#lamenting capitalism

[darth-jayne]

I was "learn a new skill" bored during my last quarantine, so I taught myself basic chainmail weaving. I'm fully engrossed, I can tell that this is a hobby that will come back up in the hyperfixation rotation.

The coiling and cutting of the rings is a super satisfying repetitive action, and I've gotten some tools to expedite the process for mass production if I get tired of it. Joining and closing the rings is a joy; I have to keep reminding myself to use the pliers so I don't tear up my fingertips.

I've wound well over 100ft of wire into rings already with very few ideas of what I'm actually going to make yet. I have vague ideas of dice bags and stuff, but if I want to make any armor for myself I'd need a different color of rings; I have a black chain hauberk I'm not going to pair that with a shiny silver coif.

I'm also thinking about making some armor for my bonus kid's stuffed tiger, I think that would be a fun way to practice making the shapes. Plus if I get a little bit wrong here or there and something pinches, the stuffie isn't likely to complain XD

Also, I've been listening to The Silmarillion a lot while doing this and there is something incredibly satisfying about making chainmail while an epic tale of war and heroism is being recited. Making me yearn for an idealized past: spring and summer for farming and hunting, fall for harvest and preparation, winters of crafting and storytelling. I know it wasn't that simple, I'm acutely aware of how dependent I am on things like grocery stores and pharmacies and my cell phone, not to mention doctors and civil water engineers and the international trade system and everything else that gives me enough ease and leisure in my life to have time to daydream about something "simpler".

Hell, I've been offered land and farming equipment TWICE as inheritance and turned it down both times because I know what the reality of being a small family-run agricultural business is these days. It literally killed my uncles, hence the offer of inheritance. I don't want that.

But it's remarkable to me how much the idealized life of so many of my generation (house with some land, a few domestic animals, garden, community of friends and relations living nearby, not quite fully self-sufficient but supplementing home produced goods with commercial purchases) is the same life our grandparents or great-grandparents fought so hard to get away from...

[uncanny-tranny]

The bourgeois or "exploiting class" doesn't inherently include the person who gets their nails done biweekly, or the disabled person who has a carer, or the guy who got a $70 video game for full-price, or the person who relies on medication (yes even the ones you don't think they "need"), or anything else like this. None of these people will, on average, have the ability to exploit workers by means of ownership or whatever.

While you are busy fighting with fellow workers, you are still being exploited by your boss, by capitalism, by (potentially) not having healthcare, by being overworked and underpaid, and so are they.

[icecreampizzer]

gene . 20's . she/he . filipino . website

Hi I'm Gene and I love to draw :3 here is my blog where I post my art and yap about my ocs.. mostly. Fandoms tend to vary but I'm team ocs forevahhh baby!! Check my website for more links and such, I'm icecreampizzer wherever whenever. I follow, like, and send asks from @genebeanz !

#gene art and #gene ocs are my art and oc tag respectively! Main story I'm working on is #loatm , but I tend to jump between smaller projects too.

fandom sideblogs where I primarily post fandom stuff:

@re-colligere - inside out

@neurotonic - i expect you to die

@rest-ever - stardew valley

no set DNI i'll just block ya if you're pro-sh1tz or a bigot

[pathologising]

Im genuinely confused when you post stuff upset about how ppl can be “selfish” and “not take responsibility” bc you admitted to being diagnosed with a personality disorder which involves selfishness, callousness and refusal to take responsibility/lack of remorse… isnt that projection then

this cool thing called therapy and recovery man. You can also be in the trenches and criticise the trenches.

It's also very one dimensional to think of people as their diagnoses. Yes that includes unsavory ones like the cluster b family. We are three dimensional human being capable of making good and bad and in between choices!!! Diagnoses are simply a categorization of behaviour meant to outline a problem, and any therapist worth your salt will tell you that a person is not just their dx.

Who I was when I first got diagnosed was a very different person than who I am now. Not to toot my own horn, but I like to think I've come quite far from the life that I was living. Thay doesn't mean I cannot be selfish or callous or manipulative or whatever else, anyone can. It's a matter of if you work at it or not.

I could go on about this but I don't see you coming in good faith. So understand that if you don't understand it I cannot and will not help you.

[destructive-delight]

ohh i want, i covet, i crave, i desire... i perpetually yearn for what i don't have.....

[steelycunt]

i am too jealous a person to use instagram in the summer months as a university student. i am just too jealous

[arnold-layne]

i hate that finding a good job this day always requires networking. what about us antisocial bitches that say more words to an npc than to a human in a day. i really should be able to get a decent job with skills alone, not through someone i happen to know, because i don’t know that many people.

[lora-flora]

Ah yes, the optimal way of reading an article.........

[sprightlyfox]

No Greater Limit

If every drop in the ocean

Were alive what would she see ?

Bodies crushed around her

Or a clear shimmering sea

[whosname]

Would you please FUCKING PAY ME YOU GODDAMN PIECE OF SHIT!?? I gotta to feed my giant dog and my hungry teenagers and need to pay the rent before the landlady sends the robot to kill me.

[captainsolocide]

can't believe green day is going to be in dc this summer and I have no one to go with to see them

[nicklas-snackstrom]

as a longtime dylan strome lover i am just so filled with happiness seeing him on MY TEAM. and then i come back on here after years and im looking through his tag and i almost want to cry bc im just so happy like i just saw a gif of the caps swarming him after that overtime goal and wow. so much love and happiness

and i got to meet him last year at a practice and he was so fucking sweet

also my mom who is terrible with faces only recognized him because i showed her a picture and all she remembered was “raccoon eyes” so as he was walking out the door i was turned around and she just goes “RACCOON EYES”

[dinos0urs]

Honestly, creation shouldn’t be about whether you can make a living doing it anyway? Capitalism has ruined us so, so badly. If the only thought in your mind when considering a new creative endeavor is “will I be able to do this as good as or better than anybody else doing it right now?” or “will anybody want to buy it?” chances are you won’t even want to start. Nobody’s first poem or painting or song or sculpture is going to be a masterpiece AND THAT’S FINE. Write a poem to yourself. Play the ukulele for your friends. Paint a picture for your S/O. Knit a scarf for your mom. Bake cupcakes for your coworkers. If you get good enough to make a living at it that’s fantastic. If not, you still added something beautiful, handmade, unique, to your life and the lives of your loved ones. Art is about love, expression, and community, NOT MONEY.

I don't think many people realize how much they've been turned into a bunch of casually cynical jerks.

Someone may come to their parents and say "I want to write a book" and their parents will say "it's really hard to get published".

Someone might confide in their sibling and say "I want to sell my art on "x" platform" and that sibling will say "do you know how many people you'd be competing with? Do you know how many shops are even on that platform?"

I know a kid who once told his best friend "I think I wanna start a dnd podcast" and the friend was like "do you know what the word "oversaturation" means?"

Personally, I don't know why any of that matters? And even if it did, perhaps your response should be "Do it! Do it and see where it goes!"

[asgcreations]

Still longing for the day when a wealthy patron sets me up in an attic studio of their fourth holiday home in France where I simply make them luxurious custom clothes and abstract art pieces and in return they keep me fed and housed so I could be gay and not have to worry so much about money, like in the good ol' days (the Renaissance)

[joeynewgarden]

suburbs have to be one of the most isolating places to live. like in the city you have community due to proximity and in rural areas you have community bc of distance. but in the middle of someplace and nowhere there is just nothing.

[wickershells]

genuinely devastating that my old childhood camcorder no longer works... my cherry red toshiba camileo a35... it can work when plugged into a socket but the battery refuses to charge. it had such a beautiful quality to the picture. recorded greens with that particular shade of blueish you only find in memory (maybe because i documented and solidified so much of my life through that screen). i loved the clunky way it zoomed, how non-replicable that is on a phone, and the idea of re-continuing its use over a decade later, but it just sat out of charge for far too long. i could try to replace the battery but i am always a little apprehensive of buying secondhand (and very specific) things like that online, which is kind of my only option