Apr. 13th, 2020

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clotpoleofthelord:

clotpoleofthelord:

Your friendly neighborhood postal workers are still out there, postally working. So be kind: don’t go to the post office if you don’t absolutely need to. Don’t order things you don’t need right now. Packages are out of control right now: we’re almost at December levels, with everyone home, and we’re starting to lose people to quarantine and burnout. A few comments to help you be the BEST customers right now:

Tape a hand sanitizer inside your mailbox, or a thing of lysol wipes. Your carrier will love you forever.

Leave them a tip, if you’ve been ordering a million amazon packages and can.

Send letters if you want - those don’t add to the burden! And it’s fun to see people still connecting that way, and makes me at least feel like it’s still worth coming to work. But please tape them shut if you can, or use a wet paper towel rather than licking them. I know it likely doesn’t make much of a difference, but it makes me feel better to think people are keeping their spit to themselves.

Don’t come outside to chat when your carrier comes by. This should be obvious but IS NOT.

One of my carriers said some customers have been putting their phone number in the mailbox so he can call them if they have a big package or something needs to be brought in immediately. Then he can let them know it’s there.

If you MUST come in to the post office, PLEASE try not to use cash. Cash is gross. Use a card. That means I don’t have to touch anything you touched. 

We’ll be here till the country shuts down completely. Help us keep things going.

Since the Post Office Discourse is picking up again, another reminder: you can buy stamps online! 

Call your congresspeople and tell them to support the Post Office in the next stimulus package. We need billions to keep going. We’re the only service that visits every address, six days a week, and we do it at a loss (we’re not allowed to make a profit). We deliver a huge number of Amazon, FedEx, and UPS packages, without being able to charge competitive rates. Carriers are often the first ones to notice when somebody’s ill and not checking their mail, or when something is wrong - my carriers often call in gas leaks, old folks who’ve stopped coming to the door, and kids who wander away. We’re part of the fabric of this country, and we’re part of what holds it together. Tell the government you know how important the Post Office is.

The consumer shouldn’t be the one bailing out the PO, but if you’re feeling like writing some letters, check out the BADASS stamps we have right now:

SALLY RIDE. First American in space, badass queer lady.

fuckin’ DRAGONS

MARVIN!!! And with a bonus gorgeous back.

If you love stamps, you probably love trains too. It’s just a fact.

These are SUPER CUTE. Bert is my favorite.

Half of these are moons, the other half are astronauts, ALL OF THEM are shiny.

LENTICULAR. Half of them switch images when you turn the sheet.

These are SHINY. That’s all you gotta know.
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Dr. Friend was on the phone with his dad for a while today. His dad is a small fairly hyperactive extremely New York man who is stuck in a tiny Manhattan apartment during all of *gestures broadly* this, and he has very little outlet for anything, so Dr. F is trying to call him a lot to keep kind of a lifeline open. I’ve met the dad, he’s pretty entertaining– very dry sense of humor– and the first time i ever met him was when he wandered into our suite at the end of a semester in probably 1999 or 2000, bent over and looked at the face of then-not-yet-Dr. F who was unconscious on a chair after having pulled like eight consecutive all-nighters for his organic chemistry exam, said “oh that’s not him,” walked onward down the hall, and then came back and asked where not-yet-Dr. F was and was astonished when we pointed to the unconscious dishevelled beast in the chair, but was also very funny and said something to the effect of “Well we knew he was having a tough time this semester but I really didn’t expect it to take that much out of him,” and only after the whole conversation did n-y-Dr. F wake up in great confusion and disorientation to the news that his dad was here to drive him home.

Anyway. Now-Dr. F was talking about how I’m visiting currently, and his dad was like “Oh good, she’s a good influence,” and Dr F telling us this is like “well… I decided not to ask him what he meant, but on whom?”
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drenched-in-sunlight:

remember that “they weren’t playing twister” comic im 100% sure it happens in Witcher verse at some point
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We did a treasure hunt this morning, hunting for a stuffie of Spot the dog, following a separate trail of clues each child had to read. Older kids, we might have hidden the clues or made them riddles, or might have had both kids work together, but for a kindergarten and first grade pair of kids where one reads much faster but neither is an entirely comfortable reader, we kept it simple and kept them separate. (The older kid got one more clue and physically longer distances to travel, to let the younger have enough time to read her clues. When they work together he just is not mature enough not to shout out the answers while she’s still sounding them out, so we figured separate is the way to do this just now.)
If you want to do this, as you’re designing it, start at the end and work back because the end is the most important.
(We were inspired by the wildly successful Easter egg hunt yesterday.)
Another tip– as you write out the clues, write where you’re supposed to hide them on the back, just as a little love letter from past you to future you. At least, my pathetic ADHD brain really appreciated it…
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-7X5JQh7mm/?igshid=132g1ekvd0tni
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mctreeleth:

I made myself a pieced and quilted plague doctor mask! 

Not for any real reason, I just realised I could so I did. It took about 5 hours of pattern drafting last night, and maybe 10 hours of actual sewing today.

I couldn’t find any fusible interfacing so instead it has two layers of cotton quilt batting, making it a bit softer and squishier than intended and also very very hot and very very hard to breathe through.

I pulled the lenses out of an old pair of sunglasses, and they can be popped out through the inside because I didn’t do a very good job on finishing the insides of the eye holes. 

The fabric is from a big stack of 10cm squares I cut about a decade ago. I will probably remake the pattern when I get some interfacing with some different prints and a couple of design tweaks, but also it has been a fun 36 hours of hyperfocus on a dumb pointless project and its 50/50 that I am over this now. 

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Apr. 13th, 2020 11:27 pm
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I just looked at my AO3 stats and confirmed something I’d been feeling for a while.

My top fics by hits, kudos, subscriptions etc remain my oldest ones native to AO3, which are SG:A and MCU fics. (The one Good Omens fic is in the top 5 if I sort by Most Bookmarked.) By kudos, still it’s that old SG:A kidfic A/U that got recced somewhere popular once, followed up with that one MCU Stucky fic that came out at the height of that craze. But Meet Death Sitting creeps into third, by kudos.

Bookmarks, the older fics still dominate, none of the Witcher stuff has cracked that stat. But subscriptions– Ancient Sea creeps into fourth, on that leaderboard. (And third is one of the Star Wars fics.) 

And by comment thread count? Well, one of the Stucky ones still leads, by a fair margin, but Ancient Sea is in second, and Little Fishie’s in fourth. 

Y’all talk a lot, Witcher peeps. Y’all talk a lot to me, and that’s pretty sweet. I like that. Thank you! 

(To be fair, hit counts don’t drop off that much as a fic ages, so your oldest stuff is going to stay atop that leaderboard for a long time– even if one of your newer fics gets very popular, there’s often spillover from people checking out your old stuff if your popular thing is any good, so it’s hard to beat a five-year lead on something. Kudos taper off a bit, but don’t vanish entirely. But comments do; the vast majority of comments on a fic come while it’s being posted, and immediately after completion, then die off. I love comments on super old fic unless they’re sort of mean or, like. Why Did You Abandon This, etc., which like, listen, I know, but it doesn’t help.)

Ha, that said, I just this moment got a comment on something from 2014, so. SG:A’s still got shooters out there. I see you. 

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