#unique hardware

[thefreecheese]

The Free Cheese Episode 560: Out Run

This week on The Free Cheese, we try to set the high score for car flips. A Sega classic joins The List this week while we take an intense, leisurely drive across several countries. We dissect the gameplay of Out Run, how it has held up for almost forty years, and share our tips for success (or more realistically, how to avoid our mistakes). BEST…

[psycholydia]

Kitchen Dining Dining Room New York

Example of a large transitional medium tone wood floor and brown floor kitchen/dining room combo design with blue walls and no fireplace

[trxangleboy]

New York Transitional Dining Room An illustration of a sizable transitional kitchen/dining room combination with blue walls and no fireplace and medium-tone brown flooring

[arsenicflame]

steddyhands modern au inspired by this post:

(1828 words, themes of kink but nothing explicit, established blackhands & gentlebeard-centric. Happy Pride!)

Stede picks up leatherworking in the wake of his divorce. He's not exactly sure how it ended up being such an important hobby for him, only that he had always admired the intricate designs on his horse's best bridles, and with little else to do with his time, he decides to give it a go.

It's rocky going at first, but he's having fun working with his hands for the first time in his life, and there's a sense of satisfaction in seeing the design come to life as he works. With practice, his skills improve, and he learns how to make things that are truly one of a kind.

He starts off posting his pieces online, as a way to reach fellow enthusiasts, but quickly finds himself with a rather large audience. Stede’s style is unique, and, after many requests from his followers, Lucius encourages him to make some more basic pieces he can sell. It's not about making money for Stede, but another way to meet new people who share his interests- as Lucius keeps telling him, it's sad that his personal assistant is the main person he talks to these days. 

So Stede sets out on a new adventure, and has quite the time designing a new range of patterns for the market. He makes purses, belts, bracelets, and, most importantly, dog collars- all still with his unique designs embossed into them, of course. He rents a booth at his towns monthly craft fair, and very quickly finds himself with a new group of friends in the other regulars- Pete, his usual neighbour, who sells an array of wooden figures he carves, Roach, who runs a stand for his bakery, and Frenchie, who isn't actually a stallholder, but is almost always busking near his friend Wee John’s stand of knitted goods, bringing life to the market even in the pouring rain. There's also Buttons, another regular at the market. Nobody is exactly sure what he does there- he doesn't sell things, or seem to buy anything either, but rain or shine, he's there with the birds.

Stede’s been doing this a few months by the time June rolls around. As he's setting up his stand, he notices that the area is much busier than it’d normally be at this time of morning. Lucius, who got roped into helping run Stede’s stall somewhere down the line (despite his protests that this is not what personal assistant means… But hey, he got a boyfriend out of it, at least), reminds him that there's the parade today, too- not realising that Stede had no clue there was a parade today, and especially not that it was pride. Stede immediately jumps to fretting about the amount of stock he’s brought, and Lucius takes the cue to escape, saying he’ll go and grab them coffee (but really, he's off to flirt with Pete)

Lucius is still missing when Ed stumbles across the little leather stall. Stede’s just ran back to his car to fetch his last boxes of inventory, and by the time he returns, Ed’s already begun to narrow down his choices. Stede greets him, starting to tell him that they're not actually open yet, but before he gets more than a couple of words out, Ed’s exclaiming “You're a Kiwi!!!”

The two of them smile at the shared recognition, and Stede says he’ll make an exception, just for Ed, and asks him what exactly he was interested in. Ed tells him that he's looking for a collar “for his boy”, and points out the particular design he was looking at. It happens to be one of Stede’s favourites from this latest run of work, a fact he mentions to Ed. It leads them into a discussion about Stede’s craft, and Ed’s Izzy, and then everything in between. Ed’s listening intently to the things Stede’s telling him, completely drawn in by the process, and by Stede himself. He watches as Stede stamps Izzy's name into the collar, and Stede even lets him have a go at one of the stamps. 

Lucius reappears sometime in the middle of this- only to immediately retreat again, seeing Stede engrossed with Ed. He sets up camp at Pete's booth opposite, watching this man flirt intensely with his boss- and Stede flirt back just as hard. Does Stede even realise he’s doing it? Lucius had known Stede was gay since before Stede even admitted it to himself, but this is on a whole other level.

The pair stand there so long that Izzy comes to look for Ed- the two of them are manning a float on the parade with their crew, and it's past time for them to get geared up. He's already worked up, frustrated to have been left to set up everything alone, when Ed had just gone to see if he could get them both coffee. So maybe he's a bit of a prick, approaching with a brash “where the fuck have you been, Edward”, to which Stede brings the same energy, giving a bitchy “Ed! Do you know this guy?” Izzy tenses, ready to snap, but then Ed cuts in, excitedly telling Stede that this is “his Izzy!” Which confuses the hell out of Stede. 

Forgetting his earlier attitude, he asks Ed if he “really named his dog after his friend”, only to be met with confusion right back from Ed at where the hell Stede got the idea he had a dog from. Stede gestures at the bag with the collar in it, to which Ed has to tell him, “oh, no, that's for him.” Ed tells Stede that they're here to run a float for their local leather society, and while Stede is certainly shocked by what Ed’s saying, he's not finding himself… uninterested. It's simply that he’s never even considered any of this before, especially not that people would use the things that he made for this, but Ed sounds so enthusiastic about it all. He tells him about how his friends would love to see Stede’s work, about how classic leather gear is always so fucking boring- but not Stede’s stuff, no, Stede’s stuff is “fresh” and “fascinating” and unlike anything Ed’s ever seen before. 

Ed's enthusiasm is incredibly infectious, so when he invites Stede to come back to see their float, he readily agrees. It’s a concept Izzy’s less than enthusiastic about. He doesn’t really want to bring this man who’s dressed like he just walked out of a HOA board meeting to their kinky little corner of the world, but he is having a lot of fun watching Stede squirm, so decides not to raise a protest. He does demand he gets his long-overdue coffee first, though (Stede pays for it- as “compensation for him distracting Ed from his job”, he says, not giving Izzy a second to process before he's tapping his card)

By the time they return to the float, Fang, Ivan & Jim are waiting for them, all already geared up. Stede is stunned silent at the sight for about 5 seconds, before he starts actually looking at the quality of Jim’s harness, and proceeds to go off about the poor quality of the craftsmanship, about how the hardware is tacky and completely the wrong choice with this leather, how his “ten year old daughter could do a better job!!!” 

There's complete silence from the group, until Izzy, of all people, bursts into laughter at Stede’s audacity (and, the fact he was staring at Jim's tits completely unabashedly, like he hadn't even noticed them in the first place). Izzy's laughter sets Ed off as he tells the group about Stede’s misunderstanding- “you didn't say he was a person!” “I mean, he's my dog”- and soon everyone's having a friendly giggle at Stede’s mistake.

It's somewhere in the middle of the retelling that Ed remembers that this whole thing happened because he was buying Izzy a gift. After a moments fumbling, he presents Izzy with the collar-  It's a rich, deep black, embossed with a rolling pattern that resembles waves. It’s made from a firm enough leather to take the tooling, and to remind Izzy that he’s owned while he’s wearing it, yet still soft enough for long term comfort. Izzy's eyes immediately lock on to it, an unreadable expression coming over his face, and Ed turns it; first so he can really see the design and Izzy’s name embossed into it, and then so he can see the small “Ed ♥” on the inside of the collar, right over his swallow tattoo. 

“I did the heart,” Ed says to him softly, intended only for Izzy’s ears. Izzy's eyes flick up to Ed’s, and he raises his chin to give Ed the room to put it on. Ed buckles the collar around his neck almost reverently, a test of the tightness turning into a caress of Izzy's neck. It's a perfect fit.

It's as though something comes over Izzy; so twitchy and abrasive earlier, now silent, staring at Ed with a look akin to worship in his eyes. He obediently tilts his head for a kiss as Ed's fingers move to his chin- It's a sight to behold, and one that has Stede intrigued. He wants to know more about this lifestyle, and these men in particular. He wants to be the one to put that expression on Izzy's face.

The moment breaks as Ed and Izzy pull apart, and Ed calls for the crew to finish the last bits of set up. Izzy shakes himself a little before running off to bark orders again, but even still, there remains a softness to him that wasn't there before. 

Ed turns back to Stede with an apologetic smile, already obvious that he has to get going. Before he can speak, however, Stede jumps in -“My business numbers on the card in the box… I'll be around all day”- Ed’s smile turns more genuine at that, promising to stop by if he gets a moment, and that he’ll send his friend's Stede’s way- “if he wants that kind of business.” Stede says that he does, actually- that he's seen a whole new world already today, and, while he was a little taken aback at first, he can feel the passion Ed and his friends have for this life. If there's one thing that's ever mattered to Stede, it's other people's enthusiasm. Maybe he doesn't completely understand yet, but he would like to try.

One year later, Stede’s back at the market on pride weekend again, far better stocked for the crowds this time around. Lucius is finally free to spend the day flirting with Fang & Pete to his heart's content, now that Stede’s roped his own boyfriends into helping him run the stall- and into modelling the merchandise. Ed loves that part, while Izzy needs a lot more convincing, but the puppy eyes Stede & Ed weaponise against him make a very good argument.

[vicarmax]

had a sketch of my courier from 2 years ago just collecting dust so say hi to romilly. thirty something year old telekinetic weed dealer milf. enjoy!

[n7punk]

i know im going to sound insane in the year 2023/2024 but the DS and all its forms really is a technological marvel

[ot3]

can we really expect this multibillion dollar game dev to learn to make multiple types of 3d models. really makes you think.

[riggedbones]

most of the times comments about how soundtracks are apparently unreasonably good for what they're made for make me roll my eyes because like. come on. ur saying you don't think how to train ur dragon or whatever didn't deserve a really good soundtrack??? like it feels so belittling for no reason. like, composers are kind of payed to make really good music? doesnt always work out but yknow if you hire a good composer, ur probably gonna end up with good music.

but also god. tim, it really was just pictionary

[axellis-archv-2]

hey *takes what was supposed to be just a visualization in case i ever wanted to draw overhallidays place in the future and then spends 4 hours on it

[garaviel]

I uhhhh found the coolest deco vanity and uhhhh i need it but uhhhhh its 2000$

[sunspira]

i completely forgot this game's graphics once included red blood but was censored out in later editions. so i read this comment like WHO BLEED on your cartridge and why are you implying the older a game is the more likely you or your siblings will have bleed all over it at one point. like that's a common classic childhood gaming experience. if a game doesn't work, first u blow in it, then you hit your brother hard in the nose with it just wallop his face with that block of plastic as if it were a weapon, then blow into the console. you're good to go. we've all been there EVERY siblings blood is all over that thing at this point lol

[moonlitrosecrafts]

well, shit

forgot that going out on my own, means i need to set up my own in person POS for pop up markets. not hard, i have experience doing so, i just get to pick my poison now. anyone reading have an opinion?

[qwalityhardware056]

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[relto]

public event was today, i only visited our stand for a few min (tent was very crowded) but it looked like it was quite popular and afaik nothing broke again!!

[articalia]

Elevate Your Home Décor with Unique Copper Cabinet Knobs and Drawer Pulls

Introduction:

Cabinet hardware might seem like a small detail, but it can make a significant impact on the overall aesthetics of your home décor. Whether you're renovating your kitchen, upgrading your bathroom, or simply looking to add a touch of elegance to your furniture, copper cabinet knobs and drawer pulls offer a timeless appeal that effortlessly combines style and functionality. In this article, we'll explore the allure of copper hardware and delve into a variety of unique designs that can elevate the look of any space.

Why Choose Copper?

Copper has been prized for centuries for its warm, rich tones and durability. Unlike other metals, copper develops a natural patina over time, adding character and charm to your cabinets and drawers. Its versatility allows it to complement a wide range of interior styles, from rustic farmhouse to sleek modern. Additionally, copper has antimicrobial properties, making it an excellent choice for frequently touched surfaces in the kitchen and bathroom.

Exploring Unique Designs

When it comes to cabinet hardware, there's no shortage of options available. From classic knobs to sleek pulls, copper hardware comes in a variety of shapes, sizes, and finishes to suit every taste. Let's take a closer look at some unique designs that are sure to make a statement in your home.

1. Copper Cabinet Knobs: Copper cabinet knobs add a touch of sophistication to any space. Whether you prefer a traditional round knob or a more contemporary square design, there are plenty of options to choose from. For a rustic look, consider knobs with hammered or textured finishes that highlight the natural beauty of copper. If you're aiming for a more modern aesthetic, sleek and minimalist knobs with clean lines are the perfect choice.

2. Unique Drawer Pulls: Drawer pulls are not only functional but also serve as decorative accents that can enhance the overall look of your furniture. For a unique twist, opt for drawer pulls with intricate designs or geometric shapes. Artistic interpretations of nature, such as leaf or branch motifs, can bring a touch of whimsy to your cabinets with unique drawer pulls. Alternatively, industrial-inspired pulls with exposed screws and raw finishes add a contemporary edge to any space.

3. Mid-Century Modern Vibes: Mid-century modern design continues to be a popular choice for interior decorators and homeowners alike. To capture the essence of this timeless style, look for cabinet hardware with clean lines, geometric shapes, and a matte or brushed copper finish. T-shaped pulls, cone-shaped knobs, and slim bar handles are all characteristic of mid-century modern design and can effortlessly elevate the look of your cabinets.

4. Mixing and Matching: Don't be afraid to mix and match different styles of unique cabinet pulls hardware to create a truly personalized look. For example, you could pair sleek copper knobs with leather drawer pulls for a modern-meets-rustic vibe. Or, combine hammered copper knobs with sleek, minimalist pulls for a sophisticated yet eclectic look. Mixing metals is also a popular trend – try incorporating brass or black hardware alongside your copper pieces for added visual interest.

5. Embracing the Patina: One of the unique qualities of copper is its ability to develop a natural patina over time. Rather than trying to maintain its original shine, embrace the patina as part of the material's inherent beauty. The warm, weathered look adds character and depth to your hardware, giving it a sense of history and charm.

Conclusion

Copper cabinet knobs and drawer pulls offer a timeless elegance that can enhance any space. Whether you're drawn to the classic appeal of traditional designs or prefer the sleek sophistication of modern styles, there's a copper hardware option to suit your taste. From mid-century modern to rustic farmhouse, incorporating copper hardware into your home décor is a surefire way to elevate the look of your cabinets and drawers while adding a touch of warmth and sophistication to your living space. So why wait? Upgrade your home with unique copper cabinet knobs and drawer pulls today!

[libraford]

The word 'rural' is in the public consciousness again and every time people start going in about the 'rural values' 'rural way of life' I remember just how subjective that word is.

I have a friend that lives in LA. He considers Columbus, OH to be 'rural.' A population of over 900k. Thriving arts community, tons of culture festivals, every kind of restaurant you can think of, one of the most annoying college campuses ever, several smaller colleges, lots of queer spaces, comic book conventions, huge concerts... rural.

The town I live in considers itself 'rural.' 38k population. Arts festival every year, a small pride celebration, monthly gallery hop, big Halloween festival. Five ice cream shops, three coffee shops, a couple fancy bars, so many grocery stores. Huge library, conservation and sustainability advocates, queer spaces, a hospital, one private college. Rural.

The town we nearly annexed, but lost the deal considers us 'urban' compared to them. Less than 5k. They have a limited hospital, often send their surgeries here. Downtown has hardware store, bars, craft supply store, a couple grocery stores, pizza places. There's some farmland, but much of the square acreage is golf. Mega churches. The houses here are 500k. Most people drive ATVs. They have a handful of festivals in the summer.

A town I would often get sent to to cover their high school sports- a little over 2k. There's a Subway, a Domino's, Family Dollar. Some bars, some corner stores. Some local crafts. All the students grow up knowing each other, most of them stay there. But they have craft fairs and art galleries, still.

Less rural still than the town I go through to get there, population of around 600. Houses, farmland, post office, general store.

Who would still look down upon the town of about 400 that I would go to sometimes- post office. Gas station. Bar. The school is the only big thing there.

And yet still, I have seen towns with population in the double digits that have a church and a post office.

Even just looking at the numbers doesn't lend accuracy to what 'rural' actually looks like. Because this is what it looks like in ohio, but it's different in West Virginia- where your closest neighbor might be a mile down a hill. Or in Montana, where your town might be planned very tightly and your neighbors are very close, but the nearest grocery store is an hour and a half away. These are places I've been, friends that I've talked to. I've never been to Missouri or Alabama or Louisiana- I'm sure they have a unique experience of being 'rural.'

So my point is that when people talk about 'the rural experience' or 'rural values,' they are talking about millions of people across the entire country who all have lived unique lives- and who may not even agree on what 'rural' is.

Think about who is talking, and who is being talked over, and who isn't even being asked to join the conversation.