#composters

[pine-niidles]

Febuary Project Updates

Short and sweet, Febuary always flies right by. For me this month was full of commission work and some to do list catch-up. My main goal was to start March with all the big items from Febuary crossed off to avoid the backlog that’s been slowing me down and on that I’ve succeded! Plus I still found a bit of time to make progress on my projects ✨

Edinburgh Zine Fest

The Edinburgh Zine Fest was this month and while I’m still a ways off from tabling again I went to it with a couple of friends as a “research” trip. It was a lot of fun! Honestly it’s been a while since I’ve been to a zine fair at all but especially as an attendee rather than someone with a table and it’s great to have that different perspective in mind when on the other side of the conversation.

DnDeities

This mini project has been on my list for a while, though I don’t think I’ve ever introduced it outside of my projects page. I have three homebrew dnd deities made for a game jam last march and I’ve been meaning to make fake handbook pages for them mimicing the dnd style (with a ni twist) ever since then. Last weekend I got the layout figured out and finished the first one!

A crop of Myra’s description, I’ll post all three together when done!

Let’s Get Bitter Together

Finished the second of three sprites for Let’s Get Bitter Together! One more to go ✨

Composters

It’s a working title until we actually come up with something but my girlfriend and I have started working on a party game about competative composting in a fantasy world. Currently it’s in the very early stages of development but I can already tell I’m going to be learning a lot since I’ve never made art for a top down game before.

Ocs

I’ve decided to take the general oc updates section out of these posts since they were getting pretty long, I’ll continue talking about oc profile progress but I’ll do that in seperate posts on my toyhou.se instead. It feels right to keep that all in one place.

March Goals

I didn’t set specfic goals for January and Febuary because I was still working through my backlog but now that I’m free I’m ready to dive back into things:

Finish something. Probably the deity pdfs!

Put together and annotate my 2022 life drawing zine

More Rose Garden scripting

Write the dragon game edits & send for further playtesting

[comet-ko]

you wouldn’t compost a baby

[hypokeimena]

i was just talking about this after being wrecked by the discovery that the little elf-goblin fellows my parents/family used to tell me warnings and stories about as a little kid are regionally specific, and that you can trace people's geographic origins by what word they use for "little spirit-fellows who live in your house". no matter what you call them (domovoi, kobolde, brownies, so on); for purposes of this post henceforth "little guys"

i think one of the things that i find frustrating about like, idk, modern animist revivalist movements is that very few of them ime spend a lot of time romanticising and spiritualizing human habitation. obviously, we as a culture need to think more about protecting and defending nature/the earth/so on, but like.

if you don't have room in your heart for making up a little guy who lives in the water heater, or who squats under your stove and makes it run 15 degrees off the programmed temperature, and thinking of him with the same kind of respect/affection as you do for the spirits (or whatever) of the wildlife you interact with like.

genuinely: what are you even doing. you are removing a source of richness and fun and whimsy from your life! like, pip @creekfiend made up the concept of "little guys who live in an airport (and are the reason it's so shitty to be in an airport)" and i already like airports like 30% more just knowing it's the little airport inconvenience guys doing that.

more importantly, like. genuinely: interrogate what parts of the world seem ~rich with spiritual meaning~ to you. what parts of the world are "wild"? what does that make the rest of the world - a chore? a burden? who has to carry that burden?

we're never going to like, "return to nature", because that's nothing and the concept of untouched nature is also nothing; we're always going to have some sort of human habitation and interaction and cultivation with nature. if you can't extend grace and whimsy and genuine and sincere meaning to human habitation, including its inconveniences and annoyances, you are making your own lived experience duller!

notably, most of these kinds of little-guy-spirits historically exist in the parts of human habitation that are partially abandoned, partially removed: haylofts, inside the walls, under the house, in the bathhouse, behind the furnace... i've been thinking a lot about urban wildlife lately, and the animals who make space for themselves in and around human habitation. the "natural" and the "wild" persist inside and around the edges of the "tame" and always, always have. if you have a crawlspace, there's a little spirit who lives there and he's the reason the dryer always eats your socks.

LIVE WHIMSICALLY.

[vyscera]

the garden i tend at work is getting overrun with snails so i thought about a world where we acquired a domesticated a "working dog" breed of hammerhead worm (they eat snails and slugs and worms) that is also. a puppy. Bred to clear vegetation of common slimy garden pests. click under readmore if u wanna see the worm theyre based off of i think theyre really cute

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[gaylienz]

The 7 R’s of Sustainability:

Did you know that ‘recycling’ is step 6 of the 7 Rs of sustainability? The other R’s are just as important even if they are often forgotten.

Rethink- Do I really need to buy this? The point of this step is to stop and think.

Refuse- Does this product damage the environment? If so, refuse to spend your money on it. i.e. single use plastics, harsh chemicals

Reduce- How much of this do I really need? Buy less! Buy in bulk when you can as it often equals less packaging to throw out.

Reuse- Can I use this product again? Can I fix what I have so that I don’t need to buy something new? Reuse that plastic water bottle a few times. And instead of buying new, try thrift shopping, flea markets, yard sales etc.

Repurpose- Unlimited creativity! Does this item have another use? i.e. old torn clothes can be rags or plastic cups can be planters.

Recycle- Can I recycle this? Not everything can be. There are also some important steps to making sure your recycling is done properly. If unsure, look up local recycling regulations.

Rot- Can I compost this? Food waste, yard clippings, newspapers and many other items can be composted instead of being tossed in the trash. Composting is surprisingly simple and helps reduce harmful greenhouse gasses from entering the atmosphere.

What is the point of the R’s? The number one benefit of the 7 R’s are the reduction of the amount of waste sent to incinerators and landfills. The EPA website provides a lot of useful information. Other benefits that we can reap from implementing these concepts in our life are (as listed on the EPA website): • Prevents pollution caused by reducing the need to harvest new raw materials • Saves energy from not making a new product • Reduces greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change • Helps sustain the environment and natural resources for future generations • Saves money from processing our waste • Increases economic security by tapping a domestic source of materials • Helps create jobs in the recycling and manufacturing industries in the United States

https://www.northglenn.org/government/departments/public_works/trash/recycling.php https://www.nrdc.org/stories/composting-101 https://www.epa.gov/recycle https://www.northglenn.org/Recycling%20Article.pdf

[politijohn]

Source

Five days apart 👍🏼

[scenteddean]

I've had this 90% finished since the beginning of january, but thankfully have been dragging my heels on finishing the rest just to be done on time for a very special day <3 happy bday smart angel

[so-i-did-this-thing]

Halloween felt like 84 years ago

[hollywolly3000]

Gnomes get compost

[wormontwostrings]

happy ending for broth boy

[mckitterick]

Hasbro, owner of Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering, lays off 1,100 workers

The corporate owner of Wizards of the Coast (maker of D&D and Magic) announced it will lay off 1100 employees just two weeks before Christmas. Hasbro had already fired 800 workers in January of this year.

At the time, CEO Cocks trumpeted the new corporate plan: focus on fewer and larger brands, increase digital development, and invest in direct-to-consumer and licensed deals like Baldur's Gate 3, demonstrating his disconnect with customers.

Cocks first became Hasbro CEO in February 2022, and now gets an annual salary of $1.5 million. While the company's income dropped and 800 workers went jobless, this one executive received $9.4 million in total compensation last year, an amount that could have saved many creative jobs if even slightly trimmed. Instead, 1100 more actual workers will go.

No reduction in executive salary, bonuses, or additional compensation was announced.

[iamtheweirdomister]

[sakurm]

didn't you miss him?

[wraithee]

Ed being so open and brave and saying ‘You wear fine things well’, letting Stede know he still wants him too. Ed leaning toward Stede and kissing him. Ed setting the pace and asking to take it slow, letting Stede know he was listening and he isn’t being prone so his whims in that moment. Making it clear that he’s serious about what they are doing. He’s still all in.

[banhbotloc]

[ID: first, a cutting board with zucchini flowers, tiny zucchini, and enoki mushrooms on it. second, zucchini flowers in a bowl of tempura batter. third, fried tempura zucchini flowers on a plate. lastly, an enoki mushroom omelet (with enoki mushrooms arranged and frizzled around the edges, and egg in the center, looking a bit like a flower or sunburst). end ID]

tempura + farmer's market zucchini flowers + funky mushrooms = song of the summer

[probablyasocialecologist]

The richest 1 percent have more wealth than the bottom 95 percent of the world’s population put together, new Oxfam analysis of UBS data reveals today ahead of the annual UN High-Level General Debate. Billionaires are exerting new levels of control over economies, with a billionaire either running or the principal shareholder of more than a third of the world’s top 50 corporations. The combined market capitalization of these corporations is $13.3 trillion. Oxfam’s briefing paper “Multilateralism in an Era of Global Oligarchy” warns that multilateral efforts to respond to critical global challenges, including the climate crisis and persistent poverty and inequality, are being undermined by the ultra-wealthy and mega-corporations fueling inequality within and between countries. Despite being home to 79 percent of the world’s population, Global South countries own just 31 percent of global wealth.

23 September 2024