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😌 bored 🐢 the guy 🧍 💜 i will eat death - 80 yrs old and crumbling! they/them

[hellenhighwater]

Should I be saving my money for a down payment on a house and getting rid of furniture so I have less to move? Yes. And also yes.

But consider:

She's $300 and I need her

[hellenhighwater]

She's here!!

This side-by-side was built by the Rockford Desk and Furniture Co., which only existed from 1891-1895. I've found one singular other example of this cabinet, which was auctioned over a decade ago, and was stained a dark cherry color. I personally like the color of the quartersawn oak as it is, so I'm not planning a full restoration.

[hellenhighwater]

Wait I just realized this puts her in line of sight with my favorite chifforobe and I love how they look together. Very different periods and styles but I feel like there's a dialogue there.

We are not judging the mess in my drawing room, that's a later problem. Work table all covered in nonsense...

[scribefindegil]

everyone who is not currently in the process of moving please pause and take a moment to be grateful that you're not currently in the process of moving

[identitty-dickruption]

my safe clothing items that I wear day in day out for years and years should never break or rip or wear down. the power of friendship should stop that kind of thing

[skopostheorie]

Once I "made" a custom emoji for my mum by crudely drawing a hijab on it and now whenever she wants me to buy a coffee for her I get a text like this

[cnmcn]

absolutley enchanted by cobepee

[thegirlwiththemooglehat]

Friends, romans, people who are nonbinary except at work, lend me your ears,

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I need you all to see this "Mcdonald's bathroom" that I saw on Facebook

[pillowspace]

GIRLY JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT CYERCE ELEGANS

photos by Michael Plewka

If Cyerce nigricans is a butterfly, then this is a fairy... Cyerce nigricans for comparison:

photos by Ian Hutton, Kevin Lee

[zuzartii]

I have a sketchbook where I paint one art per piece of media I really enjoyed, and I finished my page for Outer Wilds recently.

I wanted to start sharing some of my traditional art on here - so for anyone curious, some process pics under the cut!

My first step is to always make a "sketch" in photoshop of what I want to paint, just so I can figure out placements of everything without damaging the paper in the sketchbook. Sometimes I do actual full sketches in digital, sometimes I just bash pieces from different photos or images like in this case - the point is just to figure out the composition before I touch the paper.

Once I have my composition ready I do my sketch in pencil, and adjust things from my wonky digital sketch as I go. If the piece is super complex I will print the digital sketch and use transfer paper to trace it onto the sketchbook, but most of the time I just sketch in a rough grid that splits the pages in quarters to help with the measurments and copy the rest just by eyeballing things.

For the actual painting I mostly use acrylic gouche, or markers + watercolors combo. The paper in this sketchbook is actually pretty bad for painting, but I really love the format and the marker pieces I have in it, so I just plan around the limitations. I know I won't get any good wet on wet painting going on, so I try and plan my colors ahead to avoid repainting one spot too many times.

I usually slap some random underpainting color on the areas I want to work on (like the purple under the black in the photo above), since it's super hard to judge values correcly agains the light page, especially if there's going to be a lot of darks.

And afterwards it's just a lot of laying first layer of paint, inevitably having to adjust, and doing the same over and over. Acrylic gouache is super forgiving in this aspect thankfully :D

[sempegzrd]

[jumpingwjoy]

you can always come home 🌲

[helenvaughans]

[quasi-normalcy]

No source, but with your help, we can make this true.

[fipindustries]

I cannot stand the parodies of modern major general, they're overdone and simply not as good as the original. They've done them about everything, whatever topic, big or small.

And when i notice one of them my eyes will always start to roll.

The diction's always slurry when they rush the complicated words, and adding many fricatives will turn it so cacophonous. The slanted rhymes are silly and they keep just making more and more, please someone stop the parodies of modern major general.

The scanning of the lyrics in the meter is unbearable, they emphazise the syllables in ways that are untenable, in short in matters musical, prosodic and ephemeral, i cannot stand the parodies of modern major general!

[unorthodoxchronicles]

[eraserspiral]

oh nice final chapter you're editing thee. be a shame if the lette stopped woking popely, wouldn't it? vey fustating

[rautadim]

i think every textbook should have this

From Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms (McKay)

[lambylin]

don't know a thing about 3d printing!! but one day i'll make a whale skeleton that's small enough to hang from my ceiling like they have at museums and it's going to be sick as hell

[lambylin]

my vision btw

[lambylin]

HEY

[future-crab]

The key to writing good fanfiction is to harbor a deeply humiliating desire, and the trick there is that even pretty basic and societally-accepted desires like “being held” and “being wanted” CAN and WILL be humiliating if they’re intense enough. Become so estranged from human connection that the idea of someone playing with your hair fills you with yearning so deep you feel like you’re going to throw up and you will write some banger fanfiction. It might have some other consequences too but idrk about that.

[beaft]

me when someone abruptly asks me if i want to go and do something fun together but the fun thing wasn't part of my daily plan: