#but another expensive project

[nocterax]

I was blessed by Stormcatcher I guess on the lightning event. (I'm shadow momma's goopy child lol)

...this girl seemed bad for first...

Then this scry changed everything. :o

[comradekarin]

im sorry but social media “leftists activists” are some of the most unserious people? especially twitter ones? you don’t vote, you don’t donate, you don’t endorse candidates…. hell some of you have never taken a civics class before and it shows. y’all just bitch about trivial things like flag emojis and instagram posts and fucking twitter likes? play moral high ground? distress over the current state of affairs and then do absolutely NOTHING about it? project 2025 is probably the most terrifying thing I’ve ever read, and I foresee 2016 happening all over again. for an online group of people who preach about caring about human rights and civil liberties, you’ve been doing such a great job showing that. VOTE blue

[uniquezombiedestiny]

o/ been a while since ive posted here, but i got this g1 and i cant decide...

[bismuthburnsblue]

bought some fabric (that i did not need) because it reminded me of tree bark

what should i do with it? my first instinct is a corset, but i also think a skirt could be fun? maybe.... a tree themed outfit/costume....

im not sure how much i have because i bought it as a piece by weight, but i think its a couple meters!! ill measure it when i get home

[sherlock-is-ace]

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[cosmicrhetoric]

should i.......preemptively buy 40$ worth of yarn before a designer picks me for a test knit.......

[itshomobirb]

autism moment: im sad that the phone i was running into the ground finally bit the dust (⁠>n<⁠；⁠) it was only a matter of time, it could barely hold a charge even if unused for ~6 hours and got unbearably warm if i did anything intense like appts over zoom. no data loss, aside from a few pics id downloaded but not yet backed up. and ive had 2 phones for awhile, this dead phone as my daily driver and then another phone w/ my sim card to just make calls & order ubers, so i just swapped over to the other phone no problems. need to redownload all my apps & set everything back up how i like it, which is a pain in the butt but not like life-ending or anything. still. (T n T)

[muirneach]

finished my knitting project last night and now im like. well now what 🧍‍♂️that was all i did for the past three weeks idk how to act anymore if im not constantly knitting

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[iamthepulta]

Finally got the crotchet pattern right for my planned Christmas gift, and, per usual, realized that there is NEVER enough yarn to link all the granny squares together i swear

[seismologically-silly]

went from not enough textile project ideas to too many

i know what my next project is but it's going to be choice paralysis after that lol

[theskeletoninthegarden]

Spider enclosure came in, and I'm getting some ideas

[the-skin-inthe-bath-is-mine]

Finish embroidery on Rinne or continue crocheting Mom's birthday present?

[preserve-or-raze]

my tags got out of hand

i keep thinking about hobbies and how i often spill over myself to pick up new ones. i have adhd, i end up trying something for like a month and then just getting far enough in it that i move on, satisfied.

and that should be fine; but it's never fine.

i am a pretty decent artist; but i can't just make art for my dnd campaign, i should be selling dnd maps and character designs and scene setting pieces. i can't just make my friends matching earrings, i need to get an etsy and ship them internationally and take bulk orders. i make pretty good props and decorations and use them to throw my friends parties - but i should be running a party planning business and start taking paying clients and networking and putting my skills to actual use.

for some reason, i never figured out the specifics of pottery. it was a fun class and i enjoyed myself - and still, i'm embarrassed, years later, that i put in all that useless effort. everything i make has to be stunning. stellar. i should have applied myself more. maybe i'm too lazy. maybe i'm broken and selfish and needy. actually creative people would have kept going; they would be bettering themselves at every possible opportunity.

we find ourselves in this trap, even accidentally: we need to commodify our time, because it is a commodity. if we spend our efforts and our time not earning, isn't that the same thing as burning free money? and god forbid you ever take up a hobby that ends up being more expensive than you thought. you sit in your car and you look at the receipt and in your head you hear a conversation that isn't even happening - your mom or your friend or your partner all saying oh great. not this shit again. it's always something with you, and it never actually means anything.

i have realized this horrible thing, recently - i'll get excited to start a project, pick up a new hobby. and then i just... stop myself. i start thinking about the amount of time it will take, and how it'll look in my monthly budget. what if i can't even produce a good enough final product. sure, it's exciting to think about how i could make my friend her own custom dice. but i'm just polluting the earth if i don't get it right. better not bother. better not try.

restless, i get caught in the negative space. the feeling that oh god, i want to create. and that horrible sense - yeah, but i don't have the time to just put to waste.

[shikai-the-storyteller]

I don't really have a hard-set design for any of the QSMP characters in mind because I'll see all kinds of cool fanart that look totally different and just go "Yeah that's them!" because the designs are all flexible to me.

...This does, however, make it very hard to translate their designs into custom Figmas because I can't decide on a single look.

[yoshistory]

i know its bad for wildlife but i would like to befriend a bird