Virginia S. O'Possum
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Writer, weaver, amateur textile historian.
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What percent of Black men in the US would you guess have had an experience like she just had?
What percent of Black men in the US would you guess have been a victim of police violence?
What percent of Black men in the US would you guess have been a victim of police violence?
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December 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
What percent of Black men in the US would you guess have had an experience like she just had?
What percent of Black men in the US would you guess have been a victim of police violence?
What percent of Black men in the US would you guess have been a victim of police violence?
I made mine patterned off these, by Moresca, since I had a pair. The pattern is basically a rectangle, single long inseam, with a gathered ankle at each end, a waist cut out of the middle, and an applied waistband/casing for elastic. moresca-clothing-costume.myshopify.com/collections/...
Sufi Pants
A long-standing Moresca family favorite. Dropped crotch with a very baggy leg, pleated and biased at the ankle. Available in a wide array of our Matisse Fabric colors. Sufi pants have one-size waistba...
moresca-clothing-costume.myshopify.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I made mine patterned off these, by Moresca, since I had a pair. The pattern is basically a rectangle, single long inseam, with a gathered ankle at each end, a waist cut out of the middle, and an applied waistband/casing for elastic. moresca-clothing-costume.myshopify.com/collections/...
Also, same poem:
Strange how such innocence gets its own way.
I shouldn’t be surprised if in this world
It were the force that would at last prevail.
Strange how such innocence gets its own way.
I shouldn’t be surprised if in this world
It were the force that would at last prevail.
December 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Also, same poem:
Strange how such innocence gets its own way.
I shouldn’t be surprised if in this world
It were the force that would at last prevail.
Strange how such innocence gets its own way.
I shouldn’t be surprised if in this world
It were the force that would at last prevail.
For, dear me, why abandon a belief
Merely because it ceases to be true?
Merely because it ceases to be true?
December 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
For, dear me, why abandon a belief
Merely because it ceases to be true?
Merely because it ceases to be true?
It sounds more like a sensitization, sort of like an "acquired allergy," since once you have it, any amount of weed seems to bring it on again.
December 6, 2025 at 10:44 PM
It sounds more like a sensitization, sort of like an "acquired allergy," since once you have it, any amount of weed seems to bring it on again.
Really wanted to think this was alarmist bullshit. Apparently not; too many folks in this thread report actual experience, which sounds terrible.
December 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Really wanted to think this was alarmist bullshit. Apparently not; too many folks in this thread report actual experience, which sounds terrible.
Plus no respawns.
December 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Plus no respawns.
I mean, sometimes I forget to put the gas cap back on...
December 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I mean, sometimes I forget to put the gas cap back on...
I feel like I'm sort of watching up all the stuff I can now before it becomes unaffordable.
December 6, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I feel like I'm sort of watching up all the stuff I can now before it becomes unaffordable.