A Lot Of Us Are Stuck At Home Right Now And I Figured Some Of You Might Be Looking For Some Cosy Activities.

all fanfiction is funnier and sexier and vastly better-written when you read it at three in the morning, in the dark, lying on your side, tucked into bed, with screen rotate turned off. that’s just how it works. that’s just facts.

Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

!!updated character guide!!

My Favourite Murder podcast quotes:

Stay sexy don’t get murdered

This is terrible. Keep going. 

Pepper spray first, apologise later.

Here’s the thing, fuck everyone.

It’s really hard to strangle someone, so maybe don’t do it.

The only people that have secret diaries are going to fucking murder someone.

It’s never a mannequin!

Fuckin’ denim jacket much, Steve!

Find the one thing you love and shut up about it

Let’s use our powers of anxiety for good and not evil

Steven! Make me sound like I can read!

Two things organ music is good for: ice skating and mass murder.

Unless you’re a ghost baseball player you don’t need to be in that field.

Just get a job, buy your own shit. Stay out of the forest.

You’re in a cult, call your dad.

Don’t take shit to your grave.  You’re being a selfish dick. 

For all my muderinos out there.

Tribute to Hayao Miyazaki

What does the arab in your carrd mean? Is it like afab and amab?

.. i’m palestinian

Looking for New Horizons

January is the perfect month to start a new hobby. How about embroidery?

These examples are from two books we’ve digitized: the top and bottom image are from Embroidery by Grace Christie (1909), while the ones in the middle are from An Embroidery Pattern Book by Mary E. Waring (1917). 

These are just two examples of the many books on embroidery we’ve digitized.