#art-sniveling

[mrvelocipede]

Here’s the glamour shot of the doily I just finished, and I want to start with it because it’s such a contrast to all the steps it takes to get to the aesthetically-pleasing endpoint. It’s got me thinking about that post from a while ago about getting into hobbies cheaply, and also about the internet thing of only seeing the edited highlights of people’s lives, and assuming that they must be much cooler/luckier/more talented than you.

So I wanted to put together some carefully edited lowlights. Or at least a more complete view of the process.

To begin with, projects always have a stage where they look like this:

This is tiny, difficult to work with, unimpressive, and also wrong. I took the picture, then knitted a couple of brief rounds, and realized I’d screwed something up with the initial cast-on and the center wouldn’t close properly. I had to take it apart and start over.

I failed to take a picture of the finished doily once it was off the needles, but before it was blocked. It was the usual shriveled, lumpy blob that knitted lace always is. Most of the other kinds of things I’ve made also go through spells of being metaphorically shriveled, lumpy blobs. Those stages rarely get documented, because at the time I’m not thinking about taking pictures, I’m thinking about crumpling the whole project into a wad, setting it on fire, and kicking it down a stairwell.

It’s easy to be discouraged and give up at that point. I was pretty old before I learned not to abandon things just because they looked like hell, halfway through. Sometimes if I kept going, they would shape up and turn into something perfectly respectable. (Sometimes it wasn’t exactly what I’d planned at the beginning, but interesting all the same.)

So, blocking. I enjoy blocking, especially lace. Partly because of how much better it looks afterward, but also because I love tinkering with apparatus. I get to feel like a mad scientist, or an olde-timey inventor, or something. And also because lace is considered fancy and elegant, and the things I use for blocking very much aren’t, and I find the contrast delightful.

This is the crappiest hula hoop in the world. It’s too small and too lightweight to use for actual hula-hooping, but it’s great for doilies. The rubber-bands-and-paper-clips method of blocking has the advantage of equalizing the tension, so you don’t have to endlessly fiddle with adjusting the pins and hoping the end result will be symmetrical.

The Ravelry pattern page for this doily shows it blocked in a circle, while the one listed project has it shaped into a more angular pentagon. I was curious to see what it would do if left to settle itself into whatever shape it liked, and it seems to have split the difference.

When the doily is being stretched on the hoop, it looks incredibly lame. The hoop isn’t round, and the doily isn’t even centered properly for some reason, but ultimately that doesn’t matter.

Once it’s dry, and you take away all the ungainly rigging, there it is, a lace thing that looks like some kind of big deal.

And then it’s mostly a matter of waiting until the wretched sun finally comes out again, so you can get some decent pictures.

[bougiebutchbinch]

I am once again asking (begging) people not to send me bottom!logan content.... c'mon..... please.......... this is getting a bit silly now :/

[if-you-heart]

some fucked up beasts including pre RoE heart. if you couldn’t tell I love drawing rage <3

[downsteepy]

hi my beautiful hampsome bf ally @tianhai03 drew this last month and i asked if i could color it and then i forgor until. today . so i colored it 👍 happy late halloween 👍👍👍👍👍

[trashrat11]

Made some humanized grimspawn trio designs

[mossymandibles]

Me at anyone describing ocean horror/themes as “Lovecraftian”

[narklos]

I’m a man of my word. 

(blame @abelard-tullus)

[4o0go]

ehy does my art motivation peak at the most random times anyways

zzzzz

[bookmark-extraordinaire]

May I ask why it makes you mad?

I have long debated whether or not answering this ask, because I know it’ll make some people upset but fuck it, if I can’t even be true on my own personal blog then what’s the point?

That post made me mad because it plays in what I call the gentrification of punk. What once was a gritty, at times disgusting movement born of the lowest layers of British society, has now become a pastel uwu stay hydrated let’s all hold hands ghost of its former self. I’ve seen people with my own two eyes arguing that the punk movement is about kindness and it always has been, which is objectively untrue. “society sucks so I’m gong to be kind instead uwu” WRONG. Society sucks so in retaliation I will be even worse. Fuck you. Scared of being pelted? Bring a knife.

With that out of the way, I am aware that modern 2024 America society is different from 70s Britain and trying to retaliate to conservatives and/or the police will get you killed or worse. Times have changed, and I understand people prioritizing staying safe instead of “sticking it to The Man because society sucks and it’s all pointless anyway”. Movements and words lose their meaning as time goes on, and this is also true for punk, which has been dead at least since the 80s. I guess being mad at people’s watered down, sweet uwu bean neo-punk is my way of mourning it.

Anyway enough of me yapping, Snivelling Shits attack

[lucydoodlessometimes]

starfall

[emeraldhillrose]

For @snivel1 !!! I hope you like it! I'm sorry it took so long!!

[gorillaxyz]

she and i didnt chat today i feel like a sad puddle... girl... girlllllllllllllllll come back to me...sniff

i still havent posted the new gift art I DONT WANT. TO BE. WEIRD. i dont want ro be too enthusiastic. bc last night i also commented on her profile asking her if shed heard of wait til your father gets home. i dont want to do too much

but she literally.... goes through anf comments bacj to back on some of my posts sometimes... im just shy UGGGGGGHHHH i wish i could start convos and stuff without feeling likr a freak. girl. grayson. understand my psychic message. SPEAK TO ME. dm me on roblox or something girl i promise i dont sctually talk THAT much i promise im normal give me a chance

[downsteepy]

badonkers

[strigital]

quick post-The World ending V doodle (right before i submit myself to a night of cramming for my english assignment which is due tomorrow morning) 🌟

[theladygazingatemptiness]

like I’m literally the only one of your fucking children who's on unambiguously good terms with you despite all of the shit you put me through as a child (that I’m sure you either conveniently ~don’t remember~ even though I know that you could write a detailed novel about every time I’ve ever fucked up or you Don’t Think Was Bad) and I was literally the only one of us who’s consistently shown you support and kindness during the past ten years and ever since you’ve moved in with us (because YOU couldn’t afford to pay rent) I’ve been nothing but understanding and I haven’t protested or complained Once about it and have ensured you multiple times that you aren’t being invasive and etc and I’m the Only One Of Us who kept in touch with you and told you good night while you were in the hospital and when my sister was being verbally abusive to you I gave you a fucking shoulder to cry on every single time and denounced her over and over again and not to mention I was literally The Only One Of Us who willingly volunteered to go on a special boat cruise with you on your 50th birthday (despite the fact that being away from home overnight makes me anxious and you Know it does) but yeah you go ahead and just keep on ignoring that and fixating on everything I’m Not doing right and telling me how I Don’t Actually Love You (and don’t say that you never said that shit because that’s all “You’re Not Giving Me The Love I Give You” could possibly mean.) And How Miserable I Make You (and don’t say you didn’t say that shit either!!) or w/e and keep on lumping me in with someone who literally threatened you and called you a broke bitch and a hoe!!!! whatever fucking makes you feel better!!!!!!

[thesnivy123]

I think if i start posting hatchetfield stuff im gonna have to make up my own tag i dont want to contend with that fandom. ugh. my asexual ass just wants to go five seconds without any pair the spares bullshit.

cant fucking believe they said i have no whimsy bc... i think its weird that people are shipping characters that are very explicitly childlike? and then denying that? Like dude its not even subtext have you SEEN wiggly

hgh