You are at Spacefem.com... I'm really very sorry! Explaining this website is a pretty futile effort, but most people like the quizzes so that should keep you amused for a bit, the wiki is always evolving, and of course you should vote in our big daily etsy contest. But most important: join the Spacefem.com Forums! We love meeting new freaky weirdos like us!
That's right, I like to make stuff.
This will convert your name to a class listed in the Dewey Decimal System. That's right... somewhere between 000 (Generalities) and 999 (Extraterrestrial worlds) you have a place, and through the magic of internet we can find it through random arbitrary letter decoding. Plus this gives me a chance to mention how wonderful libraries are... don't forget to go read something, yes? Take this quiz...
If you're a total quiz nut, check out all the spacefem quizzes and you will be completely entertained today.
oh no!
once upon a time
you were cuddling with a foaming monster
then bam
your unconsious
...
what hotel is this?
This contribution to the world of literature was brought to you by our useless poetry contest. A new theme is published each week, and everyone is invited to join in the fun or vote for your favorite!
I'm really excited to be featuring another handmade artist here to the spacefem friends I was talking to my brother yesterday, and he mentioned that Phyllis Schlafly had spoken at his school earlier. I hadn't heard of her before, but the idea of an anti-feminist, particularly one that holds regular speaking engagements instead of staying in the home, fascinated me. So, I While growing up I had a box of worry dolls. For the ones of you who don't know what worry dolls are they are dolls children tell their problems to before bed and stick them under their pillow. Legend has it that the little dolls will take your worries and you will feel better in the morning. About three days ago I was thinking about them and realized my daughter is way beyond ready for a set of worry dolls. So I went online and ordered some of the little matchstick looking ones that I had as a child. While waiting for them to come in I decided I wanted to make some. Use toothpicks and string, didn't have any. Yarn! Googled how to make worry dolls and came up with a site for little yarn ju ju dolls. I made a pink one and so enjoyed it. I was actually in a fairly ugly mood when I started but by the end it was so cute I couldn't help but to smile, love and dress it up. That night I even got a chance to try it out with my daughter. I already had her in bed when I realized her favorite blankey with the silky edges she likes to rub on her nose as she falls asleep had gotten peed on by one of the dogs. She was crying. I told her to tell her worry doll about it. She did. Soon she stopped crying and even got off subject and asked the little doll to bring her good dreams. Success! I've thought a lot lately about how different I am from 3 years ago, 5 years ago, even 10 years ago (some of you will remember what I was like 10 years ago...eesh >.>)... and how I am not at all like how my parents tried raising me. I mean, I've held onto lessons they taught me such as kindness to strangers and how to not be a racist prick, but everything else they spent a significant amount of time drilling into my head did not in any way take hold. Ahh the misyognistic, hypocritical tripe of romance novels. So two people have posted Every few weeks we like to feature etsy artists, because they're cool, and since today is Pi day I wanted to pick someone with appropriately geeky stuff. So this is Electronic Girl! She makes these fantastic little glowy pixels, 1 inch cubes with LEDs, among other things, including fanart and customizable gifts: So I crochet a lot and I make a ton of mixtapes for people, and last week it hit me that it was kind of silly not to combine the two somehow. How does one combine mixtapes and crocheting, you might ask? Well, it's pretty obvious. Tape warmers. It's like leg warmers, but for tapes. And I'm making a country mix CD for my friend's mom (who, squarely, doesn't have a cassette deck), so I went ahead and crocheted a CD warmer too. (That takes a little more work.) I started out with just regular ass pouches, no frills or anything, but when I messed up and crocheted a little too far at the beginning of one particular project, I accidentally invented this really neat way of closing the pouches. With a flower on it.
This month's pick is Emma from
She will be giving away this AMAZING cuff bracelet to one lucky winner!Entry details are below:
(read more...)
[ view 1 replies ]Phyllis Schlafly, Anti-Feminist
She makes me very angry. I can't stand people who are publicly hypocrites, and this is exactly what it seems like she is. She either doesn't seem to realize, or doesn't care, that the only reason she's able to be an antifeminist and say all the bullshit things that she does, is because feminists paved the way first. During the Depression, her father couldn't find work - so her mother was the breadwinner for the family. Schlafly was able to go to college, going so far as to earn her JD. Briefly, in WWII, she apparently worked as a ballistics gunner and technician at an ammunition plant. She also worked in research, with a political campaign, and even ran for Congress. None of that would have been possible without a feminist movement, so I guess she's okay with a feminist movement that allows her to achieve her goals, but not one that progresses us any further than that.
(read more...)
[ view 6 replies ]Worry dolls
(read more...)
[ view 8 replies ]Are you who your parents wanted you to be?
Things they tried instilling in me from a young age:
-A weird mixture of fundamentalist Christianity and charismatic non-denominational Christianity in the one truth, the only truth, and you will go to Hell for eternity if you don't believe it.
-The end is near- The Anti-Christ is coming, the UN is evil, and Satan is trying to take over America
(read more...)
[ view 33 replies ]My romance novel dilemma
Never in my life have I had a more deeply rooted hatred for a book genre than this one. Now don't get me wrong, I'm a book worm through and through, I practically live in books, but as open minded as I am, I've stumbled upon the works of Cassie Edwards 'Savage' series and Danielle Steel. It really makes me wonder why in the hell would ANYONE buy into this garbage? At the beginning the women are strong, independent, kick ass heroines, with a brazen wit that rings a certain sense of free minded charm. But that is all chucked out the window whenever the brawny, male lead steps in and sweeps her off her feet.
Their constant reguritated female heroines and male leads all follow one, big dildo of a formula.
(read more...)
[ view 6 replies ]Banned words on NY standard tests
* People should know about this stuff so why can't it be on the test
* Religious reasons for not knowing about this stuff are stupid, you should have to know that the dinosaurs existed (for example) even if you don't believe it
* This doesn't even begin to address issues with standardization, and won't work
Now, looking at the list myself, I think the words fall into a couple of categories:
(read more...)
[ view 10 replies ]Featured Etsy artist: electronicgirl
http://www.etsy.com/shop/ElectronicGirl
Well, I'm a very unique kind of artist. I have a wide variety of skills in my background. I started out as a painter/figure drawing, then went to 2D animation, then 3D animation and ended up in electronic art. kinda a crazy path.
(read more...)
[ view 9 replies ]Tape warmers
(read more...)
[ view 15 replies ]