#faif

[5150]

a love that survives and outlives the pain

[detournementsmineurs]

"Canopée" installation textile en chutes de tissus recyclés d'Emilie Faïf (2022) et "Songe d'Hiver" sculpture d'araignée en branches de sapin et laine de Florian Mermin (2021) à l'exposition "Le Chant des Forêts" au MAIF Social Club dans Le Marais, Paris, mars 2023.

[faifels]

Pricefield!!!<3333

I miss them so much euueuewueuw

[fairyhaos]

guys help me look at his fucking DOE EYES what is he so PRETTY FOR

[tsunflowers]

I forgot about this graphic design is my passion type logo they’re going with this year

OH NO ITS ART FAIR WEEK

[grossillygirl]

Uggdjdbdim so hornt its not faif i wish someone was fucking me instead

[lizard-reads-the-world]

Books I read in 2024

Here is my eclectic and very random-looking read list! The first two images are World Challenge books. I read 27 books and checked off 25 countries for the challenge, for a total of 80 countries read since 2022.

Other than that, I managed to read two Brontë sisters, four graphic novels, one memoir, and a few others I picked up. (Vā is a Pacific anthology even though it's in the graphic novel line) I did more picking up random stuff for the fun of it and as expected got some that were interesting and some meh.

Favorites (in no order):

The Cat I Never Named - fictionalized memoir of a teen surviving a siege during the Bosnian war West of the Jordan - interconnected stories of family members in Palestine, Jordan, and the US in the early 80s Here the Whole Time - A warm hug of a story about two gay teens falling in love while sharing a room and overcoming their insecurities Home is Not a Country - novel in verse about a Sudanese teen longing for a country and a life she doesn't have American Street - intense and realistic story set on the streets of Detroit All Things Seen and Unseen - a unique psychological thriller-ish book with a trans coupling and a disabled protagonist Navigating With You - super-cute sapphic romance about teens bonding over a manga series, also with a disabled protagonist

Countries completed:

🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina - The Cat I Never Named, Amra Sabic-El-Rayess

🇧🇷 Brazil - Here the Whole Time, Vitor Martins

🇧🇬 Bulgaria - Wunderkind, Nikolai Grozni

🇨🇲 Cameroon - A Long Way From Douala, Max Lobe

🇹🇩 Chad - Told by Starlight in Chad, Joseph Brahim Seid

🇨🇬 Congo, Republic of - The Lights of Pointe-Noire, Alain Mabanckou

🇸🇻 El Salvador - The Volcano Daughters, Gina María Balibrera

🇫🇮 Finland - True, Riikka Pulkkinen

🇩🇪 Germany - Boy in a White Room, Karl Olsberg

🇬🇪 Georgia - Giorgland Fables, Tamuna Tsertsvadze

🇭🇹 Haiti - American Street, Ibi Zoboi

🌺 Hawai'i - Lei and the Fire Goddess, Malia Maunakea

🇭🇳 Honduras - Libertad, Bessie Flores Zaldívar

🇭🇰 Hong Kong - Stuck in Her Head, Kylie Wang & Liana Tang

🇮🇩 Indonesia - The Songbird and the Ramubutan Tree, Lucille Abendanon

🇯🇴 Jordan - West of the Jordan, Laila Halaby

🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan - Jamila, Chingiz Aitmatov

🇱🇷 Liberia - She Would Be King, Wayétu Moore

🇲🇺 Mauritius - Eve Out of Her Ruins, Ananda Devi

🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea - Tales from Faif, Baka Barakove Bina; Emily Sekepe Bina

🇷🇼 Rwanda - Our Lady of the Nile, Scholastique Mukasonga

🇰🇷 South Korea - A Magical Girl Retires, Park Seolyeon

🇸🇩 Sudan - Home is Not a Country, Safia Elhillo

🇺🇬 Uganda - A Girl is a Body of Water, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

🇻🇪 Venezuela - The Sun and the Void, Gabriela Romero Lacruz

[the-star-rigel]

On endings. 10/10

Efkar definition / The End Poem, Minecraft / Dream, DSMP / Tommyinnit, DSMP / The End and the Beginning, Ameen Rihani / Catherynne M. Valente / Fundy, DSMP / Jinx, Arcane / on Aimsey, DSMP / The End, Hélder Faife / The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry / Technoblade, DSMP / CaptainPuffy, DSMP / When I Was Done Dying, Dan Deacon / Goodbye, Dream SMP., Tommyinnit / Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelley / Agatha Christie: An Autobiography, Agatha Christie / Pluto, Sleeping at Last / Griffin McElroy / The Light That Shines When Things End, I Wrote This For You / Picture of Pluto / The End Poem, Minecraft / Eret, DSMP / Minecraft End Title, Minecraft

[hexyz09]

NO NOT FAIF I CANT SUPER BOOP ON MOBILE 😭😭

At least not on mine!

[5150]

Trapping myself in my room because everything in the house makes me sick and the air just smells like Fabuloso I feel already dead lost my appetite weeks ago and have been living off of Boost shakes for the last two weeks. I’m at a weight where my doctors would have admitted me years ago against my will but now they accept it because there’s nothing else they can do. I feel disgusting. This dream body has become a nightmare where I look in the mirror and if the smell of the chemicals don’t gag me first my own appearance makes me feel nauseous. I feel like a skeleton both inside and out, a rotting shell of everything that’s ever made me human and feminine and lovable. everyone is calling me an evil princess for freaking out over not being able to brush my teeth or use the bathroom due to the chemicals making me feel like I’m going to throw up and pass out at the same time but I feel like I have no control over anything my body is forcing me into. Including what the humans are asking. And then I get stabbing head pain like a ghost is performing a craniotomy on me in the name of Johnson & Johnson himself as soon as I step foot outside of my bedroom. How am I supposed to get out of here and save myself and not involve anybody else if I can’t even survive my own house? Part two right… I’m not special for that. Nobody actually gives a fuck about a brain tumor when it comes down to visibly showing symptoms. They only care when it’s a memorial it appears. They only care if the person sacrifices themselves as a martyr or something too. it’s been months of deterioration merely and already I don’t feel like I’m in my body anymore. I feel like a parasite is speaking for me constantly and I don’t blame everyone’s attempts in abandoning it, I blame a lack of my own because I’m stuck like this. I blame the lack of empathy that this could happen to anyone at anytime and the frank matter is, I’m just one of the few people who preordered it. We are all experiencing the same health consequences at different tolerance levels and my lack of tolerance should be taken as a learning lesson rather than a way to uncover and stick someone else’s pain inside my own unwanted vulnerability. There’s no natural filth worse than what we’ve invented to scrub it “clean” with. Reminds me of every other diagnosis they pulled out of their ass to expedite an orange bottled cure that shredded my brain, agitating the real root of it. All because 2% of all brain tumors are this. Yet we are all unified in lost intuition

[oneiriad]

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Favourite colour: A nice dark green. Or black as my cat :-)

Last song: "Roll to me" by Del Amitri. Which I am absolutely certain there was a fanvid of, but I can't remember the fandom and the Leverage one I can find does not feel right. *grumbles*

Last movie: I watched "The Blob" last weekend. Genuine 50s sci-fi horror. The effects were surprisingly decent, considering (fake, absolutely, but not breaking the suspension of disbelief), but the acting - honestly? I now want teenage Lille Per vs cosmic horrors, because that's the vibe I got. So 50s.

Currently watching: "The Legend of Vox Machina". It's okay. I'm never going to be in that fandom, but watching an episode every 2-3 days have been entertaining - once I got past the first two. If I hadn't been spoiled/osmosis'ed ahead of time, I would have gone no further, but once the plot starts happening it balances the alleged humour better - but honestly, as awful openings goes, it's right up there with "De udvalgte".

Other stuff I watched this year: Bit of this, bit of that. Good Omens, of course. A Korean Odyssey, where I enjoyed the side characters far more than the main couple. The Woman King, which felt incredibly US military movie, which I suppose is faif, as that's what it is. Wakanda Forever because Namor. Other things.

Shows I dropped this year: Not a show as such, but - I've finally dropped the MCU. As in I've stopped watching every movie in cinemas (honestly, I've mostly quit cinemas these days). I'll watch an individual movie if it interests me (*points to favourite angry merman*), but I doubt very many of them will.

Last book: "City of Bones" by Martha Wells. Which has a lot of the stuff you also see in her newest work - especially the non-human protagonist that does not fit in among his own kind. The novel itself is okay - post-apocalyptic high fantasy.

Currently reading: Since the publication of the last volume is finally within sight, I've started reading "Heaven Official's Blessing". So far so good, though the main character feels a bit bland. Also reading R.F. Kuang's "The Poppy War" and finding the parallels to Chinese history at once extremely heavy-handed and at the same time curiously - revisionist? Oh, it totally wasn't the fantasy!English they fought Opium Wars with, it was the fantasy!Japanese. But I'm only about 100 pages in. We'll see.

Tagging @calvinahobbes, @robininthelabyrinth, @kattahj and @daughterofscotland and anybody else who'd like to play

[kaiserinjacky]

@faif-girlcel

does anyone have any more posts in this style? I'm making a collection

[faifels]

Sean Diaz sketch heuhuehue I was blushing and kicking my feet while drawing him LMAO I love him sm

[fairyhaos]

idk he's just like . really really fu c k ing cool

[3dgamefe]

QUIXEL MIXER

HOW TO ADD YOUR OWN MODEL

Select your model in MAYA, and then export it all. Save into a folder you can easily access.

Go into Quixel Mixer and make a new project.

On the right hand side, there is a setting to access. Select the folder, then simply import your model from there.

Make sure that your UV is laid out neatly and is all within the limits of the square in MAYA, otherwise it will not work properly in Mixer.

To import your textures into Quixel, first save your UV into somewhere accessible. Then go back to your quixel project, and access the folder below the previous one. Import from there, and your model should now be clothed.

SCREENSHOTS NEEDED FAIF

WHAT IS DISPLACEMENT?

Displacement is basically a technique that adds detail/relief to a model without adding anything 3D to the model itself. It creates an illusion of sorts so that it looks like it has a texture, perhaps rough or grainy, when in reality it is just a flat plane still.

[insert UV map examples]

If I had used this software myself, I might've used it to make buttons for my saddlebag. Unfortunately, my Quixel Mixer was not working properly with my saddlebag. I simply ran out of time.

[depressed-changeling]

I literally remember Netanyahu praising Trump for his support for Isreal during Trump's first term. I know Netanyahu wants Trump to win because that orange fucker will shamelessly send even more weapons to Israel, send more soldiers, and hell I wouldn't be suprised if Trump would supply nucleae weapons to Israel.

Trump has already stated for Israel to "finish the job". Trump wants the total genocide of Palestinians. He wants Israel to continue to assault surrounding countries under the guise of "Hamas". He wants a Ww3.

And that's not even touching Project2025/Agenda47 and how many millions of people will be oppressed, brutalized, deported, and/or killed. Or the fact that the Supreme Court ruled the president to essentially be a King who cannot be held accountable.

I get why people are pissed about this election. People are sick of having to settle for the lesser evil, because it's between that or complete facism. They don't want to vote for politicians so blatently ignoring international law in favor of profit and power.

But until ranked voting becomes a thing, until the great revolution is actually feasible and not just some political equivalence to the great rapture, we are stuck voting between a facist and a politician.

Biden stepping down was the right choice. His blatant support for Israel killed his appeal, and it finally got through his head. Whatever good he did bring to this country, which to be faif he did more than I expected, means nothing in comparison to his support for the Palestinian Genocide. Or how he's STILL participating in the inhumane act putting immigrants into camps and depriving them of basic human rights before deporting them.

I have no idea how Harris will be as president. At worst, she's just another lackluster politician not doing nearly as much as anyone would want her to, and at best she's meeting the bar that's set at the crust of the Earth. But she is undoubtedly more appealing for the simple fact that she can be reasoned with.

Linked below is a form you can send to Harris is express what's important to you, what you expect, and what will cost her your support.

Make it clear that unlike Biden, you expect her to take a stance against Israel. That as president, she will stop the export of weapons and soldiers, and follow international law and rulings. That you expect her to live up to her promise to end mass incarceration, protect abortion rights, balance the courts and impeach corrupt judges.

one of my friends (also a leftist) said that because we live in utah, it doesn't matter who he votes for, and there's no way he will vote for a "fucking cop who was complicit in genocide."

he is telling his friends in utah that they have zero say in who is president, so they shouldn't vote for harris.

and, i love him, but i think that line of thinking is really damaging.

if the stakes were lower for this election, then sure! i'm all in favor of third parties, and i do think that should be more normalized. it would be great to get to a point where we have more viable options than just democrats and republicans.

but this election is against trump. if trump wins, we get project 2025.

this isn't your father's republican party that just wanted to lower taxes and have more free trade. we are looking at rights being taken away for several marginalized communities. major changes that will set us back decades. there is too much on the line, and harris needs every single vote she can get.

saying you won't vote for harris because you live in a red state and don't think your vote will count... like a vote for a third party will??

you're really just saying that you don't mind trump winning, or if you do, you aren't willing to actually do what it takes to stop it.

as for being complicit with the genocide, aren't we all? our tax money is going to the genocide. we are complicit, whether we like it or not.

and harris has openly advocated for a ceasefire! also, do you think trump won't be complicit in the genocide? do you not think he would actively support israel? i'd rather have a president that calls for a ceasefire than one who doesn't. i'd rather have a president who is willing to push back on israel than one who be pushed around by israel.

there's more hope for a ceasefire with harris than there is with trump, and that's worth something.

my friend said "when people look back at your history, don't let them see your name next to a war criminal's."

honestly? in this election, i would rather have my name seen next to harris because that shows i understood that the future of our country and the safety of its citizens was more important than my personal moral superiority.

i don't just vote to make a fucking point. i vote because it impacts people's lives.

it seriously feels like some people are okay with watching the country burn, as long as they feel morally superior.