I love a magnetic needle keeper for mid-sewing set-downs - mine is just a plain magnet in the lid of a (former) hard candy tin, the base of which is just big enough for my thread wax and leather thimble for hand piecing too. I keep meaning to also make a nice needle book, but haven't gotten to it...

the absolutely brutal peak to crash ratio on today's feels 😭

Thank you! :)

Anyway that is all to say, this really resonated with me! The mask can come off in fiction and sometimes it's beautiful and sometimes it's enlightening and sometimes it's terrifying but I'm glad for it all the same.

That realization was so tender to arrive at, the draft took years, and still hasn't gone out on submissions; I don't know if it ever will (though I've written & published more on-purpose since then). It is accidentally so intimate.

During the years it took me to figure it out for myself, I worked on a story draft. I wanted to include some ND characters in it and thought, I'll base this loosely on my friends & students, add some research. It slowly became obvious I was writing myself.

You were allowed to have feelings! And nuance was possible! Not guaranteed goodness knows (the drama sometimes, omg) but you COULD.

generally I just get angrier 🤔

Some of my longest running friendships to this day started on livejournal. I miss it so much. It was so alive and there was so much room to be an entire person, if you wanted (or just whatever your niche thing was, if that's what you wanted).

oh but of course!

if it were also space Judaism in some fashion it might be the most you television thing I could imagine 🤣

Oh no, unexpected plan change is bad enough, unexpected plan change where people come in your house is the WORST

💯💯💯

can't decide if it's an extreme failure to read the room, or a way too close read of the room (complicit)

I will inform him they are on your behalf!

But happy birthday Wilf, clearly a very good boy

Dammit, I just *knew* this was gonna make me cry and I clicked it anyway 😭

(My boy is 9 now and losing muscle in one of his back legs and I'm not ready for him to be getting old)