#recycling pins

[romanisweird]

IDK WHO NEEDS THIS

But here's how to make diy pins with a bottle cap!

☆ You will need: A bottle cap, a soda tab, and a safety pin first

☆ Then: Pliers, paint (optional), and clear nail polish later

Put the safety pin through the soda tab like this, make sure the part of the safety pin that opens is facing up

Place the soda tab with safety pin in the bottle cap, double check to make sure the opening part of the safety pin is facing up!

Then use pliers to crunch the sides of the bottle cap down on the soda tab

This will keep the tab and safety pin in place!

Then you can paint whatever you want onto the bottle cap or keep it plain

If you paint it you might want to sand the surface first or cut it up lightly to make the paint stick better

After you're done painting you can use clear nail polish as a top coat!

[dognonsense]

The aluminium from the cans was very sharp so I had to be careful not to get a cut, but other than that it was pretty easy

Tiktok i just found with a hack on using the bottoms of old cans as the base for diy buttons. Make sure to cover the sharp edge with something!

[tachiguin]

Is Tanizaki really more evil than Dazai?

I don’t think I’ve ever written a longer meta about “Tanizaki is the person who comes the closest to “evil” among all the Detective Agency employees”, which is something Asagiri mentions at a BSD Exposition, but I do have a lot of thoughts about it. I think the most popular reaction to this statement is ‘more than Dazai?!’ which is fair. Because Dazai is a former Port Mafia executive and has a rap sheet longer than Tetchou’s saber. But I think there’s multiple angles at which you can tackle this: The qualifier being “among all the [ADA] employees”, what makes someone more evil than another, how you define ‘evil’. 

The easiest way to justify this if you firmly believe that Dazai is more evil than Tanizaki is to separate PM!Dazai from ADA!Dazai. Say that PM!Dazai is more evil than ADA!Tanizaki, who is more evil than ADA!Dazai, who after Oda’s death promised to be on the side that saves people. Current Dazai is making an active effort to be less evil than he may have the potential to be, and that counts for something. Whereas Tanizaki knowingly throws all pretenses of being a good guy out the window as soon as someone he cares for is put in danger. 

Though, I raise a further question: if PM!Dazai is more evil than ADA!Tanizaki, who is more evil than ADA!Dazai, would PM!Tanizaki be more or less evil than PM!Dazai? Perhaps we will get our answer if Tanizaki does end up transferring to the Port Mafia.

However, I also don’t necessarily want to shut down this discussion by just saying “Well Dazai is in the ADA now, he was definitely more evil when he was a PM executive”. It feels like a cop-out. Rather, I think that depending on how you define ‘evil’, you can definitely argue that Tanizaki is far worse than Dazai. Is it evil to be indifferent to committing evil acts, or is it evil to situationally want to commit evil acts? Is it evil to be aware of one’s moral faults, or is it evil to think oneself innocent—normal, even—as one is willing to do any atrocity under the right circumstances. Honestly, we can argue morality and try to assign quantitative values to “evil” back and forth, all day until we die. There’s really no “correct” answer here. But for the point I’m making that’s good enough. Depending on how you view “evil”, you could easily see how Tanizaki is closer to evil than Dazai, who never really saw a real difference between evil and good.

I think one of the most ‘evil’ things about Tanizaki is that he thinks he’s normal, with his whole chest. He’s the first person to suggest murder as a solution to a problem, and he just doesn’t understand why everyone else shows reluctance.

He seems to have some vague awareness that his morality is somewhat less than that of his coworkers, as in the Light Novel he thinks that he “[has] a mediocre sense of justice]”, but he mostly equates this to just being cowardly and timid, rather than the full blown self-awareness than we see in Dazai, who is able to articulate to Oda that he feels there is no real difference between the side of “good” and the side of “evil”, and embraces this knowingly.

I also think that to a degree its Asagiri's nihilism at play. Because BSD is a world full of characters with shifty morals, and characters like Kunikida who cling to their principles like a lifeline are a minority. So in a way? Tanizaki is the most ordinary guy.

And he’s not evil on purpose, or performative about it (like other characters, to a certain degree, like Fyodor) it’s completely ingrained into him. It's just that he isn’t a good person, but he’s not necessarily invested in being a bad person either. He simply cares about himself and the people within his circle, to the point that he doesn’t care what he has to do for their sake. I think this is also something that appears subtly in his irl counterpart’s works: the idea of love/affection as evil. Tanizaki-sensei used this kind of oxymoron a lot: ugliness and beauty, hurt and pleasure, destruction and love.

"[his] self-immolation, [...] with which he changed his whole life in an instant, turning the ugly into the beautiful, [...] it was very nearly the act of a saint." — Tanizaki Jun'ichirou, A Portrait of Shunkin

"Little by little, the loathsomeness changed into an unfathomable beauty." — Tanizaki Jun'ichirou, A Fool's Love (Naomi)

"It was evil incarnate, without any question, and at the same time it was all the beauty of her body and spirit elevated to its highest level." — Tanizaki Jun'ichirou, A Fool's Love (Naomi)

Maybe that’s why Tanizaki is closer to evil than Dazai. Because ‘evil’ is second nature to Tanizaki, in part because it goes hand and hand with love and care.

I don’t think Tanizaki’s “evil” could be reasoned with, in the same way you might be able to convince Dazai or Mori not to do something awful. Because Dazai’s evil is ruled by indifference, and Mori’s evil is ruled by logic, they’re both less personally invested in their evil acts than Tanizaki, whose evil is ruled by emotion. You might be able to give Mori a reason why the more logical approach would be to not commit a homicide, but the same reasoning would never work on Tanizaki, because his evil is coming from a more fundamental desire to commit the morally corrupt action, rather than seeing it as a means to an end. In this regard, you could easily see how Tanizaki is closer to evil.

Still, returning to my point about how nebulous the definition of “evil” is—you could also argue that it’s more evil to coldly commit evil acts as a means to an end, as opposed to doing evil acts out of love or affection for another person. However, I think it’s clear why Asagiri made a statement that implied Tanizaki to be more morally corrupt than Dazai, regardless of whether you agree or not.

[jasperthehatchet]

More plastic bottle cap buttons :)

There are more but these are just the ones Im the most proud of. More details in the image ID

[Image ID: 3 images taken of the buttons on a gray background. There are 5 buttons, 2 larger ones made of recycled milk gallon caps and 3 smaller recycled water bottle caps. I'll start with the two larger ones: the first one has the genderqueer pride flag painted on it. It has 3 horizontal stripes, purple, white and green from the top down. On the purple and green stripes, there are spirals painted on top of the stripes in a slightly lighter shade of purple and green respectively, and the same pattern on the middle white stripe painted in light gray. The second button is a leafy green with slightly lighter green vines painted on the sides, and the phrase "robin hood was right" painted in the middle in metallic silver paint.

The three smaller buttons: the first one is painted silver with a wash of watered down black paint over it to make the texture look like old metal. It says "I ❤️ AUTISM" I black letters with the heart painted red and little white lines coming from the sides of the heart. The second pin is a black band pin that said "bikini kill" in white cursive letters, with small lavender colored flowers sprinkled across the empty black space. The third one is a black pin with a metallic silver counter-clockwise spiral painted on it. All five pins have a glossy finish because I sealed them with mod podge.

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[bookwyrmsbuttons]

[gomzdrawfr]

so my good friends asked:

"What if Price and Raven swap outfits?"

and i answer it with this

bonus:

funky lookin Price screenie from mw2 LMAO I needed references-

[nyahkmenrah]

You guys like my new gay pride badge?

[cecelianonymous22]

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Custom Bracelets and Playlists

On my Etsy, you can order custom Kandi and bracelets, or a carefully handmade playlist based on your favorite blorbo, ship, fandom inside joke, or whatever you please!

Playlists are $0.50 for 50 songs, and when your order is completed, you get a personalized Spotify code and a collaboration link so you can add or remove whatever songs you want! They're by far the most popular on my shop currently.

Meanwhile, I have three types of bracelets available: Kandi, standard bracelets, and charm bracelets! (In order from left to right). Kandi is $5, bracelets are $15, and charm bracelets are $13.

Pins

Above are my flower pins (each with a unique background color!), recycled Pokemon card pins, and recycled cardstock pins. The first set are original designs printed and pressed with my own button press. The other two are common Pokemon Cards and old greeting cards cut and pressed into pins to give them a new life and a new shiny look! The greeting card pins also have some unique texturing on them. Any remaining excesses are stored away in a box to be turned into paper at a later date.

All pins are $1.

You can also get any flower turned into various items like stickers, phone cases, coasters, and clothing on my Redbubble!

I Loaf You Stickers (and pin) <3

Just a simple little silly sticker I made! The outline of the bread was traced over a photo I took at a steakhouse on my birthday and sent to my boyfriend. I thought it would be kinda funny, and something I would totally get for myself.

A 1 inch sticker is $0.45, a 3 inch sticker is $1.00, a 5 inch sticker is $2.10, a 7 inch sticker is $5, and as always, the pin button variant is $1.

Cottagecore Arcade Carpet Pattern

Have you ever dreamed of a perfect mix of cottagecore and nostalgic arcade carpets? Probably not! I never have either, but I made this anyway because I thought it was a fun idea. If you'd like this pattern on something like a pin, bandana, laptop case, blanket, bag, and so much more, you can head over to the Redbubble listing to get your desired item! Or, if you'd like to buy the pattern itself for $35 to use for yourself (with credit!!), you can check out the Etsy listing.

[magicaltrash]

Repurposing a trash can to host pin trading is far superior to using it as a dining table during a food festival... just sayin'. // Walt Disney World, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Sunset Boulevard, 2020 [Source: Kim Bobb. Used by Permission.]

[squirrel-gay]

Been doing some anatomical hand-painted pins this past week and I want to show them to you

[hollowmorgve]

[experthiese]

An independent, selective, and private portrayal of Lupin III, with inspiration taken from a mix of canon sources. OC, AU / crossover and duplicate friendly.

♥ / ⟲ if interested in interacting.

[letstalkbeautyuk]

🌍 💚 Be Kind To Planet Earth - environmental themed badges. Great for schools, clubs or ECO events >>

[jasperthehatchet]

Hello hi greetings a few people have asked me how i make plastic bottle cap pins so here's a hopefully helpful guide for how I personally make them.

***I can't do image descriptions in this post right now, my apologies. But I will try and explain as much detail as possible while writing the steps. If someone reblogs this with image descriptions I will reblog and credit the person

***You'll need: a hot glue gun, pliers, a soda tab, a safety pin, a thumbtack, scissors, and some cardboard

Step 1: Score the inside of the bottle cap with a thumbtack, just the flat circle part. (This is so the glue sticks better) I do it down and across so the surface is thoroughly scratched up

Step 2: cut a piece of cardboard small enough to fit inside the scored part of the cap, inside the ridges too, and glue it in. It doesn't have to be shaped like a circle but it needs to fit flush against the plastic like this:

Once it's glued in there, seal it with some glue. The less you use the better but it really needs to be in there good. You don't need to score the sides on the inside of the cap, the glue will hold on the the ridges that are already there so it should be fine

***note: if you have a way of safely melting down the edges of the cap to make the whole thing thinner, the cardboard can be skipped entirely and you can just glue the soda tab and safety pin directly to the scored plastic

Step 3: bend your soda tab slightly with your pliers and insert the safety pin into it like you would for metal bottle cap pins. Make sure it looks like this:

The bent soda tab should be facing down and the pointy part of the pin should be facing up. Insert the piece that holds the pin closed under the middle part of the tab and back up through the other side, the slight bend of the tab should let it fit snugly in place.

Step 4: glue tab/pin on top of the cardboard piece. Again, the less glue the better, but to make sure it doesn't go anywhere I like to use another pin to move the glue all up in and around the soda tab so make sure it's held in place. Its also good to make sure the side of the pin sitting on the cardboard is thoroughly glued so it won't move around. Sometimes a little extra glue is necessary

Once it cools and you have your pin, you'll want to make sure that it sits balanced on a flat surface upright like this:

You'll wanna try and avoid having the safety pin sticking out too far otherwise it won't sit well on whatever you pin it to. So for it to look nicer it needs to be able to sit flat (painted side up)

And all that's left to do is paint it. Be sure to keep the angle of the pin in mind while painting to make pinning it to things easier. I hope this was helpful :) happy crafting 🌿❤️🌻

[bookwyrmsbuttons]

[agrebel18]

Last night I felt SUPER CREATIVE for no reason lol, but I love my children from the angsty owl show so it doesn’t matter 💖💖💞💞 

[image description: 2 traditional colored drawings. The first one is a drawing of Willow from The Owl House, and she’s wearing her Halloween costume from season 3. She is hugging her dad that got turned into a puppet, and she is tearing up with her eyes closed. 

The second one is a drawing of Hunter and Luz from The Owl House, and they are both wearing their casual outfits from season 3, with the addition of both of them wearing bisexual pins on their shirts. On the left, Hunter is grinning while tearing up with his eyes closed. Right next to him is Luz laughing with her eyes closed, and her arms are crossed. In the background, there is a brown closet behind them. END DESCRIPTION]