The Ink-Well

Hello. Keelan here. (he/him|they/them)  

[maulscrafts]

^ embroidered a net onto the front pocket of these overalls

^ shrimp in there

[mobilis-in-mobili]

@teaboot we have been woefully ignorant of the possibilities

[teaboot]

I think that if you had enough daughters AND played your cards right you could spring Mambo Number Five out at the EXACT right gathering and shatter your entire family's trust forever

[teaboot]

The secret is to name them out of order with the lyrics so by the time anyone catches on it's too late

[teaboot]

For me personally the ideal gathering would be my funeral

[teaboot]

A little bit for Monica, she's my wife

A little bit for Erica, for her strife

My books all go to Rita, cause she reads

My greenhouse goes to Tina, she plants trees

The furniture is Sandra's, on my lawn

Jewelry for Mary, she can pawn

Ashes go to Jessica, that's my plan

A little bit of me inside a can (ah!)

[luobenn]

[anthonydoingstuff]

Kim Kittsuragi

[quecksilvereyes]

ahem.

🎤

i started another one.

[quecksilvereyes]

my fiance took some very cute pics of it, and i finished part 1 of 8

[quecksilvereyes]

part 2 was finished on sunday!

[quecksilvereyes]

part 3 is done :)

[quecksilvereyes]

part 4 from last week :)

[quecksilvereyes]

part 5! finally!

[quecksilvereyes]

part 6 :)

[quecksilvereyes]

part seveeeeen

unblocked so its wonky still

[quecksilvereyes]

part 8! only blocking left to do!

[quecksilvereyes]

blocked and finished :)

this is Virtue by Helen Shrimpton (crystalsandcrochet), you can find the pattern on Ravelry or on her website here:

Virtue pattern by Helen Shrimpton

Virtue Crochet Along 2022

https://crystalsandcrochet.com/product/introducing-virtue/

It requires blocking imo, because otherwise it looks a bit wobbly and the corners are wonky.

[quecksilvereyes]

i love knitting lace. my favourite part is how i dont know what it looks like until i'm done and it's blocked

[quecksilvereyes]

like this is just a crumpled tissue

[quecksilvereyes]

even more crumpled tissue

[quecksilvereyes]

my saviour (circular needles) has arrived

[quecksilvereyes]

its growing

[polyamandhellaglam]

Polyamory is safe for work. Polyamory is safe for kids. Polyamory is safe for day time tv. Polyamory isn’t more sexual than any other relationship and it can be just as romantic, sweet, and healthy.

[evilwriter37]

Aggressively reblogs.

[earhartsease]

and like any other relationship, polyamory can also be asexual, and aromantic

many kinds of love exist

[yoliedraws]

sketched kataang

[graffitinight]

When you try to talk about enshittification, it sounds like conspiracy theories. (I'm not crazy)

Amazon made their service worse, to force people to pay for Prime.

Nowadays, if you order from Amazon, there is a week long delay before your package is shipped. (on purpose)

I remember when orders would ship out the same day. (I remember - it was real)

YouTube didn't used to have ads. Now, ads play in the middle of videos. (it's worse than TV ever was)

The best can opener I have owned is over 40 years old. Modern ones just don't hold up as well. (The ones I bought new broke ages ago)

The bread machine my mom got for her wedding lasted 30 years. It's been replaced twice in the last 5 years. (How can you fuck this up?)

The cardboard tubes in the middle of toilet paper rolls have gotten larger. (This too?) Companies increasing the price of the product while selling you less. (REALLY?)

It sounds crazy. (it's the truth) When you talk about it, YOU sound crazy. (it's true)

Even when people believe you (do they really), all they can say is "it sucks". (it's too big) Because the problem is so big, so pervasive, what can we even DO about it???

To get the necessary laws written and passed, we need politicians, to get the politicians elected we need information campaigns, to fund campaigns we need money, and all the money is being hoarded by the people profiting from enshittification. (it sounds so fake)

So I talk about enshittification (it sounds crazy), so people don't forget that things have been made worse on purpose (it's true), even though I sound crazy. (maybe I am)

[grimboigio]

It's called planned obsolescence and it was invented when lightbulbs could still run for 1000 years. Enshittification is the web-specific (and more specifically social media) version of that.

[rintezukas]

gamecube was the best designed controller of all time exclusively for the button cluster that gave you easy thumb roll access to all buttons but also gave you the a button as a thumb rest (because it’s the one you press the most) and took into account the frequency with which each button gets pressed in its design rather than doing the stupid diamond design that gives no button priority and rests your thumb in the shitty blank space between buttons

[rintezukas]

The Diamond Button Layout Is The Bleeding Stump Where Form Cut Function’s Head Off

[hunter-rodrigez]

Also, the holes for the thumbsticks are octagon-shaped.

When you push a stick all the way to the edge, it will lock into one of these corners. This helps with stuff like walking in a perfectly straight line or steering all the way to one side, which is great for people who struggle with fine motor skills.

Like young kids, aka the target demographic for the gamecube, for example.

[rouge-the-bat]

gotta love growing up on collectathon games and enjoying 100%-ing video games, then over time more and more games start adding gacha elements, time-limited events, and microtransactions. toootally super awesome and cool. :)) really adds something ✨️ Extra Special ✨️ to the experience to play stuff with the constant feeling that youll never be able to Do It All! unless ☝️ you spend an absurd amount of money. and/or discover a way to travel back in time to start the game earlier. and also play the game constantly, with when you play it dictated by when events happen rather than when you feel like playing. Really Fucking Fun. and by "fun" i mean "makes me want to blow shit up"

[rhube]

Is Tumblr aware of Count Binface, current hope for our nation?

Let me explain:

Grotesque fascist grifter, Nigel Farage, is the leader of Reform, the racist far right party he created because UKIP got what it wanted (Brexit) and it sucked.

Having tried and failed to be an MP many times (but somehow getting more screentime than any Liberal Democrat or Green politician), he finally succeeded in the last election because people were so overwhelmingly pissed off with the Conservatives, and many right-wing people saw Reform as the new Conservative Party; partly because it's full of rejects from the Conservative Party.

Speculation: he doesn't really want to be an MP, he wants to be a fascist grifter. He's annoyed by suggestions he do things like Be In His Constituency and Serve His Constituents.

He's recently been caught having accepted a VERY large amount of money from some unsavory people that he insists was a totally legitimate 'donation' and not breaking any rules.

Only it did break the rules and it's very clear that it did and things are in motion to hold him to account.

To avoid this, he has resigned as an MP, saying this is a protest at his treatment by the 'establisment' (he is a rich fascist grifter, but he likes to cosplay as a Man of the People). This has triggered a by-election, in which he is standing, with the hope that the people of his constituency will either elect him in a resounding win, indicating they don't care that he's corrupt (having not heard everything the investigation is uncovering), or someone from Labour or the Conservatives will win and he can swan off to America, free to grift again because of what the 'establishment' did to him.

Only, all the major political parties have agreed not to stand, stating openly that this is an obvious stunt and they won't legitimise it. So if he doesn't win, he can't say it was because he was too much of a rebel and the Establishment went against him, he'll just be a loser, which doesn't play too well with the right-wingers he wants to grift. And if he does get back in the investigation will go forward without any kind of 'mandate' from his constituency buoying him up.

But. There is another option.

COUNT BINFACE IS RUNNING.

Count Binface is part of the grand British tradition of joke candidates who stand as a protest option. They usually don't get enough votes to get their deposit back (which is supposed to deter unserious people) but they don't care, because DEMOCRACY.

Of course, Count Binface has never won, but it is hilarious to see a completely serious pathetic fascist concede defeat while standing next to a man with a bin on his head to whom they are democratically equal.

But if nobody else is standing. And if enough people in Clacton-on-Sea are finally cheesed off enough with Farage not doing anything for them, there is just a chance that one of the funniest things to ever happen in politics will happen.

Imagine. Imagine for just a moment that the Grotesque Fascist not only loses, but loses to Count Binface.

[dduane]

Bonnie Tyler, Total Eclipse of the Heart singer, dies

Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler, best known for her hit Total Eclipse of the Heart, has died aged 75.

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

The mythical disabled person who is so disabled that everyone consistently supports and accommodates them without question is a straw man which only exists as a hypothetical for the political purpose of denying real disabled people care while still being able to argue that said care would be accessible to disabled people who "actually deserves it"

[ferrous-princess]

When I say "deserving is a trap" this is what I mean. The question should never be one of deserving, but one of need. The idea of deserving something exists entirely to draw a line between the support people need, and the people we think are too icky/immoral/lazy to get that support.

A society that waits until you're too far gone before it deems you worthy of trying to save is a failed one. The only difference between a society that is capable of helping those in need, and refuses to, an a society that is simply incapable of helping those in need, is that the capable one blames the needy for their own lack of care.

[alwayswasalwayswillbeourland]

I was today years old when I learnt about what those symbols in Aboriginal art represented I honestly can't believe we never got taught that, even when I was studying art. I always assumed they had meaning but no one [no white person] had ever bothered to mention it. I'm glad I learnt something new today.

Yeah, I think a lot of people tend to look down on Aboriginal art because they think it's a form of abstract art that is just lines and shapes but almost all of them tell a story. Sometimes it's a very obvious story, such as the emu dreaming where the waterhole flooded, and sometimes it's more symbolic.

the circle in the middle is a waterhole/dam or billabong. The squiggly lines coming out of it are small rivers. the dots represent the earth but because they are in neat lines, it almost feels as if they have been flattened by the flooded water, especially as the vector lines draw out from the waterhole in the middle. the emu tracks are heading toward the waterhole, and the three lines in the middle are marks left by their tail, implying that they are wading through the mud to get there.

It's a birdseye view of a moment just after the waterhole floods and afterwards the emus go looking for food.

It's Interesting, because the original artist D. J. Ross was from Yuendumu which is in central australia, so this would have been a rare time that there was enough rain to flood the waterhole.

Dreaming stories, kinship links, sacred rites, keeping track of biodiversity and songlines are some other topics covered by Aboriginal art.

In the same way monet painted the middle class and the local landscape in the late 1800's/early 1900's Aboriginal people also paint the average lifestyle of our people. It just looks different.

For example, this picture shows a LOT of activity. The men at the top left of the picture are doing a cultural burn near and around a sacred site, the women at the bottom left are digging for food. across the river, on the right the people are preparing food and in the center, two people (presumably elders) are preparing for a ceremony.

I wouldn't say these all happened at the same time, more that this was a common undertaking over a set of time.

it takes time to understand and not all symbols are the same in all areas, but once you do understand them it becomes easier to see the story being told.

So yeah, I hope this gives you the chance to look at Aboriginal art with new eyes

[shopcat]

look at this wonderful gif of scallops getting scared and scattering like a flock pigeons

[elioftheasphodel]

whatever. go my scallops

[whitachi]

last night I had the experience of "referencing a tumblr post that you think is widely known but turns out to not be as widely known as you thought it was" last night and it was this post. whatever. go my scallops

[divine-guro]

What's with all these kink blogs complaining that "18+" in bio doesn't count as having your age on there. Can't you count? Do you not know the big numbers?

[divine-guro]

Child behaviour honestly. Who do you think runs mature spaces. Do you want my ID too?

[eroticcannibal]

Actually no I'll put this on main. This is stupid behaviour. In a kink blog context the only information you are entitled to and should care about is if someone is an adult. That's it. Mind your business.

[churchyardgrim]

love how this is taken excruciatingly seriously on kink blogs too despite operating on literally the honor system. there are zero things stopping someone from lying about their age, and zero ways that anyone can prove that lying occurred. it's just showboating and posturing and it's annoying as fuck.