girlzero:

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Ohhh Musk has no idea how badly he’s fucked up

Tesla Faces its First Ever Strike after Refusing to Negotiate with Swedish Union

• The strike was initiated by IF Metall after five years of Tesla refusing to negotiate a collective agreement.
• It is the first formal labor conflict called against Tesla anywhere in the world.
• The National Mediation Office summoned both parties, but Tesla’s representatives quickly withdrew from negotiations.
• The strike was then extended to include all repair shops servicing Tesla vehicles in Sweden.
• Swedish employer unions have also pressured Tesla to cave and align with the country’s labour model.
• Strikebreakers have been sent in, a tactic forbidden since the 1930s by agreement between the Swedish unions and employers. (Ie. not illegal but liable to make the entire country hate you.)

As noted by Atle Høie, general secretary of IndustriALL, an industrial union confederation representing 50 million workers in 140 countries: “Elon Musk’s business model is to avoid respecting human rights. Now he is taken on by one of our strongest unions. We must defeat the Tesla business model, and Sweden is the best place to start.”

Sweden has one of the highest rates of unionization out of the Nordics (which have the highest rates of unionization globally alongside Cuba and Vietnam) and the thing about that is you get sympathy strikes:

Swedish Ports Threaten to Block Teslas From Entering the Country

There’s already talk of launching similar strikes here in Norway if the Swedes aren’t heard. For an idea of what happens if they keep this up, let’s look at the time McDonald’s tried these kinds of tactics:

Or Toys R Us:

Tesla’s presence in the country is limited compared to those, but I think it’s fair to say their choice is going to be between pulling out or caving to their demands, because these kinds of threats to union power are not tolerated.

If you’ve seen news declaring the strike was called off and that the workers are all happy with their jobs: It’s misinfo, those are scabs, the strike is on and it could very well break Tesla’s resistance to unionization and trigger a domino effect in other countries if the Swedes win out.

It’s confirmed, Tesla is doubling down and the strikes are ramping up!!

The import blockade began in select cities today, and Tesla has already tired to get around it. The unions have responded by extending the blockade to every port in the country, with further measures in the works if Musk refuses to budge.

With Musk controlling Twitter/X now, discussions about it on there are predictably filled with trolls and detractors. The workers at Tesla could all be tremendously happy with their jobs and it would not change the fact that this is an attack on the entire labour model that gives other workers decent conditions. This is not just about Tesla, it’s about preventing it from setting a precedent for other employers.

IF Metall have asked people to talk about this on social media, particularly on X, to counteract Musk’s army of trolls and build awareness and support for the strikes, so please do if you can. Here’s an up-to-date (Nov 7th) article in English which you can share:

Now the strike against Tesla is being extended

Talk about it! Post about it! (Be more concise than me about it!) The hate they’re getting from Musk’s shills on X right now is insane.

girlzero:

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Ohhh Musk has no idea how badly he’s fucked up

Tesla Faces its First Ever Strike after Refusing to Negotiate with Swedish Union

• The strike was initiated by IF Metall after five years of Tesla refusing to negotiate a collective agreement.
• It is the first formal labor conflict called against Tesla anywhere in the world.
• The National Mediation Office summoned both parties, but Tesla’s representatives quickly withdrew from negotiations.
• The strike was then extended to include all repair shops servicing Tesla vehicles in Sweden.
• Swedish employer unions have also pressured Tesla to cave and align with the country’s labour model.
• Strikebreakers have been sent in, a tactic forbidden since the 1930s by agreement between the Swedish unions and employers. (Ie. not illegal but liable to make the entire country hate you.)

As noted by Atle Høie, general secretary of IndustriALL, an industrial union confederation representing 50 million workers in 140 countries: “Elon Musk’s business model is to avoid respecting human rights. Now he is taken on by one of our strongest unions. We must defeat the Tesla business model, and Sweden is the best place to start.”

Sweden has one of the highest rates of unionization out of the Nordics (which have the highest rates of unionization globally alongside Cuba and Vietnam) and the thing about that is you get sympathy strikes:

Swedish Ports Threaten to Block Teslas From Entering the Country

There’s already talk of launching similar strikes here in Norway if the Swedes aren’t heard. For an idea of what happens if they keep this up, let’s look at the time McDonald’s tried these kinds of tactics:

Or Toys R Us:

Tesla’s presence in the country is limited compared to those, but I think it’s fair to say their choice is going to be between pulling out or caving to their demands, because these kinds of threats to union power are not tolerated.

If you’ve seen news declaring the strike was called off and that the workers are all happy with their jobs: It’s misinfo, those are scabs, the strike is on and it could very well break Tesla’s resistance to unionization and trigger a domino effect in other countries if the Swedes win out.

It’s confirmed, Tesla is doubling down and the strikes are ramping up!!

The import blockade began in select cities today, and Tesla has already tired to get around it. The unions have responded by extending the blockade to every port in the country, with further measures in the works if Musk refuses to budge.

With Musk controlling Twitter/X now, discussions about it on there are predictably filled with trolls and detractors. The workers at Tesla could all be tremendously happy with their jobs and it would not change the fact that this is an attack on the entire labour model that gives other workers decent conditions. This is not just about Tesla, it’s about preventing it from setting a precedent for other employers.

IF Metall have asked people to talk about this on social media, particularly on X, to counteract Musk’s army of trolls and build awareness and support for the strikes, so please do if you can. Here’s an up-to-date (Nov 7th) article in English which you can share:

Now the strike against Tesla is being extended

Talk about it! Post about it! (Be more concise than me about it!) The hate they’re getting from Musk’s shills on X right now is insane.

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I will take that rabbit and give him found family whether he LIKES IT or NOT.

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Using Internet Explorer to download Chrome is like using an ugly girl to get to her hot friend.

Using Chrome is like dating a chad that may look good at first sight, but secretly cheats with someone else behind your back.

Using Firefox is like dating someone where people say “Them? Really? You can do better,” but they don’t know them like you do.

Shred the Chez 🤤

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|WHY DID THE COLLECTIVE TUMBLR BRAINCELL GO “oh, post about cheese? REBLOG AND LIKE MM YES I TOO LVOE CHEESE”|

|I DID NOT INTEND FOR THE CHEESE POST TO BECOME THE SOLE REASON WHY THIS SIDEBLOG IS INNATELY ALIVE-|

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rcmclachlan:

Turns out, 2000 was 20 years ago. Which is odd, since 1980 was also.

The thing Gen-Z really needs to understand is that no one older than them is ever going to be able to estimate time correctly because the Millennium.

The Millennium will always be Not That Long Ago. Everything since the Millennium will always be, in some sense, ‘new’.

It just broke us, OK? It was too big and we’ll never quite be able to deal.

Was the real millennium bug inside us all along?

yep.

I think at least part of this is that pop culture has gotten such a longer shelf life over the past 20 years.

You can listen to a Top 40 station now and hear a song from 10 years ago easily, even songs from the 80s or 90s on special occasions (which might just be the Nineties at Noon or whatever every single day).

A Top 40 station in the 80s? Played the current fucking Top 40 and that was it. You were lucky if you heard a song that was one year old, definitely never ten. I was born in 1979 and heard almost no music from before I was born until high school or college. If you wanted to hear anything older than a year, you had to listen to a classic rock (late 60s to 70s) or oldies (50s to early 60s) station. There was nothing earlier than that on the radio.

A restaurant was playing What a Feeling, from 1983. 28 years before my son was born. That’s the equivalent of hearing a song from 1951 in the late 80s, which just did not happen. Even for an oldies station, it was hard to find anything that old.

VCRs were just getting big in the mid-80s, but there was a limited selection of videos you could buy (or even rent) for them. Most video rental stores didn’t bother to stock TV shows, it just wasn’t worth it. (Few shows were even released on VHS.)

So you could generally watch recent movies and “classics” but if you were looking for some random movie from the mid-70s - that’s only ten years previous - you were mostly out of luck. Imagine looking for a movie from 2006 right now, and you can find maybe the top-grossing ones and a few that won Oscars, but Night at the Museum? The Devil Wears Prada? You’re shit outta luck. That’s what it would have been like looking for movies from 1976 in 1989.

So for those of us who grew up in the 80s and early 90s, pop culture had a hard limit of about a decade, if that. By the late 90s, the internet was good enough that music was starting to stretch that, but you still couldn’t really get video through the internet and DVDs were still catching up in terms of what was available. You didn’t really get entire seasons of TV on DVD until the early 00s - the first season of The Simpsons, which aired in 1989, wasn’t released on DVD until 2001.

Anyhow, I think that’s why a lot of older millennials and Gen Xers are having trouble wrapping our heads around the idea that the year 2000 was almost 20 years ago. Because we grew up in a world where if you heard a song regularly, or watched a movie or a TV show that wasn’t late-night reruns, it had probably been released within the past 5 years, and almost definitely within the past 20. Our brains haven’t quite gotten used to hearing a new song followed by a 30-year-old song on the radio and not just being able to find any decade-old movie at will but seeing gifs of decade-old movies almost daily. Our brains think that means those things must still be new.

I have never heard anyone explain it so clearly before. And I LIVED it.

This is just further proof that time doesn’t exist.

radio stations are still doing the “playing the 80s, 90s, and NOW” thing they were doing when i was a teenager, despite the fact that NOW currently extends past 20 years

Also don’t forget that we’ve never really come up with decent names for the decades after the millennium so we often don’t speak specifically of them and thus they collapse into the *post-millennium* timeframe.

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Do they want that list in alphabetical, chronological, or body count order?

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the-gnomish-bastard:

catgirlcommunism:

femmenietzsche:

Imagine if you survived taking a railroad spike to the brain but you didn’t get any personality changes out of it but everyone was constantly assuming that you did and it made you notably more irritable than you used to be

Maybe the real brain damage… was society

Maybe the real brain damage… was the friends we made along the way.

along the RAILway…?

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wizardpotions:

We NEED to put sex and magic back on the pride flag right now

I’m fed up of people being like yea we need magic but not the sex one, sex positivity is vital to the lgbtq+ community it is not invalidating to asexual people to celebrate gay sex as something that is positive and beautiful and natural. We should be celebrating all the aspects of our community and this can include both asexuals and sex positivity

cryptotheism:

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sexhaver:

how fucking funny would it be if the new tumblr monetization strategy of “employ the bare minimum amount of staff to keep the lights on and never update anything” actually ends up being the secret sauce that makes this site finally turn a profit after three different CEOs over a decade and a half drove themselves insane trying

I’ve been thinking the same, how much you wanna bet their whole budget has been going into dipshit techbro “idea guy” types who fundamentally don’t understand the entire appeal of the site, all of the updates for the past forever sure seem like that’s the case

Straight up. A lot of the stories from the Yahoo days paint pictures of a small dedicated team of former Tumblr users maintaining the site, while a bloated staff runs interference from a management that wants Tumblr to be “The New PDF”

glavilio:

glavilio:

does anyone else see infinite cascading beauty in the pattern embossed on the surface of the store brand chocolate and cream cookie

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American oomfs pack her up please. No one this callous should work for the government. Also let us know what non Americans can do to stop this madness.

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American oomfs pack her up please. No one this callous should work for the government. Also let us know what non Americans can do to stop this madness.

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Thank fucking god for plumbers who are willing to go behind their corporate bosses’ backs and be like “yeah don’t pay the 150 dollar emergency fee just gimme 40 bucks under the table, also, don’t buy a water heater from us, my boss will charge u like 800 bucks. go to Lowe’s and ask for a Scratch n’ Dent, they’ll give you for like 200 bucks. Call me tomorrow and I can install it for you in like an hour” wow… solidarity

I cannot express how much I would rather slip one workperson 40 bucks directly into their pocket for doing me a solid by not making me get ripped off by his bosses, like…….. thanks bro

latenightgasstationwalk:

Of course it goes without saying that I am hopelessly dependent on the ingot

somitomi:

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l0stvegas:

God I hate these fucking floating monoliths. They always go, like, 10mph below the speed limit and if you try to pass them they just fucking distort reality around them until you’re back behind them again. One of them cut me off on the highway once and when I honked it banished me to a hoary netherworld where I wandered, lost and alone, for untold centuries, trapped in the liminal space between what could have been and what never was, black stars dotting the bright infinity yawning out around me as I drove out of thought and time, through endless ruined cities and blighted lands unmarked by the sun’s cold rays, and when I finally got out I was more than 20m late for my dentist appointment and they had to reschedule me.

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dicklessswonder:

she borderline on my personality till i disorder

fluttershyweed757:

Enchantment tier list

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I think people get mixed up a lot about what is fun and what is rewarding. These are two very different kinds of pleasure. You need to be able to tell them apart because if you don’t have a balanced diet of both then it will fuck you up, and I mean that in a “known cause of persistent clinical depression” kind of way.

When people say they enjoy things, they usually mean one of two things. The first is that these things are fun; that is, they satisfy immediate emotional needs or desires for pleasure. Candy Crush is fun, for people who are into that sort of thing; waterslides are fun, watching TV is fun. Fun, in the way I’m defining it for this post, is the party food of pleasure; immediately and usually temporarily satisfying, and after that, mostly satisfying only as a happy memory (although some of these activities, like watching a TV show, can generate further opportunities for pleasure down the line like daydreaming, discussion, and making fanart). Like party food, this kind of fun is a good thing to have, and someone who doesn’t get enough of it is at high risk of stress-related health concerns. Also burnout. A lack of fun is a major contributor to burnout.

The second kind of pleasure that most people talk about is rewarding activity. The lack of rewarding activity in one’s life is a major contributor to depression. It creates a sense of purposelessness and worthlessness and generates a low attention span, sapping the ability to feel long-term motivation or pleasure. People usually try to pick themselves up with the first kind of fun, which is a band-aid but not a very sticky one; the lack of rewarding activity grows and festers over time. Rewarding pleasure involves working on something long-term that feels worthwhile. There are usually also spots of fun (or you wouldn’t have gotten into the activity enough for it to become rewarding), but there also tends to be long slogs that aren’t that fun. Nevertheless, when people report on doing said activity, they will speak about it with great enjoyment and remember it being enjoyable and claim they like it. (I like being a writer. Writing can sometimes be boring as shit.) (Look into Csíkszentmihályi’s work on experience sampling and flow states for more info on this, it is FASCINATING.)

In Reality is Broken, Jane McGonigal sums up what she thinks are the most important contributing factors to rewarding activity. These are not the only factors, but I agree that they’re a good baseline of the critical ones. I’m going to paraphrase them using different language. The four big contributors are:

Satisfying work. This is the vaguest one because different people find different things satisfying. Basically, the task itself should feel productive, and you should not feel bad about doing it to the point where it causes you distress. Satisfying work involves clear goals with actionable steps and a clear product, preferably something that you can see, touch or use. A clean house, a new high score, a freshly built table, a happy child.

Mastery. Rewarding pleasure is often something that you can get better at. There are things to learn, practice, improve. Improving your ability to solve tricky code problems, getting better at painting landscapes, figuring out fun new strategies in Magic: The Gathering, being able to build computers better or faster or cheaper. Mastery does not require becoming the best at something (although some people enjoy that specifically also), merely seeing progress in yourself and being able to take pride int he fact that you are better than you were.

Social connection. Rewarding pleasure often involves social or community connection. A long-term social group that discusses fan theories of their favourite show. Your weekly tabletop rpg. Teaching a room full of kids who to make leather belts. Working at a small bookshop and making small talk with all the tourists. Some people find social activity to be fun in the ‘immediate pleasure’ kind of way, some don’t, but it is a critical factor in mental health and in the long-term… rewardingness (?)… of a hobby. Animals can also partially fill this niche, but be warned, they are far, far less effective than people. Your cat might be able to stop you from committing suicide today. You cat alone will not make your life satisfying.

Contribution. Humans are community animals and have a need to be something larger than ourselves or, more specifically to be of service to something larger than ourselves. Looking after kids, cooking big meals for others, creating art or physical products for others. Teaching the next generation how to read. Serving your God. Saving a species of small fish from extinction. Volunteering at your local charity shop or soup kitchen. Being a member of a crowd to reach the Guinness World Record for “most people fit into a storage crate”. Making useful tutorial videos, being an entertainer, joining your local queer support group or political organisation. Humans fucking love to be part of something bigger than their own brain and they fucking love to help people.

The world is full of rewarding activities, and not all of them rate high in all four categories. The woman working in the charity shop warehouse and chatting with her coworkers isn’t necessarily all that interested in mastery of her job (although I’ve worked in these places and some people do take pride in learning to be as efficient as possible), the musical hermit training to become the best violinist in the world might not be all that interested in social connection or how the audience actually feels about him. You might have noticed that I’ve listed hobbies, jobs, and non-employed but important life work (volunteering and childrearing) as possible rewarding activities; you can find rewarding activities everywhere. (In fact the lack of rewarding pleasure in our work lives is a very serious problem that companies keep trying to condescendingly band-aid over. The late David Graeber had a lot to say about this and I highly recommend his work, particularly Bullshit Jobs, which is a book specifically discussing the lack of above points 1 and 4 (satisfying work and sense of contribution) in so many modern workplaces and its distressing psychological ramifications). Rewarding activities are not 'fun’ all the time; in fact, Csíkszentmihályi’s work found that many of them are quite unfun most of the time. They do, however, create long term pleasure, and are emotionally and psychologically critical.

One final point: research shows that computer stuff counts less. This isn’t a 'hurr durr edison was a witch get off your damn computers and get a real job’ point; plenty of people do most of their rewarding activity on computers, because the supply cost is so low (most of us already own some kind of computer) and it’s so much easier to find an existing community. But it does, psychologically speaking, count less; your brain isn’t very good at seeing computers stuff as as 'real’, on a primitive sensory level, as things you can touch with your hands or people that are right in front of you. Your massive community of fellow fans on the internet are less effective at filling your social needs than the crochet club at your local library, even if you like the people on the internet much more. It doesn’t have to be everything, but ideally you should have at least one physical meatspace social club and at least one physical meatspace hobby, craft, or volunteer job. (They can be the same thing. You can volunteer at a soup kitchen for both.) They don’t have to be the most important thing – I care way more about my writing (electronic) than my crochet (meatspace) and I do the writing a lot more – but the meatspace thing should exist, if you can manage it.

#makes sense; however - how do i get it to NOT cause me distres?#because you see the problem with any rewarding activity is that you can fail at it. and if i can fail at it; doing it causes me immense#distress.#like. what if i play a tune wrong? what if i make a wrong line? what if i write an awful paragraph? what if i give the wrong advice?#what if i organise an event badly? what if i cook something and its horrible?#these things all have a fail state. and if you reach the fail state; everyone hates you forever.#it doesn’t matter if you’ve succeeded before. it doesn’t matter if you remedy your mistake. you are your mistakes.#if you draw a line wrong everyone sees and everyone knows that you are a fraud and an imposter and you are no longer#considered 'the one who can draw.’#and if you make a mistake when it comes to organisation or advice the consequences are catastrophic#you have to be absolutely infallible when it comes to those. any kind of mistake will result in the misery of other people.#so obviously you have to feel nothing but distress the whole way through

I’m pretty alexythymic so I don’t know if this’ll work for everyone but I personally found it was possible to just decide not to give a fuck what other people think. If they don’t like the art they can look at someone else’s art. Plenty of art out there.

I might be off-base here but I find this kind of distress is quite common in people who view their work not as a craft but as a validation of themselves. I think you might be taking your own art too personally. Your art skills say zero things about you, good or bad, and nobody gives a fuck. Nobody is scrutinising your art to see if you’re a fraud or an impostor because that matters to exactly zero people who aren’t you. They either like the art or they don’t and their interest usually stops about there. On the whole they’ll neither admire nor hate you, they’re not judging your Worth As A Human As Depicted In The Shading On This Cat Picture, they’re thinking about what they’re going to get for lunch. It’s honestly not that big a deal. I make bad art all the time, I think everyone should make absolute trash fail art. It’s good for you and it’s good for the world.

Well you see the problem is that if I make a mistake, then I’ll forever be perceived as “bad at art” and if that happens, then people will hate me, because I’m not really a person as much as I am the things I contribute. And it isn’t just about art. It’s like you have to be the best at everything you do, because a mistake is indicative of your morality. “Good people don’t make mistakes.” “If you were a good person you’d succeed on the first try.” Etc etc. You cannot afford failure, or even a trip. Because as soon as you trip, everyone you know will be there, laughing, and they’ll leave forever. If you are perceived as decent at something, you have to be perfect at it forever. Because everyone’s constantly watching and itching for you to trip and fall. And they don’t care that you can pick yourself up. They only care that they can say that they saw you trip.

I can’t afford to fuck up a single line the way I can’t afford to sew something wrong the way I can’t afford to choose my words poorly the way I can’t afford to bake bad cookies the way I can’t afford to come up with a boring programme the way I can’t afford to say the wrong thing in the youth shelter. It’s all the same song, the same show that HAS to be performed perfectly with no errors forever, because failure to do so either leads to everyone hating me or to me causing harm. No mistake, even one that doesn’t matter and that can be quickly fixed, can ever be made, because it isn’t the results for people, no, it’s just about if they can say that they know you’ve made a mistake. Because if you have, then you are bad in their eyes. You’re just a useless and talentless hack with nothing to show. And of course if you’re that, then they don’t want to associate with you. So you just have to be perfect forever and that sucks.

Yeah literally none of that is true. Either your brain is lying to you or some arsehole in your life is. Possibly both. Find the person in your life you like and value who never made something bad or mediocre. They don’t exist. They made garbage and fucked shit up. Do you hate them now?

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You HALLOWEEN Miette?

You wear her costume like the Trick-Or-Treaters?

stickiemax:

so that circus show, huh?

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I wrote and illustrated this story as a birthday present for my partner, I hope you enjoy it!

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freemahjongonline:

he fucking killed the other guy

rare post where every single comment is funny

crying crying crying

cryptotheism:

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sexhaver:

how fucking funny would it be if the new tumblr monetization strategy of “employ the bare minimum amount of staff to keep the lights on and never update anything” actually ends up being the secret sauce that makes this site finally turn a profit after three different CEOs over a decade and a half drove themselves insane trying

I’ve been thinking the same, how much you wanna bet their whole budget has been going into dipshit techbro “idea guy” types who fundamentally don’t understand the entire appeal of the site, all of the updates for the past forever sure seem like that’s the case

Straight up. A lot of the stories from the Yahoo days paint pictures of a small dedicated team of former Tumblr users maintaining the site, while a bloated staff runs interference from a management that wants Tumblr to be “The New PDF”

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school pt 2

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R. I. P

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WE DOIN’ CRIMINAL DEEDS AND EVIL ACTS

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luxidae:

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foxes-in-love:

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i like how much rage this comic is garnering because it was posted on the 30th

amerricanartwork:

Oh my god, another one! They just keep coming!

At this point, though, the more the merrier! And this one looks like a jolly little fellow!

Oh, is that for me? How kind of you, little guy! Though I’m not hungry now.

Looks like the others are pretty hungry, though!

What a cute little picnic! I think I’m gonna like this new little creature…!

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Welcome to Rain Wool: Downpour! For the first entry in the series, I’ve got none other than the one, the only, the chonker of all time, the Gourmand!

Let me tell you, at first I wasn’t sure how well this would turn out. Not only did I struggle to find an adequate soft orange-yellow color, but I thought it would be a bit hard to figure out the exact volumes and degree of Gourmand’s chubbiness. I usually use a mix of in-game art, sprites, and certain fanart for reference, but even so it can be a little hard to translate them into a 3D form, especially with someone like Gourmand. But nonetheless, I’m really happy with how this guy turned out, and it seems to grow cuter every time I look at it!

For these characters, I also wanted to try something new. Some recent asks have really helped me realize that I honestly prefer making needle-felted figures as unique toys of sorts rather than traditional look-don’t-touch art pieces, so I’ll be designing the figures around that purpose.

And as such, to really act on that idea and further bring these slugcats to life, I thought I’d try making a few tiny props for them!

I’ve got a bunch of more game-accurate spears made from bamboo skewers, and for Gourmand in particular I needle-felted some simple food items! I would’ve done more variety, but alas I haven’t the right wool colors yet to make other foods.

Regardless, I hope you enjoy this little guy as much as I do, and continue to stick around as the rest of the Downpour cast takes up woolen form!

sophbun:

cousins….

kicchirikacchiri-deactivated202:

every typically heroic character should be allowed to go completely apeshit at least once its good for the ecosystem

hurgablurg:

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doebt:

i love you people in my phone i know the seasonal depression is setting in so we need to hold eachother like a litter of kittens in a cardboard box okay…its important

paradichlorosocksy:

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pitbolshevik:

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to any teenagers reading this i just wanna say that you’re right. homework is bullshit, not accepting late work is bullshit, tardies are bullshit, having to ask to use the goddamn bathroom is bullshit. any adult who tells you differently is either lying or doesnt remember how much it sucked

you know what im actually just gonna block anyone who whines in the tags about how it’s actually totally reasonable to tell kids they aren’t allowed to take a piss

I think often teens see things that are bullshit and get upset and a lot of times nothing happens

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pitbolshevik:

to any teenagers reading this i just wanna say that you’re right. homework is bullshit, not accepting late work is bullshit, tardies are bullshit, having to ask to use the goddamn bathroom is bullshit. any adult who tells you differently is either lying or doesnt remember how much it sucked

you know what im actually just gonna block anyone who whines in the tags about how it’s actually totally reasonable to tell kids they aren’t allowed to take a piss

one time i had this biology teacher who wouldn’t let me go to the toilet… while he was teaching a lesson about how the bladder works and why it’s beneficial to our bodies for us to pee 🤦‍♂️

pitbolshevik:

pitbolshevik:

to any teenagers reading this i just wanna say that you’re right. homework is bullshit, not accepting late work is bullshit, tardies are bullshit, having to ask to use the goddamn bathroom is bullshit. any adult who tells you differently is either lying or doesnt remember how much it sucked

you know what im actually just gonna block anyone who whines in the tags about how it’s actually totally reasonable to tell kids they aren’t allowed to take a piss