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Figure paintings and drawing

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Ever write something and realize you are literally just dumping all of your trauma and frustrations out through this fictional character then have them throw a tantrum so bad they need bandaging and work themselves up so bad they pass out or is that just me

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"crochet can't be made by machines" went from being a cool fun fact to being a call to action of "so if you see mass manufactured crochet in Target, that was made by a person and they were underpaid and you should boycott it" which is true, it was made by a person, but EVERY item of clothing you own (that you did not purchase from a company using ethical labor) was made by a person being underpaid (at *best*.)

Sewing machines are operated by *people*. Knitting machines are operated by *people*. Yes lots of the process is automated but you cannot tell a machine "make me a t-shirt" or "make me a knit cardigan".

Higher awareness of fast fashion, and the true human labor and abuse behind it, is GREAT, but let's not pretend that the crochet hat in target is THE problem. Every article of clothing in target is the problem. "All clothes are made by people" is the jumping off point here into understanding this issue it's not just crochet it's the whole thing ahhhhHHHHHHHHHH

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sorry i cant hang out i forgot how to mimic human like behaviour

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Remember that time the New York Times wrote that a community with a large Muslim population that provided women’s-only hours at a public pool was a “model of inclusion” and “blueprint for successful economic and cultural integration” (article)

…….and then a few months later wrote that women’s-only hours at a public pool in a heavily Orthodox Jewish community were causing the pool to be “unmoored from the laws of New York City and the Constitution, and commonly held principles of fairness and equal access” and that the policy is “unfortunate” with “a strong odor of religious intrusion into secular space” (article)?

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how fucking arrogant can you be to think any eugenics program could ever weed out “fascist genetics”. even if the “dark triad” was a reliable precursor to fascist ideology and even if “dark triad traits” could be reliably linked to genotype (they aren’t and they can’t be), how fucking far to jupiter are you if you think you can remove it from a population of seven billion, let alone in some “anarchist” manner? how do you programmatically sterilize anyone in an “anarchist” manner?

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by far the best part of grocery shopping is the little babies. i was carefully selecting mushrooms when i felt upon me a piercing gaze and looked up to see a very chubby and very red-cheeked baby staring intently at me from a grocery cart with a slightly furrowed brow, hand clutching an apple for dear life. i wiggled a mushroom at her and she gasped and kept staring. i turned back to the mushrooms and heard a shriek. i turned around and the baby stared in anticipation. i wiggled another mushroom and she shrieked again in delight. she looked down at the apple in her hand, considering it for a moment. fair-minded as she was, she decided it would only be right to wiggle produce at me in return, and she held up the apple and shook it with all her might. i think i could live forever now

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A shift, stays, and quilted petticoat project from grad school. My summer housing had this field of dandelions next door, it was early pandemic and my roommate and I weren't going anywhere so obviously a whole evening became a photoshoot.

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Hello!

Made this to put all my more creative posts in one place. I don't know what all that will include but I've put some guesses/plans down below. I get obsessed with my own work so please engage if you're interested!

Writing

Journaling/Solo RPGs

Thousand Year Old Vampire

The Fool Who Got Married (the solo or multi-player version, although I'll be starting solo)

Fiction (original and fandom)

So many Baldur's Gate ficlet requests from my wife

Potential write-ups of former ttrpg campaigns I've run

Drawing

Character portraits/design

Short comics

Charcoal and pastels or digital art most likely, might see some watercolor and ink as well

Misc

Historical factoid tangents pertaining to fashion, textiles, and their cultural significance

Patterning and sewing projects

Whatever other craft I'm into at the moment