Ornament number 3.

Origami Around
Sade Olutola
todays bird

PR's Tumblrdome

祝日 / Permanent Vacation
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
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Janaina Medeiros
TVSTRANGERTHINGS
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
sheepfilms
occasionally subtle

roma★

❣ Chile in a Photography ❣
Misplaced Lens Cap
YOU ARE THE REASON
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH

#extradirty
KIROKAZE
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Ornament number 3.
Ornament take 2, in blue/silver/white. Still not quite circular as opposed to ovoid, but better. Think if I do the blues again I'll do a flat opaque white with a slightly darker accent color.
Testing an ornament design. Think it needs to be a pixel less on each side, but I like how it came out otherwise.
Hit the halfway point on this #wip. think if I had to do this over I would have gone with a less green toned brown bead color than db2142 but it is what it is. 65/130 rows.
Me: It stands for Point of Sale
Also Me: Time to head for work at the piece of shit
Oh god
Tag your OTP
Fucking incredible
Please appreciate how hard I have to work to keep a straight face when my boss starts talking about our ERP goals.
Yeah so on old-school text RPGs, ERP is called TinySex (from the platform TinyMUX), or TS.
Which made notes at T-Mobile where someone was troubleshooting something extremely funny.
"TS'd customer. This fixed the issue."
I BET IT DID.
The Weatherization Assistance Program, which I spent several months checking off on the state database which read "opt in for WAP". This was the year after the song came out.
Every GODDAMN TIME -
While shopping for bead storage a few weeks ago, I ran into a few descriptions of cases that abbreviated diamond painting to DP. I've been basically giggling about it nonstop since. (Mind you, I don't really have anything against DP as a hobby, but I get salty when my work gets compared or mistaken for it. I've been doing my style of beadwork for twenty-mumble years and DP in its current popular form can only be traced back to about 2010, so I'm a little resentful of the economy of supplies and storage that has sprung up around it even as I benefit from it.)
“The letter in question is constructed from six short marks stacked vertically three by three. There are two triangles on the top and bottom, which, along with some diagonal strokes, form a calligraphic S.”
— Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
My supervisor left our org at uni today. I am sad to lose them professionally cause they was awesome, but I look forward to being like... actual friends with them. More sweet than bitter I think!
As a goodbye gift I made them a nyan cat.
My extremely queer door hanger is done. It was a nice break but now I really ought to go back to my WIPs.
Every so often it's nice to make something with beads that don't require wearing 3x magnifiers over my glasses 🤣🤓 My office is woefully lacking in #pride stuff so I'm making a LGBTQIA+ flag out of ponybeads and yarn to hang up this week.
I've apparently missed posting things over here. will attempt to catch this sideblog up this week.
Housekeeping
I've got to consolidate my webhosting over the next couple days so things might be a bit wonky if you're looking for raunchy storytime or bead updates.
Fingers crossed I can get things up and running again with a minimum of breakage by the weekend.
And now, a little gothic valentine.
Frothing at the mouth every time I see a sex ed resource that says "use condoms" without any further elaboration. "Condoms prevent STIs and pregnancy in the vast majority of cases when used correctly" but then they don't talk about what correctly IS
Correct use of a condom means
Using the right size, because if it's too big it can slide off or leak and if it's too small it can break or come off. Condoms usually come in 5 sizes, I'm sure you could find others outside of that as well but in ten years of sex work I found they covered everyone
Using lube, even if you think you don't need it. With the exception of oral sex, condoms should always be used with lube, 100% of the time. Most important lube should be applied to the outside but a drop in the tip of the condom before putting it in is also a good idea
Being mindful that latex is prone to wearing out, being damaged by heat etc. Condoms should be kept somewhere cool, not folded in wallets or sat on in back pockets and should be changed between activities and after about 15 minutes of any vigorous activity. Ask me how I know (a condom snapped on my leg when a client was pulling out, because I didn't change it when I should have)
The penetrative partner should hold the base of the condom when they pull out, and should do so immediately after they ejaculate so the condom doesn't leak or come off as the penis gets flaccid
Bonus: a lot of people think hand stuff can't transmit STIs. Wrong! If you give your partner a handjob and then touch yourself you can get HPV, herpes (low risk), and infections like chlamydia and gonorrhea
This isn't meant to be stressful, and the most common STIs are the most treatable - and often curable - but getting gonorrhea in your eyes after a facial still extremely sucks and yet no one talks about the fact that any mucous membrane can be effected, not just your genitals (yes this includes your mouth and throat)
In ten years of doing sex work where I saw 10 clients a day most of the time I've had 4 condom fails ever. One was what I mentioned above when it snapped on my leg, one was a client on top of me didn't get off fast enough after he finished and the condom came off, and the other two were a Glyde brand magnum that was inexplicably twice the thickness of a regular condom and didn't stay put on anyone so I suggest just avoiding Glyde entirely (their water based lubes also stain fyi). With all other brands correct use = extremely safe
I can't believe I forgot to mention that flavoured condoms are for oral sex only and using them for anything else can cause yeast infections (which isn't an STI but it sucks)
20800 beads later this high effort selfie is finally DONE.
And onwards to the next thing!
I revisit the dreaded "desert."
Musings on the home stretch.
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Why is Flareon bullying Leafeon? also lol at Jolteon just casually snacking on the laptop like nom nom nom electricity