The Trees Deny Themselves Nothing

Early 30s, he/they, ace as hell and feeling swell, huge Vhaeraun fan

[realnameonline2]

I can't put into words how genuinely disappointed I am that I haven't experienced this for myself yet

[bastigone]

My para had triplets, game crashed, so we ended up with three Charlie Default just. Standing in our kitchen. It was horrific.

[baebeylik]

Batah Kuhuh Bit: Alligator Gar 2, The Resilience of the River People by Chase Kahwinhut Earles. Caddo culture. American, 2023.

Dallas Museum of Art.

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[unfamiliarsculptures]

My next shop update is a small one with specially fired pieces! This wolf sculpture was raku fired, creating the crackle pattern in the glaze. It will be available Friday, June 12th at 8pm Eastern time.

[goth-queen]

[witchy-lychee]

Build Mode Trick: Textures

You may already know that holding ALT lets you apply wall or floor textures to almost any object in the game, even ones that aren't normally recolourable:

But there's more! ⚠️⚠️⚠️

For whatever reason, these two floor textures make things invisible. By applying them, you can hide parts of all kinds of objects and create some pretty interesting results.

Want to put a plant inside an oversized basket? Fill a bowl with popcorn? Stick toothbrushes in a random mug? Now you can!

[merlindoesntwearpants]

Does paralives give us too much customization?

[grimmghosts]

still not sure if this is going to work in live mode but being able to make deeply cramped and awkward apartments is so important to me like yeah you have to go through the bathroom to get to the bedroom and the bedroom has room for a bed and nothing else. what about it.

[moghedien]

I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with

But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy

[moghedien]

Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy

[pallasillustration]

Lolth vs. Eilistraee

Getting into DND lore (thank you Baldur’s Gate 3) and was really into the drama of the drow pantheon. I wanted to draw something showing the cosmic battle between Lolth and her daughter and had a fun time with this piece 😊.

[ooo-silly-worms]

Pottery sounds terrifying to me. Every post I see is like "Here's this awesome art I made!! Pray for me that it survives The Kiln™ :')" I don't think I could cope with making art that could quite easily blow up and I have no way of controlling that. You guys are true heroes.

[claypigeonpottery]

@bazanite you are so correct

[longwaaaaa]

+ crops

"Answer my question," he demanded.

"They were coming to kill you," Entreri replied.

"Obviously," said Jarlaxle. "Could you not have merely warned me?"

"It would not have been enough," Entreri insisted.

servant of the shard chapter 15 lives rent free in my head. happy pride month guys💜🏳️‍🌈

[setulose]

(scrolling dashboard after something big happens in a fandom you don't care about)

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do you guys think there are worms who fetishize being put on fish hooks

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[wizardarchetypes]

i was like 'it's weird the way everyone is doing free pr for the catholic church rn just bc the pr for the new pope has already been that good' and someone was like 'wait? why don't you like the pope? did something happen?' i feel insane i'm not exaggerating i didn't even know what to say?? 'did something happen?' yes the last 2 thousand years of global history, and no, going back 2,000 years in catholic history is not dramatic because it's remained consistently that bad throughout and in fact i do think the church should answer for every single century of its sins while all of its assets are returned to the people from which they were stolen and its global power is dissolved.

[noodles-07]

[twirlingfreckles]

The thing about being a tumblrina is that you provide such valuable contributions to the broader internet ecosystem and you get zero compensation for that. They should be giving us airline miles

[ratajota]

a simple figure commissioned by a local band