice pillow on 14 ct cloth, if you can sew! Maybe I'll also do easier-to-frame versions eventually.
2. on the rights of trans people and the horrors of what Kansas has done ko-fi.com/s/289de07c03
As is typical, I vent my anger through cross stitch patterns. Here are the first 2 in what may be a series: And the Lord said... with my interpretations of what the God I grew up believing in would say to those who justify atrocities with their faith.
1. on war and violence ko-fi.com/s/15119390f9
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Oh, Mellie, that’s so scary! (You have someone professional you can talk to, yeah?) Can you borrow a friend’s large dog for sleepovers for awhile? Just the presence/bark is a threat, even if the dog is actually very gentle - our Labrador retrievers made people wary
I doubt it will ever get THAT complicated!
I love LoudPanda. I want to keep playing her heists at each con I'm at with @toastyseahorse.bsky.social to see how her world expands. It's such a delightfully silly crime filled world as she lives paycheck to paycheck in the logical(ish) future of the gig economy
I gave a task two difficulty levels in #OCB2nd. @ayvalentine.bsky.social and @clarkvalentine.bsky.social both got five successes on their individual tasks, so they were able to escape undetected.
Security was a little preoccupied with a car blasting Blue Dress on the property.
Never sacrifice clarity for the sake of word count, especially if that clarity is in another book! (So I’m officially agreeing with you here)
We had so much fun! Perfect game for a few quietish hours at a con - quick set up (character & setting personalization), streamlined play experience, played on a table in the lobby with no problem. And crowd funding creative nonviolent but effective vigilante justice might have a future? 😜
Less than 14% of the 400,000 immigrants arrested by the Trump regime in the last year had charges or convictions for violent crimes.
It was never about going after the “worst of the worst.” It was always about terrorizing communities.
Democrats must refuse to fund this cruelty.
Again, without any normal kinds of protection and at ridiculous speeds “Here’s a kid’s snowsuit and a good helmet. Have fun!”
I don’t fully understand mixed doubles curling, but I love it! We ordered a TV package for this month that gives us a lot of access so we can always move away from not-actually-sports coverage
If this doesn't disqualify Stacy Garrity from ever getting near the PA Governor's seat, I don't know what does.
Garrity intends to hand PA elections over to Trump.
Not no but hell no, ma'am.
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They really are! Do this thing but with lethal blades on your feet. Do this thing but basically unprotected at speeds humans were never meant to go. Everything but faster and deadlier and colder.
I’m glad I can mostly tune it out, but sometimes it’s a near thing. I wonder how loud it is on site? In the Women’s Big Air it looked like the drone almost got in the way a few times - that can’t be helpful!
Probably to shoot down those noisy drone cameras
It’s so annoying! I wonder if the athletes hear it
Q: How much is the NFL paying Bad Bunny for the privilege of playing football during and after his concert?
A: In what can only be described as a display of unprecedented magnanimity, Bad Bunny has allowed the NFL to showcase their sport at his concert for free.
Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum.
Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
To reject the US as a fundamentally American country with a deep shared history and commonality with the rest of the Americas, including that Spanish has long been our de facto national second language, is on a deep level anti-American. It's hating actual American culture and history and tradition.
Macbeth: So long as nobody was from their mother's womb untimely ripped we're good.
Narrator: 32% of all births in the United States are Caesarean.
