Trying to sell handmade crafts in this economy is so. Like. Hey guys I know we’re all broke as fuck but do you want my silly little things. I’m very good at it. For the time it takes to make them + skill + materials it’s gonna be 30$ per silly little thing. But also shipping costs 12$ for reasons outside my control so it’s actually 42$ now. Sorry. No I really can’t charge less than that. Yeah I know. Ok. Bye
And this is for my things that are silly and little. I’m not even one of those people making, like, quilts and blankets and shit. Can we pour one out for the fiber artists making quilts and blankets and shit
I’m presenting a tiny crocheted bird to you. Putting it into the palm of your hand. This can be yours. For what seems like too much money but I promise it isn’t. We’ve all just really lost sight of fiber arts’ value with industrialization and outsourced sweatshop labor etc. This is actually the minimum I could ask for without fucking myself. I don’t like what this implies about mass produced items either. It’s really horrific. You can get an ethically sourced 42$ tiny crocheted bird though
Shortly after posting this I received an order for nearly 200$ worth of tiny crocheted birds this is the good luck post for people actually paying for your handmade crafts
literally traumatizing to learn that the london bridge is in fucking arizona
this is rocking my world view i feel like i have to call my family
….where did people think ‘london bridge is falling down’ came from?
i don’t necessarily conflate “falling down” with “being dismantled brick by brick and shipped to arizona to be rebuilt” but i guess its not my area of expertise
one thing i wish ableds would remember is that, unfortunately disability doesn’t magically pause for holidays, special events, or celebrations. just because it happens only once a year or you saved up for it doesn’t mean that people are not disabled. the fact that a member of your group is disabled should have been included in the planning in the very first place because we can’t just wing it or push through.
I call upon the fan fic writing gods to bless you with the perseverance to finish one of your unfinished drafts.
May your fingers dance along the letters upon your device with ease, may the devil of distraction stay far from you, and may your work not need much editing.
I pass this blessing upon every fan fic writer out there.
Sorry for the long ass comic, it wasn’t intentional I swear-
This scene takes place after the lamb kills the third bishop and unlocks Sin of the Flesh, curiosity gets the better of the Lamb and sure enough, the results are overwhelming. Since then, Crowne just kinda decided to stay in this form whenever he is wandering about as it brings the lamb a bit of comfort.
They know their brother is gone, but they can’t help but cling to a false version of him.
Thank you so much for this, I just found your blog and fell in love with this and it actually got me to write again so thank you, and here’s a present the thing I wrote because of this thanks.
Never in my life I thought I would inspire someone to write something based on my work, I feel honored! Thank you so much. FYI, I love this so much. You really portrayed Crowne personality so well in this I’m in awe-
Again, thank you so much! You’re getting my own creative juices flowing~
I’m never doing editing again (lie). I’m pretty happy how this video came out. This song randomly popped up my feed and immediately thought of Crowne. I did this in the most unorthodox way possible, and it was edited in Clipchamp, so I was a bit limited. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the video!
Frames below (Its not all of them cause some are just repeats/zoomed out. Im also im mobile and too lazy to get back on my computer to put in 2 more frames-):
Lil thing I had in my head last night so got it sketched up rq on my break. Loosely based on another thing I’m working on but that’s not important rn lol
biggest mindfuck is the fact that it can be so so difficult to tell the difference between when it’s time for “do it bored/scared/stupid but by jove just do it” and when it’s time for “if it sucks hit the bricks”
This’d be very unethical to do IRL, but I’d like to do an experiment where you raise someone without exposing them to ANY established fictional media and seeing what, if any, kind of story or fiction they can tell
There could be a grander scale experiment involving the kids who did this experiment who’ve grown up and become parents. Essentially creating an new line of culture untouched by the wider world. It’d be mad interesting to see what it’d be like
France invades Germany, France loses (Franco-Prussian War)
honestly when you start listing them all out, starting a war begins to seem like a pretty stupid idea!
This is such basic stuff that it’s really embarrassing to hear self-described “antiwar” types equating the attacker and defender. The best deterrent to war is for the people to start them to lose reliably! I don’t know that I’d say that this rule always holds, but it’s a pretty good rule, and the more antiwar one is in general the better it looks.
What’s fascinating is that, like, this is super old news. Much like empires no longer call themselves that and all the Departments of War have been renamed to Departments of Defense, one always manufactuers a pretext by which invasions don’t count as wars of aggression; with propaganda, it’s easy to manufacture provocations and construct arguments that a strike is truly preemptive. The interesting thing about the Russian war is that they didn’t even try to do that, which I think is part of the reason the response against it from Europe has been so intense – it’s an unapologetic war of conquest, one without shame or discretion enough to pose as something else. It seems like a trivial distinction until you see it in practice, at which point it’s like no, that’s actually pretty concerning!
I think the examples in OP are wrong, and the addition is wrong on Russia
yes there is a massive selection effect here where wars that are won by the initiator tend to be won promptly and thus don’t make it to the list of Big Wars That Everyone Talks About, or they just fizzle out in talks that don’t really count as a win or a loss either way.
I would push back a little on the US vs. Iraq, it’s true that the US defeated Saddam but that can be seen as the delayed conclusion of Gulf War I which Saddam initiated, while the broader US aims of Gulf War II were not achieved (in George W. Bush vs. remake the Middle East and make it safe for American interests (and topple Iran) I think that Bush comes out the loser there).
however the fact that a lot of wars start by a series of escalations as more players get involved doesn’t mean that we can’t identify a classic example of a war in which one specific player masses an invasion force on the borders of another: this example is much more clear cut!
now of course you can still justify your invasion in any way that you like, whether it’s Russian tanks rolling into Ukraine or American tanks rolling into Iraq, but it’s clear to everyone that at no point were the tanks going to roll across the border in the other direction, the “security concerns” that justified an invasion were much more abstract than the immediate threat of a counter-invasion, and on those grounds we can label an initiator or aggressor.
(and the constant refrain of “provocations” to justify aggression is really just a way of saying “asking for it”).
Im enjoying the longevity of tumblrs recontextualization style of humor. a seemingly innocuous post followed by like “posts that a gnome would make” or like “are you a phone”
It‘s scary to see how very important european petitions get no visibility whatsoever. We had a basic income petition last year which failed because not enough people knew about it. Now we have a „tax the rich“ one that only lasts until october this year and only has around 250k out of 1 mio. signings.
Most EU people go through their every day life w/o knowing about them. There are no ads, no marketing…nothing. I know that costs money though one might think important petitions that lead to a better and progressive life would be supported by the government or ministries in some way, but nooooo
And why should they? It’s petitions that would help out the poor and middle class, but endanger capitalism and their exploitation, sooo: government and business leads for example.
As a transgender man who is going to be having a baby, I am so glad that by technicality my child will be able to fulfil the prophecy and defeat Macbeth.
To be on the safe side, get a C-section? Macbeth really needs defeating.
Ironically I do have to have a C-section due to a hip problem I have. So it’s double accurate.
I like how this post implies that Macbeth is still out there, most likely terrorizing people, and no one has been able to stop him
It is a lovely day in Glamis, and you are a horrible Macbeth
It‘s scary to see how very important european petitions get no visibility whatsoever. We had a basic income petition last year which failed because not enough people knew about it. Now we have a „tax the rich“ one that only lasts until october this year and only has around 250k out of 1 mio. signings.
Most EU people go through their every day life w/o knowing about them. There are no ads, no marketing…nothing. I know that costs money though one might think important petitions that lead to a better and progressive life would be supported by the government or ministries in some way, but nooooo
And why should they? It’s petitions that would help out the poor and middle class, but endanger capitalism and their exploitation, sooo: government and business leads for example.
there are a lot more abjectly harmful and meanspirited april fool’s jokes out there but the one i personally find most annoying is when american game devs pretend that they’re going to make a visual novel spinoff of their game because they can’t imagine making visual novels in earnest
conversely, the sonic team won my everlasting respect by making their april fool’s joke an actual complete visual novel without a hint of irony or disdain for the medium because the joke wasn’t that it was a vn, it was that they fucking killed sonic
