It's A Slippery Slope

It's a slippery slope

Crafting iceberg

How many (mostly fiber) crafts can you do?

Note: The chart isn't ranked by difficulty. The order is how many people can do it / got first introduced to (imo of course).

For simplification I put only headlines (embroidery= satin stich, cross stich etc) there.

This reads like a poem

Why does thunder do no damage?

Why are lightning free and bright?

How is it I cannot manage

to meet the gaze of the light?

Why should one never stand

beneath a tree in an electric storm?

Why does my trembling hand

reach for the sky's harm?

(source: https://archive.org/details/pathwaysinscienccrai_4/page/140/mode/2up?view=theater)

I love this so fucking much

In the future, children will think our ways are strange. "Why do old people always grow so much milkweed in their gardens?" they'll say. "Why do old people always write down when the first bees and butterflies show up? Why do old people hate lawn grass so much? Why do old people like to sit outside and watch bees?"

We will try to explain to them that when we were young, most people's yards were almost entirely short grass with barely any flowers at all, and it was so commonplace to spray poisons to kill insects and weeds that it was feared monarch butterflies and American bumblebees would soon go extinct. We will show them pictures of sidewalks, shops, and houses surrounded by empty grass without any flowers or vegetables and they will stare at them like we stared at pictures of grimy children working in coal mines

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!)

Christmas is such a big thing in Denmark.

I can't even look out the windows without thinking "Oh yeah!! Christmas is coming soon!! :D:D" And it's fucking October.

There's just something about the dark, the rain and the cold. It's like an old friend who slowly returns.

I’m watching MisoHungrie videos on YouTube and every time he puts cinnamon in the food I’m reminded of Christmas because in Denmark cinnamon is considered the essential Christmas spice and we never use it outside the Christmas season unless we’re following a recipe from another country (even then some people leave out the cinnamon because it’s too damn Christmassy for them)

We don’t have this relationship with any other spice but now I’m curious if other regions have types of spices or food that seem weird to use outside of a holiday season to you but other people eat year round.