#Artisinal

[asuddensway]

Maison Martin Margiela line 0 10 sleeveless top with sweater banding and leather patches

S/S 2005

[uproariousscarecrow]

hey, did you know that i helped my friend make a game??

[clockworkbanana]

Throwback Thursday! (2019) My very first artisinal submission. I was playing for a few months at this point and was SO excited when they opened up artisinals again because I was doing nothing but making fanart for the game.

[grrl-beetle]

Furōfushi Saitō

[vitruviannightmare]

MA+ wives

[unethicallypleistocene]

@hellohellomoshimoshi

More medieval dyes for y'all!

[indiaartndesign]

 Rooted in Craft, Designed for Now | Alkove-Design

Alkove-Design reimagines JODI Life’s retail presence in Khan Market with a soulfully crafted space inspired by Indian craft traditions and contemporary sensibilities. Every detail—from hand-painted murals to textile-inspired tiles—immerses visitors in a tactile celebration of design and heritage. https://www.indiaartndesign.com/rooted-in-craft-designed-for-now-alkove-design/

[venacoeurva]

beard swap

-Please do not reupload/edit/use-

[octavio-world]

woaw

Just drew this

[wuntrum]

made one of them newfangled straw pages if you wanna leave a message or drawing for yours truly :)

[greenerteacups]

What do you think as Hermione's career would be post battle of Hogwarts? To me her being minister for magic really doesn't make sense. She does not have patience or tact to wade through murky waters of politics 😭😭

So hard to say! The Trio are so, so young when we leave them, I find it almost impossible to project their futures farther than a few years out. The job that suited me at 17 would be radically unsuited to me now. That's why of all the Trio, Ron's ending strikes me as the most realistic — he jumps straight into the save-the-world business again, burns out, realizes he's actually Done The Fuck Enough, Thanks, and pivots into a low-stress career where he gets to see his family a lot. Feels accurate! The others are weirder to me because they do seem to just... pick a lane and stay there.

With Hermione, you could spin her a couple ways. You could say that she leans into her bookish side and does research or teaching, which is not my preference for a couple reasons (namely, I don't think Hermione would like academia as a profession; she finds her classwork interesting and enjoys intellectual validation, but she'd be stifled and wasted in a DPhil program, and she'd be infuriated by the administrative politicking of your average higher-ed faculty). You could say that she gets disaffected with politics and ends up as a barrister or a lobbyist of some kind, but if anything that requires more political finesse, because you don't actually have institutional power, you're just handling the people who make decisions and trying to persuade them of your goals. This is not Hermione's preferred method of influence. She's not even particularly good at persuasion, she just happens to be smart enough (and right often enough) that people take her ideas seriously.

Or you could say her brashness fades with the years into a softened flavor of tell-you-like-it-is honesty, which some politicians actually do successfully trade on; as we see in British politics today, you don't have to be all that charming or clever to get ahead, you just need to be really driven and well-connected (which Hermione completely is; she fought shoulder-to-shoulder with the first postwar Minister and her bestie, the Literal Messiah, runs the Auror Office.) But I don't know if Hermione especially wants to be Minister, after the war. She's just watched years of horrendous bureaucratic incompetence plunge the country into a violent civil conflict. She's had not one, but two Ministers of Magic try to bully or shame her friends into complicity with fascism. Her view of government is... likely extremely dark.

But Hermione also isn't the kind of person who sees her life as a quest for happiness. Babygirl has a savior complex that makes Harry look selfish. (She basically kills her parents — yeah, obliviating is a form of murder, #changemymind — "for their own good," and justifies every batshit, vindictive, mean-spirited move she ever pulls on the grounds that it "helps" one of her friends.) She is a mean, lean, dragon-slaying machine, and she needs a dragon. After Voldemort, the Ministry is the no. 1 threat to muggle-borns and non-wizarding Beings. As a war heroine with basically infinite political capital, I'd be surprised if she didn't try to do something there. That said, Hermione is so vivacious and dynamic that she could potentially grow in a hundred different directions; it's possible that all of this, while true of her at 18, becomes completely inaccurate by 22. That's why I'm not too fussed about any particular fanon interpretation.

[creativitycache]

I love writing how tos and lists. For decades I’ve posted various guides, breakdowns, and long lists about things all over the internet.

Now in 2024 as I write out another bullet pointed list I wonder if sometimes people think I write like Chat GPT.

Then I remember that Open AI data scraped Reddit and other platforms to make Chat GPT.

And I look at my Reddit Comment Karma score, and I wonder if Chat GPT talks like me.

[isaacsapphire]

Legitimacy, the use of blanket parties and no-go zones, and the monopoly on violence

Perhaps there is an academic, policing, or other specialized term for this phenomenon, but I haven’t encountered it yet. (“Proxy murder” is close but too specific.) The implications of the government’s monopoly on (legitimate) violence are not generally spelled out even by people who are discussing topics where it is inherent and more removed from current American politics, such as interracial violence that is/was tolerated or encouraged by foreign governments that motivated various groups to immigrate or become refugees in history and today.

But disguising and laundering responsibility and guilt is the point, and as far as I can tell, basically no government is exempt from using this technique, including local governments, and even lower levels of authority figures such as teachers may use this method, so of course this isn’t something that anyone wants to say out loud in simple language, despite every brain damaged homeless person understanding it perfectly well.

Perhaps you understand already what I am talking about by gesturing towards blanket parties (where a group in the military is collectively punished for the failures of one member, and the resulting violence against this low performer by peers is not punished or merely tolerated, but actually desired by the authorities, allowing them the have the low performer beaten while also allowing them to honestly say they didn’t have them beaten), various pogroms and genocides abroad, and mentioning homeless people’s knowledge (of course they know what areas camping and drug use are tolerated in and where this behavior is punished), and no-go zones where emergency services, delivery food, and taxi/uber services are limited or unavailable due to expectations of violence in the area.

Simply put, authorities and governments have a “monopoly on violence” where they are the only ones allowed to do violence, and they will come do violence on anyone else who does violence, because the basis of authority is that you’re the only one allowed to do violence in the area you control. Anyone unauthorized doing violence in your area is challenging your authority. But of course, there will always be some crime, and the government will try to stop it, but it can’t stop all of it because [insert whatever].

Sometimes people riot. Sometimes people run around and assault other people. Sometimes people decide to hang someone right now. Sometimes people decide to do drugs in public. And sometimes the government stands back and lets them because they want this violence but don’t want to take responsibility for it.

“Failure to save” is always hard to prove especially in limited circumstances, and is a very low effort method of “doing” violence when available. For example, in policing, it is well known that pissing off your fellow cops can cause them to be slow to respond to your calls for assistance, which can result in you being killed by a criminal who would have been prevented from killing you by other officers if you hadn’t pissed them off.

The biblical story of Uriah comes to mind. He had the misfortune of being married to a woman the king wanted to marry while being a wartime soldier, so the king directed his general to send Uriah on an attack and then pull the rest of the troops back, leaving Uriah to be killed by the enemy.

[thewholekeg]

Boy, I sure picked the right week to make this thing, huh?

[roadtripnewengland]

The Cheese Shop in Concord, Massachusetts. The Concord #Cheese Shop is known for its wide selection of #artisanalcheeses, #charcuterie, sandwiches, and #gourmet food items. It’s a popular spot among locals and visitors alike for indulging in their delicious selections #bosfood #bostonfoodies #concordma

[jorrated]

wish i got the "smart at math" autism instead of the "drinks a glass of wine and starts to obsessively try to understand the process of fermentation" autism