chippingthegoalkeeper:

thegoldengals:

chippingthegoalkeeper:

I have a lot of pet peeves but I think the biggest one is when people say things like “oh it’s such a small town, only 35,000 people” like bitch my town has 200 people, you need to pick a new adjective

According to Wikipedia, a small town is 1,000-20,000 people. So although you are correct in stating that 35,000 people is not a small town (it is a large town), you are incorrect in thinking that you live in a town. You live in a village. You are a villager.

I…… don’t know what to do with that information……a villager…

tag yourself with your living place’s population and what youre classified as. im 278,508 city boy

I grew up in a 3,000 person town. And I’d call it a town, not a village. The term isn’t always determined by population everywhere. A village, where I grew up, is a part of a town, no matter how large, that has a higher concentration of population and non-residential buildings.

Talent

cowbuttcrunchies:

direshrimp:

The following tags are in response to a dress I made recently, which was my first serious sewing project.

I know these were left as a compliment and I don’t mean to single anyone out, but I want to talk about this for a minute.

What you might be imagining when you see a post like this is that I woke up one day and decided to make this costume, and then I just made it perfectly on the first try, no problem. What you are not seeing is:

me having to look up youtube tutorials for every single thing. “How to make a ruffle” “how to sew a zipper” “what is bias tape” “why won’t this fusible interfacing work” “how to make a bustle” “how to lace a corset”

sewing a jacket into a mobius strip that can’t be turned inside-out

spending five hours troubleshooting a sewing machine to discover I inserted the bobbin the wrong way

having to go back to the fabric store a dozen times because I kept buying the wrong fabric/interfacing/tool/tape/lace

sewing machine eating my fabric again and I don’t know why

begging the fabric store ladies to help me interpret instructions on a pattern because I don’t know how to decode it

redoing the corset five times because I couldn’t get it right

a mountain of failed mockups and pattern pieces

renting a car to drive to a friend’s house for emergency sewing instruction

wasted material

about 100 hours of work over several months

crying while sewing at 4 am

angst

Chalking up a success to natural talent is a harmful idea and unfair for everyone. It dismisses the hard work that went into an achievement, and it makes you believe that you can’t accomplish that same thing unless you were magically born with some special skill. Guess what: nobody is born knowing how to sew or draw or sing or write give a speech or compose an opera. Natural talent does not exist. There is only hard work, practice, and learning. Slam dunk the concept of talent into a volcano, where it belongs.

THIS +1000000.

Except there are things some people are better at than others. Sure, if I practiced drawing I’d be good at it eventually, but I’d have to work at it harder than some of my friends. They have, of course, improved through work, but they had at least a slightly higher baseline. So they get better faster than me. And I don’t understand why people want to deny that.

mjalti:

tbh i am not the person you want to be texting in an emergency, my notifications are off and i’m on Do Not Disturb. i haven’t had a ringtone since the dark years of ‘06. i’ll text u back in four (business) months like “hope that worked out, the Lord works in mysterious ways xx”

Having been through it multiple times while moving, I have to say I love it when people just ghost on me and maybe get back a week later! /s Answer your darn phone!