#buyer works

[blorbologist]

what is *with* the rash of people reposting CR art without credit...

First that horny mass reposter (no shade against horny fan content, moreso that the reposting is even more clearly done without care or consent), now another stealing art from artists with styles I recognize at a glance. Fucking blatant disregard for artists and cosplayers.

Hey! Y'all in the CR tags - if you see an account with a suspicious amount of different styles? That's repostin', and there's good odds the artist has a tumblr account or has opinions about their art being posted without credit.

Let the artists know if you can track them down and do not like/rb the reposts. You can probably find even more of the style you're enjoying from the creator, and your enjoyment will actually reach them directly!

[burningtheroots]

I‘d suggest to read the entire thread, especially if you still don’t understand that prostitution is slavery, exploitation, a hate crime against women & a human rights violation in some of the worst ways.

[bittsandpieces]

the soju I got sucks ass 😭 I realize now that I'm reading the label more in depth that its not even fucking rice based.... it's some bullshit sugar cane spirit so it tastes like im straight up drinking vodka

[tierras]

How did you get a career in fashion buying? That sounds so fun

i went back to school last last year and studied merchandising + marketing with an emphasis on buying and then got a buying internship and was hired full time afterwards :)

[tweedfrog]

Just saw nosferatu and i really appreciated that count orlok specified that Ellen had 3 days *including the current day* to decide whether to embrace him or not because as someone who works in property law counting timeframes including or excluding a date is a recurring issue for me 😀

[movie-robotnik-positivity]

The description of the Sonic 3 teaser mentions Robotnik being accompanied by a gang of armored henchmen with laser guns.

And in "Knuckles" we see an entire underground operation using Robotnik's techology and alien DNA to make weapons and armor. Could this be how the series ties into Sonic 3?

[cjgladback]

So this blocking thing! It's good for more than just nuisances. I haven't knit a lot of garments yet with fiber that responds to blocking, and what I have has been like...socks where it seems unnecessary because the whole thing will be in tension while worn. But also I just don't have large pinnable surfaces, as one typically needs when the point is to soak a piece of fabric and then stretch it out to pose in the shape you want it to be until next soaking. What do I have? The ability to stack waterproof objects on a small patch of flat counter space. And thank goodness because that definitely saved this hat.

Anyway! I am happy to have used my extremely inconsistent first skeins of support-spindled yarn (see the post with them all laid out here) for a project I'll probably actually use once it's chilly again. It is comfortable, even if I'm a bit disappointed in the colorwork legibility. This is how the chart looks:

But I didn't quite manage matching gauge yarns, I'm low on practice/experience keeping tension for stranded colorwork, and probably just aiming for too loose a fabric anyway (should've found a path to increasing stitches and using smaller needles on that section) so it's very blobby.

I do have some of that green and "matching" oyster skein left, as well as a little of the finest oyster yarn I used for the ribbing. So if I use them together again, I'll probably hold the two oyster threads as one. Speaking of, I had way too much of the underplied lace yarn and wasn't happy with my first run at an even more open lace panel, so ended up frogging that back and making these sections with the lace yarn held double. Worth it! Much happier with this result. And I can see why underplied yarn has been said to do lace well; was cool how open it already was before blocking.

Image descriptions below:

[ID: Four photos of a slouchy, off-white beanie with some green colorwork being knit, blocked, and worn. The hat is constructed with a solid top of thicker yarn, strip of lace, a strip of green colorwork (meant to be jumping frogs), a matching strip of lace, and finally a long section of ribbing, broken into four strips by inverting the knits and purls.

In the first photo, with a blurred background, the beanie is still in process with a green string holding the live stitches while it's tried on, partway through the first section of ribbed brim; it fits like a misshapen mushroom, the top lace panel collapsing over the relatively tight colorwork, all under the lumpy increases of the densely knit crown.

The second photo also has a blurred background but shows the hat being blocked, gently stretched over a tower of stacked containers, widest at the top around the curved base of an upside down plastic coffee canister from crown to colorwork, the gradual taper of a hair bleach tub easing the lower lace panel into the ribbing before the very end hangs free around a peanut butter jar pedestal.

The third and fourth photos show the finished hat from the side and front, being worn by a pale-skinned brunette woman with a braid and orange t-shirt in front of painted wood paneling on an overcast day. The hat is slouched but not bulbous, blocking having stretched the colorwork horizontally and the lace vertically; a twice-rolled brim covers the lower lace panel but leaves the still not very legible frog colorwork visible. End ID]

[ID: Chart of green on white colorwork made in the Google Sheets spreadsheet software; a section in the middle is selected, though there are repeated motifs on either side. Every cell with an X in it is colored green and makes slightly horizontally stretched pixel art of a frog hopping from the right to the left; the rightmost frog is crouched under a flower or star made of four dots, to its left is a frog pushing off the ground and to its left a frog leaping horizontally through the air. The repeat is 39 stitches wide, 10 rows tall. End ID]

[kerizaret]

That Saki side story is SOOOO swet tho bc :((( tenmaaaaas WAAAH....

Their parents apparently couldn't come to Leo/need's debut show because of work, which made me sad, but tenmama was super apologetic about it too.. but Saki wasn't bothered by it at all and just took it as motivation to work hard for all their future shows and said they'll have a lot of chances to come again because l/n will be doing lots of shows from now on. And tenmama promises to be there for her with their dad too to see it ;-;;

Then tsukasa starts crying bc of how sweet saki is, as usual

And then they message the dad who's still at work and send a picture of them all with the starry sky, to which he replies with his own where he does a silly pose too 😭😭 and then they all go to make their famous tenma curry together bc they wanna help their mom cook ;-;;

JUST AUGH THEYRE SO SWEET :(( they appreciate their parents sm even if they can't always be there for them and help them out whenever they can I love tenmas :*(( and they're all absolutely silly too

[pancakeke]

ngl its been a bad week already and last night i decided today was the day i start looking for a new job. but that was 50% because i felt hopeless about dev's communication regarding database updates considering how they directly stated that they have no intention to ever keep me up to date with changes. like not even quick "heads ups". but maybe this will make this fucking job tolerable again.

[burningtheroots]

Sex isn’t a service, and women & their bodies aren’t commodities. You can‘t morally/ethically purchase either.

Sex is only consensual when it‘s mutual. And it‘s NOT mutual when money is involved. After all, if it was mutual, and thus consensual, money wouldn’t be needed. If you removed the money, the woman wouldn’t agree to it (she technically doesn’t "agree" to it either way due to money being a coercive factor).

But "sex work" always involves an exchange between (usually) a man’s money and (usually) a woman’s sexual service. And that’s sexual coercion, and hence it’s rape.

Simple logic, right? But apparently a huge amount of people traded their brains to live on easy mode, free from critical thinking and morality.

[raceweek]

no but please tell us more about the graves, or just graves in general in property law, it sounds fascinating

the truth of the matter is that in the uk there’s absolutely fuck all legislation about it!! there’s like five pieces of really old statute collectively called the burial acts which almost solely deals with the plague so you basically have to go….sooooooo its not a plague pit so far as we are aware……….let me know if you have any questions :) x

[fjordfolk]

We've been a tad worried that Melis has gotten into some improper resource guarding, after growling at both Luna and my mom over things in the house. Which sounds serious. But we also know that Melis came with a lot of growling and sharp reactions preinstalled (without necessarily having any intent to follow through or even being that serious about it) which is really why the breeder switched her to us in the first place.

But I'm wondering if this new bout of sharpness is less 'this is how serious I am' and more 'this is the fastest way to get what I want'. When she's with Troj and Sparty, who are a lot stricter re:boundaries and won't be pushed around, Melis goes for the opposite tactic when she wants something. Then it's endearing, soft eyes, chin licks, etc. I watched Melis and Sparty trade a soggy chew back and forth several times today and at no point did anyone threaten anything.

I've been thinking it's ironic for Melis to growl at Luna and not Sparta, considering Sparta is the only one serious enough to justify some sharp tones potentially. But maybe it's not, because it's definitely efficient. And with Sparta she might have to actually mean it. But instead she moderates herself and actually shows a really nice range of appropriate signals - when it's required of her and she knows she can't just bully her way through.

[taxonomicons]

everything I love about Aziraphale can be summed up in the fact that he draws on a cartoonish mustache to do human magic, when he can easily miracle both of those things to be real. He is a savant of showmanship and joy, thrilled by the whimsy of the mundane.

[delkios]

Was driving back from the dentist today and saw a regular Tesla car with a bumper sticker that said "I bought this before we knew Elon was crazy".

[alackofghosts]

hrghh tex ture….

[bri-does-art]

i know this probably won’t do much, let alone anything at all, but i’m sorry for the stress this site has caused you and so many other creators here. i’m not asking for you to stick around on here, but i hope you know just how meaningful you and your art have been on here. you’re amazing. /pos

Hey, this ask has done a lot more than you would think. Thank you, you are very sweet. <3

I've kind of made up my mind about what I'm gonna do for a while now, but I've simply been... too busy and overwhelmed to take the time to let you guys know. I'm not going to delete my tumblr, there's just. Too much here that I don't want to lose.

So far the game plan is: keep my tumblr. But do not upload anymore art or writing on it - not because it's gonna get scraped, because it was already getting scraped anyway, AI company deal or not. It's pretty much unavoidable at this point, unfortunately. I simply do not trust Tumblr with my data, if they're going to sell EVERYTHING, including private messages and such, so I'm not going to give it anything worthwhile to profit off of. Instead, I'm going to start uploading my art exclusively on Ao3, for now. I'll answer any asks I receive here on there too, as well. I'll figure some kind of system out. 🤔

The cool thing about uploading to Ao3 is that anyone subscribed to my profile or to the containment series I will make will get a notification anytime I upload something new. Having my art and writing in one place is likely going to be more convenient for you guys too, since you won't have to move across platforms to get the full experience. 😄It'll be different... but a platform getting too greedy for its own good won't stop me from finding ways to share my stories with y'all. I'll just find another solution.

(I've also been entertaining the idea of joining or making my own Discord server but. That one is a little more delicate. The idea of joining a server that has hundreds of members like a lot of this fandom's servers have, just. Makes me break into hives, lmao. (I am in the Ghost in the Machine fic server. I muted it an hour into joining, it was way too intense for me. |'D) That is way too many people, I simply cannot handle it. I'd be way more comfortable in a smaller group with a less rapid-fire rate of posting and conversation. I am also. Very picky about which servers I join, which makes asking for recommendations doubly awkward when I shoot them all down, haha... And making my own... Err, I can hardly keep up with a server I helped create for another fandom and mod for, I don't think I could handle two of them - I would need other people to handle the moderation for me, and I wouldn't trust just anyone to be a mod. I'd need to know them well enough to know I could trust them, and I... do not really know anyone in this fandom well enough to do that, sadly. I take server moderation very seriously, as someone who has had experience modding for forums back before social media was a thing. I do not know if that would make for a fun experience for everyone, and anyone who hasn't known that kind of supervised experience. It is comforting to me. It may be intimidating for others. So that's still a very hand-wavy, 'eehhhh' kind of thing still.)

All of this to say, that this isn't the last you'll see from me, far from it. I'll restrict my creative output to Ao3 for the foreseeable future, and I'll let you guys on here know when I make a new upload, so those of you who do not have an Ao3 account know when something new has happened.

So there you have it. 😊