The Good Omens Cross-Stitch is now available! 60 DMC colors, 286H x 429W. Colors, sizing information, and instructions are listed on the last page of the pattern. Details under the cut.
The original art was linked on the official Good Omens twitter via Jiedi Chen.
This pattern is available for free! If you would like to donate, though, I do have a ko-fi.
If you have any issues with downloading the pattern, try it in an incognito window, and if that doesn’t work, please let me know.
This is amazing, thank you. I’m fairly certain I’m never going to be able to do the whole thing, but I’m definitely going to be making smaller elements individually.
Americans use 500 million straws every single day with the majority of those ending up in our landfills and oceans. Here at Save The Turtles, we created a simple and effective method of reducing our reliance on plastic with our Collapsible Straw.
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Here at Save The Turtles, our ultimate goal is to keep our oceans clean. In our pursuit to achieve this, beyond offering our reusable straws, we donate 5% of our profits to Sea Turtle Conservancy.
While straws are just the beginning, our team is hard at work designing more eco-friendly, reusable products to continue the push towards a plastic-free ocean.
@thebibliosphere. Is this something that would be useful to you?
that just looks like a mold farm
It comes with a squeegee but that REALLY doesn’t look like something you could keep reliably clean or keep from growing all manner of ickiness, which is important - ESPECIALLY for immuno-compromised people.
Only 00.03% (three hundredths of a percent) of ocean plastic comes from drinking straws.
Most of the plastics in the ocean are from abandoned fishing gear.
Just given the sheer volume of Plastic Straw Discourse over the last year, when there are people who have a legitimate, medical need for them, it seems like there have to be better ways to help save the turtles/oceans/etc than spending $15 on a single drinking straw. (5% of $15 is 75 cents, but they say they’re donating 5% of the profit, so it’d have to be less.).
Thank you for taking the time to respond to this for me. I get notes for this post every few days with someone tagging me or sending it to me suggesting it as a “better” option and it’s genuinely distressing after how ugly the straw discourse was last year when people told me that my inability to use anything other than a bendable plastic straw to drink fluids made me a monster and I should just die rather than continue to be a burden polluting the planet with my existence, even though disposable plastic straws are a medical necessity* for me and many people like me.
By all means if this is an option for you, go for it, embrace the options that people like myself do not have the ability or priveledge of being able to use. I commend your commitment to the cause. But please stop putting the burden of this shit on disabled people. We have enough bullshit to deal with without able bodied people telling us to “just buy a home autoclave” like that is in anyway remotely reasonable or feasible.
And yes, many people have told me to “just buy an autoclave” in order to use metal straws even though I cannot use them at all due to their inflexible nature and the potential risk of injury and their tendency to conduct temperatures making them a burn risk but y’know, what do I know. I’m just the poor shmuck who has to live with my condition everyday for the rest of my life.
*I have severe throat muscle dysfunction and neuralgia left over from numerous jaw bone surgeries and heavy metal (mercury) poisoning that make me a high risk for aspiration and choking when swallowing liquids, which means without straws I become dangerously dehydrated and indeed was chronically so for about a year until my physical therapist suggested I try plastic bendable straws to make drinking fluids easier. It was literally life saving. I also have a severely compromised immune system, making reusable straws, even when cleaned to the best of my limited abilities with a brush and dish soap, extremely unsafe due to the possibility of mold and biofilm build up, which could prove fatal to me. And I swear if one more person tells me to “just buy an autoclave”, well, I’d say I’d scream, but my throat muscles don’t let me do that anymore so you’ll just have to imagine it.
1. You are responsible for your own media experience.
2. There is such a thing as a healthy level of avoidance towards topics that make you feel unwell or even (in a real-life clinical definition of the term) trigger you - but you are the one to actively take care of what you view.
3. Avoiding does not mean policing others.
4. You have no right to tell artists to censor themselves - you may criticize what others do, you may dislike it, that’s fine - but actively asking for censorship when you could easily unfollow or block a person just makes you look incompetent in your use of the internet.
5. Do not give people on tumblr or /any/ website the responsibility for your emotional well-being. Because these people do not even know you so no, you have no right to ask them to take care of you.
The conversation surrounding cultural appropriation has been so severely mutilated by white “allies” that the original intention behind that conversation has become almost unrecognizable in most social contexts.
To explain what I mean, the conversation around cultural appropriation was started by black and native people to discuss the frustrations we feel at being punished socially and financially for partaking in our cultural heritage while white people could take, I.e. appropriate, aspects of our culture that we are actively shamed for and be heralded as innovators. It was about the frustrations we feel when the same white people who shamed us would take our culture and wear it as if they were the ones who created it while still actively shaming us for doing the same.
The original push behind naming cultural appropriation and having these conversations were so that we as a society could evaluate why we were punished for our heritage while white People were not. It was supposed to be about seeking solutions. The idea was to create a society where we could celebrate our cultures with impunity. It was never about telling white people that they “weren’t allowed” to do certain things. We did ask that white People stop doing certain things because they weren’t doing them respectfully and were not invited to do them, but the primary reason we asked them to desist was to reclaim the things they had stolen and to reassign them culturally back where they belonged.
White “allies” saw these conversations happening and instead of trying to aplify our own voices or even try to learn about the complexities behind why we were saying what we were saying, they instead began screaming over us and creating a narrative that was hardly even the bones of what we originally set out to say. It was like they took the conversation we were trying to have, completely decontextualized it, and stripped it of all it’s nuance in order to gain social currency by seeming progressive.
So the conversation around cultural appropriation went from “This aspect of our heritage belongs to us and we find it egregious that we are shamed for it. What steps can we take to address the racism that’s creating this situation as well as rehome the things that have been stolen” to “you’re not allowed to do that because if you do that you’re racist, we don’t really understand why that’s racist but you’re not allowed to do that and if you do that you’re a klansman no exceptions. So you’re not allowed because because”
At the end of the day, did I like the fact that sally was wearing dreads? No. But my primary concern was not that sally was wearing dreads but rather that sally could wear dreads and I couldn’t. THAT was the intended focus of those conversations. It was about addressing the inequality. It was about us. Now the conversation is just about sally and were completely forgotten.
White People are always asking me what they can do to help. You want to know? Stop talking. Aplify our voices and shut the fuck up because you all have pretty much derailed this conversation and many more like it to the point that we no longer are trying to make steps to understand and dismantle the racism around cultural appropriation and instead are just using it as social shaming tactics.
TL;DR: read my post. Most things worth learning about can’t be summarized in the bullet points of a buzfeed article. Don’t come into academic circles and complain because everything hasn’t been conviently summarized for you. Stop pretending that things aren’t accessible to you because you refuse to do the intellectual labor that is learning.
This post is important to read as a white person who considers themself relatively ‘woke’. If it’s too long for you there’s a TL;DR at the bottom that will help you.
Do you think that when Steve Rogers sneezes, one of the Avengers goes up to him and whispers, “God Bless America” Then Steve fucking looks at them like this
no IT GOT SO MUCH BETTER TONY’S FACE OH MY GOD
thor’s pokerface
Okay, google, how to stop laughing
Thor’s hair flowing in the indoor wind.
Ok but the preparatory nngh and he sneezes red and blue lmao
We all need to smile and to laugh
Steve Rogers would always cover his mouth when he sneezed. He knows how to prevent spreading germs. Everything else about this is probably true. :D
Bisexuals: can build it but take twice as long because they put the panels on backwards the first time
I’m Bi and this is exactly right I built my desk with 4 missing pieces and one part the wrong way round but then got it right on the second try
As a bisexual, yeah, again this is true, I put my bed together backwards at first and had to redo it
Well this is a rather unexpected way to discover that, at the age of 52, I’m actually a lesbian…gonna come as a shock to my husband but Ikea memes never lie!
