quiltails:

With a few weeks left until the deadline to enter World Quilt Show Florida, I’m still adding the finishing quilted touches I didn’t have time for before QuiltFest Jacksonville.

The peach arcs surrounding my center color wheel compass are puffy, as you can see. The circles I’d previously quilted weren’t enough to make it lay flat.

This looks like another job for one of my favorite versatile quilting fillers, curls and swirls. Reaching out from the center circles, they remind me of sun’s rays, which is perfect. Of course I tried it on a scrap with batting first.

And voila – it lays flat now and looks great!

jahmocha:

officialweedfanclub:

lizthefangirl:

krykky:

ghostymcspooky:

hzs-modblog:

scaliefox:

swordpillow:

aohkii:

imlydiaa:

reinadelacastles:

kingjaffejoffer:

Check out the zoom on a Nikon P900 camera. 

In love……

I remember when I had this camera and the zoom shots were the best shots

I thought this was fucking fake but ?????

what in gods name ………. 

APPARENTLY THEY CAN ZOOM INTO SATURN TOO WITH THIS THING????

I thought it was going to be hilariously expensive, but oddly it’s only $600 (not much more than my Rebel T3 kit that was $450)

http://www.nikonusa.com/en/nikon-products/product/compact-digital-cameras/coolpix-p900.html

The lens is apparently equivalent to 2000mm telephoto.

What can the macro lens do?

WHAT THE FUCK

I have a Nikon Coolpix L820, and I use it to play voyeur with insects.

I GOT THAT COOLPIX TOO DAWG

i’m buying this tomorrow

This is too much power for a single human being to wield….

princessofbadassery:

roxilalonde:

roxilalonde:

roxilalonde:

I feel like I need to write an article like “How to React When Your Friend Comes Out: A Guide For Really, Really Straight People” and it’s just eighty pages of me transcribing all the terrible experiences I’ve had coming out to straight people

Chapter 1: Why “I Knew It” Is Nowhere Near As Funny As You Think It Is

Chapter 2: Is Now The Time For An Abridged History Of You Being A Good Ally™? Signs Point To No

Chapter 3: It’s Cool That You Know Other Gay People, But Not Really Relevant Right Now

smallest-feeblest-boggart:

doctorsebastianthescientist:

kamorth:

doctorsebastianthescientist:

Hey, unpopular opinion, apparently. But people don’t just “have pain for no reason” doctors say this all the time (especially to women and chronically ill people) and the truth is, Thats literally not possible. Even if your pains are psychosomatic (a word I hesitate to even use because of the way its used so often) there is a reason you are having those pains whether its mental illness, abuse, etc. If your doctor consistently tells you that “well some people just have pain for no reason” get a new doctor. That’s a doctor who is not going to give a shit what your actual symptoms or experiences are.

I just wanna add to clarify the psychosomatic thing.

That word DOES NOT MEAN you’re making it up. It doesn’t mean you’re imagining the symptom. What it means is that the symptom ISN’T DIRECTLY CAUSED BY ANY OF THE THINGS THAT WOULD NORMALLY CAUSE IT.

I fought to get a PCOS diagnosis for 2 and a half years. For the ENTIRE time I was fighting, I was dealing with 3 cysts that were not going away by themselves and eventually required surgery to remove. At one point close to the end of the battle, I suddenly went blind. I was visiting my parents and was standing on the veranda looking out over the tree we had planted in memory of my dog and suddenly I got one of the shooting pains that I was quite frankly used to at that point and my vision started to go dark. It was like the sun was setting while being completely hidden behind storm clouds but it was 2pm in the middle of Summer on a clear day. Within about 30 seconds I couldn’t see ANYTHING. I was 27 years old and I was screaming for my mother.

My mum raced me to her doctor (he was a 15 minute drive away as opposed to 45 minutes to the nearest hospital) and he quickly worked out that there was nothing wrong with my eyes and what had happened was totally unrelated to them. Then he said it was psychosomatic and I freaked out, yelling that I was NOT making this up and I definitely wasn’t imagining it. Very quickly he calmed me down and said he believed me and I had misunderstood. He explained that whatever was going on with my abdominal pains (he suggested PCOS which I hadn’t even heard of at that point) had been ignored for so long that my body was starting to do things other than the normal pain response to try to draw my attention to the problem. My sight going was my body basically jumping around in front of me going “HEY ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING TO ME HELLLOOOOOOO??????”

He gave me some prescription strength painkillers and my sight started to come back as soon as they started to kick in. About 45 minutes after it started I could see well enough to walk around without help and within a day and a half I was back to normal. On top of that I finally had a scan booked to figure out what the hell was causing all the pain.

Psychosomatic symptoms are NOT imagined or fabricated or happening for “no reason”. Experiencing them DOES NOT make you a liar. It makes you someone who has been battling with something serious for so long that your own body has started to get impatient with you.

I completely agree. Thank you for sharing this.

Psychosomatic symptoms are literally your body flipping random alarm switches just to get any alarm blaring because you’ve been ignoring the regular ones