Hey, remember when environmentalist cartoons from the early 90s used to get criticised for oversimplifying complex issues because they depicted the primary drivers of pollution and climate change as a tiny group of power-mad billionaire industrialists who deliberately promote unsustainable business practices for absolutely no reason other than satisfying their weird garbage fetish?
the satin edges are there as a cruel joke to really emphasize just how coarse and scratchy and weirdly dry the rest of the blanket is
Those blankets are fine if they aren’t old. You just don’t know how to properly use a blanket I guess
Yeah, I was under the impression that “using a blanket” involved putting it on a bed, sleeping under it, and occasionally coming into physical contact with it. After encountering many instances of this specific blanket, I have come to the conclusion that the proper way to use a blanket is to:
1.) put on thick rubber gloves to minimize contact with coarse fibers 2.) pick up blanket (carefully!!!) 3.) place blanket into wood chipper
Honestly I think these particular blankets are woven from the utricating hairs of a tarantula.
I think those blankets are supposed to be used in such a way that they’re sandwiched between two nice-textured fabrics? So you have sheets and a quilt between you and the scratchy hell-blanket, and the satin edges prevent accidental contact.
Agreed that those blankets are always scratchy and uncomfortable, though. Which is weird, since you’d assume that they’d get less scratchy as they get older, since they’d have been through the wash a lot?
Smash that mf reblog button if you stoically ignore all labelled washing instructions and everything your mama ever told you about laundry and just send those bastards hurgling around in an overfilled tub to meet either death or glory
Something I learned from a costume designer: if an item can be washed multiple ways the designer is only legally obligated to put one of the ways on the tag, but if there’s only one way to wash that item they have to put Only on the instructions
If the tag says “Dry Clean” it’s safe to machine wash but the designer thinks it looks better if you get it dry cleaned
But if it says “Dry Clean Only” you will destroy it if you wash it any other way
Reblogging for that last bit which this 37 yr old adult did not lnowy
i’m still in mourning for the revolutionary war replica jacket that looked so sexy and sharp on me, shrunk to a joke while its silk lining remained unshrunken but became dull and brittle, bulging out of the sleeves like a horrible prolapse. i still miss my soft, soft merino sweater, chocolate and cream stripes, made me look so huggable, now a wad of useless felt in a landfill somewhere. all the underwear with exhausted elastic, washed too hot. all the hand-knit socks i spent ten, twenty, thirty hours making with my own two hands, snagged full of holes from being washed with jeans zippers.
stop destroying your clothes, fam. take a second to think before you wash.
I just simulated asking ADHD tumblr if you have figured out how to wash your bedclothes in under eight hours (put sheets in wash, forget about it for three hours, put bedspread in wash/sheets in dryer, forget about it for another three hours, spend the last two hours nervously checking the dryer every 20 minutes because you’re tired and want to go to bed already) and simulated ADHD tumblr in my head suggested buying two identical bedspreads.
Nice work, team!
this is… how i actually do it? although it wasn’t my original intent. what happened was, i had this comforter i loved very much. and one time i was sick and exhausted and i went home to curl up in it and found that a cat had puked on it. i cried. seebs told me to sleep on their bed for now, and two hours later woke me up to show me they had gone to target and bought another of the same comforter. which is one of the moments of True Love that i cherish in my life. ❤
so now i have two, and i (or more usually, barb, since she doesn’t get shanked in the spine by stairs) have one going through the wash/dry process while the other is in use.
as for sheets and pillowcases, i don’t try to match. i just have a lot of things i like, and as long as my two pillows match each other, i don’t care if any of the other things match. actually i prefer they don’t, because it kind of stresses out my eyes for some reason.
really, the ADHD solution to laundry is, in general, have multiples of things you like, and try to keep the laundry cycle flowing and not let it stall out.
another thing barb and i worked out: assemble basic outfits and fold them together. instead of having all the items in different shelves/drawers, what i have on an accessible shelf is bundles of underwear/t-shirt/pants folded together. so when i want to shower, swim, etc, i can just grab the one object and be sure i haven’t forgotten my underwear. the days of wearing clammy shorts full of pool water under my dry trackies are over.
Productivity culture will deceive you (especially if you are particularly high-functioning or a former Gifted Kid) into thinking that any use of your time that can’t be monetized or leveraged for your personal advancement is worthless, and I’m here to tell you that’s the devil talking. Do shit because you like it.
I want to make it clear first that I do not want your donation.
I use the term queer because it is more inclusive than lgbt, outside of lgbt excluding anyone who just isn’t included in that tiny acronym I have found it very white-centric, and to be honest to the point of erasure. In one of our more recent articles we discussed the bate, and transgender people in native american communities. And in that research I found many other cultures that had and used terms that were different than transgender, or gay. And this is not the first time that white people have tried to label other communities and it is never a good thing, so I am not comfortable overriding any label they gave themselves, and queer is very purposefully non-specific, whereas LGBT could be one of four things queer is any sexual or gender identity that strays outside what society considers “normal” and does not attempt to label anyone, just say that their label is outside of what society may have expected.
And it is my slur to reclaim for myself and my art and it is no ones job to police how I decide to use it.
Also I know what dog whistle terminology you are using here, and yes, I do include asexual and aromantic people in my articles, and I do not care if you do not like that. Asexual and aromantic people have a history as well and they deserve to be able to learn about it.
And now I want to explain why I do not want your donation.
This is my project, and it is run along with my amazing business partner Grace, but in the end it is mine. I choose in which direction it goes and what I write about, and I am not going to be pressured by money into changing my mind. There is a reason I have made the decisions I have, I am on patreon so I am very firmly my own boss, my patrons are there to support my project, and I love all of them for it, but they do not get to decide where this project goes. I do. And if they don’t like it I understand them withdrawing their support but will not change my art to avoid that. And you clearly feel very entitled to decide where my art is going, and I want to say-as kindly as possible- I don’t want your support. I don’t want support that is an attempt at control, and there is no amount of money you could give me to sell out the asexual/aromantic community.
So go support some other project, because you can’t control what happens here.
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