Arts and Crafts

Nerdy nerdy crafts

[supersoftly]

[todayintokyo]

Fuji-san by masahirokimata, as seen on Tokyo Camera Club

[oldtimejapan]

葛飾北斎「富嶽百景」より「山亦山」

[sandmandaddy69]

[galadrielspeaks]

[solrus]

Bogos binted?

[fla-t-line]

Lonely God

[someoldjokes]

From The New Anecdota Americana, 1944

[princessparfaiti]

diversity win! this farmer is poly

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

The number of people in the notes who forgot/didn’t know that ‘hand’ is short for ‘farmhand’ and just assumed that the farmer for some reason had a sapient detached hand is sending me

[girlballs-archive]

can you not post nsfw :(

you come into my home uninvited and tell me how i should arrange my furniture? what a fool you are. skeleton divine death blast

[kosmogrl]

[qalbtalk-deactivated20231105]

“…use things to have good days.”

[narcissistcookbook]

the loading screen trying to convince me to use even one of my 3000 consumables

[animentality]

[parttimecosmichorror]

[sosuperawesome]

Ramona Wultschner on Instagram

[sandmandaddy69]

[leiaham]

First Post!

I deleted my old tumblr because... man idk why it was covid-times and the prefrontal cortex was not in the room with us!! Anyways, I was reminded by my lovely friend @repecca that tumblr exists, and that some of my work has been going around on here, so I decided to post some of my work up officially! Starting off with my most notable (?) work to date, here's my LOTR: The Middle Kingdom Project. Now, it's been over a year since I posted this, and at the time I was... really searchingfor myself artistically, and I decided to go all in on something that I'd been ruminating on for a long time.

So, hello, again. I'm Leia. I do visual development/BG design, and I'm also a writer of things. I love fantasy and transformative work. It's nice to meet you.

[geiser]

no lie i genuinely believe brands are so behind the pleather movement bc they can just buy cheap plastic sell it as expensive 'vegan leather' and be ready for you to return in a couple years to buy another 'vegan peeta approved™ leather jacket' bc they last like 5 minutes compared to the way leather lasts decades all the while you can pat yourself and coorporate's back for being sutainable all the while pvc (what some fake leather products are made of) has been labeled the single most environmentally damaging type of plastic and while there are non pvc fake leathers such as pu leather... its not like thats much better producing plastic pollutes and the second your pleather clothes start to breakdown (which happens much faster than you think) theyll wound up on landfills for at least a 100 years...

[starcrossed-sky]

also they love love LOVE to try and sell you "plant-based leather" that you then look at the details and it's "45% cactus" or whatever and there's no mention of what the rest of it is

it's plastic.

it's always plastic.

[sea-salted-wolverine]

Let me tell you a story.

50 years ago or so a cow died. It died in a slaughterhouse after a life on a cattle ranch. It was butchered in a meat packing plant, and it's body was sent off to a grocery store where it then became an overdone steak or a dry hamburger or maybe dog food. It was the 70s and people had only recently realized that you could put food in things that were not jello. Cut them some slack.

But its skin went to a tannery. And that skin was processed in the hide and then leather. That leather was bought by a clothing company who made jackets out of it, long leather dusters for working men and ranchhands. Cowboy shit.

The dead cow that is now a leather jacket is not technically waterproof because if you stand out in the rain for 6 hours water will eventually work its way through the seams at the shoulders. But its pretty damn waterproof. It keeps off the rain and the snow and the dust and the mud and the brambles and it doesn't melt if it catches a spark. So 50 years ago a man bought one and he wore it pretty much until he died and his wife shoved it in a closet. Decades of use, from the deserts in the southwest to the arctic, because it turns out that cowboys are wildly adaptable.

Anyway, I pulled grandad's jacket out of the closet a while back and there is nothing wrong with that coat. It does have some distinctly non-modern vibes, but more importantly it is cool as hell and looks almost new. I have seen faux distressed leather that looks worse.

The cow is still dead. There will be another cow that dies tomorrow for the same reason. But there's no market for leather these days. Its skin won't be a garment that lasts 50 years. Its gonna rot in a pile with all the others. Someone will sell a "vintage" cowboycore Americana aesthetic dark academia plastic peice of shit that will be garbage in a year. And then they'll sell another one.

[scienceoftheidiot]

This this this

Also before anti leather people start whining about tanning and chemicals and shit

1) considering how long real leather lasts, if you buy the same garment in faux leather you will have to buy it again numerous times = more ugly chemicals even not including the plastic itself

2) vegetal tanning (sorry I am too lazy to look up the real translation, deal with it) is a big thing now, and is a lot better for the environment. And once again you only have to have it done once for each piece that will then last you MORE than a lifetime

3) I have tried to repair both : plastic is not fixable. Leather? Is it too dry? Neatsfoot oil (another by product of meat !!! And it's good !! Nothing is lost !!!). Is it torn? Sew it back. Find a new piece of leather and put it there. Glue it. Hell, do all three at once. I'm horrendous at sewing because I'm lazy and I don't give a shit and still what I do is better than I expected, after watching like one and a half YouTube tutorials on sewing leather

Me and my husband are reviving leather equipment from the late 1800s and using those for cavalry reenactment and guess what. We have broken maybe two pieces of leather, among our numerous saddles and related stuff, belts, gun holsters, etc, and one of them I broke because I was stupid and got it caught when I dismounted. Not linked to the quality of the leather itself.

Seeing any mention of vegan leather makes me SO. ANGRY. This is the worst, for so many reasons.

[kaijuno]

[halfricanloveyou]

that looks like a condom and the fact that everyone in the notes is saying “the orb” proves that no one on this website fucks

[meatmobile]

the fuck kinda bouncy-ball ass condoms are you using

[spiderworries]

the fact that someone thinks that looks like a condom is proof that no one on this website fucks

[spiderworries]

ok y’all it’s LITERALLY taken from the “wizard pondering his orb” image

it’s an orb. 

[spiderworries]

ok not to beat a dead horse but i found the ORIGINAL image and it’s cover art from a lotr themed ttrpg.

so

[0kkvlt]

No it isn't that's from 1993 you fucking poseur, it's from A SPY IN ISENGARD published in 1988 I'm SICK and TIRED of you people getting it WRONG

[witchsfists]

5 reblog additions later and this post is still best summarized by "no one on this website fucks"

[cocolacola]

WoW at blizzcon 2023 spoilers with no context

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[lawfulgoodness]

Shoutout to the Elder Millennial at the table next to me at the gaming bar, whose barbarian just charged into battle shouting "LEEEEROYYYY JENKINS!!!!"

and then had to stop and sheepishly explain a World of Warcraft meme to his genZ GM.