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selections from natalie baxter's 2017-2019 "alt caps" series.

Alt Caps explores the culture of online commenting and gender. Pulling text from reactions to a negative article written about me and my work on Glenn Beck's website, The Blaze, I use sewing and quilting techniques to turn the numerous reactions that question my gender, sexuality and sanity into banners that echo those made by suffragettes or recent protest signs.

shmooseee

MORE CARL MORE CARL NOWWWW

pavlover-boy

happy canada day. please consider donating to an indigenous-led charity. fuck colonialism.

indian residential school survivors society (BC)

toronto indigenous harm reduction (ON)

native women's resource centre of toronto (ON)

water first (nationwide)

indspire (nationwide)

miskanawah (AB)

ma mawi wi chi itata centre (MB)

manitoba indigenous cultural education centre (MB)

native women's shelter of montreal (QC)

native friendship centre of montreal (QC)

first light (NL)

list of indigenous charitable organizations sorted by cause (nationwide)

vincentbriggs

Finally finished another sewing video! This one's 52 minutes.

vincentbriggs

This waistcoat video apparently has the distinction of having helped to crack an egg! Wow!

ljspencerauthor

This kinda happened with me, except it was one of the channels with the guys who do James Bond style bespoke suits....

vincentbriggs

For me it started from the other direction. I made this 1790's jacket & skirt outfit in 2013 and went "huh why do I feel so bad wearing this??" and switched to waistcoats and coats instead. Funnily enough I had started out looking at costume blogs because I was looking for pictures of cool historical menswear, but for some reason I didn't start out sewing them. I guess I thought they weren't for me, but that was a silly thing to think.

only-tiktoks

justgarb

I saw the skirt, got super excited, and was not disappointed

torchickentacos

Prev tags via @lostlegendaerie because I am LOSING IT at this

randomencounters

Encounter: “hi, I’m Guy Faerie, welcome to the Flavor Forest on Dungeons Dragons & Drive-Ins”

miamaimania

Warm guns by Natalie Baxter

everythingismadeofchaos

"A boy and his dog: but which one is the boy, and which one is the dog?"

iwashbrocciliinthedishwasher

I have a Martian and Project Hail Mary crossover idea.

The mark that Graces old girlfriend dated after him is mark watney. (Also let’s just say that tau ceti is less far then it is in canon so the Hail Mary makes the round trip in a little less time)

The pre-hail Mary launch story is that a twenty something year old Mark steals Grace’s girlfriend. He does this because he thinks he likes grace’s girlfriend and hates grace. What he’s actually doing is misinterpreting his stupid 20 year old brain. He realises this after actually talking to grace’s former girlfriend for once and immediately breaks up with her. He tries to apologise to grace but through the weird immorality of his girlfriend and marks dickish moves, grace doesn’t want anything to do with him. Mark ends up pining for him from a distance and trying to apologise more times.

Eventually grace disappears. Mark can’t find him anywhere. He’s in none of the usual spots Mark sees him in when stalking him. Until he sees him on the news as the scond in command of Eva stratt the leader of the petrova task force??

He watches as the Hail Mary launches. As the man he loves but who will never love him back disappears on a suicide mission. He sets on the path to be an astronaut in honour of grace.

Time skip. Grace and Rocky either decided to travel to earth together or they made it to erid and very quickly made their way back to earth. I’m saying made it to erid and they made their way back to earth and there is a eridian ship a couple of months behind them because I <3 Adrian.

Mark is stuck on mars per canon. What diverges is the Ares III somehow does not succeed in retrieving him. I’m not sure whether to do it so they never made it back to mars or not. It would be fun if they succeed at slingshotting from earth but miss the opportunity of picking up watney. So they’re heading back to earth feeling despair at the fact their friend is going to starve to death on mars. NASA is full of a bunch of people in tears. But then there’s a transmission from the Hail Mary.

Once everyone is done freaking out and confirming they’re not hallucinating they organise the retrieval of Mark by the Mary. Grace assumes that this is just another Mark Watney and not the Mark that Rocky now hates. He is wrong. They complete the manuver and get mark abord. Mark takes off his helmet and grace is like oh shit this is totally my mark and he totally stinks. Mark gets out a “Grace?” before passing out.

Mark wakes up to a face he never thought he’d see again. Is he dead? Is this his brain constructing the figure of all his regrets in life in the last moment of his neuron’s firing rapidly? Grace greets him hesitantly. Mark immediately starts crying. He falls off his bed and onto his knees (he will regret this later) and starts apologising over and over again for all the things he did. Rocky barges in and Mark passes out all over again. He wakes up to Grace fussing over him and now he’s just convinced he’s in heaven.

Eventually they catch up to the ares iii because the Hail Marys faster and I also think it would be funny for outsiders to see the insanity of A. Their science idol they all thought was dead B. A literal rock alien and C. Mark Watney being down bad for grace.

They find out how mark actually met grace because all they had heard out of mark was some poetic shit about his eyes when he was really drunk. Grace gets to marvel at the changes in technology since he left and eat something other then his own flesh and taumeba slurry. Rocky gets to see more humans and roll around more space for enrichment.

Throughout all this mark slowly manages to convince grace he’s genuine in his affection and that they should totally smooch.

Throughout this graces perception of mark goes from “oh that asshole 20 year old that all ways tries to look down his nose at me despite being 2 inches shorter then me” to “oh that asshole that convinced my girlfriend to break up with me and to start dating him only to immediately break up with her and start apologising to him for some reason??” To “sad sad pathetic wet cat who is sobbing on me damn I should date him.

Marks perception of grace goes from “Ha I should get this man l totally very much hate girlfriend to break up with him because I totally hate him and he shouldn’t be dating someone” to “Oh my god that teacher is hot, why did I make him hate me I need to apologise” to “ hngh my husband who died at war how I miss you so sob” to “PLEASR PLEASE IM SO SORRY”

i-stole-a-demons-personality

by now I'm just drawing any stupid scenario that comes to my mind. also this is my hc where Pebbles are like. Pebbles . Like really really small and Grace teaches the bigger pebbles who are of schooling age so yeah 👎

disappointed grace doodle 👇

hailmarysuggest

Grace: *sneezes*

Rocky: Blessed Grace 💖

Grace: *sneezes*

Rocky: Blessed Grace 😅

Grace: *sneezes*

Rocky: …

Grace: *sneezes, sits down on the floor* …

Rocky: …I heard you the first time 🙄

Grace: *winded and glaring at him* Thanks, bud.

Rocky: *was waiting for that* Grace welcome 🥰

muffins-are-a-mood

Rocky version for those who want it!

Sorry if it's a bit rushed I got a fight I need to do

bucketsofgiggles

you cannot convince me that, within 15 minutes of the press release from the Hail Mary Project that, while unfortunately a lab accident did kill the primary and back up science officers for the mission, Dr. Ryland Grace was kidnapped and drugged bravely volunteered to step into the role of science officer to ensure the project still met its launch date, the project's public-facing email address was not flooded with emails from Dr. Grace's former students. and more kept coming. some to accounts that should've been private. and then come messages from his former colleagues. and Stratt, ever pragmatic, prints out as many as the team can verify are legit, puts them in a box, and places that box within Grace's things. because while maybe she couldn't convince him that he was the right man for the role, the kids he tried to cite as being why he wasn't could.

but, due to the fog of the amnesia, then the urgency of the mission plus Rocky's appearance, Grace doesn't fully look through every box until they're on their way to Erid. and that's when Rocky wakes up from sleep to see Grace sobbing over a bunch of letters. students telling him how much they enjoyed his class, actually made learning fun and interesting. got them through tough days. made them feel seen and appreciated. quite a few cite his class as being the spark that got them interested in science as a career. and even those that didn't still consider him the best teacher they ever had. fellow teachers admiring his classroom management and lesson planning, and even so his kindness to every student who walked into his room.

one letter is from the principal. when Dr. Grace's involvement in the Hail Mary Project became public knowledge, there was a push from the community to rename the school after him. after discussions with the school board, there had been a secret agreement to do so, even had a new sign made. they were just waiting for him to be released from the project and return to San Fransisco to surprise him. but, with the recent news of his "noble sacrifice", they'd gone ahead and done it. attached the press release with a picture of the new sign, a bunch of his former students standing around it, beaming. a local artist has been commissioned to add a mural to the front entrance over the summer break. and a final note: "Do your work knowing that it will allow the Dr. Ryland Grace Middle School to continue to educate and inspire students for generations."

after he managed to stop leaking, Grace reads Rocky some of the letters. and its in that moment that Rocky swears that, should they find a way to keep Grace alive on Erid, he will teach there.