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I want to start a new project soon but the only existing patterns I can see for it on Ravelry are paid. It’s a simple pattern with free YouTube tutorials for the exact same thing available. Without seeing the pattern, idk their exact stitch counts to know whether my project will match but it’s something I would feel comfortable altering and just making note of even on a pattern I purchased. Is it in bad taste to add my project under that pattern or should I just make a new project not associated with any pattern?

Continental knitter here hoping to be able to do colorwork completely in continental (I know it’s popular to throw the contrast color but I don’t want to). I’ve watched a million videos and they all seem to show the same thing where you hold both yarns together but separate them with your middle finger. That works for about 3 stitches for me before both strands of yarn end up sitting on top of each other cause they gravitate to the same spot on my index finger. Does anyone else have this problem and found a way to keep some space between them? Thanks.

Does anyone have any tips or suggestions for the most economical fertilizer? I have both citrus and fruit trees that need significant fertilizer in my sandy soil. I’m already composting and mulching but I still need chemical fertilizer for the foreseeable future until my soil condition improves. I assume bulk ordering somewhere will be cheapest but I’m open to other suggestions.

All the ends are along the edge of the panels though so it needs to be secure enough that the seam doesn’t pull it out. Is a few inches of diagonal enough to be secure or do I have to do a duplicate stitch-style? Weaving in on the purl side of stockinette if that makes a difference.

I’m on yet another rewatch and haven’t gotten to the flashback scenes of Hood being tortured/recruited into whatever “non-military” group Dalton was a part of yet. But I am back on season three episode 1 where we meet the colonel of Camp Genoa and they make sure to show off the ring that both he and Dalton wear. Is it just a theory or was it ever confirmed that they’re both members of some sort of secret society of “non-military” mercenaries?

That would make Captain Murphy at the marine base the equivalent of Hood which is why Hood was so quick to spot that he wasn’t “just a Marine.”

I feel like I remember Hood always saying or skirting around not having been military yet he has the nickname Soldier Boy. It stands to reason that he was in exactly the same place Captain Murphy was before he got out - on base and in uniform to give the appearance of being military but actually a part of this other organization.

Or is this insistence on being “non-military” just code word for military black ops?

…is the moments where we see this caged wild animal fear/survival mode in Hood. In all his major fights, he gets to a point where he’s fighting for his life despite being beaten and exhausted. Other people would give up at this point but that’s where he comes alive and thrives. It makes you think of an animal thrashing around in the jaws of a predator. Or just the absolute terror in his eyes that he can barely contain when he has to take Carrie to prison in season two. It’s like if you ever see a wild animal trapped in a cage just crazed with fear trying to get out. Antony’s eyes in that scene especially are just so expressive. Idk what it is about it or what it says about me as a person but I just revel in those moments.

He's just so beautiful.

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I don’t have enough scrap yarn to do the blanket I have in my head. Hoping to find mostly bright colors like hot pink, lime green, etc but also will need some more regular baby blues, tans, greys, etc. It’s gonna be a very eclectic blanket so most anything works. Worsted weight only please. Would love to help someone clear out their acrylic stash.

One of my favorite little things from season five that my brain won’t let go over since I saw the episode is Mr Marathon’s line about Homelander not getting a blow job because he’s too busy talking about Nietzsche. For those who are not familiar with Nietzsche, here’s a wiki summary of the philosophical idea his work explores:

“His earliest work emphasized the opposition of Apollonian (order, clarity, and rationality) and Dionysian (chaos, emotion, and ecstasy) impulses in art, and the figure of Dionysus continued to play a role in his subsequent thought. Other major currents include the will to power, the claim that God is dead, the distinction between master and slave moralities, and radical perspectivism.”

Obviously Homelander would resonate with a lot of those themes. But in addition to the writers decision to name a specific author, we see scattered throughout the series that Homelander is very well read and versed, especially in the classics. In the scene where he wakes up from a nightmare, he has a book in bed with him. He automatically connects Sages references to Caesar. He frequently quotes of references the bible in unscripted moments (though I’m sure some of that at least was imposed on him in childhood to build his image).

To me, all of this points towards someone who has consistently been trying to find his place in the world and to understand humanities inner workings. I think his belief that humans are beneath him was taught to him as part of their efforts to keep him lonely and therefore controllable, and yet he spends a huge amount of time reading, digesting, and referencing words written by humanity. He doesn’t have to do these things. He could pick other ways to spend his free time but he doesn’t. Whether it’s conscious or not, I think this interest in philosophy and literature is a cry to fit in, to understand both humanity and himself, and ultimately to fight against the conditioning he was raised with. I think he sees himself in these literary works and in doing so, is able to subconsciously place himself among humanity despite his belief that he is above them.

I think Antony and maybe also Kripke have said in interviews that there’s layers to the show - you can sit there and have a fun time watching the blood and guts or you can dig as deep as you want to. I feel like these little tidbits and references are a great example of that.

Bro could have taken the planes out of the sky before they crashed and didn’t. Either there was never any twin towers in the Vought universe or 9/11 happened under Vought/Madelyn/Homelander’s watch - presumably just a few blocks away. Theres lots of shots of Vought Tower and the skyline in the show and no Twin Towers.

I know he says he took the V but it appeared to do nothing to him as he was still human until letting Kessler take over. I take that to mean that the cancer absorbed the V and so he’s just a regular human with sentient super cancer inside of him that protects its host and allows Butcher to control it. Basically a symbiotic parasite. But I feel like the show glosses over that with the whole virus storyline and treats him as if he’s just a regular supe. It would have been so much more interesting to have that nuance.

So, without going into the details of exactly what happened, I have severe PTSD from a filling gone wrong and am trying to figure out how to proceed with my dental care since I'm still quite young and I know how important it is to keep up with. I have no problems with my cleanings since it's the drill specifically that triggers it but even having the sound of the drill in the room next to me breaks me out into a cold sweat.

I need some fillings done and had previously found an amazing dentist that offered IV sedation dentistry before I had to move to a different state. In this new area, I'm struggling to find anyone who offers IV sedation. My new regular dentist tried prescribing a Xanax but that did (and I cannot stress this enough) ABSOLUTELY nothing to help, even with the pre appointment anxiety. As soon as they turned the drill on in my mouth I had a full blown panic attack, fight or flight response, and couldn't do it.

I have found one dentist nearby who does nitrous oxide and was wondering if anyone has had any experience with it? If it was my regular dentist then I'd just make the appointment and try it out, but to establish care with a new dentist means new XRays and evaluation appointment and everything which will be quite expensive just to get to the point where my butt is in the chair to see if it will work.

TLDR: Just looking to hear others experiences with nitrous oxide for overcoming dental PTSD. Thanks!

So Stormfront and Soldier Boy were both born 1919. Visually, Stormfront got the V dose in her late twenties/early thirties while Ben got it much later. I would assume that Stormfront came to the US with Vought after WWII ended and became Liberty thereafter? I’m confused how the next 40 years went until Soldier Boy was captured in the 80’s. If he and Stormfront were together then where does Crimson Countess fit in? Obviously they wouldn’t have been in any sort of monogamous relationship cause Ben fucked his way through Hollywood and beyond. Also, IDK when Fredrick Vought passed to have an idea whether there was an overlap between Soldier Boy and Vought for her. I don’t feel like it was implied that they were sneaking around - apparently it was a pretty serious relationship if Ben’s still thinking of here damn near a hundred years later (it’s what Clara would have wanted). Am I missing any details that flesh this timeline out or do we not know?

I'm currently the person in charge of handling data driven reporting publications and media requests. Without disclosing my niche job title, I'm essentially a senior data analyst which my company has put within our product teams since we are a data driven company that sells reporting solutions, etc. as a product. Our marketing team as well as our PR team is owned by our parent company but we have a dedicated liaison for each business unit. The marketing liaison is a true marketing generalist who has no ability to pull data for these publications, social media engagements, PR, etc. and also barely understands the contents of these metrics when they are pulled since they are intended for industry professionals.

My company wants to be putting more data into the industry and media circuits which I have the capacity to do but am running into a bottleneck with marketing since they deal with many other areas of my business unit than just mine. Additionally, there's so much more we could be doing from a social media standpoint and our marketing team doesn't seem to take any initiative which I don't necessarily blame them for. I know they're stretched thin but also, it can be hard to come up with content that you have no concept of yourself. I feel like these are things I could be doing or managing but will never be allowed to do because they're the marketing departments job.

I have essentially no experience at other companies to know how they handle this. Would a person with my job responsibilities usually sit under the marketing department? I know they're considering expanding my role to be a team lead with more people creating data driven content under me but I see that making the problem worse not better because of the marketing bottleneck. I'm considering pushing to move my position out of product and into marketing to possibly gain some autonomy with what I'm producing so that it's not all having to go through my liaison and he can focus on the other people in my business unit he works with but I'm not sure if that makes sense from both a functional sense as well as (selfishly) looking at job titles and strength of resume/career paths, etc. Overall, I'd really appreciate any insight as to how other companies structure and coordinate these types of positions.

Idk if it's new or not but it's new to me. Was super surprised how good it is. Probably the best margarita mixer I've ever tried.