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Saw it was make a terrible comic day today (June 24 2025) so meet my cats

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Sharp tongue

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The Ocean, Me, MS Paint, 2022

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Best friends!!! :D

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i dream of having a regulated nervous system

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I think in some cases we need to put the term "AU" on the shelf for a bit – not because there's anything wrong with AUs in principle, but because often the word folks are clearly grasping for is "parody".

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Little sketch of our lovely ladies <3

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a customer returned a drink because a fly flew into it and said: “one of your flies flew into my drink” and my coworker was so confused that they just said: “…my fly?”

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since I just finished my big sansa embroidery project, I wanted to talk about the process of creating it and my inspiration

I was inspired by this piece that I stumbled across totally by accident. I was actually researching ptolemaic era egyptian weaving but found this 20th century embroidery and immediately thought of sansa. I created a sketch of sansa and lady in october of 2022 and then traced it on white cotton using a tracing pencil against my window.

I then began outlining my stitches with a chain stitch using a single strand of embroidery thread. I found that this was really nice for outlining while still blending my colors. For the cream colored thread on sansa’s dress I didn’t outline, which achieved a less blended and more distinct layered effect.

For the majority of the work, I used a technique called needle painting, where the artist uses a series of long and short stitches involving various shades of single strand embroidery thread. This technique was used for the entirety of sansa and lady’s figures.

The weirwood tree was a tricky piece for me to work on. Initially I used a technique of horizontal satin stitches to fill in the tree, but ultimately restarted and chose to do vertical chain stitches to imitate real tree bark. I used three shades of tan and cream, using a single strand of the darkest shade, two strands of the medium shade, and three strands of the darkest shade. This created an effect also similar to real tree bark, which I tried to capture in the second picture.

The final touch was adding sansa’s hairnet. I used a metallic silver thread and clear beads, basing it on the amethyst hairnet used to murder joffrey. While the amethysts in the book are black, I used clear beads to match her home of winterfell, where her jewels would match the snowflakes in the godswood.

and that's sansa and lady! It may have taken over a year and a half on and off, but I'm super proud and excited about everything new that I learned and improved with embroidery throughout the process. If you have any questions or comments, my asks and messages are always open, I absolutely love talking about embroidery!!

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My favorite kind of customer

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sorry i woke up in my rantsona. but like seriously isn't it fucking twisted that every child in almost every country are basically legal property of their parents. like their parents have complete control over where they can go, who they can talk to, which words out of their mouth are truth or lies; they're allowed, encouraged even, to be the sole interface by which the child connects to everything else in this world. like isnt that extraordinary. like how is it a mystery to anyone that children are constantly dying under parental abuse or growing up into utterly dysfunctional traumatised adults. why are we talking about these nebulous narratives of "the unstoppable and nuanced cycle of abuse" instead of looking straight at the reality we've built specifically for this purpose

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That fuckin smile at the end

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A list of things J/mblr has decided are off-limits to non-Jews, divided into arbitrary categories I chose. Source here, comb through the notes at your leisure. Free blocklist.

The usual suspects

Zionism

Pinkwashing

Gal Godot

Bagels, apparently

Fandom because it's Tumblr

Magneto (based on Menachim Begin, are y'all sure about that)

Fiddler on the Roof (fun fact movie director Norman Jewison isn't Jewish!)

Any Jewish fictional character

Historical events

The bombing of the USS Liberty (by Israel)

The bombing of the King David Hotel (by Israel)

Crown Heights Riots (famously involving only Jews /s)

IRL People

Abby Stein (famously does interfaith solidarity work all the time)

Franz Kafka

Adam and Eve

"Anti-Zionist" Jews (quotes theirs)

The Lubavitcher Rebbe and the tunnels his followers dug

Jesus

Stuff that is either appropriated or never exclusively Jewish

Hummus

"Israeli" salad (which they also chose to put in quotes)

Henna

Things your average lib zionist condemns but which gentiles can't talk about oh God the mask is slipping--

Betar

Classically Abby

Ben Shapiro

West Bank settlers

Kahanism

Ben Gvir

Benjamin Netanyahu

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Mayhem has acquired a stick and it has been sentenced to death

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the closest lacie ever got to holding her daughers is when alyss touched her toombstone while alice watches in a flashback. and neither of them know that's their mother's grave

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Asdfghjkl your drawings are always so adorable.

Could we get a tiny dragon?

He’s just a baby

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Haven't been able to do much at all for ArSen and Wolfsong (except daydream alone in my head) which I feel guilty about but I've been so tired, life has been a major bitch, let's just say.

Anyways woe the mental image of a younger Wolfsong!Arslan and his friends + siblings going “GANG UP ON HIM!!!” against Narsus in chess or a similar strategy board game be upon ye.