#carving is so nice

[myreitha]

I think everyone's gotten theirs by now, so please enjoy the linocut I designed, carved, printed on cards and sent out for February's International Correspondence Writing Month :)

[Image Description 1: A black linocut print featuring a moth with sparkling star eye patterns on its six wings and surrounded by a starburst of lines and small stars. End description.]

Some process and more details under the cut - including the other stamps I carved to go on the envelopes and inside the cards!

Please enjoy my chaotic printing station and my beautiful stack of shelves, baskets, and my baking racks being used as a place for all the prints to dry (well, most of them)

I also carved individual stamps of the starry eyeballs based off the eye shapes in the moth's wings. I love love love love how they came out, and also had a lot of fun with the variety of little star stamps I made to embellish things with.

[Image ID 2: A photo of my kitchen table overtaken by a precarious stack of wire shelves and racks that are covered in drying prints. In front of the drying prints is my printing surface where the ink, roller, and the linocut are visible. Image ID 3-4: Photos of the envelopes used to send the cards, they've got stars stamped on the front and a large starry eye stamped on the flap. The eyes are two different variations of a similar design and match the eye pattern on the moth's wings. End Description.]

For funsies, please also enjoy how gorgeous this design came out on brown paper

[Image Description 5: Another image of the same print, this time on brown paper intead of white]

[amphibianaday]

day 1818 Happy (late) Halloween!!

[vinceaddams]

I wondered if perhaps Lestat's nice art nouveau wallpaper was a reproduction of a historical design, but it seems it's a modern one - "Nouveau Damask Wallpaper" by Antonina Vella. Ah well. Still lovely!

From what I've seen, the actual historical ones usually have many more colours than just 2. But they did have wallpapers with shiny metallics! I should go back and look at his other wallpapers and see if any of them are on my historical pattern pinterest boards. Art nouveau wallpapers & furnishing fabrics are one of my favourite things in all of surface design history.

[rubenesque-as-fuck]

Finished up this year's jack-o'-lantern for the stoop 🎃

[spkyart]

Of course hiei is eating the sticks

[puppyeared]

Remember how they pointed out that Palistrom wood was becoming rarer? Because Belos kept over harvesting it and not giving it time to grow back?

The University’s tree is blue. Its a big ass Palistrom tree

[canisalbus]

I hope you have a lovely day today. ❤️

Thank you! You too! 🧡

[c-kiddo]

another weirdo cad ep98 moment again . the gals + fjord trying to discuss giving veth swimming lessons and fjord mentions tying her to the ship with rope to swim (veth yelled NO!) and cad wanders past and is like Do you guys want rope i have so much rope? and when they say no thanks he's like ok bye then i'm going to go back to playing with the ship's wheel :-]

[kylejsugarman]

voluntarily thinking about that one breaking bad scene where jesse quietly and procedurally plants flowers in rehab is its own form of self harm

[capricores]

pisces/virgo placements... it's about time you took care of yourself, too, ok?

you burn yourselves out allowing yourself to be pulled by so many people in all different directions. you exhaust all your resources and empty your cup - no, your entire well - to help those around you, even people you don't know. it's such a beautiful thing, and i know you genuinely love helping others, supporting people, seeing them thrive. it's such a beautiful trait! but you constantly end up neglecting yourself, right? you don't realize that you have permission to set aside time to care for you, to cater to your needs for once. you often feel like no one puts a drop in your cup, the favor is never returned - it's exhausting; you might think if you just keep giving your all it will come back; i understand. you will find the people that give the same energy back to you one day, but regardless of whether you've found those people yet, you need to learn to step aside and fill your own cup!

setting boundaries and saying no is the most important thing you will learn to do in this lifetime. it will not be easy for you, sometimes it will feel painful. but you cannot help the world if you're constantly drained and tired! you deserve to take care of yourself in the same way you do for others. be gentle to your kind soul, nourish yourself; do the things you love to do. learn to worry about others less, as hard as it is, and focus on yourself more.

[venacoeurva]

I do feel bad for people who really only use Twitter, I used it exclusively for a while when it was still decent-ish pre-elongated crust, and it's been dogshit but it keeps getting worse... but some people

have all their mutuals and friends there

some people can't use other social media they otherwise would due to it being banned where they are (which might include the aforementioned mutuals and friends living there too)

a ton of people have a larger following or reach there than any other sites they use that won't follow them elsewhere and that's their only source of income so they can't just delete and leave

and it's one of the few major social medias left where there's an active and openly allowed nsfw scene.

The fact that the alternatives are smaller sites scattered all over the place that might die in a few years, get worse, stagnate, or just never get much traffic just has me kinda

[mothymayhem]

My favorite pass time is blocking people who dislike my favorite characters, cause it's my experience and I am allowed to just not share opinions with others!

Does that mean they're a bad person? No. It means I just don't want to read about their takes on my favorite guys.

And that. Is. Ok.

There are no rules to the block button guys. None. The thing about being in the sun and moon show fandom is just being like "hey. This. This isn't for me." And deciding that's the end of that and blocking.

[spearxwind]

Everyone talks about how expensive rent is but i dont ever see anyone talk about how expensive furniture and house stuff is. Saving up for like, a couch is insanely expensive. Buying one nice thing is fine but if you need several things suddenly the price builds up sooo high like I want to have a nice table and some nice chairs and maybe a nice lamp and suddenly that can all run me for 800eur easily at the cheapest.

[n1et]

I just got a cane and oh my god, my entire body is shaking. It's as if I was standing up for all my life and just sat down. Life changing decision to just go and get one, and it only costed 34 PLN, I could get like a single burger with no sides or drink for that. Solid oak, admittedly about 3cm too long but I'm gonna trim it in a sec.

And I never even had big issues with my legs, just a slight left hip joint problem, nothing painful, 99% of the time I didn't notice it. But I guess it was just overworked and stiff all this time? Even my tension headaches got slightly better.

If you feel like you have ANY issues with your legs just get a cane, or even go to a medical store and try it out for 10 minutes, you don't even have to buy it at first. The investment is so low and the difference is potentially massive.

I can't believe I waited over 4 years to do this.

[airyal245]

The charm I ordered form @kotikaleo has arrived, and there were some extra goodies too!!! I am in love with all the artwork, and the print was such a nice supprise!

[mildmayfoxe]

october patreon print out of the way real early! gotta be ghosts 👻 || shop