Coffee is my poison

neutral tired, chaotic idiot, lawful romantic | 38 | mommy | tinkerer | flawed human | occasional swamp monster & crouton friend | everything blog, at times nsfw |

[rederiswrites]

*Sits down at the torch* So! Should I start with some nice warmup beads? Nice Valentine's red with white dots! Or some dragged dots hearts? Oh I know! Let's go straight the fuck to using two and a half rods of glass on an off-mandrel whirlwind heart pendant. I totally watched that video one time last week, that should be good enough.

Huh. It was. Except now I gotta make the bail. I kinda... Suck... at that.

This is Not how you do this. But you gotta keep the heart warm while you make the bail and I can't freehand bails to save my life so here we are. I remember when holding the broken end of a rod of glass in my mouth would have bothered me.

Yeah but it worked. Bitch.

I'll show you the true color, cooled version tomorrow. This is actually red.

[rederiswrites]

et voila. Whirlwinds of both transparent and opaque reds, with wisps of white shot through.

I did also make the dragged hearts and white dots.

[jilldrawblog]

Dread Wolf, my fluffy goose bottom

[sarahwys-deactivated20220315]

Priorities. 

[hanfu-mermay]

絨花 ronghua

👩🏻慕容意的手工

[ziseviolet]

Making DIY Chinese ronghua/絨花 (velvet flower) hairpins for hanfu. More information on ronghua here and here.

[roach-works]

do you ever behold a kind of craft you didn’t even know existed before now and experience a moment of pure unbridled lust

[colubrina]

[deviousthinkers]

yes please.  this would be a great day for this to come true

[jackironsides]

When I was a kid, I couldn’t imagine how ‘May you live in interesting times’ could be a curse. But now I would so love to not have a year’s worth of news happen every week. PLEASE.

[tygermama]

likes to charge, reblog to cast

[guerrillatech]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

can there be more fun fantasy books for adults? emphasis on fun?

it’s great there are so many stories for young readers about kids and teenagers having adventures and saving the world. I love that! but the desire for magic and wonder doesn’t go away as you age, and I’m tired of this pretense that fantasy geared towards adults has to be dark and gritty and edgy. adults want to escape too! we also want heartwarming stories about magical worlds and grand quests, where characters we relate to save the world and learn important lessons along the way! we want stories that fill us with wonder and hope, stories with happy endings, fantastical worlds that contain more joy and goodness than suffering and cruelty. we still want those stories! give us lighthearted fantasy for adult readers, gosh fuck it

[talvin-muircastle]

Grandma is the Chosen One.

She finally opens that old wardrobe that her late sister left her and finds the passage to another world.  

She gets a letter saying, “We have full scholarships for Non-Traditional Students here at the Academy of Sorcery.”

The kids come to her with the Strange Artifact, and instead of sending them off to deal with it, she sends them home with cookies, puts on her scuffed old Doc Martens, and heads out to Deal With It Once And For All.

SHE is the Lost Princess. Yes, that means her kids and grandkids are going to inherit, but she is not about to leave them an untidy mess of a Kingdom!  Time to clean house.  Aggressively.  

I mean, I’d read this stuff.

[funnytwittertweets]

[luxlightly]

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it a thousand more times: No piece of dystopian fiction has ever been a prediction of the future. They are observations and criticisms of the present. 

[luxlightly]

“Wooow! How did Orwell predict the surveillance state so well in 1984??” 

He didn’t. He was making an observation of the surveillance state that already existed in his present, and exaggerated it to make the metaphor obvious.

Learning and discussing these works in terms of them being predictions and having test questions like “do you think his prediction came true?” is not only pointless, but actively counterintuitive. When you frame these works as being ‘people from the past knew that the future would be terrible’ you shift the entire perspective to one of some kind of nostalgia for a past that didn’t exist. 

These author’s aren’t oracles. They’re satirists. Their predictions ‘come true’ because they were already true when they wrote them. 

[goawfma]

i feel like we don’t talk about things like this enough

[agnesmontague]

so i just learned that after disney+ debuted disney shut down a huge chunk of its tv channels around the world such as disney channel and disney XD including the ones in south korea, so for old times’ sake i just spent a good hour or so watching channel shutdown compilations and 90% of these worldwide disney channels just…. got absolutely no sendoff whatsoever. many of them got their plug pulled right in the middle of a show without even waiting for the episode to finish airing and there was no ending jingle or even a voiced-over announcement, only a sudden cut to a soulless monotone blank screen with “this channel is no longer available.” like the stuff of childhood nightmares 

you’d think a company with such a family-friendly image would take the time to at least explain briefly to its very young audience that all their fave shows will be moving to another service or something, hell, at least do it for advertisements’ sake so that kids can pester their parents into buying disney+, but disney does not care about you and it does not care about your children and it will absolutely snatch the last shred of comfort from a kid’s hands if it means they don’t have to spend an extra $400 recording an ending announcement in different languages

and honestly i am just sitting here with my heart in my throat like. none of our current art is truly permanent, is it. we like to think that we have better documentation and archiving technology than generations past but all it really takes is for one megacompany to slap some copyright tape over its comic book villain safe and then toss that safe in the ocean for all it’s worth. youtube could potentially choose to do the same and simply wipe its entire site clean overnight. adobe decided to throw flash in the garbage and decades worth of internet content just…. disappeared from reach. i am begging every digital creator out there to backup your content to as many outlets as you possibly can. use different cloud services that aren’t owned by one company. use physical usb drives and hard drives. if programs you used to open your work become obsolete at least document what it was so it can be passed on and remembered by people who want to. jesus christ i need a drink

[mctreeleth]

Even though 90% of the internet is on like 5 platforms now, if there is a webpage you have bookmarked that you keep going back to, back it up on the Wayback Machine so that we can keep accessing it even if the website shuts down.

Similarly, if you have some old page bookmarked but now it goes nowhere, try popping the URL into the Wayback Machine to see if they have an archive of it.

[hello-that-happened]

[chandelyer-deactivated20241003]

“The Moon & The Stars” dress by Frieda Leopold

[sitsoncornflake]

This is not what I wanted to see on Twitter from Patrick before 7am. Someone needs to stop them...

[jaubaius]

The moon blending into Yosemite falls,California 

[sosuperawesome]

Bags / Clothing

Em and Sprout on Etsy

[umbrellanumber5-deactivated2021]

This explains a lot about my lack of asking for help when I clearly need it

[mctreeleth]

Don't forget the fact that asking for help carries the risk of someone expressing mild disappointment in your inabilities, which will cause you to shut down for 5 to 7 working days.

[sosuperawesome]

Embroidery Patterns

Anything Sews on Etsy